The name of the game...

The game has changed... the name of the game is now "Go changin' rearrangin'".

We are now likely to ask...
"what has changed?"
"What has caused the change?"
"Will the change affect me?"
"What changes will I make to cope with the change?"

The game has changed... we need to change to play the game.
Otherwise, we will be left out.

Josiah created this blog to note positive thoughts and inspiring events in his life.
In the process... he discovered that he can't just note positive things since that means
hiding other areas of his life where things didn't turned out quite positively. This means further that this blog will fail to chronicle Josiah's life.

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I am sick

I am sick...
call the Doctor very quick.
Doctor, Great Doctor... i know I won't die...
My soul... oh my soul... stop this cry...

A man named Jabez once prayed to God by saying, "Oh God... that you will expand my territory...".

New roles, new responsiblities, new endeavour, new heights, new dreams, new vision, new open doors, new oppurtunities and the like are signs that our territory is expanding.

While expanding could sound exciting, it is often painful. Expanding territory involves changes and some of these changes caused us to feel different emotions.

Jabez added to his prayers, "Oh God... that you will be with me in all that I do...". In these moments of increase and expansion we need God to be with us in all that we do. We need God's favor, God's Spirit, and God's mercy to be with us.

Interestingly, God grated Jabez ALL of what he prayed for.:) And God can do it also for us. Amen.



*idea from book, Prayer of Jabez by Bruce Wilkinson

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Prayers to a deaf God?

Think about this... if God really is all powerful and He hears and answers prayers then, prayer is the most powerful and most effective thing that we can do everyday - not to mention the wisest.

After reading the novel Blink by Ted Dekker, I pondered about this fact and believe in my heart that prayer is the best investment I can do with my time in a daily basis. And after starting to develop [meaning, I started underachieving then grow bit by bit], God keep showing up! Everyday, I begun to from walking from victory to victory. Life did not became easy though but I no longer get easily shaken when I face adversity since I just talk about it to God then I begun to become confident that God has my best interest at heart. And God would just show His outstretched arms and help me! Isn't that amazing?

One of the latest that happened was on January 1, 2006. It has been a practice in our family to pray every time the year ends. I asked them to pray for 3-4 things. And you know what happened? I got 1 answer to my prayer @ January 10.:-) And 2 other answers are floating and will happen 6 months from now.How is that? This is something I have prayed for and it happened!! And the best thing about it, is that I did not received it because I am good or I am the best, I received it simply becasue of the favor of God. The Bible says that He will cause us to be at the right place and at the right time.:-). This is just the beginning soon I will have a Bible study again.:-). I 've been praying that God will use me as He has used Ate Joy C. and guess what? It's floating and the answer is coming up without me even lifting a finger to make it happen.

Praise the Lord!

Let these words be a testimony that God is not deaf or sleeping or dead; God is alive and He is awake and ready to hear and answer our prayers!

Response Diagram

Failure is inevitable. Whether we like it or not, we will fail.
If that is so... should we fear failure?

Silence

why try silencing the crowd?
do you need to prove anything?

so what if you missed succeeding this time?
will it make you a lesser man than anybody else?

so what if they think you are a fool?
will that make you a fool?

so what if you failed?
does it mean you are never gonna succeed?

It's so sad... i left like I'm being backstabbed... sort of betrayed... silently kicked in the ass!!!!!!

I would have appreciated it if the person just settled whatever it feels against me in person.
I know our culture really avoids confrontation and I myself is a bit afraid to confront any person but still it would have been better if it just said it in my face.

I have my preferrences.. one of them is for it to be honest with what it feels against me.
But since it acted differently from my preferrence... then I'll live with it. I think... I can live this way... to prefer and understand rather than to demand. Probably if I'm it I would have acted the same way.. I would have backstabbed myself. Still.. I will not fall to mild fatalism.. like my friend fall into. I just don't buy-in to that crap.

This is a sad post... it's sad... but hey! the world is still intack and God is still in control. :)

hmmm... I missed doing my assignment yesterday. I didn't find the time to do it.

Yesterday was my second day in IELTS [International English Language Training System] class and I was late for the second time. And today, I am going to be late again since I came in the office at 8:46 in the morning, that means I am get out from the office at 6:22pm.

It seems that the holidays really got into my system; Unlike before, I can easily wake-up at 6am now, waking up at 7:30 is a chore. I will try to take a nap during the weekends so that I can take a good rest. Hopefully I can avoid being stressed-out next week.

Stress, happens to be my assignment yesterday. So decided to write and post it today.

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"Pain in the back area." - That's usually how stress starts for me. Whenever I feel a bit of numbing pain in my back then that means that if I don't do something about it, sooner or later I will get stressed-out. Sooner or later, I won't just be feeling pain in my back but I will also be feeling pain in my neck, arms, hips, and legs. And feeling all those pain will then negatively affect my work, my creativity, my endurance, my sleep, and the way I relate with people.

So, how do I get pain in the back? Well, I'm really not sure how but usually, I'm starting to get the numbing pain when I feel that I didn't have enough sleep or rest. Usually, if I get successive nights of less than an 8-hour sleep, then I began to feel pain in my back. Sometimes, I think that stress is just in the mind and if I really train my mind not to think about it that much then I think I won't feel stressed-out.

Probably one reason I get back-pains is that I'm always sitting down because of the nature of my work and so with less movements, there is a big probabilty of getting back-ache.

[to be continued]