A brother who by profession is a Dentist has been working in this city and has been inviting me to visit him. The Lord used him as a threshold for us to decide this trip to Himachal Pradesh. Though we knew no one, we prayed, fellowshipped, and made a plan to visit this state by faith. Therefore, we came to this city Solan.
No sooner we arrived in this brothers' house, we had our lunch and went to visit the only pastor he knew in town. We introduced the ministry books to him and got more leads for meeting more people. Besides, we also met a sister, a lady pastor, who just concluded their fasting prayer meeting with the youth group. As we introduced the ministry books and fellowshipped our intention in visiting this state, one of the youths, and the lady pastor herself gave some more contacts. These contacts were the key people in town that we met and fellowshipped with the following day.
Though our Dentist brother himself was busy for His work, the Lord arranged a Pastor's son whom we met the previous night to take us around to meet the key leaders. Two important leaders with whom we spend considerable length of time were very genuine in their faith. They both were working, running their own businesses, and at the same time serving the Lord. Their understanding of the Bible seems to be deeper than the other people we met. And both knew and read brother Watchman's books. "Ministry is the overflow of life," is one statement this brother made, and focused so much on life rather than work. We were glad to fellowship with these brothers. On top of that, they did not believe in denominations and were simple meeting as group of believers at homes. And they seemed to be increasing in numbers by the day. They even were very careful in accepting any Christian teachings or writings as such, and I personally was very glad that they were such, because this will save them from the indoctrination of various kinds of teachings. Since they already read some of our books, they were willing to read the books that we distributed. I believe they will read them, be blessed, and be gained by the Lord.
The most important burden we had was for our Dentist brother, who hosted us, and his family. We spent one night till early next morning to fellowship with them. Initially, his wife opened up a couple of questions related to the church life. We did our best to explain from the Bible the inward, intrinsic nature and essence of the church. And expounded further on the need for growth in life and maturity. The following day being the Lord's day, we decided to spent the morning for corporate morning revival and the day for Lord's day fellowship.
With the burden to prepare this couple to be the pillar for the Lord's testimony in Solan, we had the first Lord's day meeting at their home today. The Lord's speaking was on three matters: The knowing of Jesus the Saviour subjectively all the days of our Christian life, the exercise of the human spirit to touch the Lord Spirit at all times, and the listening to the Lord Jesus only in all matters and things. And with the proper subjective experiences of the Lord, we also encouraged them to have a daily exercise and discipline of a prayer time both personal and corporate, Bible study time, and pursuing the ministry books. Then we all prayed together for one another and for the Lord's testimony in Solan.
Our brother has also been burdened by the Lord to be a distributor of the ministry books to the seekers in Solan. His house has now been opened for others to come and receive the ministry books. He has also been introduced to a good number of seeking believers for future fellowship. He and his wife were so thankful to the Lord that we visited them and a new Era of their marriage life, Christian life, and church life has dawned. They both testified to us to this fact. They even wanted us to stay one more day but we insisted that we moved on as we have to visit more localities in this ministry journey.
May the Lord fully gain this family for His testimony in Solan.
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