Thayappan

MY
CRY AND JOYFUL

NEW LIFE
By
S. THAYAPPAN
(A SOUL STIRRING MIGHTY TESTIMONY)
[By Donation]
DEDICATION
I dedicate this book

to all
those Indo-American Christians
in Portland (Oregon, USA)
who laboured
to bring me to Christ
and to strengthen
my faith.
Pastor D. Solomon Raja
Glorious Zion Christian Assembly
3, Mayur Avenue
Chitlapakkam, Chennai 600 064.
India
INTRODUCTION
Brother Thayappan and his family were very staunch Hindu People
who have recently been blessed by the Lord. They were very strong
devotees of Goddess Adhi Parasakthi and were practicing Hindu
rites very sincerely and devotedly. Brother Thayappan lives with
his family in Tambaram of Madras in South India. Here is his
heart touching testimony as to how he had come to know of the
Lord Jesus Christ, saved and blessed. Not only he, his complete
family ie. his wife, daughter and his younger son were also touched
by the Lord by miracles and now the complete family attend the
church in the full faith & they stand as a living mighty witness to
glorify the name of the Heavenly Father, His son-Lord Jesus christ
and the Holy Spirit. Praise the Lord.
Chennai 64. In the Love of Jesus Christ

1.05.2006 Pastor D. Solomon Raja
FOREWORD
It is my pleasure to tell you about the miraculous signs and wonders

that the Most High God has performed for me who was an
unpardonable sinner and a most ardent idol worshipper for 58 years.
The Lord touched me and my entire family through the sickness
of my son Karthik, who was working as a Software Engineer in
USA. Once Jesus disciples asked Jesus about a man blind from
the birth, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents that he was
born blind, Jesus Christ answered, “Neither this man nor his
parents. This happened so that the work of God might be displayed
in his life – (John 9:3)”. Similarly the Lord has chosen our family
especially for His glory and to display His work. Psalmist says in
Psalm 4:3 that the Lord has set apart the godly for Himself. Thus
the Lord has set apart us for His glory and bestowed upon us
innumerable and unimaginable miracles and wonders.
How great are His signs,

How mighty his wonders!
His kingdom is an eternal kingdom:
His dominion endures from
Generation to generation.
The former account of wonders and miracles that the Lord has
done in my family is in a Testimony book I made in Tamil titled
“My Cry and Joyful new life” for the Tamil congregation of His
Churches in Tamil Nadu (South India). The Lord is touching
thousands and thousands of people through this book including
non-Christians. Many Churches have bought this book in bulk of
500 and 1000 for distribution among their congregation and
gentiles. There is an ever increasing demand for this testimony
book in Tamil even after five editions and 40,000 copies are already
in circulation, not only in Tamil Nadu but all over the world. Many
have requested for bringing out this testimony in all the Indian
languages and in English. Now it is my delight to declare the same
praises to His people scattered all over the Globe, in English. May
all who read these words heed to the Word of God. If King
Nebuchadnezzar could tell his subjects about the wonders the Most
High God did for him, I could tell HIS subjects more about His
wonders as He has done more in my life than He did for King
Nebuchadnezzar. Like King David, the psalmist, I will bless the
Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My
soul shall make its boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear of it
and be glad. Oh, Magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt His
Name together. The plan, purpose and the promise of the King of
Kings for me is to declare His praises to the millions to prepare
them for the Millennium Reign of the King of Kings and the Lord
of Lords, my Saviour Lord JESUS CHRIST. Hallelujah!
I would like to sincerely thank Mrs. Minu Suresh George for

helping me with translation of some of the scripts from Tamil;
Bro. N. Sanjivi for selecting suitable verses for the testimony; Bro.
Raj Kumar and Uncle Victor Swamidas for editing this script and
Bro. Heron Muthuraman of Christian Media Centre for page setting
this book amidst all their tight schedules.
May the Mighty Lord shower His Grace upon me to accomplish

this purpose for His Glory.
Chennai In the Service of the Lord

1.05.2006 S. Thayappan
First Edition 2006
My contact address:
S.Thayappan
No.12, GD Naidu Street, Balaji Avenue-I,
Chitlapakkam Main Road,
Selaiyur Post, Chennai – 600 073
South India. Telephone # (0091-044) 2223 4526
E-Mail – sakthiprabha@yahoo.com
Contents
IDOL WORSHIP IS THE IDEAL WORSHIP MY MISCONCEPTION ................................................ 9

IS CHRIST SO CHEAP TO BE PUBLICIZED LIKE THIS? MY HATRED TOWARDS CHRISTIANITY ... 10
SHORTLIVED BLESSINGS FROM THE GODS I HAD WORSHIPPED ............................................. 12
OUR DREAMS SHATTERED - SERIOUS CONDITION OF MY SON ................................................ 12
FATE AND KARMA OF MY SON SPECIAL PUJAS TO APPEASE THE GODS ............................... 13
IS GOD DEAD OR ALIVE? - BROKE ALL THE GLASS FRAMED IMAGES OF THE IMPOTENT GODS .... 14
LET NO ONE SUFFER LIKE ME AND MY SON BACK TO IDOLATRY .......................................... 15
BETTER DO THE MERCY KILLING - HE WILL BE A BURDEN TO YOU & TO HIMSELF FOR EVER ....... 17
THE REAL GOD HEARD MY PRAYERS ........................................................................................ 18
FAITHFUL PRAYERS OF BELIEVERS RAISED UP MY SON FROM COMA! .................................... 19
DO ANY CHURCH GIVE MONEY FOR CONVERSION OF HINDUS TO CHRISTIANITY? ................. 20
JESUS IN ME MOVED FROM LAST PLACE TO THE FIRST ........................................................... 21
TASTING TRUE CHRISTIAN LOVE ................................................................................................ 22
ULTIMATUM GIVEN BY ME TO JESUS CHRIST ............................................................................ 23
I REMEMBER THEM WITH TEARS FOR BRINGING ME TO CHRIST ............................................. 25
HOW COULD THE ONCE HATED CHRISTIANITY BECAME THE MUCH LOVED ............................ 26
THE INVALUABLE PEARLS I COULD DIG OUT OF CHRISTIANITY ............................................... 28
THOUGHTS THAT SURFACED IN MY MIND .................................................................................. 30
JESUS CHRIST IS THE REAL GOD AND CREATOR ....................................................................... 32
HOLY BIBLE A GUIDE FOR YOU TO BE HOLY ............................................................................ 33
THE BIBLE SHOWED ME WHAT AN UNPARDONABLE SINNER I HAD BEEN ............................... 34
MY FORTY YEARS OF ALCOHOLISM WAS BROKEN .................................................................... 35
WHAT AN AWESOME, HOLY, ALMIGHTY, LOVEABLE GOD JESUS IS! ......................................... 36
MY UNSHAKEABLE FAITH IN JESUS ............................................................................................ 39
THE HEALING POWER OF LORD JESUS ....................................................................................... 40
STRANDED ON THE STREETS OF USA WITH A HANDICAPPED SON .......................................... 41
KNOCK, THE DOOR WILL BE OPENED. THE LORD OPENED EVEN WITHOUT MY KNOCKING .... 42
FLYING BACK TO INDIA TEARFUL FAREWELL BY CHRISTIAN BROTHERS .............................. 44
WE WERE CHOSEN SPECIALLY FOR LORDS GLORY .................................................................. 45
THE PROPHECY HAS COME TRUE NOW! ..................................................................................... 45
OUR BAPTISM AND THE LORDS GRACE ..................................................................................... 47
OH LORD, PLEASE TOUCH MY FAMILY ........................................................................................ 48
DADDY, YOUR JESUS IS REALLY POWERFUL MY YOUNGER SON SAKTHI .......................... 49
NO CASTE OR COMMUNITY IN CHRISTIANITY ............................................................................ 51
CATCH THEM YOUNG FOR JESUS CHRIST FOR THE BENEFIT OF EVERY ONE AND EVERY THING ...... 54
O JESUS, PLEASE HELP ME MY DAUGHTERS CRY ................................................................ 56
I WILL COME BACK AS I GO MY DAUGHTERS STUBBORNNESS TOWARDS CHRISTIANITY .... 57
GAYATHRI, DO YOU PRAY OR CURSE? HER COLLEAGUES FEAR ............................................ 58
THE LORDS WAYS ARE PECULIAR .............................................................................................. 59
YOU WILL WITNESS MIRACLES MIRACULOUS HEALING OF MY WIFE IN SURGERY TABLE .... 60
LOST A FEW FRIENDS AND EARNED INNUMERABLE BROTHERS & SISTERS ........................... 62
NOT BY OUR SKILL BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD ANYTHING WILL HAPPEN ............................. 65
LET NOT KARTHIS CONDITION COME TO ANY ONE ................................................................... 67
HEALING NOT POSSIBLE BY THE MEDICINE IS POSSIBLE BY LORDS GRACE ......................... 68
KNOW THE SCRIPTURE, IT WILL DELIVER YOU ......................................................................... 70
DELAY IS NOT DENIAL IT IS ONLY TO PREPARE US ................................................................ 71
THANKS TO JESUS FOR GIVING THIS SICKNESS KARTHIS JOY IN HIS CRY ........................ 72
FROM PITCH DARK TO WONDERFUL LIGHT ............................................................................... 73
HAVE YOU OR ANYONE IN YOUR CHURCH SEEN HEAVEN? I WANT TO EXPERIENCE HEAVEN IN EARTH ........ 75
YOU CAN GET RICE FROM A RICE SHOP; NOT FROM A GARMENT SHOP .................................. 76
THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE MIRACLES THAT JESUS CHRIST CAN DO ...................................... 79
MY LIFE AND DEATH IS IN YOUR HANDS, MY LORD! ................................................................. 79
A MARWADI BECOMES A DADDY ............................................................................................... 80
YOU WILL NOT BORROW BUT WILL LEND TO OTHERS ............................................................. 81
TRUST IN THE LORD. HE CAN LIFT YOU TO TOP OF THE WORLD .............................................. 82
JESUS FROM THE MOUTH OF DUMB NOORJEHAN ..................................................................... 83
HE, WHO HAS EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR! .......................................................................... 85
JESUS CHRIST IN THE HOLY KORAN - MUSLIMS BEING SAVED ................................................ 86
JESUS SPOKE IN A GENTLE VOICE TO GULSHAN FATHIMA ....................................................... 87
PRAYER OF FAITH TO JESUS CHRIST AFTER THE NAMAZ .......................................................... 88
REFUSAL TO DENY JESUS CHRIST WILL BE REWARDED WITH DEATH .................................... 90
NO REMISSION OF SINS WITHOUT SHEDDING OF BLOOD ......................................................... 92
NO OTHER GOD DIED FOR US EXCEPT JESUS CHRIST .............................................................. 93
WE ARE BORN IN SIN ................................................................................................................... 95
THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST FROM SRILAKSHMI NARAYANA SWAMY TEMPLE ................. 96
JESUS CHRIST, THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR IN SAMA VEDA ......................................................... 97
JESUS CHRIST IS THE REAL GOD HINDU PRIEST PROCLAIMED FROM A HINDU TEMPLE ... 99
THE ALMIGHTY GOD WHO MAKES US STAND AS A WITNESS ................................................. 100
TWO ARE WATCHING WHATEVER WE DO ................................................................................. 102
SATAN WILL FLEE WHEN WE PRAY WITH FAITH ...................................................................... 105
CAN ANYONE DO WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR US? ................................................................... 106
INAUSPICIOUS DAY AND TIME IS LUCKY FOR THE CHILDREN OF JESUS ............................... 108
JESUS CHRIST TRANSFORMS ANYONE WHO COMES TO HIM ................................................. 110
WHO IS A TRUE CHRISTIAN? ..................................................................................................... 113
WE SHOULD BE A WITNESS TO JESUS CHRIST ........................................................................ 115
DO YOU WANT THAT ETERNAL PEACE AND EXPERIENCE IN YOUR LIFE? ............................... 117
JESUS CHRIST GIVES YOU NEW LIFE ....................................................................................... 118
MY CRY AND JOYFUL NEW LIFE
(Testimony by Bro. S. Thayappan)
IDOL WORSHIP IS THE IDEAL WORSHIP MY MISCONCEPTION

“They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and
served created things than the Creator, who is forever praised –
Rom 1:25 (NIV)”
I am 63 years young and had been a staunch believer of Hindu

religion for generations. I and my wife, two sons and daughter
were strong and ardent devotees and worshipers of goddess Adhi
Parasakthi of Mel Maruvathur and the deity of Thiruchendur. As I
was serving in the Indian Air Force mostly in North India, my
mother had made a covenant that whenever I visit our native place,
I would also visit the temple at Trichendur. Thus I had visited
Trichendur more than 25 times. I had also visited all other famous
Murugan Shrines in other places in Tamil Nadu. I had also gone to
other Hindu temples at Kanyakumari, Madurai, Samayapuram,
Pillaiyarpatti, Rameswaram, Tirupathi, Varanasi etc. I had been
instrumental for construction of a big Murugan Temple at Air Force
Station, Chandigarh. I had been one of the Executive Committee
Members of Lord Ganesh Temple in our neighbourhood, Ganesh
Nagar of Chitlapakkam area in Chennai. I had also written, acted,
directed and produced a Tamil Drama “Sakthi Oli” (Light of
Goddess Sakthi) in a big spiritual conference in Madurai in 1985.
I had also performed Hari Katha Kalatchepam for more than 100
times depicting the glory of Lord Murugan. Our entire family
members used to wear only red colour dress as a mark and identity
of Sakthi cult on all Tuesdays, Fridays, full moon and other
auspicious days and do special pujas and annadhanams (free
distribution of food to poor people). We have conducted
innumerable pujas and rituals like Kalasam (carrying pots), Vilakku
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(lights) and Vezhvi (sacred fire) in our house and also in temples.
I have read many Hindu scriptures like Bhagavat Gita, Ramayana
and Mahabaratha and the works of Swami Vivekananda, Ramalinga
Swamigal and many others. We were fully convinced and proud
to be a staunch Hindu. Every year all the members of our family
used to fast and go to Mel Maruvathur Temple with Irumudi (twin
pack containing items for worship and the offerings). We were a
god fearing, happy and contented family and used to be respected
by all the neighbours for our strong and true religious beliefs and
practices.
IS CHRIST SO CHEAP TO BE PUBLICIZED LIKE THIS? MY HATRED
TOWARDS CHRISTIANITY
“They refused to believe and publicly maligned the way – Acts
19:9 (NIV)”
At the same time I had an aversion for Christianity. I had a very

strong feeling that Christianity was a foreign religion and Jesus
Christ is a foreign God and was meant only for scheduled castes
and tribes i.e. low class people of India. Whenever I saw some
Evangelists preaching the Gospel at the Bus stand or Railway
station or in any public place, I used to confront them with questions
“Who are you to call me a sinner? What sin have I committed?
Are you a puritan to call me a sinner? Better hold your tongue and
never again call anybody a sinner in public”. When I saw someone
giving tracts about Christ, I used to make a big scene there by
ridiculing them by asking “Is Christ a cheap commodity to sell
and publicize like this on road side? Why? Are there no takers for
Christ?” My hatred towards Christianity increased multifold when
my own sister’s son became a Christian believer and wanted to
marry only a Christian girl. It was a great shock for my sister and
my brother-in-law. My sister’s son studied in Christian schools
since my brother-in-law was working in Khadi department (Govt.
of Tamil Nadu) in Nanguneri and Valliyur areas in Tirunelveli
district of Tamil Nadu, which was mostly populated by Christians
and almost every school in that area was run by the Churches. I
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had a feeling that the children succumbed to the indoctrination of

Christianity done subtly, quietly and continuously, on the tender
minds of these school going kids by the schools run by these
Churches and children fell a prey to Christianity when they grew
up unchecked! My sister and her husband tried to bring some sense
into their son stating that an inter-religious marriage would only
be a disaster and would lead to many problems in the post marital
life, in our culture and among our relatives. But he was adamant in
his stand. Finally they approached me to advise him as he had lot
of respect and regards for me and for my elder brother. I tried my
best to advise and convince him that his stand in marrying a
Christian girl was nothing but a stupidity which he would regret in
his later days. I asked him if he loved any Christian girl? He said
‘No’. I told him that I might even agree to the marriage if he had a
love affair with a Christian girl. I tried to convince him that his
liking for the Bible, Christ and Christianity has been injected into
his blood from childhood in the schools and he had accepted it
even without fully knowing well about his own religion, Hinduism.
I told him that Hindu religion is the only best religion in the world
and that alone can lead us to Mukthi (salvation) and to Heaven. I
even threatened him that I may even break his leg and make him
permanently handicapped if he were to go against all our wishes.
But he never relented from his stand. Any amount of my coaxing,
threatening, reasoning and convincing had no effect on him and
he finally married a Christian girl whose brother is a Pastor. That
further added fuel to my hatred and aversion towards Christianity
and I made strict orders in the textile spinning mill where I was
working as a Personnel Manager, not to give any job to any
Christian and I made sure that it was strictly followed in letter and
spirit.. Although my nephew was staying with his family only a
mile away from the place of my work, I never went to his house or
touched his children despite my sister, brother-in-law, my own
elder brother and many of our relatives had later reconciled to his
conversion to Christianity.
SHORTLIVED BLESSINGS FROM THE GODS I HAD WORSHIPPED

“A horse is a vain hope for deliverance, despite all its great strength
it cannot save-Ps 33:17 (NIV)”
I have three children. I was so much religious minded that I named

all my children after the Hindu gods’ names I had believed in. I
named my eldest son after Thirichendur Murugan as Karthikeyan,
my daughter as Gayathri depicting ‘OM’ Pranava Manthra, the so
called highest Manthra among all the Manthras and my younger
son as ‘Sakthi’ after Melmaruvathur Adhi Parasakthi. We were so
much delighted and felt as having been blessed by Goddess Adhi
Parasakthi and Lord Murugan when our eldest son Karthik was
selected for a job in Singapore as a Software Engineer with a
monthly salary of Rs. 1.25 Lakhs where he worked for one year.
We were so much elated with joy when he was selected for a job
in USA and boarded the flight for Atlanta on 24th June 2000. He
was offered a salary of Rs.2.50 lakhs per month. We felt that all
our prayers, good deeds, fear of God and faith were bringing a
blessing to us and we thanked all the gods whom we had been
worshipping.
OUR DREAMS SHATTERED - SERIOUS CONDITION OF MY SON
“This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace – Is 37:3
(NIV)”
Our joy and dreams did not survive even for three months. All our
dreams were shattered when I received a phone call at the midnight
of 13th September 2000 from St. Vincent Hospital in Portland,
Oregon State, USA, asking for my consent to do a major head
surgery on my son to save his life. They said that he is in intensive
care unit, in serious condition, his brain affected by Miliary TB
resulting in Hydrocephalus. They further said that some of his brain
faculties are already affected, he is falling into coma and that his
left side is paralyzed. If the surgery is not done immediately, he
may not survive, the doctor said. I was terribly shocked, not able
to believe my own ears. I told the doctor – what are you talking?
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Are you telling about my son Karthik? No, it can never be so for
my son. I think you have dialed a wrong number. I was about to
hang on him feeling pity for the parents to whom this call was
intended. But the doctor on the long distance call hurried up to say
“Don’t hang on. Please wait. Are you not Mr. Thayappan?” I told
“Yes, I am”. Then he said “I am talking about only your son Karthik,
who is working as a Software Engineer in Intel”. It was a
thunderbolt on me.
FATE AND KARMA OF MY SON SPECIAL PUJAS TO APPEASE THE
GODS
“…We have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place
– Is 28:15 (NIV)”
My entire family could not stand this news and were deeply
affected by it. It was beyond anybody’s control to pacify my wife.
She could not take it at all. She was all tears and was crying all the
time without taking any food. A young and healthy man of 28
years going to USA laughing and jumping in June and within three
months – we cannot even think of him to be in ICU, requiring a
major head surgery to save his life. Why…Why? How could it
happen to him? Why has it happened to my son? What sin have I
committed for this to befall on my son? I could not bear it. Is it the
envy of some neighbours? Or is it their eye casting? Or is it some
witchcraft done by someone? Oh God, please answer my prayers,
I cried. What wrong have I done to earn this for my son? What can
be the cause of this fateful blow on my son? I cried and prayed.
With no answer to any of my questions, I took the horoscope of
my son and went to many astrologers, fortune tellers, palmists and
to the Vaitheeswaran temple to have a look at my son’s palm leaf
horoscope. Wherever I went I was told that my son’s birth stars
and planets are not in favourable positions, his time is bad, it is in
his fate and karma etc. Every one was able to tell correctly whatever
has happened in my son’s life so far. When it came to his present
condition, they were hesitant to tell the fact, a few swallowed the
words, one or two indirectly pointed out the end of my son’s life.
I looked deep into his horoscope through many astrologers, but

none of them could give me an encouraging word regarding my
son’s future or life. They said that even the Almighty God cannot
and will not change the Prarartha karma, Sanjitha karma and the
Ahamya karma (Wills of God). One has to undergo the sufferings
of these karmas. To reduce its adverse effect and to please and
appease the planets and birth stars, some one suggested to do special
pujas with milk abhishegam (ordination of deity with milk) for
Lord Siva Linga for 40 days, some one else advised to do Ganapathy
Homam, another one a Navagraha Puja (Prayers for nine planets)
and a Homam (holy fire), yet another – a vada mala (garland of
hot doughnuts) for Lord Anjaneya (Monkey disciple of Lord Rama)
and a hundred other suggestions like this. My wife rushed up with
tears to do every thing suggested to us with the hope that the God
and planets may be pleased with at least some of these worship,
puja and offerings and that our son may come out of this trauma
unscathed and totally healed. It was the tearful feeling and hope
of a mother who had carried him in her womb for ten months to
see him healed.
IS GOD DEAD OR ALIVE? - BROKE ALL THE GLASS FRAMED IMAGES
OF THE IMPOTENT GODS
“Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could
be theirs – Jonah 2:8”
In the meanwhile, I tried to collect the information about the exact

condition of my son through some of my known friends in USA
and through the Consultant who had employed my son. Information
I received from them only aggravated my worries, anxieties and
the Consultant asked me to take a flight immediately to Portland
to be with my son. He agreed to fax me a medical certificate from
the hospital to enable me to obtain the visa on priority from the US
Consulate General in Chennai. While I was trying to get the visa
and book a flight to Portland, I received another phone call from
the hospital stating that due to some block, the shunt (tube) which
was placed in the ventricular space of my son’s brain to drain out
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the excess fluid, is not working and hence they need to do another
surgery to replace the shunt. I was really torn to pieces. The agony
and pain of my wife was unbearable. Why all the Gods whom I
had worshipped for the last 58 years have not helped my son?
Couldn’t these Gods have averted my son’s sickness? Is fate and
karma so powerful that even Gods could do nothing about it? Or
these Gods have no power to change the fate or karma? Are they
merely stones and metals? Is it my foolishness to have believed
until now on all these so called Gods and to have thought of them
as omnipotent, all powerful and capable? A person can fall sick. It
can be a fever or a typhoid or even malaria or Jaundice. But if
one’s brain was affected leading to coma and paralysis, isn’t it the
duty of these Gods whom I had been worshipping so far to save
my son from such deadly and fatal diseases? Are all the pujas,
offerings, archanai (Prayer chanting mantras), abhishekams,
homams, fastings and chanting of manthras I have done to these
Gods only a waste? Do they have no meaning at all? Simply I
could not comprehend. Is there a God at all in this world? Do they
really exist or not? Or was I just worshipping a folly and non-
existing god so far? If there is, is God alive or dead? Has the God
got a heart, feeling and love for His creations? Does He not have
eyes and ears to see and listen to our cries and the sufferings of His
people? If everything was to happen as per karma and fate, then
why should I worship these powerless and impotent gods? In my
anger and anguish, I broke all the pictures of these so called gods
which were in my house and which we had been worshipping all
these years.
LET NO ONE SUFFER LIKE ME AND MY SON BACK TO IDOLATRY
“Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those
who by nature are not Gods – Gal 4:8 (NIV)”
I hurried from India to USA on 27th September 2000 to see my

ailing son and to be with him in the time of his distress. When I
saw my son on 29th midnight in the ICU ward, I was really torn to
pieces. I pray that no father or mother should ever see his or her
son in such a pathetic, horrible and pitiable condition. He blinked
lifelessly, his left side totally paralyzed, not able to speak, memory
totally lost, very lean and thin, half of his hair in the head shaved
off to do the surgery and a bandage in the head with a tube coming
through the head draining out some fluid from the brain and
countless tubes fitted every where in his body and his life line
being monitored round the clock by a computer. He was practically
sinking. He was in the last leg of his life. The doctors were not
able to give any hope to me for his survival. They simply said –
Pray to God. When I saw my son’s hopeless and precarious
condition, I had no other go but to fall again at the feet of those
idol gods and pray to them again to forgive my foolishness of
breaking their pictures in anger and requested them to save my
son at any cost. With tears rolling down my cheeks, I used to
chant many manthras seeking mercy from all the gods from
morning to evening. I used to chant Kandha sasti kavasam, 108,
1008 Om Sakthi manthras, then Sivaaya Manthra and then
Miruthunjeya Manthra i.e. life saving manthra, then Vazhga
Vaghamudan mantra by Vedathri Maharishi. Days after days,
weeks after weeks, I was chanting these manthras and praying to
all the Hindu gods I knew with tears and broken heart. There used
to be Satya Sai Baba bhajan on every Thursday, in one of the South
Indians’ house in Portland and I used to attend that bhajan regularly
seeking Baba’s healing touch on my son. There they gave me the
sacred ash brought out through miracle by Sathya Sai Baba and
the sacred water blessed by Baba. I applied that sacred ash on the
fore head of my son and poured a few drops of the holy water into
the mouth of my son thinking that it will heal him completely. I
had pasted the photo of Baba in the ICU ward of my son believing
that it will ward off the demon of sickness from my son. Sai Baba’s
disciples told that if I read the life history of Shirdy Sai Baba (the
previous avatar of Satya Sai Baba) within one week with a prayer
request, it will be blessed by Baba. I read it with tears and prayers
in four days time to save the life of my son. But nothing happened.
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All the manthras I was chanting, all the gods whom I was
worshiping and all the prayers I was making with full heart, soul
and tears did not heal my son. Instead his condition was going
from bad to worse. He was practically sinking, dying and his pulses
were going down.
BETTER DO THE MERCY KILLING - HE WILL BE A BURDEN TO YOU &
TO HIMSELF FOR EVER
“…no one knows who the Father is except the son and those to
whom the son chooses to reveal Him – Luke 10:22 (NIV)”
My son’s condition was a challenge even to those American doctors

