Money Has No Memory

Money has no memory. Experience has. You will never know what the total cost of your education was, but for a lifetime you will recall and relive the memories of schools and colleges. Few years from now, you will forget the amount you paid to settle the hospitalization bill, but will ever cherish having saved your mother's life or the life you get to live with the just born. You won't remember the cost of your honeymoon, but to the last breath remember the experiences of the bliss of togetherness. Money has no memory. Experience has.

Good times and bad times, times of prosperity and times of poverty, times when the future looked so secure and times when you didn't know from where the tomorrow will come... life has been in one way or the other a roller-coaster ride for everyone. Beyond all that abundance and beyond all that deprivation, what remains is the memory of experiences. Sometimes the wallet was full... sometimes even the pocket was empty. There was enough and you still had reasons to frown. There wasn't enough and you still had reasons to smile. Today, you can look back with tears of gratitude for all the times you had laughed together, and also look back with a smile at all the times you cried alone. All in all, life filled you with experiences to create a history of your own self, and you alone can remember them all.

The first time you balanced yourself on your cycle without support... The first time she said 'yes' and it was two years since you proposed... The first cry... the first steps... the first word... the first kiss... all of your child... The first gift you bought for your parents and the first gift your daughter gave you... The first award... the first public appreciation... the first stage performance... And the list is endless... Experiences, with timeless memory... No denying that anything that's material cost money, but the fact remains the cost of the experience will be forgotten, but the experience never.

So, what if it's economic recession? Let it be, but let there not be a recession to the quality of your life. You can still take your parents, if not on a pilgrimage, at least to the local church, temple... You can still play with your children, if not on an international holiday, at least in the local park. It doesn't cost money to lie down or to take a loved one onto your lap. Nice time to train the employees, create leadership availability and be ready for the wonderful times when they arrive. Hey! Aspects like your health, knowledge development and spiritual growth are not economy dependent.


Time will pass... economy will revive... currency will soon be in current... and in all this; I don't want you to look back and realize you did nothing but stayed in gloom. Recession can make you lose out on money. Let it not make you lose out on experiences... If you are not happy with what you have, no matter how much more you have, you will still not be happy.

Make a statement with the way you live your life: How I feel has nothing to do with how much I have.

Healing the Land

2 King 2:19-22

The men of the city said to Elisha, "Look, our lord, this town is well situated, as you can see, but the water is bad and the land is unproductive." "Bring me a new bowl," he said, "and put salt in it." So they brought it to him. Then he went out to the spring and threw the salt into it, saying, "This is what the LORD says: 'I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive.' " 22 And the water has remained wholesome to this day, according to the word Elisha had spoken.

In the verses, I see our flesh is the unproductive land, the water is our spirit and the salt is God's words.

Without the ACTION of feeding our spirit with God's words, we continue to live an unproductive life without the transformation.

Fellowship Meeting Update - 12/May 2009

Pastor Pierre Wuytack visited our cell last night, and shared with us a worship DVD and the progress report of God’s work in Madagascar despite the political chaos. The fellowship ended with a powerful prayer session and the strong anointing touched all of us.

I returned home with joy and peace knowing:

• God is in control of EVERYTHING despite men’s best effort - The president of Madagascar was removed from power and the young president just accepted Christ. The healing VCD is full of miracles and testimonies.


• There will be seasons of barrenness in life, so we can get real close to Jesus and develop discipline to heed His words.


• The Lord is the banker and is interested in our projects. “Tell me your plan and how I can bless your abundant living?” Ps Pierre prophesied the land and an orphanage was built a year later as he took each confident step before the Banker. Again he prophesied 16 churches/schools in 2009 and they are taking shape today! El Shaddai we thank you.

The fight inside us between the secular business and the kingdom work is non-stop. Frequent travellers know the Sun shines brightly above the dark cloud, let not the dark cloud darken our eyes but let our spirit rejoice knowing Jesus is right behind the dark cloud!! He is the mighty El Roi – The God who sees me.

We Are Made To Praise

Ecc 3:18-22: "As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?" So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot.

Are we really no different than the animals? What set us apart to experience life?

We are made to Love.
We are made to Embrace.
We are made to Communicate.
We are made to Laugh.
We are made to Taste.
We are made to Dance.
We are made to Appreciate.
We are made to Praise & worship.

How many more do you need to enjoy your work today?

FW: FGB Excellence Seminar on 21 May 2009

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Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 18:23:57 +0800
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Subject: FGB Excellence Seminar on 21 May 2009

 
建立高绩效企业的蓝图
Blueprint for Creating High Corporate Performance
Part 2 企业战略的设计Design of Strategies

Date：21 May 2009 (Thursday)                         日期：5月21日（星期四）
Time:  6.30 pm. to 9.30 pm                                 时间：6.30pm. - 9.30 pm
Venue 地点 : 5th Floor Auditorium, 20 Kallang Avenue, Pico Creative Centre


概要Abstract  :
企业要如何发展？如何保住持续的成长？讲员整合了现今数位顶尖商业管理大师实践的理论与教导而成的一个企业绩效管理蓝图。在上回的第一讲，讨论企业的使命，愿景，价值和SWOT 的方法。这第二讲的主题是如何设计企业的战略。讨论项目有Geoffrey Moore 的市场发展周期，金伟灿（W. Chan Kim）的蓝海策略，Clay Christensen 的突破性创新和发掘你的核心能力。从中可以设计一套战略来建立企业的竞争优势，确保企业的绩效和成长。

How can we grow the corporation? How to sustain the corporate performance & growth? A unified Corporate Performance Management(CPM) framework is presented. It unifies the present state of arts of proven management thinking and methodologies. In the previous session (Part 1) Mission, Vision, Value and SWOT were covered. This session, Part 2, covers the design of corporate strategies. Learning from the Market Development Life Cycle of Geoffrey Moore, Blue Ocean Strategy of Chan Kim, Disruptive Innovation of Clay Christensen and discovery your own core competence, you can know how to develop strategies that create a competitive advantage for sustained performance and growth.

讲员：林烈   Speaker: Lim Liat
商业与创新管理的顾问. 滨海磐石教会荣誉长老。
1974新大工程学士及金奖 1976 加拿大University of Alberta 工程硕士
得新加坡优越奖学金及英联邦奖学金。
是新加坡电脑系统公司(Singapore Computer Systems) 的先驱之一。呈任副执行总裁。他是新加坡2002经济改组通讯和资讯科技组的会员。呈当任 政府部门，国立公司，跨国公司，新创公司，风险资本公司，国大与南洋理工大学等学院的顾问。他与同事共拥有五项美国注册的专利。两次得新科公司最高的创新奖(Chew Set Chai Awards).。1986－1998 为灯塔布道教会的长老。1998 创立滨海磐石教会。Website: www.bvotech.com <http://www.bvotech.com/>   Blog: www.limliat.blogspot.com <http://www.limliat.blogspot.com/>  
 

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