In-flight Gospel

After two weeks visit to USA, I was on my way back to India via Dubai. I just boarded a flight and was about to take my seat. Since I wanted to read the Bible on board the flight, I took my big beautiful Bible and placed it on my seat, a window seat, that required a passenger on the aisle to stand. In the process, that passenger, young man, noticed my big beautiful Book. He was curious and asked me what it was. I joyfully told him that it was my Bible. This short and simple conversation opened the door for further conversation.

I say down on my window seat and fastened my seat belt. As he also sat down on his aisle seat, I asked him if he was a Christian to which he replied in the affirmative. Immediately, an impulse in me prompted to continue the conversation, which I did. As I asked him if he ever prayed or read the Bible, he gestured to me the sign of the cross as the Catholic does and said he was a Catholic. But to my question on Bible reading, he honestly replied that he has not been reading for long. This set the tone for gospel preaching.

I shared briefly on how I got saved. I emphasised the matter by using the term "born again" in the human spirit of the Spirit of God. I also made it clear to him that all man were born sinners and differentiat between being from a Christian background and being born again. I then preached a simple and short gospel using the following five Bible verses.

God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness. (John 4:24, RecVer)

That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; For with the heart there is believing unto righteousness, and with the mouth there is confession unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10, RecVer)

For “whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13, RecVer)

And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:23, RecVer)

He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be condemned. (Mark 16:16, RecVer)

The Bible speaks by itself and for itself. I simple used the words of the Bible and preached the gospel to him. He was so receptive. Then I asked him if he would like to receive the Lord Jesus Christ. Since he said yes, I led him to pray and receive the Lord Jesus as his personal God and Saviour. 

Then, our flight from Los Angeles took off for Dubai. Later, his mother came and changed his seat for him and his younger brother as the flight has ample number if vacant seats. As he left, he gave me his email for further contact.

By the way, he hails from Lebanon and is planing to study in Poland. From the brief conversation and his appearance, he seemed to be from a wealthy family. May the Lord gain this young man and make him a seed for His testimony in Lebanon!

One thing I realised is that, in gospel preaching, simply exercise your spirit and just preach. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ and Christ is the One we are preaching. Had I waited to settle down before I preached, as it was a fifteen and half hour long flight, I would have missed the opportunity as his seat was changed after the flight was high up in the sky. Thank God, I grasped the opportunity in time. 

Lord, preserve this young man and make me faithful in my gospel service. 

May this in-flight gospel service be a turning point to him for a changed life and to me too, for change in the way I preach the gospel.

Adieu America

On the last day of my visit to USA, an impromptu arrangement was made for me to go to the Airport much much earlier than I expected as I had to accompany a brother who had to catch an earlier flight. Since this was the arrangement, it was a test to me if I could accept such arrangement. Though I initially had a thought of "fellowshipping" for a change, I was convicted deep within that I should simple accept the arrangement. This was a test and I took it to my heart. 

I arrived at the Airport six hours before my scheduled departure time. I missed the Lord’s Table Meeting but I had a time of fellowship with the brothers as we drove to the Airport. Then, at LAX Los Angeles Airport, I read through two outlines which were very meaningful and timely to me; it was concerning my living and my service. After a week long of being under the training and the Lord’s speaking, the Lord reminded me of my need to experience and enjoy the living and walking in newness of life. 

We have been buried therefore with Him through baptism into His death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4, RecVer)

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter. (Romans 7:6, RecVer)

My old man has been crucified with Christ already. My old husband has died and now I am married to a new Husband. As such, my living has now been the living in the newness of life and my service, in the newness of the spirit. So that I can bear forth fruits to God. All the Lord’s speaking has been for this purpose of living to God to fulfill His heart's desire. In this living in the newness of life, there is the growth in life for the building up of the Body of Christ. 

This one point on growth in life has also been emphasised by the ministering brothers again and again. In fact, a senior and mature brother has expressed his burden repeatedly that his deep and loving concern is for the growth in life of the saints. For this, it is imperative to develop an intimate, private, sweet fellowship and relationship with the Lord. I believe, it is through such personal relationship and fellowship with the Lord that one can practically live in the newness of life and serve in the newness of the spirit. While at the Airport so early, I had sufficient time to go through two messages outline, enjoy my brunch, and a personal time of prayer including my daily Bible reading. The Lord brought me so early to the Airport so that all important matters of my daily life can be completed before I depart from USA. What a blessed time spent before bidding adieu to America.

God has preserved America for His divine purpose. I have been blessed to be one of the beneficiaries of the riches of Christ that has been ministered from this land. I have been praying for this land and for it's leaders that God may continue to use this country for His move on the earth, especially in their foreign policies to prepare and set the stage for the Lord’s coming again.

Praise the Lord for this third visit to America! Adieu for now. If the Lord wills again, He will bring me back someday. 

July the Fourth

July the fourth was the Independence Day of America. It was on this day that we had our fifth day of the live training at the ministry station in Anaheim. During the dinner break of the training, a brother and I, who have been serving in the literature service in India, had a time of fellowship with the brothers overseeing the publication work of the ministry. The brothers cherishing us in fellowship over a lovefeast dinner on "rib meat" was amazing. On a side bar, it was the best meat I ever tasted in my life. Thanks to the brothers' discernment of my physical need too.

A couple of months ago, two new brothers were inducted on board of the literature service in India. One of the new brothers who has also been serving in the translation service since the very beginning of his service was introduced face to face to the brothers at the ministry station. This was done in fellowship with the brothers in India and also in the States. Everything was sovereignly arranged by the Lord.

This time, we had a fellowship on starting an online course of the full-time training for saints and seekers from India. The practical details of carrying this out was fellowshipped. In fact, two weeks before, we had a time of fellowship with the brothers in India, prior to that, the brothers overseeing the literature service in India had fellowshipped too. This matter had passed through three levels of fellowship since the time it was proposed. I believe, the Lord loves the people of India so much so that He keeps opening door after door to gain His lovers and seekers. Be it ministry literature distribution, both sales version and free, and now, an online training course. The riches of the ministry of the word for India! Despite all the outward opposition and persecution, the Lord has been intensifying His move!

