New Creation Church

In the beginning of 2011, Pastor Prince shared that 2011 would be our best year ever. He even quoted God’s Word in Psalm 65:11, “You crown the year with goodness and Your paths drip with abundance”. Indeed, my year was crowned with His goodness and my paths drip with abundance!

In 2010, the company I was working with faced financial difficulties and there was a possibility that it will close down. Due to downsizing, my workload increased and I was very depressed. Everyone around me had also left with a job while I couldn’t find one!

Whenever I was down, I would listen to sermons and sing Christian songs. God kept reminding me to be joyful, to trust in Him, and to let go and let Him take care of my situation. In February 2011, God gave me a new position. Although I asked for a 10 per cent increase, my boss gave me a 20 per cent increase! Within a year, my salary increased over 36 per cent and I have shorter working hours too!

By the grace of God, He also gave me favour with people in my new job. Within my first two months, I sprained my ankle and had to be absent for a week. When I returned to work, my boss insisted that I take a taxi (on the company’s account) to and from work until I fully recovered.

What’s more, I was still on probation and medical leave should have been unpaid leave. However, my boss asked the Human Resource department not to deduct my salary for my absence but to increase my annual leave from 14 to 20 days instead! Not only that, I was “upgraded” to a higher insurance plan that covers my child as well!

Truly, it is God who gave me wisdom and blessed everything I laid my hands on! I just can’t wait to go back to church every Sunday to learn more about Jesus. Thank you Pastor Prince! The Holy Spirit transforms me from glory to glory and it’s all because of God’s grace! All glory and honour to our Lord Jesus Christ!

The writer has requested to remain anonymous.

I was asked to resign immediately from my job after committing a horrible mistake. I felt lost and was very upset. I felt really lousy that I had allowed myself to commit such a mistake.

Then, I remembered Pastor Lian’s sermon about how God wants to bless us so that we can be a blessing to others. I began to proclaim this truth over my life and believed that God will surely give me another awesome job where He can bless me to be a blessing to my colleagues and employer.

Shortly after, I was called up for an interview for a managerial position, which required eight years of relevant working experience. I only had one. Nevertheless, I prayed and believed that God’s favour was on me. I went through three rounds of interviews and at the last round, I had to give a presentation to the boss of the company. I told God that I will do my best to prepare for the presentation but I will just be restful and let Him take charge of the interview.

Despite the lack of working experience, I was offered the job. Praise Jesus! I thank God for His favour and for putting me at the right place, at the right time.

The writer has requested to be known as H Christian.

I stopped working to further my education and I am currently a first-year student at the Singapore Management University. Two weeks before Pastor Prince announced the date for Miracle Seed Sunday in 2010, God had already laid in my heart to prepare a seed to sow. When the announcement was made, it was a confirmation from God to sow. As a Rock Kidz teacher, I would share with my Rock Kidz children that the seeds we sow will grow into trees and bring forth many fruits, and those fruits will have many more seeds. In that same way, I believed that a plentiful harvest was coming my way when I sowed my seed.

In November 2010, I received a letter from my ex-employer that due to the economy’s strong rebound, they had decided to give a monetary reward to every employee. At that time, I was not receiving any salary as I had already stopped work. Yet, I was still eligible to receive a lump sum, which was four times more than what I had sown during Miracle Seed Sunday. It was so supernaturally natural!

If that was not enough, in December 2010, I received a letter for the year-end bonus which I thought I was not going to get. The bonus was close to 12 times more than what had I sowed, praise the Lord! Our God is a faithful God! I would like to thank Pastor Prince for preaching such an awesome gospel, the gospel of grace!

Jedidiah Alex Koh Wei Long

I had my baby in September 2008 and made the decision to take care of him at home. I have always enjoyed writing so I decided to freelance from home.

Some time ago, I was given the opportunity to do a writing job. It was a pretty large order with a one-month time frame. A few of my friends who knew about this advised me to take it up because the pay was a good four-figure sum. However, I felt that it was not right for me so I turned it down.

