H1B Visa – Enemy whispered 'Rejected'- Jesus said 'Approved'
I would like to share my testimony on how God helped me to get my H1B VISA stamped. Yes, it is only because of the mighty presence of the Lord Jesus Christ that my VISA got approved.
By the time I got my appointment – about two weeks back – before the interview date;a voice began to whisper to me the word ‘Rejected’, very often. I had unconsciously got into a mindset that, surely I was going to fail. So, I just knelt down at the feet of the Lord – in prayer; to remove the thought of failure from me. During my prayer time, God gave me His promise from His word saying…
“Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.” (Isaiah 41:10)
This word from God strengthened me through out the whole week, even until the day of my interview. However, on the day of my interview, once again the voicebegan to whisper saying, “Rejected! You are not going to get through”. My appointment time was 3:30 p.m., but by the time I stepped into the main entrance, it was almost 5 p.m. Earlier, as I was standing in the queue outside the American embassy for almost 2 hours; I saw many dejected and disappointed faces coming out! I could hardly see a smiling face. On seeing this, the thought of failure once again took control over my mind. I stood there hopeless. During this time, I just began to claim the promise that GOD had given me. I yelled at the voicethat kept on whispering ‘failure’, the name of JESUS. I kept on saying this till I entered the embassy door, ‘In the name of Jesus I have the victory’. The thought of failure slowly disappeared; as I sat inside the embassy andawaited my turn to proceed for the interview.
It was now almost 6 p.m., when I was taken into a separate counter for the interview. Normally, only 800 people will be given appointments per day by the consulate; but the day I went,about 1700 people were called for the interview. It seemed that the officers were mentally stressed out and were in a frustrated mood, wanting to rush up things, as soon as possible. There werestill almost about 100 more people – including myself – waiting there for our turn. Maybe, we were the last batch of people who were invited for the interview. Tension started to take upper hand as I was moved toward the Interview Counter – before me stood 4 people.
The interviewing Officer seemed to be in a frustrated mood, he approved only 1 visa out of 4; and even the approved visa was only a dependent visa. All the visas he had rejected were working (H1B) visas. In the meantime, as I was standing in the queue; I continued to see many visas getting rejected in the adjacent counter as well. Once again the enemy tried to pour out the thought of failure in my mind; but with the heavenly Armour, in the name of the LORD JESUS CHRIST I rebuked him. Finally, the officer summoned me to the counter; as I began to walk towards the counter, I closed my eyes a second and just prayed – ‘Lord, You speak through me’ – and pleasantly greeted the officer. He asked me a couple of simple questions and the Lord provided me enough wisdom and strength to answer him. He also verified few of my documents and finally said the words, “Your VISA is approved, Sir!” Yes, it was made possible only with the help of our Lord Jesus Christ. Finally, as I bid him goodbye; I said “May God bless you” and he smiled at me.
Yes, my friends, though the enemy tries to show you the sign of failure; let us always remember that GOD has made us mighty warriors. He has given us the weapon to attack him back – which is the Word of God. It is the situation that sometimes makes us to stumble; in that situation if you are not comfortable in using your weapon just call upon the name of “JESUS” – the name above all names! It is such a powerful name that the evil one (satan/lucifer) cannot stand against us. Yes, I got rid of the thought of failure only when I claimed victory in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
May God bless you!!
This testimony is from a Software Engineer, working in a Chennai based MNC.
Job from His hand….
I want to share my testimony with you people, just to tell you how great and awesome is our God.
I was working on a contract basis for a company and my contract got over on Jan 30/07. And from that time on I firmly believed that God would give me another Job.
I attended an Interview and went through all the rounds they said we’ll tell the results but there was none. And months passed by, I spent most of the time with tears and prayer. I claimed my promises given by the most High.
Every day before I start any work on my computer I would open up the CCF website to check out the verse and the thoughts for the day. Many times the verse were encouraging for me to hold on to Jesus Christ.
Days passed by and one fine day I got a call from a MNC stating that there is an opening. I cleared the first round miraculously through prayer. And the following week they had the other round, that was a very critical time for me and I waited on God, for His answer and there were many people who supported me through prayers. And by the end of the day I came home with the offer letter in my hand.
I thank God for all his love and care when I went through the troubled times. There will never be a single person like Jesus who can console you and comfort. Just hold on to him with faith, prayer and supplication.
And I want to lift Jesus High In my life. Praise God….for his mighty deeds!!
Medical Miracle – Count…
On 14th December 2007 afternoon, I was riding my motor bike to attend a Prayer Meeting. Actually I was riding on the over bridge and at end of the bridge a drunken brother crashed with my bike. I was down on the road, lying on the road struggling to get up but could not because my right leg got struck under my bike. Vehicles plying on the road were just trying to avoid me, when one person came to help me.
