An Eventful 3 days of Emerge (Part 1)

Wow...3 days of Emerge passed by in a flash and it just felt like yesterday when many of us were so excited about the conference. It was very good and there were new revelations as well. Although I'll be graduating soon, I still found the sermons very applicable to my life, cos besides the schools we study in, revival can be brought to our workplace as well. Hopefully, there'll be no age limit placed, then I'll probably be able to go every year..hee :) I really appreciate the school holidays we have as teachers.

For the past few days I've been waking up at 5.45 to 6 am in the morning and then rushing off by 6.45am so I can get to church early to queue up for the conferences. Though we waited a long time for the doors to open and it was really hot and stuffy in the waiting area, but when you get into the auditorium and praise and worship starts and you just soak in the presence of God, you know that all that waiting was worth it...I guess that's one meaning of waiting on the Lord. :)

Praise and worship during these 3 days was just awesome, especially worship, it was wonderful being in the presence of God. And the worship leader from Indonesia, Bro Sidney, led a really wonderful praise and worship session during the 2nd & 3rd day of the conference. The Indonesian song that he taught us really touched my heart even though I didn't understand the lyrics. The 1st time I heard it on Wed morning, I was so touched I started weeping. I am truly convinced that music transcends all boundaries. Especially when music is used for the Lord's purpose, it can really touch lives even when we don't understand the language it is sung in.
On the first night, we sang a song that Ps Kong wrote about 10 years ago. It was really heartwarming to see him playing the guitar and singing the song together with Ps Sun. God is truly using these great man and woman of God to do great and mighty things for Him together as a couple. And honestly, I do hope for a partner like that as well, someone who'll go all the way for Jesus, and together we'll do great and mighty things for the Lord. The song was very, very touching and even though I was at the lobby, the presence of God was also very strong and I just knelt down on my knees and broke down in tears there and then, telling God that I don't want to backslide and I want to serve Him all the rest of my life. Ps Kong shared with us before the song that he had friends who were in ministry who had backslided and he himself was telling God that he didn't want to backslide. I have seen friends who used to be so on fire for God and were helpers that have just stopped coming to church and sometimes I wonder how people can survive when they don't have God in their lives. Father, I don't ever want to backslide cos I know that without You, I am nothing.

Tomorrow we are going to send Alice off at the airport, hope she enjoys herself back in Indonesia and be a light for the Lord there. I better get some rest now or else I'll have a lot of difficulty getting up in the morning. Will post up more of my thoughts again. :)