A Poem for all the Young Ladies in YF=)

Found this poem on the site stated below.
We should all learn to be modest, God fearing youths, so others will see Christ in us!
When we honour Christ, now matter what others may think of us,
God will bless us for putting Him first.
May we open our hearts for the Lord to teach us.

The Worth of a Girl

How do you measure a little girl's worth,

When all her charm on you is unfurled?

You either see her through the eyes of God

Or through the eyes of the world.

The world shouts, "She must have her freedom,

Liberation - her true destiny."

But God says, "Child, when you seek my truth,

Then you'll know what it is to be free."

The world cries, "Don't thwart her psyche,

Let her decisions be hers from the start."

God says, "Train her, which way she should go

And from Me she'll never depart."

The world would like always for her to think

Of success as her foremost goal,

But God says, "Love me and each other,

With all your body, mind, and soul."

The world teaches, "Do just what you want

Regardless of who gave you birth."

But God says, "Honor your Mom and Dad

That your life may be long on this earth."

A girl is truly a gift of God's grace

To be all that He's called her to be.

We must lead and guide this life in the now

For she's part of eternity.

Charming manners can be so deceptive

And outward beauty is all so vain,

But a woman with fear and reverence for God

His blessings with her will remain.

A divine blueprint is stamped upon her,

Teach her to red it carefully.

For a little girl is what God will use

To make a virtuous lady!

~by Betty Walkup Albuquerque~
http://maidensofworth.org/

The following blog is of a 16 year old girl in the US.
I find it very encouraging.
I pray we will all learn the Bible well and dress well, that the Lord will be proud of us =)
http://byhisgraceandforhisglory.blogspot.com/

Hi from Faith & Prayer Requests

Faith says "Hi!!!" to all...met her on msn last night.
If you happen to be online around 11...you'll prob be able to chat with her =)

Hope your week is going well.

Below are some requests that i thought were pressing. Pls put your prayer requests on the blog!

Just a reminder to pray for one another. (P4=Pray for)
Faith - Beijing. P4 safety and wisdom in work/studies.
Joshua - Army. P4 safety and courage to be a good testimony.
Amos - P4 health. P4 future studies.
Amelia - P4 direction for future studies.
Rachel - P4 recovery from hip injury. P4 studies, new class.
Su-lin - P4 studies, new class.
Narisa - P4 projects and experiments, ability to complete them on time.
Audrey - P4 adjustment to JC life. P4 studies.
Phoebe & Joyce - P4 future studies.
Deborah - P4 adjustment to sec school life. P that she can come for future YF meetings.
Sharon - P4 wisdom and patience to teach in SS. P4 health. P4 future decisions.

Others
P4 all YFers, to be willing to come regularly.
P that we will all be excited to learn God's Word, and to put it in our hearts.
P that all will do their devotions everyday and pray for each other too!
P4 church Session and leaders to be strong and faithful to God.
P that more youths will join the YF =)
P4 church members who are unwell (Uncle Koa, Samuel's Mum)

God's Sovereignty vs. Man's Responsibility

Fast forward to about 4:18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jzpnfUKEQ

This video reminded me of sumthing one of my astronomy lecturers sed. He sed that when sum pple are in trouble they xpect God to drop a miracle from the sky (e.g. manna from heaven, pillar of fire/cloud). What they don't realise is that they hafta catch it (e.g. go out and pick up the manna and follow the pillar of fire/cloud). I guess as Christians we should try to be the answer to each other's prayers and be there 4 each other. Coz God is not physically with us, he answers our prayers in other ways. and we should be alert 4 the answer and not like keep pestering Him.

It must b annoying to have your kid continually ask u 4 sumthing when u've already given it to them :P

and this might help Rachel
http://www.delite.com.sg/referral.php
got it in my uni email. was gonna fill it in for u but not sure of the details. (ur sec 4 rite?)

oh... btw. FYI (im not ego) 2 feb is my special day. yes:) hahahha. i sound like a narcist:) oh ya and everyone find me a chinese tutor so that i can go for YF!! yes. oh wells. cya next time

Singspiration roster

hi guys, here's the roster for song-leading for the next 6 months. Remember to turn up when it's your turn! And if you cannot make it for a session, please inform one of us beforehand.

