.: Wonderful, Magnificant Encounter! :.
Just came back for the 24/7 night prayer meet slot. Although once again I am very tired and tomorrow have to get up real early for work(school), I thought I should come here and share this wonderful encounter I had with my Father! Cant help but to give thanks! Came for the prayer meet with just a simple heart, ready to receive and wanted to hear more from God.. quiet the normal self as I come for prayer meet each time. Guess it really just takes a simpleness for God to come and really encounter you. Pastor Melvin was the lead in the prayer today and he shared from form Nehemiah 1:1-11 and basically here it touches on the life of Nehemiah and his reasponse to God. One key thing on the heart of Nehemiah was his concern for his nation and his people. I always asked God to give me a heart for the nation and his people, a heart for the poor and a heart that is of God, one who feels for the lost. Each time I know when I am asked to pray for the nations, I will just pray as hard as I can, with the words that I know, but much of it is just head knowledge but dont really feel anything. What happen was Pastor gave an invitation to go forward for those who wants to be filled with the holy spirit and want God to come upon us to give us a heart for the nation, as well as remove that heart which has much fear and doubts. I readily went forward, but by then I knew I felt there was something God was waiting to show me. I do not know how and what really happened, and even till now am still shocked by myself, for I just started to cry and really wail, which is something I never did before. All I know is that I just cant stop, and I kept crying and crying and wailing and wailing. I know it was not because I was emotionally sad over some matters personally, but there is just this pain in my heart then for the lost, a very deep sense of compassion for them. Right then I knew very well, it was really the holy spirit moving within me, and I never knew that such a thing really can happen in me. I know now how sad God is for those out that who have yet to know Him! Then only after the entire matter that I also remember one encounter just not long ago, when I felt so much percercution form my parents that when no one was at home that afternoon, I just came on my knees prayed and started to cry. This cry that time was of a similar extand to what I experienced at the prayer meet and at that time I felt such burden to really pray for my parents' salvation! I thought I was a bit crazy then when I cried so badly at home... but as I thought back now, I believe it was then when the Holy Spirit had already started His work in me. Praise God! I really thank God for that wonderful, sweet and magnificant encounter with Him. This is truely the first time I can say, I really had a powerful personal encounter with the Holy Spirit! It really layed upon my heart a greater burden to pray for the nations, starting from the salvations of the people around me and really a heart to pray pray pray and pray until something really happen. I believe strongly this special encounter did not just come by just like that, but I know I have been truely wanting very much to draw nearer to Him, and by following closely to the 40day prayer and fast really did help me clear many baggages in my life and also to be able to undrestand more about who this God is in my life. Even having to have gone through my new Working (Sch) life, as well as the ementoring course to find out more of the needs of the youths, did help to open up my eyes to see that there are actually so many youths out there that need to come to know of this God! Keep praying and desiring to draw neared to God each day my Daughters, for I believe God will come and encounter you in His own sepcial way, just like He did for me!
Me blogged @ | 12:03 AM
