I am qualified to be an Instrument Engineer and started my career as a Marine Electronic Service ngineer. From the very beginning the LORD blessed me with HIS wisdom and my hands with success. It was in the year 1991 that the LORD healed Pastor Alvin completely of his terminal sickness and the whole family turned to the LORD. For me it was like once again recommitting my life to the LORD JESUS CHR
IST. Once before in the year 1983 I had surrendered my life to the LORD and had asked the LORD JESUS CHRIST to come into my heart and change my life. But over a few months I had once again returned to my old ways and old life - a life of sin and bo***ge and deceit. But this time the LORD took total charge and I found myself being led by the LORD in an awesome way.In the year 1992-93 the riots in Bombay was a very big mile-stone in our lives as we sold all our possession in Bombay and moved to Pune. The Lord led us to a Church which had been a pioneering church in Pune and very soon He was using us in an awesome way in the Church. For 25 years this Church had carried the Torch of the Gospel in our State. Now we were a part of this Church that time the Church had gone down in the size of congregation due to infighting etc, and by His Grace He used us to lift up this Church we wittnesed Psalm 107 in our lives. The hunger and thirst for God and His Presence kept on increasing, my brother who was healed, was called by The Lord and annointed as a Prophet. Everyone in the Church expected me to come into Full Time Ministry. The Lord called me as early as 1992 but when the time came for me to come into full time ministry, I went back to Bombay, I was very close to our Pastor and his family what I saw and experienced in the church, amongst most, made me turn away. Dejected
2. Defeated
3. Disappointed.
4. Devastated.
5. Disillusioned. This was the state of a person who was on the THRESHOLD of becoming an Assistant Pastor in a Pioneering Church. And it was during this time that I started slipping back into the same life of sin & addiction, ci******es & lusts. This was when I discovered that the flow of Calvary, the Blood of His Cross, had not stopped. It was available for me, His love reached me and comforted me. In 3 years very Graciously He led me and once again founded me upon The Rock. He once again cleansed me by His Blood, He healed all my hurt & He applied the Balm of Gilead. It was indeed wonderful to walk with Him once again, to fellowship with Him. But now He was calling me into Full Time Ministry but I was not willing. This went on for quite some time. Even my younger brother, who by that time The Lord had led to establish a Church, was an Ordained Minister, would CALL me, but every time I would Decline one such time I was travelling back to Bombay from Pune standing as the bus was overcrowded, The Lord spoke to me
" He said Allen, I am going to fracture your hand"
I didnot say sorry or anything but very calmly I said
"Lord not my right hand but my left hand, because I am alone in Bombay, how will I do all the work as I am Right Handed"
Not a single word of repentance or remorse. After 3 months there was an Ad in the papers Employment Columns an American Firm needed a Maintenance Manager in Bombay, the qualifications and experience suited me to the hilt. It was a Saturday, at 10:30 am sharp I reached the venue for the Interview by 11:30 am my interview was over the Company Directors were very glad, I was shortlisted after the preliminaries and was assured of the job as well. When I came outside the Venue The Lord said to me
"Allen you are through now you can go to Pune it is only 12:15 noon." I answered
"Lord now there is no need for me to travel to Pune every Saturday now this job and beautiful Company I will go to church here in Bombay, every Sunday faithfully bring my Tithes & Offering." The Lord didnot speak a single word I didnot come to Pune, stayed back in Bombay tidying up my home, cooking food, washing clothes preparing for Sunday Service. Early on Sunday morning after early morning Prayer I didnot dare to ask The Lord His Will, but very careful to side track the issue whenever I felt the Burden for the same. And all of a sudden my foot slipped as I was preparing for Church, I fell down & I heard both the bones of my Left wrist crack. And I didnot Scream or Yell or Cry, no I only said
"O Lord not now, of the all days, not today"
It was not even 8:00am and alongwith a neighbour I was at a Clinic in my vicinity, the doctor however could not believe that I had fractured my Left Wrist he could not understand how come there is NO SWELLING & NO PAIN, it was plain DISBELIEF written on his face. Even though the X-Rays showed the Fracture clearly. So finaly he operated upon me and I came home for a long medical leave. LORD was specifically telling me to come back to Pune for full time ministry, but I was running away from the LORD and HIS calling. Now I was planning to go to Dubai for I had a very good offer and opportunity. Here too I did not adhere to the LORD's calling for me. During my work once I was at a large ship breaking yard in Alang, Gujarat. I was climbing part of a broken ship with a rope. I had climbed about 30 feet and more 25 feet was remaining. Suddenly without any fall or injury the cartilage in my left knee cracked and I was left hanging in mid air by the shipside over huge pieces of cut metal lying underneath me. Only now the pain was excruciating and I was screaming and my left knee was swollen and I could not do anything. Yelling at the top of my voice I was hanging by the shipside and in excruciating pain. I said," LORD please forgive me but now I will heed YOUR voice and come in full time ministry to YOU." So this was how it took the LORD to bring me in full time in the Year 2001. Since then I have been ministering as an assistant Pastor along with Pastor Alvin in the Tabernacle Ministry. My Vision : I share the same vision as Pastor Alvin does. Since we are working for the LORD JESUS CHRIST we have the same goals to see that the LORD's sheep come back to HIM the way HE desires them to be there. It has been long years now and we serve the same cause under the leading of the HOLY SPIRIT for the LORD says in HIS Word inZechariah 4:6 "Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts." I also desire that each sheep of the LORD overflow with the joy and peace and with the anointing of the HOLY SPIRIT and be ready for the LORD's coming and should not be found wanting in the scales of GOD. So just be open unto the LORD and in these last of last days see how HE fills you and leads you in your ways of life provided you surrender completely to HIM.At His Table:
Lamentations 3:22-32 "It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. For the Lord will not cast off for ever: But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies." It is only by HIS grace, HIS tender mercies and loving kindness that we are able to draw close to HIM and stand before HIM. Serving the LORD has never been easy but involves lot of sacrifices for the LORD.
