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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

bethesal cathedral conference!

I went for a conference at bethesal cathedral on Monday. The whole service, i felt that it was speaking to me loud n clear.. Pastor Pat preached about earthquakes, of which spiritual earthquakes realli spoke to me.. Wad r they? They r situations which shook u up.. Things which u think God is no longer helping u bt in the end, He works n help u thru.
he talked abt the areas which we may haf earthquakes in.. Earthquakes may arise from addiction, death, parents.. A situation he gave was.. When someone's parents died, the kind of pressure one has to go thru.. For me, my situation was becoz of my parents.. Pastor Pat said, " Your dad may always be drunk, causing havoc in the family, making u n ur mother upset or angry." Oh how true it is for me.. Once he said that, my tears started to well up n they started to roll down on my cheeks.. My dad has always been a drunkard,making the whole family upset. The pressure which he has caused realli jus keeps adding on..
In my mind, the image of me n my mum crying in suffering during the nights he went crazy aft drinking.. I started to realli jus cry.. Pastor Pat continued to assure us that release is coming.. Release from - sin, death, fear, bondage.. Pastor jus held us from praying as we sang a song.. We begin to question at times y does God put us thru all these pressure? answer is He wants you to do better in future! N grow more passionate for God when u see Him working in ur life!
From Acts 16:16-31, we learnt: My prison is not abt what sufferings i have been put thru, it is abt hw i set others free.. as he ended the service, he called us up front, he finally allowed us to pray n told us to pray 4 those hu have not been saved, to hear their screams n pain w/o God..
N at that point in time, God put in my mind a picture i haf nv imagined b4.. My dad is also suffering! He does not haf God to depend on n he doesn't talk to us abt his problems.. I started to cry even harder n prayed aloud for him.. The first time i tot that my dad was also suffering.. I prayed wholeheartedly for him.. Many in the hall were crying too..
I thank God for putting that image in my mind, for showing me that my dad is also suffering.. Pastor Pat said:" I love to live a life of aftershock, the effects of the earthquake, watch how it allows my son n grandson n for many generations to come.." I too wana live a life of aftershocks!! See how God works thru me, to allow many generations to come to feel the impacts He brings!! The conference was realli great.. Praise the Lord!

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