Weekend Dispensing

From 7 to 9 Oct this month, some of us, brothers, gathered in different cities all over the nation, connected online, and listened to the Lord’s uptodate speaking from the recently concluded ITERO held in Amsterdam. The ministry message was on The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This is one of the seven feasts we have been bleesed with in a year. The Lord always spoke and is still speaking according to our needs and His burden. Though the title is not new to many, but the Lord’s speaking even from the same Bible verses was new to me each time. I myself was freshly supplied despite my familiarity with this topic. In fact, I already composed a hymn with 12 stanzas on this topic and titled, The Experience of the Triune God: As the God of Abraham  Isaac, and Jacon (With Joseph). Though the messages and burden were still the same, the life supply I received and the revelation I got were very fresh. O what a refreshing, cherishing, and nourishing speaking of the Lord again!

One thing that impressed me was the way the series of messages began, unfolded, and concluded. It began with God's eternal purpose to have His corporate expression and representation through the man He created. To achieve His purpose, He needed to gain man constituted with Him. For this, He identified Himself with three persons; Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with Joseph. In Abraham, God the Father is the source, originator, supplier; in Isaac, God the Son is the course of His rich supply and the aspect of man receiving the riches of God; in Jacob, God the Spirit is the transformer to transform and constitute His chosen ones with God Himself, were clearly portrayed. All these processes of the three working in oneness issued in the Israel of God, the church, the corporate expression of God!

Today, we have been experiencing and enjoying this unique God in His divine dispensing in His divine Trinity day by day. To some extent, by His mercy, we have been gained for His testimony as we look forward for the full accomplishment of what He purposed in us. For this, He also placed us where He deemed best and bestowed us with gifts He deemed fit. To His sovereignty, we simply say, Amen, and yes, resounding amens.

As we brothers from Gurugram travelled for about an hour each day to Delhi, to and fro, we enjoyed a time of corporate prayer in the morning, and a time of corporate fellowship in the afternoon. Even in our travels, we enjoyed and experienced the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! What a weekend dispensing!

As we are in the process of being gained by God for His eternal purpose, we also know the goal already, to express Him in full maturity, which is expressed in becoming a channel of blessing, and even becoming the blessing itself as seen in Jacob transforming to Israel and blessing Pharoah, Joseph's two sons, and his own twelve sons with prophesies. Having began the journey already, we look forward to goal in full faith. The God who is the Alpha is also the God who is the Omega. What He had originated in us and through us, He will surely complete in His time, as He has been divinely working on us day by day at the present time.

O God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, work is us and Thy will be done. Amen

Personal Relationship with the Lord

Psalms 25:4-5 RecVer

4. Make Your ways known to me, O Jehovah; Teach me Your paths.

5. Guide me in Your truth, and teach me; For You are the God of my salvation; I wait on You all the day long.

Psalms 25:12-14 RecVer

12. Who then is the man who fears Jehovah? Him will He instruct concerning the way that he should choose.

13. His soul will dwell in prosperity, And his seed will possess the land.

14. The intimate counsel of Jehovah is to those who fear Him, And His covenant will He make known to them.

Psalms 32:8 RecVer

I will instruct you and teach you concerning the way you should go; I will counsel you; my eye is upon you.

These days, the Lord has burdened me and confirmed, time and again, that a Christian need to have a strong, sweet, stable, intimate, personal, and private relationship with Him. One's relationship as a Christian with the Lord Jesus Christ determines the standard of his Christian life. Void of this, or merely a shallow-namesake Christian, will not warrant a good Christian testimony. Many issues in life and how they have been handled, all depends of the degree of one's relationship with the Lord Jesus. No wonder, many Christians have fallen short of the normal Christian life due to the sole reason that their relationship with Jesus does not go beyond their spirit. Jesus as the life-giving Spirit is silently locked up in their spirit, giving no room to spread to their soul, much less, their physical living. 

Therefore, with this one strong burden from the Lord, first, I myself strengthened my personal time with the Lord. In fact, these days, my time with the Lord has gone to another level. I have moved on from merely praying all my prayer burdens to actually and intimately fellowshipping with Him as friend with friend. I talked to Him and listen to His response in my spirit. Lately, I was corrected in two matters. One case was related to learning Christ rather than from the current affairs and people making the news. Another was, changing my proposal of visiting a new city as a church during the upcoming holidays to simply gathering together to simply read the word of God.

