Praise and Worship songs performed:

1. Grace Revolution - New Creation Worship 
2. Anthem of Grace - New Creation Worship 
3. Wonderful (Grace Made Real) - New Creation Worship 
4. Build My Life - Housefires 

Redemption Church’s outreach team brought Pastor Joseph Prince’s Book, “Grace Revolution” into maximum security prison and the feedback was so good from the prisoners.
It is most probably going to be sanctioned as an approved Bible Study book in all prisons in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Sometimes God withholds the full revelation of His call in your life because you will shrink back in fear if you’re not sufficiently prepared yet.

Gideon was the least of the least of the least, and he felt so unworthy that he argued with an angel about the legitimacy of God’s word to him. He was focusing on his own inadequacy and weaknesses. 

God wants to release you into greater and into His heart for you. 

Don’t just see where the Lord has taken you. See the size of where God wants to take you to. 

From what I read, Black Friday originated in tragedy of a financial crisis but was later on retold and largely accepted as the start of the busy Christmas shopping season, starting the day after the US holiday of Thanksgiving.

"Black" because it was the day where the accounting ledgers of the stores in USA would turn from being "in the red" to "in the black" - from making a loss, to reaping a profit, due to the shopping frenzy over the Thanksgiving weekend. 

I recently learnt from my friend who is a pastor that Thanksgiving is a day of giving thanks to God for all the blessings they experience that year, so it's a holiday I can relate with and love! 

Since everyone is coming up with deals to reward their customers, I want to give some too and recommend these resources that I can personally vouch on! 
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Praise and Worship songs performed:

1. Sons and Daughters - New Creation Worship 
2. Only You - New Creation Worship 
3. Give Me Jesus - Jeremy Camp
4. I Want to Sing - Malcolm Du Plessis
5. Oh The Glory of Your Presence - Ron Kenoly

You don’t have to wait for God to move in a special way like the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. 
A sermon isn’t a motivational speech. As the word goes forth, God delivers, saves and fights your battles.
The glory of the Lord is your rear guard. He protects you from the back.
The armor of God is protection for the front. 
You’re not to look back - Remember Lot’s wife. 

God makes the crooked places straight. 
John the Baptist quoted the words of Isaiah, saying make straight paths for the Lord. 
Every mountain (representing proud Jerusalem) shall be brought low and every valley (representing humble Galilee) shall be raised. 
Before Jesus comes again, the voice of John the Baptist will cry out again. 
John means “Grace”. The voice of grace cries out before the Rapture will happen. 

The Rapture is referred to as the “catching away” - “harpazo” in Greek. In the twinkling of an eye, we will be transformed and receive incorruptible bodies. 

The Bible says that we are not appointed to wrath. The Rapture is God’s way of removing God’s people from earth before He pours out His wrath on the unbelieving world during the Great Tribulation. 

Praise and Worship songs performed:

1. Here is Love - Matt Redman
2. Love on the Line - Hillsong Worship 
3. Here - New Creation Worship
4. I Worship You Almighty God - Sondra Corbett

Unless the Lord gives, we have nothing. Unless He imparts, we receive nothing. So we must always look to the Lord. 
When you take time to be with the Lord in a service, you will often find that when you go home, the Lord has done something to the problem you’re facing.

We are the Benjamin generation - the eleventh hour generation. Jesus is coming back soon at the Rapture.
Our generation receives five times more revelation and supply from the Lord than all the generations of believers before us. 

The Bible says that the world will get darker and darker whereas the Church will  shine brighter and brighter.

Don’t be surprised when sinners sin. Moral degradation will happen in the world in these last days. 

The only way to transform people from inside out is to preach the Gospel - let people know that God loves them and forgives them. 

The church is where you come and receive from God. There is never a qualification where you must be holy or a Christian before you can come through the door. 

God wants individuals to be saved, not Christian nations. 
Some people are professing Christians but not possessing Christians. 
Such false believers are bad testimonies to the faith. 

Jesus said we are the salt of the earth. Salt makes people thirsty. We should make the world thirsty for the Gospel. 

Disclaimer: We received a sponsorship of one term of "Playgroup" classes for Maeleth in exchange for writing this review.  All opinions stated are my own, based on our experience during the classes attended for the year 2018. Mae's teacher was Teacher Deng Ying.  

If you're reading this blog post because of the giveaway, here are the terms and conditions of the giveaway:

1) Trial class is limited to playgroup and preschool classes at Parkway Parade.
2) Trial class is limited to new students who have not tried Hua Language Centre's trial classes before.
3) Trial classes are not exchangeable for cash and cannot be re-sold. 
4) The trial classes must be redeemed by 31 March 2019.

I used to attend Hua Language Centre during my Primary School days for tuition, and it's certainly nostalgic to see my daughter attend the same enrichment centre to learn and improve! Wow, time has really flown by. 

We have been bringing Maeleth for her Playgroup classes at Hua Language Centre's Parkway Parade branch on Saturdays to learn mandarin!
We began in July 2018 when Mae was 2 and a half years old, and at this time of writing this blog post (November 2018), Mae is already able to count from 1 to 10 in mandarin, and say some nouns in mandarin. 
Most importantly, she has developed an interest in the mandarin language which I believe will help her to enjoy learning it in school, and throughout life in the future. 

We don't really speak much mandarin at home, except when we need to say things that we don't want Mae to know, like when discussing how to hide her medicine in Vitagen bottles. Therefore, I find it really important that she has some exposure to well-spoken mandarin.

When we attend trial classes for different enrichment centres, one thing my wife Amilee and I always listen out for is the teacher's spoken accent. If he or she doesn't have an accent that we want Mae to emulate, we won't sign Mae up for the classes, since we believe that children will probably imitate the manner of speech that they hear.  

Praise and Worship songs performed:

1. This is Amazing Grace - Jeremy Riddle
2. My King - New Creation Worship 
3. Above All - Michael W. Smith 
4. Shout to the Lord - Darlene Zschech  

The sermon “Worship with the Psalms of David” is free for viewing via on livestream  on the “Joseph Prince” mobile app. 

When you read something and it brings your heart towards the Lord Jesus, that’s what a devotional is. 

Reading the Bible is not about accumulation of knowledge, but about getting into contact with the person of Jesus. 

God has ordained pastors and teachers to teach God’s word - they are part of the fivefold ministry. There is a special anointing when they teach God’s word. 

All of us are called to care for someone and to teach someone about God’s word, especially to someone new to the faith. But it’s not at the same level as a pastor or teacher. 

Cults are started by placing wrong emphasis on the wrong place in the Bible. For example, some cults take something from the Old Testament and build a whole new religion based on a small part of it. 

When you study with a teacher of God’s word, he will lead you and present the Scriptures to you so that you’re able to take it.