Hillsong Conference Sydney 2013

To the future Alicia (LOL this is so lame, I am actually talking to myself. What has Uni done to me O.O Heal me Lord!)

So you finally got the time to write this out after for so long! But it's incomplete. Some things are just indescribable ......................or lazy to be typed out XD

Alicia, may you be reminded of this event in your life. :)

Hillsong Conference Sydney 2013 : This Is Revival!

Definitely a time where my world was rocked, disturbed, changed by God’s goodness again!

I remember weeks before flying off to Sydney, I was alone in my room and reality just hit me that we are actually going to Hillsong Conference! This is crazy! Funny how it took me few months to let reality kicked in haha. I was overwhelmed by how God not only intends to bless, but to bless us abundantly. Not only we’ll be going to Sydney, we’ll be attending Hillsong Conference! And God just had to outdo Himself by allowing me to do it with the most amazing group of people that I can always call as “my family”!

I still remember the first night of worship, it was almost impossible to hold back one’s tears in the presence of our Saviour Jesus! Indeed, where can we go from His Spirit? Where can we flee from His presence? God’s presence was so tangible and powerful that night and also throughout all the worship sessions! Words could not put into perspective exactly how the worship experiences have blessed me personally, but it was evidently clear how great God is and how vast His love is for us as we were part of 20k people worshiping the same Mighty King. Again and again throughout the worship sessions, God has never failed to show Himself mightily; moulding, shaping, and refining the hearts of His people to pursue Him even more!

Through the sermons, I was challenged that our lives are lived not just for ourselves, but for the Kingdom of God. I was deeply inspired by Pastor Brian and Bobbie Houston’s heart in building the local church. Through their sermons and leadership session, they are indeed anointed and appointed in leading Hillsong Church! And also other speakers like Bishop TD Jakes, Pastor Judah Smith, Pastor Craig Groeschel, their word and sermons just spoke to us personally, so much so that we cannot help but to respond in agreement and in faith of countless “Amen” and “That’s right!” and “Woah!” haha. I remember so clearly two sermons by Bishop TD Jakes, no doubt, he wooed the crowd by his message! Maybe it was his delivery of message, or his accent, or even his personal pianist that would share the same stage with him throughout his sermon, whatever it was..one thing’s for sure is that he is truly gifted and anointed in preaching God’s Word to His people! I was challenged to pursue God even more despite of our own limitations; be it limitations by our own environment or limitations set by ourselves, Bishop TD Jakes made a point that blew my mind away: Use everything you have to go against everything you don’t have to see a breakthrough. Blessed indeed!

As for workshops, I signed up for Communications and Events. I am utterly impressed by Hillsong Team’s heart in making events happened and the values they hold onto to work as a team. The Team have been so open in sharing their knowledge and experience in events managing. They even share websites, softwares, design tools, mobile apps that they would use in making an event. They are just really transparent about their methods in making events work in Hillsong. Indeed, their heart is to also empower and inspire other churches with their simple faith of building the Kingdom of God. Holding nothing back with their methods and knowledge, they just want to see God’s name being made known to many even through events!

In a nutshell, the whole experience for me personally was a time of putting Jesus in the centre of my life again; a time of realization that indeed He is truly the Life that satisfies; a time of assurance that God is with us every step of the way; and undoubtedly, it was a time of reminder that God loves His local churches and He is passionate about saving the world.

God is good. :)