oh... This was taken on the Sunday before Ignite conference... on a family photoshoot my Mum's colleague gave to our family as a gift. We don't normally take family photos together, and I must this was a great great gift...
I'm bringing this along with me to australia, there's about 200 photos =D... this is one of the nicest ones. What a great gift! I thank God so much so muCH for it, and yea, so timely, and I can look aT these photos and remember my family always :)
And when I saw these photos, I couldn't thank God more for my family... I feel so blessed so blessed so blessed. Even though there are quarrels, or times of disagreement, even over the smallest things, there are so many happy moments too... I love them. How can I not miss my family when I go overseas? I pray that God protects them always :D sends his angels to guard over everyone, keep them safe from harm. For Good health always.
i thank God for those heroes who left a legacy. So that we could be inspired, by the huge intensity of their love for God and for people, to bring Jesus into our world.
this post, is going down in actions. and its gonna be a reminder always of what I learned today, yesterday, and yesterday yesterday... 18th - 20th January 2008.
must not let this be mere words, or a conference hype... I really thank God for the conference, cos now I'm going to Australia with more purpose, a greater one over studying... of course studying is important! eugene prayed for me that I'd do exceptionally well in UNSW Medicine... during that saturday night... its somewhat beyond my wildest dreams, mmmm... and but I said, "Amen" to that. So, i guess i've gotta work really hard eh?... but after today, its not just studies alone...
"I will never forget this awful time, as I grieve over my loss. Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this...
"The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, "The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!"
The Lord is good to those who depend on him, to those who search for him. So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord. And it is good for people to submit at an early age to the yoke of his discipline. Let them sit alone in silence beneath the Lord's demands. Let them lie face down in the dust for there may be hope at last. Let them turn the other cheek to those who strike them and accept the insults of their enemies.
For NO ONE is abandoned by the Lord forever. Though he brings grief, he also shows compassion because of the greatness of his unfailing love. For he does not enjoy hurting people or causing them sorrow...
Let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn back to the Lord."
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We should dare to hope in God always, no matter what happens, no matter what we did, no matter what we could have done instead... dare to hope in God.
Zibing shared during P and W about crossing the Jordan river.
yea... a few days later I heard a sermon about it on my iPOD, didn't know it was in my iPOD, but yea, its from a SAN Dieago Church, introduced by Zi Jian - titled Crossing the Jordan...
I got a confession...
I listened to it at night, on my bed... ...
Guess what happened next?
this was what I heard :" *..**....israe**lites.ZzZz...*...** their san**..*Zz*dals never wore out***...*ZzzZ**. ...*..***.. josh**ua***..**ZzzzZ***..*mos*zZz*es***...****Zzz* i've reached the end of my sermon.."
hAHhaha. like a broken radio...
sermons are really one of the best sleep medicine eh? *hahah, just kidding.
You know how Pastors like to suddenly shout during their sermons to emphasize a point, a word, and to capture the attention of their audience, especially those who are gonna fall fast asleep... yea.. it did work... for a while. HAHA
so just for a while... den I fell asleep... but towards the end...
... so this is what I learnt, before i became unconscious... hahaha
You know what crossing the Jordan river means?
The Jordan river was an impenetratable body of water... seemingly impossible to cross. The Giants were a undefeated group of warriors... seemingly impossilbe to win.
Those are roofs over our heads, limiting our potential when we are not claiming God's promises... it's like a floodgate that's waiting for You to unlock, but you don't.
It's crossing into God's promises...
The Israelites spent 40 years in the desert, just dwelling in God's provisions and blessings (you know, a pillar of fire by the night, a cloud by the day, mana from the sky, and their sandals never wore out).... But they weren't walking in God's promise... Yea. and there couldn't be a name more apt than the PROMISE land... that the Israelites were supposed to walk into...
the Pastor said this, which was very true, "what's much better than staying in the provisions and blessings of God is... to walk into the promises of God."
and what Rosaline said made some sense... instead of crossing the Jordan, I'll be crossing an Ocean.
and she was trying to figure out which ocean it was... Indian? Atlantic? Pacific? South China Sea?... ... I don't know which one it is i'll be crossing...
but of course, I do it with the help of the A380. haha.
