Prayer and the Presence of God

Now when Daniel came to know that the writing had been signed, he went to his house (in his upper room he had windows open toward Jerusalem) and three times daily he knelt on his knees and prayed and gave thanks before his God, because he had always done so previously.

Daniel 6:10 RecVer

Daniel depended on prayer to do what man could not do and to understand what man could not understand. There is no other way to bring God’s economy into fulness and into fulfillment except by prayer; this is the inner secret of this chapter.

God desires to carry out His economy, but man is needed to pray for His economy on earth. God carries out His economy through His faithful channels of prayer. Today prayer is the lifeline in the Lord’s recovery. The more Satan tries to frustrate our prayer, the more we should pray.

This portion from the ministry supplied me with much light and life concerning my prayer life. I again and again repeated this burden to all the saints in my locality, to the people I am in contact, to the ones under my shepherding, and to my own family members, to live a life of prayer, to bring every matter to the Lord in prayer and also to also set specific time to pray daily. Daniel's three times a day prayer is a wonderful pattern for all to follow. 

May the Lord grace us all to men of prayer. 

If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the blazing furnace of fire, and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods nor worship the golden image that you have set up.

Daniel 3:17-18 RecVer

Upon careful consideration of the verses above, one can learn some important spiritual lessons. First, trusting in the living God come what may, God is faithful to take care of His children, even in living or dying. Second, one must not assume what God would do. God's intention with Daniel's three friends was not to deliver them from the furnace of fire but to let them go through it with His presence. In fact, God only arranged the three to go through the fiery furnace and thereby manifest who He is. Third, God can turn, and He will turn, whatever circumstances to His and His children's favor. Even the blazing furnace of fire becomes a pleasant place with Him to the extent that the fire has no effect whatsoever, against the natural law for He is above the natural laws, in fact, the very Creator Himself.

The presence of the Lord turns even the blazing furnace of fire into a pleasant place. His presence is all that matters, no matter the circumstances. The Lord did not deliver Daniel's three friends from the furnace of fire, instead He allowed them to go through it, but with His presence. The furnace of fire did no affect them at all, instead it drew the King's attention to the living God!

The Lord may not always deliver us from the furnace, but He will always meet us in the furnace. His presence turns the place of suffering into a place of enjoyment, and the fire that tests us becomes the means by which we gain more of Christ.

As a man of prayer living in the presence of God, everything is a blessing. All circumstances are pleasant with the presence of God. And all these, are for God to gain His chosen and redeemed ones to be fully one with Him to accomplish His eternal purpose on the earth. What a Christian life we are living today! What a blessing that we live on the earth today as God-man! No works of Satan can deter God's plan. On the contrary, God turns every scheme of Satan to display His multifarious wisdom. Hallelujah!

But in all these things we more than conquer through Him who loved us.

Romans 8:37 RecVer

But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:57 RecVer

Experience of Christ: In Material Things

Honor Jehovah with your substance And with the firstfruits of all your produce; Then your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will burst open with new wine. Proverbs 3:9-10 RecVer

As much as in our daily living, so much more in material things, Christ can, and must be experienced. I have the grace from the Lord to experience Him in material things too.

Fifteen years ago, I purchased a Life Issurance plan from LIC after a repeated phone call I received from an agent. When the agent turned up, I doubted and denied buying the plan. However, when a higher up person called me, I was convinced, and the agent turned up again. Finally, I bought a policy for ten years, to be paid yearly. However, when I received the final policy document, it was fixed for fifteen years. I was so disappointed then. However, I continued to pay the premium yearly. After a few years, I had some doubts and even went to the branch office for verification. This year, this month, the policy matured and I got a huge return, much beyond my expectation. The policy matured at the right time when my daughter has to go abroad for her further studies. 

As usual, the first thing is to always honor the source of supply by offering back to meet the need of the Lord’s work wherever the Lord led me to. This time, I was burdened to offer for the meeting hall construction of the church in Aizawl. In fellowship with the brother there, my burden was carried out in a way of offering from what the Lord has blessed. 

Besides, this month, a brother's family just migrated back to his home country and there was a need for winding up his household items. After everything that could be sold were sold, I took the burden to buy everything remaining and sell to whoever needs them. Whatever remaining should just be my responsibility to pay whether I needed them or not. For this, I could use the money I just received as a help-cum-offering. And this burden too was carried out. 

The crux of the matter is, all these things transpired in this month, June 2026, on the same week when the policy got matured. It was like, this was already foreknown and preplanned fifteen years ago. The year, the month, the week, and even the day, were all apt. This was for me to experience Christ in material offerings and in matters related to material things.

Praise the Lord!

Experience of Christ: In Living

Experiencing the Lord in every situation is a blessing in disguise. Though every step of the believers is directed by the Lord, it is possible for one not to reckon the Lord’s way in dealing with His chosen. But for those who did, it's an experience all the way and worth it's reckoning. 

