Work at Honey Fruit
On May 7th 2002 at 2:00 a.m. I prayed to God, like this, “O dear Lord, our heavenly Father, we want to start our reformation work in a new place, But we are confused, where we will go? Kindly send us to where your will is, according to John 6:44, 45. “No one can come to Me unless the father who sent Me draws him: and I will rise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets and they shall all be taught by God. Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the father comes to Me.” And tell us the name of place. Amen. Then I slept. When I was sleeping I saw a dream. A big lake, full of water, a small way is there in the centre of the lake. I am walking on this way, many people are bathing there, particularly two men were bathing nakedly. I asked them, brethren why are you bathing naked? They replied to me, shall we dress when we are bathing? We don’t know this. I was surprised at their answer, so I simply asked, what is the name of your place? “Thenkanikottai,” they said.
I woke up from bed at 4:00 a.m. early the next morning. I remembered the same dream still. So, God is willing to send me to the new place called Thenkanikottai, (Note: water = people, naked = they don’t know truth of Holy Sabbath, Ten Commandments, and our Saviour Jesus Christ.) But I don’t know where the place is located in India. I consulted with my co-worker. We understood that it is the boundary of two states called Tamil Nadu and Kar-nataka, the languages spoken are Tamil and Kanada.
God gave a chance for us on June 13-14, 2002 to travel there. The meaning of the place name is, Then = Honey, Kani = Fruit, Kottai = Fort. So, Honey fruit fort is a very interesting name. We remembered the Garden of Eden. We travelled seven hours to this new place, new people, no one we knew, no body was there to invite us. My co-worker G. Khiviyanathan simply sang with joy.
the rain is falling everywhere,
we are coming, no one is there to invite us
But this rain flower’s inviting us
Thank the Lord! Thank the Lord!”
We arrived there safely and stayed in a hotel. We prayed for a full night to find new souls.
The next day we walked every street of this town. Finally we were very tired and sat in front of a High School. More than one hour we watched. One boy crossed over to us, holding some note books. We saw a picture of Jesus Christ’s figure on the cover of the books so we called him over and talked with him. He is a Christian boy, but Catholic. His name was John Peter. We were very happy at the same moment. We told him we are servants of God. God sent us to this place to teach the Bible and pray in the name of our everlasting Saviour Jesus Christ. So, if you give us your address, we will come to your place and bring a lot of blessings. We said this to him, then he left us to go to school.
Within ten minutes he came back with a boy named Antony. We understood that God started His work. We were also starting the ministry with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We were praying, praying and always praying as we knocked door to door. The same day we preached in two houses. Nearly twenty members were present in both places. We spoke Honey-full and fruitful messages in this fort (town) about the message. The house owner says he has been the village leader for the past fifteen years. God touched him. He invited us. He is ready to invite many people for the meeting from the same town. Whoever is reading this article, my brothers and sisters, can you pray for us to find many souls to our Saviour’s kingdom from there? Do you say yes? Do so now. Thank the Lord. Amen.
S. Raj Israel M.A., B.Ed. India