August mercies

Testimony 

1. By the immense grace of God I got my second year distance education Psychology results.I have completed the course with a first class and I am a certified General Psychologist now. All glory to God .Please pray that God's plan be fulfilled In my life.

2.We went for an outing last week to a lake with only little wàter..neck level water for my 5yr old.Suddenly when all of didn't notice Priscilla went upside down and was struggling for breathe and my niece shouted her name and we then only noticed she lost balance and immediately my husband pulled her out..she had drank water and vomited.Thank God for His protection.

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Praise and Glory to Our Heavenly Father.. He leads us in green pasture and leadeth beside the still waters.. Amen. This year He healed my Husband, myself, my parents, my sister and her family and many of our near and dear ones from COVID. He helped me and my husband to take a drive to Iowa to meet his mom. He helped us be able host a few sister workers from our church in our home for a few days. He helped us with amazing guidance and helped us to walk in His plans. It is a blessing and Thank God for you wonderful sisters who keep reminding me of the walk carrying our cross in the path that Jesus walked. Praise and Glory to Him. Pray that His name be Glorified by our lives.

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When I read this message I wanted to cry. I wasn't going to say anything, because what we experienced was very new and a very sensitive thing. 

But I got up this morning with such a burden to share this. 

The past couple of years GOD has been working on my husband and me. God has been changing us and dealing with us and we have been enjoying immense spiritual growth and immense personal growth. We were able to do amazing ministry in our local church and around our house, soon the church elders started trying to incorporate us into the church leadership. 

One particular person in leadership did not like how I was being prophetic and started attacking us. To the point where some of those in leadership and then those in the congregation turned on us. It was literally like a mob situation. 

And that very same month. The people who were coming for prayer were talking about the affairs their spouse had in church or how the church wronged them. In a couple of months it was almost like I lost my safe space. (That was what I thought church was for me. Betrayed by those I was close with. And then having to try and navigate such information without prejudice.) 

By then COVID also shut down all the churches. I basically just resolved to online church. COVID amplified many domestic situations for so many people and when the church leadership didn't step in THE WAY I THOUGHT THEY HAD TOO,I couldn't accept it.  I stopped counceling people. I just wanted a private Christian life. (As stupid as it sounds now 😬) I just wanted no one to look at or question my relationship with GOD. I couldn't accept "imperfect" people talking about or ridiculing the most precious part of me. My relationship with GOD.  I just had to get over myself and deal with it..... but I didn't know how. I started asking GOD for anonymous ministries. For some time GOD also allowed it because I had to heal. Slowly HE started be deal with us and pruning us and change us and making us mature and teaching us to forgive and oh HE taught me humility! 😀. All people are like me, I had to stop looking at their cracks and learn to look at CHRIST in them be it in leadership or anywhere else.  Be it in church or in a different setting. I had to change my focus. Once I submitted it all completely to GOD and let HIM deal with us the way HE wanted, things changed. The pastor of our church came home one day and we were able to reconcile. GOD heard our prayers and in the midst of the lock down GOD enabled them to come to our house and sort out the issue. They actually came home and apologised (which I didn't expect.) It gave us a sense of closure and a renewed sense of how much as believers we need to do fellowship and stand by each other as the hands and feet of Christ on earth. 

Today we have moved to a new place, go to a new church and I know that this is the start of a new season for us as a family.  

And the local church that we have been planted here at, GOD has placed us here to learn and grow. I am looking forward to all that GOD has in store for us. ❤️😀🥰

I hope I did justice to what I was trying to express. Many of us have   been hurt at church. We either burry that hurt or carry it around. We don't deal with it in CHRIST. When we don't deal with it we become unable to help ourselves much less help others. To expect perfection in church is like expecting healthy people at a hospital. Some times we just need to get over ourselves and our mindsets and GOD can use us to do so much for our children, for so many like us and even for ourselves. Because HE is our strengths we can boast about our weaknesses.

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Praise the lord! All glory to God alone...

God helped me to become pregnant in July 2020 after 4.6 years of struggle inspite of PCOD and thyroid issues.. I was having high fever and bleeding on August 2020 ... And was struggling very badly during first trimester .. God helped me to reach TN from Delhi safely in midst of corona wave.... 

In March god blessed us with baby and I came across many struggles but god is all time good and good only.. 

GOD DOESN'T KNOW TO DO HARM TO US.. I was struggling with joining back to office and I got in to super duper hectic project.. I was working 14 hours on day 1 after my ML... I cried bitterly to the lord and he changed the things with in 24 hours.. the very next day I came to know th scope which I was mainly selected in the project is no more needed... 

And also I was not aware expecting good rating but to my surprise god blessed me with good rating also... 

My baby was suffering from measles and very heavy cold but god is good and he protected my baby also..

EACH DAY IS A GRACE FOR ME .. ALL GLORY TO JESUS ALONE.. HE IS THE ONE WHO CAN UNDERSTAND OUR HEART BEFORE WE SPEAK...

