NICE CONVERSATION

Jeraena : Hi Yohanes, you there?
Yohanes : yah
Yohanes : hi hi
Jeraena : how are things?
Yohanes : things?? .huh
Jeraena : hee... i mean how are you ? (A)
Yohanes : oh
Yohanes : i thought u refer that abt work
Yohanes : hehe
Yohanes : i'm fine
Yohanes : tnak you
Yohanes : *thank you
Jeraena : you are welcome :)
Jeraena : long time never talk to you after i have baby very busy
Yohanes : understand
Yohanes : first child always give great feelings
Jeraena : yup... tiring but very satifying

Jeraena : wah are you ok? the map make you blur?? :
Yohanes : he he
Yohanes : yah
Jeraena : the joy of the LOrd shall be your strength ok?
Yohanes : :S
Jeraena : need my help?
Jeraena : how come you blur?
Yohanes : haha
Jeraena : now my dad is helping with the survey while anwar is away on marriage leava
Yohanes : thanx
Jeraena : sabrina last day this friday you know?
Yohanes : that really gives me some strength
Yohanes : yah i know
Jeraena : you are welcome
Jeraena : so i will be taking over the update of maps from her side for the time being
Yohanes : and u will replacing her position
Yohanes : for a while rite..
Jeraena : then we will work together again.. you rizal me and the rest of the team :)
Yohanes : great
Jeraena : let me know how i can help ok?
Yohanes : will u come here sometime
Yohanes : ?
Jeraena : we are in singapore so easier if you need to check the campus
Jeraena : not for the moment :(
Jeraena : tat time went over and baby was sick from food poisoning
Yohanes : hah
Yohanes : ?
Jeraena : cry and cry and we don't know what is wrong
Jeraena : got so worried
Yohanes : food poisining?
Jeraena : thank God he was ok on the flight home
Yohanes : what did he eat?
Jeraena : think it's becos of the milk i drank from the hotel
Jeraena : he drink breast milk
Jeraena : think he older then we go over cos now he so small can't talk so we get worried when
we don't know wat is wrong with him:(
Jeraena : hee.... take some fresh air also and exercise a bit ok?
Jeraena : sit too long on the chair can give you backache also
Yohanes : yah
Yohanes : right
Jeraena : tat's why now and then i get up to walk too ..hee
Yohanes : i only exercise
Yohanes : once a week
Yohanes : swimming..
Yohanes : but sometimes i skip my exericise..
Yohanes : he he...
Jeraena : no wonder you dizzy lah
Jeraena : hehe
Jeraena : remember to do your quiet time
Jeraena : God will refresh you and enlighten you
Jeraena : it is the secret for supernatural strength.. hee
Yohanes : yah..
Yohanes : thanx again for your encouragement
Jeraena : you are welcome.. sometimes we are too busy that we forget to wait upon God and
draw strength from Him
Yohanes : yah
Yohanes : u r rite
Yohanes : sometimes i wish i had 25 hours a day
Jeraena : hee.... we always wish... but think the secret is to make the best of our time... i know
it's easier said than done
Jeraena : but when you focus on God the rest of the problems will fade like shadows
Yohanes : we. heee....
Jeraena : (R) remember the rainbow
Jeraena : God keeps HIs promises
Jeraena : He says come to me all who are weary and heavy laden and i will give you rest :)
Yohanes : ;)
Jeraena : God's grace is sufficient for you for His strength is made perfect in your weakness
Jeraena : :)
Jeraena : hope you had a good lunch ;)
Jeraena : remember with the Lord on your side who can be against you? He has already won
the battle for you. For we fight not against flesh and blood but against the evil
principalities of this world
Yohanes : ha ha... amen..
Yohanes : u know
Jeraena : yes?
Yohanes : i'm speachless how to respond to every encouragement that u gave to me...
Yohanes : all i can say is
Yohanes : tahnk you and thank you...
Jeraena : hee... no need to say anything
Jeraena : each of us plays a part
Jeraena : remember in the bible they say each of us is a part of the body
Jeraena : some are the brains some are the hands some are the ears etc..
Jeraena : so let us play our part
Jeraena : one thing i realise is most important to start and end the day with God
Jeraena : cos if i start without Him then everyting does not go on well
Jeraena : but when i start with Him, to read His word and pray then He helps me through the
day and see things from His view and even when things don't seem to go on well yet
He helps me manage and go through it
Jeraena : God helps me through it as He speaks to me
Jeraena : sometimes we are just so busy that we forget to pause and to take time and listen to
GOD
Jeraena : then we get confused becos we hear so many voices sometimes from different people
who are no christians also
Yohanes : ~ro
Jeraena : but when we do it with GOD it is so smooth and we have the peace even in the midst
of difficulties. remember how He has carried you through difficult situations in the
past. our God is the same yesterday today and tomorrow. so hang on to HIm. He will
never fail you
Yohanes : ~ro thanks
Jeraena : my pleasure! enjoy your day with the LOrd
Jeraena : remember to rely on His strength and wisdom.

NOT BY MY OWN STRENGTH...

Jeremiah 17:5-8
17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
17:7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Usually i plan my future based on my strength, what can i do, what can i made, my work, my financial status, because basicly i'm a hardworking person so i always thought that if i want to have great and better future, i must work harder, study harder. I know it isn't wrong if i want to become better and better again in my life but i realized that i do that without GOD's contribution, as if i won't let Him to control my life...

rite now i want to give all my rights, my future, my strength, my dreams before Him. and let Him manage my life...

STRENGTH vs WEAKNESS

My Strength:

- Patient

- Stable

- Careful

- Loyal

My Weakness:

- Don't have strong will

- Slow

- Hard to change mission into action

"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong."