God’s Cook Book: 1 Recipe 4 All: Your Mess + His Grace - Menu: God’s Glory - Voilà: Even Deliverance From Homosexuality - Rejoice!

By Pastor Donatien

Pastor Donatien, ThM., a former SE.MI.PI. (a cadet in the Malagasy Army), a one-time Ankaramalaza middle school teacher, a notable former pastor’s assistant, and a charismatic, successful former senior pastor of Ankaramalaza—the center of one of Madagascar’s four major revival movements which was founded in 1941 by Christ Jesus through His servant, Prophetess Mama Volahavana Germaine, also known as Mama Nenilava, his wife’s grandmother. The prophetess's ministry, during the ministry’s annual celebration, attracts over twenty thousand attendants from all over Madagascar and some from abroad—who are mostly Christians but some are non-Christians.

Donatien struggled with homosexuality at such an early age, he could not recall when he began practicing it, which led to a masturbation addiction. As a teen, he was afraid to sleep with girls but was determined to be a husband, so he pushed himself to have girlfriends and even managed to force himself to have sex with a few of them.

In 1983, Jesus saved him in a miraculous way and called Donatien to be an ordained pastor, specifically in the Malagasy Lutheran Church, and began to burden his heart with a desire to bring the message of the cross to those who are lost and to help those who are affected by homosexuality. Pastor Donatien never returned to homosexuality but struggled with masturbation off and on until Jesus delivered him from it once and for all, over a decade later.

Married in 1987, he and his lovely wife, Claire, have one precious granddaughter and five wonderful grown children—a daughter and four sons, her younger brothers.

Through divine experiences, the outpouring of the Spirit of the Living God, and the speaking in tongues marvel, the Lord Jesus guided the anointed and fiery preacher to write this series for the world—to help the living and the future generations as the end of time and its undeniable global challenges and apocalyptic plights are fast approaching us. Pastor Donatien, after spending more than a quarter of a century of preparation, of which over five of those years he spent day and night, seven days a week, 365 days a year doing nothing else but solely writing during which their three noble, amazing, younger sons completely assisted him in whatever the undeserved divine task may require and, also, having his dear wife’s full support, finally, he finished penning down GOD’S COOK BOOK - 1 recipe 4 ALL: YOUR MESS + HIS GRACE - MENU: GOD’S GLORY - VOILÀ: EVEN DELIVERANCE FROM HOMOSEXUALITY - REJOICE!

All glories, honors, powers, praises, and thanks be unto the Living, Mighty, Holy, and loving Father Lord God, His one and only Son, and the Holy Spirit alone.

This book is the first volume of GOD’S COOK BOOK series, which some people may say is unorthodox since even the series’ title voices random terms. Surprisingly, long ago, some folks asked, “Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? (John 1:46). But then, around that same time, to reply to a certain individual, the Lord Jesus expressed, “Come and see” (John 1:39). One may be wondering, therefore, about what it is that makes this series so unusual? Which is utterly understandable! Well, to borrow that expression from Christ our Lord and Savior, another person may say, “Come and see!” or “Read and see!”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pastor Donatien
• Release date: May 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781734042030

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VOLUME ONE

CONTENTS

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I—No Mess Is Too Great for Jesus’s Grace

1—The Family’s Tragedy

2—The Loss of My Other Brother

3—Losses Disclose Our Unavoidable Need for Christ Jesus

4—Faith in Jesus Christ Generates Hope

II—My Loving and Caring Parents and Their Businesses

1—My Dad, a Great Family Man

2—My Amazing Mom

3—The Family Businesses

III—Some Cultures and Homosexuality Problems

1—Sold Out to Homosexuality Early

2—Some People Really Love You

Pervertedly Loving Your Loved Ones

The Uncompromising Word of God Shows Us the Result of Everything

Perversely Loving Something Ends as an Abomination Cultural Phenomenon

Who Loves Us Perversely and Who Loves Us in a Godly Way

The World Perverts Love, but the Lord Never Distortedly Loves Anyone

IV—My Childhood, Homosexuality Problems, and the First Divine Visitation

1—Practiced Homosexuality at a Very Early Age

2—About Ten Years Old, My Mom Took Me to a Deliverance Service

3—Discovered Masturbation

4—Unanswered Subconscious Question After Getting Sex from Other Guys

5—I Got the Answer

6—Mr. Homosexuality-Practice in Trial

Mr. Homosexuality-Practice’s Evidence

Mr. Homosexuality-Practice’s Witnesses

The Devil Who Is Also Called Satan (Rev. 12:9)

