Stretched!
The past week was a stretched week for me both @ work & in ministry. As I look at my calendar, I’m wondering how I’ll be able to cope in the coming weeks with so many things to do upcoming. This weekend was a time where I decided to bring home work to clear but was too tired to clear any as I had to complete quite a few other matters that required my urgent attention.
I’m praying that God will empower me this upcoming week with strength & wisdom as there’s so many things in store. Last night, I received an sms from SY to pray for her colleague whom she was bringing to another church to cross the line of faith. As I did my QT this morning, I said a quick prayer & raised this up for our region intercessory prayer as well as our pre-service prayer. Indeed God is faithful as the colleague crossed the line of faith!!! PTL!
The past week was the start of having more regular conference calls for work related matters & due to time differences, the calls were at night. I’ve been waking up earlier in the mornings for a few weeks now & the past week was still waking up at 6am (automatically to pray) or 6:30am (when the alarm rang). I’m becoming more of a morning person now as compared to before. However, I had to sleep in on Saturday as I was drained out.
Met 2 polymates for lunch on Sat & amazed at how each of us have moved on over the past 14 years. As we were reminiscing the old days where we had so much fun together, I was amazed I did the most stupid thing then. I’ve always told myself that I need to break out of the mould & one of the things I did as a part time student was to go back to school on the weekends to study (that was before I came to know God in a personal way). During one such time, I went back & saw that the gate was closed. I thus proceeded to climb the gate & got into the compound to study with my friends. When we finished for the day, we walked to the gate & I was telling them we gotta climb over it. They were puzzled as they proceeded to the gate to unhinge it & walk out. I was flabbergasted! In fact, one of them said that I made her laugh the most coz of things I said or did. It’s amazing how we got thus far & I’m glad we met up to catch up. Both my polymates are married & one of the with 3 boys! Well, as usual, the topic got around to me not being married yet & the married one not have kids yet. So it was all typical but it was a really fun time getting nostalgic over lunch!
I then spent the afternoon taking a short nap, followed by preparing for Sunday’s program as I had quite a few meetings & also teaching to prepare. I was so tired at the end of the day I fell asleep at 9:30pm! Indeed, as we’re embarking in the year of intentional discipleship, the Lord has been putting quite a few things into my heart with regards to ministry & friendships. I’m convicted that I need to fast & pray more regularly to see breakthroughs in my personal life, as well as in the lives of each individual in the group. While I still lack the faith to see vibrancy & revival, I’m asking God to grant me a heart of faith & eyes to see that He is doing a mighty work in our midst. I’ve been so encouraged to hear of 2 people crossing the line of faith because individuals in our group shared & invited faithfully. This is going to be a year of personal breakthroughs for each individual in our group. I don’t see it, but I feel it in my spirit. Do join me in this journey of faith!
