Wednesday, May 23, 2007

coming back from POE

One word to sum up POE ---" Awesome!!!"

World class speaker, fantastic worship team, exciting company but on top of it - a touch from God!

How can anyone ask a question like where is God?? if He is real why can't i see Him??? well.. If ppl beside u r asking these questions, hmmmm... it's time for u to go back to ur own relationship with God. When i see the Pastors from POE especially Tommy Barnett and Paul Scanlon i can truely see God in them. The life that reflects HIM!!!

Pastor Tommy Barnett is so anointed!! Have u ever got so amazed by a sermon that u can't even take any notes??? is not that u don't know what he was saying, is just that u have put urself into the sermon so deeply that u forgot to take notes. That's him. There is so much of God in him that u feel that if u touch him u will get a bit of God. I'm not exaggerating! ask the ppl that went to POE this year!

Anyway, what i've learnt from POE from the different speakers are - Don't quit, God brings hope. Paul Scanlon also talked about making decision. As christians we r always affraid of making the wrong decision. We always ask God for sign. n we waited n waited n waited for a long time but didn't get any sign from God. I guess sometimes God don't give us any sign because it doesn't matter if we've made the wrong decision- which course to choose? which uni to go to? to go for cell group or stay back home to study? To go to night service or not?? God wants us to learn. Eventhough the decision we've made was wrong God is still in control n He wants us to go thru it so that we can learn from it!!! It's better to make a wrong decision with a right heart than not making any decision!!! Kate later shared something that she's learnt - God allows us to play on a playground. The ten commandments r the bolder lines of the field. As long as we r on the playground, we can choose to do anything. We can roll on the ground , go on the slide, go on the swing... do anything that we like on the playground!

Another thing i've learnt is about sowing seeds. Steve kennedy gave me a whole new view of this parable. As every chrstians r sower n the gospel is the seed. The condition of the soil represents the heart of ppl. why do sower still sow seeds on the path? or between the thorns??? Why can't they be smart to just sow the seeds on the good soil?? Because it's not up to the sower to choose which soil to sow. As sower, we r to sow in all the soils, good or bad. Everyone deserves to hear the good news, no one is too stubborn or too bad to know God.

I was touched by the section by Tommy Barnett when he prayed for everyone for the anointing from God. In his last section he let everyone bow down on our knees n pray to God. It was truely amazing. Everyone was weeping, even grown up men!!!! I've realized we r all the same when we confront God- we r his loving child.

thousands of lives have been changed. the person closest to me is fan. She decided to get baptised, truely amazing that God can change someone. I've seen her changed so much. I knew her last year around june. was really close to her because she is taiwanese. Got to invite her to church after a few weeks. Got to introduce her to all my frens from church since that. Many ppl have shared life with her. In the beginning of this year she started to want to know more about God. N after POE, she decided to get baptised!!!! So amazing!!!!God is a great great God!!!!

1 comment:

Jarod Yong said...

God IS great!
Let's live like Tony & be reflectors of His glory & life!