Soon after, I was given the opportunity to meet some clients who asked me if I would be available to take up another assignment. The pay they offered me was more than double of the job that I had turned down previously. It was a five-figure sum! Moreover, the deadline was comfortable and I could spend more time with my son in the day and work on the assignment while he is sleeping. God is so good! All glory to Him!

Ruth Loh Xiu

Six months ago, I attended New Creation Church for the first time. Back then, I was tired and weary from life’s struggles. My boyfriend of five years had left me for another girl. After graduation, I had been in and out of two jobs. While I would start each job with much enthusiasm, I always ended up disappointed and disillusioned. I stopped turning to God because I felt like I had failed Him as a youth leader and a Christian whose life is not glorious.

But the moment I stepped into the Rock Auditorium, I felt a warm and uplifting sensation inside me. At that service, Pastor Prince shared about the unconditional love of Jesus despite our failures and imperfections. When I heard that, I started crying and could not stop. As Pastor Prince led the congregation in a prayer, I whispered in my heart, asking God to help me believe that His love for me is truly unconditional. As I stepped out of the service that day, I felt an unexplainable peace in my heart.

After that, I took a one-week trip to Perth, bringing along Pastor Prince’s Unmerited Favor book. I read the book every day and my emotional pain was replaced by love, peace and joy. By the time I returned to Singapore, I was excited to discover what God had in store for me.

On my day of return, I received a job offer from a global company. What was even more amazing was that four other global companies were also calling me up for interviews!

I accepted the first offer I received. When I started on my new job, there was an adjustment period. But this time round, enlightened by Pastor Prince's Unmerited Favor book, I would make it a point to spend time with God and declare good things before I step into the office. Even if I had made mistakes at work or worked till very late the night before, I would still go to work every morning with a confident expectation of good.

Soon, I was confirmed as a permanent staff with a pay higher than my previous jobs. At the age of 26, I was also featured in a local newspaper article spotlighting on new developments in my industry. I know this could only happen because of God’s unmerited favour on me.

Thank you, Pastor Prince, for writing the book Unmerited Favor which changed my life. Praise the Lord that He led me to New Creation Church!

The writer has requested to be known as M K.

In the past, I always felt that my company was short-changing me in terms of my remuneration. I was the lowest paid in my circle of friends in spite of my experience, technical knowledge and effort I had put in my work. I was despondent, angry and envious of my friends.

Since I joined New Creation Church at the beginning of 2010, I have been blessed tremendously by Pastor Prince’s messages on the gospel of grace. Here, I got to know Jesus and the grace of God more abundantly. I decided to keep looking to God and not men, trusting that He will provide and bless me in abundance.

Then during the next salary revision, I was shocked to find out that I was not only promoted, but I was also given a pay raise of 40 per cent! That is a four-figure jump in my salary! Praise the Lord for His love and grace! I know that I have not done anything to deserve such a pay increment so this was only possible by His grace and unmerited favour on me!

I wish to thank all the pastors at New Creation Church and my friend for bringing me to this church. Praise God for His goodness endures forever!

The writer has requested to be known as C H.

I lost my job as a general manager cum director of 15 years a few years ago. I tried looking for a job but I could not find a suitable one. At that time, my daughter was studying in Australia and my son was starting his first year of education in NUS. My wife’s income alone was not enough to support our family. So we sold most of my assets and downgraded our home.

My daughter, who is serving at the Hillsong Church in Sydney, and my son who is from New Creation Church, always asked me to attend church. But I refused. I struggled to get back on my feet by my own efforts but failed each time. I ended up working as a delivery driver and was too ashamed to even meet my friends. Frustrated with what was happening, I decided to listen to my children and attended New Creation for the first time in July 2009.

