Welcome to Enhakkore Prayer House at Lothkunta
PERSONAL FAITH STATEMENT
Greetings
in the Precious Name of Our Saviour Jesus
Christ. My name is Issac Raju, pastor of Enhakkore Prayer House
Lothkunta, a bible-believing church. We are not here to only preach doctrine, but we are here to preach the good news of CHRIST. I was born and brought up in a normal
hindu family. I knew Christ as also a one of the gods and I would also
worship other Hindu gods, which are idols, and follow their customs. First my
mother believed in Christ; after that, slowly, my whole family has been
changed. I was against the Christianity Christ. Every day family prayer
was conducted, but i would refuse to sit and also grumbled to them not to
do all such things.
Pastor Isaac
But still they
did not stop; they continued praying,
and slowly God has changed my life.
I believed in Christ. When I
started reading the Holy Bible, God spoke to me through
His Scriptures:
Romans:3:23, 6:23; then I slowly came to know that I am a sinner and
was baptised on March 5, 1993. I wanted to study and get a good
job for my livelihood, but my pastor, Babu Rao, encouraged me through
the scriptures to serve the Lord. He sent me to the Bible college named
Bharat Bible College. I finished my B.th (Bachelor in Theology
study). While
I was in the Bible College, I was involved in the
ministry on behalf of Bharat Bible College. During that time God
strengthened me to establish two churches in different villages. I was also involved
in sunday school ministry. Through the Sunday school ministry i came to
Lothkunta. Enhakkore Prayer House was started with 2 children, and
now it has 50 members.
So, God is strengthening me in the ministry for His glory. I am doing this ministry in afiliation with Mission Action Team. In 1997, I married Leela. God blessed us with a son named Enoch, who is now 2 plus.
My mother-in-law's name is Lalitha Bai. She is a widow with 3 children (girls). I married her second daughter. She has given some place on top of her house to construct a Church temporarily. we constructed a prayer hall and nearly 11 families are coming; God is really doing many miracles. Many of those coming are Hindus who have been converted to Christianity, reborn in Christ. My wife's elder sister, K. Rajashree, was mentally affected when she was doing her studies at the age of 16. When they were still Hindus, they made many mantras for her and pilgrimages and wasted a lot of money, but it was no use. She would run away from home, hit herself with stones; she would run near the railway tracks. Her position was really critical. Then one Aunty saw their position and guided them to Christ. God did a miracle in her life and she is quite well, but idle. Please pray for her. The family believed the word of God as God spoke through the scriptures.
I believe in the Holy Scriptures, accepting fully the writings of the Old and New Testaments as the very Word of God, verbally inspired in all parts and sufficient in themselves as our only infallible rule of faith and practice. I believe in the one Triune God, who is personal, spirit, sovereign, self-existent and self-revealing in three distinct persons: The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.
I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son, our Great God and Savior; that without any essential change in His divine Person, He became man by the miracle of the Virgin Birth, thus to continue forever as both God and true man; that He gave Himself in death upon the cross, bearing there the sin of the world; that He rose from the dead; and that as our Great High Priest, He ascended into heaven to be an Advocate and Intercessor for all who believe.
I believe that man was the direct creation of God and that by personal disobedience to the revealed will of God, man became a sinful creature and the progenitor of a fallen race, which is universally sinful in both nature and practice.
I believe that salvation is the free gift of God, neither merited nor secured by work of man but received only by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Those who have received Christ then possess the gift of eternal life, sonship in the family of God, deliverance and security from all condemnation.
I believe in the Second Coming of Christ and that His return will be personal, visible, premillennial, glorious and that the time is always imminent.
I believe that the spirits of the saved at death go immediately to be with Christ, their bodies waiting for the resurrection at the Second Coming of Christ. The spirits of the unsaved are separated from God and experience punishment until the final day of judgment at which time their bodies shall be raised to be judged according to their works and be separated from God forever, experiencing everlasting punishment.
I believe that the Church is the spiritual body of believers in Christ and should walk separate from the ways of this world, assembling themselves together in local churches for worship, fellowship, teaching and observance of the ordinances of Baptism by immersion and the Lord's Supper.
So, God is strengthening me in the ministry for His glory. I am doing this ministry in afiliation with Mission Action Team. In 1997, I married Leela. God blessed us with a son named Enoch, who is now 2 plus.
My mother-in-law's name is Lalitha Bai. She is a widow with 3 children (girls). I married her second daughter. She has given some place on top of her house to construct a Church temporarily. we constructed a prayer hall and nearly 11 families are coming; God is really doing many miracles. Many of those coming are Hindus who have been converted to Christianity, reborn in Christ. My wife's elder sister, K. Rajashree, was mentally affected when she was doing her studies at the age of 16. When they were still Hindus, they made many mantras for her and pilgrimages and wasted a lot of money, but it was no use. She would run away from home, hit herself with stones; she would run near the railway tracks. Her position was really critical. Then one Aunty saw their position and guided them to Christ. God did a miracle in her life and she is quite well, but idle. Please pray for her. The family believed the word of God as God spoke through the scriptures.
I believe in the Holy Scriptures, accepting fully the writings of the Old and New Testaments as the very Word of God, verbally inspired in all parts and sufficient in themselves as our only infallible rule of faith and practice. I believe in the one Triune God, who is personal, spirit, sovereign, self-existent and self-revealing in three distinct persons: The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.
I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son, our Great God and Savior; that without any essential change in His divine Person, He became man by the miracle of the Virgin Birth, thus to continue forever as both God and true man; that He gave Himself in death upon the cross, bearing there the sin of the world; that He rose from the dead; and that as our Great High Priest, He ascended into heaven to be an Advocate and Intercessor for all who believe.
I believe that man was the direct creation of God and that by personal disobedience to the revealed will of God, man became a sinful creature and the progenitor of a fallen race, which is universally sinful in both nature and practice.
I believe that salvation is the free gift of God, neither merited nor secured by work of man but received only by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Those who have received Christ then possess the gift of eternal life, sonship in the family of God, deliverance and security from all condemnation.
I believe in the Second Coming of Christ and that His return will be personal, visible, premillennial, glorious and that the time is always imminent.
I believe that the spirits of the saved at death go immediately to be with Christ, their bodies waiting for the resurrection at the Second Coming of Christ. The spirits of the unsaved are separated from God and experience punishment until the final day of judgment at which time their bodies shall be raised to be judged according to their works and be separated from God forever, experiencing everlasting punishment.
I believe that the Church is the spiritual body of believers in Christ and should walk separate from the ways of this world, assembling themselves together in local churches for worship, fellowship, teaching and observance of the ordinances of Baptism by immersion and the Lord's Supper.