- Why now only post?
- That was like ages ago, man!
- There was a camp?
Well I hope the last question won't pop up in any of your mind because there WAS a camp! First of all, we wanna apologize for the 1 month + delay of this post. We youths are quite busy people too. But on the brighter side, this post is a reminder of what we have learned in the camp, that we should be CHAMPS, it's OK to be an "Obed-Edom", our faith should be like the lady who bled for 12 years. Here's the 1st review.
Plenary sessions with Ps Chris Long:
The Making of A Champion!
As shared by Pastor Christopher Long, Esau despised this firstborn inheritance by exchanging it for a bowl of food. Jacob was a real trickster (deceiver). The scriptures showed us how Jacob deceived Esau twice to take his birthright from him. Because of this, Esau purposed to kill his younger brother, Jacob. Thus Jacob escaped Esau and flew to stay with his uncle, Laban for twenty years.
20 years later, Jacob returned to the land of his grandfather, as told by God. And as Jacob & his family were on their way back to Canaan, God appeared to Jacob in a very special away and changed Jacob's name.
In Genesis 32: It states that Jacob wrestled with a man till daybreak. And when the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. The man said: Let me go, for it is daybreak. But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go until you bless me". The man asked him,
“What is your name?"
"Jacob," he answered.
Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."
In Genesis 32: It states that Jacob wrestled with a man till daybreak. And when the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. The man said: Let me go, for it is daybreak. But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go until you bless me". The man asked him,
“What is your name?"
"Jacob," he answered.
Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."
This story left a deep impression to me. Why did God wrestled with Jacob? Because God wanted Jacob to recognize his weakness before Him.God wanted Jacob to know that all his strength & wisdom comes from God alone! God had wonderful plans for Jacob, but God's best blessings can only come to those who knows that they cannot please God is their own strength.
WHY DID GOD CHOSE A DECEIVER LIKE JACOB AND MAKE HIM THE FATHER OF THE NATION WHICH WOULD BRING THE REDEEMER INTO THE WORLD?
1 Corinthians 1: 27-29 God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things, and the things that are not, to nullify (invalidate) the things that are, so that no one may boast before Him.
HOW ABOUT US?
Have we recognized our inability to please God?
1 Peter 5: 5-6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that He may life you in due time.
Review done by Charis Tan
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That is the review of the 1st plenary session with Ps Chris. Hope your memories are refreshed. And if that still doesn't ring a bell. I hope these pictures do!
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| Campers' nametags |
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| In the bus ON the way to the campsite |
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| Our beloved photographer |
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| 'The Girls"... |
Yeap... These are only a few. More reviews will be up soon. We promise! And guys, remember our BGR session? Girls separate, guys separate. You wanna know what we girls talked about? Hehe...
- TO BE CONTINUED -
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