As I attended the services, I began to learn many things about our Lord from Pastor Prince. I learnt to not trust my own self-effort, but to trust in the Lord and to rest in the finished work of Christ. I know that I am not in a religion but I am in a personal relationship with Jesus. I know that Jesus’ sacrifice, which has crowned me with glory and honour, meant that I did not have to be ashamed of my job as a delivery driver.

I asked God for wisdom and prayed for qarah every day. I knew deep down that God has heard my prayers. Then in June 2010, I met a friend and he informed me of an opening in a large public listed organisation. I asked God if it was a divine arrangement and I felt prompted by the Holy Spirit to send in my résumé. Even though I am almost 60 years old, I believed that it did not matter. God will provide for me.

I was then called for an interview and was subsequently offered the job. I have been given a big room and the management is very pleased with my work. Praise God! Thank you, Pastor Prince, for revealing to me how great my God is and for preaching the gospel of grace so radically!

The writer has requested to remain anonymous.

I was working for an American family for over a year until they relocated to Prague in 2010. They wanted to bring me along but I chose not to follow because my family is in Singapore and I wanted to continue attending New Creation Church.

So, I started praying for a new employer. I prayed for God’s favour and divine set-up. I was also specific in my prayers, that I wanted a nice room and the freedom to attend church and care group.

My former employer and I shifted to a service apartment as a temporary location before their departure in mid-June 2010. The Lord really placed me at the right place, at the right time. I received a call from a potential employer one day, and she was staying one floor above our service apartment! That made meeting her for the interview a lot easier.

Shortly after that, I went for an operation to remove an ovarian cyst. That day, my potential employer called my former employer, indicating her interest in hiring me. Despite learning about my operation, she was still keen! Due to some regulations, I stayed at her new place in Woodlands after I was discharged from the hospital although she was still living in her service apartment. That meant I got to rest and recover in her Woodlands apartment by myself for a week! Every day, my new employer would visit me with food and made sure that I was all right. Praise the Lord!

When my new employer and her family shifted to Woodlands, they continued to let me rest for another week. My new employer gave me an air-conditioned room that is fully equipped with a TV and a DVD player. On top of that, I joined my new employer on 21 June 2010 but only officially started my duty on 5 July 2010 because of my operation. However, my new employer paid me my full salary for the month of June! Plus, my former employer also gave me my salary for the entire month of June although I was only working for them until mid-June. I received double pay during this time when I was resting! This is truly restful increase!

When my former employer saw how everything worked out for me, she was amazed at my faith and she saw the glory of the Lord on me. It is not even my faith in Jesus. When I keep looking at His grace, He turns around and sees my faith. Jesus not only answered all my prayers, He over answered them! Truly, He is a good God! Thank you, Pastor Prince, for your labour of love in preaching the gospel of grace that liberates, and let us know who we are in Christ.

Layda Melendrez

I was actively looking for another job as the bank I was working in was badly hit by the subprime crisis in 2008. In August 2009, due to work disagreements, my boss suggested that I move on and told me that he would give me three months to look for another job.

When I heard that, I was initially worried as I had just entered a long term financial commitment. However, when the dust settled, instead of panicking, I chose to listen to God’s Word as my next step. I listened to Pastor Prince’s sermons daily as I wanted to continuously remind myself that even with the economic downturn at that time, my peace and solution were found in Jesus.

I decided to submit my resignation a month later without a job offer. Although it appeared to be illogical, I felt a great sense of peace to do that after praying about it. Truth be told, I had never felt such joy for a long time.

Three weeks after I left my company, I received offers from three reputable banks in Singapore, of which two offered a salary with a 22 per cent to 25 per cent increment from my last drawn salary.

In the end, I accepted one of the offers and I am thankful that the new position was a positional and monetary promotion, with better hours. The work environment was less stressful and my health improved. Thank you Jesus!

I am also thankful for Pastor Prince’s messages. They are practical because our God is a practical God who is always our present source of encouragement, wisdom and solace.

The writer has requested to remain anonymous.

I am from Indonesia but I have stayed in Singapore for about six years. I first worked as a factory worker and moved on to being a receptionist.

