Wednesday, 2 May 2012

On Evangelism part 1

According to Dictionary.com, it is 1) the preaching or promulgation of the gospel; the work of an evangelist and 2) missionary zeal, purpose, or activity.
Dear God,
thank you for the many opportunities for me to witness for you this holiday (at least before I start work). My objective was to grow a heart for people because I found that my heartlessness was a major no-no for you. thanks for letting me recognise that. At a Christian camp (boring as it was), my takeaway lesson was to remember and pray constantly for the people whom you've put in my way. This way, the more I pray for a group of people or an individual, the more I can share their concern and better relate to them by putting myself in their shoes. I'm still trying to do it faithfully. murh.


There was an incident after the camp where I tried to reboot Nissi's computer that crashed on her a few times (warning, it's an HP, but it shorted 'cos she dropped it), and I clicked sth wrong and I tot I lost all the data. I asked a friend and he said I may have lost it for good. I screamed inside and worried and fussed over her com the whole day and prayed that it would be ok, 'cos I wouldn't know how to face up to her when I passed it back! I later calmed down and tot what a drama queen I was. I realised if the com and the data were so important that I would go crazy over, then what of people who lost their salvation, and thus, their eternal soul? People are more impt than machines and tts how impt: tt you would scream and fuss and worry and pray for their salvation.


One morning a month back, Lee Yin my leader asked me to pray for a fruit. The morning after I nonchalantly prayed, expecting the fruit sometime later in the year. That afternoon, a girl called Ming Ming accepted Christ, and that's when I really experienced the fussing and praying and worrying. Lee Yin put the fear of God in my heart: she said the only person who would hate that someone has come to Christ is Satan and he would try to work against it. It was the weekend and the crucial period for Ming Ming as she would ask her parents about her decision. They are Buddhist and actually, after that Saturday, I couldn't contact her anymore. 

I'm hoping to meet her again, but the joy of having a fruit finally was cool. For a while I felt down tho, 'cos of John 15 to remain in God and bear fruit. I missed the entire point and felt like a branch thrown away and cut off from the vine of JC. But the QT in the following days after turned my attn back to the Holy Spirit and how he's the only one who can move a person within to conviction. (I'm not that powerful) I'm only the tool. The only thing I need to do is remain in Christ and keep my walk with him daily. That's God's commission for me.