Still iam struggling to pray and meditate god's word .. please uphold me in ur prayers

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Last year around Nov we identified my son was having sensory issues due to which there was milestone and speech delay

God had revealed to us about the situation through one of our pastors earlier and we had the confidence that God is in control. But reality was very painful and difficult to accept.

We consulted few pediatricians and psychologist, they suggested us to go for occupational therapy.

All told us one thing, motherly attention was important and told me to see if I can take a break.

I was having a very tough time in my project for a while, when I asked for leave they were very skeptical, after providing med documents they were willing to give as lop from Jan

By March my MIL had went to US to look after our SIL's children, by May my husband and I became covid positive when I had to rejoin.

We were pushed to quit my job and look after him full-time. We had invested on a house by then, with one salary getting cut, I was wondering how we can manage.

But my husband encouraged me saying I have to do this and God will take care of our needs.

God gave me exodus 2:9, Take this child and nurse him for me. I was a very career oriented person, and this was a test of my selflessness. I gave into God's will and dropped my papers in faith.

The next month my son fell ill very badly and all the elders in the house were constantly pushed by God to pray for his life. God just gave me the strength to hold onto his soul tight and keep going. I had a dream about snake falling on my head and wounding me and I escaped. That made me realize it was a spiritual warfare. Since then everyday we took him to therapy and sat at home doing all the activities possible to engage him well along with prayers.

By September I was reminded in my heart to go to a nearby preschool to see if they are open for in person classes. The day we went luckily the school was open and they were planning to start activity group. We told abt the situation and asked if they can enroll and immediately they did. 

That was one of the most happiest moment in our life as the pediatricians told us to push his education by a year, but here he was going to a school like every other child.

Since then there was a lot of improvement in his growth and his social interaction got better.

Today he has started speaking 2,3  words sentences, singing songs, trying to sit down and play with kids little by little.

As I was thinking of penning this down today, the therapist called and told me, your son doesn't require any more session, next month after teaching basic habits we can close the therapy.

I want to thank many of the fellowship sisters who were praying for him during his sickness, connected with me for activities and introduced to many more sisters in my situation, God had used this phase for his glory completely. Do keep him in your prayers to start speaking fluently.

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It was March 18th, 2020. My Mom was on her way back from Odisha. My older daughter had just finished her first grade annual exams. So we had planned to send the kids off with my parents when they go to Vellore via Chennai. On 19th March, my office announced work-from-home and so my husband and I decided to go along with the kids to Vellore, stay for the weekend and come back. We spent the weekend at Vellore but it came as a shock  when the nationwide lockdown was announced. We couldn't go back to Chennai ( I hadn't locked the windows of my house and had left clothes for drying in the balcony since we expected to be back in two days). I was extremely thankful that we could be with the kids at my parents home in Vellore for the next couple of months. It was there that I discovered that we were expecting our third child. Our joy knew no bounds. Over the next few months, despite the pregnancy and the lockdown , we made multiple travels - to Chennai for cleaning up the home,  twice to visit my in laws in Tuticorin and once to Nagercoil for a wedding at my 37th week of pregnancy ( you can read it in the link below)

In August 2020, my father- in-law was tested positive. So we quarantined him at our parents' place at Vellore. I was five months pregnant then with two small kids. God's protecting hand was evident. Soon, the whole  neighbourhood was infected- my maid, people who helped with our parent's ministry etc. God made us a blessing to those around, in terms of providing them with food. 

The pregnancy progressed smoothly and the fact that my son was born on Christmas day 2020 came as a surprise! God helped us through the process, and gave me a super-easy delivery. We once again began our travelling with our three kids - the first one when my son was 2 months old- shuttling between my in-laws at Tuticorin and my parents place at Vellore and everywhere in between- Madurai, Shengottai, Trichy, Kodaikanal and a few more. In May 2021, as the second wave hit our country, my mother was infected. Just a few minutes before she felt  her temperature rising, my then 5- month -old son was playing on her lap. We admitted her in CMC and by God's sheer grace she recovered and the rest of the family was not infected. 

Two weeks back, my father in law was diagnosed with a major block in the heart. By Gods grace, the bypass surgery last week went off well and he is recovering well at CMC.

Despite the uncertain times, there are so many things I am grateful for-

1. for getting to spend so many months with both sets of parents and for the huge break from the hectic city life.

2. I am immensely grateful for the time that we could spend as a family because of the lockdown.To have the husband and the kids by your side 24/7  is awesome!

3. For the Lord's protecting and healing hand in our family, especially in the past month when all of us were down with the flu.

4. For all the travel mercies and for the safe arrival of our third child.

5. While many lost their jobs during the pandemic, we 're grateful for the jobs we hold.

6.For the many opportunities that we had to help out those in need during the pandemic.