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