They took off the bike and put it aside. And immediately I had some kind of pain and I had noticed that a patch on my right leg was roasted and stuck to the bike’s silencer. I saw my leg loose around 5 inches X 3 inches of flesh. I had literally seen my bone and the vines become black in color with cuts .FIRST, GOD SAVED MY LIFE.
And the SECOND, GOD NEVER ALLOWS ANY FRACTURES. And the THIRD, ANY OTHER INJURIES. And I was given treatment and the Doctor (the Nerve Surgeon and the Plastic Surgeon) said the vines and flesh were totally gone and the surrounding area will take at least 6 weeks to get cured and after that I have to go for the vine surgery and it well take 4 weeks to get cured and after that I have to go for the plastic surgery and it will take another 4 weeks to get cured.
The Medical expenses will be around $2000. And finally they said that I may not be able to walk properly I have to limp throughout my life. I did not get despaired. I looked up at HIM and said, LET IT BE ACCORDING TO YOUR WILL, and GIVE YOUR GRACE TO DO YOUR MISSION WITHOUT DROPPING IT IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. That was my prayer. I think that was the MATURED PRAYER that I made at that time.
But at the end of 3rd week I could find the dead flesh growing gradually. And the 2 doctors inspected it and also found out that the vanished vines also reset in the same places and get amazed and said it is a MEDICAL MIRACLE.
The FOURTH MIRACLE, IS THE GROWN FLESH.
The FIFTH MIRACLE IS THE DEAD AND TOTALLY VANISHED VINES GROWN.
The SIXTH MIRACLE IS 75% OF THE AFFECTED AREA SKIN GRADUALLY BECOMING THE ORIGINAL COLOR.
And the SEVENTH MIRACLE IS – I CAN WALK , AND JUMP AND RUN WITHOUT ANY DEFECT.
And the EIGHTH MIRACLE IS all these happened within 6 weeks.
And I can say the NINTH MIRACLE – MY MEDICAL BILL was only $140!!! Praise God.
God meets all needs….
Friends,
Greetings to you in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Just wanted to pen down a testimony on God’s goodness.
You are aware of the program that I am being involved in at Pondicherry called “Dr.God – God’s Health Plan For You”
When we planned the budget for the program – The first thing I said to Pastor is that “God will provide for this program & You will not ask anyone in the Church for money to execute this program”. He asked me in return – “You know nobody in Pondicherry; You just got here recently. How will you raise the money for the Dr.God program?”
I told him that the success and testimony of this program will incite / motivate every single person who attends this Church to plan and execute programs for Jesus courageously.
I praise God for he is faithful to reward my faith. Just 3 brothers from CCF & CFG met the entire financial needs of the Dr.God program. In fact we are 20% surplus to the budgeted amount already. “Praise God”
I am sure that by the time the event finishes on March 15th – I will write another testimony on how the Lord answered our prayers and grew the Church we are targeting to grow by substantial numbers.
When I speak on March 23rd,08 “Easter” service, I will testify that I may not know many people in Pondicherry but the Lord Jesus whom I worship – “He knows me, Knows what I need & Why I need it and He always provides for me in abundance”
I will never tire doing programs for the Lord Jesus & I will never tire of testifying how God meets the needs of every single program I do for him.
“Praise God”
Chacko Jacob
From Hopelessness to Gold Medal…
I am Santhosh, working with CTS. I am sharing my testimony to glorify our God’s name. Only because of our God’s grace, I got a university rank for my MSc.(Software Engg) overall aggregate percentage and received a gold medal at the convocation. Glory be to God. I didn’t study properly in my 12th and I scored only 73% with an engineering cutoff 198, which was not sufficient to get a seat in a good engineering college. By that time I haven’t yet accepted Jesus. The Grace of God was with me and I got a seat for MSc.(Software Engg) at a reputed engineering college. In my 4th year, I got saved by Lord at a small fellowship inside our college hostel. Praise God!. At my studies, couple of times I got arrears and both the time I applied for revaluation and got cleared. Praise the Lord!. Even if have missed to clear 1 paper by revaluation on that time, I wouldn’t have received that gold medal.
I never thought that I will get a gold medal.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,)
In our university, only 9 people cleared MSc with distinction and all of them got university ranks. Lord made me one among those and made receive a gold medal. Glory be to God.
I remember the way I entered my college. I entered without hope and a shame of not getting a engineering seat. But our Lord called me there and saved me and lifted me up to leave the college with distinction, university rank, gold medal and a great job now. All Glory be to our Lord. It’s not because of my work, only because of our God’s grace. HE raises us to heights which we can’t even imagine in our life. Amen. Praise God.
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth [are] the LORD’S, and he hath set the world upon them
Above all, our Lord is using me to do His ministries. After accepting Christ, I got a thirst in my mind that I should spread the gospel. I am sure that our Lord had kept it. It grew by God’s words. But I didn’t know how to do. But God made it true, by His wonderful guidance. Praise God. Glory be to God.