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Sidetracked to a Divine Appointment

Gospel for Asia
For Immediate Release

March 2010

The four Bible school students didn't know Kamadev was illiterate before giving him a Gospel tract. When they found out, they shared the message with him, and Kamadev was touched by what he heard. He asked the students to visit him one day in the future and told them exactly how to get to his house. But when the students came back a few days later, they couldn't find Kamadev or his house.

The young men asked around, hoping to find someone who knew how to get to Kamadev's house. In their search, they met Bhagwant, who offered to help them.

Bhagwant invited the students into his home and told them to stay with him and his family until they found Kamadev. The students accepted his kind offer of hospitality and, while they were there, told him about Jesus and His love for them. As Bhagwant listened, he could tell that the students really cared about him, so he told them about his son, Pradosh, who had been suffering with seizures for three years and was bedridden.

The students told Bhagwant about Christ's power to heal. This really surprised Bhagwant, and he found hope that Jesus would be able to heal his son. The student missionaries and the father bowed in prayer together, asking God to heal little Pradosh. After praying, the young men assured Bhagwant that they would return to visit and see how the family was doing.

The four students left the village without ever finding Kamadev. Instead, they had found a family who was in need of the Lord's healing touch.

When they visited Bhagwant's family a week later, they were amazed to see Pradosh walking around-he was quite weak, but was able to serve them drinks of water. The students invited the family to attend a fasting and prayer meeting in their rented house the next week. Getting to the prayer meeting required an hour and a half of walking, but Pradosh was able to make it to the meeting. While the students gathered that day to pray for Pradosh's complete healing, the little boy was totally restored.

Bhagwant and Pradosh returned to their village and told all their neighbors and relatives about Pradosh's miraculous healing. The following Sunday, Bhagwant opened his house for a Sunday worship service, and around 20 people gathered to learn more about the God who healed his son. Today, worship services are regularly conducted at Bhagwant's house, and these students and other local missionaries are praying for everyone in his village to know and receive the love of God.

Gospel for Asia is a mission organization involved in evangelism and church planting in Asia's unreached regions. Currently Gospel for Asia supports more than 16,000 church planters in 10 countries My Dear Friend, In our busy lives, it is easy to be so preoccupied with our own dreams and pursuits that we lose our eternal perspective. Both the joys of heaven and the crying needs of a lost world can seem unreal and far away. But the harsh reality is that 2.7 billion people of our generation are still unreached with the Gospel. What answers are we prepared to give to the living God when He asks about the blood of these multitudes on our hands? Today, we have the great privilege of helping them come to know Jesus. If we will commit to live for what is eternal, this generation can be reached with the Gospel. I pray that Gospel for Asia will become like a bridge, giving you the opportunity to walk away from your own preoccupations to the harvest fields of Asia—and see the perishing multitudes through the eyes of Jesus. May you allow God to use your life to change the destiny of millions through your prayers and partnership with our native brothers and sisters. A hundred years from now, you will be glad you did! Yours for the lost multitudes of Asia, Dr. K.P. Yohannan