I have been making new friends almost everyday since last week. It's fun to meet new people and build my connections. Wahaha! I believe that, every person we encounter or meet is placed before us by God, and He has His purpose in doing so.
Last week we met this girl named Joananna. (Interesting name eh?) It was in the study lounge of our apartment, and there were me, Karen, Ruth, Nara, Nancy, and Brian. We were studying for our midterms and Joananna was sitting there by herself. I started to talk to her as the "crazy sala", because it was pretty late and I get hyper at certain midnight hours. Hahaha! Then the whole group started to talk to her as well. (Great teamwork guys!) We were all thinking of the same thing: Lead her to Christ! I started to pray and ask God what approach I can use to give her a taste of the Gospel. So then Joananna started to draw on the white board, and we were surprised at how artistic she is! Karen is an artist so she and Joananna started talking about drawing, and then before you know it, everyone started to draw on the board. By then I already knew how I can approach to her. Me and Joananna started this drawing solitaire. At the end, the whole story turned out to be about a guy who once had no identity and no emotion, later on experienced beautiful things and terrible things in life. He saw how Jesus used the power of love to save another girl, and to defeat the bad guy, and then he had a smile on his face, had a heart, and with Christ in his heart. That's pretty much the story. I was pretty impressed at how creative God is when it comes to spread the gospel and His love. I wouldn't thought of this myself, but God did! :)
I will post that picture of our drawings as soon as i get it from Karen.
Then Joananna came to House Church on Monday! She said she believes that there's something out there, but she's not sure what it is. She's willing to find out what it is, and most importantly she became really good friends with a lot of the House Church people! Awesome, isn't it! That night she talked to us about a movement called, "LOVE is the MOVEMENT". You can search it on facebook. It is a movement where people paint/draw/stick the word "LOVE" on their arms, faces, shirts...etc, and whenever they see someone else is doing that, they go hug that person. It's mainly for people who don't feel love and want to suicide. This movement was started in Atlanta and it has spread throughout the world. Joananna said the movement is on Feb. 13, which is the day right before Love Tent! Seriously, this is too cool to be true. Karen and I talked about this movement and how amazing God brought Joananna to us to tell us about it. The movement has not been used for Christian meanings yet! Karen suggest that all the Love Tent people do this on the 13th, on one hand as free advertisement for Love Tent, on the other hand, to show people the love from God. C'mon God, just pour down mucho LOVE on UCR!! WOW!
On Monday morning, I woke up and thought my class starts at 9:40 when it actually starts at 10:40 = =||| Silly me. I went to the classroom and it was empty! Thank God there was one guy sitting there, and he told me that class starts at 10:40. Man! So I went to Starbucks and if you've seen my personalized Starbucks card, I put a guitar on there. The cashier saw it and asked me, "So you play the guitar?" I said yea, and found out that she plays the guitar too! She's a UCR student too and she is going to perform at the school guitar night on the 20th! She asked me to go perform too, and I think I should! I got her number and found out that her name is Michelle. We're going to play guitar together sometimes. Yay, Lord thank you for letting me keep on meeting awesome people these days! An artist and a musician! Cool!!
Yesterday, I met a girl name, Sally. I met her through Keely, if you guys remember her from the one night of the Prophetic Conference. Sally lives at Walnut so it's not that far from San Gabriel Valley~ :) Sweet, another girl I can hang out with! Whahaha! I'm thinking of inviting her to dinner sometimes. Nevertheless, you make friends and along the way you bring them to Christ! Right Jack? Yes, keep praying for these three people!
-sala<3
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Love Tent - 2
God has provided us with canopy, however we still need a tent. Still need to pray for the overnight permit. God said clearly to me, "Be alert, don't take off your guard just yet." We need to continue to pray hard! Keep watch!
Tonight at House Church, everyone helped out in making the banners for the Love Tent. Here are some pictures. Everyone did an awesome job!! I'm so proud and feel supported! These are the master pieces from 8, 9 faithful servants! Thank you Karen, Joananna, Ruth, Chrissie, Nara, Brenna, Maria, and Kathrine!! <3
More pictures at: http://ucr.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2085554&id=6303220
Today I met Justin, the president of AACF, and he told me that he actually knows Denis (the event scheduling director, which is the person who can give us the overnight permission) and he talks to her at least once a week. Justin also said she likes AACF a lot, so that means Denis could be a Christian too! Continue to pray for her please!
