Evidences of God’s work

Praise the Lord! Thank the Lord!

I’ve never been so joyful in my life. Today, as I was on the bus reading a short portion of scripture and a book on prayer, I discovered something so encouraging that I need to share with any one who reads.

I suddenly realised how God worked and I’m actually experiencing it first-hand! I’m so excited and happy!

Initially I was so apprehensive about having a prayer meeting for 40DOC. In my heart, I thought, who would be interested to even pray. It would be tough if I could just find a handful of people.

I began to call my prayer core group to join the prayer meeting. I was surprised that many were unable to make it. To be honest, I was rather disappointed and disheartened by the responses. It was so bad such that I thought the only two who were going to stay back on Sunday would be MelTee and me. That would make a prayer group of two people.

But nevertheless, having read the verse in Matthew 18:19 that if two agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by our Father who is in heaven, I wouldn’t mind praying if there would be only two people. For if there is unity in the spirit, God would answer the prayers.

I was overjoyed when Sharene and Sien and Peggy came along after church to join the prayer group.

But it didn’t occur to me as much on Sunday than today that God was indeed working, that God was indeed answering our prayers for him to demonstrate his power, for him to prove himself to us!

I was reading Matthew 18:20, one more verse down today.

“For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst”

This passage was so familiar, but I saw it now under a different light. Not so much of two or three gathering, but two or three are gathered.

Two or three are gathered! I was like WOW!

It isn’t us gathering, forcing ourselves to gather together. Oh Lord, he has planted the holy spirit in us. It was the holy spirit’s working. It was the holy spirit’s gathering.

And I praise the Lord and thank him so much for that!

We can’t just gather or try to gather together ourselves to do God work. It always comes from God! We are gathered by HIS holy spirit, the very same spirit we share together as Christians.

I saw the miracle done on Sunday in a total new light.

The 5 of us didn’t just come together by chance, or did we try to come together just to pray for fun!

It was the holy spirit who brought and gathered us together! Praise God, for he worked! He didn’t just answer my prayer. He rewarded my prayer!

The spirit was really working, because prior to that, the holy spirit was working through Rev Paul Thian as he shared about prayer. And the spirit worked in some of them such that immediately after service, and it was really immediately, people came to ask me to join me in prayer. I believe it wasn’t chance or coincidence. It is the spirit!

This is great evidence of the spirit working. And seeing the spirit working now in our church, I’m glad that we can claim much much more and pray in further boldness, for our Lord is a God who answers pray.

God is going to work and has already begun his great work in our church. We need to believe and we need to continue to pray. And we will indeed see his glory being manifested that we will awe and wonder and praise from the bottom of our hearts.

I am really joyful today, seeing the Lord’s working. I blog this down as a testimony that he has worked.

This joy has given me strength. The joy of the Lord is my strength!