Faith

Dear brothers and sisters and friends of GMC,

I have been preaching a lot about faith. My frustration is that very often we cannot exercise our faith. The simple reason is because we normally cannot see what God sees. As a pastor (servant of God) I see what God sees. And we cannot see because we are only depending on our own calculation and wisdom.

When we cannot see help coming or the resources needed, normally, we hesitate to act and believe because we are not convinced that God will provide. There are times; we cannot even exercise our faith to trust God to provide for our needs even though the word of say so. Take for instance, when we go out to preach the gospel, we can so scared as if we do not the presence of God with us. What do we do with Acts 1:8,9 where we are told that the Holy Spirit empowers us when we go to make disciples of all nations.

George Muller, a great man of faith, once said, “God delights to increase the faith of His Children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God’s hand as a means. I say – and say it deliberately – trials, obstacles, difficulties, and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.”

Disciples of Jesus, I pray in the name of Jesus, you stand up for Jesus, and make a difference for Him in your marriage, parenting, mission, relationships, ministries, etc. It is no challenge for you to work for things that will not last for eternity. It is a very big challenge to serve God and make your life count for Jesus and what you bear eternal values. It will be so when you exercise your faith to do the will of God. Will You?

A disciple who is dear to the heart of Jesus,
Pastor Law
(26th March, 2009)

Edited and posted by Teresa Han

All disciples of Jesus out there,

I write to you with my strongest conviction that this blog can make a difference for Jesus. One reason is people spend so much time with the internet. And you are one of them. A lot of times, a lot of people do not pay attention to the newspaper, tv news and other media, but they pay attention to internet. This is their lifestyle. GMC wants to tap on this habit and help these people to become disciples of Jesus. I pray those who come to our blog will be blessed in the following ways:

a. They will get church information and pray that God’s will be done.
b. They will be touched by what GMC has done for Jesus in disciple making and it will help them to move on and make more disciples.
c. They will sign up for ministries and step forward to serve God.
d. They will introduce GMC to others so that they will know Christ and be saved to become a disciple of Jesus.
e. They will make GMC as a reference or a resource in disciple making.
f. You will feel the need to contribute articles that build up one another’s faith and become strong disciples of Jesus.

Disciple of Jesus,
Pastor Law
(1st March, 2009)

Edited and posted by Teresa Han

Prayers

Dear faithful disciples of GMC and friends who are out there,

It is with great conviction that I write this message. We are now practicing 40 days of fast and prayer in view of the Lent which will end on 11th April. On the 12th April, there will be Easter Celebration. To make the day most meaningful, we encourage disciples of Jesus in GMC to donate 100 bags of rice for the poor.

Also, in view of the Lent, every morning we meet at 6 to 7 am. I want to appeal to you in the name of Jesus, that you must at least come one time. I know it is not so easy to sacrifice our sleep but remember how Lord Jesus Christ sacrifices His life for us. You think and imagine how much He loves; you should find no problem to wake up earlier than usual.

I pray that you should at least grasp the Saturday and Sunday mornings to come and pray. Give God a chance to touch you through early morning prayers.

Praise Lord for answering our prayers as now we have 11 persons who will be going for Kapit Mission trip (24th to 28th April). The exciting thing about this team is that there are new people going.

In the most powerful name of Jesus Christ I write,
Pastor Law
(23rd March, 2009)

Edited and posted by Teresa Han

Penan Missions and Parenting group

Dear GMC brothers and sister, friends and all whom God loved,

Penan Missions

I pray that as you see the photos in this website, you see the hand of God at work in GMC. You see that we are making disciples of all nations. I pray that you are amazed by the pictures of Penan children, youths and adults. After my 2 visits to the 5 out of 7 Penan long houses at Belaga/ Bakun, ever since, I cannot stop talking about it to people and I pray about it.

The heart cry of the Penan people is for missionaries to be sent there to teach their children in education; and also to send BM speaking pastors there. Praise the Lord, we have 2 sisters from Trinity Methodist Church (Kuching) who have made up their minds to go. They were on the team of our visit there. We need to pray for another 12 to be sent there. This is a long term ministry which we must and the whole of Sarawak Chinese Annual Conference. Can the whole annual conference come out with anther 12 persons by the end of this year? Let us pray hard.

Parenting group in GMC

Yesterday I visited sister Siew Yiew’s parenting group. Praise the Lord for the openness in sharing about parenting. One non Christian was there for the second time and she even said that after the first meeting, it helped her parenting. She confessed that the sisters’ open sharing about parenting helped her. Praise the Lord our church is making disciples even through parenting group.

I pray that Jesus empowers you all to make disciples in your ministries.

In the most powerful name of Jesus I write,

Pastor Law

(13^th March, 2009)

Posted and edited by Teresa Han

Penan Mission Survey at Bakun-Murum Kapit Division 2nd – 4th March 2009

Posted by Peter Yong,narrated by Peter Ting
Penan Mission(Movie Clip click on this link)

Reaching out to the needs of the Penan.

Greeting

Dear brothers and sisters and friends out there,

I pray that you all understand why Jesus must be human being and not anything else.

The creator of the universe is so wise that He knows if he does not incarnate to be a human being, we will not be able to know how to worship personally. So, now, can you imagine with me the person Jesus, who understands our needs? You can tell Him your struggles and all the dissatisfaction in your lives. And see what happens. I pray that you will hear from Him. Because you ask, seek and you shall find.

God loves you.

Pastor Law

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Thank you.

From GMC Blog Committee.

Prayer Needs

Pray that we are excited about word became flesh and we find that the word of God is so real, personal and practical to us.

Thank God for the successful Belaga mission servey of the 7 Penan longhouses. Pray that another 12 missionaries can be sent there by December 2009.

Pray for more people coming to pray at 6am - 7am during the Lent.

Pray for more manpower to come toward to serve in BB & GB.

Pray for the health of: Michelle Chong, Alfred Sim, How Siew Yew, Julia Chin and Uncle Samuel.