Ministry of the Word in Udhampur

Udhampur, a city of Northern Command HQ of the Indian Army, is where the Lord led us for meeting with the Christian leaders for the introduction of the ministry of the word. Our first meeting was with a Christian leader with whom we spent few hours with lunch.He ws very cooperative that he promised to take these books to various other Christian leaders, workers and believers too. He also happened to be the chaplain of the Christian gathering within the army camp. May the lord use him to spread the ministry even among the soldiers of the country. 

A very significant and notable meeting was with a Christian leader who labor in the field on literature and radio program. With him too we spent considerable time with lunch. He was impressed by the word we spoke and decided to order all our publication to be displayed in his office. 

As such a literary person who was checking the translation of the Bible, I felt led to gift him a copy of the New Testament, Recovery Version. He was very happy for the gift as he deemed it helpful as reference book for his translation, teaching the Bible and preaching in a radio program. he also happened to be a key person for literature works among the Christians all over Jammu.

Though we did not have a concrete discernment of what the Lord wants to do in this city as far as raising up of His testimony is concerned, we do feel content with what the Lord has blessed us with, meeting key leaders and introducing the ministry to them. Perhaps, in time, the Lord will manifest what He desires to do in this city.

One such feeling I had while in this city was, the Lord should gain His armies for His move and I felt the urgency of it with the physical presence of so many armies. I was especially glad that the Lord has gained some high ranking army officers, and many more must be gained. All the contacts that we met in this city were actually given by a sister who is the wife of one such army officer, and she was saved in this very city. I even texted a sister who is also an army officer posted currently in the North East about the need for the Lord to gain the believers to be the Army of God. She immediately replied with a confirmation that we are indeed, as the saints of God we are the armies of God too, with a smiley.

Lord, gain Udhampur, and gain Your Army!