who were supposed to be the best, experts and exponents in
advanced medical science in the world. St Vincent Hospital in
Portland was adjudged as one among the best hundred hospitals in
America for the last seven years consecutively. Finally the doctors
told me that they have done their best and that nothing further can
be done by them. Even if my son survived, he will remain a burden
to himself, to us and he can never lead a normal life or go for a job.
To avoid all these, the best thing would be to do the ‘Mercy killing’
they said. It is permissible under US law. The end will not be
painful. Once the life supporting apparatuses are removed, his end
will come even without his knowledge and it will be as if he is still
sleeping, they said and recommended mercy killing of my son,
without any mercy in their heart. They gave me a booklet to read
on the subject and to take my time to take a decision in the matter.
I was shocked and really shattered. I told those doctors in even
tone, “Never again talk this topic to me. You are not suggesting
Mercy Killing but you are killing the Mercy. We Indians have the
mind and duty to take care of their sons at any critical condition”.
But I did not know what to do further except to cry. As David said
in Ps 18:4, the cords of death had entangled my son; the torrents
of destruction had overwhelmed me. The cords of grave have coiled
around Karthik, the snares of death confronted him. In my distress,
I called the Lord; I cried to the God for help. I cried loud – Is there
no REAL GOD in this world to hear my prayers and change the
fate and karma of my son? From the Heavens, the REAL GOD –
Jesus Christ heard my prayers! My cry must have come before
Him and fell into His ears, for I heard the answer from the Lord
the next day.
THE REAL GOD HEARD MY PRAYERS
“This poor man called and the Lord heard him” – Ps 34:6
The next day on 2nd November 2000 when I was sitting in the ICU
reception so much depressed and dejected, a person passed by me.
Then he starred at me, retreated and came over to me and said,
“Excuse me, are you from India?” I said, “Yes”. He then asked
me, “Which part?” I replied, “Madras”. In a friendly and pleasing
way, he shook my hand and said “I am Pastor Jacob George from
Kerala. I am a Pastor in one of the Indian Churches here.” He then
enquired what brought me there. I told him everything. He felt
sorry and said a few soothing words and then asked me if he could
see my son. I took him to the ICU room where my son was lying
in coma. Pastor’s eyes grew wet when he saw my son’s condition.
When he came back to the reception, he took my hand, patted it
comfortingly and then asked if he could pray for my son. I was
taken aback with surprise. I then said with tears in my eyes “Please
pray for my son. I need all the prayers for my son”. He prayed. He
prayed with tears and with all his heart. He prayed with agony,
real concern and love. It was a strong, effective and heart touching
prayer. He really wept in his prayers, unmindful of the situation
and passers by. I had never heard such a soul stirring and touching
prayer in my whole life. I was sobbing uncontrollably. It would be
natural and alright if I cried as a father for my son’s such condition.
But an unknown person was praying for my son with tears! I had
never experienced such a prayer and it was something quite strange
to me. None of my Hindu friends or close relatives had ever cried
or prayed for my son like this. Even in prayers, we, the Hindus are
selfish. We pray only for ourselves, for our family and children
and NEVER for any neighbours or unknown patient or for those
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people who fought with us, talked ill and evil about us, scolded us,
abused us or cheated us. One needs to have a good, divine loving
heart to pray for others especially unknown and enemies. I came
to know later that ONLY TRUE CHRISTIANS HAVE SUCH
TYPE OF GREAT, TENDER AND HOLY LOVING HEART
TO PRAY FOR OTHERS! They take the burden and sufferings
of others and pray for them and also share the goodness and
happiness they enjoy with others. They only have the heart to
forgive other’s mistakes. Then the Pastor asked me if he could
bring in some more people who are prayer warriors and who would
only be too willing to pray for my son. I said, “Please bring them”.
Within another one hour he brought in more than about 10 people
and they all prayed for my son with tears in the ICU reception
lobby.
FAITHFUL PRAYERS OF BELIEVERS RAISED UP MY SON FROM COMA!
“…if we know that He hears us – whatever we ask – we know that
we have what we asked of Him – I John 5:15 (NIV)”
Third day on 5th November 2000, Pastor Jacob George took me to

his Church. It was a small congregation of about 20 to 25 families,
all Keralites and Pentecostal. The Pastor explained about the serious
condition of my son and asked every one there to pray for my son.
They all joined together, circled around me, laid their hands on me
and prayed with full heart in one accord. They literally shed tears
for my son and cried to Lord Jesus Christ for the healing and
deliverance of my son. They all prayed together with one mind
“Father, please have mercy on Karthik and his father. Shower your
blessings on them. Let your power of resurrection come down on
Karthik and raise him up from coma. May your injured hands touch
him and heal him completely. We claim complete deliverance and
healing for Karthik in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Father, we
read in James 5:15 that the prayers offered in faith will make the
sick person well; the Lord will raise him. We claim it for Karthik
in full faith in Jesus precious name, Master. Amen”. The Almighty
God who promised His presence, in the midst of two or three

gathered on His name (Mt 18:20), heard their tearful prayers made
in one accord. The Lord who has said that He will never forsake
you (Josh 1:5) and ask anything in His name, you shall get it,
listened to their earnest, faithful prayers. The loving, merciful,
miracle God – Lord Jesus Christ broke and removed the cords of
death entangled around my son, unwound the cords of death coiled
around my son and BLESSED MY SON TO COME OUT OF
COMA! When we reached the hospital from the Church, we found
him seated in a wheel chair, fully conscious and in all his senses
for the first time in three months and he nodded his head on seeing
and recognizing me. It was a great and pleasing shock for us. Even
the doctors and the ICU ward nurses wondered and said that his
recovery is quite unbelievable. I could neither believe nor disbelieve
my own eyes. I could not help but think like this – the so called
Hindu Gods whom I had been worshipping whole heartedly and
devotedly for the past 58 years had failed to help my son. On the
contrary, the Lord whom I had despised and hated has saved my
son from the valley of death. Tears rolled down my cheeks on
seeing my son’s recovery from coma of which I had totally lost all
my hopes. Jesus Christ who created this entire universe and all the
living beings in it with one word, has also changed, altered and
nullified the horoscope of my son which predicted the end of my
son’s life. Praise the Lord!
DO ANY CHURCH GIVE MONEY FOR CONVERSION OF HINDUS TO
CHRISTIANITY?
“…the kindness and love of God our Saviour appeared – Titus
3:4 (NIV)”
Then every day Pastor Jacob George or Sam Verghese with Mathai
uncle or George Joy and many others from his church used to come,
pray and talk about Bible or Jesus Christ and His unceasing love
to me. They said, “If you believe Jesus, you have a good life in
Him (Rom 1:17)”. I needed their prayers for my son but NOT
Jesus. When they started talking more about Bible and Jesus, I
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became little alert and cautious. I thought these people were trying
to convert me to Christianity taking advantage of my helpless
condition. So I started arguing with them telling that whatever
they are telling, all are there already in Bhagavat Gita or Ramayana
or Mahabharatha or in the teachings of Vivekananda and in many
other Hindu Vedas and Upanishads. But they never argued back
nor did they talk anything ill about Hindu gods or Hinduism or its
rituals, culture or traditions. They talked only about the abundant
love of Jesus, how He had died and shed to the last drop of his
precious blood on the cross for all our sins and sicknesses and
what He has promised to us. And whosoever came and talked to
me had a miracle in their lives to narrate and they were a living
example and witness for the blessings, mercy and healing power
of Lord Jesus Christ. Then I asked myself – what are these people
going to get by converting me into a Christian? Is their Church
going to give them one lakh or two lakhs rupees for converting a
Hindu into a Christian? No, nothing! Neither monetary benefit
nor reward nor any recognition do they get. In day to day life we
recommend so many worldly things to others – go to that particular
tailor, he stitches well or go to that automobile mechanic. He is
good at the job. Like that we recommend so many worldly things
to others without expecting any thing from them. Similarly it may
be the way they show their gratitude and love to the Lord for the
blessings, healings, miracles and the eternal joy they had received
from Jesus Christ. So I THOUGHT WHY NOT I ALSO PRAY
TO LORD JESUS CHRIST?
JESUS IN ME MOVED FROM LAST PLACE TO THE FIRST
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ – 2 Pet 3:18”
Hindu philosophy teaches that all the Gods are same and only the
names are different. Eshwar, Allah, therey naam, sabko jannath
dhey Bhagawan! Rivers may be different but finally all the rivers
converge only in the ocean i.e. Bhagavan, the Supreme Almighty
God. Further, as it is, we, the Hindus are not worshipping one
God. We pray to umpteen number of Gods like Shiva, his wife
Parvathi or Om Sakthi, their son Ganesh, His brother Murugan,
his two wives, Lord Venkatachalapathy, his wife Lakshmi, his sister
Saraswathi, Hanuman etc. apart from several self proclaimed
godmen like Saibaba, Sankarachariya, Bhangaru Adigal and so
on. h So I admitted Jesus Christ into the crowd of Gods and started
worshipping him also. I used to chant all the manthras for the Hindu
Gods first and in the end prayed to Lord Jesus. In one month,
without my knowledge, Jesus had moved from the LAST
POSITION TO THE FIRST PLACE and I became aware that I
was praying only to Jesus afterwards. WHEN I WAS
WORSHIPPING ONLY JESUS, MIRACLES AND WONDERS
STARTED HAPPENING IN MY SON’S CONDITION. I could
see life and a sense of recognition in his eyes and a steady progress
in his general condition. Within another fortnight he was transferred
from ICU to general ward and then to a Rehabilitation Centre.
More than Rs. 3.5 Crores had been spent on my son’s medical
treatment. As my son’s medical expenses were covered by the
Insurance, I was spared. Otherwise, it was beyond my imagination.
I don’t even know how many zeros are there in 3.5 Crores. I am
just a middle class person. The strange thing was that my son had
worked only for 25 days in USA, not even one full month. I could
only thank Lord Jesus Christ for His divine intervention in our
lives and for His remarkable, wonderful guidance. Hallelujah!
TASTING TRUE CHRISTIAN LOVE
“Taste and see that the Lord is good - Ps 34:8 (NIV)”
In the Rehabilitation centre, on one of the days in December 2000,

the nurse removed my son’s urine catheter which was used for
more than four months. He was then wearing an adult diaper. I
took him for physiotherapy and before putting him to bed for a
nap in the afternoon after lunch, I checked up his diaper to change
it if it was wet. Surprisingly it was totally dry. It was something
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very strange for me. In that winter, any person would normally
feel the need for urinating every hour. My son had not urinated
since morning in that climate. I thought of waiting till the evening
to check him up again. I checked up again at 4 PM. His diaper
was still dry. But he was restless and perhaps was feeling the urge
and uneasiness but could not express it. I called for the nurse and
she said that my son could have developed some infection in the
urinary track or a blockage in the passage which was a serious
matter and wanted to call the doctor immediately. I asked her to
wait. “Before you call your doctor, let me call my Doctor!
Immediately I rang up my Christian friends and told them. They
said “Don’t worry, just lay your hand on his body and pray in the
name of Jesus. Your faith will heal him (Mk 5:34). Cast all your
care upon Jesus for He cares for you (1 Pet 5:7). We are also
kneeling down and praying for him”. I did as they advised and
prayed in full faith. THE NEXT MINUTE THE MIRACLE
HAPPENED! My son urinated immediately without any problem.
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord. Many times Karthi’s condition grew
worse, totally unpredictable and his head would collapse without
any known reason and our faithful prayers used to bring him back
to normalcy. How true and sincere is Jesus Christ to His promise
“Call upon Me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you and you
shall glorify Me (Ps 50:15)”.
ULTIMATUM GIVEN BY ME TO JESUS CHRIST
“My times are in your hands – Ps 31:15 (NIV)”
I told Pastor Jacob George that if Jesus Christ heals my son

completely within one month by Jan 15, 2001, I would accept Him
as my personal Saviour. He agreed but told me to stop worshipping
any idols and have complete faith in Jesus and worship Him alone.
“Without faith it is impossible to please God (Heb 11:6)” he said.
From that day onwards, I had stopped idolatry and chanting of any
mantras and started praying only to Jesus. I prayed sincerely, with
all my heart and soul. I prayed all the time. I prayed for every
thing. I prayed before doing anything. The prayer was in my mind

all the 24 hours. I could feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in me.
Many miracles happened in my day to day life proving to me “I
am with you always even to the very end of the age (Mt 28:20)”
and the God’s grace was with me all the time. Every Saturday I
used to call my family. The call, normally, won’t materialize for a
long time and it really used to test my patience. But as soon as I
pray and beg to the Lord for the connection, I would get it
immediately. This happened many a times. One day I had misplaced
the telephone prepaid card somewhere. I searched it for more than
30 minutes but to no avail. I got it immediately as soon as I prayed
to the Lord. Once I could not open the lid of my cooker. Somehow
it had got struck and I struggled for nearly 15 minutes to open it.
Finally when I looked up to the Lord for help, it opened up.
Normally Americans don’t stop the car on the high way to give lift
to any strangers. Many a times, whenever I was stranded in the
hospital or in any Max station because of rain or inclement weather,
I would just pray to Jesus and I would get a lift in some car to
reach my apartment. Like this, THE LORD ANSWERED ALL
MY PRAYERS AND MET MY DAY TO DAY NEEDS AND
PROVED THAT HE NEVER FORSAKES HIS CHILDREN.
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you, not as the world
gives do I give you. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be
afraid (John 14: 27)”. True to His Words, more than anything
else, the Lord gave me the peace and hope which I had totally lost
without HIM.
At the same time, I had a feeling in my heart as to who am I to give

an ultimatum of one month to the Lord to heal my son. He is the
Almighty God who created the whole universe, millions of stars
and planets. The Lord has said, “It is I who made the earth and
created mankind upon it (Is 45:12)”. He is the Creator of all the
living beings on the land, the air and the sea. Recently I saw a
news item in TV that a satellite which was sent by NASA Scientists
from USA had traveled continuously for seven years and reached
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Saturn. When I tried to imagine the distance from earth to Saturn,

my head was really swirling. I saw another news item in TV on
Sep 01, 2004 that the American scientists have discovered two
more new planets like earth at a distance of 35 light years in the
solar system. What has been discovered out of the creation of the
Lord by the scientists in the world so far is only very little and yet
to be discovered is unimaginable. Whenever there is a discovery
of a new planet in the galaxy or cosmic universe, we are awe struck
with the creation of the Lord. All these things which are beyond
our thinking and understanding were created by the Lord with ONE
WORD and He hung them in vacuum like flowers in a tree. What
a fool I had been to give a time and date to such an omnipotent
Lord and Creator to heal my son in one month! He knows what is
best for me and for my son. HE DOES EVERYTHING
BEAUTIFUL IN HIS RIGHT TIME AND WAY (Ecl 3:11).
Psalmist says in Ps 55:22, “Cast your burden on the Lord and He
shall sustain you. He shall never permit the righteous to be moved”.
That sense and realization dawned on me and I asked the Lord to
forgive my foolishness and I totally surrendered at His feet.
I REMEMBER THEM WITH TEARS FOR BRINGING ME TO CHRIST
“Those who oppose him he must gently instruct…2 Tim
2:25(NIV)”
The Satan tried his level best to destroy my newly found faith.
Pastor Jacob George, Brother Verghese Pulikottil, Mathai uncle,
his wife, George Joy, his wife Sutha, Paul, EV Verghese, Johnson
and his wife and so many others whom I can never forget in my
life, strengthened my faith and laid a strong foundation in Christ
by obeying the Word of God in Luke 22:32 “When you have
returned to me, strengthen your brethren” by their sustained
fellowship, visit, love, moral support apart from upholding me in
all their prayers. I recall the innumerable occasions I had insulted
them, neglected, ignored, irritated, avoided them and argued with
them just for the sake of argument. I still remember the days when
I used to go for walking on seeing them in order to avoid them off.

But they ignored all my irritant behavior and went on firmly in
bringing me to Christ by preaching the Word as Apostle Paul has
exhorted in 2 Tim 4:2, “in season and out of season”. They loved
me and my son so much; they were ready to do anything for us
expecting nothing from us. They reflected the true love of Jesus
Christ. It was their sincere, true, selfless Christian love that finally
cracked me and won me fully to Christ. I was able to see Jesus in
them. I received the holy love of Jesus through them. They were
really true Christians. I was a hard nut to crack and a very strong
religious minded Hindu. I had studied Hindu Vedas and Scriptures
and I was very deeply engrossed into it. Further I had hated
Christianity and was dead against it. I was an educated, experienced
and matured person and not to be easily converted on account of
my son’s sickness alone. It was their sincere prayer, love, real
Christian life and fellowship that turned my mind and soul to Jesus
Christ. It is because of them, we are now enjoying such a blessed
life with so much of peace, happiness, love and fellowship of so
many people that we have not enjoyed in our entire life.
HOW COULD THE ONCE HATED CHRISTIANITY BECAME THE MUCH
LOVED
“It is God who works in you to will and to act according to His
good purpose – Phi 2:13 (NIV)”
One day I was recapitulating as to how my hatred towards

Christianity and Jesus Christ since childhood had disappeared and
the love for Christ and His Way had bloomed in me. What exactly
had transpired or attracted me towards Christianity? Which one
truly prompted me to interchange my hatred for love? I sank deep
into the bottom of my mind in introspection and analyzed to find
out the answer. It was true that I was greatly disappointed and
annoyed with all the (so called) Hindu Gods for allowing such a
deadly disease to come upon my son and for not saving him from
coma and paralysis. But that disappointment and annoyance alone
could not have been the cause for changing my hatred towards
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Christianity to a love for it. Because Hindu religion, its culture,

traditions, belief and rituals were of very great values to me and
they were very deeply assimilated into my blood stream. My liking
and leaning towards Hinduism was not borne out of my having
been born in a Hindu family and background. I had in fact loved
Hindu religion and admired it. I was rather proud to be a Hindu. I
used to sing devotional songs on the deities of Murugan and Adhi
Parasakthi and other Hindu gods/goddesses from the bottom of
my heart with tears rolling down my cheeks and with true devotion
and dedication. I had even done a devotional musical concert to
raise funds to conduct the wedding of daughter of a temple priest
in Delhi. I had also practiced transcendental meditation and
kundalini yoga. After reading many Hindu Vedas, Upanishads and
religious books, I thought I was fully convinced that Hindu religion
was a meaningful religion. How could a man with such a
background and knowledge about Hinduism ever change his
opinion and concept about Christianity and Christ?
I am not boasting of myself. It is not really easy to convince me on

anything as I had a probing mind not to believe anything on the
face of it. I always asked what, why and how to believe anything.
I am a counter-intelligence trained person in the Indian Air Force
and the first lesson taught to us was not to believe anything unless
it was thoroughly analyzed and evidenced. Nothing escaped from
my sight and observation. My assessment and opinion on many
issues also do not go wrong. 38 years of my versatile career in
HRD, administration, personnel management, security,
intelligence, counter-intelligence, insurance, marketing, art and
cultural fields had groomed me well in individual and mass
psychology. All these experiences and exposures had sharpened
my mental alertness, focus, thinking and analytical powers. With
the backdrop of these facts, I tried to analyze deeply with an open
unbiased mind, the lives of all those Indo-American Christians
who were known to me.
THE INVALUABLE PEARLS I COULD DIG OUT OF CHRISTIANITY

“When he found one of great value…he bought it – Mt 13:46 (NIV)”
No wonder that the Bible excels among all the Holy books in the
world and stays alive and appealing even after millenniums. I am
a bookish fellow. I have read innumerable number of books in
Tamil as well as English. But I have not read a book like the Holy
Bible. The Bible alone can give a person the self confidence, hope
and faith even in the worst possible situation. Christianity has done
a yeoman job for the individuals as well as for the society. It
inculcates a feeling of universal brotherliness irrespective of their
caste, creed and nationality. As King David said in Ps 119:11,
“Your word I have hidden in my heart that I might not sin against
you”, the Scripture saves, rescues people from sin and gives them
enough courage, mental power and strength to win over the worldly
temptations and instills a godly fear in their mind to shun away the
sin. It guides them to lead a holy, holistic, healthiest, happiest,
contended, peaceful and meaningful life. If one follows the
teachings of the New Testament, he is sure to experience the
richness and unimaginable comforts and peace of the Heaven in
this earthly life itself. CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A RELIGION
AT ALL. IT SHOWS THE WAY TO HAVE A CLOSE
ETERNAL PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
CREATOR. It is not one of the ways to the Creator but the ONLY
WAY. The patience and humility shown by the Christians, their
character/culture of thanking the Lord for every thing, even for a
small thing in their lives, thinking and remembering the Creator at
every step and stage of their lives, an admirable attitude to forgive
and forget the blunders and mistakes of others, giving top most
place and priority in their lives for the Lord, enduring all the
sufferings with a smile and unshakeable hope that all the ordeals
in their lives were permitted by the Lord only to mould them,
really astonished me, made me spellbound and speechless. All the
family members join together daily at a particular time for family
prayer really helped in resolving many family disputes and built
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up a harmonious, wonderful, close knitted relationship amongst

the family members when the joint family system and a good family
institution is disintegrating these days. Whatever the impediments
that may intrude, they attended the church on all the Sundays with
all the family members and enjoyed the bliss, anointing and of the
presence of the Holy Spirit throughout their stay in the church and
in the worship without allowing their mind to wander elsewhere.
The word of God shared in the Church by the Pastor for about 45
minutes really mends and moulds our lives, thoughts, our character
and attitudes to lead a holy life. I was moved when special prayers
were made for the sick, studies of the children, marriage of children
or for their job or for the difficulties, problems prevailing in a
family. Even when you worship in a church where the congregation
is more than 2000 to 3000 believers, every one is able to feel and
enjoy the presence of the Lord individually without any disturbance
or hindrance and is able to have total communion and a divine
relationship with the Lord through out the service of 2 ½ hours.
When a new comer comes to the church, he is spotted even among
a congregation of thousands and is welcomed, greeted and
introduced to other believers and enquired for any special prayer
requirements for them or for their family members. Organizing
conventions and retreats for the youth in the church for two to
three days to inculcate good habits and thoughts in them at the
right age before they are tempted to fall a prey to the worldly sins
and attractions and conducting of Sunday classes for the young
children to shape them for the holy way right from their childhood,
praying for a peaceful co-existence in the area, praying for the
welfare and development of the nation, to give wisdom to the
elected body of politicians, local administration and government
officials, praying for the victims of national calamities, disasters
etc., helping the poor and downtrodden in times of their dire needs,
children’s school admission, books, fees, a feeling of oneness and
a family among all the members of the church irrespective of their
social and financial status, caste or creed and inviting every member
of the church for all the family functions etc. all these and many
more good things that I have not mentioned here surfaced before
me and I was really awe struck and dumbfounded. What a vital
and pivotal role the church, the Pastor and the members play in the
lives of its believers in shaping their mind, thoughts, deeds and
help them to become a good citizen in the society! The whole
world does not know what exactly the Christianity is contributing
to the world silently. Almost all the non-Christians carry a wrong
notion that the Christians are fanatic and they are interested only
in spreading Christianity and converting other religious people to
Christianity. What are they going to get by converting people to
Christianity? Nothing except that the people will become good,
rescued from all sorts of sins, smoking, alcoholism, drugs, peace
loving and away from violence, terrorism, unrest, crimes, law and
order problems which the government and other religions have
been trying to eradicate for centuries but could not do anything at
all. I am fully convinced beyond any doubt that strict adherence to
the teachings of the Bible alone can bring peace to the world and
harmony among many religions and culture. I don’t say that all
Christians are good. There are bad people among Christians also.
They are not actually Christians. Only for name sake they are
Christians. A real Christian will imbibe all the qualities of Jesus
Christ and reflect His abundant love and holiness in all his activities
and to every one in the society even under adverse circumstances.
A true Christian who has Jesus Christ in his heart cannot act in any
other way. Hallelujah!
THOUGHTS THAT SURFACED IN MY MIND
“My heart is stirred by a noble theme – Ps 45:1 (NIV)”
I could not but avoid the pain and the feelings that all these good
things are not there in our Hindu religion. Even if it is a small
temple, nobody bothers when we or a new comer comes to the
temple for worship, there is none to greet us, befriend us or to
have a fellowship with us or to enquire about our problems,
difficulties or prayer requests if any and to pray for us. The priest
is interested only in the offering one puts in his puja plate/hundi
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(offering box). One cannot even pray for two minutes without being
disturbed. Some body may touch you inadvertently or some one
might extend his neck like a Giraffe to have a darshan (look/sight)
of the idol for himself alone without bothering that he is obstructing
the views of others standing behind, unwanted talk, gossip and
thoughts in front of the sanctum sanctorum, the suffocation,
congestion, overcrowding due to narrow passage and space in the
inner sanctum, pushing and feeling the hot breathings of others on
your bare shoulders, incomprehensible Sanskrit slogas and mantras
chanted by the priest will surely distract your concentration,
devotion and meditation.. The irony is that the devotees are ignorant
to the extent that they don’t even understand that they were spoiling
the sanctity and holiness of the temple by throwing the banana
skins, plantain leaves, coconut shells and other trashes and rubbish
inside the temple premises. The height of foolishness of the temple
administrators or by the servant of gods is giving preference,
priority and respect in front of the deity to politicians, government
officials, meting out preferred treatment on the basis of their
position, caste, community etc. The temple, instead of sanctifying
and purifying them or shaping and structuring the values of life,
has just become a place of meaningless rituals which neither mould
the devotees nor warn them against evil, sins or remind them of
their accountability to God for all their deeds. I know that there
are valuable and appreciable teachings in Hindu philosophy and
scriptures. Every thing is there but the PERSON is absent. The
person is CHRIST. Life is full of problems, sickness, difficulties
and tension. Every one has one or the other problem in their lives.
They run from pillar to post and from one temple to the other,
from one deity to other, do all sorts of remedies, special offerings
and pujas to the deities and planets. Yet their problems are not
solved. Again they keep running to other places and are ready to
do anything to overcome their problems. They really don’t
understand the root cause for their problems or who creates or
brings these problems to them. Without going to the root of it,
they try to get some false satisfaction and liberation by running
hither and thither. Having failed to find a solution, they finally try
to find a sort of relief through alcohol, drugs or any intoxicants.
JESUS CHRIST IS THE REAL GOD AND CREATOR
“He will be called wonderful counselor, Mighty God, everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace – Is 9:6 (NIV)”
Some of my friends told me that all the good teachings of the Bible
are there in Hindu Scriptures and Vedas. I could remember a parable
once told by our Pastor which was very relevant and handy in that
situation. A person while going from one village to the other, he
had to cross an isolated place full of wild growth of vegetation and
he fell into a disused deep well and he could not climb up the well
on his own and he cried for help. One person who heard his cry,
came and saw him and said, “Oh what a fool you are! Are you new
to this place? Why did you choose this route? Even the local
residents would hesitate to come this way at this time. At least you
could have asked some one for the way”. He said so many other
things and went off on his way. One more person came on hearing
his cry for help. He also expressed his pity for him and rebuked
him as to why he chose to come that way especially at dusk. At
least you could have taken a torch or lantern with you to give you
enough light to show you the way. There is another route you could
have chosen. What a poor man you are! It is nothing but your fate
and karma!” He also told so many soothing words and went off on
his way. Is there anything wrong in their telling? Nothing was
wrong. Everything was with full of concern, love and advice but
what is the use? A third person came on that way. He heard his
cry. Immediately he climbed down the deep well risking his own
life and helped him to come out of the well. In the process he lost
his own life. But before dying, he advised him not to come this
way any longer and to choose the right path next time and he died.
Now can you see the difference? JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY
GOD WHO DIED ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS AND
EXCESSES. He himself is the propitiation for our sins and not
for ours only, but also for the whole world (John 2:2). HE ALONE
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IS THE LIVING GOD AND CARING GOD. The Word of God

