Two years ago we were informed about a sister in Jagdalpur who got saved and came to the church life and that her family need to be visited for the gospel. However we could not visit the family as requested. It was in our last trip that the same burden was revived to visit her, clubbing together with a visit to another brother. Therefore, the visit was done yesterday.
Yesterday, though our appointment was at 7:00 PM we decided to meet the family in the morning so that we could spend the evening with some other families. As we visited, we could not speak much except introduced ourselves and got to know one another. The father of the family invited us to go along with him to Chitrakote where the "Niagara Falls of India" was situated and where his official site was located. He also invited us for lunch and took us for sightseeing at the Chitrakote falls. We had a day of sightseeing and a lovefeast, all the while fellowshiping with him and another brother for whom we came for fellowship. Two birds were hit with the same stone.
In the evening we visited the family again with the burden to preach the gospel and pray for them. Though we were not well versed in Hindi, my coordinator brother preached the gospel in English first, translated by another brother in Hindi. He touched the three key points of confessing sins, calling upon the name of the Lord, and continuously reading the Bible.
Following my brother, I had the burden to strengthen the gospel preaching by requesting the father and mother to read the tract The Mystery of Human Life in Hindi, paragraph by paragraph, along with me. After the reading, I exercised to preach the gospel in Hindi with the same points of truth as in the tracts. Then, led them pray the sinners' prayer to believe and receive the Lord, and finally prayed for the entire family.
After such an exercised meeting, I felt the burden the Lord gave us was released. Deep within, we have the confirmation that they were indeed saved. Praise the Lord!
For such a meeting as this, it was worth all the travel. Their two daughters have believed into the Lord Jesus Christ and were baptized already. Mainly, it was because of their two daughters' prayer and burden for their parents, the meeting could transpire.
Through the daughters, parents were gradually brought to salvation. What a parental salvation!
“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.” (Acts 16:14, RecVer)
May the Lord gain the entire family with their relatives.
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