It was encouraging to see the leaders embracing the idea and signing up for the slots willingly and eagerly. The day before the 75 hours began, there were still 3 empty slots (between 2-4am) and I was prepared for it to be so. But that night, I received phone calls from two members expressing their desire to take up two slots.

 

By the next morning, just after the Opening service, word came to me that the Cluster Leaders decided to take an additional hour and that was how all the slots were finally taken.

 

It was truly the Lord Himself who was at work, stirring the hearts of our people and filling all the hours on the schedule. What was sticking was the amazing timing -- that as the 75 hours began 29th Dec, the last hour was taken up.

 

The Lord did not stop there.

 

At the Opening service, it was evident that the Lord’s peaceful presence descended upon is as we lifted up our hearts to worship Him.

 

I had the opportunity to join a few groups and the experience was beautiful - as each group worshipped the Lord in their own creative way - through Scriptures and silence, through hymns and confession, and through honest and heartfelt conversational prayers of thanks, uttered by individuals whose families and lives had been touched by the Lord in the past year.

 

And God was graciously present in all these hours, no matter the form and manner of worship and prayers as hearts were turned towards Him in praise.

 

I am deeply grateful to God for this experience of seeing His amazing hand at work in this event and to experience His faithful presence among us. I believe that the Lord has done a spiritual work in us through this time of worship and prayer as a church. May the Lord’s great name be praised!

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Testimonies

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I took the 1-2 am worship and prayer slot on 1 January 2007. There were only five of us but, boy, was the worship intense. And God, being the wonderful God that He is, came and stood among us as we worshipped Him. And as we approached Him and entered into His presence, we could not help but stand in awe of Him. There was nothing else more appropriate that we could have done.

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God has revealed Himself to us as the Awesome God. And that word, "awesome”, should only be reserved for Him. Matt Redman says that we have become too frivolous with the word "awesome". Too often, we mis-use the word and say that the burger is awesome, or the movie was awesome, or the football team was awesome. No. The Bible says that awesome-ness belongs only to God. So, I've decided to reserve that word "awesome" to ONLY describing God. I shared this as we worshipped. And we all realised the truth. Only God is awesome.

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God has been faithful to our church for 75 years. We need to show our faithfulness to Him. We've taken his blessings for granted far too often. One way we can do this is to acknowledge and worship Him as the one true, only, Awesome God. Let's reserve all our praise, worship, exaltation and adoration for Him. Shalom!

– Eugene Cheong

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My cell group gathered in the Haven room with an expectant heart to meet the Lord. As I stood before His altar, with a lighted candle on it, I felt as if I had entered His court and throne room. The peace of Jesus transcended upon me beyond comprehension.

 

During the worship, the Lord gave me His Word in Isaiah 29:17-19 and 22-24 that promised spiritual transformation, renewal of minds, unity and harmony in our church. The scripture also spoke of the next generation's acknowledgement of His holiness, commitment to keep His name holy and their awe for our God.

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My cell member, Irene Shu, received a vision from the Lord. It was a huge ship that represented Noah's ark in Genesis 8:20-21. The Lord desires us to worship Him, and to present our lives holy and blameless before Him, which is our spiritual act of worship (Romans 12:1). This was confirmed by the word that was impressed upon the heart of our cell leader, Irene Goh, that we are to remain holy and righteous. We believe that the Lord is at work in our church right now both to will and do His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13).

– Maureen Kam

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We were quite nervous as it was a new experience for us to be in church during the wee hours before the Lord. When we saw the Hope Mission members worshipping, we felt very small as each one of us had to hold a song sheet in our hands and sing without musical instruments. The simple Hokkien tune that we sang gave us much more confidence to come to HIS throne of grace.

– Kenneth Fok

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During the Healing Service, I prayed for my second son, Marc, who was not in church with us. He had a local inflammation of the skin (boil) about two weeks before, and it had gotten worse one week later. That night at the healing service I committed this to the Lord. I claimed that the boil be burst open in the Name of Jesus. The next day, the boil broke and bled. Praise The Lord!

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I was ministered by the way the children of Ernest Seah's cell group joined the worship and prayer at their slot on 31 December 2006. God impressed upon my heart that the children are very important in the life of PLMC. They are the leaders of the next generation and as we nurture them, they will in turn nurture their children's children. I shared with the children how important they are in God's Kingdom. I reminded them that Jesus said in Luke 18:16 "Let the children come to me."

 

During Ernest's slot at 8pm on Sunday, 31 December, a stranger walked into the Haven when we were praying. I spoke to him after our slot was over and found out that he is all alone in Singapore, without a place to stay. His name is Calvin and he had just been released from prison. He was supposed to meet up with the Pastor of a church in Serangoon Gardens but the Pastor was not able to keep the appointment. He walked into Trinity Methodist Church but could not find anyone. Finally, he walked to Boundary Road where he found help and solace in our church, and all because we had people praying in church over the 75 hours of worship and prayer. Thank God that He chose to use us. Glory To God.

– John Lim

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The 75-hr worship and prayer event has brought our cell group even closer together through the preparation process and in leading various aspects of the worship session.

 

A key thought from our worship session came through the song "Through it all” - “You are forever in my life; You see me through the seasons. Cover me with Your hand; And lead me in Your righteousness. And I look to You; And I wait on You." The Lord has blessed many cell members particularly over the past year, seeing us through and providing for us over very difficult times. We thank God for his faithfulness and are assured of His continued watch over us in many seasons to come, just as the psalmist says in Psalm 121- that our Help comes from the Lord ... He who watches over us will not slumber. Our response was to sing to Him a hymn of love for His faithfulness to us - and that was how it all came through in our worship session and as we continue to serve him in the Missions field and the music ministry.

– Cho Hiong

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During our worship and prayer session, I felt in the spirit to pray specifically for our youth - to challenge our youth with God's Vision and to commit our youth to God's Mission, especially as they will be constantly surrounded by the world's values.

– Hoe Meng