WE SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FEATHER TODAY!!! It was about 2 inches long! It's a long and skinny one! (I think I forgot to wrote in the last blog about the feather)
Today, Deanna, the preschool teacher at bethel, brought us to different places at her session. We went and met Jesus at different places, we were brought to the prophesying realm, went to heaven and got soaked in God's presence and Spirit. It was fun and not as hard as you'd think!! God is not complicated, ok? =)
God told me three times through different people today that He calls me, "Faithful". Around 6 people prayed for me for the children ministry at IMPACT and the summer camp. A lady got a vision for me, and she said, "I see you kneeling and were just covering your head with both of your arms because you were so overwhelmed and troubled by the huge cliff that's right in front of you. However, that cliff turned and it became Jesus' cloth. Then, He picked you right up from the ground." The other two ladies said, "When you say 'yes' to the Lord, no matter how lost you are, just got for it and He will got you covered." Amen Amen!!
Since Monday evening, my right feet has been hurting as if I've sprung it, when I don't remembering springing it. Oddly enough, when I got home, I found out that Amy has sprung her right feet a day before I felt the pain. However, today at the end of the conference they had a healing service. I went forward and a lady named Jama prayed for the feet. It was still hurting after the first praying, but after the second time, it was healed! Praise the Lord!! Hallelujah! Then I asked her to pray for me about the mandate that God wants to give me for my children ministry. She prayed and then she told me that she saw the story of "Peter Pipers". It's a story where this young man who has a magical flute, and whenever he plays the flute, children from every household would start to follow him. Jama said that I'm going to have this magical, special sound from God that would draw the children to God. They would not be able to resist that power from the sound. Now, Jama didn't know I play any instruments or sing, so it's totally God! After what she said to me, I told her that I actually lead worship at church and it's been a prayer on my heart that God would release a new dimension of worship in me, that when I sing or when I play instruments, the music I make will bring down His presence and draw people close to God. The Lord just answered my prayer through Jama! Wow, it's amazing!! I can't wait to find out what kind of sound that God is going to release in me that would draw the kids to Him. It's exciting stuffs! :)
-sala<3
Friday, March 28, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Pastoring Kids in Revival - Day 1
LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT ANYTHING FROM BETHEL!! :)
Last night I had a dream. It was the first dream where I killed people, and it was violent. I was with a guy, we were trying to kill an evil woman, who was a school principal, and her helper man. They were trying to kill us as well. During the fight, the woman hid and I saw the tip of her socks sticking out from underneath the bed, so I stabbed it with my sword. (I had a huge sword) However, it was only the sock and the woman was actually behind me. She tricked me! In the end I slew her with the sword, she was on the ground covering her heart with her hand, and I stabbed right through her hand and her heart. (I even remembered how it felt holding the sword and stabbing through her body) She died, and I just folded the body and kicked it aside. I was so exhausted so I laid right next to the body for a little rest. The guy who was with me woke up. He went unconscious during the fight, and I put a bandage on his head where he got injured. He saw the dead body and felt the bandage on his head. We had a glance of affection towards each others and the dream ended.
Crystal, the girl who also lives here temporarily, interpreted the dream for me in the morning. She said, God sometimes play with words. The principal means the evil principalities. The sock trick she put would be the deceptions that the enemies always put up before men to lead them into the wrong places. And the defeat of the evil principal would be God promising my victory over the principalities of the enemy through Him. Mona, the mama of the house, said that the guy who was helping me might symbolize Jesus. Helping me and us having affection towards each others at the end of the battle. (This part wasn't that clearly interpreted, need to pray about it)
It makes so much sense to me after the interpretation. At first I didn't even think that much, I just thought that was a very bloody and violent dream. Yet, again, the kingdom is to be taken by force violently. During the first session of today's messages, Mike Seth, talked about Hebrew 12:26, "At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens." Mike said the heavens it talks about here is the 2nd heaven, which is where the spiritual warfares take place. God is going to fight the principalities of satan's kingdom!! Later in the evening, Lenny LaGuardia, talked about the importance of having our own sword in slaying the evilness. He said it's important we have our own sword and not other people's sword.
Me and Alice went to the prayer room before the evening session. I was praying for the W.R. kids, UCR, myself, IMPACT... etc, when the Spirit of the Lord came upon me and I could not stop weeping. My arms were shaking uncontrollably, and my tears were streaming down my face uncontrollably as well. I didn't understand where these tears came from. I think it has something to do with God's love, not quite clear on that. However, I went and prayed for a Korean lady, she wept as I prayed. I'm glad I obeyed the Lord and went up to her. Mike Seth said that the love language of heaven is "obedience". It really hit me, you can go read my previous post about my "disobedience" if you want to know why. Another thing that really moved my heart was what Deborah Reed talked about. Her session was to release the power of prophetic to children. She said, "When prophetic words come down to church, true love from the Lord would be brought out among sisters and brothers. That is because when we started to see people from the Lord's perspective, an honor would rise up from within us, which would cause the people who we are prophesying over to have an affection towards us." Man I was just weeping continuously throughout the first half of her workshop. The love of God was so thick in the room, it was so good.
Ps. There's too much to type if I were to share everything. Will share on Sunday more! :)
Pss. Our host family, the Simmons, were so nice! Their house was so nice too! (Even got a huge deck and a small garden and a huge pool.) We will bring back tremendous pictures we got from them. Pictures that captures glimpse of God. Totally exciting stuffs!!
