Fast and pray

Dear friends,

I have come to a new season where I have feasted hungrily on revelations that God has brought to my attention, and as I serve in ministry, and serve in various prayer, healing and ministry settings, I have come to realise that I am indeed close to God's heart, and through the last few years have drawn close enough to see visions and hear His voice, and manifest healing, and all in all, this experience is wonderful, but it is not nearly enough! I have only just tasted and seen that the Lord is good!

And so, this past week, as I needed to clear my head and make some decisions in life, I had spent it fasting and praying. I had fasted from meat, from people, from entertainment, from electronic communication and social media, and during the time that I fasted, I spent time praying, soaking, pouring over my Bible, and meditating on all of it, and had done nothing else but to draw close to God. Answers and revelations came easily, and I was able to recenter my life on God, as well as discover several wonderful ways of connecting deeper into the Word. Namely, soaking while reading aloud and going over the same scripture over and over again. As well as personalising the Word, by writing my interpretation of it, visualising it happening, and turning some of it into personal prayers to pray over myself. All of which has helped me grow in my intimacy with God and Jesus. Which is amazing! So amazing, in fact, that I have decided to continue this fast, though I will be eating meat again, but I have now lost interest in much of the ways that I spent my idle or resting time, and am going to dive into the Word whenever I can. Especially having received the message in Mark 4. That every Word I take and plant in my heart will manifest thirty, sixty or a hundred times over! I can't wait to be so firmly rooted in the Word that God himself manifests in my life!

And so, I'm going to spend a lot of time pouring over Scripture and it will help me grow, and at the same time, I will continue to seek to grow in practical ways as I continue my work in ministry.

Much love and blessings,

James

Majesty (Just Love)

by James Fung, 10/31/2016

Eat your fill, fill your heart.

Rest, my child. Next to me

Rest.

I lay my head on His lap

Looking up at His Glorious Face

Ten thousand stars, shining and all

All within those eyes

Uncomparable... undeniable.

Gentle. I can't..

Can't even describe

This feeling of majesty

Of indescribable peace and love

So majestic..

Yet, so simple

Your love, Lord

Breaches all barriers

Bridges all gaps

A million miles in the blink of an eye

Your eyes, Lord

Your love, Lord

I can see.. so crystal clear

Your voice, your love, your desire

For my life.

So clearly spoken..

In the silence; in the vacuum called Space

The twinkle of the stars; the twinkle in your eyes

Show me more, Lord.

Show me more.. show me all.

I only want Your best

Your best you will give.

Daddy, thank you.

Thank you for giving me

Your best love

Bite size love

Fill my heart slowly

Overflow slowly..

Grow my heart more, Lord

I don’t want to spill

I don’t.

It’s okay, my Child

Let it spill. Let it spill.

I will give you more than you’ll ever need

In every

Single

Drop.

So drink, my child.

Fill your heart.

Rest in my presence.

And just Love.

Growth

Dear friends,

I have grown so much in the past month that I cannot just cover in a short update. As I mentioned before, I have started working full time in the ministry setting, and I am being so blessed by it. My supervisor is very keen on pruning me, and as a result, I am being renewed every week and making changes in my life with thorns that have plagued me for a long time. As I prayed with more direction, discernment, as well as more faith, small miracles are happening in my life.

A few of the miracles I've experienced so far are:

Increased productivity
i) my reading speed has quadrupled, as I have been able to read faster and focus for longer
ii) my time awareness and management has improved, as I recognise that I am a steward of God's resources and that includes time. I have started to plan on the go, and to do a constant rundown of each day and each task, to ensure and repeat success.

Better relationships
iii) I have acquired more of a human touch, such that even strangers around me are warming up to me in a very short time, and people that I've known for longer are also yielding the way to their hearts.

