He is Faithful
Finally, got the time to blog again, it's almost 3 weeks since we havent been blogging, haha! :D, looking back 3 years ago, the church started with just purely adults, haha, no youths! :D, but our former youth pastor prayed to God to give him 5 youths, and yes, God has given him 5 youths and that's the start. And after that, the number of our youth group is growing, we have brought more youths in our church through the use of our Cornerstone Basketball Team w/c is led by a Christian coach, we've brought more than 40 young people[pure guys only, haha], we are jogging every saturday morning [5 am] from the city proper to Sefton Village, that is about 6 km far, :D and in summer we are jogging 2 times and then 3 times a week. We are fully prepared for the coming tournament[Christian basketball tournament], haha, but we've just only won 2nd place, huhu! but that's ok, and after the tournament, all of the youths in our basketball team backed out :(, saying that "there is no uniform so we'll just gonna leave" :(, and that's not ok, it's a sad thing but that's the truth, only 12 remained including our coach...after a month, we are slowly decreasing, from 12 youths to 6 youths. Got me thinking, if we have just been concerned for souls back then, those youths would have not backed out you know, 34 youths would've been here right now serving the Lord :(, but don't be sad, God is not finished yet...
...several months have passed, God is slowly increasing our number from 6 to 9, 9 to 11 and then 11 to 12 active youths. our church back then was 3 years old. And after that, things began to change, some positive and some negative, :D. there has been a reorganization in our church and also in the daughter churches and our youth pastor have been assigned to another church, but God has provided us with one :D, isn't that great, glory to God only. Using some calculations in the past 3 years, 12 youths divided by 3 years = 4 youths a year, haha! ok, you can laugh out loud :D, haha. but now, God is still increasing our number, from 12 active youths to 17 active youths, isn't that great and a year ain't over yet, we will increase! :D, Glory to God.
I know God is faithful and His words will never come back to Him void. In our 1st overnight prayer meeting[last year], God has given ate Che a vision, an outline of what's about to happen in this year, and one of it is, that the start of the thousand, as prophesied to our church by pastor Rick Zachary, is right now, this year, 2008. remembering our vision[as a whole church], "A Church, Prepared for the Out-pouring of the Holy Spirit, for a Greater Harvest." We are preparing for this year, for the typhoon, for everything that's about to happen this year, physically, emotionally, socially, financially, spiritually and especially for the coming Revival.
Revival is coming, and it will come. God will deal first in His church and then to the people outside the church. will you be ready?, are you willing to be a part of this revival?, are you willing to pay the price?, are you willing to surrender everything to God?, are you Christian enough?, 99.99% is useless! So we encourage you dear reader, continue, hold on to the faith that God has given you, to the promises He has for you, fight for Him, live for Him only, prepare yourself, be a blessing and make a change! To God be all the glory, honor, and power! Godblezyol!
