No Apologies, St. Paul's Church 2011

This is a camp which is themed about the truth of life, love and sex... Its on the 28th-30th of August... But I would not be talking about the whole camp, I will be talking about an amazing thing that happened to me in that camp... You must read this, I'm not kidding! =)
I was given the responsibility to worship lead for the first day of the camp... The first session of P&W is in the morning, so everything went well, except that I forgot to copy the Powerpoint slides into the computer for projection, how careless of me!

But that's not the main point of this testimony...

It all started during dinner time... Me and Christopher were having dinner together, and since we were the camp commanders, we felt that we should go around to have fellowhip with other people... SO we went to a group and sat down with them... So we had small talk here and there... In the end, Chris asked one of the girls there about the P&W session that I lead that morning... That girl was forced by her mother to come and she didn't like the camp at all... So i guess, out of anger, she said that the whole P&W session is terrible! The vocals, the music, she said that its all a mess! I don't know why, I know that I shouldn't care about what they say because what we're doing is to glorify God, but the things she said kept going in circles in my head!

10 minutes before the P&W session starts, I just couldn't take it anymore! I felt pain and sadness in me... I just can't stop thinking that I didn't do well enough for God and that this is my punishment... I went to Peter and Marcus who were my fellow P&W team leaders and tell them that I simply couldn't lead the worship that night...

Without hesitation, they said that they wanted to pray for me, so they both put their hands on my shoulders and started praying... And without warning, I started crying and I can feel the warmth of the presence of the Spirit... So I agreed to carry on with it, but because I just cried, my voice is not stable and I asked Marcus to help me lead the fast praise songs....

So at first, it went smoothly without any problems... And so it came to the slow worship songs that I'm leading...  When it came to the last song, as I open my eyes, I just see and feel that the Holy Spirit is not there... I asked God with a tinge of sadness, "Even after the Spirit touched me, why can't I feel the Holy Spirit's presence among the people?"

Right after I ask that question, immediately.......... BAMM!!!!!!!!! The electricity and the lights went out! And right before that came into my mind, the presence of God HIMSELF was so strong that I was nearly knocked of my feet! And without warning, streams and streams of tears flowed down my face... And God spoke to me... "Why do you care how the people of the world thinks of you? You are singing for Me, not for them! I am THE ONE who anointed you to lead the people... And now, I'm gonna show you My glory!" And what I write right now is all real and I didn't make anything up....

How awesome is our God!

I hope that this testimony will touch you as much as it has touched me... Don't care about how other people think of you when you're doing what God wants you to do... Because what you're doing is for God and God ONLY... No one else!

May God watch over you while you serve God...

God bless!! =)