Since May of 2023, the Christians in the state of Manipur in the nation of India have experienced persecution. Churches have been burned down, people have been attacked, and the Federal government of India has turned a blind eye to the violence. On today’s episode of the Evangelism Podcast I speak with Khamthianmang Thangsing (Mang) from Manipur about how the church should pray for our brothers and sisters in Manipur and we talk about developing a theology of suffering.
Key Points:
- In the state of Manipur, India, Christians have faced severe persecution since May 2023, with over 500 churches burned down and hundreds killed, tortured, or displaced.
- The conflict is largely between the Christian hill tribes and the Hindu-majority Meitei people, with the federal government of India accused of not protecting the Christian minority.
- The guest, Hmong from Manipur, describes the suffering of his family and the need for the global church to stand with the persecuted Christians of Manipur through prayer and solidarity.
- He discusses developing a theology of suffering, emphasizing that suffering for the sake of Christ is good, as it allows one to draw closer to God and that the cross represents both the depths of human evil and the heights of God’s love and forgiveness.
- The guest encourages praying for the victims, especially the children, and calls the global church to be intentional and consistent in prayer for Manipur.
Transcript:
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Since May of 2023, the Christians in the state of Manipur and the nation of India have experienced persecution. Churches have been burned down, people have been attacked, and the federal government of India has turned a blind eye to the violence. On today’s episode of the Evangelism Podcast, I speak with Monk from Manipur about how the church should pray for the Christians of Manipur, and we talk about developing a theology of suffering.
Evangelism Podcast Host (00:41):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast with Dr. Daniel King, where Daniel interviews full-time evangelists, pastors, missionaries, and normal everyday Christians to discover how they share their faith, their powerful testimonies, and amazing stories that will inspire you to reach people with the good news. And now here’s your host, missionary, and evangelist, Daniel King.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:05):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m excited about telling people about Jesus Today. I have a very special guest with me, Hmong from the nation of India, from the state of money poor. And so welcome to the Evangelism Podcast.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (01:24):
Thank you, Dr. King. Thanks for the invitation.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:26):
Now you have a longer name. I’m not able to pronounce it. Could you tell me your full name? You want to try it first? Yeah, give it to me.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (01:35):
Okay. My name is Khamthianmang Thangsing. So I just want people to call me Mang because it’s too long. Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:47):
Okay. So you’re from India.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (01:48):
I’m from India,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:49):
From the state of Manipur
Khamthianmang Thangsing (01:51):
Manipur,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:52):
Which usually when people think of India, they don’t visualize people who look Asian,
Khamthianmang Thangsing (02:00):
But
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (02:00):
You look very Asian.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (02:01):
That’s
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (02:01):
True. And so your state in India is all the way up right next to the nation of Myanmar, and it has a large population of Asian looking people.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (02:11):
That’s true. Pretty much all the north is, I think we looks pretty very Asian. Yeah. Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (02:17):
Alright. And in Manpo, I’ve been seeing many news stories that have come out of Manpo that are showing that there’s been something very horrible going on there. Tell me about what’s been going on in the state of money. Poor.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (02:33):
Well, yeah, it’s devastating, first of all, by the way. Thank you so much for the question, Dr. King. Yeah, it’s, it’s a really hard thing to even express it for me. Since third May, 2023. No, sorry. Yes. 2023. I would say the one particular radical Hindu, not all the Hindu, but one particular Hindu called the Metis who live in Manipur, part of the plain area. They are the one who started the ethnic conflict. And then through the conflict, there’s about around 500 churches were burned down, and then around 300 people were killed, torture, raped, paraded, naked, and then kids child were killed. And then more than 16, I would say that around or more than 60,000 people were displaced right now. And then thousands and thousands of villages and houses were burned down.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:38):
And this is a great tragedy because the state of Manipur actually has a large population of Christians much more than some of the other states of India. It was actually known as a majority Christian state. Not quite the majority. I
Khamthianmang Thangsing (03:58):
Would say that no, Christian is not the majority.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:01):
What percentage would you say?
Khamthianmang Thangsing (04:04):
I’m not quite sure about the percentage, but at least the midis, the Hindus, I think they’re around, I would say three to four millions. And all the other Christians who live in the hills, I would say somewhere around 1 million. So I think the Hindu are more in terms of population wise.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:20):
And so you’re from the Zomi tribe,
Khamthianmang Thangsing (04:23):
Part of the zoo tribes.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (04:24):
And tell me about how the tribe became Christian.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (04:32):
Oh yeah. Well, that’s very interesting. So Manus is divide into two areas, which is the hill areas in the plain area, and also all the zoo tribes for the listener. When I call the zoo tribes, it’s part of the cookie zoo tribes and part of the Zomi Mars, everything is there. So it’s kind of complicated there. But as it’s called the Z tribes. So depends on the areas because some of the Z tribes receive earlier and some other places receive later on about the gospel. So in 1910, when the Wealths missionary came to our place, the name of the missionaries called what Ken Roberts, who come from Zora, traveled through our areas in one of the village called Sanon Village. So there he sent out the gospel of John through a male runner. They called male runner. And then the village chief read it and he could not read it. And he asked, the chief of the village asked the missionary to tell the story about that. And so in 1910, we received the gospel through that way.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:34):
And your grandfather
Khamthianmang Thangsing (05:36):
Became
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:36):
A believer at that time,
Khamthianmang Thangsing (05:38):
Not that precise time.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:40):
Tell me kind of the story of your family and how your family became believers.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (05:45):
My grand was an animist priest, or we can call it primitive religion. So I will just tell at least the best basic characterization of animistic or primitive. It’s something like we worship sun, stars, rivers, mountains, and all these things. And there’s a lot of evil spirits that is revolving around the nature or something. That’s how we believe it. So my grandpa was part of the priest, which means his job or his description, job description is something like a pastor. These days you need to take care of the villagers. For example, let’s say one of the villagers got sick so that villager will come to my grandpa’s place and they need to bring animals for sacrifice, Samoan sacrifice and all those things. And then my grandpa will pray over that and then put the bloods of the animal. And then that’s how he do the ritual and sacrifice.
(06:42):
Fortunately, by God’s grace alone, he encounter Jesus Christ, hallelujah. Along his way being a priest. Wow. Yeah. And also Dr is really amazing because I don’t know how precisely how he encounters Jesus Christ, but when he encounters Jesus Christ, the sad reality is that the evil spirit whom he worship and whom he serve, spoke to his dream twice. And he asked, the first one, he asked the evil spirit asked my grandpa and say, please come back to your old job as a priest again, and I’ll help you. I’ll help you. I don’t know what’s the right word in English, but rich fortun, I’ll bless you with many blessing. But my grandpa, north Stone and turn pursue the truth because Jesus say I’m the way, the truth and the life. And in him was life, and the life was the like of man. But the evil spirit was so mad, I would say. And he spoke to a dream at night again. And the evil spirit says to my grandfather, if you do not return, five years of famine will literally happen. So the evil spirit curse my grandpa and then my grandpa, no stone and turn still embrace the goodness of God. Although vividly the evil spirit speak to his
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:58):
Spirit. I mean the evil spirit lied to him.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (07:59):
Yes, yes.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:00):
I mean that’s what evil spirits do. That’s true. They deceive, they lie. They come from the devil. The Bible
Khamthianmang Thangsing (08:05):
Says
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:06):
That the devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (08:09):
Yeah, that’s true.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:09):
But Jesus says, I’ve come to give you life and life more abundantly.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (08:13):
That’s right.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:13):
So he chose to follow the life of Jesus. Amen. And then because of his legacy, now you’re a believer.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (08:20):
Amen. That’s true. That’s true. Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:22):
Wow.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (08:23):
Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:24):
So let’s talk more about what’s happening in Manipur. So there are these hill tribes, hill tribes that have traditionally come to Jesus ever since the early 19 hundreds. And then in the plains there’s another people group
Khamthianmang Thangsing (08:42):
That’s
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:42):
Majority Hindu,
Khamthianmang Thangsing (08:44):
Majority Hindu.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:45):
And what sparked the conflict? Why did there start becoming conflict?
