JEEVAN
DHAM
(THE TREE OF LIFE)
God Himself
has chosen this place in North India to show His power, mercy
and love through the incredible miracles being performed here
by the power of His word and His Spirit.
"JEEVAN
DHAM"-
as is the name being given by Him (It's in Hindi language)
meaning the 'centre of life', is operating in Faridabad,
Haryana, North India.
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God Himself is guiding
His children and bringing His people closer to Him here itself
in strong faith through His incredible miracles, the same
miracles that were performed by Jesus 2000 years back during
his public ministry. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was sent
on earth by his Heavenly Father for us sinners as a poor &
a humble man to save us from sins, to free us from the clutches
of evil, superstitions and the slavery of sin by sacrificing
His own life on the Cross. This Word of God is getting fulfilled
here, which was true at the time of Jesus too-
"The
blind can see, the lame can walk, those who suffer from dreaded
skin-diseases are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead are
brought back to life, and the Good News is preached to the
poor."
(Matthew 11:5)
"What no eye
has seen and no ear has heard, what the mind of man cannot
visualize; all that God has prepared for those who love Him,
to us, though, God has given revelation through the Spirit,
for the Spirit explores the depths of everything, even the
depths of God." (1Corinthians 2:9-10)
Since 1986, the family's residence- House
no.696/ Sector-22, Fbd. had been a Mass Center,
where on every Sunday evening Mass was offered by the Parish
Priest of Sec-5, St. Joseph's Parish, Faridabad and catholic
believers of the locality and of the nearby sectors use to
come here to participate in the Holy Mass offered here. At
that time the Fr.Arnold David was the Parish Priest. The prayer
started actually five years later, that is, in April 1991,
after Fr. Matthew Naikamparambil and his team had arrived
at Faridabad and had conducted a five-day retreat in St. Anthony's
Convent School, Sec-9, Fbd. where Mrs.Mani (The housewife)
was one of the main volunteers.
After this retreat, during the volunteers'
meeting, Father Matthew announced that Almighty God is blessing
two persons, named Pavunni and Mariyam (Baptism
name of Mrs. Mani); they will get the spiritual
gift of getting the answers to their problems and questions
from the Bible (i.e. God will answer them) and Mariyam
will get apparitions from God (Romans 9:15). At that
time there was a little confusion over which Mariyam did actually
get this gift. There were about seven small prayer groups
working altogether at that time in Faridabad and 'Charismatic
prayer' was the matter of great concern and appeal and at
the time was creating a new revolution in Faridabad. Then
the couple went to Father Matthew and said that they needed
their daily food for the soul, that is, the Word of God besides,
Wisdom and Understanding (St.John 6:35, 63). Father
replied that he will pray for the same and soon his prayers
were answered when Mr. Apachchan Kutty along with his
team (including Sr. Felicia and Sr. Elsy) came
to conduct five-day Bible classes somewhere in Defence
Colony, New Delhi. The couple attended these classes.
On the fourth day, during counseling, they were informed about
their vocation from God to do His work and Sr.Elsy said
to Mrs. Mani that Jesus is calling her for His
work and they got the Bible verses from the gospel of St.Matthew
8:14-22, which clearly meant that they got the power to
heal and to work miracles as a spiritual gift from the Supreme
God. Further, they suggested Mrs. Mani to go to Divine
Retreat Centre, Kerala and attend the five-day
continuous retreat there for further clarification, encouragement
and confirmation through counseling, to get more blessings
and to understand God's plans for her. Consequently, she did
so in the same year (1991) during the summer vacations
(in the month of May-June) and there again she met
Sr. Elsy and Fr. Matthew. Sr. Elsy on
counseling saw the God's plan for her - It was to start
a prayer group in North India, where they live
and keep fast one day a week. On the way back, miraculously,
she experienced God's presence with her and the truth of the
foretold blessings that she had received when she had prayed
along with those present there for a young teenager boy (one
of the catholics living in the neighbourhood back at home)
and his high fever went off within minutes and she got the
verses after praying for him - James 5:13-15. God answered
their humble prayer (St. John 15:16, Rom 10:11).
