Mighty To Save

When a stone is dropped into a lake, it quickly disappears from sight BUT its impact leaves behind a series of ripples that broaden and reach across the water. In the same way, the impact of ONE life lived for Christ, will leave behind an influence of good that will reach the lives of many others.

Its been hectic since returning from Singapore. I've had a new role to assimilate into at work and loads of meetings, emails & paperwork to catch up on (oh, and jetlag too!). Sometimes I don't realise how busy I truly am until I list down everything numerically. Yeah, task boards are cool!

I've learnt from my grandpa's passing away that God is the only commodity in my family that matters. In the days after my grandpa's funeral, God gave me a very strong revelation in my life one morning as I prayed for direction. I had alot on my mind about God's calling for me and maybe I was hoping He'd tell me what I should do and what I should not and I pleaded to God to close the doors I wasn't supposed to touch so I won't need to make choices. The principle that God laid down for me in my core was in everything, the only answer I need and the only direction I need about anything I am seeking Him for is "For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain" . So, that has now become the vision for my cell, for my work, for my relationships, for any ministry i'm serving in and for my family. In all things, it is to die because to live is Christ (everything Christ is)

Being in Singapore is always a blessing as I have the privilege of spending alot of time on my own just enjoying the seaview, the familiarity of the coffee shops in siglap and the buses and mrt and the riverside of Raffles Place right down to the Esplanade..Can't believe this verse flagged 3 times. Once on a billboard in a shop, once on my facebook verse of the day and once in my "daily devotionals". So that evening when I walked to East Coast with my mom, I asked her to take a photo of me and the horizon signifying my acknowledgement that God takes care of the big picture, and like the lighthouse, He will guide and provide the next steps.

What I have been up to since touching down on 19July? (abt 2 weeks ago)
Kiss The Streets, is a community project in the W6 London area of Hammersmith & Fulham which our teens took part in the week just passed. We stayed in church all week, enduring the airbeds, the stuffy rooms, the lack of internet & gaming, and pretty "un-filling" food......and I was so proud of them! We truly experienced life living as a community, them kids and us their youth leaders. I was so proud of the girls that they took the initiative to draw up their own shower rota..how organised compared to the boys!

In the mornings, we'll gather for a time of worship, teaching and prayer before separating into our teams for the various projects in the community. My team was the craziest ever, and the smallest too! We were the KTS News & Media team so we got the opportunity of travelling round to the different projects reporting as well as getting our hands dirty right smack in the action of painting, gardening, sports etc.

For 7 whole days, we essentially KISSED THE STREETS of one of the roughest estates in Hammersmith and snuggled into a pretty much abandoned old folks home.

The moment of breakthrough came for me at a time where I was very down and distracted by a series of events that I had to deal with in the midst of the week. God brought me to my knees for a whole hour that night crying out to Him I needed Him so much for strength and wisdom. I found my anchor, that ever unchanging one in the reminder that Christ is in control. With that focus, that very night when I stepped out of my room into the common area to spend time with the teens, divine appointments just loomed in one after another - conversation after conversation of depth with certain individuals. And that night, God gave both W and I so much energy and freshness despite it being past midnight and we both had to work the next day but still able to endure 3-4 hour conversations with different people. That night, it was the time of salvation - 3 of our teens committed their lives to Christ that day and received Him as their personal Saviour and Lord. It took me a while to compose myself when W came to me and told me R also prayed to receive Christ after I told him M and H also just did. I was overwhelmed with joy by the awesome transforming and saving power of our Lord Jesus. There is something about 2ams and 3ams....I slept about 5am!

Throughout the week, God transformed our lives to transform a society that needed to experience His love so much - from young to old. And these 25 teens made a difference! What an exposure they had-to love with acts of kindness...and now to have the teens in church lead the way by committing to serve a particular community project regularly in Brook Green - there will be so much more to come for them...a greater experience and exposure of what it means to love the nations, their community and to reach these broken lives for His kingdom.

Witnessing is not difficult. Its all about having a story to tell. And like these teens, I've learnt that every time we tell our story and hear others story when we're practising in a group how to share journeys, there is so much encouragement in the freshness of our faith. It gives us that fuel as we hear God's work in the lives of those around us and the confidence as we share our own stories. God is THE KEY...then He uses us as His key to change lives!

We exist for this generation!

Jesus, author of salvation - You are Mighty to Save!

Mighty To Save
Everyone needs compassion
Love that’s never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
The kindness of a Saviour
The hope of nations

Saviour
He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever
Author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave

So take me as You find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender

Shine Your light and let the whole world see
We’re singing
For the glory of the risen King