
On the 3rd to 5th of April, there were over three hundred campus students and serving ones from all over Malaysia joining the Malaysia Campus Blending Conference held in Kuching, Sarawak. It was such a wonderful time of blending and glorious scene seeing so many crazy lovers of Christ coming together. The general subject of this Conference is “Fulfilling God’s Ultimate Goal by Being the Lord’s Overcomers in the Last Age”. There were fifteen brothers and sisters from the church in PJ joined the Conference. The following are their testimonies: -
This Conference brought us into God’s will – in these last days, the Lord wants to produce a group of overcomers to accomplish God's ultimate goal. The Lord is calling today, are we willing to answer God's call to rise up to love and serve Him? I need to recover my first love for the Lord, for the source of the degradation of the church is the leaving of the first love towards the Lord. This needs to be our warning, and our first love for the Lord must be the best love, with the Lord alone as our preeminence.
I am also reminded that I need more of the Lord's mercy and having more prayers of repentance, so that I may not follow the tide of this age, nor indulge in eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage like in the days of Noah. I need to wake up and watchful in prayer, so that I may gain the strength to overcome the tide of this age. Mary is our pattern; she loved the Lord so absolutely that she broke the alabaster flask of ointment, of very costly pure nard and poured it over the Lord’s head. The most frightening situation among us is that no one pours out the ointment as Mary did on the Lord. I need the Lord to turn me once again, to seize the opportunity like Mary, to give Him the best love. To waste my love on Him is most worthwhile. – LKS
To love God is to give our whole being, soul, body, heart, mind, and strength to Him! The Lord's love will constrain us, causing us to have only one goal and one purpose: to be possessed by Him and to make Him our everything. – LLLP
What I treasure the most at this conference was that the Lord is calling the overcomers today, and today's overcomers are those who love the Lord. These messages don't just tickle our ears, but speak to our very being. To become overcomers, we must restore our first and best love for the Lord, just as Mary seized the opportunity to break the alabaster flask of ointment and pour it out to anoint the Lord. I am willing to consecrate myself once again to the Lord, just as Mary did, offering my first and best love to Him. – LC
What age are we living in? It is the age of Noah, where people are seeking wealth and being occupied with eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, and they become the lovers of self, lovers of money and lovers of pleasure, non-lovers of good and non-lovers of God. While people fix their eyes on themselves and on fleeting, temporary satisfactions, the Lord calls us to something higher: to love Him with all our heart, all our soul, and all our mind. This love should be the driving force behind our desire to know Him and to carry out His will.
Mary loved the Lord so deeply, even willing to break her alabaster flask and anoint the Lord with the precious ointment, which others saw as wasteful. Nobody told her to do so, and people even questioned her, yet it was her love for God that compelled her to pour everything out for Him. How much love she has towards God! Our Lord is so precious to us, and He is worthy for us to pour out our dearest treasure upon Him, out of love, and we shall not count it a shame to have done so. – TJH
In the Lord's last seven epistles to the church, the Lord clearly spoke of the church's desolation. Yet, at the end of each epistle, the Lord sounds out a call, calling His believers to be overcomers in this time. Therefore, we must be today’s Noah, responding to the Lord's call in these last days, not only building the ark but also entering it. First, we must overcome the loss of our first love. We need to repent to the Lord, ask for His forgiveness for our lukewarmness, and renew our consecration to Him, exercising to give Him the first place in all things and giving our first and best love to Him. – TKY
I am deeply impressed by the story of Mary. She clearly had this intention and had been thinking about it for a long time; when she broke the alabaster flask and poured out the ointment, it was all she had. She poured her entire being out to the Lord. Judas, typifying worldly people thought it was a waste, and even the disciples, the ones closest to the Lord did not understand and were indignant about her actions. Today the Lord needs this kind of crazy lover. He needs those who will pour themselves out to the Lord—ones who will love Him with their whole heart, whole soul, whole mind, and whole strength. I just repent before the Lord: "Lord, I am simply not there yet. Lord, fill me with Your love so I can love You. Lord, may we see Your supreme preciousness so that we would be willing to pour ourselves out to You. Lord, make us—make me—today’s Mary, today’s living overcomers in the church. And that Lord, having You is enough" – GWSS
"The tares grow faster than the wheat." This is a warning that the earthly element grows better because of our cooperation. Our hearts can love ourselves, money, and pleasure, but not in God and His Word; we do not feel it, and we even have a legitimate reason to continue to be dominated by the world. We first need to understand what kind of generation we are in, which is a generation that makes tares grow quicker and better. Only love can keep us in a right relationship with the Lord. For the love of Christ has the constraining power, to eliminate all the other ways, only loving Him. – TWYZ
In the matter of Mary pouring the ointment, we can see two types of people, one is Judas and the other is the disciples. Judas signifies worldly people; their mind is the mind of mammon. They said: Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor? But the disciples, they are those who followed the Lord for three and a half years, and may be even closer to the Lord physically than Mary; but when they saw Mary’s action, they were indignant, saying, why this waste?
Through this message, I’m being reminded that what the Lord cares is that whether we have the reality of Mary in us. Mary loves the Lord, she “wasted” for the Lord to an extent that no one spoke for her, but the Lord spoke for her. In Mark 14:6, “But Jesus said, Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a noble deed on Me.” Mary loves the Lord. She seized the opportunity to break her alabaster flask, poured the ointment over the Lord. May we also be those who see the preciousness of the Lord, seize the opportunity to anoint the Lord, crazy lovers of the Lord, for His satisfaction! – SLKR
The goal of the gospel is that, like Mary, who did “what she could”, we should also pour out upon the Lord Jesus what is most precious to us, even our most costly and valuable spiritual treasure, “wasting” ourselves upon Him. Throughout these three days and two nights, meetings after meetings, the atmosphere was pervaded with the sweetest fragrance, which is satisfying to our Lord. We must have a heart that is willing to yield, to break, and pour out everything to Him – which gives release to that fragrance of Christ and produces lovers of the Lord through the gospel.
The true breaking of the alabaster flask may not be something visible to the eyes of many, but something that took place quietly, privately, secretly and in an intimate transaction with the Lord. It seems as though we are giving too much and getting nothing, in the world’s estimation, the service of the Lord and our giving ourselves to Him is sheer waste – but the breaking and the pouring out creates in others a hunger for Himself, prepares the soil for preaching. We count not in what we have done or given to the Lord, but the reproduction of many, who too would break their alabaster flask and pour out everything for Him. – EC