Recovery of Brothers (2)

In the previous post on "Recovery of Brothers"  My Goodland: Recovery of Brothers (palmeichung.blogspot.com), one of the brothers in the dream was recovered back to the fellowship of the Body of Christ. The Lord has been so merciful to them that he even gave up his opinion to receive the brothers' fellowship concerning his marriage. A few weeks ago, as the brothers in the church, we proposed a sister to him. A few days later, he messaged me stating that he had no desire to go ahead and decided not to consider marriage for the time being. It was a very discouraging message as we have been doing our best to shepherd him and help him in his marriage matter. But last week, we had the burden to bring up the matter again and fellowshipped with him the need for him to get married. He did not give any reply then, but said he would definitely reconsider.

Meanwhile, we started a regular small group meeting in his house on Thursdays for the Life-study pursuit. I also requested him to read messages for building up New Believers, Vol. 2 on "Seeking God's Will" and "Marriage." Yesterday, after the Lord's table meeting he had to attend his official duty and was thinking to go home straight after his work, but he felt led by the Lord to come and meet me for fellowship. As we fellowshipped, he expressed his desire to consider the marriage proposal again. And happily and openly, he fellowshipped that he would obey the Lord's leading through the brothers. Therefore, we initiated the proposal for him.  May the will of the Lord be done.

On Saturday morning in our brothers' fellowship, I enquired about a senior brother and told the brothers that I would like to visit him if anyone has a plan. I was very firm in my decision to visit him because of the dream the Lord gave me on May 12th morning. It was the Lord's doing and I had to follow up on it. Yesterday, after all the meetings, I asked a brother if we should be visiting that senior brother. I got a reply that he had not yet responded. But later, he responded and confirmed that we would be visiting him.

As we were on the way to his home, we were praying for him to be fully recovered back into the fellowship of the church in Gurugram. We did not know what his response would be, but with much preparation in spirit, we went.  As soon as we met him, we found that he was very anxious about his health. He was fully distracted by his health report. To sympathize with him, I even helped to call up a brother who is a doctor to interpret his medical report. Through our visit and fellowship, his intense anxiety was dealt with. He received the life supply from the members of the Body through the word of God which comforted him. After an hour of anxiety and restlessness, he calmed down, and we were able to fellowship soberly on the word of God.

As usual, he would still express his opinion about the truth and the practices of the church life. But he really missed the fellowship of the church. He even requested that we should visit him at least once a week. He also confessed that he is in need of life supply. 

When we drove back home, I told the brothers that the Lord is faithful to fulfill His promises, as I narrated the dream the Lord gave me on May 12 concerning the recovery of these two brothers.

May the Good Lord, the Shepherd of all, shepherd these two brothers according to their need and gain them fully for His testimony in the church in Gurugram!