😊 YAYP Retreat 2018

I signed up Grace YAYP (Young Adults Young Professional) Retreat 2018 which was held on 3rd to 5th august. Before signing up for it, I was contemplating whether to go for this or my NUS Orientation Week which would be held on 2nd to 4th august. Both events clashed, I was leaning towards more of O Week then I realised all my church friends who were going to faculty of Engineering in NUS were all going for this retreat. In addition, I was already going for Engin Camp 2018 which should suffice. This was my first YAYP retreat, I did attend two youth retreats and 1 main retreat before, but I could not make it for the YAYP retreat during my 1st year because I just enlisted and was unsure about my schedule. There was no YAYP retreat for my 2nd year so I just went for the main retreat. I really wanted to experience one YAYP retreat and was glad I managed to went for one after 2 and a half year of being in YAYP.

Before retreat begin, I prayed and seek God for signs and confirmations pertaining to a specific and personal issue and for God to speak to me about it during retreat. I decided to take the night bus because I recently brought a friend to church and she cant make it for the day bus. In this retreat, it was a 2 person bunking and I bunked with Jason Kwok, one of my close church friend.

Before I go into the details of what happened in retreat and how I experienced God and what I learned, I got to give you guys some contextual clues of the people I attended retreat with and how God can connect different unique individuals together. How I know Jason Kwok was by my close friend Edwin who introduced Jason to me back then when I was in the youth service. When I moved up to YAYP Service, me and Jason were both in the same mother cell and we always went dinner together after service. Even after our mother cell split and the two of us were in different cell, both of us still became quite close as we always hang out with each other after service. Other than me, 3 people from my cell group also attended the retreat. God recently restored one of my old friendship with one my ex-colleagues in IRAS and I recently brought her to church. Coincidentally, one of my cellmates was also looking for a female partner to room with as she did not know who else to room with. I can really see that God has placed much divine appointments in my life and God have use me to connect people around me with each other.

A day before retreat, I had a sore throat and my throat was feeling very hot even though my back, head and armpit was not feeling hot. I use a thermal thermometer to double confirm it and realised that I might have a mild fever or a throat infection. I decided to pray against it and rest well for the night while drinking lots of water. I got to thank God that He answered my prayer, even though I still had a sore throat and a bit of flu, my fever was totally gone.

The second day is where the main bulk of retreat took place for me. The R and R ( Relax and Recreation) was held on the second day (thank God). At first I was quite sad because this means I have to settle my lunch outside and this means higher costs. However it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Sean, one my cellmates, suggested a seafood restaurant to eat at. We took a 15 minutes grab ride to that place. I really enjoyed the food a lot as it was long since I ate crab and it was my first time trying out the XO Prawn Soup. It was one of the seafood meal I ever had.

Guess how much this cost per person? : 50 RM ONLY !!!

Moving on, some interesting things took place as well. When we were heading to back to the shopping mall, we got stranded halfway on the highway as the car wheels got punctured by one of the tyre. Luckily, we managed to walk to one of the nearby buildings which was around a 10 min walk and we managed to call another grab to come fetch us up in a short period of time. We did not shop much in the shopping center, but I had my first Thai upper body massage. I did it with the same room as Jason. At first, both of us screamed as it was both painful and ticklish at the same time. After a while, I got used to it because I did Thai foot massage frequently and I got used to the level of pain. However, Jason did not. He kept screaming in a high pitch voice throughout the whole massage. I kept laughing as it was too funny and other people who were quite a distance away from us heard it too. I remembered the Thai masseur scolded Jason in English and Thai, asking to why small thing cry and ask him to not cry to his mother and father after that.

At night, we stayed up till 4 am to play blackjack and spyfall. Jason, being Jason, drank his strong beer and got high/drunk during all the games. During one of the spyfall games. the location was 'Polar Station'. Jason, being the spy, gave it away in his drunkenness. When it was my turn to give a description of the place, I said Demi Lovato. She was the singer who sang "Let it go" in Frozen, which "Frozen" resonates well with 'Polar Station'. When I asked Jason if he knew which song that Demi Lovato sang, Jason in his drunkenness said "Hillsong". When asked why he said it, he just said he thought I was speaking in tongues. Everyone just broke into laughter. This was one of the most joke and hilarious stuff in retreat.

