Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Thank God for His grace!

I just wanna take this opportunity to thank God for all His grace for the past 3 weeks. I started preaching in the CG 3 weeks ago and had been attending 2 services and 2 CGs every week. Need to accompany a friend to service 5 every week and help to play guitar for another CG. God is really stretching my capacity to serve Him and still love Him. Weekends were my busiest days. Especially last week we started a churchwide Wed 24 hrs fasting and Fri overnight prayer meeting, I was stretched to the extreme.

24hrs Fasting: Made me realised that I don't have enough fats to burn. I couldn't sleep at night and was so cold even when my windows were shut, no fans was on, I still covered myself with a blanket. At 6 in the morning, my body was shaking and trembling as I hopped out of bed to go for a shower. I felt weak. After eating, I rested a while and went to school to teach. Really thank God for bringing me through this. I thought I couldn't make it to school, but in the end I did. In fact, I got more and more energetic as I got to school. So God is good! We'll never know we can do it until we take the 1st step to try.

Overnight Prayer Meeting: I was very very touched to see the whole auditorium filled with people. It means that we have a large group of people who carries the vision of God and of CHC, who are willing to spend time to pray together. While everyone was sleeping soundly at home, there we were praying for our church. More than 1000 people stayed till 5a.m. in the morning! Where else can you find such passionate people? The Word of God says, "The effective fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much." We don't just have one man, we have more than 1000 men! And we gonna stand together for the next few weeks as well!!

So last Fri after the overnight prayer meeting, I reached home at about 7a.m. and slept till 10+a.m. Went to school for my MOE EXCEL FEST funfair duty and then went straight for 2 CGs. Honestly speaking, if I say I wasn't tired, I would be lying. I was tired in my mind. Forgot to get off the bus, walked the wrong directions etc. However, His grace got me through the entire day. Thank God for His presence during the CGM. It was the 1st time that Bro Duncan wasn't around. Really grace grace!

So it's gonna be Wed tomorrow!!! Yeah! Fasting, here I come! Fri overnight prayer meeting, here I come! His grace is always sufficient for me!!

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