Second, I have started releasing this burden of spending time with the Lord daily for a strong, sweet, and stable personal relationship with Him daily to all the saints in the church and especially to the brothers I am in coordination. I have seen so clearly and have been convinced so deeply that this is the root of a Christian life. What comes out of a Christian life depends on the health of the root system. With my own testimony and relevant Bible verses, I have released and trumpeted my burden again and again.

Clubbed with this personal prayer time, I also released the need for reading the Bible daily. I even encouraged all the saints that this year, everyone should be reading through the entire Bible at least once. Facts, principles, and promises in the Bible must be made very clear to all the saints. And based on the knowledge of the basics of the Bible, can one discern what the will of the Lord is, in many issues pertaining to one's daily living faced with multiple issues and challenges. 

The last few Lord’s Days, I have released this particular burden. I do believe, the Lord has honored this burden as I observe many saints becoming more serious in the way they live their Christian lives and in the way they take decisions. 

By the way, the Lord also confirmed this burden when we, as a church, pursued a message on seeking God's will on our Tuesday night small group meeting. Five young brothers gave an overview, and the same burden was released by three of these brothers on the Lord’s Day morning. Then, I further strengthened the burden on seeking God's will.

May the Lord bless His saints and His church that we could all be actively bearing His testimony, in oneness with Him, expressing and representing Him corporately as His church here in Gurugram as we do His good will. 

Bonding with Children

On the 2nd of October, my son and I went woke up at 4:30 AM and went to Tau Devi Stadium in Gurugram for his basket ball practice. As for me, I used the two hours time for morning walk and prayer at the main stadium while my son and his school team were practising at one of the basket ball courts.

When he mentioned to me the day before, I felt it was a good time for father-son bonding though I could have sent him alone using a bike service. This kind of event was rare, and when it came, I wanted to grasped it. On the one hand, it was for bonding, on the other hand was to practically show that he has a father who cares for him.

By the way, it was my first time to visit the stadium though I have been residing in the city since 2005. I was impressed that a good number of people regularly visit the stadium for morning walk, exercises, jogging, and other health related activities. 

In addition, these days, I have been  spending time together regularly with my son and daughter. Though the elder one has gone for her degree studies in Taipei Taiwan, I still bond with her over WhatsApp video calls weekly when she updated me of all the major happenings in her life. Within my capacity as a father, it has truly been a blessing to care for God's blessed chidren in whatever way possible; financial support, my physical presence, moral support, and spiritual fellowship and prayers. They have been opening up to me important matters of their lives and some matters they felt I should be brought attention to. 

Academically, the Lord has blessed all the three chidren. My eldest daughter reported how she has been doing quite well in her studies. My son, inspite of the many school assigned extra curriculum activities he has been participating in, has been doing good in his midterm exam. He came among the top three in XI Science stream when many could not grasped the concepts properly after passing the Xth exam and scored a very low grade. I encouraged him to study well and understand all the concepts clearly and pray to the Lord Jesus for wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. My youngest daughter also did quite well as her teacher lauded her for her excellency in the works assigned to her when I met her during the parent-teacher-meet. By the way, she really worked hard to do all the works assigned to her by her teachers. She showed me some of her works. I was amazed at the proficiency with which she did her works. Perhaps, this young generation have been exposed to the latest technologies for their works and uptodate with my many things I am not even aware of.

Above all, glory to God. It is the Lord’s mercy that the Lord has blessed the chidren He blessed me with. They have been consecrated to the Lord. I pray for His grace to be a good guardian. 

Thank the Lord for a sweet time of family bonding and blending these days.

Seven Messages

Since childhood, my hobby has been reading and studying, and on interesting topics, researching. I love reading, and I can read and read for hours and hours altogether. That's my passion. 

Since I got saved, my love for reading the Bible and Christian literature has grown to a new level. As far as I remember, I have been reading the Bible and selected Christian literature everyday, except those few days I was down with fever that occurred rarely. I reckoned this as a gift from God, a blessing in disguise; the love of reading the Bible and spiritual writings.

On the average, I have been spending about two hours daily just for reading. On some days, I spent more hours. This includes Bible reading and Christian ministry literature; about ten to fifteen chapters of the Bible and one or two ministry messages. But today was an exception, I ended up reading seven ministry messages in addition to my daily Bible reading portion. I guess, because of the need mingled with inner thirst for the word.

