Asia Conference 2010 was really amazing. I learned a lot from the pastors and I felt privilege to attend this major conference. I learnt about love, speaking the promises of God through our mouth, faith, visualizing, a heart for revival, praying and self-concept.
I'm fortunate to meet a pastor from India while queuing up for the night session on Saturday(Pastor Raja). He was sitting beside me and approached me to clarify one or the word in Psalms. I began to talk to him, asked him when he got saved, how he started his ministry, the beginning of His calling from God and his childhood. I was really touched and my heart was stirred at that moment. He grew up being in gang fights, do what teenagers normally did, but one fine day his friend brought him to church and realized that the things he did was wrong and unacceptable. He got a new testament from the pastor, read it and turned to Christ in 1980's august. When he was called in reaching out to the widows and orphans, many things that he want from God was answered quickly. God provided for him every resources that is needed for his ministry. The thing that caught me was his humbleness.
He said :"There's still many areas in my life I need to change for God though after being safe. It's not enough. I need to be more like Jesus."
These words ringed into my heart and i realized that we, Singaporeans lived in a very blessed country where we don't have to worry about our education, the safe and sound country where we don't have be afraid everywhere we go, whatever things we want, we can get it just so easily. Things like food, clothing, a shelter to stay and rest. We some what forget that we are so blessed, blessed enough to have more than the basics of living and take things for granted, or wanted more. We lead our life most of the time without changing and wasted year after another year, being the same old person, committing the same old mistakes again and again without making a real effort to improve, to become more like Jesus. We almost forget the main thing, to be more like Him. How about saying more precise, Stagnancy?
The longer we stay in church, we forgot about it. All we want was God to bless us this, bless us that, do this and that. But we remain the way we are, unchanged. I've seen many Christians like this. We have the freedom to preach, spread the gospel in Singapore but not all countries can do that so openly, yet we took it for granted. Countries like India, where Pastor Raja stays in a poor environment can have a yearning heart , what more about us living here where we have so many opportunities for God to use us. Yet we do not have the yearning heart to become more like Him.
There's no time wasting life away now, but having a yearning heart to be like Him so the world can see us differently. Thats when extraordinary things happen not only in our life, but the other lifes of the people.
I will run, I will run this race, And I will do it all for love. Your love compels me forward, Your love controls my heart, And I just can't, I cannot get away.
So I will fight this good fight of faith, And I will do it all for love. You are my great reward, You're so worth fighting for And I can't wait to see Your face.
All i need, is You. just You. You are more than enough, more than enough. Take me away, Bring me with You, We can have all the time together, Just You and me.
Fill my mind, my soul and my heart with Your Peace.
“The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their trouble … many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” (Psalm 34:17 and 19).
I want to be passionate, I want to be desperate, I want to be hungry, I want to be thirsty, I want more, more of You. Satisfy me O God. Let Your annointing and power fall upon me. A vessel, keep me burning, burning bright O God. Let Your consuming fire fall upon me. Break me even more, Mould me even more, Refine me even more.
The LORD replied, "My precious, precious child.
I love you and I would never leave you.
During your times of trial and suffering,
when you see only one set of footprints,
it was then that I carried you."
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