What a Day!

What a day was today! From morning till night, the Lord led me to accomplish important tasks, so much in just a day. This experience was also an answer to the prayers on many practical points we have been praying for.

From the time I woke up, my day began by attending a PSRP on "believers being heirs of God." Then, a time of prayer and morning revival with a Hindi speaking brother. This was followed by a time of prayer with the brothers in coordination for the local church. I then had my personal time of entering into to the day's portion of HWMR, then a corporate prayer and truth pursuing (CWWN Vol. 26).

My office works followed, and my personal time of Bible reading. Once done, I received a message from an officer who helped us in my daughter's documents authentication informing that it was ready to collect. Since I discerned this wa sthr Lord’s doing, I took my daughter by scooter to HRD office in Delhi where we reached just on time to receive the documents in the presence of the officer in charge. As a token of thanks and as brotherly gifts, I gifted the officer a study Bible in Mizo(NT RecVer), Shepherding Materials, and four title books (KOL, EOL, OL, GOAiJ).

Right after this, I met with the agent we used for documents authentication and handed the document for authentication. This was a big task the Lord answered in releasing the documents on time. He timed everything beautiful in its own time.

Coming back home, I had my lunch and afternoon nap. Afterwhich, I spent time revising my Hebrew lesson and gave my exam. Then, the work of carpentry in my house was also carried out simultaneously. 

After all these were done, I dropped my son to a brother's home for their football match tomorrow morning. As soon as I came back, we went for a home meeting in Sector 4,  about an hour drive. As we drive I had my personal prayer time snd released all the. Urdens thebLord bestowed me with, even as I was pillion riding. After we enjoyed the home meeting on the "word of God", we came back home, had dinner, then daily Life-study pursuing on Revelation on the church in Philadelphia.

As always, I did the vessels washing as I was the last person to eat dinner. I took bath, and enjoyed our family time of prayer. Finally, I was able to write this blog.

What a day indeed! The Lord's invisible hand was behind every activity carried out today. I just wondered how so much could be accomplished in just one day. The grace of the Lord was richly bestowed upon me.

Praise the Lord for His grace and blessing!

Lesson on Prayer

Learning Grace

Hebrew Revisited

Since I completed about 70% of the Hebrew class last year I was enrolled in, I was not able to continue due to frequent traveling. Even when I was not traveling, I was busy with other official or church or family matters. Only last week, I could resume my Hebrew class again. It was indeed like learning Greek and Hebrew as I was trying to understand the complex grammatical rules. After studying it over and over again, I finally was able to understand and recollect what I had studied already. 

I thought to myself, why on earth I ever enrolled for this Hebrew class? It was my choice. Yet the labor it required, the time spent, led me to wonder again if it was worth all the effort and time spent. Nevertheless, I am already a student and I can't backdown now. What I had started, now I must finish it too. I trust, the Lord will lead me through. 

This week too, I continued with my Hebrew classes. After much labor, I completed two lessons. Now, I have to prepare for the final exam of the ongoing unit. 

What the Lord had burdened me to start, He will grace me to complete it. I believe, there is a definite reason for my learning of Hebrew. Time will tell. May the will of the Lord be done. This Hebrew revisitation is an experience of the Lord’s grace in a definite way.

Much grace to me and all the learners. 

The Word and the Oneness

Today morning as we fellowshipped on a practical reality that can preserve us from degradation reminded me of my need to pay heed to the two crucial concerns; the power of the word and the oneness of the Body. The church in Philadelphia can degrade to the situation in Laodicea if it misses these two crucial items; the word and the cross that keeps the oneness. This is a check point in my Christian life if I have the power of the word and the oneness of the Body. If not, degradation has already happened. 

The Word with the power of God

Matthew 22:29 RecVer

And Jesus answered and said to them, You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Erring is not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. If the truth that was recovered do not manifest the power of God, it is merely a doctrine. In the past, many truths have been recovered, however when the word did not manifest its power, they all were mere doctrines; lifeless, debatable, and thereby caused only division.

The truth in its entirely and reality is the Spirit. It must have power to save sinners and transform believers. If the words spoken is not saving sinners nor ministering life to the listeners, the harbinger of the word has already fallen. Because the words is spirit and life.

John 6:63 RecVer

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

The Spirit is the reality. This reality is embodied in the word who became the flesh, the incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ as the way, the reality, and the life.

1 John 5:6 RecVer

This is He who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ; not in the water only, but in the water and in the blood; and the Spirit is He who testifies, because the Spirit is the reality.

Having the Lord Jesus as the reality and the life, one must be practicing the truth. Not merely professing in the mouth with no power. But living out the reality with its manifested power that saves sinners and ministers life to people issues in the growth in life that perfects the saints and builds up the Body of Christ (Ephesians 4:12, 13) until the perfected saints arrives at the oneness of the faith.

1 John 1:6 RecVer

If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and are not practicing the truth;

John 14:6 RecVer

Jesus said to him, I am the way and the reality and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.

Ephesians 4:12-13 RecVer

12. For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ,

13. Until we all arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

Ephesians 6:17 RecVer

And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God.

The word one believes into and practices must manifest the power of God too. This is the need of the time to maintain the testimony of Jesus, keeping the word, as in the church in Philadelphia. 

