Randy Tan
In 1995, the call of God came to my life. "Start preaching and rely fully on the Holy Spirit." I was puzzled; this was not the ambition in my life. Then the confirmation came. During my sleep, I would dream that I was preaching on the pulpit in different locations to different groups of people. And at least once a week, the Holy Spirit in the form of electric current would hit my body in the middle of the night.
The call was confirmed but where to start and what to do?
In early 1996, I sold my business so that I could start my ministry. Then out of the blue, a pastor from a local church invited me to join his mission team to Fiji. I accepted without hesitation. Then another invitation while I was in Fiji. The team did not have enough preachers. Could I preach in three different locations in Fiji? "What would the crowd size be like," I asked. I was told the church congregation ranged from 200 to 400 people. Imagine when the first night came, the church rented a stadium for me to preach and already the crowd was over 5,000 people. My knees began to shake. I thought I was dreaming and suddenly I had no confidence in the well prepared text that I had to preach. But the minute I stood on the pulpit, I felt the ministering anointing hit my body for the first time and suddenly I was preaching another message. "The Holy Spirit is running the meeting and I must rely fully on Him," I told myself. When I said the mass healing prayer, there were many movements from the people in front. Some of them began to throw out like they were possessed. Some began to show that they were healed. When I made the salvation call, hundreds came forward.
It took me quite sometime to get over what I experienced in Fiji. I came back and read the four gospels and the book of Acts with a new pair of spiritual eyes. I began to trust God 100 percent. Someone told me to register my ministry for legal reasons. I asked the Lord and the Holy Spirit gave me Acts Mission. When it was approved, I thanked God for giving me this ministry and then I told Him that every organization has a bank account but I had none. No one knew my needs and no one knew that I had registered Acts Mission. The next day, one sister called me up and said that she was impressed by the Holy Spirit to send a cheque to me. Then a brother called me up and said that the Lord had told him to buy me dinner. During dinner, he said that the Holy Spirit told him to give me $500. When the cheque from the sister arrived, the amount was also $500. I was a bit puzzled about the amount until I went the bank to open an account. They told me that I needed to have $1000 in order to open a current account!
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