Khamthianmang Thangsing (08:50):
Okay, so the answer to that question is honestly, it’s very complicated. It’s not only one sole reason for that. There’s a lot of reasons, but at least the basic one will be, I would say that the federal government, I would say that the federal government is not a, they are interested on Hindu of India, which means India is the only state all over the world that it’s only Hindu. So there’s a lot of hidden is I would say that, and it’s a high claim, but I believe so because I know some people who work with the RSS and all this, which means one of the backup advocate to Hindu nice the nation. I would say that because of some hidden agenda from the federal government or the idea of Hindus because they think that Christian converts people. And my pushback is that Harley Christian converts.
(09:56):
We never convert people. The only way is that when they embrace Christianity for them is that we should pursue the truth. We are not converting them. They rather taste and see the goodness of God through healings, through miracles, through understanding the truth. So coming back to the point of the origin of the conflict is that the chief minister of our state, even it was beg up by the federal government, and then he claimed that some of our people group, which we called the Zoe Tribes, or in the news we just called the cookie zoo, which is part of that, we are terrorists, narco terrorists, because they just call us. We are doing a lot of drugs and all these things, not necessarily we’re doing, but cultivating any, the business is all about drugs and all those things. And that’s the claim. And they take our people as a narco terrorist because, and also they
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:52):
Call, but they’re burning down the churches
Khamthianmang Thangsing (10:54):
Also.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (10:54):
So it’s really religious reasons.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (10:57):
Not only that, but of course that’s part of it because I want to be careful on that. But at least that’s the underground underlining assumption on that. And they even call us illegal immigrant. They call us. We are from Myanmar. My grandpa was born in India.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:15):
I mean, we’ve heard stories of persecution against Christians from all over India. There’s many different places where churches have been burned down, where there is persecution of the Christians. The Christians are completely peaceful, and yet they are attacked. And it really comes from the last few years, the prime minister of India, Modi has really pushed Hinduism and a lot of his voting base is from the radical BJP
Khamthianmang Thangsing (11:49):
Hindu
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:50):
Party.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (11:51):
That’s true. That’s true.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:51):
And so that’s what’s been going on all over India. I know that there have been news stories where people are saying, why is this violence happening in Manipur?
Khamthianmang Thangsing (12:03):
But
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:04):
It sounds like the federal government really isn’t interested in protecting the Christian people that are being attacked.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (12:12):
I mean, if they’re really, really interested in protecting their citizen, whether Christian or Muslim or Hindu, they could have done long, long time. Dr. King, it’s been more than a year now. It’s really sad because my sister included my sister.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:27):
Tell me about your family. How has this impacted your family?
Khamthianmang Thangsing (12:31):
Yeah, my sister, her name is Lydia, live in the campus, which is Manipur University, which is in the part of the valley where the vast majority is the Hindus in the Metis. So when the violence erupted on the third May, I think on the fourth May, they went and took the man poor university campus because my sister live in the campus. And then what happened is that even the police are there. They did not even stop the mop who entered the campus and they enter. And they even use, I’ve heard that from my sister, that some of the radical mob who come to take us inside the campus, they even use cricket bat to knock down some of our people. And then it’s really, really shame.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (13:18):
And your sister was a student there?
Khamthianmang Thangsing (13:20):
My sister was working there.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (13:22):
Oh, she’s working.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (13:22):
Yeah. Yeah. She’s also a student. And then she live in one of the housing, which is they call quarter, which she lived there. And then what happened is that if she was five minutes late, only five minutes, she’ll also be tortured or killed there with other people too.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (13:40):
And so many people have been tortured. They’ve been killed, killed, raped,
Khamthianmang Thangsing (13:45):
Raped.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (13:46):
Horrible things happen. Their houses burned down. And so what have people done in response? They run away
Khamthianmang Thangsing (13:54):
In the initial part. They got to run away. I mean, Dr. The hard part is that in the hill, and I mean the valley area, there are very few areas to run. Only the army camp where the army was there. That’s the only safe place. We’re not even safe pretty much on the police area. So my sister and all the other people’s, they just run to that place. Other than that, mostly the Hindu areas.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:21):
I think it’s very important for the global church to stand with our brothers and sisters of Manipur and to be in prayer and to be in solidarity with our family, our church family. Because you are our brothers.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (14:41):
That’s true. That’s true.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:42):
These are our sisters that are being attacked. And so for people who are listening who want to pray for Manipur, what are some things that they can keep in their prayers? How should they pray for
Khamthianmang Thangsing (14:57):
Manipur? Yes, that’s very important. Thanks for asking me that. First of all, as you mentioned earlier, I want the global church to be very intentional in prayer, very, very intentional and consistently intentional in prayer and to really pray. And also as we pray, of course, whether we like it or not, people will suffer, but maybe we suffer well for the glory of God. And I’m not claiming that we’ll just die out there. But for them to really understand that through their suffering, they’ll understand the reality of God, and they come to the knowledge of that truth more and more on that. And our prayer will be pray for the victims specifically, pray for the victims family, the victim family, and more importantly the kids. I’ll tell you one story. God, let me start the ministry last year now 2023 October when the violence erupted in 2023, may, and then, God, let me start on October. I’ll not mention at this point about the name because it’s kind of sensitive at this point. But the reason why it started about that ministry is that four kids, or three or four kids, their mom went to the market to sell a vegetable in order to provide for daily needs. And her dad need to protect our land, need to protect our land in the boundary buffer. John, while mom and dad is not at home, the three or four kids, one is five, one is 4, 6, 7, and nine went to the river and got drown.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:30):
Oh, wow.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (16:31):
Yeah. So that’s devastating. That’s really, really sad. That’s the reason why we also started ministry and started tutoring ministry and then help the kids to stay in the particular place so that they’ll not move around and play around. So that’s part of the ministry. And the reason why I’m telling all these things is that may all the global church or the listener pray specifically for the children, that they really understand the truth and also what does it mean to suffer.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:04):
Now you came here to the United States for a period of time to study. You’ve just finished your master’s degree at Biola University studying philosophy. Philosophy. So you are very smart. Lots about the philosophy, and now you’re planning to do your PhD.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (17:25):
I am planning to do my PhD. That’s correct. Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:28):
Wow.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (17:28):
Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:29):
And so part of what is on your heart is developing a theology of suffering because suffering is
Khamthianmang Thangsing (17:41):
Real.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:43):
These brothers and sisters in manipur are suffering right now. And so how do you think that Christians should begin to think about the issue of suffering?
Khamthianmang Thangsing (17:56):
Yeah, the issue of suffering has been talking. I think it’s been more in, I mean many, many years now. But my interest come, as I mentioned earlier about my grandpa because of his conversion to Christianity, five years of famine literally happened in our family. And we don’t have rice sweet. We have very few things to eat for our family. For us, embracing the fruit means suffering for our family. So that’s how my interest develop. And then sometime there’s a question that what does it mean to bear the cross? For example, Matthew 16 stated, Jesus said to his disciple, if you truly desire to come after me, deny yourself, take up the cross and follow me. So I mean, what am I going to talk about suffering? I was thinking that whether we like it or not, or whether we think about it or not, everyone who dare walk on this earth will face suffering.
(18:58):
But what does it mean to be suffering? For example, one of my favorite Christian philosophers, Eleanor’s thumb, she said that what is suffering? Suffering is something like when you fail to achieve the desires of your heart or when you fail to achieve, fails to flourish. That’s part of suffering. I will define suffering in terms of this way that when we lose our existential or experiential comfort, that is part of suffering. So how do we suffer? Well, as Jesus said, I mean, it’s very clear in one peter to all this area. I mean, Thomas Aquinas is pretty clear on this area that suffering for the sake of Christ is good, but suffering for the sake of something else is sinful. So I’m interested on one particular thing of suffering. Then I developed this.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:43):
I think that’s true. Someone asked me one time, they’re like, would you ever go skydiving?
