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2021 Youth Conference- responses to God in my life

This thread mentions how I respond to the different things acquired during the conference. I have now set a goal of following God, living in the Spirit and serving him both in my degree and my years in the workforce, in conjunction to the point of a goal linking to the day of God. I will pray to God for opportunities to glorify him during these times. Some things of God towards me link to my goal intellectually of getting a 1st in my degree. Thus, I can put all my emotions in God to head to the goal wholeheartedly like Paul.
I will state how the Holy Spirit leads me through and how I live in front of God. As the message tells that I need to compare with myself every day about how close I am to God, the UMS scale returns to help me do so as I get close to him. I will also add some of my experiences in God which led me towards the goal.

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Reply 1

8013

Not only this, the thread will now serve another role as well after the previous message. The message has quoted Paul and how he improves on his life, and I aspire to be more mature while forgetting on my past and moving towards the goal in Christ Jesus. I also want that I want to live a life full of witnesses in God, such that I am used well in the future, and have different new things every day.
Please, may I have the page admins close all of my other threads on Faith and Spirituality (with me as the thread starter, except #7071186), so I will not be able to focus on the past experiences in God and revisit any of these threads. This will help me easily to achieve this, so I can be used well by God.

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8013

The first time I faced a tough test against my faith since the conference was today.
I returned home from the outlying island of Cheung Chau with my sister. My sister needs to wake up at 6:30 am tomorrow. The Holy Spirit told me, an introvert, to care about her needs through a bible reading in 1 Corinthians 10.
We planned to get the 19:30 slow ferry, which should take us to Central by 20:30. The whisper came in again when my dinner came. I ate quicker than usual and waited for my sister, then we eventually left the restaurant at 18:50 and took a shortcut to the pier. As we got to the pier, a fast ferry, which would execute the 19:00 departure, just berthed. The queue for the 19:00 was quite long. There were less than 150 seats left, and a lot of people were still behind the ticketing gate. Initially, we wanted to stick with our original plan on getting the 19:30, but I followed the Holy Spirit and we tried our luck on the 19:00, which we eventually got on. The 19:00 was almost full tonight.
I used to avoid taking fast ferries shortly after a meal in fear of throwing up, but God held on for me and I didn't throw up on the ferry.
We eventually got to Central at 19:35, almost an hour earlier than expected, and returned home an hour earlier too. Then my sister can have enough rest for tomorrow!

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8013

It seems that I am getting the worst time slots for my uni courses. But after asking God, I will remain in my assigned time slots and will not have a single swap, showing that I can sacrifice my own ways, even my preferred schedule. Literally everyone else needs to have a swap in first year, but myself having zero swaps is for God.
I will also wake up as early as 5am, given that there are still two hours before I have breakfast. I will have enough time for a morning devotion, and can devote the afternoons and evenings which I have no classes in for independent study. Then I can meet the suggested hours with ease. I will also try to do my readings on the bus if possible, setting an alighting reminder with GPS on, maximising my study time.

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Reply 4

Kate4

Original post by 8013

Amazing!
That's good for you. Life is tough at times, but if you have God you can have peace and you have NOTHING to fear! :smile:

Go for God and make Him the LORD of ALL :smile:

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8013

From now on, after asking God, I will be fasting from YouTube and Facebook from now until December 18th. This ensures that I have enough time to do 55-60 hours of private study outside classes per week, and do a morning devotion each day from 5-6 am.
I will also make sure that I have reached a very proficient level of knowledge in all my courses before the midterms and finals, such that I can breeze through the exams while watching others struggle. This translates to a higher GPA and a larger chance to get into my preferred major.

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8013

I have since repented sins more frequently since the start of the month. God brought me into CIA (Christian in action). Our last training talked about repentance and I keep repenting to God at the end of every night before going to bed, way above the requirement of once per week, as I don't want to extinguish my touch of the Holy Spirit.
I have become less distracted through this, as I managed to read a devotional passage with the commentary of Liverpool vs Crystal Palace playing in the background yesterday. I was always distracted by football, in particularly matches involving Liverpool, but God has transformed me. I have become less arrogant as well as I have stopped posting my grades. I have changed the form of my GYG, giving the readers a chance to guess my GPA and I will only give rep to the most accurate guess.

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8013

God gave me this plan to reduce my arrogance even further, which is deflating every grade (counting 100% as A, 80% as C) and counting D as F.
This makes me more unlikely to get a good grade according to my opinion, thus effectively pushing down my target. I can keep striving for the better and not rest on my laurels, thus making me more humble. This will become my habit as I think myself as one level lower than my own status in my opinion, such that there is always someone better than me. I can keep learning from other people and put down my own ways.
There was a period of time that I was quite humble and went above and beyond expectations in many areas as a result (like in IELTS, I was on track for 7.0 before following a specific website. I dumped all of my own methods and used theirs, especially for reading. I ended up breezing through the reading paper with more than 30mins of a 60mins exam to spare).

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8013

Something God gives me is epic comebacks. When I enter a new stage of academics, I tend to have a slow start but have a great finish in the end.
In 2018, I had a slow start to my IGCSE year, which caused my average mark to drop below 4.0 on a 5 point scale for the first time. I even got a 5 in my first Physics mock, and went on to fail a topic quiz on magnetism. But in April 2019, my grades started to go up significantly, and I got all 9s and 8s in the real exams in May, with one of the 9s being Physics.
I then had another slow start to A levels, as I failed Chemistry and Physics tests from time to time. I ended up with the top GPA in my school (and got a crystal trophy) and A*A*A in real exams.
I am now having another slow start to uni, as my first two grades are quite low. But God tells me that the struggle should go and I will have another great finish.