Fellowship with Family

As I visited Manipur last week for fellowshipping with the key brothers, I stationed myself in my own home. Mostly, during the day I would go out for fellowship or meeting seekers and could hardly find time to spend at home. Since my intention for visiting Manipur this time was purely for the Lord's work, my priority was for the Lord's work too. Only if there was time, I could spend time for the family. Thank God, I got two nights and one whole day to spend time with my family.

In the two nights of time together with my mom and dad and elder sister, I listened to all that they have to say. They opened up some deep matters that have been in their hearts for long. I did not offer any quick solution to some of the problems they addressed to me. Instead, deep within I prayed that the Lord would interfere and make everything clear. The matters included, land, my younger brother's family, my elder sister's future, house construction, social condition of the village, and political situation of the tribe and state we are in. I simply exercised myself to listen to them. It was indeed righteous and humane to simply be who I am, a son to my parent.

At one point I had a deep faith within to tell my parent that I have all that I need and they need not worry about me in anyway. Instead, I invited them to come and stay with me if they wish to. I gave them the full liberty to open up any matter even including their need for help in anyway, even, in financial matter. If the Lord so wills, He will provid my needs as well as my families' needs.

I deeply desire to offer to them some financial help as their eldest son but I was not in a position to do so. But the Lord miraculously provided some offerings which I deemed best to transfer to them in whole. I reckoned that as a special offering, an offering the Lord provided to me to offer to my parent.

One whole day, we had a trip to another town of over two hours drive, to Kangpokpi. My younger sister and her family resides there as she delivered a baby boy recently. There we had family time and enjoyed meal together.

My brother-in-law's father is a moderator of a Kuki Christian Church for the entire group spanning over a couple of states in India and a few other foreign countries. He and I had a separate fellowship when all the other family members were enjoying a family time. We fellowshipped on the biblical truths of the church as the Body of Christ expressed in various localities as local churches, and the practices of the local churches with fellowship and blending universally. He also explained the structure of the Christian group of which he is the moderator. And I also shared my testimony of how the Lord called me to serve full-time and how the Lord raised up local churches all over the North East part of India. We could get along and fellowship on the Lord's work. Only if the Lord one day leads us to serve together in oneness, that would be out of the Lord's sheer mercy. Overall, we enjoyed one another's fellowship. I gifted him with two books, The Glorious Church and The Orthodoxy of the Church. And a set of Shepherding Materials for the family of my brother-in-law's brother. 

Praise the Lord for the wonderful family fellowship! May the Lord bless our family for His testimony!