Monday, 23rd February 2026
No I am not referring to Liverpool, but rather those who hold titles such as Chairman, President or CEO.
At the height of my own career as a professional accountant, I was a CFO-designate. Now I own a sole-proprietorship and give myself the fancy title Chief Mover/Shaker. But for all intents and purposes, it is a paper entity with little to no activity.
Many have cruelly called Dr Chee Soon Juan "unelectable" because he has stood as a candidate practically all his life, but has never been a parliamentary representative. Likewise, I am currently considered "unemployable" because a typical FCA / MBA holder with more than 30 years of working experience would command an annual salary in excess of S$300,000. Most talent management companies will tell me that their clients "cannot afford" to hire someone with such a short runway, given that I will become a hexagenarian next year.
In a nutshell, like Manchester United, my days as a "title holder" are likely to be behind me.
The influence possessor is like the "hub" that connects the title holders, the "spokes".
Even in the Bible, we see a hub connecting to spokes at play.
Ps Prince himself mentioned in a sermon how in 2 Kings 5, it was the unnamed servant girl of Naaman, the Syrian Commander that connected him with Elisha, the Prophet. She was the influence-possessing hub that connected the 2 title-holding spokes. If not for her, Naaman would have died a leper.
Similarly, it was Abraham's unnamed servant who connected Isaac and Rebekah (Gen 24), the chief cupbearer who connected Pharoah and Joseph (Gen 41), the water-carrying man who connected Peter, James and John to the owner of the furnished and prepared Upper Room (Mk 14, Lk 22), just to name but a few more examples.
Closer to home, my mom was that hub too. She was a mere housewife, but wow did God bestow upon her such an abundance of influence. Her one phone call to Robert Iau, the then-Chairman of ACS BoG led to Wan Fook Weng, Principal of ACJC permitting her son a very late enrolment as a 2nd-intake student. It was a word spoken to Ling Sing Wong, then-Registrar of NTU that led her son to be able to stay on campus despite having insufficient CCA points.
And I see that now repeated in my own life. Just last week, I met up with Mr Pang Hoe Sang, the one who built both my previous church and my current one.
Yesterday, he sent me a precious video of Ps Prince sharing a "mini-sermon" at the Star Vista construction site with his staff from Hexacon. Mr Pang has given me his expressed consent to share it:-)
Mr Pang also forwarded me a couple of photos of him with Ps Prince himself, taken on 1 Feb 2011. I declare that my turn is next, in Jesus' Name, Amen!
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| A snapshot of Mr Pang with Ps Prince |
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| Another snapshot of Mr Pang with Ps Prince |
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