Another Valley Conqured, Weary soul was restored...

It was a grueling week for me as it was my exam week.

I am just so tired of my fleshly self during that time to study for just one paper. One paper, and my ugly sides were shown. I have been rebellious, been stubborn and unreasonable. It was a challenging time for me as I received criticism after criticism during this week. And when I wanted to study, I was so affected by my circumstance, I did not really look forward towards my exams and my drive to study wavers too soon.

Fortunately, I really thank God for being my helper. When I went to Ngee Ann Poly to look for my lecturer, asking for tips to help me, about 90% of the exam paper, came out what I was told to study. There were some difficulties in the paper calculations and now that the paper is finished, I can seat back and relax!!!

That was what I thought. I actually felt relieved that the exam is over. However, during that whole week, I missed out something, and that is Praising God no matter what the situation.

On that Friday night, the exam day, I went for a concert, invited by my friend Josephine. It was her church concert known as JUMP, Jesus 'U' Must Praise 2008. It was in the open air, Fort Canning Park. When the event started, we just began to sing praises and worship. Although I was new to this event, I did not feel out of place. The group of people there maybe small, smaller that City Harvest. But they are definitely on fire for God. After the event I was tired, but still I remember the true meaning of Praise and Worship, which we all knew but we always forget when we face crisis.

I thought that I could just seat down and relax remember? Well thats my wrong perception. From this day forth its going to be even busier! Rev Alex Abraham from Bethany Church in Indonesia, came to minister to us and give us the Word for both Sat and Sunday Service as these two services was the day of School of Theology, SOT, Graduation ceremony! My cell group members, Junjie and Michelle were students of SOT and we gave our support.

The thing about Rev Alex Abraham, is that he came to preach even when he is still recovering from his Stroke. He was humble after Pastor Kong grace him with all the achievements he had. The moment he came up he said that "I am just a Servant." Immediately I thought of the song, Hati Hamba. Even though he preached in indo language, there was an interpretor to translate to English, i can just feel the presence of God in that room. He shared his amazing Testimony of how he became a Pastor and met God for the first time.

The details are too long but I can say this. There is Power, in the Name of Jesus Christ. He reminded us the one thing that sometimes we always forgot. That God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit is ONE GOD. And God dwells in our Heart! Not the address of Heaven, but he dwells within you. Thus we are able to do Great things because God dwells in us! He made some points which I noted that whenever he wanted things to happen, he will always call upon the name of Jesus. Then during the altar call, he wanted to give us an impartation. He called down the Spirit and I was actually touched by the Holy Spirit, giving me a glimpse of the future me. I shall not reveal it. =)

That was just the First Day. Today, he was extraordinary as usual. He talked about how he got his land for his church, another amazing and inspiring testimony. There was a funny part about how he would jog about the land and sing this song: "In the name of Jesus, In the name of Jesus, I have the victory. In the name of Jesus, In the name of Jesus, This Land belongs to me." We laughed at that. But the thing is, he got that huge plot of land, Free of Charge because, he did a miracle for the owner of that land. Then instead of preaching further, he felt the Holy Spirit move and asked Pastor Kong to stand so that he can pray for him. I know that at this point. It was indeed a blessing to the whole church.

He gave certain prophetic word and asked the Holy Spirit to empower Pastor Kong as well as to strengthen the church. I felt great confidence in my own body. I felt that big things will be happening in the future. Indeed I felt very excited, with all the upcoming stuff like Asia Conference, its going to be a phenomenal time from this day forth.

Rev Alex Abraham says this: We have only one Life, which God has given us, so Let us Live it All the Way for the Glory of our lord, Jesus Christ.