2024-01-07PM- We Need to Run

The speaker emphasizes the importance of the Holy Spirit's power in their ministry and shares the story of their father's transformation after being filled with the Holy Ghost. They express gratitude for the opportunity to speak at the church and mention their purpose of attending a minister's conference in Tennessee. They then discuss the significance of the people in Gennesaret running to bring the sick to Jesus, encouraging listeners to take risks and run for Christ in these last days. They urge the audience to not make excuses but to bring people to Jesus, as there are many who are spiritually sick and in need of salvation. The speaker emphasizes the need to be ready for Christ's return and to have something to show for our faith. Praise God and this is true that without Him we are nothing. Without Holy Spirit we cannot do anything. Amen, amen. And I'm thankful to the Lord that He has filled me with the Holy Ghost. He has sanctified me and He is using me for His glory. Without His power we are not able to do anything. Without the power of Holy Ghost we are not able to reach out to the people. Without His Holy Spirit there is no power in our ministry and in our speech. Whatever we are doing there will be no power in that. My dad when he was doing the ministry in the early days he felt the same thing. When he was doing the ministry he could not find any power, he could not find any strength in his ministry. He was doing so many things. He was reaching out to the people, telling people about Jesus Christ but he himself didn't find that power until he got filled with the Holy Ghost. And once he got filled with the Holy Ghost there was a tremendous change in his ministry. There was a tremendous change in his ministry. Many souls he won for Christ. Many times I told you and probably you know that he passed away in 2016. But before he passed away he was able to baptize 25,000 people. It was a huge goal before us, before me especially. I always look to him for the work that I am doing in India. I always look towards him. He was a great leader. Not just for me but many of our people in Maharashtra state, those who are working and serving the Lord in the state of Maharashtra, he was a great leader, he was a great hero for us. And to achieve that big goal of 25,000 people in a baptism is a huge thing. I want to be faithful to the Lord. I want to serve him. I definitely know that with the help of the Holy Spirit I can do greater things in my life. Beyond my imagination, beyond my ability and God can use us. We just need to be ready. We need to be ready. We need to be available for the Lord. We need to say, yes Lord, if we are available, God will definitely use us. God will definitely use us. I am thankful once again to the Lord that God has given me this wonderful opportunity to come before you. I want to honor pastor and his family and church for giving me this wonderful opportunity that I could come. This is my first time here among you. I know you since long time but first time here in this church. I am thankful to the Lord that God made it possible. I normally don't come, as I shared earlier with some of the brothers, I normally don't come this time of the year. Now I am thinking that I made a mistake coming this time of the year. It is very cold. I used to love cold. I used to love snow and everything, which I never experienced in my life in India because I don't get snow there where we are. Our winter is probably about 70 and goes down up to 60 but nothing like this. This is crazy. I am wearing like three pairs and still I am feeling cold. My nose is running and all these things are happening. Not a good time for me to come. But praise God that God brought me here. The main reason I am here this time is to attend the minister's conference in Tennessee. I think I am going to be blessed there because what I heard about the minister's conference is great. I am so looking forward to fellowship with some great man of God here and learn so many things. Praise God. Let's go to the word of God this evening and I request somebody to help me read the word because I always carry my own Bible in my own language. If I start reading it from him, you won't understand the word. But I request somebody to read from Mark, Gospel of Mark, chapter 6, verses 53 to 56. Gospel of Mark, chapter 6, verses 53 to 56. If somebody could help me reading these words, I really appreciate that. And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and grew to the shore. And when they were come out of the ship straightway, they knew him, and ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was. And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch, if it were but the border of his garment. And as many as touched him were made whole. Amen. You may be seated. Thank you. Praise God. We are living in the last days. I don't know if you realize or not, but the things that is happening around the world, that it is exactly written in the Bible of the signs of the last days. And this is what is happening right now in the world. The wars are happening, earthquakes are happening, and different kinds of sicknesses are coming, and diseases are coming. People do not know what to do in this situation. And all is written in the Bible. And we are living in the last days. What are we doing? What are we doing? To get ourselves ready, to get others ready. One of the good things about these