July 07 UpdatePersonal testimonies are very important as it allows us to be reminded of God’s goodness and that He is a miracle working God. These are merely some of many testimonies. As God has blessed me, a simple guy from Seremban, Malaysia, surely he can bless you more. Besides the only reason for the blessing is that God and Jesus loves me. A he loves me so he loves you too.
1) “God can send anyone to confirm to you the He is real.”
Southbank Aug 1988 Expo 88In 1988, several years after accepting Christ and seeing the changes Christ has done in my late mother’s life I decided to go a bit deeper with God. As a developer at that time building a shopping centre and having a mechanical engineering background, it was hard for me to have the same simple faith as she did. At that time I witnessed how God was using her to bring healing to people.
As a Christian who accepted the Lord in her late forties, the Lord
did a marvelous work in her life. Apart from all the healing she required herself where the Lord performed some miraculous healings, she had a grace to pray for people in the “Name of Jesus” and God healed many including blind & deaf people. She was also given a gift of being able to memorize almost the entire Old and New Testament of the NIV bible in English. This was particularly more interesting as she had only completed 5 years of formal education because of the war.
After witnessing some supernatural healing, I was curious. She wanted me to “soften up” and serve God and showed me some scriptures on “asking God in the name of Jesus” and prayed with me. I asked the Lord that if He could send someone whom I can look up to, who could tell me that serving Him (God) is the high point in his/her life, I would soften up. At that time in my life, after being a very successful development consultant, I was undertaking a development of a shopping centre on 7 acres of land for myself and obtained 105% finance for the project. Had the Lord sent an “ordinary person”, I would have disregarded him as being insignificant. (I have changed since then and am a lot more humble.)
In August 1988, a few months later I was in Southbank in Brisbane, to pick my wife up who was working as a receptionist in a hotel during the World Expo’ 88. An American man came into the hotel lobby and said hello to me. He pulled me aside on a “one on one conversation” and asked if I was a Christian. I said yes and he asked if I was serving God. I told him that I was not but intended to get round to it one day. He than said that he was a test pilot, then became an astronaut and went to the moon and drove the lunar buggy. He told me that in spite of all that he has done the “high point in his life” was when the Lord spoke to him to serve the Lord. His name was Jim Irwin and he gave to Connie and myself an autograph copy of himself on the moon (a typical NASA issue) and signed “To Connie & Oliver, His love from the moon, Jim Irwin”. We know that it was the Lord and we have treasured it since. Most importantly it was a turning point in my life. God had my attention.
Isn’t it awesome how the Lord could send someone so significant to speak His word to us. As a young man growing up and during my mechanical engineering studies in university, these fine courageous men, the astronauts, were our heroes and almost like Gods to us.
2) “Nothing is too difficult for the Lord, not even leasing & refinance”
The Lord’s provision of tenants and refinance for Big Top Shopping Centre, Mt. Gravatt, Brisbane.
Photo Taken near Completion but with some shops opened while painting was being finished.
2a) Leasing of empty spaces.
We built the Big Top Shopping Centre (Retail Showroom) in Brisbane and kept it for several years. I secured the Land on $1 (one dollar) option and the bank provided 105% finance. When it was finished, Australia went through a recession and interest went up to 19%. This was quite serious especially as there was a debt of $10.5 million. (The treasurer who brought the worst recession on by lifting interest that high and kept it up there gets rewarded and becomes PM. What a great country Australia is.)
While we had a high level of pre-leases, there were still four vacant space and a fifth tenant wanted to terminate his short-term lease. After 12 months of vacancy of these spaces, as many potential tenants decided to downsize and no one was signing leases in the recession. My mother told me that I should pray for tenants in the midst of the recession. I told her that it would be nice if Dad and her can pray for me. They asked for the specific rental we like to achieve so that we can ask God for His best. She said that if we ask God we must be specific, have faith and believe (James 1:6). I thought that with a recession, we need to discount the rent heavily and provide a high level of rent-free period. My mother advised that I should ask God for what I want not what circumstances dictated. Praise the Lord, within one month of her and dad praying, the Lord bless us with all the tenants to fill the entire center at rentals that we asked for. The quality of tenants was very high and they also prayed for these tenants to be blessed and do well with us.
