i am reviving my blog. but this time, i dont wanna make a big hoo haa out of it. the fewer ppl who find this, the better. for those who have found this, theres no need to tell the whole world that i have returned. yup.
my email to zou long:
yo boys
just returned back from my youth camp. very excited at what happened at the camp. the camp was just great! ya the camp was named STEFANOβ, which is the greek word used in the bible for the crown that we would receive from God in heaven. that explains the title of this email. yup. really very very great camp. maybe cos its the first youth camp that i went for. haha. i really liked this camp. to the extent where returning back home after the camp was like my returning home after my 10 day china trip, like i totally didnt spend 3 nights out of home but rather a loooot. cos there were so many things happening in a day, and each event was so meaningful, so it was like a lot of time had been spent at camp.
ya i told u earlier that God had told me b4 the camp that He will do something in the life of this cell member we are all very concerned abt rite? ya, actually He did something, more than what i had personally expected, in only the first night! really great. so after so many days of being touched by God this cell member's spiritual life is really much better. and very much more open. ya and all of us in the cell group also got a touch from God. think one thing that God really showed all of us, especially the younger Christians was the thing abt freedom to worship HIm lah. like just being so free to express whatever is in our heart that we can jump around and run around and everything. such a strong and powerful worship. really great to see them breakthrough in the areas of their life, like addiction to com games and everything.
haha. for me i think i really received strength from God and also God just revealed to me a direction to head in for the next new year, since entering JC and everything, so actually i have been praying for guidance lah. so really glad and grateful that i actually heard from Him. really great. and i think for my own personal areas of pride and lust (yes, yes. stop laughing).
we had this really great speaker from planetshakers, but i doubt that u noe what that is. ang moh, but really passionate and powerful man of God. its the type of preaching where he just does all kinds of funny things but really gets the message across. six services in total throughout the four days and also a workshop on how to heal our past hurts, which really all of us suffer from. lots of great stuff happened during those services and workshops. yup.
yeah. i think u shld be quite tired of reading this looong email by now. so i shall save ya the agony, ya? but im really very excited abt what happened this camp and if u want me to share more abt what happened, i will be more than happy. i can even type out all the notes i took for ya. haha.
update me on how u've been when u return hor. how was the days with ocj? haha.
<3,
lamzy
ya. just so excited about the camp. been a very great camp. God really did some great things amongst our midst. one encounter with God that was really strong was the 2nd night. rmb that night there was such a strong altar call, and i was rather desperate to receive because the night before i had spent my time praying for max and tianchen. i really wanted to receive from God, but didnt really have anyone to pray for me. the pastor did, but didnt feel that i received anything from that. so i just told God i wanted whatever i wanted and said i will wait. after maybe one hr at the altar, terence came and prayed for me. then God spoke to me. really abt stepping out and daring to lead, not just hide in the shadows. Jos 1.and God also comforted me abt next yr, that i would not need to worry but He will help me to accomplish whatever i wanted to do (being a strong testimony). after that i continued to pray, and God spoke some words to me, four to be exact, but i wont say what they r, cos i dun really noe what they mean anyway. yet. God will reveal it to me.
think God really moved so strongly in tianchen's life too. as i told him, a touch from God is so much better than any amount of discipling. now he has personal conviction, something that i certainly cannot impart to him. he and bojian have also finally managed to have the freedom to worship God too. thats great. really thank God for max too. still rmb those two prayer meeting sessions when God spoke to me to invite max for the camp and when He assured me He will do something in max's life during the camp. now max is really on fire for God once again. God is really faithful. huimin also received so much. God was really challenging me b4 the camp to pray for her in addition to my cell members. yup. now she's like much closer to God and church ppl. thank God.
and for games... 2nd day it was raining haveily and supposed to play stn games. while they were playing indoor games inside, the camp comm and the remaining of the games comm were really praying and interceding hard for the rain to stop, but it didnt stop. so we pushed stn games back to day 3 and played indoor games. at first we were quite sad, but what happened was taht thru this actually we managed to bring out a theme that we were trying to bring out in the planning but couldnt, that is to let the states be so united within and trying to win their own race b4 making them realize that the race is run individually, not competitively and we shld all help each other along the way. so God had His plan all along.
i think the thanksgiving part after finale was really meaningful. got to thank so many ppl i wanted to thank all along and also ascertain many friendships. many 'let's get to know each other better next yr' too. haha. really encouraged but what some ppl said to me, esp for this guy that i dun rmb having talked to b4 (or maybe a couple of times)
ya. so thats a summary of such a great camp. if u want me to tell u more abt it, feel free to ask. i will be more than happy to share. haha.
note: if any of u r wondering y i have not moved to a new blog or deleted my old angsty posts, it is because i wanna remind myself of what i have moved out of