Lets get on to the more serious stuff in this blog. The main theme for this retreat was the five-fold ministry. God has given us one or more than that five fold ministry gifts in each and every one of us. Some of us displayed these gifting in our everyday secular life, but this is not God had wanted for us. Ephesians 4:11-12 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, and for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Notice in verse 12 Paul uses "for the work of ministry". God did not just gave us these 5 fold ministry gifts to be just used in secular settings, He gave us these gifts so that we can use it to serve Him in church and glorify His Kingdom with it. In our lives, our callings in the five fold ministry can change overtime as God can be calling us into different office as we transit into different seasons in our lives. Some of us might have several inclinations towards more than one officer, generally God has called each and every Christians towards one office.

To me, when I took the five fold ministry test, I found it to be very accurate. I scored the highest for Prophet. It was probably because that many times God used dreams and visions and even songs to speak to me and I am also quite sensitive to the Holy Spirit. I also scored quite high for Apostle, which I did not see it at first but when I reflected on my life, I realised that God have constantly use me to start new things, form new connections and also I have been leaning towards techno entrepreneurship recently for my studies in NUS. I also felt several inclinations towards evangelist, as I have been trying to reach out actively and evangelise to most of my non-christian friends after I rededicated my life back to God upon joining Grace. I also felt God recently increasing me in the gift of teacher, as I started becoming a part time tutor and cell leader recently, in which both I have to teach others.

However, even though everyone might be different as they have different giftings and callings in their lives, everyone is important and no one is more important than the other. We all still worship the same and one God, which is our Lord Jesus Christ and we all belong the one and same single church under Him. Ephesians 4:13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

On the last day of retreat, during worship in service, the song "YOU" by Hillsong was played. I started to felt the tangible presence of God and started to cry. I heard God speaking to me, that everything will be alright, I do not have to worry about anything as He will set my path and to stand firm in His word. God asked me to focus on Him first and everything else will fall in place, especially the personal issue and confirmation which I kept seeking the Lord about on. I was then having a very bad sore throat at the point in time, I almost had no voice left but I still wanted to sang my heart out and worship God because He is my Lord. When the third song, "Build my life" by Housefires came in, during the bridge, God asked me to not sing and just listen to the song verse while saturating in His Presence. As I heard the song verse, "I will build my life upon your love, it is a strong foundation. I will put my trust in you and I will not be shaken", I started to cry even more. The meaning of this verse should be self explanatory to you guys. To sum it up, God just wanted me to stop worrying about my future (relationship, academics, careers) etc and God wanted me to trust in Him and seek Him first and everything else will start to fall in place. The fourth song became a confirmation, as the song title was "Jesus be the center". God wanted me to put Him at the center of my life and not thinking and worrying about other things in life.

At the end of the sermon, the Pastor gave an altar call. I just went up as I was already serving in church as a cell leader and I wanted to serve God more and also wanted to be part of YAYP growth. As I found my spot and knelled down, I instantly felt the strong presence of the Holy Spirit falling upon me and I kept crying and crying during the whole altar call. At first, I did not know why all these supernatural stuffs happened, but as I reflected on it, I realised the Holy Spirit was doing a work in my heart to my response in wanting to serve God more. Also, this altar call was aligned with my VCF (Varsity Christian Fellowship) Camp in NUS that I had one month ago, as I caught the fire and wanted to serve God more actively in that camp.

The next day after retreat, as I was just reading the bible on my bed, I saw a vision of a picture of a foot stepping on clear waters. I felt that this vision was aligned to the season in my life which is about to come very soon ahead, which is my NUS campus life. I am very worried whether I can cope well in my studies, especially I am very keen in doing a double major, my possible career pathways and also whether I would get into SEP (Student Exchange Programme) or NOC (NUS Overseas College). God is telling me to not to worry and to step out and step on the water in this new season ahead of my life.

I learned a lot personally from God during this short 2 days retreat. To the people who are reading this blog right now, my story might be one of a kind and your personal spiritual encounter with God will not be exactly with mine. However, God still wants to speak to you and and is still reaching out to your heart day after day. God has given each and every of you many and different gifts. How would you use it and will you use it to serve God in the body of Christ?

⛺️ VCF FOC Camp 2018

When I first signed up for VCF (Varsity Christian Fellowship) FOC (Freshmen Orientation Camp) 2018, I thought it would be like just another NUS school camp, I was so wrong. It was a 4 days 3 night camp. At that season of my life, I was still working as a part-time temporary admin assistant at a company under a recruit agency contract. I was getting paid per hour so I had 'unlimited' leaves. When I want to apply for leave, I have to ask both my direct superior and my agent. During that period, my company was in a busy period and I was afraid that I would not be able to take my leaves successfully. However, thank God I managed to take leave in the end if not I would not be writing this blog at all.

It turned out that this camp was more like a church camp than a normal NUS orientation camp. I prefer it that way because it was a long time since I had actually attended a church camp. Also, I wanted to know and experience God more and better is one day in His courts than a thousand elsewhere. In this camp, there were people from many different denominations. The fellowship was lit as I get to have many "Heart to Heart talks" and intellectual deep theological conversations with like-minded people. By interacting with people of different mindsets and ideas, this broadens my own perspective and mindset about certain things in Christianity and life. I got to see certain things differently. Also, as I fellowship-ed with my OG (Orientation Group), I got to learn that actually there were a lot of people who share similar struggles with me and I was not alone. In addition, one of my church friend, Daniel, also coincidentally signed up this camp. Even though we were not in the same OG, we managed to hang out and fellowship with each other in the camp during various activities and this camp strengthened our friendship. Also, me and him spent like 1 hour prayer and interceding for our upcoming campus life as we prayed for different areas and aspects of our campus life.

Also, as I fellowship-ed with other Christians, I realised that there were a lot passionate Christians. Some of them went through a three month bible study course during their Holidays, some of them went for mission trips and some of them who were also cell leaders also served actively in their church in other parts of ministry area in addition to just cell ministry. I reflected and decided to rededicated my life to wanting to serve God in more areas in addition to just cell ministry whereas possible. I wanted to also bring that fire back to my church to ignite others to start loving God more and having a passionate heart in wanting to serve God actively in any small or big areas in church.

Most importantly, the main theme of the camp was "Time to Treasure". Believe it or not, Jesus is coming to Earth soon in His second Coming. Acts 17:31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead. However, in Matthew 24:36 No one knows about the day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. In the chapter Matthew 24 verse 36 onward, Jesus said that even though we might not know when is His Second Coming, we should be prepared for His Second Coming by being Holy. And how do we respond to this passage? This is actually very simple but requires dedication and discipline, just be rooted to the word! Read and study your bible regularly, do your devotions and pray daily, go to church and cell groups regularly and even fellowship is consider as part of how to be rooted to the word! This theme was very relatable to a dream I had 4 years ago. If you had read my previous posts, I dream about Jesus Christ 4 years ago and He told me that He will becoming sooner than I expected and told me to be Holy. After having that dream, I tried to prepare for His Second Coming. I admit until now, I wont say I am 100 percent confident ready for His Second Coming but I know I am trying my best to prepare for it. During this camp, as we had many discussion about this theme, am I really giving my 100 percent in preparation of His Second Coming? After that camp, I decided to renew my mindset to study and work hard for God and not just myself in my future campus and career life. Everything I do, I give in my 100 percent effort for the glory of God.

After reading this, what would you do if you know that Christ is coming back in 10 years, 5 years, 1 year or even tomorrow? Would you have live your life differently? What would you have done differently and what would you have regret not doing in your life? YOLO, you only live once.  Millennias casually use this word YOLO in their everyday life, but this word YOLO packed a powerful meaning. We only have 1 life in this world. How you would like to live it depends on you. At the end of the day, you still have to account everything to God yourself. No one can help you with it except you yourself. Do you want to live a life without much meaning, or do you want to live a life next time when you meet God face to face, God might say this to you, "Well done my child".

✝️ Encounter with God on a bus

It seemed like a normal Wednesday that day after I woke up. I thought so too but I was wrong. I dream earlier on about someone who was special to me, that I was dating her. I was unsure from God whether what I dream was from God. I am someone who thinks a lot, especially worrying about my future. I always worry a lot about my health, my studies, my career, my love life, my family's salvation, my own cell etc. During that morning, as I walked my way to the MRT station, I prayed to God, for his sovereign will to reign over in my life.

Fast forward, I boarded my company bus after reaching Jurong East MRT Station. One year ago, after my church service, there was a booth that gave out free christian books. Being the typical "kiasu" Singaporean, I decided to take quite a number of books because no one wanted it anyway and it was free. However, despite taking quite a myriad of books, I did not bother to read them at all. I decided to start reading them again and I am currently in the midst of reading a book about prayer. On that bus, I decided to read this book about prayer because I realised that there were no other other perfect and convenient timing in doing so. I wanted to read this book about prayer because I am constantly worried about the future and I wanted to learn how to pray effectively for my future.

As I was reading this chapter on how prayer brings life greatest happiness, I was also listening to music through my earpiece at the same time. I listen to all kinds of music, christian songs, secular english pop songs, chinese songs, Japanese songs, etc. My playlist was randomised and I did not pick the song I was listening to as I read the book. My phone started to play "At the cross" by Hillsong as I was reading this chapter. As I read the book, it mentioned a part in the bible where Jesus mentioned "It is finished" after He gave His life for us and died on the cross to overcome sin. John 19:30: When Jesus received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished". With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Just then, coincidentally or not, the bridge of the song also played this,"You tore the veil, you made a way, and you said that it is done". The chapter in the book and my song said the exact thing at that moment. As I continue reading and listening to the lyrics of the song, I started to feel the tangible physical touch of the Holy Spirit. The moment I heard the phrase, "It is done" while reading the book, I knew very well God was speaking to me and I started to tear up. I hold back my tears because I was in a public bus. Even if I did cried, no one would have probably notice as I sat at the back and there were very less people at the bus at that instance.

"It is done" This phrase/sentence have very powerful meanings. Firstly, in recent days because I kept wondering whether I might loose my salvation because in my life I kept sinning repeatedly and I felt that I failed God miserably. However, this powerful statement reaffirms my faith and what Christianity stands for, which is that Jesus gave His life for us at the cross and died to grant us salvation and. Only His grace will save us and not by our own works. The moment Jesus died on the cross, it was done. We do not have to do anything more to secure or receive our salvation. If we believe and and accept Christ as our Lord and Saviour and receive Him into our lives, we will not loose our salvation because Jesus already died on the cross and this settles everything.

Secondly, on an individual level, I felt that God was also speaking to my life circumstances directly. I felt that God was telling me directly that He holds my future in His hand. Before I was even born, He wrote my future. When God said it is done, it is really done and I should stop worrying about my future.

As I reflected on this incident, I really felt touch and awed that God use two simple ways to speak to me, a christian song and a christian book. I did not expect this to happen, God indeed moves in mysterious but powerful ways. I am still unsure if the dream I had that night might be from God since that morning I had a divine encounter with Him also. Still, I do not want to think so much about this now and I leave everything to God because He is my Lord and my Master and He writing my future is done already.

Jeremiah 29 11-13. "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." As I called on God that morning and seek Him about my future, I indeed found Him, that is why I had this divine encounter with God.

God died on the cross 2000 years ago. All you have to do is to believe and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and saviour and you will immediately receive salvation. If you are worrying about anything in your life right now, seek God with all your heart and pray to Him with a sincere heart and you shall find Him and as He hears your prayers.

📱 Miraculous Return Of My Lost Phone

12.06.2018.

From 11.06.2018 to 14.06.2018, I had a glimpse of what campus life would be like, I went for NUS Engin Camp18. On the second day, we had an amazing race around the campus. That day, I wore SAF (Singapore Armed Forces) admin pants, in which my pockets were small and loose. After finishing the games at the station at the science faculty, we took the NUS Campus Bus A1 from the science faculty to the computing faculty. At the games station at the computing faculty, I realised my phone was not in my pocket which I last placed my phone inside. I got scared and decided to check my entire bag for my phone. Realising my phone was not with me, my mind started to spiral away, thinking of the dreadful outcomes if I cant find my phone back. I mentally braced myself of the worst thing that might hit me, which is not finding my phone back.

If that really happened, my remaining two to three days in the Engin Camp would suck damn bad and I would regret signing up for this camp, never ever willing to go for any other camps again. My parents would be so mad at me, of how careless I was. Cancelling my phone number  and getting a new phone would be very troublesome. All my precious photos and important friend contacts would also just be gone like that down the drain. It would be hard to start over again socially. I would be depressed for like about a month, no mood to go out with friends or continue working. At that moment, I knew that there no one which I could look up to except God. I started to pray in God and spoke in tongues softly. As I prayed in the spirit, I heard God is telling me in my heart that everything would be fine. I was unsure if I left my phone at science faculty, on the A1 bus or around computing faculty. Just then, I felt from the Holy Spirit that I just left my phone on the A1 bus.

Putting my trust in God, I told my OGL that I probably left my phone on the bus A1. It was also probably the easiest and nearest location to search first. We then took another bus A1 all the way to the terminal, hopeful that the bus stopped at the terminal and not in the midst in its second or third trip. Throughout the journey, I remained calm all the way. From my past experiences, God always delivered me through and out of the storm, I believed and have faith that this time round He will still deliver me. I just keep remembering of how in the past I been through worse things in my life, yet His grace always extend to me and He never fail me. Somehow, God's miracle would always manifest in my life through His grace and power even though I had failed Him countless time. When I reached the terminal, there was no one at the main office to help us. I just had this idea instantaneously to tiptoe and look at the back seat (where I previously sat) of every A1 bus to see if my phone was on it. However, I was not tall enough. My OGL decided to help me out with it and thank God, we found my phone at the back seat.

In conclusion, God was very faithful. I thank God for giving me peace in that situation and also delivering me miraculously out of that situation.

🙌🏻 God in my Workplace - IRAS

2 years ago, after A Levels, almost everyone got their PES status and enlistment date except for me. I was still on PES D (pending status) because I have several medical conditions. I decided to work part time with two of my JC classmates who were enlisting in April 2016.

My initial plan was to work until I receive my enlistment letter then I quit. What happened was me and my other colleagues were split into two different teams. Me and this guy called Ogawa were sent to the back-end team while the rest were sent to the front-end team. I was very unlucky to get an eccentric and unreasonable superior. She favoured Ogawa more. Also, she didn't like me because I was very close with the front-end people and I kept taking frequent breaks to the pantry and the toilet.

This worsened when one day, after getting my A Levels results, I wanted to take a day off since I was also sick so I texted Ogawa for her number. I messaged her and another one of my superiors. In the end, Ogawa gave me the wrong number and she was very angry at me taking leave even though I already texted the other superior and Ogawa was the one who gave me the wrong number. My two JC friends were planning to quit 1 month before April because they wanted to relax and enjoy before their enlistment. If I were to enlist in April I will also choose to cut work one month before I enlist.

When Ogawa submitted his resignation letter, she also asked me to resign. At that point of time, I was very upset because it was unfair to me as I only took one day leave when I was really sick and it was after my A Levels results. Also, it was obvious that she was biased towards Ogawa and she also disliked me from mixing with the front-end people and getting very close with them.

As I asked God why did I got 'sacked' even though I didn't deserve it because I originally wanted to work till I get my enlistment letter which I expected it to be around June, God had a better plan for me.

Few weeks later, I received a call from MINDEF asking if I want to enlist in April or Octocber. I obviously replied April because I already 'quit' my job and I wanted to enter University at the right year. Throughout this whole experience, I was wondering where God was after I got 'sacked'.

However, after a few weeks later, I could see God's hand in my life. God actually had a better plan than me and He broke me so that His glory could be manifested when I feel broken and at my lowest.

Sometimes, when we feel that God is not there or we can't hear or see God or we can't figure out why some 'bad' things happen in our lives, God is actually working behind the scenes with a better plan crafted out for us. Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future'.

JDOP 2015

During JC, I met a guy called Hong Kai during my JC orientation and he also went into the same JC class with me. We became close friends and he was also a devout Christian like me.

During Jubilee Day Of Prayer (JDOP) 2015, my cell group had extra tickets for the event. I suddenly felt the Holy Spirit asking me to ask Hong Kai out to JDOP on that day itself even though he had church that day and might busy. I don't know why but but something just made me suddenly ask him out of the blue to come for the JDOP 2015.

I don't know what suddenly came over my actions, it might be the Holy Spirit. At JDOP 2015, we sat down. During one of the intercessions, a strange lady from another church who was not suppose to sit amongst us due to the seat allocation started praying in tongues for me and my friend Hong Kai.

She started to prophesy for my friend and asked me to release the prophetic gifts unto him. After that day, Hong Kai's faith increased and I felt that it was a divine encounter from God that day. It was a supernatural encounter even though I expected it to be just a normal event that day.

God can bring the supernatural into the natural in any circumstances.

😊 Grace Retreat 2015

I had attended a few church retreats in my life but the church retreat during 2015 was the most happening and impactful in my life. 

In this retreat, as I was still in the youth service, we were split into different game groups for the whole retreat. Before attending this retreat, I sprained my ankle and it was still sprained when the first day of the retreat came. 

During one of the service, my friend Daniel Ching prayed for my leg to heal. The next day, my leg was completely healed. Even during the R&R (Rest & Relax) I was still limping on one foot around the shopping centres but after that service, my feet was miraculously healed and popped back into position. 

Also, during one of the few services, I decided to step up and use my gifts to pray for others. For one guy in my group, I felt that he was indulged in a specific sin. I went over to pray from him.

For the second guy, I felt that he back-slided so I prayed for him. He told me after that that what I sensed for him was also correct. In this retreat, God's grace is plentiful, His display of His phsyical supernatural healing and His supernatural prophetic voice is real in this retreat.

📱 Testimony of a Prayer for a Phone - August 2012

Back in mid 2012, I still did not have a smartphone or a phone service with Internet data. I had been using a non-smartphone all along with a SIM card and I was unable to store lots of songs and other data like photos and videos. 

Most of my friends already had a smartphone, some even with data plans. I decided to pray to God to grant me a Samsung phone that can store a lot of data; I won't mind if i didn't have 3G. I told God that if I had a Samsung phone, I would download more Christian songs and worship God with it in my free time. 

After a few weeks, my father got an extra Samsung Note 1 with his company's corporate plan, equipped with a 3G data plan. In the end, my father didn't really like his extra phone so he gave it to me. It was suppose to be his spare phone but somehow it became mine.

I was shocked during that moment that a prayer like that about material wealth was just answered. To be honest, I would be completely okay with God did not answered this prayer. Our God has and will not fail to surprise to us. Sometimes, if we have pure motives, if it is within God's plan, I believe that God would answer that prayer. 

Matthew 7:7 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." As this verse goes, as you seek God with a sincere heart and pure motives, as long as it is within His plans for you, He will answer your request in one way or another.

🔍 My Origin Story

My name is Christopher and I have decided to upload my testimonies online because I feel that people might want to hear about what I have to say. Since all the events in my life that took place are true, why not share them online and encourage others? 

I was brought up in a Christian home where my father is a Christian and my mother is a Buddhist. My mother doesn't follow the teachings of Buddhism strictly and comes to church once in a blue moon. My father started bringing me to a Presbyterian church near my house when I was Primary 2 and I went for Sunday school lessons every week. At that point in time, I read the Bible occasionally and believed that there is a God out there, but I didn't understand fully what it means to have a relationship with God. 

During my primary school days, I was a very sinful person and did a lot of 'bad' stuffs. I would always tell myself to stop doing all these 'bad' stuffs and aimed to be holy in secondary school. As expected, that never came true. Towards the end of Secondary 1, I broke my arm. It was extremely painful at that precise moment but I suddenly remember that I still have God. I started praying and then my arm stopped feeling painful magically. 

From that point in life, ironically, I stopped going to church and I started to question the authenticity of Christianity. I started to research all religions and see which makes the most sense to me. In the end, I realised that the Christian God is actually a God who loves me deeply and will do anything to try to reach me. Usually, in other religions, I might have to offer sacrifices and perform specific tasks to gain the recognition and attention from the gods, in exchange for a bountiful and smooth life. But for Christianity, I don't have to do anything at all, and no matter what I do, I am already loved by God way before I was ever born. And this is a God that wants to have a personal relationship with me more than I will ever understand.

Also, Christians are constantly trying to share their faith to others but in other religions, there's not much work done to share their respective faith. For me, if something is very real and if that something is a very joyful thing, I will try my very best to share it with my good friends. This goes the same for Christianity. Also, it is amazing that even now, in the world, there are still a lot of miracles and healing that are taking place, right in front of my very own eyes. These miracles that are happening daily are supernatural and still unexplainable, according to science. These are several reasons why I got inclined towards being a Christian.

However, after all the thought processes, I still prayed to all the gods out there, that whichever is real would answer my prayer and get back to me. I wasn't going to church at that point in time. Roughly about one year later, this fateful guy invited me to his church, Grace Assembly of God. I decided to go since I was very free and was open to anything. After going for a few services, I decided to stay on because it was my first time experiencing God's tangible touch. I had never felt a presence so real and alive before in my whole life. Well, I am a very scientific person and I only believe in what I see. After seeing and experiencing miracles and healing that cannot be explained by scientific means, it is very clear to me that this God is real. 

From then on, God often answer my prayers and have helped me through tough times. That is why I chose to believe in Jesus. Even when I didn't know God, God already first loved me.