Ministry Journey to Belagavi, Karnataka

After my hectic traveling schedule, which began on 5th January till today, the 19th Jan, I came to Belagavi to attend the Lord’s Table Meeting on the 17th January night after a seven-hour-long bus journey, as the conclusion of the ministry literature journey this time. To my surprise, I was given hospitality in an elderly brother's house, who took care of me so well despite the health condition of his wife. The couple was so joyful to host me. In fact, they joyfully exclaimed that I was their first guest in their newly renovated house! They fed me like a "king" despite my informing them again and again that I did not need such attention. As a guest, I just enjoyed their hospitality. 

Being their guest and a brother, the brother fellowshipped with me at length concerning the spiritual experiences he has been through, the dealings and the lesson of the cross he has been learning, and his subjective experiences of the power of the blood of Jesus that gave him victory over many unseen demonic attacks in his family. He took the opportunity to fellowship with me during breakfast and lunch. Our fellowship went on for hours. Though I also fellowship some testimonies of the Lord’s work in my family, I was mostly listening to what he had to say. He was so joyful to release all that was in his heart concerning his family situation. Now and then, we would simply pray together for all the points of the fellowship. 

Yesterday, on the Lord’s Day, the brothers invited me to break the bread with another brother. In fact, it was my first Lord’s Table Meeting in the church in Belagavi, though I visited the saints a couple of times in the past. What a blessed fellowship!

In the prophesying time too, I shared my enjoyment of the Lord’s word in Matthew 5:48. And shared how, as children of God of our heavenly Father, we can be perfect as He is perfect, in His love, using 1 John 4:8,16,12, 17. 

Later in the evening, together with the brothers, we visited all the saints' homes one by one. It turned out that this was their first visit after a long gap and the first in this year, which they felt was overdue. In all the home visits, we simply prayed for the saints' family. That prayer itself was such a shepherding to the saints.

Today, after the whole morning of personal prayer and Bible reading, and fellowship over breakfast and lunch with my hosts, and a time of prayer together, a brother dropped me off at the Belagavi airport. Thus, concluding the last lap of the ministry distribution, and with this, covering all thirty-one districts of Karnataka.

In this new year 2026, in the first month, the Lord led me to twelve cities covering three states: Karnataka, Tamilnadu, and Kerala in two-weeks time, attending a fellowship, a training, a Christian convention, a secular book fair, and a ministry literature journey to three districts. Praise the Lord and to God be the glory!

Lord, bless the church in Belagavi! Lord, bless Your move in Karnataka! Lord, bless Your move in India!

Ministry of the Word to Koppala and Hospet

Beginning from the time the New Testament Recovery Version in Kannada was printed, the Lord burdened me to travel the length and breadth of Karnataka for the introduction and distribution of the same, along with the seven newly released Kannada ministry title books. Since January 2025, in coordination with the local brothers, I have undertaken five ministry literature journeys. This time, from 15 to 17 January 2026, the remaining three districts of Karnataka were covered. From Bengaluru in Jan 2025 to Hospet in Jan 2026, the entire state of 31 districts was visited for the introduction and distribution of the ministry literature. What a grace from the Lord that He led me step by step, locality to locality, and met with the key Christian leaders in each district, either in the Pastors' fellowship, or small group meetings, or at their offices/homes, or in the church meeting venues. What an experience the Lord blessed me with these trips! Only the Lord knows how much He has gained me. And I can testify too, how much I have gained Him in all these journeys. Praise Him!

In the last two places, it was purely an introduction of the New Testament Recovery Version in Kannada and the available ministry books in Kannada. Though we had to lodge in hotels and eat with the local brothers who led us, it was worth all the expenses for the sake of making the ministry available to God’s children in the state.

