tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73702692626212097822011-12-25T17:45:03.520+05:30Discoveries along the WayReuben Pradhanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13030428043906638074noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370269262621209782.post-34906863259838637392011-12-09T10:13:00.002+05:302011-12-09T10:44:43.231+05:302011-12-09T10:44:43.231+05:30

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The Bible calls us to exhort, encourage and stir up one another. In fact, there are more than fifty verses in the New Testament that instructs the believers to “one-another”. For instance, “Love one another”, “Forgive one another”, “Pray for one another” and so on. And the fact of the matter is that it's simply not possible for us to practice all these “one-anothering” inside a building with

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In a certain prayer meeting a church leader shared his prayer needs this way, “Please pray for us as we don’t have a full-time pastor and a church as yet”. His congregations were almost 200 in numbers and yet he said that they did not have a church. What was he referring to then? Of course, he was asking the believers to pray that they would have a building to do church. Now he also had several

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I always used to wonder what would happen to me and how I would face the reality when someone close to me dies. In fact, I used to shudder at the very thought that one day I would have to face with the death of either of my parents for the first time in life. After all every things happen to us for the first time and as such there’s always the first experience of things that surrounds and affects

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Both the Old and the New Testament teaches us to teach and train our children. I believe this includes the fundamental knowledge of life and its basic necessities in addition to spiritual training.One day, my second daughter Rhema (who was soon going to celebrate her eleventh birthday at the time of this story) accompanied me to go visit a believer in a hospital just outskirt of town. By nature

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I’ve come across two major groups of house church. Both tend to stand on the extremities of opposite ends. One views and utilizes house church mostly for meeting, sitting, eating and teaching. Evangelism and mission is almost oblivious. These groups don’t deliberate reaching out to the lost or plant churches. For them it takes place only when God wants and so they leave it all to Him.Then I’ve

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It’s been many years that as a church we used to pray regularly for our neighboring countries including Bhutan. But we had never imagined that one day we’d have these very Bhutanese people in our church. Since the beginning of this year we’ve been having students and other people from Bhutan visiting our church regularly. On one Sunday there were not less then 11 people – all from Bhutan. The

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In the year 2003, the Khasi Jaintia Presbyterian Synod (West) had their first gathering in a village called Mawkyrwat in the West Khasi Hills of Meghalaya. In this meeting it was decided to hold an ongoing chain-prayer movement for God to bring revival in the land once again as it happened a hundred years ago during 1905-06. As such it was also decided that the doors of the chapels would remain

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17/Oct/2006, 11:24 a.m., Shillong, IndiaA certain missionary gifted in the prophetic who had visited Shillong and attended the Global Day of Prayer (on the 4th June '06) was given the last slot to release the crowd that had gathered on the Malki Ground with a prayer. But as prophets are sometimes used to do stuff beyond and at times against our imaginations, he didn't pray at all, but simply said

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6th Sept ‘06, 11:48 a.m., Shillong, IndiaYesterday some pastors and I on our way to a meeting in Jowai (Jaintia Hills) were chatting about the revival here and a pastor of a large charismatic church here in town told us that yesterday itself during daytime one of his sons called him up from his school. The news was the same. Children were coming under the power of God and even Muslim kids were

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4th Sept '06, 7:00 p.m., Shillong, IndiaToday, during early noon, at about 12:30 p.m., I received a call from a young sister from our church. She goes to a school called Buddha Vidya Niketan run by some Buddhists community. She sounded both excited and urgent as she told me that some children (although only a few of them) in her school had come under the power of God. She also told me that the

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01/Sept/2006, 10:48 p.m., Shillong, India It has been a couple of months now that people in the Khasi and the Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya are experiencing a wave of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Almost every now and then the local TV news channel reports of such occurrences in this region not to mention of the local daily which carries the news headline every single day. In the year 2003, the

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24th Sept 2006, 8 a.m. Shillong, IndiaFollowing is my correspondence with Jonathan Lindvall in the US regarding the revival. Hi Reuben. I got the following encouraging note from Barkos Warjri.His final comments about a glowing cross seem really questionable to me.I don't want to put limits on God, but also am concerned about superstitions. It seems contrary to what I would expect God to do, but