I thank God for such a big comfortable plane that came so timely for such a destination as Sydney and yea... It's in Terminal 3..
You see, if this is GOd's plan...
then, God made the A380 a long time ago,
started construction of Terminal 3 quite a while ago,
so just for that day, and time, I'll be able to fly on a comfortable plane with no extra cost,
in a world class Plane,
and in a world class Terminal 3!
How timely... =D
19th Feb 2030 Hours SQ 221 - The Big Friendly Green Plane A380 -
And I just found out that I get to choose my own seats... how cool is that
I chose the corner of the middle back section of the plane,
a window seat where I can see the wings...
and see it take off, see the skies and the clouds, and maybe the sun in the morning....
i doubt I'd be able to see stars or the moon at night.
she developed cheap drugs for AIDs patients, saving thousands upon thousands of lives... developed drugs that were as much as 18 times cheaper....
and came up with cheap affordable drugs for diseases ranging from hypertension to diabetes, and Malaria.
Now because of her significant contribution, countries like Thailand has one of the world's leading public AID's treatment programm in the developing world, and with most poor patients getting free treatments... In addition, countries like Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam has benefitted from these drugs.
During the last 5 years, she devoted her time to Africa where she battled 2 major death causing diseases, AIDS and Malaria.
yea. One of my aims next time is to set up a drug company next time selling cheap cheap drugs to people who need it, so many can afford it... den maybe saving many many lives... I only told this to a few people... haha.
When I told my mum about this aim, she thought that it was not really viable... then she saw an article on Krisana Kraisintu on the newspaper today, and cut it out for me...
yea, Krisana Kraisintu did it. read about her over the internet... great example for General Paper...
den Dr. Paul Brand too... I read about him in Gift of Pain... a missionary doctor...
another really inspirational person. Maybe next time, i want to become a missionary doctor like Dr Paul Brand too.
I learned how he helped people with a pair of skilled hands, re-attaching ligaments of leprosy patients, helping them walk again by fixing their feet and giving them custom cushioned shoes so that their feet don't wear out due to painless and repeatative movments of walking...
some dream of flying*some just want to dream, sleepyheads*
some have more natural poses* see one cool guy behind in black cap with the basket ball* and eugene's most natural pose* haHA kIDding.. i'm So gonna get killed next saturday.... but till then, muHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. notice the one leg lift...HAHAHAhAHahahHAhAHaha. and some dream to be a baseball star... this is Gabriel in the toilet with scary eyes*
and some dream to be actors... A POCkEy AdvErtiseMent by EugenEo, so zeejay has some talent in acting too...
WTA Womans Tennis Association Opens TOurnament...
ohhHHHHH you sooooo Gotta catch this, ChengYu's and Kennifer's tenniS poSes...
ORD post... draft re-posted... Written on 22nd Nov 2007
this was part of one of my post so long ago... 5th January 2006 on my old blog... "Tmr... tmr... ITs my big day! my first steps... first steps towards manhood. after 18 years....a long 18 years, and the time hath finally come. Thoust will be serving as Thee Army man for Singapore."
by Jordanio
05/01/06
I was psycho'in myself into ArmY...
and yes... just a couple of days of work left, a few more days and my last steps... and I finally almost completed it's journey. Of course, if I start thinking back of all the times in army and the friends, yea, I start to feel nostalgic.
You know... i really thank God for putting me in the Navy..and as a medic... It's quite amazing how God planned my army life for me...
First few days of army, and it was the worst periods of my Army life. You feel homesick, You see airplanes fly past you, and what more, I just came back from Missiontrip the year before... and I wondered how long more will it take for me to be free again, like the people who are in the airplane... and even asked God, why am I singaporean? Other countries don't even need to do military training... with exception of a few.
