The Prodigal Son

A great testimony & encouragement wrote by Brother Chong. The loving kindness & mercy of Christ Jesus touches deep down in my Heart witnessing the truth that set us free! Gory to the Lord always:

To: Whoever in the same trial as me

During February this year, there was a lottery with the 1^st price of S$10 million, I prayed very hard for it hoping I could clear all my debts which were due to my poor management on finance & have the quality of life I wanted, I trust the Lord will give it to me.

When the results are announced, I didn’t win the first prize, I was really upset & felt betrayed by the Lord. I went through a few weeks of anger, frustration & hurt. I started calling God all kinds of names & calling Christian hypocrite & completely stop attending church. During those few weeks, I told myself I only believe in me & deny the existence of God, but there was warfare within me, I kept denying & the Holy Spirit kept prompting me. I nearly went insane when the Holy Spirit keep speaking to me, I started cursing & swearing out loud!

My brother in Christ, Godwyn contacted me now & then although I thought God have left me, He got Godwyn to talk to me, he knew what I was going through and gentlemanly step back and stop talking about God to me for those time, we went out together often & the strange thing was that I am the first to say something on God without knowing it, immediately after I said it, I denied my words & believed what I said was rubbish. However, brother Godwyn always says, once save, forever save, there is no way I can get out of God’s hand…

One day in march, I was resting on my chair at home, I heard a scratching sound beside me, I opened my eyes & I saw no one, I was quite scared as it was quite dark, I suddenly commanded any unclean things in my house to leave in Jesus name, as I was quite tired, I feel asleep quite immediate. Later, I told myself what’s this? Why should I called the name of Jesus? I think I was really insane…

About 2 weeks later, I was had severe toothache every night, the pain started first in the night & happen during the day as well. I used salt water to rinse my mouth the pain subsided for awhile but slowly the salt water lost it’s effect. I had to use ice cube to numb the nerves in my tooth as the pain was tremendous. It worked when the ice cube was in my mouth, but when it melted, the pain came back. In the evening my brother said he was going to the supermarket & asked me what I needed. Without any hesitation, I asked him to buy me a pack of ribena, meanwhile I still continued to suffer the pain...

When he came back, I still think what could ribena do while all failed, I never pray to God at all when I suffered the pain, miracle happened when I took the ribena, the first sip of ribena in my mouth led to the immediate lost of pain for my severe toothache. The pain had never came back since then…[Ribena is used to represent the blood of Jesus Christ, where I was taught the wonders of Holy Communion in our Church]

Early last month, I was feeling lost & wondered around the city. Before I realized where I was, I was standing outside the church, I didn’t know how I get there & I met a church brother who spent time talking to me & telling me God has never left me not forsake me even when I call him all kinds of names. After a few session with him [brother in Christ from the church], I found that how stupid I had behaved with all the negative thoughts of the Lord. I contacted brother Godwyn & told him I am going back to Church. One night while we fellowship at a food center, I told him the miracle healing of my toothache, He told me actually, I had taken communion, when I suffered the toothache, the Lord shows His goodness, mercy and loving kindness on me even I denied Him & cursed Him with all kinds of names…

Later that night, I was thinking how good our Father in Heaven is to me! He never fell off His mercy sit or send lighting to strike on me when I called Him all kinds of rubbish names. He does not look at me to judge me but to the one sitting on His right side, which is our Lord Jesus Christ…

Finally for those who have the same trial as me, The people of the World is going for the lottery win so that they can have the money which they thought could let them have the quality of life. Money is not evil but the love of money is evil, when you go after Jesus, all the blessings [finance, health, relationship etc] will come after you & bless you more than you can imagine. He who gets the son gets everything, God will never know what is enough & will give you boat sinking, net breaking load of fishes, just like what Jesus did for Peter…

So, just remember our Father God loves us more than we can love ourselves. No matter which profession or what you did, He loves you beyond your imagination. Jesus had paid for the consequence of sin of your entire life whether it is past, present or future.

Father God will run to you & hug you like what He had done to me...

The Prodigal Son - Chong