The Lord renewed the burden for my classmates a few months ago. Following up on the burden with much prayer, the Lord led me step by step to carry out the burden He burdened me with. The sequence of events and the actions taken were recorded, one by one. And all this while, He has been very faithful in accomplishing the burden He bestowed upon me.
7th June: My first text message to all my Christian classmates was sent out.
Fellowship: e-Fellowship1 Corinthians 1:9God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Hi (All Christian classmates name, one by one),
These days the Lord has been burdening me to fellowship with all our ex-classmate fellow believers, for online fellowship, Bible study, and prayer. The same is open to all who are interested, believers and non-believers alike, not in a coercive way, but at free will, voluntarily.
I am texting this to you and to other fellow believers of MCA-MCC 2000 batch.If we can spare sometime, perhaps, once in one or two months time, at the time suitable for all who may be interested via Zoom.
Please pray and confirm how you feel about it. If you feel good, please also suggest the day, time, and frequency. Even otherwise, feel free to express your concern.
May the Lord recover and bless our Christian fellowship.
Thank you,Palmei
23 June: After two weeks of waiting for the responses with some responding immediately, others later, and yet others, not responding at all. But the Lord's leading was my encouragement. If this was of the Lord, it will come to fruition. Otherwise, I am more than willing to give up altogether. Gradually, the response came, and the Lord led me to specifically coordinate with two brothers, the very two students who were with me twenty years ago when we began our first prayer meeting. With the coordination of these two brothers, the date for our first meeting was fixed and the hosting link created and checked. Then, I sent out the next message to all my classmates, both believers and unbelievers.
I also sent a specific message to all the Christians separately.AN APPEAL IN LOVE--------‐------------------------------- Dear All,Twenty years have elapsed since we first met in 2000, to carve our career. Twenty years after in 2020 with career carved, hopefully, and with family too, it's a blessing to be reunited again.With this one goal of love, care, and concern for one another, we may get together, at least online for now, to pray for one another and share the blessings of God to one another that all may be blessed, or at least be benefited from. For this, we have planned a prayer meet.--------‐------------------------------- MCC MCA PRAYER MEET--------‐------------------------------- Date and Time:27th June 2020, Saturday, 7:30 PM ISTJoin via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/nah-zsfp-tuj --------‐------------------------------- Subsequent meetings may be decided in mutuality.All are welcome! Please do join.May God bless us all!
MCC MCA Prayer Meet-------------------------------------- As proposed and fellowshipped, we will commence our online prayer and fellowship on:
27th June 2020, at 7:30 PM ISTJoin via Google Meet:-------------------------------------- 1 Corinthians 14:26What then, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
Further meetings will be mutually decided during our first meeting.Let us pray, prepare, and participate in this prayer-fellowship meet.
24 June: With the two brothers, we had a fellowship and planned for the meeting with one of them to do the opening word and prayer, the other led the hymn singing, and myself testifying with the word of God.
27 June: I sent out a reminder to all in the morning. I wanted to make sure that I am serious about this and wanted all to realize the seriousness of this too. So that, all will be benefited and God may have a way to carry out what He intends to carry out.
Reminder in Love~~~~~~~~~~~~1 Corinthians 1:9God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.--------‐------------------------------- MCC MCA PRAYER MEET--------‐------------------------------- Date and Time:27th June 2020, Saturday, 7:30 PM ISTJoin via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/nah-zsfp-tuj --------‐-------------------------------
At the time of meeting, two brother and two sisters turned up. Five of us, started with prayer and sang Amazing Grace. Then, I gave a word of encouragement with the testimony of John Newton, Hudson Taylor, Robert Morrison, Evan Robert of Welsh Revival, and shared my testimony of salvation, my experience of the Lord at MCC Chennai from 2000 to 2003, and the stages in which the Lord called me to serve Him full time.
To my surprise, the response of those brothers and sisters were so encouraging that we decided to have this kind of fellowship once every month, the last Saturday of the month. With the request from them, needing for spiritual guide, I offered myself to them to contact me as their friend and brother anytime they wanted to. Besides, for study material, I proposed a series of message from the Shepherding Material.
28 June: Today I designed the weekly study material with guidelines and sent first to all the Christians.
MCC MCA PRAYER MEET------------------------------------------ Weekly SpiritualExercise------------------------------------------ Ephesians 1:17-18That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him, The eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.
Shepherding MaterialsVolume 1------------------------------------------ Study GuidesRead and memorise the Bible verse(s) in each lesson.Read, re-read, and pray over each point in the lesson.Pray that the Lord will grace you to experience what you read and understood.Prepare a short sharing for each lesson. It is best to have a spiritual exercise note book to write your points with supporting Bible verses. You may share each lesson learned weekly to your spouse or children or friends.Be prepared to share from your spiritual learning when we meet once a month.------------------------------------------ Weekly Study PortionNote: Spend at least an hour to study and pray over each lesson.
29 June - 5 JulyLesson 1: The Mystery of Human Life6 - 12 JulyLesson 2: Christ is the Meaning of Human Life13 - 19 JulyLesson 3: The Church is the Real Communal Life20 - 25 JulyLesson 4: The Bible------------------------------------------
Thus far, the Lord has been leading on and on.
May He save all my classmates and gain them all for His purpose. I believe in what I have prayed for, that the Lord will answer it, for the burden and prayer is out from Him. Time will testify of the Lord's work. Amen.
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