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I’m going to Auckland tonight for missions. That’s one step closer to fulfilling my dream for God.

I once watched a sermon that was preached by a famous doctor. He mentioned about people having big dreams for God. He attended many evangelistic conferences and movements. Many of the leaders expressed big dreams and lofty ideals without any real and practical means of realizing them. He termed those as useless talks, even if they are from respectable leaders. Those are just hot air balloons.

I think this is the real challenge of dreamer; to be more then just a dreamer.

Real dreaming is mental hard work, but its not because of the efforts to think of the ideal. The ideal is easy, it’s the planning taken to reach the ideal that is hard. It’s the process where we evaluate if the proposal is feasible, the resources sufficient, the effort sustainable and the duration reasonable.

Let’s go behind a dream.

Imagine if we decided to win half of Singapore to Christ in the year 1990.
Sounds good doesn’t it?

We had 3 millions people then, hence half of Singapore would mean 1 500 000 people. Statistically, an average American church size would be about 100. (We aren’t even talking about planting mega churches like City Harvest and the likes…) That means that we would need 15 000 churches. Well, accord to the statistics I had, it was about 500 churches. Hence we would need to plant 14 500 churches.

Now, who was saying that we have enough leaders already?

In Breakthrough Camp, when Pastor David Chen opened a time for sharing, in order to snatch my share of the triple anointing, I shared to the church I wanted to be a youth apostle, planting youth churches around the world. And I have already started taking my steps to accomplish it, however small it may be.

I’m sharing this not as to boast, but I really hope it would inspire some of you to go out there and do likewise. Don’t dream dreams, chase ‘em!

The world as it is, is not the world that it has to be.
-Barack Obama

What you think is impossible, is impossible.
To you.

A great reminder of the obvious truth: Sometimes, there are no shortcuts in life.
Only those who are faithful with the simplest of things accomplish the greater things.

And they said the issue with humanity was poverty…
We need forgiveness, not economics…

Title: Breathe Me
Artist: Sia

Help, I have done it again
I have been here many times before
Hurt myself again today
And, the worst part is there’s no-one else to blame

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I’m needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Ouch I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found,
Yeah I think that I might break
I’ve lost myself again and I feel unsafe

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I’m needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Learning from those ahead of us…

The script of the Commencement address can be found here.
Credits: Andrew’s blog

[An except from the curious incident of the dog in the night-time]

Mrs. Forbes said that hating yellow and brown is just being silly. And Siobhan said she shouldn’t say things like that and everyone has favorite colors. And Siobhan was right. But Mrs. Forbes was a bit right, too. Because it is sort of being silly. But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don’t take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So its good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others. It is like being in a restaurant like when father takes me out to a Berni Inn sometimes and you look at the menu and you have to choose what you are going to have. But you don’t know if you are going to like something because you haven’t tasted it yet, so you have favorite foods and you choose these, and you have foods you don’t like and you don’t choose these, and then it is simple.

Singapore’s probably the only place you can sell cheesy can drinks such as “Anything” and “Whatever” but still make a sale of 3.5 millions cans on its 1st month. How can you decide between moral standards when you cannot even decide on your choice of drink? May God flip a coin to decide when you enter the Pearly Gates or not.

Perhaps by not choosing heaven, you have already chosen hell.