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2nd/Oct/2006, 4:31 p.m. Shillong, IndiaThe outpouring of the Holy Spirit in this current phase of revival is birthing a great hunger for God and His presence. The gathering of believers in most of the meetings of various church groups is experiencing transformation as men and women continue to "make straight their path" before the Refiner's Fire. One common word believers tend to receive while

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Sept '06, Shillong, IndiaEveryday the revival fire is spreading and now even students from colleges and a university here are coming under the power of God. A pastor friend of mine called up yesterday asking me to pray for him as he was going to be interviewed today by another national cable news channel regarding the move of God here. And today’s Khasi daily, Mawphor reported of children from

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15th Nov 2006, 11 p.m., Shillong, India In Garo Hills, Chitoktak, I was invited to do a 3-days seminar on the "Prophetic Ministry" (3rd - 5th Nov '06). The first session of the first day, I held my notes and Bible on my hands all set to launch as soon as Mikseng, the host and pastor of the church, gives me the signal. But as I waited for that moment the Holy Spirit instead led me to share about

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HEAVENS OPEN(Barkos Warjri) The call came at 2208hrs on 20 October 2006. The message was short and curt. I was asked to call an old college mate in about twenty minutes. His name was K… I knew he was involved with a lot of Bible Studies and counselling and praying for people during the current revival. It could only mean one thing. There was some important news. An SMS from my sister came. ‘Any

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18th/Oct/2006, 10:45 a.m., Shillong, IndiaLast night during a meeting with my church folks I got to hear some amazing things. A young brother whom I know personally and who's a close friend of one of our church family member shared with them what happened to some people living in his locality in Pynthorumkhrah. First, there's this girl, probably in her early teen, Khasi and from a nominal

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4th/Oct/2006, 4:31 p.m. Shillong, IndiaYesterday, our landlady's grandchildren who goes to college here in town returned back from their village and I was thrilled to hear from them first-hand that revival broke out in their village too. They told me that it actually started with the Christian families who were praying in their homes. Soon it spread all around and now every evening they gather in

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4th/Oct/2006, 11:35 p.m., Shillong, IndiaWe are not fighting against humans. We are fighting against forces and authorities and against rulers of darkness and powers in the spiritual world. (Eph 6:12, CEV) The revival in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya (India) which continues to spread from one place to another, is however, not without the spate of backlash from the enemy of our soul.

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23rd Sept 2006, 9:00 p.m., Shillong, IndiaMany signs and wonders were taking place among His people. (Acts 5:12)Earlier today, toward dusk I went to meet a friend of mine, Ridor who’s a Spirit-filled and a devout believer. He belongs to a Presbyterian church where every evening prayer meetings have been going on now for several months. Initially, there was a very powerful outpouring of the Holy

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13th Sept ‘06, 12:50 p.m., Shillong, India Local newspapers continue to report of believers in different places seeing visions of Jesus and angels, and as such spontaneous prayers and repentances taking place. One thing which is becoming evident among believers as I meet and talk with them is a deep sense of conviction, repentance and transformation taking place. Even people who are known to be

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01/Sept/2006, 10:48 p.m., Shillong, IndiaEarlier today, during daytime, I got the news that revival had hit the students of All Saints School which is located right in the middle of our city, Shillong. This school is run by the Church of North India, formerly known as the Church of England. We went to witness what was going on. I met the Bishop of the church and on inquiring I was told that today

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The year 2006 witnessed a powerful move of God in several parts of Meghalaya. Schools and other educational institutions turned into a place for children to come in direct contact with the Holy Spirit. People, especially young children saw the Lord Jesus Christ with their naked eyes, not to mention of the sightings of angelic beings which for sometime became a regular phenomenon. Then there was

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THE PROBLEM WITH THE HOUSE CHURCH MOVEMENT AND A SEARCH FOR THE UNITY OF HIS BODY.By Andy ZoppeltWe in the house church movement in many ways are taking the same path as those in previous movements. We have accurately pointed out the major faults and flaws in the institutional church: pastor, pews, programs, buildings, indifference, denominationalism, hierarchy-- the list seems a mile long. We

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