Many things matter in life,
but the most important thing is to do everything in love
- Haddon Robinson
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Dear all,
I am now using FB daily to share my thoughts. You may find me there as well. I think it is a good place to impact, inspire and even influence many and point them to our good Shepherd especially through the word of the Lord.
I will continue to update here regarding my medical progress and personal life as well.
So, do look for me on FB and click me (David Ong) as your friend to stay in touch daily.
P/S- PTL, my med check up with Dr.William was good. All the routine blood tests are fine.
Now, I just need to see him for review every three months. "Thank you, LORD Jesus!
david
I am now using FB daily to share my thoughts. You may find me there as well. I think it is a good place to impact, inspire and even influence many and point them to our good Shepherd especially through the word of the Lord.
I will continue to update here regarding my medical progress and personal life as well.
So, do look for me on FB and click me (David Ong) as your friend to stay in touch daily.
P/S- PTL, my med check up with Dr.William was good. All the routine blood tests are fine.
Now, I just need to see him for review every three months. "Thank you, LORD Jesus!
david
Friday, April 16, 2010
Embracing Hope
Sorry we have not been posting for a while! Somehow get sucked into the busi-ness of daily mundane needs and concerns that drains me physically and even emotionally.
Reading about the how the angel came to stir the water at the pool of Bethesda to become a miracle-producing pool (in John 5) woke me up. Bethesda means "House of grace and mercy". I realized how I need to come to "Bethesda" daily to wait upon Him and to let the Holy Spirit "STIR" my heart each dayin order miracle after miracles not just in my own personal life, but also in the hearts of those that God brings to my path to minister each day. I find myself running "out of wine" and therefore, need to be filled with new wine daily in order to minister freely and effectively.
Come Monday will be my next medical check follow through with Dr.William. I am generaly ok except for some minor aches in different parts of my rib cage of late. May be due to old lesions.
Nevertheless, I was blessed to be on Prime Time Morning TV interview/CNA with Dr. William on Tuesday, 13 April, for the launch of his new book entitled, "Embracing Hope". It is a book where patients, caregivers and medical health team in SGH contributed articles to help patients cope with stem cell transplants. Yours sincerely has a little article entitles, "More than just hope" in it as well. We hope this book will not just help many medically, but find hope in the Lord that everyone needs ultimately. You may also view the interview at this link http://www.channelnewsasia.com/ptm/interviews/index.htm
Thank you for following us in this blog! I will try to update more regularly - to share how the Lord is stirring my "Bethesda pool!"
david
Reading about the how the angel came to stir the water at the pool of Bethesda to become a miracle-producing pool (in John 5) woke me up. Bethesda means "House of grace and mercy". I realized how I need to come to "Bethesda" daily to wait upon Him and to let the Holy Spirit "STIR" my heart each dayin order miracle after miracles not just in my own personal life, but also in the hearts of those that God brings to my path to minister each day. I find myself running "out of wine" and therefore, need to be filled with new wine daily in order to minister freely and effectively.
Come Monday will be my next medical check follow through with Dr.William. I am generaly ok except for some minor aches in different parts of my rib cage of late. May be due to old lesions.
Nevertheless, I was blessed to be on Prime Time Morning TV interview/CNA with Dr. William on Tuesday, 13 April, for the launch of his new book entitled, "Embracing Hope". It is a book where patients, caregivers and medical health team in SGH contributed articles to help patients cope with stem cell transplants. Yours sincerely has a little article entitles, "More than just hope" in it as well. We hope this book will not just help many medically, but find hope in the Lord that everyone needs ultimately. You may also view the interview at this link http://www.channelnewsasia.com/ptm/interviews/index.htm
Thank you for following us in this blog! I will try to update more regularly - to share how the Lord is stirring my "Bethesda pool!"
david
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Year of Jubilee!
I am still in a state of shock! Didn't believe Whee Ling could 'cheat' on me, for a good cause!
She was so busy of late with her work. Thus never really expected her to come up with this idea.