2b) The Miracle of God’s Refinance.
We also had an agreement with the financing bank that if there were a shortfall between the income or what we received from tenants, and the interest rates, they would amortize the shortfall. There is also an agreement that we will not need to refinance for two years.
At the end of two years we were due for refinance. At that time, praise the Lord we were fully tenanted and interest rate was down to 14% -16%. We had a problem in that the debt equity ratio at that time was not in our favor for a refinance. Prior to the recession the bank would finance up to 80% of the value of the shopping centre. As Australia was in a recession, the bank would lend only 60% of the value and the valuation was also reduced due to market conditions. Although we had a cash flow surplus of in excess of A$200,000.00 per annum at that time, it did not matter. The lending bank took advantage of the fact that refinance was hard to obtain at that time so they sent a letter of demand to repay the loan (with no intention of selling us out) so that they can charge an additional penalty interest rate bringing it to 16%. Even at that interest rate we had enough cash flow to service the loan.
As we were paying 16% and were managing the repayments we decided to approach the various financial institutions to refinance us and we were prepared to endure a rate of 16%. We would have been happy to lock in for three years on a fixed rate of 16% as it will at least create some certainty. Even then all the banks and institutions rejected us at 16% due to the debt equity ratio limitation. We turned to the Lord for assistance and the Lord gave me the peace that He will meet our needs. He gave us an instruction to perform an assignment overseas. We obeyed the Lord and within one month, I received a call from my solicitors that he wants to send some documents to me for some finance that has been offered to us. He advised that we have received an offer of finance from a major insurance fund for the first A$9.7 million with an interest of 7.9% fixed for three years. The balance to make up A$11.5 million was easy to secure after that. What was amazing was that all the institutions refused a refinance at 16% (and the rate for a fixed rate for three years is 16% anyway), yet the Lord did exceedingly beyond all that we could ask or imagine. MKJV (Eph 3:20) “ Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us”
God is truly our Jehovah Jireh “Our God who provides”. That was back in 1994 and since then we kept the shopping centre for another three years and sold it in 1997.
3) Ask persistently, you will be surprised.
Grace of God with Rev. David Yonggi Cho. Impact 2000 Conference Gold
Coast, Australia
I was back in Australia in April 1999 as the Lord instructed. In late 1999 we were told that Rev. David (Paul) Yonggi Cho was coming to Australia to the Gold Coast where I was living at that time. I have heard so much of this great man of God who built a church of 800,000 people and the largest in the world so I must see him. A brother in Christ from the church that was organizing the event gave me a poster of the conference with Rev. Yonggi Cho on it so I pasted the poster in my living room. I wake up at 5a.m. most mornings for my personal devotion and prayer and looked at the poster and prayed that God will bless me with a good seat for the conference and night rallies. Sometimes in these conferences you will have to que up forever and if the main auditorium is filled you might have to go to an alternative room and watch close circuit television. My prayer was, “Father if I have found favor in your eyes, please open door for me to enjoy a good seat in the conference and night rallies, nonetheless even if I have to be in the cry room or overflow area and merely watch the service from the close circuit television, I will still enjoy praising you there and promise to enjoy myself”.I included that prayer at the end of my daily prayer. Praise the Lord, several days before the conference began, a brother in Christ, Brother Chris Maynard who was an elective speaker for the conference for the Key Business Module rang me up and asked if I could help him with a favor for 45 minutes daily over the Impact 2000 conference weekend. As I love my brother I said yes. Because he was very busy and something came up, he needed me to take a 45 minutes session daily over the three days of the conference to speak on his behalf (he had three 45 minutes session per day). I did as he requested and “praise the Lord”, had a great time. The organizers gave me a special pass with a “Key Speaker” tag on it and as a result I had free parking right in front of the main auditorium and praise the Lord, not only did I not have to queue up to enter the conference and night rallies, we were given seats in the front row of the conference daily. Best of all we were also invited back to “green room” for refreshments with the leaders from Rev. Yonggi Cho’s church. What an honor it was. Nothing is impossible with God.
