The great 2011

14 May 2000 was my first visit to World Harvest Church (WHC). It was the obedience to the call of God that I stayed and decided to stay until I graduate to my eternal home.

In the early part of year 2001, someone passed me a book entitled “Digging the Wells of Revival” by Lou Engle. After reading, I came before the Lord surrendering myself that I want to be one of those who will dig the wells of revival that our spiritual forefathers had dug. In April 2001, very clearly the Lord spoke to me ‘give Me your next 10 years’ and I gave Him with much emotions. Soon after that, our Senior Pastor, Ps David called for 40-days fast and asked us to dedicate our next 10 years to the Lord because the ministry that the Lord entrusted to WHC will be in a long haul.

Exactly 10 years later, on April 7, the Holy Spirit rained down from heaven during our normal weekly Thursday night prayer. My prayer partner was caught up in the spirit and interceded for another nation. 2 days later, during our Vision Day, the Spirit of God overruled the whole meeting and I was brought into 3^rd Heaven to swim in the river glory that flows from the throne room of God. After experiencing the river glory for that only one time, I was drunk for 2 weeks and I had to put aside many of my normal routines. Many times even when I just said grace before my meals, Jesus would come and I would eat my rice dutifully while fellowshipping with Jesus. Day after day, I pen down as much as I could of the dreams, visions and even thoughts that God dropped from heaven. I am not a good writer but for a 2 weeks-encounter, it was 20 pages full of spiritual notes! During these 2 weeks, I was 2 times transported to other nations to intercede. I was there with another church member fighting with the demonic stronghold holding that nation.

These powerful 2 weeks had stirred up a hidden gift in me which was given by God - receiving revelations by thoughts. I am not good in imagination and creative ideas but when thoughts came, I knew that it was from Him especially when it came as my first thought in the morning. One of the major thing that was restored in me was my identity in Christ - I was born from Heaven and live for Heaven, not born on earth and work for Heaven. There was a great shift in my thinking and perception about myself. This is the first thing that Jesus came personally to teach me. My spiritual eyes were opened and those points in the book “Supernatural Ways of Royalty” by Kris Vallotton became alive and they were as though literally speaking directly to me! Another great restoration was I am back to rule with my Father in Heaven! The Holy Spirit is a good Teacher. I had read the book “Destined to Reign” by Joseph Prince before this but I was not in full reign until my pauper mindset was washed away under the glory rain followed by the Holy Spirit’s help in recalling what I had read.

I am entrusted to take care of World Harvest Children Church. While I was still very much drunk in the spirit, the Spirit of God baptized the children personally. The Children Church leaders and I believe that the baptism of Holy Spirit is not for the children to experience and enjoy seeing visions or having dreams from God but it comes with empowering to do kingdom works.

Since then, we allocated more time for the children to have spiritual soaking after worship and at the end of every gathering; the children were ready to pray for one another. Most of the time, their prayers were directed by visions that God showed them. We used to explain truths with crafts for lessons. Usually, we needed to repeat few times to have the truths brought across to the children but now the demonstration of the power of God itself explain the truth! Children started to develop personal relationships with God, knowing we can only build relationship with things or persons who are alive. We cannot deny that craft-doing is an important tool in teaching lessons but the power and the Spirit of God are ‘zoe’ life from heaven!

Those 2 weeks were just the beginning of many great moves and encounters with God. In June, I was in Singapore attending a conference called Open Heaven Conference by James Goll. The Spirit of God moved mightily and I used to tell people that ‘I sat through the conference but either in my body or in my spirit I do not know’, meaning I was so drunk in the spirit. During the conference, I was once transported to another nation to intercede specifically for heavenly glory rain to come upon that nation for people to come to know Christ by personal glory encounters directly from heaven. On the second night, half way through the sharing, one of my church mates just jumped out of his seat when James Goll quoted the verse that our Senior Pastor had been preaching of- in the day of the latter rain ask for rain! Immediately the Spirit of God rested upon us and we were all crying, shaking and we were so hungry for revival.

Another hype of the year 2011 that I must highlight is the Asia Ablaze in August 2011. I fully agree that the deepest worship is from the heart, not that I did not believe before this but experiences spoke the loudest. I was very sick after the first session as my throat was badly infected until I had difficulty to even speak, with the additional flu. But the fire of revival was seeking for a hungry heart. In every session, I was shaking, crying or laughing! There was once I was shaking so vigorously that I almost hurt my church mate who sat next to me with my legs kicking up high in the air! (For your information, I am someone who always makes sure I am presentable especially in the public) In the spirit, I was warring with a demonic stronghold and kicking open the doors for the gospel in Asia!

Immediately after August, it was September-WHC Church Camp, another epic event of the year! This time, the Lord brought me to look into the spiritual realm to intercede for church members who were bound by demons and wounded in their emotions. There were great restorations and renewals of the mind as well as relationships were strengthened. I believe this prepared the army of God to launch into kingdom works in the spiritual frontier!