It was a real, pleasant surprise! Very well planned and well executed! Now you know how capable she really is! Behind all my glory in all these years is this woman who wows me in the way she sacrificially gives herself to the call and assignment of God in my life. She loves the people I love and gives herself to the things God permitted to come into my life - especially my illness and me leaving the pastorate in my previous place of service in FCBC. She stood by me believing God affirmed the stand I took to move on and to be where I am now in serving Him in the pastoral role without an official position in a church setting. Through it all, she stood by me, feeling secure in God's direction and purpose for my life and supporting me continously knowing that his assignment for me is in a very different platform now.
These 5 years or more have caused us to see the goodness of God in ways beyond our imagination. What some people thought was a curse on my life was turned around by our Sovereign Jesus into something He used to display me on a platform that helped us minister His goodness to thousands lke never before. What meant by satan to destroy my ministry and make me spiritually barren became what God meant to do more fruitfully when He gave me the permission to leave FCBC then. Indeed, His ways are higher than ours; and His thoughts as well! What a great God! What a good God who gave me this woman to be willing (Sounds like WHEE LING) to suffer together with me so that I may not give up but look up to the one who holds my destiny.
50 - it's a scary number at first! A number that says you are nearer to the grave! Yet, I have faced death once. So, in a way, I am no longer afraid of the valley of the shadow of death. Because the Lord is with me! And I know HE IS NOT FINISHED WITH ME YET!! And as long as there is breath in me, I will live to fulfill His destiny for me!
Numbers have spiritual significance, just like our names. 5 - is the number for GRACE. I believe God told me that day when I reflected on my 50 years of my life by the beach, He impressed upon me that 50 is grace availble to me by 10 times! Ten fold! Not double but 10 times ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! What a God of Grace! What amazing grace, that saved a man like me!
Well, I receive that by faith! I will live each day by His grace! I will conquer new lands by His grace! I will serve Him faithfully with Whee Ling and Josh by His grace! Nothing, but by grace through our mustard seed faith.
Guess we just want to live simply, by His grace, and please our gracious Father, though our simple faith!
Thankyou, for being part of my life in one season or another in these 50 years!
You have made me who I am today! I have grown.
Will continue to learn and grow, as He gives me the grace!
david
She was so busy of late with her work. Thus never really expected her to come up with this idea.
It was a real, pleasant surprise! Very well planned and well executed! Now you know how capable she really is! Behind all my glory in all these years is this woman who wows me in the way she sacrificially gives herself to the call and assignment of God in my life. She loves the people I love and gives herself to the things God permitted to come into my life - especially my illness and me leaving the pastorate in my previous place of service in FCBC. She stood by me believing God affirmed the stand I took to move on and to be where I am now in serving Him in the pastoral role without an official position in a church setting. Through it all, she stood by me, feeling secure in God's direction and purpose for my life and supporting me continously knowing that his assignment for me is in a very different platform now.
These 5 years or more have caused us to see the goodness of God in ways beyond our imagination. What some people thought was a curse on my life was turned around by our Sovereign Jesus into something He used to display me on a platform that helped us minister His goodness to thousands lke never before. What meant by satan to destroy my ministry and make me spiritually barren became what God meant to do more fruitfully when He gave me the permission to leave FCBC then. Indeed, His ways are higher than ours; and His thoughts as well! What a great God! What a good God who gave me this woman to be willing (Sounds like WHEE LING) to suffer together with me so that I may not give up but look up to the one who holds my destiny.
50 - it's a scary number at first! A number that says you are nearer to the grave! Yet, I have faced death once. So, in a way, I am no longer afraid of the valley of the shadow of death. Because the Lord is with me! And I know HE IS NOT FINISHED WITH ME YET!! And as long as there is breath in me, I will live to fulfill His destiny for me!
