The Rise and Fall of a Nation

I recently finished reading about the judges and the kings of Israel. One thing has become very clear to me as I look back. Everything in the nation depended on the leadership!

As soon as the elders who served under Joshua died, the Israelites sinned and turned from the Lord. But then, in His mercy, the Lord provided a judge and the people served Him. Yet, as soon as he died, the people reverted to sin.

Then came the kings. The people served the Lord under David's and much of Solomon's lives. But Solomon sinned and the kingdom was divided. The northern kingdom of Israel had one wicked king after another. The southern kingdom of Judah had a better record, but what was evident in both was that the condition of the nation reflected the condition of the king. If the king served the Lord, the people did too.

As youth of Malaysia, I believe this means two things for us. First, we must pray for our leaders. The rise and fall of our nation literally does rest with them. A corrupt government means a corrupt nation. Imagine what would happen if our politicians were unselfish and full of integrity!

Secondly, WE are the leaders of today and tomorrow! I know it's incredibly cliche to say it, but there will come a day when our parents and leaders will be gone. New generations will look to us. Our decisions will determine our nation's government, education, health care, media, and just about everything else.

We are leaders! The rise and fall of our nation rests with us! Let us remember this.

All-consuming fire

Yesterday morning, while praying for thePlan and MYPG4, God brought me to Joshua 11. He revealed certain things about the whole movement that I feel compelled to share them with you. I shall post the main parts of the chapter that got me, so it'll be easier for to read.

Joshua 11:1-9
And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west, And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh. And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many. And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
And the Lord said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire. So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them. And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining. And Joshua did unto them as the Lord bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.

Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

The story of victory is cool enough, but I thought I'd study further. These are certain names of kings and places (I didn't have time to look up all).

Jabin - intelligence
Jobab - howler
Hazor - collective village
Dor - dwelling/age/generation
Merom - height

If we're going to look at things the way the world does, we're going to doubt our radical ideas of transformation. Wisdom of this world, of this age, will be sitting on her high horse howling at us.

"It can't be done... Where are you going to get the resources? The people?... Ah the church nowadays not interested... You wanna be thrown out the window?... You all young young why think so serious? Go study get a job earn money can de what... Malaysia no more hope. Migrate only lah!... Kena tangkap go ISA then only you know... How to change people's mind? Impossible... Got tuition... What for? They don't deserve any compassion... The world's going to end anyway.... You gila kah?"

Opposition came from all sides. They numbered like the sand on the shore. But God said, "Be not afraid." He's saying the same thing now. He's going to deliver us. But that's not the end. When Joshua and the people fought against the armies, they chased them to three places.

Zidon - catching fish
Misrephoth-maim - burnings of water
Mizpeh - watchtower

Actually when I first read burnings of water, I thought of all the boiling water visions. But then my mom pointed out the story of Elijah vs. 400 Baal priests, and how the fire from heaven licked up the water. So I'm telling ya, it'll be an all-consuming fire we've never seen before. Amazing yeah?



So thePlan and MYPG4 is in a week's time. I realize that the time leading up to it is going to intensify. The enemy's going to use all possible ways to hinder and rob God's glory. But God tells us, "Be not afraid. I will deliver you." Let us keep pressing on the upward way, before, during and especially after the conference. Let us cling to His faithfulness and promise, that "tomorrow this time (when tomorrow is I don't know but it's soon!)" the cities will be set alight by a heavenly fire, as His children keep watch over the cities, and call all men unto Him.

Ad maiorem Dei gloriam -- for the greater glory of God.
Charmain

Melaka-laka!

City walls

August Report:

Marcus called Cathy and me the night before and shared about what happened at Kulim's LYPG. I can say we were both very encouraged after that and excited for LYPG.

Cathy led us in this session. She asked us to read Psalm 43 and pray whatever was impressed upon our heart from it. Her words, "I felt God give me this verse the morning itself... it couldn't have been more perfect for this time." We spent about 50-60 minutes praying. This is what we got in our order of sharing.

