I remembered Pastor Tan once said, sleep an average of 6-8 hours ensure we lived a longer lives and during those times, I told myself, unless in future I died for the cause of Jesus, I will live long to fulfill His visions, I don't wanna to do things just because all people do so, but I wanna do things according to what God want.

I thought of living longer as I getting to know God, I started to try to cut down bad habits, like eating instant noodles often, eating too much deep fried food and try to eat more vegetables. I think I at least gotten a breakthrough in the area of vegetables. If you ever know me when I was a young child, I was one who spilled out any vegetables that tried to sneak in my food, either was there because outside food got them or my mum tried to force me to eat.

Now, I eat more healthily, beside fasting, the rest of the time, I will eat proper small meals since I still got slight gastric once awhile ever since the episode with serious stomach flu. (Nearly gotten hospitalise after gotten myself 2 injections to prevent vomitting).

To think back, everyone got their own view on how many hours to sleep but for me, I would insist sleeping 5-6 hours, then the remainder day, I can spend time studying, ministry and other things. I got a long life to live for God, especially in term of ministry and I want to ensure my life is healthy for now on as it is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Gone is the days when I would only seek to satisfy myself and my stomach and body.

Start thinking of the great things you can do and stop thinking of just how much you wanna to maximize your time cause even if you maximize your daily time, think of how you shorten your life span by not a year but many years. Think of how these many years can really use for? They can use for expanding of God's kingdom, ministry and family.

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