-sala<3
Last night I had a dream. It was the first dream where I killed people, and it was violent. I was with a guy, we were trying to kill an evil woman, who was a school principal, and her helper man. They were trying to kill us as well. During the fight, the woman hid and I saw the tip of her socks sticking out from underneath the bed, so I stabbed it with my sword. (I had a huge sword) However, it was only the sock and the woman was actually behind me. She tricked me! In the end I slew her with the sword, she was on the ground covering her heart with her hand, and I stabbed right through her hand and her heart. (I even remembered how it felt holding the sword and stabbing through her body) She died, and I just folded the body and kicked it aside. I was so exhausted so I laid right next to the body for a little rest. The guy who was with me woke up. He went unconscious during the fight, and I put a bandage on his head where he got injured. He saw the dead body and felt the bandage on his head. We had a glance of affection towards each others and the dream ended.
Crystal, the girl who also lives here temporarily, interpreted the dream for me in the morning. She said, God sometimes play with words. The principal means the evil principalities. The sock trick she put would be the deceptions that the enemies always put up before men to lead them into the wrong places. And the defeat of the evil principal would be God promising my victory over the principalities of the enemy through Him. Mona, the mama of the house, said that the guy who was helping me might symbolize Jesus. Helping me and us having affection towards each others at the end of the battle. (This part wasn't that clearly interpreted, need to pray about it)
It makes so much sense to me after the interpretation. At first I didn't even think that much, I just thought that was a very bloody and violent dream. Yet, again, the kingdom is to be taken by force violently. During the first session of today's messages, Mike Seth, talked about Hebrew 12:26, "At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens." Mike said the heavens it talks about here is the 2nd heaven, which is where the spiritual warfares take place. God is going to fight the principalities of satan's kingdom!! Later in the evening, Lenny LaGuardia, talked about the importance of having our own sword in slaying the evilness. He said it's important we have our own sword and not other people's sword.
Me and Alice went to the prayer room before the evening session. I was praying for the W.R. kids, UCR, myself, IMPACT... etc, when the Spirit of the Lord came upon me and I could not stop weeping. My arms were shaking uncontrollably, and my tears were streaming down my face uncontrollably as well. I didn't understand where these tears came from. I think it has something to do with God's love, not quite clear on that. However, I went and prayed for a Korean lady, she wept as I prayed. I'm glad I obeyed the Lord and went up to her. Mike Seth said that the love language of heaven is "obedience". It really hit me, you can go read my previous post about my "disobedience" if you want to know why. Another thing that really moved my heart was what Deborah Reed talked about. Her session was to release the power of prophetic to children. She said, "When prophetic words come down to church, true love from the Lord would be brought out among sisters and brothers. That is because when we started to see people from the Lord's perspective, an honor would rise up from within us, which would cause the people who we are prophesying over to have an affection towards us." Man I was just weeping continuously throughout the first half of her workshop. The love of God was so thick in the room, it was so good.
Ps. There's too much to type if I were to share everything. Will share on Sunday more! :)
Pss. Our host family, the Simmons, were so nice! Their house was so nice too! (Even got a huge deck and a small garden and a huge pool.) We will bring back tremendous pictures we got from them. Pictures that captures glimpse of God. Totally exciting stuffs!!
-sala<3
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Taiwan belongs to You, God!!
So many bugs!! They are everywhere! >< God never told us to LOVE bugs, so I can totally hate these little creatures. Humph! However, this also means that Summer is near!!! Yay!! :D
Awesome news... 馬英九won the presidential election yesterday!!! Woohoo~ Hallelujah! Alice and I started to pray for the result of this election and the revival of Taiwan right after we got home from MGM. It was crazy, we were praying for hours till 2, 3am! I believe God stirred up our hearts to pray hard for this island, because we really couldn't sleep and couldn't stop praying. More than the reason of being a Taiwanese, I think God is showing us His desire for this island to be returned to His embrace. I've been asking God to give us a Christian president who He can really use to impact Taiwan and bring revival to that land. Surely, He has answered the first part of the prayer, a Christian president, YAY GOD! I believe He will answer the second part soon enough if we would really cry out for it. Just like what Johnny shared today at the Campus Ministry Meeting, "You could get to where God wants you to be so much faster when you cry out with such hunger and desperation." God has showed us many visions and revelation during our prayers for Taiwan.
Here's a list of the visions I got...
1) Glorious Angel spreading out its wings with such glorious gleam all around it and behind it.
2) Skull - Spirit of death.
3) A huge cross pressed unto Taiwan, and made a huge mark.
4) Iron gates - Very hard-to-break strongholds.
5) Army of the Lord fighting against the army of satan.
6) A perfect heart, then you see the heart getting a lot of deep deep cuts.
7) A huge needle falling from heaven and burst through the huge bubble of LIES.
8) A heart that's covered with yucky black stuffs, so it cannot feel God, His love, and His Spirit.
9) Lots of the ghosts you see in Asian movies.
It was crazy! The Lord just kept on pouring out His heart and giving us visions and revelations for this island! Keep praying for our homeland! Though we don't live there anymore, we got lots of family members who are still over there, suffering! For their sake, pray for Taiwan! Pray for this president! Especially right now, pray for protection over him. (Some rumors are saying people are planning to assassinate him.) Lord have mercy on this land, I plead Jesus' blood over the sin of this island and bring revival to Taiwan!
