Happy New Year! May this year be a blessed and exciting year for us all!

I spent my New Years Eve together with friends in the spirit, worshiping, sharing, and praying together. It is the first time I spend New Years and also Christmas outside Indonesia. We attended a worship night of the church of my friend again since there was no sermon organized by my church. As soon as I started praying God spoke a lot to me. Two days before, He gave me the vision of me holding on my left hand a scroll. As I faced the throne, I was asked to open it but I said that I was not ready and that I needed time. He was nice and told me to open it when I am ready and take my time. I knew that that scroll holds a big task that I will need to do. But was I ready?

I woke up yesterday with God telling me to drink from the Holy Grail. Actually He was waking me up since it was ten to ten in the morning on a Sunday and I should join my friend‘s church service because there was no service this weekend from my church. He always knows how to get me to do things, just by giving me a glimpse of something and ask me to pray in tongues or come to His presence. So I immediate went to the bathroom and dressed up shortly before joining in the streaming. 

To tell you the truth, I've not been feeling confident about the gifts that I have received. I felt like God gave me a lot so fast, that I may be a bit overwhelmed by it all. On December 26th, we did not have worship together because we were occupied with brainstorming, so I decided to worship at night alone before I went to bed. Earlier that day, we watched a movie called "Klaus". It is a fictional cartoon illustrating about how Santa Claus came to be. The main character was a postman who was super spoiled by his father and ended up sent to a city, restart a post service where he met Klaus and that was the story of Christmas Santa. This postman, he was not only just sending mails, but he was involved in building a city which was once filled with violence into a place that was peaceful.

On Christmas morning, I attended the church service of my friend's since there was no service from my church. It was an international service, all in English. As we started the worship, I immediately was given visions. I was shown a lot of people walking towards and up a mountain until they built homes in the mountain, from top to bottom. Then a strong voice in my heart was heard, "These are my children and I love them, I want you to know that." At that moment, I could really feel the heart of Father and tears were running down off my face. I was reminded that different churches have different specializations, some are at the peak of the mountain, teaching highly spiritual prophetic teachings. But there are also churches that are at the bottom of the mountain, that are more down to earth (does not mean earthly but more applicable and easy to understand). I understood that some focuses more on discipleship, some focuses on teachings, and some focuses on the spiritual gifts. In the end, I figured what determines the churches are the people who are in the churches, the building blocks. Every church that are connected as one body in Christ have different function and they are there to support each other. I have to know this as a foundation so that I am not biased, saying one church is better than the other or one spiritual leaders in better than the other, but rather learn to wear my cape of humility and humbleness as a service to God.