I just want to give thanks to God for His great favour and grace upon Heng's career. It has been a very tough and challenging time for him since the beginning of this year. He also started applying for other jobs but did not see any open doors. We were wondering if it was time for Heng to move on from this company. Initially I felt there might be an inheritance or spoils or possessions for him to possess in this company but after seeing how Heng's health was affected by the work stress, I couldn't be sure.
Afterall, my utmost concern was his health and his soul prosperity. If he was constantly feeling frustrated and unhappy in his workplace, then I didn't think it was God's will for his life. So when he told me he wanted to resign without a job, I didn't hesitate to support this decision. Of course it wasn't easy for him as the sole breadwinner but I trust that God will provide for us. Thank God that open doors started manifesting in end June, after a half-year wait. Heng started receiving calls from head hunters and went for a few interviews.
But in early July, it still didn't seem like he was going to get a job offer soon. Yet he strongly felt that he should throw in his resignation before landing a job. After all, he had to serve a six month notice so he had ample time to look for another job. Still it wasn't easy. We both prayed about it and sensed that it was a necessary step of faith to take before the Red Sea opened up. After he put up his letter on 7 July, things didn't change immediately. But at least Heng was feeling more relieved about making that decision and committed the issue to God. He also felt emboldened to speak up against the injustices and the wrongdoings in his company.
Thank God for favour and courage to do the right thing! He was able to speak his mind because he was set on leaving so it didn't matter if that amounted to career suicide. He just did what he had to do, to put things right. After all that, it was amazing his bosses persuaded him to stay and contribute as part of the core team. He thought by doing that, he would be crossed out completely. But God turned it around for him.
Before that turnaround came, Heng had to let go of all the bitterness, the negativity and the injustice before the new thing can come. He realised that his soul had to be prosperous first before he could be prosperous on the outside. Once he did that, I found that he became much happier. Even though things hadn't changed on the outside, I thank God that at least Heng was happy after a long while of being stressed.
Last Sunday he had to give an answer regarding the retracting of his resignation. We both prayed about it and felt that it was reasonable to ask for a market adjustment to his pay. Afterall there was no increment or adjustment this year and research showed that his pay was way below the market average for his skills and years of experience. And we knew that an increase was God's will for us in this season. Ask and you will receive, so he went ahead and asked. Initially Heng thought the process would take months to be approved as there were cases like this in his company. He wasn't even sure if they would give him the amount he asked for as it was 33% more than his current pay.
Yet to our great surprise, the bosses just agreed to his request immediately, less than 24 hours after he sent the email. Except for a few conditions to be fulfilled, the approval was as good as given. His pay will be adjusted in Jan 2017, if he chose to stay on. Heng was so happy that he found such favour with his bosses. He knew it was the hand of God accelerating the breakthrough. For the first time in this year, we experienced God's word about acceleration and abundance in action! All glory to Jesus!
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Saturday, August 20, 2016
IT'S YOUR NOW TIME! (video)
This is my third video message. It has been more than a month since I released my second video. During the time I was not only waiting upon the Lord for the word to share but I was caught up with fulfilling my desires. I felt impressed to quickly fulfill my desires as they arose and not to postpone them any longer. Proverbs 13:12 says 'Hope deferred makes the heart sick but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.' The Lord seems to be saying this is a season of fulfilment and He doesn't want me to postpone my longings. God knows that when my desires are fulfilled promptly, it also brings much joy to my heart.
Some of these desires were new while others were on my heart for a long while but I just didn't get to fulfil them for some reason. Anyway after God spoke about the season of fulfilment, I started to have a lot of desires surfacing and I followed His leading to fulfill them one by one. Some of them can be as simple as the desire to watch a movie all by myself. This was something I did recently. I watched Star Trek Beyond. It wasn't anything spiritual but I just felt very good after doing it. And I enjoyed doing things by myself recently. It was kind of like I enjoyed my own company.
Hence it has been a busy month for me as I went about fulfilling those desires I had. I took it as an assignment from God. I also thank God that many good things started to happen this month and Heng also received his breakthrough at work. It had been a difficult year for him but thank God He turned things around for Heng's good. August was declared to be a prosperous month by some of the prophetic voices and I received this word for my family. Truly majority of the blessings were financial in nature this month.
So I have been walking and enjoying the tremendous blessings of God this month until Wed when I started jotting down some ideas for this third video message. Once I did that I received the word from God and I was able to record it down. And the topic is 'It is your NOW time!' I hope you will find the urgency of this now word of no delay because God is already accelerating things and the shift in the spiritual atmosphere has taken place. Be greatly blessed by this message!
