I became a Christian in 2017. As I was born into a family that favors sons over daughters, I used to seek solace by reading books on Buddhism. In 2014, I came to Malaysia and met my boyfriend. After I witnessed a testimony he made, I began to come to faith.
My boyfriend and I once took a trip to a city with some friends. We didn't return to our accommodations until 2 am, but at 7 o'clock the next day, my boyfriend said he had to get up and go out. Usually, he has trouble falling asleep, and has to sleep until noon; besides, it was in the early hours when he drove back to our lodging the day before. But he said he needed to go to church, and at that moment, I was taken by surprise. From that time on, I became slightly curious about the Christian faith and even stopped believing in Buddhism later on.
I was baptized when I went to Malaysia in 2017—that was the last time I went to Malaysia. In 2018, I broke up with my boyfriend. And upon returning after the baptism, I found myself a church.
In September 2018, I started to prepare for studying abroad in Thailand. During the last two days of a trip to Thailand, I met two girls who were from Australia and South Korea. After chatting, we found out that we were all Christians; my boyfriend at the time told me that he believed in Christ as well. There seemed to be a voice telling me: It was time to go back to church.
After that, I gave up my plan to study abroad and started to go back to church. Little by little, my boyfriend led me to know the Lord, and my spiritual life gradually began to grow. But on Christmas Eve of 2019, I lost my job, and also, my boyfriend left me due to family reasons. However, a few days later, I experienced God’s healing and release in a prayer meeting and realized that God wanted me to rely fully on Him instead of my boyfriend and my job because all of these things could pass.
Then, a sister from my church introduced me to their company as a salesperson. However, when COVID-19 broke out in 2020, I basically hadn’t gotten to meet any clients since the second month I started working. Moreover, as I felt I couldn't learn anything there, I resigned after two months.
Later, a good friend of mine from high school introduced me to a job as a procurement clerk in a group, and I passed the interview. Although it was a clerical support job, my supervisor kept asking me to try to work on procurement-related tasks on my own, including negotiating project requirements with the suppliers and communicating with the company's own marketing department about the details of tenders.
One of my supervisors helped me familiarize myself with the procurement industry and its procedures. She has worked in this company for 10 years already and is a very professional, strict, and harsh person. Since I began to work in this company, I was scolded by her frequently. In the second month after starting the job, she once asked me to clock in for her because she would get off work early. A few months later, I suddenly remembered myself clocking in for her, so I confessed my sins before the Lord.
Then, in the Bible study group, I asked my fellow brothers and sisters to pray for me about this. Around a week later, my supervisor asked me to clock in for her again. I was terrified at that time, worrying that if I refused, she would ask my boss to fire me.
So, I went to pray in the bathroom, asking the Lord for wisdom and strength. After returning from the washroom, I sent my supervisor a message on WeChat while praying in my heart. Then I remembered one incident. One of our jobs in procurement is to rate our suppliers. At that time, this female supervisor told me that the service of a certain supplier was not good, and she insisted on expressing her views toward that company and its services impartially so that a comprehensive evaluation could be made. Therefore, in refusing to clock in for her, I retold how she taught us not to do things that were inappropriate and against our conscience.
I first made it clear to her that I am a Christian. Then I told her that I knew that she often had meetings in the evening after work and that if those unseen overtime hours could make up for the time she left early, I was still willing to help her clock in. I also mentioned to her that when she rated the clients, she said she didn't want to go against her conscience. My hands shook after I finished sending the message. Afterward, I went to pray in the bathroom for another half hour. Then, my supervisor simply replied, It's okay.
From then on, she never asked me to clock in for her. I thought she would make things difficult for me in the future, but instead, it turned out that she had a little more respect for me.
Furthermore, I have a colleague who is in the same position as I am, but she has a very bad temper. There was once when we went to pick up some items to be handed out, and I needed to get an extra-large platform trolley, so I asked her, “Is the trolley where it was put?” I was just confirming with her the location of the trolley when she lost her temper. I could only silently pray to God in my heart, wondering how I should respond. Later, as I was moving in front of my colleague, I turned around and grinned at her, which surprised her. After this incident, her whole attitude changed.
During that period, I joined the morning prayer meeting every day and practiced walking with the Lord at all times. As long as there was time that I didn't need to use my brain to think, whether I was riding in the car or drinking and eating, I would pray silently to God in my heart.
