JUST GOT BACK FROM ENCOUNTER CAMP!!!!!!! =D=D=D
1) for the first time, i truly, whole-heartedly accepted God into my life, surrendering all i am unto him.
2) we burned sin-lists. we basically got given a list of sins (A LONG LIST!) and tick those we have commited. and there's also a page to write a personal note for God. it was very meaningful. most of us broke down into tears. even the guides broke down into tears as they prayed for us individually. we watched a 'music video' kinda thing for "passion of the christ".
it really touched all of us, and made us just.. truly realise alot more about God's love. jr prayed for me, i felt really touched by her words. once we felt we were ready, we would go outside the salvation army building to kneel in front of a cross and burn our sin-lists. and we could just pray to God in front of the cross.
as i burned my list, i began to tear, then one of the guides knelt down beside me and prayed for me, she said almost the exact same things that jr had said. and both of them had said that they felt God wanted to tell me all the things that they had prayed for me about. i started tearing like a madman.
it really touched me that god sent TWO people to pray for me. it touched me even more that both jr and another guide started to cry as they prayed for me because they felt the pain i was feeling although they didn't know the exact cause of my pain.
when i went back into the hall, another guide came and prayed for me, ALSO about the same thing (but she didn't cry. instead, she read me a verse from the bible to encourage me, haha). again, i started tearing because now it was THREE people whom God had sent to pray for me.
3) we had a session on "forgiveness". the last part of the session was to ask people who had difficulties forgiving people to stand up and allow a guide to pray for them. i stood up. that session, i didn't cry. i broke down into muffled sobs. i sobbed my heart out.
it made things harder when the guide who was praying for me asked me to explain everything to her. i told the guide everything then the guide prayed for me. i was the last person to leave the room because i couldn't stop sobbing my eyes out (okay, jr was with me, so yeah, she talked to me for abit too).
4) i finally took a step to ask God to heal me from all feelings i have as a bisexual (in other words, make me straight). i shared a short testimony about it in front of everyone. and they all prayed for me. i really feel very touched and truly blessed. i feel so loved~! >___<
ENCOUNTER WAS SO FUN! much better than i expected, to be honest.
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