Sharing Your Faith With Others

Following Jesus Sharing Your Faith It's just a matter of one trump card. Just one trump card. Let's see what happens this time. There you go! Just the one I wanted! Here you go Bhadri! I win this round too! I don't know what's happening today. You seem to be winning each and every round today Today has been an auspicious day for me Look! I went to the credit union office and there too things started falling into place. Brother what happened to it? Did you submit a written request? What else could have happened? They accepted my request. This is really great news! When we receive the loan from the government then so many of our people can be freed from the clutches of moneylenders, and landlords. Right? It's all God's grace, Bhadri! We can only think about it. He can only make it happen. Absolutely, that's so true. Absolutely true! He showed us the true way. Now we need to walk that way. Brother, look at that man. Doesn't seem to be from our village. I've never seen him before. Seems to be a tourist. He's coming our way. Hey brother, it is that person only. Who? He's a film actor. What actor? Johnny Lever! What nonsense are you talking Bhadri! Why would he come here at all? It's him brother! It's him! It's really Johnny bhai! Johnny bhai Namashkar, Namashkar! Namashkar, Namashkar, Namashkar! Please come in! please come in! So your having a good time huh? Come, come sit. You too sit down, come sit. I really can't believe this! Such a great person like you! In our small little village! Really I can't believe it! Well it's all about believing, my friends. I've heard a lot of good things about your village, and even I couldn't believe it! So I thought I should see it for myself ...and here I am. What have you heard? What would you like to see? I'll tell you, I'll tell you but first tell me your names. Sir, this is Bhadri... ...this is brother Shankar. Ok very good, Shankar, and Bhadri. You know what, for last several days people have been saying, there has been a miraculous change around here. What miracle? Let us also know. It's just that everything has changed, the condition of the village, and the villagers. I mean there are a lot of changes that have taken place. Yes, it has! And we are all very happy! Indeed... it's a miracle! Wow! Whatever happened, wouldn't you share it with me? Come, come, we will show it to you, come, come let's go. yeah, sure let's go. Please come. Johnny bhai! Hello, Shankar. Actually it all started, when we saw that movie first time. Which film? The film that showed the life of Jesus Christ. Okay...so who showed you this film? You can consider that too as God's miracle. See the people, who had this film Well consider God sent them to our village. Ah! how nice! And since the time we saw this film, we have been discussing about it almost everyday, His name is on everyone's lips... ...and you know gradually, everything began to change. Oh wow great! Mummy! Johnny Lever is here. Johnny bhai! Yeah? Now whenever we meet someone for the first time, we discuss with him, only about Jesus, and nothing else. It's so amazing, that we just can't stop talking about it. Umm forgive me, but do you know anything about Jesus Christ? Hmmm... you tell me! Oh me? The fact is that the more we talk about Him, it's not sufficient. The fact of the matter is, Johnny bhai, that He was sent into this world by God Himself. He was the son of God. Absolutely! that is why He lived like a common man. He endured problems, and sorrows and helped the weak, and the poor. He taught the lesson of love to everyone... ...sacrificed Himself, for the sake of the world. So that all of us are liberated. We have come to believe... ...that if we walk in the way He has set for us, then we experience His goodness, and that's exactly what happened. Everything started to change. Joy, and gladness in the village. Things were happening as if something great... So you think, all these things happened only when you walked the way of Jesus Christ ...Uhh? Absolutely Johnny bhai! There is no doubt about it! Well there's no doubt, whatsoever... ...truth will always remain as truth, those who doubt it remain ignorant ...right? Very well said bhai! Namaste! Namaste! Hello, Hello. Please come. Please come. Please take a seat. Sit, sit! So these are the people who changed the face of the village? Well I think the world should learn from you all. Sir? Yes Bhadri? This is my wife Lakshmi Namaste Namaste and this is my son Pratap! Oh! so this is Pratap? O my Lord, he was ill,right? The Almighty healed him! May His name be praised a million times! Oh! Really sir, because of what He has done, we are over joyed! After listening to you all about your faith, and your inner feelings... ...it reminds me of a few challenges I had to go through in my own life. Miracles have happened in my life too. The biggest miracle is about my son. My son had a tumor here...On his neck... ...You know 'Gat' and this tumor was entangled with his nerves. The doctor said he could remove it, and he was taken to the operation theater... ...and umm. A little later the doctor called me and said, that this operation, cannot be performed. My son was lying there, he had a large, incision on his neck. They had cut him up. He said he couldn't proceed with the operation because the tumor was knotted with the nerves... ...and even if a single nerve was cut by mistake, one side of his body, could be paralyzed for the entire life, and, he could lose his eyesight... ...difficulties in eating, and drinking... and this tumor could come back again, so I asked him what to do. He asked me, you tell me, and I said you are the doctor. I told him, don't do this if there's so much of risk... ...just don't do it, and then they stitched him back. After that I took him for a homeopathic, ayurvedic treatment, but they were no results, and the tumor became bigger. This big... My