Community Gospel: God's Appointment

As we would be out of station for a couple of weeks, I had the burden to visit some families, therefore, we did visit two families, as a family. As we visited the families, we confirmed the visitations were of God's appointments.

In the first family we visited, a sister's younger sister was present in our midst. I realised it was of the Lord that she came co-incidentally. In fact, it was the Lord's sovereignty. On hearing her heart out of all the hardship she had been through, the Lord burdened me to preach the gospel to her. She was so seeking and was like a lamb; she received the Lord. Perhaps, all the many difficulties she had been through in her life had prepared her heart to be softened. At the right time, she heard the gospel, believed into the Lord, and prayed to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as her Saviour. We also fellowshipped on the Samaritan Woman in John 4 concerning the real need of man; the Lord Jesus is the one and only one who can satisfy the thirst of man. Our visit turned out to be a day of salvation to her. Our sister testified that the Lord had arranged all these for her sister's salvation.

Later, we met another brother's family. This brother is a believer already but his wife has harbored her parental rituals and beliefs dearly and strongly that she would not commend the new found faith of her husband. Nevertheless, she was very kind to us. 

My personal burden was just to pay a casual visit and introduce my wife to my brother's wife. But as we sat down to talk, she was so interested that the meeting went on and on. In between our conversation switched to God by her own queries. That gave me the ground to preach the gospel and shared living testimonies of my own salvation with that of my family. We were glad that she opened up.

In between, she also asked about my relationship with my wife as today's generation is going through marital turmoil even in a conservation society of India. I replied in the affirmation and elaborated how the Lord Jesus has blessed our marriage life. Then I turned our conversation to a gospel for her. To enjoy a blissful marriage life, Christ must be the head, center, and reality of the marriage life. For this, first, she must believe and receive the Lord Jesus Christ as her Saviour that she and her husband can also have a mutual love, joy, and peace in Christ Jesus.

The meeting that was supposed to be a mere introduction of my wife to my brother's wife became an ice-breaking meeting between our families, especially our wives. In fact, my burden was for the gospel altogether through the way of friendship first. The Lord honored our prayer and our burden and is establishing our relationship for her salvation.

Today, the brother called to thank for the time last night. It was a surprise that we enjoyed our meeting for over two hours. Meanwhile, our children too enjoyed their time with new families.  

Now we pray for the full salvation of the two sisters we met and preached the gospel to; our sister's sister and our brother's wife. Besides, we also pray that the Lord would grant His full salvation to the two families for the testimony in Gurugram.