Faith vs Fun at separate venues in KK
Published on: Tuesday, June 02, 2015
Kota Kinabalu: Two separate events in different parts of the city at the same time over three nights reflected what many may say is what the generation gap is all about. While one was steeped in prayer seeking God's blessings and intervention on Malaysia through praise and worship, the other was an Aramaiti gathering with beer sold in plastic cups for RM15 to deafening music.As for the spiritual event, Faith in the healing power of God brought many members of the Christian congregation from all over Sabah to the 3rd All Malaysian Revival Convocation at the Town Padang.
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There were families as well as individuals, while some were from the peninsula and even Philippines and Singapore for the three-day prayer convocation which began on Friday. "I believe in miracles, I believe in the healing power of God," said 55-year-old Jackson Kwan, who came with his family and a group of 20 from Sandakan. Kwan who grew up in a family of Chinese mediums insisted he decided to become a follower of Jesus when he was instantly healed from partial paralysis in 1996. "My parents are mediums and I learned the ways of a medium when I was six, but in 1996 I had to be sent to the hospital in Kuala Lumpur where I underwent a six-hour operation which failed and I became partially paralysed. "I returned to Sandakan and that was when I met someone who came to my house and prayed for me and at that very instant I was instantly healed and was able to walk," he said.
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"I remember doctors telling me that I could not have children but thanks to a miracle from God I am blessed with three children," he said, adding that it has been 15 years since he quit his job and dedicated his life to God to travel to different places assisting underprivileged children and the poor. An elderly woman from Pitas with her family to attend the prayer convocation was spotted singing and clapping among the crowd with her grandson standing close by. "I felt good and could feel the warmth of God flowing in my body, but most of all we came here to pray for a miracle for my 56-year-old son who was diagnosed with Stage Four lung cancer," said Amas, 80.
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Organising Chairman Rev Augustine Saang of the SIB Church said healing encompasses everything including finance, relationship, spiritual, physical and emotional healing. "When we pray the spirit of God will come upon that person and be deposited in his or her heart and we will have the fruit of that spirit. "For spiritual and emotional healing is when you have peace, love, joy, kindness, faithfulness, patience, and self-control. Your old self is gone and you will be new. "For physical healing, I believe there were some who came with back pain, cancerous ailment, and asthmatic, all these will be gone in God's name," he said."When God is present, where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom, there is healing and this is what you are seeing," he added. Unaware of the other three-night party session in another part of town, Rev. Augustine decried the excesses of Aramaiti" before the healing sessions started, while Rev. Christina Ang spoke to spiritually-inclined youths present on the benefit of attending faith events compared to Discotheques.As for the other divergent group of celebrants at another part of town, it was time to party for three nights due to the long weekend courtesy of the Harvest Festival holidays.The "party animals" congregated at the Imago Mall's Araimatii Avenue gyrating their bodies on the spot or in their seats to live bands and renowned deejays. Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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