I am in the Ministry of Rest

It took me a while before I figure out I am in the Ministry of Rest. My profession is to help people find rest in their heart and life through their mind. I have often started the therapy with teaching them how to sleep better; to have a more restful sleep. To relax and let go. Through proper rest, they may no longer need me to resolve the initial issues that they came to me for. It's of course always easier if they know God because that's where Rest is. All I need to do, is to teach them to simply let go and trust God in their mind which in turn control their heart. However, those who do not, is a little tougher.

The Lord is good. He is generous. He is loving. He is a good God who cares even for those who have yet know Him. I shall do what I have to do while believing that He is working in, with and through me to help those who come to me for help. Afterall, I believe He was the One who arranged for these clients to look me up.

Actually, I didn't know about the Rest or Sabbath being the most important of the Commandments. Or that what I am doing currently is inline with God's message for us this year. I wouldn't have known any of these have I not felt a need to return to church last Christmas. Some how I just felt it is time to return. Gave a call to my friend and visited New Creation's Christmas service.

At that point of time, I was away from church for almost 5 to 6 years. Relationship with God is only my frequent one way conversation with Him. I was asking for assurance that what I am now involve in is my life purpose and that God will continue to provide. I guess that's how He wants me to hear Him - loud and clear.

Pastor Prince has been sharing God's message on Rest. The timing of the message and the setting up of my clinic is an uncanny coincidence. The setting up of my clinic was one of the greatest blessings in my life which I will share later.

A roof over my head

After transfering my share of the flat to my ex-husband, I never had a place of my own even now. However, I always have a roof over my head with minimal hassle to search for one.

Going over to Australia to study on a budget, the only lodging I could afford was to share a room. The Lord must have had this settled way before my arrival as I met a girl who was willing to share the room with me. A total stranger who had no need to share a room as she was so rich that she could have afforded an apartment all for herself. Yet, there she was, willing to share a room with me for my two years stay there. Kind, sweet and tolerating.

My return to Singapore was also quite an event, for I moved house at least four times within a year. Yet, never once, I have to worried I got no where to stay. Doors were always opened for me to move in.

Now, I need to move out of my current flat again. So coincidentally, a good friend actually bought one and offered to rent me a room even before something happened at my current place that forces me to have to shift again.

It is beyond me to understand why I still could not own a place of my own that I could call home but I chose to believe that God has His plans for me. I know He had probably went ahead of me to prepare my home. Thank you, Lord. Thank you Jesus.

9 years ago, He made His promise known

I was at another bottom of my life drama 9 years ago. Just walked out of a broken and abusive marriage. Left the church for my members felt that divorce was against the law preached in the bible even if it meant that I need to continue living in an abusive environment. I still remember the last words that my pastor told me after failing to convince me to remain in that unbearable marriage.

"You are answerable to GOD!!"

Yeah, I remember that and I agree to that. Is to God that I am answerable. Not man, certainly not one who got upset because I pleaded for understanding that leaving the marriage was my last choice to save my own sanity and life.

That very year when I went overseas to further my studies, a stranger that I met in a shop, told me this

"When your heart is pure, God will provide."

Of course, given such an out-of-the-blue statement, I pay little attention to it. In fact, I don't even remember the words till last year. A year of change for me.

9 years ago, He made His promise known. 9 years later, I realised that He has been carrying out His promise all these years. Now, when I finally am ready, His blessings are flowing endlessly.