Finally, it has stopped raining

It's been long since i've last stepped here, coz of last week's mid year exams, and previous week, finally stopped myself and started studying.

These while lots of things have been happening, but i shallnt write them all down. Somehow this week dont feel so lost and drunk as compared to the first 3 weeks of holidays and before that. hmmm... so maybe studying helps. haha. oh, and finally picking up doing morning devotions again, using our daily bread, though only a very short while. I wont push, i'll go at a slow but steady pace, back to basics, and from basics, may i discover my roots in God again, and from there grow.

oh. but this sunday and the previous sunday was simply GREAT!! After 2 weekends of not being in TCC, going back to IGNYTE last week was great! somehow my spirit was open once again, and my self-consciousness has decreased much compared to the previous times of going to IGNYTE. I was able to worship God, with joy from my heart, without being distracted, but feeling the joy in my heart as i sing praises and worship God. Oh. and this two weeks, i jumped during praise and worship. It was as if the burdens of my heart has lifted, lifting off the chains that had bounded my feet to the ground. i enjoy the worship so. Praise God.

Seems like music really lifts up soul, lifts my spirit. last week, i was packing the song CDs that i have at home, and from there, started to on the CD player and listen to songs. The Authentic Worship collection - Country Worship, is really FABULOUS!!!! It chases away my bad mood, my sian mood, even help me to prep me for studying. Well, so last sunday, i was listening to country music while i travelled to church, and during the break between cell and service, i was also listening to songs, and somehow, church was great! that day, which for me personally, so long havent like that liao. Then today, i brought my baby guitar and before cell, was playing the guitar, worshipping God.

Guess there's some kind of power in music. I think music when it was created in this world, somehow maybe there's a link with our spirit. I was reading a newspaper article last month. The writer was writing about why people nowadays like to listen to sad songs. Sad people listen to sad songs, and get sadder, more depressed. Happy people listen to sad songs, and the next minute, they lose the happiness. The writer couldnt understand why people like listening to sad songs. I understand why, well, sort of. When one is down, somehow we'll turn to sad songs, because our mood allow us to identify closely with the mood of the song. However, like the writer said, we actually get moodier after that.

Well, so songs may really have something to do with our spirit. It influences our spirit; it affects our spirit. So, maybe everyone should listen to more joyful/uplifting music, and perhaps the world will change to be a happier place to live in, where you walk down the streets, you'll see more smiles than frowns. We should avoid music that talks about suicide, murder, anger, hatred, rebellion, drugs, sex, alcohol... becoz though we may say and believe that we are strong enough to repel and not get influenced. But things in the spiritual realm is not to play with, becoz it's a sector of our life that we can NEVER control.

Music. No wonder the society has changed so much as the types of songs available, the genre of songs, the culture of songs, have changed so much in the recent years. Music. Now, i understand. Especially if really, music is somewhat connected to our spirit. Music, yes music.
It is said that Satan, before his downfall, was one of the angels in heaven, and he was the angel of music. Thus, even after his downfall, being so specialised in the music arena, being a professional here, he uses it to his advantage - to teach young kids, and sometimes maybe even the youths and adults, wrong moral values; to make them more depressed, sad, and anything but happy; to influence their midsets; to teach them to rebel against their parents and other authorities; to teach them to love sin and despise kindness and goodness as weaknesses; to see un-marital sex as acceptable and the 'in'/common/normal thing to do; to tell people that violence is the only way, and there's no wrong to it... Music. Lucifer's tool. No wonder.

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Music, worship music, worshipping Yahweh Jehovah, has chased away the rain clouds. Finally it has stopped raining, even if it's just for a while. The rain has stopped. I'm not alone in the rain. The sky is blue, though the smell of rain/the stench of a storm is still around.