HIM PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE: PASTOR SIMON ENG
Dear HIM Family!
It’s great to be able to communicate again. It’s the beginning of 2014 and the start of another incredible year with God.
Seeking the Lord's direction for 2014
As my usual practice and usual habit, I want to spend the beginning of the year to be able to go to the Lord and lay out what I desire to do and put it before the Lord. It’s so that he can guide, he can direct and he can lead me in what is to be done.
Brothers and sisters, I want to encourage you to spend some time as well. I wrote in the January prayer program with Pastor Lai Ling that we should spend some time in prayer seeking God and laying out your year before the Lord. What do you desire to do?
Roles of Pastors & Leaders
If you are a pastor, how do you desire to improve your church, the program, the people’s needs, being able to touch lives and minister to the community? If you are in the mission field somewhere, you want to look at your community, the people whom you are ministering to and seek the Lord and ask God, “What do you desire for me to do this year in this region?” If you are a team member or you are even members of the church, you want to prayerfully ask the Lord, “God, how can I contribute further? What is it that I’d like and can do for the church, to support my leaders and the program of the church?” Dear brothers and sisters, it’s the beginning of the year. I think it’s great for us to seek God so that we truly come to God and lay out what He desires to do.
Roles of members
Secondly, I think it’s good for us, after all that, to lay out a clear focus. What are the areas that we can channel our time, channel our life, channel our talent, channel our resources? What is the focus that you would like to gather this year? For me, as I visit the various regions of the world, I would like to focus my life, my time, my talent, my leadership to be able to make a difference in that region. I want to make this year count. I want to make my time with them count. I want them to be able to make their life count as they do the work of God.
Brothers and sisters, let’s go to the Lord. Let’s focus our lives and finally, let’s be able to look at our entire family of churches and say, “Lord, I want to pray that you will continue to lead us in your timing. You will lead us in your expansion. You will lead us in being able to touch more souls and bring more lives into the kingdom of God.” I think it’s a valuable thing to set before the Lord.
Have a fruitful year in 2014
In conclusion, I believe it’s good for us to really go to the Lord. It’s really necessary for us to really ask of the Lord and hear from Him. Let’s spend our year fruitfully. Let’s spend our time to advance the kingdom of God. Let’s really use our life such that we can minister to the people effectively. Make it effective. We spend the same amount of time. We go to the same number of places or more. We do what we need to do for the Lord. However, to be effective, it means we do it with the right means and see the right results as well. I pray that God will be with us right through this entire year. I greet you in the wonderful name of our Lord, Jesus Christ and have an incredible 2014!
God bless you all.
Pastor Simon Eng
President of HIM
www.byhim.org
It’s great to be able to communicate again. It’s the beginning of 2014 and the start of another incredible year with God.
Seeking the Lord's direction for 2014
As my usual practice and usual habit, I want to spend the beginning of the year to be able to go to the Lord and lay out what I desire to do and put it before the Lord. It’s so that he can guide, he can direct and he can lead me in what is to be done.
Brothers and sisters, I want to encourage you to spend some time as well. I wrote in the January prayer program with Pastor Lai Ling that we should spend some time in prayer seeking God and laying out your year before the Lord. What do you desire to do?
Roles of Pastors & Leaders
If you are a pastor, how do you desire to improve your church, the program, the people’s needs, being able to touch lives and minister to the community? If you are in the mission field somewhere, you want to look at your community, the people whom you are ministering to and seek the Lord and ask God, “What do you desire for me to do this year in this region?” If you are a team member or you are even members of the church, you want to prayerfully ask the Lord, “God, how can I contribute further? What is it that I’d like and can do for the church, to support my leaders and the program of the church?” Dear brothers and sisters, it’s the beginning of the year. I think it’s great for us to seek God so that we truly come to God and lay out what He desires to do.
Roles of members
Secondly, I think it’s good for us, after all that, to lay out a clear focus. What are the areas that we can channel our time, channel our life, channel our talent, channel our resources? What is the focus that you would like to gather this year? For me, as I visit the various regions of the world, I would like to focus my life, my time, my talent, my leadership to be able to make a difference in that region. I want to make this year count. I want to make my time with them count. I want them to be able to make their life count as they do the work of God.
Brothers and sisters, let’s go to the Lord. Let’s focus our lives and finally, let’s be able to look at our entire family of churches and say, “Lord, I want to pray that you will continue to lead us in your timing. You will lead us in your expansion. You will lead us in being able to touch more souls and bring more lives into the kingdom of God.” I think it’s a valuable thing to set before the Lord.
Have a fruitful year in 2014
In conclusion, I believe it’s good for us to really go to the Lord. It’s really necessary for us to really ask of the Lord and hear from Him. Let’s spend our year fruitfully. Let’s spend our time to advance the kingdom of God. Let’s really use our life such that we can minister to the people effectively. Make it effective. We spend the same amount of time. We go to the same number of places or more. We do what we need to do for the Lord. However, to be effective, it means we do it with the right means and see the right results as well. I pray that God will be with us right through this entire year. I greet you in the wonderful name of our Lord, Jesus Christ and have an incredible 2014!
God bless you all.
Pastor Simon Eng
President of HIM
www.byhim.org
