Listen to the Father's heart
to the leaders, in response to 'Sunday YM Youths'
Dear co-labourers in Christ,
I would like to encourage you to come for prayer meeting. Since the prayer retreat, there has been a sense that God is moving (confirmation from all those who have gone for the retreat, sharing that there has been a change in our lives), and it is a good time to listen to the Lord for our ministry.
The Lord touched me in a profound way on friday. There were many things that I don't know how to share, but one thing I believe that the Lord showed me is that many times we pray with our heads(/intellect), but we do not feel the Father's heart as we pray. As the images of youths and leaders flashed in my mind, I began to weep as I prayed--grieving for their unsurrendered lives; grieving for His children who are not living to the full measure of their potential as a child of God. And it was just Wesley YM. Imagine if it were Wesley MC, or the Church in Singapore, or the lost in the whole world... I was like, 'Oh God, how can You take so much grief?'
We need to ask God to show us His heart for our youths as we pray and as we serve. We need to know His heart before we know how the Lord wants us to run His ministry. 2 Cor 5:14 "For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died." takes on a different dimension. For without the love of God for the youths and for each other in our hearts as we serve, what kind of ministry are we running? Let us humble ourselves before the Lord today and seek Him, and ask Him to show us just even a bit of His broken heart for us...to some of us, that may be too much grief to bear.
In His love,
jiemin
Dear co-labourers in Christ,
I would like to encourage you to come for prayer meeting. Since the prayer retreat, there has been a sense that God is moving (confirmation from all those who have gone for the retreat, sharing that there has been a change in our lives), and it is a good time to listen to the Lord for our ministry.
The Lord touched me in a profound way on friday. There were many things that I don't know how to share, but one thing I believe that the Lord showed me is that many times we pray with our heads(/intellect), but we do not feel the Father's heart as we pray. As the images of youths and leaders flashed in my mind, I began to weep as I prayed--grieving for their unsurrendered lives; grieving for His children who are not living to the full measure of their potential as a child of God. And it was just Wesley YM. Imagine if it were Wesley MC, or the Church in Singapore, or the lost in the whole world... I was like, 'Oh God, how can You take so much grief?'
We need to ask God to show us His heart for our youths as we pray and as we serve. We need to know His heart before we know how the Lord wants us to run His ministry. 2 Cor 5:14 "For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died." takes on a different dimension. For without the love of God for the youths and for each other in our hearts as we serve, what kind of ministry are we running? Let us humble ourselves before the Lord today and seek Him, and ask Him to show us just even a bit of His broken heart for us...to some of us, that may be too much grief to bear.
In His love,
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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