Saved at Sea with Michelle Hamilton

Last weekend, we had an invited speaker - Michelle Hamilton. She came humbly to share her testimony of how she was stranded and lost at sea for 3 days and through it all, she encountered God audibly and tangibly to survive that 3 days in the middle of South China Sea with no human and no help in sight. The fear of sitting in pitch blackness in the middle of the ocean with your back to a piece of wood, your feet flipping on the surface of water and wondering when you will die.

If you've missed it, you've just missed a chance to be ministered + a chance to bring someone to hear how real God can be when we are going through a storm + a chance to be prayed for prophetically + a good time enjoying yourselves.

Michelle was a really good storyteller, unraveling her story and capturing the audiences' attention in an uncomplicated yet so real that if you are open to hear from God, your faith would have increased.

100% Faith in God. That's her message. God wants a 100% of our faith in Him and not 50% or 80% of it. But with our own willful mind and sinful nature, how could we be so perfect? That is why, if you surrender and ask from Him, He will supernaturally empower it within us to have such great faith in Him.
Great faith comes from God!

That was the picture of the kind of ship that happened to pass by, saw her and picked her up and sent her to land. Out of the grasp of death, God picked her up and delivered her into safety. I don't want to spoil the fun and tell you everything so that you could grab your own chance in hearing it first hand. But I can tell you that it involve storms and sharks, angels and mermaid. =)

One of the thing that really gripped me was when she shared about a vision she saw 6 months ago. When she was ministering in Singapore, God called her into a vision where she was standing at the gates of Heaven and there were throngs of people standing outside the gates crying for God to let them into Heaven. They were even crying out to her asking for help that God will let them in. And Michelle turned to God and pleaded with God to let them in but God said this,
"These are the people that rejected me when I call them."

For me, that was most real. There were many times when I know God was calling me and I choose not to hear or do that which I know is the Holy Spirit's voice prompting me. We always think that there's tomorrow but some times, tomorrow may not come again for me or you...

Michelle's vision puts the fear of God back into my heart - not to treat God lightly. Who am I but a mere being that I can question God, doubt God, rebel against Him, ignore Him and accuse Him or throw a tantrum when He does not appear the way I want Him to be?

I am not God. He is. I repent, God. You are God and Your ways are higher than mine. No matter what people accuse of me or how hard and unfair living is, You are the one protecting me through the storm and I should remember that and not just allow the difficult moments to blind me from seeing Your goodness there with me.

One other thing I remembered Michelle mentioned was that God does not always pull us OUT of the storm (although this is what we want Him to do) but He went in and help us through the storm so that we emerge victorious. How many times can you remember or did not even realized but God had sent His angels and protected you against accidents, near death experience or even protected you from evil that's lurking at every corner in this fallen world?

The fact that you are still breathing, able to live a life is already proof that God is with you. Open up the newspaper, log on to news site and you will read of how people are being tortured and how mutilated human's morality can be and you know you are protected from it. Better give thanks to God due to Him than accuse Him and stand outside the gates begging to be let in when we threw the chance away by our own choice.

I am amazed at my faithlessness and I am amazed at God's patience with me...