Doomed to be Blessed

Ravi Kiran was born and brought up in a well to do family. In the family along with him he has two more sisters. He studied till class 10th. After his studies his desire was to get a good job in Indian army as other members of the family were in Indian army. His family worshiped snake God. Snake was their deity. From generation to generation  his ancestors were worshiping it. On the other hand his father was a great drunkard. His father failed to set a good example before him. Instead of giving  him lessons to walk in good path, his father offered liquor to him and both father and Ravi  became alcoholic.
His life took a turn in the year 1981. His father fall sick with T.B. He was taken to different hospital and to different doctors but his sickness became incurable. They have spent almost 3 lakh rupees for his treatment. For his further treatment they were not having any single rupees. In such situation they sold their 5 acres of land, they were forced to sell their house and  with that money they did the further medications.
His father’s sickness has almost broken the income of the family they had nothing to eat. Further his father was in comma  for 10 days. In such situation one of the pastor visited them in the Hospital and prayed for the healing of his father. Amazingly God healed him. In the hospital, on his sick bed, he accepted Jesus and his life changed completely.
They rented a thatched house in their neighborhood. If people gave them something to eat they would eat that. In such a tough time their relative forsook them. They had no one who could take care of their lives.
Meanwhile Ravi left his studies and went to Tirupati and worked in a wood art company. His both the sisters also left their studies and both of them began to work as maid servants to earn money for the family. Among all of such troubles, his father had the desire that his son should be serving the Lord.
Ravi never wanted to see his family suffering and their problems were unbearable for him. That is why he ran away to Tirupati. He was still a big drunkard. Because of his drinking habits, his boss was not giving him his salary. In the company, one of his friend who was Christian, shared Gospel to him. Later on, one day he prayed to God and said, “Oh God if you are a real God, please provide me food.” All of a sudden one old man came and knocked at his door. He told him,“You are praying here and God spoke to me to give you 50 rupees for the food.” This incidence changed his life. That time onwards he began to go to the  church.
The first Sunday, pastor was preaching about the prodigal son. After the message he reached pastor and asked, “How did you know my story.” Thus in June 1993, he gave his life to Jesus and repented from all of his sins. He returned home and took water baptism. His pastor encouraged him to go to a bible school and learn the word of God. In the year 1994 he joined bible school. In the bible school he was possessed with evil spirit. In the bible school servants of God prayed for him and he was delivered from it. In the year 1995, he finished his studies and soon after his graduation he got married. After his marriage he with his wife prayed to the Lord that He may show him the place to go and serve him. So God guided him to Jonnallagada village. He started ministry there and began to preach Gospel. At that time for 3 years there was a great famine in the village. There was no rain. He began to pray to the Lord and kept sharing Gospel to villagers. That time onwards the village began to have plentiful rain and drought was over. He stayed in the village until God spoke him to go to the Shobhanapuram village but for one  year he didn’t go, finally he went there.
The place and people  were not friendly with him. They persecuted and tried to shun him with his family from there. But some  how managed to survive. Many a time he was beaten up there. Once when he went for the missionary work with his family, behind him, some anti-Christians came and burned down his house. When he returned there was nothing. For next 6 month he and his family was living under a tree. After six month somebody helped him to build a temporary house. In the year 2007 ps Matthew and team visited him and that was the  turning  point for his Life. Today he is having a good church with 50 believers. He is running a free tuition center and he constructed a church building and now he is happy and blessed in Christ.
Were you also brought up in such family like Ravi? were you ever persecuted? Are you fearful about your future?
Come to Jesus He will give you Hope and a good future. As Ravi is happy and blessed in Christ, you can also be freed from all of your worries and past griefs and abuses. God Bless you!!!
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