Love and Trust in Singapore and Malaysia

After 818 Kuching “10 Heartified Commandments” conference last year, C-Mo and I led a team of 28 co-workers to Malaysia again last week to have a retreat with 35 pastors of our 12 branch churches in Singapore and Malaysia to connect and align with them. We encouraged them to establish horizontal relationships so that we will plant Trees of Life together.

The hosting was mainly taken up by GA611 co-workers. We saw that they have grown more and more mature and become a great army with love and trust. This is truly a result of the change of the couple of senior pastors. They have made their church warmer and warmer, spreading out more and more the Tree of Life breath, so that their church has become a church with both a father and a mother.

The transformation of Pastor Amos is evident to all. He grew up in a strict and orderly family as his father was a military man and that shaped his personality. Under his leadership, the co-workers were under a lot of pressure. Some co-workers said that in the early days, simply by placing Amos’ cardboard cutout on the spot, everyone would behave obediently. He was hot-tempered and highly demanding and raised his voice at times due to impatience. But through long-term interaction, his co-workers gradually understood his heart as a father. The co-workers have overcome their fear by love and trust and Amos’ life has also kept breaking through to become gentle and humble. Now not only that his wife Esther no longer fears him, and the cardboard cutout becomes useless, but also that he even shows a father’s loving gaze and he has become a true father. Thus their church has also made great breakthroughs.

We have known them for more than 22 years and have seen their love and trust. He first learned to be a true son before becoming a father. Last year when we went to Mount Sinai together, they told me the feelings they had kept in their hearts over the past two decades. I appreciate their love and trust in C-Mo and me. I hugged them and told them that I love them and our relationship became truer and more intimate. Esther also overcame her fear of her husband and there was a great breakthrough in their relationship. That has also strengthened their spiritual relationship.

During this retreat, we saw God’s hand moving effortlessly. After the sharing at breakfast time one morning, pastors of Kota Kinabalu 611 and Kuching 611 of East Malaysia, of GA611 of West Malaysia as well as of Singapore GK611, took the initiative to form a “four-sided fortress” to intercede for the mother church at 7pm every Tuesday evening. The love and trust of our spiritual children in the branch churches has also empowered C-Mo and me.

Dear brothers and sisters, God is still doing new things in Effortless 2024. When we watched our church’s anniversary together in Malaysia and listened to Pastor Deborah’s prophecy, our hearts were greatly encouraged. It takes love and trust to follow God. As the second and third generations of Singapore and Malaysia branch churches have close relationships and keep passing on from generation to generation, I believe that there will surely be miracles among us in the planting of the Trees of Life everywhere.