How The Lord Led My Life Partner to Me

I would like to share with everyone a true love story. A story of friendship, of love, healing and lastly of salvation.
My name is Hui Lian. In my life, I struggled intensely with relationship issues. I’ve been through many heartbreaks and heart aches. But the Lord is so good, early in my walk with God, He brought a very special friend into my life. The first day when I met her in school, I knew that we would be friends till our lifetime is over. Her name is Adeline, and since the age of 15, she’s been praying for me to have a life partner. Over 10 years, she prayed for me faithfully, despite the fact that I had backslidden for 8 years.

It wasn’t until I was attending CKRM when during one the days when we were sharing and she suddenly brought up this subject of life partner to me again. It was really hard initially for me to raise this area up to God because both she and I were searching for healing for our broken hearts. So what started out as pouring out and confession onto the Lord of what I felt inside, at the same time, I could feel her pain and her despair. But Adeline persisted and she told me this to encourage me to pray, “He’s coming soon, don’t worry you’ll definitely get married before the age of 30.” So I asked her, “How soon?” She replied me, “Very soon.. within next 3 months.” At that time, I still haven’t met Ivan, I was a newbie at school.

Then slowly, the Lord began to work, firstly through Diana, when she passed me this book, Captivating by John & Staci Eldredge. I was blown away when the biblical principles started to take anchor into my heart. It was then during that period that I started praying and asking God to fill up my mouth with His words and desires for the right partner who He wants for me.

So, every night, I would come before God to pray this prayer,”

Dear Lord, I pray that You will send me the right person at the right time. Let this person be someone who loves You dearly and genuinely, whose heart will hunger, seek and thirst after You. I pray that he will be someone who will draw me even closer to You and likewise I would do the same for him. That we will both support and grow stronger in You so that both of us can fulfill Your purpose. Lord I pray and I ask for someone who flows in the same spirit as I do, for someone who is able to understand me and likewise me for him, and the best conversation that we’ll have is just to sit beside each other in silence. I pray that my other half will be a mighty warrior in You, someone who will desire to do your will, a God chaser. Lastly, God, I pray that when the right person is here at the right time, You will either kick me or slap me in my face cause You know how awfully dense I am. I thank You Lord, In Jesus name I pray, Amen.”
At that time, I started praying and asking God to open doors in my life so that I can reach out to more people. Out of the blue in March 2009, my classmate Celeste started to open up to me. It was through ministering to her that I got to know Ivan, Shu Yi, Malcom, Chang Feng, Pei Fen.

The very first time Ivan spoke to me, we talked about God. At that time when he talked to me, I kept praying in my heart and asking God what does He want to do with Ivan. And after Ivan told me what had happened in his life, I told him that he should not put to heart the words of man but to cling onto God.

The second time we spoke about God, I shared with Ivan my testimony and this time I took a step of courage by being more direct, I told him God wants him back.

After that, because the Lord gave me a dream regarding our classmate, I approached Ivan to ask him to help keep our classmate in prayer. It was when we pray for this classmate through msn then Ivan experienced deliverance for the first time in his life.

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among Ivan. Ivan has seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

The weirdest part is all of our classmates would notice that we were able to finish each other sentences, and say the same thing at the same time. So they kept pointing this out to both Ivan and I on many separate occasions. However I brushed it off because all the while, my only focus was to bring God’s presence to everyone around me, and it just happened such that Ivan was an open door.

It was during exam period during our study week when it just suddenly hit me that Ivan was being sent into my life by God. The funniest part is at the point of realization, it felt like I was being slapped on my face and God was like telling me this,” Haha! See I told you so… you should be careful of what you pray for!”

When Ivan finally confessed how he felt towards me I didn’t give him an answer immediately. The whole night I couldn’t sleep so instead I rang up Crystal to seek for advice then after that I kept praying about it. Finally the next day I decided before making a decision, I should lay out all the cards on the table so at least he knows what he is in for. Then we had a really long talk, and I told him that I really wanted to follow and chase after God, to live a life of surrender and to flow in God’s power. I wanted to know if he loves God as much as I do and whether he’s ready to commit as my stand is very clear, I will not compromise if he didn’t fit into the criteria of my prayers.

So I went to seek further confirmation from Celeste, Sister Janet and Crystal. And God gave us the green light. Through endless hours of prayers and confirmation, it was not an easy decision as we faced a lot of obstacles.

I really thank God for putting excellent mentors like Sister Janet into my life because of her advice to speak forth and proclaim scriptures into each other lives, we grew from praying over msn into praying nightly together, usually spending over an hour in prayer for close friends and for CKRM. Thank God for Brother Timothy who acted as a fatherly figure in Ivan’s life. Thank God for Crystal who never fails to point out all the potential pitfalls so that we know what problems could potentially arise and to cover those areas with lots of prayers.

And slowly the Lord began to reveal and confirm my prayers, through Sister Janet, when she told me that God is pleased with us, through Brother Timothy, when he prophesied that Ivan is another mighty warrior, (see God is so good, He answers my prayers in parts!), through Adeline who laughed at me and said,” See I told you so!”

The following week, Ivan received the vision of the 2 swords, one silver representing masculine, and one crystal representing feminine. When Brother Timothy told him what the 2 swords meant, there will be a time whereby the 2 swords will merge and become one sword. It served as a further confirmation of what I’ve been praying for because I have never spoken to Brother Timothy on this area of my life, for our spirit to unite as one and we will both serve the Lord together.

I really thank God for His faithfulness throughout all these years. And I really want to thank God for placing all these angels into my life to guide me and lead me closer to Him. It is indeed an unspeakable blessing to be set apart in holiness to worship the Lord! And I pray that this testimony will encourage singles and families not to give up but to endure and believe in love!