The Angels Rejoice and So Do We
The Lord blessed YM with a salvation in the wee hours of 2005. It was least expected, as we all looked to having our own supper fun after watchnight service. What happened was that before 2005, Denise was in a cab rushing down to church for watchnight service. Somehow the Lord put Denise in a cab where the taxi driver, Uncle Philip, spoke with her and his heart was open to the Gospel. He was even saying, that he wants to know about Christianity, but no one has ever told him.
It came to a point where he wanted to know how to pray and seemed ready to pray the sinner's prayer, but then they had arrived at Wesley already. She asked for his number and said she would call him back. I guess that's when I received an sms saying "Hey pls pray. taxi driver wants to accept christ but didn't have time to pray with him. He gave me his number and i will call him back after service. His name is philip. Pray that the devilwill not put any seed of doubt in his mind and covering of His blood."
So 2005 came and after we had finished praising God in Wesley Hall, i saw denise outside and she was wondering whether to call Uncle Philip or not, as we thought he might still be driving around. I was suggestiong like if he was driving we could ask him to drive us while we talk to him, while the meter was still running, until we finished! But thank God we found out that he had already stopped work for the day and was eating supper at Chomp Chomp.
So we rushed down to meet him and we were there eating our Ba-chor mee while he was smoking and drinking his beer and we were talking about God. God is so cool!!!
He has a sad story, and he needs the change that only God's love can bring, and his heart was yearning for that change. We were trying our best to communicate with him in our (more like, my) cannot-make-it mandarin, sharing with him how to pray and the need to pray and the need to give his heart to Jesus so that he would become a child of God. It was so exciting when he finally prayed with us the Sinner's Prayer...again in the cannot-make-it mandarin...but I trust that the Lord knows and honours the intention.
He did say that he would come to YM if he could wake up on sunday, but sadly he wasn't able to. He sid that he would come this coming Sunday so let's all pray for him, that God will touch his heart.
I am so excited that with this year of being 'People of the Great Commission', the Lord has already blessed our ministry with a salvation. Praise the Lord! I am so excited about what the Lord is going to do in this coming year, as He has already answered a number of my prayers more abundantly than I could have imagined. Even with YMOVE and the evangelistic outreach at the end of the year, it is my prayer that the Lord will bless YM with so many more lost souls, redeemed in our midst.
As His people, we must also be more ready to respond to His call, that our feet may be swift to bring His gospel to the people so much in need of it. This is not a reproach, but it seemed to me that many of the people I asked either found it too incredulous to believe, already had their own plans, or were not ready to go. My prayer is that the Lord begin to change our ministry, that the workers may be ready to bring in the harvest that is so plentiful out there.
May we have a fruitful 2005, as we abide in Him.
God bless!
jiemin =)
It came to a point where he wanted to know how to pray and seemed ready to pray the sinner's prayer, but then they had arrived at Wesley already. She asked for his number and said she would call him back. I guess that's when I received an sms saying "Hey pls pray. taxi driver wants to accept christ but didn't have time to pray with him. He gave me his number and i will call him back after service. His name is philip. Pray that the devilwill not put any seed of doubt in his mind and covering of His blood."
So 2005 came and after we had finished praising God in Wesley Hall, i saw denise outside and she was wondering whether to call Uncle Philip or not, as we thought he might still be driving around. I was suggestiong like if he was driving we could ask him to drive us while we talk to him, while the meter was still running, until we finished! But thank God we found out that he had already stopped work for the day and was eating supper at Chomp Chomp.
So we rushed down to meet him and we were there eating our Ba-chor mee while he was smoking and drinking his beer and we were talking about God. God is so cool!!!
He has a sad story, and he needs the change that only God's love can bring, and his heart was yearning for that change. We were trying our best to communicate with him in our (more like, my) cannot-make-it mandarin, sharing with him how to pray and the need to pray and the need to give his heart to Jesus so that he would become a child of God. It was so exciting when he finally prayed with us the Sinner's Prayer...again in the cannot-make-it mandarin...but I trust that the Lord knows and honours the intention.
He did say that he would come to YM if he could wake up on sunday, but sadly he wasn't able to. He sid that he would come this coming Sunday so let's all pray for him, that God will touch his heart.
I am so excited that with this year of being 'People of the Great Commission', the Lord has already blessed our ministry with a salvation. Praise the Lord! I am so excited about what the Lord is going to do in this coming year, as He has already answered a number of my prayers more abundantly than I could have imagined. Even with YMOVE and the evangelistic outreach at the end of the year, it is my prayer that the Lord will bless YM with so many more lost souls, redeemed in our midst.
As His people, we must also be more ready to respond to His call, that our feet may be swift to bring His gospel to the people so much in need of it. This is not a reproach, but it seemed to me that many of the people I asked either found it too incredulous to believe, already had their own plans, or were not ready to go. My prayer is that the Lord begin to change our ministry, that the workers may be ready to bring in the harvest that is so plentiful out there.
May we have a fruitful 2005, as we abide in Him.
God bless!
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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