Revival – Layers

Okay, so if you want a title for today's teaching it's called a revival-layers

L-A-Y-E-R-S layers. I want to read from Revelation chapter 5, 9 to 14.

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Revelation chapter 5, 9 to 14. Announcements, we might have a midweek

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meeting if God so wants. Just wanted to give you a heads up and other than that

oh yeah, Manoj came back and he's back from India and he's

back alone. He's quarantining alone just so you know. As for his roommate, once we

locate him we will let you know.

Revelation chapter 5, 9 to 14. We touched on this, can I have some more volume in

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the room because I might start shouting otherwise. Revelation chapter 5, verse 9

Revelation 5:9–14

to 14. And they sang a new song with these words, you are worthy to take the

scroll and break its seals and open it for you were slaughtered and your blood

has ran out. Let me read from the message, it's so stark in the message.

Revelation 5, 9 to 14. And they sang a new song, worthy take the scroll open

its seals slain, paying in blood you bought men and women bought them back

from all over the earth bought them back for God. Then you made them a kingdom

priests for our God, priest kings to rule over the earth. I looked again and I

heard a company of angels around the throne, the creatures and the elders ten

thousand times ten thousand their number, thousand after thousand after thousand

in full song. The slain lamb is worthy, take the power, the wealth, the wisdom, the

strength, take the honor, the glory, the blessing. Then I heard every creature in

heaven and earth in underworld and sea join in all voices in all places singing

to the one on the throne, to the lamb, the blessing, the honor, the glory, the

strength for age after age after age and the four creatures called out, oh yes

the elders fell to the knees and worshiped. We read this passage during

the Shekinah week and just want to say as we go with this teaching that listen

as one who has no options, listen as one who has no options as in there's nothing

in this teaching that is optional. It is something that we just have to embrace

for the sake of the one unto him who is on the throne and unto the Lamb be all

glory. Take it oh God, take it it's yours. We don't have options in this. So listen

to this teaching as one who has no options and you will begin to burn with

a holy fire inside you because that's what God intends and so to just recap

something from what seems like ages ago we are saying that the disruptive glory

of God disruptive glory of God the disruptive glory of God is flowing like

water is flowing like water breaking dry ground breaking dry ground giving life

to soil and seed giving life to soil and seed giving life to soil and seed

reviving young men and women across the earth reviving young men and women across

the earth young men and women across the earth that kind of summarizes what we've

been talking about for the last two weeks. I was kind of arguing with God

saying can't I just leave it as the glory of God instead of saying the

disruptive glory and I felt God saying nope that's how you I started you guys

off on this that my glory is going to be disruptive it cannot be accommodated it

can only be surrendered to to use the word disruptive glory and that's why I'm

defining it this way what we've been talking about for the last while is the

disruptive glory of God is flowing like water breaking dry ground giving life to

soil and seed that's a strange thing with watery when you pour it on ground

it gives life to soil as in it changes the nature of the soil it makes it

receptive it makes it ready and it also gives life to seed because seed that is

dry the moment you put it even in a in cotton that soaked in water we did this

in school the bean would immediately sprout there's something to this where

as soon as it comes to touch comes in touch with soil and seed it gives life

and in the process it will revive young men and women across the earth we also

said that God is riding this cloud sorry riding this revival God is riding this

revival as purifier God is riding this revival as purifier and because he's

riding this revival as purifier out of this revival will rise 13 to 30s 13 to

30s a generation of teens 20s and 30s who will be God seers because

blessed are the pure for they shall see God and who will be ancient gate openers

as in Psalm 24 where it says lift up your doors lift up your ancient gates

but who can do that the ones that have the ability to present to the Lord pure

hearts and clean hands so that the king of glory may come in that's the kind of

generation we are looking forward to and somehow we said what God is doing or

birthing here and what God is doing across the earth has some kind of

connection to the Hebrides revival from 1949 in the outer Hebrides islands of

Scotland and it's almost like revival 2.0 unless we forget remember that Jesus

was only 30 when he started and most of his disciples were between 15 and 35

John being the youngest probably 15 which is why he brought his mother to a

fight and 15 to 35 that was their age group and that was the group that turned

the world upside down so this is very natural in the kingdom to bring

generational change through starting with ones that are young so what broke

out here two weeks ago and the weight of those words sometimes makes me feel that

