Dearly Beloved in Christ,
Greetings in Jesus' Name.
AWESOME GOD
Truly our God is an Awesome God. It amazes me more and more as I ponder on the LOVE of Jesus Christ. Why did HE want to be born in a dirty cowshed? Why did He have to go through all the suffering and pain and the death on the Cross to redeem me? Am I worth His Love? As I ponder on ------- I stand in Awe and see what an Awesome God He is.
We the staff of Reaching Hand Society send our wishes that our Awesome God be with each one of you as you celebrate His Birthday and we pray that this New Year 2006 will be full of His Awesome presence in your life and in the life of all your loved ones.
I stand in Awe to see how our Awesome God arranged the wedding of Remo and Susan on the 29th of Dec at Kazipet and then the reception on 1st Jan at 2006. I thank all who are planning to come and I wish that all will come and Bless Susan and Remo on this their Awesome Day. All praise be to our Awesome God.
While travelling to Hyderabad for the CBN interview for their Hindi TV programme on "Ek Naee Zinghagi" I left my purse with all the documents and money in the train toilet and forgot to pick it up for over 2 hours. When I looked for my purse I realized that I had not got it form the toilet. I panicked and rushed to the toilet and found it. This for me is truly Awesome and I thank my Awesome God for this miracle.
For the first time I realised how difficult it is for the Christian TV programmes to be produced. The team is about 20 persons who need to work in minute precision to get a few lines recorded. It took the whole day to shoot a 15-minute programme. This as motivated me to pray more for CBN and other Christian programmes that are now vital for the people of India. My special thanks to CBN as they took care of my travel and entire 3 day stay at Hyderabad.
The prison work is paying rich dividends as we have seen prisoners accept Jesus and as they want us to start follow up studies for them in their home. Please pray that our Awesome God will provide more staff that will be willing to travel a lot of distance regularly to do the follow up for the released prisoners. The lady prisoner Kowselya is also released from the jail. Praise to our Awesome God.
Our Awesome God is enabling our staff to go more and more interior and to start working in villages (Kerimetla and Metaguda), which have not heard the Name of Jesus even once. Please pray that they will catch the vision of Jesus and keep going in spite of the raising opposition. Please also pray for the medical work by the medical van with a base at Gottenpalli village.
Please thank our Awesome God for keeping the staff and the children well this month.
I thank each one who prays and each one who contributes and please pray for that the needs of this month. Please pray that our Awesome God will meet Christmas gift for the prisoners and staff.
As you read this mail I pray that what ever problem you may have, what ever difficulty you may be passing through, I pray that you will bubble with the presence of our Awesome God and feel His Awesome Peace you your Life.
May the Awesome God be with you all through the coming New Year 2006 is my prayer.
Love and Prayers
Iris