Hey all,
This post is to wish all my readers out there a Happy Chinese New Year! This is the time of the year to really soak in the atmosphere of feasting and fun and to spend quality time with our family.
Saturday, 21 January 2012
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Blessings Part 2
Having been prophesied that I would go for SOT 2012, I was wondering if this was possible at all. I had already accepted the China posting for a period of 1 year and the contract would only end on August 2012. This all changed during on of the weekend services......
During the weekend service, our overseas Bible School "Lion's Gate" was being advertised. At that moment it hit me that this could be the SOT that my friend was prophesying about. As my name is "Daniel", I kind of thought that this was God's calling as the 'Lion's Den" was one of the defining moments for the prophet Daniel in the Bible.
As you know, things are not always as they seem. Real decisions should be made on peace and prompting of the HS and not on feelings and coincidences. It turns out that I could not go to China in the end as the school wanted me to be grounded in Singapore to gain teaching experience first. At that moment, I felt like all my dreams were dashed. I just gave up a teaching position in Vietnam and now I could not go to China. However, I remembered the prophesy and I thought to myself "could this be true.."
In the end, teaching in the school was quite enjoyable and I made quite a few good students who became more like friends to me. It was interesting getting to know them and experiencing their culture first hand through some of the common words that they would use. Anyway, from that moment on, I set my mind firmly on SOT 2012 and thought that I could teach until the beginning of the year.
True enough, I planned to start giving tuition rather than teaching full time so that I could accommodate going to SOT and yet earning enough money to go by. God is good and during one of the weekend servives, Pastor John came and gave a hundred fold blessing. I took a giant step of faith and gave 'a lot of money' for that service. Turns out God started to bless me tremendously and I now have tuition assignments that fill up my entire free hours that I would be going to SOT. The money earned is also more than enough to cover living expenses and school fees and is only slightly less than what I was getting as a full time teacher.
I do feel that this has all been set up by God, which is why I feel quite confident that I will be going for SOT this year. My cell group member, Guo Wei recently prophesied that I would do extremely well and be amongst the top 3 academic students in SOT and I'm going to be leaning a lot on God's strength and my determination to make that a reality. Hopefully I can build connections and gain the confidence of God and the Senior Pastors to one day work in the ministry of Christ!
Thank you all for reading these long 2 posts about SOT and I hope you will stay tuned for more interesting sharing and thoughts!
Btw I have already opened my sub blog www.joyfumusic.blogspot.com do visit and support !
Live life with Joy and Prosperity
JoyFu Studios
During the weekend service, our overseas Bible School "Lion's Gate" was being advertised. At that moment it hit me that this could be the SOT that my friend was prophesying about. As my name is "Daniel", I kind of thought that this was God's calling as the 'Lion's Den" was one of the defining moments for the prophet Daniel in the Bible.
As you know, things are not always as they seem. Real decisions should be made on peace and prompting of the HS and not on feelings and coincidences. It turns out that I could not go to China in the end as the school wanted me to be grounded in Singapore to gain teaching experience first. At that moment, I felt like all my dreams were dashed. I just gave up a teaching position in Vietnam and now I could not go to China. However, I remembered the prophesy and I thought to myself "could this be true.."
In the end, teaching in the school was quite enjoyable and I made quite a few good students who became more like friends to me. It was interesting getting to know them and experiencing their culture first hand through some of the common words that they would use. Anyway, from that moment on, I set my mind firmly on SOT 2012 and thought that I could teach until the beginning of the year.
True enough, I planned to start giving tuition rather than teaching full time so that I could accommodate going to SOT and yet earning enough money to go by. God is good and during one of the weekend servives, Pastor John came and gave a hundred fold blessing. I took a giant step of faith and gave 'a lot of money' for that service. Turns out God started to bless me tremendously and I now have tuition assignments that fill up my entire free hours that I would be going to SOT. The money earned is also more than enough to cover living expenses and school fees and is only slightly less than what I was getting as a full time teacher.
I do feel that this has all been set up by God, which is why I feel quite confident that I will be going for SOT this year. My cell group member, Guo Wei recently prophesied that I would do extremely well and be amongst the top 3 academic students in SOT and I'm going to be leaning a lot on God's strength and my determination to make that a reality. Hopefully I can build connections and gain the confidence of God and the Senior Pastors to one day work in the ministry of Christ!
Thank you all for reading these long 2 posts about SOT and I hope you will stay tuned for more interesting sharing and thoughts!
Btw I have already opened my sub blog www.joyfumusic.blogspot.com do visit and support !
