4th Blessing- 1st Business (Phone Selling) 05/14/2011
Wow! When it comes to business, I am very excited. Haha. Business is what I have interest with, is what I am going to do for the rest of my life. Well, besides business, I will also be an accountant in the future, like my dad. Haha. I know accountant is a professional career, just like doctor, pharmacist, teacher, but different field of “professional”. Recently, I posted on Facebook stating that I had sold 6 phones with a profit of AUD 120. It was beyond my imagination that I was able to earn so much. I praised the Lord for He is the one who given me that profit. I saw many comments like “ I also want to learn!”, “Teach me!”, “Remember to chiam me makan ah!”. And really, I just praise the Lord for it. Because of God grace and blessing, I was able to earn that much. I submitted every selling transaction except the first to God. God helped me to learn lot of lessons. Without his blessings, I would not have learn so much. Below were some lessons that I learn from this business: 1. I learned that selling one item was not easy. It consumed my time, my energy to push my sales. God showed me that business is not easy, however with God, everything will be easy. 2. I learned not to take things for granted. As for me, I took for granted that I could sold the phone for at least AUD130. But in the end, it turned up only AUD 115. I was so disappointed. I came to realize that I didn’t submit my sales to God. I thought that I could earn a lot without God’s help. No, I was wrong. I repented and decided to submitted my 2nd sales to God and you know what? God blessed me by havingg my phone sold at AUD 137. Praise the Lord. 3. I learned that MONEY IS HARD TO EARN. When I was young, every time when I attended moral classes, I was taught by teacher to always remember “Parents’ money are hard to earn, must not waste it”. I only knew “hard”, but never knew how “hard” until I experienced it myself. Really. Selling the 6 phones used lots of my energy and strength but turned up to earn such a small amount. How about my parents? I simply admired them a lot.   Psalm 34:8 "O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him." Indeed, this 1st business was not easy, but by the grace of God, I was still able to earn a bit. I counted myself truly blessed by God because I submitted my business to the Lord. You can see that the first time I didn’t submit it to the Lord, I ended up didn't receive any blessing from the Lord. You have to trust and submit to the Lord, and the Lord will bless you abundantly. Warm and blessed regards, Timothy Ngu. 3 Comments  Yesterday I shared about my course. And today, in this post, I will be sharing about my university. The process of choosing, of deciding, of selecting which university I should enroll. Let the journey began on this year Jan 2011… It was 1st of January 2011, the first day of Year 2011, the day where I received my foundation year final exam result. The result was important as it would decide which universities I would enter. I prayed to Lord every day after the exam finished, although exam is over, I would not stop praying, but continue to praise His name on High. People often just forgot about God totally after exam, and when result was about to release, they came back to God again. This is human. And, finally I received an email and stated that I could check my result online. I quickly signed in my profile, with the heart bumping ultimately fast. Haha. And yes, I got 85.35 over 100, which was equal to ranking 8/25. The first thing I did, was prayed to the Lord and thank God for the result. Thank God for I didn’t fail my exam, thank God that I get at least 80 and above.  However, things became worst when I realized that my result was not eligible to enroll for Accounting course in my dream university, The University of Queensland. They expected students who get 90 and above to eligible for it but my result came out was below their requirement. I felt so terrible, I blamed myself for not working hard enough, not studying hard enough, not doing well. Any reason I could think of, I just blamed on myself. I felt so painful in my heart, in my soul, in my mind. My dream university, The University of Queensland, I had to say goodbye. The pain when you expected something yet it didn’t achieve was terrible, horrible and vegetable (LOL). That particular night, I calmed myself down and talked to God through prayer and bible. Tears just came down from my eyes unconsciously, at that moment, I felt the Holy Spirit is around me, I sensed that God is beside me. And then Lord showed me a verse as I read through the bible, the ultimate verse that my Dad had always reminded us, Proverb 3:5-6 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”  Lean not on your own understanding? This particular phrase awaked my mind. I started to ask myself; Did