we BELIEVE for prayers ANSWEREDokok, before I forget, which i'm pretty sure I will, in like; seconds, I better put this down on virtual paper =P
1st cell of the year!
we started cell with an absolutely hilarious gel, coutersy of Odi and I; a game called: SOMEONE SAVE ME! (name formulated on the spot because that was what we heard players call out most often ;P). We would play the devils, and everyone else were the "people": Net, Gitiong, Faith, Cereal, Clarice, Daniel, and Mocca were given a lifeline of 10 tokens (we realised that was too many if we wanted someone to "die" in 10mins by losing all his/ her tokens) and were allowed to "flee from us" before we came to "kill, steal and destroy" (muahahaha~) by speaking against them. The catch was, the victim we caught and spoke to was not to defend him/ herself, but other people was to defend him/ her by speaking a blessing/ care act to counter the enemy, and sacrifice his/her lifeline by handing 2 tokens to the victim. If not, we would take the victim's tokens. Mind you, the person with the least tokens at the end of the game would lose and do the forfiet; a fact which we cheerfully emphasised from the start. Everyone was too ready to sacrifice though; we should have made it harder to sacrifice, like maybe 5 tokens per sacrifice >=)
Anyway, at the end we revealed that the purpose of our game was to illustrate how it may seem foolish to the world to give of yourself to someone else, in effort to love them, especially under such circumstances, when everyone is trying to protect just oneself. And you do this just because you love and trust God enough to provide. Yup, you guessed it; we intended to illustrate how in loving God, we loved our neighbours and though it may seem tough at first, but we will have abundent life in the end. In this case, our forfiet was to recieve a prize from Odi and I (hehe, we have yet to get the prize >.<) That marked the start of our Glorify, when we had the opportunities to share of testimonies from 2008, of how we have experienced that for ourselves. (hint hint: feel free to post the testimonnies you shared in cell here k? =P) Then Net lead us in vision casting (Bro Andrew joined us here), where we broke off into 3 strategic groups of 3 to sense for God's heart for our cell in prayer, before coming back to consolidate all these. The points which were affirmed (this means another group sensed the same thing, or something similar) twice or more were:
among these, other pointers affirmed only within the groups were:
Vision casting was like, woooah: Gitiong, Odi and Edwin (all in the same group) all had different visions which were sort of connected (I'll leave them to blog their visions, yar?) and it looks like God has quite a bit to place within us!
Bro andrew then went on to enforce, once again that truth, adapted from Luke 10: 25-28. In loving God with all our hearts, and loving our neighbours as ourselves, he then encouraged us to challenge each other by asking each questions like, "hey, how's your relationship with God doing?" or "How's your time alone with God?", regardless of position in cell. (Members are highly to ask their cell leader or SP's about such things as well.) We could also do care acts to care for each other. In doing so, we would be able to experience life abundantly.
Just as were ending off, Cereal spoke up and made a really imporant point: "now that we've said all these, what are we gonna do about it?" She was genuinely serious about everything we had put just put together then, and she was like, " so next week, everyone bring a friend!"
So we ended off with prayer, and gear up for Vday! note to all NP folks: ok, I know that it's right smack in the middle of our exam period, but hey, faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see; let's see what's God gonna do about this one, shall we? ;P
taby
