Man of vision Nehemiah 6

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Now here is very important chapter.

This is so fully loaded, I would say I'm afraid to preach on this

passage as well. At the same time, this is not

something I didn't choose. It's just coming along.

After 5 comes chapter 6. So we have to preach.

So what is the main thing here is that you you have this

character called Nehemiah. He is a man of vision.

Everybody say man of vision. If you don't have vision, you

cannot be a leader. That's very simple.

Whether it's a company, it's a business family.

There has to be somebody with a vision where the father has a

vision for the family or the mother has a vision for the

family the business has got. The CEO must have a vision for

that company. Otherwise things will not work

out. They will not be success.

Vision is the key. And when there's a vision and

that man will not back down, will he back down?

No. When I worked for a company,

they had in their mind a vision to prosper the company and sell

it for a big money. And they were, they were making

changes all the time. They made us read some books and

get caught up with the vision with a lot of resistance.

We all did not like it. Most of us didn't like it.

But ultimately what what he said is you got to obey your boss.

So everybody has to do what they say.

I told them you are going to end up with lot of inventory, the

parts will be too many on the floor.

Just do what you are told to do. So we did.

They end up with one and a half million worth of parts, extra

parts everywhere. But the business grew and they

sold it for a big money. So vision is in the boss head

not in the employees. So sometimes there will be

resistance. Change is always resisted by

people and that is any management book you read.

I am not telling you anything new.

Any book on management you read, they will say public will resist

change. That is one of the things we

have to fight. Even in the church it is easy to

talk about. For Nehemiah to talk about

rebuilding the walls because they have fallen down, broken

down, burnt, it is very easy. But in the modern day, when we

talk about vision for the church, it is more difficult.

It is there in the head or the mind of the pastor.

He has the vision and it is his responsibility to communicate it

to the congregation. And it is up to the congregation

to say I am joining in with the vision.

And if there is no unity, then there is no progress.

There is no unity, there is no progress.

Let's say we talked about praying for 21 days.

They only have maximum of 15 people came, I suppose, if my

math is right. So half the church was there for

praying, but half the church was not there.

So the half the church, I believe has caught up with the

vision of praying and something is going to happen after the

prayer. So we praise God for that.

I would say just did extremely well sustaining them.

Just coming every day between 7:30 and 8:30, praying for an

hour. I'm sure your lives are

different and changed because of that.

Holy Spirit will never abandoned a soul that seeks Him.

So some measure of blessing. I'm sure you all have got it.

So now here is a man, Nehemiah, and he had this vision to

rebuild the broken walls and to install the gates.

So he came and he has succeeded to a great extent, was one when

the world came to San Bala, Tobiah, Geshem, the Arab and the

rest of our enemies, that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap

was left in it. There's no gap anymore. 1.8

miles or 2.4 kilometers of the perimeter of the Jerusalem

walls, There's no gap left. That's last chapter.

It came up to half the height, and now it is completely built.

Only gates were not set up yet. The doors were not set up yet.

So when the news reached the enemies, they will be always

enemies of the vision. You know, you, you take the

Bible everywhere there will be a man with the vision and there

will be an impact because of the vision.

Think of Joseph, he was a man of vision.

The vision was not just for saving his own family, 70

people, but the vision excelled far beyond to save the nation of

Egypt and surrounding nations, to see them through the famine

for seven long years. So that is what a man of vision

can contribute. And think of Daniel who was a

mighty prophet and who was in touch with God and he was able

to be the advisor because he was the most intelligent man and he

successively has been the Prime Minister or the highest post he

held for 5 or 6 kings successively.

And the Kingdom is better because of Daniel.

Kingdom is better because of Daniel and because of what he

spoke, what Daniel spoke. You have the book of Nehemiah

fulfilling what Daniel has prophesied, Jeremiah has

prophesied, Ezekiel has prophesied and now is the time

of fulfillment. And now you have got these

characters, Sun ballot, Tobiah, the Ghesham, the Arab and all

other enemies, many others. We we looked at in in the map

one of the days before the the enemies were there from four or

five directions who want to stop the work.

So there will be opposition. So what is happening here is

Sanbar and Geshem sent me this message.

Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain

of Oh no, Oh no, Oh no is the name of the place.

Can we see it on the map, please?