In January 2009, my company had a change of owners. My company then wanted to remove the role of a receptionist as they thought it was not necessary. There were two possibilities for me — to be fired or to move to another department.

Finally, the company placed me in another department for three months but told me that I would have to find another job after that. I was pregnant at that time and I felt very miserable and was worried.

After my maternity leave, I went back to work without a proper position. I just helped around. I thought I was going to be dismissed or asked to leave the company. Two months later, to my surprise, the company promoted me to be a supervisor in one of the divisions and to be in charge of 11 people. I never thought such a blessing could ever happen to me! When Pastor Prince said to ask for big things, in my heart, I believed God is my qualification. I had no experience or qualification, yet I got promoted to be a supervisor! Thank you, Pastor Prince, for preaching the gospel of grace that has amazingly transformed my life!

Susanti Djong

Although I am an Australian resident, I have been attending New Creation Church during my frequent trips to Singapore in the last 15 months. Pastor Prince’s inspiring and anointed preaching has greatly encouraged, sustained and impacted me during my difficult period of job-hunting.

I had accepted a job offer in Bangkok, which was subsequently withdrawn. This left me shocked and devastated as I truly believed that it was the answer to my prayers for an overseas posting. However, recent events have demonstrated our Abba Father's love and protection for me, as that company has since shut down because of the political upheavals in Bangkok.

In the meantime, I have started work with another international hotel group with no reduction in pay. In fact, I have also been compensated by the other Bangkok company for a breach of contract. All praise, thanks, honour and glory to Jesus!

Bryan Loh

After working in a company for five and a half years, I was enjoying a good pay with a high position. However, I started to resent the way my colleagues were treated. I felt that although they were incompetent, they were given preferential treatment and had undeserved favour in the company. I also compared my pay with others. I became so dissatisfied, frustrated and cynical that I left the company.

In July 2009, I sent out my resumes and received quite a few job interviews for high level positions. Although things always looked positive, none of these opportunities materialised. I was frustrated, disappointed, angry and puzzled. By that time, I had been out of job for almost six months, much longer than I had expected.

Then, I heard Pastor Prince’s messages on restful increase and meditating on God’s Word and something changed in me. What blessed, wonderful, powerful messages! I started to feel less resentful and angry, and started to really meditate on resting in Jesus’ finished work. I believed even more deeply that I am loved by Jesus and entered into His rest. I remembered what Pastor Prince taught us and refused to allow my heart to be troubled or afraid. I meditated on the Word, confessed God’s promises and truths many times a day, anointed myself with oil daily and continued to tithe and make offerings to honour our heavenly Father.

Then, miracles began to happen. Within the span of a few days, I received five calls for job interviews, after a dry spell for about three months. For one of the jobs, the company expanded what was initially a junior position, with a 40 per cent pay cut from my previous job, to a senior position! The company was keen to interview me so I met up with the HR director and later, the CEO. I asked our Father for His wisdom, favour and good success. When I finished my interview with the CEO, the HR director made me a job offer on the spot with a prepared letter of employment! Praise Jesus! From a role which was prepared to pay me a 40 per cent pay cut, God turned it around to a 20 per cent pay raise!

What’s more, I found out that the company pays for my parking. And above all, my soul has prospered so much and I have true peace and joy which can only come by resting in Jesus. Restful increase is indeed the way to go, hallelujah!

The writer has requested to remain anonymous.

At the beginning of 2009, Pastor Prince shared that it was the dektos year. With that in mind, I started to believe that God would provide the finances and give me time away from work to be able to visit Israel (the holy land that I had a deep desire to visit) at the end of the year. Praise God! Abba provided, and my family and I went to Israel in December 2009! Towards the end of that trip, our tour leader asked if anyone wanted to visit Israel again next year. We proclaimed, “We’ll be back by God’s provision! Amen.”