I trust the Lord? Yes I did. Did I lean on God’s understanding? No I didn’t. Did I submit all my ways to him? Yes, I did. God made me realize that I must not lean on my own plan, which was entering into my dream university (UQ). God says that He has His own special plan for me. He says that University of Queensland is NOT the place I should be. So I trusted the Lord starting from that night. I made a prayer to God that night, I submitted everything to God. Amazing things started to happen when God put me into QUT (Queensland University of Technology). When I first stepped into QUT, I found myself lost in the university; I had no friends to guide me. By God’s grace, He sent a QUT map to me by a librarian. Then, slowly, I found CCM Brisbane QUT, a Christian society. I began to meet lots of friends in CCM, and started to join their Life Group (Known as Cell Group). I met at least hundreds of friends from CCM, and God has not stopped to bless me. He let me know friends from Sherwood Methodist Church and also EMP Methodist Church. In just a short 2 weeks, guess what, my friends list in Brisbane grew from 5 to 205. A huge 200 increase! Praise the Lord.     Amazing is the word I can describe now, really. Blessing of God has always poured on me no matter on good or bad things. Today, when I think back, I tell myself, QUT is better than UQ! I make no regrets for studying in QUT but instead feel proud and greatly honored. Thank you Lord! Tell me now, if it is not the grace and blessings of God, what is it? What more can it be? No. Nothing can replace and grace and blessings of God! All praise and glory unto Him. Hope you all have a nice read tonight. Warm and blessed regards, Timothy Ngu. Blessing 2- Future Career Dilemma 05/11/2011
 It’s been about 10 weeks since I studied in QUT, known as Queensland University of Technology. QUT wasn’t the university that I wish to enter, but God had eventually made a way for me :) Let the story begin… First of all, I think I would like to thank you God and also my parents for giving me the privilege to study in Australia. Not to say that I am rich because I am currently studying in Australia, but to say that it was all by the grace and mercy of the Lord. He made this plan for me, so I obeyed J I started my application for university at around August 2010. As I was struggling what course should I enroll, I eventually just find myself lost. At first I was very confidence that I would go for Commerce (Accounting). But I felt myself very interested in doing Dentistry too. At that moment, I fell down, with my knees on the floor, head bowed to the Lord. I said to the Lord, “Use me! Mould me! Almighty Lord! I know that my future is in your hand, and what course should I enroll only You know. Show me when Your timing comes. Amen” As weeks went by, I still had not received any hints or calling from God that what should I enroll for. I prayed and prayed, but still nothing. I began impatient, and started to decide myself for it. As I decided to choose it myself, the verse just came to my mind; "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7)  I came to a point where I started to realize something when I read this verse. Did I ask God? Yes, I did! Did I seek God? Yes, I did! DId I knock the door? Erm.. Knock the door? What is the door? Where is the door? This question came through my mind so intensely that I realize one mistake I had made. I asked myself, Did I ASK for advice from different people? Did I SEEK for advice from different people? Did I truly know what is the door and where can I knock the door? Ultimately, I ASKED people around me such as those who were still pursuing the degree, those who were just graduate and those who were working for comments and experience about how they choose their careers and so on. Moreover, I SEEK advice from the lecturers and accountants and God. They did help me a lot as they share about how they choose their careers. And lastly, I KNOCKED the door. I praise the Lord almighty that I finally received a blessing from God that I should enroll for Commerce (Accounting). Why? I cannot tell why, but God showed me that this is the course you need to study, this is the course I wanted you to enroll. I just trusted the Lord and now, indeed, looking back at those time, I really felt that God indeed blessed me a lot by giving me the direction and providing me people to give me advices. And, of course, you surely would like to know what the door that I knocked. The door is “Faith and Trust”. I knocked the door and enter into faith and trust to God. Thank you Lord for your wonderful blessings to me. I love you Lord. May the Lord bless you as you read this. Warmly and blessed regards, Timothy Ngu. Time flies really fast. Just a blink of eyes and it’s 10th of May 2011. It was about 5 months that I migrated from Malaysia to Australia. Australia, is a