DGS DHINAKARAN OF INDIA 1 HEAVENLY VISITATIONS 1
I was born on the 1st of July 1935 in a remote village in South India. My father and my mother were not very spiritual people but they knew all about the Lord. And when I was in my mother's womb one day she went and knelt down at the altar of a lonely church but nobody was there. And she told the Lord, "Lord I am so young and mortally afraid of my confinement. If you listen to my prayer and give me a boy child I will name him a Samuel and give him back to You as your prophet. You can use him as your prophet." And my mother told me that she had great peace in her heart after that.
Nevertheless, when I was 20 years of age after going to the college I drifted away from God and the discipline which my mother kept me under. And I was a failure in my studies though I was a brilliant student in the high school because of my wrong associations and the liberty that I got suddenly drifted away from God and my studies. So I failed miserably and attempted twice and both the times I failed because I had nothing to write in the answer paper.
Well, and I said I'd go for a job and I couldn't get a job. And I felt so miserable and I was the only son. My father was a teacher and when I used to see him working so hard from morning 6 to 9 to 11 to earn his livelihood, l felt really miserable. At that time my mother also became very very sick and no remedy could be found. I took a look at my life and decided that these problems have no solution and that there would be no light at the end of the tunnel. Suicide seemed to be the only solution. So one day I decided to go and end my life. I want to jump before the express train that would pass near our home.
On February 11, 1955, after taking a long last loving glimpse of my beloved mother, knowing that I would see her no more, I walked towards the railway track so that the oncoming express train should take away my life and crush me beyond identification.
En-route to the track, I decided to meet my very precious uncle who is my mother's sister's husband, a Police Officer. I used to be very much attracted by his love and affection. He used to be very loving and every time he would meet me, he finally would end up the conversation about Christ. Through him, the Lord spoke in a way that would change my very outlook on life. He explained the immeasurable love and compassion of the Lord Jesus Christ, of His supreme sacrifice on the cross, and that day he spoke to me for one hour about the crucifixion of Christ. He pointed out that the Lord Jesus was the only solution there ever was and is, to any problem that a man would be having or would ever have to face in the future.
Oh, that melted my heart and I asked him three simple questions: "Can God heal my mother? Can He help me in my studies? Can He help me find a job?"
My uncle gave a "Yes" to all of these questions.
Then I sincerely asked him, "What should I do?" All he said was to kneel and cry out to the Lord Jesus. He said, "Yes. Go back home and kneel down in your room and ask God what He thinks about you so that He can show your heart to you."
I returned home, and quickly entered my room, shut the door, dropped on to my knees and cried out to the Lord. I said, "Lord, please show my heart to me."
And the Holy Spirit came and I was under the conviction of the Holy Spirit for four full hours. I never felt how the time passed by. The words my uncle gave me came before my mind. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin found in First John 1:7, But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
The Lord, in His mercy, descended and revealed to me, as in a movie, the life that I had led for the past 20 years. Tears welled up in my eyes and I began to cry uncontrollably. Then I begged the Lord for forgiveness and pleaded with Him for cleansing. I asked Jesus to take charge of my life. I cried out to the Lord, "Please Father, forgive me. Wash me with the blood of our Lord Jesus. Give me one more chance."
And a great cleansing, the feeling of holiness, sanctification came into my heart. I felt so holy inside as if I have never done anything wrong in my life and the great peace came and my whole life changed.
From that moment, my life spun around. Every night, Lord Jesus would come down and sit beside me and help me with my lessons. As I was preparing for the examination, every night the Lord will come and I can easily feel Him sitting by my side and teaching me till eleven o'clock and He will teach me. And every day we would cover 50 pages in different subjects. Today He will say, "I will take up dynamics." Another day He will say, "Come I will take algebra for you." So it was marvelous and like that, I studied and I wrote the exam and I passed.
Oh, I was so thrilled to find out that I had passed. You know an interesting thing that I would love to tell you I had a good friend called John. He used to encourage me every day and to look to the Lord to pray and believe and so on. And the next day the results were to be published. The previous night I became very panicky and I knelt down and sincerely prayed, "Lord, help me to pass," and I heard a voice. The voice said, "In which class you want to pass?" Then I said, "Lord, I'm unworthy to get a first class pass because I was not concentrating on my studies all these years. I cannot ask for a first-class pass and I don't want a third-class pass because I wouldn't get a job. Give me a high second class pass then I'll be happy." He said, "Granted."
It was marvelous a great peace came and I slept off. I wanted to go early morning to buy the newspaper everything but I totally forgot all about that and John came in the morning.
"Dhinakaran, did you see the paper?"
I said no. He then said, "You have passed in second class." I was so thrilled and when the results came I found that I have passed in high second place.
