Yes New Creation

I've been quite wary of New Creation Church (NCC). After all many had fore-warned us about the "prosperity" and "cheap grace" preaching. I was really reluctant to visit but Yan, the head of the household was patiently and gently nudging me to go have a look for a long time. Finally I said "OKAY" on Mother's Day 2006.

I remembered it was the Senior Pastor Prince's birthday as well. And during this worship service held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, Pastor prayed that those who in debt will be debt free by the end of the year. Well, I been through and accepted many such prayers at FCBC but no matter how much we scrimped and saved, the debt snow-balled faster with the ever increasing mortgage rates.

However, this time round I felt ZERO stress. GOD WILL DO IT. Prior to that I had been to Credit Counselling Seminar with my baby to check out concerning bankruptcy procedures. That was probably the lowest point of my life. I was financially broke and worried about mum's chemo bills , they were escalating faster than the debt itself. Each treatment cycle was like $30000. Yet as good filial kids we would try our best to help her medically and for me spiritually too, with prayer and fasting.

Miraculously, a month later, we sold our matrimonial home and lease it back. With the proceeds, we paid off all debts. GOD IS WONDERFUL. As we wrote and negotiated with many a bank, almost all banks gave us rebates up to 20% and that saved us almost $10k from the original debt. I felt much better too, that I could share equally, the medical expenses for my mum's cancer treatment. It's only fair to share equally among the siblings.

With the proceeds we also bought a well seasoned YAMAHA YUX upright and started to teach piano at home. As we increased the tithe God too multiplied the income, giving Yan opportunities to do piano accompaniment and perform at ad hoc events like weddings.

Sometimes, I cannot help but wondered why God waited so long and chose to deliver us out of debt only after we stepped into NCC. For years we struggled with ballooning DEBT and LACK despite the many prayers, fasting and proclamations. Looking back, I now understand that as long as we are under LAW, when we feel that we need to do this or that in order that God will help us, we nullify His GRACE. Grace is undeserved, unearned favour of God and this cannot be "balanced" with the LAW.

So its that SIMPLE we do not need to do anything to deserve God's financial bail out. As soon as we understood this and REST in His Promises that He will surely provide for us abundantly, suddenly we became debt-free. Furthermore, in NCC, we could physically REST in the LORD. At the moment we are not in any cell meetings and sometimes we had to skip church services, yet there is so much PEACE, NO CONDEMNATION, NO GUILT or any STRESS.

Along with the many sermon cds and dvds, we are now well nourished and confident that Our Shepherd Lord will take good care of us and Rachel especially when the children ministry is SUPERB. Two thumbs up!!

Thank You Jesus for your great love.