This is a testimony of God's mercies and goodness to me in my endeavour to understand and manage bipolar disorder or manic-depressive illness (a medical condition that can be treated) and other challenges in my life, by God's grace. Thank God that we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us! (Romans 8:37)
Thanks for stopping by. Thanks again for all your prayers and encouragements.
I am so thankful that tomorrow is the Lord's day.
The Lord's day is an emblem of that eternal rest that we shall enjoy one day in eternity when the Lord calls us home.
There we shall be able to worship Him everyday, enjoy His love and fellowship without the hindrance of sins and remaining corruptions. There will be no more tears, sicknesses, disappointments, death, etc.
How I long for that day! But I know our Lord wants me here still to serve Him and therefore I must wait patiently until He calls me home :-)
Meanwhile, I pray that He will enable me to serve Him cheerfully and faithfully in whatever He wants me to do.
Hope these 2 hymns "When we all get to Heaven" and "Softly and Tenderly" encourage our hearts as we press on in this pilgrim journey with the joyful anticipation that if we have truly trusted in our Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour and Lord, one day we shall get to Heaven and enjoy His love and fellowship forever because of what He has done on the cross for us. Meanwhile, He bids us daily to come unto Him and find rest in Him because He cares for us, He will never leave us nor forsake us and His grace is sufficient for us.
When We All Get To Heaven
Sing the wondrous love of Jesus, Sing His mercy and His grace. In the mansions bright and blessèd He’ll prepare for us a place.
Refrain
When we all get to Heaven, What a day of rejoicing that will be! When we all see Jesus, We’ll sing and shout the victory!
While we walk the pilgrim pathway, Clouds will overspread the sky; But when traveling days are over, Not a shadow, not a sigh.
Refrain
Let us then be true and faithful, Trusting, serving every day; Just one glimpse of Him in glory Will the toils of life repay.
Refrain
Onward to the prize before us! Soon His beauty we’ll behold; Soon the pearly gates will open; We shall tread the streets of gold.
Refrain
If you are in Singapore, please come and visit my Church, Pilgrim Covenant Church, for worship and fellowship:https://pilgrim-covenant.com/
Thank you for stopping by my Word-Filled Wednesday and Thankful Thursday post.
Thanks for all your prayers and encouragements. I thank God for everyone of you.
"Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds." Psalm 36:5
♥ I am thankful to God for His mercies and faithfulness in seeing me through another year of knowing Him, walking with Him and serving Him. Today is my 42nd birthday :-) Yes, I am this old :-)
♥ I am thankful to God for 2 kind friends who celebrated my birthday in advance for me yesterday. They gave me a treat to a meal as well as bought me a lovely cake. They sang "Blessed Birthday" to me and we enjoyed the fellowship and food. Thank God!
♥ I am thankful to God for creating me and giving me eternal life too so that I can enjoy Him here and for eternity because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us.
♥ I am thankful to God for blessing me with my family who love me, a church who loved Christ and me, and so many friends and blogging friends who love Christ and me. I thank God for each and everyone of you! May God bless you always in your kindness to me.
♥ I am thankful to God for seeing me through the past 1 year of freelance work and provided for my every need. He is Jehovah-Jireh!
♥ I am thankful to God that through working freelance He has enables me to have more time to serve Him through visiting the sick and elderly in my church, helping to update part of my church's website, prepare Mandarin Bulletin for the elderly and some publication work. It has always been my desire to give of myself more to the service of our Lord in my church and I am thankful to God that through His kind providence He has made it possible to me.
♥ I am thankful to God that through working freelance I am able to take better care of my mother and spend more time with her. I felt that I have come to know her better through the past 1 year than I have known her for the 41 years before this!
♥ I am thankful to God that through working freelance I can continue to serve Him through this blog. I know I need to pace myself moderately. So it is with much reluctance that I am taking a break from active blogging due to tiredness and over-whelming tasks on hand. I am thankful to many of you who continues to visit me and encourage me with your prayers and kind words.
My apology that I am not able to return to active blogging yet and therefore will not be able to return as many visits to you as I would like to. But know that I appreciate your visit and will remember you in prayers. I have difficulties spending too much time in front of the pc at this moment. So I will try to stop by your blog every now and then but I may not be able to read much or comment much like I used to do yet. I am praying and looking forward to come back to blogging more regularly as I do missed all of you :-) You are very dear to me.
♥ I am thankful to God for Willow and Lorie for sharing with me these 2 Awards ie. If You Ever Need a Hand, I'm Here Award and Nisha's Friendship Award.
I like to share these sweet awards with all of you who visit me, pray for me and encourage me in so many ways. Thanks for your Friendship and being here when I need you! May God bless you for your kindness to me.
Do take these Award and pass them on to your Friends who are there for you whenever you need them!
