Crystal texted me at around 8:30AM saying she cut her finger and it's so deep that it would need stitches. She said she's praying for it and it's already starting to heal. I was in class so I prayed hard afterward. At around 12:30PM she called me and told me that her finger is now COMPLETELY HEALED!!! The entire healing process was around 20minutes!!! C'mon someone shout HALLELUJAH!!!! Woohooo~~ Praise Jesus!!! xD
-sala<3
Monday, September 29, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Random Visions
This morning I got the weirdest vision. I woke up automatically at about 5:50am and right after I was awake this vision started appearing clearly in my mind. I know I was not dreaming because I was wide awake when this happened. Here it goes...
It was the scene of Elijah throwing down his cloak to Elisha when he was ascending to heaven in the chariot. Well known scene it is. The random thing was, this sentence was spoken to me like a narrator speaking in movies. "Elisha diluted the cloak three times." Then as Elijah threw the cloak down, there was the straight dotted line of how the cloak will aim at Elisha. This narrator voice told me that it has to be a certain angle that Elijah's throwing, to hit Elisha's hand, but not letting him catch it so it will fall on the ground, then Elisha will pick it up.
That was the vision. Anyone who can explain this to me gets a cookie! =)
Ps. Last night right before I fall asleep, this man's face came up. It was a black man, kinda look like Obama but it wasn't him. First thought was, "Obama's son". There were no words to go with this face so I don't know what to do but research "Obama's son". Saw this youtube video, which had the same face that I saw last night in it. Check it out... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoLA0uEL-ZQ
-sala<3
It was the scene of Elijah throwing down his cloak to Elisha when he was ascending to heaven in the chariot. Well known scene it is. The random thing was, this sentence was spoken to me like a narrator speaking in movies. "Elisha diluted the cloak three times." Then as Elijah threw the cloak down, there was the straight dotted line of how the cloak will aim at Elisha. This narrator voice told me that it has to be a certain angle that Elijah's throwing, to hit Elisha's hand, but not letting him catch it so it will fall on the ground, then Elisha will pick it up.
That was the vision. Anyone who can explain this to me gets a cookie! =)
Ps. Last night right before I fall asleep, this man's face came up. It was a black man, kinda look like Obama but it wasn't him. First thought was, "Obama's son". There were no words to go with this face so I don't know what to do but research "Obama's son". Saw this youtube video, which had the same face that I saw last night in it. Check it out... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoLA0uEL-ZQ
-sala<3
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Two Right Wrists @ Starbucks
So after I went to work out with MoMo, we went to the starbucks on Huntington to chat a bit. Not long after we sat down, a girl with a brace on her right wrist walked pass us and then another guy walked over and stood by us, who also has a brace on his right wrist. "Hum, lots of wrists tonight, Lord." I thought to myself. I started the conv. with the guy first. Found out he's actually a staff working for the Arcadia School District. His name is Mr. Rios. We asked him if we can pray for him and how his wrist got broken. He said, "I fell and my wrist was broken. However, it didn't grow back the correct way so the doctor had to break it again to let it heal the right now. Because it's been broken too many times, I'm missing a huge part of my bones which connect my thumb to the plam, and that's why it's so painful." We started to pray for him and afterwards we asked him how he felt. He didn't tell us if it got better or not, but he was really thankful and he's a believer too. He actually goes to Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills. (I was looking up Calvary Chapel... I'm shocked at how many branches they have ALL OVER the states! It's crazy!!!) Before he was gonna leave, he went over and said to me, "You are very strong in spirit I can sense it. You don't just tell people how nice and wonderful it is to have Jesus in their lives, you bring Him to their lives. Would you do me a favor? Remember this name, "Wakin Rio". It's my father's name and he's suffering lots of pain right now due to cancer. Would you pray for him and ask the Lord to take him away? I'd appreciate it very much, thank you." Then he left. I so wanted to ask him, "Why not pray that the Lord will take the cancer away instead of taking him away?" Anyway, it was still pretty cool! I'm very encouraged! =) *Free prophetic words! Wee~*
Then when it was time for Starbucks to close, there were only me, momo, the girl with wrist brace, her friend, and another man in the store. I went up to the girl and asked her what happened to her wrist, and she said she was in a car accident and her bone fractured. I told her that Jesus can heal her and I've seen many times when God heals a person right at the spot. She generously accepted the prayer offer and after I prayed for her, I told her how much Jesus loves her and cares about her. Her eyes were red. Her friend's actually been trying to bring her to Christ for a long time and he's very happy to see that I went up and told her all these. She's definitely touched by God's love and healing power, because all her pain has been GONE! She took the brace off and tested it too!! There were completely NO PAIN! Her friend asked her when was the last time she took her brace off, (because she can't tell if it still hurts if she wears the brace) and she said this afternoon. Apparently it was still hurting the last time she checked, and she's very amazed by God's healing upon her. Her friend was very thankful of my little approoach, and I'm very thankful for God to use me in this girl's life. Demonstrating God's love, power and how real He is! Praise the Lord!!! She is Yours Lord! Continue to tenderize her heart and baptize her in Your love and Holy Spirit! Amen!