4) God can bless you even if you are stuck in the kitchen.
Encounter with Mel Tari
Mel Tari is the famous Author of “Like a Mighty Wind”. Published in 1970, the book became a
best seller and today it is still sold. Apparently it was a Christian Book that broke all records and stayed on the best sellers list for the longest time. It was then translated to 40 different languages. Today 30 years later, the book is still selling well and available through Amazon.com and other leading outlets. The book tells of God’s works and miracles like in the book of acts in Timor in the late 1960’s.
Some of the miracles include: -
· God helping a team of people to walk through a river in full flood (like Joshua walking through the Jordan river in full flood).
· A church burning with the flames of the Holy Spirit, and tongues of fire leaping on people, like in the day of Pentecost.
· God turning water to wine (like in Jesus’ first miracle).
· God raising the dead (this guy was dead two days in the bush and smelled really bad 100 feet away) in the presence of 1,000 people. And 21,000 people gave their heart to Jesus as a result.
· God’s miraculous provision to bring Mel to the United States. Etc.
I was serving a local church, Christian Community Church in the Gold Coast at that time and Mel Tari was the guest speaker for a Mission Conference. There was a coffee & desert night and several people were serving in the kitchen to prepare the dessert as well as decorate the food. Having experience in restaurants, I was helping in the kitchen. Because Mel was such a famous speaker, everyone wanted to go out to listen to him. I decided to stay in the kitchen with one other person and wash all the coffee cups, saucers, dessert plates and cutlery. Besides I can catch Mel on the Sunday service. As we cannot hear Mel in the kitchen, I just sang to God and worshipped Him. The Lord filled me with joy and peace and I felt like King David singing to the Lord when he was looking after the sheep.
The next day Mel Tari came to me and asked if I was the person who prepared the food and did the wonderful fruit platter and carved the apples into swans. I told him that I was the person and he told me that the Lord asked him to pray for my wife and myself that evening. We came to the night service as well and he prayed a wonderful prayer over our lives. Like David was anointed by Samuel, and David was in the fields looking after the sheep when Samuel came to his house, I was in the kitchen, yet God can get the man of God to anoint us. Best of all from the pulpit he said that the Lord wants him to take my wife and myself out for dinner so that he can talk to me.
Since then the Lord have given us many words and we have become very good friends, true brothers in Christ as well as partners on several major undertakings. We have traveled together across the USA, went to Mexico and Europe and Indonesia together. Brother Mel is such a great mentor. We believe that God has empowered us to do great things for the kingdom together. We are currently undertaking a major project called “Las Palomas” to serve God. So do not despise serving God in the kitchen.
5) God can open door t
hat no man can shut.
Meeting with the former Prime Minister of Malaysia
I was traveling in the United States with Mel Tari and I said to him that it will be nice to meet with the former Prime Minister of Malaysia now that he was retired and perhaps it might have a God purpose. He said that we should commit it to the Lord and pray over it in agreement. Within a week of the prayer, my wife rang me up while I was still in Malaysia and told me that we have received an invitation to the wedding to the eldest son of the Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of Malaysia. At the wedding as we were guests from overseas, we were placed in the best table and has
an opportunity to meet the Former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahatir, the King or Agung. We had a great time and enjoyed the privilege. Truly God can open any doors. I also pray that in His time that I will be able to be used as a blessing to Malaysia for Jesus.
Southbank Aug 1988 Expo 88In 1988, several years after accepting Christ and seeing the changes Christ has done in my late mother’s life I decided to go a bit deeper with God. As a developer at that time building a shopping centre and having a mechanical engineering background, it was hard for me to have the same simple faith as she did. At that time I witnessed how God was using her to bring healing to people.
