Battle Log

Tuesday, 17 September, 2019

Posted 17 September 2019, 5:58 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Today 17/9/2019 was a special day of grace for the OPN 513 team at Toowong Village. God moved a Kairos 2016 graduate Winnie from the Gold Coast Church to come up to Brisbane to join the Gospel outreach first at the park then at Toowong Village. So, while Johnny our team leader was still overseas in Myanmar, God moved and summoned Winnie, Kiateck, Lily and Hung to form a team of four to serve at Toowong. Winnie teamed up with me to observe and learn how to do street evangelism. She felt God called her to get better equipped in evangelism so that she can start doing it in her life circle to her husband and family members and to the Cruises travelers she is going to meet in Nov when she joins the Cruise for the first time.

As for this week Divine Appointments, God stopped four ladies for me and each had very dramatic response one of which with Victoria(4) from Kwaizhou, China really just falling short of being seen as a life changing miracle.

1) Sherry is an UQ student from Henan 河南，China. She claimed she has heard gospel from other source before but not yet felt touched to make up any commitment已聽過，but she admitted that the core of the gospel about how we the sinner can be pardoned by letting the only qualified perfect God and perfect man Jesus to take over the punishment of our sin is a logical and noble act by a true loving God. So she will reassess her needs to accept Christ as our redeemer and the Lord of our life.

2) A Korean girl giggled her way while I stopped her and shared with her the Gospel. It turned out that she is a Christian or someone who understood the redemptive grace of Christ. But to my surprise, she found that faith hard to have root in her heart and she is even now in the process of turning for Buddhism. It was obvious that there is a spirit of general rejection of God and His teaching, as such she used giggling all along our conversation to cover up her unwillingness to hear the gospel that might help her to turn around for God again. She left prematurely anyway and I can only pray for God's own work to move her heart back to God.

3) Brianna an Aussie Christian who was off from work thus willingly stopped to chat about the tract. Initially she did not showed certainty to be qualified for Heaven leading me to treat her as a non- believer in the gospel sharing conversation. But before long when I touched upon the concept of we, the sinners all need the redemptive grace of Jesus then she declared she is a Christian. Just like the other 80% of Christians I met on the street, they confused their current still-not perfect life status as a barrier for them yet to be fully admitted to heaven. After clarification, she thanked me a thousand time to understand that our salvation faith in Christ alone will have gained us the Heavenly citizenship while we are still imperfect but God should have regained his sovereign control on our life as such he promises He will further transform us back to perfection.

4) Victoria an UQ master student from Kwaizhou had been a seeker but was on the brink of giving up her journey to quest for true faith in Christ. She told me her spiritual status has fallen down to such a low level that she found going to church was useless and didn't border to go any more. She told me that she has just found the Gospel message I shared with her, though plain and heard before, but it carries a power of reassurance from God for her to keep seeking for Christ. She promised she will pick up her journey of quest for true salvation and keep joining Christian group such as Power To Change in helping her to get a touch down finish in accepting Christ as her savior and Lord of her Life. It of course was a great encouragement for me as well as Winnie who witnessed this minor miracle that God has done on the life of Victoria. As long as we open up to be the vessel of God, He can do great thing through us despite of our weakness and undeserving status.