Jamming session

The cell was jamming together with musical instruments and vocals, so as to prepare for Paul a cantonese birthday song! haha. Here are the videos and pictures.

 

 

 

Pray for Ellen & husband

This was extracted from MinMin’s email. The cell has decided to set aside time to cover Ellen and family with prayers. MinMin would send out prayer pointers that God has impressed upon her heart. Lets take this chance to exercise covenantal relationship!!

Ellen, know that you are not standing alone for just like Elisha, those who are with you are more than those who are against you.

1. Guard – Dressing Ellen and Michael in the full armour of God (prayer pointer for saturday)
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will GUARD your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7 (NIV)

Yo people, are you ready for a battle? Prayer warriors, we can’t battle unless we are dressed appropriately in the full armour of God!

I was praying last night and then a sense of heaviness came upon my heart. God later revealed the word “GUARD” to me.

Mighty warriors, let’s pray against discouragement, disappointment and brokenheartedness right now, that ellen will not remain crushed in the spirit regarding her circumstances. Pray that Ellen will guard her heart and mind against any lies from the enemy and ask God to strengthen Ellen’s heart. Pray also for Michael, that God will guard his life, mind and soul. Pray for ellen and michael, that God will guard their marriage.

Today, Let’s begin our prayer by dressing ellen and michael in the armour of God, that they will withstand any swords or arrows from the enemy by guarding their hearts and minds.

Amen!!

When you are tired & hungry

Imagine this:

You had a long journey with a group of friends and came to a small town. Your friends left you and went to shops nearby to buy lunch and drinks. Now you are waiting for them to come back. You are worn out, dead tired, super hungry and extremely thirsty. 30 minutes later they came back with lots of da-bao food and drinks. They bought your favourite hor fun char kuey teow.

“Hallalejuh thank you Jesus for the food!!!”  *slurp slurp slurp* “Mmmm.. yummy…”

Now let’s rewind the scene back a little bit to the time where you were left alone while your friends had gone to buy food. There comes a young man, with some tatoos on his arms, looked drunk but didn’t seem to be harmful to you, you know, that kind that looks like life is meaningless to him?

Then the Holy Spirit says, ”Tell this man that if he opens his heart and believe in Jesus, he will be given a new life and new hopes”.

What will you do?

I guess for me I will tell God “ha.. I dunno how to leh”.. “God.. is that you speaking?” .. “God.. I’m hungry, when’s my food coming?”

Then my friends came back with the food and drinks.

“Hallalejuh thank you Jesus for the food!!!”  *slurp slurp slurp* “Mmmm.. yummy…”

So we left after eating and continue with the rest of the hourney. The memory on this man slowly vanishes and I never see him again.

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Similar settings, Jesus was tired, worn out. But when the opportunity came, Jesus did what the Father had called him to do. When his disciples came back and urge him to eat some food, Jesus’ respond shocked me “No. I have food you don’t know about. My nourishment comes from doing the will of God who sent me, and from finishing his work.”

Wow! How he places the importance of doing God’s work far above any worldly concerns and even his own physical needs! How passionate he is about the lost and the souls that the Father is going to give him.

Great compassion.

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Just want to share with all of us what God spoke to me during TAWG. May it bless your heart.

 

Ziyu

Urgency

Sorry Nicky, it was me (Grace) who has edited Rachael’s entry and tagged it as “Posted by Nicky”, coz I thought it sounded like it came from you. Anyway, i’ve changed it.

Anyway..Thanks to all who have been updating this blog in expression of love to the people around the world and also to articulate the urgency to spread the love of God to the unsaved ones.

Many times messages after messages have been regurgitating the urgency. We’ve even seen the many signals. Hence, we should take the first step, so that others could take the second. yeah?

Continue pursuing after the Lover of our souls!

Also continue to desire to be a blessing wherever you go! ~2 Cor 1:4

care, connect, intercede 1!

wey the oikos list is not published by me lo.. use my name huh rachel.. heh
its Care, connect, intercede 1 that we must practice!

as we were sharing that day, a thought came to me.
people may be thinking that we are in the end times, but not yet! not only cos i haven’t fulfilled my destiny..hehe but also because the word have not been preached to the whole world yet. .

