I ....AM ......SO ......GOING ......To
EAT AT CARL'S JUNIOR every time I go to VIVO! Vivo's Carl's Junior is a great place to hang out at, so please DO go there!
The REASON BEING: They found my DIARY which I accidentally misplaced, and kept it for me! GOOD PEOPLE =) Haha, but still, Praise GOD my diary was SAFE and SOUND =)
The past two weeks FLEW BY so quickly I didn't really have time to blog. Two fridays ago, we had Prayer and Power night. The sermon was on prayer. Pastor George started off with: Why pray when we know God has plans worked out for us already? Well, The answer is obvious! Prayer works the hands of God! Prayer allows us to connect with God's thoughts, and to listen to directions from God. In jeremiah 29:13, the bible also states that we must seek God with all our heart, and this can only be done through fervent prayer. God knows what should be done, and God wants to use us to accomplish His will, and so, by praying, God would then reveal His plans for us so that we could carry out what He called us to do =) Thus, in all things, we should PRAY.
The past week wasn't that significant either (except for unlimited "fun-ness" planning and laughing with the REAL people) in workshops because we were all preparing HARD for the evangelistic event (Where Is The Love) we had on saturday. Okay, so the REAL story begins NOW!
We had been praying the past few weeks for the event, for God to prepare the hearts the community. We had on our list 30 people. We prepared so much for the games, the layout and the evangelistic message. At 11am, only 3 girls came. I was a little disappointed at first. Even when David and I went out to Swiss Cottage to see if we could bring more people in, no one wanted to go for our event.
Nonetheless, I told myself not to question God's plans. More people came at 12, so we decided to carry on with our game, cutting back the number of game booths and changing the role of some of our 30 game marshalls into game players so that the people would not feel awkward. The event carried on still, WITH A BLAST! The evangelistic message was an even GREATER BLAST! I realised that God truly works in ways WE CANNOT SEE. Even though we did not hit our expected target of 60 people, we planted 14 seeds into the lives of the people who went for our event. We have 1 rededication and 1 salvation officially, with 3 others still considering! PRAISE GOD
It is often very true that we measure the success of the events by our own eyes, which I admit bitterly that I had attempted to do that on saturday morning. However, by the time we got to the evangelistic message, I've learnt to acknowledge that God is in control of the number of people He wishes to touch and move in that event. God's presence was so powerful that hearts were touched by Him. Well, this incident has strengthened my faith greatly and it has also taught me that only God can determine what a 'success is'. So what if the number of people who went for our event was only 15? With 15, God is still in our midst! God would still touch the lives of those who came! Well, that's not all, our event ran SO smoothly, our evangelistic message was shared and we had great food! God's hand is upon us all =) We were tired after the event, but none of us fell sick despite all the late nights we had to endure to prepare for the event. Praise God! God worked in the lives of those who came, but at the same time, He PROTECTED us and gave us good health throughout the event=) Priase Him!
This is so long-winded, but the works of God doesn't stop here! He actually showed me how He prepared this young boy,
whose heart was almost a zero for God. When I first met him, he was the LAST person I thought would turn up at our Ice-cream event, but he did. God used David to speak to him, to bring him over to crossroads, and to invite him to our event on saturday. I think it was until Friday that he decided to go for our event. He managed to bring his friends along too=)
His heart was open to the gospel when the message was shared. Praise God. Now, although he's not yet accepting God, but I know God is still working to bring him closer to Him. God doesn't have to work in huge ways which we can see, but instead, He works in subtle ways which we tend not to acknowledge God for working. I have truly learnt that we should not always conclude that God's not doing anything impactful when actually we do not even know what God's plan is. I think it's really important that we should not assume our thoughts to be God's thoughts.
There's just so much I learnt! Picturees would soon be uploaded! I realised it's far too WORDY.
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