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Glasses
I dropped my glasses at the hawker
stalls in the market the other day and I was totally
unaware of it and walked off to the bus stop when
I finished my meal. The bus stop was quite a distant
away from the eating place and as I approached
the bus stop, I reached into my bag for my glasses
and found that it was missing.
I walked all the way back and
searched around. I prayed for my glasses to be
found. I asked the 'Char Kaoy Teow' seller if
she had seen my glasses. She said no and I continued
looking around. She then suddenly called me, holding
a pair of glasses and asked me if it was mine.
I was so happy to see my glasses. Even though
the lenses broke, the frame was still intact.
I really thank God for that.
Jacqueline Tang
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What A Great
Time I Had
It was my birthday and I needed
to spend time with both my parents and Chester,
hence I am a little torn in between. Chester made
my day: I received flowers from him, then we had
dinner together and later I managed to meet my
family members and I spent a night there. We had
a great time together: me, my parents and my sister.
I really thank God for such a wonderful birthday.
Renee Ng
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God's Peace
I lost my wallet the other day.
My identity card, driving licence, all my other
cards were lost!
I reported the incident to the
police and the policed asked me 'Sudah berapa
kali hilang?!' As soon as I reached home, I was
all right and the fact that I lost my wallet did
not bother me anymore! I praise God for His peace
upon me.
Edwin Song
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God's Wisdom
The product which I sold to a
customer could not work and I was rather worried.
Therefore on my way to his place, I prayed and
told God that only by His grace and help would
I be able to identify and solve this problem.
I tried all ways and means to solve the problem
and half an hour later, the problem was solved.
It took a shorter time than I had expected and
I believe it was God's wisdom that was upon me.
Amen.
Edwin Song
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God's
Mighty Hands
I thank God for the smooth running
of our CDFM dance workshop. I just could feel
His hands upon us the whole time.
I thank God for Jeffrey, Brian
and Jason who assisted us in with the sound and
lightings. This just showed me how helpful and
supportive our fellow brothers are. This marks
unity in the church.
I thank God for His hands of provision.
During the dance workshop, I received two love
offerings. I was standing beside this lady and
she just asked me how she could bless me. I responded
by saying that 'You could pray for me, it's the
greatest blessing'. But she felt that she wanted
to bless me with something, hence she handed me
a love offering. I really thank God for He has
ensured that all things will run smoothly and
He has blessed me financially too.
Bee Yoong
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It's Him!
Our HCC worship team kicked off
the pre-Christmas celebration with a praise and
worship session. We really thank God that everything
went so well. During practice, we had a few mistakes
and some of us just could not remember the lyrics
correctly. We were rather worried. However at
the time when we were supposed to sing, it all
went well.
All glory belongs to God. We could
remember the lyrics of all the songs and we had
a wonderful time praising God. Amen.
Chester Ng & Richard
Ch'ng
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Recession
Proof
I have been a jobseeker for almost
a year. I used to ask CG members to pray for me
to get a job soon. I don't do that anymore now.
Whenever our leader asks for any prayer request,
I'll just keep quiet or skip to other topics.
I know they all meant well and I sincerely thank
them from the bottom of my heart. But it's always
very hard on me when they ask about the outcome
because they have always been disappointments.
Although I always keep on reminding myself that
no matter what the outcome is, God knows the best
for me. But I had to admit that it has really
been one stone-hard year for me and I just can't
control my heart from turning cold and weary.
After several months of "quietness"
due to bad economy, I finally had an interview
in a factory at Bayan Lepas. After the interview,
I thought that the job is for me and everything
seemed so perfect. I had put very high hopes on
it. The Director says that he will contact me
by Wed to finalize the details. I waited patiently.
One day, two days... deadline passed... and still
no response. I was deeply disappointed and crushed.
I was so frustrated and angry with God. I started
to throw my temper and question Him. Why is He
so unfair to me? Why must He always give me hope
and then take it away again? Isn't He a Great
and Mighty God that is always busy? Then why has
He nothing better to do than to play tricks on
me all the time? I even gave myself the explanation
that I am not one of God's favorite children,
which is why He doesn't even care enough to look
after my needs. Today's Daily Bread talks about
to "Never give up." I keep on asking
myself, HOW?! I have been crushed over and over
again, how can I not give up?
I think that I have had enough
and the test God rendered on me is way over the
limit that I could take. I just broke down and
cried so hard as if the dam has broken. Then I
remembered that I was reading this book "Solving
Life's Problem" by Dr Cho Yonggi. The past
few chapters of this book have been speaking to
me so clearly and have been a guidance for me.
So I just flipped the book open and wanted to
see what God wants to tell me through this book.
Then these words just caught my eyes and hit me
like a lightning.
"We all occasionally have
disappointments. But we should never allow disappointments
to trigger negative words of resentment and anger,
words that lead to self-pity and depression, words
that lead to clouded self- concepts. Improve your
self-image with positive spoken words. God promised
us "that all that happens to us is working
for our good if we love God and are fitting into
His plans. (Roman 8:28) You can be in an attitude
of praise to God, even in the most difficult situation."
The words are just a like a two-edged
sword that pierced into my heart. I realized that
I have used the wrong "strategy". It
is no use blaming God and turning my back on Him.
It'll just make the situation worst and stopping
Him from working in me. Immediately I sought for
God's forgiveness over my childish behavior and
faithless thoughts. Dr Cho also tells us to "Speak
Positive Words and Exercise Positive Faith"
over our problems. I said a "positive prayer"
to God, asking Him to continue His work in me
and believing that He will give me the best.
The next morning I decided to
give the company a call instead of just sitting
there and wait. I was so overcome by my emotions,
tears just rolled down from my cheek and I couldn't
utter a single word except praises to God when
the secretary told me that the director did not
call on the promised day due to him just returning
from KL. Then she invited me to a second interview
the next day to finalize all the terms and conditions.
The second interview went well the next day as
I went in with the blessings and boldness of God
upon me and also with all the prayer support from
my CG members. By God's grace and blessings, I'll
be starting work next Monday (10th Dec) and putting
a stop to my one year's life of job searching.
I was so excited that I just couldn't wait to
share to the whole world what God has done. So
this is what I'm doing now. I want to thank God
for blessing me with this wonderful job, not only
with better salary and benefits, but also a better
boss even with such an economy like this. Indeed
what Pastor Kong Hee said was really true "Christians
are recession proof!" All glory be to GOD
alone!
Raynies Yeap
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