One evening in Hospet at a Pastor's house, we had a wonderful time of fellowship on the word of God concerning Christ and the church. I had no intention to share these topics; the Spirit led me to do so in the course of our fellowship. The family, especially the father, was so enlightened by the fellowship. Then, we had dinner together with the family in a local restaurant. The next day, in one of the biggest meeting halls in the city, a good number of Pastors gathered together, where I had a special time of introducing the ministry to all. Later, one of the Pastors invited us to visit his mother, who was battling cancer for years. We visited the family and prayed for the mother. Then, we enjoyed our last meal together with the local brothers, who are Pastors themselves, and concluded the ministry journey.

Then, a brother and I had to take a seven-hour-long bus journey from Hospet to Koppala to Hubbali to Belagavi. And, thus concluded the Karnataka ministry literature journey!

Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow.

And others fell into the good earth and yielded fruit, coming up and growing; and one bore thirtyfold, and one sixtyfold, and one a hundredfold. 

(Mark 4:3, 8, RecVer)

One day, the seed sown will grow and bear forth fruits; thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and hundredfold!

Lord, bless Your move in Karnataka!

Ministry Journey to Davanagere, Ranebennur, Haveri, and Hubbali

As the Lord burdened me to visit every district of Karnataka for the introduction and distribution of the ministry literature in Kannada, I prayed and planned for this final ministry journey. Though this plan was met with cancellation when I fellowshiped with one brother who could not join this trip due to his mother's health issue, and a Pastor who was supposed to lead us did not respond. However, as I brought the matter to prayer, the Lord impressed me deep within that if I did not carry out this trip this time, I would probably never be able to make it again, ever. Therefore, I prayed and considered before the Lord, then the Lord led me to fellowship with another brother. As I did so, step by step, the plan came to fruition, though with a change in the dates. I took that as the Lord’s leading and visited Chennai and Kerala first, then Karnataka. Due to this change of schedule, I was even able to visit Chennai, which turned out to be a very fruitful visit, even beyond my imagination. 

In all these trips,  I chose a train journey so that I could spend enough time in prayer and reading the word. From Tiruvalla at 9:30 AM to Kochi to Bengaluru to Davanagere the next day at 9:30 AM. A hectic yet experiential journey!

Davanagere

In Davanagere, a Pastors' meeting was arranged where I shared the word of God on "the wife of Uriah" along with the introduction of the New Testament Recovery Version and the ministry books in Kannada. To my surprise, almost all the Pastors ended up purchasing the NT Recovery Version and the ministry books. Three brothers, one of them a key brother from Nayakanahatty, along with two new ones, also joined the meeting and were very impressed by the ministry presentation. Even as we were about to leave, another senior Pastor enquired about the Bible and purchased five copies from our already limited stock. Then, we rushed to the next city.

Ranebennur 

In Ranebennur, a group of seekers was waiting for us for quite some time. The moment we arrived, we introduced the ministry books and the Recovery Version. Many of the seekers here too purchased the minsitry books. Then, we rushed to the next destination. 

Haveri 

We arrived at the right time for the meeting scheduled for us. In a way of introducing the minsitry literature, I shared the word on Acts 8, the event that transpired between the Ethiopian eunuch and Philip, and the life of Paul. Here too, most of the Christian leaders and seekers present purchashed the literature. The key Pastor was very receptive to the ministry. 

May the Lord open up the Scriptures to them and gain them for His testimony one day.

Hubbali 

In Hubbali, a much bigger congregation, I was requested to minister the word. Though not prepared beforehand, always prepared and ready in the spirit. As I prayed before I was called, the Lord burdened me to minister on 2 Timothy 3:16, 17, along with John 6:63 and Matthew 4:4. I enjoyed the rich anointing of the Lord as I ministered the word of God. Then, I briefly introduced the ministry books. The key Pastor was so impressed by the minsitry of the word and the ministry literature introduction so much so that he, using his "Pastoral authority," encouraged all the believers to pay the price to purchase the New Testament Recovery Version in Kannada. Here, all the stock of the books and the Bibles we brought along with us were fully sold out!

Then, we had a time of fellowship over tea and dinner with the key brothers. Thus, our day ended. We checked into our hotel room, I took a bath and had a deep sleep after the whole day, laboring and traveling. My day began at 3:30 AM and ended past midnight after traveling through seven localities!