So where is it? Oh no, you got 1 white rectangle

on the top. On the left is Oh no, there's a

dot, block dot. And from there to Jerusalem is

about 37 miles or about 60 kilometers, so 60 kilometers of

distance. They are saying let us meet in

the plains of oh, no, one of the villages, not one particular

place, one of the villages. Now that place has a politically

it is closer to some area that is Tobias Sun Ballads place and

it is something that that actually was not belonging to

Israel or to Judah for a quite a long time.

Oh, no, sorry, it's too hard for reading.

I can see a lot of people stretching their eyes, eyes

coming out. So if you have the thing, I

could have just pointed it out. It's just here.

Oh no, see Ashdod. And after that on top of the

three more places, and then you've got Oh no, And on top of

that you've got effect, the big rectangle, not that rectangle,

small one. That big rectangle there next to

the left is oh, no, cool. So basically what they're trying

to do is they want to draw Nehemiah away from his

commitment to the vision. A day's journey, they said.

Day's journey, 60 kilometers. In those days, I do not know it

have taken more than a day. Probably many people think it is

a day's journey, 60 kilometers. I do not think they can cover

unless they go on a horse or something like that.

Thank you. Oops, sorry.

That is. Oh, no.

And Jerusalem is here. Yehuda Jhuda, that is.

I think it is Jerusalem. Yeah.

Even I am not able to read anyway, so you have this Tobiah,

sorry Sun ballot Samaria, then Tobiah from somewhere here Ramon

and then you've got enemies when he said other enemies is Ashdod.

And then you do Mia here down South, everywhere you have

surrounded by the enemies and in the times difficult times, he

rebuild the wall in 52 days. Everybody say 52 days if it took

for him to travel from Suisa, the capital, to Jerusalem, three

or four months. He wanted things to be so quick

before the message goes to Suisa and comes back.

He wanted the watch to be rebuilt.

There's a time constraint. So he is a man of vision and

because of that vision he had, he was able to motivate the

people a lot. What each one should do.

We say all that in the previous chapter, how he organized the

thing. But when this is all done now

they are still saying, OK, gates are not set up, doors are not

set up. Now is the time we had to stop

the work. So they sent him this letter

saying come, let us talk in the villages of Ono to draw him away

so that they can harm him. You know, you have a similar

kind of a situation in the New Testament.

The Jewish Jews asked the centurion that Paul be produced

at certain place and when they asked, there were about 30 or 40

people who wowed. They will not eat food until

they kill Paul. So traveling from one place to

another is just a big risk and Nehemiah was being exposed to

the risk. And Nehemiah understood their

ulterior motive that he had the discernment to know that they

want to harm him. So he said, what is his

response? He says but the scheming to harm

me. So I send messengers to them

with this reply. I am carrying on a great project

and cannot go down. I'm carrying on a great project.

I'm doing a great work. I cannot leave my work and go.

And this is what will happen with a man of vision.

He will not take any time off. He is just after it all the

time. So, so many times I think about

our own church, Omega. Is there a vision?

Is it out of my own mind? I said we should have a church.

No, we have been disappointed going to church for many years

in New Zealand, many places, many churches, either you will

find the word of God preached there and no work of the Holy

Spirit, or you see the demonstration of the Spirit and

no word is being preached. So we were completely, totally

discouraged about the whole thing.

And the vision is not just after experiencing these things.

Vision started in the year 2000 when the Lord gave me a vision.

I'm not trying to make up a vision.

No, it is a vision that God has given me.

And he said come build my church.

And it took more than 20 years before it happened.

I did not want to engineer it. I did not want to create it.

I do not want to force it. I do not want to do any of those

things. So the vision is in my heart.

Sometimes vision will be resisted, but we are not trying

to be very harsh with anything these matters.

It is natural. It is natural, like I was an

employee, I didn't like what my boss told me, but the boss gives

you an ultimate, OK, either you do what I want or you go.

So I did not want to go. So I did what my boss wanted.

You know, that was I am forced to do it.

But the same way vision always is challenging because not

everybody will understand the vision.

They will only understand partially.

So I cannot find for everyone about it.

We can only encourage, that's my job, is to put that vision

before everybody. How we are to study the world

and then how we are to obey the world, to bring that revival,

end time revival in this city. That's my job to keep that

vision fresh all the time. I was just thinking about Billy

Graham. What made a turning point in the

life of Billy Graham? Billy Graham had another person

who was more popular than Billy Graham, drawing more people to

his meetings. And suddenly one day he says I

don't believe in this God anymore.

