A Military Camp with a Difference!

MY EXPERIENCE I wanted to experience God in a different way this camp. I recall having a revelation of the cross 2 yrs ago when we were at NTU and it left a deep impact in the way i viewed God since then.

But this time i believe God touched me in a more tangible way. I felt the touch of God as i sang deep in worship and Joshua Teo came to pray for me. The next moment I was on the floor. All this time i was just trembling at my feet and occasionally in my hands. I knew that it was the work of God because in the conscious side of my mind i tried to stop myself from trembling but I felt so uneasy so at that point I just knew the HS was doing something in me.

I remember Joshua prayed for me and laid his hands upon the left side of my chest. I remember that clearly because after he left, I was trying my best to focus on God, struggling and asking Him to show me His reality. I really yearned for His touch and suddenly I felt a weird feeling on the left side of my chest. It was like a burning, pins and nails kind of sensation, a feeling that I never felt before. So for a full 5mins i knew HS had touched me specially in that way and i give thanks for that. Not just for that experience but that through that it edified the reality of God in my very own life - which is the one thing I always look out for in my Christian walk.

I had a long week in camp. Getting frustrated at times as things were not going the way I wanted to. I was so close to getting a friday off to come for Tribe Camp but in the end it was rejected so I felt quite disappointed. and that friday while I knew that the games were going on in tribe camp I was carrying stuff in the hot sun, doing odd jobs which were quite a chore to me.
But in the end I decided that I was not going to let all these take control of me. I choose to obey God. so i endured a 2 hr journey by train/bus home, packed my stuff and took a cab straight to tribe camp. Not realising that it was another military camp. Haha. joking ah.

I thank God that he honoured me for that and that 2 nights I spent in camp I felt so at peace and rested when i woke up each morning. I would dare conclude that if i came with a wrong attitude... Life would have been different now - definitely.


WHAT THE LORD TAUGHT ME This camp, I've learnt and come to appreciate God's love at a deeper level through pastor's sharing. We all need a daily dosage of God's love to be a healthy Christian. Without God's love, our capacity to love and be loved narrows. Not because God does not love us but because we harden our hearts and then allow deception to seep into the roots of our faith. Let that not be from now!

HOW I'M GOING TO LIVE MY LIFE I want to make it a constant effort to grow the new found relationship with other tribe members. How? By being ultra friendly and thick skinned, taking the initiative to say hello to one another and not to act dao act chio thinking that "ai yah shy shy what if the other party this that blah blah" i think its really a beautiful thing to see us all unite together, having a identity not only in our SJ tribe but more importantly in Christ.

Secondly, during QT each day I'll choose to open up my heart and ask God to fill me and be REAL, very real so that doors will be opened, opportunities will surface for me, a warrior of God to shine for Jesus by exercising that love that God has given me. I think it's also important to be careful in the area of where we seek or view love because love has been abused and equated to many wrong values by the world.


Charles Tan
Joshua Teo's Subtribe