Ps. 4/12 Water Ranger outing!! Knott's Berry Farm! Who would like to come and... um... drive and help watching over the kids? ^^||| I would really really appreciate it if you can help me out! Thank you so much!! Or any other suggestions for locations are welcome! Thanks guys!
-sala<3
Awesome news... 馬英九won the presidential election yesterday!!! Woohoo~ Hallelujah! Alice and I started to pray for the result of this election and the revival of Taiwan right after we got home from MGM. It was crazy, we were praying for hours till 2, 3am! I believe God stirred up our hearts to pray hard for this island, because we really couldn't sleep and couldn't stop praying. More than the reason of being a Taiwanese, I think God is showing us His desire for this island to be returned to His embrace. I've been asking God to give us a Christian president who He can really use to impact Taiwan and bring revival to that land. Surely, He has answered the first part of the prayer, a Christian president, YAY GOD! I believe He will answer the second part soon enough if we would really cry out for it. Just like what Johnny shared today at the Campus Ministry Meeting, "You could get to where God wants you to be so much faster when you cry out with such hunger and desperation." God has showed us many visions and revelation during our prayers for Taiwan.
Here's a list of the visions I got...
1) Glorious Angel spreading out its wings with such glorious gleam all around it and behind it.
2) Skull - Spirit of death.
3) A huge cross pressed unto Taiwan, and made a huge mark.
4) Iron gates - Very hard-to-break strongholds.
5) Army of the Lord fighting against the army of satan.
6) A perfect heart, then you see the heart getting a lot of deep deep cuts.
7) A huge needle falling from heaven and burst through the huge bubble of LIES.
8) A heart that's covered with yucky black stuffs, so it cannot feel God, His love, and His Spirit.
9) Lots of the ghosts you see in Asian movies.
It was crazy! The Lord just kept on pouring out His heart and giving us visions and revelations for this island! Keep praying for our homeland! Though we don't live there anymore, we got lots of family members who are still over there, suffering! For their sake, pray for Taiwan! Pray for this president! Especially right now, pray for protection over him. (Some rumors are saying people are planning to assassinate him.) Lord have mercy on this land, I plead Jesus' blood over the sin of this island and bring revival to Taiwan!
Ps. 4/12 Water Ranger outing!! Knott's Berry Farm! Who would like to come and... um... drive and help watching over the kids? ^^||| I would really really appreciate it if you can help me out! Thank you so much!! Or any other suggestions for locations are welcome! Thanks guys!
-sala<3
Friday, March 21, 2008
Holy Spirit - Best Song Writer of All!
Yesterday I wrote another song, this time it's a FULL song! Wow. I finished it in 2 hours too! This is the first time that I actually finished one song with music AND lyrics! It's amazing. Before I started composing I prayed a short prayer that God would increase my music talent and let my heart be in one accord with His heart, and my spirit with the Holy Spirit. Teach me how to write songs and make music that would bring down His presence, Holy Spirit! Then I started playing the piano, and just playing with the keys and stuffs when a rhythm started flowing out from my fingers. Pretty soon, I got the background music for the entire song. Then God showed me Psalm 34, which is where my lyrics come from. It fit greatly with the music, and then VWOLA~ a song is done! :) I recorded with just the voice, because I can't play and sing at the same time on the piano. Grrrr.... Need Annie/John/Andy to help me arrange it a bit. Please~ guys~!! =)
When I was worshiping in the morning, I knelt down and I could feel my ears were really really hot. I'm going to write another song today, Lord I pray that You have already opened my ears and anointed me with the spirit of David, the heart of a true worshiper. Empower me to write yet another powerful song, Lord. Thank You God, You are AWESOME in Your deeds and GREAT in Your power! Hallelujah! Praise You God!!!! Blessed be Your Name for Your Name is worthy to be praised! Amen Amen!!
-sala<3
When I was worshiping in the morning, I knelt down and I could feel my ears were really really hot. I'm going to write another song today, Lord I pray that You have already opened my ears and anointed me with the spirit of David, the heart of a true worshiper. Empower me to write yet another powerful song, Lord. Thank You God, You are AWESOME in Your deeds and GREAT in Your power! Hallelujah! Praise You God!!!! Blessed be Your Name for Your Name is worthy to be praised! Amen Amen!!
-sala<3
Thursday, March 20, 2008
City Invasion + First Day
Just wanna share something funny that happened during City Invasion on Tuesday afternoon. Me and Tina went to the Ontario Mills, with no purpose but to relax a bit to start with. After walking around aimlessly for 2 or 3 stores, we decided to pray for people. Because that question that Jack/Annie kept on asking us is stuck in my head forever now, "What's your purpose?" Hehe. We started to pray and see if God wants us to pray for a particular group of people, and we both felt we should go pray for pregnant women. It's amazing how many pregnant women we encountered at the mall. I've never seen so many of them. It's as if all the pregnant women all planned to shop at that mall that day. lol. We were taking turns in praying for these moms, while one person is praying, the other one is being the intercessor. Ok, so then Tina spotted a woman paying at the cashier at a store, and she was like, "Hey there is one! Go pray for her!" So we waited for her to come out of the store, then I approached her and told her what we're doing and without giving her a chance to explain anything, I kept on going in telling her how much God wants to bless her and the baby in her stomach and such... when she cut me off... "I'm not pregnant...." *0* Oops!! That was such an embarrassing moment, my goodness!! Thank God the woman and her entire family are Christian, so then we get to bless the entire family. She has 6 kids! Wow, can you imagine that!! Anyway, that was Tina's first attempt of City Invasion, c'mon give her some hands! She was so brave and I didn't even know she didn't have any trainings. Couldn't even tell she was inexperienced. Tina you are one prayer warrior of God! Don't lose heart, keep running towards Him! And He will show you so much more! :)
Today... first day of the 20 Days New Song Project. Worshiped God in the morning with shouts of joy! (Played Hillson London DVD) For some reason I wasn't able to worship as freely as I could at the beginning, even though no one was home and I knew the neighbors' kids were all at school at that time. I guess it's because I had all the doors and windows opened, too much open space. That still is NOT an excuse!!! Anyway, later on I was just completely focusing on God and nothing else. Dancing and singing, shouting and praising the King! Wept as I sang with all my heart and soul for my God, asking Him to completely empty me and work in me and through me. The Holy Spirit gently pushed me down. There I was laying on my carpet, weeping. "I won't relent until You have it all." Amen, Lord. That is my cry.