country that situated 6000km far below Malaysia as you can see on the map. Remember when I was young; I heard that my friends went to Australia, United Kingdom, London, Japan, Korea and many other places for travelling. I was so envious that time when they share their experiences about their travelling trips. As for me, I only went to those small small tiny little ulu places for travelling during holidays such as Gapong, Mukah, Sarikei and those common cities such as Bintulu, Miri, Kuching. The only oversea country I went to was Brunei, but Brunei had nothing but just a piece of small land. Haha. What made me unbelievable was that, I was told by Dad on Jun 2007 that we’re going oversea for travelling in Nov 2007. I was like “WOW!”. And eventually, I went to Perth, Australia and then Singapore too. I cannot believe myself for real that I was going actually going to Australia and Singapore. I was so happy and excited. It was by the grace of the God that I able to have this chance to travel overseas. Alright. After back from Australia and Singapore, I told myself, I am very satisfied. I am really blessed by the Lord. However, in year 2009, my dad told me again in March 2009 at we’re going to Australia again! Wow! I am even excited that before because that time we’re going to Gold Coast, Australia! I just cannot stop praising God for the blessing to me for giving me the opportunity to travel overseas again. The trip to Gold Coast was awesome, really amazing and wonderful! (Link to the photos : https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.202267718439.130579.535248439&l=e5b15e4a71) And in year 2010, I went to Kuala Lumpur for my foundation studies. That time, I knew for sure that I would be going to Australia for my degree after my foundation studies with my sisters, but not migrating there with my family. My dad never thought of migrating there. Somehow as we pray to the Lord, we felt that God was asking us to migrate to Australia. We not sure about it but we continued to pray hard, pray together as a family. Whenever we’re praying, we would remember one verse, that is Proverb 3:5-6; “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. And yes, in September 2010, my parents decided to fly down to Brisbane and had a survey of the place, the school, the house and everything. Then, in the end, we prayed and God clearly given us a direction by providing us the school for my sisters to enrol, the house for us to stay and the people to help us in doing all the paperwork. And we decided to migrate to Australia on 24th of Dec 2010. As we landed in Australia on 25th of Dec, we faced lots of problem. We knew that we would face lots of problem because we’re new to the place, we didn’t had many friends and relatives. But we prayed and put the trust in the Lord that He will provide us someone to help us. And yes, indeed the Lord is great, if you trust Him, He will bless us. He had blessed us by sending my cousin’s uncle, Uncle Ming to help us. Uncle Ming eventually helped us to buy furniture and electronic stuffs such as fridge, washing machine to fill up the empty house that my parents bought in Sept 2010. And as the things were expensive in Australia, we had to save money and bought only essential things. We knew the expenses were going to be very high when we live in Australia. But God said to us that “Trust me faithfully and I will provide you all the needs”. We obeyed and put our faith in Him once again. Amazingly, God had indeed blessed us by giving us the chance to grab the 2nd hand furniture (which is 3 times cheaper than new one, but look exactly the same as new one), and also the electronic stuffs for almost half of the price due to Christmas Special Event Discount and Promotion all around the store. We just cannot expressed how we felt blessed by the Lord, we just praise the Lord for His wonderful and great blessing. Till now, my family and I had settled down in Brisbane except that my dad still in Malaysia due to his work at his company and it’s very hard for him to find a job in Brisbane. I guess God has a plan for him, God has the other time for him to come and stay with us permanently. We just put the faith in God, for everything is under His hand and His control. We will never understand His timing, we will never know His timing, but we know that we trust him. No words can express the thankfulness from me and my family to God. Really. Everything happen by the grace and blessing of God. God bless us because we trust in Him faithfully. Even though finance still a problem for our family, but what more can we ask for, for He will provide as we trust Him. That’s all for my first sharing on how God has blessed me, and also my family too. Hope you all will be inspired and encouraged. Warm and blessed regards, Timothy Ngu.   First Post! 05/09/2011
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