5a.m...a call to Prayer

This is my first time waking myself up at 4.30am in the morning to go for prayer meeting in church. It was both hard and exciting at the same time. The last time i woke up this early was when i was in national service camp back in 2005.

Having said that, this marks the beginning of the 21days fast and prayer for DUMC church, it is a call made by the senior pastor Daniel. I was move by this call and challenged myself to discipline myself to take this fasting and praying seriously. It is by brute of any type of force, but this is what i am willing doing, on my own accord. I am seriously expecting God to work a miracle in my life, that i my be different from the world, and the things of the world. In the parallel time of this 21 days fast and pray, the NECF is also having their 40days fast and pray, both of this calls has one sole purpose, that is to pray for a great awakening for the church in Malaysia, and also for this Nation.

This morning marks the first day of fasting and praying, and i attended the first morning prayer at 5.30, it was hard..but like Paul in the bible who said -paraphrasing- "I will beat my body..." what he meant was to discipline his body to strive towards the upper calling. when i walked into church this morning, i could seriously sense the presence of God, so strong and heavy, and as Pastor make the rally, and prayed..tears begin to fill my eyes, it was like i couldn't stop it...and as the battle horns and music started, the presence of God and the weight of his Glory begin to fill the sanctuary...

I am totally excited, undoubtfully i have to say, i do not know how am i gonna go thru this, waking up early in the morning, and spending the whole day in college, with cg, with choir..but one thing i know, that the grace of God is sufficient for me, and he know's my limitations, thus He will give me the strength that i deeply need to pull things thru. Amen

Psalm 139

1 O LORD, you have searched me

and you know me.

2 You know when I sit and when I rise;

you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You discern my going out and my lying down;

you are familiar with all my ways.

4 Before a word is on my tongue

you know it completely, O LORD.

5 You hem me in—behind and before;

you have laid your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand will guide me,

your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me

and the light become night around me,"

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;

the night will shine like the day,

for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

16 your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me

were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to [b] me are your thoughts, O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

18 Were I to count them,

they would outnumber the grains of sand.

When I awake,

I am still with you.

19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God!

Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

20 They speak of you with evil intent;

your adversaries misuse your name.

21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,

and abhor those who rise up against you?

22 I have nothing but hatred for them;

I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;

test me and know my anxious thoughts.

24 See if there is any offensive way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting..