I praise & thank God for blessing me to achieve one of the toughest turnarounds in my life.

I still cannot forget 5^th May 2010, the day the turnaround began. I was on a high after successfully completing an audit by a Chinese firm and after several other successes at my work place. I was basking in this success, when I was suddenly called to the HR department of my company & told “Jacob, your services are no longer required by us”

It took me time to digest this shock. After all, I was expecting, if anything “A reward”, for my successes. The signs were there, my assistant was retrenched in February & what made me think, I was above retrenchment?

Just in April, I had paid my son’s school fees for the next financial year after a lot of prayer and thought. I had held on till the last possible moment thinking that if God wants to move my family, He would. And now, no job, stuck in limbo, neither here or there. A thought struck me strong, “Is the God that I worship a liar?”

How could he do this to me? Here I am looked at by people as a leader of the corporate Christian movement & I do not have a job. My testimony was shaken. In fact, at the moment I lost my job, I felt I lost my testimony and with it the power to testify about God to anyone.

I did all I could on my own effort to get my corporate life / career back on track. I approached people I knew, clients I serviced in the past & knocked on every door I could but it seemed that all doors were closed to me.

It was then that my prayer life gave me hope. The ministry, in which I am an active part of, Chennai Corporate Fellowship (CCF), started a telephonic prayer bridge. In every prayer bridge, my fellow corporate prayer warriors prayed for my career in addition to the usual prayers.  My Church (Halluejah AG Church, Pondicherry) too had prayer on almost every day during that period & I was able to participate in most of the prayers.

In one such Church prayer, which was attended by a very few people, a sister in Christ approached me and told me that I should set aside a day of fasting & silent prayer. I just obeyed this Word that came to me through that sister and I set aside a day for prayer. I must acknowledge to you that fasting was easy for me compared to keeping silent for a whole day (9am to 5pm). Though it was tough, “I went through it”. The whole day, I felt God’s presence in the silent place (A Chapel) where I was praying & went home happy telling God that, I was confident He would take care of me as He has always done.

At 7pm, I received a call from one of my superiors in a previous job with whom I had lost touch over the last 4 years. He went on to offer me an opportunity with a leading training company in India as a Freelance Trainer.

Praise God, this was the exact opportunity I was looking for, an opportunity to converge my ministry & my work. God blessed me with a door that opened by His grace alone. I did nothing to get this opportunity; it was opened by God’s grace alone.

Now, the real miracle, 8 days of work exceeds the salary that I was drawing in my previous employment. I had 8 days of training in July & have 14 days of training confirmed for August. Praise God, this is exactly what I wanted, “work to support my family & more time for ministry”

By God’s grace, my ministry is working fine too. God is making more activity in Church, programs & mission trips possible for me as I attempt to make maximum possible use of the free time God has gifted me.

The conclusion of the matter is, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind & soul. Follow his commandments & do his work as much as you can, and goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life”. We serve the God of Glory who knows how to glorify his people. Though I was tested, I just knew that the God I serve will not destroy my testimony. Though I did not have a job I continued to preach and declare in faith that God will transform my situation. In fact, I also delivered a CCF monthly meeting message titled “Transform” in my jobless period. My God did “Transform” everything.

 I Pray God will bless this testimony too to touch many. May the good Lord be glorified in your life & through your life too.

Chacko Jacob

I was born and brought up in a purely orthodox Hindu Family.

When I was 12 years old, my neighbor used to tell me Jesus stories…At that age itself, I started believing Jesus…In prayers I used to ask that I need to be ranked between 1 to 10….He answered me…Each and every day rolled  with the Belief that ‘Jesus is good….He will hear our prayers’

When I was doing my college…I asked for College first, 92%, University Rank…everything was granted.. I know that ‘I am his daughter’

My parents looked for a bride groom…I handed over the situation to ‘Jesus-the miracle maker’ to take care of it. I prayed to God, ‘Choose me a person whom you want me to get married. I believe in you. You will give me the best. You will do good to your daughter’. My marriage was fixed with a guy who is also bought up from a Hindu family. I obeyed Gods word and I got married.

 After getting married, I came to know that ’He doesn’t believe in God’. According to him there is no God at all.

Two years went on…I didn’t speak even a single word about ‘Jesus’ to my Husband. I prayed to God’ Lord you have chosen this person for me. And you will make him as your son’. Faith increased day by day.

Jesus spoke with my husband through the verses written in Cars or Bikes. He used to read those versus whenever he stood in Traffic signals.

