*Wednesday, August 24, 2005*
ul1000 was such an amazing eye opener for a lot of us at church... wed night, we had abt 120 names on our guest list, now where near our 150 mark, or even EeLin's challenge of 200 ppl.. yet as we prayed... names kept coming in. 190 bages were made for ul1000, but by tt night, we didnt haf enough!!! regulars who bought theirs had to start taking it off and giving them away.... we counted almost 210 ppl coming in!!! amazing....
post ul1000 on fri night-sat morning... tt was super amazing... everyone had reflections and we cld feel each other juz growing so much together as one under "EeLin's Urban Life".. and it was amazing... sanne and I shared "God's family" and most reflections were how.. each and everyone were really like a family to us, to share, to care, to love, to encourage.
discipliship was great... had briefing abt what kind of stuff we needed for mamak night wif 1000 guests.. and how college sq2 wld like us to be organising the welcome dinner as ul1000 came up wif one of the biggest grp of ppl to step into college sq... lot of breakthroughs.. and really praying for a good venue for melb uni, to get into union grps in every uni...
some one mentioned that because we are marching forward, like soldiers with shields protecting us, the enemy tries to look for holes which he can shoot through and because when one of us is down, the unity scatters. i felt like the devil was hitting us right at moment...
that morning, we were told that Matt's mother passed away during the night, and i felt that it was the devil, poking at our stronghold, finding holes. we prayed that night, and as we held hands, i prayed that God strengthens Matt, and not let him be weakened coz if our leader weakens, so will the rest of his follwers.. the devil is crafty, to start, but we have won the battle, and will carry on marching forward. the devil may find our weaknesses during the week, and he found mine yesterday, but i pray that he will never get into our stronghold, and never take us away from our unity.
haf this urge to cry... dunno y.. but i feel so emotional now... the whole day, its as if i need to burst, but dunno how to.. its so strong a feeling that i feel that the devil tries so hard now to get rid of us, to get rid of our strength and faith, because we are advancing so much... its scary.. and its weighing my heart down... its like a warning signal God places in my heart to warn me that because we are growing so united and so much in Him, the devil will try to destroy our friendships and our sense of family...
for all u reading this... to my brothers and sisters in Christ.... let us not carry anger or dislike in our hearts, but let us discuss and pour out unhappy thoughts that we haf abt one another and solve it as the enemy knows how to make use of this and turn it against the will of God...
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