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Fourth Generation Inheritor of the Riches of the Good Land of Canaan
It was absolutely marvelous for my maternal great-grandfather to come to the local churches when he was in Fujian, China. This granted my grandmother the perfect opportunity to meet brother Watchman Nee at a young age. She was deeply impressed by his spiritual countenance. After many weary years in the “wilderness” without good fellowship with other Christians, my mother was also brought into the fellowship of the local church when she first came to Canada from Sri Lanka after she completed medical school. A few years later, she met my father who also had been saved in a local church in Malaysia. Consequently, I was born to God-loving parents in the local churches, where I enjoy Christ as my good land, flowing with milk and honey. I was very fortunate that I did not have to flee from the tyranny of Pharaoh in Egypt and wander for 40 years in the wilderness before entering into the promised land, for building a mutual dwelling place between God and man (ref. Exodus-Joshua). I was raised in the children's meeting along with many other believers' children in the rich and healthy environment of the local church. Even at such a young age, I already knew the Lord as my personal Saviour by believing into this true and living God (1Thes. 1:9). During my first five and a half year stay in Brunei on the Island of Borneo, we had home meetings in our house, where many people believed into the Lord Jesus Christ and were baptized. At that time, there was a deep yeaning within me to be baptized into the Triune God (Matt. 28:19), even though I was only eight years old.
In addition to receiving the Lord as my personal Saviour, I was also taught to read the Bible and to pray. Through the ministry of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee I have been ushered into the subjective experience of the Triune God as the real and living One. I do not seek Him doctrinally, but in an experiential way by knowing God, His eternal purpose, the Bible, the church, and the Spirit. Throughout the years, it has been the riches of the ministry of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, combined with the enjoyment in the local churches that has kept me faithful to this day, preserved according to His heart's desire. I have been studying very hard with a definite goal that I would be an overcomer wherever God has placed me, even as an undergraduate chemistry student in the University of British Columbia. My heart is to serve Him in spirit and to build up the Body of Christ which results in the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2,10). What a blessing! What a joy to love Him. It is His mercy (Rom. 9:15) and His grace (Gal. 1:15) that I am what I am. Blessing and honor and glory be unto Him for now and evermore! Amen.
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