GOD STILL CARES .. (17th PART) OF WHEN GOD GUIDES...

         Some envious people in our congregation developed vengeance towards us for no cause.  They felt we had bought this place for our own purpose to enjoy ourselves, They wrote typed letters telling brother Joe that we are on his sister party  I know who typed those letters, and who posted them by registered post , still I forgave them for which reason God rewarded me abundantly..
      This came to our notice and  known to us, we respected Mrs kamala   just as daughter of N. Daniel and sister of the most loved brother that is br. joe.  but we were taken to task, my husband  was rebuked in front of every one in stuvartpuram meetings, and humiliated telling him
      "what type of evangelist you are ? do you have any training in Beaulah gardens?
       My husband was depressed very much. He was not able to take this lightly. Whether sis kamala told her brother that we do not have any part in it or not, we do not know.

         But we were threatened that the ministry we were doing will be burnt by him once he came and see what all that was going on.
          We could not utter one single word against the children of God.  neither she consoled us , she was saying only her brother listens to the first reports whatever , good or bad and would not heed any body.

      This was a strange thing for us, we never knew that they had rift in between the brother and sister of Daniel's family. we silently suffered much , as a result my husband got the first heart attack ,soon after he met Br. Joe.

        How much he suffered I only knew. but we did not say any thing. we silently suffered all that humiliation.  after three years he got the second heart attack and he left us in a second.

   It was 2003, my beloved left me for the abode of heaven , three years passed away, the garden which we tended was in destruction, the trees dried up, the vegetables were not grown any more, there were no more flowers blossoming in my garden.

        My son joined in Loyola college in vijayawada, once in a month I was visiting him. I was crying in the heart, at that moment one brother from lef came to see me.

         I said to him, " i feel I cannot maintain this house, The remembrances of him and those good days are too much for me, wish I could sell it go away from here"   he insisted whether I meant it truly, I said of course I mean it.

          But instead of stopping me to think like that, he said if at all you want to sell it, sell it to lef,"
 "  I said , yes I think they are the better people to use it"
he insisted, "shall i inform them?"

"of course you can.'

              I was in deep distress, instead of telling me not to take any haste decisions, within a few days, I got letters from br.joe, advising me to sell the house and go to any apartment. he also offered the amount as 20lakhs and he said he would pay it in two instlaments.

             I was shocked, I felt ashamed of myself. I said sorry to them who brought that letter to me said i did not have any intention of selling.
but they did not leave me with that. They again and again came, including Suresh, marcus , Priyanadh and Mohan rao, persisting that I better sell the house and go away from here.

           It continued till 2012. I was disgusted with these people. How dare they are to pursue a widow to give away the only dwelling place ?  I said just forget this proposal and I will not sell the house.
             just after two days, i saw this man Suresh marcus was constructing a wall opposite the door through whcih i go into the prayer center, later it turned up into a baptistery. I was shocked and felt humiliated, wept.

         This year that 2014 suddenly I met
 Mr. Mrs Joe in the month of Januavary, I asked them why they built it like that, they had no answer for my questions.
         I left them to the Lord, whoever be behind all this drama, I know one thing, God will not leave us nor forsake us.

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•  I see people are taking it personally instead of understanding it objectively and with open heart, That is not what I wanted by posting that. I feel I am making people hurt and offended, i am sad about this, I do not like any one hurt ...but I got hurt instead when a fight takes place here...to Stop for future controversy.. i deleted it... what shall i do?

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  David Joseph Aunty there was no controversial content.Whatever you have said ,i said and Mrs.Mary said were facts which everyone would agree.Hushing up matters doesnt help . You are the moderator and Admin and have the right to allow content which you consider ok ... 

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  Leelavathi Malaka u did not see the comment after u both commented syaing its preposterous....i do notis,, ok i which means =absurd, bizarre, crazy, fanciful, foolish, insane, nonsensical, fantastic, unreal, wild

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  Mary Amboji Wow... when the naked truth is presented without the fluff and the sugar coat, it really does look like preposterous, Aunty. The world is the way it is because there are fewer people who can see the truth the way it is while there are crowds who cry foul every time they see some thing that shakes their belief in what they think is the truth. By the way, was your account of how LEF tried to grab your house preposterous or our comments preposterous?

