Good Thursdays

A new home meeting was recently started in the home of a new one. The family comprises six members who all are very new to the Lord and young in the faith. They live almost an hour's drive from my home. But the Lord has burdened me and graced me to shepherd them weekly. Along with this burden of shepherding the new family, I also brought in three new brothers to come along with me. In this way, these three new brothers can also be shepherded to shepherd new ones. This is the God-ordained way. I cannot be the only one who shepherds, more and more saints needs to be shepherded to do what I have been doing. Otherwise, I would be a failure in my service. As new homes are being opened for shepherding, I must perfect more and more saints to carry out the shepherding.

Every Thursday day night, as I and other brothers went for the home meeting, we prayed together along the way. To me, the travelling time of about an hour is another time slot for shepherding the brothers who came along with me; we had a time of blending and perfecting, a time of bearing burdens together and praying in one accord. This act of shepherding is like shooting down two birds at one shot. The first shot was on the way to the home meeting, and the second shot in the home meeting itself where all the brothers who came with me also functioned.

This Thursdays' home meeting has grown in intensity, as the truth messages from the Shepherding Materials are being pursued. The family was fully brought into function by their exercising to pray, sing, read, and speak. They have been enjoying their home meetings and are looking forward to it week by week. Witnessing their joy and happiness through the shepherding itself is a great reward. All the time, energy, and money spent on them are truly worth the price paid. And I am being blessed too to be a part of the Lord's move in propagating the resurrected and ascended Christ as the continuation of the book of Acts.

For all these reasons, Thursdays are wonderful and good, as it is a day of shepherding. Therefore, I termed it "Good Thursday."