“God’s Perfect Plan”
All praise to God, Friday June 19, 2020, we held another Miracle Day event, a live stream sermon and healing service for the Marketplace. Today’s theme was about God’s ultimate plan in our life, brought by servants of God in Marketplace from such a diverse industries and professions, they are: Tonny Chandra (Fashion Entrepreneur), Muliani Lim (Piling Contractor), Veranita Tampubolon (Auctioneer), Steffani Bobiday (Chemical Industry) and Rebecca Purba (Digital Marketing).
“Return to God’s Ultimate Plan”
Today’s sermon was prompted with the message taken from Jeremiah 29:11 : “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give an expected end”. Many times we imposed upon the fact that our goal of life is what the world has to offer for us. Whereas surpassing our resolution plan, God has already set our future that is not merely limited on this earth, furthermore to the eternal life.
However when sin came to humanity, we lost such privilege on receiving God’s ultimate plan. Nevertheless for God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). Therefore praise the Lord, we have hope in Jesus Christ to be given what we had lost before.
Even more so, after we attain God’s sanctification, we are called to be the agent of change representing His Kingdom, showing that we are no less than the Apostles, utilized for His great commission. So the congregations were invited to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and following to that, a prayer for those people who wanted to present their life for God lead by Muliani Lim.
“Whichever Comes to Hand, Jesus Understands”
The service continued with the message about God’s healing miracle, taken from John 5:1-9. It is a story about a man, who stationed himself on the side pool of Bethesda. He had been disabled for thirty eight years. Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk. Immediately the man was healed”. Regardless our state of life, Jesus knows exactly our physical and spiritual distress. Truly He is the answer of all in the presence of our faith.
The service proceed with praying for God’s people in need, especially the ones who were enduring any sickness. Steffani Bobiday was leading the congregation in prayer for healing miracles as promised in 1 Peter 2:24 how Jesus bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness, by His stripes we were healed. As this live stream was occurring, we received some prayer requests to our call center and many came to Jesus Christ and received healing.
As Jesus followers, especially positioned by God in the Marketplace, we have a duty to intercede for our nation of Indonesia, primarily during the transition to a new normal in regards with Covid-19 pandemic. The prayers were lead by Muliani Lim and Steffani Bobiday.
Concluding the service, the congregation was encouraged to be a blessing witness to each of their local Christian office fellowship and not to hesitate reaching to our call center for prayer request and to notify healing testimonies as well. A gentle reminder was given as well, and that is to comply with government regulation in effort to put an end for this Corona pandemic, and as well aclosing prayer brought by Rebecca Purba. Glory to Jesus who had touched so many lives today. Amen.
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