 started. So let's pray and ask God specifically that God will use us over this weekend, the next few days, to communicate the gospel, to share the gospel. I know in today's day and time, we may not be meeting people in person, but whether it's a text, whether it's an email, whether it's over Zoom, let's pray, let's ask God for divine connections, divine opportunities and it's belief that God will lead us to that person who needs to hear the gospel. Now it could be the full gospel, like you have an opportunity, the person has the time and you are able to share or maybe it is just to nudge them towards that. It's not the goal, but it's your past and it's a good past and you're going closer to the goal. So it's something about the truth. Maybe they are curious and let's just believe God. Let's pray and let's believe God that God will do that in our lives. Father, we just thank you, Lord. We thank you that God that in your wisdom, Lord, that you give and grant divine appointments, Father God. And we ask this morning that you will do so in our lives, Lord, that you will take us to people, lead us to people who need to hear the truth, who need to hear maybe words of encouragement from the word which opens their hearts to the gospel. And I pray that each one of us God, here in this class, each one of us, Lord, that even as we pray this, we pray with ex, pray expectantly, Father God, that you will use us to share the gospel, that you will use us to communicate the truth of God in ways that only you know is possible, God. And I just pray that we'll be open, we'll be expectant, we'll be sensitive, even as you lead us in those ways. So we thank you, God. We thank you, Lord. We come at this time into your mighty hands. We pray that you will lead us, that you will speak to us, that you will quicken something, stir up things in us, Father God, stir up a passion, Lord, for your name, stir up a passion for, for the mission, God, for your mission, for your work, stir up a passion within us, Lord. We thank you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Okay, so we believe that, right? So we'll be expectant towards that. Let's pray and let's believe expectantly that God will, you know, show us leaders and, and that we'll be able to share the gospel. Maybe it's a neighbor, maybe it's someone on the street, whoever, right? Okay, and we'll come back with some stories, right? Probably when we meet, when we meet on Wednesday, I guess for the same class. So we'll, let's, let's believe God, that we will have some stories to share, right? Okay. Okay, so today we said we will hear, last class we looked at the relevance of preaching, the relevance of homiletics. And before that we looked at, you know, the whole, the whole function of preaching in the Bible, right? Preparation, arranging and, and preaching in the Bible. And we looked at some sermons as well. We looked at, you know, how the Old Testament prophets, how they would speak and how, how they used language and, and the figures of speech in language. And we, we see some of that in, you know, coming through in, in Psalms, in Proverbs and, and in the prophetic books as well. And we looked at three sermons, we looked at the sermon that Paul, Peter preached, we looked at the sermon that Stephen preached, and we looked at the sermon that Paul preached and Athens and, and, you know, the way in which they preached and, and it's amazing some of them, like, I think all of them did not have any, you know, notes, but they were prepared, like, they were prepared by the Holy Spirit through what they've heard through the, through the experiences and through their time with, you know, with, with the Lord, right? So we looked at that. And also, okay, so we said that, you know, how did the gospel come to us? It, how was it preached, you know? So, okay, someone else also feels, okay, oops. Okay, let me, let me just try reinserting it just one second, please. Is it better? Is it okay? Because it still has, yeah. Yes, yes, yes, it's gone, the stress is gone. Okay, okay, so we said, you know, let's see, let's hear some stories, you know, from how did the gospel come to us? Okay, was it through some song that we heard? Was it preached to us in what relevant way, you know, in what way was it communicated that it, that it kind of made sense, or it set us on a journey to, you know, to seek the truth. Right, so we said, you know, you just take some time to listen to that. So it's now, yeah, 11, 8, okay, we have some time. So you can just go ahead, unmute, and just take a minute, you know, very concisely, just take a minute to, to share, you know, how was it preached? How was it communicated that the first time you said yes to Jesus? So, yeah, so who'd like to go first? And can I go first? Yeah, sure, Charles. Yeah, just take a minute, okay, very briefly. Okay, please go ahead. Yes, me, the preaching took place when I was in prison in 2007, I was in government prison, had been taken there for making counterfeit money. And the God took to me in the middle of the night, asked me, what would you do if I get you out of here? I said, if you're a human being, I will work in your company. And if you're good, I will speak your name. In the morning, he talked to me again, I had finished breakfast and seated alone. The same voice talked, even at lunch, the same voice talked. And in the evening, got around the city, the pastor came, the one, those people who preached in prisons, and they delivered the sermon, and he did an invitation, and I stood up for the Lord. And that's how it was preached, I was in prison. And that's when I had, that's when I said yes. Wow, praise God, awesome. Thank you so much, Charles. Wonderful to hear that. And also, you said God spoke to you and asked you like, you know, if I get you out, right? So, how did, how did he speak? You know, how did you sense that, that God was speaking? How did you know that God was speaking? I was, it was in the night and the, the voice was talking clearly and we were in the cell lying on the, on the, on the, on the cement and I woke up and the voice had gone. But when I was seated under a roof in the morning after breakfast, I was looking down and the voice again talked. I could, I moved, I moved my face to see who is talking, but nobody was around, but I was hearing the voice. And even that the third time was done at lunch. Yeah. Okay. And just one question. And because I was not seeing the person, I knew it was God. Okay. So when, so when you heard the message, the, the, the prison preaching and the person would come to minister. So anything in the message that was preached, did it, did it draw you you know, to respond that way? Or was it just the call, you know, if anybody wants to, to at the end? No, the thing that pulled me was like, you have to accept Christ. Otherwise, regardless of your knowledge, you will go to hell. And I was a vibrant teacher for physics and mathematics. And I was destined for hell. I had no time for the Bible. All those questions were coming in me. I had performed very well in the country in 1994 and I had been given a gift of the Bible and I did not wear that Bible was. So a lot of questions were coming in my mind and all those questions. So the answer was surrender. Wow. Praise God. Awesome. Thank you. So yeah, anyone else would like to go next? Okay. I'll share very quickly. For me, you know, I was in a youth camp and I had actually reached a place in life where I thought that, you know, religion was an emotional crutch. And, and I didn't want anything to do with religion. But somehow I was this Christian youth camp because my friends invited me and I was there. And, and I was also feeling very empty on the inside. And, but this was my, you know, this was my perspective of Christians that Christians were emotionally, you know, crippled people. And also religion itself was a, was a crutch. So I didn't want a crutch to go through life. So, so I was sitting there and listening and, and a lot of things were being shared. Nothing made sense, right? Nothing made sense at all. I was, I was feeling very bored. I was sleepy. And, and then there was one statement which this person made, which really, so I just call it a one liner message, you know, one statement that this person made, which made sense. He said, you need guts to be a Christian. Okay. So, so that was very different from what I had thought about Christianity, about Christ, about, you know, Christ followers. So it made, it got me thinking, right? So it kind of shook me, like, okay, different values, going against the flow, going against it. So that made me think, right? And, and, and after the camp was over, we were just going back and I was in a bus standing for about almost an hour and a journey back. And I was talking for the first time to the Lord, you know, in, in sincere, in my heart, I said, Lord, all these people seem to think that you're, you know, you're real. And if you are, you show me and, you know, I'd, I'd like to make some changes in my life. Right. And, and then sure enough, I went back and I, I realized that I had actually, you know, in stages, I was giving my heart to the Lord and went back and the Bible made a lot of sense. I started reading, I started praying. And so I really don't know when I actually came to the Lord, when I made my decision to the Lord, daytime, I don't know, but I know that something started at that camp and that person said, you know, you need guts to be a Christian. And he was a very successful, you know, he was professional. He was working for a company called HCL computers. And, and he was, he was a regional manager. So when he said, you need guts to be a Christian, you know, it kind of changed my perspective about Christ and started journey there. Okay. So that's, that was how it came. So it was a one-liner message. Right. Okay. Anyone else? Let's see a monkey, sir. Sorry, hope you said something. Yes, I say, let's give brother monkey to give us his testimony. Yeah, anyone, anyone. Yeah. Thank you, brother. It's good to have you online. It's good to see you. Okay. Thank you, sir. Mine is different. Mine. I don't know when, when I gave my, my heart's crushed, but all started when I was, when I was a kid, when I was young, we used to live in a, in a, in a military barrack. And there was like two blocks out, two houses down the, down the road. The men met every morning to pray that five o'clock they were, they will ring a bell and then they start singing hymns and praying. I think those hymns were my, what's, it's what preached to me because since I was five growing up, I grew, I grew up in the morning because they were singing loud. I couldn't sleep. So I started singing them. And then on Sunday, I'll go and, I'll go stand by the window, listen to what they're preaching and, and, and praying. So yeah, I don't know when, when, when, what, what, what happened to me, but I believe that's, that was the foundation of my, my, my believing. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Maggie. So do you remember any hymn that actually particular hymn that drew you from the hymns that you were singing any particular? Yes, there is, there is one, I still remember it says, the grace of Golgotha. I don't know how it goes in English, but it's a, it's like, it's like a great sea. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I was about to ask, can you sing it for us? I'm not a good singer. Okay. So in what language is it? This is Swahili or is it? Yeah, it's in Swahili. Swahili. Wow. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Maggie. Okay, next. Who else? Um, probably we'll ask Hope, you know, you suggested Maggie. Okay. So maybe we can do this. Okay. So hope you can share and then you decide who should say next. Okay. You can call out the name. And then we'll do it. Okay. So go ahead and hope. Thank you, Pastor. Uh, let me, me, I just, maybe to sing a song that Pastor Maggie was not a good singer in singing that song in Swahili. Yeah. It's, it's a song. It's like this. It's meaning that, uh, praise be the cross, praise be the Son of God. It's all about uh, uh, Golgotha. So it's, it's, this hymns is just defined about what Christ did at the cross in redeeming us and us, making us to know who, yeah. Wow. Wow. Praise God. Awesome. Yeah. So, yeah, go ahead and share Hope, about your life. Okay. Uh, I, I came to know God, uh, when I was, uh, from Swahili, from two, from two, I was just going to tuition and I found out that I was studying very hard, but I was, I was failing at class. But one day I go in a certain church, which was a Pentecostal church. I don't know how I changed. I was very rude boy. I was, I was very gay boy, but I don't remember God transformed me from that day. And, uh, is when I start my journey to know God, it was about 2013 till today, that is how I was being saved. Yeah. Okay. So you were going to church, you were listening, uh, but you're not sure how, when it happened, uh, but any particular time, any message that made sense, um, it was 2014. Okay. 2014, I, I, I came to realize that what I was being taught there, church was correct. And, uh, 2015, I, I accepted to being baptized and, uh, is when I was being filled with the Holy Spirit. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Right. Thank you. Yeah. Who do you, who do you like to share next? Whose name would you want to call on next? You can just suggest. Okay. Kennedy. Go ahead. Yeah. Go ahead, Kennedy. I think my new rings, because after from college, I graduated. I got a job with an Indian pharmaceutical company here. I was being well paid and I entered into a bad lifestyle. I used to drink, I used to be an organizer. Uh, sometimes I got promoted, I got more money, then I started having misfortunes. I've had about four different parts of the mobile accidents. I almost lost my hand to my aunt because I thought my aunt was supposed to be addicted. But, uh, one day my daughter just came and told me, God loves you. And it really touched me because she wrote me a letter, told me God loves you that just surrender your life to God and you see a difference. From there, I sat down. I, I meditated over that statement for quite a while. Okay. So this is your, um, so who wrote to you? This is your daughter, you said? My daughter. I tell you, she wasn't good. Yeah. I said, keep the letter to it. Yeah. So she came and told me that God loves you. Just pray. She came and prayed for me in our place. Then that they had, they didn't sleep. I was very restless. But after the prayers, I felt a big difference. I went, I went to church. Then I committed my life to Christ. Then I became poor. Okay. I lost all my money. You know, everything just crumbled into the schedule because I lost my job. I was sad because of carelessness. I was drunk. I was not keeping my record straight. Then I kind of had to find a different approach. But honestly speaking, I've seen a very big change in my life. God has really given me the direction that I've recovered what I lost. And I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy. Wow. And you went to my fellow colleagues. They asked me what happened? What did you do? I tell them it's my decrease. It's not by my own effort. Praise God. And even my daughter, even my daughter, I can be prayed together with my daughter. Yeah. But he's been one of my strongest pillars in my Christian life. Wow. It's really moving. Very touching to hear that. Yeah. Wow. Praise God. Thank you. Thank you, Kennedy. Yeah. So who would you like to share next, Kennedy? Who would you choose? Yeah, just call out any name on the... Sorry? My idea, brother. Samuel. Oh, okay. Sam, Sam Kaiba. Sam, you go next. Thank you. Thank you. So for me, I think my mother has been my biggest influence in bringing me close to God. So I have... So it's her life. So not any particular preaching, but her life and everyday family devotion. I think from a very early age, she would just keep us together. So I have two younger sisters. So we would make sure that there are at least two fellowships that happen at home, like family prayer, one in