Seven Souls

It was last Saturday that as usual, we gathered together for the church's prayer meeting. The entire afternoon was drizzling with slight rain. After the wonderful prayer meeting of the church, exercising the authority the Lord has given us to bind and loose, we formed into teams and went out to preach the gospel. Had we considered naturally, it was not wise to go out on a rainy day, and that too for gospel preaching, as we would not be able to meet and preach the gospel in the open area, as the areas we have chosen are all on the open.

After all the other teams had left I needed a companion, a brother, with whom I could coordinate for the gospel preaching. I invited a brother who decided to stay back to come along with me. After  much persuasion he finally agreed to come. Then we both together with another team of sister drove to our target area.

As I parked my car and got down, I saw a group of three young men standing under a tree taking cover from the rain. Immediately, I told my brother, "Let's go and preach the gospel to them." We met them and introduced ourselves. Without any hesitation, we preached the gospel in Hindi as they were local teens from Chakkarpur speaking mostly Hindi. Even as we were preaching, two teens came by bike to join us who were their friends. We introduced ourselves again and preached the gospel using the tract, The Mystery of Human Life. After a while, another teen came by, who is also their friend and joined the group. And finally, another teen came by his bicycle and joined us. The number of our new ones grew from three to five, then to six, and then to seven. To make the points clear, we preached the gospel again from God's creation to His redemption and requested them if they would like to receive the Lord in prayer, which they all willingly did.

Meanwhile, as the Lord brought all these "fish" into our gospel net, the continual downpour from above, the rain, was all that kept the group together. Even after we preached the gospel and led them to pray, we could not leave the place as it was still raining. Instead, I took that as the Lord's leading to start the first home meeting with these new ones. So I proposed that we read through the tract one more time, one by one, in sequence. I asked the boys to read, each one a paragraph. And after every paragraph reading, we explained the content of the reading. After reading through the entire tract, then we lead them to pray the prayer mentioned in the tract one more time. What a home meeting!

Still, the rain did not subside even after reading through the tract. Then, I requested them to memorize the Bible verses in Hindi printed on the tract. One by one, verse by verse, each one of the boys memorized the entire three verses in Hindi! The verses are:

Romans 10:13  For “whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”Mark 16:16  He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be condemned.Acts 16:31  And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household.

Then we got their contacts and invited them to visit us the following Lord's day, which four of them did. We set up a time to meet again in the park in their community. After all the preaching, reading, and prayer, and sharing of contact information, we dispersed, though it was still pouring. The rain was indeed a shower of blessing for the salvation of the seven souls. May the Lord work in them and save these seven souls.

That was the Lord's doing as a direct answer to the prayer of the church. Heaven and earth worked together for the salvation of men; God and men worked together in coordination to save souls. Praise the Lord!

Lord, save these seven souls! 

Make them remaining fruits!