Burden for Manipur

The burden the Lord revived in me in the beginning of this year concerning the Lord’s testimony in the North East was released after the national serving ones training in Keralam this month in fellowship with a brother. Soon after the burden for North East was fellowshipped, what the Lord had revived and reserved within me was released gradually. 

As I was on a distribution van riding for over ten hours from Angamaly, Keralam to Thengapatnam,  Tamilnadu, I prayed and began to call the brothers in the North East one by one. There were two groups for which the Lord burdened me. First, the key leading brothers, to bring them into the fellowship in the Body on a regular basis, and second, for the younger brothers who have graduated from the full-time training who need to be shepherded and recover their God alloted portion in the Body. With much prayers and fellowship, the Lord opened the door of the brothers' hearts and I could first fellowship with them one on one. With the younger ones, I even enjoyed praying with them. 

The gracious Lord has paved the way for all these brothers to be brought into sweet fellowship in coordination. Besides, for the younger brothers too, we agreed to meet online once a week for prayers and fellowship. For this, I created a WhatsApp group and added the younger brothers. The Bible verses for this group is:

Practice these things; be in them, that your progress may be manifest to all.

Take heed to yourself and to your teaching; continue in these things; for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you. 1 Timothy 4:15-16, RecVer

In addition to the phone call confirmation, I sent the following message conveying the purpose of the group to the group members of Prayers and Fellowship.

Brothers, as we fellowshipped over the phone, let us use this group for prayers and fellowship, to encourage one another, supply life to one another, that we all may practice the things of the divine economy that our progress may be manifest to all as the testimony of Jesus wherever we are, to be ministers of the word supplying the divine life to the saints for the building up of the Body of Christ. 

In this regard, to start with, let us meet online for prayer and fellowship on Wednesday night at 9:00 PM for now.

In fellowship, we may adjust it accordingly. 

May the grace of the Lord be upon us all.

Since these are younger brothers in Manipur, I felt it good to let the responsible brothers especially of the local churches where these brothers are in fellowship with.

Dear Brothers in N_____ and I______

(List of brothers_____, and others)

With much burden and prayer, I am bringing this fellowship that I will be in prayer and fellowship with the younger brothers from Manipur who have completed their full-time training and are now in different localities in Manipur. 

The main burden is to pray, fellowship, and pursue the truth together with them. I also have formed a WhatsApp group called prayer and fellowship for this purpose. 

The brothers in the groups are: 

A, G, P, M, and myself.

Please pray for us that we all may be shepherded and perfected to be functioning members in the Body.

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Practice these things; be in them, that your progress may be manifest to all.

Take heed to yourself and to your teaching; continue in these things; for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

1 Timothy 4:15-16, RecVer

This is the new beginning the Lord is initiating for His move in Manipur despite the outward problems in the state politically and socially. 

May the grace of the Lord lead all the brothers on and on for His strong and intensified move in Manipur. 

Training in Keralam

The Lord had gathered us together again on the national level this time at Angamaly, near Kochi in Keralam for three days. Twenty years ago, I came to this very city for the young people’s training. I still remember speaking to the young people on God’s complete salvation and giving testimonies. Two decades after, the Lord’s speaking to us is one the ministry of the word and God's dispensing for His economy.

I arrived to this city after over fifty hours of train journey, then waited for over an hour for bus, and another hour of bus ride to the venue. Despite all the travelling experiences, the Lord’s speaking was very apt. The need of the time is to be ministers of the word, dispensing the divine life to people, for the fulfillment of God’s eternal purpose. The speaking began by the releasing of the burden concerning stedfast prayer and the ministry of the word. 

But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.

Acts 6:4, RecVer

The minister, who is the person, and the ministry must be one. To minister life, the minister must be filled with life first. To receive life, the minister must pray and receive the ministry of the Spirit. This receiving is accomplished through the ministry of the word. Only the word ministered into the minister can be the ministry of the minister. Apart from God embodied in the Son realized as the Spirit ministered through the word there is no ministry of the word. Such genuine ministry of the word can only build up the church that will ultimately consummate in the New Jerusalem. 

For three days, we received the Lord’s continual supply of life. The serving brothers were all blended in coordination and we all received the services of the saints in Keralam. What a blessing to witness such a service in this land! This time, the number of attendees doubled the expectation. So, the serving brothers had to make special arrangements for meeting in three different halls simultaneously connected via Zoom screening. And brothers from abroad served us via the same online tool. Though things have changed outwardly, the Lord’s move continues, and is being intensified by the year. 

This time too, I had a crucial fellowship with some serving brothers concerning their services. As one of our serving ones resigned, it was also a testing time for a young serving brother to pick up the burden what the other had left behind. It looked to me like the Lord is purging and purifying even the serving ones in the ministry. 

Then, after the training, I stayed back for spending time with another seving brother in Keralam and coordinated with him in the introduction and distribution of the ministry literature. 

As serving ones, we all must serve in the Body in sweet coordination under the headship of Christ in one accord, serving and functioning within the measure of God's measure, all for the accomplishment of God's goal.

Lord, grace us as Your ministers of the word.