Revelation of John 3:8 RecVer

I know your works; behold, I have put before you an opened door which no one can shut, because you have a little power and have kept My word and have not denied My name.

The Oneness through the cross of Christ 

Ephesians 4:2-3 RecVer

2. With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one another in love,

3. Being diligent to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.

Oneness is what the Lord had prayed for in John 17. Oneness is what is being recovered among the saints today. Oneness is what builds up the Body and bears the Lord’s testimony. Sans this oneness, division and denomination is the result of Christian works. Therefore, it is imperative to see and keep the oneness. 

However, to keep the oneness there is a prerequisite of the need to be lowly, meek, long-suffering, and bearing one anither in love, which comes only through the cross of Christ. The cross breaks every barrier to keep the oneness in the Body of Christ. No cross, no oneness in reality. 

Therefore, in all our Christian life and services, we must keep the oneness through the cross by the Spirit. Any divisive opinion that may hamper the oneness must be categorically denied.

These two crucial items must be preserved to maintain the testimony of Jesus in the midst of degradation; the word of God with it's power and reality in the Spirit and the oneness of the Body of Christ through the cross of Christ.

Lord, preserve us to experience Your word with its power and keep us in the oneness of Your Body for Your testimony. 

A Day of Dispensing

Yesterday afternoon I was praying for the authentication of my daughter's documents that have been with the agent for about a month now. After waiting and waiting, I felt the need to remind the agent and take action. The reason he gave for the delay was that, this time the process wasn't easy as authentications have to be gotten from HRD of Delhi and Haryana. However, he kept me waiting and waiting, each time I called he promised to call back but did not. As I was praying for the matter, towards the completion of my specific prayer, he called me and chalked out the way forward; to visit Delhi and sort things out. And he later sent me his charges and quoted an exorbitant amount for thr service. I did not reply though tempted too. I left the matter to God in prayer again. This matter reminded me to pray and pray.

Today morning, along with my wife and daughter, we went to Delhi. We did all the formalities of filling the form and getting post office DD of Rs.50. By the time we submitted, one more photocopy of the original marksheet was required. So I had to run to get the extra copy to submit within the given time of 1 PM. And when I did, it was discovered that I also need to make another DD for Haryana as the school was based in Haryana. For this, we spent over one and half hour in an SBI bank. This was all the Lord’s doing for us to calm down and rest. It was for us to turn to the Lord and receive the Lord’s life dispensing. Once the DD was issued, we went to submit the documents for authentication. It was then that the Section Officer, the key person, conversed with us in a cordial way. It was then that I knew why we had to spend the day and the hour for this. The officer, a Christian lady from Mizoram, brought up in Manipur, had a time of friendly talk and I promised to gift her the New Testament Mizo Recovery Version and some spiritual books. It was for this that the Lord purposefully brought us to the office and arranged the proper time when she would be free to spend time with us. All things indeed worked together for good.

Then, about 3:30 PM after we were done with education office, we visited the Taiwan embassy to deal with three other documents for attestation. It was at this time only that we could go into the embassy office after their lunch break. Our time was scheduled by the Lord in a miraculous way. Then, we got to meet the key officers in the embassy and got into a contact for further help, another lady staff from Manipur, who offered to help in a cordial way. It became even more clear what the Lord intent to do in the process.

Firstly, to let my daughter know of the care we had for her in a very practical way. She experienced it herself that she had to be all prayers all the way in every matter, trusting the Lord. Nothing has to be taken for granted, but everything by prayer. 

Second, for us to pay the price in practically being responsible for our children. Doing our best, all that we could, and trusting the Lord all the while.

Third, a family time together, trusting the Lord together even as we bore the burden and labor together. 

The Lord allowed us to experience Him in a detailed way and fullfil His purpose; God's only goal in time is to dispense His life into us to be our life, life supply, and everything. All the way, we indeed experienced the Lord’s dispensing in every minute details. O what a day of divine dispensing!

Fellowship on Marriage

This month seems to be the time for a brother and a sister who have been faithfully waiting for one another in obedience to the brothers fellowship to wait for the prorpr time to take their relationship forward. Two years ago, a brother decided to consecrate his two years, to join the full time training. One regulation for such is to not have any relation with anyone so as to fully concentrate on his training. Likewise, the sister took the same fellowship from the brother to wait until the brother's training period of two years is over. 

Meanwhile, the sister was introduced to me and then to the church. Following a gospel preaching and shepherding, she believed into the Lord Jesus and got baptised. Since then, she has been regularly pursuing the Lord and has been regular in the church meetings. I also kept my words and did not mention anything about marriage to either of them or even to the brothers in the church. 

Last week, the brother has finally completed his two years training. Therefore, as the Lord arranged the time, I spent a personal time of fellowship with him concerning his marriage. Likewise, I also spent a time of personal fellowship with the sister in the presence of my wife. In this way, the two have been led to take the Lord’s way through fellowship and prayer. The next step is to bring them to the church brothers and their families.

This is how the Lord has been leading us to pray, wait, fellowship, and consider the situation of the saints so that they would be shepherded in their marriages and take the Lord’s way to go on, all for the Lord’s testimony. 

This is a lesson in fellowship on marriage matter. Still, we are in the learning process. May the Lord continue to lead us on and on in shepherding many young ones to seek the Lord’s perfect will for their life, especially for their marriage.