Posted: 09/06/2006 at 12:42pm | IP Logged

From North East India: Miracle Outpouring

Shillong Times Article and Photo

Miracle Cross: The faithful throng Malki Presbyterian Church since Tuesday 1:40 am to witness the unusual light surrounding the Cross. The believers consider it as power of the Holy Spirit as part of the revival spreading Khasi and Jaintia Hills. For the past few days, students in various schools were losing their consciousness for reasons, the believers attribute to the presence of the Holy Spirit. It is said that the fortunate lot encountered blissful moments with the Holy Spirit. Tuesday night was an occasion for the believers to experience such presence and spend the night in the church praying to Jesus.

Sep Sang wrote:

School kids are hit by a wave of the Holy Spirit while attending secular classes. They fall down, cry, repent, seek God's power to preach, tell that the entire school must repent, see visions of Jesus and angels and heaven and hell and Book of life. Schools have to be shut down.

Also happens in Nursing College hostel, Arts and Science College, Higher Secondary School. On the road a girl fell down after returning from a revival meeting in Nongstoin village- and she had to be brought back to the church building.

One girl whose mother is a alcohol maker/supplier remained unconscious under the Spirit's power. She insisted that her mum must stop alcohol business. This family in non-Christian. They are tribal animists.

Please visit the secular newspaper websites
www.theshillongtimes.com
www.mawphor.com
(the second site is in the Khasi language only)
(the first site gave only one report last week)

Sep Sang
sep_sang@yahoo.co.in

Posted: 09/06/2006 at 1:48pm | IP Logged

Revival has come to Northeast India...Shillong, Meghalaya

I have family in shillong...awesome move of God

Byron Putnam

http://www.theshillongtimes.com/

Students faint, church attributes it to spiritual revival

Shillong: The "revival spirit" spreads to Shillong schools on Thursday with a few cases of girl students fainting during school hours. At least 30 to 40 students of All Saints' School of class VII and VIII fainted and some of them were taken to All Saints' Church for the advice of Rev PB Lyngdoh, who is the Vicar of All Saints Church.

Posted: 09/06/2006 at 2:11pm | IP Logged

From Sep Sang
sep_sang@yahoo.co.in

Please pray for this revival to continue.


More incidences where children fell down on the road. They were taken back to the nearest Presbyterian church buildings/hall.

One bengali Hindu girl was touched by the Holy Spirit at her school. (1).She has been attending the Laban Presbyterian church meeting since Friday (31st august 2006).

(2) One Bihari Hindu boy was 2 things
(a) Hell

(b) a Big Book. But neither his name nor his parent's were in that book. He then came to know that unless one believes in Christ, then his name will never be in the book. And those whose name is not in the Book will go to hell. On Monday at 7 PM some believer has gone to give the family some counselling

(3) On monday 4th September, revival broke out in a Buddhist school, at POLO GROUNDS SHILLONG(near the JAWAHARLAL NEHRU STADIUM)-( Address FOREST COLONY).

(4) This happens mainly amongst the Presbyterians. It does not take place in the charismatic groups.

(5) Presbyterian pastors and elders/deacons are called to the schools to minister.

(6) charismatic pastors and elders/deacons are also called to the schools to minister. There is harmony amongst the two denominations.

(7) Mawngap Presbyterian church has been having a revival wave since March/April 2006 or even before that

(8) A Hindu girl in a school in the POLO area o Shillong saw a vision and said "handsome.. handsome" The hindu mother asked "who is handsome?", she replied its the man she's seeing in the vision. The mother asked who is this man, and the girl replied "YESHU".

(9) All these revivals start from schools. Most are presbyterian, but even Hindu and government(not affiliated to any religion) schools.

(10) RAM KRIHSNA SCHOOL in CHERAPUNJI(the world's wettest place- with the highest rainfall) also experienced revival. This school is based on the philosophy of SWAMI VIVEKANANDA who believes that all rivers lead to the same ocean. So they keep pictures of Jesus, celebrate Christmas, read the bible but also perform hindu rituals. Its a pluralistic theology.

(11) one person manifested the demons by crawling like a snake

(12) others cry "i am Lucifer" etc.

(13) At homes also kids just get into revival. They scream and fall down

(14) some op the Highlights are : No 1. Its "repentance" of the kids. All seek forgiveness of sins

(15) Another highlight is that "Jesus is coming soon"

(16) only 2 or 3 pages are left in the bible. all is torn off. so only a few chapters are left unfulfilled.

(17) They saw one of Jesus ' feet on the planet earth already- the other is still in heaven(maybe????)
He's already had a touch-down.
His full landing is not far away.

(18) IN most cases, the kids will remain unconscious unless and until each and every member of the family agrees to repent. Even if one member is not willing, then the kid get back into an unconscious state

(19) They pray for "power" to preach the gospel

(20) The kids insist that the relationship between mother-father needs to be restored. This is a common theme. Parents feel shy since kids pray out loud on this kind of matter. The kids seem to reveal everything.

Please contact the Presbyterian pastors to check for the veracity of this and similar reports. Their 2 email addresses are given below:
pcishillong@yahoo.co.in
pcicomshg@yahoo.co.in
Presbyterian Church of India(PCI)
Presbyterian Assembly House, Central Ward, Opp. State Library
Shillong, Meghalaya 793001
India (Asia)
Telephone: +91 364 250 5655, 222 6828, 222 1127
Fax: +91 364 222 8166

Also please visit :
http://www.reformiert-online.net/adressen/detail.php?id=133& amp;lg=eng
http://www.mizoramsynod.org

Rev. Wailie C. Kongwir, Presbyterian Assembly House, Central Ward, + Shillong Meghalaya 793-001
pcishillong@yahoo.co.in 
pcicomshg@yahoo.co.in

I guess its been 7 years since Bonkke's visit to Shillong. At That time Presbyterians did not join the charismatics for Bonkke's meeting. Attendance was relatively thin - though the state has about more than half a million Christians. Mostly only charismatics attended, and some hindus. As far as we know only 1 hindu got saved (and is still strong). Other hindus came and went off. But now God's favor is not on the charismatics but the Presbyterians.

Posted: 09/10/2006 at 8:39pm | IP Logged

SHILLONG - Today, during daytime I got the news that revival had hit the students of All Saints School which is located right in the middle of our city, Shillong. This school is run by the Church of North India, formerly known as the Church of England. We went to witness what was going on.

I met the principal who's also the Bishop of the church and on inquiring he told me that today in the morning just before the starting of the class the students of the higher secondary classes were hit by the power of God. So instead of taking them to their class they were taken to the chapel which is just above their school building. It was already late in the afternoon when I and those with me went in that chapel. There were people, largely students, their parents, school teachers and some onlookers and there were singing and some noise of shouting and praying going on.

On closer observation I found two young female students lying on the ground. Some people were hovering around them praying for them. I missed what had gone right from the morning but with these two girls it apparently appeared to me as if they had gone through some experiences earlier. As such some people were trying to ward off the power of the enemy and some were asking them to confess Jesus as their Savior and Lord. I passively tried to intrude but it seemed they were too busy with what was going on. After some time those girls regain consciousness and sat on the benches as the rest of the students were singing and leading songs of worship.

I and those with me went and sat down on one of those old big benches. On the bench in front of us were some people bending on one side and praying. There was another girl there lying down and they were actually praying over her. She seemed to be totally without strength with hardly any movement, her eyes swollen with tears. After some time they helped raised her up to sit down. And although her parents and others were there trying to help her she never uttered a single word. She couldn't. Only stream of tears would swell around her eyes and roll down her cheeks. She seemed totally lost in another world.

After some songs one of their prominent church members stood up and made an announcement that those who would want to continue to stay could stay otherwise they were free to leave since the parents of some students were waiting for them. As we left the chapel the students were still singing.

This is but just one report of what's happening here. It has been a couple of months now that people in the Khasi and the Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya are experiencing a wave of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Almost every now and then the local TV news reports of such occurrences in this region. It started with the centenary celebration of the hundred years of revival that had hit this very land.

