Straight after the workshop, I had to attend a church wedding. It was one of my poly rock climbing friend, Wee Li. It was held at Holy Grace Presbyterian Church along Upper East Coast Road. It was a beautiful church with a nice ambience. The ceremony was short and simple – Exchanging of vows and lighting of the unity candle. How significant! Before the matrimony started, I saw one of my girl scout, Eunice. And we started talking about life, work, etc. She talked about my wedding too and remembered how much I teared during the wedding. I was telling her how much I was touched by God and started sharing my testimony about my life story. Well she was already a Christian but sometimes by sharing we encourage each other to serve God more. So brothers and sisters in Christ, we are all part of the body and seek to uphold one another.
Saturday seems to be the busiest day of the week. From the wedding, I went to youth service and today we were going out to bless people on the street. We were doing the 100k blessing initiated by Love Singapore. I was paired up with a younger youth and it was challenging for him to just approach people and pray for them. I think it takes a lot of courage and thank God for all my youths on that day to have the boldness in them to approach people.
Now the day has not ended. After the outreach, we had to rush to expo to see Hillsong United!!! It was packed to the max but Sophia had friends to book seats for us although I long to be in front jumping. The atmosphere was fantastic. The presence of God can be felt. The band was great! Sang a lot of my favourite songs – Mighty to save, Desert Song, Inside out, etc.
Sermon was straight to the point and very relevant to youths in Singapore. It was from the passage Luke 7:11-17, Jesus raises a window’s son. The story was simple. Talks about a widow whose son died and in the middle of a funeral procession, came along this man, Jesus, that talks to this dead young man in the coffin and miraculously this young man sat up and began to speak.
How it relates to us then? Most of the time, we are carried away by the world. Alive on the outside but dead on the inside. Being carried out by the issues of the world(greed, sex, pornography, etc) and to be buried. Now comes along Jesus who gets you to Arise(wake up) from the dead so you can be saved.
How many of us are living a life of compromise? A double standard life? Many have. I was like that too. Till the day Jesus called me to WAKE UP and follow him. So arise and follow the truth.
Great sermon! More songs followed on. And both Sophia and me were jumping all around and enjoying ourselves. It all ended way too soon. We manage to buy 2 new CDs from Hillsong as they played a couple of their new songs. I thank God for having the opportunity to go for this concert as this was really God’s timing. Initially we didn’t have the tickets to go, but on Fri Matthew called us and say that his friend got 2 extra tickets as some pulled out last minute. Of course I took it. And even before going, I was quite down in spirit due to the many things in my mind. So I prayed for God to strengthen me. And well my prayer was answered. After the concert, my spirit was so lighted up and the fire burns strongly again! Amen.
Tickets for Hillsong United
Live from Expo
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