God is Good all the Time

Tonight I feel uplifted and refresh.. Why? I guess because when you choose to surrender to God and focus on Him and really praise and worship Him, God changes or stir something inside of you.

It's Sunday worship practice today, and after preparing all the songs and etc, I went to church, not thinking about anything. I was still pretty nervous as I'm not entirely sure as to how to make the songs flow and etc, but I guess in some ways, I trust God that things will work out at the end...

As usual, practice didn't start until about half an hour later as people slowly pour in for the practice. As more comes in, I was kinda nervous too. But today, I figured things were a bit different..

As we gather together to just worship the Lord and pray first before the practice starts, I was called to lead the group. Thinking it should be alright, I just asked everyone to close their eyes... and Dan was playing the piano to the song, there is none like you.. as always, we will pick a song... and that song sort of flow into the spirit as we gather together.... so as we gather together... I felt God's peace slowly seeps in and just helps us relax.. it was such a wonderful experience being able to come before the Lord with no worries, with no cares and just be focused on Him. Such a wonderful peace... and many came to the Lord just praising and really focusing on Him too. I've not felt such ability to focus for a while and it's honestly good. Just imagine your mind is filled with nothing but the one that you love and you know, you just know deep inside of you that He's the one and He's the only one that can touch your heart the way He did it.

And guess what! Things just fall into place during practice...just so great...

Thank You for the wonderful time of refreshing and for the wonderful time in just praising and worshipping You!

God that Confirms

It's amazing to see that since beginning of this year, God is really moving in the church. More and more preachers and sharer of the message are hitting the congregation with such strong words that it would take a deaf man not to hear what God is saying to this church. It is truly encouraging to know and to hear that God is really wanting to stir this church up and wake up the people and to bring revival to this church.

Lord, I can't say how much these messages means to me. I can't put into words to know that You have heard the heartcry of your people, a small group of people who hunger and desire to see this church grow and grow all the more for You.

Lord, You have placed everyone in this house of Yours for a purpose and I pray Lord, that You will unveil their eyes now and see! See for themselves Your plans for them oh Lord, oh Hallelujah oh Lord Jesus. Father, continue to stir the fire in the hearts of Your people Lord. I know some have grew cold, but Lord, may Your fire be poured unto everyone in the church, that they may know for themselves and that their hunger and thirst may once again be built up!
Amazin Lord that You are... amazin Lord that You always will be.... Hallelujah!!!

Nearing Christmas

Anyone excited about Christmas!?!! I guess that I am. But Christmas also means loads of things happening in church as well. This year, on a smaller scale, my church is having a Nuwav Christmas Celebration. For RM20 for 2 persons, you'll get to have a full dinner followed by dance, drama and countdown for Christmas on 24th December 2007.

A lot of us have put in heaps of effort in it and I pray that everything will run smoothly during that period as well.

In conjunction with this year's theme in church, all 3 congregations took the opportunity to visit the orphanages around and many are blessed by these visits. It is really an eye opener, to know and to see how blessed we are. Yet, it prompts a desire in the youth to want to reach out and share their happiness with the orphans as well.

God has truly bless First AOG this year, with heaps of collaborations amongst the 3 congregations. I really do hope that God will continue to bring unity to our church and that the church will grow into a deeper level of intimacy with HIM too!

Check out the Christmas celebration ya! And contact me if you want to come! Btw, that night would be a bilingual night (english and cantonese)!

Times of Refreshing and Revival

Praise God for He is worthy of all praise! Only He and He alone are one true God, undeniable, indescribable, irreplaceable, almighty, great, wonderful, generous, loving, caring, peace maker and many many more! Praise God for He is worthy to be praised!

Having attended the revival meetings by Rev Timothy Yeung, I feel greatly blessed and made to understand better on how the Holy Spirit works and what worship really is.

I agree with what he say, worship is borne out of the fact that you hunger God. We are all created to worship, that's why no matter who and where, people do worship something or some gods in their lives. Maybe for atheist, who said they don't believe in anything but themselves, but allow me to be bold in my own opinion, that they do worship themselves by saying that... but this is purely my opinion and no one self. God created us to worship Him, but because of the fall of Adam and Eve, we have become separated from Him. But our nature of worshipping is still in existence.

