At the heart of Christianity

At the heart of Christianity is Evangelism. Jesus' command to His disciples is to go out to the nations and make disciples! Oh how have we failed to obey Him! When i saw the video of the Global Day of Prayer two sundays ago, i felt so strongly moved and felt distinctly the heart of my Father, that all may come to know Him as their Lord and Saviour and none shall perish.

2 Chronicles 7:14 "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will i hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

I've learned a great lesson in one thing – on one hand, when i wrote or say something against a person and his teachings, while i thought i might be warning others about the false teachings, like so many websites like Moriel, etc, that set their main focus on rebutting each other, and pointing out the errors in their teachings, first, it is not wrong to point out the false teachings as the scriptures clearly says we ought to be careful with such false teachings in the church especially in the end days; But i am wrong when i acted out of self righteousness, out of a wrong attitude. Am i acting in love or in self righteousness? I think more of the latter, and be wise, quick to listen, slow to speak, because out of the recesses of our heart and many words, come foolishness! Let God vindicate His own name, and speak out of love and out of a motive to bring people back to God.

Global Day of Prayer 2006

It was one of those moment that I wish every christians I know, will come together to worship and pray together as a body of Christ. I was determined to go despite being so tired and bogged down with so many worries and troubles, and I am glad that I was there at the Singapore National Stadium.

As 24,000 christians gathered to worship and pray together, the atmosphere is anything but a rehearsal of what it will be like in heaven when the believers gather and worship our Lord of lords, King of kings forever and ever! Even the songs we sang were the 'old' songs, but we were ushered into the very presence of the throne room of God, the stadium is like huge choir, everyone raising their hands and looked to the heavens and sang in adoration! For indeed, God is looking for one who will worship Him in spirit and in truth, and i believed we did that yesterday because the presence of God just sweetly descended onto the stadium!

The highlights of the gathering that really strucked me were the message of repentance. That the reason why the Church of Singapore cannot move forward in signs and wonders is because we were double minded. How can we put one hand into the Kingdom of God and the other looking back!? God looks for our heart, is there carnality, worldliness, darkness and deceit or is it Jesus in there at the throne of my heart? God, i pray for your forgiveness! We repent of our complacency, our double mindedness, our half hearted attempt, and our lack of passion for your name sake!

The other was the reconcilliation between the Pentecostal/Charismatic and the Evangelical Conservatives! As Pastor Rick Seaward and Rev Wong both representing the Pentecostal/Charismatic and Evangelical Conservative respectively, both asked for forgiveness and the ceremony of washing each other's feet, i must admit, that was something the church needed to do a LONG time back and this was the initiation of healing for both sides of the church as we all ought to come together as ONE body of Christ, not divided.

It was a great time of worship, unfortunately, we did not have enough time for prayer, and it was disappointing as we weren't given a chance to pray and intercede for the nations, for Singapore, for the world. Where was the emphasis and the urgency to pray? I wanted to be there to pray and cry out together with the other 24,000 believers for Singapore, for its leadership, for its people, for God's calling the nation back and turning away from our wickedness and there was so little time for prayer and for that, i felt the gathering at the National Stadium has failed in its very purpose.

Nevertheless, i believe that everyone will walk away from that gathering renewed with passion for God and His Word! I can only pray that we do not need to wait for the Global Day of Prayer 2007 to spread the fire, but today, this very moment that we will walk in fire with God's calling in our lives that we may reach the nations for His Name sake!