Gospel: First Fruit of the Year

At the beginning of this year, the Lord burdened me as He also burdened the church with the gospel. It has been my prayer since then that every month I can bear at least a fruit. And this year, as a family we can gain one whole local family for the Lord's testimony in Gurugram. From day one, and from the first week, I did my best to cooperated with the Lord's move in going out to contact people at least for two hours a week. I trust the Lord will continue to grace me week by week, and month by month.

Today morning, I was burdened by the Lord to call up one particular new one whom I met a few years ago during door knocking. I have been trying to contact him on phone and tried to meet him physically last year but it never was carried out. Today as I called him, he agreed to meet up at his house in the afternoon at about 4 PM.

Then, I was busy with phone call prayer with some saints that went on and on for almost an hour. As I was praying with a brother and a sister, the Lord burden me so much about this new one that I made an appointment with. I prayed deep within that this one would hear the gospel and receive the Lord today. Even as I prayed for him inwardly though I was on a call with the saints, a call came seven times from this new one, trying to contact me. I did not pick the call as I did not want to disturb the ongoing call with the saints. Right after the two phone call prayers, I called the new one back and he said he was ready to come and meet me instead of I going to meet him. Therefore, I immediately decided to pick him from a Metro Station as he did not know how to come to my home.

As he came home, the Lord led me to invite him for a meal as it was lunchtime,. Though my family did not prepare enough food for him too, we made a quick egg-corn fry and a small pot of rice. Then, we ate lunch together. It was during this lunchtime that I preached the gospel to him. As we ate our lunch we also ate the word of God. As we finished our lunch, I led him to receive the Lord by praying the sinner's prayer.

He is a lawyer by profession and also needs help in his career as the present pandemic has very much affected his profession. I told him that the best I can render is spiritual help in which he can contact God directly. Only the blessing of God counts in whatever we do. He agreed to my statement that apart from God there is no blessing. Therefore, I explained to him further how to contact God in our spirit and this is a very personal, private, and intimate matter, just between him and God. I also explained to him that this has nothing to do with religion. It is rather a personal spiritual relationship with God. I encouraged him to read the New Testament in English and Bengali, his mother tongue, for three-fold benefits. Firstly, for his spiritual nourishment and growth. Secondly, for his understanding of the word of God. And finally, to hone his language skill as he could possibly be a translator for the ministry books from English to Bengali.

After the personal gospel preaching and his prayer to receive the Lord, his visage changed and he became very serious about God. He expressed his eagerness to read the Bible and also to be able to translate one day if he was qualified to do so.  We both agreed to meet often, and perhaps, pray together as often as possible, even daily. Then I went to drop him.

The Lord has given this new one for my shepherding. May the Lord grace me to shepherd him that he can enjoy God's full salvation and become a useful vessel to the Lord. As his name is, so shall he be anointed of the Spirit of God!

May the Lord preserve him for Him alone, and bring him to experience and enjoy His full salvation, and even to become a serving one, one day.