Friday 23 April 2010

MY FAITH BEGAN TO GROW STRONGER

Dear Loving Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Grace and peace to you.

I am deeply delighted to seeing you all again. For those who have read about the numerous miracles that Lord had shown me, you may choose to continuously read some of my testimonies from time to time. For those who have not done so, you may vet through my previously written testimonies to see how Lord convinced and convicted my heart.

Since then, I have begun to take initiatives to read the scripture day and night or whenever I have the opportunities despite my struggles initially. Now, I enjoy reading it. Thank God again for placing me in several bible study groups to nourish my heart. Thanks also to those who have been lending their books and sharing with me their thoughts about His Words with me. That enables me to share it openly with you. This is one way to appreciate their efforts by giving back to society. I have been benefiting all these while. Secondly, I also can do it by glorying My Mighty God who has done so much for me. I also know what I am doing is not my effort, but through His grace that I do it.

Thanks also extended to those churches I have attended to ground my understanding of His Word. I am very grateful to Him and the rest that He made use of everything to reveal the truth to me. He also guide me to be a doer as well as a listener, as such I have taken various initiatives to apply His word into my daily lives. He has never failed to answer my prayers in so many occasions when I need to deliver something so as to glorify Him. He even delivered parking lots during peak time in shopping malls when I was with my unbelieving siblings. Amazing, yet real so as that He touches their hearts as well.

Finally, they have soften their resistance against my faith as compared to the initial period. Praise the Lord.

Our faith began to grow each day and what I know is that He continuously uses me as one of His vessels to achieve His goals and not my goals. I just pray that He continuously keep and maintain me. Amen.
I pray in Jesus Christ's wonderful name.

One thing I realise that the more I share with others, He will reveal even more to me, like Giving is Receiving. Once I have shared, I feel more peaceful and feel like resting in His Mighty hand. I am sure that you will not let go of the peace for any costs. It is too sweet and wonderful, I can say.

I will see you again,

Grace and peace to you all.

James Oh

Sunday 18 April 2010

THE JOURNEY OF FAITH BEGAN

Dear Loving Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Grace and peace to you.

I am very glad to see you all again. Today, I like to share with you my heartfelt painful experience, prior to my conviction to accept Him as my Savior, with you when I read the gospel of John 3 verse16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." I guess you know how I felt at that time. I was very angry with our Lord and claim that He is too harsh and not loving as he should be. I told myself in my heart that I cannot peruse further and I am not going to read this bible any more.

After a while, I felt that a soft hand was extended to me and His word is so softly spoken to me that said, "My son, I know how you feel, but this is the truth. I am not blaming you for doing so. But, I have spoken through My Words that there are abundance of evidences which showed the truth. How can anyone miss out, if he has his heart for me. Look at the universe, the distance between the Sun and earth, Scripture and witnesses from the past and present, who come forward to testify about my existence. After that my heart suddenly felt much lighter and I am able to see from His perspective. I immediately ask for forgiveness and He replied that He never blame me for doing so. He really knows everything I have in my heart - that makes me convinced to accept Him as my Mighty and Living God.

Since then, He has been revealed to me many times, which initially did not make sense to me. This may due to my intellectual doubts which always convey it differently for my understanding. For instance when I read about the phrase advocated by Apostle Paul - I am strong yet I am weak. Contradictory statement which I find very difficult to understand. The 'Righteous' word I heard from the sermon and bible study initially gave me the meaning of more than right, which I find confusing without any universal meaning to it.

However, one thing I do not put into waste is that He has continuously used me as His vessel to touch some lives. Praise the Lord.

James Oh

Wednesday 14 April 2010

ANOTHER TESTIMONY WITH MY FRIEND

Dear Loving Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Grace and peace to you.

Thank God, for His grace that I step forward to share with you another miracle, in the hope of glorifying Him. I know that all this is His work and I am made use of as one of His vessels.

That night, I was invited by one of my young Christian friends to join his bible study group at his newly found church, Kelana Jaya. After our bible study class, we were heading to our cars to depart from the place. After I entered my car, I was struggling very hard to unlock my steering lock, StopLock - British Police model, but to no avail. It was very kind of my young Christian friend, who turned his car back to investigate what had happened to me. Once he saw what had happened, he came in to assist me to unlock it, but also to no avail. All of the sudden, the phrase of John 16:24 that says "until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete." struck my mind. I then proposed to pray about it. The moment I finished the statement, he cried out "done." Both of us instantly thank Lord for His good work. We then shared this incident with our other Christian friends in the following bible study session. It touched them. Thank God for His wonderful blessings.

Hope to seeing you again,

God bless

James Oh

Monday 12 April 2010

A MIRACLE THAT TOUCHED MY FAMILY MEMBERS

Dear loving Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Peace and grace to you.

Thank God that I dare to come forward, through His grace, to share this miracle with you, with the hope that it will touch some of your hearts, the same way as it touched my immediate family members.

