WOW!!! haha... the whole series of heart to heart seminar with pastors really changed me and impacted me alot! Wow, lemme bring you through each of the service...
Session 1:Pastors preached about being Sons/Daughters of the Faith, to be found in favor of God's eyes. Having God putting His faith in you! Wow! Never thought of it like this. If we want to be Sons/Daughters of the Faith we have to be like minded in doctrines, manners of life, our purpose, our faith, longsuffering/sacrifice, love and preserverence. This was really the cry of our pastors' heart, we really got to have love and a sincere care for others, not only just the people in church but its all the people around you. We are NOT proffesional christians, the things that we do, we do it out of the love we have for others.
Lastly he also shared about being like paul, be a bondservant of God! Wow! you know what tt means, basically a bondservant means "a slave that has been freed but chose to stay with his master." It really hit me, we are given the freedom of choice, whether to stay or to continue our journey with God. I CHOOSE TO STAY! for He has provided me with the comfort and a whole new family!
Yupz, then we rushed to take a quick lunch and went back for the second service. didn't have time to do much.
Session 2:Pastor Lia shared about abraham and him being tested by God. the first test was the mission test, where God tested how obedient he was to Him. the second test was the mercy test, God tested his love for His people.
Then God tested him on money! whether he was faithful in his tithe, faithful with moneytary things. then pastor shared that there are two times when we are in danger of failing this test, it is when we have nothing and when we have everything. when we have nothing, we will tend to compromise and when we have everything, we tend to forget about God.
the moral test; God will test us on sexual issues, things that will cause us to waver in our princples and moral standings and lastly the main test! God will test you something that will really hit ur heart, each to his/her own. Example; God tested abraham by asking him to give up his own son for Him, that realy hit him hard. so each to his own.
that day, for 22 july 2006, saturday, it ended like this. isn't is amazing? God moves in great and powerful ways!
Session 3:Pastor How talked about the mighty men of God! How many of david's army were the people that considered heros of their time by killing hundereds of men, defending terrortories... but none of them came as close as the three men who broke through the camp and got david a cup of water that he only talked about and never ordered anyone to go get it for him.
the three men just happen to hear their king said that and they just took off, without any army or backup and got david what he wished for. out of their love for david, they did it. how much more we should do our best to fulfil God's wishes, how much more should we serve the ones we love when Jesus Himself washed the feets of his diciples?
sacrifices don't count, its the heart behind it that really matters!
den after that we responded to the altar-call and then we cried and cried, coz all of us were touched by God. really impacting! then we went out for another quick lunch and went back for more of God's words and time with Him.
Session 4:not going to share it.. haha... pastor never put it on sermon CD so i shan't share abt it... haha...
but after the whole thing we rally sat down and talked and shared thing with each other.. really very powerful weekend! my life can never be the same again!
haha.. and we took alot of pictures too.. coz me, gina, joel jeremey, jonathan and catherine went shopping and carrefoure and we all like aunties and uncles after free samples and discounts! =P den i blessed alot of them with food, haha.. chocolates, chicken, mochi... den gina really showered us with alot of blessings, she bought me a very nice T-shirt from I.P. zone la!!! and she wanted to buy for joel a pair of slippers but there were no nice ones and that were fitting for him. wah, she very good rite? machiam like his mother lidat lor... =P going to upload alot of pic soon... haha... as soon as i figure out how to do the settings of photobucket to let u guys see the albums... haha...