Anyways just came back from my 4th spiritual retreat at the kelong in the past 5 years and yet again still enjoyed it! Definitely feel refresh & enjoyed the fellowship with this new batch of future male leaders of our youth ministry!
We definitely had a holistic time where we had our physical,emotional & spiritual needs met as we had countless fellowship under the sun, water rugby, fishing, intense morning physical workouts,amazing food, personal time alone,guitar jammings, worship,prayer, sharing's by the bonfire, counting the number of shooting stars, and just sleeping in the open night sky on the last night...
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And kudos to all who were involved in the planning of this retreat! :)
Planning Committee Kelong 2012!
Worship Leaders- Paul Ooi & Brandon
Coordinators- Ernest (Overall IC), Andrew (Finance), Song (Admin), Ben (Sharings) & Paul (Worship)
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Sharing Session for Men's Spiritual Retreat 2012
Day 1 & 2- Night- Ben Lau
1) Looking Upward Encounter! (Vision & Experience of God’s greatness…)
2) Looking Inward
“Brokenness” (Surrender, Repentance, Forgiveness, Personal Revival)
3) Looking Outward
Outreach! (Social Outreach, Personal Evangelism, Divine Appointments…)
Day 3- Morning- Adriel Gwee
On Leadership
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"Looking UPWARD...INWARD...OUTWARD..."
Quoting from an interview with our YM Camp Speaker Ps Daniel Chua last year, when I asked him for his closing thoughts for our youth ministry before YM Camp 2011... this was what he said...
“Take the upward journey – to know God fully… though it will take forever to do that, it’s worth starting now. Jesus said that’s eternal life (John 17:3).
Take the inward journey – to know whose you are and walk in the security of your identity.. free from the need to prove your worth. He paid a high price for you.
Take the outward journey – to make Him know in works, words and wonders.. the greatest news in the world must be shared. God has chosen you to SHINE FORTH – Light up your world.” – Ps Daniel Chua
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The sharing below is from a compiliation of various notes & reflections that I have written over the years and decided to combined them in this framework below...
Anyways just came back from my 4th spiritual retreat at the kelong in the past 5 years and yet again still enjoyed it! Definitely feel refresh & enjoyed the fellowship with this new batch of future male leaders of our youth ministry!
We definitely had a holistic time where we had our physical,emotional & spiritual needs met as we had countless fellowship under the sun, water rugby, fishing, intense morning physical workouts,amazing food, personal time alone,guitar jammings, worship,prayer, sharing's by the bonfire, counting the number of shooting stars, and just sleeping in the open night sky on the last night...
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| (Day 1 Night Session on "Looking Upward & Inward") |
1) Looking Upward
Encounter (Vision & Experience of God’s greatness…)
Think back of your most memorable experience or encounter of God, which change your life thereafter.
Isaiah 6 New International Version (NIV)
1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
9 He said, “Go and tell this people:
“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ 10 Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
11 Then I said, “For how long, Lord?”
And he answered:
“Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged, 12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken. 13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”
Isaiah Encounter the Lord
Isaiah 6:1 "In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord..."
739 BC - King Uzziah's death
Feeling the tension of the death of a king, dark looms the nation.
V.1 "... I saw the Lord"
Isaiah 6:1,3 "... Sitting upon a throne, high & lifted up... Holy, holy, holy"
He is on the THRONE!
Holiness is the central attribute of God!
"Holiness is consecration set apart by the grace of God, to be redeemed by Him for something different!"
Our EYES is on the Lord on the THRONE!
I believe Isaiah Encounter with the Lord was a personal revival for him... And I believe we all need such a personal revival in our life too and this can lead to a wide spread Revival if there’s an ingathering of likeminded believers praying...
Stories of revival...
Rev Malcolm Tan shared this at the recent Revive Conference 2012...
2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)
"...if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
Who can pray for revival?
-Those who are called by my name.
- Those who are saved! - Which Is YOU.
How?
- Humble Themselves
- pray
- seek God's face
- turn from their wicked ways
You need all these 4 conditions!
56 years ago... E Stanley Jones shared gospel at ACS chapel... 200 boys gave their life to be saved
It all started with 12 boys who form a congregation & now Barker road Methodist is a church today...
Another example of a deep encounter of God’s presence is what happened in Asbury in the 1970s...
Dr Robert E Coleman- Reflections on the Asbury Revival
A quick definition of "revival" is... "Revival is to restore what God has made."
Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever! That's what we are made for!
In Psalms 85:6, where the Psalmist pleaded, “Won’t you revive us Lord, so that we may rejoice in you again?”
