Addicted with Facebook Games

It has been two weeks that I noticed that I have already been addicted to Facebook games.  It has caught my attention; so sticky that in the past few days, I noticed that I am almost online monitoring Facebook activities the whole days for almost a week now.

It all started with FarmVille, I thought it was just a game and something to relax with.  And it did helped me relaxed.  And here comes Farm Town, which was more exciting than FarmVille.  I get to hire people to harvest and plow for me.  I really felt rich because I have 3 million in cash.  I was even kidding myself that at least virtually I am rich.  Now, hear comes Friends for Sale.  I was only curious but also got hooked.  Imaging my value is not more than 30 million and I have around 70 million in cash (virtually).  This is really addictive.  I really felt that my attention to more important stuffs are being neglected, like my book reading and some of my visitation and follow-up work.

Maybe this is also an effect because I have started to refrain myself from any major work and issues in the church since I am almost done with my contract.  This does not mean that I have neglected my responsibilities but I have refrain from doing new stuffs and entails long term attention.  So far, I am still very faithful in coming to church 6 am everyday to pray for UECP and the spiritual nourishment of our church members.  This has been going on since August 1.

Because of these Facebook stuffs, I believe they are not healthy for me.  I did not bring my laptop yesterday to church so that I can focus on my reading and STOP playing Facebook games.  So far, it has been quite awhile already that I have not planted anything in my farms with FarmVille and Farm Town.

I praise God for calling my attention to this... hehehe.  Self-control truly comes from the Holy Spirit.

First Item Answered Through DawnWatch

I praise God for answering our prayer.  For the past few days, we have been praying for our church members to be more prayerful.  This is the only target as for now and yesterday's prayer meeting has already reached 91 attendees... Isn't that amazing... some people might say this is just coincidence - but there is not coincidence with my Jesus.

Inviting all of you UECP members out their to join us everyday 6 am in the morning at the 5th floor prayer room.

Prayer really works!!!!

Shifting DawnWatch

Our number attending DawnWatch has been fluctuating from two to six people.  So far, I believe this is good.  Small in number makes it more exciting.

Rather than the regular praying for an hour with praises and loud prayers, I shifted the meeting to a more solemn prayer meeting.  We start with Quiet Time and listening to music.  We also ask God what He wants us to pray rather than focusing on a long prayer list.  Then, comes the Scripture.  We are focused on going through the book of John.  A little discussion and application for the day for all of us.  Then praying out loud to God for UECP.  The focus of our prayer meeting for the past week is to pray for the church leaders, pastors and the spiritual life of members.  We are very particular in stating the names of people in the church and the focus was for them to become more prayerful; enjoying prayer time, sensitivity to prayer, prayer all the time, and of course attending church prayer meeting.

I think this is more acceptable since we do not only focus on prayer but learning from the Scripture together.  It is like a daily Bible Study but short ones.  I felt that this is also a good opportunity to accompany church members in doing devotion; like an OJT on quiet time, devotion and prayer time all in one.  It seems fun doing this.  At least they got to experience how to really do this spiritual disciplines with an exact model on how to do it.

The sharing was great but I have to control time in order not to neglect the main purpose - to pray.  Praise the Lord for His wisdom and His desire to call us to have relationship with Him.

Last Contribution?

After the exciting anniversary I was telling myself - what next?  Spring has come and the cold winter was over.  So??? Hmmmm... I was praying for our church and then suddenly, I was thinking what is the best thing I can leave with my mother church that I hope to last???

Since I can no longer be doing any major project or activity because I have leaving... What I can only do is really to pray for UECP.  And I remembered the DawnWatch prayer meeting I organized and disbanded some years ago.  I said, maybe I can reorganized this and I think this is what our church needs more to answer the question - what next?

So, crazily, I asked some of those who joined the previous DawnWatch prayer meeting to reconsider joining me in this journey of praying for UECP.  Before it was once week, this time I wanted it daily.  Are you crazy?  I was asked.

I remembered my visit in Korea where the churches there have their DawnWatch prayer meeting daily.  They have several schedule 4 am, 5 am, 6 am, and 7 am.  The churches are packed with thousands of believers going to church early morning to pray.  So, I said to myself this is possible.

And today, we launch and 6 of us came 6 am in the morning to start praying for UECP.  Praise the Lord!