Wednesday, April 26, 2006

HEY!
Really great to see people posting about their liveS! End of exams is FINALLY in sight. Everyone should be finishing soon? God has been telling me about how everything we do should be for his glory and to make his name known! Been reflecting on my life and how i can be good testimony.
1 Col:27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

ANYWAY i'm gg blading this wkend and next wkend! Anyone free? Hey steph! I'm sure things will look better soon! With God all things are possible! Duet 31:8 8 The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged." Let's continue to trust in God's promises! Will be keeping both shereen and you in my prayers!

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Hi everyone it's me again. Today i got stressed up with a patient. I don't want to disclose too much about him. He is a pain in the neck!!! He scolds everybody and is picky on who shall do dressing for him due to fear of infection and having to be admitted and discharged then admitted again. Basically he went in and out of the hospital due to infection of the wound. He is afraid tt if I do dressing for him or other student nurse do so, he would get infection.
My staff nurse quarrelled with him because of me. Pls keep me in prayer! i've 3 more days this wk and 4 more days nx week, so that makes 7 days = 1week! Yeah!!!!
Pls pray tt I'll find favour in my authorities like my preceptor and the manager and especially staff nurses working with me. I really hope that the staff nurse will be more patient with me. Pls pray for favour. Pray tt i won't face too much complain! Anything can happen within these short few days. pls keep my posting in prayer and my exam results are coming out this Friday. Pls pray for God's grace to be upon me. NOt just in exam but at work as well.
aS i said 7MORE DAYS to tahan!! Pray for strength to pull through even more!
C yyyyyyyyaaaaaaa!!!!!!

Monday, April 24, 2006

Praise the Lord! Hey, Thanks everyone for praying for me! My church leader has approved my support raising. He said he is gg to send me $900. I really hope he will keep his word and I will received it asap.
Hey! pls pray for my attachment. Work is a struggle for me. Pray tt I won't see is it as something unpleasant but enjoy the work I am doing. Pray tt God will be in the centre of my life as i go through these 8 days. Yup! yup! 8 more days to go!!!
Really can't wait till this time to end! Pls pray tt I'll find favour in my preceptor, staff nurses, sisters and esp nurse manager. Pray tt my nurse manager won't fail me. Only the best 6 students will remain in the same ward for 3yrs. Pls keep me in prayer! My aim is not to be in the best 6 but just do my best and leave the results to God.
My exam results are coming out on the 28th april this Friday. PRay for favour upon those who are marking my paper. I'm getting very scared now! I really hope to pass all my exams and my attachment. STREESS!!!!! Waiting for results while i'm on attachment. I really am scared, but I must leave it to God. Pray for God's grace to be upon my results.
Pray tt i'll draw near to God each day and will be able to wake up in the morning to do QT. I really feel tt it's very helpful to spend time with God at the start of the day. PRay for strength to wake up early.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Hey Help1!!!! i'm having trouble with support raising. Pls pray tt my church leader will be more efficient in the raise. Until now I've not raise a single cent. Pls help me! my leader keep on bombing me with qns cos i kept misunderstanding his statement. Pls pray for favour in his eyes. Cos he doesn't allow me to raise from ppl i don't know. Pls keep me in prayer! I really hope i can raise it asap. My mum is not even supportive for my support raising. Sometimes I really wish I can raise it myself. Pls pray for mercy. I also believe that God will provide, but I don't know how


1 Kings 18
36 At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. 37 Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again."
38 Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.

The background to this verses was when Elijah was the only prophet of God left, compared to 450 of baal's(one of the gods the israelites were worshipping) prophets. He challenged these prophets to ask their god to set their sacrifice on fire. In addition, he even placed our Lord's sacrifice in water. The prophets of baal could not do it, even after they cut themselves and called on the name of baal to no avail. But God answered after Elijah called upon him just once!

in v 38 we see that 38 Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.

This God that we serve does not look at numbers and he is SOVERIGN over ALL circumstances! PRAISE GOD! All we have to pray and God will listen from heaven!

