A Memoir: Thank You, Brother

It was the last day of the semi-annual training in the last session of the last message, a brother who I owe much in the Lord and who has been perfecting me since my first meeting with him, gave a two minutes testimony of the deeper experience of Christ he had in his service in the past few years. I was so supplied by his real-life testimony. As I went back to rest for the night and was reading my daily Bible on my knees in a brother's home in Anaheim, the Lord clearly told me to write a pleasant memoir I had with that brother. Therefore, I wrote immediately and sent it to him (brother JS).

Praise the Lord brother!

I truly enjoyed your prophesying tonight at the training. What a blessing to be able to learn from you and enjoy the fruits of your labor in India!

In the principle of incarnation, declaring the fact as fact, I will always be thankful to the Lord for all your shepherding and perfecting work you consciously or unconsciously did to me, and still have been doing, though indirectly now.

The Lord knows, I worship Him for a brother like you and others whom I can take as my pattern and learn from. 

The first time I met you as a student, not yet in the church life in the Lord's recovery, you told me prophetically, "Come to the full time training!" I simply was shocked and surprised. I thought to myself, "How dare you? I don't even belong to your church." Two years later, I ended up in the Bible Truth Church Service Training in Chennai in 2003! 

The fellowship you had with me at a beach in Chennai when you clarified my last remaining doubts, before fully coming into His recovery, concerning "mingling" and "overcomers" will still and ever be my sweet memories, and the lovefeast that followed at your home, my first rich lovefeast ever in a home of a "foreigner."

The book you gifted me, Christ Versus Religion and The Ultimate Significance of the Golden Lampstand had completely renewed my understanding of a christian life and a church life. In fact, it changed my christian life from that point on, after studying them. Even my hairstyle was changed to what it looks today when you charged me to change it in an intensified training we had in my second year training in Chennai. I thank the Lord for this too. 

The testimony can go on and on. I just felt led by the Lord to write these few memorable testimonies to you. Therefore, in obedience, I wrote.

Thank you so much brother. 

Feel free to shepherd me even like those days when you were with us in India.

In Him, Palmei 

Later I received a reply by mail of a photo shot of a verse in Luke 17: 10So also you, when you do all the things which are ordered you, say, We are unprofitable slaves; we have done what we ought to have done.

My reply was, "We are indeed unprofitable slaves. Our prayer and pursuit will always be those in Mathew 24:45, 46  Who then is the faithful and prudent slave, whom the master has set over his household to give them food at the proper time? Blessed is that slave whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.