Today's Lessons

Last night, auntie ivy messaged me asking me to take over in her place to lead worship for wednesday prayer meeting today.. and i agreed... and as i was preparing for the session this morning, the Lord taught me a very important lesson... Now i've always been kinda complaining in my heart regarding the attitude of people during the prayer meeting cos it seems that they're usually very difficult to coax to open their mouth to worship God.. sometimes they just stare at you or close their eyes and truly only God knows whether they're truly engaging Him or simply attempting to look spiritual.. as Errol puts it, it's like "having ten walls"...

So anyway, as i was just seeking the Lord regarding the session, the Lord was showing me that i should be a blessing to them.. instead of going up there with that kind of attitude of like being a "worship specialist" and that kind of attitude that goes "i know what i'm doing.." kinda thing.. God wants me to be a blessing to them instead of just going out there attempting to "teach them a lesson or two about worship".. and tonight, there was a flow... maybe it wasn't really so much of the mighty stream that i've seen in some other meetings, but it's God nonetheless.. and i thank the Holy Spirit for bringing about that change and teaching me something valuable..

I repented of that attitude.. Pride had come in.. but thank God for pointing it out to me... So what else happened?? The feedback monitors are crazy cos apparently i could hardly hear myself when the congregation could hear me pretty well.. that's why i have a tendency of blowing the sound level out of proportion.. now, unlce ban toned everything down while i was playing and i seriously wasn't used to not hearing myself very well.. but then again, i concentrated on worshipping the Lord and the flow was there... usually i would get distracted but by God's grace i managed to stay focused.. :)

Tonight, God was challenging us to enlarge our vision and to increase our faith.. cos He's going to bring us to new places in Him where we've never been before... And many times, one obstacle to that is that we're so consumed with our individual situations that we fail to see just how BIG He is... One thing the Lord spoke to me today about the youth is to teach them to think and pray for the nation.. to have a larger perspective, not just their individual circumstances... When we learn to operate like that, how can God not move? :)

On my way home, i was just meditating on how good God is and all the things that He has done on the cross and i was just thinking about 2008.. and the Holy Spirit was impressing upon me that 2008 will be a year of blessing! :)

Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! :)