Posts by Abigail Soon

Last week, I was at a worship weekend at Glory Zion (my Mandarin morning church). One of the things we do at Glory of Zion is pray and discern if the Holy Spirit prompts you to go up and lead worship from the stage. If this sounds familiar to you, yes, this is one of the places where I got the idea to do so for Wildfire. On Saturday morning, I didn’t really feel any kind of nudge or conviction…

In asking the Lord what to write for this devo, I got this verse: Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.  – Galatians 1:10 I thought, “But what will people think of this?”, immediately proving His point. I very often fall into people pleasing and seeking others’ approval because it…

I was helping a kid play keyboard on the worship team. He had taken piano lessons for a while, but never tried this kind of piano playing in worship, so this was his first time playing with the worship team. He was struggling to follow the worship leader, and at one point, he was apologizing for his “bad playing.” This brought me back to when I first starting playing keyboard for worship. I was pretty young with some piano lessons…

I generally think that questioning your belief systems is a good thing, because it allows you to test your beliefs and hopefully give you a stronger belief system. At the moment, I’ve been wrestling with my experiences with God and my Christian faith versus the reasoning of people who’ve been in the church for a while, some since childhood, and have “lost their faith.” I’ve definitely had encounters and moments with God that have made Him real to me, but…

I was recently watching some videos on the dismal state of the world, and it got me thinking about all that’s happening in the world and how it could affect my future. I started worrying and obsessing over it, and it honestly wasn’t good for my mental state. After forcing myself to stop trying to solve every problem out there and dwelling on hopelessness, I realized that in my moments of worry, it was purely me dwelling on the bad…

One of the many highlights from Volunteer Appreciation Day was hearing the testimonies from Jen, Steve and Ray Chow, Auntie Cheh Keat, and Pastor Alvin and Auntie Pat. Thank you all for sharing! One thing that stood out was when Pastor Alvin and Auntie Pat shared a quality of Uncle Eric and Auntie Angie,  described as “chin chye, biao kin” and “major the majors.” They explained this as not worrying or taking everything so seriously as well as not sweating the…

I don’t know about you, but I do not feel fruitful. In school and life, I’m not seeing a lot of results, payoff, or other forms of fruit, and as things get busier, I’ve been asking the question, “what should I do when I am unfruitful?” Let’s look at an example that Jesus used in Luke: “A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any.…

I was listening to someone share a testimony, and one thing he shared was about his training to be a bus driver. One detail the instructors were very particular about was following the dress code (shirt, dress pants and dress shoes) at every training, regardless of whether you were driving a bus or not. This rule was not always followed by the trainees as it seemed pretty trivial. After all, it was just clothing, right? The instructor, however, said that…

My fast is not going well. My original intent for the fast was to wake up earlier to read the Bible and spend more time with God, but due to a lot of late nights with school and work stuff, I was waking up a lot later than expected. For the longest time, I was feeling very guilty and ashamed of myself. After all, I was doing the exact opposite of what I intended to do to fast. I would…

I was reading a book called Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery this week. In a nutshell, the book’s about a girl named Jane, who feels timid and out of place timid in her home and family. Then, she spends a couple of summers with the father she never knew, and through the process and adventure of learning to fix up an old house and cook, making new friends, and getting to know her dad, she gains confidence and…

Nothing convinces me of how much I need God more than when I am overwhelmed. During exam season, I was definitely feeling the strain, as I had a lot to do between school and work, and I had no idea how I’d get everything done on time. One night, I couldn’t sleep, and I started thinking about my impending to-do list. With the way my brain was mapping out everything at 2 in the morning, it felt impossible to get…

I was recently asked to list what I felt were major accomplishments over this past year. While looking back on the year and making the list, I thought, “Wow, a lot happened this year.” As I was thinking about this, one of our memory verses came to mind. “When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, 11 houses filled with…