Marathon Bible Reading

Tuesday, the 20th October, being a holiday, we felt good for the saints in the church to come together for a time of prayer, hymn singing, fellowship, and mostly Bible reading. As the church, we have been reading the Bible and encouraging all the saints to read the Bible daily with the goal of feeding on the spiritual milk and solid food of the word, to receive the Lord’s speaking, to be constituted with the truth, and of course, to read through the Bible at least once a year. To this extent, we have made a yearly schedule for daily Bible reading portions to complete reading the entire Bible in a year.

Though the burden has been trumpeted now and then, not many have been scheduled to read the Bible daily as planned. Therefore, to help the saints, we have arranged a day of Marathon Bible Reading with the following announcement. 

Announcements: Tuesday, 20 Oct Schedule

Venue: Meeting Hall, DLF-1 

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Marathon Bible Reading

Burden: Reading Bible, Prayer, and Fellowship

To catchup with the daily Bible reading schedule, especially for those who are lagging behind in the daily Bible reading portions with the goal of reading through the entire Bible at least once in a year, by 31 Dec 2026.

Please bring your Bible.

Time: 10:30 AM onwards

(Whole day with tea&snacks and lunch breaks)

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As the saints turned up for the day, we had four sessions of simply reading the Bible for about an hour each, and took half an hour break between each session. After the whole day of Bible reading, some saints shared about their experiences and all were encouraged to read the Bible regularly. 

As we gathered for Bible reading, some sisters volunteered to cook lunch and dinner for all who attended the Bible reading. We all enjoyed a time of blending over lovefeast too.

Besides, the day being Tuesday, we had our weekly group meeting after the Bible reading sessions. The message was on "Occupation" which was also in line with the burden on "not loving money" which was shared last Lord’s Day. Thank the Lord, week by week, the Lord has been speaking to the church what was on His heart. Though we are few in numbers in the local church, the Lord has been pleased to speak to us regularly. Every Lord’s Day has become a blessed day of the Lord’s fresh supply of life through the word.

Thus, the day that began for the Bible reading at 11:30 AM ended at 9:30 PM, a ten hours of meeting! Despite the busy schedule, the saints enjoyed a wonderful time of blending and reading.

The underlying burden behind all these is the building up of the local church. These were not mere activities carried out, but for shepherding the saints with the word of God.

Lord, build and bless Your church!

Brotherly Cherishing

Last Saturday morning, I received a phone call from a sister concerning the health condition of her husband while I was in a weekly Saturday brothers' fellowship. Later, I let the sister know that I would be available for any practical help; only that I would attend first the church prayer meeting. For that day, no help was required. The next day, Lord’s Day, I received a call during the meeting which I couldn't pick but texted her informing I was in the meeting. Later, as I called, I informed her that after all the afternoon meetings, if need be I could help. Then, due to the need, I went to be with the brother, her husband, who was admitted in the hospital, as an assistant night stay.

When I reached the hospital, my brother was on the bed barely able to move but good enough to recognize me with a smile. The sister left for home and I stayed back. It was my first time to stay overnight in a hospital since I first came to Gurugram in 2005. I was glad I could be of some help to my brother in need.

I had my personal time of prayer as I sat beside his bed which otherwise would have been in a park nearby my residence.  Then, went to bed beside my brother's bed.

At about midnight, my brother struggled to urinate and he discovered that his whole body became numb due to his nervous system breakdown. This was caused by an injury on his forehead at a construction site about a month ago which resulted in internal bruise, swelling, and fluid formation between his skull and brain affecting his nervous system. Somehow, we could manage him to urinate, though, with much struggle. 

Then, again early in tbe morning about 4 AM, my sleep was disturbed by a struggling sound. As I woke up, my brother was stuck on the bed's hand rail as he attempted to get down to use the toilet. I tried my best to help him but he was too heavy. So, I called a hospital attendant to help me. But we struggled too, and could not take him to the toilet. Instead, we helped him to sit in the bed and there itself, help him to urinate. The trained male nurse had a way to handle this. Still, some thing spilled over to the clothes, bed sheet, and even in my chappal. 

At this time, he panicked, became so tensed, and requested me to call his wife, which I did. In between, his son called from USA, and later his elder sister also from USA, both of them encouraged him to trsut the Lord and stay positive. Due to the emergency nature, the doctor was called and CT scan taken immediately. And the surgery was preponed to be the first in the list for Monday.

Thank God, the surgery was successfully done and he was kept in an ICU for 24 hours so I could go back home and do my works. On Tuesday night I stayed at the hospital again, and this time, my brother rejoiced at seeing me being with him. He spoke and spoke and spoke till about 11:30 PM. I prayed and we went to bed. The next day, another brother stayed with him, and finally on Thursday night I stayed with him gain. We enjoyed a good time of talking and fellowshipping too.

On the morning of his discharge, I had a time of morning revival with him on John 15 concerning the believers being branches in the Vine and the need for mutual abiding resulting in fruit bearing. He requested for the morning revival book, which I gave him after his discharge from the hospital. I also read outloud the Bible, my daily reading portions; Philippians on Wednesday morning and Colossians on Friday morning. 

Each time I prayed, I held his hand or laid my hand on him and prayed for the Lord to touch him, heal and recover him, and be gracious to him. The Lord answered all the prayers and now he is in a recovery process. 

On the day of discharge, I felt strongly to assist them and lead them to their home, which I did. Then, we all prayed a prayer of thanksgiving.

Since his birthday is coming up this Lord’s day, I wished him in advance. 

This was my experience of brotherly cherishing. 

Dear Br. K___,

Wishing You in Advance for Your New Beginning as the Lord Adds to You Another Year, a "Second Life"

May this second life be filled with the Spirit, the word of God, and the divine life and nature of God.

Blessed New Beginning!

Happy Birthday!

Blessed Second Life!

So then if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold, they have become new.

2 Corinthians 5:17 RecVer

May our gracious Lord Jesus Christ grace you with a new heart and a new spirit for a new beginning.

Ezekiel 36:26-27 RecVer

26. I will also give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

27. And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and My ordinances you shall keep and do.

Colossians 3:16 RecVer

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-23 RecVer

16. Always rejoice,

17. Unceasingly pray,

18. In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

19. Do not quench the Spirit;

20. Do not despise prophecies,

21. But prove all things. Hold fast to what is good;

22. Abstain from every kind of evil.

23. And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:28 RecVer

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Your brother,

P

Gurugram 

24 Oct 2026

Spiritual Surgery

This week was very special to me. Personally, my prayer life has taken a turn where my prayer burden was focused on me personally. This also coincided with me getting the opportunity to take care of a brother who was admitted to a hospital for a serious head injury that affected his nervous system. Though I was attending a brother who went through a neuro surgery, my experience was, I was also spiritually going through a spiritual surgery.

This week, my prayers were all focused on being opened to the Lord, the heavenly Surgeon, for His spiritual surgery in me. As His light shown on me deeply, I confessed to him all my deep hidden feelings and thoughts, honestly. I prayed for His surgery and deal with all these spiritual worms infecting me mostly in my thoughts. 

Whether I was in the hospital or at home, this week, my prayer was all for my spiritual surgery. I need this badly and the time has come to carry out that specific surgery. Thank God, the Lord has been operating in me.

Psalms 139:23-24 RecVer

23. Search me, O God, and know my heart;  Try me, and know my anxious thoughts;

24. And see if there is some harmful way in me, And lead me on the eternal way.

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.