One day he was under pressure in his work…he had to convince his client to get more business. That was the first time he looked to Jesus and prayed…’Lord …Please help me’. In his meeting with client….they accepted the quotation and offered more business. That time onwards he started believing Jesus.

He has chosen me …He knows whatever his child needs.

From a software engineer working in a MNC in Chennai

I was born in a small town by name Devakottai in South India, Tamilnadu. At my age of 13, I was not able to speak properly as I had feeble voice and my voice was like a female voice. Everyone in my family, friends, school and relatives made fun of me. That time I did not know Jesus and I didn’t have any relationship with God. I had this voice problem for 5 yrs till my age of 18. At that time I completed 12th grade, since I had this problem I started working as a phone boy in phone call booth and thought that was my life and decided not to do anything else. But, my Mom forced me to study Engineering as she wanted her son to study. I did not have interest as I did not have the voice and even I attempted to commit suicide for so many times and everything failed. I was not able to live and I was not able to die. The shame followed me because of my voice and many started hurting me every day and I lived in shame with pain. I did not know Jesus at that time, but Jesus knew me by name. That is the time I started knowing about our Lord Jesus and came to know that He can heal me even when doctors told its impossible.

I started putting my trust on Jesus and started praying for healing and growing in His Word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing God’s Word! One day my parents asked me to go to nearby city for doing my engineering entrance exam. I was sitting in bus, but fear gripped my heart because of voice problem. I started praying to Jesus with tears I asked God to deliver me, I trusted Him with all my heart and the bus crossed so many cities and around 1.5 hrs passed by, I was traveling with my friend, he called me by name and I replied him with a brand new manly voice! Glory to God!!! Jesus strengthened me with healing and wisdom to speak and study well. I was perfectly healed!!! We no need a mediator, Jesus can heal anyone who believes.

I believed in God, He gave me a prophecy through my aunt that I will do Engineering IT and just like that I did Engineering in a big city in India by name Chennai. I was growing in the Lord and God lead me to do ministry in college and in the city of Chennai through churches and organizations for His glory. When I was in 3rd year B.tech in 2004, God gave me a prophecy through a sister that He will send me to overseas and use me for His glory. I believed in His Word and I wrote down His promise and started praying for His will to be done in my life for His glory. By His grace I completed college in 2005.

Just like what God said, I got an IT job in MNC company and through that God took me to USA in 2007. Glory to God! He said I will take you overseas and use you for my glory. He took me overseas in 2007 and in 2008, He lead me to create www.WordofGod365.com website for His glory!!! He lead me to share Word of God messages and through that God made many American Churches, Indian Churches to come and share Word of God! Glory to God!

Now, I’m doing God’s ministry by sharing Word of God, teaching and preaching. Also, by His grace i’m working in IT for a company in USA. All glory to God! Amen! He will do what He planned to do.

He is preparing me and using me to share across nations for His glory. Let God be glorified and let His will be done! Amen! Please continue to remember me in your prayers. There is nothing for me to boast as everything belongs to God! Amen!

With Love & Prayers,
Albert Samuel

I have been in faith for about 15 long years and only recently have I realized that I do not exercise my faith enough. I limit God in my life. But recently God revealed me that anything is possible though faith in God.  My younger brother is a 2009 passed out BE candidate. You all know…how the recession had affected placements in engineering colleges and the worst affected were the 2009 passouts. Lot of hope was on my brother who could not manage a placement among the few companies that came for campus in early 2008. My mother who was struggling to support my family financially after my father’s demise was very depressed. I took the responsibility of appealing to God his case, but somewhere in my heart I knew that God had a beautiful plan for him.

By God’s grace, recently IT companies started recruiting 2009 passout freshers. My brother had applied for the off campus along with his friends, but to our dismay he was not called for the tests for reasons unknown while all his other friends were called. This was the company my brother wanted to get in to and hence he was very much disappointed.  After a few weeks in April, through my husband’s contact we came to know that the same company was conducting walk-ins for 2009 freshers for testing career. My brother has very good analytical skill than technical skills. He was always scary in getting in to programming jobs fearing that he would not be able to perform. So this seemed to be God’s answer to our prayers, if he had gone through off campus, he would have to go in to programming profile. None of his friends who attended the test were able to clear the tests. Those friends were better performer than my brother in college. I insisted my brother to put all his faith in God and perform well. He is quite a shy guy and not a very good communicator and that bothered us more. Whatever may it be, I put all trust in God and sat in prayer and fasting on the day of his test. I was only telling that “God, nothing is difficult for thee, your glory is revealed only in our weakness”.

