ENVISION
God
gave us our
Dream Home
We live with our two kids, two cousins, and a sister-in-law. As our kids were growing, we thought about upgrading our 3-bedroom flat to a 4-bedroom flat. During Vision Rally 2011, a Trinitarian shared how God blessed them with a house when they honored Him. The testimony touched me. By faith, I committed a figure God showed me as a one-time gift to the church, believing it’d be fulfilled by the next Vision Month through the sale of my existing flat. But as 2011 came to an end, we still couldn’t sell our house. Then, God reminded me: “Through Me, all things are possible.” With this in mind, I ushered in 2012, trusting God to provide. My husband and I made a new year’s resolution to attend the monthly prayer meetings as a family. During the January 2012 prayer meeting, a sister prayed for me and told me she saw a vision: an open gate. She prayed that I’d walk through the gate by faith to receive God’s promise and encouraged me to ask Him what this meant. I told my husband about the vision and asked if he had any idea what it meant. After a few seconds, my husband replied, “Could it be the dream house which has yet to come to pass?” Suddenly, I was awakened to the revelation that God had opened the gate for us, and we just needed to walk through it by faith. Together, we prayed every night and asked God to reveal how we could proceed. We felt God’s peace in our hearts, knowing we could trust in Him in this journey of faith. Two months later, I received an SMS from HDB regarding the Sale of Balance 20
Flats Exercise. A small voice spoke to me, “Why not choose one for yourself?” I was stunned. My immediate reply was, “No lah, this type of exercise where got 4-bedroom flat?” But the voice continued, “You didn’t check, how you know?” Still doubting, I clicked on the selection category for 4-bedroom flats. To my surprise, there were two units available – one just five minutes away from my son’s school! We thanked God for showing us this unit and asked Him to lead us through the applications. That weekend, we went down to see the flat. My elder son was excited as he had friends staying nearby. We took the lift up and found out that it was an Executive Maisonette and the door was open. According to a friend, we’d only be able to view the outside of a sale of balance unit. To see the open door was a sign to us that matched the vision of an open gate. However, I still had concerns – any loan shark issues, if the lower floor had a bedroom for my elderly parents etc. It happened that another family came to view the unit. We overheard the wife say, “Wow, this door has no red paint (poured by a loan shark), very clean.” And the daughter said, “Lower floor there’s a room.” They’d been viewing many Maisonettes and said this unit was the best. We were amazed. The Lord is good. He sent this family to affirm us. Our hearts became more certain that this unit was the one God prepared for us. But not knowing the unit’s layout still bothered me. We took the lift down. While our kids went