To Bunbury We Go

First drafted 08.10.2008
Finished 13.11.2008

Day -1
10:30pm – Bought 4 cans of Redbull in anticipation of the long day ahead of me.
11:30pm – Slept.

Day 0
3:30am – Woke up.
3:40am – Set out to pick up the 3 girls from their homes, Wembley, Maylands and then Claremont. Consumed the 1st can of Redbull
4:40am – Begin the drive down the Kwinana Freeway toward Bunbury
5:30am – Consumed the 2nd can of Redbull
6:45am – Arrived at Finesse Foods factory
7:15am – Spoke to receptionist and filled out some forms…

It’s been over a month and the draft is still sitting here. The girls got the job after much persistence on that same day. I got a call from the HR person in the late afternoon telling the girls to turn up for work the next day. They checked into the YHA Dolphin Retreat in Bunbury and complained that it was well, not a conducive living environment. (I tried sleeping there one night and I had to take breaks in between sleeping)

And so they began the hunt for a better and cheaper place to live in. We saw an advertisement for rooms put out by a Korean guy also working in Bunbury. Honestly though, I was not comfortable with the girls, especially my girlfriend, putting up with a single guy.

But God is faithful, always. They found a place with one of their friends and the main tenants were a young married Korean couple. To make things even better, they devout Christians! And to add icing on top of this cake, they now stay 15 minutes walk away from the workplace whereas the backpackers hostel was a taxi ride or 45 minute walk away!

I believe this is a testimony of God’s grace and faithfulness in the life of believers. I will continue to trust Him for more good things to come!

Beautiful Sarah

source: wikimedia.org

Beautiful Sarah
You may be my wife
But please tell Pharaoh you are my sister

Beautiful Sarah
I hate to lose you
But I fear for my life

Beautiful Sarah

I thought to myself on Sunday, “Sarah (Sarai) must have been a really beautiful woman!”

Pastor Cara was preaching and had made a timeline and it showed her age at different stages of her journey through the world with Abram.

The timeline shows her leaving Abram’s family at 65 and shortly into the couple’s journey we are told of a famine in the land.

Abram and Sarai take off and head into Egypt.

Genesis 12:11-13:
11 As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are. 12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. 13 Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”

We see in verse 14 and 15 that the Egyptians found Sarai very beautiful and the Pharaoh takes her into his household.

I thought, “65, beautiful, wa, she must be really beautiful!”

Or maybe there were different standards for beauty as you can see in the picture of the engraving at the top of the post.

Or maybe the desert was a very lonely place, see cartoon:

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Wake Up Little Sleeper

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How appropriate, 5 months without a post and then this title!

I thought I’d share this alarm clock tone for those technically advanced like me, with phones that can play mp3s! I got mine this year! You got yours when? 5 years ago? Cool, join the technically advance club!

I heard this song, Sacred, by Caedmon’s Call (CC) and fell in love with the sweetness of it. A godly mother/wife. The part I am using for my ringtone is the bridge of Sacred, where Danielle Young sings to the tune of the hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy.

The lyrics go like this:

Wake up, little sleeper
The Lord, God Almighty
Made your Mama keeper
So rise and shine, rise and shine
Rise and shine cause

All those who are technologically advanced can add this to your technologically advanced mobile phone.

Click here for the ringtone.

Get the full song here.

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If you think that it’s too quiet for an alarm. It was so loud on my technologically advanced phone that it woke me up on the first beat! HA! Although, that may be because I’m a lite-sleeper.

I also want to take this chance to dedicate the song to my dearest auntie Ros in Sydney! Go godly mummy!

Famous Christians?

I have a tendency to be very excited to learn that a famous dead person was Christian. One of those people was Bob Marley, haha. Hey, Bob’s cool. I just heard lots of stories about him becoming a Christian before he died or something. I never did my research but simply re-told that story to other people.

One other such person whom atheists and theists are fighting to get on their “side” is Albert Einstein. However it is not important who stands for Christianity! The credibility of the God’s gospel does not depend on man’s fame. The truth stands on its own.

Albert Mohler in this post puts it like this:

The emergence of the letter from Albert Einstein to Eric Gutkind goes a long way toward setting the record straight. Evangelical Christians are prone to over-excitement when any famous person, living or dead, is claimed as a believer in God. This is not an attractive habit, and it often leads to intellectual embarrassment.

Imagine the 1st century church, there were no celebrities believing in Jesus except for a bunch of fishermen and common folk. Did that hinder them from believing in God? No. It should not hinder our belief in God even if no famous person believed in God!