in Acts 4:12 say clearly that the Name of Jesus can only save this
human race. Only He has the power and authority to forgive all
our sins. He is the real God and Creator of this whole universe and
all the living beings in it. He is Holy and makes us also holy. He is
not a God to leave you at the mercy of your fate and karma but
will save you at any cost. The Bible says, “Son of Man has come
to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10)”. HE IS
ALMIGHTY LIVING GOD AND KING OF KINGS who can
simply nullify and reverse all the fate and karma of men.
Irrespective of caste, creed and nationality, the blood of Jesus is
uniting everybody. Thus the American Christians and Indo-
American Christians loved me and Karthi as their own blood
brothers and the extent and depth of their true Christian love brought
tears to me. I think, all these finally cracked my stubbornness and
unfounded hatred towards Christianity and brought me to Christ.
Because of that, now my entire family is able to enjoy the peace,
happiness and the blessings which we had not enjoyed earlier.
Thank you Jesus for pouring your holy love upon all those who
come to you and making them also like you. Hallelujah!
HOLY BIBLE A GUIDE FOR YOU TO BE HOLY
“The Law of the Lord is perfect, it revives the soul, it is
trustworthy…Ps 19:7 (NIV)”
Mr. George Joy and his wife Sutha gifted me a Bible (NIV) and
asked me to read the New Testament and in particular the Sermon
on the Mount. When I read them, I was bewildered, thrilled, awe-
struck by its holiness, love and compassion of the Father, His son
Lord Jesus Christ, His exemplary teachings, His personal example
of living to His teachings, His humility, His obedience to the Father,
performing unimaginable and innumerable miracles of healing the
sick, raising the dead and finally submitting Himself silently
without any resistance to all the humiliation, torture and cruel
crucifixion for the sake of all our sins to fulfill the Will of Father
God! I could not control my tears when I read about the torture
meted out to the Almighty son of the Lord. The power of His life,
words and His teachings were electric, magnetic, quite
encompassing, absorbing and sanctifying. King David says in Ps
19:7-10, “The Law of the Lord is perfect, it revives the soul, it is
trustworthy and it makes the simple very wise. The precepts of the
Lord are right. They give joy to the heart, radiant and light to the
eyes. They are more precious than gold, much more than pure
gold, they are sweeter than honey. Lord’s words are eternal and
stand firm in the Heavens. They are a lamp to our feet and a light
for our path. They are wonderful, trustworthy, our heritage and a
joy to our heart”.
THE BIBLE SHOWED ME WHAT AN UNPARDONABLE SINNER I HAD BEEN
“God will grant them repentance leading them to knowledge of
the Truth – 2 Tim 2:25 (NIV)”
In the light of the Lord’s teachings, I looked into myself. I was

ashamed and felt so filthy and small to look at my own self. What
a wretched and shameful life I have had so far. What a deplorable
life I have led until now. Oh, for the first time in my life, I hated
myself. What an unworthy vessel I had been. When I looked down
more deep into my soul, my past life, my lips let out a painful,
feeble voice in repentance – FATHER, I AM A SINNER, AN
UNPARDONABLE SINNER. PLEASE FORGIVE ME LORD!
I have lived so far only a sinful life, a life full of sins. My heart has
been stinking like a gutter filled with filth, vulgarity, lust, anger,
self conceit, lies, evil thoughts, jealous, envy, mean-mindedness
and cunningness. Oh, it has been full of trash! The realization was
like a sharp knife plunged into my stomach. The Holy Book of the
Lord showed me, like a mirror, all my past life. I understood that
only the Lord Jesus can help me to be extricated from the sin as
promised in Heb 2:18, I fell down on my knees crying and sobbing
for the Lord’s forgiveness.Ho The very thought that Jesus Christ
came to save the sinners of this world (1 Tim 1:15) and He died
for us, not when we were saints, but sinners (Rom 5:8) brought
tears to me. I could feel the warmth of Lord’s comforting embrace.
S. THAYAPPAN 35
I could feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in me and peace amidst
all the trials & troubles. I could feel His awesome Presence
wherever I went, whatever I did, either sleeping, walking or
standing. Whatever small or big prayers or requests I made, they
were immediately answered. JESUS CHRIST IS A PRAYER
ANSWERING GOD. Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!
MY FORTY YEARS OF ALCOHOLISM WAS BROKEN
“If the son (Jesus) sets you free, you will be free indeed – John
8:36 (NIV)”
Whenever I testified and glorified the Lord, Satan did not like it.
He would immediately create some problem in Karthi’s health.
avHHHHaving learnt about the technique, we chased away the
Satan with faithful prayers in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
Our Lord has already crushed his head on the Calvary and he is
now a snake with a cracked head. And a crack?! Our strong faith
and continuous prayers can only be the weapon to keep him away
from us. But we have to be always watchful about him as he is
clever, cunning, tempting and does not allow you that easily to
come out of your old habits. Although I had grown strong in faith,
I could not fully become holy and leave all my old habits. I was in
the Indian Air Force for 26 years and I was used to hard liquor for
more than 40 years now. Almost I had become an alcoholic. I used
to have a strong will power. For sometime I used to smoke. Then
I will leave the smoking and start off chewing pan (Betel leaves)
and tobacco. To leave chewing tobacco, I would pick up snuffing.
Like that I was in and out of one or the other bad habit. With my
will power I used to start anything and leave anything. I tried many
a time to stop my drinking habit after coming to Jesus but I could
not leave it. I thought I had mastered it, but alas! It had mastered
me. The Bible says clearly in John 8:34 that he who does sin is a
slave to sin. I had become a slave to drinking. Finally I went and
cried to the Lord in the Church to help me come out of this bad
habit. The Lord heard my prayers, saw my tears and sincerity and
since then, MY 40 YEARS DRINKING HABIT AND
ADDICTION WAS BROKEN AND I WAS DELIVERED. The

thought of alcohol never came up again in my mind afterwards.
The Lord says in 1 John 1:7-9, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all our
unrighteousness. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all
sins”. No more tobacco or snuff or any other bad habits since then.
The Lord has made me totally free from all vices and addictions. If
the Son (Jesus Christ) makes you free, you are free indeed (Jn
8:36). ASK ANYTHING IN HIS NAME SINCERELY AND
WITH TEARS. JESUS WILL DEFINITELY SET YOU FREE!
Hallelujah!
WHAT AN AWESOME, HOLY, ALMIGHTY, LOVEABLE GOD JESUS IS!
“..Who is like you – Majestic in Holiness, awesome in glory,
working wonders? – Exo 15:11 (NIV)”
In Hinduism, there are Gods for each and every virtue like
education, wisdom, wealth, protection, destruction, creation etc.
Many Hindu Vedas and Upanishads clearly depict the highest
qualities and godliness required for a god to be worshipped. Do all
the so called gods possess such virtues and godly qualities or not,
I leave it to the readers to judge. But when I read the New Testament
in the Bible, I was astonished and astounded to see the teachings
of Lord Jesus Christ, His qualities, righteousness, unbiased
judgement, His covenants, promises, healing and resurrecting
power, His oneness with God, the Supreme, His holy and
unblemished character and His supreme sacrifice for His creations
to give total remissions of sins, His abundant and unceasing love,
His obedience, humility etc. Think of any or all the godly qualities
or virtues, they all belong to Jesus Christ. Name a good thing, it
belongs to Him. HE IS MATCHLESS, SUPREME, KING OF
KINGS! NO ONE ELSE! “No one is like you O Lord, you are
great and your name is mighty in power (Jeremiah 10:6-7)”. No
God of any religion in this whole universe can even think of coming
near to Jesus Christ to match His holiness, qualities, teachings,
sacrifice or promises. He alone is the only and fittest God to be
S. THAYAPPAN 37
worshipped in the whole universe. Jesus Christ did not die on the
cross of Calvary for Christians alone. 1Jn 2:2 says, “The blood of
Jesus was shed for all human beings”. Yes, He died for every
body, irrespective of caste, creed, religion or nationality. Hence
Jesus Christ alone is the only God for every one, every religion,
every nation and for the entire universe!
In Hindu temples, when the priest does the abhishekam (the

anointing) or archanai or worship, he normally chants some slogas.
I don’t know if everyone knew the meaning of those Sanskrit slogas.
I am sure, the priest himself does not know the meaning or whom
they really mean to. In fact all the slogas point to and glorify only
Jesus Christ! See the following slogas in sanksrit.
Om Brahma puthiraya namaha (Brahma = Father; puthiraya =

son (Jesus Christ) namaha = we worship – meaning we exalt, pray
and worship Jesus Christ, the son of the Supreme Father. Refer
John 3:16)
Om Kanni suthaya namaha (Oh Lord who is born of a virgin, we

worship you. See Mt: 1:23. No God in this world is born of a
virgin).
I have power to lay it down and have power to take it down. This
command I have received from my Father
Om Pancha kaaya namaha (Oh Lord, you bore five wounds in
your body for our sake, we adore you and worship you. See Is:
53:5)
Om Viruchasoola arundhaya namaha (Oh Lord, you were hung on

the cross for us, for all our sins and sicknesses, we glorify you.
See Pet: 2:24. No other god in any religion died for us or for our
sins. Only Jesus Christ shed His precious blood and sacrificed His
life to give us liberation and salvation. Acts 4:12 says that salvation
is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven
given to men by which we must be saved. He is the atoning sacrifice
for all our sins and not only for ours but also for the sins of the
whole world (1Jn 2:2). The Bible emphatically states in Heb 9:22
that there is no remission of sins without shedding of blood. All
the Hindu Vedas and Upanishads clearly admit and acknowledge
this fact).
Om Mirutham jeyaya namaha (Oh Lord who scored victory and

triumph over death and hell, we hail you. See Is: 25:8. All those
self-proclaimed god men and god incarnates are dead, buried and
their cemeteries still remain closed. None of them are known to
have ever come alive again. Jesus Christ is the only God who died
on the cross for our sins, was buried in the presence of every one
and on the third day was resurrected and came out alive to be seen
by His twelve disciples and plenty of people in Jerusalem (1 Corin
15:3,4). His cemetery is still open. It is history, not a story or epic but
questioned, researched and proved beyond anyone’s doubt and
recorded by many scholars, researchers and archeologists. The birth
of Lord Jesus Christ was recorded in the census report taken during
the reign of Augustus Caesar. Jesus Christ is the only God who could
say that I have power to lay it down and have power to take it down.
This command I have received from my Father (John 10:17-18)”.
Om Nama sivaaya namaha (Sivam = Love. Oh loving Lord, we

uphold your name and praise you. Jesus Christ exhibited the divine
love and has defined what and how a love should be in I Corin
13:4-8. Love is patient, kind, it does not envy, boast, and it does
not feel proud, rude, self seeking and not easily angered. It keeps
no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices
with the truth. It always protects, trusts, hopes, perseveres and never
fails. None on earth can measure the depth His love towards us. Eph
3:18 exclaims, “How wide, long, high and deep is the love of Christ!”
Om Sathaa Sivaaya namaha (Oh Lord, you always love us. We lift
up your name and magnify it. See Hebrew 13:8. Jesus Christ never
changes. His love never changes. He is the same yesterday, today
and tomorrow).
S. THAYAPPAN 39
All the Siddhars and wise men of yester millennium have sung
innumerable songs praising Lord Jesus and they have categorically
said that salvation is possible only through Jesus Christ and He
alone is the true and the only God. The Lord Himself has said in
Jere 32:27 in no uncertain terms that I AM THE LORD, THE
GOD OF ALL MANKIND. Further He has also warned in Duet
5:7 that YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.
e HHAgasthia Munivar, Azhugini Siddhar, Paambaatti Siddhar,
Korakka Munivar, Pattinathu adigal, Thiruvalluvar, Thirumoolar
and so many other well known Siddhars and wise men have written
so many songs about Jesus and have declared Jesus Christ alone is
the real and the only God. All those songs have been hidden, many
destroyed and did not see the light of the day because of Aryas. If
it is the Will of the Lord, I might soon write a book in detail about
all these Siddhars and their songs praising the glory of Lord Jesus
Christ. When I read the Bible more deeply, I was convinced beyond
any doubt that JESUS CHRIST IS AND CAN ONLY BE THE
LORD FOR EVERY ONE IN THIS WORLD! Hallelujah!
MY UNSHAKEABLE FAITH IN JESUS
“I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed – 2 Tim
1:12 (NIV)”
I wrote about everything in detail regularly to my family in India

about my personal encounter with Jesus Christ, the miracles
happened in Karthi’s life, the love and the help being shown by
Christian friends in USA and also over the phone every week.
Brother Verghese Pulikottil wrote to Sam Uncle, one of his relatives
in Madras. Sam Uncle, his wife and their friends visited my family
regularly in my absence and extended all moral support and comfort
to my family in addition to prayers. Their regular visits, prayers
coupled with my letters about Jesus Christ sowed the seeds of faith
in my family also. Probably Satan did not like it and he wanted to
play around. The shunt fixed below the brain of my son failed for
the third time and his condition worsened again on 31st January
2001. Having carried out so many surgeries on him already, the

Neurosurgeon was skeptical now. He called me and said
consolingly and hesitantly that immediate surgery was needed for
my son but he was not in a position to give any guarantee for his
life or for the success of the surgery. He said that even if my son
survived, he might not be able to walk, marry or go for a job in his
life. That was the limit of their medical profession and acumen! I
had unshakeable faith in the healing power of Jesus. Reflecting
that faith in my talk, I told those Christian doctors in undeterred
tone “My son will survive, he will get up and walk and he will be
all right. You do not know the power of Jesus. He will send His
Word and heal him and deliver him from destruction (Ps 107:20).
Now that you have raised your hands of inability, you will now
see for yourself the miracle-working power of the Lord. Go ahead
and do the surgery”. After telling this I walked out of doctor’s
chamber, firmly, with a heart brimming with faith and hope!
THE HEALING POWER OF LORD JESUS
“Jesus went through out Galilee healing every disease and sickness
– Mt 4:23 (NIV)”
The hopeless words spoken by the surgeon were ringing in my

ears but I did not worry. Having spoken out my unshakeable faith
and trust in Jesus, I was quite calm and unperturbed. I made a
simple prayer “Father, let this surgery be the last on my son. Be
with the surgeon during the surgery. Bless the surgeon; give him
enough wisdom and knowledge to do the surgery properly. May
your Healing power be showered on my son. He is yours. Bless
him Father. In Jesus mighty name I pray. Amen”. Brother George
Joy was with me when the doctors spoke to me. He immediately
rang up to many believers throughout America to fast and pray for
my son’s surgery. The LORD DID THE MIRACLE AGAIN and
proved as per Ex 15:26 that He is the Lord who heals you. The
surgery was successful and my son regained consciousness fully
in fifteen minutes after the major surgery. That was very unusual.
And that was the last surgery on my son! Praise the Lord! The
S. THAYAPPAN 41
STRANDED ON THE STREETS OF USA WITH A HANDICAPPED SON

“My life is consumed by anguish…Ps 31:10 (NIV)”
I had stayed in USA for 8 months and I was staying in an apartment

in Beaverton where my son was sharing it with four of his friends.
The rent was 940 US dollars i.e. about Rs 45000 per month. Some
how I managed to bear it as it was being shared by five. Three of
his friends moved out in course of time leaving behind the two of
us. Since the rent was exorbitant to be borne only by two, the other
person wanted to move out to live with some of his friends, thereby
subjecting me to pay the full rent by me from 01st June 2001
onwards apart from changing the rental contract on my name and
to pay six months rental advance @ Rs 45000 per month. I could
not even think of having to pay such a heavy rent leave alone the
six months advance! And I did not know what to do further. Adding
fuel to my situation, my son was completing 100 days in the
Rehabilitation Centre on 31st May 2001 beyond which the Insurance
conditions did not have provision to meet the expenses in a calendar
year. If my son had to stay in the Rehabilitation Centre after 1st
June 2001, the expenses had to be borne by me or alternatively I
had to shift him to my apartment. Per day charges for the Rehab.
Centre including the medication for my son was 500 dollars i.e.
Rs 24000/-. My head began to swirl. Neither I could think of paying
the Rehabilitation charges by myself nor take my son to my
apartment where I was unable to pay the rent. A situation had come
when virtually I and my son could not stay in USA after 1st June
2001. Then I thought, why not I return to India with my son? But
Karthi’s condition was quite unpredictable and very unstable. The
Lord had saved his life! But 100% recovery and healing was miles
afar. He had no memory. His eye sight was diminishing, he could

not speak as his tongue was pulled inside because of tracheotomy,
he had no control over his bladder and bowl, his lower portion
below the hip was totally paralyzed, he had to be tied tightly to the
wheel chair with a belt when he was made to sit on it, lest he might
fall down to the front or collapse by the side. He was just a living
vegetable. Bringing him to India in such a precarious and
unpredictable condition by traveling about 38 hours by air was
really risky. Yet I had decided to return to India and started
exploring the possibility of medical evacuation of my son by air.
On enquiry, I was told that it would cost around 15800 dollars i.e.
roughly 7.5 lakhs in Indian currency. I was dumbfounded. I spoke
to Ms Susan Baumgardner, Director of International Medical
Services in St Vincent Hospital who had then become a close friend
of us. She spoke to the Insurance Company about medical
evacuation of my son to India which will be only an one time
expense for the Insurance Company. But the Insurance Company
did not agree for it saying that it would set a wrong precedence
and once if they agreed to give for Karthik, there might be
innumerable similar requests from other patients. I was dumb struck
and stranded alone having come to the dead end.
KNOCK, THE DOOR WILL BE OPENED. THE LORD OPENED EVEN
WITHOUT MY KNOCKING
“I will break down the gates of bronze and cuts through bars of
iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness and riches stored in
secret places – Is 45:2-3 (NIV)”
I did not know the way out or what to do further or whom to

approach. All the ways and doors had been shut for me. Neither
can I stay in the apartment beyond 01st June 2001 nor my son in
the Rehab. Centre nor can we return to India. We were virtually
stranded in the streets of a foreign land with none to help and no
where to go with a handicapped son who could neither talk nor
stand or walk. It is not a small amount to ask anyone. 7.5 lakhs!
Who will give? What to do? In my helpless condition I had none
S. THAYAPPAN 43
else except to look to Lord Jesus. I knelt down and fell at the Lord’s
feet, tears rolling down my cheeks, I could not even pray or tell
my situation to Him. I only wept and poured out my heart silently
like Hannah. The Lord can know my hopeless condition. Only He
knows and He alone can reverse it. He alone can help me. None
else. The Lord who makes way in the desert and streams in the
waste land (Isaiah 43:19) and who breaks down the gates of bronze
and cuts through bars of iron and blesses you the treasures of
darkness and riches stored in secret places (Isaiah 45:2,3) heard
my silent prayers and saw my tears. He broke open the impossible
iron gates for me. He opened up a way for me where there was no
way out at all and allowed the streams to flow in the hopeless
condition of my life and gave me the treasures and riches stored in
secret places. Next day morning I received a long distance phone
call from Atlanta, North America, almost more than 10,000 miles
away from Port land, Oregon State, where I was staying. It was
from the President of Datamatics Consultants who had initially
selected my son for a job in USA. He asked me, “how are you Mr.
Thayappan, how is Karthik? I am sorry I had not contacted you for
a long time. Last night, all of a sudden something struck me and I
remembered you and Karthik. The sudden impulse and feeling
was so compelling, I just waited for the day to break to call you
up”. Jesus Christ had just pressed the button as soon as I had knelt
down and prayed to Him! Hallelujah! The President then asked
me if he can do anything for me. I told him about the medical
evacuation and the refusal of the Insurance Company to meet the
travel expenses. He asked me how much. I told him it is 15800
dollars. Without a hesitation for a minute, he said, “I will give you
the money. Ask the Medical Evacuation Airlines to fax me the
bill”. I was stunned and simply taken back. I told him that I cannot
even think of repaying such a heavy amount at any time. He said
that it was not a loan but ONLY A GIFT FROM HIM! I could not
even believe my own ears. I could only shed tears on seeing the
unbelievable mercy and grace of the Lord. HE DOES THINGS
WHICH CANNOT BE THOUGHT OF OR IMAGINED BY ANY
ONE! How aptly Job says as we find in Job 5:9 that the Lord
performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot
be counted! Eph: 3:20 also exclaims that the Lord is able to do
immeasurably more than all we could ask or imagine according
to His power that is at work in us!
FLYING BACK TO INDIA TEARFUL FAREWELL BY CHRISTIAN
BROTHERS
“By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love
one another – John 3:35 (NIV)”
Tickets were booked for us to leave USA on 27th May 2001 along
with a male nurse from Los Angels to accompany us and to return
to USA after leaving us at our house in Madras. I prayed to the
Lord to be with us during the travel and to protect my son under
His wings and to give him enough strength to endure the long
journey’s stress and strain. A farewell was given tearfully by my
Christian friends who had by then become my brothers and sisters
by the blood of Jesus. Pastor Jacob George, George Joy, Chitra
Prentice (a Maharashtrian Brahmin, now a convert and an American
citizen working as a nurse in St Vincent Hospital) and so many
others flooded me with garments for my daughter, younger son
Sakthi, shoes, sweets and chocolates, books and so many other
gifts. They provided cardboard boxes, other packing materials and
packed all my bag and baggage. Bro.Verghese Pulikkottil removed
the back seats of his jeep to make room for my luggage and brought
it to the airport. Almost every one from the Indian Church over
there came to the airport to bid farewell to us with tears rolling
down their cheeks. Every body was very emotional and I could
never forget such an emotional farewell. Not only Indians but many
people irrespective of caste, creed, nationality and language have
now become my blood brothers and sisters and they keep enquiring
after us and Karthi’s progress and still continue to pray for him.
Oh how lucky we are to have acquired such a big family with the
blessings of Jesus Christ. Now “In Him we live, move and have
our being. And we are His offspring (Acts 17:28)”.
S. THAYAPPAN 45
WE WERE CHOSEN SPECIALLY FOR LORDS GLORY

“…God who set me apart from birth and called me by His grace –
Gala 1:15 (NIV)”
Before leaving for India, I was praying to the Lord. Let your Will
be carried out on us. My only request was – let me not take my son
in a wheel chair to India. That will not glorify Jesus name. Bless
him to get up and walk to the flight and get down from the flight
on his own. Heal him completely. By keeping him still on the
wheel chair, how can I say to my friends and relatives that Jesus
had saved my son’s life and hence we have become Christians?
Jesus answered my prayer through a prophecy by a visiting Indian
Pastor from Pune Bible College – Dr Paulson who happened to
learn about us and visited us in the Rehab. Centre. While praying
for us, the Holy Spirit prompted him to tell that MY SON WILL
BE HEALED. NOT HERE, BUT IN INDIA! If he is healed in
USA, only a couple of hundreds will come to know of Lord’s
miracle. But if it is in India, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL BE
TOUCHED BY THE LORD AND SAVED BY KARTHI’S
MIRACULOUS HEALING! I accepted and readily agreed if the
delay in healing my son is for the glory of the Lord. Although I
had agreed, heart of heart I had a question and doubt as to how
millions of people are going to be touched by Karthi’s healing.
May be about 100 families knew us well in our living area, friends
and about 100 friends and equal number of relatives, altogether it
was not going to be more than 300 to 400. I was thinking as to
how this prophecy was going to work. I was ignorant of God’s
plan and Psalmist sayings in Ps 50:15 “Call upon Him in the day
of trouble, He will deliver you and you shall glorify Him”. I did
not know that the Lord was going to use this slave for His glory!
THE PROPHECY HAS COME TRUE NOW!
“How unsearchable His judgements, and his paths beyond tracing
out! – Rom 11:33 (NIV)”
When Mr. Lindsey from Seattle, a close friend of Bro.Verghese

Pulikkottil came to India on vacation, he came to see Karthi. After
hearing my testimony, with tears he compelled me to record it in a

cassette which he said will strengthen many Christians and touch
many non-Christians. Instead of an extempore recording of my
testimony, I thought it would be better if it was first written down
and then recorded. That’s how I wrote my first testimony “My cry
and joy” in English in 2002 which later was written and published
in Tamil in 2003 and further reprinted with further additions and
more miracles in 2004 as “My cry and joyful new life” in Tamil.
Now 40,000 copies in Tamil are in circulation till date and every
day at least about ten people are ringing up from all over Tamil
Nadu(South India) praising the book and enquiring about Karthi’s
health. Some one said that this testimony book should be in every
Christian house and all the non-Christians should read this book.
Another informed me that he had made 50 photo copies of the
book and distributed among non-Christians. The testimony book
is touching thousands and thousands all over Tamil Nadu. The
book is not written by me or with my talent or wisdom. Before
writing the testimony, I just prayed to the Lord who said “Call to
Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things,
which you do not know (Jere 33:3) (NKJV)” and the Lord gave
me the words to write. No wonder it is touching so many souls!
Now I am being called to various Churches to give my testimony
and many believers after hearing my testimony buy 10 to 15 copies
for circulation among non-Christians. At this rate, very soon the
Testimony book in Tamil will cross the target of one hundred
thousand copies in print and circulation. On circulation each copy
is being read at least by ten people. One lakh copies multiplied by
ten will be ten lakhs i.e. one million people will come know of
Lord’s glory in the days to come! At the time of leaving USA, I
was given a surprise information about another prophecy told in
the Indian Church there about six months prior to the arrival of
Karthi in USA. A visiting Pastor from India had prophesied that
AN INDIAN BOY AFTER COMING TO THIS PLACE WILL
FALL SICK AND FINALLY HE WILL BE SAVED BY THE
LORD. THROUGH HIS HEALING, THERE WILL BE A
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REVIVAL AND FIRE IN YOUR MINISTRIES! THOUSANDS

