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exercising gifts May 18, 2008

Posted by dot in Daily life, God.
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I realised that I very seldom, if ever, blog about cell group. Ah, but yesterday’s cell was really quite exciting. I mentioned to pauline last week that we were told by our bs teacher to tell our leaders that we wanted to give a word in cell, to exercise the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Tell our leaders first, to burn the bridges so that there’s no return, can’t back out :P Our teacher’s so evil right. Hahaha.

So apparently pauline remembered and yesterday after the cell group message, she opened up the time for us to share a word, anything the Spirit prompts us to say. First, she started off by giving christopher a word(In case anyone doesn’t understand, a word doesn’t mean one word. It’s just whatever God wants to say to the person). Then she told us to close our eyes. Then she laid hands on someone and told jie yun to give the person a word. Jie yun said later that she actually saw the person’s face flash in her mind, so she knew who she was speaking to. She’s an SOT student haha. Wow.

Then somehow I had a feeling that pauline would call me. And yes, after jie yun, she told me to give a word to the next person she laid her hands on. Wah. Didn’t know who it was la. Unlike jie yun, the person’s face did not flash in my head. Hahaha. Slightly panicky, because my mind went blank, then desperately asked God what He wanted me to say. But I took a really long time because well, felt as if reception was bad hahaha..or I was just scared to say something wrong la :P I learnt later on that pauline laid hands on one person, then because I took so long, she laid hands on another person… and I only spoke after she laid hands on a third person. :P Oh well, but wow..what I said apparently hit a spot. Praise God. Hahaha.

Well, before it was my turn, immediately after pauline said that we were going to give words (I’ve no idea what it’s called), I sort of had one word (literally), which led to a verse. Then I was like, har… is it just me, or did God give me the word? Because it was out of the verse which really spoke to me, Isaiah 50:4 “The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary.” Then the verse was “come to Me, all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.”

In my mind, I thought, “Har, got someone who is weary meh? It’s kinda like holidays.. and isn’t it like quite cliche or something? God.. really meh?” Hahaha. Ok it’s very easy for doubts to come in once you start to reason like that, because God knows things which we don’t know at that time.

Well apparently someone was.

Then next was jac’s turn, and she was also very accurate. Hahaha. Cool heh.

Then I asked jie yun when we were shopping after cell, “Man..why does the Holy Spirit have to talk soooo softly? She said “I don’t know…”

But I could hear the answer almost immediately. So that people won’t take My voice for granted.

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1. Meiling - May 20, 2008

whoa..so cool..must clear my mind so I can listen too!