“Leo shared a message urging us as God’s children and the chosen ones to reflect, stand firm and speak truth. “The gospel is not meant to be reduced” preached, Leo. Very often we get caught up and overwhelm in this fast paced world, Leo gave a powerful reminder and a new perspective of the world view of the Kingdom of God.”

– Roslina, a conference delegate.

Thank you for spending time with us at the Conference. Your presence was divine and precious. We praise God for all that He has done through you and we pray for God’s anointing and blessing to be upon you.

Pastor Ian Toh
Lead Pastor, 3:16 Church

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Thank you, Pastor Henson for faithfully and fervently carrying the message of Archippus Awakening in National Prophecy Conference! This Conference would not be a complete success without you! Indeed it was 马到功成！

“Henson Lim was like an alarm bell shaking us out of our lazy beds onto the tracks to run for Jesus. Very fresh, non-judgmental message to awaken us to go do what God has assigned each of us. I find his strategic process “Awakened Aligned Assigned’ very helpful even for a long time believer.”

– Joscelyn, Conference delegate

2 years ago, I got to attend an Archippus Awakening seminar – Behold Israel and that was where I first met Pastor Henson. That seminar was catalytic in my journey of catching the Father’s heart for Israel, the apple of His eye.

I want to specially thank Pastor Henson for organising such an inspiring seminar. And I would have never thought that God would be setting me up to partner Pastor Henson, two years later for The Conference.

Pastor Henson and Serene, we love you and your amazing family. We are praying and we look forward to God’s special blessing upon “Awakened Aligned Assigned” seminar in December!

God Bless!

Pastor Ian Toh
Lead Pastor, 3:16 Church

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I am thankful to Rei, to Marc, who sat me down one Sunday and asked, “Would you like to play the acoustic guitar for the Conference?” My heart leapt. The initial response that surfaced in my mind was, oh, good Lord, no. The subsequent response as they peered intently at me was, perhaps… maybe… yes. I can’t bear to say no to their sincerity. The heavens must have a purpose. This feels like a call to action.

Saying yes was akin to wearing my heart on strings in the public eye. I grew up a reclusive and shy child, where I carefully stored my inner world behind a fortress of storybooks, dollhouses, writing and piano; if you realise, they are solitary activities. Teachers often wrote in my report card, “Stephanie needs to speak up”, or “Stephanie needs to come out of her shell”. To tie this back to my journey as a musician, this followed me in part to adulthood, and I had spent 6 prior years in the closet (or quiet time) singing into space. Bible, guitar and I. I was supremely comfortable and it was my fortress. Quite suddenly, however, my closet’s door was flung wide open by a single question on a balmy Sunday afternoon.

It felt as if Heaven’s hotline rang, and I picked up the phone. It was Christ calling me to serve His people with all my heart on display, no less, for He does not like half-baked love.

I will not go into minute details of my Conference experience, though know this: Jesus showed up, and the praise band had a whirlwind of a time sustained by prayer, kopi, grace towards each other, and Subway sandwiches hurriedly devoured for lunch. When He walked into the room and sat down at the front row each time, it was enough to redeem bleary eyes and calloused fingertips.

I will be first to admit that the post-Conference journey is an ongoing mind(e)-field of apprehension and insecurity as a musician. What sustains me though? The fact that He will walk into the room. The fact that He delights in using unqualified people. The fact that brokenness is a sweet sound to His ears. The fact that the praise band’s music is only an entry point to ushering His presence, while the congregation’s collective voice carries it to fruition.

From this unqualified person to another who may feel the same – join the club, and take the road less travelled with Jesus Christ. I love how Matthew 7:14 so aptly reads, “But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” The journey will be a squeeze and our feet may slip; yet once we find Life, our doors will stay wide open to all He has to offer, the author and finisher of our faith.

Stephanie
Stephanie serves in the 3:16 Praise band as an acoustic guitarist.