Encouraged Crystal with this verse and she said "Thank you for being such a huge encouragement!!" Praise the Lord! I was just thinking about her in the morning when she called at noon. Prayed for her and all. She is coming to the encounter retreat, o yay! :)
I will write a song per day, using the verse of that day. Recorded today's little song. Pretty hillsong style, lol. Lord, give me the anointing to compose, and the ears of heaven musicians! Hosanna!!
Ps. Guess what? My mom is reading the Bible every day now, using the study guide Alice gave us at LTC!! She reads the Bible by herself!! Isn't that amazing? She has already crossed through about 7 or 8 boxes, and you know how much chapters are in one box... definitely more than 3. Amazing Lord, keep speaking to my mom, showing Yourself to her, moving her heart, and working in her. Hallelujah! Lord, let my entire family be drenched in Your rain! Amen!
Pss. IHOP sent me a book, "The Rewards of Fasting", don't know if you guys got it or not. It came at the perfect timing. This exactly what I needed right now, thank you God for this special and perfect gift! <3
-sala<3
Today... first day of the 20 Days New Song Project. Worshiped God in the morning with shouts of joy! (Played Hillson London DVD) For some reason I wasn't able to worship as freely as I could at the beginning, even though no one was home and I knew the neighbors' kids were all at school at that time. I guess it's because I had all the doors and windows opened, too much open space. That still is NOT an excuse!!! Anyway, later on I was just completely focusing on God and nothing else. Dancing and singing, shouting and praising the King! Wept as I sang with all my heart and soul for my God, asking Him to completely empty me and work in me and through me. The Holy Spirit gently pushed me down. There I was laying on my carpet, weeping. "I won't relent until You have it all." Amen, Lord. That is my cry.
Encouraged Crystal with this verse and she said "Thank you for being such a huge encouragement!!" Praise the Lord! I was just thinking about her in the morning when she called at noon. Prayed for her and all. She is coming to the encounter retreat, o yay! :)
I will write a song per day, using the verse of that day. Recorded today's little song. Pretty hillsong style, lol. Lord, give me the anointing to compose, and the ears of heaven musicians! Hosanna!!
Ps. Guess what? My mom is reading the Bible every day now, using the study guide Alice gave us at LTC!! She reads the Bible by herself!! Isn't that amazing? She has already crossed through about 7 or 8 boxes, and you know how much chapters are in one box... definitely more than 3. Amazing Lord, keep speaking to my mom, showing Yourself to her, moving her heart, and working in her. Hallelujah! Lord, let my entire family be drenched in Your rain! Amen!
Pss. IHOP sent me a book, "The Rewards of Fasting", don't know if you guys got it or not. It came at the perfect timing. This exactly what I needed right now, thank you God for this special and perfect gift! <3
-sala<3
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Love and Power
Went to prayer room last night. I was waiting upon the Lord when He revealed the theme of my next season, and how He will show Himself - as LOVE and POWER.
He showed me this chapter. The Lord is so amazing, this chapter pretty much summed up what I have been doing/praying for, and what He has done, and also what He is going to do. Power, Holiness and Cleanliness, Thirst and Hunger to lead people to Praise/Worship Him, His unfailing Love, "be responsive to God, and not reactive to the enemy", and His Faithfulness. Perfect chapter at the perfect time. Lord You are perfect!
What I'm gonna do...
1) Ponder and live out one verse a day. Starting today!
2) Sing new songs to the Lord with the verse.
3) Encourage at least one person with it.
-sala<3
He showed me this chapter. The Lord is so amazing, this chapter pretty much summed up what I have been doing/praying for, and what He has done, and also what He is going to do. Power, Holiness and Cleanliness, Thirst and Hunger to lead people to Praise/Worship Him, His unfailing Love, "be responsive to God, and not reactive to the enemy", and His Faithfulness. Perfect chapter at the perfect time. Lord You are perfect!
What I'm gonna do...
1) Ponder and live out one verse a day. Starting today!
2) Sing new songs to the Lord with the verse.
3) Encourage at least one person with it.
Psalm 66
For the director of music. A song. A psalm.
1 Shout with joy to God, all the earth! 2 Sing the glory of his name;
make his praise glorious!
3 Say to God, "How awesome are your deeds!
So great is your power
that your enemies cringe before you.
4 All the earth bows down to you;
they sing praise to you,
they sing praise to your name."
Selah
5 Come and see what God has done,
how awesome his works in man's behalf!
6 He turned the sea into dry land,
they passed through the waters on foot—
come, let us rejoice in him.
