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Guntur, India Church Update

What wonderful progress has been made! The church now has walls! Let me share with you Samuels email.

Precious Bro Jason in the Lord,
It was nice talking to you last night and we had Bible study this evening ..
The church pictures are taken today and I just scanned them and now , iam sending to you..
One picture is taken from out side and another picture from inside.. You can see howmuch work is done sofar. Main Door Post is seen. Inside, Window frames are seen and other two side doors are seen.. Some workers are working at that time..
YOu can see Platform(pulpit place)..Its a little high place..

Still, flooring and electrical work should be done.. Plus Painting work is also needed to be done..
Brother , June 30th is set to be the Date of Dedication.. PLease Pray that the Lord would be gracious to us..
Another Prayer Request is that my dad was asking me this morning about Changing the Church name..I said let us pray about it..
We are Praying..If you have some suggestions , please share with me. we want to add something to the Triune God............... church.

Thank God for your church who are now burdened with Indian minisstry and may you be the Channel of the Blessing..
We hope to hear some glad and good news from you..
I need to go home now and I will try to be on online at your night time..
Brother, regards to your Family and all who are with you,
Hoping some reply from you ,
Yours brother in the Lord,
REV SAMUEL KOTA
# 7-6-1149/1, SANJEEVAIAH NAGAR EXTENSION
GUNTUR-522002
ANDHRA PRADESH STATE
INDIA
CELL PH NO: 0091 9866277183
http://samuelkota.tripod.com/pics
Phil 1:29

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They are now carrying a debt for all this work, so any help for them would be GREATLY appreciated!

Let me show you the before pictures I shared with you in February

His Promise IS ALL I need

Please pray for Jena and Jill (my twin sisters) they both have pregnancies that could be tricky.

Also, I have been feeling OK, not perfect, but OK.... I have been able to tell something is still not right.

Well today things are acting up again and I am having some pretty moderate pain again and I am pretty useless..... Just a lot of lying around. Activity seems to aggravate things. I'll more than likely go back to the doctor tomorrow.

I just want an empty stomach and broth....anything else makes me hurt.

I got back on the antibiotics today.

They prayer is not necessarily for comfort, (if I was comfortable I wouldn't go get this problem taken care of) Just pray for a conclusion to the problem. Also I know that God is 100% involved in the situation and He is using this to teach me. Pray that I would have the right frame of mind to be examining my heart and how God is using this event to grow me spiritually.

Remember there is NOTHING God is not actively involved in. When evil people come upon you to attack you, He has allowed it for His purposes. Nothing slips past the permissive will of God. When a sickness falls upon your body, it's because we live in a cursed world where bodies get sick and break down.....BUT He knew it was coming and it is part of His perfect will and plan. He will use it.

Remember our God is a God of LOVE. He does not ever want to see you hurt. He never wants to see you in pain. Mankind's troubles we bring upon ourselves most of the time. Other times its the general effects of a cursed earth from the original sin of Adam and Eve.

Did you know God does not take any pleasure in sending wicked people to hell? The only satisfaction is the satisfaction that his Holy and Perfect Justice demands. He calls you with open arms! He cries out "Come to me all of you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest!"

Where does life find you today? In your stubbornness and pride are you still puffing up your chest and turning a proud and stiff jaw away from Him like a stubborn child who refuses any other way but their own.

These are the foolish ones who will fall into the eternal pit of destruction.

Maybe you have been humbled and on your face have admitted, "Lord I have nothing else I can trust in! Only You could save a sinner like me! My sin has crushed me.... If You were to give me what I deserve today I would be in desperate trouble! I thank You Lord with all my soul that YOU have died my death! That YOU Lord Jesus who was completely innocent died this criminals death. Why would Such A HOLY God die for a wicked heart like mine? Ahhh Yes, because YOU LOVE ME! What else on earth do I need to do or hear? YOU my GOD, my FATHER, who knew me from eternity past....YOU who know me eons from now....YOU who know me and LOVE me this very minute! What else do I need?

I do not need religion, I do not need religious activities....I don't fake piety in front of others....I don't do things because anyone has compelled me to do so..... I don't give money because I think it earns me any favor.... LORD I NEED NOTHING EXCEPT TO KNOW YOU LOVE ME AND YOU HAVE DIED FOR MY SINS.......

Father.... Knowing YOU I know that it is unthinkable that any promise of Yours would fail.....

You have promised my sins in their entirety are paid for by Your death on the cross around 2,000 years ago.

You have promised You will be with me until the end of the age

You have promised I will be with You in heaven.

You have promised I can not slip from Your loving grip.

I live and die on THESE promises Lord. YOU LOVE ME and have DIED for me.... I will never taste death! That is all I need to KNOW. Now Lord help me base every one of my life's activities around these promises You have made to ALL WHO WILL BELIEVE YOUR PROMISES

Letters from Samuel 4/28/08

A few updates from Samuel. SO much good stuff going on there. I really want to focus my efforts on what they are doing. I am working on pulling back from my efforts in Africa for a while. So much great work is happening in India that it deserves our attention. Here's the latest:

Samuel Writes:

Precious Brother Jason in the Lord,

Brother Jason, I have something to share with you.,..

