As a dutiful citizen of this country, I would declare my annual income every year. However, this year I received a letter from LHDN (Inland Revenue) stating that I owed them money and had to pay them a certain sum, which amounted to a five figure income tax. Personally I felt I should not be taxed but then what is ‘Caesar’s belongs to Caesar’s’; therefore I thought of going to the LHDN department to make arrangement in the payment mode – i.e. to request payment by installment since it was such a big sum.
At about the same time, I sent my car to my regular workshop and while the mechanics were working on my car, I casually related this experience to the workshop owner. He recommended me his chartered accountant and encouraged me to see him. It so happened too that I had all the relevant documents in my car, so I met up with the Chartered Accountant. I gave him all my files and documents and he promised to look into my case. In his professionalism, he wrote a letter quoting certain Articles and Laws, stating the reasons for my exemption. This week, I received a letter from LHDN approving my exemption – I don’t have to pay any additional tax! Hallelujah! And the amazing thing is, the amount that I need to pay the accountant for his service is just a fraction of what I was taxed!
The beginning of this year has been challenging for me personally as it began with my career going downhill. Being in the sales line, achieving sales target is an absolute. In addition to that, my company has increased my sales target from a previous 2million USD to 6.8million USD this year – triple the amount. Early this year, however, I lost some significant tenders; in fact, one of them was an important client to our company. Not achieving the sales target and not closing on significant deals certainly reflects on my performance. And I was beginning to tell myself that if I loose the upcoming tender, I better get ready to tender in my resignation, rather risked being fired.
It was at such time that I felt insecure and vulnerable; yet I remember that this is the year of the unusual, so I learn to submit and to trust God. I’m reminded of the prophetic word that was release to me sometime ago but I have yet to see His word come into fulfillment. Nevertheless I choose to believe and stayed on His prophetic word.
In the last two months, I had been working on a tender that I lost earlier this year. It was in the midst of pursuing it that I received text messages from church members. Bear in mind, none of them knew what I was going through specifically. One of the text messages was related to the supernatural work that happened to one of our church members (read the post on “God’s supernatural work by Sis. Way Faan”). The text ended with these words, “She heard the word and responded and supernatural thing begin to happen. Let’s keep the same attitude and believe; YOU would be the next recipient of the supernatural works of God.” Without hesitation, I responded to it with, “I BELIEVE!”
Last week, we received a letter to confirm that we had secured the tender. This tender itself is worth 50% of my sales target. Praise God for His supernatural works! I believe that as I remain in the prophetic word, I would be able to meet my sales target even before the year ends.
In our church we have been taught that everytime God's word is preached, we must receive it into our our hearts by responding to it. I remember vividly just last month, how the word of God reminded us that "while" the two disciples (on the road to Emmaus) were hearing Jesus speaking to them, their hearts were already burning, i.e. at the same time that they were hearing, their hearts were burning. So I opened my heart to hear and to receive the word of God, and while I was still hearing, His word has already been activated in my life. I choose not to reason or to struggle with the word of God as it would bring about disbelief; instead I choose to believe that God would fulfill every word which He has spoken.
It was in this particular service on 19th Sept. 2010, that I remembered responding aloud by saying, "Amen" when we were encouraged to believe that greater things would come to us, where even the impossible would become POSSIBLE! When my name was mentioned about receiving a business deal that is worth RM5K, I responded with a louder "Amen!".
On 5th of Oct, 2010 (in less than a month), I received a business deal worth RM11K in a single order. Without hesitation on the same day, the customer paid me promptly with a current check. I did not go asking for business; instead this customer came into my shop and requested for a quotation. Without much negotiation, my quotation was accepted and the deal was sealed. My natural mind could not comprehend it as it was truly beyond my imagination, but the mind of Christ in me says, "ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE IN HIM!"