Charmain: Word for Malacca and LYPGs all over.
- Ezekiel 4:2 -- We are laying siege around the cities, preparing for battle.
- Joshua 8:24 -- This is when we take over the city. And when we do, we need to break down all strongholds.
- Joshua 8:8 -- We're gonna set the city on fire yeah!
And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the Lord shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.

Timothy
- Encouraged by Psalm 43, especially verse 1 in praying for an ungodly nation
- and verse 3, that what was done in darkness will be revealed in His light and truth.
Psalm 43:1 -- Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Cathy
- Hebrews 5:1-11 - We are high priests. I felt that we're not living on par with God, and how he wants us to live.
Hebrews 5:1 - For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

Lara
- got the phrase 'Children of God' and 1 John 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
- God loves us. He's our Father. He sees us as heirs. Those who have not seen him do not know Him. We know Him, we have seen Him.

Summary: Revival and change will come. But we as children of God ought to reflect our Father's heart, and as high priests ought to set and live up to God's standards as examples.

We separated the prayer points for thePlan into 7 cards (and there were 7 people!) and took turns to pray. Overall we kept praying for calling and change of heart for the participants.

Those who were there, if there's anything else I forgot to put in, please let me know.

All praise to God for another good prayer gathering. A major prayer need is our planning and preparations for MYPG 4.
Oh and yes, our video report is coming out soon too! =D

Cathy and Charmain

Growth..

Hi guys,

Just wanted to affirm what Liz said. My dad spoke in our LYPG yesterday on spiritual growth. In 1 Cor 2 (the last few verses) till chapter 3:3, Paul talks about 4 kinds of people.

- Natural

- Spiritual

- Carnal

- Infants

Since we are already brought out of darkness into light, we are no more of the natural, but the supernatural - Spiritual. However, there is the possibility of "down-grading" to the carnal.

I'm a new driver. Ever so often, i change gears too quickly (assuming from 3 to 4) and i meet with an obstacle up front, and i slowly down and the car starts to "shiver". So naturally, i will down-shift to a lower gear. Sometimes, after shifting to a lower gear, the car continues on smoothly. Sometimes, it starts jerking back and forth, and before you know it, you "si hui / sei fo" (mati enjin) in the middle of the road. Now all the world is honking at your behind, and in your panic, u forget to enter neutral, and you start the car, causing it to jerk front and back and stall again. Now because of that experience, a new driver usually gets spooked, and tends to take some time before getting confident at travelling at high gears. I remember riding my motor in gear 3 for 6 months before i really mustered the courage to go to gear 4. It was just one gear away, yet it scared the daylight out of me.

I want to share something close to heart. Kulim LYPG started out, with no structure. It went on that way for a few months, and it began to become tiring. We tried and tried, but humans have no means to coax God to fall unless by a broken and contrite heart. Maybe, we were proud of getting our "license" while others were not even going for their "undang-undang test". U get my drift?

So, i as a leader, went on without consulting others, nor God. and the result?

Failure.

After that, i sort of retreated into a shell. At a time, i wanted to leave MYPG. Wanted to put it all behind. My failure had shown how weak i was. I was defeated. As a team, we were going nowhere.

Come MYPG3, new strength was given. I know it sounds like im looking for a booster, but i do believe MYPG3 strengthened me and FWP2 gave me a new mindset. For the past 3 months after MYPG3, I see God's hand moving. We were getting closer as a team. We were experiencing visions and dreams and than, we got comfortable.

We had moved from natural to infants, but were drifting back into carnals. And as infants, we could not take solid food, but as carnals, i don't think milk would have helped either.

So as a team, we decided to form a structure, with 2 adult supervisors, supervising what we were and are going to do. With that, the flow of LYPG in Kulim has been much better. No more beating round the bush when we pray, no more 2 word prayers.

Now, we are far from perfect. As i look at the picture above, i rmb the times as a kid, i would mark a tiny wee bit higher than my real height. Just to give me some encouragement and just to sort of "show" that i have grown. So in our growth, please maintain a humble spirit (i speak to myself too) and know that we plan, but God orders. That's a story for another time.

