Name: Bro. Durai Arun Topic:  Jesus is the Eternal Truth Verses: John 14:6, I (Jesus) am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me
I am Durai Arun (age 29) belonged to a family who knew Jesus Christ well. Even though my mother taught me to read Bible and told me about the love of Christ, I grew as a person who searches Jesus for worldly successes and achievements. I knew about Jesus but stayed away from to taste this world. At the age of 13, I totally stopped my regular Bible study and went out to world to fulfil my desires. For more than 12 years, I was immersed in the worldly things and will ask my mom to pray whenever I am trouble. There were days when I will just randomly open the Bible, give a glance and rush to exams or interviews, believing that if I read Bible on that day Jesus will surely help me to pass or get selected. Even this too started to fade and I totally forgot about Jesus and His love. I may not be an alcoholic or other but I can surely say that still I had large baggage of sins. As years passed on, I wanted to search the truth and purpose of living, so I read a lot of books which emphasize on different religions, cults, rituals, philosophies, science, etc. but mostly I wanted to search my identity to know who I am in this world. While searching these answers, I was also indulged in worldly pleasures which brought me nothing but troubles, problems, fights, shames, guiltiness, sorrows, pride, haughtiness, stubbornness, rudeness, cunningness, deceitful speech, making me a hostile and un-trustable person. At times I even blasphemed against the nature of God and His love, so whenever someone asks about Him, I will become an escape artist and avoided them, which in-turn brought a lot of bad events in my life. I slowly felt that I am living an empty life and this world cannot give me what I really want. Then came the time of my marriage, even though I was happy about it, I know in my heart that I am not a person with whom anybody can spend their earthly lifetime along with me. On May 2012, I happened to meet Bro. David, which was not my plan at all; while he was praying Jesus cleansed me with His Holy Spirit. It was simply amazing to forget about every bad thing you have done in your life, to keep down your sin baggage and being free in Christ. Now I began to know Jesus’ love, patience, endurance and sacrifice to cleanse a person like me with His Blood. He opened my eyes that I may not stay in the shadow but rejoice in His Light. Now I regularly read Bible, not just because it brings victory but it teaches me how I can always be with God. It shows me what men like me really needs. I was a fool to search all around to find the truth and my identity which was right there on my table – Bible, all I had to do was to open and read it, which I failed to do. But Jesus in His mercy showed me that He is Truth and I am His child, for which I can only thank and praise Him forever.

	Name: Bro. K KARTHIKEYAN Topic:  Jesus Changed My Life Verses: Ps. 11:4-5, The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man. The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence
Dear friends, I am a new soul in the Kingdom of God. I want to share my changing experience in Jesus Christ with you. It was a major turning point in my life’s journey, which is unexpected. My witness may give you a new hope to your career and a new beginning in your life with Jesus Christ – The Savior. I’m an Engineer from a Hindu orthodox family background; but myself a self believing and a self trusting person and was basically not interested in Godly things because I thought that the religions or philosophies are man made beliefs (evidences) and there is no one greater than me. I used to always telling others that first believe in yourself than believing in the Unknown-God. I often argued that God didn’t exist because my eyes wouldn’t see him. Indeed I was totally disagreed, accepting God as my creator. Whenever troubles happened in my life, I used to put my hands around my head and cry alone. Possibly God let these things to happen in me. And at times I had wondered myself why this life would face such things. However, I was quick to say: if there is a God, He wouldn’t let these things happen to me. In fact during my life I had the troubles that were hard to bear; thus I forgot the teachings of my childhood and got convinced that there is no God. Jesus had a plan for me (a sudden twist in my life’s journey): there is a believer of God, who has been one of Jesus Christ’s witness at my place of work and he was introduced to me by my friend. One fine Wednesday, he happened to meet me in a conference meeting and explained the God’s message, and gifted me a Bible. After that through him, I had met another believer of Jesus Christ, who clearly explained the profound courage and sacrifices of Jesus Christ and the good news for the world and prayed for my sins. On that night a great interest urged in me to read the Bible again and again, which made me more eager to learn God’s Word. I prayed to Jesus on that night with my