(Clip) Sharing God's Heart For the Lost — K.P. Yohannan

A Burden for the Lost in India and Nepal

You know when I came to America in 1974, I came after eight years of my life living on the streets of India and Nepal and you know, South Asian nations and I remember how many times I looked at the multitudes on the streets and and literally wept and cried with this realization, wow, they are all going to hell.

They did not know Jesus and but then I came to America to go to a seminary and two years went by and I found I couldn't cry anymore. When I was studying theology, I was one of the best students in my seminary and Greek and Hebrew and all these things and the same day I was called to pastor a church with a couple of other families and so three, four times preaching and teaching and everything was going on and all of a sudden I woke up and said, what happened to me?

The Danger of Objective Theology Without Compassion

And that's when I realized maybe it was all a big mistake, me coming to America to study Bible and here I was getting all this information but my heart was no more aching. Oh yeah, I mean I talked about the world going to hell, we need to preach the gospel and do this and that, statistics and figures and all that but it was all so very objective and I kind of thought I left Christ and he left me and the best thing to do is get into business and make money and go on with my life and this is where when my wife found out what is happening with me, externally it was all perfect but internally, you know, I was dying and she said, why don't you ask God to talk to you?

Asking God to Speak in a Season of Emptiness

I got mad at her. I said, I pray all the time. She said, no, would you please ask him and that led me to get into my study, thousands of books in my library and I didn't sit anymore on my comfortable chair, I was on the carpet and I said, Lord, I just don't know what to do.

Coming to the End of Himself

I'm lost. I know everything in my head but my heart is empty and I can't cry anymore. I know people are lost and I was there, I don't know how many days and one afternoon, I'm not a crazy person on drugs and things like that.

A Personal Encounter With God's Voice

It was late in the afternoon, I was in my room alone, it was like a big screen appeared before me and people's faces by millions, I'm just looking at it and I said, what's happening with me? And somehow I could hear the Lord saying so clear.

Did I hear it in my ear? I don't know. I waited for this day until you come to the end of yourself. I called you for a world that is so lost without me and I was so overcome with the fact that he loves me, he knows me and if Jesus asked me to jump off from a seven-story building, I would have done it.

Receiving the Intensity of Christ's Love

I just couldn't think, people thought I got IDCs because I couldn't stop crying. It was not guilt or condemnation or anything like that, it was all of a sudden the Lord touched my heart and the love for him was so intense.

A Renewed Passion for the Perishing

Sometimes I had to cry out, I can't handle it Lord, please. And it all turned out, desperate passion for people that are dying and going to hell.