we've been so presumptuous but yet it is true what broke out here or bought broke

forth from here two weeks ago has a radial trajectory as in almost like one

of those sound wave things has a radial trajectory that we are supposed to track

with and if we do we'll end up accomplishing two things we will arrest

we will arrest historical desolation we'll arrest historical desolation as

in so much has been made desolate over the last 70 years so much future

generations have been stripped to the bone in the last 70 years so much has

been robbed so many heritages have been left desolate and so we'll arrest

historical desolation and we launch generational restoration these are not

big words they are just words that sum up what would take two sentences to say

launch generational restoration and that goes back to Isaiah 49 verse 8 where it

Isaiah 49:8

says and you will restore desolate heritages this is how God does it this

is how God does it this is his sovereign stepping in his sovereign

stepping into a situation because it's like enough I'm drawing a line my

question to God during the week was if you are sovereignly doing it what if we

don't cooperate what happens does this get hindered or do you just move on and

the answer is both he will go looking for a remnant but it will be hindered

too because the best examples are when Jesus would go to Nazareth when he would

go to Capernaum you read the passages before what happens and you see him

healing people coming to the Lord demons being chased out the sick being healed

and what is the response of the people we don't want you here and what happens

Nazareth and Capernaum miss out on their own homebred son so yes it's a sovereign

move of God but if one chooses to opt out two things happen one God goes

looking for another remnant two you do hinder what God wants to do here on earth

the other thing that happens when one resists the move of God is that that

generation dies in the desert and the very ones that they prevented from

being revived will be revived but that generation will die in the desert it is

happening to so many denominations and so many churches the only problem is we

don't even know that we're dying in the desert we're just going around Mount

Sinai singing hallelujah and we keep saying every time we sing it our shucks

have seen this mountain before this is the this is a I mean God is not into

penalties and punishment but this is the this is the consequence of ignoring a

move of God I pray that we don't take I pray that I don't so if we were to track

this radial kind of trajectory there are there's a pathway that we need to

follow and so that's what we'll talk about for the rest of the afternoon if

you have any questions feel free to send them

okay so the first thing we said layers of revival the first thing then that

has to happen is we got to make sure we keep paying attention to personal

revival personal revival personal revival

so that's the first personal revival personal revival revival is birth in the

heart of God and then can be transferred to the one who has faith for the

impossible revival is always birthed in the heart of God but can easily be

transferred to anyone who has faith for the impossible therefore when God starts

something like this it is required of all of us to to exert faith so that he

can transfer what is in his heart into our hearts into my heart because this is

impossible it is impossible and that is the beauty of most revivals that God

starts he starts it with the people that are incapable of doing it he's not

looking at a conference he's not looking at a meeting where people come to get

something no no this this has the ability to go out you don't have to come

to get it it goes outward so be devoted to this present cause say be devoted to

this present cause and I say this present cause because if this is the

cause that a president occupies the heart of God for us it must occupy our

heart too be devoted to this present cause use your life and use your voice

effectively to prepare the way be devoted I love the devotion of John the

Baptist man he knows that someone is coming he knows that this one who is

coming is far greater than him he knows that he has to begin to prepare the way

he knows there's a cost to pay to prepare the way he knows that it'll put

him against all sources of power but there's a devotion to the cause where he

uses his life and voice effectively to prepare the way so be devoted to the

cross the second one is you need a disciplined relentlessness disciplined

in disciplined relentlessness in disciplined relentlessness in removing heart barriers in