AND THOUSANDS WILL BE SAVED BY HIS MIRACULOUS
HEALING! The Lord was kind enough to promise in Ps 91:14
that “Because he has set his love Me, I will deliver him, I will set
him on high, because he has known My name”. The Lord never
fails. He is so accurate in predicting things. The prophecy has come
true now! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
OUR BAPTISM AND THE LORDS GRACE
“Blessed are those who hunger & thirst for righteousness, for they
will be filled - Mt 5:6 (NIV)”
I had a desire to take baptism before leaving USA and special

arrangements were made in Portland City Bible Church to baptize
my son in wheel chair itself. My son raised both the hands for the
first time during water baptism. Praise the Lord. My testimony
before my baptism brought tears and ovation from all the American
believers who attended the service and the Indian Christian brothers
celebrated our baptism as their own family festival. I was wondering
as to how my son was going to endure the long 38 Hours flight
journey from Portland to Madras. But the Lord’s promise in Psalm
121:8 that the Lord will watch over your coming and going both
now and for evermore, gave me the assurance and peace. True to
His promise, the Lord protected my son and made him to withstand
the long 38 Hrs-flight without any problem. In the flight I sat back
and recalled the whole episode with tears rolling down my cheeks.
I had stayed eight months in USA. First three months, I don’t want
to even recall or go back on my memory. It was the darkest, painful
period of my life. Next five months had been of tasting the love of
Lord Jesus Christ and His children and being a witness to various
miracles of the Lord in our life. I had almost lost my son. Absolutely
there was no hope at all. The doctors had given up. THE DEITIES
WHOM I HAD BELIEVED FOR THE LAST 58 YEARS HAD
PROVED TO BE NOTHING BUT LIFELESS STONES,
METALS AND MUD. FINALLY JESUS CHRIST SAVED MY
SON FROM THE VALLEY OF DEATH. The medical expenses

I could not even think of. My son had worked only for 25 days in
USA not even one full month. More than Rs. 3.5 Crores had been
spent on my son. And I can never think of raising the 7.5 lakhs for
our travel back to India. It was humanly impossible for me. BUT
ALL WERE ACCOMPLISHED BY THE LORD FOR ME. True
to His promise, the Lord made me to witness innumerable miracles.
Thank you Lord. I love you. You are wonderful. I owe everything
in my life to you. Hallelujah!
OH LORD, PLEASE TOUCH MY FAMILY
“But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord – Josh
24:15 (NIV)”
Another thought that was troubling my mind was – how my family,

relatives and friends were going to react to our conversion to
Christianity and baptism. My elder brother had a stubborn hatred
towards Christianity like I had. My wife, daughter Gayathri and
younger son Sakthi were staunch Adhi Parasakthi devotees. When
I came to India, I saw my wife and children still wearing red clothes,
going to Hindu temples, lighting the lamps and keeping tilak and
sacred ash in their forehead. I kept on telling them what Jesus
Christ had done for us and how Karthi’s life had been saved by
His grace. Nothing entered into their head. Although they were
my own wife and children, I never wanted to compel them or thrust
forcibly Jesus Christ as their Saviour. I just knelt down and prayed
to the Lord with tears. In the middle of the night I used to get up
from my sleep and cry out to the Lord to touch my entire family
and envelop them with His love. “Father, we read in Acts 16:21 –
Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your
household. I believe you Master. I believe only you. As for me and
my household we will serve you only. Far be it from us to forsake
the Lord to serve other Gods. (Josh 24:15-16). Please touch and
save my family only to serve you”. THE LORD HEARD MY
PRAYERS AND TOUCHED EVERY ONE OF MY FAMILY
MEMBERS WITH A MIRACLE! Hallelujah!
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DADDY, YOUR JESUS IS REALLY POWERFUL MY YOUNGER SON

SAKTHI
“And He will be called ‘Mighty God’ – Is 9:6 (NIV)”
In the first week of June 2001, after passing X class examination

under CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) syllabus,
my younger son Sakthi wanted to join Zion Higher Secondary
School in South Madras, one of the nearby good schools in State
Board syllabus to study XI and XII standards. All my children
studied upto X class in CBSE syllabus in Kendriya Vidyalaya
(Central School) and then they change to State Board for XI and
XII in order to score good marks to join some professional colleges.
Only at the time of our going to that school, he told me hesitantly
“Daddy, I heard that Zion School does not admit any one with less
than 80% marks in X class”. My son has obtained only 58.9% in
aggregate. I looked at him and rebuked “When you know this, you
should have studied well to score good marks in your final exam.
I don’t know anybody in that school. How do you expect me to get
you admission there?” He said “That I don’t know. But I want to
join only Zion school as all my friends have joined that school”. “I
know only one person now - Jesus Christ. Do you believe Him?”
My son was just looking at me without answering. I told him,
“Pray to Him. Only He can get you the admission. No one else”.
He still looked totally confused and not convinced. I said, “The
Lord will fulfill His purpose for me (Ps 138:8) and repeat it three
times in full faith. Psalmist says in Ps 37:5 “Commit your way to
the Lord; trust in Him and He will do this for you”. im nd ;;;;;;;;;H:
He repeated it with full heart and faith. I just prayed to the Lord in
the street itself. “Father, please help me to get the admission for
my son in Zion school. I have none else to approach. I look only to
you Father. I claim what you have promised me in Psalm 138:8
and 37:5 and thank you for blessing my prayers. In Jesus’ mighty
name I pray, Amen”. Then I went with my son to that school.
There was a big crowd of parents and their wards seeking admission
into various classes. I approached a teacher for an application for
admission into XI Std. She then asked me the marks secured by

my son. When I told her the marks, she abruptly told me “Please
don’t disturb us. We don’t admit any child with less than 80%
marks. Please go to some other school”. The reply was very curt.
“Can I see the Principal?” I asked. “You may see anybody but you
will get the same reply. If you still want to see him, go and stand in
that queue” she said and went off. I looked at the queue. It was a
long one and the parents were standing there with worried faces. I
also joined the queue and started praying. After 30 minutes my
turn came to go inside the Principal’s room. I went inside and
introduced myself “I am Ex-Warrant Officer Thayappan retired
from Indian Air Force”. As soon as I said this, a person who was
sitting in front of the Principal turned to me and asked “Are you
the same Thayappan who was in Delhi? Very much famous in
Tamil dramas? Guru (Mentor) of Delhi Ganesh, the popular Tamil
cinema actor?” I said “yes” wondering who this person was whom
I had never seen before. He then turned to the Principal and
introduced me very impressively as one of the eminent and popular
persons in Delhi and helped every one who had approached me
for any help and very famous in Tamil Dramas etc. Instead of me
explaining about myself to the Principal, the Lord had set someone
else to introduce me more effectively. Hallelujah! The Principal
looked at me and said “Oh I see. Glad to meet you. What can I do
for you?” Then I requested him for admission of my son in his
school. When he asked for the marks of my son, I told him. He
said that I was placing him in a position that was so delicate and
embarrassing as he had not given admission to anyone with less
than 80% marks. I then explained to him my son’s sickness, the
torment and trauma undergone by our family during last year and
assured him that the LORD WHO GIVES VICTORY AND
TRIUMPH TO ALL HIS CHILDREN IS WITH US NOW! My
son will definitely pass the exam with more than 85% marks and
asked for the admission in Jesus name. He was taken a back by the
tone of my faith and assurance and with a stunned look he tapped
the table for a second and without speaking another word, gave
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me a slip for admission of my son in Biology group. When we

came out of the Principal’s room, my son met two of his friends
who could not secure the admission with 74% and 76% marks.
My son then told me “Daddy, I admit that your Jesus is really
powerful!” I said “No, He is not my Jesus. He is our Jesus and
your Jesus! Do you receive Him as your personal Saviour? He
said “YES” and received Him! After a week, the Lord blessed my
son to get the computer group which he wanted very much instead
of Biology group. I sent my son for a three days Youth camp
organized by Blessing Youth Mission in Sitteri Hills where he
was moulded as a true Christian believer and came forward to take
water baptism. After baptism, my son Sakthi became Sakthi
Stephen! Now he is a strong lad in Christ and all his previous
habits and behaviours are totally changed. The Lord also blessed
him to secure 89% marks in his XII final exams. How true His
promises are! “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame
(Rom 10:11, Is 28:16). The Living God who promised is faithful in
keeping His word (2 Thes 3:3)”. Praise the Lord!
NO CASTE OR COMMUNITY IN CHRISTIANITY
“There is no difference between Jew and Gentile – the same Lord
is Lord of all – Rom 10:12 (NIV)”
My son Sakthi Stephen wanted to join BE (Bachelor of

Engineering) degree course in Computer Science. Engineering
college admissions are obtained either through Management quota
by paying heavy donations or through Entrance examinations
conducted by DOTE (Directorate of Technical Education) and the
total marks obtained in Plus Two examinations and as per
reservation quota for each caste/ community. Through this system,
it is very difficult to get the college of your choice. The students
and the parents will have to keep watching the day to day position
of seats/college allotment and on the day of counseling they had to
decide the college within few seconds. So every parent normally
selected at least about 5 to 6 colleges and they will be worried and
in full tension till their turn came up for counseling. Even then
most of them would not get colleges of their choice and they used
to grumble. But I had selected only one College – Jerusalem
Engineering College for my son and did not bother to select any
other alternative colleges. I told the parents who used to ask me
with surprise for having selected only one college that my Lord
Jesus Christ has told “Ask and that will be given (Mat 7:7). Surely
my Lord will get my son the college he desired”. They used to
look at me skeptically and inwardly laugh at my stupidity.
There is no caste or forward or backward community after receiving

Jesus Christ. All become one, one family and made brothers and
sisters through the precious blood of Jesus. Some converted
Christians as well as traditional Christians still have caste,
community feelings and affinity. Truly they have not imbibed the
spirit and teachings of Jesus. They are Christians only for name
sake. Although my entire family had accepted Jesus and become
Christians, I was yet to get it changed officially through
Government Gazette notification. I had the previous community
certificate for Stephen obtained earlier for all of us and attended
the counseling on 13th June 2003 with that certificate. Based on
the marks obtained and community quota allotment, my son got
the seat allotment in Jerusalem Engineering College. But Satan
played a trick and an impediment in getting the allotment order.
The Counseling officer after verifying my son’s community

certificate signed by Tambaram Tahsildar said that I would have
to obtain and produce the certificate from my native place – Sattur
by 25th June 2003 failing which the allotment order would be
cancelled. Due to government employees’ strike in Tamil Nadu,
no government office was functioning in the State since 2nd June
2003. The strike was prolonging indefinitely without any possible
solution due to the tough stand taken by the State Government. I
mentioned about the strike to the Counseling officer but he said,
“I am sorry. I understand your problem. But I cannot help you.
S. THAYAPPAN 53
Somehow you will have to get a new certificate. If you don’t

produce the community certificate duly signed by Tahsildar of your
native place by June 25th, this seat will be allotted to someone
else.” I was stuck and did not know what to do further. I approached
a distant relative who was also a Tahsildar in a nearby town. His
reply was quite heart breaking and discouraging. He said that
nowadays getting a community certificate was too difficult even
with all the relevant supporting documents and evidence for my
stay at the native place. Added to that, all the government offices
were closed. The way it looked, the strike was not likely to come
to an end before the month end and I was really worried. I knelt
down and prayed to the Lord for help and then made an application
to Sattur Tahsildar, explaining my son’s plight and enclosed copies
of all our previous community certificates and sent them to my
relative. Days were passing by without any reconciliation between
the government and the employees’ unions. I was losing hope but
intensified my prayers. I used to ring up to my relative every day
but his reply was demoralizing. It was 24th and the next day was
the last day for producing the certificate. My BP was going up and
my tension was mounting. I did not even feel like talking to any
one in the house. I just fasted and kept on praying. My son and the
entire family were worried and were silently praying. Each minute
ticked away with tension and suspense. In the evening, our
telephone rang and the ring tone indicated that it was a long distance
call. My son rushed to pick up the receiver and after listening, he
said the call was from Sattur. My relative was on the line. He was
shouting with joy. He said that a Deputy Tahsildar who was on
sick leave prior to the commencement of the strike had joined duty
and he was posted to Sattur. He had arrived in the office that day
morning and he approached him with my application. After reading,
the Tahsildar had asked him to obtain counter signature from
Village Administrative Officer and Revenue Inspector. He ran up,
found them and requested them explaining the situation and
urgency. They signed the certificate and then he had approached
the Deputy Tahsildar who had also signed the certificate. Now he
had sent the certificate through courier and that I would get it in
the morning. When I heard the information, I could not hold my
tears on thinking of the Lord’s mercy. JESUS NEVER FORSAKES
YOU. Proverb 28:25 says, “He who trusts in the Lord will be
prospered”. Why can’t the people trust this unfailing, promising
Lord? HE DOES IMPOSSIBLE THINGS BEYOND OUR
THINKING AND IMAGINATIONS! Next day by morning 10
O’ clock, I received the courier and immediately rushed up to Anna
University and produced the certificate to the counseling officer.
He was really surprised (may be shocked!) to see the certificate
and asked me how I got it when the strike was still going on. I
explained every thing to him. He said that it was really a miracle
and that the God was really helping me. He released the allotment
and gave me the allotment order for my son to join Jerusalem
Engineering College. JESUS IS REALLY GREAT! Is He not?
Hallelujah!
CATCH THEM YOUNG FOR JESUS CHRIST FOR THE BENEFIT OF EVERY
ONE AND EVERY THING
“Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the
Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these…Mat 19:14 (NIV)”
My son Sakthi Stephen received Jesus at the right age of 16 years.

From childhood I had watched him and I was really worried about
him for he was highly sensitive, touchy, emotional and explosive.
When he was 14 years old, his elder brother Karthik had scolded
him for not studying well and hit him lightly to create a sense of
fear and obedience to him. But it turned out to be other way. He
left the house at midnight and did not turn up the whole night. We
searched him every where in the night and rang up to many of our/
his friends to trace him but all in vain. Finally he was located next
day morning in a nearby area and brought him home. Adolescent
and teenage is the prime age when they pick up bad habits like
smoking, drinking, telling lies, some one getting introduced to
drugs, secret pleasures, eve teasing, movies, violence etc. Bad and
evil things are always attractive and youngsters in High Schools
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and colleges easily tend to fall a prey to these vices. They need to
be protected, guided, loved and cared for properly at this vulnerable
age. I was really happy and felt totally relieved when Stephen
received Jesus and had grown in faith and Christ, involved himself
more in church activities, took interest in having fellowship with
other believers, regularly fasted, prayed and studied Bible. These
things protected him from all the evil attractions and drag net of
the Satan. Jesus Christ has totally changed all his attitudes,
behaviour, temperaments and he has become very much sober,
soft spoken, god fearing and even tempered. Fear of the Lord is
the beginning of Wisdom (Pro 9:10)! His college colleagues had
tried many a times to lure him for going to movies but he had
politely avoided them. He disliked seeing any serials, movies or
programs in TV. Sometimes he used to listen to News or he would
switch over to GOD channel to listen to gospel messages. As he
had grown very strong in faith, word of God and received the
anointing of the Holy Spirit, I have complete confidence now that
no evil things however attractive they may be, can touch him.
Psalmist also says in 119:9 that “How can a young man keep his
way pure? Only by living according to the Word of God” Isn’t it?
Ecclesiastes 12:1 also warns us to “Remember your Creator in the
days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years
approach when you will say, I find no pleasure in them”. Youth
power is an important, all powerful, dynamite and explosive power.
If guided properly, it not only can do wonders for the establishment
and development of a lovely, peaceful home, a good society and a
good, progressive, forward looking developed nation but can also
prove to be a very good instrument to arrest the growing terrorism,
unrest and agitation among youth. In my opinion, Bible teaching
and Christianity is the only best tool for shaping, moulding and
correcting the characters, behaviours and thinking of youth who
will be tomorrow’s generations and leaders. This must start at an
early age in home and primary school itself and be made
compulsory as a subject in High schools and colleges.
CHRISTIANITY AND THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE CAN
ALONE PROVIDE LOVE, TOLERANCE, PEACE, HARMONY

AND HEALTHY CO-EXISTENCE IN HOME, SOCIETY AND
NATION! Hallelujah!
O JESUS, PLEASE HELP ME MY DAUGHTERS CRY
“To the Lord I cry aloud and He answers from His Holy Hill – Ps
3:4 (NIV)”
My daughter - Gayathri was very much attached to her elder brother

and she loved him. She could not take the fate or karma theory for
the sickness and condition of her brother and had totally lost all
her faith on all the Hindu gods and she was not praying to any god
at all. She had almost become an atheist. When I was away in
USA, she used to take my wife in a two wheeler to whichever
temple she wanted to go but never used to go inside the temple.
She would wait in the vehicle outside the temple till her mother
returned from the temple. To that extent, she had lost faith and
developed an aversion towards all the gods. Even after our return
to India and after hearing my testimony of how Lord Jesus had
saved Karthi’s life, she was not ready to receive Jesus. She used to
say that let Jesus heal her brother completely first and make him
as he was earlier, then she would accept Jesus as her Lord. I did
not compel her. I just kept on praying for her redemption. Her 21st
birth day fell on 30th July 2001. On that day since morning she was
having a feeling of premonition that something serious like an
accident was going to happen that day. She just brushed aside that
feeling and totally forgot about it. She normally wore only
chudidhars and pyjamas. That day evening she wore a sari and
went to Tambaram by a two wheeler to attend her computer class.
While she was driving back after the class in Grand Trunk Road
near Kadaperi check post at around 7 PM, one end of her sari was
caught up in the rear wheel of her vehicle. Somehow she had applied
the break and she was caught up in upright position not able to
either drive further or to get down from the vehicle. Grand Trunk
Road is a busy road and there used to be heavy traffic at all times
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of the day and in the evening the traffic used to be at peak. She
could have been crushed to death by the speeding heavy vehicles.
Many fatal accidents had happened on the GST roads. On a sudden
impulse even without her knowledge, she had cried out “Oh Jesus,
please help me”. That’s all she could remember. Further she did
not know as to how her sari was freed from the rear wheel or how
she got down from the vehicle or who brought her to the platform.
But she was standing with the vehicle near the platform completely
shivering. It could have been a major, serious or fatal accident. As
King David had cried to the Lord in Ps 103:13 SHE HAD CRIED
TO THE LORD IN HER TROUBLE AND THE LORD SAVED
HER FROM HER DISTRESS. Although this incident broke her
atheist attitude and tilted her slightly towards Jesus, she did not
accept Him fully and was still wavering in mind.
I WILL COME BACK AS I GO MY DAUGHTERS STUBBORNNESS
TOWARDS CHRISTIANITY
“You did not choose me, but I chose you – John 15:16 (NIV)”
The Satan does not like anyone escaping from his net and receiving
the true and only God. To achieve his ends, he fights till the end,
brings in many confusions, troubles, unhappiness and sickness.
Gayathri was caught up in his cunning whirl wind and was being
thrown in and out of faith many a times. I was continuously praying
for the Lord’s mercy and grace to touch her. Finally the Lord
touched her. I compelled her to attend a three day youth girls
convention conducted by Blessing Youth Mission in Sitteri Hills,
Tamil Nadu. (Their website is www.Blessing Youth Mission.org
one of the leading Missionary Organizations in India whose founder
is Bro. R. Stanley. He is a profound Bible Teacher, powerful revival
preacher, passionate mission challenger, energetic youth mobiliser,
practical trainer, prolific writer and a pleasant friend). She was
very reluctant to go but finally agreed to go due to my compulsion.
She said, while going, that she would come back as she went. I
sent my wife also along with her to ensure her total participation
in the convention. Seven or eight sisters from our church also
accompanied my wife and daughter to the camp and all fasted and
prayed for my daughter’s salvation and anointing by the Holy Spirit.
Despite my daughter’s reluctance to go for the special prayer call
at the Camp, she was compelled by my wife and others to go for it
and the Holy Spirit anointed her with the sign of tongues. 1 Cor.
6:17 says “When your spirit is united with the Spirit of God, you
become an anointed one”. After realizing the power, pleasure,
protection of the anointing, she now spends more time on prayers,
Bible reading and has become very strong in faith. Now she keeps
on talking about Lord’s love to whomever she meets because the
Holy Spirit has given her the Love (Rom 5:5)oly . She then
volunteered to take baptism and GAYATHRI BECAME KEZIAH.
She was only an average student and did not work hard with her
studies. I was afraid, she might not pass her final semester
examinations in her college. But the Lord blessed her to score very
good marks in her Bachelor’s degree and also showered His
blessings to acquire a Master’s degree in Computer Application
(MCA) in first class. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOR THOSE
WHO BELIEVE (Mk 9:23)!
GAYATHRI, DO YOU PRAY OR CURSE? HER COLLEAGUES FEAR
“I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will
curse – Gen 12:3 (NIV)”
The Lord blessed her to get a good job in a MNC (Multi National
Company) with a handsome salary. She was least expected to be
selected against tough competition with more experienced and
highly qualified candidates for that particular job. The in-charge
of her branch office was a staunch Hindu and somehow did not
like her and started harassing her without any valid reasons. She
wanted to quit the job due to this reason. I asked her if she ever
represented all her problems to the Lord. She said ‘No’. I advised
her to pray to the Lord first and then He will guide her as to what
to do further for “There is no sorcery against Jacob, nor any
divination against Israel (Num 23:23)”. She knelt down and prayed
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to the Lord. Next week itself the Manager was transferred to

Bombay to the great shock of him and to the astonishment of all
other staff. Every one in the office knew the true reason for the
sudden transfer of the Manager and asked Gayathri “Do you pray
or curse?” They further tell her “If you have any grievances against
us, please tell us instead of praying to your Jesus”. The new
Manager having learnt about all these things, sometimes asked
her with all the reverence and humbleness to pray to Jesus for
target completion for that month or quarter ending. Thus the seed
of Gospel has been sown and implanted in the minds of many in
her office. The long distance, long working hours and the
commutation facilities bothered her and her health. She again
prayed to Jesus and He blessed her to get another better job with a
handsome salary. Now she is evangelizing her colleagues in the
new office with the spirit of “let the world get the joy what we got
and propagates the blessings to others”! THE LORD IS SO GOOD,
MERCIFUL AND COMPASSIONATE. JESUS NEVER LETS
DOWN ANY OF HIS CHILDREN AT ANY TIME! Hallelujah!
THE LORDS WAYS ARE PECULIAR
“My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways – Is 55:8 (NIV)”
The Lord heard my continuous, sincere and tearful prayers from

the bottom of my heart for my wife to be saved. The miracles
happened in getting the admission for my son in Zion School and
the unbelievable miraculous escape of my daughter from the road
accident had a telling impact on my wife’s faith and slowly she
started to lean on Jesus. Her old idolatry faith and Hindu rituals
started to rescind. In the meanwhile someone known to my wife
had told her about the healing miracles happening in Chalakkudi
Divine Retreat Centre in Kerala and she wanted to go there with
my son. I opposed it saying that Jesus Christ is every where, not in
Chalakkudi alone. He is omnipresent and can heal Karthi here also.
But she was adamant. Any amount of my convincing and reasoning
could not change her insistence. Because of this, I felt a sort of

restlessness and unhappiness creeping in our relationship and
family. Hence, I just knelt down, prayed to the Lord and then took
my wife and son to Chalakkudi. Her one week stay in the Retreat
and absence of every possible contact with outside world through
media and continuous prayers, worships, systematic well planned
syllabus for giving powerful Gospel messages and the Word of
God through various Bible scholars and Evangelists from morning
6 AM to 9 PM continuously without any break for one week really
transformed my wife completely and strengthened her faith which
otherwise would have taken more than one year to strengthen to
that extent by attending regularly all the Sunday services in a
church. The Lord does everything in his own way that we cannot
understand but come to realize it only later. How rightly the Lord
has told in the Bible that His ways are not ours and our thinking is
not HHhhhhhhHis! Once we totally submit and surrender all our
thinking, ways and actions to His Will, we need not worry about
any thing at all. He takes care of every thing for us. TASTE AND
SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD. BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO
TRUSTS HIM (Ps 32:8)! After tasting His love, you will never
leave Him. If you love Him, you will not leave Him: If you leave
Him, you cannot love Him. Hallelujah!
YOU WILL WITNESS MIRACLES MIRACULOUS HEALING OF MY WIFE
IN SURGERY TABLE
“He has made everything beautiful in its time – Ecc. 3:11(NIV)”
Once if you come to Christ, people think that there shall be no

more problems, worries or sicknesses. The Lord has not told that
you will not have any problems or sufferings in life. Trials and
tribulations will be there but I have succeeded them and I am with
you, so behold and don’t worry is what the Lord has said. Among
all your sufferings, I will be with you and I will never forsake you.
The Lord does not cause the sufferings or problems to any one.
Only Satan does all these things in the lives of every one. But the
Lord sometimes allows or permits such sufferings in the lives of
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His children! He allows it knowingly so that His children will seek

Him more and will come still more close to Him. Jesus loved my
wife, wanted her to receive Him fully and allowed her some
sickness. Her uterus came down and she was not even able to walk
some distance. She was able to move inside the house but was
finding it difficult to walk even 200 meters outside. I took her to
Dr.Vani Nursing Home in East Tambaram in South Madras. She
is an elderly lady with a vast experience. She scolded me after
checking up my wife as to why I had not brought her earlier as her
condition was very bad and that any further delay in treating her
would lead to further complications. The doctor advised for an
immediate admission to the hospital for removal of her uterus. I
was shocked. Another patient in my house? “Oh God! Father, please
have mercy on me. You know my situation. My son Karthi is
already handicapped and requires all my help. My daughter is in
college and my younger son has just joined Plus One. How can I
look after my wife if she is also bedridden after a surgery? After
removal of uterus, I was told that she should not lift any weight
and she needed to be in bed for many months. Father, please help
me. No surgery for my wife. Please heal her without any surgery”.
I prayed with tears. But things seemed to be moving only towards
surgery. Finally I had to admit her in the Nursing Home for surgery
and the date for the surgery was also fixed. Dr Chakravarthy from
Chengalpattu Medical College and Hospital came only for this
surgery. My wife was taken to the Operation Theatre and was given
anesthesia. I was praying with all my heart outside the theatre for
a miraculous healing. The doctor came out after sometime. I rushed
up to him and asked – Is the surgery successful? He looked at me
and told – Only after doing the surgery, I can tell if it is successful
or not. But for your wife, it is successful even without the surgery!
I could not get him immediately. “You mean, you did not do any
surgery at all. But why?” “Because it was not needed. Your wife’s
uterus appeared to be quite normal, in its original size and place.
Hence, I did not remove it. I asked the lady doctor as to why she
had called me. She was also surprised and shocked. She said that
she had seen it in worst condition and not once but many a times.
She was not able to understand how it had become normal and
was in its original place. It was really a miracle, she said.” I was in
tears to hear the news. THE LORD HEARD MY PRAYERS AND
DID THE MIRACLE ON THE SURGERY TABLE! Jeremiah
33:6 says that I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my
people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security. Our
Lord is really a miracle God. Those who believe in Him will never
be ashamed. The Lord further strengthened us through John 16:33
“In this world, you will have troubles. But take heart; I have
overcome this world”. My wife now understood and realized that
SHE WAS NOT WORSHIPPING A DEAD GOD BUT AN
ALMIGHTY LIVING GOD and received Him as her Saviour!
She then took baptism and SURYAPRABHA BECAME SURYA
KRUPA! (Krupa in Tamil means ‘Grace’) Earlier she used to scold
me – You are chasing away everyone who comes to our house by
talking only about Jesus; that’s why nowadays nobody is coming
to our house. But now she is talking about Jesus all the time without
a stop to everybody who comes to our house! She has tasted the
love of Jesus. Now she is not able to keep quiet without talking
about Jesus to others. Hallelujah!
LOST A FEW FRIENDS AND EARNED INNUMERABLE BROTHERS &
SISTERS
“And anyone who has left brothers and sisters for my sake will
receive a hundred times as much – Mt 19:29 (NIV)”
Many neighbours, friends and relatives came to see Karthi. I did

not know how the news about our imbibing Christianity and the
miracle life saving of Karthi by Jesus Christ has spread, many
Christian brothers and sisters from various places and many Pastors
from nearby Churches visited us. After hearing my testimony, they
would praise the Lord and then pray to the Lord for the complete
healing of Karthi. Regular loud Christian prayers and songs of joy
were heard from our house. This raised the curiosity of many people
to know as to what had happened to us, a strong and staunch Hindu
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family & devotees of Adhi Parasakthi to imbibe Christianity. A

few dared asking me directly on my face but many talked behind
me and gossiped. “Thayappan is a hard nut to crack. He is a slippery
fellow. He knows how to escape such situations. More over his
aversion to Christianity was well known and open. I don’t believe
the story that he has simply accepted Jesus just like that because
of Karthi’s sickness alone. He might have taken at least two lakhs
rupees (equivalent of $4000) for every member of his family to
become a Christian. I know very well about him”. A few believed
this gossip and a few refuted it. When I came to know about this
senseless talk, I could only laugh at their mean, ridiculous
materialistic thinking. Then I told a story to every one who came
to my house to see Karthi.
I had a close friend named Sakthivel known to me since childhood.

