peace to all ! :)

Shufen's blood condition is much better now, and she does not require any more blood dialysis (plasma exchange) for the past few weeks. {platlet and haemogoblin counts are stable & increasing}. Still waiting upon the Lord for the kidneys to recover though. Shufen has started on the Myfortic (similar to cellcept) immunosuppressant medication this week, and hopefully things will start to improve.

Thanks for your prayers. May the Lord bless u all abundantly.

UG, Jason & Shufen

Shalom :) have not been blogging much this week, as most of you are in bible camp. Have been following closely thanks to pictures from Isaiah uploaded into picasa. Great! :)

Some updates on shufen's condition: For much of this week, there was another round of infection (fever/cough/phelgm), and doctors were scrambling to prescribe few types of antibacterial and antivirus antiobiotics. Shufen is much better now. The dialysis line was also removed mid-week to reduce further any probablility of infection.

Doctors are polling us that dialysis might be a long term thing moving forward. While we take counsel in words of man, we do not put our complete trust in them, as man's wisdom is limited. Instead we trust in the promises of God, of an abundant life ahead of us o:-)

We continue to pray for a miraculous healing from the Lord. If God answers us, praise the Lord! If not, we will still continue to shout "Hallelujah! He is good and sovereign!"

Thanks for remembering us, and being a part of us, by praying together with us.
The Lord Jesus is just so real and true!

Press on with Unprecedented growth, Jason & Shufen 8-)

p/s: Have found great comfort these past 2 weeks going through bro David's message on Phil 4 and the Lord's prayer

⁴Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! ⁵Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. ⁶Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

my bro in law passed us a webcam, and we were able to skype today when they were at my punggol home. Shufen felt better looking at Jedi & Janelle over the webcam :) "why is he so fat?" heehee :P "well no worries, he is building up his reserves (6kg+ now according to the helper) and should slim down once he starts crawling and moving more". will prob bring Jedi to church sometime around July, once he has gotten some of his jabs.

if u can catch us at skype, my username is jasonongsc. sorry tried to install msn but was not successful, prob due to the laptop security settings / firewall etc i think. see u all in church tmr :)
aiyah, cannot go to church camp :( u all enjoy and keep us in prayer okay? pray esp for me that at times when emotion swings, i will not do silly things. o:-)

John 10:10 - The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

Shalom all. Shufen's condition does not "seem" to be improving, and the doctors are polling us a bit to prepare for the longer term. It is so easy being human, to see things in the physical realm. But we choose to trust instead on the Word of God, on His healing grace. Thanks for remembering us

Jason & Shufen o:-)

i saw this post by Joy in her facebook recently. Thought it was superly well written :)

I was on a plane today.
In one glance, i saw the ferris wheel and the lights of east point.
I wondered, how awesome God is
He sees it all too.. and more than me

He sees every single person, past, present, future
He sees their actions, their thoughts
And He intricately pieces the lives of each one of us, to another
maybe few hundred friends..
Like a complex web of facebook
with the dimension of time

And suddenly I felt i no longer need to worry
Because it is all in His hands
My past, my present, my future
Even though how small and tiny i look like from heaven
He knows my name

He knows my going out and coming in
He puts me to sleep, is there in my dreams
and when I wake up, He is still with me

Though sometimes it feels like
i'm sinking deeper and deeper into nothingness
when there's nothing to hold on to
I just need to call on His name
Jesus!
and He'll lift me up

Like superman, He wooshes me through the clouds
Breathe in that cool crisp air
"It's alright now," He says
"You're safe in my arms"

Forever I will dwell in your presence


-Joy Lee 2009!

Labels: matz, xoxo

sent on April 23rd.

Yoz..s Dear Bro Jason and Sis Shufen,

Hallelujah! All Glory to God.
Indeed we serve a Great God.
When visited Shufen on Monday, we saw that she started eating "solids" =) Good sign ya!
Keep it up Sister! Be strong and come back to church to join us soon. We miss ya C,")

Wanted to share this with you as I happen to read on ...
The unsurpassed intimacy of Tested Faith

John 11:40 (New King James Version)

40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?”

