As You Open My Eyes to The Works of Your Hand...(Part 2)

Initially I wanted to post a series on the mission trip but seeing how the individual members had already posted much and written much on this in their respective blogs, a slight change of plans then.

Allow me then to share what I experienced over there in Indonesia specifically concerning their youth ministries. I had the chance to sit down and chat with one of their youth leader. He is now in his early twenties and was involved in the youth ministries for about 6 years. BTW, the thing that totally knock me off my seat was that their youth meeting was conducted in...get this...a shopping mall.

Now, I know you all won't believe me, well here then is the proof....(Abbalove Ministries is the Youth Meeting)

Now, six years ago they had about 15 youths, today at the youth meeting that we attended, they numbered about 450 people, give a take 1 or 2. 450!!! I was like ...woaw...The meeting that we attended was conducted solely by the youths. From the ushers who welcomed us enthusiaticly to the preacher who was by the way a 16 year old girl. The whole time that I was there, I was saying to myself if only EY was like this, if only...Now don't get me wrong. First of all, I am not saying that EY is not good or it is not functioning. To me, I always thanked the Lord for what EY has become, indeed the Lord has blessed EY much. It is just that when we see God doing something great, we will want the same blessing on EY as well. Only if...

The worship team

A view of the Youth Meeting (450+ youths)

Only if...if what??? The God that we worship here is the same God that they worship in Indonesia. If God can move mountains there, so could He here. SO the difference between them and us is....well us. You and me...do we dare to dream? Do we dare to pray and ask God to show us, to bless us here as well? Praying is easy, but prayer comes with responsibility and change. We cannot asked God to bless us this way if we do not invite our friends for the meeting. We cannot have the authority to invite if we do not live the lives that we proclaim...So the question is do we dare?

Note the children partaking of the Lord's Supper. Young kids, worshipping, reflecting, praying...

The stack of the communion cups...

I came back from Indonesia praying this prayer...I prayed that I can see this in Malaysia, in Ipoh, in EY. Indeed as the song goes, "As you open my eyes to the works of Your Hand..." As God has shown us what is possible with Him, dare we reach out and ask, pray and seek Him for this?

The second part to the song goes like this..."Oceans will part, Nations come at the whisper of your call. Hope will rise, Glory shown as Your will be done in My life" Miracles can happen, and will happen if His will is done in our lives...So come, let us pray, ask and seek that His will be done in our lives that we may see 'oceans parting and nations coming to Him'...

Dare we pray?

Katan

PS: Let's start with this coming month ends program. The Extreme Prayer. We will come togehter to pray, together with the AOG youths, let us start to win the Ipoh youths for Him by going to our knees...