Matthew 24:14 (Whole Chapter)
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come

there are still people who haven’t heard and want to HEAR! they need to hear. do you believe that?

just finished chapter one of my textbook for the evangelism module.
The author asked a daunting question in the midst of the chapter, if we truly believe that Jesus Christ is the best way to live and the only way to die. This is the main thrust and heart of evangelism, in seeing the desperate need for people to know Jesus because there is no other way! The urgency of the matter would be another factor propelling not just the individual but also the entire body of Christ to reach out quickly. This vision and mission have somehow been watered down in many of our personal lives and in our corporate church body today.

just a reminder brothers and sisters, that for the 1 that we would care, connect and intercede, even for that 1, Jesus would still come, be crucified and be ressurected. even if it’s just that 1 we are reaching out to, Jesus still would.

 

China

Help Help with the Lyrics

Awaken my heart to _____ _____ _____ _____ Thee O, my God.

Awaken my heart to _____ ____ _____ _____ Thee O, my God.

Awaken my heart to know Thy love

And to love Thee in return.

Free flowing from an awakened heart.

-Help me fill in the blanks. Can’t find this lyrics anywhere on google.

Oi! Oi! Oi! it’s time to pray for our Oi-kos!

Hi dearest chococell, these are the oikos whom we have chosen to pray for during the last cell session..It’s time to practice what we have so passionately preached! Hahahaha….Here goes…

John- Simon Kang

Nicky- Peiyi + Zann

Esther- Sophie

Wai Kay – Francis

Grace – Yanru

Ziyu -Benjamin Lee

Min Min – her grandma, Wong Yong

Rachael – Joyce

That’s all folks! Let’s practice our VIPS and PARC!

GAMBATTE!

Prayer requests to the highly esteemed Prayer warriors in awfulchoco.

Dear chocolately cell, in addition to the recent prayer requests for the china earthquakes, here is another prayer request that is closer to home. Please pray for our fellow comrade NICKY as she faces her ‘cheem’ TCA  assignments and exams:

Spiritual formation & christian Character [Mondays 7pm -10pm]

• presentation on study and meditation 26 May
• Reflection paper due 21 July
• Research paper due 26 July

New testament survey [Wednesdays 7pm-10pm]

• Exam 11 June
• Exam 23 June

Introduction to counseling [tuesdays 7pm-10pm ]

• Exam 22 july
• Research paper due 22 July
• Reflection paper due 22 July

Pentecostal Foundations [tuesdays 2pm- 5pm]

• Draft outline for paper due 27 May
• Exam 22 July
• Research paper on Brownville revival due 22 July
• Presentation on Brownsville revival 1 July

Evangelism (block class 19-21 July 8 am- 6:30pm)

• Evangelise 5 people & share experience by 19 June
• Reflection on 17 chapters of text book due 19 June
• research paper + presentation + incorporation of the finding due 21 July

AND also for Grace’s last two papers :

Human resource management on 30th May at 2.30-5.30pm

Elements of law contract on 2nd June from 10am – 1pm

That’s all folks!

Pray for the People…

On 2 May 2008 tropical cyclone Nargis hit the coast of Myanmar and devastated large parts of the low-lying delta region of the Irrawaddy River. Winds exceeded 190 kilometres per hour as the storm ripped through the Myanmar’s biggest city Yangon (estimated population 6 million) for over than ten hours. Homes were flattened, more sturdy structures damaged, trees uprooted and power lines downed. In rural parts of the country up to 95 per cent of all homes were destroyed.

This is a situation that the country has not dealt with before and the scale of the needs is clearly massive. Casualty figures continue to rise. The data that is currently available to the International Federation suggests that up to 1 million people might have lost their homes.

The above are taken from www.ifrc.org.

From wikipedia:

In meteorology, a cyclone is an area of low atmospheric pressure characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere of the Earth. The generic term covers a wide variety of meteorological phenomena. These include tropical cyclones and extratropical cyclones, so meteorologists rarely use “cyclone” without additional qualification.