Then the family started praying daily morning
(prayers including praying the rosary, praising God and intercessory
prayer) here at their residence. They started their first
community small prayer following the Holy Mass on July
6, 1991, Sunday evening in Malayalam with
few of the active charismatic members (Thus on July 6,
2002 Jeevan Dham completed its 11 precious years). Seeing
this and listening to their prayers, few catholics living
nearby (5-6) too joined them. Then, naturally the neighbours
living nearby heard their loud voices praising God and praying
fervently to Him, came to know about it and heard about some
unheard incredible miracles performed here by God. With curiosity
and little faith they to joined them in prayer. Henceforth,
for their convenience the prayer was then kept in Hindi.
As instructed during counseling, they decided
to keep the day of fasting as Friday. But fasting should
be accompanied with prayer (St. Mark 9:29) and good
deeds. Then a Brahmin lady (Warrier family), who was
suffering from fits everyday and who used to take many tablets
a day, on hearing about this prayer, came here out of her
inquisitiveness and started praying to get rid of this irrepresible
& maddening disease. Fortunately, after some days she
left her medicine and then later was completely cured. This
influential and unheard, outstanding miracle along with some
others were awe-inspiring and created a stir and anxiety among
those living in the locality and developed an atmosphere of
sheer faith and respect. Within one year, that is, in 1992,
they started their morning prayer on Friday for all
believers from 9:00a.m. onwards so that those who came
to attend the prayer from faraway places also could reach
back their home safely in broad daylight. Then slowly and
slowly, more people joined their prayer, especially on Friday
mornings and Sunday evenings and mind that these people were
not Christians at all, as a matter of fact, but their faith
in God, through Lord Jesus Christ and in Mother Mary was many
times stronger than those who were already Christians. And
God saved them and heard their prayers and even called them
from their home personally through visions to make them His
own people, His own dear children (Romans 9:25-26; 10:13).
Gradually, with the increase in the number
of miracles, cures and blessings, the number of believers
too increased. As a result, on Fridays those who came to join
the prayer were seated jam-packed in the verandah, and from
there to the street in front and within 6 years the
whole street in front of the house and the park was overcrowding
with people blocking the entire road and hence the street
every Friday from 9:00 a.m. onwards till 2p.m.
Tents were put up on the whole street and loudspeakers were
used for the people to hear the preaching of the Word of God,
the prayers, praises, witnesses and miracles. As Mrs. Mani
used to preach from within the first room (dedicated as a
church and not used for any personal use) of their residence,
people used to rush soon after the prayer ends in the afternoon
towards the gate of the house to get blessings (just her hand
on their heads), to tell her about their problems and illnesses
and some even just to get a glimpse of her who was addressed
as 'Mata Ji or Behan Ji or Didi' to whom they
had been listening to till the afternoon from the early morning.
People of all ages, no matter of what religion, caste, creed,
speaking whatever language, came here to join in the prayer
and never went away empty-handed from here. They got some
or the other blessing from God and everyone in that atmosphere
experienced the Supreme Power of God. With faith, they used
to bring water and oil to get them blessed so that they may
be healed on using them or applying them. And this was certainly
true because many witnesses mentioned about it out of their
own experience and faith.