In this fellowship, two saints were proposed to be brought into service, a brother and a sister. I believe, the Lord remembers these ones as they have the heart to serve the Lord. May He work things out good for them.

Besides this, some other matters related to IT, promotional media clips, and a book for Indian version translation and printing was brought forth and fellowshipped. I trust the Lord that this fellowship will issue in the Lord’s intensified move in India.

On this day too, I picked up five boxes of ministry books, hymnal, and Bibles for India. It was after much consideration that these books order were placed as these are not available in Indian print. Together with the books, five used laptops were also given to us on the first day of the training for translation purposes. This visit to the States was very timely for the literature service.

When the President along with the prople of the States were celebrating the signing of the "One Big Beautiful Bill", we have been fellowshipping on "Many Big Beautiful Ministry Books and Materials" for the people of India. Many new developments are beginning to take place globally in the physical realm as well as in the spiritual realm. I personally have been praying everyday for the world leaders and the world situation. All these are for the preparation of the Bride for the marriage of the Lamb! This is the real "in-development day" for the Lord’s move all over the world.

Come, Lord Jesus!

Live Training: Sharings

Since day one of the semiannual training this summer as I joined live, I had been exercising my spirit and praying very much that I receive the maximum spiritual benefit from the training and during all the study time and fellowship. The Lord had answered my prayer and spoke to me personally in every message. I also prepared to share my top enjoyment in every meeting from message one. To me, I determined to not lose any opportunity. 

On day one, from the two sessions I prepared a point each from the messages to share but could not get the opportunity. Instead, I shared in the group. The same continued on day two too. On day three, I did the same and got the opportunity. So I simply echoed Br. RK's burden on being in the Triune God and knowing the Triune God by experience and growth in life. This was also the deep and loving concern of the brother, of which I shared too, with the practical emphasis on spending a personal time with the Lord day by day. Even in day four, five, and six too, the Lord gave me His words in every message and shared in the group.

On the last day, day six, saints from India were called for testing. As I stood up with the saints to speak, my portion was on "change of value concerning Christ in relation to our relatives." What I had experienced was what the Lord led me to testify: Loving the Lord more than our relatives, father, mother, brothers, sisters, and loved ones. I exercised my spirit and simply declared this need for loving the more than our relatives.

One distinctive feature of the live training is the spiritual atmosphere of the training is very high and the Spirit's speaking is very strong. The quantity of live training is much higher than all the video trainings I have attended. As far as partiality allows, live training is worth paying the price.

In addition to these public sharings, we also daily enjoyed our PSRP time at a brother's house for five days where we shared and learned from one another. What a grace, what an enjoyment, and what a blessing indeed!

Testimony for Building Up

God’s desire is to gain a Body for His Son. He does this by gaining His created man to be His many sons who would corporately be built up to be the church, the Body of Christ, for the expression of God. Therefore, He redeemed and saved many created and fallen men throughout the ages, of which I am just one among the many. His saving grace produces many testimonies, in fact, each saved person has a testimony, so do I.

During the two weeks trip to USA, I was given the opportunity to share my testimony of how God saved me. Though I generally do not share personal testimony unless the Spirit led or the saints specifically requested, I had to share wherever and whenever I was led. Therefore, I ended up sharing in a few localities and also with a few saints, though different parts according to the Lord’s inward leading.

At Fremont blending meeting, I testified how I got saved and how I came into the church life. At Sacramento bending meeting, I testified how I got to read the New Testament Recovery Version. At Burlingame blending meeting, I testified how I got saved. In other cities, the sharing was just a few sentences together with introduction. In these meetings, I got to hear the testimonies of other brothers and sisters from India too. It was rather mysterious that we heard one another's testimony in a foreign land, while in our home country, we only fellowshipped non-persobal matters. Anyhow, whether at home or abroad, we fellowshipped and learned from one another.

Four specific fellowshipa on the particular need of the saints were done one on one too. In Fremont, I had a personal time of fellowship with a brother concerning the salvation of his parents and how he should pray and cooperate with the Lord to preach the gospel despite his past history with his father and step mother, and mother and step father. It was a surprise fellowship that just came up and a difficult matter for the brother to digest. Nonetheless, I had to be faithful to the Spirit's speaking within me for him. I believe he will take the fellowship and see the salvation of his parents just as what the Lord had done with mine. I even prayed for the salvation of his parents, both for the real ones and the steps.

In Sacramento, our host family, especially the father and mother of the house were so supplied when I shared what the Lord had done and has been doing in my life, especially on seeking and doing the perfect will of God. The fellowship was so sweet that they wanted to hear more and more, but I had to somehow excuse myself and stopped at a certain point. This family offered a wonderful "meat rib" breakfast as they came know of my preferred meat. I enjoyed their brotherly love offering.

In Irvine during a study lunch break, I had a time of fellowship on following the Lord’s leading even in job-taking service to a brother who I served together with for a Bible proofreading project many years ago while he was a trainee. Now that he is married with two children and having a job, I encouraged him by stating that the Lord’s desire is our person and not our works. The key is on following the Lord's leading as we all serve the living God either with or without job. He was so encouraged by the fellowship.

In Irvine during the lovefeast, a young couple approached me, perhaps, just to greet me. But, the fellowship when on to testimony as they specifically asked how I got saved. I obliged to a member of the Body's request. Then, I was also led to share on important lessons I learned from the Lord in my marriage life concerning loving the Lord and loving one another as husband and wife with the love of God, and being one with God and one with one another as husband and wife are one flesh. And further encouraged the couple to pray together and practice the oneness as God desires so.

Wherever, whenever, and with whomsoever the Lord leads, I must be faithful to testify and exhort for the building up.

And let us consider one another so as to incite one another to love and good works, Not abandoning our own assembling together, as the custom with some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more as you see the day drawing near. (Hebrews 10:24-25, RecVer)

What then, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up. (1 Corinthians 14:26, RecVer)

God is a God of Glory

God is the God of glory! God’s eternal purpose is to bring many of His redeemed sons into glory. Glory is the expression of God. Only when God is saturated and permeated into the being of His redeemed sons, they can express His glory. And this glory will consummate in the New Jerusalem, the city of glory.

