When You Pray Earnestly

My life has been completely changed after receiving the truth and being baptized at the age of fifteen. Since my behavior was not like before, everyone around me said, “You are so different nowadays.”

Even though my friends, family, or relatives asked me, “Where are you going?” or “What is going on?” I didn’t give them any answer. It was because I was afraid of being ridiculed if they found out that I attended the Church of God. However, after studying the prophecies of the Bible fulfilled without missing the smallest letter or the least stroke of a pen, I couldn’t just sit back anymore. I started to deliver the precious truth, which I shouldn’t keep only to myself, to my family first.

I already expected that, but preaching to my family was even harder than I thought. Since they had their own doctrines they had been following faithfully such as Hindu, nobody paid attention to the words of truth. They didn’t acknowledge God the Mother in particular. They sometimes expressed their hatred. Among them, the one who hated me the most was my cousin. As a pious attender at a Protestant church, he burst into anger whenever I visited my aunt.

Oppressing my aching heart, I thought of Heavenly Father. Father walked the thorny path of the gospel alone. Though it was hard, I wanted to follow His path. I never wanted to give up. As I left my aunt’s house and was coming back home, I prayed with tears.

‘Father and Mother, please let me never give up. If I give up, my cousin cannot be saved. Please open his heart and show mercy on him. Please…’

Many years passed while praying for my family countless times and preached the gospel repeatedly. The words, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven” (Ecc 3:1), were definitely true. When it was the time that God planned, a wonderful thing happened in front of my eyes. All my family members, including my cousin, were led into the arms of God one after another—over a hundred of them.

Now all my family dwells in Zion, and I come to know a little bit of God’s will that I couldn’t fathom before. If we pray with earnestness that comes from the deep part of our heart, God grants the grace of salvation to the souls that we prayed for as He looks at our heart. Whatever circumstances we face, there will be no problem before God. It is because the heart of God who takes pity on each one of our souls is great that I can’t even dare to copy.

Brothers and sisters in Zion, please believe that the hearts of listeners will be changed no matter what kind of behavior or personality they have because God Elohim is with us. Your faith will lead your beloved people to Zion.