So that was BMT.
After BMT, because I managed to slip through to pass my IPPT test, I managed to get into SISPEC *it's okay if you don't understand the army lingo... and during my Sergeant Course (BSLC), I asked God what was my purpose in army... was I going to waste my time away? I mean it's 2 YEARS you know... ... Training was tough! digging fire trenches and hacking away solid roots to dig further.... running around in the jungle... contacting enemies... doing short sprints here and there... shouting around to your Section to overrun the enemy...
was that all to my life in Army?
I actually wanted to be a doctor since, mmmmm... Fairfield School days... Secondary 4 It was secondary 4 and I told God to let me go NJC, so that I can do well enough... I mean results are so important when it comes to University applications... but you know, I thought it was impossible then. I asked my teacher how many people a year go to NJC, and it's always just a couple of people...sometimes one, two, three, five? So all the top students get to go there... and I saw my own results, my own position, I wasn't even in the top 25-30 or even 40... and it's an exponential jump in grades as you climb up the ranking lists.... like my average score can be 58marks while it jump to 70-80marks a few positions higher.
and you know what?... every step of the way... I always find that God's so amazing with the way He guides me and blesses me and leads me... I did pray so hard during my exams, and during my revision..
I can most surely say that I wouldn't have made it without Him. and I got into NJC with a shave of my chinny chin chin... it's one point more and I'll be in another JC
So, again, A levels, I can most surely say it again, God was there with me. It was the toughest examination period ever. Subjects seemed like a mountain in which you could never reach the top. I guess, it's impossible to study finish everything in A levels, cos there's always more and more to learn...
So then, it was time for ARMY...
And my army... After SisPeC BSLC course... I was most delighted to hear that I got into the medic course...
YOU KNOW what? It really gives you lotsa relevant knowledge that can give you a headstart as a doctor. Guess what? Intravenous Injections can only be done by Doctors in most part of the world cos it's an invasive procedure. But we get to do it so often... I learnt things like, CPR, the use of AED, how to manage a breathing difficulty, a truama case, a heart attack, how to keep a person alive, how to monitor his vital signs, how to revive a hypoglycemic patient, how to manage a heatstroke... It was protocols after protocols for a large number of emergencies... and I learnt how to keep a person alive as long as possible till a doctor arrives with miracle drugs.
I knew that God had planned it all. You know? I actually asked God if I could go to OCS instead of SISPEC... and even if not OCS, go straight to unit, cos SisPEc's the middle ground... they say not a goood place to go...
and I went to SISPEC... and now I know why... God planned it all, so that I could to get into the SAF Medical Service... and He planned it all for me. Isn't it amazing?
yea, and I was attached to an ambulance where we responded to real life calls... you know dial 995 and the ambulence rushes to the scene. There was diabetic patients, heart patients, drug addicts... and I was also attached to the Accident and Emergency department of Alexandra Hospital.
Isn't being a medic Cool? All the more cooler when I wanted to be a doctor? you don't such opportunities falling from the sky by chances... and I figured that God was so real...
and now, there's more and more miracles that God has done for me in my university applications...and I am really believe that studying medicine is God's plan for me... a miracle hard to believe.
i thought studying hard and doing well, and being an excellent doctor, so that in future can do great things for God...and yah... there's so many things I want to do...
let me see...some things that crossed my mind... set up orphanage. set up a drug company. be missionary doctor. I read about Dr Paul Brand and Philip Yancey in the book, "The Gift of Pain"... he's a amazing doctor! some time ago, after hearing Ps Song give the example of the missionary dentist in China in a sermon.... haha. maybe even set up a mini hospital overseas... or even a university! haha.. orrrr The Jordan Medical Foundation! HAHAHA you know what i think... all these dreams are ambitious...almost humanly impossible... ...and but always there's God and His plans..
maybe for now am just concentrating on studying hard when I go... ;) one step at a time first... graduation from university seems like a whole new start of a exciting journey ahead... and that's what I'm looking forward to...
