Believer Music Initiative

I have been pondering about this for a long time, ever since last year, I think. It is about this prompting that I get almost every time when I am immersed in worship to the Lord. It is a prompting to learn to play the guitar, so that I can serve in the area of ministry when called upon, be it in the newly formed Discovery Group for new believers, in the upcoming adults Basic Accountability Group (BAG) and / or even in the near future, as part of family time worship after Rebecca and I are married… hopefully with children of our own.

This example of family time is picked up from Rebecca’s Dad who initiated this with his family, every Sunday night. It is basically a sharing session about the morning’s sermon and prayer for each other. I think it is a great way to bring the family close together and I intend to do this for my own family in future too. I think it would also be a testimony to our neighbors; who knows, they may even be curious to want to join in, if they are also a Christian family, or may be interested to find out more, if they are pre-believers!

This prompting took a stronger ‘push’ after I came back from this year’s church camp. I still don’t comprehend how or why, but this prompting just grew stronger after I returned back to Singapore, being more in tuned with the heart of God. Although since then, I have had my struggles with keeping in step with God, I am just so thankful that God has repeatedly brought me back to His presence, when I humbly come to seek Him.

Saturday was the last session of the ALPHA course. It so happened that I asked the speaker Then Chee Ming about how and where I can go to learn how to play the guitar… and he confirmed my decision to take up a course at Believer Music. It has different levels of guitar classes, starting from the beginner class. It is held once a weekday evening and the cost of 8 sessions (beginner class) is $160. It’s fairly costly, but I am committing it to God.

Thus, after many months of juggling with this prompting, I decided that this is a step of faith that I have to take, and commit it to the Lord, if it is His plan for me to serve in this area. I have learnt through my life that sometimes it is about stepping up to give it a try, before I can know if this is where my area of ministry lie.

God, please help me, as I commit this to you. Amen.