An Army Officer

A Colonel's wife, whom the Lord introduced in Gurgaon for fellowshipping on the word of God, introduced another officer who is a seeking sister at the moment posted in Guwahati. When I was in Guwahati during the training for serving ones, she tried to contact and visit me but we eventually met after the training on the Lord's day. 

She was so joyful to meet with us though it was her first time. Her testimony of joining our prophesying meeting was awesome. She said, "I felt like entering into paradise with all the saints in one accord saying 'amen' to one another's speaking, with many 'hallelujahs and praise the Lords' ." I was so joyful to hear such joyful words from a new one,a nd that too who joined our meeting for the first time.

Later, over lunch with a brother and I, we had a fellowship that lasted for six long hours. Initially, I listened to her of all that she had to say about her life, the sufferings she went through, how she got saved, baptised, and her experiences with different other Christian groups, the persecution she faced from her family as she is the first and only one who was saved so far, and her hunger for fellowship on the word of God. Then, I fellowshipped at length on the basic of a Christian life, as simple as reading the word, calling upon the Lord's Name, which she urgently needed, prayer, and fellowshipping with the saints in a local church. 

She was so joyful, and in between, to my count, she was in tears at least thrice, for the joy of meeting with fellow believers who fed her with the healthy teaching of the word of God.

Surprisingly, just before I left Guwahati, she came to meet a local sister that I introduced her to. That made us meet one more time as I was lodge in the same saint's house. I strengthened the burden for her to pray for her family salvation and gifted two books, The Economy of God and Enjoying the Lord through Prayer and the Word. It was so joyful to witness new ones enjoying fellowshipping on the word of God and prayer.

The next day as I left for Guwahati and was praying for all the new ones, the Lord burdened me specifically for this army officer who needed proper shepherding. Then I wrote the following message for her spiritual exercise. 

Reminder : Exercise for God's Army
1) Love the Lord Jesus Christ; our first love toward the Lord must be our best love for Him.
Matthew 22:37 - And He said to him, “ *You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.*”
Matthew 22:38 - This is the great and first commandment.
Matthew 22:39 - And the second is like it:  “ *You shall love your neighbor as yourself*.”
Matthew 22:40 - On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. 
Both commandments, the commandment to love God and the commandment to love man, are a matter of love. Love is the spirit of God’s commandments.

2) Eat the word* of God daily.
John 6:57 - As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me. 
The best way to eat the Lord in the word is by reading and praying,  pray-reading, the word of God.
Reading the Bible is a battle. But you are the winner, only if you fight. *Be disciplined, and read the Bible daily and diligently*. God will speak to you through His words, and that will be your reward!

3) Exercise your spirit to pray unceasingly. 
1 Thessalonians 5:17 Unceasingly pray. 
1 Timothy 4:7 - But the profane and old-womanish myths refuse, and exercise yourself unto godliness.
1 Timothy 4:8 - For bodily exercise is profitable for little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the present life and of that which is to come. 
The best way to pray is to call upon the Lord's name: Lord Jesus Christ! Breathe yourself out and breathe Christ in. At all times; good times or bad times, sad times or happy times, just call on the name of Jesus silently or out loud. That will be your daily salvation. 

4) Exercise your faith, claim the promises of God, and command God according to His Words.
Isaiah 45:11 -  Thus says Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel and the One who formed him, Ask Me about the things to come concerning My sons, And concerning the work of My hands, command Me. 

5) Pray for your family salvation until all of them are indeed saved. Yes, all of them. Including your friends, colleagues, seniors and juniors in your profession.
Acts 16:31 - And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household.

6) Meet and fellowship with the believers in the local church. 
Hebrews 10:24 - And let us, consider one another so as to incite one another to love and good works,
Hebrews 10:25 - Not abandoning our own assembling together, as the custom with some is, but  exhorting one another; and so much the more as you see the day drawing near. 

7) Alert! Beware of false teachers and fake churches who do ministry for themselves; their own name, fame, glory, money, and their own ministry. Genuine ministry causes spiritual growth with the help of the above six exercises, and builds up the believers for the building up of the Body of Christ.
Ephesians​ 4:11 - And He Himself gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as shepherds and teachers,
Ephesians​ 4:12 - For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ,
Ephesians​ 4:13 - Until we all arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Ephesians​ 4:14 - That we may be no longer little children tossed by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching in the sleight of men, in craftiness with a view to a system of error,
Ephesians​ 4:15 - But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ,
Ephesians​ 4:16 - Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love. 
(All Bible verses and notes are from the Holy Bible, Recovery Version.)