As a Christian who accepted the Lord in her late forties, the Lord
did a marvelous work in her life. Apart from all the healing she required herself where the Lord performed some miraculous healings, she had a grace to pray for people in the “Name of Jesus” and God healed many including blind & deaf people. She was also given a gift of being able to memorize almost the entire Old and New Testament of the NIV bible in English. This was particularly more interesting as she had only completed 5 years of formal education because of the war.After witnessing some supernatural healing, I was curious. She wanted me to “soften up” and serve God and showed me some scriptures on “asking God in the name of Jesus” and prayed with me. I asked the Lord that if He could send someone whom I can look up to, who could tell me that serving Him (God) is the high point in his/her life, I would soften up. At that time in my life, after being a very successful development consultant, I was undertaking a development of a shopping centre on 7 acres of land for myself and obtained 105% finance for the project. Had the Lord sent an “ordinary person”, I would have disregarded him as being insignificant. (I have changed since then and am a lot more humble.)
In August 1988, a few months later I was in Southbank in Brisbane, to pick my wife up who was working as a receptionist in a hotel during the World Expo’ 88. An American man came into the hotel lobby and said hello to me. He pulled me aside on a “one on one conversation” and asked if I was a Christian. I said yes and he asked if I was serving God. I told him that I was not but intended to get round to it one day. He than said that he was a test pilot, then became an astronaut and went to the moon and drove the lunar buggy. He told me that in spite of all that he has done the “high point in his life” was when the Lord spoke to him to serve the Lord. His name was Jim Irwin and he gave to Connie and myself an autograph copy of himself on the moon (a typical NASA issue) and signed “To Connie & Oliver, His love from the moon, Jim Irwin”. We know that it was the Lord and we have treasured it since. Most importantly it was a turning point in my life. God had my attention.
Isn’t it awesome how the Lord could send someone so significant to speak His word to us. As a young man growing up and during my mechanical engineering studies in university, these fine courageous men, the astronauts, were our heroes and almost like Gods to us.
2) “Nothing is too difficult for the Lord, not even leasing & refinance”
The Lord’s provision of tenants and refinance for Big Top Shopping Centre, Mt. Gravatt, Brisbane.
Photo Taken near Completion but with some shops opened while painting was being finished.2a) Leasing of empty spaces.
We built the Big Top Shopping Centre (Retail Showroom) in Brisbane and kept it for several years. I secured the Land on $1 (one dollar) option and the bank provided 105% finance. When it was finished, Australia went through a recession and interest went up to 19%. This was quite serious especially as there was a debt of $10.5 million. (The treasurer who brought the worst recession on by lifting interest that high and kept it up there gets rewarded and becomes PM. What a great country Australia is.)
While we had a high level of pre-leases, there were still four vacant space and a fifth tenant wanted to terminate his short-term lease. After 12 months of vacancy of these spaces, as many potential tenants decided to downsize and no one was signing leases in the recession. My mother told me that I should pray for tenants in the midst of the recession. I told her that it would be nice if Dad and her can pray for me. They asked for the specific rental we like to achieve so that we can ask God for His best. She said that if we ask God we must be specific, have faith and believe (James 1:6). I thought that with a recession, we need to discount the rent heavily and provide a high level of rent-free period. My mother advised that I should ask God for what I want not what circumstances dictated. Praise the Lord, within one month of her and dad praying, the Lord bless us with all the tenants to fill the entire center at rentals that we asked for. The quality of tenants was very high and they also prayed for these tenants to be blessed and do well with us.
2b) The Miracle of God’s Refinance.
We also had an agreement with the financing bank that if there were a shortfall between the income or what we received from tenants, and the interest rates, they would amortize the shortfall. There is also an agreement that we will not need to refinance for two years.At the end of two years we were due for refinance. At that time, praise the Lord we were fully tenanted and interest rate was down to 14% -16%. We had a problem in that the debt equity ratio at that time was not in our favor for a refinance. Prior to the recession the bank would finance up to 80% of the value of the shopping centre. As Australia was in a recession, the bank would lend only 60% of the value and the valuation was also reduced due to market conditions. Although we had a cash flow surplus of in excess of A$200,000.00 per annum at that time, it did not matter. The lending bank took advantage of the fact that refinance was hard to obtain at that time so they sent a letter of demand to repay the loan (with no intention of selling us out) so that they can charge an additional penalty interest rate bringing it to 16%. Even at that interest rate we had enough cash flow to service the loan.
