I didn’t expect God to speak to me through a handphone.
I share this story first to glorify God, for He has showed me an amazing miracle. Also, I pray that you may enjoy the sweetness that comes from having faith in God.
My father had taken his handphone to try to get it revived. The repair technicians told him that his phone was beyond repair – it was dead. It was difficult news to take. Our sweet family memories saved in pictures and videos would be lost. When my father told me about it, I asked him to pray to our Lord, because we had not prayed about it before that.
To our surprise, when he next tried to revive the phone just a few minutes later, its screen immediately lit up. How was this possible? The technicians had failed to even switch the phone on.
But it still couldn’t function properly. Although my father was about to give up since he had already exhausted all technical means to fix the phone, I told myself to have faith that God will fix it. I didn’t tell anyone else about this, because I must confess that I still had some doubt that God would fix the phone – it was such a trivial matter, after all.
I prayed and waited. I played worship songs on the piano, which is my hobby. My father joined me in singing.
As we praised the Lord, the phone’s memory began to be restored. How was this possible?
After each hymn we sang, my father checked the progress of data recovery. Each time without fail, it increased. This was amazing. We continued praising God.
From being impossible to fix, the phone’s original function was restored 100 percent, no less. All glory to God!
This surprise “phone call” from God on 2 March 2025 reminds me to trust Him as I go through a difficult and uncertain time now.
God has comforted me many times through music. As I wrote this testimony, God placed the melody of a beautiful hymn in my head.
‘Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to take him at His word,
Just to rest upon His promise,
Just to know ‘Thus saith the Lord.’
It was indeed God who spoke to me through these lyrics; I could not have remembered it because I had never sung it before. I knew only the first line and had to Google the rest of the lyrics.
It felt liberating when I stopped doubting. It was sweet.
Take Jesus at His Word, the hymn says.
Our Lord tells us Himself in Mark 11:22-24,
“Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
We can take Him at His Word.
When I look back at God’s many miracles in my life, I know without a doubt that I can trust Him.
My life itself is a miracle.
Three of Singapore’s top gynaecologists told my mother it was impossible for her to have a child. For seven difficult years, my parents prayed for a child and continued to worship God. When my mother conceived me naturally, by God’s abundant grace, the doctors were astounded.
When our family faces challenges, we pray and praise God at home. Even when we don’t fully understand our situation, we trust that God will be faithful no matter what – after all, He is the same God who gave me life.
‘Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to take him at His word,
Just to rest upon His promise,
Just to know ‘Thus saith the Lord.’
To God be the highest praise and glory!
