TESTIMONY 27 APRIL 2008 – WHEN HEAVEN’S WINDOWS OPEN
Dear Pastor Vernon Falls,
Allow me to share this testimony with you.
About one and a half years ago, God gave me a vision in a dream to start a ministry for abandoned and neglected children in China. I tentatively named it Christ for China’s Children Ministry (CCCM). In that extremely vivid dream, every single detail of which I can still remember up to this day, I found myself on a beach in Bali. My 3 kids, who were with me at the beach, went off earlier with a pastor friend and his wife. After they left, a Japanese looking man stalked me with a gun with the intention of killing me. While running away from this assassin, God sent two huge tsunami waves, one coming from the left and the other sweeping in from the right. As the tsunami was about to hit the beach, I was cornered by this hit man and he was about to pull the trigger when the huge waves swept him away. Everyone and everything was swept off but miraculously I was standing right at the place that was exactly in the middle where the two waves met and was totally untouched, not even by a single drop of water!
Almost immediately, I was taken to another beach, I believe this place is somewhere in China because all the people on this beach is Chinese and speaks “Pu tong hua”. I was standing at the balcony overlooking the beach and sea, on the 2nd floor swimming pool of a hotel looking after a group of children who were playing and swimming there. As I looked out to the beach, I saw many people, both young kids and adults playing by the beach and swimming in the sea. Suddenly, God showed me a huge rock, like a meteorite, falling from the sky and it was heading into the sea near the beach where I was. I knew immediately that a huge wave will result and all those people on the beach were in danger. So I shouted loudly to all the people to warn them of the impending danger and ask them to run for their lives. Many people listened and ran out from the sea towards higher ground but many others just ignored and laughed at me in unbelief. Very soon, the huge rock hit the sea as was told me by God and the tidal wave that came swept away all those who did not listen to my warning cries and they died. However, all the children who were with me in the 2nd floor swimming pool were safe and unharmed as the waves did not reach us. At this point, I woke up from this dream and started to pray and ask God for its meaning. I quickly sent a sms to a pastor friend who replied that it may be God confirming my involvement in this children’s ministry for China.
Since then, I have been praying to Jesus to show me the way, to open doors, to teach me on the proper way to start this ministry and to bring in the provisions for this ministry. On my frequent trips to China since that dream, I have also been looking around, asking our Lord Jesus for direction on which province, which city or which village I should go to, to establish this children’s ministry. However, the Lord has been silent for the last 18 months, to the point that I began to doubt if the dream I had was from the Holy Spirit or from the enemy. So, sometime after Chinese New Year of 2008, after relocating to RLC, I prayed to God, that if nothing happens within the next 2-3months, I will move on with my life and look for other areas or ministry where I can serve Him.
I remember after attending my first “Special Anointing Prayer Meeting for Entrepreneurs” in early March, things started to move, especially after the general elections. Suddenly I found my order book almost full for the month of March and early April. This has not happened for the last 3-4 years. Praise the Lord! It was literally as though the window of heaven has been opened and provisions were pouring out into my cup and overfloweth! Almost every morning I was being woken up early by clients calling to enquire about my event management and professional audio visual rental services. It came to a point where I was so exhausted from rushing between meetings and sending out quotations that I asked Jesus to slow down a little bit for me to catch my breath but that wasn’t my good God’s plan.
Sometime around the 10th of April, a client from India, Mr. Arul, who has not been in touch with me for more than 4 years, gave me a surprise call from New Delhi. He explained that he had won a tender to manage the audio visual systems for the pre-election conference for the National Congress Party which will be attended by the President, Prime Minister of India and Mrs. Sonia Gandhi. However, due to sabotage or whatever problems, the company from Denmark which was supposed to supply 10000 units of translation headsets suddenly returned the deposit cheque Arul gave them and pulled out from the job. With only less than 14 days to the event, it was impossible to find such a large amount of headsets, as I found out after calling many rental companies around Malaysia who had links to suppliers all over Asia. My business associate in China also tried but they could only find 6000units but even then, they also can't supply to India on such short notice. So I prayed to the Lord and asked him to help do the impossible and give us a miracle if it is His will to bless me and to help Arul, who by now has been threatened with heavy penalty, even jail by powerful people from the Prime Minister’s office if he failed to come up with a solution. Arul pleaded with me to help with whatever alternative ideas so I suggested that he also ask his father, who is the Pastor of a Methodist Church in Delhi, to mobilize his Church to pray for God’s divine help to settle this problem. Suddenly, the Holy Spirit reminded me of a radio system I used about 3 years ago for a conference where I used 4000 mini radios to transmit different languages to people who needed translations. I suggested this idea to Arul but I wasn’t sure if we can find stocks of 10000units in such a short time. I called two of my associates in China to help contact manufacturers while I spent the next 3 – 4 days researching on the internet, only getting around 2-3hrs of sleep daily. All the factories that produces radio sets did not have such a large amount in stock and needed at least 14 days to produce, but at this point, we only had around 9 days to the deadline for set up! After a few days of searching, I managed to find an online supplier who claimed to have ready stock within the budget that would not cause too much financial losses to Arul. I insist to this supplier that my associates go to their factory to inspect every single unit to make sure all of them are working. At first he agreed but after dragging us for about 2 days, he suddenly changed his tune and said we can only randomly test up to 10 units! My associate immediately suspects that this could be a conman!