May the Lord gain all the places He demarcated for us as He promised Joshua of the Bible 

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads I have given to you, as I promised Moses. (Joshua 1:3, RecVer)

Ministry Journey 2026: Bengaluru, Chennai, Kozhecherry, Kumbanad, and Kochi

My first ministry journey this year, 2026, began with the full-timers training in Bengaluru for three and a half days, with a one-day preparation fellowship. In all these visits, I purposefully choose train journey as my mode of transportation with the view that I could spend more time in prayer before I arrived the destinations. All these visits required much prayer from my side so that the purpose of my visit to each place would be fulfilled. Overall, I had sufficient time for prayer and enjoyed the Lord’s special grace throughout.

Bengaluru 

In Bengaluru, the Lord’s direct speaking was on my need to be pruned so that as a branch abiding in the Vine, I should bear fruit, much fruit, and remaining fruit. The speaking of the Lord was from John 14, 15, and 16. Yes, the spiritual fact is that, as believers, we are in the Lord. However, we must exercise to abide in the Lord by exercising our spirit to live out Christ, to pray, to read the word, and to be in constant fellowship with the Lord. In this way of our abiding in the Lord, the Lord would also abide in us. Thus, this mutual abiding will produce the spiritual fruits, even the fruits that remain.

The Lord has set the direction for the entire year with His timely speaking: abide in the Lord, be pruned, bear fruit, and that our fruits should remain.

Besides, there were practical fellowships on our going on in the Lord’s move in this country. Despite the changes in the outward governmental and religious environment, I believe the Lord will advance in His move and bless His testimony in India with Himself as the blessing.

Chennai

Then, in fellowship with the brothers, I realised that I should go to Chennai and participate in the Chennai Book Fair on the Lord’s Day afternoon after the church meeting. My schedule was changed abruptly for the better when I learned that the preplanned distribution journey to Karnataka was adjusted.

In Chennai, I was able to spend time in fellowship with a college student at length over coffee and dinner as he opened up about his personal situation. I was glad that the Lord arranged such a precious time with him, which I never expected. My time with the serving ones in the literature service was on the need to be a man of prayer, a man of the word of God, and handling finance properly by honoring the Lord as the Source of supply. Though I did not plan it, due to an invitation, I also visited an uncle and an aunt and fellowshipped with them on the promise of God the Lord gave me at the beginning of this new year: Ezekiel 36:9-11, 37. All these were never thought of, but at the last minute, the Lord made it happen. What a fruitful visit to Chennai!

By the way, it was while in a train journey from Bengaluru to Chennai that the Lord graced me to complete reading my Holy Bible for the fiftieth time!

Kozhencherry 

My journey to Kerala was to attend the Kumbanad convention at the invitation of one of our serving brothers in Kerala. I was given hospitality in Kozhencherry in a big "white house", surprisingly. In fact, it was a foretaste of what the Lord would provide as I started praying for our own residential house for the threefold purposes of fruitful church meeting, peaceful literature office, and joyful family living.

Kumbanad 

Then, one afternoon, I was with the saints in Kumbanad convention and met with a good number of seekers visiting the ministry books stall, where I could introduce and minister the word to a good number of Bible college students, Pastors, and seekers.

Kochi

Finally. I came to Kochi with the burden of honoring our senior brother, who the Lord used for the initiation of His recovery in India and the pioneer of the literature service in this country. What an honor to honor him in the best way I could! With love, concern, and care in the humanity of Jesus, I did what I felt I could do best. In fact, I felt that this was the opportunity the Lord gave me, as I have no control of the future, and I did not know if there would be another opportunity in the future. 

We had a buffet lunch together at Barbeque Nation in LuLu Mall, Kochi. Then, I had the privilege to honor him with love and respect by walking around with him, holding hands as he needed balancing, while walking due to his maturity in age. And bought for them a branded formal shirt and an informal collared shirt for the brother, and two pairs of sarees for the sister, all of their choices. It was a blessing to me to be able to participate in the little that I could, to honor and respect the elderly saints, and make them happy. May the Lord give them good health and long life full of peace and joy.

