Sundays YM Youths
Dear all,
There are a few issues that I'll really like to address with the yths asap. There are some problems that our yths are facing for quite some time now but b'cos of the currl. BS following the theme on Acts & Missions wld not allow me the time to bring it up with YM. As I prayed with GAP on fridays and on my own, these yths' issues kept surfacing and I felt that I'm compelled to share with you all. I'm a bit troubled by it not b'cos of what I've seen but b'cos of the burden I believed God has laid upon my heart through prayer and I need to share with you- the spiritual state of YM. Some of these problems are:
1) BGR - Dating and hanging out late
2) Music - The kind of music that turn their minds "dull" & "muddled"
3) No reverence for God - no fear of God at all
The three issues are the ones I felt needed to address 1st even though there are other areas to be add. It might not sound urgent to you but I believe in the eyes of God, the yths are so precious to Him and God wants to bring His people into true repentance and back to a love relationship with their God!
What was the message at the A/YSGLs retreat?
Was it not abt turning away from the accursed things in our lives and turning to our Holy God?
Was it not abt putting down our pride and surrendering ourselves fully to Him?
What was the message at the YM GAP retreat?
Was it not abt surrendered lives? Was it not abt praying & interceding for YM?
What was God saying at the Friday GAP?
Was it not abt prevailing in prayer and crying out our hearts to Him for mercy?
Was it not abt repentance of hearts for our yths?
When I was praying in the office with my eyes shut, I saw a congregation kneeling and wiping before God for repentance. That is the surrendering point! Towards the end of Friday GAP, with my eyes closed, I could see our yths, one by one, walking up to the cross, nailing down their sins and ambitions to God on a piece of paper. That is a prophetic act of surrendered lives!
What is the theme verse for 120th Anniv. at Wesley Methodist Church?
Is it not the WORD that says, "Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit says the Lord Almighty? Zech 4:6
Numbers 23:19 says, "God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfil?" If that is true abt Him, then what is the Spirit of God saying to our church today?
In order to see a transformed ministry and for revival to come, we must come to a place to recognise our own spiritual condition, to be broken before God, and to recognise our own spiritual poverty and nakedness that we are nothing and we could do nothing without Him. If we are not broken before the Lord, then we are not fully surrendered, and we are saying to God, we don't need you to rule over those areas of our lives God b'cos we want to take control of our lives. If there is no brokenness, God cannot transform us. If we are not fully dependent on God, God cannot use us. If we are not fully surrendered to God, God cannot revive us. Is this what we want?
Which are the areas of your lives that you need to be broken before God?
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." Ps 51:17
By His Grace,
Sandy
There are a few issues that I'll really like to address with the yths asap. There are some problems that our yths are facing for quite some time now but b'cos of the currl. BS following the theme on Acts & Missions wld not allow me the time to bring it up with YM. As I prayed with GAP on fridays and on my own, these yths' issues kept surfacing and I felt that I'm compelled to share with you all. I'm a bit troubled by it not b'cos of what I've seen but b'cos of the burden I believed God has laid upon my heart through prayer and I need to share with you- the spiritual state of YM. Some of these problems are:
1) BGR - Dating and hanging out late
2) Music - The kind of music that turn their minds "dull" & "muddled"
3) No reverence for God - no fear of God at all
The three issues are the ones I felt needed to address 1st even though there are other areas to be add. It might not sound urgent to you but I believe in the eyes of God, the yths are so precious to Him and God wants to bring His people into true repentance and back to a love relationship with their God!
What was the message at the A/YSGLs retreat?
Was it not abt turning away from the accursed things in our lives and turning to our Holy God?
Was it not abt putting down our pride and surrendering ourselves fully to Him?
What was the message at the YM GAP retreat?
Was it not abt surrendered lives? Was it not abt praying & interceding for YM?
What was God saying at the Friday GAP?
Was it not abt prevailing in prayer and crying out our hearts to Him for mercy?
Was it not abt repentance of hearts for our yths?
When I was praying in the office with my eyes shut, I saw a congregation kneeling and wiping before God for repentance. That is the surrendering point! Towards the end of Friday GAP, with my eyes closed, I could see our yths, one by one, walking up to the cross, nailing down their sins and ambitions to God on a piece of paper. That is a prophetic act of surrendered lives!
What is the theme verse for 120th Anniv. at Wesley Methodist Church?
Is it not the WORD that says, "Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit says the Lord Almighty? Zech 4:6
Numbers 23:19 says, "God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfil?" If that is true abt Him, then what is the Spirit of God saying to our church today?
In order to see a transformed ministry and for revival to come, we must come to a place to recognise our own spiritual condition, to be broken before God, and to recognise our own spiritual poverty and nakedness that we are nothing and we could do nothing without Him. If we are not broken before the Lord, then we are not fully surrendered, and we are saying to God, we don't need you to rule over those areas of our lives God b'cos we want to take control of our lives. If there is no brokenness, God cannot transform us. If we are not fully dependent on God, God cannot use us. If we are not fully surrendered to God, God cannot revive us. Is this what we want?
Which are the areas of your lives that you need to be broken before God?
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." Ps 51:17
By His Grace,
Sandy
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!
October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 April 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 December 2005 January 2006 March 2006 June 2006 July 2006 April 2007
