Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of
the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice
and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen,
saying :
"I tell you that if these should keep silent, the
stones would immediately cry out".
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I CALLED
UPON HIM AND HE ANSWERED ME
CELESTE - 18TH JUNE 1998
Hi! I'm Celeste and I'm 13 this year. Let me get straight, OK? I am born into christian family but on 30th May 1998, it was the first FIRST time I asked God into my life. Before that I didn't even asked God to until that day.
I would like to share this testimony
with all of you around the world about me. It happened in Friday
(18.6.98) as I was going to my school band activity. I got an ache on the
left side of my stomach, but I didn't care as I know this ache is the same
as the others, just a little
problem. And when I started marching
my ache which started in the right now shifted instead to the left.
And the pain was so terrible that I started praying to God "Don't let me
down, gimme faith and be bold!"
After minutes of marching we finally stopped, but my eyes started to blur and I couldn't see anything clearly. And I know that I was going to faint. And I prayed to God again not to let me suffer. Then after we were dismissed, I started feeling dizzy. My friends brought me to a cool place where I could rest.
After resting, I was fine. Here,
I just wanna say that God answered
my prayer. I prayed to
God twice and he answered my prayer twice. So, God is in Heaven as the
Bible told us so.
ALL THAT I HAVE ARE FROM GOD,
AND OF HIS OWN DO I GIVE HIM - TITHING
SAMUEL CHONG, 10th December 1997
When the stock market started tumbling down around April and May this year, I lost some amount of money. I started asking myself why God allowed me to lose money - did I do something wrong ? An immediate answer came (whether you call it conscience or little voice or God!) - I did not give 10% of my income (tithe) back to God. I did not respond to this immediately because it meant giving away money at a time when I was losing money. I sort of said “Wait until I have enough money before I start giving !”
The issue of tithing came up again in one of my quiet time while I was going through Zechariah 5 and Malachi. I had a sense of feeling that I was under a curse (Malachi 3:9). A few months later, the Pastor’s wife, Margaret Koo, started preaching about tithing two Sundays in a row. We talked about it in our Cell Group. I remembered the earlier two warnings and this third warning from the sermons made me decide to obey. I decided to give 10% of what I had earned from the beginning of this year up to that moment. It was not easy to obey because my account balance was low at that time but I decided to give what I had left even then.
Things began to happen after I took that first step of obedience. Suddenly, I found a piece of cheque (from my stock investment) for a substantial amount that I forgot to deposit into the bank ! And then my boss decided to give a bonus to the staff and I got the equivalent of two months’ pay ! Those cheques helped me tremendously towards my decision to obey God, to give back to God His 10%.
In reflection, I realized God actually provided the
means for me to obey Him. All that I have, all that I earned, came
from Him, even the 10% that I gave to Him. Even though I did
not ask Him to prove anything, God kept His side of the promise and proved
to me the truth of His word in Malachi - He “opened the windows
of Heaven and poured out a blessing” for me.
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In August last year, my son was hospitalised for one week for checking and X-ray. The investigation showed that he was normal. Praise and thanks to Jesus for He has healed my son of his urine infection.
I had lumps in my body. I went to see a doctor about it and he checked me with ultra-sound. He saw something but it wasnt clear. I was advised to go for another X-ray. Encouraged by my son's healing by our Lord Jesus, I went for prayer by the Healing Team. I went for the X-ray and was found to be normal. I know Jesus has healed me and my son. Now my relationship with Jesus is closer and my faith is stronger. I pray more and I pray with my son.
To God be the glory.
FROM CONFUSION
TO MISSION
AILEEN NGUI - 22nd June 1998
I want to share with you what God did in my life when I went back to Kota Kinabalu for ashort three weeks holiday. I am currently working in UK and my spiritual life had been on “limbo” ever since I was 15 years old. I have been in UK for four years and it is amazing how I came to be here. I was in Melbourne for three months but He had blessed me withgood SPM results and so, I ended up here on a scholarship. I believe that He has a purpose for me in UK and I had been wasting His time during my first 3 years in university. That is why I believe that I am still here in UK because He has not completed what He wants to do in my life here.
Through His grace and mercy, He guided me back to Him and it all began when I went back to Malaysia. I got to know a friend (Rodney) who is very devoted to the Lord and he introduced me to Kinetics,a Young Adult Group which comprises of three churches. This group is very dynamic and I was very encouraged by what they are doing for the Lord’s ministry (for those of you out there who are going home, I definitely recommend you to join them .... you will get to know many caring and friendly people). Besides that, I was also introduced to his CELL group.
I managed to attend two nights of the CELL meeting and it was my last night there that something stirred my heart. That night the topic of discussion was about prayer and I think that my Father in Heaven is trying to tell me something about prayer .... Anyway, after the group discussion, we had a session of praying and since it was my last night, the group was praying for my safe journey. But I think that the Lord must have spoken to the group leader (Kenneth Thien) for what he said about me really touched my heart and I just burst out in tears. I have not cried for a LONG time as my heart has hardened over the years. I am actually going through a lot of internal problems .... family, lack of directions in life etc. but I managed to avoid them and not let these hurt me. Without realising it, my spirit was hurt and I suppose, I just could not take it any longer. I did feel much better after that outburst.
The ironic thing was I nearly did not want to attend the bible study that night as my friend had asked me to go for a midnight movie and being as “worldly” as I am, I was really tempted to do that. She even encouraged me not to go to bible study. Fortunately, I managed to be obedient. The point I am trying to make is that Satan will always try to stop us from getting closer to the Lord and we must always try to be aware of that.
On the Sunday that I was leaving, I went up to be prayed for. During the service, my heart was touched again .... I really felt like a cry baby! Anyway, the Lord told the pastor that He is preparing me for a Mission of Compassion. My first words were “O..Oh!” He continued saying that I have a soft heart for Jesus. I guess I was quite surprised to hear that as I am quite a “hard” person. He then prayed for me and asked that I be prepared for whatever that the Lord has planned for me ......
Since I came back to UK, my desire to seek Him has grown and I started attending bible study here. Before that, I was very reluctant to go even when I had been approached a few times. The reason ..... it was on a Friday night and I would have preferred doing something more fun than attending bible study. But you know what, bible study is fun and I got to know so many new friends and began to feel being part of a caring and loving family.
Well, I hope that my sharing has given some of you encouragement in your Christian walk. I am a very disobedient person when it comes to the Lord but our Father in Heaven is a patient, gracious and merciful God and He will not let any of us slip away so easily. You may feel lost ... not knowing what He has planned for you but be patient and remember this,
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Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of
the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice
and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen,
saying :
"I tell you that if these should keep silent, the
stones would immediately cry out".
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