Jesus is super duper awesome!!!
-sala<3
Then when it was time for Starbucks to close, there were only me, momo, the girl with wrist brace, her friend, and another man in the store. I went up to the girl and asked her what happened to her wrist, and she said she was in a car accident and her bone fractured. I told her that Jesus can heal her and I've seen many times when God heals a person right at the spot. She generously accepted the prayer offer and after I prayed for her, I told her how much Jesus loves her and cares about her. Her eyes were red. Her friend's actually been trying to bring her to Christ for a long time and he's very happy to see that I went up and told her all these. She's definitely touched by God's love and healing power, because all her pain has been GONE! She took the brace off and tested it too!! There were completely NO PAIN! Her friend asked her when was the last time she took her brace off, (because she can't tell if it still hurts if she wears the brace) and she said this afternoon. Apparently it was still hurting the last time she checked, and she's very amazed by God's healing upon her. Her friend was very thankful of my little approoach, and I'm very thankful for God to use me in this girl's life. Demonstrating God's love, power and how real He is! Praise the Lord!!! She is Yours Lord! Continue to tenderize her heart and baptize her in Your love and Holy Spirit! Amen!
Jesus is super duper awesome!!!
-sala<3
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Happy Moon Day!!
I've always loved full moon... I get disappointed when I look up and it's not a full one.
Who's gonna BBQ??
-sala<3
Friday, September 12, 2008
Ya'll Don't Wanna Miss This!!!
Click to enlarge! ^____^
Ps. I know I'm not gonna miss this~!!!
-sala<3
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Living a Normal Christian Life
Call of Duty was awesome... 9/5 & 9/6.
As usual, we went out to city invasion. This time I teamed up with Shinny, Sammy, and Abby. (Yea their names all ended with "Y", i bet they're a curious bunch. Haha not funny!) So Shinny got "Jumba Juice" on her list, and so we went to the plaza next to the 10 freeway on Rosemead. I got the name "Robert" on my list, and at Jumba, Shinny spotted one of the cashiers' name is Robert! So I went up to him and showed him my list with his name on it. He was super surprised and as we were doing some small talks I was praying hard for a word of knowledge. The word "girlfriend" came up, so I asked him, "Are you doing alright with your girlfriend?" He said he's single, so I asked, "Have you been looking for a girlfriend recently?" He looked suspicious but said yeah. Yay! I heard it right. Whew, that was awkward. So because of many customers behind me, and we had to leave, he gave me his number. (At this point I'm thinking about deleting everything and not post this... = =|||) Anyway, glory to God!! Focus ==> Jesus!! Jesus!!
We prayed for a guy who had a screw in his wrist to hold his bones together. He's a Christian and even though he felt so much better after our first prayer, he firmly rejected the second one. God!! You are awesome because Your Kingdom was drawn by me and Shinny's faith even if that guy had no faith. One of Johnny's friend, Micha, shared with us one of his testimonies. He was praying for a man who had serious backpain, and when offered prayers that man had no faith that God will heal him at all. Micha prayed for him I believe for more than 5 times, that man just kept on saying, "No, God's not gonna heal me." Then suddenly there was a huge noise in the back so he turned very quickly to see what it was, Micha asked, "Hey! You can turn your back now!! Did that hurt?" That man was extremely amazed that he had absolutely no pain at all and his back was completely healed!! Faith draws and pulls the Kingdom down, doesn't matter if it's from the person you're praying for, or from you! =)
Right before we're leaving, we saw a mom coming into the store pushing a wheelchair with her son in it. We speed walked there and asked if we can pray for him. His name is Michael, and the mom explained that because of early birth and some kind of sickness which caused him not able to walk or talk. Later the dad came and explained more about Michael's situation. As we're praying for Michael, mom started to weep and Michael was smiling. So cute. God comforted and encouraged the family through our words and prayers. Lord, I pray for complete restoration of Michael's brain and body. This family loves you, Lord, hear their prayers!