In the morning, during our corporate truth pursuing time, we read two chapters from The Normal Christian Life. Then, we had a weekly prayer, truth-pursuing, and fellowship among the serving ones in the distribution service when we pursued two chapters on the person of Christ from The Conclusion of the New Testament. Later, after some official works, I went to an eye hospital for my dad's periodical check-up. While the clinical processes were carried out, I enjoyed reading a message from The Normal Christian Life again. In the afternoon, after lunch and Bible reading, another chapter from the same book was read again. And in the evening after dinner as I waited for our family prayer and fellowship time, I prepared myself for tomorrow's group meeting, so I read another message on how a believer should manage finance based on the teaching of Bible from Messages for Building Up New Believers. 

Altogether, seven messages were read in a form of truth pursuing today. For some, it may sound like an overload. Not for me. It depends on the spiritual condition and capacity of a person. But for me, reading Bible, truth pursuing, prayer, fellowship, meetings etc., have been a normal schedule in my life. I did not feel any pressure in doing so. Instead, I enjoyed such a schedule; the tighter, the better, I felt for me. In fact, I long for even more enlarged capacity to receive much more.

My attitude is, as long as my body allows, especially my eyes to read and my mind to understand, I would keep reading and reading. Only God knows how many more years He has reserved for me on this earth. As much as He does, I would love to make the best and maximum use of it. So when one day, my health may not be as conducive for reading, I should just retire, rest, and recollect all that I have read till then. Giving no room for regrets. No questioning myself, I could have done better. Now, when I can, I must do my best.

Thank the Lord for His words and His ministry! I am a beneficiary of His rich speaking! Seven messages a day once in a while is a fair deal and a special grace.

Learn Christ

In the beginning of this month, there was the brewing of a new protest in the country over the alleged vote theft. Though, I have been learning to be apolitical, I keep myself updated through a timepass news whenever I have free time. So, I could sense the mood of the nation and also what God is doing behind the scene amidst the ongoing national uproar. 

A couple of times as I watched video clips of news, I was amazed at the daring protests held by the youth of the nation. Many of these ones on the limelight were young female students. So daring they were, it blew my "Indian mentality." India is no longer the nation I used to think of as a conservative one with women staying indoors. No more with this present generation. They were so bold that I am yet to see even an elected male leader as bold as these young female students were. I thought to myself, what has the nation become of?

With the clamping of religious freedom in many states and persecutions rampant in some states, the boldness even to exercise one's fundamental rights have been punctured. On witnessing such boldness, I was naturally aligned to such act. At least for a second, I thought to myself, why not exercise the same boldness for the gospel? That's my fundamental rights too as a citizen. 

But the divine answer to such natural thought was the exact opposite. God's work is done in God’s way. God's work originated from God, is being carried out by the power of the Holy Spirit, and will issue in the glory of God. Man is just a channel for God's move, not the source, nor the power, nor the goal. In my time with the Lord, the Spirit renewed my mind. Praise the Lord for the Lord’s speaking during my personal prayer time with Him!

Learn Christ, is the divine answer. We do not learn from the world, nor from anyone or anything thing other than Christ. Good or bad, right or wrong is not the point here. It is just Christ; beyond the realm of human morality, ethic, and reasoning. 

Ephesians 4:20-24 RecVer

20. But you did not so learn Christ,

21. If indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him as the reality is in Jesus,

22. That you put off, as regards your former manner of life, the old man, which is being corrupted according to the lusts of the deceit,

23. And that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind

24. And put on the new man, which was created according to God in righteousness and holiness of the reality.

Thank God for the timely divine answer, lest I would have been distracted by the trend of the world. With this renewed mind, I was adjusted. I must only learn Christ in putting off my old man, and then put on the new man. By so doing, I must exercise my spirit and follow the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, the anointing within me who teaches me and His teachings are always right.in 

John 14:26 RecVer

But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and remind you of all the things which I have said to you.

1 John 2:20 RecVer

And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know.

1 John 2:27 RecVer

And as for you, the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone teach you; but as His anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, abide in Him.

