Prayer Meeting
Today is wednesday, and we had prayer meeting because we can't have it on the usual friday because friday is Chrstmas eve. Somehow I believe that the Lord planned it at such a timing because Sandy, Carol, Eddie and Adriel were in another room having an important meeting at the same time. A small group of us were praying specifically for them but as we prayed, we were also led to pray for YM.
We asked the Lord to change YM, so that when we look at our brother or sister, we will not judge them but we will love them. When we talk to each other, we will not demand from them but we will seek to bless them.
We asked God to change our hearts because it is only with this change that YM can be transformed to be the ministry that the Lord wants us to be. We asked the Lord that all our leaders may know His heart. We ask Him that all of us may have the love of Jesus in our hearts and begin to look at the people around us through Jesus' eyes. We asked the Lord that we would begin to reach out to every one of our brothers and sisters no matter how weird or different we think they are, recognising the worth that is in him or her, because Jesus died on the cross for him/her, and that God can use anybody to impact the world...even the unlikeliest person.
When we want to seek God and encounter Him, we must be prepared that He will change our hearts. Because when we come into the presence of God, our lives will be changed.
We prayed that the Lord's anointing will be on our leaders, so that YM will not be a ministry who just does lots of things (like Martha), but will sit in the Lord's presence and listen from Him (like Mary), because only when we hear His voice and act accordingly will we be in the centre of His will, and that is where we want to be as YM. We prayed for boldness in the leadership to take YM to the next level, to lead us into the spiritual battlefield, and to reach the lost for Jesus! We prayed that the Lordwould change the way we look at the world and at each other.
Lord, please give us clean hands and pure hearts, that we may ascend the hill of the Lord and stand in Your holy place (Ps 24:3-4). Let us not lift our souls to an idol.
"He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from God his Saviour. Such is the generation who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob." (v.5-6)
It was a blessed prayer meeting. Ivan who returned from Vancouver reminded us that we are very blessed to have a group of people who want to gather together to sing praises to the Lord, and come to think of it, the Lord has blessed us in YM and in Wesley tremendously! He also said that in Vancouver, in Cambodia, or in China, it is so hard to find people who will seek the Lord like that. They may not know how. Who will tell them? Who will teach them?
I gave thanks to the Lord because even with this year's church theme "People of True Worship and Prayer", the Lord has been faithful, because He has taught us in YM how to worship. And He has taught us in YM how to pray. It is He who works in us and through us to will and act according to His good purpose, and God has been faithful to Wesley Methodist Church because it is He Himself who raises up His people to pray and to worship Him! He is faithful!
We prayed that for next year, when our church theme is "People of the Great Commission", the Lord will just send all of us out and fulfill His destiny for Wesley Methodist Church. In that year 2005 He will show us His glory in the mission field and we will worship Him. In the year 2005 He will call many men and women to Himself, to go to the mission field and teach the peoples how to worship Him and to seek His face in prayer. For how can we teach the nations how to worship Him and pray unless we ourselves know how to worship Him and pray??? How can we teach them the Bible unless we know the Bible well ourselves??? Our prayer is that we may all walk closely with our Lord Jesus Christ, and that we may know Him, and make Him known.
AMEN and AMEN!!!
Blessed Christmas!
jiemin =)
We asked the Lord to change YM, so that when we look at our brother or sister, we will not judge them but we will love them. When we talk to each other, we will not demand from them but we will seek to bless them.
We asked God to change our hearts because it is only with this change that YM can be transformed to be the ministry that the Lord wants us to be. We asked the Lord that all our leaders may know His heart. We ask Him that all of us may have the love of Jesus in our hearts and begin to look at the people around us through Jesus' eyes. We asked the Lord that we would begin to reach out to every one of our brothers and sisters no matter how weird or different we think they are, recognising the worth that is in him or her, because Jesus died on the cross for him/her, and that God can use anybody to impact the world...even the unlikeliest person.
When we want to seek God and encounter Him, we must be prepared that He will change our hearts. Because when we come into the presence of God, our lives will be changed.
We prayed that the Lord's anointing will be on our leaders, so that YM will not be a ministry who just does lots of things (like Martha), but will sit in the Lord's presence and listen from Him (like Mary), because only when we hear His voice and act accordingly will we be in the centre of His will, and that is where we want to be as YM. We prayed for boldness in the leadership to take YM to the next level, to lead us into the spiritual battlefield, and to reach the lost for Jesus! We prayed that the Lordwould change the way we look at the world and at each other.
Lord, please give us clean hands and pure hearts, that we may ascend the hill of the Lord and stand in Your holy place (Ps 24:3-4). Let us not lift our souls to an idol.
"He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from God his Saviour. Such is the generation who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob." (v.5-6)
It was a blessed prayer meeting. Ivan who returned from Vancouver reminded us that we are very blessed to have a group of people who want to gather together to sing praises to the Lord, and come to think of it, the Lord has blessed us in YM and in Wesley tremendously! He also said that in Vancouver, in Cambodia, or in China, it is so hard to find people who will seek the Lord like that. They may not know how. Who will tell them? Who will teach them?
I gave thanks to the Lord because even with this year's church theme "People of True Worship and Prayer", the Lord has been faithful, because He has taught us in YM how to worship. And He has taught us in YM how to pray. It is He who works in us and through us to will and act according to His good purpose, and God has been faithful to Wesley Methodist Church because it is He Himself who raises up His people to pray and to worship Him! He is faithful!
We prayed that for next year, when our church theme is "People of the Great Commission", the Lord will just send all of us out and fulfill His destiny for Wesley Methodist Church. In that year 2005 He will show us His glory in the mission field and we will worship Him. In the year 2005 He will call many men and women to Himself, to go to the mission field and teach the peoples how to worship Him and to seek His face in prayer. For how can we teach the nations how to worship Him and pray unless we ourselves know how to worship Him and pray??? How can we teach them the Bible unless we know the Bible well ourselves??? Our prayer is that we may all walk closely with our Lord Jesus Christ, and that we may know Him, and make Him known.
AMEN and AMEN!!!
Blessed Christmas!
jiemin =)
This prayer blog is started to help us in Wesley Youth Ministry have a collective journal of God's dealings with each and every one of us. In time to come this blog will be a testimony to God's faithfulness to YM, as we look back through the months and the years and see in hindsight how the Lord has been working in and through us.
If you feel that you have anything to contribute to the blog, to give thanks to God for answered prayer, to encourage the body of Christ, or share what God has been speaking to you through prayer and QT, please email your entry to jiemin11@singnet.com.sg and include your name as you would like it to appear on the blog.
God bless you!
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