Thus, having accomplished the first part of this journey, I boarded a train to Bengaluru for the ministry literature journey in Karnataka. 

Amen to God's Faithful Words

This new year has brought new things in many ways. Spiritually, the Lord has promised me with His faithful word of increase, fruitfulness, and multiplication. Since then, my prayer for increase has been intensified. In fact, I shared these faithful words of the Lord with some brothers and pray-read these verses. I shared the same with a group of serving ones in Chennai as I visited them on my literature journey. Today, as I visited my spiritual and local guardian when I was a student in MCC twenty-five years ago, I shared the same words of the Lord. They were very much encouraged and received it as the Lord’s speaking and promise for them too. The verses are the very verses the Lord gave me on the 2nd of January 2026, which I shared with a few others.

My Enjoyment of the Word of God Today (Received and Shared on 2nd Jan 2026)

For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be tilled and sown; And I will multiply people upon you, the entire house of Israel, all of it! The cities will also be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt. I will also multiply upon you man and beast, and they will increase and be fruitful, and I will make you inhabited as you were formerly, and I will make it better for you than when you began. Then you will know that I am Jehovah. 

(Ezekiel 36:9-11, RecVer)

Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Moreover, for this I will be inquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them;

I will increase them with men like a flock.

(Ezekiel 36:37, RecVer)

On the practical and physical realm, too, God has given me a burden to pray for our own housing in Gurugram. All these twenty years, we have been living in rented houses. I believe the time has come now to have a house of our own. The visit of our house owner recently and his request for a rental increase have ignited the need for our own housing. I took whatever transpired as the Lord’s doing and picked up another burden to pray for, for our own housing, with the view that it will be useful for the literature service, and for the church meeting place. The specific speaking of the Lord for this house that I and my family have started praying for is to be useful in the following way.

That the literature service can run in peace.

That the church can meet in fruitfulness.

That the family can live in joy. 

Besides, the Lord further gave me His faithful words in which He promised to fulfill this at the proper time. He also indicated that He would give two young brothers as my spiritual children and two elderly brothers whom I should shepherd like I would shepherd my own parent. Yes, two spiritual younger brothers and two spiritual elder brothers. I amen His words. May His words be fulfilled in time.

Even as I was reading the book of Genesis, the written words had become so living that I could see God speaking through the verses I had read. From the lives of Noah, the years he lived; Abraham and Sarah, the possibility of the impossible at the time of the year; and Isaac, the Lord’s provisions.

For as many promises of God as there are, in Him is the Yes; therefore also through Him is the Amen to God, for glory through us to God. (2 Corinthians 1:20, RecVer)

Amen to God’s faithful words!

Be Perfect?! In Love

You therefore shall be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5:48, RecVer)

No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. (1 John 4:12, RecVer)

And we know and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God and God abides in him. In this has love been perfected with us, that we may have boldness in the day of the judgment because even as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear because fear has punishment, and he who fears has not been perfected in love. (1 John 4:16-18, RecVer)

God is perfect! As Christians, God is our heavenly Father, possessing His divine life and divine nature. As children of God, we can be perfect because our heavenly Father is perfect. What a miracle! What a mystery! What a possible impossibility! To be perfect as our heavenly Father is, is to be perfected in His divine love.

He who does not love has not known God, because God is love. (1 John 4:8, RecVer)

And we know and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God and God abides in him. (1 John 4:16, RecVer)

God is love. Love is the essence of God’s divine nature. Having received His life, we also have His love. By abiding in His love, exercising to love God and love one another, we can be perfected in His love. 

God's love is already perfect. However, the perfected love of God must be perfected in us by loving God and loving whom God loves. This love is of the divine life which we received during our spiritual birth and which we now possess. By this divine love, we are becoming love. In fact, His divine love is being perfected in us, love itself. Thereby, His divine love mingling with our human love perfected by His divine love, makes us one in His love. The issue of such divine mingling is, God and man, God and us, becoming one and being perfected in His love!