removing heart barriers this is how personally we can be revived because

what's the point if everyone gets it but us disciplined relentlessness in room

removing heart barriers so this is something that I've been doing during

the week saying father can you remove from my heart barriers that have lasted

for so long and that keeps surfacing that just keep getting provoked when

circumstances happen is it unworthiness is it offense where you take offense at

things is it anger what is it is it guilt is it God is punishing me perhaps

because of what I did what is it I mean just think of taking care of just one

thing offense as in deciding that I'll remove the heart barrier of offense from

my heart or God help me with this revive me in this you remove offense and then

suddenly you realize that you no longer have a desire for revenge you no longer

have pride you no longer have fear and you no longer injured easily in one shot

you remove four structures I think I've said this before I was watching a

interview with Michael W Smith and the guy asked him so what do you want this

year what's the greatest gift that you want this year he said if I could by the

end of this year be someone who does not take offense he said that would be the

greatest accomplishment and I thought what a thing to desire for all the new

year resolutions it was that could I become someone who is unaffended by the

end of the year and in that one shot all these things disappearing so be

disciplined it disciplined relentlessness in removing heart

barriers and you know you know what happens when all these things go away

you become the meekest man on earth because you remove those things and you

have to turn meek obviously that means I have some work to do

did I hear a collective no not you Jacob okay and the third one within personal

revival is first love keep going back to first love they keep going back to going

back to first love keep keep going back to first love and first love is always

activated through intimacy with Christ first love is always activated through

intimacy with Christ keep going back to first love because many revivals are

undone by the falling away from the place of first love what strikes me

about Jesus's letter to the church that lost its first love was repent see how

far you have fallen that was the statement it's almost as if you fall

out of this place called first love you fall big time and most revivals is the

first thing that is a cost that is paid because people get so caught up in it

that first love is lost and this is why we start with this idea of personal

revival keep these things in mind guys devotion to the present cause a heart

that exerts faith to receive from God the impossible that has been birthed in

his heart disciplined relentlessness in removing heart barriers and driven by

first love driven by first love go ahead don't yeah so how do we remove

these heart barriers and what if there are mental illnesses that one is

struggling with and you have heart barriers at the same time let me answer

the first part I think it's impossible to remove heart barriers without

confessing that I have heart barriers and confessing not to God but confessing

one to another so that you may be healed James chapter 5 so this last week I've

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had opportunity to deal with one or two heart barriers and I've gone and spoken

about it loudly one to someone who I respect and can help me and I look up to

and one to ones who respect me and look up to me and yet I thought now I got to

speak it out aloud heart barriers aren't nothing in the heart is removed till you

speak it beat love or beat hate both have to be brought to the surface before

they can be removed that's the first step and if I'm struggling emotionally

or mentally then I will need help to get to that place but there is something to

bringing things to the surface that after all these years still holds good

in my life James chapter 5 I think it's five confess your sins one to another

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James chapter 5 15 and the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and

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the Lord will raise him up and if he has committed since he will be forgiven

therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another but you

may be healed the prayer of a righteous person has great power at its working we

always separate those verses because to hold them together becomes too

problematic but the fact remains that this is step one and so once you get

to step one then we can move on from there and that is where the healing

starts the next step after personal revival the next one is corporate

revival corporate revival corporate revival

man I never end up drinking the coffee that I so lovingly brew before I come

corporate revival you know we used to have a young people's conference of

sorts in Bahrain 11 years ago even before the Bahrain Church started then

it used to be called he brews and we used to have these coffee mugs with he

brews written on it was that Jane or Charlene already don three months

corporate revival corporate revival is fueled corporate revival is fueled by a

spontaneous by the spontaneous call by the spontaneous call of the spirit and

the strategic sending out of the spirit so corporate revival is fueled by the

spontaneous call and the strategic sending of the spirit what do you mean

by that if we want to stay in a place of revival we have to be like dogs that

have their ears cocked to their masters whisper sound car keys opening of the

gate smell footsteps it doesn't matter what it is your ears are cocked you and

it is it is critical to sustaining a revival not to have a week of meetings

and then switch off but to increasingly become highly aware of his greatness and

his nearness because it's only supposed to increase it's not supposed to be

static or stagnant so over the last week you may have recuperated from long

nights late nights but I hope you didn't recuperate from the alertness to God if

anything it should increase it's like job 37 11 to 13 which is quickly

becoming one of my favorite verses job 37 11 to 13 I'll read it from two

different versions first one he loads the thick cloud with moisture the clouds

scatter his lightning they turn around and around by his guidance to accomplish

all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world whether for

correction or for his land or for love he causes it to happen let me read it

from the message and yes it's God who fills clouds with rainwater and hurls

lightning from them every which way he puts them through their paces first this

way then that commands them to do what he says all over the world whether for

discipline or grace or extravagant love he makes sure they make their mark this

is the idea of being fueled by the spontaneous call of the spirit and the

strategic sending of the spirit it's on one hand it does not require our

permission it is it is it is surrendering to his desire as and when

any time of the day and on the other hand it is this idea of doing what he

very specifically plans there's an order to it in strategic and that is the way

God does with the clouds he puts them through the paces in initially to have

the move which of a way he wants but then he has very deliberate intent to

either bring grace or correction or extravagance to the land that's how this

works that's why I said if tomorrow the Lord says hey guys do another three days

even if it means that there'll be only one person on stage because it's too

abrupt so be it it's a majority of one right

so may you live in an increasing awareness of his greatness and nearness

this week one of the ways to do it is to invite people to pray with you during

the week not pray for something pray pray for God pray for God not pray for

the pastor or pray for the church or pray for revival to break out sometimes

it is just to pray for God there's something that happened this week where

I'd call people to pray for God and you would be you would know that our shucks

if it means going out for a walk or calling someone in your bubble or soon

zoom and live stream will be words used in the Bible at the rate it's going I

hope not the other thing that's required for corporate revival is one

accordness one accordness as in if you thought that there was some kind of

unity in the church now we're talking about an increase in it one accordness

and this one accordness is always through relational ownership through

relational ownership as in you own me not I own you you own me that's how one

accordness happens where you begin to become sacred community that lives life

together allowing for relational ownership leading to one accordness yeah

pray for God means father don't want anything like this what you don't want

anything actually you can have everything but give me Jesus and you'll

find that if when you pray like this actually you can have everything becomes

a reality because you know it's a great trade-off and so your hand gets stronger

on someone called Jesus and your hand gets looser over everything else once

your hand gets looser over everything else God begins to then find it very

easy to direct you to start disbursing it be grace gifts wealth lifetime it

just goes easily half the time God is struggling with me to have me give

something away because I got one hand on him and one hand on that

I pray that our one accordness increases it's not it's not bad at all it actually

I'm marvel at how how you serve each other how you esteem each other more

than yourself I'm marvel at it I almost think I didn't model it then I think to

myself now take the credit but the point is this that you guys are already so

good at it but then we are trying to step into a place of greater one

accordness where there is relational ownership you own me and so we live

effectively as a sacred or consecrated community and then when we do this guys

Isaiah 40 verse 3 to 5 will happen Isaiah 40 3 to 5 Isaiah 40 3 to 5 will

Isaiah 40:3–5

happen which is so important in a revival Isaiah 40 verse 3 to 5 so then

Isaiah 40:3–5

we become that voice a voice of one calling in the wilderness prepare the

way of the Lord make straight in the desert a highway for our God every

valley shall be raised up every mountain and hill be made low the rough ground

shall become level the rugged places of plain and the glory of the Lord will be

revealed and all the people will see it together for the mouth of the Lord has

spoken awesome this is what happens when we begin to run in this pathway that God

arranged this for us a the third thing is regional regional or territorial

revival regional or territorial revival

regional or territorial revival Sue had written texted me saying we should keep

a chronicle of the things that happened during this time so that someone can

read it like we read the Hebrides revival and I agree so when things happen in

your life in this area keep writing them down keep writing them down keep writing

your personal revival and your encounters with God because some of them

you may not be able to speak yet or discuss yet but chronicle them a time

will come territorial or regional revival this operates on two levels this

operates on two levels regional or territorial revival operates on two

levels first level is subduing regional or territorial spirits and the second

and the second is opening doors and ancient gates in the territory opening

doors and gates and ancient gates in the territory or in the region so this is

territorial or regional revival it operates on two levels one subduing

territorial spirits subduing territorial spirits and two opening doors and ancient