As we were paying 16% and were managing the repayments we decided to approach the various financial institutions to refinance us and we were prepared to endure a rate of 16%. We would have been happy to lock in for three years on a fixed rate of 16% as it will at least create some certainty. Even then all the banks and institutions rejected us at 16% due to the debt equity ratio limitation. We turned to the Lord for assistance and the Lord gave me the peace that He will meet our needs. He gave us an instruction to perform an assignment overseas. We obeyed the Lord and within one month, I received a call from my solicitors that he wants to send some documents to me for some finance that has been offered to us. He advised that we have received an offer of finance from a major insurance fund for the first A$9.7 million with an interest of 7.9% fixed for three years. The balance to make up A$11.5 million was easy to secure after that. What was amazing was that all the institutions refused a refinance at 16% (and the rate for a fixed rate for three years is 16% anyway), yet the Lord did exceedingly beyond all that we could ask or imagine. MKJV (Eph 3:20) “ Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us”
God is truly our Jehovah Jireh “Our God who provides”. That was back in 1994 and since then we kept the shopping centre for another three years and sold it in 1997.
3) Ask persistently, you will be surprised.
Grace of God with Rev. David Yonggi Cho. Impact 2000 Conference Gold
Coast, AustraliaI was back in Australia in April 1999 as the Lord instructed. In late 1999 we were told that Rev. David (Paul) Yonggi Cho was coming to Australia to the Gold Coast where I was living at that time. I have heard so much of this great man of God who built a church of 800,000 people and the largest in the world so I must see him. A brother in Christ from the church that was organizing the event gave me a poster of the conference with Rev. Yonggi Cho on it so I pasted the poster in my living room. I wake up at 5a.m. most mornings for my personal devotion and prayer and looked at the poster and prayed that God will bless me with a good seat for the conference and night rallies. Sometimes in these conferences you will have to que up forever and if the main auditorium is filled you might have to go to an alternative room and watch close circuit television. My prayer was, “Father if I have found favor in your eyes, please open door for me to enjoy a good seat in the conference and night rallies, nonetheless even if I have to be in the cry room or overflow area and merely watch the service from the close circuit television, I will still enjoy praising you there and promise to enjoy myself”.I included that prayer at the end of my daily prayer. Praise the Lord, several days before the conference began, a brother in Christ, Brother Chris Maynard who was an elective speaker for the conference for the Key Business Module rang me up and asked if I could help him with a favor for 45 minutes daily over the Impact 2000 conference weekend. As I love my brother I said yes. Because he was very busy and something came up, he needed me to take a 45 minutes session daily over the three days of the conference to speak on his behalf (he had three 45 minutes session per day). I did as he requested and “praise the Lord”, had a great time. The organizers gave me a special pass with a “Key Speaker” tag on it and as a result I had free parking right in front of the main auditorium and praise the Lord, not only did I not have to queue up to enter the conference and night rallies, we were given seats in the front row of the conference daily. Best of all we were also invited back to “green room” for refreshments with the leaders from Rev. Yonggi Cho’s church. What an honor it was. Nothing is impossible with God.
4) God can bless you even if you are stuck in the kitchen.
Encounter with Mel Tari
Mel Tari is the famous Author of “Like a Mighty Wind”. Published in 1970, the book became a
best seller and today it is still sold. Apparently it was a Christian Book that broke all records and stayed on the best sellers list for the longest time. It was then translated to 40 different languages. Today 30 years later, the book is still selling well and available through Amazon.com and other leading outlets. The book tells of God’s works and miracles like in the book of acts in Timor in the late 1960’s.Some of the miracles include: -
· God helping a team of people to walk through a river in full flood (like Joshua walking through the Jordan river in full flood).
· A church burning with the flames of the Holy Spirit, and tongues of fire leaping on people, like in the day of Pentecost.
