lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
And love that never fails
Let mercy fall on me
When everyone needs forgiveness
Kindness of the Saviour
The Hope of the nation
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything that i believe in
Now i surrender
Shine a light in and
let the whole world see
Singing, for the glory of the risen king
Jesus, Shine a light and
let the whole world see
Singing for the glory of the risen king
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
-11:12 AM
Dear HSF,
Thank you Lay Leng, Winson, Daniel and Lee Lian for taking time during supper and for those of you who came last night, thank you for sharing the time with each other and seeking God together as a Youthnet family. We are certain you were blessed by God’s word and also through the worship.
The word HSF has taken a whole new meaning for me yesterday morning as I did my QT. The Lord has been impressing upon my heart about the importance of togetherness and a sense of belonging. Hence, last week during family time I shared about:
It is not enough to have faith in God but we need to have faith in each other
It is not enough to belong to God but we must belong to each other
It is only when we see each other by the spirit and focus on what Christ has done and can do in our lives that we learn to see beyond our individual weaknesses, personalities and styles
Hence, we must all be consumed by a love for God and a passion for people – than and only than will we focus on a common call in the great commission and not become petty over our differences because we are more concerned about kingdom perspective
Back to my morning devotion as I listened to Ps Benny Ho’s teaching on how we are created, consecrated, called, commanded to serve God and His people – the Lord reminded me of the time when I came from a small church and how it was not easy to have to serve God in so many functional roles like worship, ushering, publications – preparing bulletins and doing traffic marshalling etc …. How now that I am in a big church like FC – Youthnet, I have unconsciously taken many services and things people do for granted! I sought the Lord and asked Him to search my heart and began to appreciate what I have in Youthnet – starting from the spiritual heritage to the physical facilities etc ……started to appreciate what we have in HSF…..
However, I was just so disturbed in my spirit because the Lord reminded me that HSF not only stands for Heart Serving Family but Heart Seeking Family…I said Oh …. Lord indeed but why remind me about seeking at this point or season of Going Deep…..the answer came in the evening…..Than came the evening when Pastor Eugene talked about going deep in family and in loving one another and how he sees God leading us as a Youthnet family from sanctification to unification. I was particularly blessed when Ps. Yearng Cherng shared about the distinctive differences between friends and family.
§ Friends give us a sense of closeness and fun while
§ Family is all about commitment and being faithful even when things don’t feel right or go the way we want
§ Friends exercise mutual rights while family practice
§ Mutual responsibilities
He continued to highlight that friends would go a long way with us but family goes all the way. Friends do not result in spiritual reproduction but family gives birth to children and multiplies.
I like to think that all of you are committed in HSF & Youthnet and not merely here because you feel a sense of closeness to us or each other.
Thus, the reason for this mail is to update all of you what I sense the Lord wants me to tell all of you. He reminded me that some of you are tired and weary from your own daily battles and also some of you are tired of this church thing and ministry and yet we all must decide whom we serve and why we serve???? BUT the BIGGER question is whom we seek and what we are seeking and why we seek???? Whether we really want to seek the things of God – that we must not only be a Heart Serving Family but a Heart Seeking one…. i.e. we must be willing to seek after God’s heart daily – and I believe this season …He wants us to be grateful for our church, our families and what we have and He wants us to have that commitment to God and to the church …. Henceforth, would you be willing to seek God daily in your QT and also began to make a commitment to the service of God in church becos all the bible studies and learning without service will lead to stagnation and no growth …unless you learn to seek God and serve Him, you will not grow … to seek the things of God is to know what you want to be committed to and what you would die for! Some of you are still struggling to seek God in your daily lives…. Stop the voice that says you can’t becos of work or busyness… seek God and seek Him intentionally….
In closing, be committed to each other and be each other’s keeper and spur each other onto good works in Christ Jesus…hold each other accountable and share what God is doing in your spiritual life – if you have nothing to share or you are dry and can only share other things – than perhaps it is time to examine why…..also when you are not able to come for meetings – I hope you will seek out your fellow brothers and sisters and ask them to fill you in so that we are all on board and aligned in what God is doing.
Have a blessed week and see you on Friday!
Howe & Shirley
