Pastor Troy Marshal

What a wonderful weekend this has been. Filled with so much excitement and faith.

Went to dakota hawker centre with my family today for lunch! The variety is super wide i was completely spoilt for choices. But i had one aim in mind, to hunt for the famous dakota tauhuayy! i walked round and round but i couldnt find a distinct store with super long queue. Unexpectedly, i saw someone from church carrying like 100 tauhuay walking out of the hawker, so i knew it had to be around somewhere! I saw a quite flashy shop selling tauhuay, but the plastic bag they used wasnt red. so confirm not tt store. and then right where my family was sitting, there was a notsoflashy tauhuay store infront of us. I told myself, it has to be it! so i went to buy the tauhuay, and on the first bite, i expected to like ascend and fly. but it tasted quite ordinary.. But on the second mouth, it became yummyly delicious! But i really hope i ate the correct dakota tauhuay.


This story is long but definitely worth remembering, so im gonna make it into black and white so i can rmb it for life!
Went to parkway to buy balloons after that. After alighting from the bus, i decided to walk left instead of right because it was a shorter path into parkway shopping centre. So as i was crossing the overhead bridge, i rmbed i havent drawn money to buy the balloons, and atm was on the other side of the road. so i was like, bah. how forgetful can i get. and i proceeded towards the shop. Upon reaching the shop, the realised that the pricing was different from what they said online, from $1 to $1.45. Super huge jump, especially when i was gonna buy 20 balloons. Thats like 50% more expensive. So i decided to try to bargain, but she wouldnt budge. She was super fierce and angsty also, and she told me that she had to prepare 100 balloons in like 10min time, and if i dont buy now, i need to wait until she finishes her 100 balloons which was like 1hr later. So i was like. okay fine. but i needed to draw money first to buy. So i went out of parkway and walked to the draw money area which was right out at the bus stop. As i walked, i was praying to god for a miracle to happen.

And on my way back, i saw standard chartered giving free nonhelium-balloons-on-a-stick! and beside them was maybank giving free helium balloons! So and idea came into my head! Take 20 free helium balloons, and i dont have to pay a single cent! So i went to take 2 balloons, then i asked for 10 more. Expectedly, the staff wouldnt give la. but he told me i could get my friends to come and take the balloons. And so under the hot sun, i started to look for approachable people to ask for help! And so qiao, i saw xiongann! and i asked him to help me take balloons! And he and his friend,took 2 for me, so i had 4! But i had only 4, i needed like alot more. So i looked around for options, and i saw a boy walking around aimlessly giving out flyers. I intelligently proposed a trade with him! I help him give out flyers, he help me take balloons! and so it happened! best thing was that he called his friend who was giving out flyers as well to help to take more balloons! and in exchange, i helped his friend give out flyers too! And incredibly, the 2 of them took 6 balloons in total! I had 10 balloons! i was super super thankful to them! but i had to continue my quest for more balloons! In 1 hand i was holding 10 balloons, and in the other, i was giving out flyers. and like 5 ppl approached me, can i have a balloon? i was like. im not from maybank yo! But there was 1 girl who wanted a balloon quite desperately, so i reluctantly gave her 1.
So until then, i had 9 balloons in total. I headed back to the shop, like 25 min later, and i saw that she was already preparing the 100 balloons she needed. I was like, oh no. u better take my order!! With the widest smile, i approached the staff telling her im back to buy the balloons, but this time i needed only 11, and the previous angsty, angrylooking staff became a totally changed person. Friendly and supportative! She saw my maybank balloons, and i dont know if it was out of sympathy or kindness, she willingly volunteered to give me 5 more balloons for free, saying that the maybank balloons i had wouldnt last! Its really quite a miracle because who would expect an established shop to give out free balloons which cost $1.45 each to a totally random customer out of free will? I had completely no relationships with her before today whatsoever. I was like, no way! God really moves in our lives! Now i have 25 balloons! 9 maybank, 11 paid for, and 5 free!
Happily i took the balloons to church! The only downside was that i couldnt board public transport with 25 balloons in my hand. So i had no choice but to spend $5.40 on cab. Its so incredible that while i was alone during the entire time searching for the balloons, i could god with me throughout the entire time! And he seemed to be telling me what i had to do, And thinking back, all these would have been made possible only if i had forgotten that i needed to draw money and walked left instead of right! This once again emphasizes on the fact that we need to trust god always, even when we experience errors and mistakes, for god always has a plan for us!

Pastor troy is so sincere! From just one single idea he wants us to understand, he goes through so many different platforms to explain, relating to his life, our life, and everyday occurences! And the thing which shows his sincerity at its best was when he was willing to go overtime to preach about the single idea he wants us to understand!(although i think most of us get his drift already) I think he was still worried that we might not have grasped the concept entirely, so he took pains to give countless examples to emphasize on that point. He has such a heart for all of us! And during altar call, he went to every single person to bless them!
And im so happy i went up to the front today! But of course, i have to thank peijun for giving me the nudge, and for zhanyu who reassuringly told me that he would be fine alone. The feeling infront was totally different. Immediately after reaching the front, i looked up and saw dom looking back at me. His eyes were full of godly compassion. I could really see the glory of god shining infront of me, as though telling me, you are my dearly loved son, and you bring me great joy! Lynette came and prayed for me. and im so thankful it was lynette who prayed for me. For she knows my doubts and fears, and only she, knows what i needed to hear.

After a wonderful week with god, its now back to work. Time to put my trust in god, and know that everything that happens happen for a reason.