For God's Glory
Just got some testimony here from our youths who are waking up every morning @ 5 am to pray, to seek the Lord's face, and to intercede for our youth group and for the youths here in Santiago! Hope that you'll be encouraged and be blessed by what God is doing here in our youth group! So here it is, it is written by Normene :D, this is kinda short but you'll be blessed...
February 8, 2008
At 5am, ate Leizel, ate Rhea and I woke
up. We only knew that every 5 am we will have a
prayer intercession individually, but
what happened is that we pray as a
group. The presence of the Lord was there,
the Holy Spirit led us to pray, we were
crying when we pray. And I feel that
we were fighting with the bad spirit
that is surrounding us. And we know that
God is with us helping us to pray. And
for me, that day, our prayers is a
big help for myself, for my studies.
There's a reason why I slept at ate
Rhea's house. And praise the Lord coz
we're still on fire...
Isn't that great! It's amazing that it was just a couple of months ago, I think it was July last year, that the two of these young people here, Rhea and Normene, aren't that active in the church, but now, they are attending our prayer meetings, intercession, youth services, Sunday services, serving the Lord and on fire for God, see what God is doing...not just only them but there's a couple of youths who wants to be and are being changed, transformed, molded and being used by God, for His glorious work and for His glory! :D, To God be all the glory!
Just a couple of hours ago, after our morning service in the church, we have brought down all the musical instruments in our office, 2nd floor, coz we are just renting the 4th floor of the building we are gathering for our service. Usually after that we immediately go back to our homes to get a little rest for our night service, but this day, something was different. After we brought all the instruments down, there's something within us that drives us to setup the place before we go home. We've setup the place a little bit and then we've decided that we'll sit down for a while coz we're tired too, haha, then we began to chat and talk about the preaching in the morning service, we were talking about what is happening in our church, in our ministries, in our lives, as we were chatting and talking, the Holy Spirit began to lead us to pray, the Holy Spirit just led Micko to lead us in prayer, God reminded Micko what he is, what we are in our past situations in the church, when we were still not that good in playing the instruments, singing and everything else. how we were so excited everytime we will have our practice in the worship team, our youth fellowships, our love with each other and our Sunday services...forget about all the skills, the talents and the abilites God has given you. Even if you are good at something it is not just worth it without the presence of God, without doing it with love, without being excited about it, it is not just that worth it...
...and that's the bottomline of it, what's the sense of having an excellent musical praise & worship moment without the presence of God, what's the sense of having a fellowship/service without the presence of God, it is not just worth it! So we decided to begin it within the 3 of us. We began to see what we really want, we want the presence of God above all else, in our lives, in our worship, in our church, in our fellowships and in everything that we do. Coz we want revival in our lives, in our family, in our relatives, in our friends, in our neighborhoods, in our schools, in our state, in our government, in our city, in our country and in our world. Revival is coming and revival starts with an individual who is willing to pay the price to see God move in his life, in his family, in everything that is around him! So I encourage you dear reader, live for the Lord all the days of your life and give Him all the glory and honor He alone deserves!
"if my people,
who are called by my name,
will humble themselves and pray and seek my face
and turn from their wicked ways,
then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin
and will heal their land."
II Chronicles 7:14
Godblezyol! Have a blessed Day! :D