It it was a shock to a young Billy Graham how this man,

intellectually so powerful and who was having the oratory

skills were drawing so many thousands of people to his

meetings, suddenly says, I don't believe in God anymore.

He shook him thoroughly. He said, what am I believing?

What is the gospel I am believing?

What am I going to preach? How am I going to sustain my own

faith? Somebody's disbelief has shaken

Billy Graham to the core. And one day he went into the

woods. When he went into the woods, he

found a stump, put the Bible on the stump and said, I believe

that this is the word of God. I believe this is the word of

God. Whatever happens to me, I don't

care, but I believe this is the word of God.

And one of the times when he was preaching on the book of Jonah

and he said book of Jonah, you see that the fish followed Jonah

is the is the Bible said that the Jonah swallowed the fish,

the big huge fish. I will still believe it.

What is important is our commitment to believe the Word

of God is very, very important. This word will not change.

This word is the one that is given for the church to grow on

it, to become strong. Your vision should come from

this book, no other. That's why we say Bible study is

important. Why everything I do in this

church is very well thought about.

It is not random. I have seen a church that they

meet six days in a week. They were tired of going to the

church and there are times there are people who don't care to go

to church. I said if even having personal

quiet time is a struggle to many people because you have a job,

you have got so many commitments.

Some days you will read the Bible and pray.

Some days you don't read the Bible and pray.

I know the human weakness. That's the reason why I said if

you get a strong word on a Sunday and a strong word on one

of the weekdays, if you obey that word, your life will not be

the same. You will be changed because you

obey the word. I'm going with the minimum

thing, not the maximum. I'm going with the minimum.

I'm not pushing too much. If you have the word 2 days, it

will carry you through 7 days. Cool.

So here is the man of vision and he replies saying I'm doing a

great work. See, that's what everybody

should have. A father must know the vision

for the family, mother must know the vision for the family, the

boss should know the vision for his company, and the pastor

should know the vision for the church.

And if the pastor does not have vision, that is a church that

has no hope. So we need more pastors with

vision. That's very important.

If the word of the Lord does not come to a man and starts a

church, he can still start. He can, he can still gather

people. In particularly in large

populous nations like India, anybody can start a church and

there will be people coming there.

It's not very difficult at all to gather a crowd there.

So now, but there was scheming to harm me, so I send messages

to them. I am carrying on a great project

that cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I

leave it and go down to you? So we need to know that work

will be stopped. Distracted discouragement and

the enemy can attack. That's the reason why the leader

must be focused on the vision, and he was focused on the

vision. And because of that, four times

I sent the same message and each time I gave them the same

answer. That's very important.

Same message was sent. He gave the same reply because

the vision has not changed. The vision to rebuild the walls

has not changed, so he had to give the same reply.

So this is the first strategy to discourage Nehemiah from

completing the work. Walls are up now and the doors

have to be fixed and they want to stop it.

So they resorted to strategy #2 plan 2.

Plan 1 is failed. Was the plan 2.

Now they gave a man a messenger. A open letter is not.

It is not a scroll rolled up with a seal on it so that only

the intended recipient will open the break the seal and read the

letter. That is how it was in those

days. It has to be sealed probably

with wax wax or something like that and then the wax is easy to

break and then you open the scroll and read it.

Instead they sent a open letter. Now this is like open letter is

anybody can read basically. It is like gossip.

It is like gossip. It is like bringing the man down

by words that were to discourage the man.

And in fact, yeah, the unsealed letter came in which it was

written. What did he do in this letter?

What did he write in this thing? First thing is it became from

private attack to public attack. Previously they sent four times

the sealed envelope. OK, read this for yourself.

That was private. Now its an open letter from

private became public. So they will try to bring the

man down by publicly attacking him with the words.

What are the words they used this they have they said it is

reported among the nations and Geshem says it is true.

You know these, there's a man called War on VSB.

In his commentary he says many churches are down, they're

pulled down because of it is reported, it is true.

These are dangerous words in a church.

It is reported, it is true. So everywhere it is reported, it

is true. It is reported, isn't it true?

And then people scatter everywhere.

So we need to be very careful before we open our mouth to

destroy a church. We should be very careful not to

do those kind of things. So they have done it.

Its true that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt and

therefore you are building the wall.

What is the purpose of building the wall?

You want to revolt against the king, you want to become the

king and then you want to appoint false prophets to go and

tell the people this man is the king, go from God to proclaim

that he is the king from God. False prophecies.

So that is what they are trying to say here.

Moreover, according to these reports, you are about to become

the king and have even appointed prophets to make this

proclamation about you. In Jerusalem there is a king in

Judah. The prophecy is there is a king

in Judah. Nehemiah is the new king.

That's why you appointed prophets to proclaim it.

How dangerous is that? It is very dangerous.

He has, no, he doesn't have any of these things.

So how do you counter a false report that is circulating in

the community or in the church? Only by speaking the truth.

So what is the truth? He spoke, he said I sent him

this reply. Nothing like what you're saying

is happening. You're just making it up out of

your own head. That's your imagination, sun

ballad. That's the imagination, Tobiah,

that's your imagination. And Geshem, that's your

imagination. It's not at all true.

I my intention is not to revolt. My intention is not to become

the king, and I do not have false prophets to proclaim it.

For me. Religion, politics, everything

is mixed up in this chapter. Religion and politics are mixed

up, and that becomes a dangerous explosive.

So what happens here? No.

Now this report will get back to the king.

So come, let us come comfort together.

Let's meet and talk. What they're trying to say is,

hey, you can't be doing things alone.

Let's talk together. Let us have a part from the

beginning. They said you have no part in

this. You have no part in this.

And now they're saying, I'm, we want to force your hand to come

to this table to talk. Let's talk.

That's, that's that's what they were trying to do.

Then he said they were all trying to frighten us, thinking

their hands will get too weak for the work.

Two factors are there. One, psychological warfare is

happening here to frighten Nehemiah and others were

involved in building, rebuilding the walls.

Fear. They won't put fear.

Hey, if you build the walls, the king is going to come to know

and he will send the army and you are all gone.

You are all dead. So that was, that is the fear

they are trying to create. And the second thing is his

hands will go limp. That means you will be

discouraged. He will not have the motivation.

He will not have the energy to do what he wants to do.

And what Nehemiah did, he exactly prayed something similar

to what they were wanting to happen, but in the opposite

effect. He prayed a simple prayer and he

said, I prayed now strengthen my hands, strengthen my hands,

strengthen me because I want to do your work.

I want to do the vision that you have.

You know, it puzzles me. Whenever I think of Nehemiah's

life, it puzzles me. He is fulfilling every prophecy

that has been foretold beforehand through Daniel,

through Jeremiah, Eskil, everybody.

But he himself doesn't have a vision in the sense a

supernatural communication, an Angel appearing to him, having a

dream, none of these things. But why it is important is for

us New Testament Christians, when you are committed to the

world and obey the world, that revival will come, the revival

will come. And when when it comes to

vision, sometimes you know it will be like Paul.

Paul had a vision, vision that they should not set sail.

The weather is going to be rough, its going to cost human

life. He told the captain, hey

captain, we should not be sailing now because this is not

the right season for us. Let's winter here.

They said no, no, no. Everybody said no, no, we are

not going to listen to you. And then they go and get stuck

in the storm for two weeks. There are no sun and you know

rest of the story. Sometimes it is very rare.

It is a negative example of a vision I am trying to give here

is not a positive. Like Joseph is a +1, Daniel is a

+1, but Paul is a -1 He had the vision.

No one listened to him and they landed up in the storm.

But because of that vision of the one man, they were all saved

with their life. The ship is gone, it was broken

into pieces, the cargo is gone, but they all were shared.

Because of the one man's vision. An Angel of God stood by him and

said not a hare will be lost, Paul, because I am with you and

all the people on the ship I give to you.

They were all saved. They all believed in the name of

Jesus because of one man. So whether it is positive

vision, negative vision, vision is very important.

Whether you are driving or the captain having a vision, or you

are a sailor or you are just a passenger having a vision, when

the vision is from God, that vision will succeed.

Nobody can stop it. That's why Jesus said, I build

my church on this rock and the gates are fell shall not prevail

against it. And the pastor is one of those

guys who should have a vision to lead the church.

