It
is such a joy and an honor to live for Jesus when we earnestly try to live
a life worthy of the calling that Christ called us to live. I’m in a new
season, a new level of intimacy with Jesus. Today the 8th of August,
I’m celebrating my 1 year anniversary. A year ago from today I
stepped into Arunachal Pradesh as a missionary under YWAM. It gives me great
joy to say that I have completed 1 year of faithfully serving Jesus here in
Arunachal. This past year I have seen an immense growth in myself. I’m so
thankful that God brought me here.
For this new season God put a theme
in my heart. The theme is “”HOLINESS””. Yes, holiness is what God wants from me
in this new season. For a long time I felt like the spirit lead me to do this,
and on my birthday the 30th of July, I made an oath to God saying
that I had enough of the old self now I’m dedicating myself to live a blameless
and holy life. 21 years of my life gone and I don’t have time to waste. A new
start, a new season, I’m going full speed for Jesus. When I shared my theme to
my team, everybody came up with their own theme. It did not stop there; I
collected everyone’s theme and made it mine. Holiness, being available at all
times, faithfulness, and laying down rights are the different themes that I’m
living out now. Please pray that I will be so strong in these areas, especially
in the area of holiness. It is very easy for people to look at me and say that
I’m a good guy, but nobody knows my heart, mind, and motives. In my opinion I
feel like this is the most difficult area to be holy.
This is where I am in my walks with
Jesus. I’m giving my best to live a pure and holy life, because Jesus said
“Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. Bible says” This is the
last hour”. The bride of Christ must dip her robe in the precious blood of the
lamb in order to purify herself and prepare herself for the wedding of the Lamb
and His bride. I want to present myself Holy and blameless to the Jesus when He
comes to marry me.
We all know the story of Jesus and
the fig tree which He cursed. The story says that Jesus was hungry, and He came
to eat some fruits from the tree but saw that the tree had no fruits, because
it was not the season for figs. Later Jesus cursed the tree saying “May no one ever
eat fruits from you again”. Jesus will pass by and whatever season that you are
in now does not matter, but if you don’t have fruits for Him to eat then you
will be cursed. I constantly search for Jesus because I don’t want to miss out
on Him when He passes by.
There is so much of Joy in my DTS
team. Eliyah is now staying with me. We constantly talk about God and all the
miracles that He did in our lives back at K-Homes. Every time my friends and I
gather together we constantly share testimonies, and reflect on what Jesus is
doing in our lives. Once we start there is no stopping. We stay up late just
talking about Jesus. Now that we do this all the time, we are beginning to see
miracles happen. Recently my team made momos in order to raise funds for DTS
housing. We split into two teams. Half of us did the cooking and the other half
did the sales. I was on the sales side. Honestly speaking I felt so humiliated
selling momos in front of a high school. I never in my life thought that I
would come all the way from Bangalore to Arunachal and find myself selling
momos. I constantly told myself that I’m doing this for the glory of Jesus.
Isn’t Jesus so good? He is always placing me in situations where I have to
humble myself until I become like Him. As my team and I sat there selling momos
I was filled with so much of discouragement. I called Annu my leader and said
that after many hours only one person came to buy. Although there was so much
of discouragement Annu, Eliyah and Kim my teammate started talking about Jesus
and sharing testimonies to each other. Immediately our sales started
increasing. Three times I called Annu asking her to send in more momos.
I am always on the move to look for a
miracle. Even today I prayed for God to hold back the rains because the church
members and I were working in the construction of the church building. If it
rained it would spoil the wet concrete. Throughout the day I constantly prayed
and God heard. It’s hard to believe because the clouds were dark and heavy. I
walked up the pastor and said that He should testify tomorrow in the church of
how Jesus answered our prayer.
“”The prayers of a righteous man are
powerful and affective””.