On 31 December 2011, some Menara Alpha peeps (A condominium where WHC houses our disciples into various discipleship homes to train revivalists) suggested to have a countdown beside the pool. Just before I left my house at 11.30pm, I heard this statement in my spirit- “2012 is the year of FULFILLMENT!” I amen with it and welcomed it with great joy and thankfulness in my heart! (It is still echoing very loud in me at the time I am writing this).

5 loaves & 2 fishes

Giving from a child

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A Beautiful Flower In A Broken Pot

Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7b)

Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to out patients at the clinic.

One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. "Why, he's hardly taller than my eight-year-old," I thought as I stared at the stooped, shriveled body. But the appalling thing was his face, lopsided from swelling, red and raw. Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, "Good evening. I've come to see if you've a room for just one night. I came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore, and there's no bus 'til morning." He told me he'd been hunting for a room since noon but with no success, no one seemed to have a room. "I guess it's my face... I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments..."

For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me: “I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning.” I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest on the porch. I went inside and finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. “No thank you. I have plenty.” And he held up a brown paper bag.

When I had finished the dishes, I went out on the porch to talk with him a few minutes. It didn’t take a long t ime to see that this old man had an oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children, and her husband, who was hopelessly crippled from a back injury. He didn’t tell it by way of complaint; in fact, every other sentence was preface with a thanks to God for a blessing. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was apparently a form of skin cancer. He thanked God for giving him the strength to keep going.

At bedtime, we put a camp cot in the children’s room for him. When I got up in the morning, the bed linens were neatly folded and the little man was out on the porch.

He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his bus, haltingly, as if asking a great favor, he said, Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment? I won’t put you out a bit. I can sleep fine in a chair.” He paused a moment and then added, “Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don’t seem to mind.” I told him he was welcome to come again.

And on his next trip he arrived a little later seven in the morning. As a gift, he brought a big fish and a quart of the largest oysters I had ever seen. He said he had shucked them that morning before he left so that they’d be nice and fresh. I knew his bus left at 4:00 a.m. and I wondered what time he had to get up in order to do this for us. In the years he came to stay overnight with us there was never a time that he did not bring us fish or oysters or vegetables from his garden.

Other times we received packages in the mail, always by special delivery; fish and oysters packed in a box of fresh young spinach or kale, every leaf carefully washed. Knowing that he must walk three miles to mail these, and knowing how little money he had made the gifts doubly precious.

When I received these little remembrances, I often thought of a comment our next-door neighbor made after he left that first morning.

“Did you keep that awful looking man last night? I turned him away! You can lose roomers by putting up such people!” Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice. But oh! If only they could have known him, perhaps their illness’ would have been easier to bear.

I know our family always will be grateful to have known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude to God.

Recently I was visiting a friend who has a greenhouse, As she showed me her flowers, we came to the most beautiful one of all, a golden chrysanthemum, bursting with blooms. But to my great surprise, it was growing in an old dented, rusty bucket. I thought to myself, “If this were my plant, I’d put it in the loveliest container I had!”

My friend changed my mind. “I ran short of pots,” she explained, and knowing how beautiful this one would be, I thought it wouldn’t mind starting out in this old pail. It’s just for a little while, till I can put it out in the garden.”

She must have wondered why I laughed so delightedly, but I was imagining just such a scene in heaven. “Here’s an especially beautiful one,” God might have said when he came to the soul of the sweet old fisherman. “He won’t mind starting in this small body.” All this happened long ago—and now, in God’s garden, how tall this lovely soul must stand. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7b)

See The Abundance Within You

This article, i got it from New Creation Church daily devotional on 12 June 2010. You will be bless!

Luke 17:21
21… For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”

When you were younger, were you often scolded for not finishing all your food or leaving the lights and fan on when you left your room? Were you constantly reminded that there are people starving in the world, that electricity costs a lot of money and that money doesn’t grow on trees? Now, do you find yourself telling your child the same things?

We are naturally conscious of lack, but Jesus isn’t. Even in the midst of lack, He was always conscious of abundance. Remember the little boy’s five loaves and two fish? What did Jesus do when these were placed in His hands? Did He say, “What do you expect Me to do with so little?” No, His eyes were not on the natural, the visible, the lack. His eyes were on the kingdom of God where there is always abundance. So in His hands, the little boy’s lunch was multiplied, and 5,000 men, not counting women and children, were fed that day! (John 6:1–13)

God doesn’t want you to be conscious of the lack in your natural circumstances. He doesn’t want you to live by how much you earn or how much you have in the bank. Now, I am not encouraging you to spend foolishly beyond your means. I am saying that God wants you to be conscious of the abundance of resources in His kingdom.

“But Pastor Prince, where is that kingdom?”

As long as you have received Jesus as your Savior, that kingdom is in you!

Jesus said that “the kingdom of God is within you”. This means that the kingdom of God is not some physical place. It is within you and it is where the abundance of resources is. So if you want to experience abundance in your life, be conscious first of the abundance inside you. Then, what is inside you will become a reality on the outside.

Beloved, God doesn’t want you to be conscious of the lack you see outside you. He wants you to be conscious of the abundance within you because His kingdom is within you!