You are my strength, 1/6

The word for today is definitely grateful. As I go to bed tonight, I am lost for words but to say thank you to my savior Jesus Christ. Just to summarize a couple of things that happened today. Actually yesterday when I was heading for the gym after a couple of days being down and out, my mom walks up to me, pulls out a new pair of gym gloves and tells me that she can't fit them and asks me if I want it. Then, when putting them into my bag already feeling eternally grateful, I just looked at my current gym bag and said, wouldnt it be nice if I had a nicer gym bag, when Mandy decides to call me and tell me her mom got me an early birthday gift...I am like what!! My birthday is no where near, its in october in fact, and low and behold, a brand new Adidas Bag! And when I saw it, perfect for gym, if that is not good enough. One of my mates, Matt, decides to ask me for my bank acc, and tell me he has got profit from a business adventure we embarked on somewhere last year. All these in One day!

I was stopped in my tracks to be reminded again, truly how good God really is, if only I just surrender everything to Him. My life was at an all time low this year just a couple of days ago, and now blessing after blessing after blessing. The best part is God knows how to love me, the way I want to be loved. And if all that is not good enough, He comes up through his word, through the apostle today, and slaps me across the face to remind me that I ought to have weaknesses cos only in my weakness can His strength and grace be made known. To be a little more specific, I was commissioned as a sectional leader early this year, and that was a great honor knowing that I would be serving God at a higher capacity whereby being a sectional leader would mean to look into more than one carecell. 6 months down the road, today I was in a way demoted back to an associate leader, whereby I am no longer functioning as a sectional leader, nor a cell leader but as an associate leader right where I started off in the carecell system 3 years ago, It didnt bother me, cos all I ever wanted to do was to serve, in whichever capacity given, but it was hard to swallow, which really made me feel like a failure, but todays entire message was about the fact that I have jelly on my hands, but God will still use them, in other words, no matter how many times I fail, God has a purpose, reason and plan for me, to be at that very place in my life, so I am just going to enjoy the journey there! So, I just said a prayer for all the sources God has used to blessed me, for God to bless them more! So that together we get to be a blessing to this world.

In other news, I managed to hit the gym today and due to the lack of time, managed to work on some isolations on the back, im hoping when I wake up tomorrow I'll be able to walk normally, and Mandy Teck if by any chance you are reading this, I want you to know that you are one of the best gifts God has blessed me with in this lifetime, thank you for being there through every moment, You truly are precious beyond words, thank you for teaching me to at times stand up for myself, and to get me the respect I deserve!:)

All in all, Jesus, You are my strength in everything I do, the reason behind I am who I am.