Experience of Christ in Considering Serving Ones

September 2024 is a very critical month for me. Many important events transpired in this month. Some were truly unexpected, some were planned, and some were made to happen. Nevertheless, the Lord allowed them all for the good of His move in this country.

Officially, I have been sensing the need to gain new serving ones to meet certain needs in the literature service. One of them is to take care of the IT monitoring. In addition, a brother has been requesting for a new serving brother to coordinate with him in the distribution. This matter was brought up to me a few years ago but things did not materialize. And this month, as I visited the Chennai office, I had the innate leading within me to visit a brother who has been taking care of this matter as a volunteer for now. Through his fellowship, a new sister was introduced. Later, I also spent time with a couple whose husband was being considered for the distribution and the wife for the IT service. In just one afternoon, I was able to fellowship with whoever needed to fellowship with. Though the decision was not taken immediately, at least the fellowship of the need was done. By the way, I also enjoyed the Lord's anointing upon me as I fellowshipped with these saints. This experience further encouraged me that the matter was of the Lord. Though I am officially in a position to decide, I should not act independently from God nor from my coordinating brothers. I fellowshipped this matter with the key brothers concerned. And all of them felt good about it. But still, I would like to wait for a few more weeks to pray over, as I usually did for any matter great or small.

As I waited on the Lord, finally the Lord confirmed to me to go ahead and send an email to bring the new serving one into service. All necessary fellowship with the leading brother in the church and with my own co-director and co-worker in the literature service was also done. Only on the last day of the month, 30th September, I confirmed the matter to the serving ones concerned. Now, the matter was clear and the brother would start to serve. 

In a similar manner, another two serving ones matters came up for their continuity in services as the assigned project ended last month. Their continuation needs to be decided, and this month, I had to make a decision. The Lord gave me the grace neither to confirm nor reject, as I needed to wait for my coworking brother to also consider together with me. But for now, until the final decision is taken, they should work on finalizing books for printing.

This experience of the Lord even in recruiting new serving ones was a wonderful experience. Whether the serving ones will turn out to be the proper ones or not, the Lord knows. I am just His servant carrying out the work on His behalf, He is the One who decides everything. He knows best. 

Lord, bless all the serving ones in the literature service in India.