Focus and Perspective

Sunday, 11th November 2007

Recently, I received feedback that some in my church's leadership are upset with me, because they are not ready to embrace the grace messages, yet here I am still so passionate and enthusiastic about it.

Truth be told, this did make me feel slightly discouraged, because it means that it is a real uphill battle trying to "change things from the inside".

At times, I even started to wonder whether all this was all worth the effort.

The last time I felt this way was back at the end of January 2007, and God affirmed what I was doing by causing me to be given the Best Christian Blog of the Week Award.

Well this time around, He has again met me at my point of need. Praise be to Him! :-)

Back in August/September 2007, I had given out copies of Destined to Reign to more than 70 individuals, the majority of whom are complete strangers to me.

Just 2 days ago, I received the following email from one of the recipients. It was God's way of telling me, "Son, don't be discouraged. You are making a difference in the lives of people out there. Just continue to blog about what I have been doing in your life. Your church leaders will come around in due time."

I have obtained her permission to reproduce it in full, so long as her name is being withheld.

From: name withheld
Sent: Friday, 09 November, 2007 10:14 PM
To: Malcolm Loh
Subject: Re: destined to reign book

Hi Malcolm,

xxxxxxx here. I just want to really thank you for the Destined to Reign book. It has indeed truly ministered to me. I'm now reading the book for the 2nd time. This time I want to seriously go through the bible verses in each chapter and meditate on it.

I grew up in a Christian home (literally born into a Christian home) and also my parents are in the ministry. It was years of being under the "religious law" teachings and it really got me frustrated in my growing up years cuz i always felt condemned and i really really wanted to please God but found myself failing all the time.

I could really relate to Pastor Prince when he shared of how he almost lost his mind and became depressed because of that. I felt the same way too and in fact, few months back was contemplating just ending it all.......in fact I wrote it in my diary that I came to the end of it all, just wanted to give up on life and this whole Christianity cuz I felt I couldn't live that holy life the way I thought God wanted me to and I would rather end it then displease God or disappoint Him. How merciful our loving Father is and how wrong I was to think it all depended on my self-effort.

God really used you as a blessing, when Pastor Prince released this book, I desired to have it. But financially I was rather tight. And that night when you put up the video on the YouTube was the night I decided to just type "pastor prince" under the search tab and the first video that came out was yours.

I was so surprised and almost couldn't believe it! How good and kind our Father God is!! This book has certainly come in timely especially in learning to just live in His Grace and knowing we are the Righteousness of God in Christ.

Thank you so much again Malcolm for being a blessing and hope we can catch up with you together with. XXXXXX (he is my good friend who also received the book from you, he is also very blessed by the book and we are studying the book together now) and perhaps treat you to tea and fellowship with you sometime.

You are highly favored, Greatly Blessed and Deeply loved,
xxxxxxx

I thank God for this dear sister xxxxxxx, because she responded to the Holy Spirit's prompting to send me an email that helped me to stay in focus and see things in perspective. I am looking forward to meeting up with her and her friend XXXXXX.