By Benjamin Chia

After Bible Study one day, my right eye suddenly became really red and swollen.  It was extremely uncomfortable and I didn’t feel good about it.  Before we headed for CG dinner, my care group mate Bryan

Foo prayed for me. He declared my eye to be white and completely healed in Jesus’ name.  Amazingly, just a

short half hour later, my eye was completely white and normal.  It usually takes much longer for my eyes to return to a normal state.  But by God’s supernatural healing my eye was healed faster than I could ever imagine! Thank you Lord! And thank you for praying for me, Bryan!

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By Alena Low

I was an average student in the Singapore Management University (SMU) and my Grade Point Average was 3.08 upon 4 in my first year.

In August 2010, I became a care group leader. The school term for my second year had just started. I saw an opening for a part-time job that commenced during my school term. I decided to take it up because I wanted to save money to go to Israel and also to go for an overseas exchange programme in 2012. The job had very flexible working hours and it pays well. The company only required me to be in the office on an ad-hoc basis. On top of that, my company understands my priorities as a student so I am not obliged to work when I am unable to. Praise Jesus for that!

Although I had many commitments, I was at rest. The devotional sessions that were held in school always reminded me that my Daddy God is a big God and His supply is greater than my needs. Being a care group leader also made me depend on His grace even more. I know that Jesus is the good Shepherd and He will take care of things that are close to my heart. When I faced challenges, I would SMS my care group members to stand in faith with me that the Lord would bless me with wisdom and a fruitful time of studying. It was so encouraging to see their replies that were full of “Amen”!

When the semester’s results were out, I scored an A-, four B+ and a B for the modules I took.  My GPA for the semester was 3.30, pulling up my overall GPA to a total of 3.16!  These are the best results I have ever seen in my one and a half years in SMU. I believe that the best is yet to come! All glory to Jesus because these improvements could only have been by His grace. He is indeed a God who gives unmerited, undeserved grace and favour to His children!

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A big CONGRATULATIONS to our students who just took their A-level examinations!  We are proud of you and we know that your year will continue to be crowned with His goodness, and His paths for you will drip with abundance.

Here are some statistics of how our youths did compared to the national average:

Below is also a testimony of someone who put her trust in the Lord to help her succeed. Be blessed reading it!

By Choo Yin Lin (Innova Junior College)
Testimony: A-Level Results – I Cannot Do It But Jesus Can

My grades for Mathematics were always disappointing. I always obtained a borderline pass. For my first preliminary examination, I scored an E. So, I worked harder. However, no matter how hard I worked, I still got an E for my second preliminary examination. I was depressed and scared because my friends did well, which meant my grade had nothing to do with the difficulty of the Mathematics paper but my own inadequacy to grasp the concepts. I asked my Mathematics teacher if I still stood a chance to get an A for my A-level examinations and she said yes. Even though she told me that it was rare for students to improve so drastically, she said it was possible. Thank God for encouraging teachers!

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Anonymous

Last year in 2010, Pastor Prince spoke about “Walk As If”. I wasn’t there for the service, but I was blessed all the same as The Zone did a follow-up on it. We were encouraged to write our wishes on the “Walk As If” cards given to us at service as a declaration of faith. I took that leap of faith and I wrote that I would walk as if I got 8 As for my A-levels, as if I got into a prestigious double-degree program at the world’s top business school in the States for my undergraduate studies and as if God gave me a testimony to write about Him.

I then pasted the card on my wall in my room, and kept looking at it every day.  When waiting for my results got tough, I especially did this and it was a strong reminder of God’s promises. I was worried about my A-levels because I had always been a very good student and had high expectations to live up to; both my own and everyone else’s.   I did not study as hard for A-levels as I did for my prelims as I was busy doing my university applications. I also made some careless mistakes in my papers.  However, I believed that God is good, and that no mistake is too big for Him to correct. In the 3 months that led up to the A-level results, I was anxious especially in January.

I was fearful and was constantly unhappy because of that. I was reminded of Pastor Prince’s sermons where he mentioned the importance of constantly hearing God’s word, so I did.  It wasn’t an easy time, but as I listened more and more, I felt Jesus’ presence and a sense of peace.

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Text by Brandon Muk

During the first Zone service of the year, Pastor Benjamin did a detailed look at the message for the year by Pastor Prince—a year of His crowned goodness, taken from Psalm 65:11 which says that, “You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drip with abundance.”

“Goodness” in Hebrew means “good in the widest sense”, while “abundance” means “to anoint”. Pastor Benjamin proclaimed that God was going to stretch our year to the widest sense, filling it with His goodness! Also, God was going to anoint our path and anoint us in special ways, such as new anointings and giftings, like we’ve never imagined before, all for His glory!

I began seeing how God’s prophetic word for the year is so encouraging and exciting. As the verse says “Your paths drip with abundance”, the reference to God’s paths shows how they are paths He has walked on before. This means that He has gone before us in 2011 and assures us that our year is crowned and surrounded with His goodness and abundance!

Praise God that this promise is neither conditional nor requires our self-effort. No, God’s work is complete and finished for the year. We do not have to earn or work for our good year ahead. All God is telling us is to hop onto His path and follow Him, for He has gone before us and said it is good!

John 19:1–3 tell us how Jesus had a crown of thorns, put on His head by the Roman soldiers, which He bore at Calvary. This means that today, we don’t have a crown of thorns, but a crown of God’s goodness surrounding us! Jesus bore humiliation and shame on the cross, redeeming us completely from it, so that we can fully receive the royalty and priesthood God has crowned us to enjoy the goodness and abundance of 2011!

Today, let us boldly claim all that God has in store for us this year. Let us stay close to our Daddy and follow Him on His paths, walking the road dripping with abundance and crowned with goodness!

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