Better discipline/Self-control
iv) I have gain discipline over the fear of hunger, as well as the sin of gluttony, as I have learnt that hunger without fear, pride or insecurity, is just a physical symptom, and while fasting, I can fully rely on God and His provision for my health and my needs. As a result of fasting, I have cut down my meals to healthy amounts with nutrition as a focus, rather than fullness.
v) I have also been shown that I have taken in certain destructive lies of the enemy, such as being transparent with emotions is equivalent to honesty, while it is just grounds for the enemy to reap destruction. So, in seeking to manifest more self-control in this domain, I'm working towards even more productivity and better relationships.

Greater understanding of God's Word
vi) From reading, memorizing and meditating on the Word, as instructed in Joshua 1:8, I have gained more insights on what the Word says, as well as opened new ways to gaining more truths. I'll share more about that in another update.
vii) I have been rereading God's promises and reciting those Scriptures to myself to keep myself in a constant state of joy and hope, which is exactly what God intends for us. Rather than focusing on the darkness that is happening, we are the salt and the light, we should focus on the God of hope and be brimming with joy and peace at all times (Romans 15:13).

Additional benefits
viii) As additional gains from the above blessings, I have more time, better relationships, and better health than ever before, and as a result of this, I am able to pick up a few hobbies that I didn't have time before. I now hit the gym once a week (will work up to twice a week when possible), picking up a new instrument, the Ukelele, for personal worship, reading and memorizing more of the Bible (something that I am adamant about now), and also reading the occasional book to invest into the future that God has planned for me.

As you can see, God is leading me to higher grounds and it's been an amazing adventure so far. I've also been doing a bit more writing on Facebook, just short devotions for my friends to share in my discernment. Not sure if God is calling me towards writing more, but I'll be writing my lengthy updates here and focusing on snippets of God's Word on Facebook.

Much love,

James

Fiction writing

Lately, I had been inspired by a friend to do a bit of fiction writing. So, here's an idea that I was playing with this morning. Enjoy.

Altar Call
by James Fung (July 4, 2016)

“Come on! Hurry up!”

I opened my eyes and looked around. What is this place? It’s so bright. Before I could figure it out, a hand grabbed my robe and dragged me along. Robe? I looked down, I was wearing a white robe with little specks of gold dust. Woah, that’s awesome!

“Leett uerr go!” I twisted around. “I can walk by myself.”

I was greeted with a weird smirk. “Walk, James? We’re flying.” And true to his word, we were indeed flying. I instinctively looked around his robe to where a name tag would normally be, and the letters P-e-t-e-r appeared in gold dust and quickly disappeared again. Oh, right. We’re in heaven again. Wait, does my robe do that too?

“Yeah,” answered Peter.  I laughed.  Seeing that I didn’t know how to fly, I let him lead me through the pearly white lanes and into a building. Not unlike Peter Pan at all. Pun not intended. Peter laughed too.

***

As soon as we entered the building, Peter nudged me towards a line of angels who were lining up to enter the Throne Room. I resisted the urge to glance at their robes, because I knew the gold dust would respond to my thoughts. I got to experiment a bit on the “ride” here. Made a little gold dust car go honk honk around my robe, and a gold dust shark do a little ballet with a seal. Such good fun.

So I lined up behind the last angel, and waited in line. The hall was massive, even for angels. The ceiling was far higher than most cathedrals that I have visited on earth, but I could still see it in details because I was in my heavenly body. So, I watched as clusters of busy bodied angels go on with their daily business, not unlike an office on earth. That is, if they all had wings.

The queue was moving quickly, and when I got to the head of the queue, an angel asked me, “Which flavour?”

“Uh…” I wasn’t sure what to say. “What flavours are there?”

The angel sighed. “Blueberry, strawberry, mango, grape, orange, and lime.”

“Oh, right. Blueberry please.” He pushed what looked like a blue tube into my hand, and the next one gave me a box of cards and directed me a seat.