people, how do you pronounce that? Gennesaret? Gennesaret. Gennesaret. OK. I heard different pronunciations about this name, so that is why I asked, how do you pronounce the name? In Marathi, in my language, it says Gennesaret. It is similar to what you said right now. Some say Gennesaret. But the people of this town, this village, or this city, they knew about Christ. They knew about Christ. If you read carefully, when they saw Him coming in, when they saw Him coming into the shore, they saw Him and they realized that Jesus Christ has come. Jesus has come to our town. Jesus has come to our city. Jesus has come to our village. They realized that, and what they did after that is very important. We know that Jesus has come to save us. We know that we realize that God has saved us. God has given us, you know, Jesus has come to our life and He has changed our life. But what is after that? What is after that? We saw Him. We saw Him. And that is important. We need to see Him. We need to experience the goodness of God. We need to experience the salvation that He has given to us. Everything is good. But what is after that? You know, many of us, we got saved and that is why we are here. Many of us have experienced that wonderful love of God, the wonderful salvation that God has given to us, the wonderful healing that He has done in our life, the miracle that He has done in our life. But what is the next step? We saw Him came into our life. What is after that? You know, these people, when they saw Jesus came into their city, they did not just stood there, but they started running. They started running. You know, this is the time to run for Christ. Amen? This is the time to get up and run for Christ and bring those who are sick, those who are, you know, not close to the Lord. We need to bring them to Christ. And that's what we need to do in these last days. The time is running. And what are we doing? We're just walking slowly. We're just walking slowly. And many people in their life right now, even though they realize that the time is running, they're still taking the small steps in their life. No, it's time to run for Christ. It is the time to get up and run for Christ and win souls for Christ. Bring them to Christ. What they were doing here, these people, is they were running and bringing people, those sick people to Christ. They were bringing them to Him. Wherever He will go, they are taking those people on bed. You know, if you read it carefully, you will see that they were putting the people on bed and they were running with the bed. That's not an easy thing. That's not an easy thing, to put somebody on a bed and then run with it. It's not an easy thing. It's quite dangerous too. We don't know what will happen. But they were willing to take the risk. They were willing to take the risk. Are we willing to take the risk for the Christ? You know, we have so many reasons. I don't know about here, but in India when I talk to the people and when we encourage them and you know, go and preach the gospel, they have so many excuses. Oh, there is a lot of persecution going on. There is how these people will, you know, say about what we are doing. You know, how they will react when we share the gospel. What they will do to us. And they have so many excuses. They have so many excuses not to go, not to preach the gospel. They have so many excuses. And God is not looking for those excuses. God is looking for those people who will run for Him. Who will bring the people to Him. Because we are living in the last days and we do not know what will happen and when He will come back. When He will return. We have to stand before Him. We have to stand before Him and we have to answer Him. God has saved us. He has given us the wonderful salvation in our life. But He is expecting something from us. He has came to our city. He has came to our life. He has came into our family life. Now what we have to do is to bring the people to Him. We have to run for Christ. There are so many people, maybe not physically sick, but they are mentally sick. They are emotionally sick. They are spiritually sick and they are almost dead spiritually. They do not know what to do. What are we doing? What are we doing? What is our responsibility? Our responsibility is that we must run for Christ. We must run. It is not time to walk slowly. It is not time to walk slowly. We have to change the shift. We have to change. I mean when I drive here, almost everybody has automatic cars here. Automatic. But in India we have manual shifts. And when you need to go fast, you need to change the shift. You need to change the shift. And that is the need right now, to change the shift. We cannot just go slowly. Sometimes people talk about, we have been hearing about this since a long time and we know that Jesus is going to come. But He has some more time. We do not know when He will return. A blink of an eye, He will return back. He will come back. But are we ready? Have we done something for the Lord? He is going to ask us. We have to be ready with the answer. We know Him. We have experienced Christ in our life. But what about others? Those who are sick. There are many in our family. Those who we know, our friends and our neighbors and our relatives, and those people who do not know, they are still on the bed. They do not have any relationship with the God. This is our responsibility to take them and run. It is our responsibility. Wherever Jesus