Festival of Praise 2008

I went for the last day of FOP on sunday.. honestly i wouldnt have gone if not for the fact that MY asked me to go and since i couldnt go for dinner on sat night with him, decided to accompany him to FOP instead.. at first i was having second thoughts about going.. i didnt usually like such events for all the hype and all the frenzy and whatever have you... well at the end of the day, i ended up being glad that i actually went...

God used the event to deal with me, my lousy attitude and my proud and critical spirit... and as the worship started, it was as if He tore and stripped away all that pretence that i was covered with and wanted me to worship Him in spirit and in truth... Hillsongs came on stage and when Reuben Morgan started leading worship, there was a sense of drawing in the spirit.. can tell that the band is really anointed and genuine and that they really knew what they were doing.. needless to say, i had tears running down my face even when the fast songs were being sung as the Holy Spirit was doing a deep work in my heart...

I found that the words they sang came alive to me and started to hit me like a bullet... the band was not showy.. their focus was not on themselves but you can truly sense the humility with which Reuben Morgan led the congregation, pointing everyone to Jesus and not the hype... and God really honoured that with a strong sense of His presence.. they really had a different spirit.. and so as we worshipped, God gave me a fresh revelation of Jesus and of His work on the cross and i just felt captivated by it all, all over again... the words we sang started to make sense and they became relevant to my life and my walk with God... they were of Jesus and the cross.. and i realised one thing about lyrics.. the lyrics help us to behold Him... as we sing and declare of who He is and what He has done, it helps us to behold Him whom we sing about... and by that we are changed.. by that we are captivated and arrested by His incomparable virtues and glorious holy attributes...

Furthermore, i realised that the words that i sang only made sense to me because of my hidden life in God, my history with Him... my walk with Him and my fellowship with Him, my daily transactions with Him and even His daily dealings with me.. and i saw that worship only reinforces the walk you already have with God.. and the depth that you reach in worship is really based on your daily walk where the words that you sing can make sense only in the context of your relationship with Him.. and without that walk, it's near impossible to attain such a depth in worship... so worship and walk go together.. not just for the time we sing songs corporately but also how we live our lives beyond that...

And so there in that place where God dealt with me, as i was weeping before Him, He spoke certain things to me... one was that i saw my heart broken in pieces.. den He said "I am putting the pieces back together in the right order" hmmm.. until now im still not quite sure what He meant by that but i know i can rest in the fact that He's doing His deep work in my life...

For the nation of Singapore, i saw the eagles rising upand taking flight. I also saw the majesty of God, Him seated on high.. and light shone between His hands... and from where He was seated came a release of fireballs and blazing arrows down upon the earth, down upon the nation.. i also sensed that when revival hits singapore, the manifestations that would occur would be special, unique, and different, unlike what you would see in other places... it would be something that would uniquely characterise God's special move upon the nation...

God bless :D