This would byfar be the most emotional post yet ::
GIG(Getting Into God) Kuantan was simply awesome. Even before leaving for Kuantan, we could feel God leading the way, and just going before us. Leaving for Kuantan at 7pm on a Friday evening, it took about a 4 and a half hours drive down. Starting the conference the day after, and by the time we got to bed, it was already about 3 in the morning and we could only afford a 4 hour nap before the long day ahead.
Sleep wasn't really a priority, since we all knew we were there for a cause, a purpose. All excited by morning, we got back on the bus and headed for breakfast. The morning conference was great, though the attendance wasn't really encouraging, but I prayed that God have his way with those few that were there. After the morning's worship and message, we had the workshop on either worship or devotion. I took the worship session, and it was encourging to relearn the heart of worship.
As we prepared for the night concert, I had doubts on the number of attendance. Being ignorant, I was hoping for substantial attendance, just hoping the place would be filled up. But, it soon striked, that the number of people that would attend was secondary to none. The real priority was that we did our best, no matter how many there were. It was us pleasing God, and not us trying please man. And I then prayed, telling God to take control of everything, just asking him to take full control, because we were there to worship him and nothing less.
God did bless us with numbers. By 8.00pm, we had about 250-300 young teenagers packing the hotel conference room with even about 20 odd parents at the back of the hall. It was just amazing. As our team led worship, we sang our hearts knowing he was a good god. Just after the message by our pastor, an alter call was made, and about the whole congregation moved infront just rededicating themselves as empty vessels and asking God to make them a generation of people that would make history for him. It was simply amazing, the crowd was just unimaginable.
After all was done, we were contented as a team. We were thankful that God's presence was there and he did moved within the hearts of the teenagers in Kuantan. We packed up, had our late dinner and got into our bus and left Kuantan by 1.30am.
Reaching at about 5am, I took my car and drove home hoping to get enough rest before Sunday's morning service in church. Sadly, as I was on my way home, my car skidded and smashed the divider due to the slippery road after the heavy rain 2 hours prior. My car did a 360 degree turn while skidding, and I was just in shocked when it happened so quickly. It all happened so instantaneous on the highway that it felt so surreal. Probably, the time reality striked in was when the car was skidding at 360 degrees. Somehow, from the skidding and the left-rear of my car hitting the divider, my car only suffered mininal damage. Upon looking at my car, I knew it should had been much worst. Looking at all this retrospectively, I knew if the front of the car would had banged the divider, I could had died. Somehow, just somehow, all that did not happen, and I escaped untouched. I know with all my heart, it was God's hand that had soften the collision of my car and the wall.
It was God's hand upon my life, that I am untouched and I'm indeed thankful. I did make it for Sunday's service, for I knew I needed to be there. Despite just an hour rest for the night, it was more crucial to worship and be thankful, despite my circumstances.
My car had to be towed away, and I had to make a police report in the afternoon. The police officer at the beginning was in-corporative and wanted to summon me to court and stand trial for reckless driving. He insisted that I be brought to court and pay a rm4000 fine. I prayed to God, asking him to grant favour upon me with the officer and just submitting my circumstances before him. After the officer viewed my car, his heart completely took a 180 turn. He starting chatting with me, and we even spoke about my law course and how he had read law before too at my college but wasn't able to finish the course. Out of a sudden, we were friends just talking. He told me he had to fine the minimal of rm300, but had told me to come back on thursday to appeal to lower the fine to rm150. He even gave me his cellphone number incase I had any problem with the appeal. Isn't that just amazing?!
God works in just ways that we cannot even start to comprehend. In this experience, it had done nothing less than to show God's true love to those who calls him father. He was there then, and he is with me now.
'The devil come to steal, kill and destroy, but He come to give life, and life more abundantly." Through all this, I relearned that life is unpredictable and that we may die at any time, but the truth is, with God nothing is impossible. Jesus says that he comes to the door and knock, if you heard and would open your door, he would come in and he would be by your side, through every circumstance, he will be there to protect you.
My God does not sleep nor slumber, He will be there by your side when everything seems lost.
Jesus, you are an amazing God.Though I may not understand why all these happened, I know that God has a greated plan, a plan to prosper, a plan to bless, a plan to strengthen, an ultimate plan which man cannot understand. And I stand amazed at you, the un-thinkable you to say I love you.
enjoy.
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