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He began to send them out two by two and gave them authority. – Mark 6:8



There is power in twos! It is fascinating that Jesus often sends His disciples out “two by two”. In the National Prophecy Conference, God sent His “two”: Pastor Ray Bentley and Dr. Robert Mawire. What a dynamic duo! It was a privilege to be near these anointed servants of God who carried the heart of Father God.

Thank you Pastor Ray Bentley and Dr. Robert Mawire for being the Conference keynote speakers. Your ministry has blessed us infinitely! In this thanksgiving / love photo story, we collected some testimonies and thanksgiving to celebrate and honour you!

“Either it is the first time or it has been a very long while since I felt an intense burning in my heart under a teaching. I felt this sensation when I sat under the teachings of Ray Bentley and Robert Mawire about Israel, Jesus’s second coming and the corporate call to love Israel. For the first time, I saw the dynamic power of the unity of a teacher (Ray) and the prophet (Robert). When they took turns on stage, their messages just burned in me even more. Ray’s style is very structured and he is an expert in leading the people from one layer to the next. It is very easy to follow him and be led into deeper treasures of the Word. Ray’s teachings created a structure to hold Robert’s teachings.Robert, on the other hand, is wild.  Stories after stories that will ignite any follower of Christ to thirst for more. I really felt as if Jesus was talking to me as Robert spoke. It is truly word after word that hits the heart and ignites the soul.”

– Leong Kah Wai, a 3:16 Church partner

“Pray through till you breakthrough! – Dr Robert Mawire – 12 September 2016, National Prophecy Conference)

Words can’t describe how blessed I was by the Conference. I have learned from the faithful men of God who have not only shared the Word of God, but also His kingdom vision and provision.”

– Theresa Pang, a Conference delegate

“My eyes were opened through the Conference, as a much larger vision of God – who He is and what He is about to do – unfolded before me through His anointed speakers. Each speaker was specially ordained to bring a different piece of His heart in these last days, and yet every piece fitted together and made such an impact! Life is not the same anymore – I am no longer content to live with any less than the Almighty God Himself.”

– Mabel, a 3:16 Church member

“Through Pastor Ray’s eyes I saw the eyes of the Father – how He looks at me with tender love and gentle kindness. It reminded me of how a Father could never be unforgiving toward His children – it is His nature to love, not leave.  The Father’s eyes are indeed filled with love.  I knew that I will forever be the little girl whose eyes are filled with innocence and curious wonder in the eyes of my Abba Father. Nothing can change that.”

– Raine Guo, who flew in from Australia for the Conference

“Robert is a man of great faith. He has modelled for us how one can have an intimate relationship with God. I was deeply blessed by his insights into the Heavenly Father’s heart for Israel.

Though Robert is a man of global influence, as I got to know him better, I found him to be a humble and caring person. I also got to meet his amazing family from Zimbabwe, and his nieces from Germany and Singapore. We love him and his family!”

– Lilis Toh, Pastor Ian’s beautiful other half

Nothing sums up how precious Robert and Ray are to Lilis and myself than having them, my spiritual fathers celebrate and bless us for our 14th wedding anniversary. The celebration on the last day of the Conference was a sweet surprise planned by the 3:16 Church family. It is great to have both Robert and Ray to pray over us as we start the 3rd cycle of our seven years together in love and marriage.

So on behalf on all the delegates from National Prophecy Conference and also from 3:16 Church, I want to say a heart-felt “Thank you for showing us the power of two! Thank you for showing us that God can still do miracles of biblical proportion in His love! We love you, Ray and Robert! Thank you for all that you have done. Thanks for igniting our world with God’s overwhelming love! May God multiply His blessing upon your lives!”

Love,
Pastor Ian Toh
Lead Pastor, 3:16 Church

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In this year’s National Prophecy Conference I was privileged to serve as the overall worship coordinator. One of my roles included representing 3:16 Church to liaise with the different bands for them to lead various praise segments of the sessions. Acting on our desire to partner closely with other churches, we managed to invite and have a total of four bands to partner us by serving on the worship-leading platform: they were from New Destiny Church, Cornerstone Community Church, Kum Yam Methodist Church as well as our own 3:16 Church praise band.

