A Tale of Two Brothers

Today, the Lord made way for us to visit Teekli village in the vicinity of Gurugram city, located below the beautiful Aravalli range. Form this one village two brothers have been discovered and are on the process of being recovered. The first brother was a friend and colleague of a brother in the church and the second brother is a gospel friend of a sister who has been in fellowship with me and is on the process of coming into the church life herself, and often passed on her male contact gospel friend to me. At one go, we visited these two families in the same village.

The first brother is a PhD holder and married to another PhD degree holder, a very educated brother. He has had many experiences in his career and is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in a private college. He is very smart, intelligent, and a deep thinker; yes, too deep a thinker to the extend that he even doubted God as he has been searching for the practicality of the existence God with solid proof as a research scholar even though he already believed into Christ and even was baptised. He wanted to research on the divine things and come out with a solid tangible proofs of divinity. We gave a patient hearing to what he had to say. 

We offered him the subjectivity of God Himself with our own life experiences. We also read the word of God together and showed him that the Lord is resurrection and life (John 11:25) and that He came to give life, the divine life, that we may have it abundantly (John 10:10). Then, we encouraged him to call upon the Lord's name, exercise his spirit to touch the Lord Spirit, and study the Bible with the Recovery Version Bible footnotes. Finally, we all prayed one by one, proposed for the next meeting, and took leave.

The second brother was a simple Indian Army sepoy. He had been serving another Army lady officer who later became a sister in the Lord and was introduced to me a couple of years ago. A few days ago another sister who has been a friend of this lady officer visited me and gave this brother's number and address with a request for Hindi Bible. That's how the visit was initiated and today we could visit him.

This brother, though not yet baptised, has a strong faith in the Lord since his childhood. He met with an accident in the begining of this year and was in comma for over two months. Though he is medically unfit to serve as an Army, he has been given a clerical responsibility and still continue to serve. We ministered the word of God in Christ as the Peace that he had been looking for, and gifted him a Hindi Holy Bible. He was so simple, and without any question received the word of God. We showed him how to read the Bible, and also prayed for his family. 

The above two brothers happened to know each other, both from the same village and of the same age group. One a scholar with PhD degree and the other not even a degree and a simple soldier. Both came to know the Lord Jesus Christ, yet have different and opposite reaction to the word of God. The educated one was full of doubts and questions, whereas the uneducated one simply recieved every word we ministered by faith. These two brothers are both married with one son each. 

This is the tale of two brothers. Both need constant shepherding and both are equally important for the Lord's testimony among the local Haryanvis. 

May the Lord bless the two brothers and grant both of them a household salvation as promised in Acts 16:31

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household. 

May the Lord gain both of them and their families and raise up His testimony among the local people of their village. This is what we have been praying for, and the Lord is beginning to answer our prayer for the salvation of the Haryanvis.

Haryana for Christ and the church!