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On Tuesday went to starbucks with Chambers. Just chatting about the School of Disciples situation at my place and all that jazz. So anyway, I spotted this woman who has casts on both of her wrists!! GREEN LIGHT!! We went up to her as she walked out and offered a prayer. She kindly accepted it and after a short prayer we asked her how she's feeling. She told us, "I feel so warm in both wrists and all the pain that's been bothering for months is GONE!!" But, she still couldn't straighten up her fingers so we prayed again. She said, "Wow my fingers are already loosening up!!" She could move her fingers more than before!! Hallelujah!! She's a believer and she said she's never experienced anything like this before. It boosted up her faith and even her friend's faith!! Jesus You are real and You rock!!!
Later that day I went to the pharmacy to pick up some medicine for Amy, she was terribly sick. I told Jesus I wanted to practice receiving the word of knowledge and speak them out in boldness and faith. A girl walked by me as I sat there waiting for the medicine to be ready. As soon as I saw her I saw the word "STRESS" on her. I turned and asked her, "Hey are you stressed?" She said, "Yes I'm very stressed! I just got into college and just had 7 hours of lecture." (At that moment she's looking through sleeping pills on the shelve. I noticed that later.) I prayed for her and found out that she works at that pharmacy and used to go to church before. I told her how much Jesus cares for her and gave her IMPACT's card. Yay! Jesus You are so awesome!!! I didn't even hesitate at all when I asked her that question. What an awesome way to exercise obedience, boldness, and faith! That was so cool!!
I think God gave me a new name... He zapped me when I was driving Amy home. I couldn't even focus on anything else other than Him. It was CRAZY I tell you!! Can't describe what I've felt. I'm not 100% sure of what the name is, but I know it starts with S and it's a name I've never seen or heard of before. I guess I just need to seek more.
Lat night I had a weird dream. There were Jack, Amy, Tina, me, water ranger children and a lot more other children. That place looked like a daycare center, which had a kitchen, living room, game room, meeting room... etc. We were serving the children, taking care of them, buying them food and stuffs. After the day is over, everyone went home except me and another person, whom I don't know. (Now that I think of it, I think it was my house??!!) So I went into the bathroom getting ready to take a shower. I was checking out my hair trying to imagine what it would look like if I have short hair like Jennifer (lol, thanks Enoch), then I spotted this bug flying around. It stopped on the wall, the upper half looks like a green catepillar and the bottom half looks like this whiteish ball thing. I took a piece of toilet paper and tried to kill it. However, as I tried to squeesh it, the body was so hard I couldn't really squeesh it so I tried the head. The brain juice came out while the bug started to spit out white string-looky things on my fingers. The poison started to numb my fingers and hand. I woke up and both my hands were numb that felt like the numbing from poisoning. Creepy. I still remember the red catapillar eyes the bug had. I don't know what the dream means but I was thinking about it and I came to two conclusions...
1) If I didn't try to kill the bug, it wouldn't poison me
2) I wouldn't look good with short hair like Jennifer + red stripes. haha
-sala<3
As usual, we went out to city invasion. This time I teamed up with Shinny, Sammy, and Abby. (Yea their names all ended with "Y", i bet they're a curious bunch. Haha not funny!) So Shinny got "Jumba Juice" on her list, and so we went to the plaza next to the 10 freeway on Rosemead. I got the name "Robert" on my list, and at Jumba, Shinny spotted one of the cashiers' name is Robert! So I went up to him and showed him my list with his name on it. He was super surprised and as we were doing some small talks I was praying hard for a word of knowledge. The word "girlfriend" came up, so I asked him, "Are you doing alright with your girlfriend?" He said he's single, so I asked, "Have you been looking for a girlfriend recently?" He looked suspicious but said yeah. Yay! I heard it right. Whew, that was awkward. So because of many customers behind me, and we had to leave, he gave me his number. (At this point I'm thinking about deleting everything and not post this... = =|||) Anyway, glory to God!! Focus ==> Jesus!! Jesus!!