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When_God_Guides Prayer House: 9B

                     Prayer House: 9B

                        When my husband was telling me the incident happened that day with that stranger in His office, I saw the hand of God, and the fulfillment of the promise He had given to me Numbers 32:24 and an answer to those three days fasting prayer in my house.

               This is promise for the ministry here, in Eluru, the place which was in His thoughts was revealed to me in 1985 and it was taking place in reality in 1997 after 12 years of the period of time.

            The next day we had contacted the one who was in charge of HQ She told us that she would come and see the place as she was conducting Children Retreat in Vijayawada .

                      When Mrs Kamala Paul , daughter of Mr. N. Daniel the founder of the LEF and sister of the President Joshua Daniel and In charge of HQ of Lef centers in India, gave her consent to come and see the place, we were happy to receive her.

            No sooner she and Maryamma of Singhnagar  arrived, even that gentleman and the script writer, we all went to see the place behind our house. We walked through the road which was around the place.
          Once we reached there the elders of the place/slum started to shout at us saying that the place has no approaching road, and that they were not willing to give any road to it through their slum.

         They were illiterate and all most drunkards, and their shouts were so frightening, I was afraid to stand along with the group of our friends, I slipped a bit away from them and stood in a corner nearby a wall and a hut ,observing them.
       Then a woman from the thatched house where I stood came out and said," Leelamma garu, what you are here?"
        Immediately  I recognized her , as Chaya,(her name was sai, but I used to call her as Chaaya, who worked in our house as a helper, and her mother and grandmother too worked in previous years.
I said to her, "What chaya, is this your house? we came to buy the place here to construct a Prayer house, and why these people were shouting like that?"

          She told me, that transactions on that place to buy had never been materialized since 50 years, even Maganti Ravindhranath choudhary came to establish a factory there but the elders of this slum area did not allow them to build any thing here.  But I will try to tell them now that it is for you and to build a prayer house."Thus saying she took the lead and ...
        She at once shouted to her pitch of her throat,

          "Oh Kameswarrawa, you know this place is for Leelamma garu, not for any one else, think of it, and do sell it to them"She called her husband by name and told him, as he was one of the elders of the slum area.

       I donot know what happened later, but the two groups of people came to an amicable solution like payment of some amount for the way to approach the gate of the place to the elders of the slum to build a community hall , say 18000 rupees, and then and there everything settled and we proceeded to our home.

        On the way back home Mrs. Kamala paul asked my husband, "What do you think brother? How much rate we could bargain with them?

      He answered,' Ask for Rs. 500/ per sq yard sister"

        I overheard their conversation, and my heart jumped up and down in speed,
       ' What ? how can they ask him like this for such low price? two years back it was rs 800/- now 500/-? on what basis?     ooph the party will not give us this site and they will go away, just because they came all the way to sell it for us, should not take advantage of them, at least it should be Rs750/ or 700/-. ' I thought very perfectly.
     
          I called my husband aside, and talked to him thus. After hearing my pleas, he said, " You do not know Leela, you do not speak any thing now."

 Saying thus he joined sister Kamala on our way home.

        When he says, 'you do not know Leela' I dare not to speak any further, it was my habit of not arguing with him . So I kept quiet and while sulking in my heart I followed them to home.

                   They settled in the front room in sofas, I got coffee ready quickly and served them, and I dare not to sit with them , as Kamalakka was there, so I hide myself behind the curtain, and keenly listening to them.

            I heard, Kamalakka politely asking
" Sir, How about if we ask you to sell it for Rs. 500/- per sq yard?"

             My heart stopped to pump the blood, my whole body became so cold, I thought this would be the end of the transaction.

             But I heard the gentleman answering her,  at the same time I lifted up the Bible which was on the table behind the curtain where I was standing and listening to them.

            I just took it with my both hands and opened and looked into it, still keenly listening to his answer, I could not believe my own eyes for what I saw in it,
               The Book was opened at Ezra 6 chapter and I found myself reading the last verse in it,
   
         "....the Lord had filled them with joy by changing the attitude of the king of Assyria, so that he assisted them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel."