7 He rules forever by his power,
his eyes watch the nations—
let not the rebellious rise up against him. (lol, thanks Lord)
Selah
8 Praise our God, O peoples,
let the sound of his praise be heard;
9 he has preserved our lives
and kept our feet from slipping.
10 For you, O God, tested us;
you refined us like silver.
11 You brought us into prison
and laid burdens on our backs.
12 You let men ride over our heads;
we went through fire and water,
but you brought us to a place of abundance.
13 I will come to your temple with burnt offerings
and fulfill my vows to you-
14 vows my lips promised and my mouth spoke
when I was in trouble.
15 I will sacrifice fat animals to you
and an offering of rams;
I will offer bulls and goats.
Selah
16 Come and listen, all you who fear God;
let me tell you what he has done for me.
17 I cried out to him with my mouth;
his praise was on my tongue.
18 If I had cherished sin in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened;
19 but God has surely listened
and heard my voice in prayer.
20 Praise be to God,
who has not rejected my prayer
or withheld his love from me!
-sala<3
Pathetic Confess
I'm on Spring Break already. Woohoo~ Time to prayMORE, worshipMORE, writeMORE, eatMore (spiritually, k), weepMORE, and loveMORE. (Do people still use this "MORE" thing? lol)
Recently I've been rebellious. No idea why all of a sudden the boldness in me turned not for Him but against Him. "How dare you disobey and turn your face away from God when He speaks to you???!!!" I felt I was going through that rebellious season of teenagers all over again, but this time, spiritually. Even though I ignores whatever God asked me to do, yet I long and hungry for Him. It's so ironic but that's exactly what's up. = =|||
"Sarah, go pray for that girl over there right now."
"No, Lord, I'm busy and have no time."
Something like that happened for at least 5 or 6 times throughout last week. I didn't go pray for any of these people the Lord asked me to go pray for. The last time that He urged my heart to go pray for someone was like this...
"Go right now, or else I will leave you."
"No!! Don't leave me, Lord!" (Still didn't go up to the girl)
.... I could felt God's Spirit leaving me....
"Noooo Lord don't forsake me!!"
I was scared. Lord, I'm sorry... Why didn't I go? Not enough boldness? Not enough faith? Not enough love? Lord I prayed for more of You and less of me, yet I was like a stubborn child who runs away from You when You called, and runs back to You asking for Your love afterwards. God, help me to GROW UP!! Pathetic Sarah!! Grrr.... So frustrated! I hated my guts!
On Sunday, I didn't go up there and pray. (Even tried to avoid eye contacts to avoid going up) What the heck was I doing?? The Lord asked me to go up there and pray, yet I disobeyed again. (slaps self) However, Jack's message of being cut and burn by the Lord if we don't bear fruits, and the burden to cry out to God in extreme hunger and thirst hit me later after Monday's final... It was just an afternoon/night of praying, weeping, worshiping, repenting before the Lord. At least 4 hours of crying out. I haven't wept before Him for a while now. The Holy Spirit filled me up and I laid there and couldn't stop speaking in tongue "loudly"for about 40 minutes. (Sorry Ruth, I didn't mean to disturb your beauty sleep. lol) I felt the burden to pray for Karen's increase in hunger and thirst for God, that she would HAVE TO cry out to Him and for Him. As I wept for her, the Lord touched her and she started to weep as well. Our house church is called GTM (God Thirst Ministry), yet, why aren't people THIRSTY for God??!! I am hungry for God, way more than physical hunger. If you know me you would know that I LOVE FOOD, but the hunger I have for God is way beyond food... I was a bit amazed too. Give me more hunger and thirst for You, Lord.
After being filled by the Holy Spirit, it's time to strike again!! Lord, fill me up with hunger, boldness, and love from above. Expand my cup and let it overflow. Amen.
Ps. MoMo's under spiritual attack severely right now. Please keep her in your prayers. Pray for freedom in the Spirit and restoration. The Lord is gracious, slow to anger, rich in love, and good to all! Amen!
-sala<3
Recently I've been rebellious. No idea why all of a sudden the boldness in me turned not for Him but against Him. "How dare you disobey and turn your face away from God when He speaks to you???!!!" I felt I was going through that rebellious season of teenagers all over again, but this time, spiritually. Even though I ignores whatever God asked me to do, yet I long and hungry for Him. It's so ironic but that's exactly what's up. = =|||
"Sarah, go pray for that girl over there right now."
"No, Lord, I'm busy and have no time."
Something like that happened for at least 5 or 6 times throughout last week. I didn't go pray for any of these people the Lord asked me to go pray for. The last time that He urged my heart to go pray for someone was like this...
"Go right now, or else I will leave you."
"No!! Don't leave me, Lord!" (Still didn't go up to the girl)
.... I could felt God's Spirit leaving me....
"Noooo Lord don't forsake me!!"
I was scared. Lord, I'm sorry... Why didn't I go? Not enough boldness? Not enough faith? Not enough love? Lord I prayed for more of You and less of me, yet I was like a stubborn child who runs away from You when You called, and runs back to You asking for Your love afterwards. God, help me to GROW UP!! Pathetic Sarah!! Grrr.... So frustrated! I hated my guts!