We must remember that we are all subject to Spiritual Numbness like Liz said. Try squatting for 5 minutes. You know the feeling. But if you continue to leave your body part in that position, the feeling doesnt get better. It gets worst. So there is no "comfort zone" actually. Because, it's either you feel the pain gradually increase, or you change position and deal with the pain as much as you can. Either way, THERE WILL BE PAIN! Change is not easy.

So, let us not CONFROM to the world, instead be TRANSFORMED in the renewal of our minds(and actions, and words).

=)

MarcusDS

From the South

(As seen on Facebook)

JB LYPG August report:

The 1st vision: Driving a car using the 1st gear. I sure you would know that the toughest part of getting the car to move is coz the car might "die" if you release the clutch too soon. So likewise, getting something moving is always the toughest part. When it actually starts moving, it gets easier (in this case, I am referring to the JB LYPG). But the thing is, when it starts to move, we forget that we are still in 1st gear and if we stay in the 1st gear for too long, it strains the car.

What I got from it is that the JB LYPG is like the car, it's moving, but so far, it's still in the 1st gear. And unless effort is made to change it into the 2nd gear(and so on), the LYPG will continue to move like this. Of course, there are risks to consider while changing into 2nd gear coz it might juz "die" as well (once again, the changing gear analogy) But this change is necessary if we wanna see change and build momentum in our prayer as an LYPG. It will get easier at each level of change, but we must make sure we are not trying to jump from 1st gear to 4th gear (or something like that). So yeah, that was the 1st vision and what I got from it.

The 2nd impression is more personal, meaning more for individuals and not so much for a whole group. Numbness. What causes physical numbness? Well, most of the time it is because we've been remaining in a fixed position for too long a time. Likewise, I felt God telling us that some of us are spiritually numb. Even though we know we are suppose to move at certain times (take certain actions regarding some things), we refuse to because of disobedience, stubbornness or perhaps pride (once again, it has to do with change or rather not wanting change).

And because of that, we have become spiritually numb, and no longer sensitive to the Holy Spirit when He speaks to us. We might think it's alright to feel numb forever and it's more convenient as well. But that would just prevent us from coming closer to God and knowing His heart. The song we sang that day, "Break my heart for what breaks Yours (Hosanna)" cannot truly be our prayer unless we deal with this numbness. And how we can do it is just by "moving again". Of course, it would take effort. When recovering from physical numbness, we tend to experience the "pins and needles". In other words, it would be "uncomfortable" but nevertheless, necessary if we desire to "feel" again.

So I suppose the two things I received have a sort of similar theme -- CHANGE! And it has been shown in 2 aspects: Individually and as a group (LYPG).

Blessings,
Liz

Alor Setar Update

Alor Setar LYPG:

1. Be still before God- for the leaders/organisers
2. Pray for the chinese churches. it seems like there is a barrier between the english n chinese churches because of the language
3. committee must have sparks so that when the people come, a fire will start
4. don't forget the lost sheep. when the leaders come for plan09, don't forget the fellow people in your churchThought I better stop procrastinating and send this email or it'll be another week before I tell you anything. Haha. Anyway, I received 1 vision and 1 impression from the Lord during our LYPG on Saturday. It was at the beginning when we were worshipping and praying.

Hazel

via Eunice

From Habakkuk

hey there! well to start,i received something on sunday n i felt led to share it(sorry it took so long=P) i was doing my quiet time with my guide on tat day,i was starting with a new book,Habakkuk.i've never really read this book so i din know what to expect but i knew God was going to amaze me with it somehow,as He always does.if u've read Habakkuk,it talks about Habakkuk's complaints to God and God's answers to them.the part i read tat day was chp1:1-11 where Habakkuk complains about Judah's injustice n then God answers saying He would send the Babylonians to punish them.after reading i started to pray n ask God what He was trying to say through the passage.i felt Him telling me that He is going to do something for our nation,just like in Habakkuk.we wouldn't be crushed by another country like Judah but the change we will go through would be just as hard and painful.this was a confirmation from last month,when i received tat we would go through change but only on sunday did God tell me a little bit more about it.later tat sunday i was praying with my mom,my sis n james about something totally different.we were praying in tongues n suddenly james started to interpret bits n pieces of my tongues.i was praying things like bravery,enable us,we will not perish.i felt it was connected to what i received about Malaysia.later on tuesday i continued to read Habakkuk and i got a confirmation for my tongues in one part of a verse where it says"we will not perish".i also received something new which is from chp2 where God says"the righteous will live by their faith" and i felt it meant tat the righteous will survive because of their faith in God.then i felt God saying,"share with prayer".i haven't exactly grasped the whole meaning of it,all i know is tat it has to come together.well,now tat i've shared,i'd like all of u to also share this after reading it n of course continue praying for Malaysia:
1)pray for this change tat God will prepare us for it
2)pray tat God will be merciful tat our change won't be full of pain n hardships;tat if it does have
to be painful n hard tat it can be overcome with love.
God bless always!