is, we need to bring those people into His presence. Bring those people into His presence. And what they were doing when they were taking these people. Wherever He went, in verse 56, wherever He went, He went into the village, He went into the city, wherever He went, in the marketplace too. In the marketplace, wherever Jesus went, they took these people to Him. And they pleaded, they requested, they prayed. You know, that is what it is clearly said. You know, get them to touch you. Touch your garments. The hems of your garments. Help them, you know, to touch Christ. This is the need of an hour. That we need to request the Lord. Lord, somehow, get them to touch You, Lord. There are people dying without Christ. You know, that is the cry of my heart. You know, that is the vision that God has given to my dad. I'm carrying forward the same vision. You know, I'm running for my own people. I want to see that Indians are giving their life to Jesus. I want to see my own people are coming to Christ. Even though they are in the darker place. You know, they do not know anything about Christ. They are dying in that poverty. They are dying in that curse. But I want to bring them near to Christ. Wherever Christ is, I want to bring them near to Christ. That should be our heart. That should be our compassion for the people to bring them into the presence of God. Bring them into the presence of God. Let me tell you, brothers and sisters, we are responsible people. We are responsible people. One day God is going to ask us. One day God is going to ask us how many people have He brought to His kingdom. How many people we've shared the gospel with. How many people we were able to reach out. How many people we were able to share the gospel with. We haven't done it yet. It's time to shift the gear. It's time to go faster because the time is running. We cannot be relaxed. We cannot just wait and say, Oh, let somebody come in and then we can decide what can be done. No, it's time to run for Christ. It is the time to run for Christ because these people were running because they knew the time is limited. Jesus has came in and any moment He can go back. Any moment He will leave this place. So they were running. They were literally running to get the people near to Him. Jesus Christ has came. Jesus Christ and He loves us and He wants to be with us. We celebrated Christmas recently and I've been preaching about that in my church and to my people. Emmanuel has came to us. The God came to us to be with us. But are we going to be with Him? Are we stepping forward to be with Him? Are we running towards Him? He has left His throne to come to this world to be with us. But are we staying with Him? Are we going to be in His fellowship, near to Him? We need to run for Christ. We need to plead for our people. We need to pray for our people. One of the things God has been encouraging us since last couple of months is to pray for our people. We've been fasting 12 hours of prayer and fasting. We started 8 o'clock in the morning and till 8 in the night. Children, women and everybody just getting on their knees, worshiping the Lord, praying. 12 hours of fasting and prayer. No food, nothing. I remember that when I was fasting, I didn't drink any water too. 8 in the morning, we started exactly on time. And we ended by 8.45. And we were praying and crying out for our people. When was the last time we prayed and we pleaded to the Lord? Lord, give me this place. Give me this people. Give me this people for You, Lord. Please, Lord. When did we plead it for our people? It's time to change the shift. It's time to change the shift. It's time to go on our knees. It's time to go for fasting, you know. Yeah, we love our food. I do love my food, you know. I don't want to skip the food. Fasting is too hard for me. But I realize that it's time to change the shift. Sometimes we have to do some sacrifices. Sometimes we have to, you know, listen to the Holy Ghost, what He is telling us. And this is the time for us to listen to Him and run for Him. Change the shift. Change the shift. Because God is expecting something from us. These people, those who knew Christ, they brought their beloved ones, their friends, those who were sick, they were running, they were running towards the Christ. They were bringing their beloved ones to the Christ. You know, we know that one of the men who was on the bed and his four friends, you know, they brought a man to Christ. And when they found out there is no place to enter into that house where Jesus was, what did they do? They went on the roof, they opened the roof, and sent that person, that friend of theirs, to Jesus from above. We have to find the way, you know. We cannot just say, Oh, we cannot go to Jesus. There are so many difficulties, there are so many obstacles, and there are so many people around Him. We cannot reach Him, so let's go back. What would have happened if they would have done the same thing with their friend? They would have just left Him and said, Oh no, it is too much now to take Him back. So just leave Him here, and we'll go back because we are not able to reach. No, they found the way how to get to Jesus. That's what our, you know, job, that's what our responsibility is, to find the way how to get this person to Christ. Amen? Because he is sick spiritually. He is sick mentally. He does not know how to reach to Christ. But we do. We do know how to get to Christ. We need to find the way