- Translated by Joyce Leung
我是在2017年信主的，因为我的原生家庭比较重男轻女，我当时读佛教的书寻求些慰藉。2014年，我来到了马来西亚这个地方，在这里认识了我的男朋友。在他身上我看到一个见证，开始信主。
当时我跟他和一些朋友去一个城市旅游，到凌晨 2 点钟才回到我们住的地方。但第二天7点多时他就说要起床出门。 而平常他入睡困难，要睡到中午才起来，而前一天还开车到凌晨才到家。他说要去教会，那个时候我很惊讶。从这个时候开始，我就开始对基督信仰有一点好奇心，到后面我也不去信佛了。
2017 年去马来西亚的时候，我受洗了。那是我最后一次去马来西亚。2018 年跟男友分手了。也是在那一次受洗回来之后，我就找到了教会。
在2018年9月我就着手准备到泰国留学。在我去泰国旅行的最后两天里，认识了一个澳洲和韩国的女生，聊到最后发现大家都是信基督的。包括当时在谈的我的另外一位男友，他也告诉我他是信主的。似乎有个声音在告诉我：要回教会了。
后来我就放弃留学的计划了，开始回到教会中。男友也一点一滴的带领我认识主，属灵生命开始一点点成长。但到了2019年圣诞前夕，当时的工作没了，男友也因着家庭原因也离开了我。然而也就是几天后我在祷告会中经历了主的医治释放，才明白神要我全然依靠祂，而不是依靠男友，依靠工作，因为这些都有可能离开。
在教会的一位姊妹介绍我去她们公司做销售。2020年发生疫情，我上班第二个月开始基本就是没客户聊了，也觉得学不到东西，所以两个月后我就离职了。
后来我的一个高中好朋友就介绍我到一个集团的采购文员工作，面试通过。虽然是文员辅助的工作，领导却不断让我自己尝试做采购项目，包括怎么跟供应商洽谈项目需求，与公司内部市场部沟通招标项目细节。
我的一个领导带我去熟悉采购行业及流程。她在这个公司也已经做了10 年，是一个非常专业，很严格和很凶的人，我进去之后没少被她骂。入职后第二个月，有一次她要我帮她打卡，她会提前下班。大概几个月之后，我突然想起了她曾经叫我打卡这个事情，就开始在神面前认罪。
后来在查经小组，我让信徒为我这件事祷告。大概过了一个星期左右，领导真的又找我打卡了。我那个时候非常恐惧，担心拒绝她以后，她会让老板炒掉我。
后来，我就去厕所祷告，求主给我智慧和力量。从厕所回来后我心里一边祷一边在微信发信息给她。我想起一个事情，就是我们做采购的的一个工作任务要给我们的供应商来评分。当时我的这个女领导对我说，一个供应商服务并不好，她坚持要要公正地表达对公司的态度以及这些服务，做一个综合的评估。因此在拒绝帮她打卡的事情上，我转述了她教导我们不想昧着良心去做一些不合理的事。
我首先跟她澄清，我是基督徒。 然后说到 知道她平常下班之后可能晚上也要开会，如果那些无形的加班时间能补上提早下班的时间，我也还是愿意帮她打卡的。提到她给客户打分的时候说过，她不想昧着良心去做。说完之后我手抖了，我又继续去厕祷告了半个小时。后来她就简单的回了一句，没事的。
从此以后，她再也没有找我打卡。我本来以为以后她会处处刁难我，结果是她反而对我多了一丝尊重。
另外我有一位同事，跟我是同一个职位的，但是她是脾气特别糟糕。有一次我们去拿物品派发，我就去找很大的拖车，然后问她：车是不是放在那个位置。我只是跟她确认一下这个事情，结果她就大发脾气。我只能默默在心里祈求神，在想我要怎么回应他。后来我就走在了她的面前，然后回头给了她一个微笑。那个微笑就把她吓到了。这事之后，她整个态度也变了。
那段时间我每一天早上我参加晨祷，然后我时刻操练与神同行。无论是坐车，喝水吃饭，只要有不需要大脑思考的时间，我都心里面跟神默祷。
基督徒姊妹靠祷告得胜工作中的艰难
I became a Christian in 2017. As I was born into a family that favors sons over daughters, I used to seek solace by reading books on Buddhism. In 2014, I came to Malaysia and met my boyfriend. After I witnessed a testimony he made, I began to come to faith.