· God turning water to wine (like in Jesus’ first miracle).
· God raising the dead (this guy was dead two days in the bush and smelled really bad 100 feet away) in the presence of 1,000 people. And 21,000 people gave their heart to Jesus as a result.
· God’s miraculous provision to bring Mel to the United States. Etc.
I was serving a local church, Christian Community Church in the Gold Coast at that time and Mel Tari was the guest speaker for a Mission Conference. There was a coffee & desert night and several people were serving in the kitchen to prepare the dessert as well as decorate the food. Having experience in restaurants, I was helping in the kitchen. Because Mel was such a famous speaker, everyone wanted to go out to listen to him. I decided to stay in the kitchen with one other person and wash all the coffee cups, saucers, dessert plates and cutlery. Besides I can catch Mel on the Sunday service. As we cannot hear Mel in the kitchen, I just sang to God and worshipped Him. The Lord filled me with joy and peace and I felt like King David singing to the Lord when he was looking after the sheep.
The next day Mel Tari came to me and asked if I was the person who prepared the food and did the wonderful fruit platter and carved the apples into swans. I told him that I was the person and he told me that the Lord asked him to pray for my wife and myself that evening. We came to the night service as well and he prayed a wonderful prayer over our lives. Like David was anointed by Samuel, and David was in the fields looking after the sheep when Samuel came to his house, I was in the kitchen, yet God can get the man of God to anoint us. Best of all from the pulpit he said that the Lord wants him to take my wife and myself out for dinner so that he can talk to me.
Since then the Lord have given us many words and we have become very good friends, true brothers in Christ as well as partners on several major undertakings. We have traveled together across the USA, went to Mexico and Europe and Indonesia together. Brother Mel is such a great mentor. We believe that God has empowered us to do great things for the kingdom together. We are currently undertaking a major project called “Las Palomas” to serve God. So do not despise serving God in the kitchen.
5) God can open door t
hat no man can shut.Meeting with the former Prime Minister of Malaysia
I was traveling in the United States with Mel Tari and I said to him that it will be nice to meet with the former Prime Minister of Malaysia now that he was retired and perhaps it might have a God purpose. He said that we should commit it to the Lord and pray over it in agreement. Within a week of the prayer, my wife rang me up while I was still in Malaysia and told me that we have received an invitation to the wedding to the eldest son of the Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of Malaysia. At the wedding as we were guests from overseas, we were placed in the best table and has
an opportunity to meet the Former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahatir, the King or Agung. We had a great time and enjoyed the privilege. Truly God can open any doors. I also pray that in His time that I will be able to be used as a blessing to Malaysia for Jesus.7) Divine encounter of a different kind
Meeting with Mary K Baxter.In September 2005 I was leading a life group in the Gold Coast.
We normally allocate 15 minutes for open question on any subject. One of our members asked what my revelations was on Hell. I told him that we are all going to heaven so I was curious why he wanted to know. He told me that he just wanted to know my revelations on it. I explained the scriptures on hell before Jesus went to the cross and after and then asked him if he had ever read a book written approximately 15 years ago called “The divine revelations of Hell” by Mary K Baxter. Most of life group members has read the book and then they all asked a question on the book. One of the ladies said that she read the book and said that it was very vivid and scary and asked me if I thought if the testimony in the book was real. I told her that I liked the book and believe that it is real and I know the power of the book as friends of mine bought more than 30 books to give to their collegues and many have given their heart to Jesus as a result of the book. But to be perfectly honest, I told them that I do not know as I have not met the lady and I suppose a clever person who knows the scriptures well can write such a book. I then said jokingly that if I ever meet Mary K Baxter, I will ask her for them. They laughed at me as they told me that I do not even know where she lived or if she is still alive. I told them that if Jesus wants me to meet with he, he is well capable to do soThree weeks later I was in Arizona USA for some business meetings and I was invited to speak in a church. We got a little lost and arrived in the church during the praise and worship. The pastor then invited me to the pulpit to preach told me that I have 30 minutes as that day I am sharing the pulpit with Mary K Baxter. I asked him if it is Mary K Baxter the author. It was such a privilege to speak with her and she blessed me with all the tapes and all the other books she has written including, “The divine revelations of Angels”, “ The divine revelations of the Spiritual realm” and “The divine revelations of Heaven”. Her preaching was so anointed and many people was set free. She also gave me all her personal contacts and told me that she would love to come to Australia to speak.
