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Celebrating 21 years of preaching the love of Jesus Christ.
As we all celebrate together the 21 years of Hope in Jesus international ministries where in God has enabled us through his grace to preach the everlasting love of Jesus Christ, let me start off by saying “All Glory and honor to our Savior Jesus Christ “ according to Revelation 4:11
When I look back at these 21 years ,I can only thank Jesus for his ongoing grace to fulfill the promise that he has promised us in Philippians 1:4,It is he who started this and he is still leading us faithfully this 21st year.
To recap Hope in Jesus Ministry began in the year 1989 when my Dad Dr.S.J.Manomohan was miraculously healed by Jesus Christ. I still remember the days when I was studying in my 3rd grade in St.Mathews Public School in the city of Vijayawada in the State of Andhra Pradesh. In the month of April 1989 my dad was transferred to Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh as the Manager of the Federal Bank Branch.We packed all our belongings and started travelling to Andhra Pradesh from Tiruvalla in Kerala where my father was the Manager of the Nedumpuram Branch.I Still believe that it was a pre planned act from Jesus to take us to that place according to Jeremiah 29:11.
We as a family were not happy to move to a state like Andhra Pradesh,but as the bible says that God's Ways are always higher than that of Man.We started off our Journey from Tiruvalla in our Fiat Car and our Goods were loaded into our Uncle David's truck.Myself ,my brother ,my mom and my dad traveled in our car with a driver and the rest of them in the truck.As we were approaching the border of Andhra Pradesh,it was almost midnight and we were driving though a deserted area and all of a sudden a police officer stopped our car and asked my dad whether he could travel in that for a distance of 25km,my dad told him "If you dont mind as my family is travelling in my car ,can you please travel in our truck".The police man accepted this with great happiness.As we travelled a 20km more suddenly from no where we could see people coming towards our vehicles with fire arms in their hands,immediately this police officer took a bright torch from his bad which had a red cap on that and he started blinking that towards this crowd,suddenly surprising us they disappeared.After 5 more kms the police man asked us to stop the vehicle as he had to get down,he got down from the vehicle and he called my dad and the uncle david and told them a fearful fact that the crowd which we saw were DACOITS ,they had come to loot us and kill us all and when they saw the policeman blinking his red torch light they let us go as we were escorted by police and he told us to go 5kms a head and you will see a police check post and to stop our vehicles and not to travel any further.My dad and uncle david were taken back by this statements,they thought to themself how lucky they were and my father turned to the police man to say a thanks and found that he had disappeared into the Dark,then my dad remebered "For God commands the angels to guard you in all your ways.With their hands they shall support you, lest you strike your foot against a stone." Psalms 91:11-12
This was a great miracle that we experienced from Jesus.
We got settled in Vijayawada and we joined our new schools and enjoyed studying in our new schools,one day in the month of July as we came back we found our Dad lying on his bed and mom telling us that he was sick,Dad was not able to urinate and just like anybody else he and mom suspected that it was a kidney stone and took it lightly,the next day all four of us went to the biggest hospital in Vijayawada,the doctors did all the tests on his body and there was no trace of kidney stone moreover the doctors could not diagnose the disease.This continued for 6 more days and day by day my Dad became so weak in his body that he became bedridden,things dramatically changed for our family in a span of 6 days,my grandparents had come all the way from Trivandrum in Kerala and our house in mood of death to happen.Nobody was able to help us in this situation,and that was the time we notice a Jesus Calls Magazine in our house which read "For 24 hours Prayer Contact",my dad never believed in miracles through telephone prayers ,but as there was no hope in anything else my dad called up the Jesus Calls Prayer Tower in Chennai,a sister picked up the call and she prayed a normal prayer after 2 minutes suddenly she screamed out saying "I can See the hands of Jesus Christ,the same nail pierced hand,its coming down and touching you and right now you are healed",we felt a supernatural presence of God in our room,my mom who was standing there fell down by the presence of God,we knew something supernatural happened.My dad felt something new in his body,he went to the washroom checked himself and found out that he was completely healed by the Powerful Jesus Christ as he did in the bible according to Acts 10:38.
