I Mrs. Ruth Usha Paul Rainer from India, Maharashtra state, lives in Aurangabad.
I’m saved by the grace of Jesus Christ my Lord and my God. I came from a Hindu background.At the age of 5 years, my grandmother taught me to worship snake as a god. In my first grade, I had a poem describing God’s beautiful nature, sun, moon and stars. I would think, how beautiful are all these created things! Then the Creator God must be very beautiful. At the age seven, I once entered the inner room of a Hindu temple, where our village’s deity (a big & tall stone statue) was kept.
Women were forbidden to enter. When I first saw that big giant idol, it was fearful and seeing this god I was disappointed. How can a beautiful God be like this? Who then would be the Creator God? Moreover, I had many questions about God. After visiting that temple, I started having dreams with big snakes daily. We’d celebrate all Indian festivals & I’d participate in all heathen worship. That year I brought one human skull from the cemetery. I’d see all magic shows in our village. Once I was made as a goddess in a play, after which I fell sick. Since we had school only up to seventh (standard) in my village,
I was put in a Hindu boarding school for my higher education. Being far away from my parents, I decided to be nice: I even tried to burn a mark on my forearm, that when I’d see the scar, I’d remember to be good. But Alas! My decision didn’t last even a week. I felt very sad cause I wanted to be good, but couldn’t. I started thinking seriously. If I couldn’t make myself good, then only God can. But which god will make me good? At that time, I was worshipping many gods.
Then I thought, there must be a True and Living God, who can wash me from within and make me a good person. So I started praying like this: “O True and Living God, whoever you may be, give me an inner bath, wash me from within, so I will be good. I’ve tried to be good but have failed.” I prayed this prayer for almost five years. Many times I’d think(of washing), if I washed my intestines with soap and water (to be)then I’d be clean within. I worshipped idols daily and would spend time in Hindu temples.
After I stood first in my high school final exam, I took admission in a college and in a Hindu hostel. But by then, my all thoughts became unclean; I wanted clean and holy thoughts. I tried my best to have clean thoughts but all my attempts of a pure heart failed. Then I prayed more earnestly to an idol saying, “Please give me pure & holy thoughts”. But I did not get any holiness. Then I stopped all prayers and accepted atheism. But I had no peace, nor happiness. After consulting a fortune teller and believing the horoscope, I concluded my life as useless. And life without a God is hopeless. These thoughts led me to commit suicide. But then by God’s grace, I heard about Jesus on 20thDec1974, through Laymen’s Evangelical Fellowship International.
For the first time I experienced God speaking to me. I heard Jeremiah 4:14 & 13:27. I understood that Jesus came to clean me from within and give me true joy & peace and God knows all about me and is asking me to clean my heart from all evil. I prayed, “Lord Jesus, I know I am a great sinner”. The day following I bought a Bible and was reading it & prayed to Jesus to forgive all my sins. I gave my heart to Jesus. Praise God! Jesus came in my life, He forgave all my sins. God spoke & assured me that I am His daughter. He enabled me to ask pardon from whomsoever I had wronged. I restituted all my thefts; cleansed my conscience before God & men and received assurance of salvation through Isaiah 44:22. Praise The Lord, He redeemed me! My dirty thoughts had gone, I got a clean heart filled with peace and joy. The Bible became sweet to me and I’ve read it 42 times until now.
In 1975 in a vision, Lord Jesus visited me and said, “Follow me.” As per God’s will in 1982 I resigned my Government job and went for Bible training. By God’s grace, I got back the job. I married Paul Rainer in1989; we have two daughters. We serve the Lord as a family.
In 1992, when I was on the operation table for a C-section and was serious. There I saw a vision of Jesus whose height reached up to the sky and His breadth filled the earth, and I was just a tiny dot standing there. I was amazed to see our great God. He made me understand that all humans are nothing before Him. Then I heard His voice, “I care for you.” I know my heavenly Father is the caring God.
In 1996 I had the vision to serve God in a new place. Therefore we moved from Mumbai to Aurangabad as self-supporting missionaries. The Lord Jesus healed me of my severe pulmonary hypertension in 2014.
I was praying for the Lord’s leading in Bible study and found the CLI website. My husband Rainer and I started studying the Bible through CLI. We praise God for this study; I learned about God’s greatness, His love, doctrine of Godhead, Church History, Theology lessons and I liked them all.
About 50 to 70 people come to our 2nd-floor house church in an apartment. I take the Bible study & my husband preaches. We need a place for worship on the ground floor. Please pray that we may remain faithful to God until the end. Thanks for free education at CLI.
I Mrs. Ruth Usha Paul Rainer from India, Maharashtra state, lives in Aurangabad.
I’m saved by the grace of Jesus Christ my Lord and my God. I came from a Hindu background.At the age of 5 years, my grandmother taught me to worship snake as a god. In my first grade, I had a poem describing God’s beautiful nature, sun, moon and stars. I would think, how beautiful are all these created things! Then the Creator God must be very beautiful. At the age seven, I once entered the inner room of a Hindu temple, where our village’s deity (a big & tall stone statue) was kept. Women were forbidden to enter. When I first saw that big giant idol, it was fearful and seeing this god I was disappointed. How can a beautiful God be like this? Who then would be the Creator God?
