mMYPG Report

What a way to start the New Year; for Kuantan that is, with the mini Malaysia Youth Prayer Gathering (mMYPG) event on the 2^nd and 3^rd of January, it was indeed something refreshingly new looking forward to. On Friday, 2^nd of January, the mMYPG, hosted by the Local Youth Prayer Gathering Kuantan (LYPG) and Higher Ground team was held in the Tamil Methodist Church (TMC) new sanctuary. The event started late in the evening around 6.30pm as it was only a night session. Starting off with dinner was especially pleasing not to mention the fellowship everyone had. Praise and worship followed next after everyone had their dinner. The songs sung moved almost everyone’s hearts, if not then mine as it was speaking of a joint unity and of revival in the nation. The whole place was almost trebling to the voice of everyone jointly praising and worshiping Him. If there was one word to describe it, it would be awesome. Despite it being a youth prayer gathering, the uncles and aunties who came to witness this event were also worshiping and praising Him! After that, there was a video shown. It was on two cities of how prayer has literally changed what was deemed impossible. No amount of words of description could relate how one would feel watching the video of how God can turn a land, corrupted and shackled by the evil one just through prayer. Their faithfulness and persistency in praying truly was a testimony worth sharing because prayer is a powerful weapon! Feeling hyped and excited, they then concluded the night session with a joint prayer to pray for tomorrow (Saturday) as it was going to be a long day.


The next day and as early as 6 in the morning, there were already youths in church having their Morning Prayer and fellowship. The Saturday session starts at 8.30am and after an amazing time worshipping and praising Him, feeling all pumped and hyped from the rush of adrenaline, Yoshua Chua from Agape Presbyterian Kluang, Johor shared with everyone the that they should repent from their lustful, corrupted ways or evil to that matter and be humble and not letting pride overwhelm themselves. Pastor Kenneth Chin from ACTS Church then shared his message on obedience. He portrayed the difference between sacrificing and obedience, that there is sacrifice out of obedience and obedience itself is a sacrifice. Needless to say, by the time he ended his message, it was lunch time. Even during this break, there were some youths in clusters singing songs of praises – a passion they truly have for our Savior. After lunch, the whole crowd of youths and some uncles and aunties broke into smaller groups to pray for the states in Malaysia. The group leader for a particular state gave a brief introduction and points to pray for that state. Some groups prayed simultaneously, some took turns praying, but everyone prayed. Next item up for prayer was for the Malaysia Youth Prayer Gathering (MYPG) which would be held somewhere in June next year, praying for open doors as well as for the upcoming of LYPG’s in Kluang, Petaling Jaya/ Kuala Lumpur and Kulim. The next item for prayer was for the unity of churches in Kuantan, the Higher Ground and the Christian Fellowship (CF) to blossom. After that was to pray for the National Leaders Gathering, Children in Prayer, the persecuted churches and for the ministries in Malaysia led by the local pastors and elders. Pastor Kenneth Chin wrapped up with a sharing; a DREAM for Malaysia, a dream for the youths to rise to His calling and reach out to the nation and from there then to the world. ‘The Call Card’ was then handed to everyone to fill in for the MYPG team to allocate them accordingly to their passion of serving for Him. All praise and glory be to Him as about 115 people responded to the Call Card. We were then dismissed at around 6pm after a closing prayer by Pastor Kenneth Chin. Everyone seemed reluctant to leave, probably because of the fellowship everyone has bonded. Most of the outstation guests who came for this event went back after dinner time.

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