If we get this overnight permit, Love Tent would be the first event in the UCR history that has ever done an overnight event! Let us be forerunners God!!
There is a leader meeting again this Wednesday at 3pm, and this time I expect to have double of the attendance from last week. With more leaders contacted and really excited to participate in this event, I pray that God release His anointing on me so that I may lead these leaders with power, wisdom, and love. Amen!
[Moved from Wednesday, Feb 6, 2008 - New Friends]
Last night at CCC meeting, me, Karen, Brian went and announced about Love Tent. I asked everyone to close their eyes before I started to talk about the event. Then I said, "Whoever has the burden and has been praying for the revival of UCR please raise up your hand." The MAJORITY raised up their hands. Then I said, "Whoever has ever weeped and cried for the revival of UCR please raise up your hand." A few hands went down, but there were still so many hands remained. I was extremely encouraged. After I talked about the Love Tent event and have everyone prayed together, I went back to my seat and Amanda came up to me. She is the president of UCF (University Christian Fellowship), and I talked about meeting her randomly a month ago in the earlier blogs. She told me that she actually knows Denis, the person who has the authority to grant us the overnight permit. And she said that, at the beginning of this year, when she just met Denis, God told her to be really nice to this girl and just show her a lot of love. Amanda said, earlier today she met Denis at school and Denis went up to her and hugged her because she's so glad to see her. Amanda was so surprised at how important Denis ' role is in this Love Tent event, and everyone was so shocked at how the Lord prepared every single step of our ways before us. It is totally crazy and stunning!! Lord You are so good to us!
Then Amanda shared about how this Muslim girl came up to her just randomly today. The Muslim girl asked Amanda if she can study with her, go to classes with her, and she told Amanda that she has been praying to God everyday, she is mad at God, and she desperately wants to know who Jesus is! Amanda said she's totally shocked and amazed. Then I shared with her about how at the end times, it will no longer be us trying to get the fish into the net, but the fish will just start to jump into the net by themselves! And what she just experienced is a proof of this prophesy! Yet, another amazing story of the night!
Ps. Amanda had a huge headache, and so me and Karen prayed for her, then she's completely healed!! But after a few minutes it came back... >< Grrr....
-sala<3
Tonight at House Church, everyone helped out in making the banners for the Love Tent. Here are some pictures. Everyone did an awesome job!! I'm so proud and feel supported! These are the master pieces from 8, 9 faithful servants! Thank you Karen, Joananna, Ruth, Chrissie, Nara, Brenna, Maria, and Kathrine!! <3
More pictures at: http://ucr.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2085554&id=6303220
Today I met Justin, the president of AACF, and he told me that he actually knows Denis (the event scheduling director, which is the person who can give us the overnight permission) and he talks to her at least once a week. Justin also said she likes AACF a lot, so that means Denis could be a Christian too! Continue to pray for her please!
If we get this overnight permit, Love Tent would be the first event in the UCR history that has ever done an overnight event! Let us be forerunners God!!
There is a leader meeting again this Wednesday at 3pm, and this time I expect to have double of the attendance from last week. With more leaders contacted and really excited to participate in this event, I pray that God release His anointing on me so that I may lead these leaders with power, wisdom, and love. Amen!
[Moved from Wednesday, Feb 6, 2008 - New Friends]
Last night at CCC meeting, me, Karen, Brian went and announced about Love Tent. I asked everyone to close their eyes before I started to talk about the event. Then I said, "Whoever has the burden and has been praying for the revival of UCR please raise up your hand." The MAJORITY raised up their hands. Then I said, "Whoever has ever weeped and cried for the revival of UCR please raise up your hand." A few hands went down, but there were still so many hands remained. I was extremely encouraged. After I talked about the Love Tent event and have everyone prayed together, I went back to my seat and Amanda came up to me. She is the president of UCF (University Christian Fellowship), and I talked about meeting her randomly a month ago in the earlier blogs. She told me that she actually knows Denis, the person who has the authority to grant us the overnight permit. And she said that, at the beginning of this year, when she just met Denis, God told her to be really nice to this girl and just show her a lot of love. Amanda said, earlier today she met Denis at school and Denis went up to her and hugged her because she's so glad to see her. Amanda was so surprised at how important Denis ' role is in this Love Tent event, and everyone was so shocked at how the Lord prepared every single step of our ways before us. It is totally crazy and stunning!! Lord You are so good to us!
