I have lifted my hand to the LORD

  23.06.2021

Gen 14:21-23  And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself.”  But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,   that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’  I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me. Let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share.

One soldier of AOJ called me and told me that the Lord gave her  the above message.  

The Lord revealed the same message to me a few times earlier through similar  verses. This was a confirmation for me  to share it with the  soldiers of AOJ.

Abraham won a great victory in the war which he fought in order to  deliver Lot and  the people with him who were taken as captives.

Gen 14:16  Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people. 

After that the King of Sodom wanted to share the plunder. But Abraham refused and  lifted his hands to the Lord Most High, Possessor of Heaven and earth.

What does it mean?

Abraham did not want anything either  people or  goods,  from anybody except  given  by the Lord  Almighty.

So he lifted his hands towards heaven, the possessor of Heaven and Earth.  

When we are in the ministry of  the Lord, the Lord  will give you  two things.  

  1. Human souls. 
  2. Goods. ( privileges, recognition, name etc.)

Sometimes, this become the greatest trap  for them  The fleshly mind (Untransformed mind) make them believe that both the souls and the goods belong to them.  They change it as their possession and claim ownership on them. They belong to God the Possessor of Heaven  and earth. We should not touch them. 

Institutional Churches were deceived and went astray in this.  Each put a circle of  “their souls and properties” refusing to release them for evangelization wherever needed. They show even many quotations from Bible for this.

Est 2:8  So when the king’s order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many young women were gathered in Susa the citadel in custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken into the king’s palace and put in custody of Hegai, who had charge of the women. 

Hegai was given charge of the women. All the women who were brought to the palace were in the custody of Hegai. How faithful he would have been in dealing with these women who were meant for  the king!

When the Lord gives us new souls through  Troop Churches or Gift Schools,  let us never be polluted with such  thoughts,  

“Let me keep them for myself, my Gift School, my Zone, my Region. If I leave them, I may not get new ones” 

Each soul belong to God, the Lord of hosts! They should be taken to the proper place and posted in the proper position. Everywhere the Lord’s Kingdom should grow. Even over the souls we would have gained, let’s never claim ownership! Let’s keep our hands free!. 

The souls whom we win, should not develop any sentimental attachment towards you. You should be like Hegai the eunuch. Hegai was a “made eunuch”.

We are not eunuchs! We will have our own  sentiments, affections, attachments, need of  money, emotional hunger for recognition, etc.etc.

But the training the Lords gives you every day, to your fingers and hands,  should make you  “Spiritual eunuchs” so that we  will never  try to steal what belongs to the King of kings and the Lord of lords.

Here are a few checks to know your position.

  1. Are we ready to release the soldiers whom I  have trained or moulded in my Troop or Gift School or Morning Worship  etc? 
  2. Do you have the confidence of going to any area, any Constituency in the name of Jesus Christ, where no work of AOJ has started? 
  3. Am I willing to give up or hand over  all the plunder, (human souls  and goods) which I have acquired and willing to go to unexplored areas  in search of new souls?

Dear soldiers,

Deu 33:25  Your bars shall be iron and bronze, and as your days, so shall your strength be. 

As you become more skilled and trained at the feet of the Lord everyday, you will learn to lift your hands towards heaven, give up everything to others and depend more and more on the Possessor of Heaven and Earth. 

Let us be ready to go anywhere we  are sent without any reservation.

Take up any responsibility trusting upon the Lord.

Go for greater plunder of souls, with a willing heart to share everything with others! 

Otherwise we will be trapped! We will be  limiting  God in  our small circle!

May God increase your territories! Make you spread abroad to the right and to the left! May your offspring  possess the nations and fill up  the desolate cities.

Announcement – 30.06.2021

  1. New Core team members: Today 30.06.2021 5th Wednesday of the month. The new  core team members National and State level,  take charge for the next 6 months from July-December. We gratefully remember the selfless efforts of the team members Jan-June. Since it was the first time core team members were introduced, everything was in the making. Thank you Core team members of the State and especially Sol Arvind and Jevika who served as National Speaker and Secretary.  Congratulations New team members.
  2.  Daniel Academy : Daniel Academy started on 7th  of  April & is ending on 5.07.2021. Let’s thank God for the Daniels the Lord has raised. Let’s start using  these Daniels                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              in each State in the Gift Schools and other Operations of AOJ  from now on!
  3. IT Wing of AOJ : The IT Wing of AOJ was inaugurated on 25.05.2021. 5 Soldiers are appointed in the Wing. Their responsibility is to safeguard all the data and documents of AOJ. The Secretaries of the States will help them in it. The Secretaries of the States  will collect all the data and documents and hand over to them. 
  4. South Region – Sol. Benovin
  5. North Region Sol. Leo 
  6. Central Region Sol. Jenifer
  7. North East Region – Sol. Pinta
  8. West Region Sol. Arun 
  9. East Region Sol. Eunice Pinta

website.  