As for me, I have been learning to bring every matter to the Lord in prayer. As I did so, the Lord reminded me about the ongoing processes of my daughter's preparation for her further studies in Taiwan. For the documents that were issued by the school and the board, we have received them well in time. But for the documents that needed my own preparation, I also prepared them well in time. Inwardly, the Lord led me when to apply for it, when to go Delhi for its authentication. I could just feel the Lord’s hand in every step of the process letting me know, even the date on which I should visit the school and also the embassy. Everything worked out just in time. 

On the 22nd June, I went to the school as I had planned the week before, and on the same day, to Taiwan embassy in Delhi for the authentication. Through all these processes, the experience of Christ was all that stood out. The same thing could be done by anybody on any day sans the experience of Christ. But the points is the experience of Christ in every matter concerning us.

Similarly, for my son's secondth board exam on Maths result, my niece's exam for her future studies, and my plan for the ministry journey. Everything to the Lord in prayer. What a blessing that we have the living God to whom we can bring everything! 

To this extent, I have established a weekly family prayer time and fellowship on Monday. It was a family time to consider every matter of the family and pray together. In this way, the whole family is ushered to a life of prayer and trusting in the Lord for everything. Nothing is to be taken for granted. At all times for all things, looking to the Lord for His grace and blessings. No matter what, experience the Lord through everything. The ultimate goal of such a life is to gain Christ and be fully matured to fulfill His divine and eternal purpose. This is a life lived for the experience and gaining of Christ. 

Blessed Gifts

As the Lord added a new year to my mortal human life, my daughter gave me a gift with a verse:

A righteous man who walks in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him. 

Proverbs 20:7 RecVer

I may not deserve to be called a righteous man as such, however, by the Lord’s mercy, Christ has become my righteousness and He has blessed me with blessed chidren. As I keep aging, I also pray for the Lord’s deeper work in me, year by year, even to attain to full maturity in life.

As usual, I went out to pray and entered into a new year, with prayer, consecrating my life afresh to God for His divine and eternal purpose. After such an overnight prayer, I took bath and worked on the excerpts to be made ready for the upcoming blending conferences for the churches in Keralam. Interestingly, the excerpts I worked on are articles on deification, "Becoming God"; the leaven of heaven, a healthy teaching on John 14; and the truth concerning the Triune God. Only then, I went to rest early in the morning. That's how my new year began.

As I woke up, my two daughters gifted me cute and memorable gifts.

The day being the Lord’s Day, and also coincided with the webcast video training on the recently concluded memorial day conference on The Great Need for New Revival, I took the up-to-date speaking of the Lord as my "birthday gift." A new year with a new beginning for a new revival. For this. I must arrive at the highest peak of the divne revelation of God becoming a man to make man Gid in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. Through regeneration, sanctification, renewing, transformation, conformation, and glorification man becomes God in life and in nature, and not in the Godhead. Then, there is a need for proper God-man living, corporately in tne practical church and in coordination carrying out the universal shepherding of the saints. This is the Lord’s blessed speaking as a gift as I began my new year again.

In addition, we also had the brothers fellowship in Delhi where we were encouraged to preach the gospel and shepherd the new ones for the increase of the church. Another speaking of the Lord added to my gift box.

Again, in tbe evening, we had another message on the aspect of the God-man living that is required for the new revival. Then, my day ended with my personal time with the Lord in prayer.

This is how I have been blessed with a new beginning. Praise the Lord for the new beginning!

Ministry of the Word in Nagercoil and Kanyakumari

As continuation of what was carried out in my last ministry literature journey to the South, I came again to complete what we left behind. After the fellowship in Chennai, I came again to Nagercoil and Kanyakumari for three days of ministry journey. 

This time, a brother, an ex-classmate of mine, picked me from the station. This was the first time I visited his house in Nagercoil. For the morning refreshment, I was at his house until another couple joined us for the day's schedule. The day was spent mostly visiting the saints' family and fellowshipping with them. In the visitation, one brother was also baptized after a good while of meeting with him. The saints' love had filled my stomach to the brim as they prepared lovefeasts.

For three days, we met the key Christian leaders identified by the local brother. As we introduced the Recovery Version Bible in English and Tamil, the Pastors were very impressed with the depth of the content of the footnotes as we quoted and also led them to read some selected portions. Whoever we met expressed their gratitude that we met them with the healthy word of God. Though a few of them had their doubts initially, after listening to our introduction and presentation, their doubts were clarified and they eventually purchased at least a copy for their own reading and studies. 

Since the ones we met stayed far apart, and the place of hospitality too, in the outskirt, we travelled a lot every day. Perhaps, on the average, three to four hours were just spent on traveling. So, I made use of these hours for fellowship with the serving saints, and also for my personal prayer time.