Then Amanda shared about how this Muslim girl came up to her just randomly today. The Muslim girl asked Amanda if she can study with her, go to classes with her, and she told Amanda that she has been praying to God everyday, she is mad at God, and she desperately wants to know who Jesus is! Amanda said she's totally shocked and amazed. Then I shared with her about how at the end times, it will no longer be us trying to get the fish into the net, but the fish will just start to jump into the net by themselves! And what she just experienced is a proof of this prophesy! Yet, another amazing story of the night!
Ps. Amanda had a huge headache, and so me and Karen prayed for her, then she's completely healed!! But after a few minutes it came back... >< Grrr....
-sala<3
Sunday, February 3, 2008
God! End Abortion of this Nation!!
Tonight I was driving back to school, and right after I got on the freeway, tears were just pouring from my eyes non-stop. I have never cried so hard in my life besides the one time at 2005 Summer Camp. My heart was stirred in a supernatural way about Lou's message. Last night, I was watching the Lou Engle clip from his blog. (Yea Lou has a blog, and you can find it on my "Cool Kids" list!) That message was about abortion, and how God is at rage of this nation because of it. We need to repent for this nation, and plead for Jesus' blood over our sins and the sins of this nation. This was the main prayer, "Jesus, I plead Your blood over my sins and the sins of my nation. God end abortion and send revival to America." The clip was over an hour. At the end of the clip I was weeping and trembling for how overwhelming this message is. Though I've heard this message during the Prophetic House of Prayer Conference from Lou himself, it did not hit me right then. I remember telling a few people about how I didn't have that burden in my heart to pray for this issue, although I wanted to because I know it's an important issue in the Kingdom of God.
This came so suddenly and unexpected because I just finished talking to Jack/Annie about W.R and the Love Tent. But God does things at His timings, and I trust in His plans. Anyhow, as this sudden burden to pray and cry out for this nation came upon me, I started to feel God's pain in seeing all these babies perish inside of their mothers' wombs. Just like what Mike Bickle said, "What Lou does is not extreme, what's extreme in the realm of God is the killing of babies." I was just balling and wailing and praying to God to send down the fear of the Lord among churches so that they can start repenting for themselves and for this nation. I prayed that we won't see the days when the Lord's rage and punishment come about us, and then we know to fear Him. He is still being merciful right now! Repent and turn back to Him before His mercy turns to judgment! Lou was given a revelation that, "If we don't take this issue in our courtroom, then God is going to take it into His courtroom!" And seriously, we don't want to wait until God's rage and anger is to a point where there is no turning back! I believe that God still wants to save this nation. He is still giving us a chance to repent! Or else, why would He send Lou to go around this nation to preach and warn God's people about this? Why would so many house of prayers spring up all over the nation at campuses, cities, churches? If the Lord didn't want to forgive us, He would not give Lou so many revelations/visions/dreams about how we, the people of God, can turn back to God, and gave him the anointing to speak of His message.
In the car, I cried and prayed to God that He may let me feel how these mothers/fathers feel when they are going through the decision of aborting their babies or not. Right after I prayed this prayer, I don't know how to describe that feeling. But, right away I started to cry so much more harder than earlier, and I couldn't even sit straight anymore. I was crying that hard! It's extreme wailing. It is the pain of cutting off parts of your own flesh, your own blood. The separation, the termination of that little life, the creation between two people. I pleaded God for these people for they didn't know! They were deceived and blinded by the Satan! God would You have mercy and forgive them for they don't know!! I prayed that God would pour down His love on this nation, on all the couples that are going through that decision right now! Because God, You are the Alpha and the Omega! You are the beginning of Love and the end of Love! You begin life, and it would be You who end it. No one else! Not Satan, not men!
