Pastor's Notes - October 2008

October 20th

Fear Not the Turmoil in the World’s Economy

1 John 5:18

We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.NKJV

If we do not continue to practice sin and keep ourselves from practicing sin, the wicked one cannot touch us.

The following prophecy was given through Kenneth E. Hagin on February 17, 1975:

The Word of the Lord came unto me further saying: “Prophesy thou unto this people and say thou unto them, Like a mighty army, like a mighty army, like the tramping of a mighty army the forces of evil are tramping down the road to Armageddon. Yea, like a mighty army gathering force as it goes, joined on one hand by these people and on that hand, the other hand, by other people. The army of the enemy is marching on. Marching on though they know not where. Marching on for they march in spiritual darkness and there is no light in the tenement of their dwelling. Even in their spirits for their spirits lieth in darkness and they are under the control of the wicked one.”

“But be not fearful of the tramping, tramping, tramping of the armies of the wicked. Be not fearful of the sound of war. Be not fearful of anything that the eye can see or the hand can feel or that which is brought to you through the ear gate of this evil world. But look ye into the Word. Yea, into the perfect law of liberty.”

“And knew ye this, that the Lord has an army. Yea, He is preparing His own. No! The church will not grow weaker and weaker and weaker and lie down and expire. But she shall grow stronger and stronger and stronger for a fresh visitation of heaven is at hand. Yea, a new revelation of truth shall burst forth in all of its glory unto those who are called by His Name. And they shall realize that in their grasp, in their hand all the while, was that mighty Name that is above every name. And they, with that Name upon their lips and with faith in their hearts, will speak forth unto the enemy and say, ‘thus far shall ye go and no further.’ And he shall desist in his maneuvers, and stop in his operations.”

“And the hand of the enemy shall be stayed. And the harvest that is to be reaped shall be reaped. For the harvest is plenteous, and the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest to send forth laborers into His harvest.” (more…)

October 7th

A Journey of Faith

Since June 2007, much has taken place in our church. Before that I kept sensing that it seemed like there was more to what we were doing until then.

So in the early part of 2006 Ps. Geok Eng and I even went to Korea to seek the Lord. We joined the prayer services at Rev. Yonggi Cho’s church. But the Lord was silent. While we were away, Rev. Patsy Cameneti spoke at our church. She said that both she and Tony had been sensing that something good was going to take place in Faith Family Church. She also said that it was going to be pivotal.

Internet Bible School

In March 2008 we went on a prayer mission to Lijiang, Yunnan. It was there that we received direction from the Lord to start a bible school in our church. Since then the planning has evolved from bringing students from China to come here to be trained to setting up an internet-bible school. It has been exciting and it thrills all those who are involved in this so far. Some of the instructors (to be) have the same mind and heart. They have also thought of internet-bible school or distance learning a few years back. Also they have been thinking of how to get this Word of Faith message out to God’s people.

The internet-bible school came about after our recent trip to China in September 2008, where a pastor had asked for it. Suddenly from a concept of just having a local school of training maybe 12 students to the possibility of reaching to the “four corners of the earth – that means far and wide”. There is no telling how deep into China we may reach. The potential of teaching God’s people in the furthest corner of the earth is possible. Suddenly the door has just been thrown open to us for the Word of Faith to go forth freely and run its free course that God be glorified (2 Thessalonians 3:1). God is an amazing God! Suddenly we are going into the world without even leaving home and the possibility of reaching the furthest corners of the earth. (more…)