TRIP TO INDIA

Dear Friends and Partners in the ministry of God,
As we seek to be like Jesus to serve the churches in building up godly leaders; specifically we desire to see leaders receive from the Father, who will serve the Father together with the Father and not seek to be served and specially treated. Today in our churches we have so many CEO’s and bosses, but we desire to see “shepherds who care for their flocks” and “fathers who pour out their lives into children” leading our churches. My friends please pray together with us that through us the will of God be done through the trainings we give in churches. Pray also for us that we who teach and train others will also finish this “race” [following the rules] marked out for us. As we receive the Father’s love we will pour it out freely to whoever and wherever the father takes us to.
Pray also for our churches that the hirelings be replaced with “shepherd hearted” leaders. Do give thanks to God for the good shepherds that some churches have.
 
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 (NKJV) 24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. 25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. 26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
 
The son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. Matthew 20:28.
Paul’s idea of service is the same as our Lord’s: “I am among you as He that serveth”; “ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.” We have the idea that a man called to the Ministry is called to be a different kind of being from other men. According to Jesus Christ, he is called to be the ‘door-mat’ of other men; their spiritual leader, but never their superior. “I know how to be abased,” says Paul. This is Paul’s idea of service—‘I will spend myself to the last ebb for you; you may give me praise or give me blame, it will make no difference. So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.’ The mainspring of Paul’s service is not love for men, but love for Jesus Christ. If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.
Paul’s realization of how Jesus Christ had dealt with him is the secret of his determination to serve others. “I was before a perjurer, a blasphemer, an injurious person”—no matter how men may treat me, they will never treat me with the spite and hatred with which I treated Jesus Christ. When we realize that Jesus Christ has served us to the end of our meanness, our selfishness, and sin, nothing that we meet with from others can exhaust our determination to serve men for His sake.
[1]Chambers, O. (1993, c1935). My utmost for his highest : Selections for the year (February 23). Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House Publishers.
 
We pray that you also will rise up to disciple others that is pour out that love you have received from the Father.
 
Please pray for our India Trip
 
Cities and town covered during this trip.
 
India 5/8 to 30/8/2008 [Tiruvanthanathapuram / Thiruvalla/ Chenganur / Kotayam / Kochi / Kodanad and Kothamangalam]
 
5/8 to 10/8/2008        Thiruvananthapuram
11/8 to 23/8               Kochi / Kodanad / Kothamangalam
23/8 to 27/8               Thiruvalla / Kotayam / Chenganur
28/8 to 30/8               Kochi
 
We pray that God will continue to increase in you His revelation of His love.
 
In His Majesty’s Service
 
Christopher and Vijaya.K.