Some of these desires were new while others were on my heart for a long while but I just didn't get to fulfil them for some reason. Anyway after God spoke about the season of fulfilment, I started to have a lot of desires surfacing and I followed His leading to fulfill them one by one. Some of them can be as simple as the desire to watch a movie all by myself. This was something I did recently. I watched Star Trek Beyond. It wasn't anything spiritual but I just felt very good after doing it. And I enjoyed doing things by myself recently. It was kind of like I enjoyed my own company.
Hence it has been a busy month for me as I went about fulfilling those desires I had. I took it as an assignment from God. I also thank God that many good things started to happen this month and Heng also received his breakthrough at work. It had been a difficult year for him but thank God He turned things around for Heng's good. August was declared to be a prosperous month by some of the prophetic voices and I received this word for my family. Truly majority of the blessings were financial in nature this month.
So I have been walking and enjoying the tremendous blessings of God this month until Wed when I started jotting down some ideas for this third video message. Once I did that I received the word from God and I was able to record it down. And the topic is 'It is your NOW time!' I hope you will find the urgency of this now word of no delay because God is already accelerating things and the shift in the spiritual atmosphere has taken place. Be greatly blessed by this message!
Thursday, August 4, 2016
JOSHUA'S TENTH BIRTHDAY
Today is Joshua's tenth birthday. How time flies! I can still remember the day he was born. Oh what a happy day! God has blessed our family with a wonderful champion kid and we will forever be grateful to Him. What great joy has Joshua brought unto our lives! As we celebrate these ten good years we thank God for many more good years to come! We are reminded of God's goodness and give thanks for family joy on this special day.
PLEASURES AND THEIR PURPOSES
I was reading the book 'The Screwtape Letters' by CS Lewis and one chapter talked about pleasures. Earthly pleasures originate from our Father and they are good in nature. I learnt that the characteristic of Pain and Pleasure are unmistakably real and give the man who feels them a touch of reality. The enemy doesn't want us to have real pleasure and he makes it a rule to eradicate from us any strong personal taste, even if it is something quite trivial as a fondness for collecting stamps.
There is a sort of innocence and humility and forgetfulness about such things. The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world for its own sake, without caring about what others think, is by that very fact forearmed against the enemy's subtle mode of attack. The enemy will always try to make us abandon the books or food we really like in favour of the 'right' food or 'important' books.
The great thing for the enemy is to prevent us from doing anything. As long as we have desires but do not convert it into action, it doesn't matter how much we think about them. Active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened. The more often a man feels without acting, the less he will be able to act and in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
The thing about fulfilling one's desires and having pleasure over that fulfilment is that somehow it mysteriously connects us to our true nature, to how our Father made us to be. When God talks about losing ourselves, it means the fleshly nature of us and once we have submitted to His will, He gives us back all our personality. When we are wholly His, we will be more of ourselves than we ever were. God hates to see us drifting away from our own nature for any other reason.
In the past I have been taught that it wasn't healthy to indulge in our pleasures, as if having too much joy over that was a sin. I had the erroneous view that to deny ourselves of pleasure, of what we want is actually a holy thing. Once we do that, like when we fast from food, we can then truly concentrate on God. This seems to imply that when we are enjoying the pleasures of life, we have a tendency to forget Him.
Perhaps this could be true for someone who is not conscious of God and in tune with Him. But for someone who is in the flow with God, experiencing pleasure is a very good thing indeed. Bible says that hope deferred makes the heart sick but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. God knows that if we keep denying ourselves of the simple pleasures in life, if we get disappointed again and again over unfulfilled desires, this will work against our well being instead.
Yesterday I was just thinking about why the Lord recently wants me to fulfil my desires and not postpone them nowadays. More than just wanting to make me happy, God wants me to be in touch with reality. Pleasures give me a touch of reality, the reality of longing fulfilled. It brings me to the present rather than overly focused on an uncertain future. Other than bombarding me with messages about now is the appointed time, Abba also wants me to have the experiential feeling of the reality of fulfilled promises.
The other purpose of fulfilling my desires, however small or insignificant they may be is the effect of action, to get down to do something about it. I talked about how God is trying to form a new habit in my life. Now I understand why. Active and positive habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened. The more often I feel without acting, the less I will be able to act and in the long run, the less I will be able to feel.
I recognise it is a good thing to have a desire to do something, buy something or go somewhere. There is a sort of innocence and humility and forgetfulness about pursuing my interests. It is also a defence against the enemy's attacks. I remember some time ago when I was feeling depressed, I literally didn't have any desires for I lost interest or passion in life. It was very sad to not have any desires or passion for anything. All I wanted to do then was nothing and mope around at home.