I was so much attached to him and was ready to do anything for
him. I loved him so much, I never allowed anyone to criticize him
or to talk ill about him. I felt proud to be a friend of him. He is
from a well to do family. I strongly believed that he also loved me
and reciprocated the same love and friendship. We grew up and
our love and affection also grew. Even after our marriages, we
were inseparable. One day my son fell sick and his condition
became very serious. The doctors advised for an immediate
admission to the ICU to have round the clock observation and
treatment which cost me heavily. I needed money. I tried for loan
from my colleagues and a few known friends. Since the amount
was heavy, they hesitated. Finally I approached my thick friend
Sakthivel. I know he had enough spare money to give. But he did
not give despite my asking him and knowing fully well about the
serious condition of my son. He came out with so many lame
excuses for his inability to give the money. I was in a fix and
helpless condition. I could not digest and believe my close friend
refusing to give the money to me especially at that critical moment.
I was down in my spirit and was trying to swallow the bitterness
of the fact of life.
At that time, somebody rang up the calling bell. I opened the door
and was surprised to see Alexander standing at my door step.
Alexander lived about a few houses away from my house.
Somehow I had developed a sort of hatred towards him without
any base or reasons. I despised him for no valid reasons. I had no
personal contact, enmity or altercations with him. None has told
me anything bad about him. Yet I disliked him and turned my face
the other side to avoid seeing his face whenever we had to cross
each other on the road. My hatred and avoiding him used to be
very apparent and open in the air. I used to think that no Christian
should be allowed to reside among us. They should be pooled
together and kept separately in a colony away from our inhabitants.
I thought they were low class people, untouchables, unfit to live
among us. I had never spoken a word to Alexander so far in so
many years and I was so surprised to see him standing at my door
step. He greeted me and before I could say anything, he caught my
hand and thrust a bundle of currencies saying “I heard that your
son is serious and you need money. Please take this and give the
treatment to your son. My entire family has been praying for his
healing and we will continue to pray for him. Don’t worry. He
will be alright. God is great. Believe in Him. He will help you.”
His eyes were sparkling with tears and then he left abruptly even
without waiting for me to thank him. I was bewildered and shocked
on seeing his compassion, helping tendency even without my
asking, his nobility, simplicity and his care, concern, sincerity to
pray for my son. Further he had not reflected or kept in mind any
ill feelings about my earlier behaviour. It was a blow to me. My
unfounded hatred and all the wrong conceptions I had against him
so far vanished like a mist in the sun light. He stood tall in my
image and I felt so small and belittled in front of him.
Now tell me whom do I call a true friend? Sakthivel whom I had

thought was my best and only friend in the last 58 years? Or Mr.
Alexander whom I had despised for no reason at all? This is only
a story but this is what has really happened in my life now. The
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idols whom I had worshipped wholeheartedly till now in my life

had not helped my son in time of my need and sickness of my son.
But Jesus Christ who had been hated, saved my son from death.
After hearing what I had said, there would be no answer from any
of them. They would simply nod their head in agreement. Then I
would tell them the various miracles done by Jesus Christ in our
life and in others’ life. I would also tell them the various testimonies
given by many in the church. Their face would show their old
faith shaken. The seed of faith and the word of God are sown now
in them. I pray to the Lord for their growth and harvest. To all
those who come to my house, I talk only about Jesus and his
abundant love and nothing else. I could not think or talk anything
else other than Jesus. I am full of Jesus, filled fully by His love
and grace to the brim. Due to this, a few of my old friends avoid
coming to my house. I lost many of my old friends but earned
many new friends who are more concerned about me and my family
and they are more than my blood brothers and sisters.
NOT BY OUR SKILL BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD ANYTHING WILL
HAPPEN
“It does not therefore depend on man’s desires or effort, but on
God’s mercy-Rom 9:16 (NIV)”
Wise men learn from others’ mistakes, mediocre learn from their
own mistakes. Fools never learn anything either from other’s
mistakes or from their own. All these are head knowledge. Bible
says clearly in Ps 94:11 that man’s ideas are futile and without the
Lord you can do nothing (John 15:5). But after coming to Jesus,
we should depend only on Jesus and put all our requests and
requirements only to Him. He can guide us properly, protect us
and take care of all our needs. He alone can solve all our problems,
heal all our sicknesses, console us more than a mother could do
and comfort her child in times of distress, pain and He can lead us
to victory in all our paths. He loves us more than anybody else in
this world and He is ready to do anything for us. HE HAS
ALREADY DONE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE OF GIVING
HIS LIFE FOR US WHICH NEITHER ANY OF THE SO

CALLED GODS NOR ANY GOD HAVE DONE SO FAR NOR
CAN THINK OF DOING SUCH A MATCHLESS SUPREME
SACRIFICE. Jesus wants to be with us all the time and wants to
be associated with us in all our activities. But we only keep Him at
a distance and seek Him for a little while on appointed times like
when we pray for 10 to 20 minutes once or twice a day or when we
face some problems or sickness. When the Almighty God is with
you all the time, His power, His grace, His blessings, His protection,
every thing will be with you. No need to worry about anything as
He takes care of every thing. There are ample evidences in the
Bible to prove this. Not only great men like Abraham, Moses,
David, Solomon or other anointed men of God of Old Testament
period but even present day great servants of God like Sadhu Sunder
Singh, Sadhu Yesudas, Reinhard Bonnke, Richard Ankoma, Benny
Hynn, so many Pastors and believers are able to do many miracles
even today because of their full time association with the Lord. I
can write with evidence and prove innumerable number of miracle
healings and incidents happened or happening in the lives of many
believers.
But as for me, even after coming to Jesus, I was depending on my

own strength, efforts and brilliance for every thing. Karthi was to
be given streptomycin injection on every alternative day. Sam
Uncle’s daughter in law - Anne who was working as a nurse
volunteered to come all the way from Chromepet to give the
injection. She used to come sometimes after 10 PM even on rainy
days after coming back from her shift duty in the hospital. She
could not come alone from such a long distance and hence either
her husband or Sam Uncle used to accompany her every time. It
was really troublesome for them because it is not for one day or
for a week. It was for months together. Yet they were doing it
willingly and whole heartedly as a Christian without any murmur
or hesitation. To alleviate her troubles, I tried for a nurse from a
nearby area. I tried for a month through various sources but I could
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not get. Then one day all of a sudden it struck me and dawned on
me that I had not prayed to the Lord for this. Immediately I knelt
down and prayed to the Lord to help us get a nurse from nearby
place. The same day we got a nurse from nearby area and she did
the service free of cost. Similarly when I tried with so many doctors,
medical representatives and pharmacists on my own for more than
a month for an alternate medicine for Paser, a TB drug given to
my son in America, I could not get it. Then when I prayed to the
Lord, the same day itself I got the alternate medicine. If we pray to
Jesus, He never fails you. HE IS THE ONLY GOD WHO HAS
SAID – TEST ME AND SEE IF I CAN DELIVER YOU WHAT
YOU WANT. HE ALONE CAN MEET ALL OUR NEEDS. Test
and Taste the love of Jesus. You will find that He is really a caring
God. Hallelujah!
LET NOT KARTHIS CONDITION COME TO ANY ONE
“When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body
– Job 21:6 (NIV)”
Even now if I recall the hopeless, precarious condition of Karthi

when I brought him home on 29 May 2001, my whole body shivers.
His head would sometimes collapse to one side. He would be
starring at a particular place and blink. Since his spinal card,
abdomen and hip muscles had become very weak, he won’t be
able to sit steadily in the wheel chair. If I don’t tie him up with a
belt with the wheel chair, he might either fall to the front or on the
side. He was not able to even hold a pen or a spoon in his fingers
as they had become very stiff and bent. During the night I used to
straighten his fingers of both the hands and tie them up with a
splinter. As he was totally paralyzed below the hip and as he had
no strength in his upper body, two people had to lift him up from
bed to make him sit in the wheel chair. His leg would stretch out
and stand out like a log due to spasm. I had to massage his muscles
and slowly bend it to place them on the foot rest of the wheel
chair. His memory was impaired to a very large extent. Hours
together I used to sit by his side and narrate many incidents
happened earlier in his/our life to enable him to recapture his

memory. In his food pipe in the neck, a hole had been made to
insert a pipe to his lungs (Tracheostomy) to remove the plums.
Due to this, his tongue had been pulled inside resulting in the loss
of his speech. When I asked him any thing, he would try to speak
but it would only be an indelible sound. To a person who is an
Engineering Graduate and worked in Singapore and USA, I had to
give him speech therapy patiently to speak out words like A for
Apple, B for Boy, Papa, Mamma, Aunt etc. Sometimes he would
try to tell me something but I won’t be able to make out what he
was trying to tell me. He would further try hard to explain but
having failed to communicate or make us understand, his eyes
would moisten and he would become silent looking helplessly at
us. Such situations would simply break our heart and cause
intolerable pain. If any food was fed in his mouth, he would not be
able to chew them and would just hold it in his mouth. When I tell
him to chew and swallow it, he would try many a times but would
not be able to move his tongue to chew the food. Finally I would
take out the food from his mouth. To swallow one sip of water, he
would take a few minutes. He had absolutely no control over his
bladder and bowel movements. All the medicines and tablets were
powdered and injected through a tube which had been fixed
permanently in his abdomen. Sometimes liquid food was also given
through this tube. When many known friends and neighbours
visited us to see Karthi, he was not able to recognize them. He was
just a living vegetable. We had to take care of him like a premature
baby.
HEALING NOT POSSIBLE BY THE MEDICINE IS POSSIBLE BY LORDS
GRACE
“I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder – Is 29:14
(NIV)”
My son was given up by the American doctors who were supposed

to be the best and Number One in medical science in the whole
world and finally they had also recommended mercy killing of my
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son. But the Lord strengthened him day after day to the great
astonishment of every one and proved that the healing not possible
by the medicines and doctors is possible by the Lord and it is just
a piece of cake and no task for Him. The progress and development
in Karthi’s health condition was phenomenal and quite surprising.
He regained his complete memory except the 18 surgeries done
on him. Slowly he started speaking a few words initially without
any clarity and later on with clarity. Now he is able to talk clearly
and is able to eat any solid food. His bladder control is improved
now. His spinal cord and back muscles have gained strength that
he is able to sit in the wheel chair without the support of the belt
and is able to bend down and rise up on his own. He is able to
move on the floor and climb up on the cot. He is able to write
legibly with his hand. His thinking, imagination, analytical powers
and sense of humour is back. The Lord blessed us to buy a car in
which we lift and place Karthi in the front seat and transfer him to
the wheel chair in the church. He is able to sit through the full
worship and service for 2 ½ hours and not a single Sunday service
has been missed by him. He will be the first person to reach the
church at 7.45 AM, fifteen minutes prior to the service and used to
insist that instead of making the Lord to wait for us, we should go
and wait on the Lord! He is the last person to leave the church
after the service after greeting every one in the church. With caliper
and walker, initially he was not able to take even one step. I had to
push his foot with my foot step after step. From that stage, the
Lord has blessed him to make one step at a time and then to walk
up to 10 feet, then 50, 100, 200, 300 and now up to 500 feet he is
able to walk inside the house with caliper and walker. It is not at
all possible in human efforts but has become possible only by the
grace of the Lord. The Lord’s comforting assurance in 2 Cor. 12:9
that My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in
weakness, further strengthened my son and made him to proclaim
“with the Lord strengthening me, I can do all things”. With the
strength the Lord has provided him, Karthi is moving from strength
to strength crossing all the hurdles one by one. Hallelujah!
KNOW THE SCRIPTURE, IT WILL DELIVER YOU

“You will know the truth and the truth will set you free – John
8:32 (GNB)”
One day Karthi casually asked me – Daddy, is there any problem

with our TV? Why is the telecasting so dim? I see two or three
images in the screen and it is blurring. I told him that there was
absolutely no problem with our TV and everything was alright.
Next day all of a sudden I heard my son’s chilling cry and I rushed
up to see what was wrong. I saw him crying with Bible in his
hand. When I asked him what has happened, he said, he was not
able to read the Bible. His vision was blurring and when he read
the first line in the Bible, the third line also came to his focus
thereby confusing him. Next day I took him to Sankara Nethralaya,
one of the famous Eye Hospitals in Chennai. They carried out
various tests and finally gave me a report stating that all his optical
nerves and colour vision were extensively damaged and there can
hardly be any chance of improvement in his vision. They however
suggested using of some power glass. Even with spectacles, he
was not able to read and his eye sight was diminishing day after
day. My son with tears in his eyes asked me – Daddy, will I never
be able to read the Bible? His choking voice with so much of thirst
to read the Bible really broke my heart. I held him close to my
chest and told him, “Why not my son? Ask Jesus Christ! The Bible
says, “You know the Scripture and the Scripture will deliver you”.
How can I know the Scripture, if I am unable to read it. Give me
eye sight to read and study the Bible. Cry and pour out your heart
to the Lord. He will definitely answer your prayers. He is the prayer
answering God”. Karthi prayed with tears and full faith. Jesus heard
his prayers and HIS EYE DEFECTS WERE MIRACULOUSLY
HEALED AND EYE SIGHT COMPLETELY RESTORED
without any medicine, therapy or spectacles. None of my children
knew Tamil to read and write as every one studied up to higher
secondary in Kendriya Vidyalaya without Tamil as one of their
subjects. But the LORD TAUGHT HIM TO READ TAMIL and
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now he has completed reading the Bible in Tamil as well as in

English! Hallelujah! Ask any thing in Jesus name in full faith, you
will surely get it. The Lord who has called us is really faithful!
Amen.
DELAY IS NOT DENIAL IT IS ONLY TO PREPARE US
“We know that all things work together for good to those who
love God – Rom 8:28 (NKJV)”
For the Lord who rescued His people from Egypt’s slavery, for the
Almighty God who slashed the red sea and the Jordan river and
made the way across the sea for his people to cross, for the
Omnipotent Lord who created ways in the jungle and rivers in the
desert, it would hardly take only a fraction of a second or only one
word to heal and give complete deliverance to my son Karthi from
all his weaknesses and disability. It is not at all a big thing for the
Lord. In fact it is the most easiest and effortless thing for Him to
heal him completely. But had He done that and blessed Karthi to
get up and walk either in USA or immediately after our arrival in
India, I am sure, we also would have walked away from Him after
telling a simple ‘Thanks’ to Him and would have gone back to
idolatry and to our old style of living and by now forgotten the
Lord also. The intention of the Lord is different. While the Lord
allowed the improvements in Karthi’s condition step by step, He
also strengthened us in Christ, faith, in knowing, understanding
Him, His abundant love, His teachings, the way He wants us to
live, the total change in our attitudes and to imbibe the qualities of
Christ. Now we have clearly understood that the delay in healing
Karthi is not a denial but it is only to prepare us, strengthen us and
to make us a fruit yielding tree and be a mighty living witness to
His glory. The Lord knows what to do, when to do, how to do and
how much to do for His children who are totally dependant on
Him. Jesus Christ is a God who can never forsake His children.
Those who are dependant on Him shall never be ashamed at any
time. He is a caring God who goes around healing the sick, taking
away the sufferings of His people and succor the needy ones. Every
thing happens only as per His Will. Nothing happens in this
universe without the knowledge of Him for He is omniscient. If it
is His Will to heal Karthi completely, we will praise Him. Even if
He does not heal, then also Jesus Christ shall alone be our God
and continue to be our Redeemer. His love and grace is more than
sufficient for us! Sometimes the enemy used to bring a sort of
mental depression. At that time the Lord used to boost and comfort
us either through a dream to Karthi or to his mother or to one of
the believers in the church or through a word or a prophecy through
someone. Not once but many a times, the Lord has consoled and
comforted Karthi and us. He is really a comforting God and
comforts more than a mother could comfort her child! JESUS
CHRIST IS THE PRINCE OF PEACE (Is 9:6). Taste and see His
love, peace and presence. Only then one can understand. Hallelujah!
THANKS TO JESUS FOR GIVING THIS SICKNESS KARTHIS JOY IN
HIS CRY
“For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an
eternal glory that far outweighs them all – II Cor 4:17(NIV)”
My son Karthi is still in the wheel chair only. But we have

unshakeable faith in Jesus Christ. In His right time and suitable
moment, He will surely heal Karthi, make him as he was earlier
and make him a mighty living witness to give testimony and to
glorify and magnify the unparalleled supreme name of the Lord
through out the world. I am able to recollect with shivering, the
vast difference in the condition of Karthi prior to our coming to
Christ, his hopeless, precarious, pitiable, pathetic, failing condition
of having gone to the brim of touching his grave. Due to Lord’s
unlimited grace and mercy, day after day he regained his lost
faculties, wisdom, strength and humour. Having come a long way
crossing all the hurdles, he says now, “Daddy, let us all thank the
Lord for giving me this disease and sickness without which we
would not have turned to Him and we would not be enjoying His
unceasing limitless love, kindness, mercy, grace and blessings!
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Now are we not the most chosen, blessed and happiest family in
the Lord! Let any amount of problems, difficulties, torment, turmoil
or sickness come, among its worst possible condition also, are we
not able to realize the peace, hope and the comforting and
encompassing embrace of Lord Jesus Christ? Has He not taken
away all our sicknesses, burden, worries, pain and nailed them in
the cross of Calvary and eased our mind? Is it not the grace and
mercy of Jesus Christ? HE ALONE AND NONE ELSE can reflect
such a motherly kindness to worst sinners like us! Is it not?” When
Karthi tells me all these things emotionally with tears-brimming-
eyes, I could only embrace and hold him tightly to me while my
heart silently thank Jesus for every thing He has done to us.
FROM PITCH DARK TO WONDERFUL LIGHT
“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord –
Eph 5:8(NIV)”
Hindu Vedas and Scriptures also mention about sins, its impact on
the mind, life, about hell and heaven and one’s rebirth as per the
good and evil deeds done by any one in this birth. Yet people do
and continue to do all sorts of evil things and commit various sins
without any fear or of conscience. Sometimes they even bribe the
Hindu Gods with various offerings and pujas and continue to
commit sins feeling satisfied and contended that their sins will be
forgiven by the gods due to the offerings made by them. Many are
under the impression that penance, offerings or special pujas or
doing good deeds will erase the imprints of sins. Once I also
believed in it.
When I was serving the Indian Air Force, I was once selected to be
one of the organizing committee members of Tambola, one of the
gambling pastimes usually played in all the Military establishments.
Very soon I smelt something wrong and on close vigil and watch,
I could find out the organizers swindling heavy amount through
misappropriation and fraudulent means. I pointed out the fraud
and told them that I would report this matter to the Authorities.
Initially they refused to accept it and refuted but when I confronted

them with the modus operandi they adopted to set aside large
portion of the profit for themselves, they accepted but came forward
to give me a portion of the loot every week to silence me. I could
not help but to fall a prey to that tempting and attractive offer.
In order to suppress my guilty conscience and to seek god’s

protection from getting myself caught in the crime, I asked my
wife to prepare vada maala (a garland of vada) made out of 108
vada every month as an offering for Aanjaneya (a monkey disciple
of Lord Rama) and thus made the god also a partner to my wrong
doings and sinful deeds. In addition to this, on every Monday
evening I used to observe fasting and do special pujas to Lord
Murugan after chanting ‘skanda sasti kavasam’ mantras as a
remedial measure to offset the ill effects of my sinful deeds. I also
kept away a portion of the bribe amount for going to various holy
rivers to have a holy dip to wash off all the sins and to go to many
temples to give offerings to various gods. My devotion and
faithfulness to these gods did not deter me from doing wrong things
or sinful acts. Instead they only served as a remedial measure for
the sins already done and to commit further sins. I have seen many
people who make god also as a partner to their wrong deeds by
making substantial offerings to them from the bribe amount they
received. Till my 58 years of age, I had been a god fearing person,
read Hindu Vedas and scriptures, sincerely following all the rituals
of going to the temples, chanting mantras, having holy dip in rivers,
giving alms and free food to the poor. Yet I had been committing
all sorts of sins knowingly and I had absolutely no fear to do any
wrong things. I really shiver now to think of all my past deeds full
of sins. Name any sin, it was there in me. Ego, head weight, envy,
finding fault with others, selfishness, revenging attitude, hurting
others feelings, telling lies, earnings through illegal and unfair
means, having all sorts of pervert and filthy feelings, alcoholism,
smoking, tobacco chewing and many more countless sins. All these
things existed in me while I was going to temples regularly,
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worshiping the gods daily, chanting all the holy mantras after bath,
wearing red cloth, tilak and holy ashes on the forehead and
observing all the rituals. These things brought only outward
holiness to me: some sort of religiosity. My soul and heart was
filled with guilt and filth. But now after coming to Christ, I could
feel, understand, realize and repent for all my sinful deeds, thoughts,
attitudes and habits. Now I have a fearful faithfulness, a real fear
to commit any sin or even to think of it. The Word of God says in
Rom 14:12 “Each of us shall give account of himself to God” and
“The God will render to each one according to his deeds (Rom
2:6, Ps 62:12, Pro 24:12). I now have a real inner holiness,
godliness and sanctification. I feel now that my body, spirit, heart
and soul is the temple of the God and I must keep them holy and
pure at all times. Apostle Paul says in 1 Cor. 6:19 that your body is
the temple of the Holy Ghost who is in you whom you have from
God and you are not your own”. Now the Lord has filled my life
with holiness, peace, humility, sincerity, selfless love for others,
compassion for the sick, weak and downtrodden, helping tendencies
and with a mind to pray for others. CHRIST HAS MADE ME
HOLY! Hallelujah!
HAVE YOU OR ANYONE IN YOUR CHURCH SEEN HEAVEN? I WANT TO
EXPERIENCE HEAVEN IN EARTH
“The seven angels showed me the great city, Jerusalem, descending
out of Heaven from God – Rev 21:9-10 (NKJV)”
Pastor Jacob George and his church members once told me that
this earthly life is only for a short while. But the heavenly eternal
life is permanent. So one should strive and accumulate wealth for
eternal heavenly life and not for this earthly life. I could not accept
this. The Pastor and his church members were terribly shocked
when I asked them on their face “Have you seen the Heaven? Or
has any one in your church? Look here, I am not interested in
heaven which neither you nor anyone of you have seen. Whether
there exists any hell or heaven or not, I am not interested. Plenty
of stories regarding heaven and hell are there in Hindu scriptures.
Even if it existed, I am least interested as to what is going to happen

or where I will be going after my death. I am in blood and flesh
now. I am interested about this present earthly life. My son is
struggling for his life now. Can your God heal my son? I am
interested only in that. I cannot think of heaven when I am in hell
here watching my son sinking every minute. I want to see heaven
here, in this earthly life. They were silent for a minute. Then they
told with conviction, “Receive Jesus, wash your sins with His
precious blood. You will experience heaven in this earthly life
itself.” They prayed for me and went off.
After coming to Christ and became strong in Him, I could

understand the difference between the ugliness, uncleanness, stink
and the burden of the sinful life and the fragrance, cleanliness,
beauty and importance of purity, holiness and sanctification in life
and decided and determined to live a holy life hereafter. Having
tasted the purity of being holy, now I cannot do any sin even if any
one gives me millions and millions of dollars. I will not touch
them even in my mind. The greatest, biggest and wonderful grace
and blessings what Christ has given me is that. CHRIST HAS
MADE ME HOLY! Jesus is holy. He lived a holy life and showed
me the way for the holy life. Not only to me, but to every one who
comes to Him. He transforms our lives to become like HIM. In
that holiness, I am able to experience the sweetness, beauty, peace,
joy, stillness, elegance, esteem, fragrance and the eternal bliss of
the heaven in this earthly life itself. HEAVEN IN EARTH! Thank
you for making me holy and blessing me the heavenly abode in
this earthly life.
YOU CAN GET RICE FROM A RICE SHOP; NOT FROM A GARMENT SHOP
“Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads,
and I will give you rest – Mt 11:28 (NIV)”
In the church where we have been worshiping the Lord and the
180 or more churches I have gone until now for sharing my
testimony, except for about 10% who are Christians by birth or by
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generations, others are only Hindu converts including many

orthodox brahmins and a few Muslims. Having suffered in life,
faced innumerable problems, sicknesses, no peace in life and not
able to find any solutions by going to various temples and
worshiping many gods, having come to know of Jesus Christ
through someone and having seen that He is the only true God,
they had the COURAGE to abandon their old faith and religion
and received Jesus as their Saviour with the hope that here is the
real God who loves you and can do anything for you. Yes, one
requires enormous real COURAGE to believe and come to Jesus
Christ. Many of my Hindu friends who are frustrated and lost all
the hope of finding any solution to their ever-increasing problems
in family life, professional or social life, used to request me to
pray for their problems, sickness or debt etc. after hearing the
innumerable miracles and healings done by Jesus Christ. They
know very well that Jesus can solve their problems, heal their
sickness, give them peace and supply all their needs. Yet they
HESITATE to come to Jesus fearing what their close relatives,
neighbours or the society may talk about them. The people whom
they fear cannot or are not going to help them in any way or solve
any of their problems. But yet they HESITATE AND FEAR FOR
NOTHING. Those who are BOLD ENOUGH to ignore the ‘no-
need-to-bother’ relations and come to Jesus are blessed by the Lord
and they get the solution, peace, happiness and all the blessings
which they had not got so far or cannot get anywhere else. Such
types of bold people who had thrown away the hesitation and come
to Jesus Christ only are found in all the churches. Now they are
happy for themselves and they have the thirst and sincere longing
for their relatives and neighbours also to get the same peace and
joy. This is the real intention of every Christian who preaches Christ
to others. Absolutely there is nothing else and no other intention at all.
In Mathew Chapter 8 we come across an incident. —Jesus Christ

