What happened

If you came in at around 7:30p.m. you probably would've walked into this:

Icebreaker was something we haven't done in a long time: Alien Invasion!:D

After stumbling about in the dark, it's time to continue on to worship:

This week's was kinda different as we sang not one, but two Malay songs.

Okay time for an important announcement!

This Saturday, we'll be having a small fundraiser for Daniel Tan who's gonna go on a mission trip to Cambodia. So, do bring money in advance and he'll be sharing more about it:)

And yep time to move on to:

Young preachers' night! First up, Lester Wan, our resident announcer.

Lester shared on spiritual warfare.

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." - Ephesians 6:12 (NKJV)

Satan has chosen a battleground: people's minds.

It's spiritual war we're in: cannot be fought with physical weapons.

BUT,

¹³ You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. ¹⁴ He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵ In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross - Colossians 2:13-15 (NLT)

Satan has already lost.

His primary weapon against us: guilt. Our's against that: grace.

Put on your spiritual armour! (Eph. 6:10-17)

Don't give up the battle midway, and stay united - like how the Greeks had their phalanxes.

Weapons of attack that we have: prayer (supermissile!) and preaching ("Does not my word burn like fire?" - Jere 23:29a), among others.

When we speak Gd's words, it won't return empty.

Giving a testimony is speaking from your own experience that relates to the word of God.

Next up, the extremely seasoned preacher, old and experienced:

Pope Ben Yeoh!

So first we watched a video on the story of Blondin:

And thanks to modern technology, you can watch it now too!

It all boils down to trust.

⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
⁶ in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight. - Proverbs 3:5-6

God wants to direct our paths; we just have to trust. It's our responsibillity to put our faith in him.

'Trust in the LORD' was mentioned 180 times in the old Testament. To trust is to place our confidence in or put our weight on something/somebody. We need to listen to God in everything we do and be ready to receive from Him.

'Lean not on your own understanding.' Don't keh gao gao! As Prov 3:7 says, don't be wise in your own eyes. Or in Romans 12:16 - don't be conceited (have an excessive favourable opinion of one's own ability'. We need to admit that we don't know everything; sometimes we're just plain wrong.

'In all your ways submit to God,' don't divide your life into 'sacred' and 'secular'. God doesn't only care about what we do in church. God doesn't only care about Bible reading and not TV-watching, or where we give our money and not where we get our money from. God wants to break the sacred-secular wall and be in all our life.

'He will make your paths straight' - it's a promise! The results are always good when we trust in Him. God's idea of a path is not always what we want and sometimes there'll be challenges and we'll begin to doubt, but all this just teaches us to trust in God with all our hearts.

In conclusion, get into the: