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!