Mr. People or Mr. Men

Mr. The-World, Mr. The-World-System, or The World

Final Verdict

7—Can Our Flesh, Blood, and DNA Tell the Sovereign Lord God to Change the Uncontaminated Bible?

8—The Godly Marriage

9—How Much Are We Willing to Lose and Sacrifice to Gain What?

10—Dead or Alive, We Can Never Dictate the Business of Heaven

11—After Our Physical Death, Would the Sovereign Lord God Change the Uncontaminated Bible for the Living We Have Left Behind?

12—Peace Rules in My Conscience Whenever I Sleep with My Wife

V—Early Childhood to Teen Years

1—Countryside Small Town

Jiny

Diverse Amusements

Tafasery, Akamatatra, and Tangahatry

Hajolahy

2—Fun Things for Boys Before They Started School

Going Sledding

Started School

VI—Moved To a City

VII—A Desire to Have a Connection with the Supernatural World

1—Very Early in Life, I Was Interested in the Realm of the Spirit

2—Kondoky

3—We Cannot Serve the Lord God with Any Idol, Other Religion, or Something Else

4—Do Not Share the Lord Jesus Christ’s Place of Worship and All His Other Properties and Artifacts with Any Other Religion, Idol, and All Other Contradicting Things

5—If It Has Been Used in Any Way Against Christ Jesus and the Uncontaminated Bible—Then, Do Not Rush to Utilize It in the Kingdom of God

About the Author

Notes

Bibliography

DEDICATION

In honor of all my three boys who are still living with Mama and Papa. From the youngest to the oldest, they are Isaia, Jakoba, and Josefa. Indisputably, the sovereign Lord God has elected to use their love and great spirit to produce each parchment for this book series of His one and only Son, our victorious risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And, these young men’s diligent daily labor, sweat, and services He utilized to form the pen—to inscribe every one of His volumes’ myriad words. Even more, sporadically, Jakoba and Josefa have been helping me with correcting this work. Amazingly, Isaia, being good at English and having more time than his brothers, he has been assisting me by editing and proofreading the manuscript as much as he can to make it sound better. It has been heavenly.

For Enoka and Hangisoa, also, who are my oldest kids, for the little support that they could contribute to this project. I understand that they could not do that much because they did not live with the rest of the family during the time of the undertaking. They already had their own places.

I am speechless when it comes to my awesome, lovely, loving wife, Ramatoa R. Claire Germaine. Her spirit, love, and care for my family and myself is astonishing. Her commitment to Christ, His kingdom, and this book series of His is incredible. Without her, I could have never gotten this far. Words are not enough to express my highest gratitude and appreciation for her love and support.

To my wife’s parents—particularly her thoughtful mother, who is still alive—and to all my wife’s brothers and sisters. They gave me the love of my life, who is undoubtedly a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.

To my parents, especially i endry-ko, or my mother, a loving person who is still living now, and to all my siblings. They provided me with a Christian family to teach me the ways of the Lord Almighty God, which I was definitely going to need later on in life. My brother, Ignace, and his wife, Alphonsine, with their insufficient resources as full-time university students, survived solely on one full-time job to complement their little scholarship from the government, yet, they were willing to sacrifice to support me to get my college degree thirty-six years ago. No doubt the diploma assured me opportunities to go abroad.