The following month I was back in America and met the Pastor of the church and he shared a testimony of an Indian person who died of a drug overdose and he was brought to hell and had a glimpse of heaven. In heaven he saw many gold plates with offerings before God and in one of the plates he saw a gold round book and he read the title and it is “The divine revelations of Hell” by Mary K Baxter. That book is a memorial offering before God. The Indian died of the drug OD and was revived in hospital. He shared the testimony with the Pastor and the Pastor invited him to share that testimony in church that night and guess what, after the testimony, the Pastor asked Mary K Baxter to pray for him as she was in the audience that night. Here is a case where I jokingly told people I will ask her and God who has an excellent sense of humor organized a divine encounter with Mary K Baxter.
8) God and use us to speak to Presidents and leadersMeeting with the President of the Navajo Nation
Some time ago the Lord put in the heart of Mel Tari and me that He will bless the Indian Nations. To encourage them along we decided to modify a song so that the Navajo people can sign into confession those thing they are trusting God for. One day the Lord put in my heart to give a word to the Navajo Nation.The Navajo Nation, like all the other Indian Nations is a Sovereign Nation within the United States based on a treaty signed several hundred years ago. They have a right to total self government and even have their own President, a Congress in a structure similar to the United States. The Navajo Nation is the largest of the Indian Nation and has a land area of 17million acres. They also have access to a lot of water, and what was once a waste land is rich in resources and potential. They are also the largest owner of Freehold properties in the United States and has a population of in excess of 250,000 people.
I had the privilege of meeting with the President of the Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley and his ministers and shared with them the scriptures God has given them. The word was from Isaiah 43:18-21 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing. Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the desert and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen, the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.”
I also had the privilege to share with the President and his people my vision of how their great nation will be so blessed that they will be a blessing to the nations of the world. In 2007 President Joe Shirley was reelected for another 5 year term any I was invited to the inauguration. While I could not make it then, I met with him later in 2007. I pray that God will be able to use me to be a blessing the Navajo Nation.
9) God can bless you with the best land for the best development
Contract for 2,162 acres of waterfront land for Las Palomas Development in La Paz. Baja California Sur.
In 2004 Mel Tari organized a meeting with Mr. Ray Novelli in Irvine, Los Angeles. Ray rolled
out a plan of 4,324 acres of waterfront where he has designed a two golf course residential development on approximately ¼ of the total land. He told me that he would like me to consider undertaking a development from the other side of the development. He did not tell me how much land or what the terms are. I told him that if the Lord wants us me to be in it, it will be a privilege and a pleasure to do it. We decided to pray about it, and meet the following day. I went on my knees to praise and worship God and waited for a word from Him that night. Not hearing anything form Him , I decided to do Gideon test (Judges 6:36-40). I ask the Lord for His sign in the meeting the following day. In summary it went like this.a) Lord if You are in this project, bless us with a minimum of 1,500 acres of land. Any more will be grace from You and any les I will walk.
b) Lord if You are in this project let the owner accept US$1 (one dollar) as a deposit and the balance payable from the development or some acceptable deferred payment. (If he ask for $2 or more as a deposit, I will walk.)
c) Lord if You are with us on this project make the sale price of the property be no more than US$7 million for the 1,500 acres of land. Any less is grace from you.
d) It is always good t be a blessing and we have purpose in our heart to bless the land owner with a share of our profits. Lord if you are in this with us, let us part with no more than 35% of our net profits. Any less is Grace from You.
