Praise God for such an Awesome Camp!!!

I believe the Lord really moved and touched many hearts during this camp..I was deeply moved.. especially during the altar calls... God's anointing and touch was just on everyone. Indeed He answers our prayers. And we had lots of fun and made many new friends right?...

Why don't we give thanks to Him for all the blessings and the answered prayers that He has given us.


If you would like to do it by mail. do send it to lowyewtong@yahoo.com.sg

A Call To Prayer 12
Hey one and all, It's one more week to Rezolution..! Are we all praying in full force...?

1) Camp Briefing
There will be a camp briefing followed by a camp prayer meeting on the 12th of Dec. There the camp leaders will be briefed and equipped for the camp. Do keep them in prayer as they are the ones who are gonna move in front and make decisions.

2) Service
Pray for an anointed camp speaker (Chye Aik). For a word in season.
For anointed Praise and worship leaders as well as musicians and singers. That the congregation will be free and open to respond to the Holy Spirit, whether it be by free expression of worship or going up for altar calls.

3) Prayer
That YPMers will have an attitude of submission and humility. That they will acknowledge the Lord in all that they do in their lives. That they will seek His will and ask of Him things that please Him. Even in the camp that they will constantly keep programs, friends and leaders constantly in prayer.

4) Empowerment
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." -Acts 1:8

Now look at our camp theme:

ReZolution- a call to action for this new generation of YPM. A call for this generation of young people to rise up to their full potential in Christ and to reach their generation for Jesus.

Pray that the Lord will pour His anointing into the lives of HIs youth. That they will receive empowerment from on high. That they will know of the power which comes from the Holy Spirit who already lives in them. That they will have His passion for the lost.

5) Admin
Nametags. Camp booklets. Camp T-shirts etc. etc. do not come from nowhere. Sweat and blood is put into the production of these wonderful
items. Pray for the items to come out alright, and thank God for the people who produced them.

6) Logistics
Probably big on Josh Ho's prayer request list. That we will bring all the necessary items to camp and not forget anything.

Camp Comm's Prayer Requests

Amelia - Hear from God in a clear and personal way. Intimacy with the most high. Rest from weariness and stress.

Ee Ling - The blood of Jesus to cover all of us, so we are safe wherever we go, whatever we do. A heart of expectancy and excitement, ready for more of Jesus! Great weather!

Josh Ho - Busy with school work. Pray for strength and ability to come for camp next week refreshed.

Calvin Low - To place my hope in the Lord and not circumstances. For the youth of YPM to see the Lord move mightily in their lives and in YPM. For them to make a decision to follow unswervingly to Jesus. That he will not be required to be in camp during this period

Samson Fu - that we would be a people who would be ready to dwell in the glorious presence of our king

Matthew Chern - For God's anointing to be upon His life as he sets apart Himself for Jesus.

Stay tuned for more.. There's gonna be a barrage of requests as the time approaches. God bless... =)

Hey guys,

I just read through and typed out all the prayer expectations for Rezolution '05.
See the campers were asked to write their prayer requests of the camp on paper.
Several things hit me as i read through the list. Things like:

1) The simple faith and expectancy of the campers
You could tell from the way they wrote it. So short and simple that they had no doubt God would grant their requests.

2) Desire for the things of God
I was honestly expecting a lot more material or slip-shod heard-that-somewhere-before requests. But instead we had requests like to know God's plan for my life, to know God better, to know more friends


Can't reveal all for privacy sake. But generally these are the requests:

Youths lives to be touched and changed by God. To be set ablaze for Him. A closer walk

His plans to be revealed in my life

To know more friends and YPMers (for the age gap to be broken)

of course... FUN

And to end i shall place brother Isaac Low's request here. Without His permission. But i'm sure he won't mind..

That He establish a generation that knows and loves Him, no more a generation who are strangers to the things of the Lord

I can't wait to see what the Lord is going to do with this generation of youth. I bet the devil's knees are trembling right now. The world is waiting

John 16:24Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

Calvin Low

The state of USA
I take my hat off to men like Joe Wright , a minister who was asked to open the new sessions of the Kansas Senate, in 1996 when everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:

THE PRAYER
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good,," but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We confess:
We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it Pluralism.
We have worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism.
We have endorsed perversion and called it alternative lifestyle.
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem.
We have abused power and called it politics.
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent to direct us to the center of your will. I ask it in the Name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In six short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church subsequently received international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa, and Korea. Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on "The Rest of the Story" on the radio and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired.

http://www.revival-library.org/

Quotes

Some Quotes to think about:

“God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.”
-Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"From the Day of Pentecost, there has not been one great spiritual awakening in any land which has not begun in a union of prayer, though only among two or three; no such outward, upward movement has continued after such prayer meetings have declined"

“God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.”

“Wherever the Church is aroused and the worlds wickedness arrested, somebody has been praying.”
-A. T. Pierson

“Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival of religion– men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.”
-C. H. Spurgeon

A Revelation of Jesus

By Moses Foo

How to get the most out of sermons.The answer to all our problems is a revelation of Jesus.

Many problems are to do with people. imperfect people will always cause problems.Whenever people pray for an answer or a change. God's way is to change the person first. When the person has changed, most problems naturally gets solved.

E.g. John wonders why no one likes him. People tend to avoid John. Because of this John has low self-esteem. And to break out of it he tries too hard to get people to like him with less then desireable results. The harder he tries the more people despise him. He is desperate and they can feel it. It puts people off.
But John does not realise this. He prays for people to like him. Many of our prayer are for circumstances to change. But they do not realise more often than not, God changes the person. As it is the people that changes the circumstance.

Therefore what John needs is a revealation of Christ. When John realises that Jesus not only took away his sins but also that he has perfect standing with God, he realises that he has the best friend in Jesus. Jesus is his best friend. He need not any other friends. The desperation in him will be gone.

And when John is not desperate he begins to become cool. The irony is that the something he no longer needs will come to him. The cool factor is very attractive.

People get attracted to him as John oozes with the fruits of the Spirit without knowing. The fruits of the Spirit is the real cool stuff. Some worldly traits may be cool in some places and not others. Knowing you are secured and having the fruits of the spirit is cool everywhere. Just like Singapore dollars can only be accepted in Singapore but gold is accepted internationally. The knowledge of Christ's love for us makes Christians the real cool dudes everywhere.

The answer to John's problems is not to try harder, it is to keep his eyes on Jesus and drink of his word.

This is just one example on how a revealation in Jesus is the answer to our problem. The same goes for money problems, family problems and many others.Always desire to see Jesus

Every sermon can be a revelation for us. In fact in almost everything God can use it to speak to us. The reason is because we have the best teacher the Holy Spirit in us.

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you,and ye need not that any man teach you:but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things,and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you,you shall abide in him.I John 2:27

"You need not any man teach you ..."
According to this verse, man's teachings is not neccessary. We have the Holy Spirit in us. However the Holy Spirit has to use something to teach and build upon. Thus we have preachers, teachers and Bible study materials.

Preachers and teachers have thier part to play as spoken in the Bible. However the above verse tells us what is our part. And that is to abide in him. Abide in the Holy Sipirt in every material, preaching or teaching. And no matter how boring a sermon is, remember you are now being taught by the best. Listen attentively to the sermon, because the Holy Spirit may suddenly bring out a point he wants you to know.

A good prayer to pray will be this. "Holy Spirit open my eyes that I may see Jesus and what he has done on the cross for me. Amen."The Holy Spirit will always point you to Jesus. And remember that Jesus is the answer.

Read Luke 24:13-35 - On the Road to Emmaus

When Jesus met the two, he did not declare,"Hello people I am Jesus." But he kept quiet and expound all that has happened in the scriptures regarding himself. This shows that the revealation of Jesus is more important then seeing the physcial Jesus.

And when Jesus suddenly disappeared the two were not amazed by his disappearance but rather that their hearts burned when Jesus was preaching to them.

I think Jesus accomplish what he wanted to do. Which is to not impress them with his physical but rather leave them with burning hearts of revealation.

I am sure you people will sometimes experience it. When you get a revealation of Jesus your hearts burn.

"Abide in him" abide in the Holy Spirit in every teaching and sit back and relax.

One burning heart coming right up!

IZ Yeo's prayer request everyone!

Pray tat everyone will come with a heart desiring God. a passion in following HIm. Pray that everyone will be in good health and we'll have good weather

A Call to Prayer 11

Hey guys... It's 2 weeks to the YPM Rezolution camp But it's never too late to start praying for it.
Looks like a long list? Then let's start praying NOW!


1] Chiefs, Champions, Elders
Ok.. The list of Grp leaders, Asst. Leaders and Elders (Leaders, Asst. Leaders and Mentors) is out. wahey~!
Everything rises on leadership...
There are plenty of young ones in this group but guess what.. They are already leaders in their own right.
Do pray for wisdom, willingness, and dilligence as they lead. That they will have the strength and the Holy spirit as their guide... The same Holy Spirit who was in Timothy who at the age of 19 led a church of thousands.

2] God's word
Keep keeping Chye Aik in prayer... That He will bring a 'Rhema' word.. A word in season.. That is perfectly applicable and life transforming for each and every life.
That the campers will have a hunger and thirst for God's word.. the textbook for living, the love letter from the Most High... =)

3] Repentance
That the Lord will bring us to a point of repentance and contriteness... That we will stop thinking that we can live independent of the Lord. That He will bring us to the sudden knowledge that our only hope is in Him.
Through this we can live an abundant live as we abide in the vine (Jesus)
This is the best attitude as we enter into war with the evil one... Dun look back to Egypt... (sin, worldliness , your old self). Only look to Jesus. If we look back we will be like the 10 other unbelieving spies.. Fearful... And weak...No let us have the firm and focused heart of Joshua and Caleb... He is gonna bring us out of our personal wildernesses (unforgiveness, loneliness, pain, uselessness) to a land full of milk and honey..

