I went for this singing thingy in school last week because the school’s disciplinary teacher said she will minus 30 penalty marks for every student that joins. I had near to 50 penalty marks haha so I thought I could just go and sing la. So I went and there were 50+ people altogether, all of us sang and 10 out of 50+ were chosen.

And I wondered what we were chosen for. Then Andy told me that it was a singing competition. And those that were chosen will compete in the next round then 4 out of 10 will be chosen to represent school for the next round. (gasp!) I didn’t know! Haha.

The next day Andy told me that I was one of the chosen 10 for the next competition. So we had to perform on the 28th July, last Saturday. And worse of all I wasn’t even fluent with my lyrics. By the way, it was a...

PERTANDINGAN LAGU PATRIOTIK...!

My song was Sejahtera Malaysia. It’s a nice song and one of the only few Malay songs I know. So that morning we had our competition. All of us were dressed up nicely and with make-up (for the girls). We had our performance and I kind of nervous before my turn. But well I stayed cool and prayed, “God, let me glorify Your name.” – and I went and did my song.

The results came out...

I got THIRD PLACE!!!

Wee Hee!!!

I was happy and thanked God. The first and second place was taken by two Form 6 Malay girls, third me and the fourth a Form 5 Malay guy. The four of us will represent our school in the next level of competition which we are to go against our neighboring school. Our next competition is on the 30th August.

Like I told God that I want to glorify His name whether we win or not, so this post is dedicated to God =) Thank You, Lord Jesus for helping me!

Ok you must be thinking, “What if Zlwin lost? Will he still post on his blog?”

I will! God gave me a voice. The voice is the first instrument of worship that makes music if there are no other musical instruments around. And no matter how bad you think my voice is, I still love it muahaha =) And I thank God that I have a voice, with it I can pray, I can shout, I can proclaim, I can scream, I can edify and I can tear down.

One thing about our voice: voice can only be produced with the presence of tongue.
Our tongue is one powerful weapon, you can either use it to tear down people or build up people. You can choose to gossip about someone or pray for that someone.

Ephesians 4:29
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out from your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

Ask yourself today: Does your voice glorify God? The things that you speak, does it help people to build them up or help the devil to tear them down?

I will end with this,

When your ear hears of a problem (gossip), do not let your tongue spread the problem, but use your tongue to pray.
Christians should talk less and pray more.

God bless!