Khamthianmang Thangsing (19:49):
And
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:50):
I says, no, I don’t want to go skydiving. I don’t want to risk my life, but I am willing to risk my life if it’s for the sake of preaching the gospel.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (19:57):
Yes.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:58):
Into go somewhere to preach somewhere. My life many times has been in danger,
Khamthianmang Thangsing (20:03):
And
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (20:03):
I’m willing to do that for the sake of the gospel.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (20:07):
That’s true. That’s true. I would say that talking about Matthew 16 again, Dr. King, that there is a special or unique elements of suffering in surrendering or offering our hearts desire. For example, we can understand the desires of the hearts, which Psalm 37 verse four says that delight in yourself in the Lord, and he’ll give you the desires of the heart. I mean, let’s articulate the desires of the heart. This way. The desires of the hearts will be something like what you most care about. So when we lose the things, what we most care about suffering S, you see what I’m saying? But as we see Matthew 16 again, GSA, if you truly desire to follow me, deny yourself. So I would say that denying ourself or surrendering the desires of our heart or offering the desires of heart, our heart leads to what? Some sort of suffering.
(20:58):
But there is a better thing there. Maybe I’ll just articulate two way or formulate two way. One, a human beings suffer when he offered the desires of the heart for better things to come. And what is better thing? Better thing is the good. According to Aquinas, what is good is a relationship is good. And he says that the greatest good of all is personal relationship. And as God, as you and I understand, God is a person who is characterizes, who are having mine and will. That means the greatest good is personal relationship with God, which means union with God. That’s one way I will formulate suffering. The second way of formulating suffering is that a human being suffer when he abstain from offering the desires of the heart. And in that sense, he lose the greatest good. You see what I’m saying? So that’s how I understand suffering at this point. I mean, there’s a lot of way to debate and the definition, but at least as far as I’m concerned, I would say that suffering for the sake of crisis must better. And that is the good. What is the good to be union with God?
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:01):
So let’s bring it to a practical level. Thinking about your family in Manipur, thinking about the family of God
Khamthianmang Thangsing (22:12):
That
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:12):
Is there, what message would you give them in the midst of this suffering that they’re going through? What would you tell them about God? About God to them? How would you encourage them? I mean, someone, their house was just burned down. Maybe they got beaten.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (22:31):
Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:33):
What do you say to them?
Khamthianmang Thangsing (22:35):
I mean, that’s really the hard part for sure. I would say, I mean, I practice counseling as well a few years ago, and I was thinking sometimes Highland seems the best answer, but I would mean there’s a lot of way to talk. But I would say, first of all, I want to listen to them for sure. I want to listen to them and hear their story. But I also want to tell that I don’t know. I don’t really understand how suffering and evil and how is display for real. But I would say that the cross is the culmination of evil as well. And I’ll also say that the cross is the culmination of what love as well. The cross is also the culmination of forgiveness as well. I would say that
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (23:29):
That’s very profound. I mean, Jesus suffered on the cross. He took our suffering upon his body.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (23:38):
That’s true.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (23:39):
And he did it so that ultimately in eternity we can be free from all suffering.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (23:44):
Yeah. Yeah. The cross is the cornerstone of how we understand suffering in this world. Because as I mentioned earlier, the cross itself is a representation of evil hatred. But also we should not forget that the cross is also the greatest example of love and forgiveness. And that’s the greatest good of all, because the incarnated God, Jesus Christ, our Lord, offer his heart’s desire for us to reconcile with our Father again.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (24:20):
Amen. So that would be the cross is the ultimate expression of God’s love, the ultimate expression of forgiveness. It’s also represents ultimate suffering. But because of what Jesus did at the cross, now we can receive God’s love. We can receive God’s
Khamthianmang Thangsing (24:41):
Forgiveness.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (24:42):
We can receive healing like Jesus took stripes on his back so that we could be healed. He suffered so that we can be set free from suffering.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (24:54):
Yes, that’s true.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (24:54):
And we can keep our eyes on Jesus and know that he goes through everything that we may go through.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (25:03):
Yes. He’s gone through it. Yes, yes, yes. That’s the love of God to us. And I don’t know, I mean, coming back to your question, if you don’t mind me answering that, I would say, I don’t know how to even talk about God, but at least I can talk about the cross, which our Lord who hang there without no sin because you want us to be righteous. And I know it is not really easy to just talk. God love you. You suffer God. I mean, a lot of things going on in LA right now, a lot of houses is burned down when all this thing, we can’t. It’s so easy just to talk about God at this moment. That’s true. But if we go deeper down, as I mentioned earlier about the cross again. Yeah. That will be my answer.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (25:47):
Amen. Well, the cross is the answer for the liberals in Los Angeles who have had their houses burned down just as much as it is in Manipur, that crosses the answer.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (26:01):
That’s true. That’s true. And also, for the people who killed our people, including all the radical people,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (26:08):
Jesus died for them too.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (26:10):
Jesus died for them. And Jesus laughed them every single one of them, including our own people and every one of us.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (26:16):
And keeping that perspective helps you to forgive. Like when you go through suffering, you want to blame something for the suffering. And that leads to bitterness in the human heart. Especially if someone that you know beat you and you could get very angry. And it creates bitterness, but that’s not healthy.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (26:42):
Yes, that’s
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (26:43):
True. True. And the solution is forgiveness. Well, how can you forgive someone who’s hurt you?