We also had the opportunity to serve with Pastor Pete Nelson from Calvary Chapel, with him leading in a couple of praise segments on the last day and I am grateful that I could personally be on stage to serve alongside him.

What a delight it was! Not just for the fact that I had learnt a great deal from the different bands that came with regards to the technical aspects (being a musician and worship leader myself) but my heart was overwhelmed by how God divinely orchestrated the whole process from start to end.

It was God who allowed us to link us up with the different worship leaders and bands and them agreeing to come alongside to serve with us at a relatively short notice.

It was God who brought in the different representatives from the various bands to gather together to pray and minister to one another on a Tuesday night one week prior to the conference.

And finally, it was also God who caused the powerful execution of respective roles during the conference right up to the very last day!

I am sure it sounded less “divine” to you as you read this than it actually was, but I am telling you as someone who was in the front row seat of witnessing how God pulled us through different challenges and uncertainties and showed Himself faithful.

One of the most significant “God-did-it” encounters was how God resolved for us the situation we had for the last day of the conference.

I went to the conference on the first day not knowing what’s the worship “plan” for the last day. We actually did not have any band that was ready to serve on the last day until second day into the conference!

Our plan was not to go around trying to seek out for bands to “fill the gap” but to let God orchestrate for us the last day and He really did.

None of us expected Pete Nelson (an extremely seasoned and anointed worship leader and musician) to show up at the conference. He arrived in Singapore only a few days prior to the conference and it was almost on that day that he arrived that we realised he would actually be at the conference and serve as a worship leader. We only managed to gather the team for a quick practice during one of the breaks of the second day yet in His grace, God used the team powerfully for the third day sessions.

Can I tell you the most amazing part? At some point when I realised that it would be good to have a full band on the last night (which was not formed up at the start of the conference), I went around looking for band members. What was placed on my heart was for a band that comprise of different churches and ministries. Within the three days, God brought in a bassist from New Destiny Church, a keyboardist from 3:16 church, and only in the morning of the very last day, a drummer from Cornerstone Community Church.

Throughout the last day of the conference, although a part of me was felt relieved and thankful that God had gathered the band members for the final session and believed God to see things through, yet I also had this uneasy feelings – uncertainty coupled with fear, not being sure of how things would turn out for the night, afraid it would turn out bad. After all, the people who are coming to serve together on the final night had no experience of working together as a band before.

This uneasiness was elevated when I realise we only had half an hour of practice before we would have to exit the stage and come back on later for the actual session.

It did not help also when I broke the guitar string of the guitar (the one which we had been using for the conference) on the last day while leading worship with it and eventually had to settle for what was previously advised by a friend (a seasoned sound engineer) “not to use”.

I wish I could tell you that we had the most fruitful half-an-hour practice as a newly-formed team but that didn’t happen. We actually faced some trouble communicating to one another on stage and we didn’t manage to practise through all the songs.

At the end of the practice in my mind I remember thinking: am I acting on some reckless faith here? God help us!

I was glad we prayed before we went up on stage. During that prayer time, I felt God filling me with confidence and God knitting our hearts as a team through His Spirit. At least one thing was made clear in my heart, we were all there to worship God with our all and believing Him to move powerfully through us or in spite of us.

So God did move. His Presence swept through the room powerfully and hearts were opened to receive more of Him. And I am not just saying this based on what I experienced but from a number of people that came to speak to me about it as well.

God showed me one thing that night – the worship team is not just the people on stage but also those off stage. The instruments used to worship God need not be just whatever that was on stage but when the Spirit is allowed to move, it comprised that of the voices of the entire congregation of believers. It was when hearts were broken and contrite before God and desiring Him earnestly, that’s what pleases Him most!

