Testimony
The second story about the power of prayer is my own. I've had this job four years now — love-hate relationship, lots of broken promises, overloaded, overworked, underpaid, treated very unfairly. A few weeks back it really got on top of me and I lost my temper a bit, sent a text with my written resignation effective the 30th of this month. Time was ticking and it wasn't looking good. On Tuesday at work the transport managers were saying hello to every other driver, patting them on the back, basically blanking me — it was hostile. I knew it was over. Wednesday morning the main transport manager asked when my final day was. I told him, and he said, "I want to rectify this today." He took me up to see the owner of the company — I'd never properly spoken to him before. The owner asked what was wrong, we had a really good chat, and he said, "Simon, I hope you don't mind but I've given you a pay rise on your CPC pay from today, and from Monday April 11th you're on a week's course for your CPC." Then a couple from church spoke to me on the Wednesday — turned out they'd known about my situation and had been praying. I told them what had happened that morning and they couldn't believe it. I'd been praying too. God can change whatever dire situation you think you can't get out of. Something that seems absolutely dead, buried, gone — he'll bring it back like that. I was never angry, I kept thanking God and trusting him. The power of prayer where two or three pray for somebody — if God sees fit, he'll do it.
— A believer at GCC
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
— Lamentations 3:22–23 (KJV)