UNEXPECTED DIVINE INTERVENTION

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!

God is so good!

By Bruce Lim

" I BELIEVE ! "

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.

By Bruce Lim

GOD'S SUPERNATURAL WORK

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!!

ALL GLORY TO GOD!!

By Yap Way Faan

HE IS MAGNIFICENT

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.."

By Eric Wong

RENEWED IN HIS PRESENCE

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!


By Vanessa Lee

NOT SPECTATORS BUT PARTICIPANTS

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!

By Edwin Choong

MY LIFE REFLECTS HE WHO IS IN ME

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.

By ,
John Ho, 14 yrs old.