PREFACE

Glory, honor, praises, might, wisdom, power, and thanks to the Trinity Lord God of the Christians for the undeserved opportunity with which He blessed this good-for-nothing servant of His to write this book series of the Lord Most High God. For this, I cannot worship or thank my loving Heavenly Father the Lord Almighty God Jehovah enough. Likewise, for the stated special blessing, I can never adore enough nor be grateful enough for my dear sweet Jesus Christ of Nazareth, our victorious risen Lord and Savior. He suffered beyond comprehension for our sins, died in agony on the cross and was buried, but on the third day, He rose back to life again and lives forevermore. Similarly, for the same undeserved opportunity, I cannot lift on high enough or thank enough the Spirit of the Living God, our Guide and Counselor.

I still shake my head in disbelief whenever it comes to my mind that I am writing a book and doing so in English. For me, this is nothing short of a miracle. I know that it would never happen unless it were not for the conquering risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

By the time the first volume of this series is ready to go to the printing room, I will have put on the job about twelve thousand hours already and still counting. Late in 2013 to early 2014, when I was considering taking a risk by leaving the job that I held to complete this project, with no more than solely one book in mind, I expected to see it published in merely six months. That was also how long my savings and my last paycheck would last my family and me. But, to my surprise, it has been over four years already since I started working on this project and did so day and night seven days a week, 365 days a year.

Being in a foreign land, in this fast, increasingly hostile world fueled by hi-tech and facing all sorts of challenges and barriers, which has been the situation of most of the people in my own family, I see the hand of the Lord God Almighty continuously leading and providing for my household as I pen these volumes of His. Not only has He been financially doing this but in all aspects of life as well. Whenever we were about to run out of money or someone in my family lost a job, or both situations or more occurred at the same time, even at the very last moment, always the Messiah of Israel came forth for us. One time, what was left of our failed food business, which caused us a massive deficit, He turned to our benefit when we were in need the most. It reminds me of the uncompromising living Word of the sovereign Lord God that Prophet Elijah spoke to the Zarephath woman one day, when there was a famine in the land, saying, For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, ‘The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth’ (1 Kings 17:14). Hence, we have never gone hungry or lacked any other necessity.

Dear Reader, prior to taking your own journey through this series, let me tell you this: you are in for surprises. I am saying this because this was what our victorious risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth was showing me while scribing this book series. When I was focusing on a specific topic and was writing about it, somehow, He would have me cover another, which if it was not one with a wider range, it was something else completely different from the said subject, which never ceases to astonish me.

I owe an enormous debt to Prophetess Mama Nenilava or Volahavana Germaine—although she is no longer with us. To my wife, Claire, and me, the prophetess was both a spiritual mother as well as a grandmother in the flesh, as she was my wife’s great-aunt. Furthermore, I was told by various individuals, including some of my in-laws, that when Claire’s dad was yet a child, the prophetess adopted him to be her own son.

Even as far back as in the early 1990s, my wife and I asked Mama Nenilava specifically to pray for us as I had a burning desire to write this particular book of the one and only Son of the Living God. That unique day, Mama Volahavana Germaine blessed us as a couple, and also, she noted that the Lord Jesus would make my wish to write a book a reality, for which I am forever so grateful. The desire to write a volume strongly developed in my heart and spirit in the early 1980s after I miraculously met our conquering risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth and gave my entire life to Him and His services. Of course, the book was based on my own life experiences. However, the call for the divine mission had already started influencing me regularly via several individual realistic dreams since my childhood and until my early walk with the Lord Jesus, although the very assignment itself was still vague back then.

In everything that Prophetess Mama Nenilava had done for my family, myself, and especially all her contributions to these volumes, words are not enough to express my utmost gratitude to the exceptional servant of the victorious risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

To countless Malagasy people, whether they lived in Madagascar or abroad, Nenilava was the most well-known among all the prophets and prophetesses of the Lord Jesus Christ, which the island has ever had. For over a century now, in Madagascar, the Lord has been calling these men and women miraculously and sending them to preach the gospel and to bring the revival movement all over the country and overseas too.