So I pressed on then I got a job in the State Bank of India the biggest bank in India after writing a competitive exam and the people who later on told me about my great result, "You did marvelously when you got on your own merit."
So I prayed constantly and wrote this exam and thank God I got it. And I strived hard that now I must come up in life. So I started studying for the departmental exams, one after the other, I passed and I got some special allowances and bonuses and honorariums for passing the exams which used to be very difficult to pass in certain special subjects and I was getting promoted in the bank.
On the other side, I started reading the Holy Scriptures. I begin each day reading several chapters from the Bible and meditating upon them. Whenever I read the miracles recorded in the Bible, I prayed that I should also be granted the divine power that was manifest in Jesus.
I was fascinated by one thing. That one thing is the way in which the Almighty God talk to his prophets and chosen vessels. Every time I would read in Genesis 5:24 Enoch walked with God; 6:9 Noah walked with God; James 2:23 Abraham was the friend of God and Exodus 33:11, the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend; Numbers 7:89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and He spake unto him; Numbers 12: 8 God talked to Moses as a friend would talk to another friend. The Bible says in Acts 13:22 God said David a man after my own heart.
And the way in which God walked with them, they talked with Him and the way in which they did talk to Him and got His reply. This thrilled me more than anything.
Of course, the second thing that told me was his supernatural miracle working power and I said, "Lord I must see. I must talk to You. I must witness your supernatural power so that I can bring that power to my people who are in agony and sorrow. I want them to enjoy this power. If you give me this power Lord I'd be able to help so many people especially young people who are planning to commit suicide like me in misery. So please help me."
And seven years I prayed like that. Then one day in His great mercy Lord showed me a scripture Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
I said, "My Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ is none other than God's Son and He is the very image of God's glory. He is God in person but still, He had to receive the mighty anointing of the Holy Ghost and power to bring the gospel to the people."
So I said, "Lord give me the Holy Spirit." And I began to pray and pray and pray. And of course, several several several saints of God laid their hands upon me and really prayed for me. And finally, that was a pastor called Pastor J Samuel [name uncertain as the video is unclear] and his dear wife in Coimbatore a city in South India. A mighty man of God he was as well as faith is concerned and this dear sister was walking with God talking with Him. Both of them took a special interest and said, "Brother, don't be discouraged. We will come and stay with you for a few days and pray." And they did pray.
On October 9, 1962, I tarried at the feet of the Lord Jesus in prayer till midnight. I pleaded persistently: "Lord! Hear my prayer and now grant me Your power! Or else, slay me! I don't want to live as a powerless and phony Christian!".
The next day dawned on the 10th October 1962 11: 55 I gave my heart to Christ after seven years. On the 10 October 1962 after an exacting work in the bank, I returned home at 9.30 in the night. I came back from the bank very tired. After supper, I prayed with my father, my mother and these two people. There arose in me the usual longing for the blessed vision of Jesus.
That night, my dad was praying and suddenly the whole room was filled with God's mighty presence and I felt something so sweet. Something like refreshing cold water coming into my soul and filling me and refreshing my body.
Just before prayer even while my dad was praying, I whispered to Pastor J Samuel, "I feel so tired. I am not able to pray. " He just laid his hands like this left hand.
When he touched me, God chose that moment to send this mighty Holy Spirit. He felt as fresh as a rose. I was thrilled with this experience and I said, "Lord, from where this refreshing feeling is coming, from where this freshness is coming?"
And God opened my spiritual eyes. And I saw the whole room lit with heavenly light coming through the roof. Then as I looked in that light I saw a marvelous person standing there looking at me. I was fascinated and He said, "I am Jesus Christ. Because you sought Me diligently, I come in person to bless you."
And then it was a rapturous joy that came and filled my soul and I began to laugh and laugh and laugh at Him. He's stood there smiling at me. The more He smiled the more I roared with laughter.
And three full hours I was happy. He began to tell me how I prayed this seven full years day, date-wise, day-wise, time-wise and place-wise and the very content of my prayer.
For example, "On such-and-such a day you are going on the cycle to buy vegetables for your mother and on the way at 10:30 am you were praying like this."
And seven years prayer the whole thing and went on to tell me that I prayed like this at this time and prayed like that at that time. He said, "Last night at 12 o'clock you said, 'Lord I prayed so much for your Holy Spirit, fill me with the Holy Spirit or you take me away. I'm tired to live as a powerless and phony Christian!'"
And the pastor and his dear wife are witnesses. God said, "I heard that and I have come down to bless you.
Then He said, "Now look into the future." And I saw how He would take me all over the world and how every time I would address a crowd thousands and thousands and thousands will come.