And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, as clear as crystal. (Revelation of John 21:10-11, RecVer)

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in leading many sons into glory, to make the Author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers. (Hebrews 2:10-11, RecVer)

The genuine work of God can be determined by it's source, course, and goal. God is the source for any genuine work; the initiator of God’s work is God Himself. God is the course of His work; the advancement of God’s work is Christ's power. God Himself, His expression, His glory, is the goal of His work. God’s work will always result in God’s glory.

Because out from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen. (Romans 11:36, RecVer)

God, in order to fulfill His divine purpose, became a man in Christ Jesus, Who also is the Author (the Captain) of salvation. He is leading many sons into glory by being their High Priest to pray for them and to minister to them and sanctify them through His sanctifying Spirit. His divine sanctification is for His sonizing. Therefore, the divine sanctification is the holding line in the carrying out of the divine economy for the divine sonship.

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in leading many sons into glory, to make the Author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. (Hebrews 2:10, RecVer)

As revealed in the book of Hebrews, we must daily exercise to enter into the veil outside the camp. The practical holy of holies is in our spirit. Therefore, the way to enter into the veil is to exercise our spirit and stay in the presence of God, fellowshipping with God face to face as Moses did, and established a strong, sweet, personal, intimate, private, relationship and fellowship with the Lord.

Let us therefore go forth unto Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach. (Hebrews 13:13, RecVer)

And He said, My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest. (Exodus 33:14, RecVer)

In this way, we will be sanctified and ultimately be filled with the God of glory to express Him as glory.

Be Holy as God is Holy

Speak to all the assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy, for I, Jehovah your God, am holy. (Leviticus 19:2, RecVer)

Because it is written, “You shall be holy because I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:16, RecVer)

Note on holy - Lev. 11:44-45; 20:7, 26; 1 Pet. 1:16 Being holy because God is holy (v. 2; 20:7, 26) signifies walking according to God’s holiness, living a holy life (1 Pet. 1:15; 2 Pet. 3:11).

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication; That each one of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, (1 Thessalonians 4:3-4, RecVer)

For God has not called us for uncleanness but in sanctification. (1 Thessalonians 4:7, RecVer)

God’s economy is to make man God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. God is a holy God and only God is holy. To make man God is to make man holy. God desires that we be holy as He is, and in this way He can fulfill His economy.

And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  (1 Thessalonians 5:23, RecVer)

However, to be holy as God is holy, we need to cooperate with God in His inward working in our inner being. He as the Spirit is in our spirit needs to spread into our soul and eventually to our body. The bridge between the spirit and the soul is the conscience, which is a part of our spirit and also a part of our psychological heart. Therefore, our heart plays a vital role in our cooperation with God for our sanctification. It is indeed the holding line for God to carry out His eternal economy of making us holy. For this, we need a pure heart; single in purpose and simple in openness. The dealing with our heart is our urgent need today...

Keep your heart with all vigilance, For from it are the issues of life. (Proverbs 4:23, RecVer)

Our spirit in which the Spirit of God dwells also need to be exercised along with the faculties of our soul; renewed mind, touched emotion to love God, and subdued will to be obedient to God and do His perfect will. And even our body be preserved from the passion and lust of the flesh that we may live a sanctified and separated life that is saturated with God's holy and divine life for the fulfillment of God’s divine and eternal purpose. For this too, we must be watchful in what we see, hear, say, and do; and  also be on the alert in where we go or with whom we hang out. So that we may be sanctified quantitatively and be preserved qualitatively for the coming of the Lord for the preparation of His Bride.

That said, we need the the faithful God to sanctify us ad preserve us, for we cannot be sanctified and preserved holy on our own.

Faithful is He who calls you, who also will do it. (1 Thessalonians 5:24, RecVer)

Lord, make us holy as You are. 

Enjoying Christ...

The need of our Christian life today is to enjoy Christ. This enjoyment of Christ is based on our experience of the Lord which in turn also depends on our knowing of Him. Our knowing of Christ should be followed by our experiencing of Christ. This experience will bring in the enjoyment of Christ which will issue in the expression of Christ.

Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light; (Colossians 1:12, RecVer)

In order that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Galatians 3:14, RecVer)

Today, God our Father has qualified us for a share of the allotted portion of the saints, the all-inclusive Christ, which is the blessing of Abraham, the promise of the Spirit, who is the life-giving Spirit in our spirit! This is the riches of the good land promised in Deuteronomy 8:7-10, who is also the unsearchable riches of Christ as in Ephesians 3:8, as our bountiful supply in Philippians 1:19. This enjoyment of Christ is for the building up of the Body of Christ. For the practicality of enjoyment, our spirits must be exercised and must also be released. 

God’s calling of us is for the enjoyment of Christ. As the children of Israel were called out of Egypt, delivered not only out of Egypt from slavery into the wilderness as mere freedom from Egypt, but to enter into the good land for the enjoyment of the unsearchable riches of the all-inclusive Christ as the good land!

Our enjoyment of Christ by eating God’s word as milk and honey, the eating of Christ as the richest grace and sweetest love, will constitute us with Christ. Then, we can choose good and minister these riches of Christ to others for the corporate building up of the Body of Christ. 

He will eat curds and honey until he knows how to refuse evil and choose good. (Isaiah 7:15, RecVer)

Your lips drip fresh honey, my bride; Honey and milk are under your tongue; And the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. (Song of Solomon 4:11, RecVer)

Therefore, the practical way to enjoy Christ is to walk in Him who is our alloted portion and on whom we have been rooted. We walk in Him by taking time to absord Him as the rich soil of the good land.

As therefore you have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in Him, Having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being established in the faith even as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. (Colossians 2:6-7, RecVer)

In the soil, weeds, rocks and many hindrances in our inward being must be dealt with day by day. Then, absorb the riches over a long period of gathering with much inward activity with careful storage. 

The end of the matter is, take time to absorb Christ to experience, enjoy, and express Christ!

Learn Christ, Love Christ, Live Christ

Twenty five years ago in 2000, on the first day of my Master in Computer Application (MCA) class at Madras Christian College (MCC) in Chennai, I was praying for a prayer partner and wrote a theme that has been my spiritual pursuit those days on the note book of a classmate who sat next to me, first row second from right as I was on the first right first row. The theme was, "Learn Christ, Love Christ, Live Christ." Later, this classmate became my friend, brother, prayer partner, and even co-worker serving the Lord in the church as he has been blessed by the Lord in taking up the responsibility of a local church.

