Deacon Young-Woo Park standing in front of an advertisement he designed

Here is Young-Woo Park's story of his business success after overcoming difficult times with deeds of faith.

In May 2006, after discovering my calling in the moving vehicle advertisement business, I quit my job and started my own business.

Though I worked day and night, I never got tired of dreaming of success. At first, it all seemed to be going well, as I became known as a sincere person. But before long, I met great difficulties.

First I failed to receive payment after finishing some design work; not once, but twice. To make matters worse, starting one very slow day, the incoming orders crawled nearly to a halt. It seemed like even things that easily seemed possible before turned impossible. I was in the middle of a very miserable financial crisis. My wife's entire paycheck went to pay off my debts. And each day and every day only brought more and more suffering.

As I was visited by third grand parish pastors and thirty-second parish pastor, I was able to finally realize the spiritual root of the problem. I then learned that I had to stand right before God by keeping the Sabbath holy and giving proper tithes. My job was to design advertisements on vehicles, so I had an especially huge workload on Sundays, which is when the buses don't run. And so I figured that since 'not working on the Sabbath day' is pretty much the same thing as giving up my business, and because 'God understands my situation,' I believed my case was an exception. But this was the problem. And without prayer, I had never even realized this was wrong.

When he acted by God's word alone without involving his own thoughts, his business grew as he received more and more orders.

Repenting with tears, I handed over all the orders that required me to work on Sunday. It was not easy at first. Although I had decided to follow God's word, I still left for work after Sunday morning service, and I thought that would be OK.

But I still couldn't ignore the voice I heard from inside. I was compromising with the world. Those members who testified about God's blessings were able to turn their lives around by showing faith.

Thus, I made up my mind to give up working on the Sabbath day entirely, despite the fact that I could make a big profit. When I did that, God allowed me to work on brand new cars that had just come out of the factory. This was God's wisdom, since the factories don't operate on Sunday and I could work on the weekdays.

Whenever I made a profit, I separated the tithes. And I erased my name from the list at the Buddhist temple that my mother had put in for me. I quit smoking and drinking and started a life of prayer. It was a decision I made to live as God's true child. And with my wife, I went to Senior Pastor Dr. Jaerock Lee and received a prayer for my business.

And surprisingly, from that point on, I began to receive orders from large companies. We couldn't even accept the larger scale projects, because we just didn't have enough capital. And then God gave us work that had lower production costs so that we could have greater fixed earnings. As we gained more and more contracts, the business grew and the amount of our tithes increased. The blessing is still overflowing to this day.

I'm so thankful to God for the grace that allowed me to have a satisfied heart through the difficult times. And to the God who only really wants to give true blessings in every aspect of our life and, more importantly, assure the prosperity of our souls, I give all the glory and thanksgiving.