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Time passed by so quickly, struggling to put aside things that had been my worries without forgetting to ‘throw’ them at God in my prayers, knowing that He doesn’t mind. I continued with the plans I had before flying back home, though there were some alterations. "If I can’t reach out to my friends since they are scatterred still bounded with assignments, I’ll do with the people surrounding me, my family", I told myself.
Brought back a new One2One booklet and just planning for discipleship for siblings. It was literally one to one, since they have different schedules of tons of tuitions which reminded me of my own childhood days, unforgettable. I was glad that they were eager to learn not just in bahasa Indonesia, which I struggled at, but also in English, which I am already used to. But the best is yet to come.
When I was doing my discipleship with my younger brother, my chubby not-literally-little cousin came in just to sit and enjoy his food. Being sensitive to an opportunity to get one more soul for Jesus, I asked him to join with our little ‘discussion’. By God’s mercy for opening his heart, he responded, hadn’t closed the deal yet, but he responded to the ‘bridge’ illustration. His interest started to grow. I didn’t want to lose any opportunity, but on the other hand I couldn’t be too forceful that will lure him away instead. Relying on the Spirit, I just mentioned about it whenever the Spirit said so.
I was so surprised and at the same time thankful that this 12 years’ old kid responded so openly and of course positively. Praise God. He was willing to spend time to discuss the Purpose Driven Life book with me. We chatted about the Creator. I couldn’t help but to share this to my lil’ sister, Anita and with that she closed the deal with him. Praise God!!!!!! Hence, I challenged my sister to disciple him. But she left to soon for malaysia and so I learned to feed another sheep.
We started from the first chapter and the second one. They love discipleship so much that even after I translated everything in bahasa Indonesia, they still ask me the English part, they memorized the Scriptures, asked questions and I still remembered the 2nd last discipleship, I asked them to pray out loud and though they were shy at first, but then after that, I heard the most beautiful, sincere prayer in my life.
I set aside sometime, when my favourite korean soap opera is being aired ( it was our fasting and prayer season) to just pray for my family and friends, not forgetting at night before I slept to pray for healing for my grandparents, embracing the hope that is there. Grandma’s getting better physically not emotionally yet, couldn’t control her anger….sometimes. Did my best to make her laugh whenever I visited her. Tried not to look sad, giving out the HOPE vibes. Praise God.
Our last discipleship, I was contemplating whether to do the third chapter which is really closely related to the fourth one but since I didn’t have the time, I did evangelism with them. It was another great door for another soul. This time was that very-not-literally-little cousin’s sister. She has been a Catholic all this while. She was just happened to come in to my room to grab and read some comic books, but turned out paying attention to our ‘discussion’. She was listening with her heart. Praise God. I reminded them about the ‘bridge’ illustration that they can use it to start a conversation with their friends, and she was puzzled, and the others were just forcing and begging me to tell her about it. So I did, and to my surprise, she didn’t point at the type of person I thought she is. Responded to the Spirit, I asked her why. Why after this so long, she still couldn’t understand what that CROSS really mean? She was opened to share and I was just led by the Spirit explained to her and reminded her that whenever she doubted, just ask someone, or perhaps ask God himself. I blessed them with a prayer and I flew off…. the next day.
I was a bit worried though because they are not really planted in a church yet, I just commit them into His hand, assured that He will protect them.
Everything turned out well by the end of the day, there were actually more great doors opened during those days, praise God, but didn’t seem have the space to pen all them down. God is simply GOOD!
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but
the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out
- Vaclav Havel I finally knew what it means, though still working to apply it. This holiday ended with a happy ending.
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