Khamthianmang Thangsing (26:48):
You
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (26:49):
Can’t do it with your own power. You need the power of God.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (26:52):
That’s true.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (26:53):
And God has forgiven us. I mean, here we are in sin
Khamthianmang Thangsing (26:56):
Because
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (26:57):
Of sin. We all deserve to die. We all deserve to suffer for all of eternity.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (27:01):
But
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (27:02):
Jesus set us free on the cross, and now we can be forgiven. And because we’ve been forgiven, we can also forgive
Khamthianmang Thangsing (27:14):
S Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (27:16):
And forgive those that cause the suffering and even love them and say, Jesus died for you too.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (27:21):
Amen. Amen. That’s true. Wow. Yeah. That’s
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (27:24):
True. Well, it is so wonderful to talk to you today. Let’s finish by praying for money. Poor.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (27:32):
I think we should
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (27:33):
Do that. Can you pray? Let’s pray together.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (27:36):
Let’s do
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (27:37):
That. You pray, and I’ll agree with you that God will protect the people of manipur and that many people in the midst of the suffering will turn to Jesus.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (27:49):
I’ll do that. Thanks. Yeah, let’s pray. Dear Lord, thank you so much for this time. You’re great. You’re good. And you’re so small, Lord, very, very small, very tiny. And the reason why we even say, oh Lord, who earth in heaven is because we can’t do things by our own. Because you’re sovereign. You’re big. You’re a really, really good God. Lord, thank you so much for this opportunity, and thank you that I could pray for Manipur one of the state in India. Lord, my people suffer. I’ve gone through a lot and also who live there. The Hindus also suffer anything to the war, conflict, ethnic conflict. Both sides suffer. Every single one of us suffer. Lord, Lord, I pray that through this time may you understand who you are to come to know to the knowledge of the truth. Lord, I pray for the radical one sector of the Metis group.
(29:09):
Lord, I pray that may they come to know about Jesus too. And I pray for the victims both side, that they may come to the knowledge of the truth. And I pray especially for my people who really love you, that they know that at the cross, it’s an example of evil. For sure. It’s an example of hatred. But may our people also know that the cross crosses and the of love and forgiveness as well. And I pray for all the victims who live in the places scattered around here and there, all the kids, may grace alone, be with them, and may they renew and continue their life to really know you, to really know your love, even in the midst of suffering and evil, Lord, may they come to know you, Lord, even what we call enemy right now. I pray that may they come to know you, Lord Jesus, and bless our land one more time. And may people floris for your namesake. Lord, thank you so much for this time, Lord, everything into our mighty hand. In Jesus name I pray, amen. Amen. Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (30:39):
Thank you my brother for being on the Evangelism podcast.
Khamthianmang Thangsing (30:42):
Thank you, Dr. King. It’s a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (30:45):
Yeah.
Evangelism Podcast Host (30:45):
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Evangelism Coach Daniel King (31:47):
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