After 30 - 40 min. of balling and praying and crying out to God, I silenced. I was as still and as quiet as when there was no wind. No feeling, no tears, no sound. After a few minutes, I started to rebuke the Satan like crazy. I was declaring God's authority and power over Satan. I told Satan to shut up, to give up, to tremble in fear because his days are numbered. Because God is the victorious King, and He is never defeated! I was rebuking Satan to a point where I was almost screaming at the top of my lung. I don't really remember what exactly I said, but I know I was rebuking Satan with God's authority, power, and boldness in me. By this time, my eyes were already really swollen and dried (because of my contacts). I was so worn out and wanted to sleep so badly. You know how people would get so tired after crying for a long time? Yea that was me.
After I came back to my apartment, I shared with Karen, Ruth, and Brian about what happened to me in the car. I don't know if they got this burden right away, maybe, maybe not, but I know that God will pour out His heart to them just like how He did to me one day. However, after we all talked about it, we prayed together to repent for our nation, for God to end abortion, for His mercy to fall upon us, for the fear of the Lord to fall at all churches across this nation, and for the election, that God would intervene for it is a huge turning point for America.
Brian pointed out something interesting. He said, "I think Satan has put lust inside of men so they would go and do things to women, then make them feel bad for letting the women have babies, so they go abort the babies, and they would be hunted by what they did, and then eventually suicide. This is all part of Satan's great plan to destroy us! That's just what I think."
God I praise Your Name for Brian. For opening up his eyes, ears, and heart so he can see, hear, and know Your plan, way, and heart. God I pray that You will continue to use him, continue to bless him for he wants to be used by You, God. Grant him with strength, wisdom, concentration, extra comprehension for his studies at school. More midterms are coming up, God please help him, Karen, Ruth, and I to do well on the tests to glorify Your Name. In Jesus' Name, let us unite in You as one body of Christ. Thank You God for giving me all these wonderful and faithful servants of Yours around me. That we may encourage, edify, comfort, and challenge each others constantly. Thank You once again Jesus for Your blood and cross that gave us the bridge to go back to our Father in heaven. I love You. In Your Name I pray, Amen.
I just wanted to encourage you guys, seriously pray for the end of abortion! Repent and plead Jesus' blood over your sins and the sins of this nation. And pray for the election, for the result of primary is coming out on Tuesday! Pray & Vote!!
-sala<3
This came so suddenly and unexpected because I just finished talking to Jack/Annie about W.R and the Love Tent. But God does things at His timings, and I trust in His plans. Anyhow, as this sudden burden to pray and cry out for this nation came upon me, I started to feel God's pain in seeing all these babies perish inside of their mothers' wombs. Just like what Mike Bickle said, "What Lou does is not extreme, what's extreme in the realm of God is the killing of babies." I was just balling and wailing and praying to God to send down the fear of the Lord among churches so that they can start repenting for themselves and for this nation. I prayed that we won't see the days when the Lord's rage and punishment come about us, and then we know to fear Him. He is still being merciful right now! Repent and turn back to Him before His mercy turns to judgment! Lou was given a revelation that, "If we don't take this issue in our courtroom, then God is going to take it into His courtroom!" And seriously, we don't want to wait until God's rage and anger is to a point where there is no turning back! I believe that God still wants to save this nation. He is still giving us a chance to repent! Or else, why would He send Lou to go around this nation to preach and warn God's people about this? Why would so many house of prayers spring up all over the nation at campuses, cities, churches? If the Lord didn't want to forgive us, He would not give Lou so many revelations/visions/dreams about how we, the people of God, can turn back to God, and gave him the anointing to speak of His message.
In the car, I cried and prayed to God that He may let me feel how these mothers/fathers feel when they are going through the decision of aborting their babies or not. Right after I prayed this prayer, I don't know how to describe that feeling. But, right away I started to cry so much more harder than earlier, and I couldn't even sit straight anymore. I was crying that hard! It's extreme wailing. It is the pain of cutting off parts of your own flesh, your own blood. The separation, the termination of that little life, the creation between two people. I pleaded God for these people for they didn't know! They were deceived and blinded by the Satan! God would You have mercy and forgive them for they don't know!! I prayed that God would pour down His love on this nation, on all the couples that are going through that decision right now! Because God, You are the Alpha and the Omega! You are the beginning of Love and the end of Love! You begin life, and it would be You who end it. No one else! Not Satan, not men!
