Pray for Malaysia

God is Healing Our Land

"Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid."
(Romans 3:3-4)

Faith-filled words. That's what changes things. They'll move mountains into the sea. They'll turn sickness into health. They'll turn a sinner into a saint.

They'll also take a sin-ridden nation and turn it into God's own country. That's right. Then, if we believers would back up the prayers we've been praying for this nation with words of faith instead of doubt and discouragement, we'd soon begin to see spiritual resurrection in Malaysia.

God promised us that if we, His people, would humble ourselves and pray and seek His face and turn from our wicked ways, He would heal our land. And let me tell you, there are prayer warriors all over this country (I hope you're one of them) who are doing what that promise requires.

But, even so, you don't hear many people saying, "This is great! God is healing the land." You don't hear people speaking out by faith the promise of God. Instead, you hear them saying, "Oh my, oh my, did you hear what those politicians are doing?" or some other destructive thing they've seen on television.

Listen, we need to stop preaching what the politicians are doing and start telling what God is doing! God said He is healing this land.

We must start speaking about this country by faith instead of going around spouting bad news all the time. Of course, that will sound odd to most people. Some of them may even think we've slipped a few cogs. But that's nothing new.

Let me tell you something: One handful of believers who are listening to, trusting in, and speaking out the good news of God are more powerful than all the devils on earth. One handful of believers are more powerful than a whole army of unbelieving doomsayers. Their unbelief will not make the faith of God of no effect!

That's why over the last 25 years, we learned to turn a deaf ear to the bad news and just start praising and thanking God for His deliverance. Every word of praise we speak releases faith in our heart.

Get determined with us right now. Take a firm stand with us that things are changing in this country. Settle it in your heart as you pray. Speak it out. Call it forth. God is healing the land!

Sunday Re Cap (3rd Feb 2008)

OUR COVENANT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

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At the core of every relationship is the dynamic tension that can lead to growth and maturity. Elements of take control and surrender. Dying to self centered desires and surrendering to God’s will, take charge of God’s call on your life, courageously overcoming the challenges and fulfilling our destiny.

2 Tim 2:20-21

There are 2 processes at work.

The Surrender Posture
Shedding-ego, fears, control. Submission to God. God in first place. Honor, respect and deference (reverence) to God.
Prepares us to communicate with God. (Keep meditating on who we are right now…don’t hear the old voices any more, reject it!).
A Posture of Peace. A place of trust, assurance and confidence that God is with us. It isn’t an event but a daily process.

The Take Charge Posture
Personal responsibility (Peter release from prison Acts 12:7-8)
God has given us a free will and the ability to make choices. (Adam and Eve).
A posture of power, courage, personal initiative, leadership, integrity, accountability, discipline, perseverance, action and follow through It is in this posture that our partnership with God manifests in our lives and at work.
When God asked Nehemiah to build the wall, he did not ask God to build it for him but asked God for strength to build it. Same thing with Solomon. All through the Bible we find such examples.

The Surrender Posture actually prompts the Take Charge Posture.

Our New Beginnings in whatever area is determined by both our posture of surrender and taking charge. The KEY is to understand when to surrender and when to take charge. Our tendency is normally to try to control things we have to surrender and surrender things that we have to take charge.

Serenity Prayer
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things that I can and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Oswald Chambers
“Our Lord never takes measures to make me do what He wants. Sometimes I wish God would master and control me to make me do what He wants, but He will not. And at other times I wish He would leave me alone, and He does not.”

Sunday Re Cap (18th Nov 2007)

Prayers That Move God’s Heart
Ps. Abel Phillips

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Text: Acts 10:1-8

Characteristics of Cornelius (verse 2) that moved God’s heart to answer:

1. Devoted – pious /godly and committed to the highest ideals. – God / authorities etc

2. God Fearing – world manipulates. God is respectful, the world does not respect,

• Respect one another/ authority, flag / rules/ other ethnics groups.
• Disrespect brings disorder and disunity and stops God from hearing us.
• God answers when there is a spirit of respect and unity. Our motions and money used to please God.
  

1 Thess 5:14-22 – call us to abstain from all form of evil
Eph 6:1-3 – Children obey your parents.

3. Generous – gives alms to the poor /needy. God is generous / we should not manipulate with money.
John. 3:16 – God is generous – He gave His only SON for us.
To be generous is to charitably contribute. Start to learn on how to give generously... to others, church, leaders for this pleases God

4. Servant - He served (v2) with his family. How did he make his soldiers and family follow him? He learnt to serve. Jesus, the Creator said, he came not to be served but to serve. (Matt 20:28)
Today, our society – likes to be served not to serve. Change now! We have all been called to serve.

Moral of the story

God knew Cornelius’ name. He knows your name too.

Cornelius had 3 encounters as the result of his prayer.

• Vision – God gives Pictures – praying / forgive/ helping etc.
• Instruction – God gives us information and direction in life
• Acceptance – acceptance in the KOG / God’s family.
  
  

Our duty is to let them (our neighbours, relatives and people we are acquainted with) know that God accepts them through GRACE by the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.

God answers when our hearts are ready.

Pray: Lord, give us a heart of disposition to respond to You, always abiding in You, that we may bear fruits that are pleasing to You, bringing blessings to others (John15:5).

Pray for Emmanuel

Please keep Emmanuel, 20 years old, in your prayers today. He met with an accident (hit and run) in Kulim and is now lying unconcious in the Kulim GH ICU. He needs O+blood type. Please highlght to your friends. He was on the way home from college.
Emmanuel is the son of Bro Elijah who is serving God in the Gideons ministry.
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The LORD bless you!

Combine Churches Merdeka Prayer Gathering 2007

Dear GROW Family members

Please take note that there will be no prayer meeting this Wednesday at GROW as we will be attending the Combine Churches prayer meeting at Kulim. Details as follows:

Re: Combine Churches Merdeka Prayer Gathering 2007

Greetings in the matchless Name of Jesus!

On behalf of the Kulim Pastors' Fellowship, we would like to invite you and your church family for a gathering of Christians in conjunction with our 50^th Merdeka Day 2007 (see attached for details).

Date: Wednesday, 29^th August 2007

Time: 8.00 pm

Venue: FGA Centre Kulim

This will purely be a night of prayer, thanksgiving and celebration . As we all know, our nation stands at a very pivotal point in history and how we as Christians respond is going to determine not just our destiny but the destiny of the generations to come. How will they see us and what will they say about us? Were we a people who were so busy building our own kingdom or were we a people who humbled ourselves and prayed and sought the face of our dear Father?

We urge you and encourage you to stand with the whole Body of Christ at this juncture. Let us pray, let us join hands, let us celebrate and see the heavens open and God pour a mighty rain of the Holy Spirit upon our beloved Malaysia!

God bless you and see you there.

Blessed 50^th Merdeka Day!

For His Kingdom,

Ps. Abel Phillips

On behalf of the Kulim Pastors' Fellowship

Wednesday Night Prayer 21st March 2007

Aligning Our Heartbeat to the Father's Heartbeat
by Angelina Boots

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