We prayed for a guy who had a screw in his wrist to hold his bones together. He's a Christian and even though he felt so much better after our first prayer, he firmly rejected the second one. God!! You are awesome because Your Kingdom was drawn by me and Shinny's faith even if that guy had no faith. One of Johnny's friend, Micha, shared with us one of his testimonies. He was praying for a man who had serious backpain, and when offered prayers that man had no faith that God will heal him at all. Micha prayed for him I believe for more than 5 times, that man just kept on saying, "No, God's not gonna heal me." Then suddenly there was a huge noise in the back so he turned very quickly to see what it was, Micha asked, "Hey! You can turn your back now!! Did that hurt?" That man was extremely amazed that he had absolutely no pain at all and his back was completely healed!! Faith draws and pulls the Kingdom down, doesn't matter if it's from the person you're praying for, or from you! =)
Right before we're leaving, we saw a mom coming into the store pushing a wheelchair with her son in it. We speed walked there and asked if we can pray for him. His name is Michael, and the mom explained that because of early birth and some kind of sickness which caused him not able to walk or talk. Later the dad came and explained more about Michael's situation. As we're praying for Michael, mom started to weep and Michael was smiling. So cute. God comforted and encouraged the family through our words and prayers. Lord, I pray for complete restoration of Michael's brain and body. This family loves you, Lord, hear their prayers!
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On Tuesday went to starbucks with Chambers. Just chatting about the School of Disciples situation at my place and all that jazz. So anyway, I spotted this woman who has casts on both of her wrists!! GREEN LIGHT!! We went up to her as she walked out and offered a prayer. She kindly accepted it and after a short prayer we asked her how she's feeling. She told us, "I feel so warm in both wrists and all the pain that's been bothering for months is GONE!!" But, she still couldn't straighten up her fingers so we prayed again. She said, "Wow my fingers are already loosening up!!" She could move her fingers more than before!! Hallelujah!! She's a believer and she said she's never experienced anything like this before. It boosted up her faith and even her friend's faith!! Jesus You are real and You rock!!!
Later that day I went to the pharmacy to pick up some medicine for Amy, she was terribly sick. I told Jesus I wanted to practice receiving the word of knowledge and speak them out in boldness and faith. A girl walked by me as I sat there waiting for the medicine to be ready. As soon as I saw her I saw the word "STRESS" on her. I turned and asked her, "Hey are you stressed?" She said, "Yes I'm very stressed! I just got into college and just had 7 hours of lecture." (At that moment she's looking through sleeping pills on the shelve. I noticed that later.) I prayed for her and found out that she works at that pharmacy and used to go to church before. I told her how much Jesus cares for her and gave her IMPACT's card. Yay! Jesus You are so awesome!!! I didn't even hesitate at all when I asked her that question. What an awesome way to exercise obedience, boldness, and faith! That was so cool!!
I think God gave me a new name... He zapped me when I was driving Amy home. I couldn't even focus on anything else other than Him. It was CRAZY I tell you!! Can't describe what I've felt. I'm not 100% sure of what the name is, but I know it starts with S and it's a name I've never seen or heard of before. I guess I just need to seek more.
Lat night I had a weird dream. There were Jack, Amy, Tina, me, water ranger children and a lot more other children. That place looked like a daycare center, which had a kitchen, living room, game room, meeting room... etc. We were serving the children, taking care of them, buying them food and stuffs. After the day is over, everyone went home except me and another person, whom I don't know. (Now that I think of it, I think it was my house??!!) So I went into the bathroom getting ready to take a shower. I was checking out my hair trying to imagine what it would look like if I have short hair like Jennifer (lol, thanks Enoch), then I spotted this bug flying around. It stopped on the wall, the upper half looks like a green catepillar and the bottom half looks like this whiteish ball thing. I took a piece of toilet paper and tried to kill it. However, as I tried to squeesh it, the body was so hard I couldn't really squeesh it so I tried the head. The brain juice came out while the bug started to spit out white string-looky things on my fingers. The poison started to numb my fingers and hand. I woke up and both my hands were numb that felt like the numbing from poisoning. Creepy. I still remember the red catapillar eyes the bug had. I don't know what the dream means but I was thinking about it and I came to two conclusions...