broken heart, seeking him for help. I had asked for his forgiveness and for his Holy Spirit to guide and strengthen me. And that time my complete body was held up with some magnetic force; like someone (Holy Spirit) lifting me up and I felt it’s none other than Lord Jesus, who came to my room because He never leaves you nor forsakes you, the true God. I thanked Lord Jesus and told him: You Never Gave Up On Me… Friends, I took Bible study daily; I read it and I have learnt that Jesus is merciful; since he loves all of us and pardons our errors. I have realized that God has been merciful to me and has given me Jesus Christ (opportunity) to learn his ways. Afterwards, I had asked him to give me the strength to overcome my bad practices. God’s word, recorded at Galatians 6:6-10, has motivated me to make changes in my life. I have understood from experience that whatever I do, say, or decide today will shape my life for tomorrow. Further Proverbs 27:11 had made an impact on me. I have realized that through these verses, God was talking to me directly. There it states: “Be wise my son, and bring joy to my heart, that I may answer him that reproaches me.” One day I sat down in my home and thought about what I was going to do with my life. The Psalms 11:4-7 shared by a Brother, who had discussed about the purpose of creation: God requires all, who he has created on the earth. Those words of the psalmist hit my mind, and I had decided to dedicate my life to Jesus Christ and accept Jesus as God’s means of salvation. In addition I have got also educated that Jesus is God’s appointed King in the Heavenly Kingdom that will rule the entire earth eternally. So I began telling my friends the importance of studying the Bible and how the bible reading has changed my life, when I started applying the principles of Jesus in my life. One thing I want to tell you all that, SOMETIMES OUR HARDWORK CAN FAIL BUT JESUS NEVER FAILS, BECAUSE HE IS A LIVING GOD AND HE LOVES UNCONDITIONALLY AND BECAUSE JESUS IS LOVE AND HIS LOVE WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE BEAUTIFUL, I ask my brothers/sisters to TRUST JESUS IN YOUR LIFE. Amen

	Name: Bro. Nathan Topic:  God’s visitation in our life is salvation Verses: Matt 24:35, Jesus Christ said, Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
I am Dwarakanathan from a traditional religious family. In young age, my mother used to tell me to go to temple and do pooja (so called divine worship) and pray to gods of the earth, for my well being. I used to do rituals/ sacrifice accordingly. She also used to say that all gods are good; there is nothing wrong in going to church and light a candle. A couple of times, I also had been to mosque. I did all these things without properly reasoning myself, whether these kinds of rituals can take me near to Almighty God. I thought that my visitation to these religious places might please god. However, I felt always there was something lacking inside myself. I still continued to practise these things. In 1987, some bad habits entered my life. My life had started focussing with lust of the world. In 1998, these bad habits completely ruined my life by a dreadful act. At this time, I felt my whole life became empty. This thought was continuously repeating in my mind. I could not express anything to the people around me. Even my carrier was in a doom. I tried all the spiritual rituals, expecting a change in me but nothing succeeded. In 2001, I was jobless and went to the temples and infant Jesus church. In Aug 2001, I became so depressed, thinking that my sins had compressed me and because of that I was jobless. When I was crying on my bed, suddenly my inner voice called the name of Jesus Christ. I had no clue why it had happened. However, I got a temporary job offer, but I could realise nothing; because I still practised all the ritual acts of the past. In 2005, still being with sinful mind, I went to Ganges to have a holy dip so that I could transfer my sins to god. After all these religious exercises, I still could not understand True God. I vaguely knew that human is an eternal system and should understand God, the creator; but could not find it meaningfully in my life. Then I tried yoga (meditation, pranayama) to enlighten my soul i.e. to reach God. Couple of times, I had an inner feeling that I could lift my soul, to heavenly places but nothing was clear in my mind and understood that this approach was not fruitful way to meet God. In June 2006, my life was seemed to be very incomplete and depressed. One day, I was walking with Bro. David, who told me: “God is love and He is our father, who is waiting for our call”. Immediately, a question came into my mind whether God will accept me, if I call. After that question, the God’s word transformed me completely and I was filled with holiness of God in my heart. I felt all my sinful acts can be removed through sacrifice. Who makes that sacrifice, whether me or God; this was my confusion. I started learning more about sacrifice and understood that God has already sacrificed his son Jesus