I kept sending him SMS to call upon God in times of fear. I asked him to keep saying “For this, I have Jesus”. He too felt God’s presence and guidance and to his surprise, he was the only person to have cleared all the 3 written test rounds. He next went through the technical and HR interviews by GOD’s grace. Yes pure grace. That day I experience God’s grace to the fullest. Moreover through this experience, God has revealed me the power of fasting and praying. From that day onwards I have been Praising and Thanking God for the way he has lead my brother’s life. My brother’s faith on God has deepened and I am sure he is going to hold on to God always.

My name is Jaison and I am a marine Engineer in a Multi-national company in Singapore. Though I was born and raised up in a Christian family, I did not have a personal relationship or experience with God. I used to go to Christian meetings and church services but mostly as a critic and nitpicker. I had this tendency to find faults and attract the attention of others to the errors and flaws I find in others. I used to think and say that Christian preachers and leaders are out there to carry out their own agenda by playing religious tricks with the people and so I had no real value for any such meetings or preachers. Though I had some fear of God deep within my heart, I lived my life in my own ways and gave myself to some bad habits as well.

While I was living my life in the way I wanted, during last December I was invited by one of my relatives to join the program called “Light of the City”. It was a Christmas celebration program organized by PROFIT on Dec 2009. If it were a prayer meeting or a church gathering, I would not have attended it. Since it was just a Christmas celebration event and dinner, I agreed to go and attend it for the sake of his invitation. I went there, though reluctantly, but as usual with the intention of finding faults and with a critical attitude. While different programs were going on, I was teasing and making comments about what was going on in the stage to the people sitting around me and distracting them.

When the time came for sharing the word of God, Bro. Joseph took the stage to share the message of Christmas. I was once again eager to point out the flaws and faults to prove him wrong. But, I could sense something in the atmosphere at that moment and I could not make fun of the preaching anymore. I was wondering what was happening to me. And I started to look around to see how others respond, because I knew many of them were not Christians and came there for a Christmas function. But they were all so captivated by the presence of God and listening so intently to the message as it was preached. It was a very simple message about the Christmas light and how it can affect the different areas of our lives when we allow the light of Christ to shine into our lives

What touched me most was one of the points in the message “Light gives vision”. As I heard it, I was stirred and questions arose within me, such as “Where am I heading?”and “What is my focus and vision in life?”. I was not able to answer those questions by myself but I knew that God had touched me deeply. But my fleshly nature still remained and so I returned home a little disappointed for not being able to find faults and criticize. Since some members of PROFIT invited me back to the fellowship, I attended PROFIT Engineering fellowship in the following month and I once again went there to find faults as well. It was like a small workshop on “Focus and Goal setting”. Again I could not criticize on what was being shared but rather the same questions arose within me “What is my focus and vision?” “What am I living for?” Eventually through the fellowship of PROFIT members and the love of God I have witnessed in the lives of some of them, I committed my life to Jesus

I became regular to the chapter meetings and God has graciously given some senior members in the fellowship to mentor me and guide me. Initially I had some ups and downs in my Christian life. One day while I was in office, I felt that the Christian walk in this wicked world was so difficult and I could not move on anymore. And I was weary of such a difficult Christian life. Suddenly I could sense the work of God within me and right there, in front of my desk,  I totally surrendered myself (if not abandoned myself), especially my life in the corporate world as a marine engineer, to Jesus with a prayer “Lord I cannot move on anymore in my life without your strength. Please strengthen me” God gave me new strength to move on. Though I had heard about repentance many times, I did not really know what true repentance meant. That was the moment I totally surrendered myself to God and experienced true repentance. From that moment onwards, I know I have been living only by the strength of God and experiencing the love of God and the real joy of the Christian life.

My colleagues and friends started to notice the change in me and I used it as an opportunity to witness about the love of God to them. I no longer take pleasure in finding the faults of others or criticizing others but rather I delight in sharing the love of God with others. The love of God is everything to me and I am not able to contain the love of God that is overflowing from within me. In PROFIT chapters I learn how I can practically live the Christian life and be an effective witness for Jesus in my workplace. It is my burning passion now to share the gospel with everyone in the sphere of my influence and I have been doing it as much as the Lord gives me grace. I really want to testify to everyone I meet in life that the love and joy that I experience now in God is much greater and far beyond comprehension when compared with the little happiness I had in the worldly pursuit of pleasure or career growth. To God be all the glory, Amen!

PROFIT – PROfessionals Fellowship of International Talents is the Corporate fellowship in Singapore and in other countries. If you are in Singapore and want to be part of this fellowship, pl reach out to – [email protected]