I used to think that I have to meet a certain performance level to deserve all the good things from God. But now I know that God is eager to give and He does not withhold any of His blessings from His children. God’s blessings continued to pour on me and 2010 is indeed a year of restful increase. God gave me unmerited favour at my workplace with my colleagues and continues to do so. Despite what others of the world are facing like stress, severance etc., I am experiencing the opposite. I received a promotion with pay increment! All praise to my Abba! With the additional finances from God, we can now go to Israel again with more family members this year! Abba truly provides exceedingly above all that we ask!

That is not all. I used to agree with the world that childhood myopia will worsen each year. But once I knew that we are already complete in Christ, I refused to stand in agreement with the world’s opinion on my child’s eyesight. I believed that by His stripes, my child is already healed. So my child and I confessed daily that as Christ is, so are we in this world. At an eye check-up this year, not only did my child have no increase in myopia, but he also had a slight improvement in the left eye! We believe that restoration has started and will continue simply because we are healed by His stripes!

The writer has requested to be known as CST.

I’m a second-year law graduate student. My first degree is in Accountancy and I am reading Law as a second discipline. I started thinking about my job prospects recently as I’d be joining the workforce in 2012. Since I’m trained in both Accountancy and Law, I thought that Corporate Law would be a good area to practise.

Although the economy is still not looking good for corporate lawyers, I’ve had three job offers without having to send out a single application! All these came about during my internship and through casual conversations with the partners of a few law firms.

I remember being skeptical as I listened to all the testimonies read out by Pastor Gabriel and Pastor Lian about people being blessed in their jobs. Somehow I didn’t think that God would bless me. I “tested” Him by sending out an application to a prestigious law firm. Within two days of sending it out, I received a phone call asking me to go down for an interview. When they heard that I was going on holiday the next day, they said that they would accommodate my schedule! Less than a day after my rescheduled interview, they offered me a job! I accepted it and decided to turn down the other job offers. This offer was made to me even before the firm interviewed the rest of the candidates! And most certainly, a job offer two years before I join the workforce is totally unheard of! Praise God!

I’d like to encourage everyone that the same God who has blessed me in my career will bless you the same and even more!

Genie Gan

I’m working in an advertising agency. In August last year, I had to make a business pitch to a conglomerate. Though we were scheduled to present our advertising campaign pitch to the client at 10.30am, we were still working on it that morning.

In the advertising industry, once you’ve missed a pitch presentation, you’re disqualified from pitching for the project. This is to be fair to all the advertising agencies that have struggled to meet the deadline. I was so frustrated because after all those late nights of working on the presentation, it amounted to nothing. Though I did not lose my temper, I believe my staff felt my “silent treatment”.

I told my partner to call the client to inform them that we were going to be late, and that if they could wait for us, we’d greatly appreciate it. I highlighted to my partner to be honest about the reason for our tardiness. I remembered Pastor Prince always said that as long as we honour God in our actions, God will honour our faith in Him and handle the rest.

The client told us that they could only give us a 30-minute grace period. However, we only managed to complete our work at 2.30pm! Although my team and I had worked through sleepless nights, we still missed the presentation deadline! Nonetheless, I told my partner to pack up all the work that we’d completed for the presentation and deliver them to the client. I thought that since we did endeavour to complete it, we might as well let the client have our work — regardless of whether they were going to review it.

This is the first time I’d missed a pitch presentation in my advertising career. A typical pitch expense for advertising agencies would easily have cost up to a five-figure sum. I thank God that this is my own company, and that we can still manage consequences of this magnitude. If I were still working at my previous advertising agencies, I’d be fired on the spot. That night, I didn’t sleep well. I felt extremely condemned for failing.

Three weeks later, I received a call from the client telling us that my company had been shortlisted for the project! It was unbelievable and it has to be God’s awesome grace! Soon after, we were given an opportunity to present our project within a 30-minute timeframe. However, I exceeded my presentation timing by 15 minutes and was told to quickly wrap it up.