In his service,
Joshua

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Joshua's exam schedule!

statics 2504
bio 2004
maths 2804
physics 2204
nation building 2404

Thanks in advance to those who will be praying for me!!!!
Yup! let's keep each other updated! and keep praying for each other!
Gambatte! Just haf to remember we're studying for God's glorY!!!

In addition, I'd like to invite all of you to go blading(in-line skates?)! 7th May! Please reply on this blog or sms me to let me know if you're coming! REALLY REALLY hope we can all do something together before the missions camp! Please come?

Love,
Joshua

Nelson's exam schedule... let's keep praying for one another :)

Programming 21/04/2006 (Fri) 2:30 PM 2 h MPSH2-B
Japanese Language 22/04/2006 (Sat) 9:00 AM 2 h LT11
Intro to Japanese Studies 27/04/2006 (Thu) 9:00 AM 2 h MPSH2-A,
Discrete Maths 29/04/2006 (Sat) 1:00 PM 2 h MPSH2-B
Intro to New Media 03/05/2006 (Wed) 9:00 AM 2 h MPSH5

Oh and in case, u guys din recieve my prayer support list, my monetary support update is $554.20 in total pledge. (for detail's esp on the $54.20 :P check out my prayer support mailing list)

Monday, April 17, 2006

HEY! WHY NO ONE POSTING ONE?! haha.. like updates on your lives? ANYWAY since NO ONE wan to post i get all the attention! God's been great to me recently, showering his grace upon me. Not just in support but also in my work. Altho i really feel quite unprepared cause i've been slackin, i thank God for good and efficient revision recently.

God also reminded me today about something regarding support raising. I was reminded that support raising is REALLY NOT about the $$! Its more about getting people involved in the ministry, partnering with them as a BODY OF CHRIST!

Romans 12
3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.
4Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,
5so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
6We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his[b]faith.
7If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach;
8if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.

WOW! Each should serve according to the grace given us! We don't have to feel inadequate if what we have to offer is little!

For those having exam, GAMBATTE! FINISH LINE IN SIGHT!
For those having problems raising support, dun be discouraged! all the $$ comes from God anyway! Our heavenly father is RICH! heh!

In his service,
Joshua

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Allllllrighttttt!!!! thanks everyone for praying for me!! I just received a phone call from sgh!! i'm starting work on the 3rd of july!! which means, i can go for mission trip. God truly answers prayer!!! I really thank God for His answers to prayer. Ok right now, let's keep each other in prayer regarding support raising. Pray too that I'll pass my attachment and exams will turn out. This is important so that I won't have to repeat my posting or take any supp paper. Keep my results in prayer!!!

Monday, April 10, 2006

A little Thanksgiving

2 Sam chap 22
32 For who is God besides the LORD ?
And who is the Rock except our God?
33 It is God who arms me with strength
and makes my way perfect.
34 He makes my feet like the feet of a deer;
he enables me to stand on the heights.

I thank God for encouraging me with this verse when i was super tired today. The context of this verse was in the Old testament, David was giving praise to the Lord for all that HE has done. I'm very encouraged that David's God is the very same God we serve today! He is still providing us w strength, making our ways perfect and enabling us to stand on heights! Amen! For those having exams soon, just trust God to bring us through this stressful period!

Joshua

Saturday, April 08, 2006

As I couldn't join you guys for the previous meeting, I had been procrastinating on my DISC personality test.

Shereen was reminding me how i should do it asap, so now that reports are over, I've taken it to task to do it this morning.

And now.... unveiling my DISC test complete totals results :
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D-38
I-42
S-26
C-25

Ok now, what's that suppose to mean?? anyone care to tell me?

Nelson

Hey!
I was REALLY encouraged by this verse today.

Ecclesiates 3:9-13 - 9 What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. 13 That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God.

verse 10- He has made all things beautiful in its time
I thank God that he's going to make all things beautiful, and we don't have to worry! I'm looking forward to seeing how He's going to make this Japan trip beautiful! Let's continue to keep this nation in prayer! For those having exams, gambatte!!!