We lost another 2 days to this agent from satan and had to go back to square one to look for another supplier! It was extremely tense especially since Arul had already sent USD$??k for us to pay the factory to secure the radios and now we didn’t have anything. Thank God we didn’t transfer any money to this conman! I went to the Lord again and prayed for divine help as time is really ticking away. My associate in Shenzhen and I then spent an entire night searching the internet for other factories with such equipment and the very next morning, BY GOD’s AMAZING GRACE, the 2nd factory we called had stock of 20,000 units which were ready to be dispatched to an American University! They told us we can have this batch of radios as long as we give them a deposit and pay in full before collection. They gladly let us check their stocks and even mobilized their entire factory staff to do QC and recheck every single radio set for us at no additional costs! Praise the Lord! However, it was already Friday and we needed to send all the stock to Hong Kong on Tuesday afternoon so that it can be air freighted to reach Delhi latest by Friday. So I asked Arul to immediately transfer another USD$??k to me as I needed to pay in full by cash to the factory latest by Tuesday morning. However, since there is no direct banking transfer facility between India and Malaysia, the money had to go to New York before being channeled back to me, so I didn’t receive the money until Monday 11am. My bank told me the money to be transferred to China will also go through a similar process which will take a minimum of 2-3days so I was left with the options of carrying almost ?? renminbi cash to China or to send via my regular money changer. Since it is illegal to carry so much cash out of the country and I risk having all the money confiscated by immigration at the airport, I had no choice but to choose the latter option. After handing over the cash to my money changer at the bank at 11am, I immediately rushed to the airport to catch the 330pm flight to China. That night, it was such a joy to see all the equipment packed and ready to be dispatched and I went to bed with such peace from the Lord….but little did I realize that the battle is still not over! The devil wouldn’t let me have this big blessing without a fight till the end!
The next morning, I eagerly waited for the money to be transferred into my China bank account at 1030am as promised by my money changer. I went to the bank and waited but the money didn’t arrive. The money changer told me to wait till 12pm instead. In the meantime, all 159 cartons were loaded onto the container and standing by to be sent to the airport. Again, at 12pm, the money didn’t arrive and they gave me another new deadline of 130pm. At this point, I was getting really worried as it involved such a big sum of money. 130pm came and went and still no money, and I scolded my friend who promised me the transfer but didn’t deliver! He then promised that it will definitely be in by 330pm but sadly it was not to be. At 4pm, the money changer told me they wrote the wrong account number when they banked in the money for me in Hong Kong and it had to be re-done the next morning. By that time, I already missed my return flight to Malaysia! And the following afternoon I had to be the MC of a secretaries' week luncheon show with Phua Chu Kang in Kuala Lumpur! My associate checked for flights in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau and Shenzhen but there were no more flights till around noon the next day so I will surely no show at the lunch event and be in even more trouble! Again I pleaded with Jesus for help. I kept asking God why has He brought me this far only to fail?!
Though worried, at the back of my mind I had a comforting peace that His plans and His will is always the best and since there were nothing more I could do, I just surrendered everything to Him. 15 minutes later, another miracle from God was blessed into my life. A travel agent called and said there is a specially chartered flight from Shenzhen to KL leaving at 10pm with a few seats left but the price is almost double the normal rate. I sighed and reluctantly accepted as losing money was definitely better than being sued by my client for not showing up. My associate then drove me to the airport and I mustered enough faith to assure him that my Jesus will not let me go this far just to let me fail. We had to unload all the goods and compensate the truck for waiting the entire day at the factory. While waiting in the airport, I continued to talk to Jesus and praised God; the Holy Spirit kept comforting me with heavenly peace that God will make sure everything goes as planned even though we lost a full day which may cause us to miss the Friday deadline. God also assured me that the money is intact and that He will not allow the devil to steal almost ?????? Renmenbi from me.
The following day was such a blessed day for me. Miracle after miracle happened! The money finally arrived at 1145am, 15minutes before I was supposed to go on stage to start the show and I realized that the exchange rate had gone up so God caused me to earn a few thousand RMB extra! Hallelujah! I immediately transferred the money via internet to the factory and they quickly released the goods. Since we failed to come up with the money the previous day, the original forwarder couldn’t hold on to the scheduled flight so we had to look for another forwarder. Praise God, He led us to another forwarder who managed to get us on an earlier flight and….AT A CHEAPER RATE! Double Hallelujah! After I finished my MC Job, I called my money changer to thank him and apologise for scolding him the previous day and…Triple Hallelujah! He also apologises to me and promised to compensate me for the extra air ticket and trucking cost!
So in the end, God’s way was much better than everything I had planned! I apologised to Jesus for having so many moments of doubt throughout the entire process of completing this job and claimed His blessings for me and for answering my prayers on provisions for the children’s ministry in China that He has told me about.
The Lord led me to prepare myself for His work by attending your Deeper Life Seminars and after the last 3 weeks of classes, I have discovered and learned many things which could have made all those battles with the devil unnecessary in the first place and I now know I will have even greater victories in my future walk with Christ. I shall be leaving for China on 28 May 2008 and am waiting for the Lord to lead me to my promised land to proclaim and testify about the gospel of Jesus Christ and I am would like to request for you to remember me in your prayers, that God may reveal if I should go to the earthquake disaster zone of Chengdu, Sichuan as many children has suddenly become orphans and many mothers has suddenly become single parent to their young children and if the Lord will open doors for His ministry to show compassion and mercy to these lost, unsaved and suffering people. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR PRAYERS.
Yours in Christ
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