Momentum

God is building the momentum for what He is doing in the church and i'm so glad to be a part of it! Let's talk about the weekend and what's been happening...

Had Gatekeepers on friday and the presence of the Lord was awesome in the place.. was telling Ray and Serene that some of the best worship experiences that i had were not in Ignite conference but during Gatekeepers.. something for you all to think about.. I saw my spirit man burning with fire inside and i knew the Lord wanted to do something.. anyway, I saw the cloud of prophecy enter the room... and God spoke to many of us.. there were also angels in the place and the angels were there to ensure that our destiny and the prophetic words that have been released over our lives would come to pass and find their fulfillment.

I sensed that what we were duing during gatekeepers was changing the atmosphere of the church.. it was affecting the church, not just the youth ministry and i felt that the Lord was calling the church to arise... There was like an invitation for us to go into His presence where we've never gone in before... to access His presence.. And during worship i saw the Lord Jesus surrounded by almond blossoms and He was saying "Come, come..." Almond blossoms are quite significant for what they can stand for.. One of the things they represene are people, especially leaders and one of the things that God was highlighting this year is the blossoming of people.. The blossoming also speaks about the fulfillment of words that have been spoken in the past... these are that promises that God has made over the ministry and the blossoming talks about them coming to pass. The interesting thing about what i saw was that these almond blossoms were surrounding Jesus.. this means that for them to come to pass and for the blossoming to take place, Jesus must be at the centre of it.. he must be our focus.. our eys must be on Him cos only in Him will these things come to pass... cos everything is yes and amen in Him...

Another thing i saw was a tractor... and it talks about reaping the harvest with new strategies.. people used to reap by hand but now they use tractors and the tractors speak about us reaping more with the new methods than what people did with the old methods.. i was telling alvin that afternoon that this generation requires new strategies.. not just the 4 spiritual laws.. and i believe these new methods will involve a display of signs and wonders.. of the supernatural.. of the prophetic, of healing and a demonstration fo the power of God... we're living in the last days...

During Gatekeepers, the Lord has also placed upon me a new mandate... i saw an axe on the ground and the Holy Spirit asked me to pick it up so i did and i received it in the Spirit.. and i knew what this axe meant... it's for me to cut down anything opposed to faith.. all the mindsets and attitudes that are opposed to what God wants to do and that are opposed to the nature of Christ... it's gonna stay with me for a while...

Had a plenary meeting with the leadership team on saturday afternoon before youth service which turned out quite well i guess... a good number volunteered to plan this year's youth camp and most were also open to the idea of us having our next connection 333 at RP and most were open also to us having that 24h worship event.. hmmm if ppl can have live earth for the environment, why can't we have something like that for our generation?? :)

Had worship followed by LG... i read some of the dreams that some of the youth wrote down and i'm quite pleased.. hehehe... had musical prac after that den went home...

sunday morning... had to cab to church cos i overslept. joined the teachers for their 730 prayer. Went for 1st service cos there was no new team... Den when he talked about Caleb and the mountains, i was reminded of the word spoken over me that i would go to a hill country which i'm still dunno what... a country came to my mind though... *****a****... but i need confirmation...

Got William and Alex to pray for me... when William prayed, tears started to well up my eyes and honestly, i've never seen a Sojourner pray like that before.. not even some of the leaders... He said "i just sense that God loves you..." and he didn't say it like it was just another statement but it really came from deep down within him... God is really doing something...

Went up to CC where the worship was flat... ppl were not entering in, they were just spectators, not participants.. even auntie ivy din know what to do at a point.. i was supposed to share that sunday but God had other plans.. we challenged the children to engage God on their own and got teachers to go around praying for them.. also got some of the kids to go around praying... and den there was an opening of the heart to some measure.. hope that God would sustain and build up what He's doing in the lives of the children... so since that took up most of the time and there was no sharing, the lesson would have to be postponed one week later.. and since i have servers cell this sunday, someone has to take over... and since most ppl can't, and the lesson was easy enuf, serene would be taking over.. she agreed to do it and it'd be her first time teaching in CC this coming sunday.. :)

After CC went to celebrate David's birthday in the kitchen together with Shaun and company and had our lunch before joining choir. Choir prac was kinda short lah cos lunch was late and we din do "Mercy Saw Me"... den went to join serene and ray to go town... ended up at NYDC where we ate some good food and i was just sharing with them stuff from the book of John.. maybe next time we can do more tissue evangelism... :)

Adios! :)