Second Day of Canaanland Retreat 2009 (Third Session)

Before we started the next session, it was almost time for Rev. Lee to depart for Kota Kinabalu and therefore we had to take the group photo.

After our group photo session, Rev. Lee requested Ps. Steven to pray for him and I stood beside them.

For the next session we were priviledge to have Alice Hiew to play the piano, Andrew Tai on the guitar and Jacob Dalager on the trumpet.

Kenny Lim led two songs for P&W before I passed the time to Ps. Steven.

During the Third Session, Ps. Steven shared on the following.

The Eyes of the Heart

Bible sees our heart as the source of faith, hope, love.

Prov. 4:23 Guard our heart

The heart can be wounded, broken, faint, coward, melt like wax, forgetful, dull, stubborn.

The heart can also be glad, merry, true, upright, pure.

The heart is the eyes of the soul.

If we messed up the eyes of the heart, then we mess up with our lives.

It is important to look after the eyes of the heart. If not, we are missing the plot. We all carry a destiny. None of us is accident.

1. Things are not what they seem.

We focus on what we can serve.

Gen. 28:12 There is more going on in Jacob’s life. v.16 surely the Lord is in this place and I do not know it. Jacob was empowered by what is in the future.

Why are you placed there in your work place? Life is not default, it is a design.

Rom. 4:17

2. Never ignore the burning heart.

Luke 24:17-21 The disciples could not see beyond the eyes of their heart.

Luke 24:32-34

We live in one world with two parts. One part we can see and another part we cannot see.

We miss the subtleties/service God has for us.

3. There is battle/war under way.

The eyes of the heart see our world in our heart. In the Christian life, we are in the spiritual world.

We are living in desperate times.

Daniel 10

Do you see your problems or your solutions?

God works from the inside out.

When we serve from inside out, we will serve unconditionally.

Step out in obedience.

Employ pull situation instead of push strategy.

May our lives be a magnet.


After the third session, Ps. Steven spent over an hour ministering to those who went out for prayers. There were some others who wanted to go out but refrained themselves because the time was already after 1p.m. and the food at the dining hall was ready to be consumed.

I gave thanks for the food before we proceeded to the dining hall.

After lunch, I went back to the chalet to try to rest. Some people went out from the resort to different places for sightseeing.