After 30 - 40 min. of balling and praying and crying out to God, I silenced. I was as still and as quiet as when there was no wind. No feeling, no tears, no sound. After a few minutes, I started to rebuke the Satan like crazy. I was declaring God's authority and power over Satan. I told Satan to shut up, to give up, to tremble in fear because his days are numbered. Because God is the victorious King, and He is never defeated! I was rebuking Satan to a point where I was almost screaming at the top of my lung. I don't really remember what exactly I said, but I know I was rebuking Satan with God's authority, power, and boldness in me. By this time, my eyes were already really swollen and dried (because of my contacts). I was so worn out and wanted to sleep so badly. You know how people would get so tired after crying for a long time? Yea that was me.
After I came back to my apartment, I shared with Karen, Ruth, and Brian about what happened to me in the car. I don't know if they got this burden right away, maybe, maybe not, but I know that God will pour out His heart to them just like how He did to me one day. However, after we all talked about it, we prayed together to repent for our nation, for God to end abortion, for His mercy to fall upon us, for the fear of the Lord to fall at all churches across this nation, and for the election, that God would intervene for it is a huge turning point for America.
Brian pointed out something interesting. He said, "I think Satan has put lust inside of men so they would go and do things to women, then make them feel bad for letting the women have babies, so they go abort the babies, and they would be hunted by what they did, and then eventually suicide. This is all part of Satan's great plan to destroy us! That's just what I think."
God I praise Your Name for Brian. For opening up his eyes, ears, and heart so he can see, hear, and know Your plan, way, and heart. God I pray that You will continue to use him, continue to bless him for he wants to be used by You, God. Grant him with strength, wisdom, concentration, extra comprehension for his studies at school. More midterms are coming up, God please help him, Karen, Ruth, and I to do well on the tests to glorify Your Name. In Jesus' Name, let us unite in You as one body of Christ. Thank You God for giving me all these wonderful and faithful servants of Yours around me. That we may encourage, edify, comfort, and challenge each others constantly. Thank You once again Jesus for Your blood and cross that gave us the bridge to go back to our Father in heaven. I love You. In Your Name I pray, Amen.
I just wanted to encourage you guys, seriously pray for the end of abortion! Repent and plead Jesus' blood over your sins and the sins of this nation. And pray for the election, for the result of primary is coming out on Tuesday! Pray & Vote!!
-sala<3
Childlike Simplicity
Today our cell group was pretty wild. Total of 9 kids and 5 of them were the new kids. There were Jeffrey, Irene, Jason, Oscar, David, Linda, Beckie, Maya, and Haley. I had to drive two rounds in order to bring them all there, and all back home afterwards. However, I am totally enjoying serving the kids. Though it's kind of tiring to drive, but when I think about how these kids are the royal Priests of God all the tiredness was gone! As I was looking at my action plan for this group, and through all the materials that Jack provided (thank you so much Jacko!), I know that it is crucial for them to have the ability to spread the gospel. Duh. So today I brought a big white poster and colorful papers to teach them what is the gospel and how they can spread it. The meeting started kind of out of control. The issue being the huge age gap between them, we had kids from 4 all the way up to 13. The bigger kids were complaining about how noisy the little ones are (c'mon, little support please? T_T), and the little ones were just having a lot of fun playing, jumping, laughing on the couch. It was kind of hard to get their attention or focus to do just anything I was doing. Ex. Sing worship songs. I finally got their attention by telling them testimonies of little children praying for the sick and the sick got healed, and the hospital has to close down because of not enough patients. (Thanks Jen again for that article!) I asked them, so you all know that there is a God and you believe in Him. How can you tell your friends about God? This is where I got two very different responses from the older group and the younger group. David, 13 yrs old, responded, "I can talk to my friend about God and then invite them to my church and my cell group so they can know more about Him." Haley, 4yrs old, came up to my ear and whispered to me, "Love her (friend) and like her (friend)." And she has this bright and joyful smile on her face. I was really moved, and seriously, besides telling your friend the whole gospel story and bringing them to church, you just need to show God's love to them.