In Ezekiel 37, Valley of dry bones, it speaks about the breath of God breathing life back into dry bones in a valley.
Throughout biblical history in the old testaments, revivals came & gone!
And then Jesus came!
He called his disciples before he even started His ministry.
Told His disciples to replicate His ministry!
Matthew 28:18-20 (NIV)
Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
It's a way of life at how Jesus lived! And his disciples are to continue & replicate this to others.
Before He left, He gave what He promised!
Acts 1:8 (NIV)
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
Day of Pentecost came...
Acts 2:1-4 (NIV)
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them...
This is the revival of Jesus!
Reflections on the Asbury Revival
It all started in 1970, during a regular Tuesday chapel service at a Asbury College, Kentucky. At which the speaker, instead of delivering his prepared sermon, felt led to ask the students to participate in a testimony meeting. The testimonies were fervent and soul-searching. The bell rang, but no one left.
Academic work, sports and games came to a stand still... Atmosphere just change with another presence...
God had taken over the campus...
Refresh renewing of the Holy Spirit! Lives changed!
Long series of testimonies just flooded! Students flooded to pray at the altar
Soon the press from NBC was alerted of this strange happening at this campus that day too
People all around was prostrate on their knees crying out to the Lord, some giving counsel some just giving praise to the Lord.
Through the night the meeting continued...
The Seminary across the street soon realized something was happening at that campus...
And then the seminary chapel was affected by the revival as well!
Both the college & the seminary...
Day after day... Priorities of Heaven just took precedence to everything that was happening on earth.
Strangely in the face of such liberty there seems to be order without any tension...
Others even passing by were affected. One driving by heard the songs of praise. Came into the place. Went to the altar & gave their life to the Lord.
All denominations even came together!
With the fellowship of the Spirit, Jesus Christ is Lord of all!
People spontaneously sang praises to the Lord on the streets!
The revival spread for days!
Sharing of tracs & gospel became so spontaneous everywhere around town! Even in the airport , students was preaching to masses the praises of God!
500 high school,
50 over universities,
2000 over churches were all heard to be affected!
Local churches came over to the college on that Sunday!
During those 8 days... Many just found deliverance at the altar & savoured the spirit of revival...
Even after that when classes resume...
The revival continued for 4 straight months... Even after supper... Students continued to pray
There were pockets of people who didn't experience anything, some fell eventually, and some who didn't have discipline to continue their devotion...
But from this we still know that He is Lord!
And every knee will bow! People are set free, hearts are made pure, Authority of God comes...
In authentic revival, we just want to take our shoes off our feet & bow down & worship Him upon the throne...
We should live in a spirit of revival! We should continue to be filled by the Spirit...
If it can happened then, who knows it can happened again right here in our own lifetime.
You will never know that anyone of us can be that group of students who started praying which eventual lasted for 8 days and further spread for 4 mths! With such a continual hunger and desire for God! If only we can experience such a revival at least once in our lifetime like him & look back to testify of God's Majestic nature of a glimpse of Heaven on earth!
Such a desperate hunger will definitely lead to a fresh encounter of God again... and we just want to take our shoes off our feet & bow down & worship Him upon the throne in our very own church services.
Going back to the prayer of the psalmist in Psalms 85:6... Can we sincerely pray this prayer again...
“Won’t you revive us Lord, so that we may rejoice in you again?”
After ENCOUNTERING, with the Lord; it will bring us to a state of “brokenness” when we see the Lord...and this is what I will be sharing in the next point...
2) Looking Inward
“Brokenness” (Surrender, Repentance, Forgiveness, Personal Revival)
Isaiah 6: 5
Then I said,
“Woe is me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”
Not "Wow is Me!" but Woe is Me!"
To live by the inside out, we need to first be change from the inside out
Rev Edmund Chan shared how one day he went to this mountain for 10 days spending time with God...Thought he would become stronger after that, but he became weaker instead. He came down with a deep sense of Brokenness. And so much more need for the grace of God.
Many of us has the misconception of brokenness as being sad, gloomy and like the world is falling on you and other times where we have this sense of false humility, where we just put ourselves down, than there are others who view it has shedding of tears, having a deeply emotional experience, and many who equate it with being deeply hurt by tragic circumstances.
"TRUE BROKENNESS"
Brokenness is not a feeling or an emotion. Rather, it requires a choice, an act of the will... Its is the shattering of my self-will- the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.
Psalms 51:17
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise."
Further elaboration from book..."True Brokenness" is the breaking of myself will, so that life and spirit of the Lord Jesus may be released through me. It is the Stripping of self-reliance and independence from God, it is the softening of the soil of my heart.
