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I have found God who is the
source of true peace, love, joy, happiness, success and all
heavenly blessings. I am enjoying my life much more than I did
earlier. I have confidence and trust in God that HE LOVES ME.

My Testimonial
I was born in India of Hindu parents in February, 1977. I was
educated in Jaipur till my graduation and did my post graduation
from IIT-Roorkee, India in Earth Sciences in Applied Geology.
While I was in the college, I met a Hindu girl, who was a born
again believer (Yeshu Bhakt). She shared the good news of God's
love through his Son Jesus
Christ with me and gifted me a Gideon Bible. I did not read this
book immediately but after a thorough analysis of various
religious book and concluding that
Bible is the only true
word of God, I began to pray to
this stranger God and study the Bible deeply.
I experienced a life-transforming encounter with the
God.
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Out of my early research of the religions and further study of the
religious scriptures and eventually Bible, I formed two conclusions:
- first, that
all religions are same
(ways devised by man to find and reach God
by the means of our good deeds), good for learning the noble ways of living lives but difficult to practice due to its cumbersome rituals. I concluded that religion fails in helping us in meeting God;
- second, that
God is not a distant being who cannot be reached out even with so many efforts; rather He loves each one of us that He came down to meet us as a man, Jesus Christ, who lived with us, died for us and was resurrected to restore us into His heavenly kingdom, so that we may live with Him eternally.
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My Family
I was born in a raigar family in Jaipur District of
Rajasthan, India. Dadaji (Grandpa) was steam engine driver in Indian
railways. Later he resorted to railway coach cleaning supervisor
position due to continued illness
of my grandmother which restricted him to travel very often.
During our childhood, we enjoyed lot of love and respect in the
village, every time we paid a visit. Dadaji was known as ‘Angrez
baba’ (English Grandpa) among children.
Dadaji was a devotee of Radhasoami faith - a lineage of sant mat
(an esoteric spiritual path stressing the unity of all
religions) and partially we all were into it.
Either due to lack of knowledge or understanding, Dadaji had
many misconceptions due which he could not answer my questions.
When I went into depth, I found that he was far from the
absolute truth and he did not find God even after his faithful
belief in the meditation practice for several decades.
Nevertheless, being influenced by this philosophy, our family was not into
practice of idol-worship. When I was very young, papa used to
take us to satsang (spiritual discourses by spiritual teacher)
every Sunday. Later on, these visits became rare and finally
stopped because he could not abstain from meat and alcohol. As I
grew up, I started visiting temples too, but only along with
friends.
Meditation and living that kind of life was a tough stuff and I
did not have any faith in the idols either.
At one point in
time of our life, I was deserted by my very close friend(s),
papa's behavior went uncivilized to pathetic due to alcoholism,
and I would pray hard to the gods I knew to rescue us. Nothing
worked out, and eventually, I became
careless as if there was no God and turned to be a faithless and
Godless person.
Papa was never a religious man, at least I perceived him so. He
rather believed in nature and a supernatural power which governs
all events in the nature. Having roots in the downtrodden class
of the society, he was more inclined towards social reformation.
My mother is a simple woman. She had a religious inclination
since beginning. She would devote herself to the Radhasoami
meditation religiously every evening, until she came to know
Jesus as her personal saviour and God. I have younger siblings
too; one brother named Pankaj and a sister named Hema. I am the
eldest. I must admit that we have a lot uncommon in us.
God spoke to me from Acts 16:31 and gave me a promise after I
believed in him.
“…Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and
your household.”
I believed in God and had seen many miracles already in answer
to my prayers. There was no reason to doubt Him. I clung to this
promise that if I believed in Him then me and my family shall be
saved.
Since that day, God’s Spirit is at work.
I believed in Jesus in 1998 and gave my life to Him. I started
praying daily for the salvation of my whole family. God saved
members of my immediate family one by one. My sister gave her
life to Lord Jesus Christ in 1998 within 2 months of my
salvation.
Pankaj, my younger brother ran away from home in 2000 and he
came to me in Roorkee and stayed with me in the hostel. I told
him about the love of God. Prerna and I explained him the gospel
of Jesus Christ. We used to pray together in the hostel. He
experienced the power of prayer and believed.
Mummy started
partially believing in Jesus in 2001.
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In 2003, I got
married to Prerna who is a very strong believer since her
salvation in 2000. She is my encourager, prayer partner and
friend. She was my class-mate in IIT-Roorkee, where we did our
post-graduation. She originally belongs to a Buddhist family
(but was still an idol worshipper), God used me to share the
gospel with her, she experimented with this faith and found the
TRUTH and now is a believer of Jesus Christ.
In my extended
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In this year, Dadaji
(grandpa) came to stay with us in Delhi for some time. When he
saw our love for God, he started asking many questions which
could not be answered in his previous faith. After getting
answers, he embraced the only 'truth' and
started believing in Lord Jesus Christ.
We, after getting saved, tried our best to show the living
testimony through our lives and loved our father without any
bitterness in our hearts, and yet he kept on
growing in pride and desolation. He kept on invalidating our
feelings and under very critical circumstances mummy left home
and came to me in Delhi to live with us. She could not take it
anymore. I got news in March 2005 that papa was very seriously
ill and needed quick help. We brought him Delhi and his
treatment was started. Though he did not believe in prayers, we
would pray with/for him.
After 10 days, as per our specific prayers and grace of God, he was free from the
effects of alcohol and smoking habits and was perfectly well in
health. His blood sugar came down to 200 from 469 in few days
without insulin but prayers. His eye sight became almost normal
with glasses. He had put his trust in Jesus and was saved.
Seeing him part of the prayer was one of the most beautiful
scenes of my life, which I will never forget. Papa started
trusting in Bible. He began sharing his new found faith with
friends and relatives openly.
Our God changes lives. Papa who once hated Christianity was
totally transformed in a person who loved Jesus Christ and who
testified the goodness of God among congregations, friends,
relatives and his office colleagues.
After loosing first two pregnancies, by God’s grace, Prerna
conceived again in answer of all our prayers in late 2006. From
the day, Pranjal was conceived, we were praying daily for a
fruitful, normal and painless delivery. When the time of
delivery came, Prerna’s body was not responding for a normal
delivery, so doctor suggested operation.
I prayed and God spoke to me. I signed the papers and gave my
consent to the doctor for operation. Pranjal was born at 9:06
AM on 22nd July of 2007. He was and is a perfect and healthy child.
Immediately after the delivery, the doctor, who performed the surgery, came and gave us
this news. She said, “This was a miracle and perfect will of God
that this baby was born cesarean, because the umbilical cord was
turned twice around the neck of the baby, which sometimes may
cause death by strangulation. Even if not so, it brings many
complications. Do not worry baby is perfectly alright”.
There are innumerable incidents of His faithfulness in our lives
but I cannot share them all. God is still at work in us and
refining us day by day as family and as individuals to make us
like Jesus.
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