I was reading at the same time I was rejoicing while reading and also I heard the voice of the
 Mr. Subramanyam Choudhary, saying

," Mam can you say another rate for this?"  His voice was polite and gentle.

                I was following their conversation not leaving my eyes glued to the verse I read just then,

           She said, ' Sir, how about Rs,550/-?"

              I was in a magic maze when I heard the answer from the man,  he said,' Mam, actually this place belong to me and my two sisters, one is a lecturer and another is a doctor, Tonight I will call them and talk to them about the rate, and surely I will try to give you less rate than you asked for"

           What ? No one can believe their ears. The owner /seller telling us that he would try to give the place for lesser price than we asked for? Is it a dream?  No no the Lord of the earth, who had promised me that the heart of the king Assyrian changed the situation.

          There were wide grins on the faces of everybody.  He also was telling,' "Mam one thing more, I will cut and clean  all those thorny bushes, and send some trucks of gravel to fill it and clean the ground, and cut all those palm trees, and give it to you the best way possible."

             Can you imagine what was really going on there, in that place? I was shocked, we were shocked, how come he would do all this for the house of God,  he being a heathen how can he do this for us, unless God changed his attitude?

            Further he said, 'Mam, Mr Yesuratnam is a rare person, his life is a challenge to me, one thing I want to tell you, and seek your permission to do so, because he would not give permission to me" he laughed.
           ( Testimony and Witness can be given by any one, but only the life which was sanctified by God will be a blessing to many and it would have power in it )

             Kamalakka asked him to proceed, and he said

" You are building a prayer house in that place, I myself want to give Rs.10000/ as my part to build it, and I will get some palm leaves too for your roof"

          My husband immediately said, " Sir, we will take that amount into accounts and give the receipt too."

" I know you would do it so.." he laughed and everybody does.  I did not understand much of the underlying meaning in it.. but my heart was light as a feather..

                We could not believe of what was going on there. The God of Abraham, the God of Jacob, The God of Isaac was there in that room, He was there in this transaction.

        Do you know how much was the rate , which was fixed by him that night after he talked to his sisters? It was for 525/- per sq yard. The cost of the whole land of 1200 sq yards was Rs. 600000/-approx.

            Is not this the HAND of God which parted the RED SEA to the Israelite to go through? Do you think only in those days God did miracles of such and not now?

             How can our christian pastors come and beg for money to build their churches leaving this astonishing Great God? Not trusting Him and begging the human beings for the fund?  Who is your Boss?  One pastor said, "my boss is so and so who come from USA"

           Be careful , do not make our big God as a small idol which heathen keep it in a shelf or a room and worship.  He is not , He is the God of  heavens and  sea and dry land like Jonah said, in first chapter verse 9th.

           We have to feel ashamed of ourselves if we do not prove this God in our lives, He is able to do anything, and we can see His hand in everything.

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WHEN_GOD_GUIDES_9A: Prayer House

         

Prayer House: 9A

The promise I got in Railway quarters, Numbers 32:24 was fulfilled only half of it so far.  When Ruebenites and Gadites told Moses that they do not want to cross the Jordan but would like to settle this side of the river to build towns for their women and children; and build pens for their sheep, Moses , at last agreed to their plea when they promised that they would not neglect the battles,

           Taking that promise I went back to Eluru, joined my little children in St.Theresa's Elementary School with big buildings and good administration.  Later I claimed the same promise and bought the house in Ashoknagar with His promise and guidance.

           Though we had the status to build a new home, or buy a new flat or house, we did not go for those, because God told me to buy this old building, that too part of a house.  Our rooms in our house would be like Railway Train compartments one after the other, with a little piece of vacant land at the back and right side of the house, a place for the car garage, and for little kitchen garden and outside bath and toilets, and water reservoir at the back.

        I do not lack any thing in this house,  We built room with a slab roof in the year 1996,  we used that room for the kitchen.  When the steps were built I went up to the terrace and saw a big vacant site adjacent to my back compound wall.  It has a small parapet wall which can be crossed or jumped over by any one. Beyond that I saw small dirty huts, and kachda paths. Every one were throwing their dirt and dust into this vacant site, as it was full of thorny bushes, and dirty water and pigs.