Indeed God is great! God is Sovereign and He is seated on high on the throne regardless of the economic downturn. Because I'm seated there with Him in the heavenly places, I can be at rest in my heart. As I continue to keep an open heart in receiving His proceeding word and responding to it, God Himself would bring His word into fulfillment. I desire to keep my heart open so as to always receive His proceeding word and that my heart would keep burning whereby I would be adjusted, aligned and tuned to His frequency as I continue to keep walking and staying close to Him.
These are the years of the unusual and of the supernatural!!
When I'm out there in my college, I would encounter alot of challenges, trials and problems but I know He has given me the very strength to overcome every one of it. That is why I always look forward to gather back together with my brothers and sisters for cell group. Every time when we gather together, we would be refreshed by His very presence.
Tonight, as we gathered, I really felt the greatness of God and that He is in charge in that place. As I worship and praised Him of His greatness, I begin to see that we are in Him instead of Him being the centre of our gathering. I was so overwhelmed by what I saw that I could not fully described how I felt in words. I was in awe and all I could hear myself say was, "God, You are magnificent, You are awesome!". It's just like the song we sang, "you are magnificent, eternally, wonderful, glorious, Jesus, no one ever will compare to You, Jesus.."
When I came to cell group that night I felt tired as school week was pretty hectic. Nevertheless as I choose to be a participator and not spectator, I was refreshed and renewed by His very presence as we worshiped Him. I felt so energized!
In our cell group we have been taught about what Celebration Sunday is all about. This week we learned that Celebration Sunday is a time to lift up His name to exalt Him because we want Him to manifest among us. This also means it's a time where He comes fully in charge of it.
We may not be assigned with any role in the cell group but we are still a player and we must be involve by being sensitive/aware of how the holy spirit is leading, what is being stressed during sharing, responding aloud by saying “amen”, pushing in deeper into worship to help make the atmosphere more intense so that things of heaven would be seen here on this earth BECAUSE WE ARE PLAYERS IN THE SAME TEAM!.
This statement - "We come not to be spectator but participators" I realized that there are times where its tough to feel lively when we are actually feeling dry, but no matter how tough it is, we can rise above our emotion as long as we put our feet into His living river, the little water that wet our feet can cleanse us. The more we enter into this river of His, we would be cleansed, refreshed and renewed.
Every Friday, I can sense in my spirit that God is always there to remind us of His river of living water is flowing everytime we are gathered together. What we need to do is just to let go of ourselves, YIELD ourselves unto Him, and let Him cleanse and reform us.
Last Friday, I felt such intimate relationship with God, that I can feel Him so close to us and loving us. We weren't praying and worshiping like we usually do but yet His presence just overwhelm us because He is charge now of the meeting. It's at this moment that very His awesome presence moved me to tears.
His very awesome presence stirred me to draw closer and closer to Him. I am determined to be a participant who functions and contributes! We are the new generation who are victorious in Him! We are the New Generation Arise!
In our last cell group, God's presence supernaturally touch everyone of us. We don't need a few songs for our spirit to be connected, we spoke in tongues and that's it, we are inside that strong dimension of the presence of God. I believed that God spoke to everyone of us.
God talk to me about knowing who we are. We must remember what we carry inside, who we represent and what is our mission here on this earth. We have to be careful of our daily speech that is to think before we speak.
I remembered what a speaker mentioned recently that is "remove things that isn't right in our life, or else God will remove us." Like what my teachers often tell me '' People will see the way you behave as how your parents do, if you don't want to embarrass them, behave well'.
I begin to realize that this thinking pattern of me being young therefore I have plenty of time to change; I can do whatever I like and change only when I get older is inaccurate.
While it's true, our God is merciful, but that doesn't mean we can always sin and continue to do something that doesn't please God at all. If we behave rudely, the people who doesn't know the church will assume that all Christians behave similarly. The way we talk and act will be seen as a mirror reflecting God foremost as well as the behaviors of our leaders and pastors by the people in the world.
Now I know that if I continue living my life such manner, God will stop using me. I must put a stop to this kind of inaccurate thinking pattern and change it immediately.
I was chatting with my leader on MSN. I wrote there: It's going to be a busy year. She agreed. Most of the people thinks that whenever it comes to busy, no one would be happy.