comes down from the mountainside. Large crowds follow Him.
At that time, a man with leprosy came and knelt down before Him
and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean”. Jesus
saw his faith and He reached out His hand and touched him. “I am
willing, be clean” Jesus said and immediately he was healed of
his leprosy. If you look at outwardly, it may look like a person
suffering from leprosy got healed immediately on coming to Jesus
Christ or it was another healing miracle or crusade done by the
Lord. But it is not so. Do you know how much risk the leper had
taken before coming to Jesus, the courage and boldness he had
built up in his mind to make the final decision of going to Jesus
and the driving force of faith in him. Only after so much of
hesitation, analyzing the situation, debating the pros and cons, and
after long deliberations and determination, he might have gathered
enough BOLDNESS AND COURAGE AND THREW AWAY
THE HESITATION to go to Jesus Christ. Because in those days it
was believed that a person was affected with leprosy as a result of
his sins and he was considered a curse and an outcast in the family,
among relatives and in the society. Lepers were condemned to
live in an isolated place outside the township or fortress. They
were not permitted to come inside the town. If anyone was found
coming inside the town, as per the law prevalent in those days,
they can be stoned to death. If he was called by the priest for any
reason, he had to cover his face and body fully with a cloth shouting
out “I am a sinner, sinner…” all through the way without touching
anyone. Now think of the impediments he had, to come to Jesus
Christ. How many obstacles, hurdles, forbidding laws, opposition
and the social stigma, the poor leper had to think of before coming
to Jesus Christ? But when the leper finally had the BOLDNESS to
come to Jesus against all these odds, oppositions and obstacles, he
received his miraculous healing. Like him, whoever wants the
blessings of Jesus should first throw away their HESITATION
AND TAKE A BOLD STEP TO COME TO HIM WITH FULL
FAITH. When they come with such faith and boldness, they are
rewarded and blessed. The Lord does unimaginable miracles and
delivers them from the shackles of the demon, incurable diseases,
debt and bondage. When they tell such miracles that happened in
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their lives as a testimony, in the church, one cannot but wonder

and praise the Lord. At that time, not only we, every one used to
exalt the Lord and thank Him for what He has done to His faithful
followers and believers. IF YOU WANT RICE, YOU MUST GO
TO A RICE SHOP AND NOT TO A GARMENT SHOP! If you
go to a garment shop and ask for rice, can you get it? Similarly if
you seek the grace and blessings of the Lord, you should go to the
place where it is available. If you go to a place where it is not
available, how can your problems and difficulties come to an end?
THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE MIRACLES THAT JESUS CHRIST CAN DO
“Jesus did many things as well…John 21:25 (NIV)”
If I write about the miracles what Jesus Christ has been doing in
the lives of those who put their faith and trust in Him, it will become
another voluminous book. I quote here only a few as a sample for
the information and enlightenment of those who do not know Jesus
Christ. Jesus Christ can do unimaginable miracles beyond our
understanding and thinking limits. He never lets down any one
who comes to Him with faith.
MY LIFE AND DEATH IS IN YOUR HANDS, MY LORD!
“Our God is a God who saves, from the Sovereign Lord comes
escape from death – Ps 68:20 (NIV)”
All of a sudden one day Brother Natarajan, one of the believers

coming to our church could not speak or swallow any food. He
was not able to breathe properly. His right eye was pulled in and
his sight was struck in one direction. After a thorough investigation,
the doctors told, “His food pipe is seriously damaged due to heavy
smoking and some of his brain functions are also affected due to
some neuralgic problems. There is every possibility that he might
be paralyzed one side very soon. Pray to your God for his life and
survival”. Mrs Pushpa Natarajan who had accepted Jesus only very
recently, knelt down before the Lord and prayed with tears. “Father,
I believe you alone, please help me. I plead to you in Jesus name”
and gave a few drops of water to her husband. But the water did
not go inside and it came out. When she tried again to pour some
more water, the nurse stopped her and warned her that it might
choke him to death. But still in full faith, she prayed again and
said, “Oh Lord, my life and death is in your hand” and poured a
few drops of water for the second time. That also spilled through
the corner of his mouth. Pushpa did not give up. Again she prayed
and poured one sip of water for the third time saying “Victory in
the blood of Jesus”. Miraculously the water started to go slowly
through his food pipe. On seeing it, the nurse ran and brought the
doctor who was also astonished. He checked up the pulse and said
that the Lord only has saved him. Pushpa was weeping in gratitude
and folded her hands towards Jesus Christ. Now Pushpa has grown
very strong in faith and the Lord is speaking to her face to face and
it is really amazing how the Lord is guiding her in all her activities.
Although she is basically very reserved and nervous type, she does
not hesitate to tell the gospel to anyone whom she comes across
on the street. The entire family is a living testimony to the many
unbelievable miracles and wonders done by the Lord.
A MARWADI BECOMES A DADDY
“Yes, May you see your children’s children – Ps 128:65 (NIV)”
Mr. Manoj kumar who is a Marwadi has been married for 12 years
but had no children at all. Husband and wife had gone to various
temples and prayed to all the Gods for the child but to no avail.
They had seen many doctors and had taken all types of medicines.
Many doctors had confirmed that there was no possibility for them
to beget a child. Having lost all the hopes, finally they heard through
someone about Jesus Christ and came to the Church and prayed
with tears. The Lord saw their tears and bestowed mercy on them.
Now they have two lovely children. The Bible promises, “He
grants the barren woman a home like a joyful mother of children
(Ps 113:9)”. Against all the still opposition from all his relatives,
Mr. and Mrs. Manoj kumar have now taken baptism and he has
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been named as Manoj Kumar Daniel. Is there anything too hard

and impossible for the Lord?
YOU WILL NOT BORROW BUT WILL LEND TO OTHERS
“You will get the labour of your hand – Ps 128:2 (NIV)”
Before accepting Jesus as his personal Saviour, a person in our

church had a debt of Rupees more than one lakh and he was being
pressurized to repay the loan for which he had no means at all. He
had totally lost all his peace of mind, joy and did not know what to
do to clear the debt as his business was just yielding him only a
meager income sufficient only to lead a hand-to-mouth life. He
had gone to many temples but his situation did not improve. It was
rather deteriorating day after day. Finally a Christian neighbour
told him about Jesus Christ and brought him to our Church. He
knelt down and prayed with tears. The whole Church congregation
prayed for relieving him from the debt. The Lord heard the prayer
and blessed him to prosper in his business and he repaid the loan
within six months. Whoever believes on God will not be put to
shame (Pro 1:33). If you would believe, you would see the glory of
God (John 11:40). Like this miracles and wonders happening in
the lives of believers are not one or two, it is innumerable. On
hearing the various testimonies of miracles like finding a suitable
match for their daughter for marriage which had been long pending,
safe delivery of child after their doctors had predicted a complicated
delivery through a surgery, miracle healing of a cancer,
unbelievable escape from an accident which could have been fatal,
peaceful solution to a long outstanding family dispute, how their
financial needs for their children’s education and college studies
had been miraculously met by the Lord, a total deliverance from
evil spirits and witchcrafts, we hail the Lord with tears for the love
and affection with which the Lord meets all the needs of His
children. JESUS CHRIST IS NOT A STATUE OR A GOD MADE
OF SOME METALS NOT TO HEAR THE SOUL STIRRING
PRAYERS OF HIS CHILDREN BUT HE IS A LIVING, LOVING
AND CARING GOD. He is the creator of this whole universe and

NOT A GOD CREATED BY MEN. Hallelujah!
TRUST IN THE LORD. HE CAN LIFT YOU TO TOP OF THE WORLD
“He who trusts in the Lord will be prospered – Pro 28:25 (NIV)”
Twenty-nine year old Sangeeta Jain was born and raised in the
United States of America. Born into a Jain family, Sangeeta did
not know the Lord until 1990, when her entire family accepted
Jesus Christ. Prior to the family’s conversion, on June 14, 1986,
Sangeeta and her family met with a devastating car accident that
left Sangeeta confined to a wheelchair. At the age of ten, Sangeeta
had to relearn how to live her life, from putting on her socks, to
moving about using a wheelchair. At the same time, she learned
how to set goals and strive to achieve them. She learned not to
give up. She learned how to trust in God. Her faith and trust was
strengthened multifold after reading the Word of God in Pro 29:25,
“Whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe” and in Psalm 29 :25,
“Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him”. Just months
after the accident, Sangeeta began the sixth grade. Determined not
to let her disability hinder her, she became Student Body President,
won various awards, and took part in the school play, all the while
remaining at the top of her class. Since then, she has continued to
concentrate on what she can do rather than on what she can’t do,
trusting that God will make all things possible.
Sangeeta graduated from a top engineering college in the USA

with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. She also went
on to get a Jury’s doctorate degree in Law. Out of college she
worked as an advisor to two High Court Judges. She is currently
working as an associate in the Premier Law firm in the Pacific
Northwest region of the United States. Among her many
accomplishments and the many blessings of God in her life who
promised “With everlasting kindness, I will have mercy on you (Is
54:8), the Lord blessed Sangeeta to win the title of Miss Teen of
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Washington in 1993, becoming the first person in the world in a

wheel chair to win a pageant against other girls who were normal.
She was also third runner up in the Miss Teen of America Pageant
(much like the Miss India competition, but for teenagers).
Over the years Sangeeta had the privilege of sharing her testimony
and about the many blessings of God in her life with school
children, politicians, churches, hospitals, youth groups and
community groups both in India and the United States. At these
meetings God has powerfully moved, saving the lost, healing the
sick, delivering the oppressed and filling His people with the
baptism and power of the Holy Spirit. Through all of her
experiences Sangeeta has not only learned about God, America,
Engineering and the Law, but she has learned many lessons for
life as well, the most important of which was learning to trust in
the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust in the Lord, you can win the world!
Like the Psalmist exalted the Lord, “I will deliver you and you
shall glorify Me (Ps 50:15)”, Sangeetha is now glorifying the Lord.
JESUS FROM THE MOUTH OF DUMB NOORJEHAN
“I am the Lord who makes all things – Is 44:24 (NIV)”
On 04-04-2004 I happened to switch on the GOD Channel in my

TV. New Leaders’ conference organized by New Frontiers in
London was being telecast alive. I saw an Indian speaking Queen’s
Indian English confidently, fluently, and eloquently and with
authority which was from above. Mr. Ram Babu, a young Hindu
convert (a Brahmin from Bellary, Karnataka) was speaking. It was
an International conference being attended by hundreds of delegates
from various countries. When Mr. Ram Babu was speaking about
himself, he said, “I am an orthodox Indian Brahmin. Having learnt
Hindu Vedas, Upanishads and philosophy since childhood, I had
an unshakeable faith and high esteem for Hindu religion, I had
also developed an aversion towards Christianity without any solid
reasons and I was totally against it. I was a student pursuing for a
degree in Mechanical Engineering. One day when I was going to

the college, I passed by a Church where I saw a big crowd listening
reverently to the sermon of an old Pastor. A sort of hatred-filled
uneasy feeling erupted in my stomach on seeing that crowd. I picked
up two small pebbles and threw them towards those gathering.
Two persons hit by those darts just turned to see the sender and
then continued to listen to the sermon. While I was about to leave,
I heard the old Pastor informing the crowd that there would be a
special healing crusade the next day and asked them to bring sick
people for healing. That irritated me and a crooked, wicked idea
occurred to me. Why not attend the crusade next day and create
some fracas? I expressed this idea to a Muslim friend of mine whose
13-year old sister was dumb. I instigated him to go with me to that
meeting to see if that old man was able to heal his sister. My friend
advised me not to play with the sentiments and religious feelings
of others. Immediately I told him not to take things seriously since
it was just meant to have some real fun. That’s all. After a bit of
persuasion, he agreed to bring his sister for the crusade next day.
We went to the crusade and when the old man called the sick to
come forward for prayer, I pushed Noorjehan to the front and I
stood behind her. We did not tell the Pastor anything about her
disability. When it was our turn, the Pastor laid his hand on
Noorjehan’s head, closed his eyes and started praying. I could see
her shiver on his touch. After a second, he opened his eyes and
looked at both of us and smiled. Then he gave the cordless mike to
Noorjehan and asked her to shout out ‘Hallelujah’. Without any
hesitation, she took the mike from him and shouted ‘Hallelujah’!
The Lord who promised “I will take the sickness away from the
midst of you (Ex 23:25)” blessed her and Noorjehan spoke. It was
the first time she had ever spoken in her life. I was dumbfounded
on watching her speak for the first time and it was a blow to my
arrogance and disbelief. I knelt down immediately, bewildered on
seeing the miracle happening right in front of my own eyes. The
Pastor laid his hand on my head and prayed. I could feel a vibration
pass through my body. It was a pleasant experience which I had
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never enjoyed in my life till that moment. There, I received Jesus

as my personal Savior.
HE, WHO HAS EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR!
“If any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come to him
and dine with him; and he, with Me – Rev 3:20 (NIV)”
I had an unquenchable thirst and longing to know more about this

wonderful, awesome Jesus Christ and I read the Bible day and
night. As I read more and more, I could understand the holiness,
the greatness and importance of the Bible. I learned who the real
God is and how one should live to get His approval. I could feel
that the Bible is not like any other religious book or epic or an
imaginary story. It is not written by the wisdom of any man but
written completely by the prompting and anointing of the Holy
Spirit. No man or any self-proclaimed god-men had ever lived
such a holy life like Jesus Christ on the earth. He is unmatchable,
unparallel and a living example ever lived in human flesh for every
one to follow. He is the only way, truth and life for any one to go
the Heaven. He alone can pardon and give remission for all our
sins and give eternal life.
I joined the Bible College against the stiff opposition of my parents.

After completion, I did not venture out for any job but as if going
for a job, I went inside my room at 9 AM every day, locked it up
from inside and opened it only at 5 PM. I spent the entire time in
Bible reading, meditation, prayer and fasting. Not for one month
or a year but for three years continuously. I waited for the Lord’s
calling. There was a volcano in me. It was boiling inside me and
was bursting out. I was thinking how that old pastor could do the
miracle and heal the sick in the name of Jesus Christ? His disciples
also performed miracles by His name. Why not I? I must also get
that power from the Father to heal the sick and to glorify the name
of the Lord through many miracles. I must get it at any cost. I kept
on praying for it unceasingly, with full of faith and unshakeable
confidence, for three years without giving up. The Lord saw my
stubbornness and heard my earnest and constant prayers from the

bottom of my heart and blessed me with that power! Now the Lord
is using me as a tool to glorify His name through many healings
and miracles. Can any one prove that Jesus Christ is not alive today?
I challenge! I can prove that He is alive today. I can come and
prove it anywhere in the world and in any other religious conference
in any corner of the world. I am ready to come alone and prove
that Jesus is alive today and in His name, the miracles will happen”.
He was roaring like a lion in that conference being telecast alive in
GOD Channel. Like Moses spoke without any fear and did
innumerable miracles in the court room of the Egyptian Pharaoh,
Jesus Christ is performing many miracles through Pastor Ram Babu
throughout the world today. Not only through Ram Babu, but in
various Churches through His anointed Ministers, the Lord is doing
so many unbelievable miracles in the lives of those who trust in
Him. Such unimaginable healings and miracles are happening in
our church also. Many are relieved of their sicknesses, problems,
debt and clutches of Satan. Jesus Christ is calling every one with
love and compassion irrespective of their caste, creed or religion.
Jesus says, “Ye who are burdened, come to me, I shall give you
rest. Your sorrow will turn into happiness and blessing”. He is
promising. Jesus not only loves the holy and puritans but loves
sinners, evil doers and all those who are neglected, abandoned as
incorrigible by the society. Jesus gives life and succor to all those
who have been despised and hated by others. Like a beloved mother
who would care even for her prodigal child, Jesus will love, mend,
mould and correct the spoilt children and give them once again the
peace and happiness they had lost.
JESUS CHRIST IN THE HOLY KORAN - MUSLIMS BEING SAVED
“He is the image of the invisible God ..all things were created
by Him and for Him – Col 1:15-16 (NIV)”
Jesus Christ, in the Koran, the holy book of the Muslims? Initially
I was also surprised. Information about Jesus can be found not
only in the Holy Koran but also in the ancient Sama Veda of the
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Hindu Religion. I will write about this in detail later. Although

there is very little information about Jesus in the Koran yet, after
reading and meditating on this wee bit of information about Jesus
available in the Koran, a Muslim lady named Gulshan Fatima who
belonged to the Shia sect of Pakistan got saved. She is not the only
one. Many aristocratic and honourable people like Bilquis Sheik
have been saved and they are living testimonies continually
ministering to the Lord. Despite the fact that Islamic laws and
regulations are very stringent all over the world, even today in
many Islamic nations and in India, particularly in South India, many
Muslim brothers and sisters are being cleansed by the blood of
Jesus and experience the salvation. I would like to mention just a
few of them here. Ismail belonging to Anandapur district of Andhra
Pradesh, Ghulam Kadir Qureshi of Srinagar, Sultan Muhamedupal
of Kabul in Afghanistan, Mukhtar Hussein, his wife and son from
Meerut, Ammanullah Habees of Afghanistan, Esther Khan of
St.Thomas Mount, Abdul Abraham of Vallavinai town of
Kanniyakumari district, Rahmathunia and Abdul Halam Azad of
Karaikudi and many others like them have come to know of the
glories of the Lord Jesus Christ and have received Him as their
Saviour. You may get a copy of the book “Kaaba to Calvary” by
P.A. Hudson Taylor and read it to find out how and in what
circumstances these people have been saved.
JESUS SPOKE IN A GENTLE VOICE TO GULSHAN FATHIMA
“As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you – Isaiah
66:13 (NIV)”
Gulshan Fathima was born in Pakistan to a rich, aristocratic and

zealous Pakistani family, who were the descendants of Ali, the
son-in-law of Prophet Mohammed. When she was six months old,
a severe fever afflicted her, as a result, her left leg did not grow
and became shriveled and her left hand became paralyzed. None
of the physicians could cure her. For 18 years she was bed ridden.
She followed all the five chief laws of the Mohammedan religion
faithfully, sincerely and diligently. She used to read the Holy Koran
daily not only in Arabic but also in Urdu and used to perform the
entire Ragat worship. In 1966 she accompanied her father on Hajj
pilgrimage to visit the holy places of Mecca and Medina. In 1968
her father who was a Syed, Shah and the religious head called
Peer, suddenly died. Deeply anguished and heartbroken, Gulshan
searched for ways to commit suicide and to end her life. Suddenly
she heard a soft and gentle voice, “I will not let you to die. I will
save you alive.” Weeping, she replied, “I am an invalid. My father
has also left me, why should I live?” Again that gentle voice spoke
clearly, “Who has given sight to the blind? Who has healed the
sick? Who has healed the leper? Who has raised the dead? I am
that Jesus. It is said of me in the Koran. Read Sura Mariam” She
took the Koran and read that portion of scripture. “The angel of
God said to Mariam, You will rejoice in this message which
Allah sends. His name is Christ. He is Jesus, the son of Mary. He
is great not only in this world but also in the world to come. The
grace of Allah will be with him.” In Sura Imran it says, “By the
grace of Allah I will give sight to the blind. I will heal the leper. I
will bring the dead to life again. I will come again.” Seeing these
words written in Holy Koran, she began to have a new hope. At
the same time she wondered as to why the Koran mentions only
very little about this powerful Jesus. She desired to find out more
about Him.
PRAYER OF FAITH TO JESUS CHRIST AFTER THE NAMAZ
“If you believe, you will see the glory of God – John 11:40 (NIV)”
Although only very little information about Jesus is mentioned in

the Koran, Gulshan fully believed that all that had been written is
true and that He’s alive even today, He does miracles and that He
is able to heal her also. So daily after she finished her Muslim
prayers, she prayed with a new hope saying, “Jesus, You have
done many miracles. You are alive even today. I believe in you.
Please heal me also.” She continued to pray for 3 years. Without
losing hope, with persistence she used to plead and pray all night.
One day early morning at 3 o’clock according to her usual practice
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she wept and prayed with a broken spirit. Suddenly a bright light
filled her locked room, a brightness that cannot be expressed in
words. In the midst of the light that was brighter than daylight
Jesus Christ appeared with his 12 disciples. Looking at the
frightened and trembling Gulshan, He called lovingly, “Don’t be
afraid. I am Jesus. Rise up and come to me.” A new life giving
power entered the shrunken leg and hand of Gulshan Fatima, who
had been crippled and bed ridden for the last 18 years. Even as she
let her shrunken leg swing from the cot, the power of resurrection
touched her leg and it grew and touched the floor. In her paralyzed
hand she could feel the new life throbbing. Slowly, placing her
feet on the floor she stood up and took a few steps nervously.
Then she ran to Jesus and fell at His feet. In the sweetness of the
light, which was brighter than the light of the noonday sun and the
moon combined together, she began to learn many blessed truths
she had not known until then. Jesus placed his hands on her head.
The light that came through his nail-pierced hands changed the
colour of her green dress to white. “I am Jesus. I am Emmanuel. I
am the Way, the Truth and The Life. You must be my witness
from today. Tell my people all that you have seen with your eyes.
My people are your people. Preserve the robe of light, which you
have received today, and your body also without any stain. I will
be with you wherever you go.” After saying this Jesus taught her
to pray, the same words as given in the Bible, Mathew Chapter
6:9-13, “Our Father in Heaven!” the prayer addressing the Almighty
God in heaven with authority as “Father”. After teaching her this
prayer, He disappeared. Gulshan was unable to understand whether
this incident was a dream or reality. She bent down and looked at
her feet. Her shrunken left leg had grown and she was able to
stand now. Similarly, her left hand also has been healed. Then it’s
true that Jesus had come. “Lord! How great is your mercy. You
have heard my humble prayer and healed me, whom the entire
medical world had given up on. Not only that, you have also given
me a divine vision of your glory. How blessed I am!” She jumped
around with great joy. She sang and danced. Hearing about her
healing, her family members, all her relatives and family friends
visited her. She told them over and over again, “Jesus heard my
prayer, gave me a divine vision and healed me!”
REFUSAL TO DENY JESUS CHRIST WILL BE REWARDED WITH DEATH
“Whoever loses his life for me (Jesus Christ) will find it – Mat
16:25 (NIV)”
Although they were all were filled with great joy and wonder seeing
Gulshan totally healed; yet they hated the fact that Gulshan was
telling everyone that Jesus had healed her. They said, “Mohammed
Nabi (Prophet) and Jesus are one and the same. So you must say
that Nabi has healed you.” She firmly refuted this saying, “How
can I say that? Isn’t it a lie? He who appeared to me, said by his
own mouth, “I am Jesus”. So I will not change my words.” She
desired to have the Holy Bible and wondered from whom she could
obtain it. When she prayed about this earnestly, the Lord again
appeared to her in a vision and showed her a servant of God who
lived 10 miles to the south and told her that she would get the
Bible from him. As seen in her vision, she could locate a Christian
missionary couple and through them she got a Holy Bible and
studied it day and night. Seeing Gulshan’s deep devotion to Jesus,
her two brothers, uncle and close relatives joined together and told
her, “You are a Muslim and according to us praising another God
Jesus is betrayal of Islam and the family honour. You should
immediately stop this and right now deny Jesus. If you refuse, we
will not even hesitate to kill you. This is also permitted by Islam.”
Telling this they placed a revolver against her forehead. Like
vultures waiting to pounce on their prey, all of them stared fiercely
at her. Yet Gulshan did not flinch. She closed her eyes for a moment
and prayed to Jesus. She could feel the presence of the Lord in her.
Then she bravely looked at them and said, “Can you or anyone say
that we will never die? It is definite that all who are born will die
one day or the other. I am willing to die for Jesus, the one who has
healed me. But I can assure you of one thing. No matter whatever
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may be the circumstance, I will never act in any manner to bring

dishonour or shame to the family.” Seeing the manner and the
courage with which she spoke, they discussed among themselves
and threatened her saying, “All this extensive property belongs to
you. If you do not listen to us, we will see to it that you do not get
even a bit of this property. Moreover, you will also be driven away
from this house.” Nothing deterred her. Believing that the Immanuel
who had healed her would also protect her, with great courage and
fortitude she left her house. Although Gulshan was a very young
woman with no knowledge of the outside world, God protected
her much more than an earthly mother, enfolded her in His love,
gave her refuge and is using her for His glory even today as a
testimony in Pakistan and in many other parts of the Muslim
countries to redeem thousands of Muslim brothers and others from
their life of sin and show them the way of salvation.
Gulshan received information that her elder sister was very serious.
She prayed immediately to Jesus Christ for her sister. She believed
the Lord who has healed her and millions and millions who trusted
Him, will surely save her sister. But when she came home, she
found to her shock that her sister had already died and all her
relatives had gathered there and were performing the last rites to
the dead before burial. Gulshan trusted in the resurrection of Jesus
Christ and prayed to Him in unshakeable faith. The Lord heard
her prayers and gave life to her sister who was ready to be taken
for burial. All were shocked and surprised to see the dead being
raised right in front of their eyes by the prayer of Gulshan to Jesus
Christ. This was the talk of the town and many including Gulshan’s
sister accepted Jesus as their personal Saviour. Gulshan Fatima
became Gulshan Esther and she is today miraculously and
powerfully doing the Lord’s ministry by being instrumental in
delivering many people from the bondages of Satan, sin and
sickness. Those who would like to know more about Gulshan
Esther, may read her book of testimony, ‘The Torn Veil’. Not only
Muslims, the Lord is touching millions of people who belong to
various religions of the world including Buddhists, Jains etc. In

