Building Convenant Relationship

Dear CG,

I was doing my reflection thru a Christian article and somehow God brought me flashbacks on the Healthy relationship seminar as well as the recent CG discussion that we had at Centrepoint. I thank God for speaking deeply to my life...

“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up. Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; But how can one be warm alone? Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (NKJV)

People in every culture need relationships of intimate trust. Everyone needs friends with whom they can be open and reveal their deepest feelings. God created everyone to want to belong, to accomplish, to understand and to be understood. He made us to need love, self-respect, meaning and purpose. We are living in the world with rampant emotional and psychological problems. Our world has become more and more individualistic. Many Christians do not have fellow brothers and sisters in which they can really confide and pour their hearts out. This in fact stunts their spiritual growth. Developing relationships, especially for people in the ministry, is very important and may be the key to longevity in ministry. We too need friends in our ministry. We need friends to keep us accountable. We need friends to share our burden and joy. We need friends to share our deepest secrets without fear of being condemned. If we are to have longevity in our ministry, we need to start to make some friends and build covenant relationship with them.

Looking back at my life, haha what an irony..I realised that the more I know about God's precepts and receiving teachings about relationship, the more I dun know about it and the more I am relearning them...

People has been giving me feedback that I am a person that always shares thru my mind and that I do somewhat possesses a good perspective about matters (well..depending sometimes my radar can be very off :P) ; but It seems that I always suppressed my emotions and do not readily share what I feel. Maybe it is true and maybe it is not, I am not sure. I always thought that emotions should always be balanced by thinking and maintained by God's Word...Furthermore, My life experiences and my upbringing has probably conditioned me to process my feelings into thinking at the first instinct.

At the core of myself, I am actually a person that thinks and feels alot (whether it is fruitful or not is another matter altogether.) Many times I do withhold from sharing the raw essence of how I feel because I think that it doesn't help or sharing it is an overkill to people in situations. (Your might be surprised by how wild my passing thoughts can be.) To me, I perceived that as sort of a balance. I always looked at relationship with people, issues and problems to be solved rather than that as a process in itself. But as time passes by, it becomes more apparent to me that holding on to that mindset makes me gradually lose sight of how people actually feels and that implicitly, people feel that I am a guarded person. Most imortantly, I am gradually losing touch of my emotions. I prob will lose out on "potentially" deeper friendship and relationships.

God, I prayed for you to help me get more connected with people and worked towards building a deeper convenant relationship with people around me, to understand them for who they are. Widen my emotional spectum by deepening my understanding of your love in the bible. :)

Chinese Music inspired by Jesus

Hey guys

Have you been noticing commercials on bus, mrt, bus-stop, taxis, music advertisements - i think its literally everywhere of our new singaporean singer: Hagen Chen Mengqi. He is one of the superstar top 10 finalists. Previous impression of him is = He spent $300 000 on advertisements for his own album publicity: wah so rich! Even jay chou also dun have as many publicity as him = maybe he does not need, his name alone attracts! =P

So, why do i bring up this?? Cos i finally went to his website today after seeing his advertisements everywhere! What i discover is.........he is a christian and every piece of his music in his current album is inspired by Jesus and talks about his relationship and heartbeat of God. And as i was reading his biography = its a long list of chinese characters leh, he really testify of God working in his and his family's life v.vividly. I was v.touched.

You can listen to the songs on his album through the website and read about him. Hope you are inspired as me. =)

Do go into www.mengqi.com.sg
Go into About me and Song and Lyrics.

Bless,
June =)

My test result ~_^

Haha... so late liao, i'm so on'z to do personality test? no la, actually i'm in the midst of waiting for my animae to finish downloading (server so slow... o.OIII), nothing to do so try the test lor... :p



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