My Classmates

In 2000 I was enrolled for an MCA course in MCC. After graduation, the Lord has led me to the training and has been gracing me to serve Him full time ever since. All these years I have been praying for my ex-classmates. The Lord did gain some of them to be my prayer partners, some believers to join me in the Christian fellowship online, and a good number of them are yet to be saved. For the believing and unbelieving classmates, I have been offering prayer; for strengthening the faith of the believers and for the salvation of the unbelievers. To that extent, we have also started a monthly online Praye Meet every last Saturday of the month. Though the ones attending are not many, at least the Lord gave me two brothers, the same ones who have been my prayer mate since college days, and now too. 

By and large, all my master's degree classmates have been doing well academically and professionally too. But my one desire before the Lord is that those who are not yet saved be saved one day. I pray that none of them would face physical death until they receive the divine life by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Lest I would be grieved for not being able to pray through for the salvation of my classmates. I have been praying for their salvation and will continue to do so. I can only trust the Lord for the answer to this one prayer. As for the Christian classmates, I pray that they also get to see the heavenly vision of Christ and the church and be recovered for the Lord's testimony one day, wherever they are.

The WhatsApp group for these classmates was created and the Lord grace me the freedom to share openly the word of God now and then, especially on the special occasions of my classmates.

Last week, another WhatsApp group was created for my 1994 High School classmates. Though the majority are Christians, I have been a little disappointed by not being able to see anything Christian in the thousand of posts so far within a span of a few days. Socializing online is the apt word for this group. My heart aches to see some of my classmates in a very low estate professionally and even spiritually. I wonder if I can ever participate in such free jesting. Nevertheless, as the Lord leads, I would join in and learn to mingle with them and be a channel of blessing to them. As I have been praying for my Master's degree classmates, now I have to add my high school classmates to the prayer list. More burden, more prayer, and more blessing too.

By the way, today my Bible study portion is a timely warning to me:

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; And walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor. But fornication and all uncleanness or greediness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints, And obscenity and foolish talking or sly, filthy jesting, which are not becoming, but rather the giving of thanks. For this you realize, knowing that every fornicator or unclean person or greedy person (who is an idolater) has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them; For you were once darkness but are now light in the Lord; walk as children of light (For the fruit of the light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), Proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. And do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them. Ep 5:1-11

I pray that at the proper time, the Lord would give me the word to minister to all my classmates. Until then, I can observe and wait in prayer. 

Lord, save and bless all my classmates, from my high school days to my Master's degree classmates.