the morning and one in the evening. So I was in grade four. I was in class four. I don't remember the age, but probably 10, 11 years old. That's when... I think the family was going through a hard time. My mom and dad had a lot of differences, but basically we were with mom. So my mom... I think my mom and dad were not reconciled in a very good way. So I just... I see my mom struggle a lot and it's watching her talk to God as if God's her closest friend, you know, and she prays. So watching her life, watching her personal relationship with God is what brought me to Christ. And the way my mother would conduct the family class prayer, like even now, even to this day, when we get in the class and if mom has to speak, her message is pretty much the same. She is like, you need Jesus. It almost feels like an altar, every message that she gives feels like an altar for her. She's like, you need to give your life to Jesus. You need to come, like no matter who's sitting. So she'll just share something, but she'll conclude that. She'll conclude with... She's old school, so she'll conclude with having you give your life to Jesus. So it's... That's what brought me close to God and has helped me in my journey with Christ. That's awesome. Yeah. So the life actually preaches louder than many, many sermons. Yeah. And that preached to you. Okay. Thank you so much, Sam. Yeah, Sam. So Sam, who's next? I will go next. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Sam. My family, actually, I'm a... Come from Indra, my friend. We were accepting Christ. My family was affected under the witchcraft for 20 years. See, I always... I have a friendly, friendly guy who lives with everyone. That's my nature. So I didn't believe all this witchcraft that will serve. My friend, while I'm studying PUC, my close friend took me to the church. Likewise, I liked Sposter's sermons. I was touched by sermons. My friend gifted me Bible. I never read Bible, but I was worried. Later on, my dad was serious. Later on, my thought, by all of a sudden, there was no peace at home. Always fight, calling between my mom, father, my sister, myself. As soon as I came out of my house, I used to enjoy, I used to more spend time in church. I was feeling the same peace. So my pastor advised me to ask God peace, pray for your mother and father. Since I was not willing to witchcraft, I did not tell anyone. So, God, I felt in my heart, the Holy Spirit asked me to open Bible. So I opened the Bible and talking to me, there is a man at the Basilisk Devil. You need to believe. Unfortunately, during that time, my dad was possessed. I did not know what to do meet a night. He was taking the knife and he was keeping the throat to cut. That's when I realized that dad was possessed. God gave me praise to pray for him. Just pray so that I could hear another voice. Don't say me. Don't call me. Don't say to me. I want to kill him. Can't even kill him. I continued my prayers. Could Jesus your save my dear dad? As soon as I was prayed, I could see some black spirit leaving my house. That's when I realized evil person a bit described. I started to pray, but unfortunately, the devil created me, poured me job, which was in Nasek. I was told to Nasek. I didn't realize while this time, my father passed away. Later, I decided to catch on of demons, witchcraft. It's the EVP accepted Jesus Christ. He is the only savior. I also told condomins, my family, mother, sister. She was complete into by agronome and a believer of worship idols. She was also not willing. So I prayed. I did turn 21 days pasting prayer. I was out. God really brought me, my family, out of this witchcraft activities. My God grace, I am totally, my family totally accepted Jesus Christ in 2000, 15 November, 20, after an hour, 40, unquantifiable day. That was, we had no relatives, no friends to help. My friend chose me after that. God gave me power of spanking tongues. Right, Dinesh. Thank you. Thank you so much. Wonderful to hear. Thank you so much that you were saved and your family was saved and everyone came to the saving knowledge of Christ and through the power. So what Dinesh was saying was that, when he prayed, he just prayed that, you know, those three words, Eswin Ratham Jayam, which means the victory in the blood of Jesus and, you know, that evil spirit left and so on. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. Okay, anyone else? Anyone else? Okay, I'm just going to point and close my eyes and, you know, touch one person's name in the screen and then hopefully, you know, that person will share. Okay, so, okay, that's Rupa. Why don't you share Rupa quickly? Sir, there is nothing dramatic in my... No problem. Yeah, we're just looking at, you know, how was the gospel priest. We're just trying to find out, you know, how did the gospel come to you? Was it communicated to you? And then you gave your life. So yeah, so very, very quickly, very briefly, if you can share that. Thank you. Before I was born, my mother and father, during my mother conceived and they started fasting and praying, I believe, because my mother has already lost two, three babies. I don't remember correctly. And they were fasting and praying. And after I was born, the moment I started understanding, I don't remember at times, sir, when I don't know God. I don't know how many prime people ask, when did you receive Christ? I had a deep hunger and thirst to know more about God, to love God, and to please him. I don't know how. And over the period, he has corrected me. He has brought me into more into his closer to him. That's what I can share. Thank you, sir. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Rupa. Anyone else? May I share the pasta? Yeah, go ahead. So in the year 2009, I was 17 years old, then I had finished my board exam for class 12. And so I was talking with some of our friends in the street. So one person came, I knew him. He was resident of that area. He was having one eye, because he was beaten by police, due to some criminal offense. So he came, suddenly, and he started preaching the gospel to us. So out of nowhere, I thought, wait, what this man is saying, I've never heard it before. I've heard about Jesus. He's a Christian God, but I've never heard what he's saying. So he invited us to the church who was attending. So I said, okay, I'll go to the church. So the next Sunday, I went to the church and I was looking into the people's faces. They were crying. They were raising their hands. So I was not getting the message clearly also. But that day, the pastor gave me a little book, a new Testament book. So I went home and I always loved to study books, actually. So every day, I used to read one page. My parents, we were a strict Hindu. I was from a strict Hindu family. So they stared at me. They'll see what this boy is doing. But so I started going to the church every Sunday. I was loving the environment and everything. But I was not understanding the entire message. But I used to read the book and understand some part of it, because that time, it used to come in the KJB version. So yeah. So something happened after five months, my father had a cerebral attack and passed away. And that time, no person from the family came, not even that person came. And I was broken. And my sister and my mother, we were four people in a family. They pointed their fingers at me that because I started going to the church, all these things happened because I, yeah. So because I was becoming kind of a freak in all these things. They used to call me like that. So they started pointing finger at me out of nowhere. When people were crying so much, I also wanted to cry. I feel the tangible peace over my entire body. And I still remember that old red sofa in my home. I took two steps backward, raised my hand, put the hand over my heart and say, Lord Jesus, from today I leave all those idols I accept you as my Lord and Savior. So that was the day, the day my father died, the body was laying in my home. They were family and everything pointing fingers at me out of nowhere. I accepted the Lord that day. And even at the time of cremation also, I didn't feel anything. I wanted to cry, but I couldn't because that peace was so tangible, so thick that I could, like it's like a, it's like a jacket of my body and I could feel it. And from that day onwards till today, I'm in the Lord and praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ that my entire family has believed the Lord is baptized. And yeah, for 10 years we are a believing family. Yeah. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. Praise God. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you, Superjit. Okay. Anyone else? So I'm trying to make it very, very, very, very short. That was my struggle. So in 2001, from Delhi we came to Bangalore for just six months. My husband had changed a job and we landed up worshiping with Pastor Ashish in his house church. He had just begun in February and March we shifted here. And July onwards, July I lost my dad. So there was a huge vacuum in my heart, but Pastor that time was preaching us the series called Who We Are in Christ. So I wrote down everything in my diary. This is the first time I started noting down the word. And within three, four months, we again went back like six months here and we went back. And there was a huge vacuum in my heart. And I started praying, Lord, we need you. We need a good church. I didn't know what was the prayer, but we landed up in UAE. I was working there as a teacher. So I remember the first time we entered the church, this song was as the deer panted for the water. So my heart pants for you. So this song just touched my heart. And every Sunday without fail, the tears were flowing from my eyes, me and my husband. And we were so touched by the Holy Spirit, but we didn't know anything about the new birth, about the gospel and receiving Jesus as your personal savior. That was not something we were known to. But as I was working, I was in a very, very bad circumstance and in that place in my school. And one fine day in a parent teachers meeting, this parent came in who was not very happy with the child's result. And he was a Christian and he came with all his family, three children. And he sat behind before me. I was very burdened with the workload and and the pressures and my quad, my supervisor was very upset with me with certain things. And I didn't know, I was not at fault, but there was something that was tormenting me. And I was very heavily burdened sitting there waiting for parents to come. And he was the first parent who came with his family. And he sat down and I thought, now he's going to grill me because, you know, he's a fussy parent. And I'm wondering what to say. I just