I shared this experience last Lord’s Day to all the saints; the need to learn Christ and only follow the leading of the anointing within. For this, there is a need to exercise our spirit to discern the Lord’s anointing within. And I released my burden to all the saints, the need to have a strong, steady, and sweet personal relationship with the Lord and also to read the word of God, the Bible daily. The burden is, to learn Christ and live Christ.

May I be graced daily to learn Christ and live Christ. 

Hebrews: He Brews

I have been learning the basics of biblical Hebrew for about two years now. Though I initially intended to complete the course in a year or so, I could not make it due to my frequent traveling for the ministry and tending to important official and church services while in the office. In fact, before my 21 days ministry journey in the month of August, I attempted to complete the midterm exam and did my best but I could not get sufficient time to study. Then, I thought I could study and complete the exam during the two days gap I had during my trip. Even then, meetings were arranged and I could not get sufficient time to study. Therfore, I postponed it again.

Finally, I planned for a one week intensive revision on 9 Hebrew lessons and decided to take the exam last Tuesday, 7th Oct, just the day before another training was to start, then, I would be busy again. So, last week, everyday, I revised a couple of chapters, memorized the vocabularies, took the quizes, and went through all the tests for all the chapters. It was quite a labor.

However, on Tuesday my exam day, I was very busy again as we had our regular small group meeting. After the meeting, when we reached home it was already 10:30 PM. As usual, I still went out for my personal prayer time in the night,  then took bath, and finally was ready to write the exam.

Still, I felt I should do one more round of revision atleast on all the previous test questions. I did a final revision again, and that took me another 2 hours. Only at 2 AM, Wednesday early morning I was truly ready and finally, I took the midterm exam that lasted for 2 hours.

The Lord graced me and I was able to do well. I was glad that I did my best after so much labor and hours and hiurs of studies. I am glad that in all the chapter-wise tests and three big exams, my average score is about 90%. I deeply felt that I did not deserve this much score. It was all grace marks from the Lord. 

Sometimes, I questioned myself why I enrolled for this Hebrew course. It took so much time to study, and so much effort to memorize many Hebrew words. Anyhow, I have completed most of the chapters and I cannot give up now. I have come all the way, not knowing it would take so much time and energy. Thank the Lord for His grace!

In learning Hebrew, I have been brewed in my studies, especially, my mind, in studying and memorising like a school student. Let the Lord brew me and make use of this little Hebrew know-how.

Now, I look to the Lord for more grace to complete the remaining portion. And I believe, in time, the Lord would let me know why I am studying Hebrew. Everything is with a purpose and I trust God, He will make use of this Hebrew learning from my part. The will of the Lord be done. Amen.

Training and Blending

Last weekend, we had a little over a day of training for the brothers in the churches in North India from Friday evening 18 to 19 Sept Saturday evening. This was the first of its kind following the national full-timers training held in Hyderabad. The same burden was released in the regional training as many brothers could not join the national training. Though I was in the national training, this time, the Lord’s fresh speaking was very new. The ministry of the word of God is new all the time. No matter if I heard it before or not, every time the Lord’s speaking is fresh and new. 

The key points are the blessedness of being a part of the New Testament ministry for the building up of the Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem, for this, our being need to be dealt with by the Lord to be a minister of life, properly aggressive in service to produce results. The up-to-date vision of the age and the need to be in the ministry faithfully has also been emphasised, tracing the history of the visions the Lord had shown to Br. Nee and Br. Lee, bringing us today to the highest and ultimate vision of God's economy. The Lord be merciful to all of us to be faithful to the vision He has shown us. In addition, the practical need for shepherding the saints and building up the local church in our locality with the goal of increase in number was also fellowshipped. This burden brought us brothers together to make a name list of over a hundred saints. The Lord will gain His increase in us and among us.

Two significant noteworthy points are:

The brothers we have been praying for and shepherding have attended this training and the area we lack in rendering help, the training did it, making the vision clear and confirming the ministry of the age.

We enjoyed a time of brothers fellowshipping and blending together; the local Gurugram brothers and those from Mathura. 

Such training brought us brothers together and blended us together. What a blessing!

Besides, we also had a combined Lord’s Table Meeting on the 20th Sept., in Delhi where a new family also joined such a meeting for the first time. The family has been shepherded by the saints from Delhi through introduction and fellowship. The Body life has become more practical and experiential through such blending meeting.

In the Body, with the Body, through the Body, and for the Body, the Lord has blended the saints in North India! What a blending! What a blessing!