Liang Goes to Korean Church Pt. 1

Today was my first time at a Korean church. I’ve been blessed each time I attend my dear Korean caregroup. Here is the man that brought me to the caregroup, his name is Ji-hoon.

After a few wrong turns and a huge U-turn in a empty parking lot, I finally found myself at the carpark of Perth Full Gospel Church. While walking into service I could hear the sweet sounds of praise led by my brother Ji-hoon, they were singing Friend of God by Israel Houghton.

I was there slightly early and caught my friends practising before the actual service. It was a unique and beautiful sight because amongst the Korean worshippers was an African lady and she had a beautiful alto voice! Only in God’s family do you see people of different nations, language and colour join in one song. The love for God and his people overcomes these barriers.

At one point during worship, I had felt a certainty that God was in our midst and was simply relishing in God’s presence and Ji-hoon confirmed it by saying some words along those lines! God is good!

We sang Be Still for the Presence of the Lord and time was given for us to wait on God and felt God speaking to me with Philippians 1:6. Just as worship was coming to a close, the congregation was given a chance to speak what God had placed on their hearts and I went ahead took the mic and read the verse! I thank God for speaking to me, I thank God that he speaks even today!

God Never Fails

I am so glad I went to my Full Gospel cell group today. I’ve been in a mess these few days, Satan was having a field day with my head and heart.

I went because of duty, you see I was slotted to lead worship, and the thought of coming up with excuses to not go for cell crossed my mind. I mean I was really not feeling well in my spirit, to the extent I can feel it in body? However, in the back of my head, I knew that God was going to do something good. God never fails.

So I went to cell, and people could sense that I wasn’t my usual self. Many showed concern and I just said I wasn’t okay but didn’t talk much about it. The fellowship with my Christian brothers and sisters lifted my spirits a little and I was talking a bit more but fellowship with the Lord is much better, it’s unexplainable.

When I led worship, I was in battle mode, I fell back to all the promises of God that I knew. Singing them boosted my faith even more. Though I felt lousy and depressed I knew what I was singing was true. The theme of tonight’s worship was Jesus Christ, and I’d taught the cell the actions to “My Redeemer Lives” and it was so good! They took it a step further and clapped each other hands during the song, it was just good to worship with fellow saints!

The truths of Christ, the cross really lifted my spirits and the Lord restored joy in my heart!

Min-kyeong taught today, she taught from 1 Chronicles 4, on the prayer of Jabez and it was good lesson! Knowing that Jabez’s name sounds like “pain” in Hebrew totally changes my perspective on the account. Imagine introducing yourself saying, “Hello, my name is Pain”, although some people are a real pain or some have names spelt “Payne”, or be both. Mwahaha. Yes, imagine.

Jabez ends his prayer really powerfully, he says, “and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” The Lord spoke to me when I read that.

You see, Jabez was named “Pain” and having such a name was not easy. Just because someone calls you a name, be it “Stupid, or whatever”, or you can be in a situation that is causing you much pain. It does not mean you have to accept it, you can pray to God for deliverance of such names and situations and the Lord may (will) do it for you!

“And God granted what he asked.” – 1 Chronicles 4:10

Be encouraged Christian! Glory to God!

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I’m happy ‘cos Jethro trusted me with his brand new VW Polo! Hah!

Edit 23.11.2008: Post title added.

Lifehouse’s Everything – Drama

Watch it, brought me to tears.

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ee73e63418003b47d7d5

Post #117

Rascal Flatts – What Hurt The Most

For you.

Edit 13.11.2008: Post title added.

Every Christian a Missionary

I attended a Korean care-group today. It was attended by mostly Koreans and they were very surprised when I spouted random Korean words! Hahaha, it was fun seeing their reaction!

I got to know about this meeting through my Korean Brother in Christ. His name is Ji-hoon, nice guy, quite handsome too. Anyway, he also invited his classmate who happens to be from China, Guangxi. I was glad to see someone whom I could speak Mandarin and Cantonese to! This classmate of Ji-hoon’s is a non-Christian, so I’m glad that I got to know her. I am sure there will be chances to evangelise to her.

I also met an Arab, the only person I exchanged numbers with! He’s studying English in the same uni as I am so this will be a good chance to build a bridge too!

You don’t have to go to a foreign country, or meet foreigners in order to be a missionary, you can do it where you are! Although being in a foreign land throws you out of your comfort zone, well most of time anyway.

So, Christian, be a missionary ok? .)