Phoebe=)

KL/PJ on 8th Aug 2009

Report on the LYPG for thePlan09 which was held on 08 of 08. The theme was still on the younger generation, but with special focus on thePLan09.
Si Qin (who is part of the program team) kick started with a sharing from the heart about being part of what God is doing in Malaysia.
"I used to think that Malaysia is a boring place, and I would never want to come back to live here. But since I've been back, and after hearing about thePlan09 and all that God is doing, I now believe.. Malaysia IS an exciting place."

So don't miss the boat. ;)

We began with celebration, following the model God had given us. Themes that came up during worship "He is Lord". We moved from there to intercessory prayer thru "every knee shall bow, every tongue confess". After awhile, we did personal repentance (Step 3). And then the more focused prayer started with about 10 minutes of tongues. Then... lightning! Zap.

Esther - saw rain falling, youth automatically pulling out umbrellas to shield themselves from the rain.

Lester- a fence, one side raining and stormy, the other sunny with green pastures. Not wanting to go over to the other side.

Melissa - heard the Lord say "Will you go for me?" Shouldn't wait for God to call us, but just go. Because He has already been calling.


This is when we zoomed into praying regarding our generation getting out of our comfort zones. Interpretations of Esther's vision was .. we often ask God for rain/revival, but when it comes we don't want to get wet. Getting wet = getting uncomfortable?



Checkup after prayer

David - saw a long road, with many people running like a race. Jess was standing at the end. Many fell down along the way, but picked themselves up and helped each other keep running

Melissa - Words "repositioning" and "in place" from Nehemiah. Asked "how do we sustain?" God replied "the zeal of the Lord" (Confirmation of Paline's prayer)

Si Qin - "Let us start rebuilding"

Pauline - even though we don't see anything happening, we are making a dent, or an impact.

Geryl - a field filled with plants, and flying things moving across the field.

One uncle shared that he felt God's presence as soon as he walked through the door. (Didn't get his name, but he's one of the people in charge of sound and media during the conference)

www.thePlan09.weebly.com

Last part was praying for different areas of thePlan09 with prayer cards. Then we declared the things that we wanted to see as a result of this conference, popcorn style.

Some of the popped prayers:
~Revival among young people
~A lasting youth missions movements
~Mission movements to start in schools
~ etc. etc. etc.

To end, Wai Nyan shared "last words" (not the kind you say before you die, but before you lay down your life for Christ!) and closed in prayer. Then of course... LUNCH! At our fav post-LYPG place "Under the tree".

Keep watching this space for other updates from the other LYPGs. They had (in the words of Cathy, LYPG Malacca) pretty high-voltage stuff too. *winks*

Waiting for what? Cross the line and get into the field!

KL/PJ where we are at...

Hey y'll fighter jets out there,

I recently shared with Isaac what kl/pj has been getting so far and said that i would type it up and send to the other MYPGers. So here is a rough summary on it.

We set aside the whole month of June to pray and seek God for a direction and we've been getting clues each week. At the end of the month, we (the Facis) met up and had a post mortem.

Putting the pieces together, we found ourselves with a model of prayer to follow thru. We've been asking God how is it that we should plough our ground (we call it PHASE 2), and this is it.