  • Shadow Parli  & SLA Meet   : Topic for Shadow Parli report for July

“Evangelism through business” 

  • Children Vocal School: AOJ Soldiers are requested to enroll their children to our   Children’s Vocal school which is a part of the  Sapphire university of worship. Contact No. 9443699565
  • Handing over of Responsibilities of Core Team  in each State: From, 2021, for facilitating the growth of Troop Churches, and Gift Schools, Shadow Parli, SLA etc. a State core team is formed with three members. Their tenure is 6 months.  
  • Speaker  – in charge of Shadow Parli, SLA, SMPs, SMLAs etc
  • Deputy Speaker – Acting in the absence of Speaker 
  •  Coordinator – In charge of Gift Schools and AOJO (Other Operations of AOJ)
  • Secretary – In charge of organizing, conducting meetings, registers, reports and documents . 

6. Thank you: Thank you Core Team members for working  hard  and with the unity of the Holy Spirit for bringing Jesus Christ’s Government in your  State in the past 6 months. Because of your prayers, & constant endeavors you could accomplish  many things. Let’s thank God for the achievements, ask pardon for the failures, and commit ourselves all the more to see the total transformation of our nation.  In some  States the core team prayed  for 15 minutes in agreement daily and  saw  tremendous growth . Encourage the new team also to do the same. The Core team in prayer will decide who will be changed and who could be retained. . 

7. New Troop Churches in the Country adopted:  Dear Core team members, Let’s aim at starting more and more Troop Churches in the country you have adopted and making disciples. .

9. Disperse Troop Churches:   Let’s come out of our “Comfortable places” , disperse the Troop Churches,  send the Troop Church soldiers out to make new   disciples.  Let’s reach out  to the perishing souls. Let’s have frequent fellowship meetings. Like Shepherds, let’s take care of the souls we are entrusted with through Morning prayers, Gift Schools, Daniel Academy etc. Let’s fill India with Troop Churches & go outside India to make disciples.  From there it will multiply. Let’s motivate our Troop Church soldiers for  capturing the World now.

  1.  Family Building School in Figi Islands: Family Building School was conducted n Figi Islands Let’s pray for it. 
  2. FRP for Pastors: The FRP Training was conducted for Pastors in Kohlapur Maharashtra from 14-23 June, 2021. 13-20 attended in it. 
  3. BFF in Qatar: BFF Training started in Qatar on 21.6.2021. Kindly pray.
  4. Anything more (Regional Coordinators & Speakers )

From July 2021 onwards, Wheel Wing Meetings on Wednesdays, will be conducted as usual  i.e.

First Wednesday – General

2nd Wednesday – North Region, Central & East Region

3rd Wednesday – West & North East

4th Wednesday – South Region.

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Regionwise also.  Sr. Angelica’s Schedule for attending Wheel Wing Meeting is given below. 

July North Region

August  West Region

September – South Region

October – East Region

November- Central Region

December – North East Region 

Wheel Wing Meetings September   – South  Region 

Week  of the month Names of RegionsWho all to participateStatesOrganizers
Week 1  WednesdaySeptember 1, 2021  All the StatesCoordinator  Speakers & Secretary of the StatesAll the States 
Weeks 2 WednesdaySeptember 8, 2021 South RegionTamil NaduSpeaker, Deputy Speaker, Coordinator & Secretary of the StateTamil Nadu 
Week 3 WednesdaySeptember 15, 2021   South RegionKerala Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Coordinator & Secretary of the StateKerala 
Week 4 WednesdaySeptember 22,   2021 South RegionKarnataka  Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Coordinator & Secretary of the StateKarnataka 
Week 5 WednesdaySeptember 29,   2021 South RegionTelengana & Andhra PradeshSpeaker, Deputy Speaker, Coordinator & Secretary of the StatesTelengana & Andhra Pradesh 

Duties of Individual Soldiers

Handing over – 09.06.2021

Let’s thank God for recruiting us into His Army.

Today the Lord wants to remind us about the duty of  a soldier.

Duties of Individual Soldiers

1. Daily prayer for 2.30 hours( Time for securing protection as well as for receiving commands from the Lord)

2. Attending or Conducting weekly Troop Church 

3. Proclaim the Gospel daily to at least two persons directly or through mail, phone. (Introducing Jesus to two new persons or motivating 2 believers/Christians with the manna verse for the day.)

4. Start a new troop in 2 months.

5. Trans India  programme

1. Daily Prayer for 2.30 hours 

The first duty of  an AOJ soldier is giving the Lord the tithe of their time. The Lord  grant  us every day 24   hours of time.  Tithe of  24 hours is 21/2 hours. Each soldier,  according to their  availability of time,  can include or exclude family prayer, Morning worship in it. Those who can exclude the above from their personal prayer of 24 hours will establish a close walk with God to the extent that they will  hear the voice of God regularly,  will be able to discern God’s will in small or great matters. They will be able to guide others also in the Lord. 

2. Attending or Conducting weekly Troop Church 

It is mandatory that all soldiers should attend Troop Church once a week. After attending Troop Church for 2 months, a soldier will be equipped to start a new Troop Church normally. If they are not, it is abnormal and the reason should be sorted out in a very delicate way by the Troop Leader. 

