Personal Stories

Pastor Prince, my daughter made plans with two of her female friends from church to travel throughout Europe and Greece in July 2016. Even though our family and friends had concerns about her traveling in a time of global unrest and violence, my husband and I felt peace from the Lord and did not object to her plans.

While getting ready for work and doing household chores one morning, I asked my husband to play one of Pastor Prince’s sermons on YouTube. I didn’t have time to read my Bible or pray before going to work.

I was raised as a believer but was taught some limiting beliefs. I believed if I was trusting God for something and sinned, spoke negatively about it, or got in strife with someone, that would end my “faith walk” of trusting God for my breakthrough, and I had to start back at square one. I also believed that if my breakthrough took time or wasn’t happening, it was because my faith wasn’t enough.

In 2015, I started watching Pastor Prince on Trinity Broadcasting Network and got hold of his resources. During that time, I was struggling with my modules in school.

I’ve been reading praise reports about people receiving healing through the Holy Communion. So when I had pain in my lower abdomen, I got hold of a biscuit and some juice and watched a YouTube video of Pastor Prince blessing the Holy Communion elements.

Up until a few months ago, I was addicted to cigarettes and marijuana for 18 years and also to pornography. I had tried many times to quit all three because I knew they were wrong but felt so condemned that I couldn’t. The pornography addiction led me to massage parlours, which then led to me feeling even more condemned than before, as no one knew I was doing this.

I was convinced that I had committed the unpardonable sin mentioned in the Bible. As a result, I thought God and the Holy Spirit were far from me, and fell into severe depression and anxiety. I was under so much mental and emotional oppression that I could not function normally in daily life.

One morning at about 2am, I was awoken from my sleep and decided to pray. I also wanted to drink water from the fridge, something I don’t usually do because it means I will have to use the washroom later and that disturbs my sleep.

We had always wanted a child from the first year of our marriage back in 2011. However, despite our best efforts, we never managed to conceive. It was not until our second year of marriage that we started consulting doctors to understand the complexity of the issues that both my wife and I were facing.

One morning during my usual prayer time, I felt an urge to confess Psalm 91:1 over myself. Later that day, I was cooking lunch for my family and was boiling a large saucepan of water. The pan was filled to the brim. As I stood watching the water boil, I thanked God for His grace. Ten minutes later, when I took the saucepan off the stove to pour the water out, the water spilled onto both my hands.

Ever since Covid-19 hit, I started tuning in to New Creation Church Online every week. The message of God’s unmerited favour, grace and love has brought me countless of breakthroughs—even more than what I have experienced in the past 30 over years of being a Christian.

I was in despair and depression to the point I had started to believe that God had turned His back on me and left me. One night, I cried out to God and asked Him to send me a sign. At this point, I was honestly ready to commit suicide. I had made up my mind that if God no longer cared, then I had no reason to live anymore.