It's been a year since I started serving the Lord through dance with Team Vibe, my Philippine dance team, and going places to share my passion to different nations. We can say as a team that this trip to Hong Kong for project dance was our anniversary trip. More than just an anniversary trip, it became a journey to renewal of strength and purpose as well as freedom. It was a new testimony we can share proving how God has never stopped working in us and has been faithful to our cause more than we have been for Him. There is so much to share about this testimony but I will just sum it up enough to fit into this blog.
The team was supposed to do a mission trip to China for the earthquake victims during the whole month of July and then transfer to Hong Kong for the Project Dance. That was the plan. Of course God had a different plan for us because He knew us better than to send us off to a mission with our hearts set cold. Individually, each of us was not ready for this because we felt our hearts changed after going through so much over the past year. Personally, I was so filled with fear and I have had a cold relationship with God over the past few months.
And so God brought us directly to Project Dance. Before the trip, I was so sick that I could not get out of my bed for about a week. I was also going through some other problems that I was allowing myself to get stuck in it. Even the days before project dance itself was a physical, financial and emotional rollercoaster ride for us. It was a stranger country for us but God provided us a place to stay in Hong Kong. The owner was a doctor and God miraculously touched me through him and healed my asthma.
God showed us to situations in order for us to realize where we have been and what we have become over the past few months. We met so many people and surprisingly used specific people so He can talk to us personally through them. We were allowed to take part in project dance without having to pay any registration fee, but during the last hour of registration some dancers from Singapore paid 2 from us so that at least 2 from us could take the classes. However on the day of classes, all of us were able to attend the different classes, the organizer talked to one of us and just said, "just go in to whichever class you want to take, it's ok."
It was also the first time we were able to experience worship where everyone was not just singing but using their bodies to sing the words of the songs. Project dance helped us break off the chains that has held us down. It was a project towards being free. Free from our fears, from pain, from sickness and many more that restricts us from moving freely. Usually in our trips we do more sharing than receiving blessing. However, this trip was for us to receive all the blessings we needed in our calling and we all needed to be redeemed through this journey.
2 Corinthians 3:7-18 -It talks about the glory of the New Covenant. This says it all about what this journey has been for us team vibe and for me personally:
"The old way, with laws etched in stone, led to death though it began with such glory that the people of Israel could not bear to look at Moses' face. For his face shone with the glory of God, even though the brightness was already fading away. Shouldn't we expect far greater glory under the new way, now that the Holy Spirit is giving life? if the old way, which brings condemnation, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new way which makes us right with God! In fact, that first glory was not glorious at all compared with the overwhelming glory of the new way. So if the old way which has been replaced, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new one, which remains forever!
Since this new way gives us such confidence, we can be very bold. We are not like Moses. who put a veil over his face so the people of Israel would not see the glory, even though it was destined to fade away. But the people's minds were hardened, and to this day whenever the old covenant is being read , the same veil covers their minds so they cannot understand the truth. And this veil can be removed only by believing in Christ. Yes, even today when they read Moses' writings, their hearts are covered with that veil and they do not understand.
But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord-who is the Spirit-makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image."
Now we are on fire again and ready to face the battles because we have faith that He won't ever leave us alone and because we live for His cause. No person or circumstance will drift us away from what he calls for us to do and be. God has already paved our way to the ends of the earth.
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