So next thing you see here is a plan 2 also failed and

afterwards they have a plan 3. Now the plan 3 is in the plan 2.

What are the things that did is false accusation.

Nieman accounted them with the truth.

They attributed a wrong motive to become a king.

They attributed to him that is going to revolt against the king

of Persia and then he was they were he was they were telling

that they were using he was using the false prophets to

proclaim he is a king. But in fact, they use those same

strategy again another time. We will see very soon.

So what is the what is the plan 3 They selected a man called

Shimaya. He has a reputation of being a

prophet, but this prophet, he must have had a reputation being

a prophet, but now he's sold. You know when a house is sold,

they put a sticker, sticker sticker house is sold.

So this man is a sole prophet. So what did what they did, they

paid the money and said you have to prophecy.

So he shot himself in the house. He didn't want to move out as if

he has got a burden full a vision and he's got a message

and a prophecy and he's so burdened he cannot go out of the

house. So he called Nehemiah to his

house. So Nehemiah goes to the House of

Shamaya and he says, hey, they are going to kill you tonight,

you are going to be killed. So let us go and hide inside the

temple. Where?

Inside the temple? Why?

If he listens to the advice of the man and goes into the

temple, what is going to happen is he is going to disobey the

word of God. He's going to deserve the word

of God. How he's going to deserve the

word of God because he does not belong to the he's not a Levite,

he's not a priest, and he is not supposed to go inside the temple

of God. Inside the temple of God,

anybody is not a priest can only go as far as that altar, bronze

altar where you offer the whole bond offerings.

You cannot go farther. You can bring your offering

there, put it on it, that's it. You can't go further.

There was a king called Ujjaya. He dared to offer a strange

fire. He took the golden censor, put

the fire on it, put the frankincense and everything and

went into the presence of God. And leprosy broke out on his

face instantly. And the priest said, King, there

is leprosy on you. Leave the place now.

Rest of his life he had to be separated from his own palace.

They had to build a separate house for him to live.

And his son ruled in his place. So you don't play with God.

Basically, we don't play with God.

And this man, he is now being forced to hide inside so that

they can say, hey, you are thinking Nema is your leader.

Don't believe that guy. He went into the temple.

He was afraid, He got afraid because we have forced him to be

afraid and he got afraid, got into the temple.

Why do you follow him? He has desecrated the temple by

going into the temple. He is not allowed to go in.

So that is how they said, thinking that he will commit sin

and they can take advantage of it and talk negatively about

him, to put Him down in the eyes of the people, to challenge his

leadership, to challenge his vision, to bring it to nothing,

to stop the vision. They were playing that this is a

plan #3 they brought it. So what happened?

Now the other other motive also is that God by himself might

kill him. If he goes disobeys and goes

inside the temple, God will be his enemy, just like the

Moabites in do entice the the Israelites and Israelis went and

offered worship their idols and indulged in sex with the people

and God's anger came upon them. Many thousands died.

So that's the reason why they thought they can force him to

deserve a God, to make God his enemy and to discredit him.

But he said, should such a man as I flee, should such a man as

I run away for my own life, my life is nothing.

I am not afraid to die. Guys.

You can't frighten me anymore. So Niema stood up his ground and

plan #3 failed. Are we together?

You following how Niema has been attacked so that he will not be

a good person doing the work of God.

Sure, such a man as I run away and then they has they have

hired false prophets. Verse 12.

What does verse 12 say? But I say, should a man run away

or should one like me go into a temple to save his life?

I will not go. I realized that God had not sent

him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and

Sanbarak had hired him. There's so many things there.

Three main points is that he first thing is he discerned that

God did not send these people. The the particular prophet.

God did not send the prophet. Why?

He was telling him to disobey and do something contrary to the

will of God. That's already expressed in the

Bible book of Numbers or Deuteronomy.

No one other than a priest can enter the temple of God.

So there he is. When somebody tells you to

disobey the word of God, then you start from God.

It's very simple. Even a prophecy somewhere I

think Jeremiah himself says how do you know a prophecy is from

God when it is fulfilled? It is a prophecy from God.

And secondly says even if a prophecy is fulfilled, but the

the essence of the prophecy says go and worship idols, that

prophecy is not right. Whatever prophecy that takes you

away from God and his vision is false prophecy.