We met the next day and ray asked me what I wanted. I told him that perhaps he should tell me what God put in his heart. The terms he offered is as follows: -
a) Land area for us is half of the land, i.e. 2,162 acres.
b) Deposit US$1 (One dollar).
c) Land price from development profits or deferred payment, US$6 million. Minimum payment US$1 million in 2007, 2008, 2009 and US$3 million in 2010.
d) Profit share to his company, 20% of profits.
Praise the Lord for his grace and we prepared the contract signed the contract a month later. Mel and myself purpose in our heart to undertake the development and use 90% of all profits to serve the Lord and be a blessing to people in the world. With the balance of 10% we will use some to bless our families and use most of it to start other projects to do the same. And if for some reason the Lord wants to use all 100% of our profits, we will undertake the next project by faith.
In 2007 we have been advised that a very respectable valuer, gave a valuation of US$42 million “as it is”. It appears that God has provided for His own sacrifice. US$1 becoming US$36 million nett, that is a 36 million fold blessing.
As this is an ongoing project we pray that God will continue to bless us and give us favor with Him and with man. Our figures show that God willing we should be able to release more than US$1 billion to serve God with.
10) God can bring the best of the best for his works. God prepares in advance.
Des Brooks. An architect of passion and excellence, unequaled in his field.
Several years ago, Des Brooks came to a small unit I was renting in the Gold Coast with his Rolls Royce convertible and we had a cup of tea. He told me that He wants to be my architect even if he does not earn a dollar from me so that I can be built up. I was really touched and praise the Lord. I told Des that surely as he blesses me he will be amply blessed.What is most awesome is that some of the projects which Des has been involved in includes: -
The Sheraton Mirage Port Douglas, The Sheraton Mirage Surfers Paradise, The worlds first Versace hotel, The Marriott in Surfers Paradise, Royal Pines Resort, Sun City, Legends Hotel, Soul on Cavill Avenue, Princeville in Hawaii, Southbank redevelopment, Four seasons in Guangzhou and very many others.
While he is semi retired he is personally drawing our development Las Palomas in Baja with a team of four of the best architects he has personally hand picked all of them who had work with him for in excess of 15 years each. I believe that like good wine, his best work is only now being revealed.
11) God can open doors that no man can shut. The opening of five countries.
In 2007, Pastor Jens Garnsfeldt gave up a conference of 8,000 people in
London and a conference in Sweden with possibly 20,000 people to come to Australia to preach to 65 people in Australia. He prophesied to be that “God will bring back to you something that you are having some problems with. God will also open doors to five countries to you.” After that weekend, I flew to India and Indonesia and Malaysia.It was amazing that God has opened up major opportunities to undertake developments in India. We will most likely undertake several major Golf Resort/Residential developments in India. In fact m faith tells me that we might also undertake projects that are much larger. Another amazing fact is that a friend of 20 years with a net worth of in excess of A$500 million and growing, spoke to me several days earlier that he is happy to undertake a development with me in India and that we can sign an MOU that 90% of all profits can be used to help people in India. God also prepared the heart of a successful businessman in India who told me that he will secure the land that we need, pay for it and bring that into the joint venture.
After that I went to Indonesia and the Lord open doors to major development opportunities including 3,500 acres of prime waterfront property which belongs to major investors to a very successful public listed company. I thank Richard Tan of Success Resources in Singapore and Tung Deesem Waringin of Indonesia, my partners for the Indonesian projects and TJ for organizing this amazing opportunities.We were also hosted by the Regent of a beautiful Island which will be perfect for the best new multi resorts development in Indonesia.
When I was in Malaysia after that a businessman from Singapore provided the airfares and expenses for my wife and myself to go to China to look at a project.
Truly God can open doors that no man can shut. I believe the five countries that God has opened include Mexico, India, Indonesia, China and I am still awaiting the fifth country. M desire is that 90% of all profits in any development projects we undertake will be used by God to serve him in these nations.
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I hope these testimonies will encourage you. I have a lot more and I will add some more when I get round to it. Some include my meeting with John Z Delorean before he passed away, and other interesting things. Serving Jesus is definitely exciting. In all things we give all glory to God for his grace and mercy.
Contact: Oliver Tham
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