Wow! It was like… a Bingo hall! No, it wasn’t “like” a Bingo hall. IT WAS A BINGO HALL. I laughed so hard. The angel next to me nudged me, “You better get ready. It’s going to start soon.” He gave me a serious look.

“Oh, right. Well, I don’t gamble. Aah….” I glanced at his robe. J-o-s-e-p-h. “..Joseph. So what should I do?”

He smiled. “Oh, right. You must be the new guy. Here, open up your box and let me show you what we are actually doing.”

I opened my box, and stared into a stack of bingo cards. Unimpressed, I took them out and laid them out in front of me. Then I took my “blueberry” dabber and planted it in the middle.

Grinning, Joseph took up his own “grape” dabber, and opened it from the top end, and took a sip. What? He took a sip? I looked around the hall, and surely enough, there were quite a few angels sipping from their dabbers. “Waiittt… what is that?”

“This… is a fruit juice dispenser. It comes in any form that you like.” He demonstrated by turning it into an icy and then into a lollipop. “But don’t eat from the other end, that side is really a dabber.”

Excited, I held the strange contraption in my hand. The power to mark and the power to slurp! I pictured a frozen jelly snack in the shape of a dolphin, and just as Joseph explained, it was there. Oh, and the taste is beyond heavenly!

Joseph cleared his throat. I didn’t know that you can do that in heaven.. clearing throats, but I turned my attention back to him. “The reason they designed these is so that we can have something to re-energize us as we do these all nighters.”

All nighters?! What? “Let me explain. They’re about to have an altar call at Sacred Heart Emmanuel Church at their annual rally in Indonesia, and when that happens, God is going to write down a bunch of numbers, and the archangels will be in charge of disseminating them to us. Our job is pretty easy.. as you probably can guess already.”

“We.. find those numbers and dab them with our dabbers!” Still high from the energy frosty.

“Yes, good boy. But make sure to only dab the number in your column, and to pass them in order down to the checkers.”

“What do they do with these numbers?”

“They pass them onto the spinner and tailor angels, and they prepare the robes and heavenly bodies for each saved soul that comes forward.”

Dumbfounded, I blinked.

***

When I opened my eyes again, I had returned back to my body on earth.

Let

Lord, may we never be numbed by the news.

Let us mourn for every life that is lost, and every person affected. Let us mourn for the hearts of those who committed the crime. Let us mourn, Lord. Let us surrender and seek Your heart in these matters, and let us surrender and come to You in prayer. For only You know the things that are unseen, only You know the plans you have for this world, for us. For only You know what brings You greatest glory, and what brings home your children. Let us mourn, Lord, but let us also pray. Let us move this nation in intercession, and into intercession. Let us move. This mountain. Together. With You. For we are your children. We are your children in name and in form; in our image, and in our spirit. We are your children. So as we hold our hands together, or raise our palms to You, Hold our hands together, Your mighty hands over ours. And impart upon us, Your wisdom, Your love, Your courage, Your peace. Your impartation upon us, into us, over us. Let us pray, let us rise, let us walk, let us fight. Knowing that You alone are our shepherd, our God. That You alone have saved us from death, And in You alone we have life. Joy. Peace. Victory. Let us walk. And walk with us to see Your kingdom here.

Prophesying Adventures

As I was saying, I received the green light to pray constantly for people and God is showing me visions as I do that. I've been having a really great time, just going back and forth with Him to get more details and more visions, and He's come through 100% of the time. A lot of the time, the visions show what the person is going through, which basically means, God knows your struggles, and He is here for you. Sometimes, it carries instructions, which is pretty amazing, and other times, it shows afflictions, which depending on the situation, I'm not allowed to share, and instead, I pray in intercession. It's pretty amazing. And now that I'm constantly receiving, I am able to discern what I should be sharing, and what I shouldn't, so He has lifted the rule that He gave me, and gave me more flexibility in discernment.

