Its nice being accepted... Even if they were not people you wanted to spend time with last time. Its still nice... Really thank God for them. Then again, there's still a certain level of prejudice... Mouths will talk. Especially about mistakes. Have to burn this pride... Have to get up and move on...

Anyway, I was just thinking about the youth camp again. I'm trying to identify the things that we have to do. So that everything that the church organises, we can do the same things and get the same results. And you know what? I find that this isn't the way things should work. Methods make me sick. Its like reducing God to a giant drink dispenser... Press the 'prayer' button and you get a good turnout for youth camp. But then again, this is what God promised. I just think that we should remember that He's a God that wants to have a relationship with us....

Megapraise... Something I have to journal about. A dream fulfilled? Seeing a roomful of people praising God with their entire being... I remember praying for this during one of the prayer meetings... And yet I know, this isn't it. There's more. The people we've gathered at the youth camp will help the church go higher. And then the cycle will repeat and more will come and more will grow and more will gather.

"You must deal with this first, before you can move on. Before God can say anything else..."
This wasn't spoken to me... But it made me realise why God was silent. When Pastor Daniel was praying for people, he skipped me... As if on purpose... But now I know. Its because he had no word from God about me.
But you know what the strange thing is? It doesn't mean I stop there to deal with my growth... I still felt led to pray for people and give them words. Its just God telling me... There's more if I want it. You can still be a blessing, you can still be used to a certain extent... but there's more!!!

And then the way everybody functioned. 'Like a well-tuned machine...' according to Lynette. Made me understand what the church is for. Made me understand that just because I can't do something like talk to the new friends doesn't mean I can't talk to the younger Christians. Cos I have a different purpose!

::: Verse of the Day :::
It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
| Ephesians 4:11-13 |