week 23

Prayer Pointers this week



I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. - John 16:33, NIV



For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

-1 John 2:16-17, NIV





This world brings about many troubles and makes us worried about our lives – Are we going to get GPA 4.0? Are we going to pass our test? What will my friends think of me? These worries are brought by the world. These may be ‘urgent’ but it leads us away from the ‘important’. The ‘important’ is the will of God! Soon, all the world and its desires will pass away. We should be more focused on the eternal reward rather than the immediate reward!



How do we take away all the troubles of the world then? Jesus said that ‘in Me you may have peace’. We have to commit ourselves to walking in the power of the Holy Spirit and submit to him such that we can be ‘in him’. Then, there will be peace for Jesus has overcome the world!



Let us focus more on the will of God than on the world and its desires.



Prayer Pointer this week:

- Pray that we can walk more in the Holy Spirit and that we will submit to him.

- Pray that we will focus more on the will of God than on the world and its desires

- Pray for salvation in 1D, 1L, 1P and 1Q

- Pray for the blessings to remove the work of the devil.

week 22

Prayer Pointers – Community



May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.

-Gen 28:3, NIV, emphasis added.



God’s mission for us cannot be done only be one person, there has to be a community. God will continue to bless us and make us fruitful, increasing the numbers until there is a community. That’s the true importance of community for God’s miracles can only be seen where the people of God is as a community.



Last week when I was doing prayer walk around RI and RJC with my fren, I realized one thing – how important it is to have more than one person with you to do the work of God. Nobody can do it alone. There has to be a community. These can be seen in the bible.



For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."

- Matt 18:20, NIV



How could one man chase a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,

- Deut 32:30, NIV



How do we live in communities? We have to pray together, we have to have fellowship with each other, we have to encourage each other. As we do the work of God, we have to grow TOGETHER before we can accomplish the will of God. We have to get together in Jesus’ name for Jesus to be with us. We need to be together to see greater miracles – 1 men chase 1000, 2 men put 10000 to flight. That’s the power in numbers. God wants us to be together!



Prayer Pointers this week:

- Pray that we will grow together in a community

- Pray for miracles to happen as we grow as one.

- Pray for salvation and revival in 1D, 1L, 1P and 1Q

- Pray for more open hearts in this season of blessings.

Prayer Pointers Week 21



But take this staff in your hand so you can perform miraculous signs with it. – Exodus 4:17, NIV



Moses had a staff in his hand as his job required him to have it. Moses used something normal and natural to do miracles! Moses just lifted up his staff, miracles happened! Wouldn’t it be amazing to actually have these kind of staff?



But is it only Moses that has a ‘miracle staff’? David had a ‘miracle sling and stone’ that defeated Goliath when thousands of warriors could not defeat him. What if just anyone was to take a sling and stone and fight a great army warrior that defeated many? Would he be able to defeat him? Very unlikely. What’s the difference then?



God told Moses in Exodus 4 to use his staff as something that can do miracles. God asked Moses to use what he had then! How about us? Our weapons are the gifts that God has given us, whether in our marketplace or anywhere. Even if they do not seem like they’re gifts, like Moses just had a normal staff, they can still be used by God. They are given to you for a purpose, so don’t misuse it!



Prayer Pointers this week:

- Pray that God will show you what your ‘staff’ is.

- Pray that God will guide you in faith to do miracles with that ‘staff’

- Pray for salvation in revival in 1D, 1L, 1P and 1Q

- Pray for the spiritual climate to be changed.

Prayer Pointers - Changing the Spiritual Climate

For this milestone 20 weeks, I will be sharing more of Ed Silvoso’s Marketplace Transformation Conference this few weeks, for we are marketplace ministers, ready to bless others!

“When you enter a house, first say, 'Peace to this house.' If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; if not, it will return to you. Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
"When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is set before you. Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.'
-Luke 10: 5-9, NIV

If we were to study the book of Luke, we’ll find that from chapters 1-9, there is a very hostile spiritual climate. However, in chapters 11 onwards, there is a much more favorable spiritual climate. What caused the change? Luke 10! What is in Luke 10 that caused the change of the spiritual climate? The event was Jesus sent out the seventy two. But was it just about sending out the seventy-two? No! Jesus gave them specific instructions. What were those instructions?


1) Bless - “When you enter a house, first say, 'Peace to this house.'

2) Fellowship - Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you

3) Minister to felt needs - Heal the sick who are there

4) Proclaim - tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.'



What have we done with this order? We have reversed it! We cannot go share the gospel first, then minister to felt needs, then have fellowship with them, then bless them! It does not work that way. This would not change the spiritual climate, unless it is done correctly. When we change the spiritual climate, there will be more lives transformed by God!



He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.

Luke 10:2, NIV



Let us start by blessing people. Fellowship with your friends, find out their needs. Pray for them and then proclaim the kingdom of God coming to them. The harvest is plentiful! If you do not act on your faith and do not overcome all the fear and shyness, you cannot reap the plentiful harvest! God’s time has come for churches around Singapore, God’s time has come for our school! Let us invite the Lord to become Lord of our school!



Prayer Pointers this week:

- Pray for empowerment and courage to bless, have fellowship, minister and proclaim to others

- Pray for the Lord to become the Lord of the school

- Pray for salvation to work in 1D, 1L, 1P and 1Q.

- Pray for Satan’s works to be destroyed in the students as we bless others

Prayer Pointers - Week 19

God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. - Psalm 53:2, NIV

For day after day they seek me out;
they seem eager to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that does what is right
and has not forsaken the commands of its God.
They ask me for just decisions
and seem eager for God to come near them.
- Isaiah 58:2, NIV


Seeking God is a very important thing in the Christian life, it allows you to throw away all hindrances, it allows you to throw away all distractions, all sin that entangles you. It allows you to continue to persevere in serving God. Why? Because you would do anything to seek God! You would not seek Man's approval, you seek God's approval! That's mainly the reason why people are fearful to share the gospel or go bless people. We seek Man's approval more than God's approval! We think more of what others think of us than what God thinks of us!

What does God look down from heaven to look at? People who understand that God's agenda is more important than our agenda. People who seek God above all and choose the important and not the urgent. People who understand that whatever we do for our agenda now only has a reward for a period of time and will fade away, but what we do for God's agenda has its eternal reward waiting. Which do you want?

Would it matter if others think badly of you if God would be proud of you? You make the decision!

Prayer Pointers this week:
- Pray for a heart to seek God always
- Pray for all the hindrances of fear, distractions, sin...etc. to be thrown away as we set our hearts on seeking the Lord
- Pray for salvation and revival in 1D, 1L, 1P and 1Q
- Pray that the blessings would remove all the blindfold that it has on non-believers