This is a follow up post from:
How did I come to this decision? It's a loooooong story, as well as a long journey for me (: But I'm glad I went through it.
R-AGE ALPHA LIVE TALK (HOW DOES GOD GUIDE US)
I was allocated to do my sharing for the live talk at one of the R-AGE Alpha sessions, and my topic was, “How does God guide us?” On that very same evening, I was just at home, lying down on my sofa, using my phone (wasting my life away). Then, I had a sudden struck of emotions that surged through me very strongly.
Oh no, Jesus is coming back; there is no time to waste. There are people out there who have yet to hear the saving message of the Gospel, and here I am, making all sorts of humanly logical plans in my life and struggling and being overly concerned over my own spiritual growth. How selfish of me! How very selfish of me!
Wow. Why would I suddenly feel that way? All these while, I have been very inward looking, and I guess because of these, I haven’t felt the joy of the LORD for the longest of time and I felt like I lost touch having a personal and intimate relationship with Him. One of the main points in my sharing of the live talk was that God guides us through His Holy Spirit, so sometimes, we get a surge of very strong emotions or a thought that keeps bugging us, and trust me, I had experienced this once when God placed a bugging thought in my head that I tried to ignore, because His commands were against my will. Later on, this bugging feeling was confirmed in the Scriptures when I was doing my quiet time. So, maybe God was waking me up!
After that sudden thought encounter, I very much wanted to go for regular street evangelism and it has been coming to pass as I have Pamela as my “Fishing Buddy”! Praise the Lord!
I shared this with Melanie, and she lovingly reminded me that God is more concerned about me drawing closer to Him than my doing. Oh ya, I actually wasn’t very close to Him.
Then this happened -
COMBINED CELL LESSON WITH 团
Adler was teaching, and he asked 2 questions:
What recharges me and refreshes me?
When I’m actively evangelizing and discipling new believers. Through these, I would feel like I have encounters and experiences with God in a very real way. I also need to be alone, read my Bible and worship God, and then my heart can be open and settled to hear Him.
What helps you connect with God?
When I’m on mission trips. Then I feel the closest to God. I will never fail to hear God and I feel the closest to Him when doing direct ministry overseas.
If this is true of me, if I was created and designed this way, then shouldn’t I be heading towards this direction?
I wonder.
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