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Corroborating Testimony of Puzzling Signs in Northeast India Reports continue to come in regarding the amazing things the Lord is doing in the area around Shillong, Meghalaya. I remember as a child, that my mother would read to me stories of miraculous manifestations of the Holy Spirit in other parts of the world. As a little boy, my imagination was particularly captivated by the accounts of children in these various places experiencing phenomena that I was in awe of. She read to me about an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on children in Korea, Roland Baker’s account of amazing things God did among some orphan boys in China, and another about God’s work among Pandita Ramabai’s child-widows in India. I heard about children seeing visions of angels, heaven, hell, Jesus, and so on. I heard of them hearing heavenly music or the audible voice of the Lord. I heard of them being overcome with grief at the lost world around them or with awe at the love of Jesus for them. I sat in wonder and envied these children. I determined to ask God to allow me to experience similar things. Although God did draw me to Himself, in my childhood, and I did have wonderful, intimate times of experiencing the presence of the Lord, I never saw visions or heard voices. Later, as an adult, I became much more cautious about the stories I believed, to the point of becoming cynical. More recently I have found myself longing for the simplicity of child-like faith in Jesus. Reading the accounts from the current revival in Northeast India has made me hungry to see similar things in my own life and in my community. But I particularly desire to have my children taste some of these things. I want them to be ruined (as I was) from ever being satisfied with dull, theoretical Christianity. I want them to get a good dose of longing for intimate experience with the Lord Jesus. One of my motivations in publicizing the accounts I’ve been receiving is the hope that some families are reading them to their children. My aspiration is to provide some of today’s children with accounts that will grip their hearts like those my mother read to me gripped mine. I’m certainly encouraged to have adults be encouraged by the reports, but I especially want to see young people and children imagining God doing similar things in their experience. Thankfully, I’m hearing reports of just that. Children in the West are hearing these stories and asking their parents if God would do such things here. I think Jesus is thrilled with such longing. I don't know what to think of all the details I'm hearing from Reuben Pradhan's reports. Frankly, I've always been skeptical (perhaps just plain rejecting) of reports of gold dust, glowing crosses, figures on crosses, and bleeding palms. Some of these things sound way too Catholic for my Protestant mind. Yet I trust Reuben's honesty and his maturity in the Lord. What do I do? Can God do things I disagree with? Barkos Warjri, who lives in Bangalore (in southern India) and has relatives living in Meghalaya, sent me another testimony of what he and his family have witnessed during the ongoing recent outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Shillong, Meghalaya.
5 Oct. 2006 Dear Jonathan, The gold dust (I am not sure we can call it "gold" but it is definitely something shiny) first occurred in Malki Presbyterian Church on the night of 6th September at about 10.30 pm. My sister, B------- (48), was on the platform at that time as she had taken some friends who wanted to see the miraculous shining cross in that church (the cross started shining two nights before, on the night of 4th/5th from about 0045 hours on 5th September). Children were singing on platform at the time. They suddenly shouted, "Angels! Angels!" and began pointing toward the ceiling. She immediately looked up, saw nothing, and with deep concern started praying quietly, "Oh Lord, don’t let them go overboard. Please don’t let them get into any form of hysteria. Please save these children from going too far." She looked up again and saw the children reaching up towards the ceiling and saying, "Pdiang, pdiang ki kti!" (In the Khasi language this means "take out your hands and receive"), and "Ki khlur, ki khlur!" (meaning, "stars stars"). None of the adults saw anything but children seemed to be thrilled by what they were seeing (or thought they were seeing). My cousin describes the look of sheer joy on their faces as they reached out to the heavens. My 15-year-old niece, who was on the church lawn at that time, also heard the shouts and she also reached out, though she saw nothing. Two other nieces, my cousin’s daughters, H---- (12) and B---- (9) were also there–the first on the veranda of the church and the younger inside. They saw nothing but reached out any way. The next morning my niece showed my sister some bright dust on her palms. My cousin A------- (39), also observed the same thing on H----’s and B----’s palms. The dust would not wash off even after scrubbing with soap. When I spoke to my sisters and nieces on the morning of the 9th September, my cousin called to H----, as she was holding the phone, and called, "Come here H----. Let me see your hands." As she inspected H----’s hands she said, "Yes. They are still here. A lot of them!" H---- was the one with the most. My cousin had even tried to pick them out from H----’s hands with her nails but they simply would not come off. The bits of dust were silver in color, and fine like flour. People would notice them when they reflected the light. They were clearly not sweat or moisture, as a good wash did not affect them. B------- noticed them very clearly in bunches on M----’s neck and hands when M---- came home on the 8th September 2006. M---- works with my sister in her school, and she is about 35 years old. On the evening of Saturday, the 9th September 2006, she saw the dust in big concentrations on two workmen’s hands, even the back of their hands. These workmen had just come from the church, as they were working there. Note, these two men had not gone to the church building to worship but to carry out some repair works. On Friday, 29th September 2006, Bethesda found that her hymnbook was bright with the dust, it is still shining today, 5th October. Similar dust fell on my brother-in-law and those with him as they were singing at home and praying on 8th September. They heard our neighbor saying, "Come quickly! Look! Something is falling down." When he came out he saw some fine dust floating down at one spot only. The particles floated down looking much lighter than snowflakes. He had the dust on his hands and clothes. I see in the picture sent by Reuben that the dust particles also seem to be large, perhaps in clumps. How do we explain this? How do you explain the manna? How do you explain a few ‘crazy’ people speaking in several foreign languages (Acts 2)? I do not know what to say. It seems we just have to watch and see. Barkos Warjri
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