*From a short-term contract job to having two job offers (based on God’s Word)
*Promotion to a permanent position even when the job was specifically opened for an internal candidate with more experience than hers.
Are you trusting God for a promotion at your workplace even when it seems the odds are against you, be blessed with this testimony:
I got a new job at the beginning of last year in February but it was a short term contract; it was only for a year and I’ve been praying to God that they will extend that job and make it permanent. But in Fountain of Life, London, God had given us the same promise in different scriptures about 8 times: “ask in my name and I will give it to you.”
One day during fellowship, I was like, “why am I asking God to just make this (job) permanent? I need to think bigger than this.” I said, “God, I just don’t want you to make this job permanent, I want you to promote me. I don’t know how you are going to do it but I want to be promoted and I want a permanent position.”
Shortly after I said that prayer, one of my colleagues came to me, “look, there is this permanent position.” I didn’t talk to her about it, exactly what I had asked God for, but I asked God specifically for the service that I work in to give me that promotion, I wanted to stay in that job. She said to me, “there is this new job in this other service, that I should apply for it.”
I was like okay. Just to give you a bit of context, this role (for) most people after you qualify as a Clinical Psychologist, it takes people…some people get it after a year, some people get it after 4 years, so it varies. It is not an easy role to get.
I went for the interview, after the interview I said, “God, this is the role I want but not where I want it. I don’t really like this location” and then I left.
They (interview panel) said: we will get back to you by the morning.
By the morning, I hadn’t heard back. I said, “maybe I didn’t get that job. Maybe I’m not supposed to have it.” I was walking somewhere and I heard God very clearly, He said, “You asked me for one role. I will give you two jobs and you will be the one to decide where you go.”
I said: Thank You God.
Shortly after that, I got a message from the first job:
They said: You interviewed well but we gave the role to somebody with more experience than you because this role requires somebody with more experience. However, we want to give you a role if you would take it. It is at this location (which is a lot closer to my house). It’s up to you if you want.
I said: Thank you, I will get back to you.
Shortly after this, in my service, a position just opened. I went to my boss and said, “I have only been here for about 6 months, should I apply?”
She said: NO. Don’t apply because there are people here with more experience and I have been here for longer than you are and they take precedence over you. So don’t apply.
I left there feeling quite discouraged. I said, “God, You told me You are going to give me two roles and I asked You specifically for a role in this service.” I went home.
The next time I was at work, I walked into the office; she rushed to me, called me and said, “look, I couldn’t sleep over the weekend because I told you not to apply for that job. You need to apply for the job. I don’t know what is going to happen but just apply.”
I applied for the job and then I found out people talking that there was somebody else in my company that applied for the same job but I didn’t know who and I was getting a bit anxious. I heard God clearly say, “it doesn’t matter who you are against, it is WHO IS WITH YOU that matters.” I was like okay, I’m not going to care about who I’m going against, I just going to go.
The day of the interview, my job is open plan…everybody sits at the same place. They decided to have it in a room, in front of everybody (at work). My interview was at 3 (pm), the person that was going before me, his interview was at 2 (pm).
At 1:50 (pm), I realised that the person I was going against had been doing that role for 18 months; he was also on a fixed term contract. That role had been opened up to give him a permanent job. Once I saw it was him, overwhelming fear that I don’t even know where it came from; I said, “God, if I had known I would not have applied for this job.” All this people in my office, they are probably looking at me and thinking this girl is overly ambitious and there is no way she is going to get this role.
I kept praying: I CAN DO ALL THINGS…I GOT THIS. I CAN DO THIS. JESUS, YOU NEED TO HELP ME. JESUS
He went in, as he came out, the lead Physio, I heard him clearly. He took him to the kitchen and said, “I’m sure you did well. You are going to get the job.”
I was thinking, “God, I have not even gone in for my interview and everybody already thinks that this guy has gotten the job.”
I walked into the interview. I did the interview, stepped out of the office and just started praying in tongues.
“God, you are the One that told me to go for this job so You have to give it to me.”
An hour later, they called me into the room and said, “look, we don’t know what to say but we are going to give the job to you. You interviewed so well that we just have to give the job to you.”
I remembered I called my Dad (Pastor Taiwo Odukoya) because my Dad was worried that this was going to cause a scene at work because it did. Everybody started talking about it, nobody thought I should have gotten it because they thought he was more deserving of the role but when God is on your side, nothing is impossible.