Moreover, I had many questions about God. After visiting that temple, I started having dreams with big snakes daily. We’d celebrate all Indian festivals & I’d participate in all heathen worship. That year I brought one human skull from the cemetery. I’d see all magic shows in our village. Once I was made as a goddess in a play, after which I fell sick. Since we had school only up to seventh (standard) in my village, I was put in a Hindu boarding school for my higher education. Being far away from my parents, I decided to be a good girl: I even tried to burn a mark on my forearm, that when I’d see the scar, I’d remember to be good. But Alas! My decision didn’t last even a week. I felt very sad cause I wanted to be good, but couldn’t. I started thinking seriously. If I couldn’t make myself good, then only God can. But which god will make me good? At that time, I was worshipping many gods.
Then I thought, there must be a True and Living God, who can wash me from within and make me a good person. So I started praying like this: “O True and Living God, whoever you may be, give me an inner bath, wash me from within, so I will be good. I’ve tried to be good but have failed.” I prayed this prayer for almost five years. Many times I’d think(of washing), if I washed my intestines with soap and water (to be)then I’d be clean within. I worshipped idols daily and would spend time in Hindu temples.
After I stood first in my high school final exam, I took admission in a college and in a Hindu hostel. But by then, my all thoughts became unclean; I wanted clean and holy thoughts. I tried my best to have clean thoughts but all my attempts of a pure heart failed. Then I prayed more earnestly to an idol saying, “Please give me pure & holy thoughts”. But I did not get any holiness. Then I stopped all prayers and accepted atheism. But I had no peace, nor happiness. After consulting a fortune teller and believing the horoscope, I concluded my life as useless. And life without a God is hopeless. These thoughts led me to commit suicide. But then by God’s grace, I heard about Jesus on 20thDec1974, through Laymen’s Evangelical Fellowship International. For the first time I experienced God speaking to me. I heard Jeremiah 4:14 & 13:27.
I understood that Jesus came to clean me from within and give me true joy & peace and God knows all about me and is asking me to clean my heart from all evil. I prayed, “Lord Jesus, I know I am a great sinner”. The day following I bought a Bible and was reading it & prayed to Jesus to forgive all my sins. I gave my heart to Jesus. Praise God! Jesus came in my life, He forgave all my sins. God spoke & assured me that I am His daughter. He enabled me to ask pardon from whomsoever I had wronged. I restituted all my thefts; cleansed my conscience before God & men and received assurance of salvation through Isaiah 44:22. Praise The Lord, He redeemed me! My dirty thoughts had gone, I got a clean heart filled with peace and joy. The Bible became sweet to me and I’ve read it 42 times until now.
In 1975 in a vision, Lord Jesus visited me and said, “Follow me.” As per God’s will in 1982 I resigned my Government job and went for Bible training. By God’s grace, I got back the job. I married Paul Rainer in1989; we have two daughters. We serve the Lord as a family.
In 1992, when I was on the operation table for a C-section and was serious. There I saw a vision of Jesus whose height reached up to the sky and His breadth filled the earth, and I was just a tiny dot standing there. I was amazed to see our great God. He made me understand that all humans are nothing before Him. Then I heard His voice, “I care for you.” I know my heavenly Father is the caring God.
In 1996 I had the vision to serve God in a new place. Therefore we moved from Mumbai to Aurangabad as self-supporting missionaries. The Lord Jesus healed me of my severe pulmonary hypertension in 2014.
I was praying for the Lord’s leading in Bible study and found the CLI website. My husband Rainer and I started studying the Bible through CLI. We praise God for this study; I learned about God’s greatness, His love, doctrine of Godhead, Church History, Theology lessons and I liked them all.
About 50 to 70 people come to our 2nd-floor house church in an apartment. I take the Bible study & my husband preaches. We need a place for worship on the ground floor. Please pray that we may remain faithful to God until the end. Thanks for free education at CLI.
I was born and raised in the great nation of the United States of America! Ministry here is quite different than ministering in other countries (which I have also done), but it also presents it’s on set of challenges. The hardest thing I find in ministering in my country and state is the different mindsets, and that people think they have plenty of time to ‘have fun’ and ‘live life.’ They put no value on what it means to live and instead prefer to find pleasure in temporary things. Things that take no effort.
I guess that is where I have always differed from my peers.
I accepted Jesus in my life at the young age of 2. I grew up with my parents in motorcycle ministry and with a very crazy family… so I always saw what sin and darkness did to people and I wanted no part of that. I knew even from a young age that there was more to life and I knew I was going to have to fight to get to it but I knew in my heart it would be worth it. I have never looked back since that day and I have suffered many trials and sickness; but God’s love has never failed me.
