Praise the Lord!! Its FRIDAY!! (yes, finally)
according to LDKK, its ORANGE friday. Gosh! And I can never figure why is it orange??! anyway.. today's the day DOR performed!!!! thrilled!!
and wow!
she's dressed in the most stylist way a band member can ever dress lah!! *amazed & envy* keke!
conductor : Mr tan beng wee (coincidentally was william's conductor during VS days..)
songs played: festive overture, two worlds, bush dance, machu picchu, pops in the spots, la storia, bailando la soca (perc ensemble), gulliver's travels & enchanted. (concert highlights in bold)
great pieces played! well done TP band! i personally like two world,pops in the spots, la storia, enchanted & tribute to MJ (encore piece)
especially La Storia & Pops in the Spots, cause it brings me back to those days.. where the lots of us will go back for band daily without fail.. keep ourselves so entertained with the pieces in hands, wanting to try new stuff.. that kinda PASSION was beyond description. Really!! *Salute*
Last piece, encore piece was "tribute to MJ" i really miss his voice alot.. his whole was a gift. *respect* i teared as his songs were played.. thank you michael.. you thought me how to appreciate good music.
-ak's thoughts
God is great :-) God's Grace is enough more we need :-)
How to Be Thankful in Tough Times
by Rick Warren
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Philippians 4:6 (NLT)
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1. Don't worry about anything. Worrying doesn't change anything. It's stewing without doing. There's no such thing as born worriers; worry is a learned response. You learned it from your parents. You learned it from your peers. You learned it from experience. That's good news. The fact that worry is learned means it can also be unlearned. Jesus says, "So don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today's trouble is enough for today" (Matthew 6:34 NLT).
2. Pray about everything. Use the time you've spent worrying for praying. If you prayed as much as you worried, you'd have a whole lot less to worry about. Some people think God only cares about religious things, such as how many people I invite to church or my tithing. Is God interested in car payments? Yes. He's interested in every detail of your life. That means you can take any problem you face to God.
3. Thank God in all things. Whenever you pray, you should always pray with thanksgiving. The healthiest human emotion is not love, but gratitude. It actually increases your immunities; it makes you more resistant to stress and less susceptible to illness. People who are grateful are happy. But people who are ungrateful are miserable because nothing makes them happy. They're never satisfied; it's never good enough. So if you cultivate the attitude of gratitude, of being thankful in everything, it reduces stress in your life.
4. Think about the right things. If you want to reduce the level of stress in your life, you must change the way you think. The way you think determines how you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act. So if you want to change your life, you need to change what you're thinking about.
This involves a deliberate, conscious choice where you change the channels. You choose to think about the right things: focus on the positive and on God's Word. Why? Because the root cause of stress is the way you choose to think.
When we no longer worry, when we pray about everything, when we give thanks, when we focus on the right things, the apostle Paul tells us the result is, "The peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:7 NLT).
What a guarantee! He is guaranteeing peace of mind.
- “ Surely goodness & love will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever” Psalm 23:6
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When John wrote "Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken. John 21:11", he was amazed and surprised that the net full of fishes "held" and did not break. He must have been thinking of the previous experience in Luke 5:6 where they also enclosed a multitude of fishes and the net had broken. And so in surprise he writes, "and for all there were so many yet was not the net broken."
The scene is similar to the scene in Luke 5. After the disciples spent a fruitless night of fishing without Jesus, the Lord said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the ship." Without Jesus in the boat we are always fishing on the wrong instead of the right side. At Jesus' command they cast the net on the right side and the net was full. But the amazing thing was, the net did not break. The reason is evident. In Luke 5 Jesus had commanded to let down several nets. Peter let down only one -- and of course it had to break -- with the load of fish in one net intended for several nets.
But in this incident in John 21 Jesus had told them to let down one net (verse 6) and it had to hold. Oh, that we might learn to obey and trust Him. What loss we too sustain when we refuse to believe His perfect command. What joy when we obey. "To obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams" (1-Samuel 15:22).
When we walk with the Lord
In the light of His Word
What a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will,
He abides with us still,
And with all who will trust and obey.
"The man who earnestly seeks real success, and the favor of heaven, entrusts his fortunes to Jesus Christ,"
Simon Peter went up, and drew the net
to land full of great fishes, an hundred
and fifty and three: and for all there were
so many, yet was not the net broken.
John 21:11