1) If I didn't try to kill the bug, it wouldn't poison me
2) I wouldn't look good with short hair like Jennifer + red stripes. haha
-sala<3
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Prayer Mountain
[Yes this is a late post... actual dates I went: 9/2 - 9/4]
Three days of not eating anything but water. I tried it once during freshman year and it didn't go well. I almost fainted on the third day in the shower, so I had to stop. However, this time I'm not around food all the time, and I'm stuck on a mountain with no food anyway! It's definitely gonna be easier, and it was easier!
Prayer focus... FAMILY SALVATION!! UCR!! IMPACT!! MY FUTURE....
I love praying for hours. It felt so good to do that again in a long time. Training my knees and feet, lol. Crying out to Jesus and just calling upon His Name... LORD!!! JESUS!!!! Super awesome!
God gave me many revelation, visions and cool encounters...
#1. I was reading about "making my path straight" during daytime, and at night when Shinny's in the shower, this Korean lady out of no where came into my room and started to encourage me. She said, "I don't know what you are here for, but desiring God's desires is the best. Our desires will perish when the time comes. I pray that God will make your path straight before your feet."
#2. 3:24AM God woke me up. My alarm was set at 4AM so I stayed in bed till the alarm went off. It was the longest 30 min. ever! I was so wide awake! Went outside and amazed at the night sky filled with billions of stars. (I saw a shooting star!!) In the afternoon we were having corporate prayer for revival in America. The Lord started to lead me praying about sounding the alarm bell all across the nation to warn people about His coming and to turn away from their wicked ways. Suddenly "Ezekiel 3:24" popped in my head. (When I woke up this morning I was thinking, which book does God want me to read verse 3:24 from?) During that time my entire body was numb. My hands, my arms, my feet, my legs, my face and even my teeth were so numb. I flipped to that chapter and the title was "Warning to Israel" and that verse says, "Then the Spirit came into me [strongly] and raised me to my feet. He spoke to me and said: 'Go, shut yourself inside your house.'" I got up and went back to my room, waited upon the Lord. He warned me about being attacked tonight. Then... that night I was surely under attack, I could not sleep well at all my body and spirit were terribly disturbed.
#3 I was flying above prayer mountain and suddenly landed on one of the rocks. I almost fell over. (My first time flying. Ha!) Right now I'm flying too fast, I need to land on one rock and find rest.
#4 While I was praying for my future and destiny, He showed me an opened mailbox with a paper in it. I reached out wanting to grab it, but hands from out of no where reached out and blocked my hand. I couldn't get the paper. Second time I saw this vision, someone took the paper and torn it in half before me. I could see that paper was colorful with many words on it, but I couldn't read what it was saying. Still waiting for part 3 of this vision...
Prayer mountain is cool. Jesus is cooler. Killer ants are not!
-sala<3
Three days of not eating anything but water. I tried it once during freshman year and it didn't go well. I almost fainted on the third day in the shower, so I had to stop. However, this time I'm not around food all the time, and I'm stuck on a mountain with no food anyway! It's definitely gonna be easier, and it was easier!
Prayer focus... FAMILY SALVATION!! UCR!! IMPACT!! MY FUTURE....
I love praying for hours. It felt so good to do that again in a long time. Training my knees and feet, lol. Crying out to Jesus and just calling upon His Name... LORD!!! JESUS!!!! Super awesome!
God gave me many revelation, visions and cool encounters...
#1. I was reading about "making my path straight" during daytime, and at night when Shinny's in the shower, this Korean lady out of no where came into my room and started to encourage me. She said, "I don't know what you are here for, but desiring God's desires is the best. Our desires will perish when the time comes. I pray that God will make your path straight before your feet."