Jan 19 - Sharon

Feb 2 - Rachel
Feb 16 - Narisa

Mar 1 - Audrey
Mar 15 - Sulin
Mar 29 - Amelia

Apr 12 - Sharon
Apr 26 - Rachel

May 10 - Narisa
May 24 - Audrey

June 7 - Sulin
June 21 - Amelia

YF 5 Jan 2008 session

About: what can we learn about God's Providence towards Israel?

The mindset
When studying about Israel, keep the following in mind:
1. the mystery of God's Sovereignty and human responsibility. I say that this is a mystery because we cannot fully understand the balance and interaction between the two elements.
2. God can use anyone and anything to achieve His will.

The providence
1. God promises Israel with the Promised Land (Gen 15:18-21)
The land stretches from the river of Egypt to the river of Euphrates. In Deut 8:7-10, God promises that the land will be a land of "wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, ... and honey"; and this is what Israel is today - a land of milk and honey.
Like the Israelites, we are also destined to reside in a Promised Land - Heaven.

2. God leads the Israelites out of Egypt (Exo 12:37-42)
When God led His people out of the land of bondage - about 600,000 men, excluding women and children - He led them through a longer route. Instead of passing through Philistine and arriving at the Promised Land right after that, God led His people southwards to the Red Sea, and then back up again North. Why did He do this? Exo 13:17-18 explains that this was done to avoid the Philistines, who were at war ("lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt").
In the same way, God may lead us down a long winding path; but we can be assured that He does this with our good in mind.

3. God provides direction for the Israelites
We all know the famous 'miracle-compass' that the Lord provided for the Israelites to follow - the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire. In the same way, God and His Word should provide direction for us, even in difficult times (recall that the Israelites were passing through the wilderness and desert, with only the pillar of cloud and fire to guide them).

4. God parts the Red Sea (Exo 14:10-14)
When the Israelites saw the Pharoh and his army from afar (v.10), the first thing that struck them was an intense fear. Yet, what was Moses' remedy for such a fear? He said, "Fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord" (v.13). And God parted the Red Sea.
Sometimes danger might be staring at us in the face. But as such things draw nigh to us, we have a three-step solution to defeat the fear we feel: Fear not; stand still; look up to God. As uncle Leo said, we don't have to see a psychologist to deal with fear; we already have the remedy in God's word. God provides for us emotionally.

5. God provides water, manna, and quail (Exo 15, 16)
When the Israelites arrived at Marrah, they could not drink the bitter water there and murmured against God. But God made the water sweet, and promised that if the Israelites kept all His commandments, "I will put none of these diseases upon thee...for I am the Lord that healeth thee." In the same manner, when the Israelites had a lack of food (and a lack of a variety of food), God provided manna, and even quail for them.
This reminds us of Jesus' words in Matt 6:30-31: "Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, what shall we eat? or, what shall we drink? or, wherewithal shall we be clothed?"
With all that said, I hope we can all say with absolute faith, even in the most dire circumstances, that God will provide for our physical needs.

6. God gives the Ten Commandments (Exo.20:1-17)
Even as God provides for our emotional and physical needs, He also looks after our spiritual needs by providing us with a moral code to follow. We need the Law to guide us to do good for Him, and to stay close to Him; because no man seeks after God on his own (Romans 3:11). Just as the Law acts like a "schoolmaster" to bring us into submission to God's will, and reveal to us what sin is, grace begets forgiveness of sin when we disobey. Hence, God also provides for our spiritual needs.

The entire testimony of Israel is very applicable to us today, because, like the children of Israel, we are also the children of God. Hence, it is comforting to know that just as God provided for the Israelites in the wilderness, He will provide for our whole person - physically, emotionally, spiritually and morally. He also takes care of our future by providing us with direction, and preparing a place for us in Heaven. Such is the wholesome nature of God's Providence.

How should we react then? We should, like Jethro in Exo. 18:9-10, give all praise to God for His absolute Providence toward us. Even when we complain, like the Israelites did, God still remains faithful. Hence, a lesson on the amazing history of Israel is, above all things, a lesson on God's miraculous Providence.

"Now I know that the Lords is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them." Exodus 18:11

Special thanks to Uncle Leo for this message.

Faith's Farewell

Bye bye Faith Faith..see you in 6 months =)

Archives

Hey i thot i'd put all that stuff Sharon's bn sending us up here coz it's building up in my inbox and i can't bear to delete it.

