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G12 Conference Reflection------------------------------------------------------
The recent G12 conference has passed. What did you glean?
For me, I caught one thing –
the power of the blood of Jesus. It was in the afternoon of the second day when God impressed upon my heart about the power of His blood. Since God spoke, I acted. I looked through the list of books and saw a book by the name of “The blood of Jesus”. And I bought the book on Day 3.
Till now, the message still rings clear. We are to
apportion the blood of Jesus and remember to
stand behind Jesus at all times. It is foolishness to be gung-ho and stand in front of Jesus as if you can handle it all by yourself.
I remember that it’s not by my own effort or by my own merit that I be victorious.
It is truly by Jesus’ blood that enables me to lift my head high when satan comes to accuse me or reminds me of my failings.
Through the interactive role-play by Pastor Cesar and volunteers from the audience, I was able to capture the message in vivid details. Some are kinesthetic learners, while others are audio or visual learners.
I happen to be a visual-kinesthetic. So this form of presentation sears itself in my mind.
Bringing the message closer to home and back to my life application, I have started to apportion the blood of Jesus in my life. Because of the conference, I was also able to
receive healing for past disappointments and
start to dream again. It’s been a long time since I last believed in the dream which God gave me when I first became a Christian. I lost sight of what I was to be because I was looking at all the failures in my life. But all those do not matter anymore. I now remember the vision which God gave me and will aspire to journey with Jesus to fulfill it.
In the area of work, I no longer focus on the things that I have failed to do. Instead, I aspire to complete the things that I have to.
It brings me great relief to leave the past to God and move on with the things He has placed before me. I am truly glad for the G12 conference.
Something else which I caught was through the sermon delivered by Sarah Castellanos during the Volunteer Service at 8.30am on Sunday. It was impacting and life changing. At the end of the session, I only had one thing on my mind – I want my Father! Sarah also said to us, “You cannot sin anymore.” Yes, that word is seared in my mind too.
My application is to spend 1 hour a day with God, reading His word and praying. I was successful for two days before lapsing into negligence for the next 3 days. Today is the sixth day and I am going to start the “1 hour a day with Jesus” again.
Keep me accountable!Reflected by: Kelly on 15 March 2009
Posted on: 20 March 2009
Labels: G12, Reflections
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Hi FAMILY!!! I'm finally able to login and yeah, can post now!
Wow, looking back... I've managed to attend all the G12 conf sessions thus far! Each year I'm excited to go G12 conf...one day I'll go to Bogota! In 2003, my boss wanted me to fly off to US and I went to him in prayer to request that the trip be postponed till G12 ended. This year I thank God again that I can still attend before I deliver =)
What is it so attractive about G12 conf that I so long to be there? I myself don't have the best answer except that I so much want to drink deep from the anointed man/woman of GOD...of course most importantly listening to God Himself speaking.
Ps Nina left me a deep impression this year, I simply want to applaud her for her simple obedience in letting God work in her life. Though she knows her inadequacy, but she's simply a great example to me in stepping up in faith. I myself still need to polish and be polished in many many areas!
Ps Ceasar is the dear great-great-grandfather, humbled as always, loving as always, faithful instructions is always on his lips. It's like Jesus is in your home...well would you want to be Martha doing the housework of do you want to be like Mary enjoying his presence? haha... I'll do the housework first so I can free myself to listen to God and then back to do remaining housework later! =P
I thank God that after a year of Sabbath, it's our vision... and it should always be our vision to 'LOVE OUR NEIGHBOUR'. Before I can do that, I need that renewed heart, renewed passion and renewed motivation. After so many years, it is simply not easy to go out to love and love, give and give. It's a joy when you see lives change for the better, its most heartbreaking when you see lives stagnant or turns for the worst. Thank you Lord and use me as your vessel once more . If I change, everything else will change! =)
Rev12:11
They overcame him (devil) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
love, Aunna
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Sunday, March 08, 2009
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Baking Day-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear family, I made PIZZA! It's a thin crust, capsicum and cherry tomato pizza topped with mozzarella cheese. I made the crust from scratch! Does it look delicious? I think it's pukka!
I am going to make
bread too. Just for the fun of it.
Posted by: Kelly on 8 March, 10.38pm
Footnote: Pukka means absolutely first class, genuine, high quality, firm, solid, absolute.
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009
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JESUS LOVES CHRISLYN --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1st March was a fateful day.
It started off with my absence for Expo service cos I could not wake up on time. I was hungover due to several late nights and especially from the non-stop physical training I received during my school's dance camp over the weekend. I was like a walking corpse the entire morning until I found out that
I lost my purse and was jolted out of that state. I think I was under a lot of stress from everything (school work, emotional stuff) and was experiencing some degree of fatigue that I broke down and became quite hysterical. Also, I am talking about some 200plus bucks in that purse, funds I claimed from my dance treasurer the day before, and all the cards that would, besides the hassle, cost me quite a bit to replace. (AND I just dropped a wallet last month and it wasn't returned)
I started asking God if it were some sort of punishment for something I had done which was wrong.
But, I know God is a loving father. He wouldn't do that. Then I wondered if it were yet again another lesson that He wanted me to learn something from. Well, there's always a lesson to be learnt from every mistake and for this instance, it was because I hadn't been alert. But there was more to that. Something greater. Initially, I thought it was probably regarding the issue of money.. about not serving two masters at the same time. . but I had this feeling which told me it wasn't. This was not an issue I was struggling with. As I searched deeper, I began to discover that it was about faith and persistence. As I began to pray, I felt that I was on the right track. The outcome of whether I would retrieve my purse back remained bleak.
BUT I KEPT PRAYING. And I even reviewed my prayer and made sure I didn't sound like a defeatist when I pray. I remembered how Ps Khong said we have to claim the promises of God and pray as though the prayer had been answered. And also, how we should continue to praise God in the face of trials, tests etc.
To sum it up,
I got a call and got my purse back (actually i got several calls from him but my phone batt went flat! OMG right. Doesn't this sound contrived?! =)). Thanks to the driver who saw my purse on the road where I dropped it and had the integrity to return my purse and its contents in entirety! And he wanted nothing back. No moolah no nothing. Not even when I offered to write in a letter of compliment for him. He didn't want it.
2 things I'd remember from this saga:- The tremedous integrity of the man.
- Emoonah/אמונה (Hebrew) - faith. God wanted to push me to persist in prayer and have more faith in him. I can testify that Faith do wonders. I had always questioned about destiny and prayer. That is, if God had destined for an event to happen, why pray? And since we have to pray for God's will to be done, then why pray for something to happen? But now I know that it isn't true. In that way, I was actually being pedantic. Or rather, I had a distorted view of how prayer works.
I can't thank the person enough and more importantly, I can't thank God enough for his grace (today's sermon!).
Alrighty. I hope this brief recount/testimony can bless you all in some ways or another.
Praise the Lord!
Written by: Chrislyn Tay on 1 March
Posted by: Kelly Low
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