#2. 3:24AM God woke me up. My alarm was set at 4AM so I stayed in bed till the alarm went off. It was the longest 30 min. ever! I was so wide awake! Went outside and amazed at the night sky filled with billions of stars. (I saw a shooting star!!) In the afternoon we were having corporate prayer for revival in America. The Lord started to lead me praying about sounding the alarm bell all across the nation to warn people about His coming and to turn away from their wicked ways. Suddenly "Ezekiel 3:24" popped in my head. (When I woke up this morning I was thinking, which book does God want me to read verse 3:24 from?) During that time my entire body was numb. My hands, my arms, my feet, my legs, my face and even my teeth were so numb. I flipped to that chapter and the title was "Warning to Israel" and that verse says, "Then the Spirit came into me [strongly] and raised me to my feet. He spoke to me and said: 'Go, shut yourself inside your house.'" I got up and went back to my room, waited upon the Lord. He warned me about being attacked tonight. Then... that night I was surely under attack, I could not sleep well at all my body and spirit were terribly disturbed.
#3 I was flying above prayer mountain and suddenly landed on one of the rocks. I almost fell over. (My first time flying. Ha!) Right now I'm flying too fast, I need to land on one rock and find rest.
#4 While I was praying for my future and destiny, He showed me an opened mailbox with a paper in it. I reached out wanting to grab it, but hands from out of no where reached out and blocked my hand. I couldn't get the paper. Second time I saw this vision, someone took the paper and torn it in half before me. I could see that paper was colorful with many words on it, but I couldn't read what it was saying. Still waiting for part 3 of this vision...
Prayer mountain is cool. Jesus is cooler. Killer ants are not!
-sala<3
Monday, September 8, 2008
Children Summer Camp - Part II
Second day...
In the morning everyone started prayer walking in the meeting room prior to 7am. After an hour of prayer and seeking His presence, He came into the room and the entire atmosphere was changed 180 degree. He's faithful to the end! Jeffrey caught a big angel in the room in one of the pictures. It was so cool and all the children were so excited and encouraged that their prayer brought God and angels to the room! ^^ It was an awesome start of the day. After Seth's sermon about tearing off our dark clothe (he used spiderman 3 to demonstrate the sin that clings unto us when we're not conscious about it), we begun our Royal Mission. Children must go through all six stations to "regain" & "relearn" their kingdom identity in order to get the keys to enter God's kingdom.
The stations were "Prophecy", "Healing", "Worship", "Word", "Intercession" and "Manner". Amy, Seth, Lauren, Jennifer and Jack did an awesome job of demonstrating and teaching these classes through activities and games. Great job you guys!!! One thing I really need to point out is that JOSEPHINE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO TOOK NOTES IN ALL THE CLASSES!!! I was extremely impressed at this 12 year old girl. She's gonna be so awesome because of her hunger and desire for more of Him! Anyway, first place was Jeffrey M.'s team, second place was Victor's team, and third place was Danny's team. They all did an awesome job in keeping everyone in the team and following the leader and rules.
FIRST PLACE!! - Chris B./Jeffrey M./Mikey/Jeffrey H. (Left to right)
SECOND PLACE!! - Victor/Jason/Josephine/Derek
THIRD PLACE!! - Irene/Clair/Kevin/Connar/Danny
They were awesome!! At night we worshiped and as i was leading i felt like we're not going anywhere, so I stopped everything. (Music and power point and jumping around) I told everyone to just focus on Jesus and worship Him without all these things. Sing your own song to Him from your heart. It was amazing... children were soaking in His presence, singing and humming different tones to Jesus. You can see it from their faces that they were totally drawn by God's love and glory. Although everyone was making their own sound, it sounded like one heavenly song dedicated to Jesus from all of us. Afterwards Lauren came up and shared about the worship. She said, "During the worship, God reminded me of the creation song that all the trees were singing in Lord of the Rings. There were high and low tones, thin and thick tones, light and deep tones, yet all these were resounding as one and it's as if when each tone was sang, something beautiful was created. It was the song of creation, just like when God was creating everything at the very beginning. Awestruck." Afterwards, Seth started to share testimonies of his first time encountering Jesus and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It surely stirred our hearts up to desire for that encounter. He started to play the song "What does it sound like when you sing heaven song... " Because of some technical difficulties, I went over to help Lauren out, and right after I went over there, I heard crazy laughters behind me. I was like, "What's going on??" Thinking, "Wow, God's touching these children already?? That's so fast! @@" Surely enough, one by one, children started to be filled by the holy laughters from heaven. Many were weeping, laughing, shaking even falling to the ground. Jesus was good and it went on for TWO HOURS STRAIGHT! Jesus took one boy to heaven to see his older brother who passed away when he was little. I was filled with holy laughter too, I was so drunk I couldn't even walk straight. At one point, Seth and Lauren had all the children form a fire tunnel for them to walk through. It was so crazy, I couldn't even stand up when they started to walk through the tunnel. I was laughing like crazy. Whew it was awesome!!!