Live life with Joy and Prosperity
JoyFu Studios
Blessings Part 1
As some of you might know, one of my new year resolutions for 2012 is to go for SOT, which stands for School of Theology. I'm still waiting for the results of my application but I'm quite confident that this year is the year of breakthroughs for me...
The story of how I got to this point is filled with many many ups and downs. This is actually my third time applying and hopefully I'll be third time blessed! This first time I applied was when I just graduated from NUS. Thinking that my parents would help me cover the cost (a childish thought I must say), I applied. However, my zone pastor knew better of course and she felt that I shouldn't just go to SOT for the sake of it and that I should go at a time when I would be able to make the most out of it. Another factor was the school fees which I could not afford. Hence, I did not go that year but instead, I got a wonderful blessing in the form of employment with PA.
When the next year came, I was rather halfhearted in my second attempt. There were many factors that came to my mind. One of this was that I was having quite a stressful time at work and was wondering if I was actually using SOT as an escape clause. Nonetheless I applied. To my surprise, my ZS actually agreed on my application but only on the condition that my parents would allow me to. My parents, however, were apprehensive as they felt that I should stay in my first job for at least a year or I would get a black mark! It turns out this was somewhat true. So there I was, caught in 2 minds about what to do. After much consideration, I decided to go for SOT! however, I was pretty short of cash as usual and was hoping to wait till my bonus came before confirming. This meant that I was to miss the preparatory course held 2 weeks before the start of SOT.
Much to my dismay, things didn't really turn out well at work and I ended up deciding to leave way before the bonus came. This was at the period where the prep course had already started. Knowing what had happened, my parents were a little upset and the virus of indecision came to bug me again. I was told my SOT tag had already been printed. Nonetheless, I didn't really have the funds to go and was still rather immature about the whole thing. In the end, I didn't go and ended up being jobless for the next 3 months.
In the middle of the year, I was very excited to hear that I was selected as a teacher to be based in China. To double my excitement, I learnt that another school was interested in signing me up to teach in either Burma or Vietnam. Wow, caught in indecision again. Both jobs seemed well suited but taking both would mean that I would forgo my dream of going to SOT one day.
I ended up choosing the China job. During one of the weekends after I made my decision, I attended a farewell gathering for an ex-SOT student. While there, I noticed a friend who was very sensitive to the Holy Spirit and who had the gift of prophesy in him. I told him of my disappointments this year and he prophesied to me that next year, 2012, would be the year which I would attend SOT..........
Part 2 to follow!
Joyfu Studios
Live life with Joy and Prosperity!
The story of how I got to this point is filled with many many ups and downs. This is actually my third time applying and hopefully I'll be third time blessed! This first time I applied was when I just graduated from NUS. Thinking that my parents would help me cover the cost (a childish thought I must say), I applied. However, my zone pastor knew better of course and she felt that I shouldn't just go to SOT for the sake of it and that I should go at a time when I would be able to make the most out of it. Another factor was the school fees which I could not afford. Hence, I did not go that year but instead, I got a wonderful blessing in the form of employment with PA.
When the next year came, I was rather halfhearted in my second attempt. There were many factors that came to my mind. One of this was that I was having quite a stressful time at work and was wondering if I was actually using SOT as an escape clause. Nonetheless I applied. To my surprise, my ZS actually agreed on my application but only on the condition that my parents would allow me to. My parents, however, were apprehensive as they felt that I should stay in my first job for at least a year or I would get a black mark! It turns out this was somewhat true. So there I was, caught in 2 minds about what to do. After much consideration, I decided to go for SOT! however, I was pretty short of cash as usual and was hoping to wait till my bonus came before confirming. This meant that I was to miss the preparatory course held 2 weeks before the start of SOT.
Much to my dismay, things didn't really turn out well at work and I ended up deciding to leave way before the bonus came. This was at the period where the prep course had already started. Knowing what had happened, my parents were a little upset and the virus of indecision came to bug me again. I was told my SOT tag had already been printed. Nonetheless, I didn't really have the funds to go and was still rather immature about the whole thing. In the end, I didn't go and ended up being jobless for the next 3 months.
In the middle of the year, I was very excited to hear that I was selected as a teacher to be based in China. To double my excitement, I learnt that another school was interested in signing me up to teach in either Burma or Vietnam. Wow, caught in indecision again. Both jobs seemed well suited but taking both would mean that I would forgo my dream of going to SOT one day.
I ended up choosing the China job. During one of the weekends after I made my decision, I attended a farewell gathering for an ex-SOT student. While there, I noticed a friend who was very sensitive to the Holy Spirit and who had the gift of prophesy in him. I told him of my disappointments this year and he prophesied to me that next year, 2012, would be the year which I would attend SOT..........
