Tuesday, May 29, 2007
I'm finally baptized. After a long wait, after lots of prayers, after lots of waiting, after lots of bouncing around, I am finally BAPTIZED!!! Haha, Joy to the Lord.Let's see, I got Baptized on 25th May 2007, a Friday. And Pentecost Sunday was the Sunday following that, haha...
Ok, let's see. The first task i got after being baptized is that i have to clean the toilet. The lesson in this is real simple for me, Humility. I went to work after i got baptized, and to my shock and horror and disgust, i found the toilet at my workplace, Basement 5, dirty... Something which i totally cannot stand. Someone poop-ed all over the squatting WC. And so, me being me, cleaned it up without thinking. What a start of my spiritual life huh, hehe... But thanks be to God, i felt much better after cleaning it up. A service rendered to the Lord.
Then the next thing I did was something I totally enjoyed. I BBQ-ed other peoples' sins. Whaha... How? With fire, literally, and with a BBQ pit. I went to the Encounter Weekend to help out, and instead of nailing the sin list to the cross, they wanted to burn the list. So I helped to set up the fire and help usher them to burn the list. One thing I made sure, was that everyone's list was burnt to ashes. I made sure that nothing, not one sin, is left. I felt that it was spiritual warfare in a sense. Making sure that none of the sins that the people is left, less it comes back. But that's just me la. you may think it's too exaggerated.
Next was to pray for the people at EW to receive the gift of tongues. That was totally the Holy Spirit at work, not me. Who am I to be able give other's this gift. Only the Holy Spirit who is in me is able to do so. And Brothers, indeed, the Lord uses us to release this gift to others.
So thanks be to God in all things.
Joe Choo || 12:36 AM
Sunday, May 27, 2007
my encounter weekend boys!
(L to R) jarrell, glenn, kenneth, shaun, me, gabriel
so i was away at ps william's encounter this weekend as a guide for the very first time... i've been to encounter weekend twice... 1st as a participant (cried like a baby)... 2nd was as a logistic (cried like a baby)... and this time i had to take on the role of guide and big brother to 5 young lads... i had absolutely no idea what i was getting myself into... i didn't know them at all and i wasn't sure what was required of me for the weekend... i was quite apprehensive of what being a guide was about... and i told dennis about it... dennis just told me this was a good opportunity for me to "die to self"... less of me and more of the Lord and the Holy Spirit... so I did... I went to the weekend with the thought that I'll leave everything to the Lord and try as much as I could to move in the Spirit...
went off a little quiet because i didn't know how to talk to these guys... i mean they're 15 and i'm almost twice their age... so during one of the sharing sessions, one of them said that it was kinda too quiet around... so i took a step and starting to talk more... we just sort of shared about our lives and stuff... and i told them my ns stories and life story and we sort of started to have something to talk about... then the rest of the weekend was slightly better now that we could talk...
and the praying has really been more spirit-led than ever before... i didn't have any preconceived idea of what to pray for... but just followed whatever prompting that came to me... here's a little testimony:
months back i watched a documentary on channelnewsasia on tourette's syndrome... about this bunch of kids dealing with the medical condition and that they have to live with having twitches or muscle spasms... then the last week i was trying to remember this medical term... i couldn't remember it no matter what... the name just didn't come to me...
then during the 1st nite of encounter... i noticed one of my bois kept having involuntary twitches... but i didn't dare to ask him about it yet... and on the 2nd day... the term "tourette's syndrome" suddenly popped into my head and i suddenly remembered that its the same term i tried to remember the entire week... i didn't know why i kept trying to recall the name but at that point i understood why! i felt this prompting to pray for the boi but i wanted to make sure first...
so on the 2nd nite i spoke to him and asked him whether he had a medical condition... he replied yes, but seemed really uncomfortable talking about it so i didn't pursue further... by the 3rd day morning... the Spirit was literally shouting in my head to go pray for him! i wanted to make sure i was praying the right thing so i asked to talk to him privately after lunch and asked if he knew what his medical condition was called... i was thinking to myself if he said "tourette's" then i'd have hit the jackpot... he said he didn't know... but i just told him i was prompted to pray about it for him... so i just prayed a little prayer over him for healing to begin and for him to receive this healing...
other than that... i prayed for one of my bois and william's james (with ps william) and this other little boi (with joe) during the Holy Spirit session and they all received the gift of tongues! hallelujah!
the Lord uses all of us in greater ways than we think! now can i hear an Amen!?
lennel || 10:30 PM well well well, its me again to post 1st. hahaha... this is the 1st time i am attending ew as a guide, it was fun at the same time i learn things differently. Plus some of u might know wat happen to me at the ew. argh... scary... but yet anyway, wat touches me the most was the session about burning the sin list thingy. just as the pastor said that we can proceed to burn the sin list, i just felt prompt to ask my guys to pause for a moment to think thru wat they have written in the sin list. asking them to be truth to God since i am not going to ask them to share or anything. After which i pray for them one by one as we continue in the jounery of burning the list. after i pray for the last member, they told me that they wanna pray for me too. at this moment i felt affirm of y am i serving. serving this ew made me engage in the holy spirit even more.
i got to thank God and all glory to Him. cuz as i was praying for dickson to receive the gift of tongue i was unsure of how to do it. so i kept asking God to let mi. may i decrease n He increase in me. prayed for the 1st time it didn't work.(i admit tt i didn't believe i could do it.) so i tried again and. YEAH!!!! he receive the gift. really thank God. then i realize that i just have to believe God tt i could do it. it will be done by God. so i tried again helping a kid to receive tongue. before i start i just tell the Lord tt i am not the one doing it but it is God who is in me. i told God to use me as an instrument to bless others. and i just pray for a while and the little boy receive it. but was scare. then i told him do not be afraid. and just trust God. END
Side issue: i think i am coping wel with the letting go. thank for praying. i BELIEVE the day will come.
Anonymous || 7:57 PM
Monday, May 14, 2007
guys... need your inputsms me 1 thing that sets you apart from our little brotherhood of 12...
1 thing that would symbolise you... can be an activity... can be an item...
e.g.: daniel = fencing / zhixiong = b-ball / junliang = camera
something like that
just want to start some creative thought process going for our cell t-shirt/shirt/jersey/pullover/sweater/mackintosh jacket/whatever...
pass the message around!
lennel || 5:45 PM