This incident on July 27th 1989 changed our lives upside down.From that Day till today as my dad is 56 years of Age for the past 21 years he has never been to a doctor nor admitted in a hospital,thats the power of Jesus,when Jesus does a miracle it will be a permanent one.It marked the start of a small prayer group called Hope in Jesus in Andhra Pradesh.We had lost all the hope but understood that there is hope in Jesus according to 1Tim 1:1.
From a small prayer group which started off in 1989 ,today the lord has enabled us to reach out to millions through the ministry,We have preached in many states in India and God has enabled us to take the gospel in person to more than 5 other countries.
Through our television program in Surya TV and Power Vision we have shared this Hope which we got from Jesus to millions and still we are running a faithful race with only one aim that no soul should be lost.
The devil has tried in many ways to pull us from this race but the power of the holy spirit god has led us by his hand and grace,many have questions ,why are they doing this,i have only one thing to say we are employed by our master called Jesus in his vineyard,as we are working for him ,the master will answer all these questions through the power of his Holy Spirit for all his employees.
As partners of our ministry read this i want you all to pray with me for the Hope in Jesus International Ministries, that many should be blessed ,my Dad Dr.S.J.Manomohan that Jesus should use him more for the gospel ,all the pastors in our ministry and finally i want all of you to pray for me and my family that Jesus will enable us with the power of his holy spirit to preach the gospel,to heal the sick,to drive out the demons and to baptize people in the name of the Father,Son and the Holy Spirit God.Mark 16:16 Amen
See "How jesus open the ways for Gospel".
ReplyDeleteBapi,as i celebrated my 25th B'day yesterday,i too was thinking of the same that how Jesus loved our family as a whole and these words in your blog took me back all the way back to andhra where we enjoyed our schooling,i gave a million thanks to Jesus for all what he has done and what he is planning to do,i guess we both should go once to Vijayawada and preach the name of Jesus and put up a church there ,My love and prayers to Bapi and Chechi,love you a lot guys and miss you a lot,waiting for the trivandrum meetings.
ReplyDeleteEven I was blessed through the hope in Jesus ministry.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all I'm giving all glory and honor to our Almighty God Jesus Christ.
I would like to share a testimony of what Jesus has done for my family when Pastor Anish prayed for us.My sister-in-law got engaged on march 4th but her marriage date was not fixed because of some financial problems. When Pastor Anish and his team came down to our flat in Sharjah during his UAE visit, my husband requested prayer for his sister's marriage.He prayed to Jesus and told us everything will be alright before this september itself. As he had prophesied, God did a miracle and marriage date is fixed on Sep15th.
Praise the Lord for His wonderful miracle.
Also, I take this opportunity to thank Pastor Anish for his prayers.
Read a testimony from my Bro Ani Justus in UAE,how Jesus transformed him during my last visit to UAE,ALl glory and honor to Jesus.
ReplyDeleteDear Brothers,
Praise the Lord!
Let me share my experience of Festival of Hope @ Emirates. Definitely! a blessing for me and my family.
We've started experiencing the POWER OF GOD in our lives...The Amount of peace that we're enjoying...The way I could subside my anger....The way I could spend more time with GOD......First time experience for all 4 of us....We truly believe that it was indeed Our Lord's plan to send The Hope in Jesus Team to Emirates and that too for all of us here....
And lemmee reveal that I was very reluctant to associate initially with the activities of Hope in Jesus in UAE.
But now! The scenario's entirely changed........I am totally available for my Lord....See the change! I couldn't believe myself.
Lord has changed me...I can definitely feel the presence of Holy spirit.....Thank U Jesus....
Let me now join u guys to serve God in all the possible manner.....I AM AVAILABLE!!!!!
Thank you Jesus for using Mano Uncle, Anish, Greeshma, Aji and rest of the Hope in Jesus family in your mighty ways. Amen.
Love
Ani