If you are in Singapore, please come and visit my Church, Pilgrim Covenant Church, for worship and fellowship:https://pilgrim-covenant.com/
Thank you for stopping by! Thanks again for all your prayers and encouragements.
Trust you have had a blessed weekend :-)
I am thankful to God for blessing my Lord's day through His Words and fellowship of His people.
I am thankful to God that He is my Hiding Place!
Whenever I feel continuous fatigue as what I have been feeling on and off during these few weeks, I do have the fear of burnout and falling into clinical depression again.
I am thankful to God that I can cast my cares upon Him knowing that He will continue to sustain me and work His ways for me.
I am thankful to God that by His mercies and providence, I am learning to be more aware and to slow down :-)
In my moments of anxieties and uncertainties, I am thankful to God that I can trust in Him. He is my Hiding Place. He will strengthen me and continue to give me grace to walk with Him and serve Him daily.
Thank you for all your prayers! I am wonderfully upheld by the Lord and I know this is no least owing to your prayers to God for me!
I am remembering you in prayers too.
May this lovely video with these encouraging songs "You are my Hiding Place" and "As the deer" uplift our hearts as we consider afresh God's love and care upon us daily.
No matter what we go through daily, He is our Hiding Place. He will preserve us and work deliverance for us. What time we are afraid, let us trust in Him.
May our hearts long after Him daily and enjoy sweet communion with Him until He calls us home.
You are my Hiding Place
You are my hiding place, You always fill my heart with songs of deliverance. Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You. I will trust in You. Let the weak say I am strong in the strength of my Lord.
"Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah." Psalm 32:7
"What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee." Psalm 56:3
If you are in Singapore, please come and visit my Church, Pilgrim Covenant Church, for worship and fellowship:https://pilgrim-covenant.com/
Thanks for all your prayers, encouragements and kind comments.
Thank God I am well though rather tired. I am still learning to pace myself as I cope with various challenges daily. Thank God that He is with me and He gives me joy and strength in Him daily.
I missed all of you. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
May the Lord will bless you with a very restful and refreshing weekend and Lord's day.
Hope this song, Like a Deer will encourage your heart.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, may our souls panteth after our God, our Lord, our Redeemer!
"As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." Psalm 42:1
As The Deer
As the deer panteth for the water, So my soul longs after you. You alone are my hearts desire, And I long to worship You.
Chorus You alone are my strength, my shield; To You alone may my spirit yield. You alone are my hearts desire, and I long to worship You.
I want you more than gold or silver, Only You can satisfy. You alone are the real joy giver And the apple of my eye.
Chorus You alone are my strength, my shield; To You alone may my spirit yield. You alone are my hearts desire, and I long to worship You.
You're my friend and You're my brother, Even though you are a King. I love You more than any other So much more than anything.
Chorus You alone are my strength, my shield; To You alone may my spirit yield. You alone are my hearts desire, and I long to worship You.
If you are in Singapore, please come and visit my Church, Pilgrim Covenant Church, for worship and fellowship:https://pilgrim-covenant.com/
This morning the Lord filled my heart with praise and thanksgiving as I recounted afresh His goodness and mercies in giving me rest and salvation while I was yet a sinner and my soul was weary with sins.
After saving me, He continues to give me rest in Him along this pilgrim journey. My walk with the Lord has many ups and downs but I have found the rest that our Lord spoke about and He gives me strength for each new day.
So I could not resist but post my Word-Filled Wednesday and Thankful Thursday to share with you God's goodness and mercies to me, and to us who belong to Him!
♥ I am thankful to God that He bids us to come to Him and He promised to give us rest.
If you are labouring under the burdens of sin or cares of the world, sickness, troubles, and other burdens, may you come unto our Lord Jesus Christ and find the rest that is in Him. For He has promised that He will never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:5) because He has loved us with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:3)
♥ I am thankful to God for the abundant life that He has given to us when we trust in Him. Though in this life we have many ups and downs, God is in control and He is lovingly working all things for His glory and our good (Romans 8:28) ♥ I am thankful to God that when we turn our eyes upon our Lord Jesus Christ, the things on this earth then seems strangely dim. Thank God that we can have the blessed hope of being in eternity with Him to worship Him, enjoy His love and fellowship. Let us then run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith.
♥ I am thankful to God for blessing me with my family who love me, a church who loved Christ and me, and so many friends and blogging friends who love Christ and me. I thank God for each and everyone of you! May God bless you always in your kindness to me.
Hope this encouraging hymn will bring comfort and encouragement to us as we remember afresh God's love for us in giving us the Lord Jesus Christ to die for our sins and to reconcile us to Him. When we are weary and troubled, let us Turn our eyes unto Jesus.
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
O soul, are you weary and troubled? No light in the darkness you see? There’s a light for a look at the Savior, And life more abundant and free!
Refrain
Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace.