The enemy will always try to make us abandon the books or food we really like in favour of the 'right' food or 'important' books. No wonder there is always this small voice that will say don't eat this food for it is 'heaty' (like fired stuff causing sore throat) and I will give up that idea. Or if I pursue in eating that food, I would feel guilty at the slightest sign of dry throat. Then I would shrink back from fulfilling such desires if they arise in future.
Lately I have been feeling the prompting to fulfil the desires of my heart without delay. The Lord doesn't even want me to wait for a promotion or sale or discount. It wasn't as if He couldn't afford to buy me that thing at its original price, for I am well worth it and nothing is too expensive for Him. Cross out that idea of value for money. Some things will never ever be value for money, especially luxury items.
And somehow doing the things I like without a care of what others say is a form of liberty and freedom in itself. It frees me up to be who God made me to be. I am never more happy when I am doing the things I like. I derive a huge sense of satisfaction from having those desires fulfilled even if no one in the world cares about it. And it kind of connects me to myself. This is who I really am, who God made me to be.
There is a sort of innocence and humility and forgetfulness about such things. The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world for its own sake, without caring about what others think, is by that very fact forearmed against the enemy's subtle mode of attack. The enemy will always try to make us abandon the books or food we really like in favour of the 'right' food or 'important' books.
The great thing for the enemy is to prevent us from doing anything. As long as we have desires but do not convert it into action, it doesn't matter how much we think about them. Active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened. The more often a man feels without acting, the less he will be able to act and in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
The thing about fulfilling one's desires and having pleasure over that fulfilment is that somehow it mysteriously connects us to our true nature, to how our Father made us to be. When God talks about losing ourselves, it means the fleshly nature of us and once we have submitted to His will, He gives us back all our personality. When we are wholly His, we will be more of ourselves than we ever were. God hates to see us drifting away from our own nature for any other reason.
In the past I have been taught that it wasn't healthy to indulge in our pleasures, as if having too much joy over that was a sin. I had the erroneous view that to deny ourselves of pleasure, of what we want is actually a holy thing. Once we do that, like when we fast from food, we can then truly concentrate on God. This seems to imply that when we are enjoying the pleasures of life, we have a tendency to forget Him.
Perhaps this could be true for someone who is not conscious of God and in tune with Him. But for someone who is in the flow with God, experiencing pleasure is a very good thing indeed. Bible says that hope deferred makes the heart sick but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. God knows that if we keep denying ourselves of the simple pleasures in life, if we get disappointed again and again over unfulfilled desires, this will work against our well being instead.
Yesterday I was just thinking about why the Lord recently wants me to fulfil my desires and not postpone them nowadays. More than just wanting to make me happy, God wants me to be in touch with reality. Pleasures give me a touch of reality, the reality of longing fulfilled. It brings me to the present rather than overly focused on an uncertain future. Other than bombarding me with messages about now is the appointed time, Abba also wants me to have the experiential feeling of the reality of fulfilled promises.
The other purpose of fulfilling my desires, however small or insignificant they may be is the effect of action, to get down to do something about it. I talked about how God is trying to form a new habit in my life. Now I understand why. Active and positive habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened. The more often I feel without acting, the less I will be able to act and in the long run, the less I will be able to feel.
I recognise it is a good thing to have a desire to do something, buy something or go somewhere. There is a sort of innocence and humility and forgetfulness about pursuing my interests. It is also a defence against the enemy's attacks. I remember some time ago when I was feeling depressed, I literally didn't have any desires for I lost interest or passion in life. It was very sad to not have any desires or passion for anything. All I wanted to do then was nothing and mope around at home.
The enemy will always try to make us abandon the books or food we really like in favour of the 'right' food or 'important' books. No wonder there is always this small voice that will say don't eat this food for it is 'heaty' (like fired stuff causing sore throat) and I will give up that idea. Or if I pursue in eating that food, I would feel guilty at the slightest sign of dry throat. Then I would shrink back from fulfilling such desires if they arise in future.
Lately I have been feeling the prompting to fulfil the desires of my heart without delay. The Lord doesn't even want me to wait for a promotion or sale or discount. It wasn't as if He couldn't afford to buy me that thing at its original price, for I am well worth it and nothing is too expensive for Him. Cross out that idea of value for money. Some things will never ever be value for money, especially luxury items.
And somehow doing the things I like without a care of what others say is a form of liberty and freedom in itself. It frees me up to be who God made me to be. I am never more happy when I am doing the things I like. I derive a huge sense of satisfaction from having those desires fulfilled even if no one in the world cares about it. And it kind of connects me to myself. This is who I really am, who God made me to be.
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