Hey, Its been quite a while since I last blogged, Updates, Praise God! Maverick doing well! Connected to group slowly growing in God. And last week, I brought 1of my street evax contact friend down, and after a 30mins conversation he agreed to come down and he brought his friend along! despite he didn't convert for he is unsure of his decision and his friend is a visiting christian, Thank god he is quite connected to our group! and is coming for life group meet tomorrow!

"These Nights, Often, when everyone else is asleep, except I who have yet to fall asleep, Satan came to my presence to tempt, to make an exchange, to fall..Similar to buying business, A good offer, comes with a price. At times, I wanted to give in, yet again and again, the Spirit prompted me not to give in to the temptation, In my mind, I have to make a difficult decision, whether to accept his offer which has a very great consequence, or to resist the temptation and Just Say No. Thankfully, I Prayed, I told Satan that, No, I am sorry, I am not gonna be your customer. and thus I rebuked him with the Word of God. and Satan left. Thankfully, I made a right decision. and Peace filled my heart"





Hey, been a while since I last blogged, yesterday, Went for Word For Life, taught by Raphael & Sharlene, Teaching on Outreach and Discipleship. Though we have heard of it quite a few times, I really agree that, in our lives, what we do is basically these 2 things, to outreach to people, and disciple people. Understanding the significant of the how these 2 things can really transform lives.

After Word For Life, we went to eat, supposedly have Dmm after that, so we went Cafe Cartel, to meet up as usual at PS. Woah, and something memorable happened at Cafe Cartel! which is that while we are just eating bread, Qing told us that he lost his wallet and is at pasir ris. oh dear, at most it will take more than half-an hour traveling at least, well so we wanted to just leave after eating bread, ( Actually they charge for free! ) but it will be quite a scene to come Cafe Cartel and leave after eating bread for free. Aloy & Alfon wanted to just go but I agree with Yi Hao that it is kinda bad to just come a leave after eating bread for free. So never mind, the manager charged us $5 for eating bread..well..forget it..we gotta rush off anyway! ( Such an interesting event! so I must note it down here =P )

Then had meeting, after that quickly rush home, got nagged a bit though..After I bathe, went to use the comp, need to print some stuffs and prep teaching (which I just prepared now got nagged off to bed by my mom)..back to the point..Suddenly my old contact from bedok view started to share to me that he is actually listening to christian songs! and when we talked he started sharing me he is interested to come to church! Voa-la! Thank God! recently we have an old contact which was brought in by a west brother who is also from bedok view! woah! thank god! me and alfon's fruits of our labor is starting to bear! But while I was talking to him, the one who just nudge me in Msn, his name is maverick by the way! last time he joined us, and converted just to try a prayer, so he told me he doesn't want to commit and he only wanted fun as he got his CCA also, so now in my mind I was actually angry, I wanted to confront him, its like, Wah last time I asked for your commitment and you reject, ok fair enough, then you have fun for a awhile, ok fair enough then leave and go commit to your CCA, ok fair enough. now you say your interested and wanted to join our group again because you are bored during the holidays?!

Well, at first thought, I wanted to scream at him if he was just beside me, oh cmon, are you so Spiritual to think like Of course! bring him In! well maybe you are but that is how I Felt*. But I know that, it is the right thing to do to bring him back, so invited him for Life* Group tomorrow which is now, Today. At night, I was just doing my Qt,doing Devotions when God just speak to me at that moment. The devotions is actually talking about Jonah, at Chapter 4. about how Jonah was angry at God for being so gracious and loving that he seize his wrath from a people because they turned their ways and repent. Jonah was so angry at God's compassion that he just felt very displeased with God, so the Bible says in chapter 4: Read if you are willing to

¹ But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry. ² He prayed to the LORD, "O LORD, is this not what I said when I was still at home? That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. ³ Now, O LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live."

⁴ But the LORD replied, "Have you any right to be angry?"

⁵ Jonah went out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city. ⁶ Then the LORD God provided a vine and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the vine. ⁷ But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the vine so that it withered. ⁸ When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah's head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, "It would be better for me to die than to live."

⁹ But God said to Jonah, "Do you have a right to be angry about the vine?"
"I do," he said. "I am angry enough to die."

¹⁰ But the LORD said, "You have been concerned about this vine, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. ¹¹ But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned about that great city?"

So at that moment, God was speaking to me, For I am very angry at how Maverick reacted and now he is turning back to come back to join us again. And the Lord welcome him but I was really angry and unhappy about Maverick, just the same situation as how Jonah was angry about God having compassion for the people, so God is speaking to me,

" Do you have any right to be angry about Maverick? Maverick is my still my child who is lost just like you once were, and he cannot tell from what is right and wrong In My Eyes, How should I not be concerned about him?

And there I knew that, This is really God's heart beat for him. Now, I knew that, despite I am still angry with him, I need to Love him, because God Love him first. And I should look at him with the eyes of faith, looking at who he can be not who he is. Now I am Praying that, Maverick know will return back to God and walk in His ways again.

Alright, I will go off now! Good Bye

Agape,

Paulus