Thursday, September 28, 2006
What a wonderful NB party today it was! :D At Flince's house... think others will have blogged about it, and how wonderful the curry was, and the games, etc. etc...
So think I'll just add my 20-cents' worth haha...
1. Xincong's and Yuantao's testimonies.
2. Tamar and the Cockroach. (Well, somebody has to blog about this... :P)
Was really very touched by the testimonies of XC and YT... XC's one was long and eloquent, whereas YT's one was short and nervous, but both impacted me equally greatly.
XC's one was very encouraging - about how God opened his heart...
In particular, the part that really touched me a lot from YT's testimony was: "I know that choosing Jesus has been the greatest decision of my life ever."
Wow, praise God! I really love to listen to NBs' testimonies... their childlike faith never fails to refresh the hearts of the older ones every time we hear it... really have so much to learn from them! :D
So something that I learnt from their testimonies that day was that it doesn't matter who you are or what you can do... the God who saved them is the same God who gives power to their words.
1 Cor 2:1-5
"1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.
2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
3 I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.
4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,
5 so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power."
Then, the cockroach. While we were having the Dead-now-Alive candlelight ceremony, a cockroach suddenly decided to join in the celebration. It scooted out and crawled up right next to Tamar, underneath her legs. Huanyan and I saw the cockroach with wide-open eyes. While I was wondering how to tell Tamar, HY told her, "Tamar, you got cockroach underneath you."
Then hor, she looked down... eeeeek! Startled, the cockroach scurried hastily, bumping into Tamar's foot in the process. At that moment, I realised that Tamar has excellent self-control.
So everyone was looking in her direction by now. We were wondering how to terminate the cockroach... then Jessie calmly took a packet of tissue paper and tried squashing the cockroach. But seems that the cockroach is a champion one... it managed to crawl under the sofa before Jessie could crush it.
Wah. So much for the brothers' MACHO sessions... haha... I think Benaiah may make us guys to do a cockroach-crushing session one of these days - learn how to catch 'em wif your bare hands...
Ok... oh, btw Joyce's and Swee Leong's hosting was really wonderful! To be honest, from the way that Joyce hosted, you couldn't tell that one of her greatest fears is speaking in public. =)
But that's the way God likes to work... it's His modus operandi.
Kudos to the rest of the team - Bo, Nic, Eu, Guanrui (gosh, the "Survivor" torches were REALLY the icing on the cake... how'd he get them??? I doubt he got it from the actual Survivor set, unlike what Jan claims. ;)), Ziwei and whoever else I forgot to put in. :P)
Yup.. think that's it for now!