son would hide that with his shirt collar... ...you know, he would come home crying from school. He used to say, kids make fun of me. I told him son, what can I do? I've tried my level best, for your treatment... ...but it's only God who can heal you. I kept my faith in God, and I attended prayer meetings regularly. I used to go to special healing meetings where people were healed. I went there very often and if I'm busy, my wife used to take our son. Almost every pastor told me that my son will be fine. Lord Jesus will heal him. How He would, when He would... Only He knows, but He will heal. So I told my son look... If you want to go for a vacation... ...anywhere, I will take you, but please don't mention about your tumor. So in 2002, I took my family for a vacation to America. Now over there, I was in a prayer meeting. I was just standing, and praying. When a senior priest, a pastor was passing by and he saw my son's tumor, he asked me, what is it? I told him it's a tumor. So he said take him to a hospital in New York, Sloan Kettering Hospital. The Lord wants to heal this child. Take him there, so I asked my wife what should we do? And she said, no way! I told her, listen... right now we are in the House of God, and I felt, as though Jesus is speaking through him. My wife said, this is 2002. We'll do it in 2003. Just six months are left. I asked her what's this 2 and 3 business? You just need to have faith, right? Later she told me, she went with her friend to have my son's horoscope read. Horoscope, you know? The horoscope reader said that year 2002 was not favorable for the child, It has risks... 2003 is good. So I told her, listen don't believe in such things...have faith in God. He's the living God. Then she said, if He's the living God then you should pray to Him, and if He responds to you then... we'll go ahead, we'll get the operation done. I immediately fell on my knees, and prayed. I said Jesus, speak to me. I'm unable to understand... ...should I go ahead with my son's operation? And you know, I heard a voice... My son, go ahead with it. I am with you. Do not fear. That's the voice I heard. I told my wife, that I heard this voice. The Lord was saying, go ahead. She said ok. Then we made arrangements for the operation, we found a very good doctor. We fixed a date, and we went for the operation.... several people, prayed for my son. You know many people, even said negative things about this... ...that if you go for the operation, you might lose your child. But we placed our faith in God. Operation happened. It lasted for three hours. And when we moved him from the operation room... ...and when I saw my son, the fear which I had, of his left side getting paralyzed ...with his same left hand, he gave me a thumbs up and told me, daddy I'm perfectly okay. He did not have any difficulties, he was absolutely fine. All the people had said, it is impossible... ...but it is God, who makes the impossible, possible. The Son of God, Jesus! It's amazing Johnny bhai! After listening to your touching story, my faith in Jesus has increased even more. Johnny sir! Tell us more, you were saying you had faced many incidents like this. There were many incidents, But we people forget that, He always does good, and we are blind to all that He does. After this remarkable miracle happened to my son I thought about all my faults that were inside of me, and the filth, to get rid of them. First of all I quit drinking. I used to drink a lot. I quit smoking. I used to gamble. I stopped that also. Late nights with my friends, stopped that too... ...and that's when I decided that I'll go to every village, every town... ...and tell the people about the miracles of Jesus. I will tell about Him. I will praise Him, so that He increases, and I decrease. You're right sir, so many people might have changed like you. We ourselves have completely changed. And we have decided that we will live according to the teachings of Jesus. Wow! But sir, there are so many people in our village who would like to know more about Jesus. But how can we tell them about Him? We are still learning ourselves. All we know is that, whatever it is, It is the truth, and we need to take it to others, otherwise it will seem like the treasure is in front of you, and no one is benefiting. Such treasure is useless, isn't it? See all of you have wisdom, and knowledge. You should share it with others. So that everyone gets benefit out of it. What to tell you Johnny bhai! When the people from our neighboring village came to know about changes that were taking place in our village... They came to our village to find out what these changes were, and how we were implementing them. They wanted to know how they can bring about the same changes, in their village. Oh wow! They keep coming again, and again and keep asking whether something new has happened. And the funny thing about this is, the same people at one time were our enemies! Now there is so much love between us. This is truly God's work, if we walk the way that has been shown to us, that such amazing things are bound to happen. Honestly Johnny bhai, every time we meet up we talk only about Jesus, and His miracles. We know only one thing, that is more and more people should know about Jesus, and try to change their life, and make it better. When we sit and talk, a number of things come up. And now we have only one hope how and when the Lord will enter our lives and help all of us. Johnny sir! Please tell us one thing, how can we take this matter forward? We want to tell as many, many people as possible so their lives may also be changed. Well Bhadri, changing peoples lives, is in God's hands. We can only share our experiences and the truth with people, and keep praying to God for them. Do you remember what Jesus said? All power is given to Me in heaven and in earth. Go, then, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.