The Favor of God Will Open a Way 上帝的恩惠将开辟一条道路
Author: : Dea Nick Lim
“By your favor you make us strong.”
The Covid19 pandemic has resulted many Singaporean either loss their job or have to take pay cut. Companies faces closure or suffer loss due to nature of their business. I work in IT industry and my company produces personal computer.
Despite the pandemic, our industry boomed when Work From Home (WFM) became the default government policy. There was an accelerated demand for personal computers. This resulted in huge pressure to meet demand and contract obligations.
Over the past few months, I managed to ride through this hectic period with hard work, forward planning, anticipation and experience. However, in September, I faced a huge challenge of not meeting a large contract obligation due to insufficient component supply and delay in production. I tried every way and means I could to salvage the situation, but it just didn’t work because the manufacturing and parts shortages were just too severe. I was on the verge of giving up. This bible verse came to my mind. “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you” Matthew 7:7.
On 25th September, I received news from our manufacturing team that there was a huge order cancellation from our Europe office and we can actually leverage this material. It was like a miracle. Though this material couldn’t produce the same model order of our large contract, but I had peace within and felt that customer might be able to accept our alternate proposal. Within 24hours, we managed to convince our customer to switch the contracted model and we managed to have our manufacturing plant to start production and deliver the products before China Golden Week. A process that usually takes 8 weeks, was completed within 7 days!
From this experience, I learnt that a failure humbles us and makes us more dependent upon God. But, when we pray within His will, in the authority of Jesus, persistently, unselfishly, and in faith, we will receive what we need.
文/林天助执事
翻译/许燕俊执事
“因你的恩惠，我们的角得以高举.”
2019冠状疫情导致许多新加坡人失业或被减薪。由于业务性质，许多公司面临倒闭或蒙受损失。我在一家生产个人电脑的科技公司工作。
尽管发生了疫情，但当“在家工作”（WFM）成为政府大力推动的政策时，我们的行业反而得以蓬勃发展，对个人电脑的需求也因此迅速增长。这造成了满足需求和合同义务的巨大的压力。
在过去的几个月中，我需要靠着加倍的辛勤，超前的计划与过去的经验，才能成功度过了这个忙碌的时期。但是在9月时，由于零件供应不足和生产延迟，我面临无法履行合同义务的巨大挑战。我虽尽了一切努力与尝试，但还是无法有任何的进展。由于零件的短缺太过严重，以至于最终还是无法扭转局势。正当我快要放弃的时候，我想到这节经文。“你们祈求，就给你们；寻找，就寻见；叩门，就给你们开门。”（马太福音7：7）
9月25日，我收到来自制造团队的消息，得知欧洲办事处取消了很多订单，而我们实际上是可以使用这种材料。这就有如一个神迹，尽管这种材料无法生产与我们合同相同的模型订单，但我心里非常平安，并深信客户会接受我们的替代建议。在24小时内，我们成功说服客户，答应采用这替代模式，而工厂也可以在中国黄金周之前开始生产并顺利把产品完成。原本需要8周才能完成的生产，我们却能在 7天内完成！
从这次经历中，让我学习到失败使我们更加谦卑、更加依赖上帝。当我们按祂的旨意祈求，并在耶稣的权柄中坚持不懈、无私地、有信心地祈祷时，我们会得到我们所需要的。