No Apologies, St. Paul's Church 2011

This is a camp which is themed about the truth of life, love and sex... Its on the 28th-30th of August... But I would not be talking about the whole camp, I will be talking about an amazing thing that happened to me in that camp... You must read this, I'm not kidding! =)
I was given the responsibility to worship lead for the first day of the camp... The first session of P&W is in the morning, so everything went well, except that I forgot to copy the Powerpoint slides into the computer for projection, how careless of me!

But that's not the main point of this testimony...

It all started during dinner time... Me and Christopher were having dinner together, and since we were the camp commanders, we felt that we should go around to have fellowhip with other people... SO we went to a group and sat down with them... So we had small talk here and there... In the end, Chris asked one of the girls there about the P&W session that I lead that morning... That girl was forced by her mother to come and she didn't like the camp at all... So i guess, out of anger, she said that the whole P&W session is terrible! The vocals, the music, she said that its all a mess! I don't know why, I know that I shouldn't care about what they say because what we're doing is to glorify God, but the things she said kept going in circles in my head!

10 minutes before the P&W session starts, I just couldn't take it anymore! I felt pain and sadness in me... I just can't stop thinking that I didn't do well enough for God and that this is my punishment... I went to Peter and Marcus who were my fellow P&W team leaders and tell them that I simply couldn't lead the worship that night...

Without hesitation, they said that they wanted to pray for me, so they both put their hands on my shoulders and started praying... And without warning, I started crying and I can feel the warmth of the presence of the Spirit... So I agreed to carry on with it, but because I just cried, my voice is not stable and I asked Marcus to help me lead the fast praise songs....

So at first, it went smoothly without any problems... And so it came to the slow worship songs that I'm leading... When it came to the last song, as I open my eyes, I just see and feel that the Holy Spirit is not there... I asked God with a tinge of sadness, "Even after the Spirit touched me, why can't I feel the Holy Spirit's presence among the people?"

Right after I ask that question, immediately.......... BAMM!!!!!!!!! The electricity and the lights went out! And right before that came into my mind, the presence of God HIMSELF was so strong that I was nearly knocked of my feet! And without warning, streams and streams of tears flowed down my face... And God spoke to me... "Why do you care how the people of the world thinks of you? You are singing for Me, not for them! I am THE ONE who anointed you to lead the people... And now, I'm gonna show you My glory!" And what I write right now is all real and I didn't make anything up....

How awesome is our God!

I hope that this testimony will touch you as much as it has touched me... Don't care about how other people think of you when you're doing what God wants you to do... Because what you're doing is for God and God ONLY... No one else!

May God watch over you while you serve God...

God bless!! =)

Lost & Found: Your Mercy Found Me Upon The Broken Road

L&F is an Easter celebration and evangelistic event organized by the Christian Fellowships of Chung Ling High School and Penang Chinese Girls' High School... Its on a Saturday, 23rd of April 2011...

This is really an eye-opening event for me personally... I'm the event coordinator for this event... And you know what's really impossible? Its two weeks right after the Inter-School CF Outing that I appear to be the event coordinator as well... And that's not it... We were so busy planning for the outing that we have forgotten about the Easter event... And we only started our meeting for this two weeks before the event!

You may think that planning this late will create a lot of problems huh? You're NOT wrong...

At first, when we planned everything, it appears to go smoothly... But on a Saturday night, if I'm not wrong, problems started to pop out... The biggest one of all, is that the venue, which is the main hall of Penang Christian Centre, is not available!

We had a Praise and Worship practice and meeting the following day afternoon... That itself is a problem, due to miscommunication, the venue for that, that is also P.C.C. which was supposed to be booked by us, was not booked! But the Lord's grace started to appear, the church keeper said that there is another meeting going on, so we could carry on with our practice, but only until the church board's meeting finishes... Thank God for that! Not everyone attended the practice though, so we couldn't really practice... After that we had our meeting, and problems continue to appear... It turns out that because the venue is not available, we had to totally change our plans... And since we couldn't of another venue to replace the original one, we had no choice but to put it aside first and hope that God will open a way for us...

When the meeting ended, after I went home and had a bath... I was tired sick! I felt like tonnes of weights were crushing me! So I just fell on my bed, and I started praying... I pray to God that this is an event to glorify Him, so I begged Him to take my burdens away and help me solve my problem, 'cos I felt so helpless back then!

But the problems didn't stop there! The next day, my friend called me up and told me that the mics and amps for the Praise and Worship are all insufficient! I almost went crazy hearing that... But still, I continue to pray for miracles and put my faith in God...

And INDEED, miracles started to occur! On Tuesday night, four days before the event itself, my friend called me up and told me that the main hall of P.C.C. might not be available, but there is a small hall that is! So without hesitation, I told him that we'll take it, 'cos I believe this is God's grace! But the problem with the equipments for the P&W was not solved yet...

So the day of the event came, and we were expecting a hundred people to come... As we went into the hall, that is Nissi Hall, another miracle occured! We found there are more than enough mics and just the right amount of amps needed... How amazing is that?

In the end, only 50 people came, but you know what? I felt that its the Lord's plan 'cos He knows that a hundred people is hard for us to handle... So the event went smoothly and one soul was saved! And at the end I felt that the plan that God prepared for us is even better than the one we had...

P.S. I know that I'm posting this a lil' late, but I'll try to catch up... Be prepared, a lot more is coming your way!!

God Bless~ =)