From The Inside Out and OneWay - both by Hillsong - Then Sings My Soul ...

I couldn't choose just one video for "Then Sings My Soul" tonight. The song "From The Inside Out" speaks so much of my prayer that I want to share it here even though I know I had already posted this song on my blog before (click here with lyrics). Oh, I am sure you will also like this song - come on - sing along, you'll be blessed. I sing this out loud in my car all the time - that's my concert arena :)



Th next video is "One Way". I am so pumped up about reaching out for Youth because I just finished watching Ron Luce's video on Re-Create. It blessed me to see the young people in this video so passionate in worshiping the Lord. Oh, I dance with them too - in our house! Actually I do that raising of hand, pointing to Jesus (or heaven) while singing this song at church. I just don't jump up and down because our church would "not like that" :) during worship. Well, I guess I can but sometimes (or often) it's good to be discreet. So, I just do the jumping up and down in my head. Watch this and you would know what I am talking about:



For more "Then Sings My Soul" participants, go to Amy's blog - Signs Miracles and Wonders and click the links :)

It's Aloha Friday! And Twit! Twit!

What? my last post prior to this was a Wordless Wednesday post? Well, that's ok. I am just happy that it's Aloha Friday today! Been working a lot this week, need to catch up on house chores this weekend.

By the way, any of you "me dear blog reader and friends" on Twitter? If you are, please leave me your twit address so I can follow you. Better yet, look on my right side bar (lower right sidebar) for my twit updates and follow me from there. Or click on that litttle birdie photo on the left in this post and it will take you to my twitter page. When you follow me, I definitely will follow you. It is quite fun twitting. It's microblogging - great when in a rush :)

Speaking of rush, gotta go. Need to get ready for work!

P.S. dear bloggy friends who gave me an award, I am not ignoring it, I am just hectic this week but will work on my acceptance speech (smile) (ok, acceptance and paying it forward post) this weekend. I do appreciate the awards and was thrilled to see your note that you gave them to me (several of you - I will name you on my acceptance speech :).

Now, I really need to log off.

Update: It's Fri afternoon and when I re-read my post this morning it says "gave mean awards" instead of "gave ME AN award" Yikes! so sorry.. I didn't mean to call it mean :)

Wordless Wednesday: Pink and White Christmas

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The Supreme Climb

"Take now thy son ." Genesis 22:2

God's command is - Take now, not presently. It is extraordinary how we debate! We know a thing is right, but we try to find excuses for not doing it at once. To climb to the height God shows can never be done presently, it must be done now. The sacrifice is gone through in will before it is performed actually.

"And Abraham rose up early in the morning and went unto the place of which God had told him" (v. 3). The wonderful simplicity of Abraham! When God spoke, he did not confer with flesh and blood. Beware when you want to confer with flesh and blood, i.e., your own sympathies, your own insight, anything that is not based on your personal relationship to God. These are the things that compete with and hinder obedience to God.

Abraham did not choose the sacrifice. Always guard against self-chosen service for God; self-sacrifice may be a disease. If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him. If the providential order of God for you is a hard time of difficulty, go through with it, but never choose the scene of your martyrdom. God chose the crucible for Abraham, and Abraham made no demur; he went steadily through. If you are not living in touch with Him, it is easy to pass a crude verdict on God. You must go through the crucible before you have any right to pronounce a verdict, because in the crucible you learn to know God better. God is working for His highest ends until His purpose and man's purpose become one.

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The devotion above is from the November 11 devotion from My Utmost For His Highest. It touched my heart so I would like to share it with you. This devotion can also be found HERE.

Faith - Jason Upton

Is Blogging A Waste Of Time?

Everyone who knows me knows that my husband is not so thrilled about my blogging. And if I am a wife who would truly want to please her husband, I probably should stop blogging already, right?

Well... I am not that wife. Most of you who know me know I am quite submissive, and much of a pleaser. But blogging is one of the areas is my life where I held my ground and refused to submit to my husband's desire for me to stop or spend less time on.

When I blog hop around my bloggy friends blogs, I sometimes envy the fact that their husbands not only support their blogging hobbies but actually encourages them on it. Some of them, it's actually their husbands who suggested they trying blogging (many of these are the stay at home moms who needs to be connected more outside and have "conversations" with adults - blah, blah, blah).

I really don't know why I writing this post. I think, the issue is not really blogging but something else because my husband hasn't really complained about my blogging for a while.

The real issue is .... well, that's probably whay I am talking about blogging... because I don't want to deal with the real issue.

Oh well...

It's Sunday morning. I wish you all a great day!