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

I came to know about the real God, only 2 1/2 years ago, through one of my friend. That was the time when we had frequent deaths (both young and old) in our family and we had lost our peace completely. It was so scary and we all were awaiting our turn. Just by God’s grace, I was taken to the church by my friend and his powerful words kept me alive.

And even now I live with the same word from GOD. Isa:60:18: Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.  

For which I extend  crores and crores of  Praises and Thanks to My Lord. God has always kept his promises, still keeping up His promises and will still keep up the promises in the days to come. I’m peaceful here (in US) just with the power of the God’s word believing that my family will be safe. 

These were the promises I got before my US trip: 

“The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bone;”Isaiah 58:11 

 “the Lord crowns the year with HIS goodness”.  Psalm 65:11 

I had lot of debts which almost took my life. That was the time when I got an US opportunity. It was actually for 3 months. But just by God’s grace my stay was extended for nearly 7 1/2 months which helped me in closing a major part of my loan.

I LIFT MY LORD’S NAME ON HIGH for all the grace He has showered on me.

At the work place: 

There were two clients that I worked with in US.

a. A Company at California : I was very much surprised with how God led me through that path.

The people there were very good. Everybody liked me, which surprised me a lot and that is nothing of me but purely God’s grace. I never felt Home sick or left out there. Apart from all the other friends, I had a mother and a sister among them who embraced me a lot.

In work: There were many situations both officially and socially for which I cried out to God asking me to take away from such situations and wanted to just return back home. One other thing that surprised me was on the day that I could no more tolerate the situation and just wanted to get out of there, that I received an email message from my friend about ” How the beautiful pot was made”. It was through a very strenuous and difficult process that the clay turns out to be a beautiful pot.

And that word made me live with the situation.  A thought in me kept saying and I also believed that God wants me to learn to withstand fights and war. All through my past life I was always scared of difficult people and I don’t know how to handle them. I always try to avoid and stay away from them. But this time I was happy that God taught me how to handle them.

I had problems in the initial implementation of our software in the training server which scared me. Through few days of struggles, God finally took me out of those difficulties.  The IT team at the company were very supportive. They extended their support by all means and provided me with solutions that put my work at ease.

Then came the Live server installation. I was really amazed with how God led me through these times.

b. A Company at Colorado :  It’s a new kind of work for me. It was a data migration.  I don’t have any previous experiences in it and I have to handle it individually with the client. It’s  a lot of struggle and for many times now  I would have pleaded God to just do some miracle so that I don’t have to face the bad situation. I went to office every day with lot of fear thinking about what would happen that day.

And I’m very much thankful to God that each of such day is passing by and Lord is still walking me through it. I know it’s nothing of me and I’m just hanging on with God’s mighty strength.

One of the great gifts that I believe being received from GOD is when: I was introduced to a person here in US who works in our US Organization but at a different State of US. There are not many that we would find in this earth, who would truly help people  who are in need. And he was one among the few who would always help someone in need and expects nothing in return.

Throughout my stay in US, I was in the proximity among people who always try to help those who are not in need. 

There were many situations where I was in need of something, but was not helped with even though there were sufficient resources. But God never put me down in those situations. He always provided me with better alternatives for which I extend my praises to God. There were never such situations where I had to satisfy my needs depending on somebody who did not want to help.

I’m happy that I was introduced to this person who helped and guided me for all that I was in need of. I consider him to be the GOD given SPECIAL gift to me and as one among my closest. He was always there when I was in need of something and in my difficult times extending a loving kindness and consoling scene to me.

I thank and praise GOD!! 

HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD !! AMAZING!!.

This testimony is from a software professional working in Chennai, India and currently deputed to US. She is a great testimony to the toughest situations at work and how they were overcome by God’s grace and His guidance.

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 12^th 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 4^th 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.

Ephesians 3:20

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.

1 Samuel 2:8

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.

My name is V.Chacko Jacob and I would like to tell you the story of how the Lord Jesus helped my climb to a top position in my company.

My background is one of “training”. I was in Nigeria as a “Crestcom” Trainer for 1 & 1/2 years. I joined “Elgi Software” as a Training Manager in September,2003.At that time I also joined the professionals Care Cell in NLAG Church and subsequently NLAG Church. I was blessed to attend a leadership program called IMPACT arranged by the professionals Care Cell in December 2003. After IMPACT the whole leadership of the professionals Care Cell migrated to different parts of India and I found myself leading the Care Cell. 

At that time due to a management shake up “Elgi Software” decided to close the marketing operations and in a single stroke “I was jobless”. Here I was just married in February 2003 and suddenly jobless. Though jobless, I continued to do God’s work by leading the professionals Care Cell. We prayed for my job in every cell meeting and I applied in many places too but not a single door opened to me. We continued praying and suddenly things came together.”Praise God”.

The new management wanted to get back to the company someone from the old marketing operation and out of 17 people they got only me back into the new company called “Macrocomm”.”Praise God”.Now I had a job and was feeling confident to do many things and we as a care cell decided to do a program similar to IMPACT to impact professionals in the work place for Jesus. And in November,2005 after almost one year of struggle and prayer God blessed the professionals care cell with good planners and we put together the program called “Call To Excel”. The program was a huge success and our professional care Cell exploded in membership. We used to meet on Wednesdays at 7:30 pm at NLAG Church but now we run 3 different fellowships. One at MEPZ and 2 at NLAG Church. After this program God has helped me to become an In-demand teacher of his word and I also take up many leadership responsibilities in my church NLAG Church,Saidapet.

