Beauty Class: Debra James

2nd beauty class with a friend from ASC Youth Service days..how time flies!!  Anyway, here she is..pretty as always..enhanced by her trying out some TimeWise products!!  Phew-eet!!

Beauty Class: Liau Suk Ngee

Yesterday..my first beauty class for the day..with a fun-loving ex-schoolmate of mine..i think we laughed more than anything else!!  Anyway, she loved her time here..she left looking radiant than ever!!

Left arm after using the Loofah Body Cleanser (Body Scrub)

Mask

 

After applying moisturizer

 

After foundation

TGIF1: You Want Me to Do What?

You Want Me to Do What?
TGIF Today God Is First Volume 1 by Os Hillman
Tuesday, February 08 2011

..."Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some." - John 21:6a

The disciples were fishing. It was after Jesus had been crucified. Peter had gone through his most agonizing moment in which he had denied Jesus three times. He had lost a friend. No doubt he probably wondered whether the last three years were a dream. What now? 

Peter had been prepared three years, but he was not going out to preach; he was going fishing. He had returned to his trade of days gone by. He had a level of experience with Jesus that no other human on earth can boast. This was the third encounter he was about to have with Jesus after His resurrection. Jesus looked to Peter and John in their boat and made a suggestion. 

"Friends, haven't you any fish?" 

"No," they answered. 

He said, "Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some" (Jn. 21:6a). 

Now, if you are as seasoned in your fishing as these guys were, wouldn't you be a bit irritated if a stranger suggested that you simply put your nets over the other side to catch some fish? Yet we find that they took this stranger's advice. Once they were obedient, the Lord revealed Himself. 

When they followed Jesus' advice, the catch was enormous - 153 fish in total. In most cases such a haul would have broken the net. Jesus invited them to have breakfast with Him - fish and bread; He had already started the fire. I can only imagine that this scene would resemble some buddies going out and camping together. 

There is so much that we are to learn in this passage about God's ways. As a workplace believer, we must understand that after we have spent years with Jesus, this does not always mean we must leave our professions in order to fully follow Jesus. Peter went back to his profession - fishing. It was here that Jesus asked him a simple question: Do you love Me and will you feed My sheep? He didn't say to Peter, "Fishing is a waste of time for you now, Peter." This recommissioning was in the area of his original calling - his work. We need not feel that we must go to the "mission field" to please Jesus. Our work is our mission field. We must, however, make a paradigm shift in our thinking about our place in the work world. We must have an overriding sense of mission and ministry that comes out of that work. This is what is meant when we say that we must all be circumcised before we can enter the Promised Land. When this happens, we can expect to see God fill the nets with His blessings. He wants to do this because He now owns the net, and He can trust us to manage it.


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TGIF1: Understanding What God Has Given (Oct 06, 2011)

Understanding What God Has Given
TGIF Today God Is First Volume 1 by Os Hillman
Thursday, October 06 2011

"We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us." 1 Corinthians 2:12

God desires for us to know what He has freely given to us. One of the responsibilities of the Holy Spirit is to reveal His plans and purposes to us. They may be hidden for a time, but if we seek Him with our whole heart, we can know what He has given to us. 

John the Baptist understood this principle. When asked if he was the Messiah, he replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven" (Jn. 3:27). John understood his role in the Kingdom of God. He came to pave the way for the Messiah; he was not the Messiah himself. His ministry on earth was very brief, yet Jesus described his life in this way: " 'I tell you the truth: Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he' " (Mt. 11:11). 

Once we understand what God has given to us, we can walk freely in our calling. However, if we strive to walk in a role that He never gave us, it will result in frustration and failure. God wants to reveal His plan to us by His Spirit. This requires a willingness to seek and accept what He gives us. It may be different from what we thought. It may require adjustments to follow His path for our lives. As we learn from the life of John the Baptist, obedience requires death to our own wills. 

Ask God to reveal what He has freely given to you. Pray that you receive and embrace only those things He has reserved for you to receive and to accomplish in your life. Then you can be assured of a life full of meaning and purpose, and you can look forward to hearing those all-important words someday, "Well done, My good and faithful servant."


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TGIF1: Are You Salty? (Oct 19, 2011)

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Are You Salty?
TGIF Today God Is First Volume 1 by Os Hillman
Wednesday, October 19 2011

"Everyone will be salted with fire." Mark 9:49

Jesus used parables to communicate principles of the Kingdom of God. He said each believer's life should have the same impact on his or her world as salt has on food. Salt gives food flavor and brings out the best, while at the same time it serves as a preservative. 

What allows a Christian to become salty? Fire. God knows that each believer needs a degree of testing by fire in order for Christ's fragrance to be manifested. We cannot become salty without this deeper work of the Holy Spirit's fire in our lives. Fire purifies all that is not of Christ. It takes away all the impurities that prevent His nature from being revealed in us. 

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith-of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire-may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed (1 Peter 1:6-7). Are you a salty Christian? If not, pray a prayer that the immature are unwilling to pray. Pray that God makes you a salty Christian. It will result in praise and glory at the throne of God.