Numbers have spiritual significance, just like our names. 5 - is the number for GRACE. I believe God told me that day when I reflected on my 50 years of my life by the beach, He impressed upon me that 50 is grace availble to me by 10 times! Ten fold! Not double but 10 times ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! What a God of Grace! What amazing grace, that saved a man like me!
Well, I receive that by faith! I will live each day by His grace! I will conquer new lands by His grace! I will serve Him faithfully with Whee Ling and Josh by His grace! Nothing, but by grace through our mustard seed faith.
Guess we just want to live simply, by His grace, and please our gracious Father, though our simple faith!
Thankyou, for being part of my life in one season or another in these 50 years!
You have made me who I am today! I have grown.
Will continue to learn and grow, as He gives me the grace!
david
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
50!
David will be turning 50 tomorrow - in a few mintues time!
Wow, what a milestone, what amazing grace! Looking back at the journey, especially the "valley & mountain experience" last 6 years, I could only think of God's love and faithfulness. Oh, what amazing grace!
It is a time for celebration! And we did. We started celebrating since 31Jan when a dear friend of Daivd from KL came to Singapore with his family. They even gathered greetings from other KL friends to bless David. These were friends whom David knew for almost 30 years and they were praying for us during our times of trials.
Another wonderful celebration was last Sunday 07Feb's surprise celebration with families and friends from Singapore. David had no idea at all that I had planned with many of our friends, families and cell members to throw a surprise party for him. It was amazing that so many of us managed to keep it a secret and the plan to "trick" him to the party venue to "ambush" him was successfully carried out. I am sure he was overwhelmed by the love and blessings of everyone present. We had great fun and the event was made especially memorable by the slide shows our dear friend Bang had helped put together. It was such a blessed event that I believe David and our family will remember it for a long long time to come. We experienced God's love through his wonderful people once again and are deeply moved by His love and grace.
May we be spreading his love in every possible way as it is written in 1 John 4: 10,11: "This is love" not that we love God but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."
The celebration will continue because God is love and He is alive! Every good and perfect gift is from Him and I am truly thankful to Him for my dear husband. May he continue to shine for Jesus and bless and impact many lives for many years to come. Truly, we have and will continue to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living (Psalm 27:13,14).
Love & blessings!
Whee Ling
Wow, what a milestone, what amazing grace! Looking back at the journey, especially the "valley & mountain experience" last 6 years, I could only think of God's love and faithfulness. Oh, what amazing grace!
It is a time for celebration! And we did. We started celebrating since 31Jan when a dear friend of Daivd from KL came to Singapore with his family. They even gathered greetings from other KL friends to bless David. These were friends whom David knew for almost 30 years and they were praying for us during our times of trials.
Another wonderful celebration was last Sunday 07Feb's surprise celebration with families and friends from Singapore. David had no idea at all that I had planned with many of our friends, families and cell members to throw a surprise party for him. It was amazing that so many of us managed to keep it a secret and the plan to "trick" him to the party venue to "ambush" him was successfully carried out. I am sure he was overwhelmed by the love and blessings of everyone present. We had great fun and the event was made especially memorable by the slide shows our dear friend Bang had helped put together. It was such a blessed event that I believe David and our family will remember it for a long long time to come. We experienced God's love through his wonderful people once again and are deeply moved by His love and grace.
May we be spreading his love in every possible way as it is written in 1 John 4: 10,11: "This is love" not that we love God but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."
The celebration will continue because God is love and He is alive! Every good and perfect gift is from Him and I am truly thankful to Him for my dear husband. May he continue to shine for Jesus and bless and impact many lives for many years to come. Truly, we have and will continue to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living (Psalm 27:13,14).
Love & blessings!
Whee Ling
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Dear friends,
thank you for praying for me and my family. The recent bout of flu really hit all 3 of us badly. Josh had hyperpyrexia and was on MC for 3 days! Whee Ling was also down for several days. I had 3 continuous weeks of cough and sinusities. But I am so much better now. Should be finishing the course of antibiotics soon.