This is a portion of the newsletter from Victor Toh, full time CCC staff at tokyo! I thought it would help us in praying for Japanese students and Todai in particular!

Prayer for the campuses: Tokyo University and Sophia University
While I'm part of the Tokyo Metro (city) team (as are all the campus staff), we also each go to a few universities. I have been assigned the campuses of Tokyo University (Todai) (specifically Komaba campusi cos it's divided into two campuses) and Sophia University.

I want to share with you some things the Lord laid on our hearts as our staff team prayed together on the Todai campus, which has been known as a 'hard ground' even for Japan. While praying some staff felt led to Isaiah 41:18-20 This was a wonderful word to remind us that He is often brought forth living water from desert springs and can do so even in this "hard" desert place.

But the key, as my Japanese leaders often encouraged us in the Word these two weeks: to keep the main thing the main thing: the most fundamental which is to minister in the Holy Spirit's power. We can be so busy with all kinds of cool and new activities, but without the Spirit's total control over each worker, we'll still end up fruitless. I received much assurance that the Lord is definitely going to answer our every prayer as we co-labour with him.hahahaha


Joshua

Friday, April 07, 2006

HEY!
anyone hasn't watched V yet? haha.. can have a small team outing or something?

Josh

I just wanted to praise God and give thanks for what He has done.
I had just sent out my first prayer support list and He has provided me with $300 as support pledge!!!

praise God! that we can claim His promises! May this encourage all of you raising support for God's work or praying for the lost. Make ready the plans and pray always! In His time, God can provide and will honour your desires for Him.

And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches. For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts. And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD
(2Ki 3:16-18a KJVR)


Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Sigh, until now, still no responds.....boo..hoo!!!! so sad. I'm still stuck with the formal letter to the officer. My mum forgot to look at it yesterday!! terrible. Hey, pls pray esp for my attachment now!! it's gg to be tough!!
What I want to thank God for is, yesterday, i was kept busy. I prayed that the Lord will occupy me in the afternoon. I have the whole lot of things to do. Indeed, when you ask God for something, He will give you more than what you ask for. He really is a generous God.
The rest of these 5 wks, I leave them to God. I don't know how the outcome may be, however I will place it all in God's hands, for He is in control of everything.
Pray that I will take more intitiative in learning things and a teachable heart. Help me to take criticism positively because it helps me to learn better. I must confess that I didn't put God in the picture when doing procedure. So pray that I'll put God in the midst of everything, and always look to Him 1st b4 doing every single procedure.
I screwed up yesterday. It is embarrassing to blog it down here. To avoid all these I must humble myself before the Lord. Oh yes! and pray that I will be humble as I learn things. Sometimes I can be a bit too proud. When I am humble, I learn better.
Pray too that my preceptor will have the chance to talk to me because she has something to talk to me. Keep me in prayer!!!!
Also pray for a favourable responds from the letter. So hopefully can see you all in May!!!
ok got 2 prepare for my attachment now!!! tata!!


1 Cor 2:4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.
This verse really reminded me that whether in the area of academic results, support raising, ministry and every single thing we do our faith should be in God's power! Hope prep for exams and support raising going well for everyone! Gambatte! only less than 2 more months and we'll be in Japan together! What an amazing thought!
Josh

Sunday, April 02, 2006

HEY!
Yesterday's meeting was really GREAT man! Really had fun fellowshiping with you guys! I'm all excited about the trip already! WOW! Haha.. ANYWAY God spoke to me today! God reminded me about something regarding support raising today! He reminded me that i've been so concerned with talking to people about it, giving out and writing my newsletters that i've sort of left him out of the process. He reminded me that its not about how many newsletters you give out and not how many people you talk to that matters, but its how many people you PRAYERFULLY consider and ask. He reminded me that i should pray about the people i intend to give my newsletter to and be sensitive to the Holy Spirit's leading. I really thank God for this reminder! I encourage everyone (including myself!) to take this opportunity to see God work and learn to trust God!