A New Calling?

30 Aug

Pastor Beow Chin was asked to share the word that morning after breakfast and I was ‘arrowed’ to lead the time of worship. God was among us that morning. She shared from 1 Cor 16:8,9 and Acts 19 about how Paul made his decision to leave or to stay in his Missionary journey …. We could consider what God was doing and what man was saying in the process. When we see the Holy Spirit’s outpouring, doing miracles, casting demons, healing and the Prophetic, we need to fix our eyes on God rather than on the opposition (verse 19) where there was disunity, false prophets and there was much fear in the hearts of the people especially during the riot with Demetrius. It was a great lesson for us as we considered the activity of God rather than that of men.

We drove off to the district of Lautem in the town of Lospalos where we met Ps Lily from Singapore’s Victory Family Church and her team. As it was such a long journey, we were happy to have found a little ‘restaurant’ called Angel where we ate yum fish with sauce, organic vegetables and hot peanut soup. After which, we were brought into the village to visit her team members. Ann and Boyle were so hospitable to host us as they shared about their work in the village. They left 4 children behind in Singapore (age ranging from 17 – 36) for a term of one year to serve the Lord in Lautem. Interestingly, Boyle was a horse trainer with Singapore Turf Club and gave up his job after he received the Lord some 3 years ago, to serve together with his wife, Ann in the mission field. How loving!! We had a time of prayer together at their cosy home and God released many words to us. I was weeping like a baby when the Lord spoke to me very vividly about a call and also released words for the team. Ps Lily also had a word for us ….”This is a new calling for you. God is sending you with a new vision when you come here. You will come and pray in a new dimension and will have a better perspective to capture the cry of the Timorese. The good life that you have will be paid back in the spiritual dimension.. whether you are the Go-er ..or the Send-er.” I believe that God opened our eyes to see how we could either send our people to serve on short or long term mission trips as well as ‘catch the fire’ and bring it back with us to ignite in the lives of our people back in Singapore.

At dinner time, in Roberto Carlos Hotel, we had an opportunity to share together at the table why we came for this trip and where we will go from here. Guess the Lord brought me there to have a glimpse of the work in Timor Leste and filled my heart with compassion and love for them. I am praying that there will be many more opportunities for me to go into the land to serve … God-willing!