Placing Trust in Our Strength
TGIF Today God Is First, by Os Hillman

So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead. - 1 Chronicles 21:14

When was the last time your overconfidence cost the lives of 70,000 men? That is exactly what happened to David. David made what might appear to be an innocent request of his general, Joab. But the minute Joab heard the request he cringed. He knew David was in big trouble for this one. You see to number the troops was a great sin in Israel because it was against the law. Why? Because it demonstrated that you were placing more trust in numbers than in the living God. David displayed enough pride to cost the lives of 70,000 fighting men. God gave him three choices of punishment for his sin. A plague was the one he chose, and it resulted in the loss of 70,000.

Throughout Israel's history, God set the stage for battles to be won, miracles to take place, and people to exercise faith. The stage was always set so that man could not take credit for what God did. Consider Gideon who was only allowed 300 men to fight an army of 100,000. Consider Jehoshaphat, who had to lead his army with his singers. God defeated the enemy. Consider Joshua, who was told simply to walk around Jericho seven times, and they would get victory. God did things in some very unconventional ways!

How does this relate to you and me as workplace believers? Well, the minute you and I place more trust in our abilities than in God, we are guilty of numbering the troops. How does He punish us? Sometimes it's through letting a deal go sour. Sometimes it's through problems with a client or vendor. Sometimes situations just blow up in our face. Other times, He lets us go on for a long time doing our own thing, but eventually He deals with it.

The lesson here is to learn daily and complete dependence on God. Use your gifts and abilities through the power of the Holy Spirit. Ask Him daily for direction and wisdom. His ways won't always line up with conventional wisdom. When we begin depending on our abilities only, God has a responsibility to make known to us who is the giver of the blessings.

hmmmmmmmmm.. damn, lucky i nv kill 70,000 troops. so real.. so real...
haiyayayayaya.....

Hmmm jmmm hmmm.. this isthe start of disaster wahahhaa.
after interim 2, forget wthat we call home.
remember what we call... school.
lol



Something which i got from my online daily devotional on Thursday.

Passing the Tests
TGIF Today God Is First, by Os Hillman

The Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hands and given it to one of your neighbors-to David. - 1 Samuel 28:17b

When God anoints a person, a pattern of testing appears to take place at specific times in the leader's life. God often takes each leader through four major tests to determine if that person will achieve God's ultimate call on his or her life. The person's response to these tests is the deciding factor in whether they can advance to the next level of responsibility in God's Kingdom.

Control-Control is one of the first tests. Saul spent most of his time as king trying to prevent others from getting what he had. Saul never got to the place with God in which he was a grateful recipient of God's goodness to him. Saul was a religious controller. This control led to disobedience and ultimately being rejected by God because Saul no longer was a vessel God could use.

Bitterness-Every major character in the Bible was hurt by another person at one time or another. Jesus was hurt deeply when Judas, a trusted follower, betrayed Him. Despite knowing this was going to happen, Jesus responded by washing Judas' feet. Every anointed leader will have a Judas experience at one time or another. God watches us to see how we will respond to this test. Will we take up an offense? Will we retaliate? It is one of the most difficult tests to pass.
(wooooooooooooooh now i feel like crying siah)

Power-Power is the opposite of servanthood. Jesus had all authority in Heaven and earth, so satan tempted Jesus at the top of the mountain to use His power to remove Himself from a difficult circumstance. How will we use the power and influence God has entrusted to us? Do we seek to gain more power? There is a common phrase in the investment community, "He who has the gold rules." Jesus modeled the opposite. He was the ultimate servant leader.

Greed-This is a difficult one. Money has the ability to have great influence for either good or bad. When it is a focus in our life, it becomes a tool of destruction. When it is a by-product, it can become a great blessing. Many leaders started out well-only to be derailed once prosperity became a part of their life. There are thousands who can blossom spiritually in adversity; only a few can thrive spiritually under prosperity.

As leaders, we must be aware when we are being tested. You can be confident that each one of these tests will be thrown your way if God calls you for His purposes. Will you pass these tests? Ask for God's grace today to walk through these tests victoriously.

Wohohohohoo
It'll be 2nd judgement day (2nd interim, i mean) and tt means,
i have to make myself love the school as my sleeping ground.
Which means, tonight... is the stay-in-sch nite.

Btw, thanks to all the people who make me feel so swweeeeeeeeeeetened
on my bday. hahaha. Stayed overnight in sch on my bday, not to
play a fool pr happily partying around, but to indluge myself
in loveley 3D programs, tryin to figure the good nice movement..
til 6 am! where i rendred and get some nap.. whahaa
and be woken up cos kids from year 1 came for their cls at 9.
lol.


powerful booze for the i-need-to-stay-awake peeps: COKE LIGHT

Coke light.... TO THE MAX! woooooooohoooooooooooooo

Hm hm hmm...
rendering a 151 frame animation for 1 1/5 hour.. whahaha.
still have.. erm...... 750 frames to be rendered before i can safely say
"oyasuminasai" lol

and while im blogging and rendering, there are people shooting,
and making full use of their time, while my butt is collecting fat
from the constant gravity on this chair... and cant be more
productive than this cos my internet connection has been quite gay.
was 'borrowing' neighbour's connection, which is unstable as well..
feel quite pathetic. wjajajajaja
but ok l;ah... everything happens for some reason and yeah...
freakin cool when i think back of ewhat i did just now...
whahaha
making random burger whahahaha solely with teh help of microwave.
whahaa
lazy cat.
lol
k
need to type essay craps now.
brb.

