My Birth Story

Hmm I think it should be like this as told by my mother.

My mom got married at the around 20+ towards 30. But she could not conceive for the next 9-10years. She was a dedicated buddhist and would go to temples and pray that she would give birth to a child. Until sometime later before my grandmother, who was a dedicated Christian, pass away, told my mom that she will conceive a child and then she will also turn to believe in Christ. But my mom refused to believe and rebuke her saying that she will not be the same as my grandmother. But true enough, my mother gave conceive me after 10years of struggle and also gave her life to Jesus after saying a prayer like this, "God if you are so real, bless me with a child." This is after translation.

During her pregnancy, she fell and injured her back. Then one night at the hospital, she had a vision of a man in white came and touch her back and immediately her back was healed!

There are still some miracles that happened during the pregnancy which I forgot already. But I think this alone is already amazing!

And then I was dedicated by a former Reverend of my previous church. I was named Samuel because like Hannah, my mother was unable to conceive and was blessed with a boy after her sincere and faithful prayer. And I was dedicated to serve God for the rest of my life. Guess what my mom wants me to be? A Pastor!!! -.-"
And I was also named Jia En which means to add blessings. Add blessings to others I guess. hehe. Guess this clicks with being a Pastor. O.o"

I will have no other gods before You

Hi God,

I will have no other gods before You,
only You will reign as my heart's King.

I will have no other gods before You,
I will put you first in everything.

With all my heart,
With all my soul,
With all my might I want to love You Lord.

This is a children's church song. So simple yet it just brings out everything in my heart.
Placing You first in every aspect of my life. If I honour You, You shall honour me.

You are the reason why I do what I do. This is not just a one time reminder, but always. Many times I try to do things by my own strength, but I'm just so limited. I'm like a cup of water, if I pour out all my water, I'll be left with nothing. But with the You as the water source, I shall never thirst again. Looking back at my life, I can see that I've grown so much. I'm able to handle more things and gained many abilities. Not because of myself, for I know I never could have gotten so far. If life is without You I would still be wasting my life away, looking for steads, playing computer games.

With all that I have and that I am, I want to love You. For You have first love me. You created me and gave me the potential to be successful. And now realising my potentials and moulding me to become a better person.

Others may say that I'm crazy, but I wouldn't be if I haven't experience You myself. The warmth of Your embrace and the peace the world could never give just touches my heart. The way how I was borned and how You drawed me to You is just so amazing. My life is a gift from You, and how I live my life is a gift to You.

Love,
Samuel

My God, My Lord, My Saviour, My Father and My Friend

Testimony: How I Got Into hoGc.

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This is my first testimony. Guess this is the one I would never forget. Got so many I forgot le. Next time I go heaven God sure scold me de. He do so many good things for me and I can forget. Paiseh lah. Joke Joke Lah! Cannot take joke izzit?! He so good, where will scold me! Right?! You siao ar!

This is an account of how I got into hoGc (heart of God church).

I'm a 2nd generation Christian, which means my parents are Christians too lah. But they not on-fire one lah. Still very worldly. I used to attend an Anglican church, but I shall not name it. It is a good church. They started to reach out to the Indian community a few years back and have grown quite abit. It's quite a warm and cosy church. But to me at that time was quite boring. I don't feel an excitement for God. I wasn't very involved and eventually backslided.

I had very much wanted to join a church and experience God. But I found none where I could belong to. I went to CHC (City Harvest Church) for a few services. Although it was real good, but I still felt no sense of belonging there. During my Poly first year, I was very addicted in playing MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). I would play all sorts of games and waste my time away. My Mom was quite upset on seeing me like this. I was quite upset with myself too. And I did prayed a prayer asking God to find me a church where I can attend and grow on-fire always for Him.

And He answered it!

One day my Mom was her way to work and she met 2 secondary students (Eunice and Wei Tze) on the MRT train. She overheard them trying to get a part-time job and she went up to offer them some job, not sure about the details lah. Then I also don't know how, skarlee my mom just ask them to invite me to their church. And soon right after my first exam paper in Poly, Eunice messaged me. Was quite surprise for a girl to message me. I was from St. Andrew's School (all-boys school), so I don't have many female friends. Then at night we chatted on the phone and talked about many things, from the things I do and then to my Christian life. We talked for like 4 hours! Wah first time talk so long on the phone, even my buddies also don't get something like this from me. Then in the end she invited me to hoGc and I did.

The following Sunday I met them at the MRT station and there were so many of them. 2 guys, Daniel and Wei Hao came up to me to make friends with me. I find the people very friendly. And when I reach the church, I could just feel so at ease on seeing so many youths. They were all so friendly and many came up to me and introduce themselves. But I can't remember so many names lah. Then we started Praise and Worship. It was great and during worship I could just felt the presence of God and immediately I know that's the place for me. This is where I belong.

The reason I wrote this is because I want to remind myself that I've come so far in life. God had brought me up in character and in love. I will never forget how much I have to go through to realise His love for me.