On Sunday, I didn't go up there and pray. (Even tried to avoid eye contacts to avoid going up) What the heck was I doing?? The Lord asked me to go up there and pray, yet I disobeyed again. (slaps self) However, Jack's message of being cut and burn by the Lord if we don't bear fruits, and the burden to cry out to God in extreme hunger and thirst hit me later after Monday's final... It was just an afternoon/night of praying, weeping, worshiping, repenting before the Lord. At least 4 hours of crying out. I haven't wept before Him for a while now. The Holy Spirit filled me up and I laid there and couldn't stop speaking in tongue "loudly"for about 40 minutes. (Sorry Ruth, I didn't mean to disturb your beauty sleep. lol) I felt the burden to pray for Karen's increase in hunger and thirst for God, that she would HAVE TO cry out to Him and for Him. As I wept for her, the Lord touched her and she started to weep as well. Our house church is called GTM (God Thirst Ministry), yet, why aren't people THIRSTY for God??!! I am hungry for God, way more than physical hunger. If you know me you would know that I LOVE FOOD, but the hunger I have for God is way beyond food... I was a bit amazed too. Give me more hunger and thirst for You, Lord.
After being filled by the Holy Spirit, it's time to strike again!! Lord, fill me up with hunger, boldness, and love from above. Expand my cup and let it overflow. Amen.
Ps. MoMo's under spiritual attack severely right now. Please keep her in your prayers. Pray for freedom in the Spirit and restoration. The Lord is gracious, slow to anger, rich in love, and good to all! Amen!
-sala<3
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Three kids gave their lives to God!!
Short updates on Water Rangers.
In recent weeks, Jason, has grew so much spiritually. I am so encouraged by him. It's so clear that his interest and hunger for God has grew tremendously since I first met him. He would ask me many questions about Angels and demons, about heaven and hell, about God. You'd think he doesn't really listen to anyone, but he does. He hears and he learns to obey, to follow, and to walk it out. Last Saturday I was just asking him whether he has ever done the sinner's prayer before. He said, "I don't know." (As always. lol) I explained to him the reason why we say that prayer, and the difference between that and Baptism. Afterwards, he seems to be thinking real hard. You could tell from his expression. I left him thinking and said to him, "Let me know when you are ready." Then I shifted my attention to other smaller kids. Man, they have endless energy, it's unbelievable. 5 minuets passed and Jason said, "I will do the sinners' prayer next week." Jeffrey heard this, and he said, "I will do it with Jason." I turned to ask Irene if she wants to do it with them as well. She said, "Yea we will do it together." Then she said to Jason, "We will all baptize together when you are ready!!" I couldn't help myself from smiling and laughing on the inside. They are so adorable. I mean, if you have already decided to do it next week, why not do it now? Kids logic, I suppose. lol.
This Saturday, Maya(5 yr. old) and Haley(4 yr. old) both came. I was really surprised at their super good behavior that day. (Usually the little ones would not stop running around, talking to each others, climbing sofas...etc) Our topic was "Dreams". I had the kids draw out their ultimate lifetime dreams. Almost everyone's drawing included the word, "Love". Maya's drawing is just filled with the word, "Love" and, according to her, different flavors of hearts." Her dream was to have love everywhere in the world. Beckie (7 yr. old) wanted to become the best ballet teacher in the world and spread God's love to everyone. She wrote in very big letters on the back of the paper, "Rebecca love God, He is the best!" Jason drew himself with big wings holding a key to the heaven's gate, and there were many many people with wings flying to heaven. He wrote, "My dream is to go to heaven." Irene's dream is to end racism, that every single person on earth can love each other equally. Jeffrey's dream is for the ultimate LIFE to be brought to the world, that everyone will believe in God. (Even E.T. lol) There's something about Haley that I want to share. Whenever we talk about God, Angels, and heaven stuffs, she would smile and laugh with so much joy and excitement. It's pretty amazing. I'm not really clear on how little kids' spiritual connection with God is like. How God talks to them, how they can hear God just like that. I need to dig more into that, that's why I'm going to Bethel this Spring break to receive some trainings on pastoring kids. Yay! Can't wait!!
There's another thing that surprised me and boosted up my faith today. Towards the end of W.R. the little kids were getting impatient and wanted to play the "monster game". They were running around the sofas, screaming, playing. Jason turned to me and said, "We should do something to bring them back. How can we get their attention? Games?" Jeffrey also said similar things. We started to have this small discussion that's initiated by Jason! WOAH! You'd think Jason don't care, and Jeffrey don't like to have the little kids around. I mean, they were like that towards the little ones a few weeks ago!! I don't know what happened. They were suddenly so supportive and they were seriously thinking about ways to work things out together as a group! I'm so touched, and my level of faith increased a lot. Praise be to the Lord of Lords, King of kings!! Hallelujah!!!
After W.R., I reminded Jason, Jeffrey, and Irene that we're supposed to do the sinners' prayer today. Even though at first they were still kind of effy and wanted to do it next week, at the end they decided to do it today. Jeffrey led us to his room and we all kelt down on the floor. I had them repeat after me, and they all said the prayer with all of their hearts. After we're done, they were like, "What?? That's it? So short!!" Hahaha... I told them, "Yea, accepting God it's as simple as that!!" :) Hallelujah! I know God is totally throwing at big party in heaven for these three kids! Woohoo~!!
Keep praying for us if you will. Pray for Oscar, David, Linda, for they didn't come for two weeks. Oscar hasn't come for about a month now. It's just that his family really needs him there to help out these weeks. Lord, help and provide for this family please. Use me to bring Your kingdom down to their household!! My heart belongs to You Lord. Replace it with Yours. Amen.
