I was praying one morning in my house in Bombay. At that time we have just started a 24/7 TV channel reaching around 10% or less of Bombay. But we seemed to have exausted the finances and we were quite concerned about it.
I felt God speak to me about the urgency of the task, that people MUST be saved, and therefore, we MUST win the battles to spread God's message over the city, because there is too much at stake! I felt God's intensity and urgency about it.
My reply to that, apart from been overwhelmed by God's intense desire to see these people saved, I told God that we need money for this and is He going to provide? (in a respectful way) He then spoke to me through Isaiah 41: 17 - 20.
This revelation applied to people overall in a city, but it can also apply to individuals who expose themselves regularly to the Word of God. He answered to my cry of how do we reach the city with this:
Isa 41:17 "The poor and needy seek water, but there is none, Their tongues fail for thirst. I, the LORD, will hear them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
God spoke to me that those in the city who are not saved are actually hungry for God and they are seeking living water, but because they do not know where it's best to seek it, they seek it in all the wrong places and do not find any true living water that satisfies. God sees them as people who fail for thirst - what a description of desperation -; we do not always see them like God sees them or we would be more urgent about helping them know Jesus!
God's deep compassion is answering this failing for thirst of the unbelievers and is coming in with a solution: I, the Lord, will hear them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. He will do something about it. But what will He do to actually hear them in a practical way? See below:
Isa 41:18 I will open rivers in desolate heights, And fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, And the dry land springs of water.
God told me that people need to first hear about the Gospel, and one major point of contact is TV, this way they can hear about a different place where they can try to seek for water, to the living God.
He said that He will use Christian TV programs as rivers in the desolate heights where the Word of God has not watered the hearts of men much or at all before; the programs will each be like a river that is falling over the thirsty hearts of un
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