The Purpose Driven Life

The Heart of Worship
Jesus prayed, "Father, everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will, not mine."
Jesus wanted the suffering if it was God will.
Genuine surrender says, "If it is God's will, then please don't take it away from me."

Developing Your Friendship with God
If you want a deeper, more intimate connection with God you must learn to honestly share your feelings with him, trust him when he asks you to do something, learn to care about what he cares about, and desire his friendship more than anything else.
Expressing doubt is sometimes the first step toward the next level of intimacy with God.

My first day at university

I decided to go with my brother to uni yesterday. It was really boring. I went to a java tutorial, a probability lecture and a java lecture. It was interesting how many people fell asleep. I was one of the few who fell asleep during the java lecture. hehe. I'm not sure that I like university better than school anymore. It would be pretty hard to learn anything at uni because of the boring lecturers. Oh well, that's my opinion anyway. *yawns* Although, you can play table tennis for free!

I love the intro to Awesome God on the Look To You CD so I listened to it and wrote it out. I thought it would be pretty easy but it wasn't! It took me a long time to do it but I've done it now. It's awesome.

I realized something...

God's just done a breakthrough in my life! haha.

SMS training day - YWAM reunion - Manifest training day 1 - Manifest training day 2

Praise God!

Through each one of those, God's taught me something new.

SMS training day - Started stirring a new passion for the lost inside me.
YWAM reunion - It's a blessing just to be around those you know are strong Christians.
Manifest training day 1 - Everyone faces fear when spreading the gospel (not just me)
Manifest training day 2 - There is nothing like. There is nothing like. Your love. Your love!

My voice is disappearing... slow because I can't stop singing to God!

-Phil

Manifest

So amazing, as you paint the skies
So amazing, makes me wonder why
You love me like you do.
You love me like you do.
You love me like you do.
So amazing.
So amazing.

haha. it was gosh! hahaha. in other words awesome.

Learnt so much!

First it was Dan Lian.
Amazing passion. So inspiring.
How to break through our fear: Know that God is with you.

Brooke Fraser.
Didn't think much of it until I realized how much I learnt afterwards.
Was boring to start with but when I thought about what she said, it was awesome!
It was mostly about music and how it should be inspired by God.

Nabi Saleh (not Selah)
Learnt so much as well! Leadership creates enthusiasm...wonderful wisdom from him.

Joel Houston
He gets scared of worship leading too! haha.

??? (the keyboard guy) sorry. i forgot your name.
Learnt about how worship keyboardists play and stuff. Very interesting.

That's all.

This is our prayer
To the God of the Ages
Turn now and here our cry
Give us this land
That is broken and hurting
Manifest your will
In our lives

And I will run across these plains
And I will dance in summer rains
And prophesy to broken dreams
And sing my generation free

God inspired lyrics!

-Phil

Stuggling with life

From two weeks back, life has pretty much gone downhill for me. First it was stress from school and then my relationship with God and then other stuff. Now it's just work. My brain seems to be overworked and I can't think or concentrate very well anymore. I'm starting to get easily annoyed. I don't know why. Today, I was playing table tennis and couldn't get my backhand loops in so I got pretty cut. I want to start praying heaps and spending way more time with God but I feel that something is holding me back. I don't know what it is.

-Phil

Stressed and luckily saved by the holidays.

School is stressing me out now. Especially with a bad English teacher and lots of house music rehearsals but now it's all over. =) at least for another two weeks.

Can't wait till manifest and SMS training day. I need spiritual healing. a lot of it! Not much else to talk about at the moment. Just updating.

-Phil