But to me, it's great! (I'm not nuts!) To tell you the truth, I'll always be grumbling to my leader that I feel so bored, I've nothing to do...etc. But now, I have quite a lot of work to do.
My projects, homework, preparation for UPSR..etc. But most of all I must always be able to adjust my time for God.
I thank God for giving me the wisdom on my management of time. I'm able to finish all the work my school teacher told me to, study at least 1 hour everyday... of course read my bible and pray. I'm able to finish all these things in just a short time (I have a long schooling hour). I'm very proud of myself and thank God greatly for it.
Besides, I thank my leader, Sis. Kim Suan for giving me advice on achieving all A's for UPSR. And I also wanna' thank Pastor Gan from GEAR for giving me his blessing. Most of all, I thank God for giving me great and wise leaders to help me!!!!!!! THANK ALL OF YOU FOR READING THIS BLOG!!!! ^^
As I stepped into the year 2010, I begin to experience the Spirit of the Living God and His wisdom upon me more and more each day. His prophecies released for my life is coming into fulfillment one by one as I believe the year 2010 is a year of accelerating and of fulfillment.
In the year 2009 April 29 (which you could refer back to the page in this blog), I did mention about the prophecies that I received from Ps. Chung (ANS, Muar), which is about receiving His new strength, spirit and wisdom in order to study my course which is counseling. Now I could see day by day, God releasing His strength, spirit and wisdom unto my life.
Last Wednesday (24/3/10), we were required to do a presentation based on our research. I make all the necessary preparation to ensure that I was well prepared for my presentation. Just before my presentation, I told God of my desire in wanting to do this presentation as according to His word which is not by my might, not by power but by His very spirit.
Immediately after my presentation, my lecturer gave her comments regarding every student’s presentation. To my surprise, in a class of 23 students, she singled me out and asked everyone in the class to comment about my presentation. A few of my course mates was in agreement that I did well in my presentation to which my lecturer agreed.
My lecturer explained that my presentation was well and in accordance with what she wanted. She went on further to mention that she noticed that I express such eagerness in presenting our group’s research and was impressed that I had such confidence in carrying myself well in front of the class during my presentation.
Later on, my lecturer have me share my experiences as to how I prepare myself for the presentation in ensuring that our research was presented verbally in a clear and understanding manner. I was so thrilled that I told myself that this is the moment for me to glorified God. I begin to share with my class that it was the training that I received in the church. I told them that our church believes that we are leaders therefore we taught and trained on how to prepare our sharing notes to ensure there is clarity and the opportunities to speak or preach in front of our church members.
Upon hearing this, my lecturer added that since I’m the class rep therefore I would have even more opportunities now to practice speaking in front of the class. I was glad that despite all the praises that my lecturer showered upon me, I was firm and proud in revealing that I’m able to do all this is because of God and all the glory and honor belongs to Him alone.
Just like what we have been taught in our church that sons are trained and raised in the house (church). In the house (church) we are not trained not just in spiritual matter but other aspect as well such as how to present our work, handle our finances, handle our emotions, having honorable relationship and so on as according to His living word.
It is written in 1 Peter 4:11, ” If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.”
For I am His son therefore I will speak as one who is speaking the very word of God, and as I do, I will do it with the strength God provides, so that and in everything, God is the one who receive the glory and honor! Amen!
May I encourage you that as sons of God let us continue to give glory unto Him in all that we do as it is written, “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” Colossians 3:17
I just can’t express with word, how thankful I m to the Father for His amazing plans in my life. I still remember over the past few months, I face a lot of discourage statement, pressure from everywhere and people even look down on me. It was a tough time for me. As a chemistry degree holder, I expect myself to get a job in no time. But things turn out to be more difficult than I thought. The countless applications I had sent and the numerous interviews I went for. In the end, there was no feedback from any of these companies.
