P . L . SHANG

Welcome to my webpage. This website is about the book I have written. Who knows, in the future, there may be more to come? I pray that every book I write will be written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, with the rehma word of God for the people of God, touching lives and changing destinies. 

Nevertheless He left not Himself without witness, in that He did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. (Acts 14:17)

This is my first book with Destiny Image Europe. Every book has an origin and a beginning. This book is no different. I first pondered on writing a book about my life in 2004 after I did my Discipleship Training School (DTS) with Youth With a Mission (YWAM). It was just a thought and I never planned for it to materialise. In 2006, the Spirit of God burned in my heart and I wrote this book in the month of May 2006. What was a basic outline of how I think I should write the book materialised and flowed as I sat down to write. Waves upon waves of inspiration and ideas just came. At that point, I truely understood what was meant by "men under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit wrote the bible". Not that I am comparing this book to the bible, it will never come anywhere near it. But I understood at that point what it means to write under inspiration. The story is mine, but the penmanship and the breathe of life within it belongs entirely to the Holy Spirit. Through a divine connection with Destiny Image in early 2007, this book was birth. 

This story is my journey of faith, as I walked from a life of idol worshipper in a Chinese traditional cultural background, to my first step of faith to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour and my baptism on my 13th birthday. It is a journey as I moved from a traditional church (bible believing church) to a charismatic church (spirit inspired church) and how God came and broke down every denial, every wall of doubt and unbelief that we as believers are still living in the Days of Acts and every single one of us can experience all that we read about in the Word of God, the Living Bible. This book also talks much about my struggles with speaking in tongues, the gifts of the Holy Spirit like prophecy and how I ended up walking into the realm of the supernatural as I earnestly seek God, believing that He is bigger and that "there must be more than this to Christianity". God in His mercy and love, came and met me, transformed and renewed my mind to who He is, not who I think He is. I saw Him in all His power and glory, grace and mercy. 

Even in the midst of this wonder, there are pain and heatbreaks as I came face to face with demonic manifestations, a near death experience during a diving expedition, the tragic death of my sister and as I look and walk into the unknown future.