So we need to train our mind with the word of God shedding

the word we are train our mind and then the light comes into us

and gives us the gift of discerning of the spirits and we

will be saved from committing sin against God in all this

endeavor. So then what happened?

He had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanbar had

hired him. So you got the enemy, you got

the false prophecy, and it involves money.

He was hired because he took the money.

He's speaking the prophecy. Those three things are there in

that verse. Then verse 13, he had been hired

to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by doing this, and

then they would give me a bad name to discredit me.

The sin is entering the temple of God is a sin, and then they

are going to use it to discredit him, to give him a bad name.

What a scheme they have come up with.

But when a man is committed to the vision and a man is

committed to obey God, honor God, do his will, he will not be

shaken. He will not be shaken.

A man of vision will not be shaken.

This I am very, very clear about it.

Remember Toby and Sanbarat, Oh my God, because of what they

have done. Remember also the prophet,

prophetess, no idea. And the rest of the prophets who

have been trying to intimidate me.

So this is from one prophet. It went a female prophetess and

it went down to many other prophets.

That means they are buying the rest of the people to team up

with them. Is it looking like a 2500 year

old story? Are it looking like a modern day

church story? So we need to be very, very

clear. We need to be very clear.

So in summary, in verse 15. So the wall was completed on the

25th of Elul in that 52 in 52 days.

That's the record time 52 days. And because of the emergency,

because of its importance, because of the time that is

running out, Nehemiah motivated them, gave them the vision.

The vision is transferred from the mind of Neymar to the people

of Judah and they rebuild the walls.

And it included some of the people who were who were married

into the family of Tobiah and Sun Ballot.

The A family was involved in rebuilding the walls, but they

were married to Sunbharat and Tobiah.

So you will see that there is a communication going on between

the enemies of Nehemiah and the people who are involved in the

building of the wall. You will see it in verses 17.

You see there one more thing. What is the outcome of all this

work when the walls are built in 52 days?

What was the outcome? The enemies of Judah came to

know one thing, that this work has been done by the help of

God. Everybody said they did it with

the help of God, and because it is done with the help of God,

fear came on them until now they are attacking.

But when the work is done, they said, oh, this is a hand of God,

this is the power of God. When Jacob was fleeing from his

brother and the brother comes and meets him and other things.

And then the their daughter Dina was raped by the mites, and the

brothers rose up in the night. They talked nicely with them,

you know, made them circumcised. And that night they went and

invaded and killed every male. And then when the sons came to

the father, he said, what have you done now everybody is going

to come together and finishes off.

Whole family is going to die. And then Jacob, he set up an

altar and offered the sacrifice and the fear of God fell on all

the surrounding people. Nobody touched him and he went

safely back to his father's house.

When we are being attacked the only recourse is to pray and

when you pray Gods fear will fall on those who attack you and

were trying to work against you and that's the only way you can

survive. Pray, pray, pray, pray.

Look to God. When you think you are finished,

look to God. When you think tomorrow is I may

not be alive, look to God and you will see tomorrow and day

after tomorrow also because you have looked to God, He will

sustain you. So they hired people and all

these things. And in verse 17 how it says in

those days the nobles of Judah were sending many letters of

Tobiah and replies from Tobiah kept coming to them.

That is communication going on. And then again in verse 19.

Moreover, they kept reporting to me his good deeds and then

telling him what I said and to Tobias and let us to intimidate

me. They were coming and giving good

reports to Nehemiah. Tobiah is a very nice man son

Ballot, he's a very nice man. You had to be careful and

somebody praises somebody. Why they are praising?

You have to ask the question, what is the motivation behind

the praising? And they were taking the words

of Nehemiah and communicating to Sun Ballot and Tobiah.

They are praising Tobiah and Sun Ballot to Nehemiah and taking

the words of Nehemiah and telling it to Sun Ballot and

Tobiah and Geshem and other people.

So the communication is going on.

But I tell you, on this rock I will build my church and the

gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

That's the word of Jesus and we go with that word.

We go with the Word and we shall accomplish the vision that He

has given and we will see the revival that is going to come

into the city today. Don't look at today, 2025 people

are sitting there. What is this small people are

going to do? How is revival going to come?

That's the reason why we had 21 days of prayer.

That should not stop with the 21 days.

I have not stopped. I have not stopped.