Although all this challenges might be sad or even immobilize me from carrying on. But I never give up; I put my faith fully on God and believe on His word that things will come, it is just the matter of time. As this year 2010 is the year of acceleration, things will be accelerating fast for us as well and it will happen in an unusual way as the time is NOW!-
It is NOW, I got an offer from the company that I hope to work in. It was less than a day when I shared to my leader about this company, the job nature as a chemist and how good it will be if I get to work in this company.
I want to share this good news to everyone who read my testimonial. Never let situation, people or even circumstances to limit us but stay accurately connected to Him and have faith in Him believing what is to come. Although at times it might be tough but always bear in mind that God is fashioning and molding us in the midst of difficulties. Our Father will only allow us to go through things which He knows we have the ingredients within us to overcome. This is a year of unusual and things will happen in ways we never expect. Let us all believe and be ready to do things in a different way so that God can do His great and extraordinary works in our lives !
Praise the Lord for His amazing plans in each of us!
When we were worshiping in cell group, I heard God told me to be focus if I want to hear his voice. Besides that, God also said to me that every time when we are gathered as a team, there will be an explosion and this explosion will send us to every area to take over. This explosion will keep the flame in our hearts to keep burning. Upon hearing these words, I feel so excited that I just cant wait for us to gather again because I know that every time when we gather, things would surely happen.
During the cell group ( 19 /3/10 ) at Peter's house, Sis. Stephanie shared that we must focus on God when worshiping, and that we must yield ourselves unto the Lord. While we were worshiping, the Lord gave me a vision about the nations of the people praising and worshiping God. I saw them bowed down before the Lord and they shouted
“Worthy is the Lord God Almighty,
that rule and reigns over all the earth.”.
I was in awe and drawn to give Him all the glory and honor for HE IS THE LORD OF ALL THE NATIONS. I thank God for showing this vision.
During our recent cell group, we had a fantastic experience. God's awesome presence filled the place and all of us pressed in deeper to worship Him. I just lingered in His presence and totally enjoyed it and so did the rest.
While we were worshiping, God reminded me of something I learned recently in G.E.A.R. I saw the vision that Dr. Jonathan David told us. It was just like a flashback. I saw a river. It's not just any river but it was the river of living water as it was crystal clear, so clear as though its transparent. I went into the river and immediately what Dr. Jonathan David had taught us in G.E.A.R was brought back into my memory.
I remembered Dr. Jonathan David mentioned that it's in the river that all the contamination in me would be washed away and I will be totally cleansed! It's in this river that God's hand would stretch forth to begin to change and form me. It's here that I will gain a new name at the dawn of a new day, just like Jacob.
Upon receiving this vision and words, I began to speak it out strongly in the cell group. All of us were so encouraged and felt strong in our hearts. After the worship, all of us felt so happy because we're filled with the presence of God and know deep within that His hand would keep shaping and forming us. I'm so glad that we had this amazing experience!! XD
Today(19 March 2010) during cell group, God spoke to me about how my personality and behavior affects my advancement in my life. He talks to me about how inconsistent I was and about my bad habits as well.
God helped me realize that I still got many things to improve on in my life, but at the same time He reminded me that me and all of us are the carriers of the work of God therefore I must not let anything affect or contaminate what I carry in my heart.
I must shut down the works of the enemy, every lies of the enemy in my mind. I really thank God that He reminded me of this so I will not stay the same Albert but I will change. I know He began a good work in me, He will complete His work in me.
God is faithful and He trust in all of us.
He is always there waiting for us, until we're ready to take on the world!
Every challenges or problems, its all part of the test to train me to be better.
I must not let any one of these things stop me from pursuing God!
"For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus." Philippians 1:6
Part 2
When GOD put you in a place, He has a reason and He will see that you made it through with HIM by your side. As you read the background of my project in Part 1, during the troubled times that I went through, GOD was gracious and He prepared all the things for me.
HE knows things cannot be fulfilled within 1 month (launching the project in April 2009), He extended the time for the project to make it possible (extended until Jan 2010).