for that person how to get this person to Christ. That's what we are doing in India. We are trying our best, you know, to find the way, how can we reach this village? How can we reach this new community? How can we reach these people? How can we enter into their village? We are trying to find the ways. Because we know this is an urgency. We know that, you know, Jesus Christ is coming back any moment. We need to stand for Him. We need to run for Him. We need to change the shift and get people to Him. Don't be afraid about the obstacles that those are coming against us. We need to find the way. And when they found the way, when they got this man to Jesus, Jesus saw the faith of those four people. It is clearly written, Jesus saw the faith of those four people and because of their faith, Jesus said, I forgive his sins. Amen? These people, you know, those kind of people we are, we are the responsible people that we can ask God to forgive somebody's sin. But we need to bring Him into the presence of God. By our faith, somebody will get healed. By our faith, God will touch somebody's life. By our faith, God will forgive their sin. But we need to make an effort to bring that person into the presence of God. When I entered here, when we came here, we came a little earlier and we were standing here to see this beautiful place, you know, God has given us. But there are a lot of empty pews here. We need to fill it with people. You know, I was showing, you know, you can see the people, the photos, pictures back there when you go back. When we finish the service, you can look at the picture how God is filling our church. It's because somebody is running for Christ. Somebody is going and bringing the people to Christ. Every day, every Sunday, we have 10 to 15 new people coming into church. How that is happening? Because somebody is going and telling them about Christ and bringing them because they understood the urgency. They understood the urgency that my beloved people need to be in the church. My beloved people, my beloved friend need to be in the house of the Lord. I have the responsibility to bring them to Christ. And that's what I encourage my church. That's what I encourage my church. Every Sunday, I encourage them to bring new people along with them. We have around 300, 400 people in our church and I encourage them, you know, to bring more people. At least one person in a month, in a year, bring them to Christ because we have a responsibility. We cannot be just relaxed and, you know, enjoy our life and say, Oh, we have a lot of time. No, we don't. We don't have much time. The time is running. Jesus Christ has came and He's expecting us to run for Him. These people were running. What about us? What about us? As a church, are we running? Or are we doing something for Christ? Because there are a lot of people yet to hear the name of Jesus. There are people around here. There are people in this town, this country, in this region that they need to hear, this county, they need to hear the name of Jesus. It's an urgency. It's an emergency. You know, we know how things happen when somebody has to go to the ER. Everything works fast. Everything works fast. The ambulance comes in. You know, those nurses and those people are running and they're taking the person in because they know it is an emergency. It is an emergency. We need to realize that this is an emergency. We cannot just relax. We cannot just say, Oh, we'll see next Sunday or next month and we'll do this outreach and that. No, every day we need to realize that this is an urgency. This is an urgency. If I don't go, if I don't share with somebody and if they die, that is my responsibility. That is my responsibility. God is going to ask me. Many times I did mistakes in my life. You know, God told me to go and preach the gospel. God told me to go and share the gospel. God told me to go and tell them about Christ. And I said, Oh, Lord, I think I'm too tired. I have so many things in my hand and I'll do it next week. Sometime, you know, I heard that news that person is passed away. And I felt really bad about that. I wish I could have gone. I wish I could have gone and preached the gospel to him. I wish I could have gone and prayed with him. I wish I could have shared the gospel with him. He would have heard the name of Jesus before he left this earth. Brothers and sisters, time is running. We cannot be relaxed. We cannot just be so comfortable wherever we are. It's time to change the shift. It's time to change the shift. Unless and until we change the shift and we realize, you know, like these people, the people are not going to come to Christ. If we are waiting somebody to come and bring the people in, no. It's us. We need to go out. What Jesus did with their disciples, Jesus, you know, brought the disciples, taught him, taught them, and what he did, he sent them out. He sent them out. It's not time to, you know, gather the disciples. It's time to send the disciples out. It's time for us to go out. Praise God that we have good services. Praise God that we are coming into the church. But what about others, those who do not have this privilege? They do not have this privilege to come together and worship the living God. They do not have this experience that we are having in our life. This is not just enough for us to enjoy this fellowship of God, but need to know the heart of God, the compassion he has, and he always has a compassion