-sala<3
In recent weeks, Jason, has grew so much spiritually. I am so encouraged by him. It's so clear that his interest and hunger for God has grew tremendously since I first met him. He would ask me many questions about Angels and demons, about heaven and hell, about God. You'd think he doesn't really listen to anyone, but he does. He hears and he learns to obey, to follow, and to walk it out. Last Saturday I was just asking him whether he has ever done the sinner's prayer before. He said, "I don't know." (As always. lol) I explained to him the reason why we say that prayer, and the difference between that and Baptism. Afterwards, he seems to be thinking real hard. You could tell from his expression. I left him thinking and said to him, "Let me know when you are ready." Then I shifted my attention to other smaller kids. Man, they have endless energy, it's unbelievable. 5 minuets passed and Jason said, "I will do the sinners' prayer next week." Jeffrey heard this, and he said, "I will do it with Jason." I turned to ask Irene if she wants to do it with them as well. She said, "Yea we will do it together." Then she said to Jason, "We will all baptize together when you are ready!!" I couldn't help myself from smiling and laughing on the inside. They are so adorable. I mean, if you have already decided to do it next week, why not do it now? Kids logic, I suppose. lol.
This Saturday, Maya(5 yr. old) and Haley(4 yr. old) both came. I was really surprised at their super good behavior that day. (Usually the little ones would not stop running around, talking to each others, climbing sofas...etc) Our topic was "Dreams". I had the kids draw out their ultimate lifetime dreams. Almost everyone's drawing included the word, "Love". Maya's drawing is just filled with the word, "Love" and, according to her, different flavors of hearts." Her dream was to have love everywhere in the world. Beckie (7 yr. old) wanted to become the best ballet teacher in the world and spread God's love to everyone. She wrote in very big letters on the back of the paper, "Rebecca love God, He is the best!" Jason drew himself with big wings holding a key to the heaven's gate, and there were many many people with wings flying to heaven. He wrote, "My dream is to go to heaven." Irene's dream is to end racism, that every single person on earth can love each other equally. Jeffrey's dream is for the ultimate LIFE to be brought to the world, that everyone will believe in God. (Even E.T. lol) There's something about Haley that I want to share. Whenever we talk about God, Angels, and heaven stuffs, she would smile and laugh with so much joy and excitement. It's pretty amazing. I'm not really clear on how little kids' spiritual connection with God is like. How God talks to them, how they can hear God just like that. I need to dig more into that, that's why I'm going to Bethel this Spring break to receive some trainings on pastoring kids. Yay! Can't wait!!
There's another thing that surprised me and boosted up my faith today. Towards the end of W.R. the little kids were getting impatient and wanted to play the "monster game". They were running around the sofas, screaming, playing. Jason turned to me and said, "We should do something to bring them back. How can we get their attention? Games?" Jeffrey also said similar things. We started to have this small discussion that's initiated by Jason! WOAH! You'd think Jason don't care, and Jeffrey don't like to have the little kids around. I mean, they were like that towards the little ones a few weeks ago!! I don't know what happened. They were suddenly so supportive and they were seriously thinking about ways to work things out together as a group! I'm so touched, and my level of faith increased a lot. Praise be to the Lord of Lords, King of kings!! Hallelujah!!!
After W.R., I reminded Jason, Jeffrey, and Irene that we're supposed to do the sinners' prayer today. Even though at first they were still kind of effy and wanted to do it next week, at the end they decided to do it today. Jeffrey led us to his room and we all kelt down on the floor. I had them repeat after me, and they all said the prayer with all of their hearts. After we're done, they were like, "What?? That's it? So short!!" Hahaha... I told them, "Yea, accepting God it's as simple as that!!" :) Hallelujah! I know God is totally throwing at big party in heaven for these three kids! Woohoo~!!
Keep praying for us if you will. Pray for Oscar, David, Linda, for they didn't come for two weeks. Oscar hasn't come for about a month now. It's just that his family really needs him there to help out these weeks. Lord, help and provide for this family please. Use me to bring Your kingdom down to their household!! My heart belongs to You Lord. Replace it with Yours. Amen.
-sala<3
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Jehovah Rafa
LET THE FIRE OF HEALING FALL IN THIS PLACE!! O LORD OF HEALING! JEHOVAH RAFA I CALL UNTO THY NAME!!!
Finally done with my paper. Whew. Here's what happened this week...