Durinig this, Jesus gave me a vision. Seth was making a way for me to walk through (by pushing away banana branches from banana tree. i know, random.), and Lauren pushed open a door which looks like the door from secret garden. I went into the garden and saw Jesus standing there waiting for me. I think it was a rose garden. As soon as I enter the garden I became a little little girl (probably around 4 yrs old? or even smaller?) and I ran straight to Jesus. He held me up and sat me on His right shoulder while giving me a big hug. Then, He showed me this GIGANTIC RUBY that's bigger than my head! (Since last encounter retreat I've always wanted a ruby from Jesus) I started to weep because it was so beautiful and so glorious. I didn't know where to put it so I pushed it into my heart, thinking, "that way I'll never lose it". I could feel the ruby flowing into my blood became part of me. Now, I am a heaven carrier who would always have part of heaven inside of me. It was so cool.
Third Day...
FIN~~ ^^v
-sala<3
In the morning everyone started prayer walking in the meeting room prior to 7am. After an hour of prayer and seeking His presence, He came into the room and the entire atmosphere was changed 180 degree. He's faithful to the end! Jeffrey caught a big angel in the room in one of the pictures. It was so cool and all the children were so excited and encouraged that their prayer brought God and angels to the room! ^^ It was an awesome start of the day. After Seth's sermon about tearing off our dark clothe (he used spiderman 3 to demonstrate the sin that clings unto us when we're not conscious about it), we begun our Royal Mission. Children must go through all six stations to "regain" & "relearn" their kingdom identity in order to get the keys to enter God's kingdom.
The stations were "Prophecy", "Healing", "Worship", "Word", "Intercession" and "Manner". Amy, Seth, Lauren, Jennifer and Jack did an awesome job of demonstrating and teaching these classes through activities and games. Great job you guys!!! One thing I really need to point out is that JOSEPHINE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO TOOK NOTES IN ALL THE CLASSES!!! I was extremely impressed at this 12 year old girl. She's gonna be so awesome because of her hunger and desire for more of Him! Anyway, first place was Jeffrey M.'s team, second place was Victor's team, and third place was Danny's team. They all did an awesome job in keeping everyone in the team and following the leader and rules.
FIRST PLACE!! - Chris B./Jeffrey M./Mikey/Jeffrey H. (Left to right)
SECOND PLACE!! - Victor/Jason/Josephine/Derek
THIRD PLACE!! - Irene/Clair/Kevin/Connar/Danny
They were awesome!! At night we worshiped and as i was leading i felt like we're not going anywhere, so I stopped everything. (Music and power point and jumping around) I told everyone to just focus on Jesus and worship Him without all these things. Sing your own song to Him from your heart. It was amazing... children were soaking in His presence, singing and humming different tones to Jesus. You can see it from their faces that they were totally drawn by God's love and glory. Although everyone was making their own sound, it sounded like one heavenly song dedicated to Jesus from all of us. Afterwards Lauren came up and shared about the worship. She said, "During the worship, God reminded me of the creation song that all the trees were singing in Lord of the Rings. There were high and low tones, thin and thick tones, light and deep tones, yet all these were resounding as one and it's as if when each tone was sang, something beautiful was created. It was the song of creation, just like when God was creating everything at the very beginning. Awestruck." Afterwards, Seth started to share testimonies of his first time encountering Jesus and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It surely stirred our hearts up to desire for that encounter. He started to play the song "What does it sound like when you sing heaven song... " Because of some technical difficulties, I went over to help Lauren out, and right after I went over there, I heard crazy laughters behind me. I was like, "What's going on??" Thinking, "Wow, God's touching these children already?? That's so fast! @@" Surely enough, one by one, children started to be filled by the holy laughters from heaven. Many were weeping, laughing, shaking even falling to the ground. Jesus was good and it went on for TWO HOURS STRAIGHT! Jesus took one boy to heaven to see his older brother who passed away when he was little. I was filled with holy laughter too, I was so drunk I couldn't even walk straight. At one point, Seth and Lauren had all the children form a fire tunnel for them to walk through. It was so crazy, I couldn't even stand up when they started to walk through the tunnel. I was laughing like crazy. Whew it was awesome!!!