for the people who are lost, who did not hear about the kingdom of God. He was reaching out to them. If we have a heart of God, if we have a spirit of God, we cannot sit silent. That's what I believe, you know. Those who have a spirit of God, they cannot sit silent, they cannot be silent. They will run for Christ. When Philip, you know, heard about the eunuch, his reading, and the Holy Spirit told him, you know, he need to hear, he need to understand the word of God. He ran. He ran towards him. That's what we need to do. We need to run. We need to run for Christ. We need to reach out to the people, because people are not understanding where they are going. People are into the world, and it's getting worse and worse day by day. But we cannot just, you know, complain about this and sit down and say, oh, the world is going very crazy, and I just want to relax in my room. No. We need to go and bring these people out of that darkness. This is our responsibility. Unless and until we go and hold their hands and bring them out of this darkness, they will never ever come out of that way that they are going into, the way to hell they are. We need to bring them to the right path, and that's our responsibility. I always think, you know, when I go out in the villages and preach the gospel, people, I travel a lot in India, you know, go different places, reaching out to the people. When they call me and ask me, why are you running so much? Take some time off. Take some, you know, even Sundays and Mondays, and I have three days, you know, three meetings in a day. People are, even my daughters, you know, are saying, why are you running so much? You know, my daughters here, and they say, take some time, relax, be with, you know, family. I said, you know, the time is running. It's an urgency. If I relax, if I just stay home, who will run? Who will run? I want to make people go and touch the garment of Christ, to hear the name of Jesus, to give them opportunity once in their lifetime. During the Christmas time, we were able to do a lot of outreaches. You know, probably since 13th of December till 2nd of December, I had meetings every day, couple of times in a day, three times sometime in a day, was preaching in different places and sharing the gospel, telling them why Jesus Christ has came for us. What is the reason that he has born on this earth? To give us the life, a life abundant, life after this world, life after this life, eternal life, and it is only way to receive that eternal life with Jesus Christ. That's what I was preaching. People said, you are not afraid to preach the gospel, you are not afraid to tell people about Christ. I said, no, because I know, I've experienced it. If I won't tell, who will tell? If I won't tell them about Christ, the way, the truth and the life, who will go and tell them? I know my responsibility. When I stand before the Lord, I want to make sure that I've won the souls for Christ. I don't want to go empty handed. Because when I'm meeting with the king, you know, we properly have you know, Christmas messages. When the wise men went to Jesus, to see the baby Jesus, they didn't go empty handed. They went with the precious gifts. They went with the precious gifts. And what would be our precious gift when we meet Jesus? When we're going to meet with Him, what would be our precious gift? To bring souls for Him. Win souls for Him. We cannot just go empty handed and say, Oh Lord, thank You for this life and thank You for saving me and I'm here. No, I want to go with a lot of gifts. Because He has done so much for me. I want to do something for Him. I want to do something for Him. I want to take the souls to Him. I want to give, you know, a precious gift of souls to Him. And tell God, this is what I bought for you. This is what I was able to do. This is what I was able to do when you sent me on this earth and saved me. This is the gift from me to you, to your kingdom. Do we have that kind of a gift for Christ? I know here, you know, it's a different tradition than India. You have a, you know, you've been exchanging a gift and I've been hearing from that, from my girls about that, you know, giving the gifts to one another. But what is our gift for Christ? That's His birthday that we are celebrating. But we are just giving gifts to each other. What is our gift to Him? What are we going to bring to Him? Money? Precious stones? Or anything else? No, He's looking for souls. He's looking for souls and we are those people. I mean, I always tell this, you know, we are more privileged than the angels. Because we have, you know, that privilege to share the gospel. Not any angel is standing on the street and preaching the gospel. We don't see an angel standing in the Walmart or in Starbucks or in different places to share the gospel. We have that privilege. Maybe on the way we can just give a tracts to somebody. That has changed the life of my family, you know, my dad's family. And their life has changed just because of one tract. Somebody was able to give that tract and after several years, you know, they were able to know about Christ from that book. That will bring forth the fruit, but we need to take an effort to give that tracts to somebody. Would you like to read this tract? Would you like to have this gift? Would you like to know about Christ? Let them say no, don't worry about it. Don't be embarrassed. Sometimes people... I remember when I was doing the outreach when I