Over the past 2 weeks, I have had constant visions of the people around me, whether I know them or not, and it is because I have been constantly seeking Him in prayer for intercession. It's a bit like doing my homework, now that I have been taught a new skill, and so, as I continued to do this, I have worked out with God, or rather, He has taught me the way it will work now. First, I will approach Him and ask for what He may want to say about a person, then He would show me a series of visions (at request), as sometimes I won't understand them until He illustrates them with more variations. Then after He's told me the general idea of it, I would either seek Him for more details, again depending on the situation, and He would answer my questions in epiphany (sudden knowledge). After that, I would either pray for the person, or approach the person to share the vision, and offer to pray for them. As I do that, God will speak through me to reveal even more secrets. I've repeated this process on average 5-10 times a day, every day for the past 2 weeks. And just when I thought I got this, as everyone (100%!) I approached confirmed the accuracy of these visions. He went a step further, by giving me very detailed visions about people's lives, and it's only happened to two people so far, one each day of the weekend past, but I know how He is training me, and so I am excited once more for more teachings. This will be an amazing journey, indeed.

Funny side note, the people in my fellowship has started noticing my "Seeing" face, and it gives them the giggles, which is hilarious! Basically, I just space out and talk to the air a lot now. And as I continued to learn, I am also passing what I learn onto those around me. God is raising up a very powerful army of prayer warriors and intercessors.

Final reminders, as said in Ephesians 6:

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Growth of a Sunflower: Fulfilment of prophecy

If you cast your mind back to October, I mentioned that I had a vision of Sunflowers on a Soccer Pitch at around March, and it was that I was staring at all these tall sunflowers and wondering whether I'd ever grow to be like them. People that were in my fellowship that have been there forever and had ministered to everyone in the group. Reliable, gifted in love, ministry, prayer and prophecy. And God had replied, I'll grow you as tall as these, and that was very encouraging.

Looking back now, I once again see myself on that soccer pitch, and as He had promised in slightly more than a year ago, I had grown to be one of the core flowers on the pitch. 

Recently, He's been growing me as a healer, something that I had also been praying for since I stepped foot into the Vine Church. One morning, I woke to His voice saying: "There, you're a healer now." And I understood His meaning, as I had taken up a new view of my gift in prayer and prophecy and had acted upon it. 

It is this: having realised that I am gifted in prayer and prophecy, I knew the only thing to do is to walk it in my life, and that means to pray whether I have something to share or not. It isn't the prophecy that requires me to pray or approach people, it is the need that people have for prayer. And since anyone can pray for anyone else, I had walked that into my walk, and when I do have prophetic visions or knowledge, I ease into it as part of my gifting. Our practice in faith, our presence, our faith and discipleship in God, is what makes us the Gift worth giving, not simply what we can offer in prophetic vision or knowledge that comes only from God. We ourselves are renewed and also from God, and we are also His hands and feet. If we don't do, and we don't walk, then it is just idle faith. Anyone can have those. Take courage, be strong, go forth as the Lord has already gone ahead of us.

So as I started to pray for people simply because I observe the need for prayer, whether there are physical issues, emotional issues, or spiritual, I offer to pray for people, and in response to that faithfulness, God had started pouring out an overflow of accurate visions for me to share with the people that I pray for. And it's been over a week since the day, Jesus said to me: "Go ahead, I'll do the work from now on, the visions will come as you open your heart and open your mouth."

And so, I'm very excited about what I'm experiencing right now, as He is indeed blessing me through this gifting to heal not only physical, but also emotional and spiritual issues. For it is not me at all, but Him who gives me the visions, then gives both myself and the recipient the decoder to apply it to their lives, and sometimes my own. I have long learnt to listen in when God is speaking through me, because of the hidden treasures that only He can reveal. It is such exciting times!

He has also been expanding my reach, not only have I grown in capacity to walk with my brothers and sisters in the Young adults fellowship, but He is also leading me to start to minister to members of the rest of the church. 

That's the update for now! Thanks for reading!