HE send the enemy to become my ally and helped me instead. The customer hired their own project manager to improve the coordination at their end, he is a more senior and experience person. Under the hostile condition, GOD has miraculously made the Customer’s project team to be at peace with us and we were able to work well as a team subsequently. I have actually learned a lot from the customer’s Project Manager and sometimes he even helped/guided me in many ways which contributed to the project.
GOD knows my weaknesses, He had send helpers (Customers’ project manager) to assist me to address my weaknesses. Praise the Lord.
The LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. --2 Kings 17:39 When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. --Proverbs 16:7
Sis Kim Suan once encouraged me saying that you don’t have to worry about your incapability, GOD place you there to be different and people will see that, it is not about you, it is about GOD. The people surrounding you will see the difference and you will stand out.
True enough, the customer’s strongly insisted that I have to continue to work in this project and see through until the end of the project. I heard that, in one of the Management meeting, the customer used me as a bargaining object threatening my company that they will not make the next payment if my company does not commit me to be in this project until the end. I was shocked to hear that for I felt a bit ridiculous that they looked too highly on me as I am just an ordinary person doing a decent job.
I was worried that the customer was mislead, as a lot of the contribution comes from the Team members and the Customer’s Project Manager who had also indirectly guided me a lot in many ways and I do not want to take the credit away from him and the project team. It was everyone’s hardwork.
Therefore I humbled myself and on one occasion I took the opportunity to speak to the Customer’s Director of the company and explained that the credit comes from the team and not me alone and their Project Manager was the main contributor. I was surprised by what the Director told me, he said something like the following (Not exact words but the similar meaning) ‘Yes, we know that he is more experience and it doesn’t matter who is leading who. The reason that we would like you to continue to work in this project is because that throughout these period (pass 8 months), both team had foster a good working relationship and cooperating very well.
We would like to continue to maintain the same working relationship to keep the momentum moving to complete phase 1.2 and phase 1.3. The management feels like you are the lucky charm that bring good luck to the project’. (Non-believers believes in lucky charm because they did not know GOD) After these words, I felt some sort of a relieved as I understand, that they were not mislead.
From then I understood what Sis Kim Suan says earlier, you are placed there to make a difference and influence others. I then can further relate to the verse, Palsm 84:6 ‘walking through the valley of Bacca’. ‘As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of spring; the autumn rains also cover it with pools’ Even though the Valley of Baca is a valley of death, and if GOD wants us to walkthrough the valley, we obey GOD’s words and walk in accordance to his plan and will, HE will be with us all the way through it. HE will turn the surroundings of the valley of death into spring which bring forth life. In short, it means, GOD will use us to change the environment around us and bring forth life from death.
I am glad that even of my incapabilities, GOD guided me, send forth helpers to assist, made my enemies my ally so that things will work for good.
At many times the Pastor’s sermon in Hong Kong was sharing the same verses at the same weekend as what Belinda is hearing in Malaysia as well. Eg. Psalm – Valley of Bacca. The chapter were quoted on the same Sunday in Hong Kong and Malaysia’s sermon. This is really something wonderful as GOD was talking to Me and Belinda at the same time.
WOW, our GOD is really GREAT & MIGHTY…. AMEN. Lastly I want to thank TCC Church member’s who had constantly prayed for me throughout these period.
To explain a bit about the background of my work in Hong Kong(HK),
My boss roughly briefed me about the status of a project in Hong Kong during Nov 2008 and I was aware of some of the problems during that time. I was then requested to assist to work the Project in Hong Kong at end of Feb 2009 and was told that it is suppose to be implemented by 1st of April 2009 for phase 1. Therefore I was told to assist to work towards implementing the system by then as it is very crucial to the customer and I assume that I will be working in Hong Kong for a short period of time, maybe about 2-3 months.
As I heard this, I felt the tremendous pressure on this project. To simply elaborate, the project was running for about a 9 months and I am suppose to go into the project and within 1 month, I need to set things in order and make sure it can be launched….. Wow, just imagine how pressure it would be ?. I really needed a miracle to do that. I analyzed and reply my boss that I do not have the confident as I cannot make things happen within 1 month, however I will do my best to make it happen.