The word "perfected" in 1 John 4:17 in Greek means teleioo, which means "to accomplish, to finish, to complete." God is accomplishing His divine love in us. This will result in our boldness to contact God in fellowship with Him and to face the judgment at the judgment seat of Christ. By loving the brothers with the love of God, we will be bold and will have no fear before God. 

I enjoyed this truth concerning God's divine love. In fact, this was my sharing portion yesterday at the Lord’s Day prophesying meeting in the church in Chennai, and also my sharing portion in Delhi at the serving one's training. This truth has gradually become my experience, and yes, it will be perfected in me one day!

Father, perfect me as Thou art!

Father, perfect me in Thy love.

Bible Reading: Fiftieth Time

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed workman, cutting straight the word of the truth. (2 Timothy 2:15, RecVer)

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalms 119:105 

On the 10th of January 2026, the Lord graced me to complete reading my Bible for the fiftieth time. This transpired while on a train journey from Bengaluru to Chennai. As I completed my fiftieth time of reading the Bible, I thanked and worshipped the Lord for His special grace. Personally, it was a joyful day indeed. Following this, a passenger next to me started conversing with me, which led me to preach the gospel to him. Later, after I arrived in Chennai, I boarded an Uber Cab to the hospitality home. I made friends with the cab driver, preached the gospel of Jesus Christ to him, led him to call on the Lord, and finally introduced him to the local brother when I reached my destination. This was my first gospel preaching for this new year.

Trusting in God’s grace, I have a goal of reading through the Bible at least a hundred times in my lifetime, if the Lord wills so. This is my personal goal, and it gives me immense joy to be able to read and read the word of God. I do trust the Lord that He will grant me my heart's desire to read and read and read His words. And along with the reading, He may also speak to me and enlighten me as He did so many times as I was reading His words. In fact, all that He needed to speak to man was already spoken and recorded as the Bible. The need of the time is to diligently spend time reading His word day by day. This is man's responsibility. He will do the speaking and give the enlightenment. Therefore, I exercise myself to be diligent in coming to His word and cut straight the word of the truth.

Like Timothy, I have been graced to know the sacred writings even from my early age. What a mercy! Thanks to my grandfather, who taught me to read the Bible since my childhood. What a great blessing it has been to me to have learned this lesson of reading the Bible! And I am passing on this lesson to my own children, to my spiritual children, and also to all the young ones and the believers the Lord has brought to me, time to time.

And that from a babe you have known the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through the faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, That the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:15-17, RecVer)

To me, the only book worth reading again and again is the Bible. To me, the only time that must be spent at any cost is to read the Bible even if it means doing it as a habit. Let it be a habit and be a part of my life. I reckon this is a good habit. God forbid, if I say that reading the Bible and prayer are the only things that must be done every day at all costs, even at the sacrifice of other things.

My prayer has been that the Lord would grace me day by day to be able to read the Bible with good eyesight; with a renewed mind filled with the shining of the divine light, sight, vision, and revelation; and a strong spirit to absorb the word as spiritual nourishment. And that, no matter what my circumstances may be, the Lord may grace me with the reading of the Bible and prayer day by day. I cannot think of a life without the word of God and prayer. They have become a part and parcel of my life. I have been married to the word of God and prayer. I can't help but keep reading the Bible and praying. And it has been my joy and enjoyment day by day. I can sacrifice anything else in the world, but not my time with the Lord in prayer and the word of God. 

I pray that all my children, family members, saints in the church life, and all the children of God should love the word of God and read it to be constituted with it, and be a man of prayer to the extent that we all be "living Bibles" and "talking Bibles" for others to see and read the Bible. 

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God. Col. 3:16

Though I have read the Bible a half-century times, I still have miles to go before I complete a century. As I begin again my fifty-first journey, the Lord may grace me and lead me on and on, till I reach the goal.

May the Lord grace me with the taste and enjoyment of His word that I may read and eat the word of God every day, all the days of my life.