was in New Zealand. And, you know, that was my first experience because I've done the outreaches in India and when I go and talk to the people and if somebody gives the book, they are ready to accept it because, you know, if somebody is giving the gift, oh, they are happy to receive that book or any gift. But when I was sharing the gospel on the streets of New Zealand and there was a drunker man and he came, he had several of his friends and girlfriends with him and when I offered him a tract and I said, you want to know about Jesus Christ? He said, no. I don't want to hear about Christ. I was standing there and thinking about that, you know, when he said no and that was early days of my ministry life or I wasn't in the ministry fully, you know, I was in the Bible college. So I thought, how to share the gospel with this kind of people who said no? Who said no? It's difficult and I was embarrassed, you know, I thought, oh, he said no, how can I share with others? We might get embarrassed sometimes. But let me tell you, don't stop. Don't stop. Because David is there to embarrass us. David is there to bring the obstacles in our life. But we want to keep going for the Christ. We want to keep running for Christ. He is going to bring so many obstacles and he did in my life. He tried to stop the work. He tried to bring so many obstacles. You know, family problems, ministry problems and health issues and all these things and he was trying to stop me. But I said to the Lord, Lord be with me. And he is Emmanuel, God with us and he stood with me. And that's why I was running for the Lord. That's why I was able to go out and preach the gospel. And when I said that, yes, God is using us. So many miracles are taking place in India. In our church. We had this I don't have bigger pictures but I will try to show you maybe later on. This was a lady brought to the church on chair. There were people lifting her up. She was bedridden for two years. Literally and she was not able to have any food. Even if she drinks a little water she was throwing up. Two years on a bed and doctor didn't have any hope for her life. They brought to her in church women's prayer team. They were praying for her. We have a Friday women's praying team. Friday 3pm to 5pm every week. And they were praying for this lady. And this is my wife sharing gospel with her. Telling her about Jesus Christ and hope in Christ. The family members brought her on the chair, lifted her up. When she came to church heard the gospel. The first time in her life she was able to walk with the help of some sisters and she was walking right there. She is healed by the grace of God. She is healed by the grace of God. If you are ready to stand before the Lord and she not just she walked but she called when she went back home. She had food as well and God really helped her not to throw up that food as she is getting strength back. Only God can do this. Two years bedridden sister God can heal. When we bring it to the presence of God, God is able to do the miracle. That's where we stand. That's what I said. We don't have any miracle in our hands. We don't have anything in our magical power in us. But we have Christ in us who can do the miracle. And that's what he is doing. What is happening in India, we are reaching out to the people with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Thousands of thousands of people giving their life to Jesus. This was during the Christmas. We were able to do the outreach and tell people about Jesus Christ and why he is here. Many people giving their life to Jesus. They started following him because we said yes to the Lord. We said yes to the Lord. These are ministers, those are pastors working with us. We used to have 27 but now the number has grown to 37. These are the 37 pastors with us and they are reaching out constantly. Our vision for 2024 is to establish 125 churches. Just before I took a flight to here, we had a pastors meeting. We came together and we prayed for that vision for 2024. We would like to see 125 new fellowship established in India instead of Maharashtra. If we don't have any goal, we won't be able to reach anywhere. That's our goal and that's our prayer with these people that we should be able to establish 125 more fellowship. God can do it because he is with us. He is with us and he will give us the power. We need your prayer and support for those pastors. It takes about $100 for a pastor and family to support them so they can freely go to the villages and establish the work. How can they establish these almost 37 pastors? How can they establish these 125? If they go out 5 days, Monday to Friday, if they go out in the villages, one village a day and they try to establish the group, they will be able to do that. Probably more than 125 but we just targeted 125. We can do 150 but we just pray for 125 for the year 2024. If they go out every day, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 5 days a week and try to establish the work, God will definitely help them. But for that, we need your prayers, we need your support so we can send these people out who are willing to take the gospel, who are willing to take the risk to go on a front line and preach the gospel to the dying world. There are people who will come against them. There are people, radical Hindus and Muslims and Buddhists, they will come against them but they are ready to take the risk and establish the work. We need your