Ministry of the Word in Jammalamadugu

In a Christian leaders meeting, while awaiting to be called for the ministry of the word, I was praying for the Lord’s timely word. When called to minister, the Lord gave me the word. Therefore, I ministered on the need to grow in life by letting the word grow in us day by day.

And the word of God grew, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem multiplied greatly; and a large number of the priests obeyed the faith. (Acts 6:7, RecVer)

But the word of God grew and multiplied. (Acts 12:24, RecVer)

The need of the Christians today is to come to the word of God to let the word grow in us by dealing with all the impurities in our hearts. Matthew 13 on the parable of the Sower was expounded to show the conditions of the human hearts and the way to deal with it for the word to grow and bear forth fruits; a hundredfold, a sixtyfold, and a thirtyfold.

But the one sown on the good earth, this is he who hears the word and understands, who by all means bears fruit and produces, one a hundredfold, and one sixtyfold, and one thirtyfold. (Matthew 13:23, RecVer)

By the Spirit's anointing, I also touched the examples of impurities in which many used the word for self-promotion on social media and self-proclamation in the name of the ministry of the word. Such ones' hearts were strongly condemned as evil hearts, and I emphasized strongly the need to have a pure heart to see God.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. (Matthew 5:8, RecVer)

Later, a brother who was so much touched by the ministry of the word invited us to his house, where we further fellowshipped on the evils of Nicolaitans and how the Lord wants to recover the building up of His Body as in Ephesians 4:11-13. This brother was so open that he even declared that he would take the stand for the Lord’s testimony, taking and standing on the ground of oneness. 

We were also brought to visit a brother who once was willing to take the way of the Lord’s recovery, but had deviated to Christianity. As we met and I fellowshipped on the life of William Carey based on his son's name, and the need for the Lord to recover His testimony on the ground of oneness, he was so convicted by the truth. He himself confessed that he had fallen from the truth and needed the Body's prayer for his recovery. I encouraged him saying that the Lord is full of grace and mercy to recover back His children if they repent and come back to the truth. Though he blamed his wife for him not taking the way of the truth, he still expressed his heart's desire to send his elder son to the full-time training and be useful to the Lord. We prayed for him and his family to be recovered, to be in oneness with the brothers, to take the stand for the Lord’s testimony one day.

Finally, we also visited a brother who has firmly been standing for the truth despite the other brothers turning back to Christianity. We encouraged him to trust the Lord and be faithful to the truth, and that one day, the Lord will raise up His testimony. He also fellowshipped with me personally concerning his upcoming marriage to a sister who he felt was too much younger than him and not as beautiful as he expected his future wife to be. My fellowship was plain and clear: as long as it is the Lord’s perfect will through the brothers' fellowship, amen the Lord’s arrangement. Age does not matter much, and looks do not matter much either. Beauty is Christ in the saints. In Christ, everyone is beautiful. And I also fellowshipped that his marriage is not for himself only, but for Christ and the church.

Lord, raise up Your lampstand in Jammalamadugu!