Since the day I arrived in the Tobilehibe Ankaramalaza and lived there, I learned more and more about the prophetess from her closest circle, from those who knew her and her ministry in person. In fact, they told me she had been in France, taking the message of the Cross to the Malagasy Diasporas of that nation and to a number of French folks also. Likewise, they mentioned that the Son of the Living God had sent her to some communities and individuals in the Comoros Islands to do the same. Additionally, according to the same people, Volahavana Germaine had visited churches in the United States of America. On one occasion, the same people shared that her Lord and Savior opened up a door for her to travel to Norway where she had an opportunity to preach the gospel of the kingdom of God to Norwegian congregations. I was a seminary student in 1989, when she and some of her coworkers embarked on her last journey abroad to minister there.

In fact, I was told by those who knew her and her ministry in person as specified above that a few years earlier, before Mama Nenilava’s visit to Norway where she had the opportunity to meet His Majesty, King Olav V, His Majesty had sent an official to Madagascar to honor her with a special decoration. Her ministry has significantly influenced not only the Malagasy Lutheran Church as an entity alone but almost all other denominations in the island as well as the entire nation. Over the past decades, her ministry has branched out to several other countries to reach Malagasy nationalities who live in these nations as well as the natives of those lands and their other residents as well.

Still, there is more, and I hope you do not mind if I tell you. One day, my wife and I were on the phone with my mother in-law when she told us the following story. When my wife was born, Prophetess Nenilava herself specifically named her R. Claire Germaine, which her parents honored. Back then, Mama Nenilava told a few people to go along with Claire’s mother, as she advised her to deliver her baby at the nearby hospital. Yet, the infirmary was located in a township that was about six kilometers away from Ankaramalaza where these individuals lived. That was when following the river was their sole option. Indeed, that specific day, Ankaramalaza and her vicinity almost had become an island overnight due to the flooding that was affecting the entire area.

Still, upon hearing from the prophetess, the future new mom herself, and the indicated folks went together to the municipality anyway. On their way to the bank of the overflowing river to embark on a canoe, it was apparent that the baby just could not wait any longer but had to step out into the world. And, she did, even though it was right by a cattle pen which was near the small street of the Tobilehibe Ankaramalaza. Seeing that and already emergency situation now had become more urgent than ever, one of those who was with Claire’s mama had to get Mama Volahavana Germaine to help them deliver the infant.

Thanks to the Lord God Almighty because the prophetess did just that and did so successfully. She then encouraged the mother and those who were assisting her to continue on to the hospital despite all the challenges that they were indisputably facing that day. In fact, it came to pass that Mama Nenilava had already asked this one particular young man to drive my in-law and those who came with her on that one emergency trip to the hospital on a motorized metal rowboat. Hence, the fellow had been with the rest of the people in that group all that time, even before the birth of the child. By the way, the indicated gentleman and Ramatoa Claire’s mom had been treating each other as a brother and sister long before the incident would ever occur.

Right after the birth of my wife, the referred-to nobleman insisted that his frail sister must now accept his offer, which was to carry her on his back even from the cow’s enclosure to the canoe. And, likewise, from the watercraft to the hospital he carried her until they reached their destination.

Two decades later, after the foregoing detailed incident took place, my wife and I married in Ankaramalaza during my summer break from seminary. After our wedding, my spouse joined me for the rest of my program when I went back to the seminary that I was attending. Even long before all this happened, amazingly, the same gentleman who carried my wife’s mother on his back had been an ordained pastor for over a decade already and was teaching at the school for a number of years. Additionally, not only was he one of my teachers, but he was the head of the theological school as well. I am talking about Pastor Ramampiaro Georges, ThM. In fact, after our graduation, the same great man of God participated in our ordination ceremony and celebrations as well. To him, I am utterly thankful.

As a matter of fact, my wife and I were so grateful that Prophetess Mama Nenilava was there that day to witness our consecration. She treated it as her own family’s celebration, instructing her own son, who was Claire’s dad, to kill one zebu to feed the hundreds of people that she had apparently invited to celebrate the ordination with her. Then, it was solely my calling as an ordained pastor that led me to America, where I am writing these tomes.

