From West To East

29 Aug

We had a sunrise service together at 6.30 a.m. (Timor time – Singapore time 5.30 a.m.) where we had a time of worship and prayer for the village of Mialiana, Ps Edson and the Government. It has been a long time since I played the guitar but I guess God uses weak vessels like us when we avail ourselves …It was awesome because the day before, we went up to the Indonesian border to pray for revival and we stuck our ice-cream sticks with verses that we wrote on it into the ground. We are trusting that the Word of God be planted in this district of Bobonaro and in the town of Maliana. As a result of our prayer today, we want to see miracles happening, just like we saw when we prayed for a local who visited us at the guest house (Mandano) who was suffering from Tuberculosis. He experienced the power of God come upon him and something was happening with his lungs when we prayed. Also, we want to pray a hedge of fire and protection over every pastor in that city, church worker and over Maliana. We are expecting a revival in the Timorese congregation that God would send a revival because of our prayer. Say bye bye to West Timor …..

After breakfast, we set off back to Dili and headed straight to Manatuto – East Timor, to visit another Singaporean couple from St John St Margaret’s Church – Francis and Grace. It was such a delight to be with them as they shared briefly about their work with us with 30 kids whom they were teaching English to and how their next door neighbour, who happens to also be their landlord, was selected the District Administrator because of their help to type his resume when they set up their dial-up internet service … yes … dial-up for us who are so used to broad-band speed … repent!! Oops….

We set off to another district Baucau to visit a Victory Family Church Base headed by Ps Vakaran and his wife Ruth who was managing a guest house to train local Timorese to teach Bible study to the Orang Laut people. He’s from Calvary JB and he shared how God called him and ‘blocked’ all the blessings when he chose to ran away from the call God gave. We were very thankful that we had beds (yes! again …), yummy bee hoon and clean loos to use. God sure knows how much we could bear, in terms of our tolerance for cleanliness and rest…. That’s our super duper Heavenly Father who loves us so much! This group of people in this guest house are real prayer warriors – they are up at 3 a.m. daily for personal devotion and at 6 a.m., they come together for corporate worship and devotion and at 7 a.m. they have breakfast together and then they are sent out into the villages to minister to the people. When our team heard about their daily schedule, we were ashamed that we prayed so little .. compared to them. But God still loves us …. Hee hee!!