God’s Protection from Two Disasters

I am Japanese and my husband is Singaporean. We have been living in Japan for more than three years with our two young children. My husband and I were invited to New Creation Church for the first time in 2008 when we came to visit our family in Singapore.

After that, we decided to attend New Creation Church whenever we visited Singapore to hear the gospel of grace. We had been very blessed by the messages and the brothers and sisters in church.

We are currently in Singapore for a visit. When my husband and I planned for this visit, we had also planned to fly to Christchurch, New Zealand, to visit my sister-in-law and her family in February 2011. However, my sister-in-law and her family decided to go on a holiday so we did not visit them. Then, in late February 2011, Christchurch was hit by a huge earthquake. Thank God that Jesus had protected my family, including my sister-in-law and her family, for they were away when the earthquake hit.

Before we left Japan for this visit, we had to go through a long administrative process for the renewal of our rented property. What seemed like a very simple process at first, took much longer than expected and we were really frustrated. Little did we know that God was in control of the timing. If we had left for Singapore earlier, we would have returned to Japan earlier and thus, experience the earthquake.

Also, when we were about to book our air tickets to Singapore, one of our New Creation Church friends recommended us to buy one-year open tickets. With our one-year open tickets, we can now choose to return to Japan later to avoid the present circumstances such as power shutdowns and shortage of food supply, without any penalty. God has divinely protected us!

At one of the Sunday services in March 2011, Pastor Lawrence preached about being at the right place, at the right time. He said that we cannot place ourselves at the right place, at the right time by our own human efforts, but only God can. Amen!

Thank you, Pastor Prince, for preaching the gospel of grace.

The writer has requested anonymity