A Step of Obedience Brings Hope

Glory and Margaret's spontaneous visit to a shop brought hope to a sister's life.

This is the story of Esther, a caregiver from Myanmar who works in elderly care.

She had been a Christian from a young age, but she did not have a personal relationship with God, attending church on Sundays but having no real connection with Him.

When she came to Singapore to work in 2014, she received Christ and became very hungry for the Lord, attending church every week. However, she stopped attending when she started having classes on Sundays. As time went by, she lost her communion with God and was no longer reading the Bible.

Sometime after, her work contract was about to end, and she became worried about what her future would hold. Anxious, she turned to a fortune teller and went into palm reading.

One morning after one Friends of the Holy Spirit prayer meeting, Cornerstonians Margaret and Glory felt led to walk into a shop. It was a spontaneous act for them yet God-orchestrated as it was here that they met Esther.

Prompted by the Holy Spirit, they released a Word of Knowledge for Esther. “The words just kept coming and we knew we had to speak to her and encourage her,” Glory recalled. Those powerful words broke the heaviness over Esther’s spirit. “God sent someone to me when I really needed it. I felt the love of God and it brought me to tears,” Esther exclaimed with joy.

The strong tangible presence of God which Margaret and Glory sensed at that moment prompted them to lead Esther in a prayer to return to the Lord. Esther responded readily to receiving Jesus into her life and has since been attending church and cell group meetings with Cornerstone’s Myanmar Congregation. It has been Glory’s prayer to be used by the Lord to touch lives, and she saw it come to pass with this simple step of faith.

“If we can be so happy that Esther rededicated her life to the Lord, what more all of heaven,” Margaret shared. “I saw the power of God, and that encouraged me to go out even more (to evangelise). There are people out there that are hurting and in need of love. And as you step out the Lord sees the obedience, not the perfection.” “To love Him is to obey Him,” Glory added.

Because they dared to obey and step out, God used their five loaves and two fishes! “I hope that more people will be used by God in this way!” Esther said.