San Francisco, CA 2004: Twenty-two years ago, Christ took hold of Trent. Two years later, Trent took hold of Siauw. One year after that, they started taking hold of their own kids. Eleven years after that (pictured here), the grabfest continued, as it still does to this day!
Trent Ling’s latest recorded message, “Christ Took Hold of Me” was preached yesterday in Orlando, Florida. In a rare moment of public reflection, Trent let loose with the way it was when Christ came for him.
“What I read and what I experienced match up perfectly,” Trent shares. “It’s the only way that I can reconcile and understand what went down in those days. Daily since, I remain utterly blown away at the incredible work God effected in somehow getting me into his Kingdom. Never deserving and always mesmerized, my hope remains one of honoring Christ and offering him as the only game in town, which he will forever be.”
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That is such a sweet picture.
The only reason I am victorious in God is because Christ took ahold of me and I have tasted God’s power and deliverance from my chains of sin! I “mine myself” constantly to keep a clear perspective of the horrible hole of despair and darkness he saved me from. I will forever be broken at the sight of the Cross because it reminds me that I hung Him there and crucified him over and over because of my deliberate sin. As a result of my gratetfulness for His incredible mercy, I want to honor Him by advancing His Kingdom and this can only be done by the power I will obtain on my daily visits to the “lonely places” (Luke 5:16). I need to withdraw because I can’t make this happen on my own effort.
Amen for God took hold of you! and you took hold of me! To me, this is something that I can’t express it enough in words. How God had planned it all along before I even born…. That picture of you and the kids says so much! How amazing God is and too good to us.. 🙂
Wow. Like the water going over the Niagara Falls (both sides) is the unending gratitude of what God has done (and even then to want to push more water — like my tiny buckets will make a diff. — over in times of greater awareness of what He really has done!). In that, what is amazing is the example we experience of His great work — in people — who make the decision to do only what God wants and sacrifice their own being just for that — so others may live it too. May people open their eyes to what God is offering and see how our puny minds can’t even fathom this and God’s greatness in it. Thank you. Thank you so much, Father.