In this preface, and equally in the entire series also, instead of simply expressing The Lord Jesus, but due to my personal relationship and experience with Him, more than often, I prefer saying (our or my) the victorious risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And likewise, I would call Him, (our) my sweet and dear friend, the Messiah of Israel who suffered indescribably for the sins of the world, died in agony on the cross, and was buried. But, on the third day, He rose back to life again and lives forevermore.

In fact, on the eve of the Holy Thursday March 29, 2018, my family and I were having a worship service specifically to commemorate the occasion. I was working on my autobiography for this work that day. Just prior to taking Holy Communion in remembrance of the Lord Jesus as He commands all His true and genuine followers to do, I explained to my family the inconceivable divine power, wisdom, and life that are in Christ’s suffering, in the shedding of His own holy and precious blood, and likewise in His cross, death, and resurrection. Then, I fervently explained to my wife and three boys that this was why it was so pleasing to my soul to list all that the Lord had to go through on Holy Week, to redeem us from sin whenever I would mention the mighty and living holy name of the conquering risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth. As I was passionately elaborating on this, or preaching it if you will, suddenly, the Spirit of the Living God fell upon me, got hold of me and my tongue, and had me speak in a different language.

As a matter of fact, prior to focusing on scribing this book series, from time to time, I would feel the manifestation of the Holy Spirit powerfully in one form or another, but He never made me speak in a different language. One morning, during the first few weeks of undertaking this work; however, while I was half-asleep and half-awake, I was following a heavenly song I was hearing in a dream. As I was praising the Lord along with those who were singing, it sounded as if the angelic hymn was sung in a language that I was familiar with, like English or Malagasy. The occurrence was so real that it woke me up as I worshiped. But as I continued singing that one divine melody to prevent me from forgetting it, surprisingly, I realized I was singing in a language that I do not know. From that moment on, for about seven hours straight that same day, no matter how hard I tried to talk to my family in English or Malagasy, I just could not do it. I could only communicate in the indicated celestial language. After this incident, the speaking in tongues marvel became more frequent as the job progressed. Therefore, my family and I believe our conquering risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth was stamping these volumes of His with His heavenly seal, which is (in this case) the Spirit of the Living God, to officiate them as His will or to confirm it as His own, if you will.

In this book series, I feel highly honored to show all of you, my dear readers, why this slave of Jesus Christ of Nazareth the Messiah of Israel, a servant of the gospel of the kingdom of God, is so passionate about helping others to find Christ while still in this life on earth below, have a personal relationship with Him, and eventually grow in Him wholly. Yes, I really am particularly passionate about assisting those of every age who struggle with homosexuality problems all over the universe, their families and friends also, as well as their communities and nations and even the world itself.

Therefore, I am humbled and appreciative of all foreign nationalities who, in a godly manner and in any way that they could, directly or not, sacrificially brought the uncompromising living Word of the Lord Most High God to my people and country. I would not be the man that I am today if it was not for them, let alone materializing this divine project. Similarly, I am endlessly grateful for all those who are doing the same thing right now and equally to those who will be doing it in the future.

Likewise, my heartfelt thanks to all other individuals, either Malagasy or of any other different nationality, who at some point in the past helped my family and me to get this far since the Lord Jesus is bringing these books of His into being through us. Definitely, these folks had laid stepping stones for us as the Savior of the world was leading us in a specific direction, fulfilling His intention, which was this particular series.

We know that the Lord Almighty God formed the whole creation out of nothing. Reasoning from that fact, hence, He can use any existing thing for His purpose. There is no doubt about it! In the case of these volumes of His one and only Son, our conquering risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth, it seemed like He empowered man to come up with high-technology to facilitate the process, especially so the computer, the internet, and its search engines, numerous services, websites, and different applications. I am unable to mention all of them, for there are a countless number of resources that have been assisting me with this project. Their enormous help has made a tremendous difference in materializing this book series. For each one of them, I am utterly pleased.