After the presentation, I felt condemned. The next morning, I declared that God’s favour is upon me and I am not condemned by Him in any way. All of a sudden, I felt the heaviness inside me being lifted! I anointed myself with the anointing oil before I left for work, and reminded myself that God is a giver, and not a teaser. God will not allow us to be shortlisted, only to withhold this project from us.

The next day, I received news that the project was awarded to us! The client told me that I was very lucky despite being disqualified in the first round and exceeding my presentation time. He also remarked that I must have prayed very hard to my god. If only he knew that I don’t have to pray hard but simply trust in God’s grace and favour. I believe God will create an opportunity for him to know Him through our business partnership.

Pastor Prince, thank you for showing me that God’s grace and favour is applicable to everyday living — even in the business world.

Daniel Wan

Having graduated in 2009, I had to find a job amid the global economic meltdown. Almost everyone I spoke to advised me to lower my expectations and accept any reasonable job that came my way. But I kept encouraging myself with one sermon where Pastor Prince mentioned that God does not want to just bless us with a job, but a position in a company that we desire. Hence, I only applied for positions that I was interested in. To cut the story short, I was offered a position with a pay that was above my expectations. And I got the confirmation just in time for graduation!

In my new job, I was placed in a management trainee programme (MTP) with two rounds of postings to different departments. I submitted a list of preferred departments for my first department posting, and got none of my choices. I was a tad disappointed and concerned about being in a department that was not my area of expertise. However, I remembered proclaiming aloud, “Lord, I have no idea why I got into this department, but I know that it’s all in Your perfect plan, and something good is going to come out of this. As for my inexperience in this area of work, Jesus, if You’ve placed me here, I know Your wisdom will cause me to excel in every task that comes my way.” As it turned out, this posting was a blessing in disguise! My colleagues and bosses have been extremely willing and patient enough to show me the ropes, and I also found amazing favour with my superiors.

Barely two months after I started my MTP, my boss told me that he was sending me to the regional office in Kuala Lumpur (KL) for a week as they were shorthanded. I was extremely excited because management trainees don’t usually get to go on overseas business trips. But the Lord had prepared something even better. During a meeting the following week, my boss suddenly announced that he was going to extend my stay in KL to two months instead! I almost fell off my seat. A two-month business trip for a management trainee was an unprecedented arrangement in the company. There’s honestly no way my own efforts could have achieved something like this in a short span of two months.

Jesus really has a way of leaving me speechless when I see His love for me and rest in His peace.

The writer has requested to be known as CL Chew.

God is good, and with the benefit of hindsight, I have realised how my life has indeed been guided by God, and how everything does work out for the good of those who trust in Him.

I graduated with a law degree from the National University of Singapore in 2008. Before becoming full-fledged lawyers, law graduates have to undergo six months of pupillage in a law firm. The norm is to apply for placement while still in the third year of our studies.

When my friends and I applied for pupillage in 2007, the economy was doing well and most of us were keen to do our pupillage in one of the top four law firms here. I had received offers from one of the top four, as well as a smaller but well-established local law firm. Many students would, without much thought, accept the offer from the top firm because of its prestige and higher pay. However, I was hesitant. My father also encouraged me to pick the firm that I felt most comfortable working in.

Though I did not know it then, God’s hand was already guiding me and I chose to do my pupillage in the corporate department of the smaller firm. When the financial crisis hit, the corporate sector was badly affected, and many of my friends who did their pupillage in the corporate departments of the top firms were not given the opportunity to stay on after their pupillage had ended.

Nevertheless, God’s favour was on me in so many ways. Not only was I offered a permanent position in the smaller firm, but my boss also made me the offer several weeks before my pupillage ended, thus saving me from all that anxiety about my future.

I am very happy where I am, with superiors and colleagues who are kind, friendly and willing to teach. I cannot fully express my amazement that, despite all my unbelief and failings, the Lord still sticks around and continues to plan my future down to a T. I am so grateful to Him!

The writer has requested to be known as KM Tan.