A Hindi Seeking Sister

Yesterday, the Lord's day, a couple from Manesar came to attend the Lord's table meeting in the church in Gurugram. Though we have been entering into the semiannual training on the Crystallization-study of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth, we still decided to come together at the meeting hall for the sake of this new couple would wanted to meet with the church all the way from Manesar.  Therefore, we prepared the Lord's Table meeting and they participated in it. 

After the meeting, we had a time of fellowhsip where we came to know about the brother and the sister better. The sister turned out to be a new believer who has not been baptised yet. Though she was from a gentile background she got married to the  brother in Christ with a very touching romantic story between them. It all began when this siter received help from the brother who was a shopkeeper then at a railway station where she went for help. She is blind on her left eye and needed help. That was the connecting point with the brother. An act of kindness and helping hand fromt he brother's side led them to a marriage between the two ,though from two different faith with the consent of both their families. Since then the sisters fatih in the Lord became stronger and stronger, with new expereriences day by day. 

Based on her life story, we opened up the scripture and asked her to read from her Bible in Hindi the following verses.

Acts 2:41 Those then who received his word were baptized, and there were added on that day about three thousand souls.

Acts 8:36-38 And as they were going along the road, they came upon some water, and the eunuch said, Look, water. What prevents me from being baptized? And Philip said, If you believe from all your heart, you will be saved. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he ordered the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

Acts 16:13-15 And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple-dyed goods from the city of Thyatira who worshipped God, was listening, whose heart the Lord opened to give heed to the things being spoken by Paul. And when she was baptized, as well as her household, she entreated us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide. And she constrained us.

Ac 16:30-33 And leading them outside, he said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household. And they spoke the word of God to him together with all those in his house. And he took them with him in that very hour of the night and washed their wounds. And he was baptized immediately, he and all his household. 

The word of God is full of power and authority. Without any of our interpretation, nor convincing, nor explanation, the Lord spoke to our sister directly through her reading of the word. 

The opening of Your words gives light, Imparting understanding to the simple. Psalms 119:130

She already believed into the Lord Jesus Christ and has been experiening Him already. And she, out of her own will, decided to take water water baptism according to the truth she just read from her Bible. So, we prepared the baptism pool ready and baptised her! 

Later, I gifted her Sheperhding Materials in Hindi and some Rhema books and tracts to the brother to study and distribute in Manesar. Though the brother is from a Christian background and has a good number of his immediate relatives are in the full-time minsitry, he has been so open to the word of God and also to us. This paved the way for his wife to receive the blessing of water baptism, without any human intervention, opinion, and thoughts.

Praise the Lord for this couple, especially for the Hindi seeking sister. May the Lord continue to shepherd this couple even to the raising up of the church in Manesar!