Asia Pacific Youth Alive Conference 09

APYAC 09 was an awesome conference.
It stands for Asia Pacific Youth Alive Conference - Speak to the Nations. I think this is my first Youth Alive event.
There were 29 nations all over the world - around 1500 people in GTPJ on the 10th to 12th December.
There were 69 of us from KAOG! We never expected that many people to sign up actually.



I was pretty excited before the conference. Many reasons to that. :)

But deep inside, i was actually afraid of what i would think of conferences after that. This year i've been to many conferences and camps than the other previous years.


I was scared that i would treat the events as just another event when every single of the event is NOT just another event! They're God's events!



I hate 'hypes'.
Conference is not about the music alone - how good the singer is, how awesome that person played his guitar, how great is that dance, how nice is the crowd - they were sporting because they jumped etc.

Or how bad it is - when that person couldn't "entertain" us well, the speaker is not that funny as he should be thus i fell asleep, that yucky fried chicken.
It is not about entertaining ourself, of course you should be having fun, i really had a lot of fun! - but that's not really the point of it.

The point of this conference i would say is to understand what God's heart & plans is to the nations. To learn more about Him, to equip ourselves so that we can speak to the nations or our own Malaysia, to APPLY whatever we heard there in our daily lives. What matters is the after that.
If not, the conference will not be that truly awesome it can achieve. :)

I learnt a lot from this conference, new things.
Like John the Baptist's only brand is Camel! Haha! =P
Nah..not that.
One of the things i found out is that the mind constantly faces battles more than we realised.

For me, confusion and clarity in mind is one of the things that has plagued my mind a lot. I didn't realise this really matter to God, how He is so looking into it until the Holy Spirit guided the pastor to pray a prayer of healing upon me in this that time.
I should've known of course this matter to God. I've always thought that its such an insignificant thing, compared to bigger issues other people face like broken families, being handicapped, getting abused etc.

God cares for me much MUCH more than i realised or even registered in my mind!!

He knows everything that i need, anything that i'm concerned with either consciously or unconsciously.
He knows me from the tip of my head to the tip of my toe - more than i do! I don't count the number of hairs i have.


He had been speaking this word to me, "I'm here with you." during that conference and the DUMC service. How assuring it is. He knows that i can't make it alone for whatever that is to come.