Well, the recent tragedy in Haiti keeps me looking up and out and not look at my own problems. There are always situations and people who are worse than ours. And I am reminded to be content in everything, giving thanks to our Almighty God for everything, for scripture says that it is God's will for us to do so. (1Thess 5:18)
God is also doing a great work of miracles in the midst of the Haiti tragedy. Do click to the following christian website to watch a video that gives a report of His marvellous work!
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/January/Gods-Miracles-Show-Amid-Tragedy-in-Haiti/
God is great!
david
thank you for praying for me and my family. The recent bout of flu really hit all 3 of us badly. Josh had hyperpyrexia and was on MC for 3 days! Whee Ling was also down for several days. I had 3 continuous weeks of cough and sinusities. But I am so much better now. Should be finishing the course of antibiotics soon.
Well, the recent tragedy in Haiti keeps me looking up and out and not look at my own problems. There are always situations and people who are worse than ours. And I am reminded to be content in everything, giving thanks to our Almighty God for everything, for scripture says that it is God's will for us to do so. (1Thess 5:18)
God is also doing a great work of miracles in the midst of the Haiti tragedy. Do click to the following christian website to watch a video that gives a report of His marvellous work!
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/January/Gods-Miracles-Show-Amid-Tragedy-in-Haiti/
God is great!
david
Friday, January 08, 2010
Blessed 2010!
Blessed New Year!
Before I could bid a proper farewell to 2009, we are now 10 days into 2010. 2009 was a challenging year for alot of people and for us, it was another year we witnessed much of God's grace. Though a little late, I still wanted to give thanks and Praise God for His mercies and grace... (else even the stones will cry out - praises to our God, our Maker!)
Just before the end of the year, to be exact on 18Dec, we were at a chalet my brother booked for the families to spend time together - a very first of such event among my siblings. Around midnight, as I was falling alseep, a heard a loud bang and I jumped up immediately in fear, sensing something was wrong. My mum was making her way down the spiral staircase and had missed a step and fell really hard. She could have hit her head against the edge of the step for when we turned on the light a few minutes later, her head was already in a puddle of blood. Amidst panic, desperate prayers and commotion, my sister managed to find a clean towel to stop the bleeding and we rushed her to the nearest hospital. Thank God my mum was alert throughout the ordeal. She vomitted while waiting at the A&E for the doctor's examination and the nurse told us the x-ray showed there was a fracture in her skull and that she needed to go for CT scan. I remembered uttering desperate prayers, asking the Lord for mercies and grace in the name of Jesus, to please help my mum and that was all I could do. Praise the Lord, when she was finally settled in the ward, it was such a relief when the doctor told us there was no internal bleeding and she should be alright. God is so gracious to my mum and us! I was so thankful and grateful that after a few days at the hospital, my mum could be discharged to spend Christmas with us.
Truly what the devil has meant for evil, the Lord could turn it for good. My mum shared the good news that she was able to testify the Lord's goodness at her cell group's Christmas outreach 2 days after her discharge and the Holy Spirit convicted 5 of their friends to receive Jesus as their Lord - the wonderful gift of salvation. :) Indeed His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts our thoughts.
Not long after we celebrated welcoming the New Year 2010, on day 6, David started coughing and Josh started developing high fever and I experienced symptoms of flu as well. The next few days that followed passed like a blurr... Josh was diagnosed to have tonsilitis and his fever reached as high as 42 degrees. I was up most of the nights to make sure his fever was under control, the strength I had could only be from the Lord. David's cough was so bad that his chest hurt and he was so tired that he was sleeping most of the time. We prayed and I also sms some friends to pray for us. Our Lord is one whom we could rely upon in any adversity. Thanks be to Him, Josh is now well and David is also much better (other than running nose) as I am providing this update.
Is this a bad start to 2010? On the contrary, I count it all joy to be able to be reminded of God's love and His healing power at the beginning of the new year. I look forward to better times and may the "God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit" (Romans 15:13).
Thanks & God bless
Whee Ling
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