4] Camp T-shirt
Praise God for the camp T-shirt. it's really cool stuff. thanks to the contributors... Lydia. and Shumin (again?)... And of couse the background ppl pushing the suppliers and stuff. IZ yeo and Amelia. indeed... Our God is soo good.. i love nice camp T-shirts.. It's in the process of production now.. so pray hard!.. i dun want a camp shirt showing my mid-riff...

5] Health
That there will be no viruses or bugs of any sort being spread around. We don't want anything to hinder us from really learning and enjoying the Lord and each other. That nobody will have to be sent home. bind it in Jesus name.


Personal Prayer Requests

Amelia - Pray for strength that could only come from Him. Focus and joy in spite of a hectic schedule and pressure and occasionally incompetent prayer i/cs

Aaron Tay - Pray that the Youths have a broken Spirit and a Contrite Heart . This way, they will have an expectancy for our Father in Heaven. Also pray that they will be open to people around them, and to the pastor and his msg. Pray for the Musicians, that they be Sanctified and Consecrated before the Lord, to serve Him wholely and purely.

Ee Ling - Pray for safety of campers that they won't be stung by stonefish etc.. and expectant heart... And goot weather... =)

Isaac Yeo - stay tuned for IZ's accidentally deleted his message sorry everyone.. sorry IZ

Josh Ho - Pray for tics into Sentosa... And school will have no activities during duration of camp.. =)....

Matto - Health strength and vitality.. he needs that as pastor, cell group leader, music minister, Pastor, Son, Discipler...*pant *pant.. It's tiring jus listing it down.. haha...

Samson Fu - Studies and exams. focus on the Lord and love

Repentance

2 Chronicles 7:14if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

In biblical terms, repentance is about changing your mind about anything that keeps you from drawing closer to God. referring to a truly God-given, Spirit-led change of heart and mind toward God about sin.

Have you ever reached this juncture in your life where u take the time to look back at the road behind. Looking at all the choices you've made, detours, off-track experiences which bring you to this point in the road.
I have. Having been brought up in a Christian family i have had the awesome God-given priviledge of knowing Christ from a young age.
However after salvation, there is still a need for sanctification. I am saved but not perfect and Christ is continually changing me.

But the point here is this. When i look back in life and sometimes wonder why? Why Lord? Why did this happen? Why am i such-and-such a person?

4Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?
Rom 2:4

And then the realisation hit me. Everything that went wrong in my life was a direct result of my disobedience to Him and to His word. But in my selfishness and childishness i put the blame on Him. I wanted what He could give exclusively, rather than loving Him in return. 1 John 5:3
I started to realise how small i am compared to an awesome and Holy God. And when you think about it. Sin kills. Spiritually as well as in this present life.

" Until a person becomes personally exceedingly sinful in his own eyes, he will never see his need for repentance."

But I thank God that He did not leave me in my wretchedness.
He gives me a way out. He says repent. Turn your heart and mind away from sin, the things of this world, and turn your heart to me.

"But repentance without faith is nothing more than remorse or regret."

"Repentance comes about through the convicting power of the Spirit of God using the Word of God to cause a change of attitude, action, and affection.
Saving faith is trust in and reliance on the Lord Jesus Christ as one's personal Lord and Saviour.
Saving faith is believing with your heart; it is coming to Christ, receiving Christ, looking to Christ, calling upon Christ to save your soul."

15"The time has come," he said. "The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!"
Mark 1:15

I realised. The Lord's commands are here to protect and provide, and they are not burdensome, as i used to think. 1 John 5:3

"... I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Matt. 9:13).

I realised the way back to Him is just being humble and saying my righteousness is nothing. What i mistook for morality and correct Christian values in the past and felt proud when i kept them are just not enough. I need you Lord every single day and moment of my life. I need your word to guide me. I want to learn more about you daily. I want to love you.

2000 years ago He reached through the darkness. Our Jesus. He said "No Father, Let me take the weight of their sin, their pain, let me bear the brunt of their sickness" He did that 2000 years ago . He's still doing that today.

I realised we can't be passive. With repentance i must have faith. i must put my faith in Jesus. Saying Lord, I've repented of my ways.. but now i do not know where to go. Teach me Lord. I never want to stop learning and obeying your commands.

Say this prayer for and with me:

" Father, i know i was a wretched person. Lord you are the opposite of me. Whether i am a Christian or not, There will never be a day in which i will not need you in my life. I'm sorry for ever thinking so. Father i confess any sin and independent attitude i have had in myself. I ask of your forgiveness. I hate sin because you hate sin. I choose to live for you. Please come into my life and be Lord and saviour once again. I need you Lord. Amen"