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Healed from Cancer and accepted Jesus as her Saviour

I am Sudan Abraham, church Planter, from Madurai. I am very glad to share one of my ministry experiences with you. One day Evening I was visiting Karcheri village in Madurai district to share the gospel. When I was travelling in my bike, I saw an old lady seated in front of a house. I stopped my vehicle and looked at the old lady and she looked at me. When I saw the face of that lady it was darkened and wrinkled. Her body was so skinny and she was wearing dirty clothes. She was alone. Her condition was so miserable. She was longing for help. Since I had to conduct a cell gathering, I moved. I thought I will come and see her after the gathering.

After conducting the meeting, I was tied and forgot about the old lady. so, I went to my home. But I was not getting sleep and was sleepless and was no peace in heart. Suddenly I heard a gentle voice “I was sick but you have not looked after me” these words have pierced my heart. I saw her face in my mind. Next morning I rushed to see that mother. I was knocking the door, no one opened the door; I opened the doors and entered into her house by calling her. I heard a whispering voice from a corner, when I turned towards that place I saw this mother lying in the bed with the same darkened and wrinkled face with an expectation of someone’s help.

When I asked her, are you alone? Immediately her eyes were filled with tears and started crying and she said all my children have abandoned me after their marriage. My husband has gone for the daily wages work. When I looked her closely I saw that all her hair has fallen. When I asked her about that she said that she is suffering from cancer. I could see that she was in Pain, loneliness and her heart filled with fear of death.

I sat with next to her and comforted her and said, .God will heal your sickness and so don’t worry. I’ll be with you and.you won’t die. After comforting her, I prayed for her with tears. Then I started speaking to her that I am a servant of God and I’ll pray for you. He is a great doctor. He can heal you completely from all your sickness. When I said this I saw a ray of hope in her face and she has stopped crying. Then I saw a smile in her face. Then I went to a hotel and brought some food for her and then left.

Then I fasted and prayed for this mother for 3 days and went to see her. When she saw me, she gladly invited me. I sat with her and spoke to her about Jesus. Then I introduced the personal evangelism booklet “NEW LIFE” and told her that this book contains the details about Jesus how he helped and healed the people. I told her to surrender her life to Jesus so that she can be healed. She told me that she wants to be healed. I shared the gospel to her by sharing the first lesson of that book “God of deliverance” to her.

Then regularly I visited her and shared all the five lessons from that booklet. She repented from all her sins and cried for her deliverance and she has accepted Jesus as her Savior. After couple of weeks completely God has healed her from all her misery. I took her to the hospital and examined her .and wonderfully God has healed her from her cancer. Her name is ‘Mookkamma’. Now she is rejoicing in the Lord. Now she is attending the gathering regularly. She glorified the Lord by sharing her testimony. Now she is living for the Lord.

Once Persecutor, NOW Church Planter

I am Rajaram from Chellampatti of Madurai district. My grandfather was a Hindu temple priest and my parents are very pious Hindus. I was brought up in Hindu faith. When I went to college I was attracted to Hindu fanatic group called Vishwa Hindu Parisath (VHP) and became of a VHP leader for my area. I hated Christian and used to attach Christians, beat up Pastors, burn the bibles and disturb the Christian gatherings. Many youths in my area were with me and helped me to persecute the Christians.

During this time, someone shared the gospel to my brother and he accepted Christ. My brother, his wife and children started going to the Church. This made me very angry. Since he was my elder brother I could not beat him. I took his bible and threw it away. I used to hate him for following Jesus.

Once I went to Kodaikanal (a Hill station), where the climate goes up to 12 degree Celsius. One fine morning around 5.00 a.m I was walking on the road and saw a Church was open, so, I went close by to see. I saw people were kneeling and praying. I thought it is very cold, people would never get up from bed by this time, but this people are coming to the Church this early to pray. May be this people are good, I was impressed. After few days when I was lying down on my bed, I felt emptiness in my heart and I thought to myself there is no future for me. Everything looked dark and I did not know what to do.

So I thought why don’t I go to a Church? May be I may get an answer for my life, there. When this thought entered my heart, I tried to get up from the bed. Then I felt that someone is sitting on me oppressing, I want to call out for help, but I could not talk. I started sweating and my pant and shirt got wet. I was terrified. Then I heard a voice saying, don’t go to Church, if you go they will change you and you cannot worship your family god. The evil spirit was oppressing me. I did not know what to do? Then I saw a wall hanging of Bible verse which was placed by my brother in that room, which I have never saw before, written, “The Lord will bless you from Zion”. When I started reading this verse, I felt like peace entering into my heart. All the oppression and fear left me. It was a Sunday.

