God's Speaking : Restoration

With two saints whom the Lord recently recovered into the church life, we visited a brother of their acquaintance. It was my first meeting with him, nevertheless, our acquaintance became so sweet and the Lord's anointing was richly felt in the meeting.

The pre-lunch meeting was all his time to pour himself out. The Lord graced me with a listening ear to patiently listen and discern whatever he had to say. His "ice-breaking" session went on for over an hour, and that was a very good one. For I got to know and understand him more to be able to minister the word later.

After  a lovely lunch was served, the ball was on my court. Beginning with God's plan, creation, the fall of man, the redemption of Christ, the regeneration of man, the growth in the divine life and also church according to the Bible, I went on and on, with some interactive sessions in between. The flow of the Spirit was so sweet that we all get much life supply through the fellowship, including myself; I was so supplied too. It really met the urgent need of the brother.

He had been a zealous lover of the Lord with a strict upbringing from an orthodox Christian family background. However, things did not turn out so good as expected of a religious believer. His matter went to the extreme of marital discord, lies, cheating and even divorce with false accusations and family separations. Not only so, he was literally robbed of everything including finances and properties. At that juncture, he was seeking the Lord to the uttermost with all religiosity and piety. But a time came when all these religious struggling reach a limit, resulting in breaking loose from self-made religious laws. Since then, he came even to the point of not being happy with God for all the unfulfilled promises, or rather, a kind of spiritual rebellion; stopped fellowshipping with believers and stopped the regular church meeting. Just be freed and broke loose from religious ties. 

To this narration my instant and innate reaction was, "Praise the Lord!" But I had to explain why I praised the Lord for such a bitter experience.

Initially, I ministered on the matter of the need for God to stripped us off of all our natural efforts, struggling and striving even for good. And further ministered on the importance of taking care of the basic of our Christian life; normal breathing, drinking and eating the Lord daily. Then he was very much encouraged and confessed that he had neglected these basic necessities. He was so happy that these matters were made clear to him and he joyfully exclaimed, "This is God's speaking; I will definitely do it from today..." Meanwhile, before we left, his mother also commented that she was so happy to see his son being so happy; and further confirmed the aptness and timeliness of the words spoken as she also listened from the adjoining bedroom.

The knowledge of the word and the revelation of the word is important to rescue the children of God from the devil's blinding darts. With the proper understanding of God's words and God's ways, the children of God have a clear sky to walk on in their journey of life irrespective of the circumstances, matters, persons or things on the way. 

It was indeed a great day of restoration as he himself testified. It was indeed God's speaking for restoration of our dear brother and his family and also for the Lord's testimony in that city, Noida.