W.O.W.
Haha.
Nick's testimony. Walking On Water.
Haha.
Haven't blogged since thursday night! Did a very short update just so I could remember what we covered during SP class.
It's been great.
I can't believe we've so-called 'graduated' from SP class already. It's been so fast.
We went SALTing on Friday.
It was fantastic.
Bugis was good.
Of course, God was the one who orchestrated everything.
When we got there, Deborah the brave soul, approached a pair of girls and then we jumped straight into bridge diagram. So I shared and talked and talked and tried to listen. And the most amazing and encouraging thing was that when I asked "would you like to cross over now?" the girl who paid more attention to me told me that "I would like to but my mum doesn't allow". At that point I remember Pastor Gary's words. It was so, so amazing. Thank God we clarified with him after class. If Deb and I hadn't, what I would have done would be to say "okay then you should obey your mother". Pastor Gary said something about accepting Christ being a personal decision and that was like in line with the first and most important commandment "love the Lord your God..." So we just told her it was a personal decision, but if she was unable to come to church, it was alright.
Yep. But even though we had a salvation I guess we made the mistake of not asking for her email when she didn't want to give us her number in the fear that her mother might find out. But I guess lessons are there to be learnt, and thank God for the salvation!
And that positive first experience really spurred us on and encouraged us. We got 6 contacts. Speaking of which, I haven't emailed them yet. Will do that soon! I notice that for Deborah and I, God's been giving us many positive first experiences. For saturation of flyers in Bishan, before played out, the first people we approached were this pair of girls and when we offered them flyers, one of them said "oh my friend invited me already, thanks!" It was so amazing that IGNYTErs have been placed all over the place and these people really make the effort and take that courage to go out and invite their friends! I'd love to invite people for The Father's Love but I'll be away! I know Deb will be there and she's great but my friends might not be comfortable. It's okay! Event or not, God's still good and He's still capable of bringing salvations(:
Today's service was awesome awesome AWESOMEEE.
Sis Trina preached. It was a very clear message. I can even remember what she said.
1. Know God, Know your mission
2. Vision for mission.
3. Stand firm for God's mission
It was about denying the self and following Christ. And we were shown this video about these people who chose to follow Christ even though they were persecuted really badly (hot water poured down throat, broken glass pressed on stomach, beated with sticks etcetc). And really, in Singapore we are too fortunate. To the point where so many of us take God for granted at times, myself included. We are too comfortable. But I'm not complaining! Thank God!
And at the altar call I just knelt down and laid my life at the altar. And sis trina came and prayed for me. And I remember she prayed that I would place God's mission before myself and I started to cry. Not the cry my heart out kind of cry, but honestly it was the first time I actually cried quite badly. It's a half good half bad kind of cry, as in, cry because I knew that I haven't been most active in evangelism or just in being conscious to live as a good testimony and I felt bad. That's the bad part of the cry- guilt. But I knew something had to change, and would change. And that's the good part of the cry, I guess.
After altar call and bag-fetching, we went to the front, waiting for sis kim. And P Gary was in the front with this girl and an adult and if I'm not wrong, some other people, standing in a circle and talking. And then P Gary turned behind, stared at me for a while, and then said,"Laura, you next year sec 2 right?" and then I said "uhuh" and then he brought me into the circle. Felt so odd. Turns out this girl Clara, also next year sec 2, came with her aunt. So naturally the first question I asked her was "are you a believer, a Christian?" She said "no" so I knew P Gary probably wanted me to PRACTICE SP CLASS SKILLS! It's so scary! It's not called practice, it's a LIFE we're talking about. And the scariest thing was when P Gary told me, several times, something like "it's all up to you". Gosh. It's so scary to hear that. But I believe that if God could give me and Deborah that kind of courage to go all out during SALTING, He WILL give me the courage and the faith to most importantly build a relationship with Clara, first of all, and as over time, share with her the love of the Lord through sharing with her my testimony.
Well, I've made my share of mistakes doing this (especially with Janne, I'm really sorry for taking up 2h of your time at one shot like I'm stalking you, if you read this. I haven't done that kind of thing and I didn't know how to do it and I guess I was over-passionate and too impatient and just jumped into it. I guess it didn't occur to me that these things take time! I'm really really sorry!)
Saturday after church wasn't good because I couldn't get that pretty pretty Espirit shirt I was gunning for because the J8 branch HADN'T OPENED YET. And the salesgirl actually told us there were 4 pieces of M there (as it turned out, in the storeroom...) And in the end we didn't get it.
But Saturday was good because I SMSed Clara and got to know quite a lot about her.
I didn't catch her school during service though, but it isn't good to ask twice 'cause people think you aren't listening.
I invited her for Xmas! But she stays in Hougang... So she said she may not be able to come. Hope she does though! Good chance to make friends with buzz group people!
And somehow along the line Clara told me her mother was malay. Seriously, gave me a shock. It's illegal to share the gospel with malays because their families would disown them if they weren't muslim anymore. But I asked Clara if her mum allowed her to come to church and she said her mum wasn't strict about it, so I guess it was fine!
Wow.
Wow.
I'm not in the habit of praying for people, honestly. I'm a very self-centred person I and tend to pray for myself. Okay not really myself. More like all the stuff I go through. But I think it's time to be outward-looking rather than inward!
Well, change needs to take place!
I shall pray for others today.
And tomorrow.
And so on, haha.
Oh and prayer and fast for camp starts tomorrow!
Can't wait.
OH AND MY FIRST LESSON WITH DR WONG IS TOMORROW! AND HER EXPECTATIONS OF ME, GOD KNOWS WHERE SHE GOT THEM FROM, ARE DUPER HIGH!
She was like, "she doesn't have to take voice as a second instrument, she can take it as her first instrument."
I was like totally stunned.
I mean, to get a Dip in voice to over take piano (which in fact my mum is gunning for Dip...) is like totally nuts?
Well well.
So many things on hand. With men this is impossible, but with God,
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!
(:
Had better spend TAWG and sleep now, bye!
hold me now at 9:51 PM