So I got up and changed my cloths, and went to the church after my brother went to the church. I entered in to the Church and I was sitting in the last row, hiding myself from others. That was the time Pastor stood up and started preaching about Paul. He shared, how he was against Christians and Jesus but how God still loved him and gave him a great responsibility and lifted him up. I felt that God is speaking to me about my own life and tears started coming in my eyes and I wept. Before the Church could finish I sneaked out of the Church because no one want to see me now, as I have beaten many people in the Church.

In the afternoon I went to see the Pastor. I thought he may not accept me, and will not talk to me because I have beaten him. When I went to his house, to my surprise, he was eating that time, he got up and invited me to come inside asked me to sit with him to eat Lunch. I was moved by his Love. After the meal I told him that God has spoken me this morning and don’t know what to do? The Pastor shared the gospel and asked me to repent. When I started praying I felt the power of God filled me and I started confessing all my sins and I felt I am a new man now. I said sorry to the Pastor and all the Christians. When my brother heard about this he ran to me and hugged me and kissed me. I felt Joy and happiness in my life. I never experienced this joy before.

When my friends heard about this, they hated me and stopped talking to me. Then I prayed to God, he comforted me and led me to share the gospel to them. Then I led 15 of my friends to Christ. Then the Lord spoke to me to focus a village to plant a Church. I have never been to this village before. The Lord showed a face of women in vision. When I shared this with my brother, he said that village people are very much against Christians and they would not hesitate to beat and even to kill. I told my brother, I am willing sacrifice my life for Jesus. When I went there I saw the women that God showed me, I shared with her my testimony. She said she is the only Christ follower in that village and praying to God to send someone to start a Church there. She had 2 children and her relative had 2 children with them I started teaching them about Christ.

That was the time one of the former Church Planter Philip Murugan met me and introduced me about the KGT training. Now through this training I started focusing on the children character to change. When their character got changed the parents came to me saying now my children is not stealing, going to school regularly, helping me in household work, obeying me and talks in a good way. I told them that Jesus has changed them. They asked me who that Jesus is. I shared them the gospel, now in last15 months 20 adults and 70 children are attending the worship service. My goal is reach my people to Jesus!

Mohammad is following Jesus

My name is Mohammad. When I was 16 years old I lost my father then mother. I have 3 brothers and one sister. I used live as a bad person. I had many Christian friends and I used to go with them to decorate the Church during Christmas. Once saw around 10 youths were paying after the program, I was very impressed and went close by to see what they are praying. I heard them praying for other people, I was so happy and felt that these people are good people, who are concerned about others. When I went back to my house, I wanted to pray also, so, I knelt down and raised my hands and said, Jesus I want to see you. Then Joy and peace filled my heart.

Next morning I went to my Christian friend, and requested him to take me to his church. He said okay. Next six days I was keep on asking him to take me, because I did not want to miss. I was waiting for Sunday to come. On Sunday I went to the church. When I saw lot of people going to the church, it amazed me. I never realized there were so many Christians. When they started singing songs with gladness and clapping hands, I was so happy and I started clapping hands with them. I was so peaceful in the church and the message they shared about Jesus was touching. At the end of the sermon, they asked if anyone wants to accept Jesus as their personal Saviour, they can come forward. The Pastor asked me to invite Jesus to my heart, which I did. I was filled with Joy that I have never experienced before.

When I accepted Jesus, all my fear went away. I used to be an arrogant person, using filthy languages, and fighting with people all the time. My family and others used to be afraid of me. I used to fight with lot of people in my place. But now all these bad habits left me. When my family members, friends and my village people saw this change, they started liking me. I had a new beginning. Then I started sharing my testimony and led around 100 people to Christ so for. My two brothers and sister also accepted Christ. There was a curse in my family, the curse was removed. My sister did not have baby for 9 years. When I prayed, Jesus gave her a baby.

Then I joined a church that was closer to my place. The Pastor asked me to assist him in the church. I did this ministry for the last 8 years. Four months back, the Lord called me to plant a new Church. So I was looking for training. Then I heard about the KGT training through one of my friend’s friend and joined this training. God has given me burden to reach my own people. Kindly pray for me.

Once Military Leader serves Jesus now

I am Maran from Theni district and have three sisters and a brother. My Father was an atheist and my mother a nominal Christian. My father used to tell stories to give me Self-confidence, living for others and country. My father worked in army, like father, I joined army. To me my father looked as an ideal man and so for me he is everything.

I Worked in different parts of India and participated in kargil war with Pakistan. When there was unrest in Srilanka, Srilanka government asked India to send a peace keeping force to bring unity during civil war. So I was sent to Srilanka as part of Indian peace keeping force (IPKF). When I was there my father become sick, and my mother sent me more than 10 telegrams to me to come and see my father. Since the war was in peak, my officers did not inform me about my father’s critical condition.

