On the road to extraordinay

Day 1: Ladder
Day 2: Issues
Day 3: Refiner's Fire

I attended the 3 sessions of the seminar with Pastor Daniel Wu as the speaker on the topic "On the road to extraordinary".

The practical teachings of Pastor Daniel is really true. What struck me was his view on claiming something from God. If you are claiming on something that you have prayed for, what verse in the Bible do you cling on to? That I did not do in my life. I pray, wish for it to happen, but did not hold on to a passage in the scripture. In getting to our destiny, our Lord Jesus is our ladder to our destiny, and that we can be sure that He is above every situation that we would encounter.

Facing the issues and burrying those that drag us from getting to where we should be goingg is a matter of act of faith. According to him, and I agree, we must treat challenges that come along our way as new territories that we are going to conquer. And we must not forget to ask the Lord to expand our territories.

Fiery trials, that's how he describes undergoing thru trials. It is when a person is undergoing severe trial that something comes out of him. He cited the friends of Daniel (Shadrach,Meshach and Abednego) who went thru the fire and that the Holy Spirit was with them in that trial, when they did not succumb to the pressures pushed unto them by the society they were in at that time. If we expect great blessing, we shall expect trials along the way.

His life is a living testimony that the Lord could bring out every negative situation into a positive , even victorious. Coming from a Chinese family from Hong Kong, his parents and relatives moved to England where he grew up. Adverse beginnings in life. His mom used to beg for food in the streets of Hong Kong. His father, upon coming to London, was enlisted to the Chinese Mafia called the TRIAD, not to deal drugs, but as a way of getting a job as a waiter.

He mused on hearing the song "He's got the whole world in His Hands", he and his sister, and he would often ask, "who carried the whole world in his hands?". Then in school during the Christmas season, he would ask his Christian classmates who Jesus is. A very humbling and profound mystery how God can touch the hearts of people to draw to Him.

In summary, our life is not shaped by who we are in the past, what our background was. What's important is, we have these potentials, that we could use to get to our destiny...and that it is a matter of putting everything in God's hands, in God's perspective, all that we have hoped for.

In this journey of my life, I could not bravely say that I have attained what I hoped for. But armed with the knowledge that my God is ever with me, I hope to see the future secure "In his hands".

Praise be to Jesus.