Worship

Wow, It's been an exciting week for me. Coming back from Kulim from a worship seminar and going to a worship retreat the very next day in Penang Hill. Definitely one of the best experiences to have. I can say that I learned quite a bit in Kulim although my role there was to help facilitate but we learn as we teach too you know.

Going up to the mount was even more rewarding and I do think that it was God who planned for things to happen this way. Coz my going was a last minute thing. At first I didn't plan to go coz of work but i was relieved of work earlier than I planned and expected in time for this Retreat. However there was no place and I thought oh well, I guess I really won't be able to go. But God is faithful and opened a door for me to make it.

The experience there was irreplaceable. It's been a long time since I've really felt so close to His heart. We started to write songs one our own and I was kinda stuck with no music but I felt it was not the end. I wanted to press on further, i knew i needed some breakthrough. And God is faithful to answer the call of those who cry out to Him. Night time was spent in silence where i meditated on Isa 54:17 and for some reason 1 Pet 5:6-11.

Day 2 kicked off with quiet time and I read Ps104 and seriously after reading that psalm you won't be able to just sit down so i grabbed my camera and started to get close to creation and it's beauty, soaking in every bit of God's magnificence revealed through the things around us. And then we did some Divine Reading or Lectio Divina to hear what God was speaking to us through a passage. And when we open our ears to hear Him speak it's really easy to hear His voice. Then we split up in groups to write more songs and for our group a song was birthed. Sharon, Ken Jeen and I grouped up and started to mind map what we wanted to write about. We prayed before we started and started to scribble down all out ideas.. Then out of the blue i just had an inspiration from a simple chord and from there we grew the song from the pre-chorus to the chorus and then the verse where we kinda got stuck.. lolz and Ken Jeen suddenly popped the words out which totally just fit into the line and there we had our first almost complete song haha so we continued to work on it a bit after that to better shape it. So now it's sitting in the green house :)

Came the night, we started to sing about how He loved us and turned into a soaking of His presence and we took turns to prophecy to each other which was encouraging to see people being touched by His word. And the best part of it all was this morning when the seal was set in our lives with the anointing of oil where I couldn't stand but to break down at His touch.. It felt like i was totally drenched in His presence. I just saw a picture of myself being poured on with oil just soaking my whole body then just as i was prayed for like a flame just caught it and my whole being was covered with fire. It was just amazing. I don't know what else or how else i can describe the feeling or the experience. Just amazing