India 1: Day 6
Behold our God's power and majesty!
Today was a wonderful day and a wonderful advance in the kingdom of God. We
started off the day by having breakfast with Dave and Mary Hall (the
missionaries we are working with). It was a great time of fellowship and planning
out the days to come. We went to Hamayun's tomb, and visited Old Delhi market
place. At first, many of us were skeptical because even though it is fun
visiting sites of tourism, we really wanted to do more talking and sharing of
the gospel. And you know what is amazing about that? God is so incredibly
faithful to allow opportunities even in the most unlikely of places. As we
walked the streets of Hamayun's tomb multiple groups of Muslims stopped to talk
with us, they asked many questions about who we were and why we were there. We
gladly answered and in the end gave them a book on the truth of Jesus, and an
SD card that held various biblical resources. They were very grateful to
receive a gift from Americans. Later as we made our way to the exit, they
stopped Lance to talk. They pointed to the picture of Jesus in the book and
asked who he was. Lance shared who Jesus was and the work Christ had done in
him. Many other groups wanted pictures with us, shake hands, and share names.
We gave as many books out as we could without drawing too much attention to it.
As they cheered for getting a picture with Americans we moved on to the next
place.
It is just truly amazing to see that
all work is for the glory of God. Our charisma, our smile, our outward appearance
are all meaningless without the presence of God. Who are we but broken,
obedient servants of our Lord? As we drove to the marketplace of Old Delhi it
became more and more clear that we would not be able to stop here. There was a
sea of people, cars were mere inches away from each other. You could see
nothing but faces, and carts moving market items. It's hard to fully paint the
picture of what this is like. We estimated without exaggeration that there was
a million people crammed into this tight market place. Most of which need to
hear the gospel, India has droves of people and so many of them worship
thousands of idols. Pray that the supreme God will be made known in their
lives.
We ate at a Chili's in a local mall,
and met a server named Deep Bagga, she was very interested in the girls and
they talked about the Christmas story and gave her an SD card as well. She was
very kind and very interested in truth of Jesus.
As always thank you for prayers,
continue to pray that we will be on our guard; stand firm in the faith; be
courageous and be strong (1 Corinthians 16:13).
It is truly a sight to see when God
takes the most unlikely circumstances and allows us to share His glorious
gospel. God uses the small things to build big things in the hearts and minds
of others. To God be the glory, forever and ever!
Andrew Kata
India 1 Team
