Train your mind!

I just watched a series of Britains got talent from YouTube and it's just amazing! (:
and this little girl has a beautiful voice. i love it totally man! Go watch it! :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cnRXmMn2Ag

Anyway, it's Academic Excellence today!
The sermon is still as powerful as ever! (:
I remember last year, my mindset about studying and education changed after listening to it!
And I believe it did the same to many today!

Today, the sermon spoke to me in a whole new way.

In the past, I always thought that I am really slow at thinking, which is somehow true and I often get very demoralised by it. And most of the time I need to spend more time than others to do things, like studying. So after getting the results for my prelims, I was pretty discouraged as many other classmates did so much better than me and they were still complaining about it. I was quite hurt inside but I just kept quiet.

But today I must really thank God for great friends and teachers that I had when I was in my O level year. And I believe God sent Yiling to pass my a testimony booklet which I much touched by it (: ( I wasn't a Christian yet then)

And needless to say, with much help from my teachers, encouragements from friends, I did not give up studying. And I did pretty well for my O levels whereby I scored a L1R5 of 15.

Now, I am studying a course in Digital Media Design, which doesn't really involve the memorising part, thus I hardly really use my brain anymore.

In some way I still had to use my brain as I need to think of ideas and everything, but most of the time it would be about using your hands to do it!

Maybe some people don't know about this, but I am right now in a very difficult stage of coping my schoolwork. I owe my lecturers like almost all the assignments that has been given to me since the start of the semester.

I submited some, but I owe more than half of them, perhaps 85% of them?
And I am really scared that I might retain. But something just kept telling me I CAN DO IT!

But somehow, I still get discouraged at times, because I really do not know what to do.
And I start to ponder if I should just drop out and study something else. Maybe it's not God's will for me to be in this course. And the assignments that I owe somehow is the barrier that is stopping me from breaking through, I thought.

And a few weeks ago, I was at this really terrible time fighting the devil.
I do not know how to put it in words seriously.
I felt so dry. I tried to do my QT, but I still feel not right.
Everything just went wrong.
And I just can't do things properly.

For the past few weeks, the things pastors shared had been hitting my heart.
About Living our lives, planning it.
About the levels of intimacy with God, loving the works of God and not just carrying out a duty. Then we can do it much more better!
About having visions. As we have visions, we set our sights right and things will just move as we convict our hearts to it.

God has been urging me to move on.
But somehow I just duno what to do.
I tried to plan my life, tried to follow according to it.
Making sure my spiritual life is healthy.
And keep on praying for God's wisdom to be upon me because I know I need it badly.
I was just fighting on and on to make sure that I don't go off track.

Right now, the many incomplete assignments are still there.
I still do not know what to do.
I really do not want to be a bad testimony for God.
I always want to make sure that my works can carry God's anointing so as to touch lives.

But one problem I face, I am slow at thinking.
When I do things, I tend to be slower most of the times.
Since young, I was being told by my mum that I AM SLOW..
and somehow it got into my heart, thinking it's a genes thing as my Dad's siblings tend to do things a slow pace.
SO...I live with it as a fact and did nothing about it.

I really got to admit this, I can't think fast.
But today, I know I can do something about it by training it!

THINK MORE!

As you think more, you will become faster when you think, and you will appear " smarter"

No one is born stupid. Neither do anyone is born smart. It's about how much you USE YOUR BRAIN!

AMEN!

Today as Pastor asked us to repeat the verse " I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me", I was reassured that I CAN CONQUER what's before me right now. The things that's stopping me to breakthrough!

Like what Pst Joakim said before, it's always a little harder before a breakthrough.
SO, I am going to hang on! :D

Alright, what a long long long post.
I am just really glad and thankful to be where I am today!
Thank You God! I love You! (: