Being Blessed by Being Blended and Builded in and for the Body

On the last day of the last month, also the last day and the last Lord’s Day of the last year, we had a combined Lord’s Day meeting at Okhla in New Delhi. The saints from NCR and Mathura combined together for the meeting. It was a glorious blending meeting indeed! After many many years of being in North India, now I am beginning to see the fruit of the Lord’s serving ones' labor. Many many new and young believers have been raised up in the churches, and that too, majority were Hindi speaking saints. All the testimonies were shared in Hindi and we all enjoyed the blessing the Lord has bestowed upon us in North India, and that too, in the capital city! It was a wonderful time of blending!

Though my family was late to the meeting as the time announced to us was 30 minutes later than the actual meeting time and that too at the last minute, a new one had to be picked up. Without any murmuring and complaint, I took all as the Lord’s arrangement and shallowed every other thoughts. This too was a lesson in blending to accept wrong timing and and meet impromptu need for the sake of blending. The Lord is over all. That's how He blended us all in oneness.

A week earlier, we made use of the day, 25 December, to invite our new ones for a time of fellowship and meeting. From morning till night, different groups of new ones came. With every group we had a time of gospel preaching for unbelievers and a time of fellowship for believers. By all means, we have done all that we could to shepherd the believers and preach the gospel to the unbelievers. The sisters were helping out in cooking and the brothers were busy taking care of the saints and new ones. In this way, the Lord graced us with one whole day of blending. 

On the last day of this year 31 December night, as the church we gathered together and had a time of blending meeting where the saints gave testimony of what that Lord has done in their lives in the last year. As we recounted all that the Lord has done, we were amazed at the many things accomplished by the Lord in the saints. "Great is Thy faithfulness O Lord my Father!" 

Besides, we also released the burden the Lord gave us for this new year based in the fellowship we brothers had on 25 December morning, a special fellowship of prayer and planning for the new year. The Lord has made the goal for the increase of church in numbers clear to us. He also has made known the way to achieve this goal. Now, our responsibility is to first of all pray. Then, preach the gospel regularly and shepherd the new ones. 

On the 1st of January this new year 2024, we also gather together the saints and fellowshipped on the need for the Triune God to dispense Himself into our tripartite being day by day until we are all filled with Himself and be the same as He is in life and nature but not in the Godhead. One key Bible verse we pray-read was 1 John 3:2 RecVer “Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we will be. We know that if He is manifested, we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is.”

After the meeting, a good number of saints stayed back for fellowship. We made a bonfire in the backyard of the meeting hall. Around the fire we sat fellowshipping the entire afternoon till evening. It was my first time to sit together with the saints for so long. But this time, I deemed it important and stayed with the saints even just to spend time with them. 

All these were the many ways the Lord blended us together for the building up among us. This is the blessing we foretasted for this new year. 

Praise the Lord! We were being blessed by being blended and builded in and for the Body.