Some months ago as the Presbyterian Church was preparing to commemorate the revival that had taken place in Mawphlang area in the East Khasi Hills, there was also a great anticipation among the Christians in general and lots of fervent prayers and intercessions were being made for it to happen once again. And this indeed did happen. First it started right on the ground where the celebration meeting was going on. Then subsequently news began to pour in that it was happening in different places but especially amongst the Presbyterians and that especially among the younger generation.

Then we heard that students in a school in Silchar in Assam were experiencing the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The school authorities not knowing what was happening actually had those students taken to a hospital. Some people and pastors from Shillong visited that place while some learned about it when they were watching a national cable news channel based in Delhi. Not being able to ascertain this strange phenomenon the channel carried the news headline calling it a "Mass Hysteria". Of late such occurrences is happening not only among Christians gathered in church buildings but also spreading among students in schools.

Today as I was in that chapel and worshipping the Lord there was a phone call on my cell phone from Ladrymbai in Jaintia Hills, a coal-mining region. A brother from a church where I occasionally visit was on the line but before he could say anything he heard the songs in the background and inquired if I was in a meeting. When I told him what was happening, he quipped by saying that the schools there in Ladrymbai were also experiencing similar move of God.

This is spreading wider and wider now.

As you rejoice in reading this news please continue to pray for the work of God here, especially that the church leaders and those of older generations would also come under the power of God and that this would spread to every Christians, churches of all denominations, families, every institutions, governments and everywhere else.

The prophecy Joel prophesied in Acts 2: 16 - 18 is being fulfilled.

May His Kingdom come! Amen!

Reuben Pradhan

Posted: 09/12/2006 at 7:55pm | IP Logged

The Revival has been spreading to many beleivers of different communities and denominations. One of the first happenings in the schooll was from All saints School, which is CNI. Then to some of the many presbyterian schools and from the 6th of September the revival came to New Generation Revival Church, a strong charismatic under the pastoral ministry of Rev.Dr.Bat Kooper Dunai. On the 7th it got into their school called Shinning Light School. On the 8th the revial broke out in Mizo Modern High School Madanrting. The revival flames also got into the UPC Church in Firebrigate, Shillong, and then on to some Church of Jesus Christ. Now it continues to the Marwaris and Bengalis, Nepalis , Garos and other communities of different denominations. Praise the Lord.

I had the privilege of ministering to the Hostel where one Tripuri boy got the fire of the Holy Spirit and since last Friday every night prayer meeting and Bible study is going on in this Hostel.

It is our prayer that all the state will experience the live changing power of  The Holy Spirit and it will continue till it reaches the whole NE India and many countries around NE India.

Sanga Miller

Posted: 09/20/2006 at 5:32pm | IP Logged

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Posted: 10/10/2006 at 12:13am | IP Logged

My letter addressed to Michael Twilley needs some correction. The last word in the 4th paragraph should be 'September' not 'August'. The earlier part in the same paragraph has been corrected. The mistake was mine.

Kindly correct it

Thanks

Barkos Warjri

Posted: 10/10/2006 at 12:19am | IP Logged

The Gold Dust mentioned by Pfeli

The gold dust (I am not sure we can call it ‘gold’ but it is definitely something shiny) first occurred in Malki Presbyterian Church on the night of 6^th September at about 10.30pm. My sister, Bethesda (48), at that time was on the pulpit as she had taken some friends who wanted to see the miraculous shining cross in that church (the cross started shining two nights before, on the night of 4^th/5^th from about 0045 hours on 5^th September).

Children were singing on pulpit at that time. They suddenly shouted, “Angels! Angels!” and they were pointing towards the ceiling.

She immediately looked up, saw nothing and with deep concern started praying quietly, “Oh Lord, don’t let them go overboard. Please don’t let them get into any form of hysteria. Please save these children from going too far.”

She looked up again and saw the children reaching up towards the ceiling and saying, “Pdiang, pdiang ki kti!” (In the Khasi language it means ‘take out your hands and receive’), and ‘Ki khlur, ki khlur!’ (meaning, ‘stars stars’).