It all began, one evening after I came back from work, I rushed my family members to dine at Subang Jaya without any prior advance notice. Without much delay, my kids went into my car, followed by my wife. After a certain distance of travel from my house, my wife began to realise that the wired tag from her new pair of shoes have not been removed although they had been paid for. As usual, she began to nag about it. I tried to keep her silent, followed by my second son, who offered her his scissor which he found in his school bag. She tried but to no avail. My eldest son then proposed that I show him the super power from the mighty God, whom I accepted not long ago, to resolve the existing issue. My spontaneous response to him is that God does not need to interfere in the issue directly, but occasionally make use of everything to get things done on His behalf. Immediately after my explanation, I then noted the illumination of low fuel indicator light suggesting that I need to go to the nearest petrol kiosk.

I then proceed to the nearest petrol station at Jalan 223. While I was filling my car with petrol, my wife went to the cashier for help. Surprisingly, she returned back with a smiley face, indicating her issue had been resolved. She then revealed the whole incident to us in the car. She told us that when she approached the cashier for help, she replied in Bahasa Malaysia "Where to find a plier in the cashier counter". With hesitation, she pulled out the bottom drawer and unbelievingly saw a plier there. She told my wife that she was surprised to find the plier and offered it to my wife.

I told them that this is no coincidence, but rather a miracle. To me, coincidence is an insult and undermines God's power. This is nothing new to me as there are abundant evidences recorded in the scriptures. Since then, they began to consult scripture occasionally. Thank God for answering many prayers, whom I know lots of my sisters and brothers in Christ have been praying for me since I accepted Christ.

Praise the Lord. Thanks for your precious time and hope to see you again for other testimonies. Please put forward your testimonies here.

Peace and Grace to you always,

James Oh

Thursday 8 April 2010

Number 22 -25

Hi! Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I love to share with you 4 principles in the Book of Number 22 -25.

1st Principle
God can use whatever kind of person to speak for Him.

In Number 22:21-41 it tells us that God can use donkey to speak for Him.
Here, it illustrate well that all things are subject to Him. He is in control of everything on earth and in heaven.

2nd Principle
God is not subject to man but all men are subject to Him.

Our purpose on earth is to be His witness and to obey His commandments accordingly, and not according to our flesh, intuition and intelligence.

3rd Principle
God's people are vulnerable and can be seduced to worship other gods.

One thing is certain - walking with God is no guarantee that we will be free from opposition and have a smooth path in life. Therefore, we need to know this in advance so that we will carry on and not be discouraged.

In the book of Numbers, we were told Moses, being His faithful servant, has been opposed from every conceivable direction within and outside Israel.

Let us continue to pray that God reveal more to us so that we can share with others.

Thanks and look forward to hearing from you,

James Oh

Monday 5 April 2010

I LOVE TO SHARE MY TESTIMONY WITH YOU

Dear loving sisters and brothers,

I write to give my testimony of some miracles my family and I have gone through not long after I accepted Christ as my Savior. This incident happened a couple of years ago. At that time, I was already convinced and committed to Him wholeheartedly.

It all began with our trip to dine at one popular restaurants at Telok Gong, near West Port, which is also one of the popular weekend dining areas among KL folks. On the way back to our home, after our meal, I somehow detoured to Klang Puteri residential housing estate to investigate further on that newly launched housing estate.

As a result, we arrived home relatively quite late from our norm. Everyone was tired and went up to our bed rooms instead of our normal practice of going to the rest room just opposite my dry kitchen. After being home for a while, my eldest son felt thirsty and was about to go to the dry kitchen to obtain some water. Just before he entered the kitchen, he cried out "snake" and ran away from it.

Immediately, I rushed down from up-stairs and instructed everyone to stay away from the kitchen. I did so for two main reasons. First, I do not want to provoke the snake. Secondly, I do not have knowledge or experience to handle it. It struck my mind to contact Fire Station immediately for help, while preventing everyone from entering the kitchen, at the same time keeping on an eye on its movement.

After some hassles of contacting the right fire station, the rescue team finally came in to remove this unwelcome guest from my house. Thank God for His protection as no one got hurt despite waiting for the arrival of the rescue team for nearly an hour. Surprisingly, it hid itself in the kitchen. This is really a surprisingly good lesson for us. Immediately we extended our greatest gratitude and appreciation to the team and our Lord. From then on, I told myself to remove the word "coincident" from my vocabulary because it appears to me as an insult to my Lord, who has full control in earth and heaven.

Please allow me to ponder over a few questions here. Why did I detour on my way back to that particular residential area after all we have been there numerous times. What would have happened if we came back much earlier and follow our normal practice which is very likely the case? Why I was so cool despite having about 4 feet length cobra in my house? I couldn't imagine if it were to move out from my kitchen. What could have happen to our lives if they have not found and removed the cobra from my house that night. I was shocked to find out that it could have easily attack my eldest son, who had confronted it at far shorter than the safe distance. The more I ponder, I felt more gratitude towards Him.

Thereafter, I found real peace in His Mighty hand. I gave the above testimony in my hope to glorify Him, so that He can continue to use me as one of His vessels.

See you again and I shall share with you more testimonies on how He touched our immediate family members’ lives before they accepted Him as their Savior. So, praise the Lord.

James Oh