My Baptism

I decided to blog about this today cos yesterday i was busy editing photos in time to put them up on the blog for all to see hehe~ it was a long tedious process but nonetheless, i enjoyed doing it, for the joy of the Lord is my strength! Amen Hallelujah!

Ok, the pictures you see below were taken on Michelle's and Andrew's cameras. There are captions below also haha for each picture~ there will be more pictures uploaded once i get them from Eena and Mervyn~

Well, so it's been a day after baptism, and what does baptism mean to me? Well, initially, while i was a wayward christian back then.. i didnt care much for baptism. i reaally didnt think much of it. Of cos, my life was too messed up to even bother about things like these and speaking in tongues or moving in the Spirit or healing or deliverance etc etc.. i really had doubts about supernatural phenomena etc~

After coming back to God, by the amazing Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, i said dat i finally understood why He died on the Cross for me. When my life truly turned around, i began to feel hunger and desire for the things dat i had once forsaken. i hated praying, hated reading the Word of God, i hated going to church (back then while I was still in my old church), i hated taking part in any activities dat were Christian and i hated mission outreach.. Absolutely hated it i can tell u..

But when my life turned down side up, i thank God dat he put in me this desire to never be full, to never be filled enough with the knowledge of His word etc. Rite now, i love missions, i love my life. i love the purpose of my life dat God has called me to and i just wanna live my life all for Him.

Getting baptised was a desire planted in my heart a short time after i decided to go back to a church - to City Harvest Church. So i waited and waited for the opportunity, the next opportunity dat God would provide for me to be baptised. Interestingly, there was a baptism ceremony the week before i first started coming to church regularly haha! Yeah, but anyway, the very significant thing is dat, 3 months after i rededicated to Christ at a mass CG gathering held at the Young Women's Christian Association premises, i got baptised. On the 27th of March 2004, Christ redeemed me. On the 27th of June 2004, i identified with Christ in His burial and subsequent resurrection!

This means, that the Benedict David of old is NO MORE! The Benedict David of old, ladies and gentlemen, has officially been put to death! I am dead to my sins, i am a New Man :D I've got the power of the Holy Spirit in me to make wise decisions, to resist and flee all sorts of temptations, the strength of God i have to do all things for Him etc~

So where do i go from now?? Having wasted the past years of my youth in stupid sin, doing the stupidest of things.. well wat can i say? Just a pure wasted waste of time and energy and youth which i regret of cos.. cos if only i had put my youth to better use, for the use of God, for the extension of His kingdom, my life today would be better!

Nevertheless, everyone's gotta begin somewhere. And we all have different starting points. As for me, my race, my new life, my new beginning, begins rite here, rite now. All my aspirations, all my dreams, all my talents and gifts i will now dedicate to the glory of my Father in heaven, the Maker of the heavens and the earth and the Supreme Being of all!

I was just listening to the bible study CDs i bought yesterday. Was listening Pst Kong preach about the book of Daniel - A very impt book of prophecy of the endtimes and such. He mentioned many things but some of the things dat got caught in the web of my mind are these:

Recently, there's been a thing on my mind and i sought God in prayer. And God seems to be telling me.. get a confirmation, get a confirmation! Yeah.. so i will pray hard about it and ask for confirmations about this area in my life.

Well, there are so many things i learnt today in the 6 hour plus BS haha.. yeah, but thank God for strength :D I guess throughout the whole week, i wanna really note down whatever God speaks to me through the book of Daniel. So praise God :D Hallelujah!