New Creation Church

Received A Scholarship Through God’s Unmerited Favour

In December last year, my university informed us of a scholarship and invited us to apply for it before the deadline on 5 January 2010. I did not act on it immediately, but hesitated for a long time. During that time, I did an internship with a law firm and was working in the office when I realised that it was 5 January — the last day for the scholarship application. I had to submit the application form with supporting documents in hardcopy to the school by 5pm that day.

However, as I was in the office, I did not have all the supporting documents in hardcopy with me and was not able to submit the documents in person. I decided to do the next best option and emailed whatever softcopy documents that I had, praying that they would consider my application.

Praise God, the scholarship committee did call me for an interview. During the interview, they asked me why I didn’t do well for the Intellectual Property modules I took last semester. (The scholarship required applicants to have taken a requisite number of Intellectual Property modules.) I was glad that God put the right words in my mouth to answer them. By God’s grace, the scholarship was awarded to me. I thank my Abba Father for answering my prayers. I believe that this is my harvest from the miracle seed I’d sowed into one-north in 2008. The amount of the scholarship award is almost 30 times of what I’d sowed. Praise God!

Terence Ang

Blessed With A University Bursary

I am currently studying at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). In August, I heard from two of my friends that they had applied for the Ministry Of Education bursary the previous month. I remembered telling myself, “Oh man, I missed the deadline. I wasted the chance to get a bursary.”

What made me feel worse was when I heard that my two friends had received bursaries of $800 and $1.2K respectively. I blamed myself even more because I had missed the chance to lessen my dad’s financial burden.

However, I heard in one of Pastor Prince’s sermons that our God is a God who freely gives, so I prayed and submitted my application form.

Praise the Lord! My application was accepted! But that is not all. We could apply for bursaries of any amount between $800 to $1.2K, so I applied for the $1.2K grant and prayed to receive it. But God’s ways are higher than ours and true enough, when I received the mail regarding my bursary, guess how much I got?

$3K! It was more than double the amount that I had applied for! Our God is truly an amazing God, a God who always
over-answers our prayers.

All praise to Jesus! I am highly favoured and deeply loved!

The writer has requested to be known as Danny.

Financial Provision In New Job

I am a fresh graduate with a diploma in early childhood education, and have started working as a preschool teacher. My pay was less than my colleagues as the company said that I only had a diploma and less teaching experience than the others. My boss pointed out that the salary offered by the company was already the highest among the preschool centres.

In addition, my contract also stated that I would receive an increment only after one year of service. But I continued to believe in Daddy God’s provision in my life. I started work in early February, and in August, I received a 30 percent increment! I am the first teacher in the company to receive an increment within the first year of service. Hallelujah!

Daddy God is truly awesome. When I trust in His way, I am always blessed.

Ruth Melissa K Haridass

Flat Sold At A Record High Price

My wife and I had wanted to sell our HDB executive apartment (EA) and upgrade to a private property since early 2008, but were unable to do so. Towards the end of 2008, the resale prices for HDB flats reached a record high.

However, in the first quarter of 2009, the resale prices for HDB flats started to dip because of the financial crisis. There were a lot of negative reports in the newspapers about the falling demand for flats (especially the bigger units), and many flat owners had had to sell their homes below valuation. When my wife and I finally decided to sell our flat, it was already April 2009 and resale prices had gone down further.

But we remembered that Pastor Prince had told the church that 2009 is the acceptable year of the Lord where His free favours will profusely abound in our lives. We chose to believe in the favour of God rather than in the circumstances because we are in this world, but not of the world. Then, I requested for a HDB valuation of our flat.

On the day of the valuation, I applied the anointing oil on the four corners of our home before the valuator came. We received a relatively high property valuation compared with others in our area. Praise the Lord!

While looking for a new home, we got to know a property agent. He was a fresh graduate with no experience, but we engaged him to sell our flat and decided to put our trust in God’s grace and favour.

I applied the anointing oil and partook of the Holy Communion whenever we had a viewing. Our flat was sold within a week, after just one newspaper ad placement and three viewings by interested parties. The buyers loved our flat so much that they were willing to pay $15,000 above the valuation price — our flat was sold at a record price for an EA in our area!

I remember buying the flat during the economic downturn in 2003. At that time, it was one of the lowest priced EAs available! We bought the flat at a low price and sold it at a high price. Praise the Lord!

Gaston Chia