Survival...

The other day I visited Monash CF with McD and May, had a pretty good time there.. I really really admire their CF president, the one and only Khoo Hsien Liang!! a.k.a djcf legacy! (Long Live DJCF!!) cuz of his passion and heart in serving God. While waiting for the speaker to arrive liang gave a couple minutes speech on the importance of prayer and how the CF functions and succeed only through prayer..

He told about sunway monash CF testimony of having committee meetings simultaniously with a bunch of people praying alongside while the meetings was happening, and having full-on prayers before any meetings started.. What really encouraged me was even when I came into CF that day there was a bunch of people at the back upholding and praying for the meeting ahead (cool stuff!!)

They even meet 3 times a week for prayer, if i'm not mistaken one of their prayer meetings is in the morning from 8am (Whoa!!) and they even have a PI - prayer and intercession core group which meets to pray weekly.

the results? well there was this time when monash was having a ball/prom thingy and the organisers were planning of including condoms into the goodie bags for everybody (What the?), and the CF stood against this.. At first the CF got many firings from many people even from the organisers and even from other christians! (tsk tsk!), many opossed the CF stand and even christians were asking the CF to back out of this.. what did the cf do? they started praying!!

After some weeks of intense prayer like a few times a week, liang got an email, the head of the catholic society has heard of the CF stand and wants to join with the CF in pertitioning against the condom issue (Whoa!!), after that, the head of the Buddhist society joined, followed
by the Islamic society.. At the end, the organisers decided not to have the condoms placed in the goodie bags (how cool is that?!)

Liang then started to get on a more serious note..
"If you guys stop praying, the CF would crumble..."
"This is my last semester as CF president, and it would break my heart if you guys stop praying.."
"The moment you guys think you know it all, have enough resources and ideas to run CF and forget about prayer, you guys are heading for a fall.."

Whoa..

I began to think about my own CF in inti nilai.. Seriously guys we need to get back to prayer and into a deeper more intimate relationship with God! the moment we think we can handle it alone, have more and more activities and forget about God, we're done for! Activities and programs, parties, BBQs, camps, hanging out, fellowshipping, mamaking, and all are great! but what matters at the end is how close you are with the father! without Him, everything fails!

One person told me this and I totally agree:
"take away all the activities, take away CF programs, take away fellowship meetings, but never ever take away prayer from the CF"
"Prayer is the backbone of CF, it holds everything together"

I'm writing this particularly to a person who once questioned me why have prayer meetings when prayer can be done in the solitude of your own room. Do you even pray in your own room? Do you even pray for others as you live through life? Do you know the power of corporate prayer and praying in one voice? Do you see changes in your live that you can testify?

I'm sorry if this post would affect any particular group of people, but I just want to challenge you guys, If you can spend hours and hours having 'fellowship meetings and other activities', why can't you spend just an hour or so in prayer meetings?

ok ok I shall stop preaching for now.. ;)

God bless!

What we do in life echoes in eternity, Live a life that reflects God's glory!