Thank You Lord, that when I needed the words, You spoke.
That when I had imposed my expectations on others;
That when I failed to see my source of leak in me and my source of hope in You;
You restore me, and You fill me again.
For all the things I see and hear and know, I can and I will trust in You.
God of Redeemer and Restorer, You have full control.
Showing posts with label Discipleship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Discipleship. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Health Check
Need for a small group health check.
Need for a personal (spiritual) health check.
Honestly, it is a bad taste when there are no fruit.
Mr SAtan comes so often trying to convince me to move out of it.
=(
Need to re-think this.
Need for a personal (spiritual) health check.
Honestly, it is a bad taste when there are no fruit.
Mr SAtan comes so often trying to convince me to move out of it.
=(
Need to re-think this.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Sowing the Seed
God, tonight I have done my part in initiating and taking the first step.
I do not know how the coming sessions will turn out, I don't know eventually it will work.
But 1 thing I know, is to go by Faith and Trusting You.
Lord, simply because You love so much more than I do.
Father there is no conditions to Your love and I pray that I may love through Your love.
God this is Your work and I want to do things Your way.
Lastly, I pray that I'll learn much too in the process of this mentoring.
God I pray not for the perfect partner, but that You transform me to be the ideal one.
Because with You, ALL things are possible.
To Love like You Love Me.
Amen.
~ God You keep reminding me of going by faith this day. Then help me Lord and while others fear stepping out into a new opportunity, the winner (in You) fears missing out on it.
I do not know how the coming sessions will turn out, I don't know eventually it will work.
But 1 thing I know, is to go by Faith and Trusting You.
Lord, simply because You love so much more than I do.
Father there is no conditions to Your love and I pray that I may love through Your love.
God this is Your work and I want to do things Your way.
Lastly, I pray that I'll learn much too in the process of this mentoring.
God I pray not for the perfect partner, but that You transform me to be the ideal one.
Because with You, ALL things are possible.
To Love like You Love Me.
Amen.
~ God You keep reminding me of going by faith this day. Then help me Lord and while others fear stepping out into a new opportunity, the winner (in You) fears missing out on it.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Digging the Ditches
Today attended the Global Leadership Summit 2011 at Riverlife Church. Though I got up late and 'missed the boat' , thank God I made it on time for the conference.
The GLS is an annual leadership conference usually lasting 2 days, this GLS happens to be my first time in attendance. For more info, you may visit http://www.glssingapore.org/
I honestly did not attend GLS with any expectations to begin with. All I could do was utter a sincere prayer before making my way down, telling God that since I'm already going for the conference, He might as well make use of it to speak to me. Well and He sure did, not just to me but I believe the rest of us who attended.
There were various sessions, interwoven with recesses and meal times. The timely breaks were just long enough for fellowships between the many groups attending the conference. As true blue WRPF people, we sure did make full use of the breaks through our 15 minutes of quick (and I really mean quick) sharing of the first half of the day's sessions. We barely had 30 seconds (There was a countdown timer projected on the main screen!) and we managed to wrap up and close in prayer just 3 seconds before the worship leaders came on stage.
One session after another, the speakers (through broadcasting of the video recordings) never failed to inspire (me) in faith-building and trusting God for greater things. The first 4 sessions today seemed almost like a walk up a flight of stairs, each session building up on the previous one. I thought today in particular I was intrigued by the 4th speaker in session 3, Patrick Lencioni. Visit his profile at http://www.tablegroup.com/pat/
I thought this was it. The most engaging speaker for Day 1 of GLS. But no, I was wrong. When session 4 came on after tea-break, I was glued to the video on Steven Furtick. This was a 31 year old (yes 31!) pastor who hails from America and having grown a church from 4 members to the 8000+ congegation it is in Elevation Church (click to visit them).
Pastor Steven is not to be viewed as some "young punk" who happened to hear God speak and followed whatever God said. Hear it for yourself, his life and journey with the Lord and how the church he started grew (exploded may be a better description here). This dude is now my fav! And I thought Ethel was just going ga-ga over him before he spoke, but I was wrong!!! And now I can't wait to hear him speak at Hillsong Conference 2012! Sydney here I come!
So I share stop sharing about GLS here but just like to post 3 photos that describes what I think YAY! Ministry is going through:
Then after GLS, I went to a wake with several church members. This wake was in memorial of a lady, at a young age of 25, not much older than myself.The father, Mr James Chan commonly known as National Director of YWAM greeted us and thanked us for coming jsust after we paid our respects.
I did not personally know the family, even Mr. Chan. But one thing for sure, I wanted to make this trip because Joanne's life story inspired me in a way when she was alive. I could identify with her since we were quite close of age though I have never met her in my life. Reading all the prayer updates of Joanne's condition going up and down over the past days have caught my attention and thinking to consider my own life.
And I owe it to Joanne that I concluded that I shall not live my whole life pursuing personal desires of earthly things but to cherish the things of eternal value such as souls and salvation. It also got me realizing that if I want something (major in life), prayerfully do it and stop hesitating because life (and time) isn't going to wait around!