Through death into life everlasting He passed, and we follow Him there; Over us sin no more hath dominion— For more than conquerors we are!
Refrain
His Word shall not fail you—He promised; Believe Him, and all will be well: Then go to a world that is dying, His perfect salvation to tell!
Refrain
For more participants of Thankful Thursday, do visit Iris. Thank you for stopping by. My apology again that I am not able to return to active blogging yet and therefore will not be able to return visits to you. But know that I appreciate your visit and will remember you in prayers.
Take care and may God continue to bless you through this week!
If you are in Singapore, please come and visit my Church, Pilgrim Covenant Church, for worship and fellowship:https://pilgrim-covenant.com/
Thanks for all your prayers and encouragements. Thank you for the sweet comments you have left me.
I am thankful to God that He continues to preserve me daily and grants me the joy of trusting in Him and serving Him.
Just a short note to let you know that I am well and pressing on in the Lord's strength and grace daily. I missed all of you and hope to be back blogging soon.
Meanwhile, I like to share with you this encouraging hymn which the Lord has used to encourage me.
May you be encouraged too that we serve a Great God!
As we consider His mercies, grace and lovingkindness, may our hearts be lifted up to Him in praise and thanksgiving daily.
How great Thou art
O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder, Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made; I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee, How great Thou art, How great Thou art. Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee, How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
When through the woods, and forest glades I wander, And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees. When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur And see the brook, and feel the gentle breeze.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee, How great Thou art, How great Thou art. Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee, How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing; Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in; That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing, He bled and died to take away my sin.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee, How great Thou art, How great Thou art. Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee, How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation, And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart. Then I shall bow, in humble adoration, And then proclaim: "My God, how great Thou art!"
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee, How great Thou art, How great Thou art. Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee, How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
Thanks again for stopping by. Take care and may God grant you a blessed week!
My sincere apology for not being able to visit many of you in these recent weeks and especially these few days.
Lately, I have been rather swarmed by some family commitments, works and other unforseen circumstances.
I am also still learning to pace myself moderately so that I don't over-stretch myself and burnout again.
I will try to post every now and then for the benefit of my readers.
But due to time constraints, I am tentatively taking a short break from visiting blogs. So sorry about that!
I will try to resume visiting your blogs as soon as I can as I really missed reading your posts. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
I am thankful to God and to all of you who have kindly joined in my First Give-away. I will be in touch with you as soon as I can and will post the bookmarks to you. My apology for the delay!
Meanwhile, I like to share with everyone of you, the following Awards which some kind friends have given to me in the recent weeks.
I am thankful to God that I can meet so many of you through blogging. I am thankful for all your prayers and encouragements.
I thank you for sowing the seeds of Christ's Love and lifting up my spirit through your blogs and comments.
I pray that you will share these 2 Awards with others who have touched your heart and uplifted your spirit by sowing seeds of love into your life through their blogs or comments!
Faithful Servant Award Sowing Seeds of Love! Thanks Jill and Willow!
(Thanks Jill for creating this lovely Award and sharing with us!)
You lift my spirit Award Thanks Serendipity (LS & Happy)!
So please accept these 2 sweet awards and pass them on to all your dear blogging friends who are faithfully sowing seeds of Christ's love and uplifting your spirit through their lives and blog daily! All praise and glory be to God!
Take care. I hope to be back soon!
Thank you for stopping by. Hope you have a blessed day!
Thank you for stopping by my Word-Filled Wednesday (WFW) and Thankful Thursday (TT) post, and the results of my First-Giveaway!
For Word-Filled Wednesday, I like to share this encouraging verse from 1 John 5:11 with you.
(I took this photo at a flower exhibition in Singapore. This flower is the national flower of Singapore. It is called Vanda Miss Joaquim var. Agnes. It is an orchid hybrid, and was selected as Singapore's National Flower on 15 April 1981.)
1 John 5:7-13, 19
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
♥ I am thankful to God for demonstrating His love for me by sending His only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for me to redeem me from eternal damnation and to forgive me of my sin, reconcile me to Himself and give me eternal life.
♥ I am thankful to God for encouraging me through His Words daily, guiding me to walk in His ways, comforting me through all the trials and challenges in my life, and filling me with joy in believing in Him and His precious promises.
♥ I am thankful to God for blessing me with my family who love me. As I am the only Christian in my family, I do covet your prayers that God may in His time give me the joy of seeing my mother, sister and 2 brothers coming to know Him savingly.
♥ I am thankful to God for giving me a church who loves Christ and loves me. They have been a great support and encouragement to me as I strive to live for our Lord and serve Him. In all my afflictions and difficult struggles with clinical depression and bipolar disorder, they have demonstrated extraordinary love, kindness and support. Due to my health condition, I am doing some freelance work of selling my Homemade Bookmarks, Cards and Gifts and some freelance administrative work. The Lord in His faithfulness has been providing for me through the kind love gifts of some brethren in my church who gave cheerfully and anonymously as unto the Lord. Through these kind love gifts plus the income from my freelance works, all my needs have been met over the last 1 year. All praise and glory be to God!
