PASTOR SIMON ENG MESSAGE

Hi, brothers and sisters in our HIM family. Greetings from HIM Chiang Mai! We have just finished our Global Conference. Once again, we had an amazing participation from our international churches and leaders. We had people from Europe, North America, Oceania and many other countries. As usual, our leaders and our family came together. This time we held it at HIM Chiang Mai. It is a beautiful church with a beautiful venue with a few hundred coming to participate in this Global Conference.

Pastor Simon Eng Video Message

Global Conference - Spiritual Covering

One of the objectives in holding our Global Conference here in Chiang Mai is to be able help strengthen our HIM pastors, leaders and churches throughout Thailand. They came from many different regions. We chose the topic of spiritual covering which is an essential and important topic. Through these three days together, our Thai leaders and pastors were so comforted and strengthened. They felt that the international community supported them throughout last year. By coming together here, it sends a very a strong signal and sends that covenant message that we are together with them.




The importance of spiritual covering

Back to the Global Conference, we chose the topic and theme of spiritual covering. We did five great lessons in all. One lesson was defining spiritual covering. Spiritual covering is not necessarily a positive topic with a lot of churches and a lot of Christians. In fact, in a lot of circles, it is negative concept and thinking. In this series of lessons, we have taught our people that not only is spiritual covering essential, it is in fact, a blessing.

By coming under spiritual covering, we are in fact coming under a power shield.

We are coming under protection and guidance under our leaders which is under the lordship of Jesus Christ. By His very grace that He imparts to His leaders, we receive spiritual covering and we are being protected from spiritual warfare attacks of the enemy. So we defined it very clearly so that our people really know about spiritual covering.



God initiated spiritual covering

Next, we spoke about some of the reasons we need spiritual covering. One reason we need to take note is that God himself who is the Creator, who sustains us and who cares for every one of us, desires His entire creation to be protected because He loves us and cares for us. He is really concerned about our wellbeing. Therefore, God himself has initiated spiritual covering.



Spiritual covering provides protection

Secondly, we need spiritual covering because we are in spiritual warfare. In any war, there needs to be shelter and places where you can protect yourself. We have spiritual armour and weapons, but at the same time, God tells us we are in fact covered by coming under the church and coming under the leadership that He instituted under the very structure of the church.



Spiritual covering brings blessing

Finally, good spiritual covering is protection for our people. When our people are properly covered by a good relationship with the pastor/s, by a proper structure and system implemented in the church, there is blessing and spiritual prosperity.

Our people will grow, do well, and are protected from every wiles, tricks and evil of the enemy if we do a holistic and thorough job by covering our people well.



Brothers and sisters, it is a blessing. However, bad spiritual covering will result in our people being attacked, confused, be in distress and even lead to the destruction of our people. So I just want to encourage you. Jesus covered his disciples. His disciples went and planted churches and they in turn, also, brought about the covering of their people. So this topic and theme of spiritual covering is a blessing. Listen through our entire teaching. You will find it a very thorough, comprehensive series of lesson to help each one of us.

Spiritual covering is a universal principle

Brothers and sisters, spiritual covering is essential. Get these series of lessons and learn more about it. I talked to some of our leaders, whether they are in Europe or Australia or the Americas, they talk about the benefits and the blessings of listening to this entire series. It will do you good to be able to listen through it and teach our churches about this entire area.




The next five years vision

So my dear brothers and sisters, we also spoke in our pastors meeting. We are putting the past behind us. Many of our churches, internationally and in Thailand have stabilised. We are looking forward to growing. We are looking forward to planting churches. We have put in place a strategic five year plan that will be completed by mid-year. We are doing a road show to communicate to our regions of churches. You will hear about it about what we plan to do in the next few years to capture the heart of God and to move in the harvest that God has prepared for us.

Upcoming GC in Kuala Lumpur & Melbourne

Finally, I would like to invite you to come for the next Global Conference coming up. It will be in April 21st-23rd. It is going to be in Kuala Lumpur. It is going to be on a wonderful topic; we are going to touch about rising the next generation of leaders. Come and join us. It will be exciting. Mark it in your calendar. Further to that, there will be another one in September in Melbourne. See your pastor and leaders, and get the information; prepare to come.

My ministry's plans for 2010

On a personal note, this year, I will be travelling through many churches in our regions again. Last year, I almost covered the whole world and our regions. My objective was to bring stability to the regions. Thank God, that by the grace of God, I have seen almost all our regions come into that place of stability. At the end of the year, we have all planned to have a wonderful Christmas and New Year; we celebrated that.

This year, my objective in my travels will be to bring further strength and growth in our regions.



The first trip will be in the Easter period for the Oceania Convention. We are expecting about 1000 people and it will be at the Gold Coast Convention Centre at the Gold Coast, Queensland. We are expecting a wonderful time there. We are going to teach about core values and set them in place. This is going to be the objective I am going to set for myself. I am going to the regions and speaking to the people about building and revisiting core values and the right biblical values. The aim is for all our churches to have these core values and clear hope distinctive such discipling our people, joining Word for Life or CDS, coming to learn the Bible and prayer, mentoring one another etc. These are some of the distinctive and clear things we want to place in the HIM family and ministries.

HIM churches in Liberia & Democratic Republic of Congo




So brothers and sisters, I look forward to a wonderful time with God. I am prepared, my heart is excited, I am eager to go and impart to our churches again to see our regions really grow and develop. One of the exciting things that have happened in the past year is in our African churches. Hope Liberia and Democratic Republic of Congo have decided to flow and move along with us. I am excited about what God is doing over in our churches in Africa. We are going to see these two strong leaders and clear people that want to plant churches and preach the gospel to many of the regions of Africa. We are going to see exciting things happen in Africa this year.

Brothers and sisters, I continue to greet you in the name of the Lord. In HIM, our international and regional churches, we are moving on with God. God bless you and amen.

Pastor Simon Eng
President of HIM
www.byhim.org

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