I accepted Jesus in my life at the young age of 2. I grew up with my parents in motorcycle ministry and with a very crazy family… so I always saw what sin and darkness did to people and I wanted no part of that. I knew even from a young age that there was more to life, and I knew I was going to have to fight to get to it but I knew in my heart it would be worth it. I have never looked back since that day and I have suffered many trials and sickness; but God’s love has never failed me.
I accepted Jesus in my life at the young age of 2. I grew up with my parents in motorcycle ministry and with a very crazy family… so I always saw what sin and darkness did to people, and I wanted no part of that. I knew even from a young age that there was more to life and I knew I was going to have to fight to get to it but I knew in my heart it would be worth it. I have never looked back since that day and I have suffered many trials and sickness; but God’s love has never failed me.
I am a newly married lady and my husband also play a very important role in my God-dreams. Where as I am the go-getter lets leave tomorrow kind of gal, he’s the one to calm me down and make sure my emotions don’t get the best of me. He is the wind in fire, while I’m the fire to his calm! We balance each other out and work perfectly together. We both have dreams and we support each other fully in them!
My dream as a minister is so many things… but they all fit together. I am currently the Youth Pastor at my church, but I also consider myself a missionary and Evangelist. My dream is to have a prison prevention ministry in the inner city (which is also where my church is currently located). I don’t just want to help those in prison but I want to help kids stay out before they even get there. I want to show them Jesus’ love before the world entices them with sin. I also want to help in street ministry by impacting the prostitutes in my area; by showing them how loved they are and that they are accepted in the arms of Christ who has already forgave them. In the middle of all of this I feel God is calling me into the nations as well. To spread His love, to BE His hands and feet. To be the tangible love of Jesus when they don’t know what to do next or how to survive any longer in their condition. To be the one who tells them who Jesus is, what He did for them for the very first time. I feel it is my job to fulfill the Great Commission in all of these ways. It is so amazing to look at my church and to see how much they have poured into my dreams not because I am their Youth Pastor but because they actually believe in me & believe that what I want to do can help transform the atmosphere of where we are at.
There was a time in my life whee I had a dream and a plan for my life; until I heard this statement “If your dreams seem achievable then they aren’t big enough. You have to dream so big that is seems impossible to reach that goal. That is where God comes in.” Since that moment I knew my life was going to be dedicated to ministry.
A scholarship here at CLI is important to me because I believe in quality of work. I don’t want to go out into my God dreams and only have half an answer for someone. I want to know how to respond in all situations and know about all different areas of the Bible, Jesus, and ministry. I feel CLI can help me with that. Quality of education is important not only for me but to the people God has called me to.
If I could ask you to pray for anything I would ask that you pray for endurance. There is a lot of work that needs to be done in my city, my state, my country, and the world. At times I feel overwhelmed at all God has asked of me but I know He will always give me strength. Especially when I have other believers lifting us up in prayer. I can not wait to see where God takes me next!
My name is Eisele Mboyana; I was born on the 11th of August 1988 in Umtata and grow up in Cape Town, Khayelitsha. I come from a very spiritual family, particularly my mother who raised me as a single parent, with the help of the Lord. Growing up from a religious upbringing, my path was almost defined for me and it was only a matter of time before I fully devoted myself to the work of the Lord, although it was not cut-and-dried decision for me to serve in the ministry due to influences around me that could have led me totally astray, however on 30 March 2010, when a life-shattering occurrence came into my life, only the Lord could revive and strengthen me during that period, it was on this day that I was encouraged to take the walk of salvation much more seriously and re-accept/re-affirm my stance in Christ once again as my Lord & personal Savior.
In October 2012, with wife and daughter at the time, I relocated to Johannesburg from Cape Town.
In February 2013 I joined the New Covenant of God Ministries family, while there, I served the Lord in every way I could. As my quest to know more about the Lord persisted, I decided to look for online Bible study lessons/courses, after a thorough search at the time, World Bible School (WBS) was my preferred choice. Doing the online bible study through WBS has helped me grow a lot and has opened my physical and spiritual eyes to many things about my God and His will.
I have been married to my beautiful wife, Maria, since 22 September 2011 and together we are blessed with two beautiful and intelligent kids, Hlumelo (a five-year-old daughter) and Junior (a two-year-old son).
I am currently employed as an Account Manager for P&G SA by Print Outsource International. I believe that it is indisputable that I am passionate about teaching the Word of God and sound doctrine of the Gospel of Christ. I am one of the founders and an executive director of Christ’s Righteousness Ministries (CRM) NPC since October 2015, I also play the role of a secretary and public officer of the ministry.
Earning a scholarship at CLI will afford me an opportunity to expand my knowledge and understanding of the biblical principles as God intended. All I wanted is the ability to teach the sound doctrine of the Gospel, no matter how uncomfortable it may be, so that we all come to the knowledge of Christ and are restored back to God’s original plan. Nowadays we see a lot of compromising in our church life, and it is for this reason that the CLI revival leaders course will restore God’s intended plan. I believe that this course will open my eyes to Christ’s righteousness, and it will transform my mind into being Christo-centric.