One thing shared that strucks me strongly is that we are worshippers of God must hunger for more of Him! We are like parched lands, so dry that we're so cracked inside. In parched lands, nothing can grow, nothing at all. Only well-watered lands has plantations. We are like parched lands, and thus, there isn't anything growing in us. But if we hunger for more of Him, our loving Father will water us with more and more of the Holy Spirit, allowing us to drink more and more and more of Him to the extend that we no longer because a parched land but instead, a land that is well-watered and things will GROW!

One strong reminder that strucks me is this: those of us who are in praise and worship can always demand the best, be the best drummer, be the best guitarist, be the best worship leader and etc, but beware that it becomes a habit. He's not saying that we ought not to do our best for GOd, but we are to beware of the possibility that in our quest of pursuing to do our best, we forgot the main reason for our worship. God doesn't demand us to be perfect, but in all that we have, we are to do our best. Do the best with what you have. If you have the best equipment and you are playing the best music, but if you are not up there to worship God, then there isn't any difference between us and those concerts that's out there. Always remember what we are up there for. We are up there to lead the people into worshipping God. We are priests that leads people to draw closer to God. How? By proclaiming God's greatness. There isn't any ways or methods, but rather, acknowledge who God is and that in itself, will bring about your church to draw closer to God.

Christians out there, always remind yourself not to be a benchwarmer. But everytime you go to church, go with a heart of wanting more of God. DOn't just sit there, but go with a strong desire for more of God and to see God move. When christians get together, don't just chit chat and all, but use that as an opportunity to fellowship and to exalt God together.

GOd is great! Always always great.

Sometimes we never thought of this, but God took the FIRST STEP to draw closer to us. It is not us. He took the first step by sending His one and only son to the earth to be sacrificed on our behalf. Those who are parents, can you imagine sending your son to the gallows? I may not be able imagine the suffering that parents goes through, but the thought of it is incomprehensible to the point that it's unphantomable. But God did just that. He sent his son to die for us.... and what does he want from us? Only that we would want Him in our lives again.

Father Lord, I thank You for the time of refreshing and the chance to witness your great powers moving mightly amongst Your people. Lord, I believe revival is heating up in this nation, and Lord, I pray that I would have the chance to participate in it. May Your anointing continue to fall in this nation and may Your fire continue to light up more and more of Your people to come and draw closer to You. Thank You for Your amazing presence, thank You for Your amazing revelation and thank You for You!

FAoG Youth Activities: BEYOND LIMIT!

First Assembly NuWav Youth

proud to present

The 1st ever NUWAV MONTH 2007

Which features many exciting events.

Here's come another exiciting event of the NuWav Month

Specially formulated for YOU & YOUR FRIENDS.
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THIS SATURDAY 21/7/07

At The First Assembly of God Church

INDOOR FUN GAMES (10am~5pm)

Arm wrestling, Brainiest Youth, Singing, Scripture Memorizing,

Youth Idle, Chess, Sms shoot-out, Cash to win by spectators and lots more.

NIGHT SESSION (Sat 21/7/07, 7.00pm)

Youth concert, Awards presentation,

Final stage of arm wrestling / youth idle / sms shoot out and etc.

Theme colour
ORANGE

YOU'RE INVITED, BRING ALONG YOUR FRIENDS ! ! !

ALL ARE WELCOME !

SEE YOU THERE !

For more inquiries, please log on to

http://firstassembly.org.my/Beyondlimit

Anyone interesting in checking out the Youth Activities at FAoG? It's Youth Month this month and we're having exciting activities this coming weekend. We will be having Beyond Limit Youth Indoor Games on 21st July 07, whereby fames such as singing competition, sms shootout, youth idle, arm wrestling and many more would take place.

At night there will be a night concert, starting from 730pm. Awards from all the activities that has been running for two weeks will take place during that night. It will all be fun fun fun! Oh ya, it's all bilingual, or trilingual, depending ... keke... excited? Do come and join us, especially for the night concert!