         Even we or our nieghbours who were adjacent to that vacant place were doing the same, throwing the dirt from the houses into the place.   But I looked at the place with different eyes, I felt that this must be the place God wanted to give us to build 'pens for the sheep'

      We were made to be in charge of the LEF branch in Eluru since 1985,  and we did not have a proper place to have our Sunday worship. We started to have worship in  our house, and  in (late) Chandrayya house, later in Mr. Jacob house, which was converted into a school later.

        We were put to humiliation many a times with the highly educated owners and we were not welcomed into their houses many a times. Reasons may be umpteen, which I knew partially but never gave any heed to their pride.

         The pride of the owners became unbearable certain times, as not only we but even the congregations were had that burnt of humiliation.As we were undergoing all this humiliation , we felt that we should have a place for the Sunday worship. God gave me eyes of faith to look into the site as a future Worshiping place.   "Pen for your livestock, " ringing in my ears. In my Telugu Bible its written as " a backyard for your sheep"

     This adjacent  back yard vacant place was in my mind,therefore. I asked my husband to go back and enquaire about the place, like how much it costs etc.
We both had the best jobs,  he was working in ntra Government  and me with UGC(University Grants Commission)We had bulk salaries, besides, we could go for loans to buy THIS land. But never that thought came to our minds. We were happy and content with the house God had given to us.   Buying lands, and gold was not in our dictionary. We bought this house because we were in dire need of a shadow, a roof on our heads.  But apart from it buying lands or sites, or houses was not our desire.  If at  all we had such mind we would had purchased that place by taking a loan from the bank which would be no problem as they promised me that they would give some lakhs  of rupees if only we go for vacant site.

             But we never never had such a idea, or interest in acquiring  properties.Earning property, buying gold , was not our priority list. Instead we used to spend more on music cassettes, message cassettes, and books, biographies  etc. What we invested then was a foundation stone to the character of my children.  We still have a mini library in our house. The Tin shed was replaced by a little room for the books, with an attached bath room and space for a bed , we constructed this in the year 2000 January after 6 years of our purchase of the house.

     I was persisting my husband to go and find about that place for the Sunday Worship.

       When he went back into that slum area the people showed a broker who would be a mediator between the seller and buyer.  He said, there was 1200 square yards place and each square yard costs Rs. 800/-

            When my husband brought that piece of information, we both thought, the HQ would not give their consent to buy this place. As it would cost approximately Rs.1000000/-Therefore we kept quiet.

                   But there was no rest in my heart. God told me He would give a 'backyard for our sheep'. Was it not look like just as a 'pen for the sheep'? with its short walls, and so much of greenary though they were thorny bushes;  I felt this must be the place for Sunday worship.

         My husband went for a Work camp in BG,  I was at home with little children,  so I called upon the praying women of the Fellowship, to wail and shed tears for a place to worship.  We fasted and prayed for three days. later my husband came from the Retreat and went to the AEN  office where he worked.( The story how he got transfer to Eluru after 12 years of his toil by shuttling between Eluru and Vijayawada was another miracle wrought by God in our lives.  Walking with God needs Faith,  walking with God and having a family , begetting sons and daughters and living on this earth requires FAITH,  faith that works every minute of our lives. Faith without deeds is not Faith means,  in our lives in every occasion we need to depend on God to do any thing. Do anything is nothing but DEEDS,  That is the meaning Faith with Deeds.)

      After the work camp he reported to his duty in South Central Railway AEN Office.  That evening he came and told me some wonderful  news.   " Leela, do you know what had happened today in my office?"

I was all in ears to listen to him , because my husband a man of a few words telling me something means, I knew it must be of great importance.

           There was a file on my table from DEN office of Vijayawada by the time I went to the office. It was laying there since one week there. As soon as I went into the office I was told to take care of the file immediately as it was a summons order from the higher authorities about some fine has to be be recovered.