You pray every day. Set aside, say God, what is my

role? If those people, those who are

lifting the rock, putting in the place, they should know why they

are doing it. If they don't know why they are

doing it, they will not do it. So if you don't know why you are

praying, you will not pray. If you don't know what happens

when you pray, you will not pray.

Prayer is the force that God is going to use to bring the

revival. Sometimes it will be very, very

simple. It is.

I always impressed by Jonathan Edwards.

He was a scholar, but he had a visual impairment.

He used to wear glasses and the glass used to be so thick.

It used to come out like a horn. He has to look through that

little glass. It used to come out and he had a

candlelight and he has written down his message, sinners in the

hands of angry God. And he did not preach with

passion. There's no passion, there's

nothing. He simply read the message from

that piece of paper and the people said we don't want to

face the wrath of God. They're holding the pillar in

the church. Please fall on us.

Because the Holy Presence of God was manifest in the church and

the great river broke out. What it needs is being faithful

to the Word of God. This Word has the power to

change our individual life, our families, church, community, and

the nation and the world. This is only hope.

We should come back like Billy Graham, take that word, put it

on a tree stump or even any, any place and say I will believe

this word. I will believe this word.

And that is the foundation we need.

Just think about, you know, if you walk, if you drive from here

to Lincoln, so many fields are there and you will find a lot of

trees planted which grow like a wall to break the wind.

If just imagine a funny conversation, somebody goes from

near my and says, hey, why do you want to be waste so much of

your energy and time building the wall.

Let's plant these trees. They'll become like a wall.

You will laugh at that man. The wall is a wall.

You cannot substitute with the trees.

So vision is very important for a church.

Vision is important, Leader must have the vision and that vision

must be caught by the people around him.

Then the work gets accomplished. So what is the best thing I

would say is when you go back home, I heard this man say so

many things, but why am I in Omega?

Ask the simple question, Holy Spirit, speak to me.

Why am I in the Omega? Do you want to be part of that

big revival that God is sending, going to send?

Don't look at the 25 people today, 30 people today.

Look at the revival that he's going to send.

And that will give you that vision, will give you power,

motivation to become a man and a woman of prayer.

And that is what God is going to accomplish.

There's such a silence. Can we show the Hallelujah so

when we do the will of God, great fear will come on all

because this is done with the help of God.

With the help of God we are looking forward for that vision.

We are looking forward for that mighty revival that will come

into Christchurch, sweep through the churches, carry the people,

thousands and thousands turning to Christ.

We don't have even 1,000,000 people in Christchurch.

Let's pray for that 1 million or 800,000 or 900,000 people in

Christchurch. God, every suburb there must be

revival. Every street must be filled with

the power and every home Holy Spirit must enter.

You know in Egypt he entered the house wherever there was number

blood and people were dead. Now you say, I put that blood of

Jesus on every home. Holy Spirit, enter every home.

Convict them of sin, righteousness and judgment.

Let the revival come. Let the revival come.

That blood when you put up on every home, every home in

crushes, Holy Spirit will enter every home and bring the

revival. If you believe it, shout

Hallelujah. Let's pray.

Thank you, Jesus. Sahara Saara Sandrano

Barasaktukundo sanamare bandre sastaroni hosta boroni mandastar

saharani Karachi sandasta sastaroni Rosso ko borono mane

harabashi sandarano Rosso boroni.

The Lord says I'm a God who makes streams in the desert.

I will lay a road in the desert and I will lead you, says the

Lord. Sakthi bandaram mahastaro

hoshana mahandasta koroni. We pray to Jesus because it it

is who who he who was, who is, who is to come.

You are God who fills time, space and history.

And we worship you and we invite you now into our own hearts.

Right now in our own hearts. We invite the Holy Spirit to

come and to magnify the name of Jesus and the bread of Jesus,

the power of the bread of Jesus that we may believe.

And we may, oh God, hope that this vision that we have for

Omega, the end time revival will come to the word of God.

And we have committed to pray. And I pray that you stir up

everybody that they will allot a certain amount of time every day

to pray in your presence, to wait upon you and to know why

they are here in this church. Help them know why they are part

of Omega. To the glory of your name, I

worship you. I praise you Lord, thank you for

your word. Let it build the walls of our

own heart and our families and the church, the glory of your

name. In Jesus name we ask and

everybody says Amen, Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.

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