wished him and he started talking and I just didn't say anything before that. He said, can I pray for you? So I was wondering, okay, a parent praying for me. I said, sure, sir, you can pray. And he started praying. And the presence of the Holy Spirit came in that classroom where he was praying for me very strongly. And all the burdens just rolled away. And I felt so much peace. I was continuously in tears. But after the prayer, I felt like, you know, there was immense peace in my heart and my journey with for hunger and thirst for the Lord began there. Everything became so clear to me as to what was happening in the past. Romans 8 28 was the worst that God showed me that everything that was happening in your life, the circumstances, the pressures, the, you know, whatever was coming was for, for your good. So he just left and it was a supernatural experience. And after that continuously, like I cannot even count how many supernaturally supernatural experiences got touched me, saved me and protected me until I realized that it was Pastor Ashish who had put the seed in my heart of who I am in Christ. So when I came back from UAE, I found this diary again. And when I opened the diary, I realized that everything was written in it. And all those words made so much sense to me. So I prayed, I said, Lord, I want to go back to APC church once again. So 10 years later, Lord brought me to this place where I'm, you know, now learning so much about the Lord and that hunger and thirst is being satisfied in the same church. And God is teaching me all the truth. And, you know, nationally, I'm growing in the Lord. So I give all the glory to God and thank you all that faculty and teachers for this great privilege. Thank you so much. It's so good to hear that. So awesome. Praise God. So, so it was a prayer that really, you know, drew your heart to the Lord, even though, you know, all that was there in the environment, you know, always constantly hearing the word. But yeah, awesome. Good to hear that. Okay, we still have some more time. So we'll pack in as many as possible. Yeah, go ahead. My testimony is like when I was in school, I don't even remember like maybe I was in the first standard or second standard. At that time, like I studied in a convent and the Gideon's people would come and give us the small Gideon's Bible to the children in school. And I had also received one and we would have this people come like every year and pass on the small Gideon's Bible. So I would have this small Bible in my bag. And whenever I felt sad or whenever I felt lonely or whatever difficulty I was going through, I would just open up that small Gideon Bible and I would start reading the scriptures. My most favorite one was Psalm 23. And when I was facing any difficulty, I would read Psalm 62. And I would like actually find a lot of strength and courage. And because of that, I started to draw very near to God at that age. And I would go to the chapel also in the convent and sit there during the lunch or everything, I would just keep speaking to God. And I started to just draw close to God just reading those the scriptures in that Gideon Bible and going to the chapel. Though I came from a CSI background from a Christian family, we never heard the gospel in the church. So I never had an idea about the gospel. And when I came to college and I was a teenager, one day my uncle who's a Baptist pastor just came to visit us. And then he asked me to come with the family took me to their house. And that Sunday, he was preaching. And his preaching was like fire and brimstone from the starting of the message to the end of the message. The entire message was for me. And he was like literally going out saying like your baptism in the church, your confirmation, your living as a Christian, nothing is going to take you to heaven. You're not going to have a relationship with God. It's a relationship with God that you need. And he was asking this question like, you know, saying, do you have an idea like what is going to happen to you if you died right now? What is the confidence? And it was like really very, very, for me at that point of time, I felt very hurt and it was very embarrassing. And I knew he was telling me in front of the whole church like, you know, and when I got back home, like he was quiet as normal the relationship. But then I went back to him the next day, which was Monday morning on the 27th of May. And I told him, you said all of these things that I'm going to go to hell. And I don't have an eternal life and all of the stuff. And I said, on what basis are you saying all these things? And then he took me to Gospel of John. And the third chapter and he showed me how Jesus said, even to Nicodemus said, even though he's a scholar, even though he was a person who did all of these things that the scriptures required, yet Jesus told him that you have to be born again. And then he shared the Gospel through the Gospel of John 3rd chapter saying, how a person, in spite of you being a Christian or whatever practice you do, yet if you are not born of the Spirit, if you are not born again, you cannot inherit the kingdom of God. And that is the point when I said, yes, I want to inherit the kingdom of God and I want to be born of the Spirit and born of God. And then I asked him what I should do and he led me in that prayer of receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. And from then on, my Jenny started and I brought the Gospel home to my own family, shared it with my parents, my siblings and everybody and they also received the Lord. Wow. Praise God. It's wonderful that you went back and you asked and had a sat down and reason and he had that opportunity to share. Beautiful. Praise God. Thank you. Okay. Who else? Okay. So just wanted to share this. Take this time to hear all the stories. I'm sure there are many more. I see Tarun, I'm so Chris and each one of you Prabhakar, all of you have Rose, Felix and all of you have different ways or different stories to share about how you came to the Lord. And it'll be interesting, you know, the circumstances you were in and how the Gospel was communicated. You know, sometimes, like from what we hear, we see many ways like sovereign encounter, like in the case of Charles and a combination of that, you know, sovereign encounter with God and God using someone and a song, a letter. It's wonderful, right? So just want to inspire us and motivate us to do the same to others. You know, the way the Gospel came to you, the way God reached out to you, to us, you know, may we surrender ourselves to God that we may reach out to others with the Gospel and then let others have the joy of knowing the Lord, let others have the joy of, you know, having their destinies changed and, you know, their lives being a testimony, right? So, you know, like we prayed this morning, this weekend, just believe that God will lead, God will orchestrate, God will divinely appoint, bring people to you or maybe, you know, someone there in your phone list, someone there in, you know, email someone that you will communicate. You know, it can be a song, it can be a letter, it can be something, but let God use you to communicate the Gospel because he has called us to this, right? Okay, so next time we may... Yeah, Anita, it's very briefly because we're almost done. Yeah, yeah. From childhood, I was longing for a love and like there would be a time whether it is my mother, father or so many people around me, I would look for a love, but it would happen that over the period of time, almost my 20s and all like whomsoever I expected that they would love me and there would be a time where they would actually fully like dishonor me or like there would be a time that I would not feel any longing. I would feel that where that love gone, like how can suddenly it can just go away and how can they just distance me like that and it is to break my heart and all the, I am born as a Christian, God, maybe you know that we have to pray to Jesus every time we feel lonely or depressed, so I used to do that but still and whatever I used to, like whatever everybody said, pray, pray, pray, I used to pray and like in those prayers, like I have made such a request like God because I was longing for love and I have heard so many love stories like that, so I used to say, God, I want somebody who will love me, the person should be somebody like I was, I have asked like such prayers that some person should come who is an engineer, who is from my school and that would happen, those people would call me, they would propose me and then I say, no, I don't want, again it will happen that I will ask for God, God somebody you send, so and I want somebody from UK as just like crazy prayers have done and there the people have called my brother and they told God told me that she is your sister is the one for me and like that crazy prayers I went on doing and God was listening to my prayer, I don't know what happened but every time it would, whatever I prayed, it was coming my way but I was not taking up, I said, God, I don't know why I'm not taking up whatever is coming up but I really don't know what was happening and like then at last I prayed God, I don't want, I really don't know what I want, you just give me the person whom you think that I would be a blessing for him and then I got married but still that longing, that love was not fulfilled anyway, like so then one day what happened in my house, pastor came and he is totally like he doesn't know anything about me and he just entered my house, the moment he entered my house, that moment only he said, the sister who stays in this house, God loves you and he has a message for you that he has changed all of your circumstances, like I came from Mumbai to Bangalore and here I did not know anyone, one single person also, so God has brought you in this place that he is going to like kind of manifest himself, that he is there every now and then and all of my requests were fulfilled by him and I was felt so loved that after that I just want to grow in his love, that's my testimony. Thank you. Wow, praise God, very unusual prayers that you prayed and awesome, a prophetic word and that's that just opened the way for the gospel, awesome, praise God. So thank you so much, thank you all who shared, thank you all for staying and listening and so yeah, so look forward to this weekend, be sensitive to God and we'll come back with more stories of how God used you, how God took you and so on, yeah, so step out radically, I faith and go ahead, just share, okay, so we'll catch up again next week. Okay, God bless, see you all, bye bye. Thank you, pastor. Thank you, pastor. Thank you, pastor. Thank you, pastor. Thank you, pastor.