A SURGEONwho learnedTO TRUST GOD.

On the 11th of February, 1995, two months earlier, I had a visitation from God. The vision was distinct and the call was truly spiritual. I knew this was a supernatural encounter with the one, true, living God. Baptism of the Holy Spirit was immediate and my life was never the same again. I knew I had met God.

Filled with the Spirit, I now knew that only the power of the Holy Spirit could heal this child. I shared this belief I had with the child's non-Christian parents and that only Jesus of Nazareth could heal their beautiful daughter and there was nothing more I could do for her, surgically and professionally but to trust God.

I sought permission from the parents to allow me to pray for their child. From the day of admission on the 5th of April, I prayed with my surgical staff over the burn wounds daily and each day I would see a miracle occurring before my very eyes.

No surgery. No visits to the operation theatre for what is termed "debridement" of the burn wounds. Only prayer.

In ten days, from the 5th to the 15th of April, Jesus healed this child completely of all the burn areas and the child was discharged home with pink, newborn baby skin! The parents left the Sabah Medical Centre praising and thanking Jesus for this miraculous healing.

This miracle changed my life because I was trained in plastic and reconstructive surgery for managing burns injury but in this instance the injury was too severe, prognosis was very poor and there was nothing professionally I could do. I gave up and called upon the Lord of all life to save this child and reveal himself to these non-believers of the faith.

There was only one source of healing that I was confident would answer prayer and that was the Lord Jesus himself.

I made a decision that would change the course of my life.

I wanted to meet the man Jesus of Nazareth.

In May of 1996, I was led by the Spirit to attend a conference in Jerusalem titled "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem" from Psalm 137:5-6. One of the plenary speakers was Dwight Pryor from the Center of Judaic-Christian Studies who spoke on the topic "Our Hebrew Lord".

It was the beginning of a journey that would lead into the rediscovery of the Hebraic foundations of the Christian faith and a deeper understanding of who Jesus of Nazareth is as Lord and Savior of my life.

In July 1997 I was challenged by the founder of the Haggai Institute in Maui, Hawaii, the late Dr. John Haggai, to "Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God be in it."

On 31st July 1997, in Maui, I wrote down the vision of the Asia Pacific Consultation On Discipleship, APCOD, that there will be a gathering of Christian leaders from the Asia Pacific region and beyond, here in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, to learn about the man Jesus of Nazareth and how to become transformed disciples of Jesus.

On the 25th to the 27th July, 2001, eight hundred and fifty leaders from thirty-seven nations gathered in the city of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, to rediscover the Hebraic understanding of the Scriptures and how to grow into Christ-likeness. How do we take the message of salvation from a predominantly Second Temple-period of biblical history and transpose it into the Greco-Roman (non-Hebrew or Jewish) context of modern-day Christianity?

More than four thousand Christians and leaders in the faith have attended these consultations — APCOD 2001 Malaysia, APCOD 2003 Sri Lanka, APCOD 2006 New Zealand, APCOD 2010 India and APCOD 2012 Malaysia when we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the faithfulness of God.