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Yay to the first ycg of the year with Phileo CCK! It's also our first in 2 weeks due the Christmas and New Year break etc. Was kinda missing the ycg sessions during the break sobz. :-(

We started on a new series today and it's based on a book titled "If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat" by John Ortberg. The title may seem very intimidating on the first read but it's actually a struggle/situation that we face in our daily lives.

The focus on today's lesson was on our faith! A very cliche and arguably over-taught topic in church or ycg but it just never gets old! With the constant struggles and challenges we face in our daily lives, these teachings serve as a reminder that we've to constantly renew our faith in this walk with God. :-)

Main gist of today's lesson on the ways to strengthen our faith:

1. Recognising God's Presence 
Claiming that we believe vs really believing it genuinely. We've to constantly check our hearts for that so that we won't get weary in this walk with Him.

2. Ability to discern between faith and foolishness 
Not mistaking your own desire or want as God's calling. This is a constant struggle for me. The very simple solution is to pray to seek for answer and direction. Had a relatively long conversation with my sister about this before and I was so glad that it was taught in today's lesson. Thank God for speaking to me through today's teaching!

I'm really looking forward to the upcoming installations of this series as well!

The title of this book is has a very similar idea to the lyrics in Oceans by Hillsong that goes:

Evangel's very first countdown service and it's also my very first countdown service in a church! I was pretty excited when they announced about this because I feel that there's no better way to spend the last day of the year.

Personally, I'm not very fond of the countdown culture outside with the crowds that you've to brave after countdown-ing. So this was just perfect for me! It was a time for me to quieten my heart to reflect, remember and be thankful for all the works that God had done in my life for the past year. :-)

We had worship, thanksgiving, short message, prayer, holy communion, supper and the countdown! It was so heartwarming to see people of different races, nationalities and backgrounds stepping out to the mics to share their testimonies. It really shows how God is the all powerful one, the one who's in control of our lives at all times.

The worship songs that we sang were all so suitable for the occasion too! And there were prayers in between the thanksgiving time for the different ministries and the church in general. It's really God's grace that everything has been going well in church thus far!




Main gist of the message was to never forget and remember that the Lord's hand is powerful, and that we have to fear the Lord God forever!

It may seem like very trivial things to remember but it's actually things that we always forget about easily.

To know and recognize the power of the Lord's hand will strengthen our belief that the Lord is and will always be control of our lives. The faith that He has nothing but the best plans for us. :-)

To fear the Lord God is to rid ourselves from sinking into the earthly temptations; which is to sin and hurt Him. If we fear the Lord God, we'd be afraid of Him getting hurt for us, and naturally we'd avoid all the sinful temptations in life. :-)


We often neglect the Lord God amidst our hectic lifestyles. We shorten conversations with Him and tend to rely on ourselves to go on in life. We only turn to Him when we're in a dire situation that we want to get out of. But that shouldn't be the way. Like maintaining human relations between your lover or friends, you'd text or meet up with them regularly to strengthen the bond. Likewise, it's the same for our relationship with God. It's a mutual effort to strengthen our relationship. If He's the only one who keeps reaching out and we're not being receptive to His efforts, this relationship with Him will be very easily destroyed with the earthly influences.

As for myself, my faith in God wavered very drastically once. It was when my Grandpa left us in 2011. I questioned God so many times when it happened. Questions like "Why do you have to take my loved one away from me?" and "Why not another person who sinned much more?" etc couldn't stop repeating in my head. The next blow came when Aunt left us a few months after Grandpa's death. There were many other unpleasant happenings at that point in time as well, which obviously worsened things. That was when my faith in Him was crushed. I thought that if God loved me, He wouldn't do all these to me. I isolated myself from Him for a good few years after that.
The amazing thing was that He still stayed by my side although I pushed Him out of my life. Deep down in my heart, I still believed in Him, just not as strong as before. During times of trouble and distress, I pray and He answered. My faith was slowly built back but still on a very rocky foundation. It was finally in 2014 that I decided to return. There wasn't exactly an event that pushed me back to Him, it just happened. It was probably a gradual process, especially with Christian friends like Song En who constantly reminded me of His goodness through her life. :-)

I wasn't exactly going through a very smooth-sailing time at that point so that also made me relied on Him more. And it slowly built up until today, where I've learnt how to remember Him in all aspects of my life. It won't be an easy process to keep up, but I believe that He'll keep me close to Him to make it possible!

Also, it's been more than a year ever since I joined Evangel and I'm thankful for this platform to draw me ever closer to Him. Met so many amazing people of His and saw how He worked so much wonders in all our lives. My life have changed so tremendously ever since and I'm a much happier person than before. So really thank God for this wonderful plan of His!!! :-)

(Omg how did I even get here.. my level of digression is 1000000 hahahaha)

Anyway in summary I just had such a wonderful time yesterday night in church. I hope that my future countdowns will be spent like this too! :-)

And thanks Vanessa for joining me!!! I know our churches have very different practices but thanks for being so willing to come still! Hope that you had an amazing time like I did! :-)



Oh and my last meal of 2015 and also the first of 2016 LOL.

With that, my 2015 came to an end...

And now 2016! Honestly it doesn't feel like a brand new year to me. Is it signs of ageing?!?!?! I hope not lol. But I really hope that things will remain very much the same like 2015, or just even better! :-)



The first day of 2016 was spent with my family! (minus Mom who was busy sobz) It was such a wonderful afternoon together! We had no plans and we really just randomly went to places. It's been quite awhile so I enjoyed myself even more!







 And of course we took some pictures together!


This picture is so funny hahaha. Daddy was trying to help me down from that then he started making funny poses for the camera lol. #cutestdad


The Goofy Series. I see that nothing has change since 2015.
I really wanted to stay that for a longer period of time but we had to leave sobz. I was just sitting down there chilling and my family was just like "bye we're leaving without you" lol.
It's okay I'll be back!!!
So that's all for this post! I think I've finished recapping about my 2015 in the previous posts although #zeroeffort but I tried.

Here's to more amazing memories in 2016 with God!!!! I'm so excited for this journey ahead with Him. Let's not look back and walk forward with Him as we place him as the center of our lives!!!