Heavenly Father
I know that I have sinned against you
my sins have separated me from you
I am truly sorry
I now want to turn away from my past sinful life and turn to you for forgiveness
Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again
I believe that your son, Jesus Christ, died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead and is alive
He hears my prayer
I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward
Please send your Holy Spirit to help me obey You
and to do Your will for the rest of my life,
In Jesus' name I pray, Amen
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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My 'O' Level Testimony (part 1)
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Woah... It's been a while since I last updated... Guess God always has to prompt me to do stuff for Him(Oooops... Sorry Pops..). Ok.. Let me digress from the whole purpose in life thing for a while... I'll come back to it... You know, ever since I was young, I was always amazed when people told me God helped them in their studies. Like God giving them a dream with all the answers to the exams or something like that. I always thought studies was more unrelated to God. Coz it's our job to work hard, not God's job. But sometimes, even though we try the best that we can and we still don't succeed, that's when God comes into the picture.To shows that He's literally 'Lord of our lives', And i mean everything.... God took me on a journey with Him during my 'O' Level period. Yup, He didn't just say,"Nah... Here's the answers to the exams". He gave me sooo much more than that.... Here's what he gave me...
Directions to my course
ok.. This one he gave me way back.. But it's a journey right? Ever since young, I loved to help people with their problems. Friendship problems, Family Problems and stuff. But I wasn't very sure of my giftings from God back then. So God sent someone to affirm me. Without knowing who I was, this man prophesied over me and said I had the gift of counselling. So I was like, Ok.. Cool. Then God sent me another person into my school, a counsellor,of all occupations, to give this little career talk. And that's when I knew counselling was going to be a big part of my life.. Piecing together the puzzle, I thought, Hey.. the next step to fulfill God plans for me would be to get into psychology. I considered getting into JC too.. But the competition with the gifted people still threw me off.
Academic knowledge
But looking at the cut-off point(COP) for psychology studies, I thought I my grades could never make the cut. It was 9 points(Currently 8 for 2009)!! The lowest COP for all the courses! And my school counsellor told me I had to get at least 2 points less to assure my place in the course! Let's look at my grades back then. I flunked(or almost flunked) my major E maths exams. I almost failed my physics and chemistry exams. And I failed(with a D7) for my Amaths. My class position was 36/40. I couldn't understand and apply any of the math or physics concepts, which always leads to me not completing the papers. There was no way, no chance I could ever make it to psychology if I kept it up.
But somehow, nearing the end of the school year in sec 3, God tweaked my brains. Suddenly, I could understand all the math and physics concepts and apply them! I realised that when I could do all the worksheets and revision questions my teachers gave me. And I was like,"Hey! I couldn't do this before!" And from there, I cultivated my interest in my subjects. So much so that maths papers became my past time. God even sent a friend to motivate me to study by meeting up with her at Mac Donald's and studying through long hours!(I would have never managed to do that at home with the TV and the computer). And of course, my grades improved. But I still hadn't reached my course's expectations...
That was just the tip of the Ice-berg.. The exciting bits are in the next post... Stay tuned.... :)
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