Sunday, January 17, 2010 @ 8:54 PM
Hey GoP! It's been 2 weeks into school and how have you all been faring? :)
Thinking a lot about homework, exams, stress? On Saturday, 16 Jan Ps Mark preached on He who controls your thoughts, control YOU.
It's especially when the thoughts of school and stress come in, where we have to really guard our thoughts, against thoughts that discourage, thoughts that are evil, and thoughts that are not of God.
Hebrews 11:1 (New International Version)
1Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Recap of Right Thinking, Right Living:
Romans 8:5-6 (New International Version)
5Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6The mind of sinful man[a] is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;
What can we do to start thinking right?
1. Self-Evaluation – Consider what our thinking is like
2. Start to think in God’s way
a. Joshua 1:8 Do not let this Book of Law depart from your mouth; meditate upon it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
b. Meditation is a process that causes our thinking to change
3. Program our thinking
a. Unless our thinking changes, nothing else will change
b. Confess scriptures by mouth
c. Mark 9:23 Everything is possible for him who believes.
d. “Yes, can do!” spirit
e. Recognize that some thoughts may not be from God
f. Reject those thoughts
g. Replace them with scriptural truth
h. Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
i. Colossians 3:1-2 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
4. Hang around with people who are spirit-minded
a. Be a builder of faith!
The Power of The Mind
The mind exercises considerable influence over the body. Many times we are limiting God by our thinking.
a) The mind can cause us to accomplish things or not
b) The mind is capable of making us sick/well
Proverbs 17:22 22 A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
-90% of headaches are caused because of feelings like anxiety or stress
THERE IS A BATTLE FOR OUR MINDS!!
a) How does the devil attack your mind?
b) What can we stand on? CHRIST!
2 Corinthians 5:17 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
Romans 8:1 1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus
c) What do we need to be aware of?
LIES.
“God can never forgive me for what I have done”
“God can never love someone like me”
“I am too small to be used by God”
“I can never forgive her/him for what she/he did to me…”
etc…
Have a great week everyone, guard your thoughts, and DON'T GIVE UP! :)
A Generation called to be deployed into ministry,
building the house of God.
Our Generation, Our Responsibility
**If you are interested in joining any ministries, please discuss it with your leaders first and the HODs too okay (: **
Visual Arts Ministry (VAM)
VAM’s purpose is to help broadcast GoP to the world, to help bring across GoP’s mission and purpose, using visual means. This is because curious people not only want to hear about God and His people; they really want to see for themselves what’s going on. So VAM is set up, because we want to let people know our passion for Christ, and deep love for God and what is happening in GoP.
If you are a visual person, with creativity that you don’t know how to use, we would gladly welcome you to join us as a VAMFIRE, to serve and show your burning FIRE and hunger for Christ! Come join us and let GoP burn even BRIGHTER for Him! :D
You might want to serve as:
• Designers: You’re the one that does the creating and editing of things like posters and cards!
• Blog technicians: Love fiddling around with blogskins? Yes! You’d be the one who would help beautify this very blog that you are reading right now.
• Publisher: You’re especially important in helping the Designers publish theirs works!
• Writers: While we believe looks are important, words are just as important too! You are the blogger and journalist for us!
• Projectionist: We won’t forget the lyrics with you around! You’re the one who also does the powerpoint, and sermon slides!
• Photographers: You’re the one that takes the photos for us, whether it’s events or services, for our use too!
• Videographers: If a picture speaks a thousand words, what about videos! With you around, we’re sure that our precious moments would be captured for a lifetime.
Contact:
Joy Wong
joystonestar@gmail.com
Dance Ministry (Dedi-K-ted)
Dedi-K-ted is the name we go by - Dancing Evangelists who are Disciplined, and have an Intimate relationship with the King, and we're living in the Truth EveryDay. That title alone will most probably speak for itself.
