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Nopes, I don't know Sing in person - I was surfing around and found that someone posted the prayer for exams that I wrote last year in his own blog and decided to pop by... and read of his testimony, which really moved me. Good things such as this must share... so here it is. :)

Hi, my name is Sing. I born up from atheist family, my family doesn’t believe in God. I used to think that believing in God was only a cultural thing. God in my interpretation is only "things" that created to calm people heart and a place for loser to rely on.

My life before I received Christ was like ordinary guys; playing sports, flirting, chasing after beautiful girls and brag a lot. I always give help to people, I treat friends generously, I also like to tell jokes and acting funny faces to cheer up my friends. In my friend’s point of view I’m a trustful, caring, helpful, and a cheerful person. However they never know that most of the time I only help the girls, I also being sexual immorality, I tell lie, I cheat, I pretend gentlemen in front of people but I cursed them badly at their back, I’m only clean in outside but dirtiness in inside.My philosophy of life is “Whatever you do, Don’t get caught”!

When I’m alone back home I only feel the upset and emptiness in my heart, I always drink a lot alcohol alone during the night, without knowing my purpose of life.

I thought of to improve my personality and lifestyle. Therefore I decided to read a lot of self-motivation and self-improvement books. I read “how to get rich fast” books, I read a lot of “how to be a charming man” books, and I also read heaps of “99 ways chasing after girls” books. But it just doesn’t help me at all. I still feel upset, I still simply chasing after girls and got hurt, I failed my exams, I’m still got the frustration and emptiness in my heart. I always think that I’m such a useless person in this world.

Until one day a friend I met in Melbourne invited me to his church. I never thought of church can be helpful anyway but it’s because my friend kept inviting me to his church in many times in every single week, until I am shame to giving anymore excuses to reject him and force myself going church with him for once.

In my first impression I found that church people are really friendly and nice, but they all look naive and play many childish games. However I was strongly impressed by the pastor’s sermons that really reflect to my circumstances, it let me aware about my self-central ness, my sins, my relationships and my living purpose, it was a very good sermon. I start to think maybe instead of reading self-motivation books perhaps I should listen more to a bible teachings that could be helpful to me. Therefore I start going to church regularly.

It’s so surprisingly that every time I came to church, the sermons topic are always related to my weekly depression and frustration. I always got calmed and find peaceful in my heart every time I listening to sermons from Bible. I even suspected could the pastor read my mind?

I start going to church every week and I start to pray to God. It’s so unbelievable that God always answered to my prayers and questions. I thought it might be coincidence by once, but until I got so much coincidence in my prayers. I know it must be from the true God.

I came to know about Jesus from the Bible, I found out the true meaning of why Jesus death on the cross. God love us so much that he gives his only son Jesus that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Jesus death takes away all my sins, lie, cheating, sexual immorality and all the dirtiness in myself. I am unconditionally loved by GOD even how such a terrible person I am. I know God is with me all the way and I will never be alone. He has given me loved and church friends to help and encourage me along the way and knowing that others are praying for me is such a heart warming feeling.

I believe in Christ on 15th Feb 2006 at Central Chinese Baptist Church (CCBC), and Holy Spirit from God comes to me, I begin hungry want to know more about GOD. I start growing in my faith; I enjoy forgiveness. I don’t want blind myself with materialist, personal status, and relationship matter because those things don't last forever; those things can be changed and disappeared in anytime. But only rely my faith in God, put HIM in my first priority and have a healthy relationship with God. Because only God can look after me, taking care of my family, my career, relationships and I will not perish but have eternal life.

I don't have to pretend, to keep on reaching standards, to keep the routine of self-judgments, rather, I can be me, and GOD Says So. Yes, I also realize that there’ll need to be changes for my bad habits that will hurt me, but I am valuable, so much so that even when I kept on sinning, GOD reached out and offered to help me, cover my faults for me by paying all the penalties, and washes me clean, and YES, SET ME FREE. FREE To Be ME. It's really so touching.

So are you ready to inviting our heavenly God Jesus Christ in your life now?