gates in the region through prayer and action through prayer and action I think

we'll be talking about this next week in detail because this is an important part

of revival that we haven't touched and not touched deliberately because I think

there's a time for it but maybe it's next week why should we do this so that

the king of glory may come in so that the king of glory may come in and so that young prisoners

may come out it's both ways eh so the king of glory comes in and young men and women come out

the king of glory comes in and young prisoners come out it'll be awesome these are true things

have the faith for the impossible these are things in the heart of God hopefully we'll deal with it

when it comes to territorial or regional revival marry the land as in commit to its young men and

women commit to the land commit your heart to the land that you've been given commit to the young

men and young women commit to loving them and not taking offense commit to them when I was in a

certain Middle Eastern country long ago I remember going for a meeting where people were asking for

a revival of the country and then at one point I asked them whether they really like the people

in the country and the answer was no they found them cruel they found them unfair masters they

found them exploiters and they just didn't think very highly of the people that they were praying

would be touched with a revival and so we may not think like that but we may have neutral hearts

about the land that we are in old prisoners yeah so the the question is what about we keep talking

about the 1330s as in the ones who are teens 20s 30s early 40s we're talking about them what

about ones that are older like Jacob terribly when I begin to own up to stuff like that what

about the older I'm sure that they'll be included but the focus and the emphasis at present is on

changing at least two or three generations down the line so rather than be all inclusive I'll

just to stick to God's exclusiveness knowing that he cares for the old as much as the young

because they're all kids in his eyes but because of the emphasis that he is putting on the 1330s

I'll just stick with his emphasis for now but he is impartial yeah yeah

so marry the land commit to its young men and women by committing to love them and not take

offense I don't think we've done that yet in our hearts we are neutral to it I want to get to a

point and I'm just saying what I want and I'm sure it's more amplified in your heart what I

want is that every time I see this group that God at present is running after that something

triggers in my heart that there's some kind of cry that begins to rise in my heart that I'm drawn

we said this before a burden allows you to co-labor with God's heart a burden allows you to

co-labor with God's heart ask for this gift day ask for this gift it's a gift that God could

give us we prayed for it that day do I think shekinah 4 or shekinah 5 we prayed for it but

a burden allows me to co-labor with God's heart ask for this gift pray Lamentations 2 19 someone's

been going through the book of Lamentations trying to see God's heart and the whole thing

Lamentations 2 19 Lamentations 2 19 and we read this verse last time I want to read it again

arise cry out in the night as the waters of the night begin pour out your heart like water in the

presence of the Lord lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children who faint from hunger

at every street corner guys I hope it happens there I hope you're woken up in the night Lamentations

Lamentations 2:19

2 verse 19 and that when you're woken up in the night you're either given a specific young person

to pray for or you're given a group to pray for a city to pray for and that Lamentations 2 19 becomes

real that John 4 10 becomes real when you're walking on the streets John 4 10 begins to cry

out from your heart till it forces you to do something Jesus answered her if you knew the gift

of God and who it is that asks you for a drink you would have asked him and he would have given

you living water that inside you there's this gnawing desire to go up because you know you

have what they need that will bring them to a place where there'll be no more tears no more

fear no more sorrow that first King 17 20 to 24 will be something that really bothers you where

Elijah stretches himself out on the boy hand to hand feet to feet mouth to mouth and revives them

one thing I know guys is the is how my heart begins to beat when I see a young man or a

woman who wants to run for God how poor myself out man it is so worth it it is not that I'm

not interested in people my aid but sometimes God puts in your heart this passion for this

back exactly where it should be

and may it be a burden they may we carry it I've never asked God for burdens but his burden is

light and his yoke is light and his burden is easy and he will teach us how to walk under it

I pray that we have disturbed nights

territories regions are the place where you live territories a place is given to you region is

the place where you live territory is a place given to you so I believe that yes I live in