And last but not least, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all American individuals, persons of other nationalities, and fellow Malagasy men and women who at some point during the past twenty-five years of this book series’ preparation and processing have edited and proofread my story to improve it or have advanced it in any way. Every one of their hard work and care is priceless. It has further enhanced this book to its production. Seeing that English is only supposed to be my third language, after my Malagasy mother tongue and my mostly forgotten French, which I have never been fluent at to start with. Nonetheless, somehow, these wonderful people managed to make an author of an English book series out of me, which is just amazing!

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My endless appreciation to those who determinedly worked closely with Prophetess Mama Nenilava to support her throughout her decades of ministry. Indeed, they made it easier for such an extraordinary servant of the Lord Jesus Christ herself to receive and serve people like me all those years.

What a unique blessing the Tobilehibe Ankaramalaza has been to my family and me. Actually, it was in the Tobilehibe Ankaramalaza that my wife, Claire, and I grew more and more in our walk with Christ. And, later, our local synod committee appointed us there to serve our victorious risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth as their pastor, just before going to the United States of America where this project is taking place.

I want to acknowledge all my friends back home and abroad—on social media or not—acquaintances, and even strangers too, for their prayers and the support that they showed in one form or another, as long as they did it in a godly way for a godly purpose. Yes, I do, though my family or myself may never be aware of their actions or even might have misunderstood their heavenly deeds and services. With a humble heart, I am so grateful for these wonderful people who are all over the world and for their godly and loving characters.

Also, I want to recognize folks either from a different country than Madagascar or Malagasy citizens who would serve my people with good intention and do so in a godly manner either in the past, now, or in the future too. I say this because when I just arrived in America, the Lord Jesus explicitly told me in a vivid dream, Do not forget Madagascar.

Equally, I want to acknowledge men and women, young and old, all over the globe, either in the past, present, or future, who are peace-loving, considerate, and respectful of others no matter who the stated others may be. The former are mercy-loving and caring folks; I am talking about those who will do these acts according to the uncompromising living Word of the Lord Most High God in the uncontaminated Bible. I want to encourage them to please keep on doing the same services that they have been offering the world with endurance, even when it seems that no one notices it and that nobody appreciates them and instead might be misjudged and mistreated.

The reality is that these individuals serve no mortal but the Living Lord God Almighty, who has called them for such a challenging but a much needed and utterly rewarding responsibility. Yes, I really want to acknowledge them. Because, exactly thirty-four years ago this year, 2018, our victorious risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth filled me up with the Spirit of the Living God in an intense manner and made me speak that He is coming back soon and that all eyes shall see Him (Rev. 1:7). Hence, sooner or later, my friend, this shall precisely occur as He says in the uncontaminated Bible that it will be. Thus, they should always keep up the good work no matter what, for no one knows the day or the hour (Mark 13:32).

INTRODUCTION

Let me start with the following significant remark. Our loving Heavenly Father Jehovah, the Lord Almighty God, our victorious risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Spirit of the Living God, and likewise, the prophets of the Lord, the apostles, and their followers all warn us about the danger of the false prophets and false teachers and their distorted teachings, which in the past occurred within the community of the people of the Lord itself, and therefore, the same thing will also happen in the church of Christ.

To accomplish its goal, the spirit of false teaching will always start by twisting the truth of the uncompromising living Word of God. Evangelist Luke wrote, Then understood they [the disciples] how that he [Jesus] bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees (Matt. 16:12). Apostle Peter says, As also in all his [Apostle Paul] epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction (2 Peter 3:16). Similarly, Paul expresses, Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith (2 Tim. 3:8). Going further, the same apostle declares:

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Tim. 4:3-4)

Then the Lord Jesus explicitly states, For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect (Matt. 24:24).