Twenty five years later in 2025, today I attended the live semiannual training at LSM Ministry Campus in Anaheim, California USA, and the first two messages on Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3) on the book of Philippians exactly explained the theme of my college days. O what a joy that I could easily understand and digest the burden of the message! The messages were ministered by two mature brothers I revere and regard highly, Br. EM and Br. RK.

Learn Christ

Not that I speak according to lack, for I have learned, in whatever circumstances I am, to be content. I know also how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to hunger, both to abound and to lack. (Philippians 4:11-12, RecVer)

Paul had learnt the secret of experiencing and enjoying Christ in all kinds of circumstances, environment, and situations. To him, every person, matter, and things were God’s arrangement. He learned to experience Christ in all of them. He learned the secret!

For this, he brought everything thing to the Lord in prayer.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; (Philippians 4:6, RecVer)

Love Christ 

Paul was a lover of the Lord Jesus Christ. From the day he converted to Christ, he had been pursuing Christ at the cost of his life and all that he treasured before.

But what things were gains to me, these I have counted as loss on account of Christ. But moreover I also count all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse that I may gain Christ. (Philippians 3:7-8, RecVer)

He loved the Lord Jesus to the uttermost and counted all thing loss on account of Christ. Christ meant everything to him.

I pursue toward the goal for the prize to which God in Christ Jesus has called me upward. (Philippians 3:14, RecVer)

Live Christ 

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. (Philippians 1:21, RecVer)

As Paul learned Christ and loved Christ, he must have had tens of thousands of conversations with the Lord. He must have spent a personal, intimate, private, and sweet fellowship with the Lord to the extend that he was fully saturated with the Lord in his mind, emotion, and will, in addition to his being one spirit with the Lord. This was obvious in his taking the mind of Christ, taking Christ as his pattern.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, 

Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped, But emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men; And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of a cross. 

Therefore also God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, And every tongue should openly confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:5-11, RecVer)

What a pattern Paul was in taking Christ as his pattern! So also, we must take Christ as our pattern by learning Christ, loving Christ, and living Christ!

My college days theme even before I came into the church life is a part of the ministry that time has revealed and proven to he true. This time, the Lord confirmed it in His up-to-date speaking. May this be mine and my family's theme all the days of our lives. That, Christ as our pattern issue in experiencing Christ, enjoying Christ, and expressing Christ as a preparation of His Bride for His second coming!

Learn Christ, Love Christ, Live Christ!

Lord's Day in USA

Today, as visiting saints from India, we attended the Lord’s Table Meeting at the English speaking district of the church in Irvine. Every year, the church in Irvine gave us hospitality for those attending the live semiannual training and we git to attend the church meeting on the Lord’s Day. What a grace! 

Today, the prophesying meeting of the church was on the one new man. As the brothers opened up the meeting for prophesying, the Lord led me to share my portion to the Body. As I have been experiencing the truth of the reality of baptism, I connected it with the reality of the one new man. Two Bible verses that I based my prophesying are on the following.

Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace, (Ephesians 2:15, RecVer)

Or are you ignorant that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? We have been buried therefore with Him through baptism into His death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life. For if we have grown together with Him in the likeness of His death, indeed we will also be in the likeness of His resurrection. (Romans 6:3-5, RecVer)

Christ has created the one new man at the cross. We have been baptized into His death. To be in the reality of the one new man is to live in the reality of baptism. In the one new man, only one Person lives, Christ. In the reality of baptism, everything of Satan, the world, the self, the flesh, the old creation, and all negative things have been crucified. This makes the reality of baptism the living of Christ. Therefore, living in the reality of the one new man is the living in the reality of baptism, which is the living of Christ; no longer I but Christ!

In fact, today morning I enjoyed this portion of the words so much, living in the likeness of His death and His resurrection. What I enjoyed was also what thebLord led me to prophesy. Praise the Lord for the one new man! In fact, in the meeting saints from Europe, UK, India, and other part of USA were present. This was indeed the meeting of the one new man. 

Then, we enjoyed a lovefeast lunch with the Korean speaking saints and later we visited Grace Terrace or Grace Garden Memorial at Rose Hills.

At Grace Garden, a brother in his mid seventies who is also the manager of the garden, gave us an overview of the design and burden of the cemetery. The garden was designed on the theme of the crucial truths in the Lord’s recovery that comprises eight major items of the truth of the Bible. From it's main gate to the end, all the Bible verses and landscaping were on the line of the truth in sequence: God’s economy, the Triune God, the All-inclusive Christ, the Spirit, the Believers, the Church (the Body of Christ), the Kingdom, and the New Jerusalem! From the entrance to the end, there were hymns on these truths, Bibles verses on God’s judicial redemption and God’s organic salvation. This is a dignified and glorious view of the entire Bible. The cemetery was designed with the vision of death being the gateway to the New Jerusalem. 

Prophesying for the building up of the Body of Christ and a view of death and burial as the gateway to the New Jerusalem was experienced today! What a Lord’s Day in USA! Praise the Lord!

Gleanings from USA Visits

This time, a visit to the USA also included the visits to some sightseeing spots, not according to the world's way but according to the leading of the local saints. The saints that we visited have been laboring on their localities and the Lord also blessed them bountifully. We came to witness what the Lord has been doing through their labors. Personally, I have seen the wisdom the Lord gave to the brothers in the way and the places they labor. I have been very much impressed by what I have seen. Besides, the hospitality arrangement for all of us from India was exemplary. 

