by Eliora Tshomo.
I am happy to share my own story of how I met God in River Life Worship Center.I hope you will be blessed by it.
Lord Jesus made a way for me
In 2007 I came to India to pursue higher education in Andra Pradesh.I was looking for a english fellowship & a professor gave address of River Life Worship Center, behind Tagore Rice Mill in Vijayawada. When he handed the address to me, I wanted to visit the church by any means.
I vividly remember, the praise & worship in the church was extremely powerful and I decided to never miss a Sunday. But College & university’s highest authorities challenged my decision. They revoked my travel permits & I was not allowed to attend church service. My leader started giving sunday word over phone and asked me to submit my prayer request over a prayer card.
A week later, on a Wednesday afternoon when vice chancellor of university visited our college, I sought permission to meet him to seek special permission to travel to vijayawada to attend sunday service. The moment he granted the permission and I left his chamber, was the exact time I remember my leader called me to inform that as Pastor laid his hands over the prayer card, he said it’s broken & done.
During those weeks, God was speaking about the faith of Jarius who believed that God’s word is spirit & it could travel to heal his servant.
I could experience that grace of God in my own situation. From that day all fetters & snares broke that very hour of prayer of Pastor and my little faith began to grow in the Word of God.
I was slowly getting introduced to basics of Word of God and how we have to apply word of God in our daily life. The Word was very rich & I began sharing it with my hostel mates, my family members and friends.
GOD called me by a new name and new purpose:
I was privileged to have got the opportunity to travel to Holy Land with our Pastor & church in 2011. It was my first visit to Holy Land and God blessed me and my sister with new name. My name in the Lord has given purpose of my life. Whenever I am surrounded by darkness, my name reminds me of God’s light that will shine to bring me out of it.
My family was in darkness and had several issues. Lord Jesus Christ mercifully began to deal with every issue through counsel, word of knowledge and prophetic revelations from our Pastor.
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of Lord makes one rich, He adds no sorrow with it.
Lord Jesus made me rich when He met with every member of my household.
In 2014 I received a call from my leader and she asked me that Pastor wondered why she couldn’t trust God to send her brother to vijayawada. That word of Knowledge from her gave strength to my soul to take a decision for his life.
Upon the counsel, we cancelled his transfer from Mauritius to Bangalore to vijayawada. It was extremely difficult to put him there but it taught us to wait upon God and when time was ripe, Lord Jesus touched his life & saved his life in marvellous ways.
He got baptised in the Holy Land trip in 2016 and God fulfilled His word given to me “The blessing of Lord makes one rich, He adds no sorrow with it”
My brother’s life got transformed from that point.
Lord Jesus extended his love to pull my mother out of depression. She was taught to put her faith in the Word of God and God chiseled out many wrong beliefs and worked in her life. Lord healed her from her sicknesses and she leads a joyful life now.
My sister also got connected to Word of God and beliefs of Church and was blessed with a wonderful daughter.
Psalm 84:5-6
Blessed is the man whose strength is in You,
Whose heart is set on pilgrimage.
As church members, my family and me had privilege of setting our hearts on the pilgrimage. In each & every trip to the Holy Land, God blessed my life with new grace. All the teachings in the Holy Land has blessed me immensely.
As darkness (death and danger) surges in the world, God’s light of prophetic revelations through the Word of God, glows brighter to protect and lead us.
I count River Life Worship Center as a precious gift from Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Church has taught me to walk in the path where our Saviour meets us. I met my God in River Life. God moves in River Life to save people from darkest places. I am humbled to be part of River Life Worship Center.
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