Friday, 14 July 2006

• My GOD is ... no words can describe ...
  
  I was gonna update with a whole day by day journal on what happened at camp! But i decided not to because it was TOO long... so I'll just post on what has been happening in my life at the moment... =)
  
  Exams - I really do praise God for his provision, for His guidance throughout the exam period and for enabling me to do the exams and pass; all glory to Him! so on to semester 2 now... hope i don't get so drained again lol...
  
  but the main thing is... CAMP... BYF Youth Camp - Identity 06...
  This camp was absolutely amazing... if there was any doubt about the 'reality' of our God, camp totally took all doubts away. I had a day by day journal that i wanted to post up (based on my hazy memory after camp..) but it was waaaayyy too long.. so here i am just doing an overview.
  
  ... before camp... 
  Preparation was long.. but we tried to get it organised early. We started planning for it probably bout 1 year ago, and then 6 months ago we finalised a venue, and then a speaker came etc... then 1mth b4 we really went all out and rushed to get things organised!! man, amidst the exams, i managed to organise the praise and worship side a week before camp; the equipment was ready and the ppl in the band knew, rehearsals were scheduled.. but i had chosen 11 of the 12 songs we were doing... I had always thought about writing a song for camp... why?...
  
  ... Come Save
  For me, alot of the times i would just get infront of the piano, i would worship to songs, but also get into this mode of 'free worship' where i would just sing random lines and play random chords! Of course though, i knew that maybe i could write a song u know? so whenever i played something that i thought sounded good, i would try and recall how i did it and then remember it. So this happens alot, i have some melodies in my head for songs, and i had this one melody that i really liked... but of course no lyrics to it yet.. Because when i'm singing to it, just sang whatever was on my heart =P But yeh... camp was coming up, and the theme was Identity, and I knew alot of non-christians would be there... but during exams, no lyrics came to me.. i wasn't focused i guess, since i had to study.... but i also did pray about it asking God, if you want to write a song through me for camp, then help me out =P but in the back of my mind, i was thinking of another song i could do if i couldn't finish this song...
  
  ... Anyway, with Daniel Tay pressing me for lyrics to put into the camp song, and rehearsals on monday, i was like - "noo! i havn't finished the song yet..." Pretty much, I had no lyrics by the Sunday before camp. To be honest, i felt that i was thinkin way too much about a theme song to do with Identity that I wasn't focusing on what was on my heart... 
  ...For those that don't know... alot has been going through my life, and I was depressed, lonely and I was really unsure of my future, didn't know wat to do. But every time I would worship God... and say that God, He has a plan... and that never will He let me go - if you want, refer to a post 3-4 before this on Psalm 23 - and yeh, so i started writing the song...to ask God to be my Saviour, the One who is Lord over everything, the One who poured out his grace, mercy and love for all of us, because He loves each and everyone of us and has great plans for us...
  
  Come Save...
  Here I am, calling out to You. Come and wash me with Your love
  Lord I come, You take me as I am, Come and have Your way in me
  'Cause Jesus You came and set me free
  On the cross when You died for my sin
  Jesus it's You I will believe...
  
  You are, Lord over all the earth
  Your love is greater than all I know
  Jesus, my hope is in You alone, Come save...
  Your light will shine through to show the way
  Your hands have caught me within Your grace
  Jesus, my faith is in You alone, Come save...
  
  In You I'm found, my life is made complete, Lord You fill my heart with joy
  You're all I need, Your spirit lives in me, Jesus fill me with Your power
  Lord there is no one else like You
  For there's nothing that You cannot do
  Jesus I'll live for You alone...
  
  Hear my heart cry, Lord God, My Saviour
  Come and rescue me, My Jesus...
  
  And so, those lyrics were written on the Sunday and Monday before camp, rehearsed and then sung on CAMP. To see God's power work is amazing, but to see it work in me was humbling... It was only by God's will, that wat happened on camp happened! Alot of people spoke to me saying that they loved the song, and I could see people were touched by God as they worshipped through this song. It was amazing!
  
  So that was the first miracle that I experienced... that as we worshipped God... the Spirit of God moved... by the power of Jesus, people had encounters with God... many people began to realise that there is a God out there who came to this earth through Jesus Christ, to come and save us from sin and death, by His unfailing love for everyone of us... we saw people realise that they are unique, special, created by God, to be loved, and to have a purpose.... It was incredible! This camp was seriously the best camp I've been to, just the joy from seeing people's lives changed! Praise God almighty!
  
  Things I learnt from camp is that... when you think you've seen alot of God? He totally smacks you in the face and shows you that He is indeed bigger than what our minds can comprehend... I remember singing the song 'Big' on camp and I was trying to comprehend how great our God is... but even after that Saturday night... i was humbled, and seriously, there are no words to describe how great is our God.... and how BIG He really is =) Prayer was another important thing i learnt... because God answered our prayers at camp; there was good weather, none of us (maybe 1-2 however) got sick - no cold or flu on camp, and even though we had some emergency situations, with God's provision of Doctor Jason Ong, Physio Ruth Yong, other helpers as well as the 20-30 who immediately got out there and started praying and worshipping God, it was just an amazing sight to see God work...
  
  So I praise our God of wonders for his faithfulness to us! All glory to Him!
  It is an honour to serve Him...
  
  There were many miracles at camp, and we now see more people attending our Youth group and people who are hungry to know more about God. There were so many things that happened during those four days at Camp Munyung, read other people's xanga's who have updated on camp hopefully to see what happened. There were lotsa photos of our activities that have been posted here - http://groups.msn.com/byf and over at Julia Tan's live journal that i'll ask if i can link it somehow... =P
  
  This is a long post, so I'll stop there - alot has been happening and I'll try and keep updating =P
  God bless!
  

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