prayer backups, we need your financial support so we can reach more people. This was a brand new place, the first time for me to go and preach the gospel to these people. And they were so much open to receive the gospel. More than 200 people raised their hand to receive Christ in their life. This was a Christmas meeting on 13th of December. Pre-Christmas meeting. But we were able to share the gospel with them. 200 people in a meeting gave their life to Jesus. Impossible in man's eyes, but possible with God. Possible with God. When you are willing to stand for the Lord, when you are willing to preach the gospel, there are people who need to hear the gospel but they are waiting for somebody to go. Somebody to go and preach the gospel. I was so excited to go to this place because this was a brand new place. And they heard the gospel and changed their life. God is waiting for you and me. There are people getting baptized. There are people giving their life to Jesus and we are baptizing people every meeting, every time, whenever we could. My dad used to baptize 300 people at a time. I reached 167 once. I didn't reach the 300 goal yet. I would love to. I would love to break the record of my dad of baptizing more than 300 people. And I'm praying for that and God will do that for sure. God will do that for sure. There are people who are getting baptized and following Christ. Their life is on risk. There are several women and several brothers who are giving their life to Jesus, even from the Muslim community, from the Buddhist community. And we do not know what their family will do to them. But they are willing to take the risk and follow Christ. You know, life, as I said, life is not easy. There are so many difficulties. A couple of months ago when I was out of country and in Norway they asked me to come and preach for the conference. It was a Pentecostal conference and there were about 300 people and they wanted to know more about India. They wanted to know how to reach India and all these things and they asked me to come and preach for them. So when I went there and some people knew that I'm out of my house. So people came to our house and they robbed our house and not just robbing our house but they, you know, it's a funny story but they came and took all four wheels of my vehicle in the night. This is what happened. This is what they did. They broke the window and they just took all the four wheels of my vehicle. This was the ministry vehicle that we use. You know, it was given by the grace of God when Brother Dugway was there and we were able to purchase this. All the four wheels were taken out of that vehicle and we could not go and preach the gospel. For a month we were not able to purchase the tires but by the grace of God, God provided. So things will happen. They will try to stop the work. They will try to stop what we are doing. They will try to disturb the minds and that's what he is doing right now with family also, as I said with my daughters. Things that they are doing, he is doing trying to stop, disturb, excuse me, disturb the minds so we cannot go and run for the Christ. That's what happens. These are the obstacles that he brings. But let me tell you that if we are willing, God is able. If we are willing, God is able. We are continuously training the young people to take the gospel. We need your prayers for this kind of young people. We are training more 20 people this year to take the gospel. We need Bibles. Kindly pray for that need. We definitely need Bibles. It cost $4 for one Bible and we definitely need several hundred Bibles to take the Bibles into the villages and to the new people so they can read from the Word of God and we believe that this is the living Word of God which will definitely work in their heart. Isaiah 55, 11 when we give the Word of God into their hand, into their heart it will not come a void. Definitely it will bring forth the fruit. So that's what we want to do. We want to distribute the Bibles. We want to distribute the Bibles. We want to distribute the tracts. So kindly pray that God will provide this need. We keep building the churches. That is one of our biggest projects to build the churches and bring new people into the church. We've been able to build four new churches last 2023. And hundreds of people are coming into the church and giving their life to Jesus. New people coming to the Christ. And this is one of our projects. It takes $7,000 to build a church but people will have a place where they can come and worship the living God. They can sit down together. They don't have a pew or chairs or anything like that. They sit on a hard floor but they have a heart to worship. And that's what we do with the $7,000 to build a village church where people can come together and worship the living God. The outreach still goes on. We go to the different villages and we preach the Gospel to these people in open places. Sometimes it is difficult but we try to find the place where we can go and hold the open meetings and share the Gospel. This was done during the Christmas. This was a meeting held on the 21st of December and we were able to go out in the slum area and share the Gospel among the Buddhist people. And they've given their life to Jesus. Praise God that God is opening new doors for the ministry. Keep praying for us. Keep praying for my family, my five children. God is helping them but as I always say that when you are with God David's