Joy to the World

For the past two Sundays, about 50-60%% of the morning congregation stayed backfrom 1-2 pm to observe the solemn assembly - a time of fasting, worship, prayer and intercession for the church and the nations. I believe many Christians are also praying hard for the haze to go away. It is really great and wonderful how the wind blew and the rain came to clean the air after the paper has reported that it will only happpen in October. God acts differently after humankind had spoken and God's people humble themselves to fast & pray.
It's also wonderful to see many people slimming down, looking better with the fasting. They are happy with the physical result of fasting as well as healings & other breakthroughs. I pray many more will come and share their victories.
Sunday evening was such a bonus for the week for Nellie and myself. The Sunday before we conducted a funeral service for Steven. Steven has quite a life - accepted Jesus many years before, healed of Tubercolosis, backslidden into drugs and quite recently confessed his faith again in Jesus Christ. Steven's son was in prison for drug was not present at the service, but Steven's daughter, Wai Lean and her husband, Chua was very touched by the Holy Spirit. They told us their story on Sunday evening at their apartment.
Last Monday after the burial, Wai Lean got her medical report and it was very bad because of 10 years of medication for arthritis. The couple remembered the funeral message of God's unconditional love in our short span of life on earth. They suddenly realised that even if life on earth is shortened, with God's unconditional love, life is being lengthened when they learned to treasure one another with God's love. They decided to commit their lives to Jesus and Chua prayed for his wife. They took another test and the report came back on Friday with joyful result. God is so good. Chua told us that they committed their lives to Jesus not that she might be healed, but solely because of God's love for them and they wanted to love Him back as God has shown them what real love is. I think this is the first time in my ministry that someone wanted Jesus solely because of the realisation of His love. The sharing came with a lot of joyful tears. They are very eager to worship - wanting to attend both the Chinese and English service.
Such fantastic salvation story.