            While I was going through the file one gentleman who was highly educated with M.Tech academic qualifications, and a wealthy Land Lord of Chetaparru came to meet me.   Because he was fined by the South Central Railway as his sugar factory which was in Hanuman Junctions, 30 kms away from Eluru, and 30kms from Vijayawada,  leaving its residue into the Railway land , and therefore DEN Office of the SC Railway sent summons to this Land Lord to pay some fine.
       But those papers were sent to my husband for investigation, and that file was on his table on that particular day, and the owner came to him and said,

" Sir, If you do my work ( showing the file ) fast I will fulfill your "formalities"( bribe)"
     
       Knowing what he meant by 'formalities' my husband did not skip the opportunity to give testimony of his changed life by the Saviour who shed His blood to give us victory over every sin.

My husband, (Tadigiri Yesuratnam )  said, "Sir, I am not that type of person, I work and take my salary, I kept my these two hands Holy in the sight of God, I am a Christian and I never take any bribe.  In fact being a Railway employee I never misused my Pass but bought Season ticket during all my travels to Vijayawada while I was shuttling between Eluru and Vijayawada for 12 years.  I will do your work perfectly, for that you need pay anything."

        The gentleman was astonished and asked what does he mean by not misusing the Pass,  my husband answered him that any employee of his cadre receive 3 sets of Passes to go to any place in India to and fro without any charges, and 6 sets of PTOs to travel on 1/4 railway fare. When the employees need to shuttle between the two places, usually they travel by Express trains claiming one of the Passes.  And its an understanding between the TCs and the employee and they would not get the signature of the TC, as once it is signed he cannot travel again on it.  That too the Pass can be used on Express trains, whereas Season Ticket cannot be used on Express trains.  So I traveled on Passenger trains for 12 years, starting at 6 am and reaching at 9;30am  and starting there at 6;30 pm and reaching home around 10;30 pm, though it was too tedious and tiresome for me. ( Actually the train reaches Vijayawada  only 60 kms away in one hour if it is Express train, because he opted for passenger train he was travelling 3 and  1/2 +3 and 1/2  to and fro everyday, in rain or shine.)

      The gentleman, by name Mr. Subramanyam choudhary was taken aback by the true testimony of the man in that little office, he immediately said," I apologize for the way I talked to you. "

      Later he enquaired why he travelled so many years between these two towns,  for which my husband told him, " My wife is working in St. Theresa's college here, in Eluru."

    "Oh , is that, even my own sister Sujatha is working in the same college."

     "Is she the Lecturer in Politics? we knew her very well because she is living in a rented use opposite to our  rented house to the next street where we live now our own house."

      "Where is your own house now?"
     
        "The very next street to your sister's street,  Tenali Rama  Krishna street,"

       Which house is yours?"

     "There is a temple in the entrance of the street, from there 4th house"

       "There is a vacant place behind your house, did you see that"?

         "Yes Sir,  there is a big vacant place, I know it, in fact I tried to buy it for our worshiping place, but the broker told us the high rate, so we dropped it"

      "Oh is that so? where is your worshipping place now?"

  " Presently we are conducting the sunday worship in a school hall"

       "Actually that vacant land is mine, if you want I will sell it to you" he grinned and told my astonishing hubby.

        "Thank you very much , sir, I will inform about this to our Head Quarters in Madras, let you know"

       "Oh certainly, meanwhile if you can get one bronze cross for me I will pay the cost"

That was the gist of the conversation took place between my husband and the Land owner of the present worshiping place in Eluru. As far as I remember the conversation told by my husband I memorized it and shared the testimony a number of times with many.

If you think that the place was ours just like that you are mistaken, there were still certain wonderful miraculous events took place in between , I saw the hand of God and we praised God for His bountiful graces, and mercies, in dealing with this worshiping place.  Wait for that episode , how God Himself visited us and made things possible in astonishing way.

Can any body imagine that the owner of the land will be sent to our "table",( You prepare a table for me in the presence of  my enemies  Psalms 23:5)  and he himself offer us to sell the place. Is there any thing impossible to God, when we pray for His glory..  what sort of conversation took place later was a miracle, what sort of negotiation was taken place between us was miracle, how this gentleman spoke and dealt with us was miracle, King of Assyria of Old testament came alive into our lives.

The promise I received from His bountiful table was a miracle. The fulfillment of that promise within seconds is a miracle. you cannot read such stories anywhere except in  His Plans for the human lives.


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