Seasons of my life then and now

What is the season that I am currently at?

I have to be aware of the season that God is bringing me now and identify the areas that I can grow in.

I am really thankful for a new care group that I am currently leading and the privilege of taking care of God's flock. I am very excited though initially I was quite apprenhensive. God's assurance of growth and to wait in expectancy for greater things to happen in His timing has rather strong and a constant reminder and motivation for me to do my best in taking care and being faithful to the people that He has entrusted under my care.

This is going to be a very challenging year for me. The season that I am currently going through is very different from 3 years ago. 3 years ago the decision to quit my first job, to stay back in Tertiary ministry and serve is a memorable chapter in my journey with Christ, this is a significant chapter, one that I will never ever forget of what God has done during that season of my life. This chapter finished well. :)

I can remember vividly a sharing by a brother that when He prayed for me, God wants to assure me that all along the years ever since coming to know Him, He has BLESSED, PROTECTED and PRESERVED me. Yes and I can testify that I have been blessed and protected by God in many ways. Blessed with physical & spiritual family who love me a lot, blessed financially, blessed in my inner being and my walk with God, blessed in my ministry and the fruits due to the outcome of obedience by His grace and many countless e.gs. God has protected & preserved this heart of mine which has the potential to fail & many time it does fail to love, fail to perservere, fail to believe. But He has believed in me and preserved me all this while and because of that I cannot help but to be grateful to Him. I want to continue to do my best to honour God and please Him. I am assured that my Father in heaven will continue to protect, bless and preserve me. :)

So what about now? I shared to my spiritual mentor about the issues and areas that I am trying to make sense of currently. This period is quite tormenting for me emotionally as I have difficulty making sense of what I am going through but I have to learn to be patient cos God will slowly help me to understand why He is bringing me through this emotionally draining period.

This is a season of a challenging lifestyle. It is an opportunity for me to grow to another level of managing my life -- work, part-time studies, ministry, family & relationship with people & business planning With the limited time I have, I have to learnt to be more discipline with lesser amount of time as compared to others to utilise what I have to the maximum. I have to adjust to a new lifestyle, I have the assurance that with good management of my time, it is very possible to be adapted to these challenges and God is with me in these.

God help me to be a good steward of what you have placed in my life. I want to do my best @ work, in my studies, ministry and spend quality time with my family and friends.

Season 2009: enjoy my studies, be a good testimony @ work & @ home (experience breakthroughs at home!), take good care of YG 1 care group and growth (quality & quantity), female discipleship & quality shpdg, biz planning, development of Events dept (Ops ministry for Uni-YA group) and most imptly to grow in my relationship with God (knowing Him at a deeper level and experience His empowerment in ever facet of my life!)

Anticipating with great EXPECTANCY in 2009!