As I share this with Sis Kim Suan and others, I was encouraged that with GOD’s strength and by His will, if I am placed there in the project, He will make things happen, there is a purpose.
Therefore I came to Hong Kong in end of Feb 2009, the customer was impressed by my presence in the project, they insisted my boss to place me under this project until the end. I tried my best, however the system was not able to kick off 1st April. I was very discouraged at first as I feel that I failed to make things happened. A series of event started to happen, our relationship with the customer is turning sour and things went on until the extent of considering legal actions against my company. After much negotiation between the management of both company, things started to change and the relationship was restored. However, the project is still facing a lot of problems.
During the month of April and May, we started to re-plan the project and during this period it was quite a hostile situation as the relationship with the customer was in bad terms. After the re-planning, miraculously we were able to negotiate and extended the project into 3 sub phases. Which was phase 1.1 – implement Jan 2010, phase 1.2 – implement Jun 2010 and phase 1.3 – implement Dec 2010. Just imagine, it was further extended into another 20 months. Really a miracle again for we are able to extend the implementation and Customer relationship restored.
And here we are now Jan 2010 and we have managed to implement phase 1.1 successfully.
In these hard and troubled times for the past 10 months, I experienced emotion roller coasters, uncertainty, discouragement, overwhelming, frustration, …etc but I overcame each of it by trusting in HIS WORD, knowing that His words would always remain. I pray to GOD and TCC Church member’s also prayed along during these periods. I have then experience GOD’s grace in my life and I would like to share how great is HE in the part 2 of my testimony.
Hi, my name is Felicia Loo and I come from Penang (part of Malaysia). This holiday, I went to visit my cousin’s family in Kuala Lumpur.
During this period of time, I went to their church for Sundays or for cell groups and Youth Meeting. Now, I want to share with you about my experience here in their church.
Firstly, I was touched by the Holy Spirit strongly. When we worship, I felt that I was in a higher dimension than before and I was also able to linger in the presence of God. I learned a lot of things here and God spoke to me and gave me vision.
I can still remember that once in their cell group, He told me: I am with all of you, I am your guide. Heavens will open and so will your hearts. Though this is my 2nd time to their cell group only, but once the presence of God filled me, I was able to connect with what they’re teaching and what God is speaking, which is “open heavens”. Another time was in the Youth Meetings. God said that we’re in Zion now and no one can stop us from worshiping God because His presence is here, and we are in Zion to worship and praise Him.
God also gave me a vision, I saw water and many seeds. The water is God’s presence while the seeds are us. Once the water fell upon the seeds, they began to grow. It’s just like how we’ll grow when the presence of God touched or filled us.
Besides of receiving words and visions, I was strongly touched by the sharing of the word and felt that I should change when I was reminded that we shouldn’t keep playing and not spend time with God. Once I got back to Amy’s house (where I stayed during the holidays) I talked with God before I slept and I continued to talk with Him even for the rest of the nights and I will do that even when I go back to Penang (before this, I seldom talked to Him).
This experience is great and I will keep on pushing forward when I go back to Penang. I thank God for touching me and for opening up my hearts. Praise the Lord, Amen~ ~ ^_^
We believe this is the YEAR OF THE UNUSUAL where many miracles would begin to break out in our lives. God has spoken to us as a church that Zion would no longer be just a word but a reality. This is the year where God is coming to us!
We are rallying to do all that we can to attract Him and to have Him stay with us. That is why we are ready to adjust our lives and to do the following CONSISTENTLY & PASSIONATELY:-
1. Staying accurately connected by hearing His word and responding to it.
2. Have a renewed mind- a mind of possibilities.
3. Willing to break free from our routine and to do things differently.
Yes! YEAR 2010 is the year of the unusual, the year where many miracles would begin to breakout from our lives.
This is the place where all people can see the wonders and glory of God that is @ work in the daily lives of the members in TCC and those who are connected to us. Amazing God, amazing people, amazing news!