Glad to share with you that One man from Vijayawada is willing to send Bricks for the walls of the Church.. Praise Jesus and we thank God for HIs Help.. and we have already one truck of Sand.. So, we need cement bags to continue with the walls work..So, the work will be ReStarted............
As my dad is planning to have the opening ceremony of the church on my mom's 1st memorial service..that is on June 30th..
Keep praying for the work here..
Brother Jason , I just want to share with you that my son Shalom Joy got 3rd place in the Guntur City and 355th place in Andhra Pradesh state and 785th Rank internationally in the Maths Olympiad competetion..Thank God for HIs wisdom.. And one more thing, God is helping him to recover from jaundice and he got 1st Rank in his annual examinations..Halleluiah..
We are proud of him.. Thank God for his mercies on him..

This May 3rd is our 9th wedding anniversary and Thank the Lord for His help and hoping long blessed years in the years to come. May my family will be faithful in serving God and leading perishing souls to the Cross of Christ..Amen
I am led in my heart to keep a Thanks Giving Treat to all the church members on this May 3rd evening for 9th wedding anniversary, Shalom;s healing , shalom's rank and Solomon's health..... But it depends on money...
If God willing, next week , there will be VBS Camp for the Emma's home kids with our church kids here..Pray for God's help.
Pray for me.. Pray for my family...
Iam so much of Encouraged by your emails and Prayers...
We love you and we pray for you..
Regards to all who are with you,
yours brother who takes comfort at your mails,

REV SAMUEL KOTA
Phil 1:29

Here is his previous email:

Precious Brother Jason in the Lord ,

Brother, We are keeping ourselves busy in GOd's work due to the
summer holidays in many places.. I am invited to preach in various
places and I thank God for these privileges.Keep praying for me and
for my ministry for the Glory of God..
Jason Brother, The Children at Emma's home have finished their
final examinations..Now, these kids are started going for work in
Tobacco Companies, Cotton mills and Red Chilli Godowns.... Ohhh,
horrible works.. Many of these children are below 12 years old..
According to Government Rule, Below 14 years children should not be
sent for work..

But who will stop these kids.? Parents send them for money..
When they go for work...they leave at 8 am and come back at 6 pm..
Please Pray for them... I am praying and planning to have VBS Camp for
them sometime in May ..may be during 1st or second week..Pray that
the Lord would be gracious to have this Program for them.. we have
32 kids right now and at our church, we have 50 odd kids..so, we
try to bring all the kids to our constructed church and have these
camp for 5 days..

Pray for the Program and also for the Financial Help for this
Program It is quite expensive ...even VBS books and
materials..We must give them Lunch also.We need to pay to the
Teachers too...Pray for God's leading......

Brother Jason , we love your family and all....

We are feeling very hot during day time and by the Grace of God,
we feel cold during nights.. Its a wonder for us..Cool breeze , we
get during nights.. Strange.......!

I have firm determination to buy one Cooler......but it would cost
11000 Indian Rupees..
I cant effort it.. But I desire for it..Its a needful thing..We sweat
more during day time.. Horrible heat and we are just 60 kms away from
sea shore..so, we can understand about the humidity.............lol

Sorry for making you bore with our things..
As far as church work, its tentatively stopped.. NO money,
sooooooooooo NO work at the church..
Any way, thank God for you and for all your Prayers.. We do pray for
you and may the Lord bless you more,
regards to your family and Hoping some reply from you,
yours brother in the Lord,
Pastor Samuel KOta
India

(Because this is a public blog I have removed his address and phone # for protection of his privacy. If you would like this info, please just let me know.)

Biblical Parenting

A lot of good stuff I have been learning but just some little things I would like to share.

You know parenting these days is so goofy and certainly not biblical. Parent's are so worried about the child's psyche and self-esteem and being friends with them that they give a young child too many freedoms.

Think of an upside down funnel. Very wide at a young age with little restrictions or rules, the child has way too many freedoms. As the child becomes a teen the parents are frustrated with the way they are turning out, so they get very strict and try to control them. Like the narrow end of a funnel the teen is often choked and rebells and the train wreck ensues. There is a battle for control that the parent has lost years ago.

The biblical model turns the funnel the other way around. More control of a young child teaching them obedience and as they grow and mature they get more freedoms until they become their own person.

This is a very general guideline, but let me share the phases of biblical parenting.

The discipline phase happens from birth to age 5 or so. They don't understand moral reasons behind why things should be done, but we teach them obedience to protect them from harm and to teach them proper outward behavior.

Next the Training phase from around ages 6-12. We begin to direct their course giving the moral reasons for why we should obey. Here we start to work on the heart issue of why we obey. We now give reasons why and instruct them in the ways of living a proper life in the Lord's eyes.

Then the coaching phase from ages 13-19 years. They now begin to live more independently and you allow them to fail and help correct them, instruct them and cheer them on and discipline as needed but it's more about their heart and their thought processes for how and why we obey God and how we live a practical everyday Christian life.

