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!