Times of Refreshing
Here in your presence
No greater blessing
than being with YOU.
MY soul is restored
My mind is renewed
There's no greater joy than being with you.

3 months more, and i have to face the fear of going home. As much i miss home, i know how much obstacles are there waiting for me at home.

no time to blog because its exam. SO i will definitely blog before i disappear for the very very long easter break.

OH MUMMY I MISS YOU SO MUCH!

Today, God also wants to remove your heart of stone. A stony heart is hard, impenetrable and cold, just like the stony ground Jesus taught us. Its affections and passions are unyielding, frozen and not attuned to God. It’s slow to act on words that God speaks to you, and it’s stubborn and inflexible, making it difficult for Him to make impressions on your life, thus your life remains hard and impenitent.

God says He can replace it with His heart of flesh. It’s a soft and tender heart - one that loves and fears Him; a spiritual and sanctified heart submissive to His will, flexible and obedient to Christ’s commands. It’s sensitive to sin and danger - a penitent heart. It’s also receptive to God’s impressions, where His laws are written and where Christ Himself is formed daily. There is Godly fear, and faith, hope, love, and every other grace abounds. This new heart feels and enjoys whatever circumstances you are in. It can feel love towards God and love for all men, and will be a proper and fitting place for the living God to dwell in.

- Senior Pastor Nina Khong

Live at Jason Mraz! The ticket costs 35 Euros and it was the first concert I ever watched ! Besides Planetshakers and all which I don't really consider them concerts.

Jason Mraz reminds me of my neighbour Angus Sham.

Anyway, he has powerful showmanship and his music and all was amazing! hehe. was a goooooooooooooooood experience. :)

I went over to Stuttgart over the weekend with Eunice and Peiwen. and we visited Joshua Chong! and this was what he cooked for us. reminds me of my ah ma's cooking.



and we had fun visiting Schloss (castles) and this very beautiful nature park which has many deers!


hehe doing my devotion at the beautiful park. (hehe char does that sound familiar) nah. just jk!

Spring is coming!


And cheers to roomies. and ah bangs and ah lians.




and I really want to thank God especially for someone that I met at the church that I visited. He was like an angel sent by the LORD.

This man works for Bosch and he is in some high ranking position. He goes to Singapore frequently for work trips and will be going again soon. Also, he would like to come fcbc the next time he comes to Singapore. Even though he's quite high up there, he was very very humble and even invited me for lunch with the family some other time. His wife was also very hospitable. Its really amazing how God provides people along the way and help make this exchange a even more beautiful one.

off to ski-ing tomorrow!

love, jiali

There are countless times that I forget the power of prayer.

"The greatest people on this earth are those who pray. I don't mean people who talk about prayer, nor people who believe in prayer, nor those who can explain prayer beautifully. I mean people who put in time on their knees in prayer. The prevailing prayer of faith is the power on earth that employs the power of heaven."

Right People, Right Place, Right Plan
Jetezen Franklin

So after Paris and Munich,

it was beautiful and enchanting Venice.



P.S to daniel this is yet another glam picture of me wahahah

This is the second time to Venice. The first time I went was when I was 15, and realised how blessed I was to see Venice when I was only 15.

Nothing really changed though. The church still look the same, the things are just as expensive. And the accommodation was good but a little scary with the hair (haha right Bern?)

to Mummy, this was the 15 euros coat that I bought. IT WAS A GOOD BARGAIN and okay i know that there is a recession back home.

People have been asking me how's life here, so I should stop blogging about my trips, but about my daily life here.

I only have school from Monday to Wednesday till Easter. And then May, i will have classes almost everyday. Mannheim works by bloc seminars, especially for marketing modules. So I will only have many classes from April onwards. For now, I am taking some extra side courses such as German Grammar and Communication. So yes, I do speak a little Deutsch. I want to be more fluent in it though.

and to bud nuans karmen and the rest of my nus friends, ruth tan win hands down. my Corporate Finance lecturer here is quite horrible.

On the contrary, coming here has improved my Chinese! haha because we got to know a nice Taiwan guy and SMU students who speak mostly Chinese. One of them even asked my friend if "Jiali was atas" because her chinese has a weird slang to it. HAHA. ALL the years of higher chinese has gone to waste.

And just yesterday, we had a dumpling day because some girls from China decided to teach us how to make dumplings. It was so so so good. On the other days, we also have rice and some other good chinese food like spring onion chicken, chicken soup, bak kut teh etc. :)

On a more serious note, I was just thinking about the plans God has for me here. One month. And in this one month, I hear God sometimes, but not everytime. And I know though I am learning things, there were times where I lost focus. as much as I want to be a blessing, I am often overwhelmed by my own circumstances here and can become selfish too.

But I told God that I want to be generous. and I want to be a blessing. I want to know what are His plans for me here, because I know I did not just come here to eat, study and travel (haha)

And so, in order to be more focus on the Lord, I know that it needs me to be more intentional, so i told myself that I want to learn to be intentional in thanking God.

so just to start off a little, i want to thank God today for the good breakfast this morning, Pancakes with honey and sausages and egg. The taiwan friend, GB, taught us how to prepare the breakfast :)

My cell blessed me with this song when I skype with them last week, and I am thankful, because I knew that it came timely. it came as a reminder, that I cannot survive without God's love.

and it reminded me, to want and desire to grow in intimacy with the lord. So I am finding my focus back.

How could I live without You
How could I survive
Without Your love
Without Your touch
You're the One that heals me
And cleanses my heart
And sets me free

Now i come right before You
With my hands lifted up
With my heart humbly bowed
At Your work on the cross
As You hang there and die
You were paying the price
For my life, For my life

For Your love is higher than the heavens
Deeper than the seas
And all I want is You in my life
Noone else can satisfy my soul
Can make me feel this way
Only You Lord, only You

You're in a better place, I've heard a thousand times
And at least a thousand times I've rejoiced for you
But the reason why I'm broken, the reason why I cry
Is how long must I wait to be with you

I close my eyes and I see your face
If home's where my heart is then I'm out of place
Lord, won't you give me strength to make it through somehow
I've never been more homesick than now

Help me Lord cause I don't understand your ways
The reason why I wonder if I'll ever know
But, even if you showed me, the hurt would be the same
Cause I'm still here so far away from home

I close my eyes and I see your face
If home's where my heart is then I'm out of place
Lord, won't you give me strength to make it through somehow
I've never been more homesick than now

In Christ, there are no goodbye
And in Christ, there is no end
So I'll hold onto Jesus with all that I have
To see you again
To see you again

And I close my eyes and I see your face
If home's where my heart is then I'm out of place
Lord, won't you give me strength to make it through somehow
Won't you give me strength to make it through somehow
Won't you give me strength to make it through somehow

I've never been more homesick than now