The ultimate thing is confidence in Jesus. Believe steadfastly on Him & everything that challenges you will strengthen your faith. Faith is ABSOLUTE TRUST in God.TRuST that could never imagine that He would forsake us.

Agape,Willy,Eileen,Joan and Jethro

Use God's Word As Your Healing Foundation, Or You Will Take On Deception
By Emily Dotson

Each year that goes by there are new, deadly virus strains coming. And there are no antibiotics that can destroy them. So it would be best to build your immune system strong before you were attacked. Therefore, there is no substituted for eating correctly and speaking God’s Word over your immune system to build it up before the attack comes. Satan is ready to strike when your immune system is low caused by poor diet, no rest, and not speaking God’s Word. If you are in an attack and need healing, then take heed to my following words from my own personal experiences.
My healing testimony can inspire you; but it’s only faith in God’s Word that you are proclaiming over your attack that can give you victory to outlast your enemy’s attacks. You must get into God’s Word and find healing scriptures that can cover your problem. Then you must enforce the Word against the enemy. Because, from my own personal experience I have found that if you will “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you,” according to (James 4:7-8.)
However, most people when they are in need of healing they do not look to God or His Word. Instead they look to anointed ministers to lay hands on them to receive their healing. And God in His mercy heals through another one's anointing a few times, but that is not His number one way to be healed. Although God heals through the laying on of hands, thereafter, He expects you to get your healing through believing His Word enough to execute His Word on the attack. That requires personal relationship.
Therefore, the number one way to be healed is by simply believing God’s Word, and executing His Word on the attack. Then your healing is stable. There is a tremendous anointing on God’s Word. A Centurion in the Bible knew the power of speaking God’s Word. He told Jesus, “speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed,” (Mt. 8:8.) As Psalm 107:20 says, “He sent His word and healed them.” I was healed of lupus by forcefully speaking God’s Word on my lupus attack. The spoken Word of God will heal you, just the same as...by confessing the Word...will save your soul.
God is not pleased with us when we doubt the credibility of His Word, by not trusting Him enough to stand on His Word and run the devil off. Because, God has given us His Word that the gates of hell shall not prevail against us, that is, if we are His Church, according to Jesus’ own Words; (Mat. 16:18). So we must exercise our faith, and use the authority of God’s Word that Jesus gave us to use on the enemy. By Luke 10:19 Jesus gave us the power. But power must be enforced on the outlaw devil.
Unless you fully know your authority you will not enforce God’s Word on the devil. You then will be deceived, just as a young lady was that I visited years ago. She had not been taught her authority as a believer. And she was in the last stages of lung cancer. I was sent an airline ticket and asked to fly to the home where she lay near the point of death. Her lungs were filled with malignant fluid. She could not talk.
I was very grieved that they had waited so long to send for me, but yet I still proceeded to fast pray for three days for her. Then I prayed deliverance over her, because she was unable to talk, or confess God’s Word for herself. After my payer, the fluid left her lungs and she spoke as clearly as I was speaking. She attended church the next day, which was on Sunday. The church was shocked to see her walk in, since she had been bedridden and had been so gravely ill.
I spent seven days there teaching her how the enemy would try to deceive her with lying symptoms to make her waver, so she wouldn’t keep trusting God’s Covenant Word promises. Then I taught her how she must keep on confessing God’s Word even when satan returned her symptoms. They taped all that I said, taught, and every prayer that I prayed over her. She was well supplied with God’s Word. I tried to cover all the tricks the enemy would do, yet there was one trick that he did that I had not though of. Because the devil is a master-mind on how to deceive people.
Several weeks after I had returned home I had a report that she was gravely ill again. I asked what had transpired since I was there. I was told that she did the confessions that I had left her, and that she listened to my tape instructions for a couple of weeks. Then, she began to slack up saying her confessions. That was not wise. Jesus is the High Priest of professions, by Hebrews 4:14. So for Jesus to act on professions, we must profess, or confess His Word. And because she was slack with her confessions satan took advantage of her slackness. Then he moved in with his deception.
Know this for sure that an idle mind is the devil's workshop, in no uncertain terms! Immediately after she became slack on her Bible confessions, the devil came to her in a dream. He dressed in a long flowing white robe. (See 2 Cor. 11:14). He impersonated Jesus. He told her that if she would get the other ladies that were present when I had prayed for her to just anoint her with oil once more, and pray again for her, then she would receive her instant healing. His trick deceived her! She was already healed.
He had worn her down with lying pain symptoms. However, symptoms can’t change God’s Covenant promise. If they could we would all be in trouble. But God is not a man that He should lie; (Nm. 23:19). Let’s read the entire verse: “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall He not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” By Jeremiah, we have an everlasting covenant with God; He will not turn away from us; (Jer. 32:40).
So satan used her idle mind as his workshop and then deceived her in a dream. We cannot afford to slack up on our faith and Word confessions when the attack is still coming. If we do, our mind is wide open for satan to deceive us when he turns up the pain symptoms. I know, because I fought the good fight of faith, by standing on the Word of God, to bring myself back from death's door from last stage lupus, in 1983. We will never take on deception as long as our foundation is based on God’s Word.
That is why Joshua 1:8 says, “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt have good success.” I say then, the devil can’t steal our blessings away from us.
In other words, the devil will not be able to deceive us or take from us what Jesus has provided through the power of the Cross. As by Abraham’s blessings that we’ve inherited, and that Jesus purchased at Calvary, so now we can, through meditating on God’s Word day and night, take our rightful blessings back from the enemy.
Good health is worth fighting for. So I will fight the faith battle, to keep satan from stealing my blessings. I have been sick, and now I have abundant health; my good health came by me meditating on the Word and by my faith confessions. Good health is worth all the effort of fighting the faith battle. Laziness will take you to the grave.
Sickness is in the curse for breaking the law; (Deut. 28:15). Jesus redeemed you from the curse, (Gal. 3:12). So fight for your rights. “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life.” (1 Tim. 6:12). Keep God’s Word as your foundation, and you will not take on the devil's deception. Jesus came to give you life, so that you might have life “more abundantly,” (John 10:10b). That is no fairy tale. It worked for me.
You must believe God’s Word enough to take back what the devil has stolen. So enforce God’s Word on your attack! You must confess the Word without wavering in your faith, and without your confessions wavering. Base your healing confessions on God’s Word for your foundation, then you will not take on deception. Amen!