Part 2 to follow!
Joyfu Studios
Live life with Joy and Prosperity!
Monday, 16 January 2012
A very warm welcome!
A very very warm welcome to all !
My name is Daniel, and this blog is one of my new year resolutions! Yes, in 2012, I'm going to start out my online career as an online social prime. In actual truth, I have been blogging for a long time now. However, I never really got serious about it and most of the time I would stop and start. Not this time, this year, things are going to change, dreams are going to be realized, success is going to be celebrated!
A little bit more about myself, I'm a prime adult searching for the value of life! I may not have found it yet but I'm sure I will soon enough. I come from the far east land island known as Singapore and I've been here all my life. Its a pretty awesome country to live in and I've been blessed to be able to have a loving family who have supported me and allowed me to graduate with a Degree in Southeast Asian Studies. After my degree, I've basically been teaching and am still teaching now as a full time tutor.
However, after teaching for a while I've come to the conclusion that life should not just be about earning money and surviving one day at a time. Life should be filled with blessings, dreams, and visions! Only then can you truly find your true self and your true calling. Don't be mistaken, I do enjoy teaching and the empowerment I have to impact the youths of today. Even so, I believe that apart from teaching, a great joy I have is in writing out my thoughts and sharing it with people out there so that you guys out there know that life can be a joy to live!
Basically, I'll be starting 3 sub-blogs for the 3 hobbies I really have a passion in and hope to one day be a professional. Firstly, why the name JoyFu? Well Fu is actually my Chinese surname and a character with a similar pronunciation means 'prosperity' and Joy is what I would like you to feel when your visiting my blog. After a hard days work or study, I do hope this blog can be a source of light-hearteness and joy to you to put a smile on your face!
The 3 sub blogs will be Joyfustories, Joyfulmusic and Joyfulenglish. Joyfustories is where I will write chapters of short stories or movie reviews. Joyfumusic will be filled with the latest songs and recommendations, covers and originals. Lastly, Joyfulenglish will be some ESL lessons thought in Chinese for our friends from China to pick up English!
This blog will be the main blog which promotes new material from the other blogs. In addition, I will be posting my dreams and visions in 2012 and the daily steps and inspirations needed to get there! So all in all, thanks for visiting and I do hope you continue to be a loyal follower for me to put a little Joy in !
Here's to a blessed Chinese New Year!
My name is Daniel, and this blog is one of my new year resolutions! Yes, in 2012, I'm going to start out my online career as an online social prime. In actual truth, I have been blogging for a long time now. However, I never really got serious about it and most of the time I would stop and start. Not this time, this year, things are going to change, dreams are going to be realized, success is going to be celebrated!
A little bit more about myself, I'm a prime adult searching for the value of life! I may not have found it yet but I'm sure I will soon enough. I come from the far east land island known as Singapore and I've been here all my life. Its a pretty awesome country to live in and I've been blessed to be able to have a loving family who have supported me and allowed me to graduate with a Degree in Southeast Asian Studies. After my degree, I've basically been teaching and am still teaching now as a full time tutor.
However, after teaching for a while I've come to the conclusion that life should not just be about earning money and surviving one day at a time. Life should be filled with blessings, dreams, and visions! Only then can you truly find your true self and your true calling. Don't be mistaken, I do enjoy teaching and the empowerment I have to impact the youths of today. Even so, I believe that apart from teaching, a great joy I have is in writing out my thoughts and sharing it with people out there so that you guys out there know that life can be a joy to live!
Basically, I'll be starting 3 sub-blogs for the 3 hobbies I really have a passion in and hope to one day be a professional. Firstly, why the name JoyFu? Well Fu is actually my Chinese surname and a character with a similar pronunciation means 'prosperity' and Joy is what I would like you to feel when your visiting my blog. After a hard days work or study, I do hope this blog can be a source of light-hearteness and joy to you to put a smile on your face!
The 3 sub blogs will be Joyfustories, Joyfulmusic and Joyfulenglish. Joyfustories is where I will write chapters of short stories or movie reviews. Joyfumusic will be filled with the latest songs and recommendations, covers and originals. Lastly, Joyfulenglish will be some ESL lessons thought in Chinese for our friends from China to pick up English!
This blog will be the main blog which promotes new material from the other blogs. In addition, I will be posting my dreams and visions in 2012 and the daily steps and inspirations needed to get there! So all in all, thanks for visiting and I do hope you continue to be a loyal follower for me to put a little Joy in !
Here's to a blessed Chinese New Year!
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