God leads

Greetings from Venilla, Anbalagan and Sridhar

We hope that you are doing well. Thank you for your continual love and support. We just want to share what God’s been teaching us individually this month.

Our nephew john visiting us 

This month has been a great month for me. I am reading a devotional book called secrets of the secret place. It’s an amazing book that really helps you grow deeper in Jesus. The chapter that God has been using to teach me this month was “the secret of feeling attractive to God”. We often dress up and want to be so appealing to people. We want to look so beautiful and  attractive. This has been one of my struggles lately. One of the things that really stood out to me from this chapter was, “when you gain ownership of the fact that God is smiling on you, that he desires your company, and that he longs to be intimate with you, then the truth of that reality starts to touch your emotional chemistry, and you actually begin to feel attractive to God”. This helped me break my insecurities and find my true identity in Jesus. so  I started spending some time helping my friend break this same stronghold. 

 Isaiah 55:9, it says; As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. God’s been using this verse to teach Sridhar that God has everything planned for us. We just need to follow him and let him lead us. It’s very hard when we like planning our lives and want to figure out everything by ourselves. It’s been a difficult process for Sridhar to let go of his agenda and let God lead him. For the past month, he has been mentoring one of our younger brothers. He loves spending time praying with him and just listening to him talk about his life.

This month has been amazing for Anbalagan. He started mentoring and coaching few boys from a children’s home nearby. He loves playing football with them and listen to them talk, about their school and their passion for football. He also spends time mentoring one of our younger brothers.

Picture with few kannada actors.

God’s been so gracious over the cafe. We are so excited to let you know we started selling coffee beans on Amazon. It was a great idea to reach more customers that live outside bangalore and love our coffee beans. Another highlight of this month was we had few scenes of a kannada movie filmed in our cafe, this was awesome. It was so cool to see how they shot the scenes.

Thank you so much for praying for God’s presence over our cafe.  One of customer was just sharing his experience with us. He was having a really hard time figuring out what God wanted him to do next. Not kidding but a stranger just went over to him and prophesied over him and told him exactly what he's been praying about. It was so encouraging to hear that testimony. So thank you for praying. Prayers really do get answered. 

Thank you so much for your prayers and support.   

Prayer points:

1.       Please pray for Venilla to stay secure in Jesus and to find her true identity in Christ.

2.       Please pray that Sridhar becomes more sensitive to hear from God. He would allow God to plan his life instead of him figuring it out.

3.       Pray for Anbalagan as he mentors the kids.

4.       Please pray as we look for places to expand our cafe.

5.       Please pray for our team that we would stay united.

6.        Please pray for God’s protection over our business.