A beloved Thursday because I would have an 7:30 prayer @Kln Tong
Kenneth was not here today, but this let me to have longer prayers and singings time.
Stay until 9:00 ^^
I would like to share the below scriptures with u guys :P
Psalm 96:8
"Zion hears and rejoices and the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments, O Lord"
What is your attitude towards judgments?
To me, judgments, even are the fairest one, like release of exam results or appraisal, make me fear and worries.
It is an amazing thing to me that the rebellious Israel is glad to see and longing for God's judgments. Doesn't them fear about their consequence of the wrong-doing?
We should. But what God wants us to deal with our wrong-doings are - He paid for the consequence (thx for Jesus and his cross!) and we need to repent and start trying again - repentances, with hope, joy and hate of sin, and gave away the guilty feeling.
As the scriptures follows: "Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked. Light is shed upon the righteous and joy on the upright in heart." (v10-11)
Also, the song below:
傳揚神十架犧牲， Sing of crosses and his blood;
天崩漆黑水泛濫， Earthquakes, darkness and the flood;
無窮原諒與救恩， Sing of judgment, sing of grace,
歡呼終跟主見面。 Sing until we see his face.
So match these scriptures.
I recall that a radical repentance of the Whole Church Campus Ministry in the Campus Training Camp in 08/09 (31/12/2008 - 02/01/2009), (thx for xanga help me to record what had happened). The main theme of it is 3"R"s: Repent, Revive and Renew.
After years of diminishing campus, we have a time to review the past few years campus campaign, with many proud to build the ministry within their own, and the scattered (not unified heart), we just trying to use all the ways and all the techniques with all the past experience but no co-ordination within whole ministry.
Even in a cold weather in 白沙澳, I remember they need to walk inside for 45 mins, we have a time of fast, meditation, and also the amazing winter swim, to drive out our fear and to have a radical sign of repentance. God has answered our repentance and our eagerness to unify.
Then, the next year, campus ministry started to growth, with more than 20 baptisms (nearly doubling the size of the whole church campus), and you know, we get 5 Males and 2 Females in our campus BT.
(The best is yet to come, I know they goal for 4M4F this year!)
God did not hold back to give us baptisms because of our past sins. Now, we are in great joy in campus ministry.
So, judgment should be something we joyful about, as we no longer be condemned by our past mistakes and sin; either God want us to look forward to the future, the judgment days with grace!
Let us have an different attitude towards judgment today!
Love the QT these two days, Psalms 90s brings me a joyful heart and a positive attitude towards the day.
Cheers,
Andy
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