Hand In Hand With God

Back to my journal… what should I write? I asked for some feedbacks in my last post, but all I had was a reply by Claire who answered me with regards to some technical issues on setting up my template, which I couldn’t figure out anyway.

Heck! Forget about all the links and site meter, these journals are meant for myself and those “called” into this page. If everything is planned by God, then there must be a reason why you are in here reading this right? Since you are here, let me share the most profound secret that I recently encountered. Hand in hand with God. Sounds ridiculous? Read on!

I used to challenge my Christian friends over my last 28 years (ok, I only started to talk when I was one-year-old and only knew God when I first watched Ne Zha fighting with Er Lang Sheng!) if there is a God, then show me how God looks like. Many times, they were pissed off by my comments and decided to leave me alone. Now that I’m saved by Jesus, I have been asking Him to reveal himself to me, not just Words and Scriptures, but more intimately…

It was last Wednesday, 13th of April, I was back home around 10 plus pm. After reading Apostle Of Hope, I was so inspired by our Founder that he normally spent 2 hours doing quiet time with God everyday (1 hour in the morning 5am and 1 hour before sleep). The most captivating moments was his first encounter with God and the Holy Spirit when he went back to his hostel while studying in Australia late one night after celebrating his campus mate birthday, he fell to the ground and started to speak in tongues and wept. Although I had been Holy Spirit baptized, I’m always very amazed about such sudden encounter, as if God suddenly wanted to “communicate” with you out of the blue.

That night, there was only one thing in my mind that was to start doing 1-hour quiet time with God each day, before following the example set by our Founder, which is doing 2 hours each day. I had brought back my laptop so that I could play my Hillsongs in my room and I could fully indulge myself to Christ, My Saviour. As usual, I did my praise and worship (a soft one though as my parents and my brother were sleeping in the other rooms) and prayers in words and tongues. As I opened my eyes, it was only half an hour… probably it was due to a long day work, I got really tired seating on my bed, hence decided to lie back onto my bed and listened to the worship songs instead.

“This is also quiet time right?” I thought. I even spread out my hands on my bed as if I was opening up to God. As I lay on my bed enjoying the soothing music, I cheekily asked God to fill me up with the Holy Spirit so that I could last for the next half an hour in case I fell asleep. It was this cheekiness that I would never forget as I encountered the power of Holy Spirit! I felt some wind tickling down my fingertips. Though I knew the aircon was blowing directly at me, I sensed that it was a different type of feeling. It was as if someone was holding onto your fingers. I knew it was the Holy Spirit coming upon me, because this was the kind of feeling I encountered when I was worshipping in church during Sunday services. I felt joy flooding into my body and soul, even though I was feeling very tired…
Overwhelmed by this feeling, I prayed to God that He squeezed me tightly to give me an assurance that the room was filled with the Holy Spirit and true enough, I felt someone holding onto my hand. It was really awesome! I knew God was with me that night! Feeling overjoyed, I wanted to worship Him, my Savior. I prayed to God again that this time round He lifted both my hands up so that I could worship Him. The next moment, I felt my hands were both lifted slightly, next to my hand and eventually my whole arms were lifted towards the ceiling!

Oh my God, nothing could deny this experience. I could really feel the physical touch of the Holy Spirit! Both my hands raised in the air as if someone was pulling from the ceiling. I felt energized and joy flooding into my whole body. Joyful tears flowed out of my eyes, rolling now into the back of my head. I was empowered by God, no doubt about that!

For several minutes, my hands were hanging in the air without feeling numb or tired. The worship songs were so beautiful and the experience was certainly divine! If you think that I had enough, then you are totally wrong. Hungry for more, I requested for a last prayer; that was to ask the Holy Spirit to lift my body up from lying position into sitting. It sounded like I was asking for too much as I recalled Jesus saying in Mathew 4:7 “…Do not put the Lord your God to the test.” “Am I crazy?” I thought.

What happened the next moment was the most shocking experienced that I ever encountered in my life! I felt something was lifting my head… then to my neck… next to my shoulder… and my back… until I was completely sat up, with my 2 hands rising towards the ceiling! Hallelujah! This was the ultimate experience in my life! I knew for sure that these experiences were not from my own strength as I was dead tired after a long day of work.

There I was sitting on my bed, hands raised, mouth rattling in tongues, enjoying the intimate experience that God had granted me! It was as if I was lifted into heaven. There I was experiencing the grace and touch of God, communicating in a divine setting. I immediately prayed for everything that I could pray for: my family salvation, my business partners salvation, the church, my CG, Joel’s CG, Irving’s CG, Elaine’s unit, David’s unit, Tuesday prayer meet, Reina’s spiritual growth, my business and everything that just came into mind! I knew this was the moment I should never miss praying for. I thank God for this encounter as I felt “reborned” again…

Dear friends, this I called experiencing God “Hand-In-Hand”. If anyone of you still doubted God, then my best heartfelt advise is to ask you to invite Jesus into your life now and start to pray in your own words (with Faith), that you confess your sins and allow Jesus to be your savior and your Father in your life. Trust me, you will have your own personal encounter with God! I hereby give my prayers who are reading this right now!

May God be with you. In Jesus name, Amen.