This border town, Khariar Road, Odisha, has three families whom the Lord has gradually gained in the past few years. This time, we visited them to strengthen them in their going on to bear the Lord's testimony. The brothers have prepared everything ready for the Lord's testimony. Though they still have been eagerly waiting for the official establishment of the Lord's table meeting, they faithfully have been pursuing the ministry and have been joining many online meetings with the church in Gurugram and New Delhi. Meanwhile, they were also very much burdened for some of the Christian leaders they know of in their previous denomination.
This time during our visit, they have invited Christian leaders from Bhilai, Naugaon, Cuttack, and other places to listen to the ministry of the word. Since the brothers came out of the denomination, they wanted their acquaintances to see and know and experience the truths they themselves have been enjoying. In sweet coordination, we exercised our spirit and ministered the word as the Lord led us.
During the two days meeting the brothers have arranged, besides the Spirit's leading, we had no idea what to minister. The leaders were much elder to us in terms of physical age, and we had no idea about what's boiling within them. Since the meeting was arranged, we prayed, exercised our spirit, and followed the leading of the Lord within to minister the timely word.
On the first day, before the meeting began I was introduced to one of the leaders who shared his testimony to me. Based on what he shared, I got the burden to minister on the matter of the oneness. We delved deeply into the matter of division caused by Jeroboam in 1 Kings 12 and connected with the division caused during apostle Paul's time in 1 Corinthians. We then ministered the truth concerning the need for oneness among God's children for God to have His dwelling place using relevant verses in the New Testament.
In the afternoon meeting, I started off with God's heart's desire to have a dwelling place among men on earth, starting with Genesis 1:26, then traced the history of man. Then, I picked up from Jacob's dream in Genesis 28:12, traced the line of thought to Moses in building the tabernacle, to Solomon in building the temple, the Lord Jesus as the temple, and finally, the church as the temple of God today in the New Testament.
In the meeting on the second day, we began with testimonies of few brothers and expounded the truth concerning the reality of the good land in Deuteronomy 8:7-10. I released my burden on the experience of the crucifixion of Christ typified by the valleys and the experience of resurrection typified by the mountains. My brothers followed the burdened and continued with the experience of wheat, barley, vines, fig-trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey, stones, iron, and copper.
Later in the afternoon, we touched the matter of calling upon the Lord's name and pray-reading His word, with testimonies from local brothers who really enjoyed the matter of calling upon the Lord's name. Finally, we sang hymns and prayed for the believers, for the Lord's testimony to be raised up in many parts of Odisha, and also for the onward ministry journey to Korba, Raipur, Ranchi, and Tatanagar.
This was what the Lord has done in Khariar Road for the Lord's move in Odisha. One thing was sure, the Lord has been hiddenly moving in the hearts of the people there. Many villages have been prepared for the Lord's testimony.
O how we look forward to the day the Lord will raise up many bright shining golden lampstands all over Odisha!
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