In addition to the blending and fellowship we enjoyed with the saints in the churches in the Bay Area, we were also led to visit some places of interest. The brothers took all the pains to take us to all these places. What a favor from the Lord that I could be a part of the team from India to be able to participate in this trip. The places that we visited are the following:

• Golden Gate Bridge 
• University of Berkeley 
• Fremont Conference Center
• University of Davis
• Sacraments New Meeting Hall
• Alpha House, a 335 acres in Nevada County
• Hatchery and a Dam on American River
• Old Sacramento 

One thing that impressed me was the wisdom of the brothers in purchasing lands many many years ago and some recent ones. They had the vision for the present need and also for the future plan. The Fremont Conference Center was built with the latest technology has now become useful for the perfecting of the saints of all ages. The Alpha House in Nevada County was very thoughtful for meeting the need of the saints for spiritual retreat as it was an hour drive from the bustling city life, far away enough to be secluded only for spiritual training. This place was once a goldmine and now turned into spiritual goldmine for the saints to gain more gold of the divine life through perfecting training. These visits surely have a great impact on me. 

To all these, I can only thank the Lord and worship Him for all that He has done through the ministry. I have been blessed to glean from all the places we visited. Yes, gleaning from the old creation for the new creation! What a pattern! Praise the Lord!

Revisiting America

The Lord sovereignly arranged another trip for me to vist USA this time. This was my third visit to USA. Despite the political turmoil surround LA in California and the crack down on illegal immigrants, those with legal documents have no issue. This trip was particularly useful for me in many ways. 

First, I was able to complete my assignment of re-listening the recorded messages of our recent training of five days which was held in Hyderabad. This re-listening is one of the requirements for attending the second phase of the training to beheld in August in Chennai. The long hours travel time from my home to New Delhi Airport; then while checking in, passing through security checks and waiting to board the flight; the flight time from New Delhi to Dubai and from Dubai to San Francisco; I was able to complete the assignment. Fourteen sessions of fellowship that were coverd in five days, I was able to go through all of them the second time by utilising all the time required to reach USA. I was freshly supplied by the fellowship, high above the ground in a realm of buoyancy!

Second, this trip enabled me to experience the Lord in a fresh way of living the life of baptism. This was also in line with the present HWMR.

For if we have grown together with Him in the likeness of His death, indeed we will also be in the likeness of His resurrection. (Romans 6:5, RecVer)

From Day 1 of my trip to USA, the Lord graced me to experience living in the likeness of His death. This was a precious lesson that had been due for long l in my life experience. Though I shared my personal testimony, a couple of times, of how I got save and how I came into the church life, which I rarely shared, I never had even an inkling of self promotion or self glorification. I exercised my spirit to testify only when asked to testify and limited my words to how much was needed to be spoken within the limited time frame. This was altogether a new learning and a new  experience for me too. Thank God, that this time the Lord gave me the opportunity and the grace to experience Him in His death, and live the life of baptism. Praise the Lord!

Third, in all these places we visited this time, seven local churches in the Bay Area; Hayward, Fremont, Davis, San Francisco, Sacramento, Berkeley, and Burlingame, we enjoyed a sweet coordination among ourselves, the visiting saints from India, in our fellowship, sharing of testimonies and reports, so much so that we could blend well with the saints in all these localities. We were mutually shepherded and we learn from one another. O what a blessed blending in the Body!

These experiences have also testified in reality how much we have been blended and builded up together in the Body. Thank the Lord for such an experience! The ministry has brought in the reality of the one new man. This is not merely an outward trip to USA but a trip of an experience of Christ for the blending and building up in the Body.

As my visits to USA were in the past, this visit also is also a blessed visit. God has blessed America and use this country for His move all over the world. 

God bless America!

Teenagers Training in Gurugram

The things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things; and the God of peace will be with you. (Philippians 4:9, RecVer)

Last weekend we had a three days' teenagers training in Gurugram. This was, in actuality, a training for the families in the church in Gurugram. Since it was proposed to be held in Gurugram, we brothers were trying our best to arrange hospitality in the old training center or hire a convention centre, but nothing worked out. The only option we had was to open our homes and accommodate as many as possible. The arrangements were made in such a way that about eighty plus saints be given hospitality and arrange a meeting for the same in the existing meeting that we thought, could accommodate maximum fifty saints. However, with all adjustments, we could finally accommodate all the saints; hospitality and meeting place. We experienced the Lord’s bountiful grace and everything was taken care.

On the Lord’s Day, we had meeting in a hired banquet of a hotel as the consummation of the training. Though no portion was assigned to me but as the need arose I opened myself to the fellowship of the brothers. On Saturday, according to the brothers' fellowship, I shared the significances of baptism before the baptism of teenagers. And on the Lord’s Day, at the spur of the moment, I was asked to share something. So, based on what I heard from the testimonies of the teenagers, I summarised the sharings into three points.

• Love the Lord Jesus 
• Love the Word of God
• Love the Presence of God; Spend time in Prayer with the Lord every day, develop a personal, intimate, fellowship, and relationahip with the Lord

It was a great blessing to witness our young ones being cared for and trained in the best possible way. I thanked the Lord for all the serving ones who labored so much and shepherded the saints. 

The concluding words shared by a brother was also very apt. Whatever they have learned, received, heard, and seen must now be put to practice.

Lord, bless all our young ones. Preserve them, prepare them, and perfect them to continue to bear Your testimony and await Your return.

Reality of Baptism in Union City

The Christian life is a life of baptism. The reality of baptism is to live in the death of Chirst by being baptised into Christ, not just once, but living in it's reality where the self, the natural man, the old man, the flesh, the world, and everything not of God is put to death. This experience of baptism is possible only in the mingled spirit by being in Christ into whom we have been baptised. Only then, resurrection becomes a reality too, not a future state but a present process that is being experienced day by day. 

Yesterday, I landed in San Francisco for a blending trip in the Bay Area of California prior to attending the live Semiannual Training in Anaheim. In this trip, my first experience was the experience of Christ in His death. Though a few days ago I spoke about baptism and baptised some, I have not yet been baptised myself fully into it's reality thoroughly. The Lord gave this opportunity to experience the reality of baptism.

Though I was baptised about twenty five years ago, I am yet to fully experience the reality of baptism. The Lord has given me many opportunities to experience baptism now and then. Little by little, here a little, there a little, now and then, He has brought me to experience it. He has chosen appropriate time and place to accomplish His work of baptism in me. This surely is the mercy of the Lord.

Last night, I was given hospitality in a brother's house in Union City, California. As I lay down to sleep, the Spirit wrestled with me to deal with my self. I could not sleep properly. Something of my self bothered me. I knew right away that I need to be dealth with. Therefore, I prayed that this "fox's tail" of my self be completely put to death. I had a fresh and thorough consecration to deal with it again. 