Having such an indisputable reality in mind which, unfortunately, is both sad and utterly disturbing, I am convinced that in these very interesting days that we live in, we must be very clear about what we mean when referring to the things of the Trinity Lord God of the Christians. Otherwise, in the long run, our writings, words, and explanations about the things of the Trinity Lord God of the Christians can easily be misinterpreted—intentionally or not—by some people for their personal or group aim, to justify their evil and deceitful motive, or for their own promotional purposes.

The above said people and group would love to discover our unclear words, writings, and vague interpretations about the things of the Lord, whether it was done unintentionally or not. They highly value them as great treasures and useful tools as well as sharp weapons that by accident or not, its trusted caretaker somehow has left behind in plain sight and was just lying around. Thus, they would be glad to find them, and therefore, they cannot wait to use them to justify their deceptive teachings and false doctrines and to bring attack on the truth of God in His divine uncompromising living Word, any true and genuine follower of Jesus, or the true and genuine church of Christ on earth herself.

Consequently, to take only one example among the ones which this book series communicates, I decided to use the words the uncontaminated Bible to refer to the version(s) of the Bible that is not distorted by anything, be it the new age idea, movement, or culture nor has it been influenced by any lifestyle or philosophy or belief that the uncompromising living Word of God calls sin and abomination, like homosexuality and spiritualism practices and demon worships and alike, popular among many or not. I want everybody—to include those in the generations to come—who will read any of my books or writings or would hear my voice to know the above information.

For three times in a row, my family and I were about to go back to Madagascar, our home country, after being in the U.S. for some years, but it did not work. The first time was in 2001 to 2002, then in 2007 and 2008, and the last attempt took place in 2011 and 2012.

In 2001, we were getting ready for the trip; however, for my wife and I, deep down in our souls, we were convinced that this was not what the Lord wanted us to do at the moment. So, with our five kids (two of which were toddlers), we stayed, although we did not know where to go and how we were going to make it. Thus, to start with, we lived in our minivan for about a week during a Minnesota winter. I thank the Lord God Almighty that it was only a mild winter. Then, twice in a row—approximately two months apart—we went to a day shelter for about a month at a time. While there, every afternoon, they transported us from one church to another for supper, to spend the night, and for breakfast the next morning just before returning to the shelter.

Between the two occasions, I was glad to find a place my family and I could call home at last, though this was the attic of a heavy smoker. Yet, it was all I could pay for before I could find a better place that I could afford.

On the second try, we thought that Christ Jesus the Son of the Living God was calling us to serve a Spanish and English speaking Christian community in Canada. Thus, we needed to return to Madagascar to prepare everything before the travel. Yet somehow, things did not go as we thought it would.

Likewise, toward the end of 2011, we were planning on going to Canada again to pastor an international Christian fellowship. Back then, we strongly believed that this was the right thing to do as the Lord’s servants. But on Wednesday, January 11, 2012, at about ten thirty in the morning, I suddenly heard a loud voice saying the name of this one biblical character in one of the Old Testament books when I was at home. I was wide awake that instant. The name of the indicated character was called loudly in a firm tone that startled me.

Interestingly, this took place merely an hour or two after I was on the phone with a servant of Jesus Christ who was going back to Madagascar from France before heading to Canada. By the way, the person is closely related to my wife and I in the Lord and also in a family connection. My spouse was in the room with me when the incident occurred. Hence, right away, I asked her if she also perceived that voice, but she said, No.

When I read in its entirety, the specified Old Testament book that has the story of the biblical character, in my spirit, somehow this one particular uncontaminated Bible verse snatched my attention but not for any human desire. Shockingly, the passage states that one should not go anywhere else but stay in the place at where one is currently. It was similar to this one that says: And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house (Luke 10:7). Certainly, this was not what I was hoping to hear from the sovereign Lord God, our loving Heavenly Father Jehovah, that day. In fact, while I was explaining it to my beautiful, loving wife, she looked at me doubtfully, like I was merely making this up. Still, she and I took the revelation as a word from the Lord telling us not to go back to Madagascar but stay in the U.S.A. without a time frame, although the news greatly saddened her.

