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 Johnson Alex, Beauty Veiw, Pullichira P.O, Kollam 691304. Kerala,INDIA. email:johnson_alex@rediffmail.com |
I was born and brought up in a catholic family. When I entered my youth, my ways turned against God’s commandments and I became addict to all the evil things like smoking and drinking and so on. When I was a child I would go for Sunday mass but gradually in the youth stage I started avoiding to go for Sunday mass, then automatically it stopped completely. I always criticized the priests, nuns and the authorities of the church, without reading the Bible I tried to change the minds of the people asking trapping questions. In my thoughts God was a person who gives us want we want and not more than that. Then I started my family life and entered into a business, with this my evil practices also increased. Then I started a new shop, with this, my friends and evil practices increased countlessly. My inner conscious made me feel to stop smoking as I was a chain smoker, but I couldn’t stop it. I came to know with my own effort I cannot do this, so I planned to go for a retreat in Divine Retreat Centre for one week. There I witnessed the miracles and preaching and tried my level best to prove it to be cheating, but I had to bow my head because of a small child who was deaf and dumb by birth. By God’s grace a miracle occurred, the boy began to speak and hear. When the preaching of the gospel was going on at the same time miracles and healings took place. (Indeed, the word of God is living and active sharper than any two-edged sword , piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.)Heb:4:12. During these days , Holy Mass and Adoration was taking place, many people were healed and miracles took place at this moment. While the Adoration was going I had a doubt in mind that the Holy Communion is just a bread made from wheat, how can we feel Jesus presence. But this doubt was cleared within seconds when a man entered to share his experience with tears in his eyes. He said that as he was taking part in the adoration and concentrating on the Eucharist he could see the face of Jesus clearly instead of the Eucharist kept there. He rubbed his eyes with great effort thinking it would be his imagination but he could see Jesus very clearly at that moment he could not control his tears and started to cry aloud. From that day onwards I believed that Jesus is present in the Holy Eucharist. This was the turning point of my life, where I came to believe that “God is still living”. Therefore I took a decision, from that day onwards I will follow the ways of “Living God” and my transformation took place. When the true light of God came into me, I was able to repent deeply with tears over my sins which I had committed, and was able to pray, as well as go for daily mass and through receiving Holy Communion I was able to feel the presence and love of Jesus. To know more about Jesus I started reading the Holy Bible and few Bible verses touched me…For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.( jer 29:11) “Strive first for the kingdom of god and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well” (Mt 6:33). “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me; yet not my will but yours be done.” (Lk 22:42) “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” (Lk 1:38) And hence I completely offered myself to God and started praying. One day, as I was praying, I saw a vision, a lighted candle and seven rooms, I passed the seven rooms one by one, when I reached the seventh room and opened the door, I saw a blue sky which gave me enthusiasm, peace and happiness in my soul, which I was not able to understand. Many obstacles and temptations came into my life; Jesus held my hands and led me to the right path. One night while I was praying, I had a heavenly experience, a blue flame of light covered me, at that moment I was filled with enthusiasm, peace and enlighten in my soul. To be in the presence of God it was really very joyful and no other worldly things would substitute this experience, so I prayed to God to always keep me in this experience and take me away to His presence. So I came to know that if we have to live we have to strive for this kingdom of God. “Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set the seal.”(john6:26-27) Then I started to share my experiences which I had received with others and started to pray. “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words." (Dan 10:12) Then this individual prayer led to group prayer of three to four youths. When we started to pray the lord really interfered, and miracles took place, The Lord taught me different things like the holiness, how to link with the Lord, as the Father and the Son unites we must also be united. “The Glory that you have given me I have given them, so that may be one, as we are one. I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me”. (John 17:22-23) The number of youths increased in this group as per the ‘good news’ their lives were transformed they were filled with the Holy Spirit they received the gifts of the lord and they repented deeply on their sins and they turned to new persons. The last days it will be, God declares that I will pour out my sprit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my sprit, and they shall prophesy. (Act 2: 17-18) When the youth came into this group and prayed their family members automatically came to pray. “Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household” (Act 16-31). The lord showered his gifts and miracles like the healing of the sick, casting the evil spirit and by this the lord’s importance was shown. Like wise the lord appointed me a sinner and a weak person for the expansion of the kingdom of God. While the prayer group was in progress the lord gave me a thorn in my life, my business collapsed, financial problems worsened day by day, but the lord held my hands and managed everything accordingly. The lord blessed me and granted me four lovely and charming children two girls and two boys who are studying. The lord is guiding me each and every moment of my life but he has not taken away that thorn from me.
“PRAISE THE LORD”
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