(cant freakin do reasearch also,.. now that the inyternet was not arnd stable-ly)
damn.

IMDBOYS.blogspot.com

Hahaha.. i was playin around with Google. Yeah. Freakin boring as you can imagine,
rendering eats your life like nobody;s business. whahaha
So i was searching for Joseph Quek.. and then to my talent, Andy Mok.
Yeah, Faarisi said somethin abt him starring in Hai Nan Ji Fan.. some movie.
So yeah, found those links that linked to him.
And then... i tried to search myself. whahahahaha. k. i mean, literally.
And i found links to imdboys.blogspot.com.
And i was kind of... hmmm.. how to describe...
mixed feeling? hmmmm..
like... we had so much fun and gayness. freakin reflected on the blog.
it was fun.... was reading those chain-comments...
random shouting, random comment, random digging, random blogging....
haiyoh...

those times cant come back once more.
those times are like... hmm.. posterised at that certain period of time..
like... freeze frame... its there at the back of your memory..
wont go away.
kind of feel... jealous of that time.
how nice would it be if now we're still like tt.
how nice.
but time passes by.
no turning back.

but anyway.
againand again.
i love you guys for leaving footprints on my memories.
the good ones. hehehe the gay ones.
its lovely to remember them.

Lets talk abt Joseph Quek shall we?
hahaha
k. its quite random but yeah...
Was reading up on imdb's One last Dance and i chanced upon
the name "Joseph Quek".

Quite interesting act from this guy, cos he did a character that
gave the gay and straight-feel. Weird shit, haha. no i mean, i'm kind of interested.
hahahaa. dug up a bit on google and i found an article abt him.
lol. 1st time acting siah. power.
anyway.. 1 thing which amazes me..
he has the Hyde-look. k not as freaking good looking at Hyde... but somewhere
a bit of the cheek bone... and the thin lips.. and the brows. whahaha
k.
lolol
tts all man.
need to resume back to work whahahaa

Its not so bad

When your hard disk storage has 7 slots inside and only 6 appeared,
its not so bad.

When your hard disk storage was uploaded with 1 more slot and only 4 appears,
its not so bad.

When your hard disk storage finally shows up 6 slots and the new 1 never appears,
its not so bad.

It may be human error you know.
maybe you guys are not uploading it correctly
or maybe you lost track and skip that one that you thought u uploaded.

so what is bad?
when all the slots inside your hard disk storage mysteriously gone and you got
screwed for your FYP. good enough for 'bad'?

SWIM INTO THE WATER

6 shots gone...

Maaaan, something has to be done to that 'cursed technology'.
Sch's P2cardstorage HDD 'ate' up people's footages..
I lost 3/4 worth of a day's shoot (saturday somemore..)
which is equivalent to 6 shots from the 59 drawn...
quite gay. nd to do something.
hahaha.
but anyway.... somehow there will be a miracle.
He has given me His promises...
And He wont back out from His words,
so i believe He's gonna use this to be somethin testimonical.
wohohoho..
lets wait and see (and meanwhile.. im now doin my graphics. whahhaa)

Hyde- Evergreen

Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.. Hyde is sooo Kyaaa~ k nvm.
Day Three was good. Im happy with the colour etc. hehehe.
Hmm maybe im easy to be satisfied with? whaha no lah.
Love you all, my crews and gurls..~ my everyday-new DOPs. hehehee
You guys rock~!
Im so thankful that you guys agree to help~
and all those break-time-come-and-help-you guys. hehehee
Im so thankfullllllll *cry cry cry*

now... another day of bookin for dayFour. Hope i could get it. roar~
whahahahhaa



heck, random thoughts for the day:
sometimes we feel like we're caged
by boundaries drawn by men
by limited capabilities that we possess
by words of discouragements
but if you could pass through these challange
you could shake legs and say "gj! rar!"
whahhaa


k lame.

LESS THAN 24 HOURS TO BREATHE

k, people...
the days are coming....
the days where i'll be out for my production,
shooting and then editing and giving effects..
mannn.... cant believe that day will come.

This feels like O level all over again, except that
this one.. i hold the key to my success..
for o level.. its 1000x easier. whahahaa.


kath>> tmr's my big day!
kath>> bigger than my wedding i guess
shan>> siao ah? indo woman!
kath>> serious.. if wedding dun wan, can still cancel
kath>> if this one cancels, i have to start form scratch

i think i'm mad.
whahahaaha

ppl, pls pray for me...
*cry*

This is 3:50 AM

nah, im not talking abt the time where the pic was taken.
Hmmm now is 3:57 am and Im doin my schedule. realised that
scheduling is quite boring & tedious, involving deep thinking and
risk taking, as well as imagination. hahaha. oh im sleepy damn.~

this pic was taken somewhere last week, when i was waiting for casting
to be digitized.... so i was bo liao.. and voila...
hmmm not so bad ah.. my side view.. whahaha
k nvm. narcism strikes hard today.. damn~

shall stop and resume back to working my ass off. whahhaa