I am not sharing my experiences here with any intention to suggest that adequate planning is not required or technicalities of musicianship etc. are not important. In fact, it is quite the opposite. There was much work and effort put into this conference and personally for me, there was really much thought and effort put into certain technical aspects (which was not so emphasised here).

What I want to make loud and clear here is that this God we trust and believe in is an awesome God. He is the Faithful One who is able to do much more than we can ever imagine or conceive of on our own. He is so good that He does deserve each of our very best, the best we can offer Him.

I believe what God is after is not just excellent outward presentations (definitely not us striving for that kind of success) but completely surrendered hearts who love Him with everything.

To love Him with all our hearts, that every one of our motives is centred on Him and His desires.

To love Him with all our souls, that every emotion and consciousness to be made aware of Him.

To love Him with all our minds, that every thought that goes through our minds is set and aligned to Him.

To love Him with all our strength, that every ability that we have is used to please Him.

Let’s seek to love Him like this everyday and seek His Kingdom first together!

Pastor Joel Peh
Youth Pastor, 3:16 Church

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Here’s a very big shout out to all the volunteers who made the National Prophecy Conference possible. Thank you so much for the time you have given and the love you have showed! This is family. This is love.

The generous soul will be made rich, And he who waters will also be watered himself. – Proverbs 11:25

Photographed by: R.Y., Tay Yi En & Abel Tan

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The idea of writing this song came to me while I was attending Hillsong Conference this year. During the conference, God spoke to me about His call for me to write songs for the church and at the same time the pastors of 3:16 Church also had a confirmation from God about the theme of this year’s church camp which is “Thy Kingdom Come”. That kind of birthed forth the desire to write a song based on “Thy Kingdom Come”, something that would resonate His heart and what He desires for His people to lay hold of in this camp.

It was quite a journey for me in writing this song because to me the theme “Thy Kingdom Come” is really quite an abstract idea in my mind, and I felt it was difficult to express out in words, what more in a song.

The first thing that came to my mind was the words of Jesus prayer in Matthew 6:9-10, “Abba in heaven, holy is Your name, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven…Yours is the Kingdom…forever”, which eventually formed the pre-chorus and the chorus of the song.

I wanted the song to be sung as a prayer that the sons and daughters of God bring before their Abba, and a part of the chorus where we could declare in unison God’s everlasting Kingdom, just as how Jesus ended His prayer in Matthew 6.

The verses of the song are written to support and give meaning to what would be prayed in the pre-chorus and chorus of the song.

The first verse talks about our identification with being the sons and daughter of God, parallel to saying “Our Father” in the Lord’s prayer, and with this amazingly privileged status, we draw close to know God and His heart’s desires. I believe one big clue of what’s in his heart is in his eyes, as was described in the book of Revelation, to be “like blazing fire”. An unimaginable passion for His people. I felt it was in that place of catching what’s on God’s heart that we could really pray those words “Thy Kingdom Come” the way Jesus would.

The second verse describes what I believe are the ways that God wants to work in the Church first in answer to the prayer for His Kingdom to come. First it is unity amongst God’s people. As God’s people choose to unite in the love of God today, there would be an unprecedented power that brings about healing and restoration not just for people in the church, but for every nation. And the second thing is a discernment of the times and seasons. I believe to pray for God’s Kingdom to come is to also call for a greater sense of urgency and readiness for the church to obey God where it’s needed for Him to move through us in this generation.

The bridges are supposed to bring the song to another level where it goes from a congregational prayer and declaration to a dedication of lives in response to God’s personal revelation to us as we pray.

What I am believing God for in this camp is essentially what has been depicted in the song, that sons and daughters would be drawn in deeper into the love of Abba God, and as we get glimpses of what God’s heart is for, each one might have a deeper conviction to accomplish what God has called us to do personally and corporately, and that His Kingdom would come and be advanced in power from this camp!

Joel Peh
3:16 Praise

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