Experienced Acceleration In School And Work While Resting
Every year, Pastor Prince would share the theme of the year for the church, and in 2022, it was rest and acceleration. Usually, we will not know exactly how the theme would personally apply to us until we go through the year and realise how it has always been so on-point, and this is my testimony.
In early 2022, I was in London for a school exchange programme. Everything was going as planned until I caught Covid one week before my return to Singapore. It was also the week I had to submit the final assessment for one of my modules, and I could not do so as I became very ill.
It was one of the scariest moments in my life as I was all alone. But my family and friends stood in faith with me and sent me food supplies. I grew stronger by the day and felt restful on the inside. On day seven, I tested negative and could fly home as planned.
Not only so, but by the grace of God, I got an A- for the module for which I did not complete the assessment. I rested, and God accelerated.
Then in late 2022, three weeks into my new school semester, I had to go for surgery to remove my appendix. The Lord had protected me from the get-go as I had been involved in two full days of activities, but my inflamed appendix did not burst. It was only on the third day when the pain got so severe that I decided to visit the emergency unit.
Choosing the surgery was a tough decision as I had to rest for two to three months after that. But my school and work schedules had already been planned out till the end of the year.
On top of that, I was worried that I might not be fit enough to take on specific school modules and that my education awards would be clawed back as a result. But I knew that the Lord would not fail me.
Glory to God, the school's dean proposed a plan where I did not need to stay back for another semester, and he even ensured that my education awards would not be clawed back. Not only so, I was even able to showcase my final project for grading.
I believe that the Lord had made me "rest" mentally and physically through 2022, and He accelerated my grades and work, giving me good bosses who kept me employed throughout my ordeals.
Glory to God, and thank you, Pastor Prince, for letting God use you to remind us of His love.





