North East Fellowship

The Lord is sovereign in taking care of His work. Since my last visit to the North East(NE) two weeks ago, there has been a lot of new development in the arrangement of fellowship and shepherding the churches. The Lord also gave us a lot of feeling concerning His move there and how to practically care for it in the principle of incarnation. After two of us brothers had a fellowship with the leading brothers there, we fellowshipped with the coworkers further on how to carry forward His move. One thing became very clear, I had a fresh burden for the NE and the Lord gave me a lot of peace and liberty in bringing the matter to the brothers. Meanwhile, I also had a good fellowship with the key brothers in NE and we were brought together in one accord.

Beginning today, we started a weekly Wednesday morning fellowship on Skype. Two coworking brothers who serves full time and I started this wonderful fellowship. We all prayed for one another, for the Lord's testimony in the NE especially Manipur, for the saints in all the local churches with the leading brothers, for the raising up of new local churches, for the recovery of the dormant and backsliding saints, and for our sweet fellowship and coordination in one accord.

Then we pursued together the book, Elders Training, Book 1, Chapter 1, to begin with, on the one ministry. We then shared on our learnings and enjoyment from the truth pursuit; our need to focus on the one unique ministry in the Bible with its one and same teaching and a warning on different teachings that produces different ministries. This was followed by another round of prayer. 

We then continued to pursue the message portion for today's coworkers fellowship on the matter of begetting new ones and shepherding them in the home meetings. I was particularly impressed by the need to discern in shepherding, with the view of bringing the new ones to grow in life and also bringing them into the church life with the goal of building up the Body of Christ. Wisdom must be exercised so as not to waste time on certain problematic new ones with complicated situations. Proper discernment of each new ones and laboring accordingly will rendered our shepherding care fruitful. 

Then, we finally had another round of fellowship on the church in Guwahati, and how to shepherding the saints there, with prayer. Though this local church has gone through a lot of struggling as the key serving ones got sick and had to retreat to their respective home towns, the Lord somehow would not give it up so easily as was expressed by the local brothers there. So, new arrangement were made, and the saints picked up a special burden to shepherd this local church. May the Lord grace, strengthen, and bless the church in Guwahati! 

This weekly fellowship is being proposed specifically for NE and it began today. May the Lord grace us to go on in fellowship and in sweet one accord coordination and bring in the Lord’s blessings all over NE. 

Besides, two and half hours of fellowship, there was another one hour of prayer and Life-study pursuit before, and another two hours of coworkers fellowship after. The whole day was spent on three rounds of prayer, truth pursueing, and fellowship. What a blessed day! In prayer, in truth, in fellowship, in coordination, and in one accord... 

Praise the Lord for such grace and such blessing!