Emily Dotson was supernaturally healed of lupus. Now she teaches others how to overcome disease through the power of God.

adapted from:
http://www.sidroth.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5650&news_iv_ctrl=0&abbr=art_

Shufen will be going through a lung biopsy on monday. Not sure of the timing yet, but the whole operation should prob be around an hr.

As in all operations, there are risks, and this is a slightly more complicated biopsy, which requires x-ray guidance, puncturing the lungs to get to the lumps, to try to find the source of infection.

The infection is also causing further stress to the kidneys, and it's kind of scary to have no need to go to the toilet for a few days. Water is instead accumulating in the legs again and causing it to swell and be painful.

Doctors also suspect some slight infection in the brain that might be causing blood vessels to be inflammed. It particularly saddens me to see my Maths Masters & Stats Honors degree wife, at certain times, speaking like a child.

However I am sure that God has a reason for allowing us to go through this, and we'll be stronger and closer to Him once this is over, Hallelujah :)

doctors found some shadow / lumps in shufen's lungs, prob due to bacteria / fungal infection. Might have to go through a lung biopsy to verify it.

With infection complications coming in, the already complicated situation becomes more complicated :P however God is in control! Amen!

Received a phone call from a long time sister-in-Christ and words of encouragement from another pastor, to persevere on in prayer! We will! Thanks! Going through the holy communion daily, and it has been a source of great comfort and assurance to us.

Agape, Jason

hmm... seems like i am the only one posting here.... where are all the rest ??? :)

Doctors found some bacteria in Shufen's blood, so much of today she was rolled around to do x-ray, MRI scans etc. Infection is a scary word now, as shufen's immunity is low. As a precaution, the cellcept medication is stopped for the time being.

continue to keep us in prayer, okay ? pls o:-) God bless!