1. Celebration (week 1) - to sing praises and worship unto Him, with no hidden agenda.

2. Repentance (week 2) - ploughing of the ground (Hosea 6) in FWP. After FWP most of the leaders experience some sort of breaking of the heart and softening the ground (personal healing). And so we think repentance must be made a habit every prayer meeting, to repent of our sins before praying for anything else, to get ourselves right before the Lord first. AND besides ploughing of the ground in the context of personal repentance, there must also be ploughing of the ground in general (pray for the churches especially) so both must happen together every time we meet since usually we focus on either one.

3. Persistence, Consistency (week 3) in prayer and worship - we must continue to pray and pray and plough and plough...cuz got so much work to do ma, so every week just come and remove more stones..and it goes on until the ground is ready.

4. Rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem (Nehemiah) - verse 3 talks about Nehemiah instructing different families to build diff parts of the wall, reminded me of the diff lypgs, we are rebuilding the diff parts of the walls. isaac also did mentioned something about rebuilding in FWP. The walls were once built before, it was ruined, now we have to rebuild it again. To me, it felt like the walls were defence walls...it was once strong when the missionaries were here, they set up the church and the walls were strong, but as the years go by, the defence walls started to deteriorate, either the world went into the church or the church went into the world.

Also, we prayed specifically for the young people who, young as they may be ("young" ranging from teenagers to young adults) who have been affected by this disease of disillusionment. Pray for God's holy fire to burn within them, and not the fire and passion of the world. [Yvonne's two cents]

Following this, two weeks ago when we prayed for the church, Eunice had a vision - bodies with injured arms and limbs cut off (eerie scene) like those war times. She felt that it represented the result of Satan's plan in the church , some people are hurt by the things happening in church (i.e. politics, hypocrisy, selfishness etc) some churches, things are so bad that they stopped functioning as how a church of Christ should really function. So we need to speak life and pray for these churches (restoration and prophesying life - like what happen in ezekial 37:9-10, the valley of the dry bones)

So must pray for churchshift!! Mindsets to be changed!!

Hope this encourages all the other LYPGs just as it has encouraged us to continue the uphill battle with perseverance and consistency!!

esther

The KL/PJ June analogs

OK, guys... Eunice the Wong here.
I've been meaning to put up the reports of our KL/PJ LYPGs but time hasn't been on my side for the past few weeks. But if God is for me who can be against me right? So like it or not, time will have to end up on my side too. ;)

These are the lightnings (notes from God) for our June LYPGs.
For a forewarning you may not piece the puzzle pieces together so quickly as you are reading - it will sure look like shrapnel flying in the air - but I pray that as you read prayerfully, you will slowly get the BIG PICTURES that we are seeing now!

For background, we entered the month of June with a sense of waiting and expectation. The whole idea was to get the Lord's direction, and we would seek Him until we got it. That's why we felt the month of June was so crucial. We were going to enter a new phase.


Week 1
On the first week itself, we received a confirmation when someone said "We are entering Phase 2". We also received a picture of an angel drilling a hole in a wall with a machine gun. This gave us some clues how Phase 2 will be like - strategic, focused, and requiring perseverance.

Then we got the marching orders for next week -- Come before me in celebration.


Week 2 (right after FWP)

After some lightning from Deut 29, Psalm 96 and John 17 - (about Jesus' prayer that we will be one), and a sharing about the 3 things blocking the unity of churches to pray (disunity, laziness, and loss of focus) we moved into worship. Gene Harn led us with "Mighty to Save". It felt like the praise was lifting us to the next level of strategic intercession!

We continued with worship for some time, until a few people felt like we weren't really breaking through. It was like "we're standing around a hole and no one is digging, we're all just looking."

We needed to plough the ground. Sounds familiar? The remember of the Word received at FWP came back to haunt us.

And so the ploughing began. Led by Yvonne, our prayer began taking a form of its own. Unity among the broken and divided churches. Yvonne asked us to confess and repent as churches, and then press in together as one.

Cool stuff. Wai Yan then shared Nehemiah 9, which begins with a gathering to fast, weep, and repent. She said each paragraph was like a telling of their history. The people came before God with their whole history and laid it before Him.

True to the theme, we ended with a celebration of praise. ;)

Now we were a little like "eh?" because God had spoken celebration, but had led us into repentance. But we would understand later on. =)


Week 3
I was not here, so anyone who took ntoes can fill in this space.