My boyfriend and I once took a trip to a city with some friends. We didn't return to our accommodations until 2 am, but at 7 o'clock the next day, my boyfriend said he had to get up and go out. Usually, he has trouble falling asleep, and has to sleep until noon; besides, it was in the early hours when he drove back to our lodging the day before. But he said he needed to go to church, and at that moment, I was taken by surprise. From that time on, I became slightly curious about the Christian faith and even stopped believing in Buddhism later on.
I was baptized when I went to Malaysia in 2017—that was the last time I went to Malaysia. In 2018, I broke up with my boyfriend. And upon returning after the baptism, I found myself a church.
In September 2018, I started to prepare for studying abroad in Thailand. During the last two days of a trip to Thailand, I met two girls who were from Australia and South Korea. After chatting, we found out that we were all Christians; my boyfriend at the time told me that he believed in Christ as well. There seemed to be a voice telling me: It was time to go back to church.
After that, I gave up my plan to study abroad and started to go back to church. Little by little, my boyfriend led me to know the Lord, and my spiritual life gradually began to grow. But on Christmas Eve of 2019, I lost my job, and also, my boyfriend left me due to family reasons. However, a few days later, I experienced God’s healing and release in a prayer meeting and realized that God wanted me to rely fully on Him instead of my boyfriend and my job because all of these things could pass.
Then, a sister from my church introduced me to their company as a salesperson. However, when COVID-19 broke out in 2020, I basically hadn’t gotten to meet any clients since the second month I started working. Moreover, as I felt I couldn't learn anything there, I resigned after two months.
Later, a good friend of mine from high school introduced me to a job as a procurement clerk in a group, and I passed the interview. Although it was a clerical support job, my supervisor kept asking me to try to work on procurement-related tasks on my own, including negotiating project requirements with the suppliers and communicating with the company's own marketing department about the details of tenders.
One of my supervisors helped me familiarize myself with the procurement industry and its procedures. She has worked in this company for 10 years already and is a very professional, strict, and harsh person. Since I began to work in this company, I was scolded by her frequently. In the second month after starting the job, she once asked me to clock in for her because she would get off work early. A few months later, I suddenly remembered myself clocking in for her, so I confessed my sins before the Lord.
Then, in the Bible study group, I asked my fellow brothers and sisters to pray for me about this. Around a week later, my supervisor asked me to clock in for her again. I was terrified at that time, worrying that if I refused, she would ask my boss to fire me.
So, I went to pray in the bathroom, asking the Lord for wisdom and strength. After returning from the washroom, I sent my supervisor a message on WeChat while praying in my heart. Then I remembered one incident. One of our jobs in procurement is to rate our suppliers. At that time, this female supervisor told me that the service of a certain supplier was not good, and she insisted on expressing her views toward that company and its services impartially so that a comprehensive evaluation could be made. Therefore, in refusing to clock in for her, I retold how she taught us not to do things that were inappropriate and against our conscience.
I first made it clear to her that I am a Christian. Then I told her that I knew that she often had meetings in the evening after work and that if those unseen overtime hours could make up for the time she left early, I was still willing to help her clock in. I also mentioned to her that when she rated the clients, she said she didn't want to go against her conscience. My hands shook after I finished sending the message. Afterward, I went to pray in the bathroom for another half hour. Then, my supervisor simply replied, It's okay.
From then on, she never asked me to clock in for her. I thought she would make things difficult for me in the future, but instead, it turned out that she had a little more respect for me.
Furthermore, I have a colleague who is in the same position as I am, but she has a very bad temper. There was once when we went to pick up some items to be handed out, and I needed to get an extra-large platform trolley, so I asked her, “Is the trolley where it was put?” I was just confirming with her the location of the trolley when she lost her temper. I could only silently pray to God in my heart, wondering how I should respond. Later, as I was moving in front of my colleague, I turned around and grinned at her, which surprised her. After this incident, her whole attitude changed.
During that period, I joined the morning prayer meeting every day and practiced walking with the Lord at all times. As long as there was time that I didn't need to use my brain to think, whether I was riding in the car or drinking and eating, I would pray silently to God in my heart.
- Translated by Joyce Leung
Christian Sister Overcomes Dilemmas at Work Through Prayers
