How the Lord Jesus found me.

I was brought up a Buddhist and detested Christianity. I was an aircraft engineer for almost 14 years. In 1991 November, my family (2 boys and two girls) migrated from Miri, Sarawak (East Malaysia or Borneo) to Melbourne, Australia. At that time, I had the best job of my life. I was looking after the oil field aircrafts of Colonel Gaddafi outside Tripoli. I worked on a schedule of a month on and a month off. I flew business class to and back from Tripoli every month. I worked only 6 months in a year but got paid 13-month salary and got to take it home to Australia tax-free!

In February 1992, we bought a house in Knoxfield, Victoria. At the children’s school, I met a Chinese Christian family. One evening we were invited to go to their house for dinner. Right after dinner our host Stanley, questioned me about my Buddhist beliefs. He asked me if I could prove that Buddha was a living god. My answer was ‘no’ but then neither could Christianity! He started to tell me the testimony of how he came to believe the Lord Jesus Christ and many other testimonies. It was a good thing that I have just eaten the dinner, so I patiently waited for him to finish before I pulled out a 12 “nail to nail him good and proper. After about forty-five minutes, he stopped. So, I pulled up my 12″ nail question to nail him. The question I asked was, ” All Christian are supposed to have followed only one blueprint called the Bible, then how come from only one blueprint, came out thousands of brands of so called Christian denominational churches and all of them divided? “I thought this would finish him off, but it did not! He simply replied me, “Oh it is only a small question!” I said, “Ok! But I want an answer.”

He rose up and brought his Bible and showed me that the Bible is of no private interpretation and must not add or subtract any word from it. He told me that churches are all divided because of their private interpretation to the Bible.

Before I left he gave me a testimony book to read entitled “A prophet visited South Africa.” After I read the book, I went back to see him. I told him if all the miracles recorded in the book were true, I would surely like to know the God that did these entire miracles – Healing all diseases and even raising the dead. I told him that I would only accept the Lord Jesus first hand. Reading about it from a book was secondhand and how did I know the testimony book was not fiction? I told him that if Jesus truly had resurrected on the third day then there should not be any problem for the risen Christ to speak to me personally. He jumped up from his chair, threw his hands up in the air and said, “Jesus said that ask, you shall be given. Seek you shall find and knocked, the door shall be open to you.” He assured me that Jesus would speak to me.

Subsequently I went back to Libya for work. I had plenty of quiet time for the Lord Jesus to speak to me but it didn’t happen. After a month I returned back to Melbourne from Libya very disappointed wondering why God didn’t speak to me. While at home, one day, whilst I was pondering why God has not spoken to me yet, something impressed in my heart that I must first clear my house of the all the buddhist idols, before God would speak to me! Straight away I acted accordingly to what was impressed in my heart and put all the idols in the dust bin regardless of their cost.  Three months later July 1992 the Lord spoke to me. I left my job and have served the Lord Jesus full time for the last twenty three years since then.