Along the way, as we travelled, we also visited some sightseeing places and got some photo shots. In a human way, the saints took care of me very well. It was a wonderful journey in coordination with the local serving ones. Thus, the burden this time was also released. We pray that the Lord will open the minds of the brothers and sisters who received the ministry literature and shine upon them to see the vision of God's eternal purpose concerning Christ and the church. Our burden is to supply the healthy teaching of the ministry of the word to our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. 

Lord, bless Your move and Your testimony in Nagercoil and Kanyakumari.

A Visit to My Alma Mater

After twenty five years since I first landed in Madras Christian College for my Master of Computer Application studies in Tambaram, Chennai, I visited my alma mater on 7th June, after the Lord’s Table Meeting at the Chennai Blending Centre venue with one of the districts of the church in Chennai. I was accompanied by two brothers, one of  whom got saved and baptized right after I graduated from the same college. It was indeed a moment of travelling back in time and reminiscing all that the Lord had done dueing my college days in the same campus. 

We visited my old hostel, Selaiyur Hostel, and gazed at the rooms I had stayed for three years. It was amazing that even after so many years, the structure of the hostels still looks new. They have maintained it quite well. Kudos to the administration team. I narrated to the brothes soem key events that transpired dueing my stay. Testifying to the students and staffs of the hostel and college on an advanced Christmas event, how the Lord Jesus saved me and changed my life, and the other notable experiences as a hosteller. 

Then, we toured my old Dept. of Computer Science building, the different grounds and fields for games and sports, and narrated to the brothers how I would come almost daily to one of those grounds for my personal Bible reading and prayers from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM, my set time with the Lord for the word and prayer. I also testified of what God had done through the campus prayer cell, retreats, and many social activities we carried out as a team while being a student. And how I came in touch with the ministry, firstly with the New Testament Recovery Version in 2000-2001. Since then, what followed is a history of the Lord’s move in me.

Looking back, I simply praise and worship the Lord for His mercy upon me. Looking forward, I simply plead for His grace upon me and my family, to be preserved in Him, for Him, all the days of our lives. Herein, I quote one of the pslams of King David, making it mine.

Psalms 71:17-18 RecVer

O God, You have taught me from my youth; And until now I have declared Your wondrous deeds.

So even into my old age and grayheadedness, O God, do not forsake me, Until I have declared Your strength Unto the next generation, Your might unto everyone who is to come.

After the down-the-memory-lane tour, we had a time of fellowship with a brother who gave us the tour, at his house concerning his personal spiritual situation and prayed for him. My personal fellowship in love to him was to humble himself before the living God, seek for God’s mercy and grace to recover his spiritual daily enjoyment of the Lord, and be in the practical church life in the fellowship of the saints. For this, I introduced a brother for his spiritual companion. And rest assured, the Lord will take care of the rest, if indeed, he takes the fellowship and abide by it. Much grace.

Thus, was my visit to my alma mater. I did share the photos I took to my batchmates' WhatsApp group. Adieu for now, until the next beckon...

The Lord's Move

Last weekend I was in Chennai for a two days fellowship of the brothers serving the Lord in our country. This was an important fellowship concerning the Lord’s move and how we go on in the present evil age. The enemy has been relentlessly attacking from all possible angles, sometimes subtly, at times, openly. We dread him not, for we have Christ in us who is greater than he who is in the world.

You are of God, little children; and you have overcome them because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

1 John 4:4, RecVer

For two days, we enjoyed blending in a way of prayers, pray-reading the word, and practical fellowships on various pressing present items. Through each member, the Lord’s light shown on each one and we knew how we should go on in His move in our country. We are the Lord’s, as the Lord also is for us, and He has been faithfully leading us onward, step by step. Through this fellowship, I had to change my schedule a little bit; I needed to attend the brothers fellowship in Kerala following the few days of distribution in Nagercoil and Kanyakumari. 

Meanwhile, the Lord’s intensified move has also been going on simultaneously in nine different select cities, towns, and villages in different parts of India. Praise the Lord for all the wonderful testimonies of what He has done! New lampstands were raised up, hundreds of new ones were contacted, and most importantly, many saints have been raised up to shepherd the new ones. This is how the Lord replied the enemy's attack upon His children and His lampstands.

No weapon that is formed against you will prosper, And every tongue that rises up to judge you, you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness which is of Me, declares Jehovah.

Isaiah 54:17, RecVer

Overall, though the political situation is grim and the hatred towards the children of God has heightened, the Lord is still on the throne. He knows and He cares for His children, His very own. What a comfort to trust in Him! His work is His work and He will take care of it. Hallelujah!

Psalms 121 RecVer

1. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. From where will my help come?

2. My help comes from Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.

3. He will not let your foot slip; He who keeps you will not slumber.

4. Behold, Israel’s Keeper will neither slumber nor sleep.

5. Jehovah is your Keeper; Jehovah is your shade at your right hand.

6. The sun will not strike you by day, Nor the moon by night.

7. Jehovah will keep you from all evil; He will keep your soul.

8. Jehovah will keep your going out and your coming in from now and to eternity.