One day an officer asked me, why I did not go to see my sick father. Then only I came to know about my father’s condition. Then I pleaded and got permission to see my father. By the time I reached my home my father became so sick and was about to die. I could not bear the condition of my father, when I saw him, I cried to death. Within few days my father died. It was a big shock to me. I could not take that into my mind and I lost my mind, and started hitting my head against wall and hitting my body with stones, and screaming and running around, trying kill myself. I could not imagine a life without my father. People tied me and did not let me go to the cemetery to burry.

Then I started drinking liquor and became addicted, I could not bear the loss of my father. So I decided to commit suicide by drinking poison. I drank lot of liquor and took a bottle of poison to mix with whisky to drink outside of my village. While going outside of my village, I fell off on the roadside because I was drunk. Few young people rushed to me and took me to a church steps, and they laid me there. When I opened my eyes I saw the church, so I rushed out as I did not like God. These brothers started coming to my house and they said Jesus loves me. When they came to me I was feeling better, but I do not want to know about this God.

One day they asked me to come to a dam, when I went there they were kneeling and started praising God. I was so furious that they are not talking to me but talking to somebody else. I beat them up and kicked them as I am a boxer. All of them fell off, I started walking back. I could not walk after few steps and I fell off. By the time the young people got up and started praying again, calling Abba father. When I heard the word Abba father, I remembered my father and wanted to call Abba. They said Jesus our father have mercy on him. When I heard Jesus as father, I started calling “Yesappa” “Jesus my father” and started crying loudly. When I did this a great power entered into my body, and I felt how sinful person I am, and started confessing all the sin that I have committed. Then I called him, to be with me and invited this father to enter into my heart to fill the vacuum created by father’s death. I was keeling and praising God for 3 hours. When Jesus came to my heart, all the fear, tension, guilt and suicidal spirit left me. I was filled with Joy, and hope.

Then I went back to the army worked there another 14years. I started sharing this Jesus to my fellow men in army and conducted Prayer meeting in the night. 40 of the solders accepted Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. I also started sharing with civil people and 100 of them have accepted Christ through my witness. Then I took voluntary retirement from army to serve Jesus. All this time I learned about God only through personal reading of Bible. So I was not fully aware of God’s plan. When I came to my home town, I went to a church, when people saw that people are getting healed through my prayer, many came forward for Prayer. The pastor did not like this and he said me to leave the Church as many Christians also asked me to pray. This discouraged me.

Not knowing what to do, an evangelist asked me to go with him. I started assisting the evangelist going around villages to share the gospel. Now we are visiting 4 villages and sharing the gospel. By this time one of the Life mission Church planters Rajapandian introduced me the training. Now coming to attend this module one training on evangelism, it has boosted my spirit and I am going back to my town with a vision to plant a church.

A Hindu named Muslim serves Jesus!

This is brother Nagooran from Nagai district of Tamilnadu .He was born to pious Hindu parents. During the time of his birth his mother gave birth to twins, but unfortunately his brother died during the time of delivery. His neighbor Muslims thought that he too may die, so they asked his mother to name the baby after Nagoor Andavar (famous Muslim god dwells in his place) to save her son’s life. His mother without thinking about anything to save her son’s life, she named him after that god.

From childhood he was brought up in all Hindu traditions. Since his birth he was suffering from severe stomach ache. It is not an ordinary pain which many go through but an unbelievable severe pain. Always he used to carry the required medicines. When he was studying in the school along with this school books he will also carry the medicines. Because he doesn’t know at what time he may suffer by this pain he was unable to concentrate on his studies. In order to get healing from this sickness he and his mother worshipped many gods and they have visited many temples. They also performed many religious rituals like shaving their heads, walking in the bare foot, observing regular fast, paying many offering and sacrifices. But nothing cured him.

While he was in this agony, a pastor came to his neighbor’s house for prayer and their neighbor got healed through the prayer. By seeing this his mother requested the pastor to pray for his son, the pastor prayed for him and invited them to come his church for all night prayer. During the night prayer wonderfully God healed him from his 20 year old stomach pain.

His mother and Nagooran were overwhelmed with joy. This miracle led them to Christ. Immediately he started sharing his testimony and the gospel. He also started praying for the sick. Many got healed and came to know the LORD. At that time he doesn’t know how to lead the people further. When he was praying to God gave him a burden about starting a Church.

At that time he heard about our training on church planting and joined the training. This Training has helped him to establish a church and also God has transformed his own character. Now regularly thirty people attend the Sunday morning service. And thirteen of them have been baptized. He is also conducting 2 house Churches in two places. His vision is to establish TEN churches in nearby ten villages. He lives with his wife and one-Daughter We thank God for him and the ministry.