None of the adults saw anything but children seemed to be thrilled by what they saw (or thought they saw). My cousin describes seeing sheer joy on their faces as they reached out to the heavens. My 15-year-old niece who was in the church lawns at that time also heard the shouts and she also reached out, though she saw nothing. Two other nieces, my cousin’s daughters, Haphi (12) and Babet (9) were also there, the first in the veranda of the church and the younger inside. They saw nothing but reached out any way.

The next morning my niece showed my sister some bright dust on her palms. My cousin Annalyne (39), also saw the same on Haphi’s and Babet’s palms. The dust would not wash off even after scrubbing with soap. When I spoke to my sisters and nieces on the morning of the 9^th September, my cousin called to Haphi, as she was holding the phone, and said, “Come here Haphi let me see your hands.” “Yes! They are still here a lot of them,” she said as she inspected Haphi’s hands. Haphi was the one with the most. My cousin had even tried to pick them out from Haphi’s hands with her nails but they simply would not come off.

The bits of dust were silver in colour, and fine like flour. You would notice them when they reflected the light. They were clearly not sweat or moisture, as a good wash did not affect them. Bethesda noticed them very clearly in bunches on Mabel’s neck and hands when Mabel came home on the 8^th September 2006. Mabel works with my sister in her school, and she is about 35 years old. On the evening of  Saturday the 9^th September 2006, she saw the dust in big concentrations on two workmen’s hands, even the back of their hands. These workmen had just come from the church, as they were working there. Note, these two men had not gone to the church building to worship but to carry out some repair works. On Friday 29^th September 2006, Bethesda found that her hymnbook was bright with the dust, it is still shining today, 5^th October.

Similar dust fell on my brother-in-law and those with him as they were singing at home and praying on 8^th September. They heard our neighbour saying, “Come quickly, See! Something is falling down.” When he came out he saw some fine dust floating down at one spot only. They floated down looking much lighter than snowflakes. He had the dust on his hands and clothes.

I see in the picture sent by Reuben that the dust also seem to be big, maybe in clumps.

How do we explain this? How do you explain the manna? How do you explain a few ‘crazy’ people speaking in several foreign languages? I do not know what to say. It seems we just have to watch and see.

Barkos Warjri

barkosw@yahoo.com

Posted: 10/21/2006 at 6:30am | IP Logged

HEAVENS OPEN

The call came at 2208hrs on 20 October 2006. The message was short and curt. I was asked to call an old college mate in about twenty minutes. His name was K… I knew he was involved with a lot of Bible Studies and counselling and praying for people during the current revival. It could only mean one thing. There was some important news. An SMS from my sister came. ‘Any news?’ she asked, as if she was also sensing something. There was nothing yet, I told her. I called up K… after twenty-two minutes. The mobile phone was switched off. I waited thinking that he must be talking or praying with people. His phone was still in that position even after 45 minutes. I decided to call another number where I knew I could catch him. He had just left.

My wife’s cousin decided not to keep me on tenterhooks any longer. ‘Angels,’ she said. ‘Angels appeared in Smit, but please get the full details from K… who was there. I called up K… this morning and got the story.

On Thursday, 19 October 2006, he had gone to Smit to give a Bible Study. A young girl from Sohra area who had been seeing miraculous visions had come to meet him that day. She went along with him to the Bible study. Bible studies are no longer small group meetings in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills these days. They are more like crusades. The church building was full and so were the church lawns. The young girl with visions had given her testimony, and had said that God would do wonderful things that night. God had been doing so many wonderful things that people half expected what would happen. That night, however, it was something a bit beyond the ordinarily wonderful things they had been used to. It was not simply a response to God’s word or miraculous visions (which are usually poured out to dozens of children nowadays). Heavens would open.

Towards the end of the meeting at about 9 pm, the congregation was singing a song, which had become very popular during this revival, ‘The Angels Sing.’ Suddenly there was a noise and commotion outside. The young girl with many visions said, “ Let’s go out, God is going to show something to you.” The people outside had seen a bright light like lightning. The heavens towards the north seem to part and all saw what looked like hills, and then a rainbow (it is 9 pm at night). Then there were screams and shouts like, ‘Here, here,’ ‘There, on the right,’ ‘Look there on the left.’ There were angels all around! People fell down in fear and shock. Some walking on the road dropped to their knees (some bottles of liquor were found the next morning).