Finally the friendship phase. The end result is a sweet relationship with a child that loves and respects you and you love and respect them. Ultimately two adults who have had hearts changed by Christ living for Him and enjoy life in His service together.

I strongly recommend Shepherding a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp

There is SO much here I don't know how I could possibly share all the great stuff I have learned over the last few years, but I will try my best to pass along some of the highlights.

Here's the bottom line. You must have a heart converted by Christ by repentance and trusting in His death for your sins. You must FIRST live the life yourself. Then from a life of walking "in the Spirit" as apostle Paul says, you will guide and teach your children in the way you are walking. They will learn from your life and patterns. You can't say one thing and live another before them. They are no fools....then they just learn to be hypocrites. Little pharisees who only obey outwardly around other people....that's not good. The goal is to win your child's sinful heart over to Christ. We want them to live a proper life of faith.

If you have some questions, pass them along....I'm no expert but just like everything else here, I only am sharing what I am learning.

Love you and have a great day!


Jason Younger
Letters In Grace
heavenisafreegift@yahoo.com
http://lettersingrace.blogspot.com/

Letters In Grace 4/14/08

Glad to be back with you! I just wanted to share some information I have been studying in my theology class. We are in a section of satanology. Who is he, how does he work....etcetera.

As important as it is to know God and how HE works, I think we need to know and understand our enemy. Satan is a real, created being. He was once God's most powerful angel named "Lucifer" meaning "beautiful".

He was filled with pride and wanted to become like God and fell from grace and took 1/3 of the angels with him in rebellion.

Just as God has angels and man to serve Him, satan also desires to have angels and man to serve him.

He's not the red devil with a pitch fork, as the popular image we have had burned in our minds suggests. He is "beautiful" and he is the master of lies.

So we will look at satan's work in relation to God, in relation to the nations, and in relation to the unsaved. Later we will look at his relation to the saved.

First in relation to God:
Satan is active and preoccupied with the task of imitating and counterfeiting God's work.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15
2Cr 11:13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
2Cr 11:14 No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
You see some are influenced to present "another gospel" Oh, they seem religious and they use the name Jesus. That is not their concern. A counterfeit bill looks like the original right? Very subtle twists lead the unsuspecting into hell. It says satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

He looks like an angel, not a devil! Beware!

Revelation 2:9,13,24
Rev 2:9 'I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Rev 2:13 'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Rev 2:24 'But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them--I place no other burden on you.

See just as there are deep things of God we don't know, there are deep things of satan we do not know. Is ignorance bliss? Ask a sheep when a wolf in in the flock.

Next we see satan's work in relation to nations. Of course nothing happens outside the permission of God, so understand that God restrains satan and also allows his evil to take place for a time. It will ultimately be to God's glory.

Satan is the power behind many world rulers and government leaders. He deceives the nations the scriptures say.

Daniel 10 also Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14

Look at Luke 4:5-6
Luk 4:5 And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Luk 4:6 And the devil said to Him, "I will give You all this domain and its glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.
How could satan offer to give Christ all the earth's domain if he did not possess it? Who gave it over to satan? Adam and Even when they obeyed satan and not God. They handed the dominion of the earth over to satan.

Satan is called the prince of the power of the air. He is the power working in this world (but only to the extent God allows)

Mat 4:8 Again, the devil *took Him to a very high mountain and *showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;
Mat 4:9 and he said to Him, "All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me."

Again here scripture mentions how satan deceives the nations
Rev 20:3 and he threw him into the abyss, and shut {it} and sealed {it} over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

How about in relation to the unsaved?

Satan's ministry in this area is to blind the minds of the unsaved so they can't understand or receive the truth of the Gospel.

2Cr 4:3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,
2Cr 4:4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

How does satan blind people?

2Cr 11:13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
2Cr 11:14 No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

He uses false apostles, he uses deceitful workers, people who claim to belong to Christ. Beware! Are you watching for the enemy from within?

In the parable of the soils it talks about how people hear the Gospel but satan comes and snatches it away from them.
Luk 8:12 "Those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved.

What is keeping you from trusting Christ alone and never lifting up the work of a church or a man or anyone or anything other than Christ's death for your sins?

Act 13:6 When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus,
Act 13:7 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.
Act 13:8 But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
Act 13:9 But Saul, who was also {known as} Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his gaze on him,
Act 13:10 and said, "You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?

False teachers distorting the way and leading people astray!

Make no mistake, satan desires to use men to distort the pure faith and turn it into religion. Religion feels good and sounds right, but will not save you from the hell earned by our sins. Christ has already purchased your soul from hell with His blood, you need no act, no work, no sacrament to save. No church, no man, no ritual, no prayers, no water....you need to believe in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ for the complete forgiveness of your sins.

2Ti 2:25 with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,
2Ti 2:26 and they may come to their senses {and escape} from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

I will make no more argument of my own. I stand on God's word. Please study it, and examine you heart. Ask God for wisdom. Beware of possible devilish schemes around you. How will you know what is true? The Bible is true, know it and you will know fraud. Pray for wisdom. May the Holy Spirit fill you and give you the answers you seek.

God bless.