♥ I am thankful to God that I can serve Him through this blog. It has been a great blessing for me to share my life and God's goodness to me, as well as some useful resources and articles with you. I have been greatly blessed by your kind comments especially in letting me know how the posts here have been helpful to you. Thank God and thank you!
♥ I am thankful to God for the prayers and encouragements of so many of you! It is my joy and privilege to meet all of you through blogging! I am greatly blessed and encouraged by many of you. Thank you for your friendships! I like to share the following blog award with all of you!
♥ I am thankful to God and to Willow and Jill of Forever n Ever n Always for sharing this sweet award with me and blogging friends. Jill created this award to share with us. She loves the Lord and is a great encourager to many of us who knows her by her encouraging posts and comments. Do visit Jill if you do not know her yet!
I am glad to share this sweet award with you, my dear Readers and Blogging Friends. Do take this Award, post it on your blog and share it with your friends!
This is what Jill said on her post and I say Amen to it! It expresses my thankfulness to God and appreciation of all of you and the way God has used you to bless my life!
"... I gave out the award I designed to share with each of you who reads my blog and shares my passion for Christ! I am deeply thankful for the many friends I have met along this journey since entering blogland. Many of you have touched my heart and life in ways that have changed me eternally! I thank you for being a faithful servant and being obedient to the upward calling every time you share a piece of His heart living out in you! I pray that you will share this award with others who have touched your heart by sowing seeds of love into your life! They will know we are His by how we love one another! Let us sow seeds of love throughout the blogging world and touch the hearts of those who come to read what we all share! To HIM be all the glory forever and ever! AMEN!"
Please accept this sweet award and pass it on to all your dear friends who are faithfully sowing seeds of Christ's love through their lives and blog daily! All praise and glory be to God!
♥ I am thankful to God and to all of you who have kindly join in my First Give-away last Wednesday. I am greatly encouraged by your heartfelt participation, your many kind words of encouragements and the good suggestions that you have made!
I am so overwhelmed by all your comments! I must confess that I am having a hard time deciding whom to give the bookmarks to!
I have initially planned to give 5 or more of you the set of 6 bookmarks each.
But as I read all your 40+ encouraging comments, I feel compel to give the bookmarks to as many of you as possible as your comments are very encouraging and precious to me on how I may continue to serve our Lord through this blog!
So God willing, I am going to give some bookmarks to each and everyone of you who have participated in my First Give-away last Wednesday.
Yes! In other words, I am hoping to mail you between 6 to 2 bookmarks depending on your comments.
But it will also mean I will take a while to make and post these bookmarks to you.
Will you mind?
If you do not mind waiting and would really like to have the bookmarks, please email me the following at morethanconquerors2008@gmail.com:
1) Your Full name 2) Your Home Address 3) Your Blog so that I can identify who you are :)
And don't forget to leave a comment here too to let me know that you have emailed me.
I will be in touch with you as soon as I can after that. I will let you know individually through email how many bookmarks you will be getting.
To make this gift a more meaningful one to you, I will be giving you the liberty to choose your favorite bookmarks from my Homemade Bookmarks, Cards and Gifts website.
So do email me if you do not mind waiting and really wish to own these bookmarks!
♥ I am thankful to God for the friendship that we can enjoy in Him because of what He had done for us and in us. In appreciation of your love in Christ and friendship, I want to share this very very encouraging video on the reunion of Christian the Lion and his 2 owners, and the wonderful lasting friendships between them. May God bless us in our friendships with our loved ones and brethren in the family of God, and our long distance friendship through blogging. Thank God that though we are separated by many mountains and seas, we can meet together before His throne of grace daily and walk together through our sharing on our blogs. Thanks again for all your visits and encouragements! All praise and glory be to God!
Love knows no limits and true friendship lasts a lifetime. Get back in touch with someone today. You'll be glad you did.
(Personally I am not a fan of Whitney Houston, but I do enjoy the portion of this song to go with the video in which it express the love between Christian and his owner)
To read the true accounts on Christian the Lion, visit :
Thanks again for your visits, prayers and encouragements.
Remember to take the Award with you and pass it on to your friends and email me if you want the bookmarks.
I am thrilled to get my own Guest Book!
Please sign my Guest Book if you can! It's on top, just before this post.
Thanks to all of you who have signed my Guest Book!
May God continue to bless you with His love and mercies today and every day :) For more Word-Filled Wednesday participants, do visit Amy. For more participants of Thankful Thursday, do visit Iris. Thank you for stopping by. Hope you have a blessed day!