The following can be the reasons.

Bondage with the traditional Churches

Lack of freedom 

Inability to take decision

Yet to get deliverance  or healing from past hurts etc. 

The Leader of the Troop should take it as a sensitive issue because this soul is still under bondage. The vessel is not empty or cleansed and hence Jn 4:14 spring of water could not flow out of them. For one more month the leader has to work with this soul. This should be exceptional case. Normally  the Soldiers should start searching for  their new  troop members from  4th week onwards.

3. Proclaim the Gospel daily to at least two persons directly or through mail, phone. (Introducing Jesus to two new persons or motivating 2 believers/Christians with the manna verse for the day.)

On 6th June,  the Lord spoke to me on this and made me examine whether I go by this.  I felt a kind of urge of proclaiming it in the air so that it will reach all the soldiers. Same day during our prayer at night, through Sr. Leema Rose the Lord spoke the same thing also. She insisted on conveying this to the AOJ soldiers. Next day 7th, I shared this in my morning message this. 

Dear Soldiers this is based on the Great Commission 

“Mat 28:19-20  Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. 

This command of the Great Commission is the first and foremost duty of an AOJ soldier. Every soldier should share Gospel with 2 persons a day. It can be their own family members, friends, relatives, close associates, believers, unbelievers anybody.  2 is minimum. It should be more as they grow in the Lord. It is not simply ‘copy paste’ a verse of the Bible and sending it.

An AOJ soldier should target at 2 souls.  You can take “The  Rhema word” for them from the Bible and give to them. 

Soldiers should always have  “2 target persons” like this. They should  pray for them every day. They are the “target persons”  for their new troop. Praying for them every day will open a door to come in contact with them (if they are not yet). They will become  members for your troop Church . Once they start attending your Troop Church,  you can take another 2 members. 

Through this you are satiating the thirst of Jesus on the cross and fulfilling the demands of Great Commission. Those who do not do this on a daily basis are not worthy to be called a soldier of AOJ. Let us go on insisting this in all your meetings of AOJ.

How to find the” target souls”?

 Start from your enemies list. Go on forgiving and releasing blessings on  them and on their families. Pray  for them, thank God for all the pain, troubles you experienced through them,  the humiliations, insults, discriminations you suffered through them.  These are the signs that  the Lord has given them as your  “targetted  souls” .  You will get wonderful doors opened through them.  

4. Start a new troop in 2 months.

If  a soldier is regular in the 3rd  duty,  the 4th will automatically follow. Many will be standing in queue  to join your  new Troop Church. The Lord will send the right persons to your  Troop. All believers or all Christians are not meant for AOJ.  Recruitment to the Army will be done by  Jesus Christ, the Commander of the Army.  We should be careful not to attract or admit any soldier not recruited and selected by our . If the right soldiers are admitted into the troop, they will bear fruit and bring glory to Father. 

5. Trans India  programme

In 2017, the Lord introduced TIP into AOJ. It is rendering free service of 2 hours  in a week to anyone who is in need. AOJ introduced Natural Farming, Teaching handworks to AOJ soldiers in this regard..

1Ti_6:18  They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

Tit_2:7  Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, ………….

Tit_2:14  who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

What is Troop Church & How it works

There is an earnest search among the believers across the world after Covid 19 and its after effects., for the  real Church where a person can commune with God directly as well as with his fellow brethren. 

After trials and experiments, it was revealed to the Church in India as the   “Troop Church”. 

The Lord handed over to the Army of Jesus the Model of real Church. AOJ was experimenting with the “Troop Meeting ” for  20 years. Started in the year 1998 under the name “Troop Meeting”, until 2014, it had  18,783  independent first line Troop Meetings in the records.   The number  of second , third line number of Troop Meetings  not known. All trained but sent out. The experiment  with Troop Meetings  has been very successful. 

In 2014  the Lord asked AOJ to name the “Troop Meeting” into  “Troop Church”. 

The characteristics of a  Troop Church

1.  It has raised many leaders, pastors, prophets, counselors and all other fivefold  ministry workers for Gospel works

2.   It has no visible leader or strict visible structure 

3. It has no office, no full timer, no paid worker etc. 

4. No organizational (hierarchical) set up. 

6. No money collection or transaction. 

7. No election, board, Committee etc. 

8. Each Troop is Church independent in nature.

9.  Every Troop Church trains up believers in their spiritual gifts like worshipping, preaching, prophecy etc. 

10. Since the mother troop disperses after 2 months, there is no stagnation of ministry gifts, blessing, anointing etc.  

10. No pollution or corruption with money or power 

11. Each Troop multiplies into 2,3, even 10 fold after 2 months.

11. The two wings of Troop Church are  Decentralization and  Multiplication .

After getting multiplied, once in a while (after 2 or 3 months) the Mother Troop Church members and all its branches soldiers come together for a Fellowship to share their joy in the Lord.