Wednesday, July 10, 2013
EIGHT SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICES
We at G4 Mission have a passion to see mere seat-warmers in
the local church be transformed into soldiers in the Kingdom of God. So, when
an opportunity is given for us to share God’s Word in a local church, we preach
keeping that in mind. Between November 2012 to Feb 2013, Duke preached in the
Sunday Church service of eight different churches, after a warm invitation by
the senior pastors of those churches. Here is a list of those churches: the
Capstone AG Church (Hitec City – led by Rev. Chaitanya Gera), the Good Shepherd
CNI Church (Mumbai – led by Rev. P. Abraham), the History Maker International
Church (Navi Mumbai – led by Rev. Anil Alexander), the Abundant Life AG Church
(Chennai – led by Rev. Senthil), the New Creation AG Church (Chennai – led by
Rev. Jegil), the Life Fellowship (Trivandrum – led by Rev. Sam Varghese), the
Victory Church (New Delhi – led by Dr. Y. D. Jeyaseelan) and Trichy City AG
Church (Trichy – led by Rev. Dr. Norman Bhasker). Duke’s messages of
encouragement and challenge that brought about comfort and conviction in these
churches among the believers were titled as follows: You Can Burn Me, But I
Will Not Stop Burning (Witnessing) for Jesus! (Revelation 11 study), Bible
Animals That Preach!, Bible Questions That Challenge, Lessons From Christmas
Characters (preached twice), Have You Grown To Be This Jeroboam?, They Were
Killed By God – But Why?, and Soldier or Spectator (Uriah Character Study).
Duke included an illustration of a British soldier who was a mere spectator to
the atrocities happening around him, narrated in the book pictured in this page
(post), in one of these sermons. A senior church leader told Duke after one of
these sermons, “This is the first time I am hearing
someone preach an entire message from the life of this particular Bible
character you preached from! We were blessed!” Some of these messages have
already been uploaded onto Duke’s Youtube channel: www.Youtube.com/visitduke.
THREE FASTING PRAYERS
“The Devil trembles when he sees even the weakest saint on
his knees!” We have heard that being oft-repeated. We at Grabbing the Google
Generation from Gehenna Mission do not believe in merely praying for our
ministry, but that prayer IS ministry! So, keeping this mind, an intercession
time for the nation of India, the world at large, and for the Google Generation
called the FOUNTAIN OF TEARS AGAINST MOUNTAIN OF FEARS FASTING PRAYER was
planned. This prayer time is based on Jeremiah 9:1 – “Oh that my head were
waters, And my eyes a FOUNTAIN OF TEARS, that I might weep day and night, For
the slain of the daughter of my people”. It is also based on Jeremiah 9:10 – “For
the MOUNTAINS I will take up a weeping and wailing…” The first meeting held on
June 8, Saturday between 10 to 3 p.m., drew 13 people working in different
corporate companies and hailing from different churches (AGies to Emmanuel
House of Worship). After a time of prayer for the problems of the nation, we
took time to pray for needs of individuals present which was for a godly life
partner, mostly. God’s presence swept our base! Two short messages, one by Duke
and another by Evan blessed those who came. Post the
fasting prayer, there was a time of rich fellowship and a lip-smacking idly
late-lunch. Moving on to talk about two other prayer-meets: Duke ministered in
two early morning services of the 40-day fasting prayer of the NLAG,
Secunderabad, during Lent Season 2013. “Gifts of the Spirit put in g-i-f-t-s”
& “This Judas Can Be You” – were the two message that Duke preached. In
Life Fellowship, Trivandrum, Duke shared a message titled, “Don’t give up!”
Duke’s messages strengthened the believers.
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