Three main reasons why so many
people were attracted towards this prayer and had an unwavering
faith in God through Jeevan Dham (This name was itself
given by God through vision for this prayer group, meaning
the Center or the Source of Life) were - first of
all, the believers got the blessings and experienced miraculuous
healings from God for free just by sheer faith (Romans
10:9-10), without paying anything to God (no offering,
gift or sacrifice) or to anyone else financially or materialistically,
because God just wanted their devoted mind and their sincere
heart. Mrs.Mani was completing her role for them as a channel
of grace, mercy & love from God. She prayed for all of
them and God answered her prayers and showered His blessings
on them through His humble, loving servant. God was certainly
present there all the time (St. Mark 16:20) and He
made known His plans and His will, unfolded the mysteries
of the Kingdom of God through many holy, unforgettable, wonderful,
inexplicable, stunning and awe-inspiring visions and revelations
and through His Word from the Holy Bible. Even before knowing
anything about anyone, God reveals their problems, illnesses,
weaknesses, sins, mistakes, the past, present and future and
the blessings given to them and makes them understand this,
and any important thing or incident relevant to them through
visions because God knows everything about everyone and nothing
is hidden from Him. He is an omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient
Living God.(Sirach 23:19-20; 42:18-20). Second thing
that was important was that no one was converted to Christianity
here; what God wanted was the conversion of heart and soul,
and ultimately to save the life of a person and that was surely
happening to all those who came here. And finally the third
most important thing was that it was the Working of the
Holy Spirit of God, which provided healings, blessings,
peace, love, wisdom, visions, strength, consolation, encouragement
etc. to all through the Word of God. Nothing happening here
was done by a human mind or involved any magic, which is limited
by magnitude, place and time, and which cannot perform such
extra-ordinary things that were totally impossible for any
man living on earth. These were the divine blessings coming
directly from God who sits on His throne in heaven.(St.
Luke 18:27) Even the dead were brought back to life here
three-four times only through prayer and faith.
At last, in 1997, that is, after
the completion of the six years of the prayer group, the place
became very congested on Fridays for all to be contained within,
the street being fully packed to an extent that people had
to be accommodated on the roofs. This created an inconvenience
for the neighbours too for their own movements in and out
of their residences, and for the parking of their vehicles.
They used to park their vehicles outside early in the morning
henceforth to avoid their inconvenience in going out for work.
To provide adequate space for the crowds, the Carmel School,
which was close to it offered its building ground on the request
of the Most Rev. Aux. Bishop Vincent M. Concessao.
His Lordship, Bishop Vincent had visited the place
thrice previously and had understood the problem they were
having to accommodate people, especially once when he came
on Friday when it was raining, the believers were sitting
in the rain unperturbed showing no sign of uneasiness with
their umbrellas opened & were listening devoutedly to
His Sermon. For three Sundays starting from March 14, 1997,
the prayer session was kept there on Sunday. But later, due
to some inconvenience, the prayer venue was again shifted
from there to St. Anthony's school in Sector 9, Faridabad
in the month of April 1997. People started coming there
to join in the prayer service, and a bus service was also
provided later on for the sick, the poor and the needy who
don't have any means of conveyance to reach there on Sundays.
Today, anywhere
between 5000 and 6000 people gather every Sunday to listen
to God's Word and spend time in prayer of praise and thanksgiving
and for healing - one can easily say that about 98% are
Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs etc. This has become a place where
the dumb and deaf, who have never spoken or heard a word since
they were born get healed and start talking and praising God
saying "Allelluia"(A Hebrew word for praising
God a thousand times); where the lame start walking, where
those who were bedridden stand up on their own, where those
walking with the help of crutches or sticks walk without that;
where those suffering from dreaded skin-diseases like Eczema,
leprosy, white spots and from different allergies are cured
completely; where broken families come and then get together,
and start living together under one roof in love and peace,
with respect, care and understanding for each other; where
those suffering from diseases like Cancer - Blood cancer,
Bone cancer, Lung cancer or having any other cancerous growths
or tumours(like Brain Tumour), T.B., diabetes, AIDS or any
other unknown fatal diseases get cured without taking any
medicine or having done any operation or surgery; and where
the alcoholics, drug addicts, chain-smokers leave all their
long-time addictions and other bad habits and live a life
pleasing to God, free from all slavery of sin and addictions.
The massive healing (physical, mental
and spiritual) that takes place every Sunday during the
prayer has been drawing people from all sections of the society
coming from the neighbouring cities and states. Many of them
have understood through these miracles, healings, visions
and revelations, that they get while praying and praising
God, and by listening to the Word of God about the one, true,
living and loving God, his commands and his plans for them.
God has opened their minds and eyes and now they acknowledge
Jesus as the Messiah and Lord with a firm and
unwavering faith, which is not seen today in their contemporary
Christian brothers also. They read the Bible, they have faith
in Jesus to such an extent that they are very many times instrumental
in bringing other people, may be their relatives or neighbours
or those they are in touch with who are in need of God's help,
to listen to God's Word and experience healing. Most of them
are the poor and the needy and they have bicycles, auto-rickshaws,
trolleys, tempos and trucks as their mode of conveyance.
