And the Lord said to Moses, "Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward (Exodus 14:15). To go forward is not easy. God is asking Moses and Israel to get out to their comfort zone. This is what I've learned,that God is asking us to move forward..."to get out of our comfort zone."
Actually this year, God is asking us to step on faith. I mean to add another service at the Church. For me that is a hard thing, 'coz we have already two services every sunday (Morning and evening service). I enjoyed the services at the church and so happy that many people are attending at the church. So when God is asking us to add another service, I tell you the truth, I'm afraid. I'm afraid that maybe only few people are attending. But what i've learned is that, we need to obey God and to trust Him. That's why we launch our new sunday service and I saw the favor of the Lord, many people are attending at the church, many new faces, many new friends, many new brothers and sisters in Christ. Halleluiah.
Second, is Cell groups and prayer meeting. Many time we tried to have a strong and dynamic cell group but we failed. We tried again, but again and again we "Failed." Until we almost surrender. That's why I and my wife, devoted ourselves to pray and fast and gave a challenge to our workers to pray and fast with us. We launch again the overnight prayer meeting but this is very different. Before our overnight prayer meeting is once a month but now is weekly. I said to the workers, "we need to pay the price" that's why we decided to have a weekly overnight prayer meeting and praise the Lord God is really moving in our midst, the overnight meeting is so great, we have many visitations from the Lord, visions, revelations, prophecy and refresh. And thru this the Lord spoke to us to re-open the Cell groups. So before we open the cell groups, I and my wife begun to reseach about the cell groups, reads many books about cell groups, and ask some believers about cell groups. So when we understand about the principles of the cell groups, we shared our vision to our workers. First to young people and young adults, second to mens and third is to womens. We started to share the cell vision last January 2010. After we shared the vision, we started to trained the potential cell group leaders. After the training, five (5) of them begun to open their cell groups. And from february to may 2010 we opened eight (8) strong, alive, growing, and powerful cell groups. Many are being saved and we started to trained the new believers. And this month we will open again another three cell groups. And the good news is, we are prapairing about seven potential cell group leaders to open cell groups by the third quarter (July-September) of this year.Twenty cell groups by the end of this year is POSSIBLE!!! I believe that within five years we will be able to open one hundred (100) cell groups by the grace of the Lord.
Third is our new Building. A couple of years ago, after the sunday night service, a ten (10) year old girl went to me and she is crying and said to me, "Pst. Marlou forgive me 'coz I did not tell to you what the Lord is saying to you!" I said to her, "What is the Lord saying to me?" She said, "The Lord said, 'Marlou be prepared I will give the thousand members that I've promise to you (I did not tell to this girl what the Lord said to me about the thousand members, but the Lord revealed to this young girl) and I will give you a place, a beautiful church building (she describe to me the building that she saw in a dream. The amazing thing is, it is exactly the same building that we are buying now. Halleluiah)." After two years, the Lord is fulfilling what He has promise to us. So pls, brothers and sisters in Christ continue to pray for us. Selah
“For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us” (2 Cor 1:20 NASB)
By: Marlou Javier
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