Family Training

The first national level of its kind ever held in India, a family training in Pune, was the one my family attended last week; it was our first one too, attending such training as a family. Though I was physically not keep too well during the training, but I never missed a class. All the messages were wonderful and I thanked the Lord for such a training where three elderly and matured couples from Taiwan ministered to us, not mere teaching, but their own lives' testimonies of how they have been taking care of their family, especially, their children, all of them have grown up and are all in the church-life with proper testimony. To me, the ministering brothers themselves are worth everything; their lives, living, experiences were all amazing. Thank God, I have such a wonderful pattern set before me.

What impressed me the most was the vision concerning the living and serving as household according to God's economy, supported by the living testimonies of the ministering brothers. As a summary of the entire training I composed a hymn based on the truth presented in the training. The hymns is here below.

Many practical points concerning living and serving the Lord as household beginning with the all-inclusive, all-inheriting, and consummate vision; God-man living as a household; the building up and relationship between husband and wife; the direction and goal in shepherding our children with discipline and admonition in the Lord; and the whole household serving the Lord, were the riches I brought back to my local church. What we have heard and seen, know and learned, we are imparting the same to the saints here in the local church.

Though the three days formal training concluded, the real training at home has just begun. Daily, hourly, as a family, all the days of our lives, we have to carry out this kind of family training.

O that the Lord would raise multitude of families as pillars for His testimony as the bright shining golden Lampstand in Gurugram!   

Living and Serving as Household  According to God’s EconomyDate: 13^th March 2017Impressed by the Lord’s speaking during a family training on the importance of a God-man family, living and serving God according to God’s economy, I wrote this hymn.Tune: # 993 1    O dear saints, this is our vision-
      "God’s Economy;"      All-inclusive from ages past,      Serve accordingly.      Be filled in Spirit as household,       Exercise daily.       Loving, living, serving God as       God-man family.             Love the Lord Jesus, your first-love,            Love the Lord your God.             Take Christ as your life and living            As household of God.            Live Christ every day,            Serve Him all the way,            Living and serving as household            According to God! 2    O parent, this glorious message,       Be wise and pay heed:      Christ, your unique Head and Centre,       All to Him submit.       Husband-wife built up, blent as one,      As Christ and the church.      Prayer partners-coordinators,      For Christ and the church. 3    Husband, love thy wife, thy body      Joined to her; one flesh.
      Wife, submit to thine own husband      In all things; thy head.
      Filled in Spirit, fullness of God,      Be thy fellowship.      Fellow heirs of the grace of life,      Thy relationship.    
4    O children, this glorious message,       Listen and obey:      Christ, your unique inheritance       Pursue Him alway,      Your highest career on earth is      God’s economy;       New Jerusalem your goal is,      First-fruit, reward be.     
5    Lord, me and my whole family, 
      I consecrate all.       For Thy divine economy,       Grace us, bless us all.       Blend us, build us, perfect us as      “God’s overcomers.”       "As for me and my family,
      We'll serve Jehovah!"