Writing down all the miracles happening here
that have happened here right back from 1991 when this organisation
had started till now from this point onwards, it will never
finish because we ourselves have not recorded them all and
as humans are unaware of many and also are unable to record
all of these abundant blessings, healings and miracles which
God has performed here for His children completely and comprehensively.
This is because it is God who provides them with what they
need, it is God Himself who heals and cures them of their
diseases, who forgives their sins, who gives them revelations
and inexplicable and wonderful visions, who helps them in
their difficulties and protects them from any natural catastrophe,
disease or accident - and this is God's true love for
them. And in whatever way and how much we praise Him, it is
just like a drop of water in the sea, like a grain of sand
in the seashore. He has chosen this place and time and people
to show His power, mercy, divinity, love, forgiveness and
affection so that we and all who come here may believe
strongly in Him, entrust everything we have, follow Him,
His way, His Word and His commands and may put this in
our life and give Him the first place in our heart, may welcome
Him into our lives so that we may be led by his Holy Spirit
and may fulfill His wish and His plans set for
us. You must believe this because this is from no one else
but God and only He can do it and nothing is impossible for
Him.
"For
there is nothing that God cannot do." (St.Luke
1:37).
Our
Publications:
To make others know about the miracles happening
here, a monthly newsletter was published for the people named
"Divya-Jyoti"(meaning The Divine Light)(St.John
8:12). This newsletter, "Divya-Jyoti",
was first published in Malayalam, on December 1995.
Six months later, on August 15, 1996, the
first Hindi edition of "Divya Jyoti"
was published. "DIVYA-JYOTI" (a name given
by God & made known by visions) includes some
of the important and incredible witnesses who have experienced
the power and love of God through their healings & visions.
Apart from these, this newsletter has articles wholly based
on the Holy Bible and some parables taken from the gospels.
Now, we have been publishing this in Hindi (the most common
spoken language of the masses) for the past six years and
we distribute it all for free.We have published one prayer
book named by God as "NAYA
JEEVAN"(New Life) and written with the
grace and blessings of His Holy Spirit, which consists of
prayers including the daily prayer, rosary, novena, few hymns,
quotes from the Bible, the rosary of divine mercy & divine
praises. Then we have a devotional hymn book named "JEEVAN
DHAM KE PHOOL"(The Beautiful Flowers of Jeevan
Dham) that has the beautiful and devotional hymns written
and composed here through God's grace. Singing them brings
joy & peace to our heart that we can get nowhere these
days. We will forget all our worries, needs, illnesses and
pains and God will cure us or reveal us His benign presence
through different signs, by letting us hear his divine voice
or be blessed to see invaluable, divine visions and revelations.
From this book, we had selected few
songs and had launched our first music cassette - ' JEEVAN
DHAM KE PHOOL', Vol-1, all songs sung by Mrs.Mani herself
on the occasion of the celebration of the 10th Anniversary
of Jeevan Dham on July 6, 2001.
Many believers who come here seeking peace, joy, satisfaction,
physical and spiritual healing and other basic needs
are very poor, some are those who because of their illness
are living a life in isolation, completely detached from the
society, some have spent all they had earned on the treatments
of their diseases, and some have run into bad debt too. Then,
many of these described and others are illiterate, who have
never gone to school even once in their life. But God is merciful
and great! He is the Universal Teacher who has fulfilled
their wishes too and given many of these uneducated the knowledge
& wisdom to read His Word and prayers. He has quenched
their thirst for His Word. Praise the Lord! He provides with
everything to those who come to Him and ask from Him in His
name with faith.
"I
am telling you the truth: whoever believes in me will do what
I do - yes, he will do even greater things, because I am going
to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask for in my name,
so that the Father's glory will be shown through the Son.
If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it." (St.
John 14:12-14)
"He who comes to me will never be hungry; he who believes
in me will never be thirsty."(St. John
6:35)
Praise the Lord! Allelluia!
"May
the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you."