K…, who had come out of the church building, took out his mobile phone and switched on the video camera. A big angel swooped down right in the path of the lens. My cousins who saw the picture on the screen last night were still shaken even two hours later. They could see the wings and the clear shape of the body. Angels are something we read about and hear of. Not beings we actually expect to see. The people stunned by the appearance could only scream, bow down or cry, while those inside continued singing. All this was captured on K’s mobile phone video.

There was only one big angel, the one who was caught on K’s camera. There were however, a host of small angels flashing in and out of view. It sounded, to me, like the story of the herald angels announcing to the shepherds, the coming of Jesus.

In the meantime the northern sky continued to play like the side stage. A bright sword appeared, and then a bright cross. A senior pastor married to my aunt, came out of the church building. He had been sceptical during the initial periods of the revival. “What do you think of this?” I ventured.

“Think of what?” he asked, “I saw it with my own eyes! I saw the northern sky towards the Himalayas, and there was this bright cross, clear and bright up there. I was not alone! Several of us saw. Then I saw another cross, closer.”

I had recently had a long conversation with him when I visited Shillong. I sensed he was speaking in another vein. However I could not resist probing a little more. Knowing him to be a thinking pastor, an intelligent and bright student, I asked how this fitted in to his theology. “Do you remember what Joel said? What is written there is happening. These are miracles,” he said, “When God does miracles how can we explain? These are beyond human explanations. I have seen and I believe.”

I remembered those who do not see and yet believe.

I had spoken to three eyewitnesses. They were excited, but how much can they be excited when God seems to be literally pouring out his Spirit all around?

Two weeks ago the same pastor had met a young boy of seven in a remote village. He had become unconscious one day, and had a vision. When he woke up the pastor asked him what happened. He said he had been to heaven, and as with many children who had visions of heaven or Jesus, he said that he did not want to return. Jesus had told him that he had to return for now and the boy had reluctantly found himself in the company of ordinary humans like this pastor. When asked if he had anything to say to anyone, he simply said, “Read Matthew 3.2.” Children of seven do not normally think of such verses, and certainly not someone who could hardly read.

Another story was telling in its simplicity. National Highway 44 connects the states of Mizoram, Tripura, and the plains of Cachar to the rest of the country, through the Jaintia Hills and Khasi Hills of Meghalaya. An empty refrigerated truck was returning after delivering its load of fish from Andhra Pradesh, in Silchar. The driver, also from Andhra, stopped at Bapung, in Jaintia Hills, that evening and heard singing from the Bapung Presbyterian Church. Something about the singing drew him to the church. He went and even took part in the singing even though he did not know the language. He left after praying with some of the counsellors from the church.

Yet another, impresses the listener with the same message, which God seems to be drumming into our ears – the time is near. A deacon from the Iewrynghep Presbyterian Church (near Mawlyngngot), in East Khasi Hills, in a vision in his bedroom one night, saw a big angel about to blow the trumpet, but something made him pause and he dropped his arm. Almost all the children having visions repeat this same message, the door is about to be locked, or the book is about to be closed.

Barkos Warjri

barkosw@yahoo.com

Posted: 11/29/2006 at 4:39am | IP Logged

It is nice to hear news from workers in the thick of it. I hope I shall be able to visit some of the places mentioned by Pifeli and Cathy, in December when I will be visiting the Khasi and Jaintia Hills, especially the churches and villages where God has been doing such mighty works.

Meanwhile here is a inspiring story told to me by a pastor who I have known for years, about the experiences of his nephew and nieces recently:

It was Sunday, 5^th November 2006, and about 11.00 a.m. Three children, Shan (nearing 8), Linda (nearing 6), and Meda (4) (names changed), were playing throwball and enjoying themselves in the lawn outside their house, just a few kilometres from the Eastern Air Command HQs in Upper Shillong. Their 7 year-old cousin was also with them, when they saw an unusually bright cloud in the sky, which drew their attention. They quickly became quiet, staring in awe, frozen to their places. Something unusual was taking place, but they were strangely not afraid! There on the cloud they saw an unmistakable image of Jesus. However the scene that unfolded before their little eyes was quite different from pictures they might have been familiar with. They saw Jesus, his hands lifted up, with his palms bleeding, but he was not alone. Around him they could clearly see, to their delight, angels. As they looked they could not see but they sensed that something had fallen from the cloud. They could smell a sweet perfume surrounding them but could see nothing around.

