A testimony of testimonies

Very encouraged indeed... We had CG, and Joyce shared not one, but two wonderful testimonies... her testimonies really was so encouraging! And after CG, Yufen, Bowen and I were on our way back, waiting for the MRT, when an old friend from JC, Shaowei, appeared. He's an extremely intelligent guy, on a scholarship, a Maths "god". :) I chatted with him, and found out that he accepted Christ 5 years ago, during his NS days. Before that, he was an atheist.

So I asked him, "How did you become a Christian?"

He replied, "Through a dream." He went on to describe how God helped him see his need for Him, and after he asked Jesus into his life, he prayed on a Saturday, "Jesus, I believe in You, but I really don't know much about You. Can you tell me more about Yourself?"

The next Monday, an army Christian friend of his passed him a book on Christianity. (If I remember Shaowei's words correctly, it's "Questions of Life: A Practical Introduction to the Christian Faith" by Nicky Gumbel, founder of the Alpha Programme.) This Christian friend told Shaowei that he was walking with his girlfriend on Saturday, and then suddenly, his girlfriend said that she felt at that moment like buying a particular book - the very book that Shaowei was holding 2 days later. You figure the rest of the story...

When I heard this, I was, like, so amazed and encouraged! :D Wow... Shaowei said to YF, Bo and me that a lot of people must have been praying for him. He said that some Christian friend had tried to debate with him before, but he wasn't convinced. But what argument alone could not do, the power of God was more than enough to save him - not through wise and persuasive words, but with a simple dream.

So something I was refreshed and reminded of after that meeting with Shaowei, was how SO essential prayer is when we are telling others about Jesus. We can share and share till the cows come home, but if we don't have God's help, the guy can't know God. Like Jesus said, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him." And Paul said that "I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow."

So want to encourage you guys, if you're Christian and sharing the Gospel with someone for a long time, take heart! :D Pray, pray and pray... because nothing is impossible for God!

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Thinking about it... what makes a testimony really so wonderful? And why is the Christian faith so full of testimonies? As the apostle Paul wrote to Philemon, "I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith..."

Think the answer can be summed up in one word: God.

Somehow, think the most amazing and encouraging testimonies are those where we hear of coincidences that are... simply so timely, so statistically improbable, that... they can't be coincidences. It's way too beyond the 99% confidence interval test; it passes the t-test with flying colours; it flattens the null hypothesis left, right and centre. It's those times, in the most improbable of situations, that Jesus shows Who's The Boss, and prove yet once again, why He pwns the entire game. :)

Because, at the end of the day, it's all about what Jesus has done! Nothing about me. Everything about Him! It's really super-thrilling to hear, every single time, to hear of what God has done, especially when things work out in such an improbable and wonderful way that the whole thing shouts "JESUS WAS HERE!!!"

Amen! :D