Durinig this, Jesus gave me a vision. Seth was making a way for me to walk through (by pushing away banana branches from banana tree. i know, random.), and Lauren pushed open a door which looks like the door from secret garden. I went into the garden and saw Jesus standing there waiting for me. I think it was a rose garden. As soon as I enter the garden I became a little little girl (probably around 4 yrs old? or even smaller?) and I ran straight to Jesus. He held me up and sat me on His right shoulder while giving me a big hug. Then, He showed me this GIGANTIC RUBY that's bigger than my head! (Since last encounter retreat I've always wanted a ruby from Jesus) I started to weep because it was so beautiful and so glorious. I didn't know where to put it so I pushed it into my heart, thinking, "that way I'll never lose it". I could feel the ruby flowing into my blood became part of me. Now, I am a heaven carrier who would always have part of heaven inside of me. It was so cool.
Third Day...
FIN~~ ^^v
-sala<3
Monday, September 1, 2008
Spiritual Slumber
Then it happened, as they were parting from Him, that Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah"—not knowing what he said. (Luke 9:33)
Why did Peter say what he said during such a significant event as the Transfiguration? The Gospels give us two reasons: One, he didn't know what to say, and two, he was "heavy with sleep." This was a bad time to fall asleep. Imagine what else Peter might have seen had he been fully awake and watchful.
This, of course, would not be the last time that Peter, along with James and John, would fall asleep on the watch. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus told them, "Watch and pray. . . ." Then He went a few feet away and began to pray. When He came back, they were all sleeping. They were missing out on a significant event in the life of the Lord.
I wonder how much we miss out on because of our spiritual slumber. How many times are we spiritually slumbering when God wants to speak to us through His Word? Because we are too preoccupied with other things, we don't have the discipline to pick up the Bible and open it. How many times are we spiritually slumbering instead of going to church and being fed from the Word of God? How many times are we spiritually slumbering when the Lord would want us to speak up for Him? We're asleep on the watch.
Like the disciples, we too can miss out on what God wants to do in and through us. We need to be awake. We need to be alert. We need to be paying attention.
[From Greg Laurie's Daily Teaching]
Ps. I'll update the rest of summer camp when I'm back from prayer mountain. Stay tunned. =)
Pps. You can go check out the new impact website to see our summer camp pictures!! Andy once again beautified our site. haha~ d^^b You are awesome, man!
-sala<3
Why did Peter say what he said during such a significant event as the Transfiguration? The Gospels give us two reasons: One, he didn't know what to say, and two, he was "heavy with sleep." This was a bad time to fall asleep. Imagine what else Peter might have seen had he been fully awake and watchful.
This, of course, would not be the last time that Peter, along with James and John, would fall asleep on the watch. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus told them, "Watch and pray. . . ." Then He went a few feet away and began to pray. When He came back, they were all sleeping. They were missing out on a significant event in the life of the Lord.
I wonder how much we miss out on because of our spiritual slumber. How many times are we spiritually slumbering when God wants to speak to us through His Word? Because we are too preoccupied with other things, we don't have the discipline to pick up the Bible and open it. How many times are we spiritually slumbering instead of going to church and being fed from the Word of God? How many times are we spiritually slumbering when the Lord would want us to speak up for Him? We're asleep on the watch.
Like the disciples, we too can miss out on what God wants to do in and through us. We need to be awake. We need to be alert. We need to be paying attention.
[From Greg Laurie's Daily Teaching]
Ps. I'll update the rest of summer camp when I'm back from prayer mountain. Stay tunned. =)
Pps. You can go check out the new impact website to see our summer camp pictures!! Andy once again beautified our site. haha~ d^^b You are awesome, man!
-sala<3
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