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