PLEASE READ ALL from 1 - 35 SLOWLY.
Attitudes Towards Others
1. Proud people focus on the failures of others and can readily point out those faults.
Broken people are more conscious of their own spiritual need than of anyone else's.
2. Proud people have a critical, fault finding spirit. They look at everyone else's faults with a microscope but view their own with a telescope.
Broken people are compassionate- they have the kind of love that overlooks a multitude of sins; they can forgive much because they know how much they have been forgiven.
3. Proud people are especially prone to criticize those in positions of authority- their pastor, their boss, their husband, their parents- and they talk to others about the faults they see.
Broken people reverence, encourage, and lift up those that God has placed in positions of authority, and they talk to God intercession, rather than gossiping about the faults they see in others.
4. Proud people are self-righteous; they think highly of themselves and look down on others.
Broken people think the best of others; they esteem others as better than themselves.
5. Proud people have an independent, self-sufficient spirit.
Broken people have a dependent spirit; they recognized their need for God and for others.
Attitudes About Rights
6. Proud people have to prove that they are right- they have to get the last word.
Broken people are willing to yield the right to be right.
7. Proud people claim rights and have a demanding spirit.
Broken people yield their rights and heave a meek spirit.
8. Proud people are self-protective of their time, their rights, and their reputation.
Broken people are self-denying and self sacrificing.
Attitudes about Service and Ministry
9. Proud people desire to be served- they want life to revolve around them and their own needs.
Broken people are motivated to serve others and to be sure others' needs are met before their own.
10. Proud people desire to be known as a success.
Broken people are motivated to be faithful and to make others successful.
11. Proud people have a feeling- conscious or subconscious - that "this ministry (or this organization) is privileged to have me and my gifts". They focus on what they can do for God.
Broken people have a heart attitude that says, "I don't deserve to have any part in this ministry". They know that they have nothing to offer God except the life of Jesus flowing through their broken lives.
Attitudes about Recognition
12. Proud people crave self-advancement.
Broken people desire to promote others
13. Proud people have a drive to be recognized and appreciated for their efforts.
Broken people have a sense of their own unworthiness; they are thrilled God would use them at all.
14. Proud people get wounded when others are promoted and they are overlooked.
Broken people are eager for others to get credit, and they rejoice when others are lifted up.
15. Proud people are elated by praise and deflated by criticism.
Broken people know that any praise of their accomplishments belongs to the Lord and that criticism can help them grow into spiritual maturity.
Attitudes About Themselves
16. Proud people feel confident in how much they know.
Broken people are humbled by how very much they have to learn.
17. Proud people are self-conscious; they worry about what others think of them.
Broken people are not preoccupied with what others think of them.
18. Proud people are concerned about appearing respectable; they are driven to protect their image and reputation.
Broken people are concerned with being real; they care less about what others think than about what God knows-they are willing to die to their own reputation.
19. Proud people can't bear to fail or for anyone to think they are less than perfect. This can drive them to extremes-workaholic tendencies, perfectionism, the tendency to drive others or to place unrealistic expectations on themselves or others.
Broken people can recognize and live within God-given limitations.
Attitudes About Relationships
20. Proud people keep others at arm's length.
Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately.
21.Proud people are quick to blame others.
Broken people accept personal responsibility and can acknowledge where they were wrong in a situation.
22. Proud people wait for others to come and ask forgiveness when there is a misunderstanding or a breach in a relationship.
Broken people take the initiative to be reconciled, no matter how wrong the other party may have been.
23. Proud people are unapproachable or defensive when corrected.
Broken people receive correction with a humble, open spirit.
24.Proud people find it difficult to discuss their spiritual needs with others.
Broken people are willing to be open and transparent with others as God directs.
25.Proud people try to control the people and circumstances around them- they are prone to manipulate.
Broken people trust in God- they rest in Him and are able to wait for Him to act on their behalf.
26. Proud people become bitter and resentful when they are wronged; they have emotional temper tantrums; they hold others hostage and are easily offended; they carry grudges and keep a record of others' wrongs.
Broken people give thanks in all things; they are quick to forgive those who wrong them.
Attitudes About Sins
27. Proud people want to be sure that no one finds out when they have sinned; their instinct is to cover up.
Broken people aren't overly concerned with who knows or who finds out about their sin- they are willing to be exposed because they have nothing to lose.
28. Proud people have a hard time saying, "I was wrong; will you please forgive me?"
Broken people are quick to admit their failure and to seek forgiveness when necessary.
29. Proud people tend to deal in generalities when confessing their sin to God (Dear Lord, please forgive me for all my sins...") or expressing spiritual need to others ("I need to be a better Christian...")
