SAMUEL'S TESTIMONY
Recently my car got towed away from Times
Square. I had no choice but to go DBKL to get it back. While completing the
form at DBKL, I inadvertently left my new and expensive iphone 6S on the table
and walked away to hand in the form. While driving away, I kept feeling that
something was not right.
Upon checking I realized that my iphone
was missing!
I hurried back to DBKL but it was gone. I suspected that it was
either the DBKL staff or the Indian ladies behind me who could have taken away
the phone. As there was no CCTV, I could not conclusively say who took the
iphone.
Suffice to say that at this time, I needed
to tell you that I had not activated the find my iphone apps thus there was no
way I could have traced my phone. Whoever took it had shut it down immediately.
The following day which was a Tuesday, God
gave me the wisdom to put up an advert to all the dealers at Low Yat and
Pertama Complex.
I offered a reward to any dealer if they could alert me if
anyone contacted them to unlock the phone. I got a call from one dealer who
alerted me that someone (an Indian lady) calling to ask about unlocking an iphone but she did not bring the phone.
Immediately I suspected that the Indian
ladies (3 of them in a group) could have taken the phone. I lodged a police report,
took it to DBKL and requested for a copy of her IC citing the reason that I
needed to contact her as she was a most likely suspect.
I got her details and actually went to the
address but was surprised to see a Chinese lady there. It was then I knew that
the address was either fake or not updated. I even went to JPJ to look up her
car no and JPN but both addresses were similar to the IC address thus I knew
that I was at a dead end.
Sharing with my mum, she prayed for me and
encouraged me to go for morning watch and corporate prayer. It was a public
holiday and it was my first time praying in the morning watch. I did not feel tired at all surprisingly.
That night I joined the corporate prayer and cried
out to God with all my heart. Despite all odds and all the negative comments
that it was impossible to get back the phone I had the peace in my heart that
God will help me get back my phone. In fact, I whatsapp my mum about this and
she prayed for me to locate the thief.
On Saturday after morning watch my mum
said that while praying over this, God asked her to tell me to look for her on
facebook. Well I keyed in her name and lo and behold her name appeared! I was
so excited.
The lady rejected my friend request but I started texting my phone no
and told her that I knew that she had taken my phone and that I had all her details
which I could give to the police.
God gave me the wisdom not to be hostile
but to talk nicely to her. At first, there was only pure denial but finally
after a series of text messages, she finally admitted that she had taken my
phone.
I asked her to call another
number and I told her that if she gave me back the phone, I would not pursue
the matter further. I told her that I had offered a reward and would give it
to her if the phone was returned to me.
On Saturday night I got a call from a
third party asking me to go to Batu Caves at midnight to make the exchange. My
parents advised me not to go back so late at night as it could be dangerous.
We agreed to make the exchange at 12 pm the following day (which was a
Sunday).
To cut a long story short, we were at Batu
Caves after church and the exchange was made.
I got back my iphone after a week of
crying out to God, some sleuth work, some hard negotiation and lots and lots
of prayer back-up!
Did I give the reward? Yes I did albeit minus the value of
the phone cover but I considered it well worth as the iphone 6S was a very
expensive phone and just under a year old!
I learnt many lessons from this experience
but there is one thing that I learned which no thief can take away from me
which is JESUS IS AWESOME!
(Mum – at first I was thinking that this
is impossible but when I read my son’s faith declaration that ‘God will help
get back my iphone for me’ faith arose in my heart to believe that God is a
God who will surely respond to faith such as this! Amen)
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