My name is Pauline Lim, and I am originally from Singapore. I have been living in the USA for 26 years. God is good to me all the time. Hallelujah!
Before coming to Christ, I had been searching to know the true and living God even at the age of 6, because I was confused by watching my parents’ faithful offering of incense and food offerings to the ancestors between the 1st and 15th days of the Chinese calendar. Logically, it did not make any sense to follow their belief in ancestral worship. While I was battling between my parents’ belief and my grandfather’s Catholic faith, I decided to seek after the true and living God as I was strongly influenced by my grandfather’s devotion to the Catholic faith. At that time, I did not know the difference between Protestant and Catholic, but I never stopped pursuing the true and living God.
The Bible says in Psalm 37:4, “Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Truly, God knew my heart’s desire was to know Him. At the age of 9, God graciously brought an American missionary couple to share the Easter story with me at a house meeting. My close friend invited me to her house for Sunday school during Easter season. After hearing the Easter story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, I was happy that I found Jesus, who is the true and living God. I was delighted to know that Jesus came to give me a new life and a hope for life. I can talk with Jesus everyday, anytime and anywhere. Going to learn more about Jesus at the house meeting every Sunday was really a great joy to me. Unfortunately, I could not go to Sunday school for a while because the group moved to a church nearby. Being a devout ancestral worshipper, my mother stopped me from going to church on Sundays. As a little girl at the age of 9, I had no choice, but to obey my mother’s order. Thankfully, I could continue reading the Bible and praying to Jesus in my room without mother’s knowledge.
Though I did not know completely how to live a Christian life without a proper follow-up program, the Bible says, “He has made everything beautiful in its time.” In His perfect timing, God brought a college friend to invite me to her home for dinner. After dinner, Alice shared the Four Spiritual Laws to me. I was shocked to learn that I had not made a commitment to Jesus Christ even though I found Him at the age of 9. No one had ever told me to say a prayer of commitment to Jesus Christ and assured me of my salvation in God. Without further delay, I prayed to receive Christ into my life. Immediately, I received God’s peace, joy and love in my life. I am grateful to God for that spiritual renewal at the age of 18. I had been missing the mark of God’s standard, but He did not stop watching over me. Praise to God for His powerful words in Isaiah 55:11, “So shall my word be that goes out from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.”
I dedicated my life to Jesus Christ to serve Him after I was spiritually renewed by His power. I said, “Here I am! Send me.” – Isaiah 6:8 at a prayer meeting as six ladies gathered together to pray for the world weekly. Out of the six ladies, three were called to serve Him overseas. I was one of the three ladies who were called to serve Him among His chosen people in Israel. Thereafter, God burdened me to continue praying for His chosen people who are near to Him and yet so far from Him.
After much prayer and preparation, God called me to serve His chosen people in New York City in 1992. I have been faithfully serving God among the Jewish people in the USA for 26 years in different cities in the USA: New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and overseas in London. God has enlarged my tent by adding another ministry, to work among international students on campus since 2010. I can truly testify God’s faithfulness as I hold onto this mission Bible verse in I Thessalonians 5:24, “He who calls you is faithful; He will surely do it.” To God be the Glory! Amen.