Testimonies of Saints

The gospel meeting of the church in Gurugram has  been conducted weekly for months altogether now. We have been praying and inviting our contacts to come hear the gospel message online. For evey regular meeting we have, at least two saints give testimonies of their salvation. In this way, many saints got the opportunity to exercise and function in the gospel meeting.

Surely, by the Lord's mercy, some of the saints the Lord has been gracing me to shepherd have now all become shepherds themselves. Today we are coworkers in the Lord's vineyard. Shepherding truly works. It takes time, much prayer and patience, and labour over a period of time, even over a decade. The Lord shepherded me in shepherding these ones and now I could see them functioning. In some cases, they function much better than me. O what a delight and joy to see the saints functioning especially those whom I laboured on them for years.

Tonight, two brothers gave their testimonies. One them had even cause trouble to me at one point of time. Praise the Lord! Prayer and shepherding works! In fact they are my prayer partners  these days as we pray together almost every night. There are some sisters too who have been shepherded and are doing exactly the same thing I have done to them in my shepherding. Sometimes, in my eagerness to see fast result I often get discouraged at the new ones I have been shepherding. But all the prayer and labour poured upon them truly worth the price. What a joy to me when I see them functioning!

I take  no pride in any of these. I am simply declaring the fact of the Lord's shepherding pattern that I learnt from. May the Lord raise up more and more shepherd to produce even more shepherd. In this way, the Body is being built up and also gain the increase.

The burden these days is also on the matter of universal and mutual shepherding for the building up of the Body of Christ. The past few days we have been under the training for the full-time serving ones and the main burden is also shepherding. The result of such shepherding is manifested in life and in times like this, has been clearly visible as testimonies. The Lord will continue to grace me on and many more testimonies will come forth.

Shepherding is the way to accomplish God's goal, and testimonies will testify of the same.

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