Visit to Marina Sands Skypark

A friend took a group of visitors and us to the Marina Sands Skypark during the week. What a spectacular view of our island city from the 57th Storey!! Amazing!  We had a breath taking view of the Singapore Skyline; we could see the Singapore Flyer the world's largest Giant Observation Wheel which stands at a hight of 165 metres.

I felt like Moses standing on Mount Pisgah's (or Mount Nebo) lofty height viewing the land.

God has blessed us with family and friends who have been very generous and kind to us. Daily we thank God and pray for them.

Need for discipline

In his book "Spiritual Leadership" J Oswald Sanders wrote: Only the disciplined person will rise to his highest powers. The leader is able to lead others because he has conquered himself... A leader is a person who has first submitted willingly and learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, but who then imposes upon himself a much more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline seldom seldom qualify for leadership of a higher order...(Those) of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep and pray while others play."

A prayer for discipline from Amy Carmichael.

    God, harden me against myself,
    The coward with pathetic voice
Who craves for ease and rest and joy.
    Myself, arch traitor to myself,
       My hollowest friend,
       My deadliest foe,
My clog, wherever road I go.

Exploring the neighbourhood.

Had a good time exploring Tampines area. We visited the Polyclinic and had our names registered for the next appointments. Then went off for lunch at Tampines Mall and shopped at FairPrice supermarket. We have been in the eastern side of Singapore for nearly four months and are gradually learning the area.

God has been good in providing for our needs and everyday we give Him thanks and praise His Mighty name.

God's blessings!

In the past when we were much younger my wife used to bake her own hot cross buns and shared with our neighbours. We always had hot cross buns on Easter Sunday morning!

Just before Easter, she said to me she would like to have some hot cross buns although she felt too tired to bake. I went to Bedok and visited cake shops and supermarkets but could not find any.

On Saturday, day after Good Friday when we went to Territorial Headquarters someone gave us a packet and inside were some cakes plus two hot cross buns! We said to this friend, "You are the answer to prayer!" God sees the desires of our hearts.

But God blessings were to come in abundance - during that week our two grand daughters one after another brought us hot cross buns! Then just as I was leaving church another friend came with some more hot cross buns.

God's blessings come in abundance. His word tells us, "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." Psalm 37:4

The word of God assures us that if we delight ourselves in him, his glory, beauty, love and majesty will so fill us that we will desire nothing else.  We will be perfectly content.  He will have satisfied every desire of our hearts — in Himself.

And Psalm 37: 4 tells us that God will do this for everyone who delights himself in the Lord.

Easter quotations

Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. ~ Clarence W. Hall

The stone was rolled away from the door, not to permit Christ to come out, but to enable the disciples to go in. ~ Peter Marshall

We live and die; Christ died and lived!  ~ John Stott

Do not abandon yourselves to despair: We are the Easter people, and Hallelujah is our song. ~ Pope John Paul II

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. ~ 1 Corinthians 15:14

Jesus did not die on the cross just so we could live comfortable, well-adjusted lives. His purpose is far deeper: He wants to make us like himself before he takes us to heaven. This is our greatest privilege, our immediate responsibility and our ultimate destiny. ~ Rick Warren

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. ~ Martin Luther

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. ~ Watchman Nee

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" ~ Madeleine L’Engle

We must not forget that it wasn’t the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn’t the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world. ~ Franklin Graham

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me. ~ Andrew Murray

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise." ~ Phillips Brooks

"He is risen; he is not here." ~ Mark 16:6

"I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?" ~ Jesus Christ, John 11:25, 26

Visit of General Andre Cox and Commissioner Silvia Cox

Our International Leaders are now in Singapore and to-morrow will be speaking at the Combined Good Friday Service at Singapore Central Corps at 10.00 a.m. In the evening they will be addressing the youth.

We look forward to a good and blessed time with our leaders who are here to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the Army in Singapore.

Saturday we shall have a busy day for us. The day begins with Officers' Councils at 10.00 a.m.

After lunch at 3.00 p.m. will be the Cadets' Commissioning and Ordination Service for the six cadets.

In the evening there will be the Celebration of Praise.

On Sunday we shall be joining the folk in celebration of Easter. One thing we shall miss this year will the the usual Sunrise Service early in the morning.