Week 4
Because the PPBC-ians were at a wedding, we gathered this week at the MNPN prayer tower, formerly known as the Wall. This week's prayer was spent more in voluntary rest and soaking.

Here are the notes:
Josh - Isaiah 40 - perseverance of the saints
Kenneth - Matt 5: 15 - light for everyone to see
Peter - Fire and water, opposites but symbols of HS
- saw chicken stock (ya the cooking one)
- in order for two chicken stock to be one, need fire to melt two blocks together
- Fire breaks it down into atoms, into particles, only then can it transform the water around it
- in order to be one, we need to be small
- it follows the current of water (like how we are led by the Spirit) bringing impact wherever it goes.
Jess - the down times are when God reminds us we need Him. This is where our faith lies.

A lot of the prayer for this week had to do with returning to resting, abiding, and dependence on the Father. Dunno... maybe that's what we needed that week, as most of us were drained out from our respective lives. It was a good rest and preparation for the gun-battle coming up...


July - Week 1.
To be continued...

"Govt-run Shelter for Disabled becomes their Jail"

I was reading an article on The Straits Times (Singapore newspaper) entitled, "Home's residents caged and chained". It was taken from The Star, reporting on abuse of human rights in Malaysia, specifically in Kuala Kubu Baru, Selangor.

Government-run Taman Sinar Harapan home, tucked away in a secluded area, supposedly a home and hope for the mentally disabled showed scenes on abuse of human rights. One of its few stated objectives were to provide the disabled with self-management skills to be independent, to allow interaction with friends and public through social activities.

Instead, these were the conditions of the home.
When the Sunday Star team entered the home, it was filled with a stench of faeces and urine, a pool fresh blood at one corner of the room, naked men being chained and locked up in cages. Most of them no older than 50. There will normally only be 2 caretakers to 50 residents.

The two caretakers stationed at the block were seen watching TV and chatting. "The caretakers don't do much. If it’s time to feed them, they would just walk one round with a bowl and feed whoever wants to eat. Those who don’t are left alone". Food donated by organisations would be thrown away to reduce the faeces needed to be cleaned after eating.

Asean Federation for Psychiatry and Mental Health president Prof Dr Mohamad Hussain Habil recognized that, "It is an obvious case of sheer abuse and inhumanity." However he did not comment on future actions to be taken to solve the problem.

It was also commented that there were many other cases of improper treatment given to the disabled throughout Malaysia but NOTHING has been done.

Is the government ignorant of these? They are government-run! What about the law on human rights protection? This is one of the areas where light is needed to expose darkness.

"Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless,
maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Rescue the weak and needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
They know nothing, they understand nothing.
They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken."
Psalm 82:3-5.

When such people are wardens of justice, the whole nation order crumbles. Take your positions, watchmen of Malaysia!

When our prayers lack the words, pray Psalm 83:1,

"O God, do not keep silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still."

Wei

Do not fear!

Hi everyone!
I jus wanna share something I got from God when I was reading Numbers 14:1-10. It talks about the Israelites complained of the suffering that was upon them and that they wanted to choose a leader to bring them back to Egypt. But Joshua & Caleb that were asked to explore the land, tore their clothes and said that the land were exceedingly good. Do not rebel against the Lord adn He would bring them through.

Noted Number 14: 9--

"Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we'll swallow them up. Their protection is gone, but the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid of them."

I felt that God was trying to tell that running Recess Revolution and Prayer Group are not easy. [For those who do not know what is that, log onto http://www.urtherevolution.com/] Witnessing to people is not easy too! But we shall not be afraid of them, because God's protection is with us. No matter whether we're well-prepared / well-trained, but if the Lord's not with us, we'll not suceed. But if the Lord is with us, we'll prosper in everything that we do. As long as what we do is pleasing to Him and that we do it for Him & in Jesus' name.

I suddenly felt this has nothing to do with LYPG/MYPG but I believe God'll work through what I've shared.

Hallelujah! Amen!

-Blessings!-

-Jasmine xD-