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{/service feedbacks on 18 Oct 2008 --

Monday, October 20, 2008 ( 12:05 AM )

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Jun De: yesterday's service was really awesome, it really ended all my doubt and everything i've been thinking about over the past few weeks. i am at the end of my first year in YI and i was really faced choosing between the library and worship ministry. i didnt know which to go too cause i had an interest in both. Many people told me to just pray and seek Him and His counsel. Throughout the weeks as i was fasting and praying i saw a few verses on how we show use the gifts God has given us to adminster to His grace (1 Peter 4:10) as well as Jesus' parable of talents, when God gives you money/gifts/stuff, what do you do with it? well that was what i started thinking. i was also reading a book and suddenly there came a part about how a singer can actually use the gift God has given him to spur others on toward love and good deeds, it provides inspiration, that spark that most really need in their lives to get it going. but still i wasnt convinced and i did not want to go down a path He did not set for me to go down to as i know what will happen and it can get scary. eventually i just told God that i'll continue to fast and pray and hope that He will drop something for me. Suddenly on saturday (yesterday) when i work up, i felt a weird joy surging through me that made me just say "yea it's SATURDAY!" and while i went about doing my quiet time, there was just peace with me and God was just telling me "prepare your heart, something's going to happen today". This feeling went on so much so that during prayer meeting for service, i just felt something was going to happen, i kept telling everyone "today's different". Then bro rx said that today ps song will be preaching on how to unleash your potential for Christ and i was like, i is really going to be great.

Sure enough, when ps. song talked about his calling and everything, at some parts it really caught me as to what my eventually calling was and standing at this crossroads between 2 ministries where was i supposed to walk to to advance my faith. Sure enough when i called, He truly answers and He just filled me up, what touched me the most was how He told me that He was there for me from the start, when i started singing in kindergarden, when i started performing, when i started not to sing in front of my friends because they told me my singing wasnt good. But somehow i was still always singing, from twinkle twinkle to granfather's clock to westlife till some weird bands, not knowing for what. Till i accepted Christ that is that i realised i found solace when i worship with singing. He told me He never stopped letting me sing since i was young and though there are many people better than me technically, i really wanted to glorify Him in that manner. Sure He can use me to speak, to inspire to do work but there are times where in private He just wants me to sing to worship. i just broke down, i didnt know He was always there, always watching me from a scenic view, ever faithful that one day i would really come on board this awesome journey with the One that can make me a better person each and everyday and can just turn my life around, turn me away from the sins of this world and annoit me with His wisdom that i never deserved.

so i have decided to give this ministry a try and if this is really for me, i know the Lord will be there every step i take. i still have my insecurities but He has told me "cast all your anxieties on Him because He cares for you" - 1 Peter 5:7

i really want to be obedient to Him and never turn away, always heeding His calling and i really want to see more exciting things happen in my life as i work towards being a better boy, a better child of God and a better steward of this life my Saviour has given me.

thank God for even saving me.

God bless,JUNDE :D

Percival: Sermon veh funny, but its somehow related to me. Ya, learning all points and applying on how cann i live my life to dhe fullest.

Hou Shun: Service was good yesterday. Pastor Song was funny in his sermon and it reached out to me. I'm sure it will reach out to alot others as well, cant wait for next week's sermon by Pastor Song. God Bless!

Eugene: The explaination of every point was very clear. The sermon speaks to me in a way or another. To me it is somewhat lifeskills that we learn in school. How to dream and achieve kind of stuff.I think the steps are quite useful in terms of eliminating negative thoughts. Good to have Pastor Song speaking every once-in-awhile, very enjoyable.

Siew Ling: Seriously great sermon! Living our life to the fullest potential! When pastor Song talked about it, I was thinking, what were my dreams? And dreaming is free! We can dream what we want. I need to think about my goals and my dream in life & nurture it. :D And coming to the part of removing all the negative thoughts, I begin to relate it to myself alot. Because somehow in the day or night, negative thoughts come to take away my joy. And Pastor Song said this statement. " Dont allow yesterday/past to affect you living your life today." This statement, I began to relate it to myself and I told myself that I want to be reminded by this everyday! I want to live a life pleasing to Him, I know God is in full control of my future and my dreams!