A few days earlier, Linda the girl, had gone to spend a night at her aunt’s house in Shillong. There she had a vivid dream. She dreamt she saw Jesus and he had some white bundles with him, which he gave to her. What was in those bundles she did not know, but she received a clear message – Jesus was coming soon. When her father picked her up the next day, to take her back home, she told him that she had also dreamt that she had forgotten the bundles in her aunt’s house.

What the children saw on Sunday, 11^th November, was however no dream. They were wide-awake and playing.

On Saturday, 11^th November 2006, the children were again restless. It was noon and there was a light rain, which kept them from going out to play. The restlessness was however more than just a playtime problem. Linda, the more expressive of the three, softly complained, “Why doesn’t this rain stop? I want to see Jesus.” Their mother gave them a big umbrella and all the three siblings went out. As they stood outside they saw the sky darken and a strong wind began to blow. (All the three children later described it as a dark wind, which blew fast and hard). As they held each other and clung to the umbrella, they squinted as a bright orb appeared in the sky. In that round light they saw a familiar figure. Jesus was here again! However there was a difference this time – his hands were no longer bleeding. The blood had dried up but the clots could be clearly seen on his palms. His hands were again lifted up.

He had something to give them too. They saw a basket in the sky and what looked like flowers were poured out. The children delightedly ran to pick up the flowers, but when they neared the shower they saw they were not flowers, but shiny dust, which had a strange smell. The dust, however, did not last long and faded off soon. They also saw, what could be translated from the Khasi language as a matchbox (or inflammable powder), which would be dipped in a cup, and cause a fiery heat. Jesus also gave them a clear message – ‘repent for he is coming back soon.’

As they looked up they then saw a door in the sky. They quickly called to their mother to come out and see. She rushed out but as she emerged the children saw the door shut. Linda, even heard the door being banged shut. Their mother saw nothing at all. When their mother complained that she saw nothing, Linda confidently explained, that she and her father could not be able to see, as they had not repented of their sins. Their mother rather disappointed, went back inside the house and as she disappeared the threesome immediately saw angels appear with trumpets. The angels then began to sing a well-known Khasi hymn, ‘Oh, Ka Jingwan Ka Hima Ka La Nangjan’ (Oh, the Coming of the Kingdom is Nigh).

When the vision was over the children told their parents that Jesus would appear again the next day at 12 noon, and also that he had asked them to write down what they saw. All three children corroborated each other’s statements, and when some adults tested the youngest one by suggesting that Jesus would have had his hands spread out she refused to budge and insisted that he had held his hands above his head.

Sure enough, the next day, the 12^th November 2006, the children again saw Jesus appear in the sky at the appointed time. This time he gave them a clear message that they must exhort all to repentance. He appeared in slightly different way this time. He had a book, which was opened, but he was not reading it. The cover was towards his face and the open pages were facing the children so they could read them. The book however was held in front of his face so that they could only see his forehead. The older boy, Shan read what was written on the book. It said, “The world is nearing its end and it is very close. His saints will be raptured!” Again the adults could see nothing this time, though several heard the children say, “Look at that flower garden!” Their aunt from Shillong, who was also present, saw a light in the sky but heard nothing. Addressing the adults, Linda notably stated, “If you had seen that you would all collapse.”

The two older children then proceeded to draw impressions of what they had seen. They sat separately as they wrote and sketched. Remarkably both drew similar impressions and wrote the same words. On the top of the page both sketched pictures of angels with trumpets. They also each sketched a road to heaven and drew a cross and a road to hell with many people there. Each also drew a picture of a matchbox and captioned their sketches with the words: “Heaven,” “Hell,” “Trumpet,” “Matchbox.” At the bottom of the page each child wrote the word: “Repent.” They also significantly stated that something wonderful or strange would take place in the year 2007.