And summing up today, is really a bombardment of emotions (quote Aunt Agnes). And I thank God for giving me this experience. Because in any and every circumstance, give thanks to God knowing that He allows all things to happen for good. Greater good.
The GLS is an annual leadership conference usually lasting 2 days, this GLS happens to be my first time in attendance. For more info, you may visit http://www.glssingapore.org/
I honestly did not attend GLS with any expectations to begin with. All I could do was utter a sincere prayer before making my way down, telling God that since I'm already going for the conference, He might as well make use of it to speak to me. Well and He sure did, not just to me but I believe the rest of us who attended.
There were various sessions, interwoven with recesses and meal times. The timely breaks were just long enough for fellowships between the many groups attending the conference. As true blue WRPF people, we sure did make full use of the breaks through our 15 minutes of quick (and I really mean quick) sharing of the first half of the day's sessions. We barely had 30 seconds (There was a countdown timer projected on the main screen!) and we managed to wrap up and close in prayer just 3 seconds before the worship leaders came on stage.
One session after another, the speakers (through broadcasting of the video recordings) never failed to inspire (me) in faith-building and trusting God for greater things. The first 4 sessions today seemed almost like a walk up a flight of stairs, each session building up on the previous one. I thought today in particular I was intrigued by the 4th speaker in session 3, Patrick Lencioni. Visit his profile at http://www.tablegroup.com/pat/
I thought this was it. The most engaging speaker for Day 1 of GLS. But no, I was wrong. When session 4 came on after tea-break, I was glued to the video on Steven Furtick. This was a 31 year old (yes 31!) pastor who hails from America and having grown a church from 4 members to the 8000+ congegation it is in Elevation Church (click to visit them).
Pastor Steven is not to be viewed as some "young punk" who happened to hear God speak and followed whatever God said. Hear it for yourself, his life and journey with the Lord and how the church he started grew (exploded may be a better description here). This dude is now my fav! And I thought Ethel was just going ga-ga over him before he spoke, but I was wrong!!! And now I can't wait to hear him speak at Hillsong Conference 2012! Sydney here I come!
So I share stop sharing about GLS here but just like to post 3 photos that describes what I think YAY! Ministry is going through:
Then after GLS, I went to a wake with several church members. This wake was in memorial of a lady, at a young age of 25, not much older than myself.The father, Mr James Chan commonly known as National Director of YWAM greeted us and thanked us for coming jsust after we paid our respects.
I did not personally know the family, even Mr. Chan. But one thing for sure, I wanted to make this trip because Joanne's life story inspired me in a way when she was alive. I could identify with her since we were quite close of age though I have never met her in my life. Reading all the prayer updates of Joanne's condition going up and down over the past days have caught my attention and thinking to consider my own life.
And I owe it to Joanne that I concluded that I shall not live my whole life pursuing personal desires of earthly things but to cherish the things of eternal value such as souls and salvation. It also got me realizing that if I want something (major in life), prayerfully do it and stop hesitating because life (and time) isn't going to wait around!
And summing up today, is really a bombardment of emotions (quote Aunt Agnes). And I thank God for giving me this experience. Because in any and every circumstance, give thanks to God knowing that He allows all things to happen for good. Greater good.
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| YAY! Leaders |
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| More YAY! Leaders |
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| And more YAY! Leaders |
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| Still some more YAY! Leaders |
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| "I want to hear from you now" |
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| With every ship, comes the captain (and his wife) |
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| GLS 2011 |
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| Are you ready to step up? |
Sunday, December 6, 2009
A true disciple
To love the Lord with all thy heart and all thy mind and all thy soul and all thy strength
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Disciple-sheep
Today had the Gap where the youths intercede for the ministry and various committees.
Thank God for the willing hearts who turned up on time, really...
And during the prayer with Elaine and David for sparks, God put in my mind really interesting stuff...
Disciple-sheep...
*Uh?* Why sheep?
Then I saw David and Saul...2 guys who I have been reading about lately...
And then I reflected about the past few days of reading...
Ahh! God revealed something...
Hence I shall name the Mentoring committee as "Disciple-sheep"...
In due time, I'll let my boss know =D
So why David and Saul?
Well for David, as a little kid, he was sent to look after sheep...
Dumb and smelly sheep, what a degrading job...
But God showed me, that He trained David in herding sheep so that He can use him to take over King Saul in future...
David had to fight off lions and bears to protect his sheep...
David could have just let the sheep die but he chose the opposite...he risked his life as a boy...
Who would have thought, that the Almighty God could use this job to raise David up...
The boy, who could be trusted with little, was given even greater things in the future...
David later grew up to become King, and he was a people's king and a God-fearing King...
He was mindful of God in his early years unlike Saul, who sought to kill David out of jealousy...
So you might ask, how does this link to discipleship?
Well, I'm still asking God about this but I know now, that even a small boy like David was willing to risk his life for his sheep, how much more should we give our time and effort to the ones we are looking after and shepherding...
And God, the Great Shepherd of all who gave His one and only Son for the world, faithfully shepherds his children...
Every single one of them...
Including you reading this =)
God is love and God loves. He loves you and me very very much.
Do you dare to believe?
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