Good and bad....

The couple of offers we made... none of the Condo owners decided to sell to us... Very disappointing, but all we can do at the moment is to continue our search and trust in God that He'll prepare a more suitable one for us later I suppose.

As a consolation prize, at least we were fortunate enough to book a relatively cheap trip to Miami at the 5 star Ritz Carlton resort! Hopefully it won't rain..., but even if it does, I guess we can still enjoy a relaxing time at our posh hotel! ;)

This weekend also had an opportunity to have dinner with Jo E whom I haven't seen for years! It was also nice to see some old friends from Kam Kwong Church..., but it's also kinda sad to see how we've grown apart. Just like the chinese saying, 'there are no banquets that won't ever end!' I'm thankful and appreciative of knowing them, perhaps we'll have more 'banquets' to come in the future... or not. All in God's hand I guess...

Pastor Jim on Sunday continued to talk about 'seeds'. He also prophecied over us saying that God's going to do 'something special' for all of us during the summer timeframe..., but of course it's conditional... he talked about 7 things that we can expect...
1) break up fallow ground, prepare our hearts thru repentance
2) plant seed(Word of God being the seed of course, we don't need a religious experience to get the Word... we can just as easily get the 'seed' from the 'seed bag' which is called the Holy Bible!)
3) nourish to flourish, just as Apostle Paul plants churches, Apollo waters it... just do whatever we can do so that God can ultimately grow it...
4) we also gotta be patient during waiting periods, but of course waiting doesn't mean we do nothing, revert back to 3 when necessary! ;)
5) of course if we carried on, surely we'll bear fruit!
6) expect to be pruned by God so that we may bear even MORE fruit!

There was also this point 7 which I either missed it or he's going to continue on next sunday... ;)Anyway, considering what happened to my former church, perhaps that's just God's way of pruning us... preparing us to produce more fruits later on? Besides that, even during day to day life now, I'm sure wife feels like she's getting pruned left and right by God because of me... ;) But we are indeed getting better and better though. That's for sure...

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