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God’s Way, or My Way? - 20 Oct 2011

20 October, 2011 Today's Free Devotional from Ellel Ministries International  God’s Way, or My Way? "O Israel, stay away from idols! I am the one who answers your prayers and cares for you. I am like a tree that is always green; all your fruit comes from me." Hosea 14:8, NLT We’ve all heard the saying that we live in an ‘instant’ world. Technology has impacted our lives tremendously and most of us can’t even imagine being without our cell phones, computers, laptops and televisions. The media also informs us about every upgrade and what’s new. Information can be accessed wherever we are. A whole new world with endless possibilities has become available to us. Apart from all the wonderful inventions around technology, there’s also an endless source of self-help books, different therapies for every condition or situation, remedies for all our ailments and an answer available for every problem The question that arises is whether we still remember to ask God for direction, before we choose the possible solution to the problem we may be facing in our lives. Recently I became aware of the way people dart from one therapy to another, or from one self-help book to the next one, or how easily they take advice from any possible source without even for one moment taking the time to hear the Lord’s heart for their situation. They try every new method without considering what or who is behind it. In Ephesians 5:10 we are warned: ‘Carefully determine what pleases the Lord’. The Lord waits for us to call on Him first; to trust Him for the road we should choose towards the solution we so desperately need. He has the answers available and He knows exactly who to bring into our lives or who we should call on for help. Our Lord is a God of order and we should learn to respect Him in this area. As His children, we need to learn to hear His heart for our situation. Many Christians become weary because they haven’t followed this path. They get to a stage where they just can’t understand why nothing works out and eventually to a point where they believe God doesn’t really care about them, or that even He can’t solve their problems. They have no hope or vision that their situation will ever change for the better. We need to give everything in our lives to the Lord first and ask Him for the right way, before we choose the answer we think is right. We can’t make our choices and then ask Him to make it work. The horse must be in front of the carriage, not the carriage in front of the horse! I believe a lot of confusion and misunderstanding would be avoided if we looked to the Lord first, if we learnt to allow Him to guide us, and if we sought His will in every area of our lives. Prayer: Dear Jesus, You are my Alpha and my Omega, my First and my Last, my Beginning and my End. Please increase my trust in You and help me to allow You to direct my paths. Please forgive me for all the times I reacted in a headstrong way and chose to follow my own ways. I now choose to put You first in every area of my life. Amen. Today's Writer : Annalene Holtzhausen Annalene Holtzhausen is on the Associate Team at Ellel, Africa. She is married to Renier, who introduced her to Ellel Ministries. She is a full-time mother to their two boys. Her passion is for the restoration of women’s hearts and for people to find their worth in the Lord. Related Links Click Here to read Peter Horrobin`s blog Click here to find out more about a FREE TRIAL of Ellel 365

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My Times are in Your Hands - 18 Oct 2011

18 October, 2011 Today's Free Devotional from Ellel Ministries International  My Times are in Your Hands "My times are in your hands…" Psalm 31:15, NIV ‘My times are in your hands’ was a favourite scripture of Corrie Ten Boom who lived with her family in Haarlem in the Netherlands until the Second World War. The Ten Boom family gave sanctuary to Jews on the run from the Nazis, until the hiding place in their home was discovered and they were incarcerated in camps. Most of the family perished but Corrie survived. Her life after the war was one of making herself available to the Lord to do His work, in His time and in His way. Corrie lived a long, interesting and fruitful life as the Lord took her from country to country to tell people about Him and to act as an agent of reconciliation. Her times were indeed in His hands. Recently I’ve thought a lot about this scripture and wondered about my own understanding and use of time, and how it’s been influenced by the world in which I live. As I’ve looked around me I’ve observed that many people appear to have difficulty with time. Some have too much time and are bored. Others are run off their feet and hardly have a minute to sit down, let alone stop and think about what they’re doing and whether they should be doing it. We constantly hear comments like; “I don’t know what I do with my time. It just runs away”, “I wish I had more time”, “I never have the time to do the things that I’d like to do or that matter”, “Why does time go so fast?”, “Before I know it my life will be over.” There are many more comments we could add to this list. I once read that time is a problem for mankind because the Lord designed us for eternity. The question is, “Is my time submitted to God or is it something that I hold on to as mine to use and to manage in my own way?” It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that the more I choose to own my time and manage it my way, the more I actually abuse it. Conversely the more I offer my time to God and ask Him to direct the way I use it, the more I seem to be able to use it fruitfully without becoming exhausted from trying to keep too many balls in the air at the same time. My time needs to be in God’s hands not mine. Prayer: Father I acknowledge that I don’t fully understand how to use the time that You have given to me. Sometimes I do nothing and waste it and other times I use it wrongly and abuse it. The result in either instance is that, according to Your purposes, there’s not fruitful use of it. I’m sorry. I want to submit the time that You’ve given me to You and I ask You, Lord Jesus, to please show me day by day how to use it aright. Amen. Today's Writer : Margaret Southey Margaret Southey is a wife, mother and grandmother. She has had a career in education. Her passion is to understand the truth of God’s Word and to share it with others. She is part of the ministry and teaching team of Ellel, Africa. Related Links Click Here to read Peter Horrobin`s blog Click here to find out more about a FREE TRIAL of Ellel 365

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