Then I pulled out the posters and began my message for the day. I asked them to write/draw the words, "God", "Life", "Death", "Sin", and their names on the colored papers. David was really artistic in writing the word, "God". He even added a crown on it because he said God is the King. So then I started my story telling of how before anything existed, God existed, and He created men then give them eternal Life. I had the two little girls, Maya and Haley draw arrows whenever we needed them in the story. (Ex. God gave us eternal Life) Then because we Sinned, we fell and was separated from God. There was no way to go back to God because of the Sin that's in the middle blocking us. Back then people had to use blood from animals as sacrifice to cleanse our sins. However, when Jesus Christ came down to Earth and shed blood for us, He carried all of mankind's sins so we're clean and forgiven again. We can go back to God again through Jesus Christ and receive our eternal Life once again. At the end I pick up the sign that says, "Sin", and I said to the kids, "We don't want sin in our lives because it separates us from God, and we don't want to be separated from God. Right now we're going to take turns to tear off this "Sin", and then ask God to come inside of us." I asked then, "Who would like to be the first one to tear this?" Almost everyone raised their hand high in eagerness. I had them all lined up, one by one, the kids torn the paper into smaller and smaller pieces. After each torn, they would shout out, "No more sin in me, but God in me!" At the end of the meeting, we stood in a circle and prayed and at the end of the prayer, we shouted together in joyfulness, "God is GREAT!"
Seriously God is great. He was there with us, even after cell group when we were having deserts and juice. (Thank you Kay's mama for ALWAYS preparing snacks for us to eat after the cell group!!) I've noticed that Maya and Haley loves to argue, but the difference is, Haley would always respond with love. I saw Maya arguing with Haley about always copying what she says and stuffs, Haley was quiet and she turned to Maya and kissed her on her head when Maya was still yelling to her. After that, Maya was silenced by that kiss. It was quite amazing how this little girl behaves. I don't know about these two girls' family background of knowing God or not, but I've learned a lot from a 4 year-old today. When I was driving them home, I couldn't stop smiling because of how awesome God is in showing me the innocence and simple heart of these kids. This is true simplicity. No wonder kids' eyes are always so bright, they don't worry, they don't doubt. God make my heart like these girls', bring me back the childlike faith and hope once again Lord. I love You.
-sala<3
Then I pulled out the posters and began my message for the day. I asked them to write/draw the words, "God", "Life", "Death", "Sin", and their names on the colored papers. David was really artistic in writing the word, "God". He even added a crown on it because he said God is the King. So then I started my story telling of how before anything existed, God existed, and He created men then give them eternal Life. I had the two little girls, Maya and Haley draw arrows whenever we needed them in the story. (Ex. God gave us eternal Life) Then because we Sinned, we fell and was separated from God. There was no way to go back to God because of the Sin that's in the middle blocking us. Back then people had to use blood from animals as sacrifice to cleanse our sins. However, when Jesus Christ came down to Earth and shed blood for us, He carried all of mankind's sins so we're clean and forgiven again. We can go back to God again through Jesus Christ and receive our eternal Life once again. At the end I pick up the sign that says, "Sin", and I said to the kids, "We don't want sin in our lives because it separates us from God, and we don't want to be separated from God. Right now we're going to take turns to tear off this "Sin", and then ask God to come inside of us." I asked then, "Who would like to be the first one to tear this?" Almost everyone raised their hand high in eagerness. I had them all lined up, one by one, the kids torn the paper into smaller and smaller pieces. After each torn, they would shout out, "No more sin in me, but God in me!" At the end of the meeting, we stood in a circle and prayed and at the end of the prayer, we shouted together in joyfulness, "God is GREAT!"