eyes are always on to you. And they try to disturb you. Serving the Lord I've experienced that in my little time in 23 years I've experienced that when you are serving faithfully he will try to disturb everything. Definitely with the family he will try to disturb the family so you cannot concentrate on the ministry. So pray for families. For our pastors and their families. Pray for me and my family as we go through difficult times. Pray that God will help us. We need your prayers. We need your support. We want you to come along with us. If anybody gets this vision, you know we have several people came from states. Recently we had a PFYC. That is one of the vision that God has given me in 2011 to start a PFYC and since 2012 we started. It's been 10 years, you know, over 10 years that we were able to do the PFYC India. This year we had about 1200 people. Young people came to PFYC for 3 days. It's different than here what they do. For 3 days we try to keep them with us. We feed them for 3 times because these people coming from the villages and we try to provide the accommodation at our campus. So imagine about 800 people staying at the campus. It's full crowded. They're just sleeping on the floor. We provide the little mattresses to them. Sometimes it is not possible to provide the mattresses but we provide the food and we try to bring new people so they can hear the goodness of God. They can get the touch of the Holy Ghost. I remember when I was 11 years old when I gave my life to Jesus. God touched me and filled me with the Holy Ghost. Gave my life to Jesus and decided to serve Him. In 1991 I got baptized by Brother Gene Taylor and since then I decided to follow Christ and give my life to Jesus. When Holy Spirit touches the young people their life gets changed. It is difficult sometimes to tell the young people always telling them it won't change but when Holy Spirit touches them and that's our focus for PFYC India. To see the young life change. During these three days many young people got the touch of the Holy Ghost. They got filled with the Holy Ghost. They started speaking in tongues and they dedicated their life to Jesus. We had a brother from Indiana came in, Brother Robertson and there were two sisters, one from Alabama and one from Tennessee and both of them were blessed, three of them were blessing to us, blessing to the young people. We want young people to come. Come to India and preach the gospel to those people, those young people because they need to see Christ through you. Sometimes people say, oh we can just send you money instead of just flying in. But I always say that your presence makes a big difference. Remember when Peter was walking and he shot onto the sick people they got healed. If you would have said, no I'll just sit in the house and I'll pray from here, they would have not got healed. The presence makes a huge difference. Your money goes a long way there, that's good and your help is great but your presence will make a huge difference because we carry Christ within us and when we walk to the streets, when we go to those villages God going with us and opening the doors for those people to receive Christ in their life. Run for Christ. It's time to change the shift. It's time to reach out to the new people. It's time to take this mental to go and preach the gospel into the darker place. Brothers and sisters, I would like to encourage you to pray for the ministry get involved in the ministry and help towards the ministry. Thank you so much for this time brother. May God bless you. Please do continue to pray for us. Thank you. Lord to you. God bless. Well as Brother Dupte was talking to us there, I think about when we think about somebody coming in from another country or a work that's being done somewhere else far away and he's saying the things that they're doing it's like well that's what we expect them to do. That's why we give. They're going out and they're reaching people and bringing them in and I love that he turned it around on us and he said you got empty pews here. There's a lot more room for more people and instead of us maintaining we should be growing and sitting there, I've made a commitment to pray about something and we'll be talking about it. OK? But in the meantime here we're going to call in and have everybody come and pray and let's pray for their ministry and like he said the opportunity that we have to support them but also the ministry here. I mean that's something, you know, kind of you expect a missionary to come and tell us what's going on there but then to point his finger back and say it needs to be going on here too and I really do appreciate that. It's what I was looking for for Brother Dupte to bring a message to our church that we're not just trying to say hey we're the Americans we've got something to send you with. No, but he's a minister and he came and he ministered to us. If you'd come get us a song please. Let's all come in to the altar and let's talk to the Lord about the things which we have heard and about upping the speed about shifting gears and going on and reaching souls for Christ. Let's come on in here. Thank you God. Thank you God for what He's done. Just one more soul were to walk down the aisle it would be worth every struggle it would be worth every mile a lifetime of labor still worth it all if it rescues just one more soul preachers are weary singers are tired church as we know it is losing its fire