Born to DieIn the night Christ was bornJust before break of morn,As the stars in the sky were fading,O'er the place where He lay, Fell a shadow cold and gray,Of a cross that would humble a King.Born to die upon Calv'ry,Jesus suffered my sin to forgive;Born to die upon Calv'ry,He was wounded that I might live.Jesus knew when He came He would suffer in shame;He could feel ev'ry pain and sorrow.But He left Paradise,With His blood, He paid the price-My redemption to Jesus I owe.From His throne Jesus came, Laid aside Heaven's fameIn exchange for the cross of Calv'ry;For my gain suffered loss,For my sin He bore the cross-He was wounded and I was set free.Dearest Lord, evermoreMay Thy cross I adore As I follow the path to Calv'ry:Of Thy death I partake,My ambition I forsake-All my will I surrender to Thee.(A song from Majesty Hymnal)

Word of God- Video Sermon‏ by Rev Dr Quek
http://www.calvarypandan.org/video/mws2007_10_28.htm

Stories behind some hymns‏
http://calvarypandan.org/sgbf-2007.htm


NASA proves that the BIBLE is True and GOD ETERNAL
Very interesting article and Just sharing . . .A MUST READ -- THIS INFORMATION ON GOD THE ETERNAL !!!! For all you scientists out there and for all the students who have had a hard time convincing these people regarding the truth of the Biblehere's something that illustrates God's awesome creation and shows He is still in control.Did you know that NASA's space programmers are busy proving that was has been called 'myth' in the Bible is true? Mr. Harold Hill, President ofthe Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, and a consultant in the space programmes, relates the following incident:One of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland.
They were checking out the positions of the sun, moon and planets out in space where they would be 100, and 1000 years from now. We have to knowthis as we do not want a satellite to collide with any of these in its orbits. We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of thesatellite and where the planets will be so the whole project will notbog down.

Computer measurements and data were run back and forth over the centuries
when suddenly it came to a halt, displaying a red signal, which meant that either
there was something wrong with the information fed into it or with the results ascompared to the standards. They called in the service department tocheck it out, and the technicians asked what was wrong. The scientists had discovered that somewhere in space in elapsed time a day was missing. Nobody seemed able to come up with a solution to theproblem. Finally one of the team, a Christian, said: "You know, when I was still in Sunday School, they spoke about the sun standingstill......."While his colleagues didn't believe him, they did not have an answereither, so they said: "Show us." He got a Bible and opened it at the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for any one with 'common sense'. There they read about the Lord saying toJoshua: "Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not
be a man of them stands before thee." (Joshua 10:8). Joshua was concerned because the enemy had surrounded him, and ifdarkness fell, they would overpower him. So Joshua asked the Lord tomake the sun stand still! That's right -- "And the sun stood still and the moon stayed,until the people had avenged themselves upon theirenemies. Is this not written in the book of Ja'-sher? So the sun stoodstill in the midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a whole day." (Joshua 10:13).The astronauts and scientists said: "There is the missing day!" Theychecked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it, but it was not close enough.

The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was
23 hours and 20 minutes - not a whole day. They readthe Bible again and there it was: "about (approximately) a day." Theselittle words in the Bible were important, but they were still in trouble, because another 40 minutes were still unaccounted for, and thiscould mean trouble 1000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits.As the Christian employee thought about it, he remembered somewhere in the Bible which said the sun went backwards. The scientists told him hewas out of his mind, but once again they opened the Book and read thesewords in 2 Kings.Hezekiah, on his deathbed, was visited by the prophet, Isaiah, who told him he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for some sign as proof.Isaiah said: "Shall the sun go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?" And Hezekiah answered: "It is a light thing for the shadow to
go down ten degrees; nay, but let the shadow return backwards ten degrees.

" And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord, and He brought the shadow tendegrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz." (2 Kings 20:9 -11).Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty-three hours and twenty minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in 2 Kings accounted for the missing day inthe universe!Isn't this amazing? Our God is rubbing their noses in His Truth! Forward this to as many people who would think this is equallyastounding


The website for Answers in Genesis is www.answersingenesis.org
http://www.answersingenesis.org/video/ondemand/answersWithKen.asp