Seriously God is great. He was there with us, even after cell group when we were having deserts and juice. (Thank you Kay's mama for ALWAYS preparing snacks for us to eat after the cell group!!) I've noticed that Maya and Haley loves to argue, but the difference is, Haley would always respond with love. I saw Maya arguing with Haley about always copying what she says and stuffs, Haley was quiet and she turned to Maya and kissed her on her head when Maya was still yelling to her. After that, Maya was silenced by that kiss. It was quite amazing how this little girl behaves. I don't know about these two girls' family background of knowing God or not, but I've learned a lot from a 4 year-old today. When I was driving them home, I couldn't stop smiling because of how awesome God is in showing me the innocence and simple heart of these kids. This is true simplicity. No wonder kids' eyes are always so bright, they don't worry, they don't doubt. God make my heart like these girls', bring me back the childlike faith and hope once again Lord. I love You.
-sala<3
Friday, February 1, 2008
Love Tent - 1
(Made by Karen Xie)
Thought my calling and my focus should be on children right now. I kept on thinking that there is a reason why I'm at UCR. So, I prayed, and I started something. I'm doing something that has never been done before at my school. The Lord has been showing me how and what to do, and He has been releasing the same vision in people's heart. I am to be the forerunner of stepping out with big faith and big action in bringing ALL Christians together in TRUE UNITY.
When Johnny talked about Love Tent at UCSD, that was when I was thinking and praying to God about what He wants me to do, and what I could do on my campus. So then I prayed about it, and the Lord showed me a vision of how this Love Tent would be the initial point of bringing together the sons and daughters of the King. How is it possible to truly unite hundreds, even thousands, of people? There is nothing impossible in God. Through unifying the leaders of all these groups, and have weekly leader fellowship, which is kind of like the twelve discipleships gathering together and having a lifestyle together, each of the groups would then be united interchangeably. (I'm not sure if that's the right word to put there) United not through direct connection with each others, but through Christ, which is the triangle unity concept. Through Love, which is God himself, we are automatically connected and united.
Contacted all of the Christian fellowships that I know, and met with all the leaders on Wednesday, it was confirmed that just recently, all the groups have all started to pray for unity among Christians more than anything else. On Wednesday, we set the meeting time at 3pm sharp in front of the Rivera Library. By contacting all these leaders ahead, there were a few of them that I could not reach. However, it's amazing how the Lord just brought all these people to me either before or after the meeting. (i.e. I get to talk to one of the leaders in the Library before 3pm. I didn't expect to meet him there, and found out that he has class at 3pm. The timing was perfect) I get to talk to all of them in that one day! And during the meeting, God's presence was just so strong, even Karen was telling me about it! Thank You God!!
And, physical attacks have been happening on the people who're planning and putting this event together. Yesterday we had a headache tossing "game". Brian had a crazy headache, then it came to me, and Brian's head doesn't hurt anymore. Then it went on Karen, and my head doesn't hurt anymore. It is so weird! We kept on praying for Jesus' blood to cover us and protect us. The headache would go away for a while, then comes back stronger later. When we were going to one of the fellowships to announce the event, I suddenly feel very sick and couldn't stop barfing on the way. One of the leaders got a sever cold. Things are just happening all around. Please keep us, this event, and this vision in your prayer if you're reading this.
Two weeks ago I wrote an e-mail to the Chancellor about Love Tent, and I got myself an appointment with the Assistant Dean of Students this week. In the e-mail, the Dean sounds very fond of this idea, so that was a good start. Everyone has been praying for this meeting and it would go smoothly. I met with him today, and the meeting was splendid! The Dean totally supported the event, and really wanted this event to happen on campus. He is a believer himself, and he even asked us if he could come to Love Tent to worship and pray with us. He has given us all the steps we need to take and many suggestions on things like, where we might be able to get a tent or the sound system for free. At the end of the meeting, we all prayed together for this event. It was amazing!
I wasn't really sure how things would turn out when I was thinking of starting a Love Tent on UCR, because doing campus ministry is not exactly my calling. However, the Lord seems to be working His wonders on this, so I believe He is totally for it and is going to let it happen greatly!!
I feel like Joshua leading the Israelites crossing the River of Jordan. This surely is something completely new that the body of Christ has never before accomplished in UCR. However, this is the year of 2008, the year of entering in and doing new things. Like what Chuck Pierce prophesied, 2008 would be the year that God get us back whatever was taken from the Satan before! What he tries to do is to break relationships, so this year, let's all unite in God! Amen!
-sala<3
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