The fact that I was given hospitality in Union City reminds me of my need to experience and enjoy the result of baptism, a living in an organic union with the Triune God and also with His Body in oneness, in one accord, and in sweet harmony. I reckon this sleepless night in Union City as the turning point in my life to live in the reality of baptism that I may experience and enjoy the reality of baptism in my Christian life. That my Christian life indeed be a life of baptism.

Later, I spent time to pray for all the prayer burdens the Lord has been burdening me these days. Then, I enjoyed my morning revival on the same matter, living in the reality of baptism. The Lord’s speaking was so timely. It matched my experience and it confirmed my experience too. This is the New Testament ministry. 

We have been buried therefore with Him through baptism into His death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4, RecVer)

Oh what a blessed night in Union City! There I began to experience the reality of baptism in areas of my life that needs thorough baptism and ushered me to the reality of being in union with the Triune God and His Body.

Bible Reading: Forty Eighth Time

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God. Col. 3:16

Today, on my forty-seventh birthday, and as I enter my forty-eighth year of my human life, the Lord graced me to complete my forty-eighth time of reading the Bible and start with my forty-ninth time as I have a goal of reading through the Bible at least a hundred time in my life time, if the  Lord gives me the grace. This is my personal goal, and it gives me immense joy to be able to read and read the word of God. To me, the only book worth reading again and again is the Bible. To me, the only time I feel must be spent at any cost is to read the Bible and spend time in prayer every day, even if it means doing it as a habit. Let it be a habit and be a part of my life. I reckon this is a good habit. God forbid, if I say, reading the Bible and prayer are the only things that must be done every day at all costs, even at the sacrifice of other things.

My prayer has been that the Lord would grace me day by day to be able to read the Bible with good eyesight; with a renewed mind filled with light, sight, vision, and revelation; and a strong spirit to absorb the word as spiritual nourishment. And that, no matter what my circumstances may be, the Lord may grace me with the reading of the Bible and prayer day by day. I cannot think of a life without the word of God and prayer. They have become a part and parcel of my life. I have been married to the word of God and prayer. I can't help but keep reading the Bible and pray. And it has been my joy and enjoyment day by day. I can sacrifice anything else in the world, but not my time with the Lord in prayer and the word of God. 

This also I wish that all my children, family members, saints in the church life, and for that matter, all the children of God should love the word of God and read it to be constituted with it, and be a man of prayer. To the extent that we all be living bibles and talking bibles for other to see and read the Bible. 

Having begun my forty-ninth time of reading the Bible, today morning I spent an hour on the word beginning from Genesis, the first ten chapters, and Matthew, the first three chapters.

May the Lord grace me with the taste and enjoyment of His word that I may read and eat the word of God every day, all the days of my life.

Birthday Gift: Baptisms

On my forty-seventh biological birthday today, the Lord gave me a wonderful experience of "baptism." This baptism is my experience of the cross and dealing with my natural man. The Lord has been gracious to show to me who I am and what He needs to do in me. These days I have been positively busy as I am engaging in productive work for the church, for the office, and for my family. I have been enjoying the joy of being a responsible man in my areas of service, and enjoying being a family man. Oh, what a blessing!

From morning to night, I have been engaged in office work, completing things that need to be completed before I leave for the live semiannual training at the minsitry station in Anahien, California. As the brothers serving the teenagers' training that is going on in the church in Gurugram fellowshipped with me about ministering the word on baptism, I had to prepare myself to release the word of God. Though I had been ministering this truth many times in the past at different places, this time, I wanted to make it more precise and clear to all the young ones. Therefore, I went through the Bible verses and the ministry portion with prayer again. Then, when the time came, I ministered on the seven significances of baptism.

Beginning with the way to be saved as mentioned in Romans 10:9-10 and the need to be baptised in Mark 16:16 to enjoy the complete salvation of God in many aspects, all the teenagers were helped to see these seven significances.

1. Confirmation of Inward Belief, Mark 16:16
2. Fullfillment of God's Righteous Requirement, Matthew 3:15
3. Testimony and Open Declaration, Matthew 3:16
4. Spiritual transfer from the Kingdom of Satan to the Kingdom of God, John 3:5
5. Identification with Christ in His Death, Burial, and Resurrection, Romans 6:3-6
6. Baptism into the Body of Christ, 1 Corinthians 12:13
7. Appeal to God for a Good Conscience, 1 Peter 3: 21

Along with the ministry of the word, I had the burden to lead those who are not yet baptised to pray for their baptism. Following this, nine young brothers and sisters took water baptism, of which four were brothers and five sisters. Through the brothers' fellowship and arrangement, I was graced further to usher the sisters in their baptism in coordination with another Hindi-speaking brother.

This was a wonderful day, a joyous day for all the teenagers and the saints, especially me! I reckon this as my birthday gift. Yes, a gift of baptism; an experience of baptism in my being and the experience of baptizing the new believers into the Triune God! What a birthday gift!

Hallelujah! Christ is Victor! Jesus is Lord!

Inner Peace

For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.  Romans 8:6

I have been shown mercy by the Lord to know Him, experience Him, enjoy Him, and I believe, I am also expressing Him to some extent. Day by day, from one degree of glory to another degree of glory, the Lord is transforming me, as I learn to behold Him.

But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:18

These days, the Lord's work in me has become more and more subjective. Every other day, for any matter or thing, I have been "bothered" by the Lord inwardly. I could not decide on any matter so easily without first bringing them to the Lord and considering the matter in my personal time with the Lord. The inner peace within me has been a strong indicator of the Lord's will felt in my inner being. I am glad that the Lord is faithful to lead me inwardly, and much more, I am thankful to Him for His grace that I could discern His feeling in my feeling. I have been mercifully "disturbed" in my inner peace when a matter was brought before me that may not be perfectly from the Lord or of the Lord, though the matter be spiritual or perhaps even be in the fellowship of the Body. This inner sense of life has become very sensitive and strong to the extent that I cannot go ahead on any matter unless the inner peace within me is in perfect harmony with me. Thank the Lord for this grace.

