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The guy with the great job, great life & great God!

“Picture the most anxious you have ever felt, a time when you were so scared of everything that you wanted to be physically sick. Now imagine feeling that about everything. That was me for most of my teenage life. By the time I was 18, I was unable to go out of the house, unable to have people around to the house etc. I developed Obsessive Compulsive disorder (OCD). Cleaning, washing checking took up most of my day, touching was difficult I just had to stay in doors and try and survive.

In 2000 someone handed me a bible verse saying that God would give back the years that the locusts had eaten. I wasn’t very impressed as I had prayed for a long time but nothing had changed. Shortly after this though there was a breakthrough in treating OCD and through my mum’s wisdom and medication and encouragement my miracle began to unfold. After about three months my family noticed that I was different, able to interact with people, less anxious suddenly all things I had always wanted to do started to become realities.

I learnt to drive, I took a trip abroad, I decided to find myself a church and I applied for my dream job - games testing for a European computer entertainment giant!

About this time my family met the VFC Singapore church planting team and I began attending their services. I gave my life back to God, sealing the decision through water baptism. I also got my games tester dream job even though I had a very empty CV and not had a lot of working experience. Wow. My life just kept getting better. But there was one more thing… I wanted a girlfriend so I waited and waited……It actually got to the point that I was so down bout not having a girlfriend it became a real issue.

One day at church I prayed, really prayed in my head “I WANT a girlfriend! I WANT this girl! I WANT! I WANT!” then the strangest thing happened, Pastor Jia Hua started the service and said “God wants me to give someone a message, He says stop telling me what you want. I know what you want. I have a plan for you”.

I was floored! Some time later God again spoke directly to me through a pastor who stopped preaching looked at me, pointed his finger and said “wait”. And so I waited.

Well God is great! I have now found my perfect girl and and we are now married; she is beautiful, chatty, and adventurous, treats me well and loves me. She brings out the best in me and I believe it was all arranged by God.

I love my life, the old days seems a distant memory. God gave me everything I thought I had missed out on in those years of being sick. The bible verse I had dismissed years ago was true - God kept his promise to me. What I went through moulded me to whom I am today. I thought I was ready but God was still moulding me. Now I am living a purposeful life because of my great God.

P.S. Ruth and I have just celebrateed our second anniversary of marriage, we have had an amazing two year, a great honeymoon in Florida, still loving my job and serve in the media ministry of Victory church =)”