Life Lessons: Learning, Sharing, Growing

The Lord has blessed us in the past one week of the ministry literature journey from North Karnataka, Bidar, to the central part, Kudligi. During this trip, for the first time I sent two messages as photo captions, something general to ex-classmates and family members. 

Simple Living, Healthy Living 

The caption of a photo with 5 generations in a family in Karnataka; Grand Mother(95), Mother(60), Daughter(35), Grand Daughter(20), and Great Grandson(5 months) 

And another photo with two elderly sisters with the caption: 

Blessed to Be Blessed by Beloved Elders

Let us thank God for our parents and elders, and always honor them with love and respect. 

In education, they may not be as educated,

In experience, we may not be as experienced, 

'Tis the check and balance of generational gap. 

Blessed are those who are simple, open, and willing to learn. 

Let us learn from one another. 

The posting was done on our way to the next city, Ballari.

One other important leading of the Lord was related to how the Lord adjusted my feeling and thinking. As for all distribution trips, in this trip too, I simply followed the local brother's arrangement. I reckoned their leading as the Lord’s leading. Only when I had a specific leading, I fellowshipped with the brother and followed their fellowship. This time too, as the journey was long, at one point, I felt to send back two brothers midway and that I and other brother proceed further. But the Lord forbade me to do so and chided me in having such a thought. The Lord confirmed to me that He purposefully arranged the other two brothers to accompany me to learn many spiritual things in real life for one whole week. Though they came into the church life, their understanding of the truth and practical Christian living needed much shepherding. And in their locality, the church is yet to be raised up, and there is a need for more perfecting. So, this was the sovereign arrangement of the Lord. Then, I gave up the idea even of mentioning my premature consideration. 

As we travelled together for one whole week, they both enjoyed the coordination and the ministry of the word. Without letting them know that they were taught in the word, they were actually taught. One of them being a journalist in a famous English national newspapers, now and then expressed the lessons he had learned through this ministry literature journey. 

My overall understanding concerning the Lord’s perfecting work in me is marvelous this time. Since the Lord called me to serve Him full-time in 2003, followed by two years of full-time training, and since 2005, I have been practically serving the Lord full-time. In these twenty years of serving the Lord, I have learned many untold lessons and have been perfected in many areas of my life and service. 

This time, in 2025, especially this ministry literature journey, I experienced something very uplifted and different from the past. I felt I have overcome certain nagging deficiencies especially in discernment and ministry of the word. This time, every meeting, every fellowship, every ministry of the word have become very matured. The result can be discerned immediately; the confirmation of the Spirit within, and the confirmation of the ministry outwardly through the responses of the Christians who received the ministry. This is the sure mercy of God shown to me. May the Lord continue to perfect me more and more, that I may keep learning, sharing, and growing unto full maturity. 

Praise the Lord for the corporate perfecting of all of us! As much as my brothers were perfected, I believe, even much more, I have been perfected.