Sera speaks: "Faith and Obedience"

Sera is a theatre production student from La'Salle, she never fails to inspire others around her with her deep convictions and carefree expression of God's love. She's blessed with a beautiful singing voice too.

Hey!!!!! Miss you guys tonnes! I'm sure you could feel it when I came back... haha... I think I will just share about my trip here once and for all... I can't exactly say I had the best time of my life because it wasn't spend with you guys... =( But I would say it was a test for me. The temptations that lie there, the potential to feel angry at people... actually person...

After the 3rd day, i spent about 6 full days there, I was already feeling very lonely.. =( Had no way to contact you guys, can't get internet connection... It was the worstest feeling ever in my entire life!!!!!!! And on top of that I was having a lot of evil thoughts towards one of the people who went with me on the trip... Was very frustrated... So I told my lecturer I needed a day off to just stay in my room and reflect and pray. And I think at that moment of time God came down and swooped me into His arms, my lec said, "Alright, you go and pray and get whatever help you need to get back on your feet alright??" =) I was so grateful for that. =) So I took that 4th day to just pray and to write it all down in my journal..

Everything I was feeling and just pouring out anything I could think of that was not pleasing to God and how I needed so much help to not feel those things. I prayed and I asked myself tonnes of questions till they couldn't answer themselves anymore, just to get to the root of the problem. After like half a day went by just praying and reading and praying again and reading... I felt so free... I gotta tell you this...

One thing about God that I am so sure of is, when you show the slightest sign of relying on Him, He takes that opportunity to shower you with assurance and love. He just wanted me to rely on Him and to have that faith to obey Him. I'm so glad I did. =) Right after that I recieved a message from my mom telling me that my phone actually has roaming and I was jumping for joy.. I called her immediately and I started crying because I finally had someone I could outlet to. And the other great thing was, it was my mom. =) She just listened to me and after she told me to just hang in there and when I go to the canyons, just pray a long prayer. It was so unexpected of her to say that but I was so grateful.

After I hung up I sent a message to a few of you guys saying my phone works and im feeling things and I need prayer... When the messages came coming back I was so overjoyed!!!! It was the feeling of liberation, that I could share my burdens with my brothers and sisters and that they were willing to take them on. I'm so grateful for you guys! I can't say how much I love you because it's so big.... =)

Right after that I turned on the TV.... You will not be able to guess what came on the TV... "You can't be discouraged! We're called to love ourselves because made us and loves us!" I was like....... You gotta be kidding me.... The encouragements from God kept pouring in left right centre back and every which a way... I was so overwhelmed with the Love that God was literally lavishing on me. The TV programme was about this womens conference that was on going and I was watching the sermon preached by Joyce Meyers on the second day of the conference. She spoke about not wollowing in your sorrows and being able to channel your emotions correctly and not letting people not of the faith get to me.... And Im like... woah............................. I sat there for the next 3 hours hearing her preach. I was so encouraged.

All God wants us to have is faith and obedience. He does the rest. Then on the last day I went to the grand canyons. It was amazing. I sat at the edge overlooking the canyons and below me was 4000 feet of shear height... hahahaha.... freaky! But amazing. That's about 1300 metres roughly. Translation: I could die if I fall... I sat there and I prayed. Peace. Just so peaceful. In a way, I came home a better person than when I left. That will probably be my new resolution for the rest of my life. Going out a better person than when I came in. =) In every situation. =)

And just this morning I was at starbucks before I headed down to SMU. Was doing my QT on Abraham. Are we willing to make God's commands the priority of our day? - Abraham on the day he had to sacrifice Isaac, got up and made God's command his priority of the day. He with conviction, obeyed God fully and he believed in God's plan even to the point of death being in the picture. He was a man of great faith. But Im sure as his feet were walking obediently up the mountain, his heart ached for reassurance.

In Genesis 22 : 5. Its the account where Abraham tells his servants to wait for him and his son to come back. "We will worship and then WE will come back to you." How did Abraham know both he and Isaac were going to return? Was is wishful thinking? Was he trying to protect his servant from the terrifying truth? OR Did he trust that if God allowed the dream to die, he could ressurect it? (The dream of Abraham finally having a son.)

Are we willing to give our dreams to God? And make His command the priority of our day? Genesis 22 : 14-18 Only God can give such a dream, and only God can bring it to pass. "...On this mountain of the Lord, it will be provided." We're called to simply walk in faith. Each one of you has a very special place in my heart and I love you all deeply. =)