Broken people are able to acknowledge specifics when confessing their sin; "Lord, I agree with You that I love myself more than I love my mate; I confess that I am addicted to television; I’m a glutton; I have a critical spirit; I am an angry mother...."
30. Proud people are concerned about the consequences of their sin. They are disturbed over the problems caused by their sin-from example the financial bondage created by their overspending, or the problems in their marriage that have resulted from selfishness and immoral choices.
Broken people are grieved over the cause, the root of their sin. They are more concerned about how their sin has grieved and dishonoured God than about the problems it has created in their lives.
31. Proud people are remorseful over their sin- sorry that they got caught or found out.
Broken people are truly repentant over their sin, and the evidence of their repentance is that they forsake the sin.
Attitudes about their walk with God
32. Proud people are blind to the true condition of their hearts.
Broken people walk in the light and acknowledge the truth about their lives.
33. Proud people compare themselves with others and feel worthy of respect.
Broken people compare themselves with the holiness of God and feel a desperate need for His mercy.
34. Proud people don't think they need to repent of anything.
Broken people realize that they need to maintain a continual heart attitude of repentance.
35. Proud people don't think they need revival, but they are sure everyone else does.(In fact , right now, they are making a mental list of the people they think need to read this book!)
Broken people continually sense their need for a fresh encounter with God and for a fresh filling of His Holy Spirit.
-Nancy Leigh DeMoss (excerpt of book Brokenness: The Heart God Revives)
"Most Churches are like a bag of marbles- all hard and clanging up against one another. Instead, we ought to be like a bag of grapes- squished together so that the juice of His Spirit may flow out through us.” – Pastor Ray Ortlund
John 12:23-25
“25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.”
What does this kind of death mean? It means that we must be willing to die to our own interest, die to our own reputation, die to our own rights, die to our own ways of doing things; die to our own comfort, convenience, hopes, dreams, and aspirations. To “die” means to lay it all down. To give it all up. To let it all go.
Are you ready for Him to pour out His grace on the dry, thirsty ground of your heart?
Listened to the lyrics of this song "Surrender- Lincoln Brewster" right now. Acknowledge the first love of our Lord Jesus Christ. Open up your hearts and let our Sovereign Lord just minister to your hearts as you response to our Lord inSurrender.
Surrender- Lincoln Brewster
VERSE 1:
I'm giving You my heart, and all this is within
I lay it all down, for the sake of You my King
I'm giving You my dreams, Laying down my rights
I'm giving up my pride, for the promise of new life
CHORUS:
And I surrender, all to you
All to you
And I surrender, all to you
All to you
VERSE 2:
I'm singing You this song, waiting at the cross
All the world holds dear, I count it all as loss
For the sake of knowing You, for the glory of Your name
To know the lasting joy, even sharing in Your pain
CHORUS (to ending):
And I surrender, all to you
All to you
And I surrender, all to you
All to you
3) Looking Outward
Outreach! (Social Outreach, Personal Evangelism, Divine Appointments…)
What is Missions to you?
Will be sharing 2 aspect of this outward journey we should take… the social & spiritual aspect...
Isaiah 6:8-13
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!” 9 He said, “Go, and tell this people:
‘Keep on listening, but do not perceive;
Keep on looking, but do not understand.’
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| (Day 2 - Night Session on "Looking Outward") |
10 “ Render the hearts of this people insensitive,
Their ears dull,
And their eyes dim,
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
Hear with their ears,
Understand with their hearts,
And return and be healed.”
11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,
“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,
12 “The Lord has removed men far away,
And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 “Yet there will be a tenth portion in it,
And it will again be subject to burning,
Like a terebinth or an oak
Whose stump remains when it is felled.
The holy seed is its stump.”
Christine Caine- Justice- Issue of the Heart, Hillsong Conference 2012 (Extract)
Micah 6:8
New International Version (NIV)
8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly[a] with your God. "
It's a heart transformation!
If our heart is truly change by God, we will catch the heartbeat of God for His people!
What's good with our faith? If we do not carry out what we believe for God's people!
"Compassion is only a word until we cross the street and actually help the needy"
It’s a heartbeat! Jesus was always moved by compassion before he does his ministry! He cared for everyone with needs along the way. It's for the needy, the broken. The Miracles he did was not for his reputation
God's heartbeat for the lost, If we can't hear his heartbeat for the lost, we do not know God!
Illustration:
A man fell into a pit and couldn’t get himself out.
A subjective person came along and said, ‘I feel for you down there.’
An objective person came along and said: ‘It’s logical that someone would fall down there.’