For instance, I was given the go-ahead to attend an international training in Malaysia. Every fellowship and every practical matter seemed to be in sweet harmony. In fact, all financial provisions were available too. But as I considered the matter before the Lord again and again, the inner peace within me "disturbed" me positively to reconsider. Instance after instance, it became clearer and clearer that I might have to withdraw from attending this live training, but attend the same training on webcast video training with the brothers in India in India itself. Finally, after a period of three months, it was made clear to me by the inner peace within me that I should skip this time unless the Lord succinctly and vividly revive the matter again.

Likewise, in matters concerning many practical matters in my personal life, family life, office life, and church life, the peace within me has become very sensitive in discerning the leading of the Lord. Outward situations and human reasoning cannot convince me any longer unless the inner peace within is perfectly restful. For it became so obvious that the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.

And the peace of God, which surpasses every man’s understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7

And let the peace of Christ arbitrate in your hearts, to which also you were called in one Body; and be thankful. Colossians 3:15

Blending with Australian Saints

What a blessing that we have been enjoying blending after blending! A week ago, the saints from the church in Singapore came to blend with us here in the church in Gurugram. A week after, a couple from a local church in Australia came to blend with us! In fact, this meeting was so sudden that I had to make an impromptu arrangement for the blending. Through this arrangement, I also learn how to adjust according to the situation and take timely action. 

It was just yesterday morning that I was informed via WhatsApp text message that a couple would like to visit us in Gurugram. Without further delay, I followed up and worked out the practical details. And lo and behold, an elderly, lovely couple, a brother and sister in their early sixties, came to visit us! 

The moment we met, the flow of life began as they shared their experiences of the Lord in visiting India. Though they actually came for their family reunion, most of whom are yet to be saved, they testified about how they have been praying for their family salvation, and how they caught every opportunity to share the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ even during their family reunion.

On their request, I shared the history of the Lord's move in India, which I shared with the Singapore saints last week. Thank God that I spent a good amount of time preparing the historical facts about the Lord's move in India and in North India. Due to which, I was able to narrate the history in detail, pointing out the facts, year by year, using Google Maps to show them the location of the Lord's move at different times and how the local church were raised up from the South all the way to the North and the North East. Oh, they were so touched by the way the Lord carried out His move in India!

Then, we had a brotherly fellowship over a lovefest lunch nearby our place at a North Indian restaurant where they savored a typical North Indian cuisine. And later, as I drove them to New Delhi to another meeting with the church there, I had a wonderful time of fellowship in the car. Since the brother asked me to share how I got saved and how I came into the church life, the one-hour drive from Gurugram to Delhi was sufficient time to share all the key points of the Lord's work in my life. I testified beginning from my family background, to my experience of regeneration, to following the Lord's leading in studying my Master's degree in Chenani, where I was shepherded into the church life, and how the Lord called me to serve Him full-time. I further testified on how the Lord led me in marriage and service to date. The brother was so thankful to the Lord for the Lord's work in India and in the saints.

Oh, what a blessing to be blended in the Body! Through fellowship and blending, the Lord is building up His Body. Praise the Lord! Halleluiah!

Living a Normal Human Life

Though the church in Gurugram is small in numbers compared to many other Christian groups, we have been very blessed by the Lord in that we have been graced to function actively and participate in many practical building up of the Body of Christ. For this, the Lord has brought saints for fellowship, blending, and perfecting. 

The past few weeks have been positively very "busy" for me. Yes, I mean "busy," not in an outward way of doing things, but in an inward way of fellowship by visiting the saints and spending time with them. Either the saints visited us for fellowship, or we visited the saints for fellowship. Whichever way, we were "busy" fellowshipping...

Since the time I came back after a three-week-long ministry journey, I have still been "busy" with the church life and also in carrying out my responsibility as a father in my family. Day by day, functioning to fulfill all my responsibilities. What a blessing! No time for idleness. Office work, church life, family responsibility, and then also each day, a time with the Lord for prayer and study of the word of God. Every day is a "busy" day. To me, every day is a blessed day. No day ever wasted. What a blessed human life!

Last week, visiting the saints who delivered a baby girl, spending time with the saint for blending in addition to taking care of official work for my children's future education, my life has been fully under training and perfecting, and my time has been fully utilised. Even when I was not going out, some new ones and saints visited for a time of fellowship. Whether I went out or not, still my time has all been occupied. I feel life is very meaningful. Halleluiah!

Even menial works like doing a domestic repair work on my water tank overflow pipe with my son, cleaning office AC filters by myself, finding a spare tyre for my punctured car tyre, repairing our entrance to avoid water overflow during rain, rearranging flower vases for better ambience in our living room, driving my daughter for meeting up with her friends, shopping with my wife for household needs, and the list goes on and on... 

The past few weeks have been fully occupied. In all these, I am living my life to the full. In humanity, carrying out human responsibilities, yet exercising my spirit to take the Lord as my grace and learn Christ in dealing with all practical things. Oh, what a blessed human life! 

I pray that I may be more and more useful to the Lord by being responsible for all my earthly responsibilities. In the process, learning, growing, and being perfected through life experiences, so that one day, the Lord will make me an overcomer! And all the while, experiencing, enjoying, and expressing Christ in the church for the fulfillment of God's eternal plan.

O Lord Jesus! This is the meaning of human life, and this is how I live the church life for the fulfillment of God's eternal plan!

Preparing Vessels Useful to the Lord

God has blessed us with children, of our own blood, three, and many in the church life. On the one hand, we pray for them daily and fellowship with them concerning their future, to follow the Lord's leading. On the other hand, we also make all the necessary preparations in humanity for the Lord's use. At least for the three children the Lord blessed us with thus far, we have been praying for them and with them. My wife and I have also been considering their future education plan. In fact, since last year, the Lord has given me the insight and foresight to send them to Taiwan for their further education. There are a couple of valid reasons for this consideration. 

As far as I could discern, the Lord has arranged everything for my children for His purpose. From their birth in Taipei, Taiwan, to their growing up in Gurugram, India. Their citizens by birth in Taiwan and their overseas citizenship of India by naturalization, as their father is an Indian citizen. This was the Lord's sovereign arrangement. The Lord gave me the burden for their further studies in Taiwan, and upon further inquiry, we discovered that our children can apply as overseas Chinese citizens. At the proper time, we came to know all the details. And step by step, the Lord also narrowed down on which part of Taiwan and which university they should apply to. Things became clearer and clearer and more and more specific. 

