勇敢做开路先锋---粘俊平传道
我知道你一定会感到奇怪，为何我以电影《星际迷航》的主题，作为我属灵经历纪事的标题。
还记得在2012年12月31日汝来生命泉源教会（FOLA）的跨年感恩聚会上，我公开宣布：我将会在2013年作出一项重大决策。不过，当时我并没有透露是什么重大的决定。因为，在我的内心深处已觉察到，我在生命泉源教会的日子已经接近尾声，另一个新的季节即将开始。当我开始回顾自己的属灵生命里程，从我1981年回应神呼召的整个过程至今，我开始渐渐地感觉到，我似乎回到过去那段时期。从属灵的意义来看，我似乎会做出重大的决定。但无论如何，我十分的确信，2013年对我将是转化的一年，而我也会有一些显著的变化。
第一次与洪保罗牧师的相识是在2011 年。当时，他受邀在生命泉源教会（FOLA）的主日和展翅事奉学校特会分享信息。他主要的服侍就是为信徒传递圣灵火，并且使用属灵武器释放被捆绑受辖制的人；而他的服侍也经常伴随着许多的彰显。我必需承认刚开始时，我存有宗教心态，以至于，我小心翼翼的担忧这种超灵恩的现象。
由生命泉源教会（FOLA）主办，在展翅事奉学校特会中的其中一堂，我发现自己被保罗牧师点名出去领受服侍，就在等候被服侍的同时，保罗牧师问每个人：我们希望从主那里得到什么？当时我并没有想要从神那里得到什么。老实说，我当时挣扎着，如何回答这个问题。突然间，我有一个荒谬的想法：就是跟神要祂給保罗牧师的一切。所以，当轮到我的时候，我说出这个想法。爱因斯坦曾经说过：如果一个人的想法不荒谬，那就没有希望可言。
毋庸置疑的，荒谬的事总是引发笑声和幽默感。
保罗牧师笑着回答我说：「你想有我的备用轮胎（大肚腩）和光头吗？」 我周围的人开始哈哈大笑，而我却说不出话来。
保罗牧师没有任何踌躇，就握着我的手传递恩膏进入我的灵里，配搭着神的工作，改变了我对祂的事工的看法。所我所知，我已经越过原来的舒适圈，进入一个未知的领域。
我绝无为自己表达了荒谬的想法感到遗憾。
在2013年7月，我和妻子张喜悦第一次前来八打灵再也的基督国度领袖训练（CKRM PJ）。我们觉得需要领受更多地恩膏，才可以为神国度的服侍预备好自己。所以，自2013年10月开始，我们经常固定出席那里的聚会。令人惊奇菲思的是，每一次聚会都引发我心中更多的搅动。神呼召我返回原本服侍岗位和带领事工（过去曾带领过的），并已经开始在我的心中动工和展开。
我不可否认，那是从神而来到的搅动。所以，在2013年12月23日，我决定通知生命泉源（FOLA）的牧师告诉他我们的决定。我和妻子决定回应神放在我们生命中，使徒性的呼召，并且将从2014 年开始参与CKRM的事工。我们夫妇俩皆收到生命泉源牧师给我们的祝福。感谢主！
喜悦和我在2014年1月初拜访了新加坡基督国度(CKRM)。我们希望能更多地了解CKRM的事工。待在新加坡的那段期间，我们感到需要更深一步进入神对我们在CKRM 事工里的呼召。2014年1月6日，刘再芳牧师（国际妇发光团契新加坡华文部主席，祈祷院主席，新加坡基督国度顾问 ），洪保罗牧师和以斯贴牧师按立喜悦和我为CKRM八打灵再也的传道。
这也难怪，我被电影里企业号（星际迷航）的队长，任命去探查和发现并且勇敢做开路先锋的精神，深深的吸引着。因为，我也有一个类似的探索任务，要明白和发现更多神国的奥秘，如同在属界探索新的领域；而这个旅程已经开始。敬请等候进一步消息。
牧师的注脚：粘俊平传道，拥有硕士学位，任教化学于一所大学，通过下面的链接是他的妻子张喜悦传道的见证）。
How strange it is to entitle the chronicles of my key spiritual events with the above theme from Star Trek. I know.
