Month: June 2018

On a recent Saturday, we were in an area for a women’s meeting. More than 100 women from different house churches and prayer groups attended. It was a one-day meeting where the leader spoke about the importance of sharing our testimony and the Gospel to the people around us. It was a great blessing to see more and more women taking the initiative to reach the unreached people around them with the message of salvation and hope.

Baptizing New Disciples

The following day, on Sunday, we went to one of the house churches up in the mountains for a baptism service. There were around 150 people attending the Sunday service. These were people who have worshipped idols for generation after generation. They lived in darkness and under curses, but on this day the glorious Gospel reached them. As the Bible says “The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up” Matthew 4:16.

At the end of the service, 33 people received baptism. The believers were praising the Lord for every one of them because it was a great miracle.

Fulfilling the Great Commission

Today S* and her husband continue to lead the twenty-six house churches they planted in different mountain villages. (See Deliverance and Consecration for the complete story) They now have the help of nine local, native brothers who went through our training program. Together, they are reaching into many new villages with the message of the Gospel.

God not only had compassion on S*, He knew that He could use her to reach many more people with the Gospel. Think about your job and your daily routine. It may seem mundane, but ask yourself “How many people can I impact for the sake of the Gospel? How many people can I reach, just by living my life?”

It’s that simple. If each of us would reach out to those around us, just imagine what the impact could be! Jesus said “Go!” and He desires to confirm the message with signs and miracles. Allow God to challenge you to take that step of faith, with an expectation that He will back up His Word. Whether in India, or in America, pray that God will empower each one of us (including you!) to carry this message of Hope to every town, every city, and every state.

This month’s testimony is one of miraculous deliverance from an evil spirit into freedom in Christ. It is a beautiful story of how an entire region can be changed through one life transformed by the Gospel.

Dedicated to the Demonic

S*, a Hindu woman, lived in a small town in the mountains with her husband and two sons. Her husband was an alcoholic; whatever he earned he spent on himself. S* had to earn money for their everyday household needs. She was suffering spiritually, physically and financially. S* told us that she came from a traditional Hindu family. At birth she was dedicated to a goddess by her parents. When she was 11 years old, during one of her visits to the temple of the goddess to whom she was dedicated, she began to dance in front of the idol and began to prophesy, telling people of their past and future. Slowly she became famous around the village, and every day her parents would dress her up like the goddess. People from different villages would come to know their future and find solutions for their problems. She would tell them to offer different animals to the temple, or other items for the solution of their problems. They used to offer different animals to the idols for their sins and for a better life. The villagers believed that the spirit of the goddess entered into S*’s body and it was not S* who spoke, it was the goddess. S* was considered the representative of the goddess. People came to her with offerings for her blessings, thinking that she could heal them or find answers for their life’s problems even at a distance.

As time passed, her prophecies were found to be false. People turned against her and her family, so they ran away from that area. They went to a new place and started to live a normal life, but the evil spirit in S* disturbed her and affected her marriage and family life.

Almost 4 years ago, one of our outreach teams had a small public meeting in one of the villages. During the public meeting S* (who was a door-to-door sales person) who went house to house to sell clothes and other products, was returning back after doing her sales. She saw a group of people sitting in the courtyard of a house. Due to her curiosity, and thinking that she could sell her products to the people around there, she stopped and sat and listened to what was being spoken. One of the members of the outreach team was sharing the Gospel message and she felt uncomfortable. She began to shout and make noise. The outreach team realized that an evil spirit possessed her. Things became worse, so two of the outreach team members went to her in front of the people and laid their hands on her. They prayed over her, but she got even worse. She fell on the ground and began to crawl. People were all looking but didn’t know how to react. Our brothers laid their hands on her and prayed for her in the Holy Spirit. After a few minutes S* was set free from the evil spirit, which by this time had tormented her for over 20 years. People were astonished and carefully listened to the Gospel message after this powerful demonstration of God’s power. That day she gave her life to the Lord, along with many others.

Consecrated to Christ

Our brothers started a regular weekly prayer group in that village. S* and her family traveled 25 miles every week to attend the prayer meeting. As she began to grow in the Lord and in His word, her husband was set free from the alcoholic addiction. Her two sons accepted the Lord. In her husband’s words “for the first time in our life we have experienced true love and joy in our family. We were traveling in different directions but Jesus united us together.”

S* began to boldly share her testimony with other people. As she traveled from village to village, from one home to another, selling her goods, she shared her testimony with people around her. She became one of the finest evangelists in sharing the Gospel to the unreached people in the mountains. She began to pray for sick people, and people possessed by evil spirits, and our gracious Lord began to move through her, in the lives of the people. She and her husband both were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to minister to the people. In the past four years, they have started 26 house churches in the different villages.