One other reason I strongly felt for our children to study their college degrees in Taiwan is for the shepherding in the sisters and brothers' houses near the university campuses. As far as I know, I feel Taiwan is the best country for college students' education in the church life. Especially, in preparing their vessels for the Lord's use. Last year, we even visited a couple of student centers, and I was very impressed. 

There is another practical reason for this consideration in Taiwan, as the government provides each qualifying student with a sufficient stipend, which India has no provision in the colleges here.

For this, our eldest daughter gave her first test for the Chinese language as a part of her qualifying exam. Now, she is preparing for English. And most importantly, her tenth, eleventh, and twelfth marks will play a significant role in her selection to the universities in Taipei, as we have narrowed down to one city for practical reasons of travel and our own parents being in Taipei.

The Lord is the Lord, and He knows how to lead His children in the best way. We fully trust in him and let Him lead. Meanwhile, we prepare ourselves in humanity with all that is needed to be prepared.

May the perfect will of the Lord be done in preparing the vessels for the Lord's use!

Blending with Singapore Saints

God has blended the Body together. Blending is the reality of the Body of Christ.

Since Covid-19, this was the first time the churches abroad came to visit the churches in North India. We were blessed to be visited by the saints from the church in Singapore last week. This visit brought a new blessing for the church in Gurugram. First, our capacity was enlarged as we had to arrange a blending meeting and lovefeast for all the saints. Since we did not have the capacity in our present meeting hall, we had to consider elsewhere. This caused us to look for a proper facility that could meet our needs. Therefore, one whole evening, three of us brothers went to look for guest houses with a banquet hall. After visiting about six guest houses, we finally settled on one that satisfied us and met our needs. In the process, we learned to serve in coordination.

Even as we fellowshipped the content and sequence of the meeting, the Lord blended us together. This itself gave us the opportunity to learn to serve in coordination. There were proposals and adjustments, all worked together for our learning, perfecting, and blending. This experience was also for the entire church, which touched the lives of the children, teenagers, and college students. The teenagers were asked to prepare to share and even rehearse, yet because of time, they could not share what they prepared. Likewise, the college students were asked to prepare, but canceled due to an adjustment in the content of the meeting. We all were blended together, even as we prepared for the blending before the actual blending itself. Hallelujah!

In the blending meeting, we briefed the saints on the history of the Lord’s move in India and Gurugram, and the significance of the church in Gurugram and the need for growth and increase for the Lord’s testimony. Three brothers and a sister shared their testimony of how the Lord gained them for His testimony and for His move in India. From the Singapore saints, we received a fellowship on God-man family living. And more fellowship and blending followed during the lovefeast lunch.

Then, there was another blending session in the meeting of the church in Gurugram with the visitation of the gospel bookroom, where the saints purchased the ministry books and Bibles. From our side too, in addition to the lovefeast lunch, we also gave them some traditional Indian sweets, snacks, and a soap as gifts to each visiting saint. Finally, we accompanied them for shopping at Ambience Mall and saw them off at the Airport. 

Thank the Lord for such a blessed time of blending in the Body. In fact, this was a blessing from the Body! 

We look to the Lord for more such blending again, even as we wait for the Lord’s return.

Special Fellowship

A new sister has started coming to the church meeting, and we also realized that she has not been going well according to the word of God in her marriage-life. Since there is evidence of her living in a relationship outside the God-ordained institution of marriage, we brothers had the burden to shepherd her so that she can be shepherded to come out of the snares of Satan, that she be fully recovered in her Christian life for the church life. The feeling of the brothers was the feeling of the Lord that was expressed last Saturday in our brother's fellowship. The Lord honored the fellowship, and on the same day, the sister turned up for the afternoon prayer meeting. Then I realized the Lord has brought her for a special time of shepherding fellowship.

As soon as we finished the church prayer meeting, I invited her and another couple for a time of special fellowship concerning the new sister. Meanwhile, the Spirit's leading was so clear within me that I was led to fellowship point by point concerning her situation. She also honestly responded to all the points of fellowship, which I appreciated very much. I could sense that she also was desperately longing and seeking fellowship to come out of the bondage of Satan she was trapped in. 

Of course, due to a shortage of life supply through the ministry of the Word, her understanding of marriage-life and the Lord's testimony needed help. Therefore, the Lord gave me the utterances to shepherd her to understand the truth concerning the Christian life, the church life, and the Lord's testimony. Though she might have fallen into the hands of Satan, the Lord Jesus Christ is the Victor who defeated Satan at the cross already! It is through the Lord Jesus Christ that she can also experience deliverance completely. For this, the Lord arranged the saints, the fellow members in the Body, the church, as spiritual companions to rescue her out of darkness into Christ's marvelous light.

After all the word of love in sweet fellowship based on the Bible, she understood what steps she needed to take and the Holy Spirit would come in to help her in her weakness. She was willing to take the step and allow the Lord to work in her life. The Lord truly anointed the fellowship, and we all enjoyed the sweet flow of life! Though some points of fellowship may be hard to take in, nonetheless, it was the word of the Lord, like a surgeon operating on a patient, removing the foreign particle from the body to cure the patient. She was able to take the fellowship. What a mercy! What a grace!

As we prayed for her specifically one by one, we also felt the Lord's life flowing through the prayers in the Body. When it was her turn to pray, she desperately cried out to the Lord. With tears of desperation, repentance, and remorse for her past life, she wept and wept. She also confessed her sins and her weakness in that she could not overcome them by herself. And she prayed for the Lord Jesus to grace her.

The following Lord's day evening, we started a home meeting for her specially. There, we had the pursuit of the word of God, fellowship, and prayer. This is the life supply for her to experience and enjoy the Lord and fully come out of the snares to be a living testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. I also encouraged her to daily enjoy a time of morning revival with another sister, a time of Bible reading daily, and a personal time with the Lord in prayer daily. In this way, she will be fully recovered.

The Lord will recover His children through His supply in the Body, even through this special fellowship.