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
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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'O' Level testimony (Part 3)
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Assurance and comfirmation of my course
After the 'O' Levels, I started being a little unsure of whether I really did well and kind of doubted whether I could enter psychology. (The whole "Oh-no!-I-think-I-got-this-wrong-thing). But God always reassured me that I did well. I just didn't know if that was me comforting myself or God. During the same time, I also took an interest in the Early Childhood course. Coz I've always loved kids and I knew It would benefit my work in the children's ministry. And to show that psychology was really the course for me, God took the Early Childhood Teaching and Psychology courses and combined them together into one programme, the dual diploma programme. This meant I could to take Psychology as a core subject and Early Childhood Teaching as an elective subject and still graduate at the end of 3 year with 2 Diplomas! They sent this infomation in a little pamphlet. To me, It was like a dream come true! But guess what? To enter the programme, I'd still have to get into psychology! 9 points! I knew God was trying to reassure me of my grades and my decision into psychology but back then when i hadnt had my 'O' level results, it was more like a bone given to tempt a dog who couldn't eat it... And during that holiday, I pestered God and kept telling Him how worried I was about my results. And Although God always reassured me that I was going to do fine and quoted Phillipian 4:7 and Matthew 6:25-34 to me countless times(Links to the verses http://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-worry.html) ... I still kept worrying..
Result day eve
The day I pestered God the most about my results. Every half hour I think. I think God got so annoyed from trying to reassure me so many time that he sent 2 people to do it for Him. My 2 best friends, Joled and Jun Yan.
Joled called me that day to chat.. So I asked him if he was worried about his results. To my surprise he said something like this. "No. I just trust God with whatever the results. If He's in charge, He eventually lead me to my destiny so I don't have to worry". I was like.. Wow... I didn't expect those words to come out from him. It's so simple but so much truth in it. And that got me less worried. Then, Joled asked me to call another one of my best friends, Jun Yan, to sort of like chat up with him. I called him and asked him the same question. He gave me the verse "For God has not given us a spirit of timidity but of power and love and discipline. 2 Tim 1:7"... That totally put my heart to rest. I was like... "Ok.. God... You win..." And that night, I could sleep soundly without worries...
Result Day
My anxiety came back for a little while but I didn't have to worry long. The slide with all the pupils with 6 or more distinctions came on... And I was in the list!! I had scored 3 A1s and 3A2.. And all my other results did not fall below a B3.. Of course I was ecstatic.. But at that moment, when you know it is not you who did it but God, you feel the credit goes to Him and not to yourself. My heart was filled more with thanksgiving to Him than happiness for the stellar results. I went home and I sang praises to Him and thanked him. I looked at my result slip and told God. "This result slip belongs to You. Not me. A student like myself could never have gotten such amazing grades without Your help"
God's Continual favour
When I went to Temasek Polytechnic for a course counselling session, I found that the In-charge of Psychology studies, Mr Ng, is also a christian.. and also works in the children's ministry! I am so blessed to have Him as the head! He even put me up for a scholarship interview for the course!
Well, Now I'm officially posted the Temasek poly's psychology studies course and waiting for school to start. Considering the scholarship though.. Waiting for God to tell me something about the scholarship. Well, I'll sum this up in the next post. :)
Firestorm thanked jesus at12:25 AM