What is remarkable and quite different about this series of visions is that all the three children (including a cousin on the first occasion), were fully awake throughout their three experiences and none of them had become unconscious at any stage.

Barkos Warjri

barkosw@yahoo.com

Posted: 11/29/2006 at 11:44pm | IP Logged

Yes one of the results of the revival in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills is that there are no bibles available in Shillong or any town. This is usually thought to be a result of persecution, but in this case the cause is the huge demand. The BSI or other agencies would have not anticipate such a sudden spurt in demand.

Barkos

Posted: 12/05/2006 at 2:54am | IP Logged

that is a wonderful reason...I pray that enough bibles get to them without any hold-ups.

Posted: 01/19/2007 at 6:17am | IP Logged

From: Cathy Pifeli

gocat7@gmail.com 


Blessings Prayer Warriors!

Posted: 02/16/2007 at 12:58am | IP Logged

A FATHER REPENTS

Iba Warjri studies in Class 2 even though she is already 8 years old. I first heard of her in October 2006 when I was told of a little girl who had a vision and when she woke up from her unconscious state she recounted her vision of the rapture, Jesus’ return, the judgement and so on as if she had read the book of Daniel. That story perplexed me. She could hardly read. I checked it out. It was right. I met her along with my wife, on 26^th December 2006 at her village, Nongrim Sadew, about 25 kilometres from Shillong and spoke to her and many others.

The last few days of August 2006 and the month of September run like a movie on perennial fast forward. The events moved so fast that normal life was thrown out of gear. School attendances were disrupted and churches were working overtime, many of them open 24 hours. The Presbyterian Church in the Khasi and Jaintia hills observed a ‘Youth Week’ during the week ending 2^nd September 2006 with the final day falling on Sunday 3^rd September 2006. On 2^nd September the Youth Week services were special. There was a tremendous outpouring of God’s Spirit. Young men and women and children fell like ninepins as they were overcome by the sheer presence of God. Iba saw a vision of the end times and after that one of the women in the church called out “Jesus, Jesus”. Iba rushed out of the church building along with many others. When she looked at the moon, it looked like a cloud very near her. She saw an image of Jesus in the cloud and then it disappeared. The stars looked as if they were following the moon, which seemed to move very fast. She saw a crown and angels dressed in white and she saw God’s glory but could not see His face, nor could she describe His majesty. She also saw her parents wearing crowns. She was so happy, she praised God and danced, in her own words, “like mad woman. I called all the men and children but I was scolded. I thought it was the last day, and that we would all be saved.”

An elderly lady, Kong Wello, who was present at the church that night, told us that when Iba woke up she said that this was the last great revival and asked to speak to the four church elders. She told them that Jesus was coming soon and that he would first take up the dead and then the living and then 666 would rule. (My wife asked Iba where she had heard such a thing before and Iba said she had known of no such thing. Iba being only in class 2 could hardly read well.)

Iba’s mother told us that when she had the revelations that night her face was transformed. She is the least pretty of all the siblings but on that night she was radiant and bright and her voice was sure and clear. She normally cannot speak the standard Khasi language well, usually using her local dialect, and speaks with a lisp, but when she has a revelation she speaks fluent Khasi. It is evident that it is the Lord who gives her the words.

But on that night it was not only Iba. Several others had visions and most of them prayed for, and called, their loved ones to come to the church. Iba called for her father. Iba’s father was from a Roman Catholic background and her mother was Presbyterian, but after they got married they had stopped attending church services. Their children had no Christian teaching at home. Iba’s father is not ashamed to speak of his past life. He said, “I have been a man who has been in the kingdom of the king of this earth. Why should I not tell the truth, frankly? I have been a notorious man. I liked to drink, yes; I usually take up to 7 half bottles of my favourite whisky. I was not afraid of the police. I think they were afraid, they did not want to have a scrap with me. I am not a trouble maker but if someone starts making trouble, I do not hesitate to make the fire hotter.

