Prayer Meeting [8th Sept] Trust
Sunday, September 09, 2007
This week's prayer meeting was a bit different from what we're normally used to. We had Kenneth and Hsiao Yun lead devotion and worship together. Instead of each being mutually exclusive, they were able to blend the two to drive home the main points of the passage, Psalm 27. It was cool because we sang 3 'new' songs that people of my generation have hardly come across but singing them made me feel that the passage held more applications for me. Great in keeping me attentive to the devotion too!
Then we had some time to respond to the devotion by writing out a prayer in a letter to God. It was quite difficult because writing my words out to God made them seem like they carried a lot more weight, no more of the usual glossing over of some parts and waxing lyrical to God because on paper stuff like that stood out painfully. I have yet to finish my letter-it was difficult to concentrate on writing a letter/prayer to my Creator when I was thinking of the next step in facilitating the rest of the prayer meeting. (Just doesn't seem like you're giving God your best, and that's what He deserves!)
So! We moved on to conversational prayer, which was like sharing our prayer requests and praying for ourselves simultaneously. I'm very grateful for my prayer group (we split into 2 groups of 7) and how they all responded so well to the way I proposed we pray. I mean, facilitator's dream! It definitely made me more at ease, praying. Meanwhile, I heard the other group prayed in a much more edifying way! They prayed, then the rest of the group prayed for that individual. My group just went one round. We were still encouraged and blessed by the sharing we had during (and after!) the prayer, but it left me feeling a bit insecure about having our prayer finish a whopping 40 minutes before they did! Glad that you all felt it was good though.
We had apples! Each of us got an apple to write down something tangible which we the prayer meeting encouraged us to do. Mine? Memorise Psalm 27:1 and 14 (the first and last verse of the psalm) because Hsiao Yun said that this would help in a more complete manner of tackling fear through spiritual trust. Verse one reminds me to focus on God, not the fear and verse 14 reminds me to wait on the Lord (because help doesn't come immediately. David waited 14 years to become king).
The hanson and ruidiant show this week was really interesting.
Well, the coming weeks will see me studying for my exams but before that there's street E next saturday before we break for study break. And hopefully, before the next yf (combined yf at zion bishan!) I'll have breezed through my exams (haha) and done my apple.
This nonsensical post done while hanging out at white sands macs on a sunday afternoon. Hurrah for early sundays! People, hang out with us. The group needs new blood because the cough older ones tend to drive off really quick. Come on, we're fun people. Really. Ask those who come for YF. (then, COME FOR YF!)
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