MONDAY
Crystal, the school newspaper journalist, came. We shared a lot before GTM began. After worship, I shared the message that Banning preached before, "Dreamers". We started to pray after the sermon. Three people got healed physically! Karen and Kathrine (our neighbor) were feeling very sick, and Kat. was having a huge headache. Crystal had a very bad stomachache. After we all prayed for them, Karen was completely healed after a while, Kat's headache was completely gone, and Crystal's stomachache, due to bladder infection, was totally healed as well! Praise the Lord! Something else crazy happened. We started to pray for Crystal's left hand's middle finger because 1/5 of it was cut off one or two years ago. At that time she was about to suicide by jumping out from her window. However, for some reason she slammed the window shut instead, and that cut off a part of her finger. The doctor said he has to cut off below the first knuckle in order to prevent infection from the wound to spread to the entire hand. If that happens, she would have to lose her whole hand! The interesting thing was, God gave a lady a revelation, that no knife shall touch Crystal's body, so her dad stopped the doctor from cutting off her finger. Crystal said the doctor was furious, and kept on telling them they are insane! Crazy! Then they found another doctor who was willing to try and save her finger by not cutting a big part of it off. The doctor sliced open the skin near her thumb and stuck the middle finger in there to do skin transplant. It worked!! Crystal said, many people, including herself, have gotten dreams or visions of her finger grew back completely. Then, I started to encourage everyone to have faith and believe that a miracle will happen tonight, that God will let Crystal's finger grow back to its original stage! There were 8 of us praying for Crystal. I think we prayed for about half an hour total, and in the middle of the prayer Crystal said the middle fingertip felt kind of weird and tingling. Many of us were weeping and crying out to God for Him to heal Crystal, when Brian asked her if there's anything other than the physical injury that we could pray for her about. God really opened up her heart, and she shared with us about something that we'd never thought of. I cannot share what that is, but basically she has done something wrong, and she could not forgive herself from it. (She didn't kill anyone, ok.) Even though she knows that God has forgiven her, she could not be set free from her guilt. We all prayed for her, many wept more, and afterwards. She said she has completely forgave herself!! It was totally God. Many of us gave her encouraging and comforting words. She shared afterwards, that she has realized no matter how hard she tries to be perfect, she can never be 100% perfect. And something else... I forgot. -_- (Will add that later) Anyway, the night was divine. Jehovah Rafa was totally there! Hallelujah to the King!
TUESDAY
We were celebrating Joe's new job at my place. Joe has found a place to live today!! It was their first attempt too! Praise the Lord!! Man, the goodies and blessings were just rolling in for Joe. Crazy good God! After dinner we were helping Joe to write down his testimony so we can record it, and had a Bible study on Colossians 3, which talks about the rules for the holy living. Brian explains to Joe patiently about why to forgive, why to love, and why to work hard for God, and not for people. We realized that Joe has never forgave himself from the death of one of his co-workers years ago. His co-worker was a drug addict, and Joe said, "I could've done something to stop his death from happening, yet I did not do anything about it." He has always been haunted by this memory, and it is because of the things he could not forgive himself that caused his inability to forgive others. We prayed for him, gave him words of encouragements, and he was able to forgive himself and move on without those baggages from the past. God, You are always good. You are always merciful. You are our provision. I love You! I showed Joe many testimonies that John recorded, and he was amazed at what God can do. lol. I left Joe with many questions to ponder on, and empowered him to dream big. Ex. When he plays music, people will be healed physically and mentally through the power of God. I love to encourage and empower others, it's becoming a habit of mine. Or hobbit. haha.
WEDNESDAY
I was taking a worship break from writing my paper for 4 hours when Brian called. He said that Crystal needs prayers right now so he'll bring her over right now. It was midnight already, but me, Karen, and Ruth were totally up for it. Crystal came and told us what just happened with her and her boyfriend-on-breaks, well, now her ex-boyfriend. They ended their relationship for good, so they could wholeheartedly follow God and seek after Him. Encouraged her with past experience, hope it helped her. Brian led us to all pray for one another. Ruth played the guitar and we sang. Ruth is getting better at playing guitar and leading worship by herself, I'm proud of her! I'm dreaming big for her, and constantly reminding her of the dream. She's gonna be great. At some point I played the guitar after Ruth, and I asked God to show us more, to bring the worship to the next level. The Lord's holiness fall in the room, and as we sang Glory Will Cover the Earth, Holy Spirit led us into a stillness to wait upon the Lord. Be still and know that He is God. We were still and quiet for about 20 minutes, well me and Crystal were. It's a deeper level of intimacy with the Lord, and the rest were not used to it, so they didn't stay still for very long. It's hard at the beginning to just be completely still before the Lord, I know. I used to fall asleep every time I tried to do that, but as I kept on practicing, I am able to focus on Him and be completely still in front of Him for a long time. I loved it. Suddenly I could not use any adjectives to describe God. Only one word can I use to describe His might, His justice, His love, His holiness, His gracious, His glory, His faithfulness and on and on... That word is GOD.
THURSDAY
Still trying to finish my paper, and Brian took Sylvia to our place tonight. She just moved to our apartment complex today, so in the future she could always join us on Monday nights! Yay! She cooked us very yummy curry, and shared with us about her life. I'm thinking of bringing her to the Encounter Retreat, for she hasn't been able to go to church because of her work schedule. Talked with MoMo, very glad that she called, and we get to encourage each others. Dream more for me, MoMo. Ya hear?! Haha. Before dinner, Brian and I went to class and he told me how stressed he is about Joe, because obviously Joe did not move into the apartment yesterday. It's either he didn't show up, or he showed up and didn't have enough money. We don't know where he spent that money, or what Joe's thinking. Once again, I encouraged Brian to dream big for Joe, and think about what kind of a person does he want Joe to become. I told him, discipleship is just a teacher teaching his student to become like him. You want Joe to become a certain kind of person, you have to be that kind of person first. Brian realized that the reason he has been so stressed and frustrated is because he was trying to use his own strength to make everything perfect. After we went back to my place, he went straight into my room to worship God and pray alone, cried before God. I'm praying for you, leader.
FRIDAY... yet to come.
Ps. I've realized how often people pray/worship in my room. Joe said it feels peaceful in my room. Wouldn't it be nice for it to be a 24/7 prayer room, and like what IHOP people said, "where prayers are, there God is. where God is, there Angels, signs and wonders will be." I wouldn't be surprised if I see diamonds on the carpet or Angel's feathers start to fall in the room, because this is a place of prayer, a place of God.
-sala<3
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