Fellowship: Old Testament Recovery Version Translation

In has been indeed a great blessing to participate in the Lord’s move through the literature service. By His grace and blessing, I have been enjoying all my official functions and responsibilities. In no way or ever, I felt I was working or struggling to accomplish something. But in all my labor in coordination with my fellow co-working brothers, I have been just witnessing and reaping what the Lord has already done. The tasks at hand seemed to be great and difficult, but the Lord has been with us in accomplishing all of them. What seemed impossible and difficult were actually done! I declare this in faith. 

After the completion of the New Testament Recovery Version translation in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Mizo, now the Lord is leading us further to translate the Old Testament in Tamil, Telegu, and Hindi. Hopefully, Malayalam too. For this, there was a need for proper and thorough felllowship with leading brothers of the churches speaking these languages. Therefore, in fellowship and coordination with the brothers serving in the work in India, we travelled to Tenkasi, Tamilnadu on 26th January 2024 and Vizag, Andhra Pradesh on 3rd February 2024 to fellowship concerning Tamil and Telugu Old Testament Recovery Version translation respectively. 

The Lord has been with us in all our journeys, and all the while I personally also enjoyed the Lord’s presence. I did not feel any tiredness physically though the journey was hectic, for the enjoyment of God's presence overshadowed every outward matters. In fact, as I set out for this journey which would last until the 12th of February, the Lord's words to me was, "Enjoy God!" True to His words, I have been enjoying God all along. 

In both the places of fellowship, we released the burden concerning the need for Old Testament Recovery Version in Tamil and Telugu, the need to spiritually support this project with prayers and financial offerings, the need to consider generously to support the translators, and also presented the detail that entails Hebrew learning from a secular university in Jerusalem, Israel. 

After releasing the burden, we also gave time for the brothers to respond and clarify any doubt. In all the fellowship, the Lord and the brothers were one with the burden and it has been confirmed that the matter is of the Lord. Therefore, the Lord will successfully complete the project within the stipulated time of two years for learning Hebrews and six years for translation, altogether eight years. If the Lord tarries His second coming, and if we start this project by this year 2024, it will be accomplished only by 2032. With the Lord, time is not the issue. What He planed and purposed, He will accomplish it in His way and at His time.

I pray that the Lord will preserve all of us coordinating in this project in the overseeing and the translation with the churches' support to see and go through the practical process until printing and promotion of the Holy Bible Recovery Version in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. We pray that Malayalam may also be added too in time. May the will of the Lord be done.

Lord, bless the Old Testament Recovery Version translation project in India!