At that time, I was not a full-time preacher. I was only a bank officer but He showed me before thousands and thousands of people. At that time I used to only witness in several meetings especially my greatest fascination was for street preaching. I will stand in a place where four busy roads would meet. I'll stand in that corner. The whole day I'll be in prayer and I'll just stand there and my uncle will come and we'll sing a song, two songs then my uncle will give some wonderful Bible verses in the megaphone and then I'll preach say 15 minutes or 20 minutes.
The whole crowd will come to stop. The whole traffic will come to a grinding halt because the people will be so fascinated to hear that 20 minutes. All the buses will stop. All the cars will stop. All the people on their bicycles will stop. Auto rickshaws will stop and there will be a big gathering around me. Then power that mighty power of God's Word and presence will grip their souls. Then the policeman will come running, "Sir, please move to the better place."
Well, that was how I was ministering and the Lord Jesus finally, He came nearer and nearer and He said, "Son, this world has heard about My love and My compassion but it has never seen it in the life of a person. Today I am filling you with My spirit of love and compassion. Every time you move with this love, move with this compassion whatever you ask for My people shall be granted."
Oh, I was thrilled then He came nearer and nearer and something like a door opened within my heart and He came in and I could see Him settling down in a spiritual way.
We started praying at 9:30 pm and it was early morning at 1:15 a.m when this was over. When I was seeing this vision and everything was going on, the others were just a sitting there, transfixed by the mighty power of the Holy Spirit. They knew that I was talking to God or God was talking to me but they could not move from that place and my dad asked, "What happened to you?" and I could not speak.
After 1:15 a.m. I became a normal self. Then I asked him to give me a notebook. In that I wrote, "I saw Jesus." I still feel His presence so I went to bed.
From that day two marvelous changes came in my life. Number one any time I pray, anywhere I pray, immediately the presence of Christ will come and I will see Him face to face and I can pray to Him talk to Him. So sometimes my prayer time used to be extended to 6 hours 8 hours like that at one stretch with no break, no lunch, no breakfast, no nothing. It is because when you see Him, Oh you are lost, you are lost.
And the second thing is the great compassion love that moves in your heart is not sympathy and it's not human sympathy. Compassion and sympathy are different. If you read the Holy Scriptures the Bible says in Matthew 9:36 But when Jesus saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd, and in Matthew 14: 14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and He healed their sick. Then Matthew 15:32 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way, and in Matthew 20:34 So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him.
In Mark 1:41-42 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth His hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean. And as soon as He had spoken, immediately leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.
Mark 6:34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.
Luk 7:13-14 And when the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And He said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
So it's not sympathy. Sympathy stops with pity saying, "Poor man." Compassion is the burning desire to do something for the man again. So it comes and burns in your heart that's why in Second Corinthians 5:14 the great Apostle Paul says, "The love of Jesus Christ constrains me" - that is compassion. So if you read Acts chapter 20:8 to 12 when the young man fell from the third floor everybody sympathized but Paul went down, fell on him in compassion and he did not stop his cry until he said, "His life has come back. He's alive." That's compassion.
Act 20:8-12 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. When he, therefore, was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. And they brought the young man alive and were not a little comforted.
Sympathy is just feeling sad for some person but unable to do anything but compassion makes you bring God's miracle. That's the difference.
The same compassion that moved Jesus Christ was the same compassion that moved me today but the quality is not the same as what He had. The reason why I say this is when the Lord Jesus Christ was in this world if you read Matthew 12:15, Mark 6:56 Matthew 14:36 everyone who touched Him were healed everyone on whom He laid His hands was healed.
Matthew 12:15 But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew Himself from thence: and great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.
Mark 6:56 And whithersoever He entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets and besought Him that they might touch if it were but the border of His garment: and as many as touched Him were made whole.
Mat 14:36 And besought Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
Like that there was no imperfection but in my ministry, I can't say that. I thank God Father what shall I say the millions who have been healed around the world, the millions who received miracles, miracles of getting a job, getting a child, getting married, getting the business blessed, getting out of debt and borrowing likewise mighty miracles. I thank God for every miracle but all are not blessed with miracles. All are not healed. There is an imperfection in my ministry. That's why I say the compassion which our Lord had and the compassion which He has bestowed on me probably are not the same in quantity and quality. He's given me some compassion but not the full compassion which He had because John 3:27 says unless it is given to a man from heaven he can receive nothing.
John 3:27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
So with this, the Lord changed my whole life and mysteriously I started receiving invitations from secular clubs like Rotary Clubs and Lions Club and because I was working in the bank when these people used to come to the bank they would say, "There is a marked difference between you and other people. There is something special in yourself." After finishing their transactions, they used to say. So I used to tell them my life story and they will be fascinated and they would say, "We want the whole world to hear your story." So they would arrange meetings mostly intellectuals and high highly-placed officials and businessmen whom you cannot even approach in the normal way or they would come and sit there for hours together. Sometimes we