Korea, Paul Yangicho who was once a follower of Buddhism has
founded the Christian church that is considered to have the largest
number of believers in the world.
NO REMISSION OF SINS WITHOUT SHEDDING OF BLOOD
“Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness – Heb
9:22 (NIV)”
No God of any religion in this universe or the acclaimed god-

incarnates, dead or living, has the power and authority to forgive
and give remission for all our sins EXCEPT JESUS CHRIST. Jesus
Christ alone has the power by virtue of shedding His precious
sinless, guiltless blood on the Cross. If any one thinks that others
can also give remissions for their sins, they are totally mistaken
and are under the wrong notion. Even Hindu scriptures admit that
there can be no remission of sins without shedding of blood. That
is God’s divine plan. That’s why animals like buffalos, rooster,
hen, goats are being beheaded and sacrificed in many Hindu
temples. For remissions of sins committed by human race, a pure
guiltless invaluable blood totally devoid of any sin needed to be
shed which Jesus Christ alone had shed under this sky and above
this earth. He is the only God who could dare say, “Is there anyone
who could say that I have sinned at any time? Jesus led a life
without a small sin (John 8:46). No appearance of sin was found
in Him. He was testified by Pilate, the Governor who enquired
Him (Luke 23:4, 14, 22). He was testified as sinless by His own
apostles (Pet 2:22). Today can anyone tell or any so called god-
incarnates or a religious head or a guru tell that they have not
committed even a single sin? None can dare say that. But Jesus
Christ could say it boldly because He was Holy and sinless!
We, every one of us, are God’s children irrespective of caste, creed
and religion. CASTES AND RELIGIONS ARE MADE BY MEN
AND NOT BY GOD. When God saw His own children drifting
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away from His blessings by indulging in all sorts of evil things,

sins, worshipping the idols which He despises the most and were
destined to suffer in hell and fire, the Lord wanted to save His
children from the sin and sufferings. He loved them so much that
God gave His only begotten son to be sacrificed on the cross in
order to provide salvation for them. Jesus Christ implicitly obeyed
the Father and submitted Himself silently and voluntarily for all
the humiliation, torture and for the most painful and slow death
on the cross (Rom 5:8, 1 Pet 1:10, 1 Tim 1:15). JESUS CHRIST
DID NOT DIE ON THE CROSS FOR CHRISTIANS ONLY:
HE DIED AND SHED HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD FOR ALL
HUMAN RACE ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH
IRRESPECTIVE OF CASTE, CREED, RELIGION AND
NATIONALITY. The salvation and remission of sins is free for
any one who asks for it sincerely and with full faith. You will
definitely be able to feel and realize immediately that you are set
free and totally relieved from the bondage and ill effects of all the
sins committed so far as soon as you receive Jesus Christ as your
personal Saviour and on confession of all your sins whole heartedly
and repenting for them and turn to the Lord with the belief that He
died on the cross for you and He alone can give remission of all
your sins.
NO OTHER GOD DIED FOR US EXCEPT JESUS CHRIST
“Jesus Christ died for our sins – 1 Cor 15:3 (NIV)”
Many non-Christians are of the opinion that a major or serious

crime like a murder or stealing or cheating, betraying others alone
will constitute a sin or tantamount to be a sin warranting a hell
sentence. People think that “they have not committed any such
major, big sins. I may have committed a few small petty sins and
mistakes like telling a little harmless lie, not buying a ticket for a
bus travel or on the electric train, defending our shortcomings,
weaknesses, blunders and unbecoming behaviour. These small
things need not be termed as grave or serious sins and deviations
and these will not invite a death sentence in a hell fire”. Further
they think that such small sins will be forgiven automatically by
their gods on seeing their daily prayers after bath, chanting of
mantras, flower offerings, homams (Holy fire) performed by them,
their fasting on full moon, new moon days and other auspicious
days, their frequent faithful visits to various temples and the holy
dips made in the holy rivers and temple tanks apart from offering
of meals to Brahmins and yogis and free distribution of food to the
poor and have-nots and their generous alms of 50 paisa or one
rupee to a leper or to a blind beggar on the street or railway platform
ought to be considered to score off their trivial mistakes like this.
In addition they also think that the blessings received from their
parents, elders, spiritual heads, gurus or the god incarnates on whose
feet they had fallen, worshipped and did the ‘paadha puja’ (foot
worshipping) will invariably mitigate all the sins they had
committed. People think that lighting of lamps and an incense stick
and small murmuring of prayer will be sufficient and enough to be
a price for the remission of their sins. The truth is ‘NO’. None of
these prayers, worships or acts can set any one free from their sins.
Only by paying a price through shedding of sinless blood, Jesus
Christ was able to earn the remissions and He alone can give
remissions for all our sins. No other god or god incarnates have
shed even a single drop of their blood for us or have suffered,
undergone any humiliation or met peacefully such a horrible
torturous inhuman death like Jesus Christ.
No sacrifice of any animal or shedding of its blood will yield us

the remissions of our sins. Similarly the lemon or the white pumpkin
with kumkum (turmeric red colour powder) can not substitute the
Holy blood of Jesus Christ for the abolition of the sins or for setting
you free from the clutches of demons or witchcraft or black magic.
Only the name of Jesus Christ, the name above all the names (Phil
2:9), can alone set you free from all your sin, sickness, bondage,
worries, problems, unhappiness, confusions, troubles and turmoils.
He is the good shepherd and like a good shepherd takes care of his
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sheep, Jesus Christ will take care of any one who comes to Him.
The good shepherd gives His life for His sheep (John 10:11). Test
and see if it is true what I have told is fact or not. You will be
really surprised, pleased to enjoy the everlasting peace on being
washed by the Holy blood of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah!
WE ARE BORN IN SIN
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God – Rom 3:23
(NIV)”
In God’s perception, the dimensions of sins are entirely different

from that of ours. I was corrected of sin only after reading the
Holy Bible. When I read the detailed enumeration of sins in God’s
perception in various chapters of the Bible, I was shivering. Oh
God, what a fool I had been so far in not knowing all these things
earlier. Further, in God’s view there is nothing like a small sin or
big sin. All are considered to be sins. If I have to write what are all
considered as sins as per God’s version to make every one aware
of it, I think I need to write a separate book on the subject. Let me
quote a few from the Bible as samples. Everything that does not
come from faith is sin (Rom 14:23); Anyone who knows the good
he ought to do and does not do it, he commits sin (James 4:17);
The schemes of folly are sin (Pro 24:9); All wrong doing is sin (1
John 5:17); Every one who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is
lawlessness (1John 3:4). When we introspect ourselves in God’s
perspective of sin, we commit sin every day, every minute and
have been committing through out our lives knowingly and
unknowingly. Finally to sum up, we are born only in Sin. “If we
claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
in us (1John 1:8)”. When Adam and Eve ate the fruit forbidden by
the God, they committed the first sin of disobedience and fell into
it. Not only they fell into it, we, their off springs also inherited it
automatically and genetically (Acts 17:28). Disobeying the Lord
is a sin. As soon as Adam disobeyed the Lord and ate the forbidden
fruit, what did he answer to the Lord when he was questioned?
Without accepting the blame on him, he immediately shifted the
blame on Eve by telling that he did not eat it on his own but it was
given to him by her. What did Eve say? It was the serpent that had
deceived her. She put the blame and the onus of the crime on the
serpent. There started the habit of blaming others for our mistakes
and it was genetically transferred to us through blood. You give a
toffee to a small baby and tell it to give it to its brother or sister;
the baby will immediately pull its hand in total refusal. Who taught
this tiny child the selfishness? It is in the blood. When the child is
about four years old, you ask in a stern voice as to why it had
broken the glassware, the child will come out with a lie. Who taught
the child to tell the lie? It is in the blood. When we suffer with
some unbearable pain, sickness, faced with some serious problem
or insult, accident or loss, the first word to come out of our mouth
is ‘what sin have I committed to earn this sufferings? Isn’t it?
THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST FROM SRILAKSHMI NARAYANA SWAMY
TEMPLE
“You are the light of the world – Mt 5:14 (NIV)”
Paravasthu Surya Narayana Rao is a descendant of the well-known

and famous 17th century Paravasthu koormaya swamigal of Andhra
Pradesh. From a very early age he learnt Sanskrit and Telugu
languages and completed his education from Uthkalam University.
After having mastered various Hindu religious and historical books
like Upanishads, Veda studies, Sama Veda, Thandiya maha
pirahamnam, Devi bhagvadam, Purayutharunyago Upanishad,
Manushpuruthi, Rig Veda, Sampoorna Mahabharatha, Bhagavath
Gita, Vishnu Puranam, Arya Pulamai, he was ordained in 1965
according to the 3rd manthra of the 3rd chapter of the Yajir veda as
the chief archakar (Priest) and head of the mutt of Srilakshmi
Narayanaswami temple situated in Jalandira Narayanapuram of
Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh. Whenever the devotees,
even elderly people fell at his feet, performed patha pooja (worship
of feet) and requested him to bless them, he used to wonder whether
he himself possessed the worthiness and holiness to bless them.
Although for all outward appearances he was in the position of a
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guru honoured (worshipped) by many, yet inwardly he felt ashamed

that he was impure without self-control, unable to curb the desires
of the flesh and involved in many bad habits like smoking, drinking
and womanizing. He had fully committed himself to doing divine
work, all through the day performing abishekam, archanas and
worship to idols and was in the exalted position of expounding the
meaning, morals and virtues of the vedas, slokas and Upanishads
to others, yet he himself committed many sins and lacked holiness.
This being his condition how could he bless others? He was deeply
anguished since, in spite of performing yagnas and saying gayathri
japam, there was no change in his life; in his thoughts, desires,
deed and there was no purity or holiness in him.
JESUS CHRIST, THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR IN SAMA VEDA
“I am the Lord, and besides Me, there is no Saviour - Isaiah 43:12
(NIV)”
For seven and a half years he researched (studied) all palm leaf
manuscripts and Vedas available in the temple to discover the
answer to the question “Who is the one who can take away all the
sins I have committed?” He learnt that the Vedas clearly says that
without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. In
Sampoorna Mahabharatham it is said “Rathha purotchanam paava
vinasam”, meaning that TO REMOVE SIN, BLOOD SHOULD
BE SHED. In the second division Thandiya magapiramanam of
Sama Veda, a manthra says “prajapathirthe vaepiyam, athma naam
yagnam, krutvaa prayachith”, meaning “THE RULER OF THE
PEOPLE WILL DO YAGNA AND GIVE HIS OWN BODY AS
A SACRIFICE OF ATONEMENT TO REMOVE THE SINS OF
THE PEOPLE’. Prajapathi means the Creator Lord God. That is
why “Vedic Scholars” say that ONLY WHEN THE HOLY
CREATOR GOD BECOMES A SACRIFICE CAN SALVATION
BE ACHIEVED. Similarly it is said in another mantra in the
Thandiya magapiramanam, “Sarva paapa pariharo, raktha
purokshana mavasyagam, thath raktham paramathmeina,
pushyathaana baliyagam” which means if we need deliverance

from all sins (sins that are done through ears, mouth and eyes,
sinful desires which arise in the heart, sinful thoughts, sinful deeds
etc.), then according to the Vedas blood must be shed. So he began
to search the scriptures to find out which God had shed his blood
as sacrifice to remove man’s sins. He was greatly surprised to find
a mantra in the Sama Veda, “lihviyaa koptharam
mahakyavvathinaa koriyanthi havyayaana pariyathaaseen”
meaning THE ONE WHO IS GOING TO TAKE AN
AVATARAM (DIVINE BIRTH) WILL BE BORN OF A VIRGIN
IN A CATTLE SHED. The Sama Veda testifies that the person
who is to be born will be a divine person (avatara purushan). Who
is this divine person mentioned in the Sama Veda? As he was
trying to find the answer to this question, one day as he and his
disciples went to buy certain puja items, he heard through the
loudspeaker the words of a song being sung by some men and
women.
“Aren’t you the Saviour who was born of a virgin in cattle shed,
born as a man to take away sins? Isn’t Your blood, which was
shed as a sacrifice on the cross, a propitiation for the sins of the
sinner?” On hearing this song he was overjoyed that he had found
the answer to the riddle for which he had been searching for the
past 7-½ years. Rejoicing he went towards the direction from where
the song came. There, standing before a huge crowd a pastor was
preaching about Jesus. He listened to it for more than half an hour.
At the end of the meeting he met the pastor and asked him questions
and heard the answers and he also received a new Bible. He read
that Bible many times for 2 ½ years and was greatly amazed. He
found the answers to all his questions in the Bible and also
understood clearly that there is no one else in the world but Jesus
who has the authority and power to forgive the sins of mankind.
He told the elders in his family, relatives and also the elders in the
temple about Jesus that He is the one who can forgive sins and that
besides Jesus there is no one else who can give salvation. “Salvation
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is found in no-one else; for there is no other name under heaven

given to men by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12)”. When they
heard it they all came together menacingly to hit him. One day
early in the morning during the abisheka puja in the temple instead
of reciting the usual slokas he started telling about Jesus in whom
he had become rooted, who had filled his heart with light. Forgetting
himself and unable to control his enthusiasm, he spoke about the
greatness of the Bible and about the true salvation which only Jesus
can give, since Jesus is the only one who gave himself as a living
sacrifice for our sins. He preached all this through the temple
microphone until 10.00 am in the morning.
JESUS CHRIST IS THE REAL GOD HINDU PRIEST PROCLAIMED FROM
A HINDU TEMPLE
“I am the Lord, the God of all mankind –Jer. 32:27 (NIV)”
Alas! All the people who were praying in the temple and the people
who lived in that street were shocked when they heard the gospel
through the mike in the Hindu temple. Immediately afterward it
seemed as though an earthquake had occurred. All the former heads
of the mutt and his own relatives started questioning him one after
the other. At that time also he told them about the glories of Jesus
Christ. These words angered the people and they beat him up,
tortured him, chained his hands and left him locked in the sanctum
sanctorum. Daily they used to open the door and see if he had
repented. When they saw his stubbornness they became angrier
and beat him up with rods due to which his ribs were fractured and
his shoulder blades got dislocated. He suffered unbearable pain,
hunger, thirst and other problems. Without relenting even a little
they used to mercilessly beat, kick and verbally abuse him. They
tortured him without losing his bonds and without even giving
him a drop of water to quench his thirst. Through all this he did
not lose heart but continued in prayer. Six days passed. These
people tortured him both physically and mentally to the maximum
extent possible. But Christ was in him. Rao murmured with faith
“The Lord is my Helper. I will not fear (Heb 13:6). He has promised
“Surely I will deliver you (Jere.39:18). Word of God says in Pro.

20:22 “Wait for the Lord and He will save you”. Jesus Christ
heard his prayers. On the seventh day at 4 o’clock in the morning
surrounded by blinding light and glory, Jesus appeared gloriously
inside the locked sanctum sanctorum. Not realizing what was
happening, Surya Narayana Rao asked, “Who are you?” to which
Jesus replied, “You are the one who called me.” Jesus showed
him the vision of the Lord himself hanging on the cross since Jesus
knew that this image had been imprinted on his heart. Filled with
the Spirit Surya Narayana Rao called out Lord Jesus! Lord Jesus!
Jesus lifted him up by his hand and all the chains which were
binding him broke and fell down. Still holding his hand Jesus went
forward and the locked doors of the sanctum sanctorum, doors of
the inner sanctuary and the doors of the outer sanctuary opened
one after the other on its own. Having brought him outside the
temple Jesus looked at him and said, “Don’t go to the left into the
village but go towards the right”. Then Jesus disappeared.
THE ALMIGHTY GOD WHO MAKES US STAND AS A WITNESS
“I will deliver you and you shall glorify Me – Ps 50:15 (NIV)”
Desiring to see the situation of the village before he left the place,
Surya Narayana Rao turned to the left side and went into the village.
He entered the street where he lived and went near his house. He
observed 4 or 5 people sitting on the verandah and speaking.
Drawing near he overheard their conversation “Before its dawn
we should kill him and bury him. He is not going to turn from his
ways. Evil man! It’s a shame that such a person has been born
into our family! The only way we can do some good to our race
and our religion is to get rid of him. Come let us go!” On seeing
them moving forward he started running away into the darkness.
However, one of those men on seeing a figure running into the
darkness called out, “Hey! Who are you?” On suspicion, they
started chasing him. Mustering all his strength, he ran away from
the village into the fields. Due to his weak condition he could not
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run fast and soon the men caught up with him and identified him.
They were confused as to how he had managed to escape; yet in
the midst of their confusion they beat him severely with rods. He
fell down unconscious. Thinking he was dead they abandoned him
and thought to themselves that they had got rid of him for good.
However an angel woke him up, gave him fresh milk to quench
his thirst. The angel directed him to go to a house seen some
distance away and told him that they would apply medicines on
his wounds. The angel then disappeared. Surya Narayana Rao
thought to himself that if he had obeyed Jesus and gone to the
right side he would not have received all these beatings. The Lord
has instructed him not to go to the left side so that the lurking
danger could be avoided. He thought to himself, “From now on I
should never disobey the word of the Lord”. Filled with this thought
he went towards the house seen far away. It was the house of a
servant of God. Even at that time of dawn the sound of prayer
could be heard from that house. The moment he knocked, they
opened the door. The minister of God and his wife welcomed him
inside and said, “Come in brother. We have been praying for you
and we were waiting for you.” Surya Narayana Rao was astonished.
He asked them, “How did you know I was coming?” They
answered, “The Holy Spirit had revealed to us. So we have been
praying for you since last night.” They welcomed him inside,
washed his wounds, applied ointments, gave him food to eat and
requested him to take rest. They said, “If you remain here, your
life will be in danger. We will buy you a train ticket to Cuttack in
Orissa. Go there. The Holy Spirit will reveal the rest to you. This
couple allowed him to take rest the whole day and gave him clothes
and some money and put him on the train to Cuttack at night.
During the journey the ticket, money and the change of clothes
were stolen from him. At Cuttack, when he got off the train without
the ticket, the checking squad caught him and took him to their
chief officer. The officer was a Christian. The chief officer due to
some unknown reason decided to handle the case himself and told
others in the squad to leave. He then asked Surya Narayana Rao
where he was going? He answered, “Wherever God tells me to go,

I will go.” On hearing this, the officer took him to his own house
and served him food and enquired about all that happened. He
then took him to the church he attended and introduced him to the
Head Pastor. Having heard his testimony, about all that took place
in his life, he was sent to do ministry in many north eastern states
like Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Orissa, to share his
testimony with people who do not know Jesus, so that they could
also be led to Christ. Even today the Lord is using him mightily to
deliver many thousands of people from their sinful ways and to
lead them to salvation in Christ Jesus. It would take another book
to write about the goodness of the Lord and the miracles done by
the Lord in his life, the many people who have been led to salvation
through him and the many people who have been delivered from
sickness and bondages of Satan through his ministry. Since he put
forth very strong, indisputable arguments against Hindu Gods and
idolatry by quoting various verses from Hindu Vedas, histories,
Sanskrit slokas and mantras, many cases have been foisted on him
by vested interested people. He was arrested, tortured in jail. Yet
he is facing all the court cases very boldly. The Lord has made
him a living mighty witness to the glory of God and is doing a
very strong ministry in Hyderabad. Those of you who would like
to know more about his life, ministry and the wonderful things
God has done in his life may read his book “Deiva Darisanam”
(available with Mr. P. Madan Mohan (Tele No. 044-26620644/
Cell No. 9841526105), Old No. 54 (New No. 6), Cooks Road,
Otteri, Chennai 600 012.
TWO ARE WATCHING WHATEVER WE DO
“Nothing could happen without the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
He is omniscient – John 16:30 (NIV)”
I quote here only a few acts as samples of sins which are despised
by the Lord and will invite His wrath and capital punishments
during the final judgement. Sexual impurity and immorality,
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adultery, shameful lusts, indecent acts, perversions, homosexuals,

male prostitution, obscenity, wickedness, evil, greed, depravity,
envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice, gossips, slanders, insolence,
arrogance, boastfulness, disobedience to parents, contempt, idolatry
and worshiping man, birds, animals and reptiles as gods, passing
judgement on others, stealing, giving false testimony, devouring
widows’ houses, making a show of lengthy prayers, self seeking,
rejecting the truth, foolish talk, coarse joking, not doing the good
one ought to do to others, bragging, drunkards, swindling, loving
worldly things in preference to God, speaking against your brother
or judging him. Like these, there are so many things which are
considered as evil, sin and disliked and despised by the Lord. Each
of us will have to give an account of ourselves to God (Rom 14:12).
Now you tell me, are we sinners or not? Knowingly or
unknowingly, sometimes after suppressing and burying our own
conscious, we do commit every day many of the above sins. Even
I had felt irritated and annoyed when some preachers call upon the
public “O Sinners, come to Lord Jesus Christ. He calls you for
salvation”. Many a times I had thought in the past that no one on
this earth had seen or was aware of the wrong thing I had done and
had felt satisfied and contended. But there is nothing in us or in
this world that is not known to the Lord. He is fully aware of
everything, every thought, even the inner most feelings in our heart.
We may be able to cheat others, even ourselves, but not God. He
knows the things even before we think of them.
In fact two are constantly watching us and all our deeds. One is
God, the other one is devil. When we do good things, the Lord
feels happy. But when we do a sin, the devil is happy and the Lord
is unhappy. Satan is the inducer and cause for doing all the above
evil things mentioned and innumerable other sins that are not
mentioned here. He is waiting readily near us like our shadows to
jump on us, induce and entice us to do all these evil and sinful
acts, drag, bind us in his grip and under his bondage permanently
without any escape, widen the gap in our divine relationship with
the God and finally push us into the hell and burning fire saying
that the death is the reward for all our sins. Satan is the cause for
all our present problems, sickness, loss of peace, unhappiness,
worries and sufferings. Apostle Peter warns us in I Peter 5:8 that
he is roaming like a roaring lion looking eagerly for someone to
devour and the thief (Satan) comes only to steal and kill and destroy
(John 10:10) Yes, the Satan is roaming around to destroy our peace,
health, wealth, family and kill and steal all our happiness. He is
the lord of this earth and age (2 Cor 4:4). He has blinded all our
faith, convinced and cheated us that he is the real god in different
forms and names in this world. The Bible warns us in Mathew
24:24 that false Christs and false prophets will arise and show
great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the
elect! He is very cunning, wicked, clever and powerful also. But
he is a cheat and thief. He was a murderer from the beginning. He
is a liar and the father of lies (John 8:44). He knows about the
Word of God also. In fact he knows more than any of us. He can
trick us with the same Word of God. He has cleverly tricked,
cheated and divided our Christian brothers also into so many
denominations. He has also succeeded in further dividing the
believers with wrong doctrines like Body of Christ, “Jehovah
witness”, “Only Jesus” and so many others with the same Word of
God. See how cunning he is. We are not unaware of his schemes
(2 Cor 2:11).
Some people tell me that I went to that temple or to that shrine and
a miracle or wonder happened in my life, I was healed of my
sickness, got a job, found suitable match for my son etc. Many
such wonders may have happened in our lives also after worshiping
the devil in the temples. I too had witnessed such miracles in my
life, professional career and family life after going to those temples
prior to coming to Christ. All these things are the cunningness and
tricks of the Satan done just to keep us under his thumb, grip and
under false illusion that he is the real god and capable of doing the
miracles. The Word of God warns us in 2 Cor 11:14 that no wonder
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for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. Also the

Scripture tells us clearly in Rev 16:14 that they are spirits of demons
performing signs. Further 2 Cor 4:4 says that the Satan has blinded
the eyes of the atheist. But the devil knows very well that there is a
God (Sam 2:29). It is like feeding and fattening the goat for the
slaughter house and like a Captor giving protection and food to
the captives before killing them whom he had abducted for his
selfish motives. Let us not be carried away and be fooled by these
tricks of the Satan.
SATAN WILL FLEE WHEN WE PRAY WITH FAITH
“Resist him standing firm in faith – 1 Peter 5:9 (NIV)”
Satan is just on the look out as to when we will slip and falter. He
is just waiting for a chance when we will feel envy or jealous or
angry or irritated or feel low in our day to day life or when we will
be weak in our prayer life or spiritually poor. He will then silently
even without our consciousness, creep into our life and add fuel to
the fire and engulf us completely in that and make us to commit
the sin. The acts of sinful nature (demon) are obvious: idolatry,
witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition,
dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, orgies and the like (Gal
5:19-21). With our flesh and with our own efforts, we cannot win
him. Whatever sins we may have committed in our life from
childhood to till date with the inducement of Satan, every one of
these sins, its impact, imprints in our mind can be totally wiped
out completely if we confess to the Lord Jesus Christ, He is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all the
unrighteousness (1Jn 1:7,8) and we can be made absolutely free,
pardoned and cleansed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ
because Jesus Christ died for our sins (1 Cor 1:7,8). To avoid
further indulgence in any sins or to detest from even the thought
of committing a sin, we need to have a strong faith on Jesus and
pray ceaselessly and be in His presence and under the grace of the
Lord God. Only with constant, continuous prayer and rock-like
faith, we can get the strength to fight against all the temptations
that Satan may bring. Only the Lord Jesus can help us to be
extricated from the sins (Heb 2:18).Satan is not afraid of anything
in this world except the name of our King of Kings and our prayers.
Eph 6:11 says, “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take
your stand against the devil’s schemes”. Further we have a
comforting word from the Lord in Rev.12:11, “They overcome
him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their
testimony”. Only through the power of our prayers, faith and being
under the cover of the blood of Jesus, we can hammer out Satan
and chase him away. This I have experienced not only in my life
but seen also in the lives of many believers and servants of God.
More than a mother could take care of her child, Jesus Christ takes
care of all our needs, protects us from all the dangers, holds us
when we stumble, comforts us and He is with us when we are sick,
takes away our pain and sickness and holds us to His bosom like a
father. He is ready to give us all the wealth and treasures of this
world and every blessings of this heaven but when we relax and
become weak in our faith and prayers and become worldly, we
automatically spread a red carpet to Satan to enter into our life.
Once he enters and dwells in us, he becomes the master and we
start listening to him, he becomes the stumbling block for us to get
the grace and blessings of our beloved Jesus Christ. We can remove
the stumbling block only by strengthening our intimate relationship
with the lord through prayers and faith and then
we can again become heir to the Lord’s unceasing limitless
blessings.
CAN ANYONE DO WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR US?
“He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that
cannot be counted – Job 5:9 (NIV)”
Like how the iron is heated, then hammered, brought to a shape

and then moulded into an useful object or tool, our Pastor moulded
and shaped us with the word of God sometimes with love, many a
times with warnings, instilling a fear to shun away from sin and
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helped us to learn more about Jesus, to imbibe His qualities and to

purify ourselves. Being our spiritual father guiding us to heavenly
Father, feeling the necessity to strengthen our faith and to grow in
our spiritual life, sent to our house every day, a spiritually grown
up believer from the church for prayer. They used to narrate their
spiritual experiences and how the Lord speaks to them in tender
voice, answers all their prayers, blesses them even the smallest
requirements, how the Lord guides them in all their day to day
dealings. Dumbfounded and spellbound, we used to listen to their
experiences and we understood how great is our Father God, His
matchless love and sacrifice for us which no one on this earth can
think of. The other day I was watching GOD channel in TV and
Pastor Benny Hynn narrated a parable to explain about the grace
of our Father God which nearly brought tears to my eyes. Once
there was a very rich person who had all the wealth and treasures
of this world. He had only one son. His neighbour had three sons.
One day the rich man left his only son to the custody of the
neighbour and went outstation on some errand. When he came
back, he was shocked to see his son murdered by the neighbour’s
three sons. The rich man was terribly upset. If he wanted, he could
have eliminated the neighbour’s entire family in no time or he
could have taken a revenge for the death of his only son in any
way he desired either with an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth or
life for life or son for a son. Or if he wanted, he could have gone to
the court seeking justice for his son’s murder. He had such resources
and wealth for doing anything on earth. But instead of doing any
of these things, he did an unimaginable thing which no body can
even think of. Not only he forgave them, but adopted all the sons
of the neighbour as his own sons and made them heir to all his
wealth and treasures. Can any one do such a marvelous thing?
Can you think of it? But our Father God, our Almighty God did
that for us. We crucified His one and only son. Instead of taking a
revenge on us, the Father has pardoned all our atrocities and made
us His children inheriting all His blessings. Who could do that?
The gracious Father gave the life of His only son to give us life, an
eternal life because He loved us so much (Jon 3:16). How great is

our Lord! Father, we bless you with all our heart with all we have
and we love you and we are ready to die for you! THERE IS NO
GOD LIKE YOU IN HEAVEN OR ON EARTH (2 Chronicles 6:14)!
We are happy, healthy and peaceful because of His abundant love.
Our neighbours sometimes used to ask us with raised eye brows

as to how we are so happy and cheerful all the time. We used to
tell them that it was because of the love of Jesus Christ. You cannot
understand it unless you taste it for yourself. It is like someone
from a distance saw another person standing alone, looking up
excited and waving his raised hand cheerfully. From a distance
the other man could not see anything or understand as to why he is
waving his hand. When he came little nearer, he could see a kite
flying some 100 meters high over his head. But again he could not
understand as to why he is waving his hand to a kite and his face
shinning with some unexplainable joy. Then he advanced a little
more close and then could spot a thread in other person’s hand
through which he had been controlling the flying kite. When he
came some closer and near, he could understand the reasons for
his cheerfulness and joy. So long as he stayed away at a distance,
he could not comprehend. The same way if you want to know why
so many people convert to Christianity and why all those Christians
are always happy, one has to come closer, inside Christ and see it
for himself. You can then understand the secret behind their joy
and source of their happiness. Jesus Christ takes away all our
problems, sickness, and sufferings and gives us peace, health and
happiness. Hallelujah!
INAUSPICIOUS DAY AND TIME IS LUCKY FOR THE CHILDREN OF JESUS
“I am with you always, even to the end of the age - Mat 28:20
(NIV)”
When we were quite new and infants in Christ, my wife as per the
old Hindu custom and traditions, used to check for the suitable
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day and time to do any good thing or to go anywhere and avoid

