Five Brothers

The ministry of the word is prevailing amidst many different teachings available in the Christian market. Food is generic and can be found everywhere, but healthy food? Only genuine seekers and lovers of the Lord can discern what is healthy and where to find them. 

A brother came across our books in one of the Christian bookstores in Lucknow and introduced it to his co-brothers. One of them visited us in Gurgaon and purchased a box full of the ministry books. Two weeks ago, there was an urgent need for me to visit a brother's family in Kanpur and meanwhile I called the former brother if they would be interested to get more books as we have the stock already in town. To my surprise, he said they had been planning to visit us in Gurgaon and that since I would be visiting Kanpur a mini-conference fellowship was arranged.

As usual after specifically praying for this meeting I went for the conference with a brother, not knowing what to speak, but my being was fully open to the Lord for His flowing and speaking. When we arrived the venue, there were five brothers waiting for us. All of these brothers are "pastors" as the Christian world would call them, but I recognized them as my fellow brothers in Christ and addressed them as such, as it should properly be.

At the very onset of introduction, one of them caught my attention, who was a PhD in Divinity. I asked what was his thesis for his doctorate program, to which he aptly replied, "Holy Spirit." Then an impromptu fellowship began as the Lord led me to speak on "the Holy Spirit". For about four hours, I fellowshipped on the line of the Spirit's work from creation in Genesis to its consummation in Revelation, covering every detail points and important Bible verses on the Spirit. 

The entire fellowship was centered on the Holy Spirit and His works in man;s history until today. The Spirit of God in creation, in God's relationship with man as the Spirit of Jehovah, in sanctifying His people as the Spirit of holiness in the Old Testament, and further on to the Holy Spirit in God's incarnation as Jesus Christ, the Spirit of Jesus in His humanity, the Spirit of Christ in His divinity, the Spirit of Jesus Christ in His all-inclusiveness, the Lord Spirit in His lordship and glorification, the life-giving Spirit in His resurrection to dispense God's divine life to His believers, the Spirit as the processed and consummated God, and the seven-fold intensified Spirit to produce the overcomers today in this last days.  The Lord's speaking was so rich and supplied all of us. Our fellowship was the ministry of the word, and brothers have enquired for further fellowship and training. The will of the Lord be done for these brothers and the thousand plus believers with them in Kanpur.

What a blessed trip it was! On the one hand I had discharged my official duty for the literature distribution and introducing the ministry of the word to fellow Christian brothers, yet on the other hand, I had a time of fellowship with a brother most of the remaining time in mutual care, concern and shepherding.

Praise the Lord for the five brothers! May He bless them richly with His word and recover them into the subjective and practical reality of the word of God.