“On the night of 2nd September I came back home drunk, and when one of the boys from the church came to tell me that my daughter was calling me, I was too drunk to comprehend what was happening. The next day, Sunday, I was about to have my bath when I heard my daughter’s voice over the public address system of the church. It was about 11 am. Something strange happened. I felt as if my heart was stabbed. I could no longer have my bath. I put on my clothes again, slipped into a pair of slippers and rushed off to the church. I do not know what drove me there, but I could no longer remain still. As I entered the gate of the church I heard my daughter saying that her father was coming to church. I lurched to the main door and overcome by some kind of power I almost crawled towards the front of the church and knelt there. I saw my daughter there, her face radiant, and I just wanted to kneel down. I knew I was a sinner and I asked God for forgiveness. Believe me sir,” he said, “from that day onwards I have not taken a single drop of alcohol.”

A few Sundays earlier the whole family had been baptised and become full members of the church.

On that night as we were in the evening service we saw several children having visions. Iba also fell asleep. When she woke up she said that she had seen Jesus and as well Satan with four horns, and then another demon with seven horns, and than another big one with 10 horns, and he then turned into a serpent. “I then saw angels singing and was led to heaven where I danced and sang. It was a beautiful place. There were brass and wind instruments. Then Jesus sent me to the pulpit to pray. He asked me to take off my shoes. I saw only his feet and his wounded hands.” We saw her going to the pulpit and taking off her shoes in a semi-conscious state. She went to the pulpit twice and prayed there after which she woke up.

Another girl, Phibakyntiew Lyngdoh Nongbri, aged 10, also fell unconscious. We heard her speak in her trance and say, “ I have reached, I have reached… The angels and trumpets.. You must repent, you cannot go back again and again to the same things, it is no use.” When she woke up she told us that Jesus had come to the church and when he came the church shone brightly and that he asked all to repent. There were lots of angels and they looked at the people and they sang and blew their trumpets, and birds were standing on the lectern and dancing.

“They are very lovely birds,” she said in her sleep, “I really like that, I really like that. I will stay here with Jesus. I will not go home. I will not stay in a world full of troubles.” She smiled sweetly in her sleep and giggled as if she was playing, saying, “I will pluck that… I will take that (as if she was gathering fish in a net)… Oh the flowers are so lovely! I am so happy with Jesus…I have no worries..(she chuckles here).. Oh this pond is so beautiful and clean, the water is so sweet.”

Another girl prayed for herself in her trance, for her parents and her five siblings (3 girls and 2 boys). Others in the church were identifying them for us as the girl prayed.

What had touched me deeply was the evident enthusiasm in the singing of many young boys and girls and the intensity of their prayers. I could see tears streaming on their faces as they cried to God. When they sang it was as if they were seeing something else as they raised their voices. There was no hesitation, they shouted out their praises.

Posted: 02/16/2007 at 6:53am | IP Logged

I think it is important as the children and others are having visions, to instruct them by Holy Spirit. The same Spirit that reveals a certain thing, will speak into what is being revealed and give clairity. John wrote what He saw, in obedience and wrote it as he saw. The eyes of our understanding can be enlightened by the Spirit that reveals what he saw and was instructed to write.

I just want to speak into this:  "Iba rushed out of the church building along with many others. When she looked at the moon, it looked like a cloud very near her. She saw an image of Jesus in the cloud and then it disappeared. The stars looked as if they were following the moon, which seemed to move very fast. She saw a crown and angels dressed in white and she saw God’s glory but could not see His face, nor could she describe His majesty. She also saw her parents wearing crowns. She was so happy, she praised God and danced, in her own words, “like mad woman. I called all the men and children but I was scolded. I thought it was the last day, and that we would all be saved.”

The moon is representative of the `church', called out ones/ekklesia. Jesus is the glory of the church/ekklesia. The moon moving very fast: meaning the season that is upon her( church/called out ones). The stars following: the nations coming to her light...that being Jesus Christ, as said, He is the Glory of the church/ekklesia. Isa.60:1-6

We need remember that being the church/ekklesia/called out ones, means: we have been called out of (translated out of the dominon of) darkness and brought into(translated into the dominion of) His Light...the Kingdom of His Son. Col.1:13