When I met my young wife about 40 years ago, my greatest desire was to make her the happiest woman in the world! We did indeed have a blissful year or two of marriage. Then, after my daughter was born, I became unfaithful to my wife and caused her much suffering. For the next thirty years, contrary to my original desire and promise, I made my wife the most unhappy woman in the world! I enjoyed life to the fullest and took advantage of what the world had to offer. The nature of my work required me to travel frequently and this gave me every opportunity to enjoy life in wanton pursuit of the passions of the flesh! It was my belief that this was the only way to enjoy life to the fullest during this life-time on earth. I also boasted that I preferred hell because heaven would be a very quiet and dull place without my vices and my erstwhile friends!

In time, I began to realise that my wife and I had grown so far apart that we had only a semblance of a marriage. The oath "to love and cherish my spouse till death do us part no longer bore any meaning. We had really come to the end of a relationship of more than thirty years. But I tried to reassure myself by reasoning some people stayed married for even less time! Besides, our daughter and son were grown up and they should be able to look after themselves!

At this point of time, inspite of my arrogance and indifference, God in his mercy intervened. Our niece, a newly born-again Christian (now a pastor’s wife), came to us to witness the gospel and the love of Christ. We were encouraged by her sincere and heartfelt sharing and went to a church in Singapore where we both encountered life-changing experiences! The morning of Nov. 27, 1985 saw us in church. People sang and clapped their hands and greeted each other warmly. They appeared to be happy and embraced each other. I felt strange and somewhat foolish and I did not know what to do. The pastor preached but it seemed like Someone else was speaking to me at the same time. Suddenly I felt a strong and intense conviction of my sins and I began to cry like a baby in public. This was followed by an equal if not stronger desire to repent of my sins. With hindsight I now understand that this was the prompting if the Holy Spirit! It was altogether a strange feeling but nevertheless I went forward to receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. As I prayed the sinner's prayer, I could sense a powerful change coming over my life.

Immediately I felt clean - it was as if all my sins were being washed away! The Bible says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Yes - this was the moment of truth that transformed and delivered me from my wicked, wayward ways!

Today, knowing the truth of who God is has set me free from the influence of the devil and provided me hope for the future. Up to this point, I had always thought of Christianity as lust another religion, but now the truth has caused me to discover Christianity as a personal relationship with God.

Not long after that, we were both baptised in the Holy Spirit and we experienced miracles of healing as we ministered.The initial miracle we experienced was the amazing healing in our own hearts. With Jesus abiding in us, we were able to forgive and forget our past bad experiences - Jesus healed our relationship! We found that we could truly begin to love and respect one another again. We thank God for this inner healing.

Praise God for His mercies!