lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
Love that's never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
The kindness of a Saviour
The hope of nations
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender
Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing, for the glory
Of the risen King
Jesus, Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing for the glory
Of the risen king
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
-3:55 pm
What can I say? FOP totally rocked! Literally, too with thousands of believers jumping for Jesus! (: There's so much to talk about, I just don't know where to start. Ok, so here's a belated recount in chronological order...
*Who were there: Sandra, Shuang, Amanda, Dinesh, Jon, Nicholas, Marcus Lim, Felix, Jian Yang, Ben, Gabriel, Charles, Jeanette Lek.
Sunday, 2.50pm at Kallang MRT station:
Arrived a little earlier than the meeting time at 3pm. Met Dinesh who was waiting near the control station and we went to the longkang near the back of the station to meet Sandra and Shuang. After Amanda arrived, we then decided to split up- half of us would wait for the rest while the other half would queue first- because the sheer number of people arriving at the station obviously for FOP was unnerving. We didn't want to take the chance. So Sandra and Shuang left for the stadium while the rest of us waited. Nicholas was really late and when we called him at about 3.20, he was still at the bus stop at his house! How fabulous. So we trooped off to the stadium first.
We took a looonnnggg walk to the stadium and almost went the wrong way because Dinesh wasn't sure of where he was going. Some very clever people wore dark/black shirts *coughcoughmarcusandgabriel* so they were nicely roasting in the afternoon sun. We started queueing at about four plus, and we were one of the earlier ones so we got the sit in the shaded bridge/walkway thing.
Thankfully, Sandra brought her guitar! So I spent most of the waiting time fooling around with it. Sandra concluded that I have perpetually itchy fingers (: Played my song, which Sandra thought was pitched too high and other Christian songs which I figured out by hearing. It was sooo fun. Some were studying (wow) and others were playing bridge.
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Went in at about 6.30. We got pretty good seats thanks to Andre and company. If only the whole Passion! gang wore our army green t-shirts.
The opening was awesome, majestic, and I remembered that I saw a video of that when I was serving two weeks ago. We started out with Salvation is Here, which got everyone on their feet and dancing. Praise and worship was really just... indescribably beautiful. But somehow I felt distracted. I just couldn't tune in with God like the way I did during the ignyte conference. Yes, I knew that God's presence was there and all but no matter how hard I tried to focus, I just couldn't enter that inner sanctuary where I could meet God face to face. But still, the atmosphere was electrifying.
I loved what the Delirious frontman said which goes like something along the lines of: All the streams must flow as one river. We cannot be flowing as separate rivers, oh no. All of God's people from all nations and denominations must unite as one mighty army of Christ, and praise Him in one voice for He is the one true God.
Then he asked us to hold hands all across the stadium and dance! That moment when the whole stadium erupted with singing, jumping with hands held together and raised up high is one I'll never forget. They brought out little kids onto the stage who also held hands and hopped up and down. They were so cute (: One blond little boy decided that he was tired so he plomped himself down on the floor and refused to get up.
I also fell in love with the song Emmanuel.
Emmanuel, Jesus Christ
You'll never let me go
My shepherd King, You're watching over me
Emmanuel, Emmanuel
Though some of the songs were new to me, I caught on pretty quickly.
Tell the world that Jesus lives
Tell the world that, tell the world that
Tell the world that He died for them
Tell the world that He lives again
C'mon c'mon we'll tell the world about YOU!
Whoohoo! YEA! Wished brandon, hannah and the rest of cell 3 '04 were there. We would have screamed the house down. We wanted to shout encore and chant "one way!" *clapclapclap* to get the band to play it for us. But I left earlier after singing History Maker because Amanda's dad was here to pick us up. Overall, it was an amazing night. It's just awesome to see so many people praising God all in one place.
I remember the altar call too. What Darlene said touched many hearts, I believe, but more so, it was God who was moving pre-believers to take that step of faith and go to the altars to receive Christ. We believers just started praying in the spirit for those who didn't know God to get saved. It was unbelievable. I saw people just running to the altars. I've never seem so many come to know Christ at one time. The altars were so packed that they had to push back the front row seats. Praise God for the wonderful harvest! I was so heartened by it.
And indeed, we were going to paint this big ol' town red and rattle the rusty gates of hell with our prayers and praises. I bet we were causing earthquakes and tornadoes in hell, with Satan trembling in his pants! Haha (:
Can you hear the footsteps of God?
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