1. God's Amazing Grace (v16-17)
"... but some doubted."
Even in the midst of their worship, some doubted.
(Thinking about myself. Mixture of trust and doubt, faith and fear...)
The amazing thing is that God still entrusts His Great Commission to us.
God is amazing. We are amusing. xD
Pastor Jeff shared about his feelings of incompetence and inadequacies
Lord, build Your church so that the world will know it is not us, but You and You alone who deserves all the glory and honour. That all the credit will go to You and not to us.
2 Cor 3:5-6 "He HAS made us competent..."
2. God's complete authority (v18-20a)
We must use the authority God gave us for good...
1 John 4:4
Prayer! :)))
We are to be like little children!
The testimony from South American children
3. God's inseparable presence (v20b)
surely
always
very end
The antidote to fear and uncertainty: His presence
God's call will always involve God!
Acts 4:13
God is the Difference Maker
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Reflections:
- God's confirmation through various people that I didn't mishear Him. Wow. And felt a huge assurance from Him personally too during service that He is indeed sending me. Whether to Japan or Ecuador or wherever else... I know each country is a step to fulfilling His specific calling for me, with His specific role for me, at the specific time and places and people too.
- Timothy Yeo's prayer for me when I went up to the front to be prayed for. Asked him to pray for me with regards to missions and maybe church planting and children ministry. He prayed really fervently. Was so ministered by his prayer. And I think I saw his eyes were moist after he had prayed for me.
- This sermon. Directly speaking to me. :) Faith restored to overflowing. "Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ." Indeed, so true!
- Kelvin's insight in the morning about specificity: the more specific the calling and timing and place, the clearer it shows God in the picture. Just as Ps Jeff preached a few hours later: "God's call will always involve God!"
(Being specific in your criteria about BGR is a different story btw. More complicated. But yeah, I've always wanted God's fingerprints to be more clearly shown in the picture, so that His name may be glorified even more. Amen!)
- Cheng Teng coming up to me and telling me about how his mum had been inspired to invite a few of her students to service, after I visited her home this week. Wow. I told CT in return that all this wouldn't have happened if he hadn't brought his brother for Hopekids service. And none of the amazing things that happened were due to strategic planning or human effort, save for obedient responses to what we know Gid wants. All the chain reactions and "coincidences" belong to the Lord, who is magnificent and powerful in wisdom.
- John from the Africa group telling me how encouraged he was to see me so often. Deeply touched and encouraged too.
- God's grace to me through it all. When I doubted, he was there with me. When I feared, he was there with me. When I felt lost, he was there with me. In all these, he patiently moulded and hammered and tested me.
Yes, he is the yesterday and the today and the forevermore God.
I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.
On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
(Revelation 19:11-16 NIV)
Absolute faithfulness,
absolute justice,
absolute war,
absolute vision,
absolute authority,
absolute knowledge,
absolute goodness,
absolute truth,
absolute righteousness,
absolute purity,
absolute victory,
and absolute supremacy.
Yes, fulfilling God's call is absolutely possible.
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