On 31st December 2012 Watch Night Service at the Fountain of Life Assembly (FOLA), Nilai, I announced publicly that I would be making a major decision in the year of 2013. However I did not disclose what that major decision was. Deep inside me, I felt that my season in FOLA was drawing to an end and a new season was about to take place. It all started after I reflected on my spiritual pilgrimage from the point that I responded to the call of God in my life in 1981 till then. It began to dawn on me that the then season I was in seemingly resembled some past seasons, in the spiritual sense, where certain major moves were boldly taken. I was somehow convicted that the year of 2013 would be a transitional year that I would leap in with some significant changes.
My first acquaintance with Pastor Paul K. P. Ang started when he was invited to speak on Sunday services and Wingspread Conferences in FOLA, in 2011. He has a ministry to impart the fire of God to believers and to appropriate spiritual weapons of deliverance to break the strongholds in them. Often, manifestations accompany him whenever he ministers. I must admit that I then had a religious mindset that caused me to be careful and apprehensive of this kind of spiritual phenomena.
During one of the sessions of the Wingspread Conference organised by FOLA, I found myself being called to receive a ministry from him. While I was waiting for my turn, Pastor Paul Ang asked each of us what we wanted from the Lord. I did not have the slightest idea what to ask of him. Honestly, I was struggling within myself to answer this question. All of a sudden, an absurd thought dawned on me, ‘Ask everything that God has given to him’. I spoke out this exact thought when it came to my turn. Einstein once mentioned that if an idea is not absurd then there would not be hope for it.
Absurdity usually triggers laughter and humour, as usual.
Pastor Paul replied, ‘Would you like to have my spare tyre and bald head too?’ He smiled. People around me started to laugh but I was lost for words.
Without any hesitation, he held my hands and imparted something into my spirit that orchestrated a deep work of God that has shifted my paradigm about his ministry. For all I know, I have crossed a threshold that took me from my comfort zone to an unknown frontier.
I absolutely have no regrets that I have expressed this absurdity.
In July 2013, my wife, Hephzibah, and I visited CKRM (Christ Kingdom Reign Majestically) Petaling Jaya for the first time. However, we felt the need to receive more empowerment from this ministry in order to develop ourselves for God’s Kingdom purpose. So, from October 2013 onwards, we started to attend the empowerment services at CKRM Petaling Jaya on a more regular basis. Surprisingly, and strangely, each visit has led to even more uncontrollable stirrings within me. The call of God to return to leading a ministry (that we once held) began to stir and unfold.
It was a stirring that I could not deny of its God-origin. On 23rd December 2013, I decided to notify the pastor of FOLA that my wife and I have decided to answer the apostolic calling that God has placed in our lives to be involved in the ministry of CKRM in the new year of 2014. Both of us have received his blessing to serve in CKRM. Praise the Lord!
Hephzibah and I visited CKRM Singapore in early January of 2014. We wanted to get more acquainted with the CKRM ministry. During our stay there, we felt led to take a further step to move into our calling in the ministry of CKRM. On 6th January 2014, Hephzibah and I were ordained by Rev. Liu Tsia Fang, the president of AGLOW International (Chinese Chapter), Pastor Paul Ang and Pastor Esther as pastors for CKRM Petaling Jaya. (Rev Liu is also the Chairman of Singapore Christian Prayer House and and an Advisor of CKRM Christian Centre Singapore).
It is no wonder that the appointment of the captain of the USS Enterprise (Star Trek) to explore, discover, and to go boldly beyond the frontier has captivated my heart and my spirit. There is a similar quest in me to understand and to discover more of the mysteries of God, as well as to explore new terrains in the spiritual realm. The journey has begun. Stay tuned.
(Pastor's Footnote - Ps Liam holds a Master of Science (Information Technology), Bachelor of Applied Science (Hons), Diploma in Ministry and 20 years of Pastoral experience in Latter Rain Church of Malaysia. Currently teaching chemistry in Inti International University, Nilai. His wife, Ps Hephzibah's testimony is vide the link below)
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