Exactly two weeks following this, which was on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, the Lord visited me in a dream while I was sleeping. The vision was so vivid that it woke me up abruptly. The following were the things that He showed me in that vision: (1) A heavenly song. (2) He told me that it was Him who brought me back from the northern part of my country to where I had gone decades earlier. In 1984, I was going to start my desire to preach the gospel all over Madagascar beginning from that region, which He cut short for His purpose. (3) He mentioned to me that He reveals His will to His servants. (4) And the last one was a Scripture reference from the New Testament that was written in white on a whiteboard. And yet to say the least, I could read the inscription perfectly, which was incredible.

I read the previously mentioned uncompromising Word of God subsequently after the experience. Somehow, out of the number of the verses the passage has, one struck my heart. Nonetheless, this was not for any human urge or anything like that. Interestingly, it said the Lord knows what is in people’s hearts as this one scripture states, But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, ‘Rise up, and stand forth in the midst.’ And he arose and stood forth (Luke 6:8). On the one hand, unquestionably, this was true. On the other hand, however, instead of clarifying and confirming to me what the Lord wanted us to do at the moment, rather, the new information only caused more confusion.

Then for about a week or so around that Wednesday, January 25, 2012, step-by-step, the Messiah of Israel instructed me to understand what He meant when He told me that He knows what is in the heart of man. Indeed, on two different days, when I read the uncontaminated Bible as I would always do daily, two uncontaminated Bible verses somehow grabbed my attention by surprise. The first verse was, The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant (Ps. 25:14). Speaking of tutoring, as a matter of fact, the other verse explicitly states, I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye (Ps. 32:8). Via these two scriptures, He opened my spiritual eyes to another uncontaminated Bible verse, where Apostle Paul says, For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God (1 Cor. 2:11).

With the last one of the three scriptures that are listed above, the Son of the Living God revealed to me the other side of that one uncompromising living Word of God, which He showed me in the noted vision but yet at that time was still hidden to my understanding. Maybe this was because it contradicted what my spouse and I wished to take place those days. Now, it was clear that the following was the message of our conquering risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth to me in that Scripture reference that was written in white on a whiteboard. That is this: Not only does His Living Spirit see what is in man’s heart, but also, only His Holy Spirit alone knows what is in the Lord Almighty God’s own heart. Accordingly, exclusively, the Spirit of the Living God can disclose what is in the sovereign Lord God’s own heart to His servants as He desires. No other person or any other living being or anything else can—period. The latter was then the new revelation which was said earlier that was still hidden to me, although the information itself was not necessarily new to me. It confirmed the third thing that the Lord revealed to me in the previously described vivid dream, as well as explained further the two scriptures from my daily reading which were indicated earlier.

Everything was now fitting together and was indisputably making perfect sense, even to a heart and mind that wanted to reject it badly. Thus, I finally got what the victorious risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth had told us already at the beginning from the story of that one biblical character was indeed His will for us back then, which was to stay in the U.S.A., although there were no further details. Indisputably, He is an incredible Teacher beyond measure. No wonder the Lord Most High God, our loving Heavenly Father Jehovah described Him as follows through the prophet, Isaiah: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace (Isa. 9:6).

Of course, the whole thing got my spouse and I utterly perplexed and disappointed. Still, neither did we ignore nor reject it. Instead, with our trust and hope in our conquering risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth alone, we obeyed His voice anyway, even though we did not comprehend why we still needed to stay in the U.S.A. indefinitely. When we did, irrefutably—as far as this book project is concerned—it has been marvelous, or divine.

As a matter of fact, whenever my wife hears me reading out loud the above indicated story or any part of this book series as I work on it, she cannot get enough of listening to it. It makes her joyful, and she is always smiling, unlike how she did when the Lord first told us in 2012 that we ought to stay in the U.S.A. instead of going to serve Him in Canada. Please understand that she is the Lord’s answer to my prayer and indeed a loving and caring mother of my precious children. She