Deacon Wonkyu Song, 49, Parish 26, Manmin Central Church

I have been running a farm producing chives for 20 years in Yangju-si, Gyeonggi Province. In July 2018, the landlord of the land that encompassed 330.5 square meters among my faming land told me to move my crops that were less than three months old to other lands and withdraw my vinyl greenhouse as well because he had contracted to sell the land.

In fact, his contract with me was still in effect until December 2019. But he said the land had been sold at optimum terms and he had no choice. I was baffled but I asked him to give me several days to think. I started to ponder upon the will of God in this incident.

I could have filed a suit according to the law and insisted on my rights, but it probably would have then led to a dispute. I thought I would feel ashamed before God if I burst into anger just as I had done in the past.

The Word of God tells us not to seek our own benefits but to seek others' benefits, and to unchangingly do goodness. Moreover, because I saw the love of Senior Pastor Dr. Jaerock Lee who continually gave to those who wanted more and more, I made up my mind to achieve a victory in goodness. I was convinced that if I did good, God would work on my problem. So, I decided to act in accordance with the landlord's request.

In the first week of August, the landlord called me and said his contract had been canceled. He said it was okay for me to keep farming on his land. He apologized to me and expressed his thanks to me for keeping peace with him. I had been faced with several difficulties while doing the farming but when I relied on God, He showed me the way out. And, this time He also answered my prayer.

I received Senior Pastor's prayer before the first shipping of my crops every year. This year as before, I did it as well. In fact, the extremely hot weather that was the hottest to hit Korea in 111 years could have been damaging to the farming, but God protected my chives and let it rain at appropriate times.

As a result, I had much better harvests! The monthly sale hit 36 thousand dollars in August 2018 though it had been usually 27 thousand dollars. It was the first time in 20 years!

I give all thanks and glory to God who blessed me. I will continue to rely only on God and the Lord more, obey the Word of the Bible, and run earnestly towards New Jerusalem.