Christ to buy my sins and set me free in this world to worship his glory. Slowly I got transformed to a state where God showed me that it is his visitation in my life makes me holy child in his kingdom. Only after receiving the God’s word, I felt the importance of my soul. I tell my brothers and sisters of my country to have right word to develop righteous relationship with God; God is our father and we are his children. Father creates the life for all the children; the children building the father’s image outside in any form is wicked. The faith that had started in me is that God’s word can heal a person, if it is from True God of Heaven. The rest are manmade words. Christ Jesus has saved me in many situations and made my life a miracle. Since God loved me, He has made me His child in His kingdom. Similarly, He is calling every Indian to enter into his kingdom because he loves all. I pray for you brothers and sisters of my country to get the right word from God and build the relationship with him. He wants to meet every one of you in your life. Praise the God, Praise Jesus Christ (Son of God), Praise Holy Spirit I thank God for making my life a witness for his graceful love. Amen

	Name: Bro. David Topic:  God’s word Verses: Romans 6:23, For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I am David, aged 44 (KA, India). My life is a lesson to many believers of Christ Jesus. Since my childhood I encouraged myself on things that were not in the path of God. Though my mother wanted me to study in the bible college, I chose the engineering profession. My college days were sinful and that continued until I became 40 years old. I used to be a religious person, celebrating the Christmas with sweets, cakes and new dresses. A time came when I was alone in an alien nation and about to meet the end of my life, I cried unto God. He listened to my cry but asked a simple question: Are you a human or an animal? Indeed that question did not bring shock to me since I knew that I was so unrighteous in His eyes. The true repentance started working in me and finally I had decided to wind up all the bad things in my life once for all. On that day I made this decision, I did not sleep throughout the night, obviously crying. Next day morning, the blood sugar which was 350 for more than three weeks came to just 90 plus. God showed me the power of true repentance. Being in an alien nation, I had no one other than God to speak with me. In fact this had helped me to build a strong relation with God. I remembered a song I had learnt during my Sunday school, which was the prime mover of my spiritual life that time (salvation). I started understanding God in a very simple way; Christ Jesus is my father. And this approach has pleased the living God; today I have no secret with my father. In personal prayer I talk to him about my weakness because He is my strength. I have understood that knowing Christ is religious but living with Jesus is eternal life, a life in light. Today I am living with my everlasting father because of His grace and mercy.

	Name: Ammani Topic:  Goodness of Jesus Christ Verses: Mark 12:43-44, Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything-all she had to live on."
My name is Ammani, aged 67. I was born in a Hindu family (TN, India) and married to a teacher, who was running his own school. My husband was not fearful to God in his early days and hence acted in unrighteous ways, which brought him to a financially bankrupt state in 1966. As the result he had lost his school and the job. With six children, having no money and support, I had no way to move on in our life. The faith I had since my childhood was that there is only one God, not many. That faith started working in my life; God sent a Danish woman named "Sister Daisy" to our village, who preached the good news about that one God. And she told me Jesus is that God. I started praying to Jesus every day and go to Church on Sundays. In those days, I used to work in the agricultural fields for a meager amount of rupees two per day but I saw that God was blessing my income. Indeed Jesus had opened the gate way for my children’s education;my daughters got the admissions into a Christian boarding school and my husband also got a job in 1970. God blessed all my children with abundant knowledge so that they performed well in their studies. Though we were faithful to Jesus, we had lots of worldly things in our life, which caused us more troubles. To be specific, I used to speak words unwisely while solving issues with others, including children. However I did not know that the words are the powerful tools of the human thought life system. Also, I had no idea whether seeing cinema was good or evil. But the truthful God followed me righteously until I could realize completely His graceful love and the righteous path. Today I am witnessing His unconditional love to others by praying for the nations and the families.The faith I had in one God concept has brought me to the living God that is Christ Jesus. Everyone should taste Him because He is good to all.