Two Brothers' Visit

Today is a significant day and a special day too. Two brothers who have been leading many people to salvation and have been Christian leaders for years came to fellowship with me in Gurgaon. One of them is a brother who has been in touch with the ministry of the age and also in fellowship with me for few years now. 

Few weeks ago he called me, as being led by the Spirit in his prayer to do so, and expressed his desire to come to personally fellowship with me what the Lord has been doing in his lives. My immediate response was that I would also fellowship with the other brothers and let him know when the best time would be. In his fellowship over the phone he expressed in urgency his need to obey what the Spirit had told him to do; to come to fellowship with me and be recovered back into the fellowship of the Body of Christ and also be helped in the matter of baptism. It was rather shocking to me as he has been leading a considerable number of believers and now he wants to set the basic right? I dared not comment anything as I deemed it best to leave it to the Lord. The Lord's will be done.

Yesterday they came to Gurgaon, and today the whole day we had fellowship on various burdens as the Lord led. They joined our Life-study of Matthew pursuit on being a salt of the earth and a light of the world as Christians in the church life in the kingdom of heaven. Later, I ministered to them on the greatest miracle in the whole universe, "God became man to make man God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead," with crucial verses in 1 John 3:1,2; 2 Peter 1:4 and Romans 8:28, 29. We also fellowshipped on the heavenly vision Saul saw in Acts 9:1-5, and Paul's faithfulness to the heavenly vision in Acts 26:19. Then they opened up their main burden for which they came.

According to their testimony, they were led by the Lord in prayer that they should come to Gurgaon and meet me and fellowship on their inward situation they have been going through. They narrated the turn of events that actually led them to come all the way from down South to up North. They opened up confessing their lack in the basic matter in their Christian lives; they wanted to be properly baptised. They both have a very strong conviction that they need to do this as they were not helped in a proper way, perhaps, a biblical way in this matter. The case at point being serious, I fellowshipped with another brother to join me in understanding their actual need. We both then fellowshipped with them and ascertain that they were indeed genuine in their fellowship and what they confessed as urgent need. Then we both were convinced that it was truly of the Lord that they should be properly baptised, and we prayed together. In their prayer it was also became clear of what the Lord has been doing in their lives.

In the evening, we made the arrangement, and before they were baptised, they both spend a considerable amount of time in prayer on their knees. They were indeed very genuine and came with a genuine need. Just before baptism I shared on one of the most important aspects yet neglected point of baptism; a baptism into the Body of Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:12, 13 For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ. For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether  slaves or free, and were all given to drink one Spirit.

Thus, they were baptised! And the purpose for which the Lord brought them here was fulfilled. Besides, they also wanted to be fully recovered into the fellowship and oneness of the Body of Christ. For this we suggested that we will have more fellowship with other brothers as well and see how the Lord would lead some thirty nine Christian leaders and about two thousands believers in their future course of their lives. Nevertheless, we also frankly told them that taking the way of the Lord's recovery is purely of the Lord's mercy and grace, it entails seeing of the vision of the Body of Christ, paying the price, and even of persecution from fellow Christians who have no vision of the Lord's economy. We even made them clear that not everyone can take this way; and inquired if none of their believers or leader are willing to take this way, will they still take this way? Their answer was in the affirmative, and an emphatic "yes." Time will tell. May the Lord grace them so and recovery all the believers in thirty nine localities spanning two states of India.

For this reason, I term this meeting as significant and special. May the Lord's will be done. Amen.