Ministry of the Word to Wokha

On the 13th of September early morning, a brother with whom I have been coordinating for the ministry literature journey and I arrived in Dimapur by train. A local brother came to pick us up, and having had our breakfast, we fellowshipped about our distribution trip to Nagaland. Since it was the first time we all got together to consider the itinerary to Nagaland, two of our local brothers were looking at the Nagaland map, calculating the distance between the towns we planned to visit by Google map, and they came up with a travel map with distance and duration of travel between each stoppage. As we looked at the map starting from Dimapur and traveling anti-clockwise towards North then winding down South to Dimapur again, I felt the direction of the journey be reserved to clockwise instead. Which means, our first destination would be Wokha and last would be Pfutsero-Kohima-Dimapur. Then we all felt at peace, and thus was the plan finalized.

In Wokha, the Lord led us to a brother who had received BXL 1. He was our first contact for this entire trip. As we met him, he introduced us to his father and they took us to their lving room. In fact, their residence is in the same school premises which they are managing. Later, we learned that that school was also the best in town.

As soon as we sat down in their living room, I introduced myself and started introducing the Holy Bible Recovery Version. Just by the footnotes in Matthew 1:1, the brother was fully captured by the truth we presented. Later, I showed him the notes on five women in the genealogy of Jesus, and the name of Jesus, the Greek word for inward and outward filling of the Spirit with their spiritual significances, they were so amazed! When I further showed the difference between "adoption" and Sonship in Ephesians 1:5 comparing the Recovery Version with other English versions, he himself was so excited to the point that he exclaimed that he is a son of God, not an adopted son. For many years he had this uneasy feeling of being an adopted son as mentioned in many of the English Bibles. He was so thankful for such an introduction of the ministry books. After introducing a couple more of the ministry books, he immediately decided to purchase the Bible and other selected books. 

The duo, father and son, also made preparation for our night's stay in the best hotel in town with the food of our choice. In the evening they invited us for their family fellowship where we shared on "Loving the Lord" with the best and first love. In fact, the message we released on God's love became the theme for our entire distribution journey in Nagaland. The message we gave was also the message we enjoyed as we kept telling the Lord, "Lord Jesus, I love you! thoughout our journey.

The next day morning, they gave us time to introduce the ministry books to the school students from class VIII to XII after which,  we introduced the Bible and ministry books to the staff, Principal, and Directors of the school again. 

This family has already left the denomination and is now meeting with a few families according to the truth they received from the Bible. We deeply felt that the Lord led us to this family for the Lord's testimony in Wokha among the Lotha community especially.

We also met other Christian leaders in town, the Baptists of both the town and village pastors, the lone bookstore owner, a Bible college Principal, and a few other seekers. Overall, we thank the Lord for His sovereignty in leading us to this town. The Lord sure has these reserved remnants for His testimony. 

Now, I am personally following up on the father and son for further fellowship. May the Lord shine on them through the words spoken to them and through the mystery literature distributed to them so that they may see the vision of Christ and the church clearly and take the stand for the Lord's testimony in Wokha!

Lord, recover Your remnant for Your testimony in Wokha!