Ashtami and Navami (inauspicious days) and Raaghu kaal and
Yamagandam (inauspicious times). Likewise Margazhi month in
Tamil (approximately Dec 15 to Jan 14) is considered to be an
unfavourable month in which no marriages or house warming
ceremony or inauguration of any new business or venture will take
place. If a cat crosses when we step out or someone sneezed while
we go out, she will come back inside the house and sit for a while,
take a sip of water to offset the obstacle and then she goes about
feeling satisfied that the bad omen has been nullified. I too had
such a faith earlier but after coming to Christ left all those traditions.
I told my wife that there is no inauspicious or bad month, day or
time or a bad omen or anything like that in the creation of the
Lord. Many marriages arranged after seeing the horoscope and
stars matching have failed miserably and ended up in divorce.
Westerners don’t see such stupid things. In one of the Petrol bunk
(gas station) I saw a small display which was a straight hit on the
bull. It said “Hallo friend, before coming out you had checked if it
was Raagu kaal or yamagandam (inauspicious times) but you have
failed to see the oncoming lorry in your front! How many people
are going to leave this foolish habit and traditions even after seeing
this small display? After growing in Christ, now my wife left all
these foolish sentiments. I went a step further and used to do
anything only in those inauspicious month, day and time and the
Lord has blessed all my endeavours abundantly. Why should I
worry when my times are in Lord’s hands (Ps 31:15). We just
pray before doing anything or going out anywhere. The Lord who
promised in Deut 28:6 that “You will be blessed when you come in
and blessed when you go out” blesses us and His awesome presence
goes before us and removes all the obstacles! The Lord is so kind
enough to promise us “My presence will go with you and I will
give you rest (Ex 33:14)”. What else one needs? The Lord’s
awesome presence and His blessings are always with us! No other
god can promise us and protect us like Jesus Christ. Amen!
JESUS CHRIST TRANSFORMS ANYONE WHO COMES TO HIM

“Keep the way of the Lord to do righteousness and justice – Gen
18:19 (NIV)”
Jesus Christ has totally changed my character, temperaments,

attitudes and behaviour. Every one who comes to Jesus Christ is
influenced by His holiness and supreme code of conduct,
righteousness and transforms them like Him. His tolerance,
forbearance, peace, love for His creations, forgiving others
mistakes, total attitudinal change take place when a person grows
in Christ. I have come across with many rowdies, terrorists, thieves,
pickpockets, criminals, habitual trouble makers who have become
docile, peace loving and tolerant citizens, gentle and holy, pastors,
evangelists after accepting Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour.
I can quote innumerable such persons who have turned from evil
to good. With tears and with all reverence, I remember now the
Australian missionaries Mr. Graham Stains and his family who
worked in Orissa with leprosy patients who were totally boycotted,
considered untouchables, sinners and outcasts. Without any ill
feelings or shrinking of their face or feeling shy or awkwardness,
they used to nurse those leprosy patients, wash and clean their
ugly looking exposed wounds in their body. They showed and
exhibited the pure love of Jesus Christ to the needy people in Orissa
without expecting anything from them in return. A group of fanatic
elements irked by the godly services of Mr. Stains and his family
went to their place during one of the nights and saw Mr. Stains
and his lovely two young children sleeping in the van. The fanatic
satanic radicals poured petrol over the van and set fire to it. Within
no time the fire spread and engulfed the entire van on all the sides.
Mr. Stains and his two young children tried to escape from the
van. But the mad group beat them with sticks and pushed them
back to the fire. On hearing the death cry and seeing the flames
shooting out from the van, Mrs. Stains came out of the make shift
hut cum hospital and was terror stricken to see what was happening
to her beloved husband and children. The young children not able
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to bear the heat of the fire cried, pleaded, half burnt tried again to
come out of the van but the merciless, mad, sadist crowd threw
them back on the fire. Within minutes every thing was over. Mr.
Stains who used to silently wipe out his tears while tending to the
deep septic wounds of the lepers was burnt alive like a log and his
lovely two children were like a burnt out stick, body completely
twisted, skin and flesh totally burnt and peeled off, hanging, hairs
completed burnt, face contorted and eyes protruding. It was a
horrible sight to see the condition of the burnt out bodies. Even a
stone hearted man’s heart will break into pieces on seeing the
horrible conditions of those gutted, disfigured human bodies. All
these atrocities and inhuman acts happened right before the eyes
of Mrs. Stains who was hell shocked. She had to watch all these
cruel acts helplessly and her loved ones being subjected to one of
the most horrible deaths in the world. She did not even know who
they were and why they were doing these things to them. She was
terribly shocked, became speechless immersed in her deep sorrow,
shock and loss, not able to believe what had just happened. She
wished that it did not happen, it was a bad dream and it was not
true. But the three dead burnt out unrecognizable peeled out bodies
laid out in the lawn of her small hut where they were staying
indicated her that whatever had happened was true and the most
horrible horrifying hell fire and the unbearable chill crying of them
while the fire was burning and spreading to every parts of the body
slowly and their rolling on the ground as a fire ball, kicking,
shivering and shaking before all their movements stopped and their
twisted body lay there huddled like a roasted duck will haunt her
through the rest of her life. When the police came and enquired
her, she only said, “Whatever happened is happened and cannot
be undone. I have nothing against those who have done this. I pray
to Jesus Christ to forgive them. Leave them”. This was telecast on
all the TV channels through out the world and published in all the
news papers, magazines and broadcast on all the frequencies of
radios through out the world. Even the sadist soul condemned this
dastardly inhuman act. Every Christian in the world heard this
news and they silently shed tears and prayed for the departed souls
and for Mrs. Stains. Every church in the world silently prayed for
the family of this missionary. But there was no retaliation, no
revenge, no bombs, no burning out of trains or buses, no hartals,
strikes or bandhs any where in the world. They silently bore this
intolerable inhuman act, swallowed it and with a deep sigh, they
prayed to the Almighty God to forgive those who were responsible
for this merciless, cowardly, cold blooded murder and slaughter.
Not only Stains, hundreds of such incidents have happened to
Christian missionaries in Gujarat, Orissa, UP, Bihar and in every
State in India. Many churches have been burnt and gutted down to
dust, many missionaries have been brutally beaten and killed, many
nuns have been raped and tortured and all these incidents have
been published in news papers, telecast and broadcast in TV and
radios. But there has been no retaliation by any Christian, in any
place, in any part of the world. They silently bore the sufferings
like Jesus Christ bore the sufferings on the cross and pleaded to
the God like Jesus Christ, “Father, forgive them for they do not
know what they do (Luke 23:24)”. Christians cry out to the Lord
like Stephen when he was stoned to death by the Jews, “Lord, do
not charge them with this sin (Acts 7:60)”. Jesus teaches us to
“Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those
who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and
persecute you (Mat 5:44-46)”. He has further taught us in Mat
5:39, “I tell you not to resist an evil person, but whoever slaps you
on your right cheek, turn the other to him also”. Like this, Jesus
Christ and all His disciples have taught the Christians and set
themselves as personal examples to what they have taught. They
did not tell all these things in a class room or on a public meeting
or when they were sitting on a sofa, enjoying a joyous life. But
they told these things when they were tortured and before they
died at the hands of their butchers. The Bible imposes upon the
Christians to get rid of all the bitterness, rage, anger, brawling
and slander along with every forms of malice and to be kind and
compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in
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Christ God forgave you (Eph 4:31). And they follow it religiously
in letter and spirit even when they are personally affected and
attacked. Lord Jesus gives them the strength to endure the
tribulation for His sake. That is the difference! A leader, guru,
master, mentor, God or whom you follow and worship as a god
should set himself as a personal example to his followers and
believers to follow. Jesus Christ did that and all His disciples
followed it and the believers continue to follow it. None else have
done it before or ever. A religion or the mentor should mend, mould
his followers and guide them to live a non-violent, peaceful, divine
and sinless life. Such teachings, preachings, followings and
imbibing that ideology and doctrine and accepting it as your path,
life and religion can alone bring peace, love and brotherhood in
this world devoid of any violence, hatred and terrorism.
WHO IS A TRUE CHRISTIAN?
“Christianity is not related to external changes – Mat 23:26 (NIV)”
Whenever I spoke to someone about the greatness and uniqueness

of Christianity, I emphatically tell them that if a family, society,
country or the whole world to live in peace and harmony without
any dispute, misunderstanding, violence, terrorism or border
conflicts or nuclear threats, the only way and sure way is to follow
the teachings of the Bible and Jesus Christ. The whole world should
imbibe the qualities of Jesus Christ. At that time, a few had pointed
out the atrocities, inhuman behaviors, indecent words, wife
beatings, alcoholism, drug addiction of a few Christians and asked
as to how these Christians were indulging in such activities against
the teachings of the Bible and Jesus Christ. I had felt as if some
one had hit me flat on my face on hearing such indecent and
unchristian like behaviors by a few nominal ‘namesake’ Christians.
Not only they spoil the name of Jesus Christ but set a bad example
and image of Jesus Christ to others who do not know much about
it. Although I get annoyed on hearing such news about a few rotten
Christians, I control my feelings and answer their queries patiently
saying that all Christians are not Christians. The very word
‘Christian’ denotes ‘Christ-in’. A person who has ‘Christ-in’
himself can only be a Christian. Jesus Christ is Holy God. If He
has to dwell in somebody’s heart, he also has to be holy, his
thinking, speaking and all his actions have to be holy, pure, sinless
and Christ like with full of love towards every one. Otherwise he
cannot be called a Christian. A person who has Christ in his heart
cannot do any wrong or sinful act. If someone does them, he is not
a son of Holy Christ but only the son of a demon, Satan. Apostle
John says in 1 John 3:8-10, “He who does what is sinful is of the
devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. No
one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed
remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been
born of God. That’s how we know who the children of God are
and who the children of the devil are”. Human flesh is vulnerable
and weak. After committing a sin or a wrong thing, if he realizes
his sin, repents for it and asks for forgiveness from the God sincerely
and takes a vow and determines not to do it again, he is forgiven.
“He who covers his sins will not prosper but whoever confesses
and forsakes them will have mercy (Pro 28:13)”. After committing
any sin, if they don’t realize it or feel for it, then they are not at all
Christians. They are Christians only for name sake. There are
Christians who do things that are disliked and hated by Christ.
They are all weeds in Christianity. The Word of God (Luke 3:17)
warns them sternly about what would happen to all such people.
“His (God’s) winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing
floor and to gather the wheat into His barn, but He will burn up
the chaff with unquenchable fire”.
A person cannot become a Christian just because he is born in a

Christian family or to a Christian parent. Christian life is not a bed
of roses as many people think. It dictates strict adherence to
discipline, purity, holiness, righteousness and limitations. The path
is very narrow, uneven and full of torment and turmoil. Jesus Christ
has told, “Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads
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to life (Heaven) and there are few who find it (Mat 7:13-14)”. He
has said further that “If a person wants to follow me, let him despise
himself, pick up his cross and follow me”. Christian life is a holy
Pilgrimage. It shows the divine path for a permanent, eternal life
and it is the only way to the Heaven. It is a holy fire and sacrifice
in which one has to check himself every moment, day in and day
out and purify and sanctify himself.. The Christianity relentlessly
pinpoints and dictates the only way to live and to follow them
strictly and religiously. The Lord has clearly told in Deut 30:15,
“I have set before you today life and good, death and destruction”.
“Therefore choose life so that you and your children may live (Deut
30:19)”. It is for us to choose now. If we choose the good, the
eternal life is ours to inherit. If we choose the evil, eternal hell will
be our lot.
A true Christian should have purity, holiness in his/her thoughts,

patience, endurance, humility, ready to forgive others’ mistakes,
to act without causing any injuries or unhappiness to others, love
others like one loved himself, meticulously obey the
Commandments of the Bible, worship only the triune God – the
Almighty Father, son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit with whole
heart and mind and NOT TO WORSHIP ANY OTHER IDOLS
AS GODS and not to make any idols of any kind in any form for
the all powerful, omniscient, omnipresent Father God.
WE SHOULD BE A WITNESS TO JESUS CHRIST
“You shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and
Samaria and to the end of the earth – Acts 1:88)
By reflecting the qualities and virtues of Jesus Christ, we should

be a witness to Him. Our neighbours should testify about us, “They
are Christians who will never look for or mind others business and
they will not speak any unnecessary word and never have spoken
even one word ill about others or made a complaint about others.
We have always seen them with cheerful disposition, they move
elegantly with manners, show respect and love for others. Our
colleagues and supervisors or managers in our office should testify
about us, “He is a good, true Christian. He is trustworthy, honest,
sincere and hard working. Give him any job, we don’t have to
enquire about it second time. It will be done by him. Every Christian
should earn such a testimony from every one in the office, home,
neighborhood and in all our contacts and relationships with others
and be a witness to Jesus Christ reflecting His holiness, love,
gentleness and righteousness at all times, even in the face of adverse
circumstances and trials. “By this all will come to know that you
are my disciples (Jn 13:35)”. The sweet fragrance of Jesus Christ’s
purity and holiness should be reflected in all our dealings. 2 Cor
2:15 says that “We are to God the aroma of Christ among those
who are being saved and those who are perishing”. Christianity
is not related to external changes (Mat 23:26). It calls for an inner
change, a total change in our attitude, our thinking, heart, our
outlook on life, sins etc. By seeing our attitudes, habits,
righteousness, others should be encouraged to wish, long for to
lead such a holy and loveable life. Others should be able to
understand that this discipline, holiness, in our life is the
culmination and result of following Jesus Christ and imbibing His
teachings in the Bible. We should never differentiate between a
rich and a poor, educated and an illiterate, higher caste or lower
caste, or any religion but treat every body equally without any
disparity, show our love to them and help them because THESE
RELIGIONS, CASTE, CREED ARE NOT CREATED BY GOD
BUT MADE BY MEN. In Christ there is neither Greek nor Jew,
free nor slave, other castes nor other country (Col 3:11). A real,
true Christian should shun and get away from all the worldly
likings, ambitions, lust, jealous, greed, anger, revenging attitudes,
talking ill about others, luxuries and lead a humble, peaceful and
simple contended life in Christ. They are only true Christians. When
we lead such a life, the Lord’s abundant blessings, peace, happiness,
grace shall always be on us. There will be problems, sufferings,
sickness and difficult times in Christian life. Jesus Christ has told
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in John 16:33 that “In this world you will have trouble, but take
heart, I have overcome this world”. But among all that, the Lord’s
comforting hands, His embrace, His consoling, His divine
everlasting grace and peace will be showered on us. His mighty
power that had overcome this world will protect us and carry us
forward. Experience it and see it for yourself.
DO YOU WANT THAT ETERNAL PEACE AND EXPERIENCE IN YOUR LIFE?
“He is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine
– Eph 3:20 (NIV)”
O Brothers and Sisters who are reading this book! If there is no

peace, happiness in your life, if you are not able to find a solution
to all your problems, difficulties, sickness, debts even after going
to various temples, worshipping many Gods, or after having holy
dips in the holy rivers and temple tanks or after chanting various
mantras and slogas or after performing many holy fires, sacrifices,
abhishekams, archanas to the deities, please do not worry. Come
to Jesus Christ. I am not asking you to convert to Christianity. I
tell you to only turn away from sin, sinful thoughts, deeds and turn
to Jesus Christ. Confess all your sins to Jesus Christ and tell Him
that you died on the cross of Calvary for our sins and beg with
tears for remissions of your sins and to accept you as His son. Let
that prayer be true, sincere and from the bottom of your heart.
Study the Word of God, especially the New Testament and set
your life on the lines of the Bible and Commandments of Jesus
Christ. Matthew Chap 4:4 says, “Man does not live on bread alone,
but on every Word that comes from the mouth of God”. Go to a
nearby spiritual church and see for yourself with an open mind as
to what is happening there. You are educated, you know what is
what, you know very well what is right and what is wrong. Nobody
can cheat you or fool you with a piece of chocolate. The worship,
order of service, discipline, punctuality of the believers, total
dedication of the congregation during worship, the presence and
anointing of the Holy Spirit, how the entire congregation forget
themselves and enjoy the worship, testimonies given by the

believers as to what miracles and wonders the Lord has done in
their life, prayer of the whole congregation in one accord for the
sick people, and to those whose date of birth or marriage
anniversary fell on that week, welcoming the new comers to the
church and praying for them, message from the Word of God by
the Pastor, whether all these things are useful or not? If you think
with an open, unbiased mind, then you will find that all these things
are definitely useful, beneficial, educating, spiritual uplifting,
making you holy, creating a fear of God, moulding your life and
help you to lead a just, right and holy life devoid of sins! Apostle
Paul says in 1 Thess 1:16, “Be joyful always, pray continually,
give thanks in all circumstances for this is God’s will for you in
Christ Jesus”.
JESUS CHRIST GIVES YOU NEW LIFE
“Whoever finds me finds life – Pro. 8:35 (NIV)”
If you receive Jesus Christ as your Saviour, God, Redeemer, father,

friend, philosopher and guide, you will find that the divine peace,
joy that you have not enjoyed in your entire life so far will surely
fill and overflow in your heart. I am telling you all these things
only after experiencing them personally in my life. I also did not
believe them initially when it was told to me in the beginning. I
had argued, counter argued and opposed them. Because I had
opposed Christianity and I had an aversion towards it. Just imagine
how much I might have studied, analyzed before accepting Jesus
Christ in my life. The same way, you also test and analyze it. You
will find how true it is what I have mentioned here. Jesus Christ is
capable of giving us a new life after removing all the imprints of
our past sins, making us free from the clutches of all the bad, sinful
habits which have enslaved us so far. The Psalmist says in 16:11,
“You have made known to me the path of life”. He did not come to
the earth from heaven to punish the sinners or to discipline them
or to destroy them. See what Jesus Christ has told in Mat 9:12, “I
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did not come to call the righteous; but sinners to repentance”.

Apostle Paul testifies in 1 Tim 1:15 that “Jesus Christ came to
save the sinners of the world” and with a father’s love, longings
and concern to forgive all our sins, to correct us, to give us a new
life, a holy life completely free from the past sinful life. Jesus Christ
took the incarnation of a human being, accepted all the sufferings
and gave himself as a sacrifice, submitted himself silently for all
the torture and to the cross finally to give us the invaluable salvation
and remissions from all our sins free of cost. To those who believe
in the salvation and remissions of sins and begs for it, the
comforting Jesus Christ is faithful enough to give it to every one
without any reservation. The word of God says ‘If you believe,
you will see the glory of God (John 11:40)’. There is no limit to the
miracles and wonders He can do to the people who seek Him and
His grace. Psalmist says in 34:10, “Those who seek the Lord shall
not lack any good things”. This I am able to witness in all the
believers who come to the church with full faith and I thank the
Lord for it. I could only feel pain, pity and anguish for those who
run here, there and every where seeking peace, happiness, salvation,
blessings and deliverance with no result, not knowing or ignoring
the living, loving and caring God Jesus Christ who is so near to
them who can comfort us, love us more than a mother could love
her child, who can do us anything beyond our conception, thinking
or understanding and take us to any height in our life by holding
our hands like a father. O those who are frustrated in life, searching
everywhere for peace and salvation, come to this loving God who
calls upon you with His both arms stretched out. Whatever worst
sins you might have committed in your life, Jesus Christ is the
only God who can forgive all of them like a mother. Jesus Christ
is not for Christians alone. He is for everyone who was born, for
every one living now and for every one yet to be born irrespective
of their religion, caste, creed, nationality or language. The Lord
God shed even His last drop of blood on the cross of Calvary,
died, resurrected on the third day and is living today and calls you
with stretched out arms to come to Him for salvation. We can get
a new life in this world as well as eternal life in Heaven when we

surrender ourselves to this lovely, wonderful, awesome, all
powerful, the only true God. Leave aside all your hesitations, fear,
thinking as to what others, the society, relatives, friends, or anybody
else may talk. Come to this God who can give you anything and
every thing and give peace, happiness, joy, deliverance, healing,
wonders, miracles in your life that cannot be given by anyone else
in this world. Isaiah 26:3 spells out, “God will keep you in perfect
peace if your mind is stayed on God and trust in Jesus”. COME,
COME TODAY, AND COME AT ONCE TO JESUS CHRIST.
TAKE A BOLD STEP RIGHT NOW. “The Lord is near to all
who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth (Ps 145:18)”.
Your life will change, worries will be over, tears will be wiped
out, your sorrow will turn to joy, your sickness will be gone for
ever, problems will be solved. Your heart, life and home will be
filled to the brim and overflow with divine everlasting peace,
contentment and joy. King David says in Ps 16:11 that “You will
fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your
right hand”. That is definite. May the Prince of Peace, the
comforting and loving Almighty God bless you and your family,
with His abundant grace, love, kindness, mercy and joy. I pray to
the Father through the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Amen!
Those of you who want to listen to my testimony in your church,

cottage prayer or cell meetings, please contact me in the address,
telephone number or e-mail id given below. If you want copies of
this book, you may kindly send a Money Order/draft/ check in my
favour for Rs.11/- per copy inclusive of postage with your postal
address clearly mentioned in the counterfoil or letter.
May the Lord’s grace be upon all of you!

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What is the testimony about?

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MY

CRY AND JOYFUL

(A SOUL STIRRING MIGHTY TESTIMONY)

I dedicate this book

Chennai 64. In the Love of Jesus Christ

It is my pleasure to tell you about the miraculous signs and wonders

How great are His signs,

I would like to sincerely thank Mrs. Minu Suresh George for

May the Mighty Lord shower His Grace upon me to accomplish

Chennai In the Service of the Lord

IDOL WORSHIP IS THE IDEAL WORSHIP  MY MISCONCEPTION ................................................ 9

IDOL WORSHIP IS THE IDEAL WORSHIP  MY MISCONCEPTION

I am 63 years young and had been a staunch believer of Hindu

At the same time I had an aversion for Christianity. I had a very

had a feeling that the children succumbed to the indoctrination of

SHORTLIVED BLESSINGS FROM THE GODS I HAD WORSHIPPED

I have three children. I was so much religious minded that I named

I looked deep into his horoscope through many astrologers, but

In the meanwhile, I tried to collect the information about the exact

I hurried from India to USA on 27th September 2000 to see my

My son’s condition was a challenge even to those American doctors

Third day on 5th November 2000, Pastor Jacob George took me to

God who promised His presence, in the midst of two or three

In the Rehabilitation centre, on one of the days in December 2000,

I told Pastor Jacob George that if Jesus Christ heals my son

thing. I prayed before doing anything. The prayer was in my mind

At the same time, I had a feeling in my heart as to who am I to give

Saturn. When I tried to imagine the distance from earth to Saturn,

I used to go for walking on seeing them in order to avoid them off.

One day I was recapitulating as to how my hatred towards

Christianity to a love for it. Because Hindu religion, its culture,

I am not boasting of myself. It is not really easy to convince me on

THE INVALUABLE PEARLS I COULD DIG OUT OF CHRISTIANITY

up a harmonious, wonderful, close knitted relationship amongst

IS THE LIVING GOD AND CARING GOD. The Word of God

In the light of the Lord’s teachings, I looked into myself. I was

ADDICTION WAS BROKEN AND I WAS DELIVERED. The

In Hindu temples, when the priest does the abhishekam (the

Om Brahma puthiraya namaha (Brahma = Father; puthiraya =

Om Kanni suthaya namaha (Oh Lord who is born of a virgin, we

Om Viruchasoola arundhaya namaha (Oh Lord, you were hung on

Om Mirutham jeyaya namaha (Oh Lord who scored victory and

Om Nama sivaaya namaha (Sivam = Love. Oh loving Lord, we

I wrote about everything in detail regularly to my family in India

2001. Having carried out so many surgeries on him already, the

The hopeless words spoken by the surgeon were ringing in my

STRANDED ON THE STREETS OF USA WITH A HANDICAPPED SON

I had stayed in USA for 8 months and I was staying in an apartment

afar. He had no memory. His eye sight was diminishing, he could

I did not know the way out or what to do further or whom to

WE WERE CHOSEN SPECIALLY FOR LORDS GLORY

When Mr. Lindsey from Seattle, a close friend of Bro.Verghese

hearing my testimony, with tears he compelled me to record it in a

REVIVAL AND FIRE IN YOUR MINISTRIES! THOUSANDS

I had a desire to take baptism before leaving USA and special

IDOL WORSHIP IS THE IDEAL WORSHIP MY MISCONCEPTION ................................................ 9

IDOL WORSHIP IS THE IDEAL WORSHIP MY MISCONCEPTION

WE WERE CHOSEN SPECIALLY FOR LORDS GLORY

DADDY, YOUR JESUS IS REALLY POWERFUL MY YOUNGER SON