A Christian Scientist came along: ‘You only think that you are in the pit.’
A Pharisee said: ‘Only bad people fall into a pit.’
A newspaper reporter wanted the exclusive story on this pit.
A fundamentalist said: ‘You deserve your pit.’
Confucius said: ‘If you would have listened to me, you would not be in that pit.’
Buddha said: ‘Your pit is only a state of mind.’
A realist said: ‘That’s a pit.’
A geologist told him to appreciate the rock strata in the pit.
A tax man asked if he was paying tax on the pit.
The council inspector asked if he has a permit to dig a pit.
An evasive person came along and avoided the subject of the pit altogether.
A self-pitying person said: ‘You haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen my pit.’
A charismatic said: ‘Just confess that you’re not in a pit.’
An optimist said: ‘Things could get worse!’
A pessimist said: ‘Things will get worse!’
Jesus, seeing the man, took him by the hand and lifted him out of the pit!
James 2:26 "...Faith without works is dead"
Illustration of Personal Evangelism
Rev Edmund Chan once shared this of how God gave him not once but two chances. One day his car battery died on a highway, This Indian guy came down to help him. Felt led to share Christ with him, but was to scared. He stops his engine after that thinking it will save battery before his friend he called came over. Soon thinking it’s ok already, he realised his car battery failed again and the second time, this time the same Indian guy across the highway now noticed him, stop his vehicle and helped him AGAIN! And thinking this time he got to share with him. He Chicken out again. Do we waste divine appointments like this? Not once but twice! Are we like Peter who denied Christ! Are we CHICKENS!!!! …In the end God gave him another chance… he told God of his struggles in evangelising and wanted to proof to God that he can’t do it. So he went across the street talk to talk to the first person he saw. And it was this Chinese lady who responded to him in Chinese. He struggled to share with her in the little Chinese that he knew but when he opened the invitation for her to receive Christ, she agreed immediately thereafter. And this was the breakthrough for many more divine appointments that came after.
Share testimonies of many divine opportunities that God answered my prayer or just place it before me…once to share with my classmates in CJC, friend Gifford who received Christ after 5 years later…
One more testimony of a divine appointment that just happened recently...
There’s this verse that says...
1 Peter 3:15, "But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect."
Would like to share a true account of how God can divinely intervene in the lives of 2 people who do not know each other. Below is a short testimony of God's intervention, which I’m still amazed as I share this.
The last few weeks, I’ve been communicating with this man whom I do not know via email. Apparently, his someone who grew up in an Episcopal church background who came across my site by chance and noticed that I was a Christian, so he decided to email me some deep intellectual questions about Christianity and disagreements he had with the bible in recent years due to certain circumstances he encountered from people he knew.
After much prayer & guidance by the Holy Spirit, I felt a need to respond to the best I can to each of his deeply reflected questions. A few more emails correspondence after, we began to share more personally about testimonies of our lives and thoughts on Christianity & I could sense from his responses the Faith and hope of God again which he had when he was a young Christian. Just knowing the turn of events for his life is one of the greatest Joys any fellow brother in Christ can experience. And it got even more divine when he asked what church I was from, and when I revealed the church I was, we both were amazed that we are actually from the same church all this while.
Looking back, I'm so sure God just place such divine opportunity for us! It has been one of the most meaningful email correspondences I ever had with someone before, especially one who found hope in God again and it all started from a divine intervention from our Sovereign Lord! :)
God has divine appointments for us! Seize it!
P.D.A
Personal revival
Divine Appointment
Active obedience
"One step forward in obedience is worth years of study about it."- Oswald Chambers
After the last couple of years being exposed to missions abit more, going for conferences, trainings and interacting with many. This is my current theology of what Missions is...
“It’s playing a part in God’s Mission to reconcile back His Kingdom to all creation & to restore His Creation Mandate. It’s a holistic approach, not just in a spiritual sense by evangelising to others, but being that true witness of God in our life and meeting the physical, physiological & emotional needs of the marginalized and the people we meet along in our journey in this life. And this is only possible with the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.”
“We are called to spread the Good News of the Gospel by Word, Deed and Sign in the power of the Holy Spirit so that the world may know Jesus Christ,”
P.D.A (Personal Revival, Divine Appointment, Active Obedience)
My last challenge for you all...
Will you take the challenge to avail our self to response in Active Obedience to the needs around us & to witness to the people in Divine appointments that God can place in our lives today?
Let’s Look Upward (to God), Look Inward (dying to our self), & Look Outward (To the
needs of others) in this exciting faith adventure with the Lord daily!
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Day 3- Closing sharing by Adriel Gwee's on Leadership.  |
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