As God’s work went forward – I went forward at my work place. Previously I had 5 people above me between me and the top management. Today I report directly to the top management of my company. God blessed me to head the CRM department and I currently head the training department. 

Being a failure in 12th Standard, I had to really fight hard to finish my BBA and MBA and come up to my current level in life. Well the truth is I have never had to fight because a great GOD always fights for me. Today my company also backs me as I go into different corporate fellowships in the afternoon to teach the word of God. They would not back me if I was not efficient at my work.I have learned to do his work when ever possible and God has helped me do impossible things in my work place and life. My testimony simply is “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all the rest will be added unto you”.I serve the living God & He continues daily to add all things unto me. “Praise God” 

My father was a Government Training Officer and my mother a Housewife i.e., Homemaker. I have 3 sisters and 2 brothers – I’m the last child in the family.

My father was very staunch in religious rituals. However, he was affected by Stroke and had to resign his job. Thereafter, things turned upside down in my family. We incurred huge debts and we were unable to make ends meet – which affected our day-to-day living.

So, my family started running a Tea Stall and I managed to help my family while doing my schooling. During this period of time, I heard about the Lord Jesus and started believing in Him. I also started going to church regularly – to worship Him and to know Him more.

By God’s grace, I completed my +2 (higher secondary school education) and got 69% marks. After this, to apply for Engineering Entrance examination; Since I did not have Rs.400/-, I did not inform my parents about my interest of writing Entrance Examination.

Later, I met my cricket team friend on the playground and he told me about the Polytechnic course. So, I went to the Polytechnic College and enquired about the course. They asked me Rs.21,000/-.  So, I told them that I would come immediately with my parents. On my way home, I decided to join a Tea Stall as a Tea Maker so that I could earn Rs.150/- as pay for a 12-hour job in overnight market at Tirunelveli.

During this period of time,  one Friday I prayed to the Lord saying, “If it is Your will, please give me a seat in the Polytechnic College and let me join directly in the second year.” No one knew this prayer I made – except me and my Lord.

The next day, during the Youth Fellowship Meeting in our church, prayer requests were being collected. So, I narrated my prayer request. My church Pastor who heard my prayer request from the kitchen said, “We could go on Monday to the Polytechnic College.”  He also said that his brother was working in the same place where the college is situated.

By His grace,  the Lord gave me a direct Second Year seat for Diploma in Computer Technology in that Polytechnic College. I had to pay about Rs.13,000/- as  fee, but someone came and paid the first semester fees for me. In the meantime, my father got education loan for the rest of my studies.

On first day of my college, the Lecturer came and said,  “Note down the First experiment for Lab. Characteristics of Silicon Diode.” Using my limited English knowledge I attempted to spell and write…”Ch…” that’s all! I could not write further as I did not know the spelling.

Troubled, I came home and prayed to God for His mercy and wisdom.

My studies continued and the final year exam results came. Even I couldn’t believe the marks I got – as told by my friend, over the phone. So, I went to the college to check whether results had come correct or not. By His grace, God gave me FIRST PLACE in the entire college. God also helped me to get DISTRICT FIRST PLACE with 100% marks in a tough paper. All over Tamilnadu – among a total of 1.5 lakhs students – I was ranked as the 28^th with an overall 97% (having lost 17 marks).

The Lord helped me to get a B.E. seat as well. During this time, financial situation in my family was very bad. Sometimes I did not have even Rs.8/- to go and come back from college. So, I used to wait in the bus stand to see the bus in which my friend comes and will request him to get a ticket for me.

Though I studied under Anna University syllabus, during the entire period of my engineering studies; I never purchased even a single book. Only Xerox copies or notes taken during class hours, group studies and notes from Lecturers were the books for me. The Lord was so good to me and blessed me to get two gold medals in my Engineering College.

In the meantime, my father was admitted in the Government Hospital . The Doctor called me and said, “Your father will live only up to 48 hours. So, prepare the last rites for him.” My mother and I decided to immediately discharge him and took my father to Church and prayed for God’s mercy. God heard our prayers and saved my father. He is now accepted the Lord Jesus as his saviour and is still living in this world for His glory.

Subsequently, I started my career with a salary of Rs.1,500/-. God lifted me up step-by-step and now I am working in a US based MNC IT Company for the past 4 years. I, along with my wife and daughter, am living in the USA. This is purely the mercy of the Lord. After my VISA processing, I have been promoted to the next-level, which is again a Miracle from God to me who ensures that “All things are possible with God”.

I cannot not stop crying simply – when I remember my past. The Lord is good and His mercy endures forever and ever. He takes care of everything for us.

Now, I believe the Bible verse in my Internet Messenger note, “The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good. Psalms 34:10” is TRUE to the best of my knowledge.

I humbly give ALL the Glory to The Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ….

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This is a personal testimony of an IT professional who is hailing from Tirunelveli, India and currently works for a US based Tier 1 IT company.