We cater to a wide range of dance styles from hip hop to b-boying to street jazz, and no formal dance background is required. All we need from you is the interest in dance, a heart for serving God and of course the ability to enjoy yourself at the same time. So if you want to impact a generation out there for God using dance as a form of language, this is the ministry for you! Or, just feel free to pop by during our practice sessions to learn and have fun.
We're interested in...
• Dancers! (Any genre, any experience level, the more the merrier)
• Choreographers
• Videographers/Music technicians
Contact:
Melissa Gan
melissa93-@hotmail.com
Music Ministry
Have you heard of Hillsongs, Planetshakers, Audacious, CCC & Etc? Well, we’re proud to present to you GoP Music Ministry. Our aim is to raise Younger Generation Musicians to Serve God passionately and to go into a Deeper, Higher and Stronger relationship with God through worship.
We’re fun-loving people with different kind of musical talents. We not only serve God using our instruments or our voice but we sing worship to the Lord through our inner soul. If you are interested in joining us, what’s stopping?! Come! If you’re not technically equipped, we will help you with that. We JAM, CRASH, SHOUT & PRAY. Our prayer is always that God could use us to bring GoP to the next higher level.
We’re looking for……
• Vocalist
• Guitarist
• Bassist*
• Drummer
• Pianist*
Contact:
Nelson Tay
drazardz@hotmail.com
Ushers
Ushers, like how the name suggest we usher people, welcoming them into the house of God. We tend to be the very first person you see before you enter the service hall.
Here in ushers ministry,we hope to bring joy to all who comes in, to give them a smile in the worst day and a warm hand shake with much love.
To put it simply,we want carry God's joy and love and spread it to everyone else.
Other than that, we provide direction to all the people who are new and lost or ensure that they are going the right place for service. This helps to ensure that they feel a sense of belonging and not helpless, wanted and not ignored.
And of course,passing the offering bags and giving out materials for sermon or events are also part of our wonderful ushering job. :)
Contact:
Pamela Peh
ooooic_87@hotmail.com
L.A Unit
The Logistics and Atmosphere Unit (L.A Unit) was started in 2003 to help connect all the other ministries of CFC together, acting as a “Middle Man” to them. Currently, the L.A Unit provides logistics and manpower services to both GOP and YA, especially during events and parties.
The L.A Unit is divided into 3 different departments, all of which are inter-dependant on one another, which are Admin and Accounts, Manpower and Security.
Departments
• Admin and Accounts
The Admin and Accounts department handles all paper work, catalogues and statistic(acting as the statistic supervisor and the researchers for the Youth Group they play a very important role in helping us understand where we are, have been and is going.)
• Manpower
The Manpower department does all the ground works, from setting up of decorations for an event to clearing up after the even and also for any form of physica labours that CFC or the Church requires help with.
• Security
The Security department provides the safety side of our Youth Group and Church, which handles the flow of crowds, the belongings in specific rooms and to guard money transactions, especially during registration of events and movement of money.
Contact:
Sunny Tupaz
sunnyissaved@hotmail.com
Sound
Having an almighty God gracing our service every week and the bonus of a wonderful music team on the frontline to usher us through the gates of praise, youth service is often the place anyone would want to be at on a Saturday evening.
While the music team's role is to usher the congregation through the gates of praise, the sound ministry is hidden behind the scenes and is responsible for delivering the message and the music with clarity to the congregation.
Your job is mainly to provide and help out in the technical areas throughout the service.
Contact:
Millicent Poh
millicentpoh@hotmail.com
Numb3rs
Our ministry specializes in the administrative side of Generation of Promise, which encompasses accounts, mailing lists, budgets, database and attendance. We possess the expertise for all things meticulous and mathematical.
• Accounts: For events, you're the one helping the committee member in charge of accounts to close it/check for accuracy.
• Database: You're the one updating the database whenever there are new additions to GoP.
• Attendance: TBC
Contact:
Lizzie Liew
my.fascination@gmail.com
