Passion

Went to a church in Sungai Petani with a few youths of our church today.

We've been there for a few times already but not very often.

The last time I went there is already a year ago.

The service starts at 8PM..

So we went there...

Leaded the whole service...

And we had quite some fun over there...

When the service ended...

We had supper with the church members there...

It suddenly struck me that there are so little people there!

There are only 5-6 people from their church,

And we had like 10 people from our church

I was dumbstruck!

Later on...

I went to look at the notice board...

I saw two photos there...

One of them caught my attention...

It's a photo that our youth have taken with their church's youth and children

2 years back when we were celebrating Christmas with them...

There were like so many of them...

But today...

There is only one teenager there...

Only one.

She is around 14 or 15

And she was with us during the Christmas celebration two years back...

Back then..

There were 20-30 of them

Today...

There is only one...

During the praise and worship,

I can see that she, her father and her mother

Were worshiping and praising

Him, our God Almighty,

Passionately...

And that really moved me...

During the service,

Right after the praise and worship,

The girl did the scripture reading...

The mic was not set up properly at that time...

So I went to help her...

After I'm done with it...

She looked me into my eyes...

And I can see the words thank you in her eyes...

I felt really warm with that...

Then after the service...

The girl went to help her father to count the offerings...

I was paying attention at her through the service...

I can see that

Eventhough she has to do all this stuff alone 

Without any youths from her church to help her

She did not show any dissatisfaction

She was WILLING

I was amazed at her passion for God

I was touched

Eventhough all the other people has left the church

She and her family stayed there

Because they know the importance of going to church

The importance of worshipping God

The importance of knowing The Word

Because they know that

God...

Is their way of life

And Jesus is their Salvation!

Through this blog post

To everyone who sees this

I want you guys to know

That I didn't post this for nothing

I didn't post this because I have a lot of free time

In fact, I'm already very tired from today's activities

I didn't even rested ever since I woke up at 7.30 this morning

And it's already 12AM now

I posted this because I wanted to show you the passion of a teenager and her family

Towards Christ

Their passion towards The Word of God

Their passion towards the Love of God

And their passion towards spreading the gospel

And at the same time

I hope that you would just take a few minutes

Just a few minutes

To pray for the churches in Malaysia

Pray that the gospel and the good news

Will spread like wildfire around Malaysia

And pray that the churches will never die

But they will continue growing

Pray for the churches that are facing problems

Pray for the churches that are crumbling

Pray that God will give the leaders of the churches

Wisdom and strength

To rebuild the churches

And also pray for the members

Who never gave up on their church

Pray for them so that their passion towards Christ would never falter

Pray that they would continue to grow in spiritual maturity

And continue to grow towards Christ.

Most of us are fortunate to have a church to go to

A church that has a lot of brothers and sisters in Christ to care for us

To love us.

But think about those that never have the opportunity to hear the gospel

To receive the good news

Those who go to church with only a few members to share the joy with

Even those that didn't have a church to go to.

Think about it.

We as one in the body of Christ

Are RESPONSIBLE to care for each and every Christian throughout the four corners of the world

Yes

WE ARE RESPONSIBLE

If you've never thought about this,

Well, this is the time to know.

This is the time when we do something about it.

Brothers and Sisters,

Let us all pray for the churches in this country

And at the same time

Make an impact on the lives of people

Being the life-changers of our school,

Our community,

Our country,

Even our churches!

Are you guys with me?