Combined Prayer Quarter 1 2014

Last night, Kuching Minister Fellwoship (KMF ) organised a prayer gathering at Calvary Family Church, Kuching.  This was the first such prayer gathering organized by KMF this year.

The response was very encouraging as more than 200 people packed the worship sanctuary of the church.  Many young people were in attendence too.  The music worship as well as sunsequent prayers for various issues were very fervent with plenty of prayers in tongues.

There were three main prayers points:

1.  Pray for repentance and revival - the sense is people are not repenting as they should as God desired us to repent always.  If we said we have not sinned we are liars, and the truths are not in us. Only with genuine repentance, revival will come to this land.  We pray revival will spread from East Malaysia to the rest of our country.

2. Pray for the Church - the Malaysian Church is under attack and we need to pray for all church leaders to persevere and pray more.  All churches regardless of denominations should come together to pray and uphold our position in this country.  God has purpose for us here. Despite the troubles He wanted us to be salt and light for Him. We must wake up from spiritual slumber!

3. Pray for national interests like the Allah cases, and missing flight MH370 - all the Allah cases that went to courts recently have been upheld by the courts, no decision has been made.  We do not understand this situation, but we know God is soverign and He has His plans no matter the out come.  We continue to pray for favourable out comes.  He is our only hope.

The theme of this prayer gathering is in 2 Chronicles 7:14

"if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

Lost Flight MH 370

All over the world peoples' hearts go out to the families of the passengers on flight MH 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.  The flight never made it to Beijing.  The mystery is that there is no trace of this plane after more than 40 hours now.  Indeed, it is a mystery to all of us and more so to the families of the passengers.

All of us are praying for a miracle.  Let us continue to pray for all involved, passengers, their families, and all rescue teams now in the vicinity.  May God be with all of them.

AM I Sarawak's Keeper ?

Last Sunday, a speaker shared at our church.  The title of his sharing was "Am I Sarawak's Keeper ?". This is an important question for all Sarawakians because our rights have been threathened over the years.  In particular now, our religious rights as Christians.  He illustrated his point with Genesis 4:9 when God asked Cain where was Abel.  Cairn answered whether he was his brother's keeper.  His answer implied a) I don't know b) I don't care.  Well, as Sarawakians do we care or not ?

If we want to keep our rights as Sarawakians we must care because this has been promised to us before we join the Federation to form Malaysia in 1963.  Sarawak and Sabah were equal partners in forming Malaysia.  Sarawak has not given up its religious rights unlike Sabah. Meaning, Sarawak does not have a state religion.  People are free to worship.

The speaker also said we are here not by accident.  He supported his argument by refering to Colossians 3:11, Deutoronomy 32:7-9.

Indeed Sarawak has been blessed because we were ruled by the Brooke and British govrnment who were essentially Christians.  Principles they applied were Christian based.  All in we were rule 122 years by them.  From them we had our Christianity, Christian heritage, system of government, and generally freedom in Sarawak.

Before Sarawak join the Federation to form Malaysia, the British was very concerned and in many of their documents they emphazied the need for religious freedom for the people of Sarawak. Sadly we are seeing this freedom slowly being eroded.  According to the speaker it is by God's grace that dispite the persecution the numbers of Christians increased from 7.9% in 1947 to 42.6% in 2000.  Therefore, we must continue our efforts to ensure Christians have our rights to practise our religion in Sarawak.

If you are a Sarawakian you should ask yourself "Am I Sarawak's keeper?"

Walking With God Through Pain and Suffering

 The above is a title of a new book by Timothy Keller.  In this video he discussed about pain and suffering.

Go to this link:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2686433809001/why-does-a-loving-god-allow-pain-and-suffering/#sp=show-clips

What Not To Say To Someone Who Is Suffering

Most times people do not know what to say when they meet some one who is suffering.  We have most likely met people who said the wrong things.  In this video three pastors discussed how to respond.

What Not to Say to Someone Who's Suffering from The Gospel Coalition on Vimeo.

Returning Home to Ex-Cannibals

 http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2014/02/04/returning-home-to-ex-cannibals/
Here is a very inspiring story of a couple Don and Carol Richardson going to thr Sawi people of Indonesia in 1962 to share with them the Gospel.  After about 50 years these former canniblas embraced Christianity.  The different tribes used to fight each other but now they live in peace with each other.

Read more on the above link.

Never the Same from Pioneers-USA on Vimeo.

Church Members Eating Grass

 http://global.christianpost.com/news/yes-we-eat-grass-and-were-proud-of-it-say-congregants-who-were-convinced-by-miracle-working-preacher-112400/

What is your response if your pastor ordered you to eat grass?  This is what happened to a South African Church where the members were instructed to eat grass for various ailments and these members claimed the grass healed them.  Personally I find this fishy.  Anywhere you can read more at the link.