JOEY: I really enjoyed the sermon yesterday. Pastor Song was a great inspiration and he was very clear and direct in his preaching. I think it may be because of his old age that made me sit up and listen more attentively than usual. Old age represents wisdom after all, and a man of God like him would be even wiser than others. The sermon made me think about how God wanted to use me to bring glory to His name. It also made me realise that I need to have a goal in mind to work towards. So currently my goal is going to ACJC and hopefully write in future.Still, I will ask God before I make any decision now because He knows me best and He wants the best for me and only He can give me the right and clear direction. This is what Pastor Song said and I intend to heed his advice. The sermon was also a form of encouragement for Pastor Song said that no one was useless. I used to think that I was useless as I was really weak in math. I still am, but now I know that I should remove these negative feelings and thoughts and instead, look to God for help. This sermon also made me think about the cell group. Having a goal or goals to work towards to would benefit us as we know that we are working to achieve something. Again, we should ask God what is the goal our cellgroup should be working towards. I look forward to hearing Pastor Song preach again next Saturday.

DAVE: I found the 7 steps to your goal quite useful for me as...I don't really have a goal...and the pastor told us to live life to its fullest, I think since we have given our lives solely to God, it is up to the fullest already :-D

JJ: haha I'm fortunate to know all these principals that will help me to unleash my fullest potential in life! yaye! this sermon will really help me ONLY when i apply it in my life. i realise that we can all listen but not applying the sermons in our life, and this defeats the purpose of coming to hear the sermons every saturday. We need to be doers of the Word not just listeners. the application part of the sermon is really up to us. God has spoke to us, its whether we want to obey it or not. And when our life start to screw, we cannot blame God cause its our own decision of not wanting to apply His Word that caused us to screw up. To me this sermon is very practical, its very straightforward and its this kind of sermon that's the hardest to do the principals that's being taught. THAT'S why we need God to be there for us, and we know God is there for us. So, this sermon is really good only when we start applying it and see our lives change!

LISA: I'm wondering what would happen if we do not like what God wants us to do.How then, do we go about it? I'm glad that i know the steps to unleash our fullest potential, though i do not know what is my potential... Having a clear goal in life will really help me a lot, because sometimes i dont even know what i'm aiming for. Though Pastor Song said that we had to dream but i'm so afraid that i'm dreaming too big. haha. And i think if we start taking actions on the first 3 steps, things will start to change according to God's way(:

GHIMMY: dreams and aspirations have meant so much to us. yet in our cowardice we have given them up and run away. i like the sermon today because it has led God to telling me His dream for me, and what He has in store. i've always had a passion for young people, and even contemplated staying in YI after i hit adulthood and all, and i asked myself, what am i going to do with this passion for the young people of today? and then it hit me why God put it in me! the goal God wants me to work toward is very different from the one i had in mind. i have always wanted to be a lawyer, rolling in the big bucks, enjoying life. but never what God wanted me to do, labelling it as a thankless task. hence yesterday was the day that i really took God's plan for me into serious consideration, and decided that whatever the outcome, i would follow Him.

YouBeng: Pastor Song's sermon is good. i like the way he present it, funny but the content was whole. I really respect ps Song a lot. After living so long, i don't know what i will or want to do in future. Maybe i might be a minister in church, musician, teacher, scientist/researcher, inventor, have some job to make money and a lot more. God wants me to hear the sermon which will cause me to search for that goal in my life. I would want to discern my ambition and God's calling for me, it might or might not be the same. Whatever it is, i want to run the race to get the prize like Paul. I want to be a clay in the Potter's hand, molding me to be the person He wants me to be, where age, background, situation or any factor will not restrict my potential.