Benjamin: Wesley Family Church Camp @ Hotel Equatorial Melaka 2009

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Wesley Family Church Camp @ Hotel Equatorial Melaka 2009

Back from a really refreshing FAITH enriching Family Church Camp! It was the BIGGEST church camp wesley ever held! With more than 700 over ppl signing up! And im really so glad i got the chance to come for this camp! It was originally a camp where God's clay wanted to go together as a grp ... but some how circumstances changed when we arrived, we found out that we were all place in different grps! And than that was where we were led to help out with the really HUGE youth grp there and i sure have no regrets at all!
And wow! Benny Ho sure was one really annointed speaker, i was truly inspired and encouraged so intrinsically after each message!It just gave me so many SMILES on my notes... =)

Day 1

(God's Clay at MELAKA!)

(Videos of a couple of the impromptu SKITS each grp did!)

(kaz in one of the impromptu SKITS each grp did!)

(The hotel equtorial!)

The first night session, by Benny Ho...

Topic Conversational Prayer.. intergrating Theology with Prayer
2 Chronicles 20:1-20

Jehosophat was against a VAST ARMY! He gathered his people and PRAYED.

He asked God 3 rhetorical questions abt his Character... (v.6 - v.12)
1) Are you not? (The Sovereign Lord).... YES!
2) Did you not? (drive out the inhabitants)... YES!
3)Will you not? (Deliver us again)........YES!

He was turing his people to the LORD!

The main point of the passage! ¹⁵ He said: "Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the LORD says to you: 'Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's.

And from verse 20 onwards they saw victory! =)
Day 2

The Second session, by Benny Ho...

How to make your Faith Dynamic!
James 2:14-26

This session was really close to my heart as not long ago, i wrote a long article on Faith! And everything that Benny shared here was soooo assuring to what God has taught me over the years of what Faith is!

The 3 kinds of Faith!
1) DEAD FAITH ¹⁴What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? ¹⁷In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

Illustration: of a teacher who taught the class on the law of physics of the pendulum on how every swing it will stop shorter... The teacher ask the boys abt it, and they all knew it will stop short! Until the teacher tested one of the boy, where the teacher attached a stone to it, and swing it at the boy equidistant to the release...the boy squirm away! This shows that the boy knew HEAD knowlege that the stone will stop before it hit his nose, but in his heart he didn't really act what his head says... So this is an example of what Faith without action is...its DEAD!

¹⁸But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds."
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.

The lack of action shows there wasn't faith in the first place!
2) Deceptive Faith
You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. James 2:19

Demons too believe that Jesus is the Son of the Living God... but they still continue in their evil acts... "to kill,steal and destroy"

3) DYNAMIC FAITH
²⁰You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? ²¹Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? ²²You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. James 2:20-22

The story of Abraham & Rahab who demostrated great FAITH!

We should believe with our Hearts not our Heads!

"Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight." 2 Peter 3:4

We should allow the Word to interact with our Spirit!

"As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead." James 2:26

The start of the many rehearsals for our BANGRA DANCE!

(The BANGRA dance that shadrach and moonie taught us!)

(Shadrach showing the girls how to shakeee! =P)

(The Videos of the Bangra Rehearsal dances!
Shadrach & Moonie teaching the youths the story & dance of the whole BANGRA!

The story of how this man got himself into the worldly lifestyle, found God & than his true love. =) )

Day 3
Session 3- God's Hall of Faith!
Hebrews 11:1-39
One of my personal favourites of the 3 days! As he went thru the people who walk the hall of FAITH! And its really amazing hearing the different ppl who have walk the race in Faith before us!

1) The Essence of Faith
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

2) The Examples of Faith

3) The Endurance of Faith

FAITH is the currency to HEAVEN!

"I have that quiet confidence inside that God will keep his promise!" =)

Do not bargain down ur faith when hard times come! GOD WANTS TO RESURRECT YOUR DREAMS!!!! =)

Lunch@ JAP restaurant at the hotel!