After I had been in America for a while, God gave me a vision of India. It was a very peculiar vision. At that time, however, I didn’t know it was India. I was in a place with a lot of statues of all different colors on the rooftops of houses. I could not figure out what they were nor where they were. Then, I saw a little bridge. It had a small circular archway for a gate and it said on it, “Thomas Bridge.” I just could not figure it out.
Some time later an Indian brother in one of our fellowships said, “Come with me to India.” And so we went. The first shocker I experienced were all the statues on the top of the roofs. Indians put all their gods on the top of their roofs! All the houses had them! We went to bed that first night and when I got up in the morning I said to myself, “Let me take a walk outside.” As I did, right before me was “Thomas Bridge”! Since then, we began our travels to India.
One time, I went there with a couple of other brothers and I have to say I was kind of discouraged. You have to understand, I never get discouraged; nothing can really discourage me, but this time I got discouraged. It was very early in the morning, the time for the Muslims to pray. They started in their tall tower, “Allah!” “Allah!” “Allah Akbar!” And they were carrying on with big loudspeakers filling the whole town! I was lying in bed saying, “My God! What am I doing here?”
Suddenly, the voice of God spoke and the whole place was filled! The two brothers and I were in the upstairs room. The whole room was immediately filled with the power of God. He said, “This gospel of the Kingdom must be preached here also!” I woke up both of these brothers, “Did you hear that?” Neither of them did, but the Word of God was all I needed. I knew He was in charge as well as that He had His people even in this land of darkness.
We experienced many miracles on our trips to India. God promised to bring down the powers that rule over that country. We visited the center of all the iniquity of India called Nagarcoil. It is in the area where the apostle Thomas landed. They killed him in Madras, but they will not kill us for we have come to finish the job that Thomas started.
A great revival has broken out in India – in Andra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The night before we left from one of our trips, about fifteen people received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. They went to their homes and fire started in Andra Pradesh. We received a report from Nagarcoil that they have a revival down there and many souls are being saved.
In another place, in the Hyderbad area, which is in the center of India, a great revival had started, too. The work in India got very big and it is just spreading and spreading and spreading. We got a letter from a brother named Daniel, who told us that within a month after one of our visits eleven new churches sprang up.
At the moment we financially support thirteen brothers who are ministering full-time and they have asked us to add on about ten more because the work is spreading so much. These brothers have nothing, yet they go forth preaching the gospel. You give them forty dollars to carry a man, his wife and his children for a month and they go on preaching. They get so excited over the kingdom of God!
I enjoy seeing people, and especially young people, get excited and go forth in the name of Jesus! I trust, as you are reading these lines, you will also get excited about the things of God. As He was faithful to call you, He will also be faithful to train you and, when you are ready, to send you to bring light and life of God to places where darkness and death rules.