Vancouver but I also believe that territories a place is given to us I believe that Bahrain

is given to us that we have clout in Bahrain I believe that this little city called Kaunas

in Lithuania is given to us that I've only been there once but my god that city is mine

how presumptuous how boastful absolutely because my boss is in the Lord

once these territories and regions are approached this way with the subduing of

territorial spirits and the opening of doors and ancient gates you will see how this revival

that we are talking about this this disruptive glory of God which is flowing like water breaking

dry ground giving life to soil and seed reviving young men and women across the earth will begin

to happen it's just mind-boggling man what are we doing in this

the next so personal corporate regional and the next one is societal societal

societal revival societal revival as in you begin to use your vocation your wealth your

sphere of influence to affect spiritual and physical changes you begin to use your vocation

your wealth your sphere of influence to bring physical and spiritual change to everybody but

in our present circumstance to the 1330s what is this did you ask a question or were you just

stretching okay so what does this look like let me give you some examples that are already

happening guys so there are some guys in this church who have put together a group that is

already beginning work in schools and secular institutions dealing with the damage that porn

can bring to life there's material being written courses being put together not not for not for

believers in churches they're included but for colleges universities schools institutions there

are people who have decided that they'll begin to focus on certain ethnicities that may need

legal help or counseling help so that in that ethnic group there's a reaching out that can

change both physical and spiritual circumstances there's someone else who's decided that they'll

take a lump sum of money and put it towards water projects in cities or nations where just a drop

of water will unleash spiritual and physical change amongst the 1330s places where there

are rescue homes for girls and there'll never be a dirt for daddy and for boys abused rescued

I'm just giving you a few that come to mind societal revival is when Isaiah 58 grabs the

heart of a people will you be a torchbearer for the great move of God it can be local it can be

global it can be regional but I'm saying to you that every person in this church has the

potential to bring about societal revival it's a starfish story so what if it is one girl my

god can you imagine what a difference it makes to one girl can you imagine that

this is a cool thing about God he takes your smile small flask of oil he takes your two fish

that's how he works then he adds it all up then he adds to it that's what societal revival looks

like and I really believe that every person in this church has the ability to do this every

person you're suddenly looking at there's a really an analogy that I have absolutely no

expertise in it's like everybody bringing a potted plant of flower and then putting them

together and they look like one beautiful whatever it looks like when you 50 people bring flowers

it's that kind of a thing it just looks amazing yeah well if it helped so be it

with your masks on I don't know whether you're scoffing or laughing yeah I

noticed however that there was no sound from Charlene's corner sorry what does it say

like a friend of mine would say no coffee for you the next revival is cultural cultural revival

no this is not a mouth thing cultural revival cultural revival is training young minds to

process and live the word of God publicly cultural revival is training young minds

to process and live the word publicly live the word publicly there's a dirt of this guy

there's no dirt of worship for young people there's no dirt of programs and camps and

conferences and hikes and treks and stuff like this there's no dirt of that but there is a

severe dirt of the young that already exist in churches and you're talking about millions

millions that already exist that do not know how to process the word or live out the word

that the word is not becoming flesh cultures shift when the collective mindset of the thinking of

a people shifts and unfortunately it is the collective mindset of the world that still is

used by the ones in the church to process life with bookends of prayer and worship

this must change and it can change it is absolutely doable I have seen it but these

young men and women know how to process and live the word publicly at cost at cost it doesn't matter

to them they become young men and women of godly character able to articulate the word in flesh

calling themselves to a life of sacrifice of generosity of abandonment of total obedience

to Jesus and his teachings hey I've seen that in the young people in this church I've seen this

outside of this church and if you are a young person and you don't feel counted among the ones

I've mentioned well then rise up if we don't work with what we have it's wrong to expect work

amongst what we don't presently have we start with what we have we take our two loaves and

five fish and multiply it you know John Wesley there's this John Wesley chapel in Bristol it was

one of the first places I visited when I went there John Wesley when went to this town in Germany

called Hernut I think ATRRNHUT and he was visiting this Moravian movement in Hernut and he comes

back and his words were oh when shall this Christianity cover the earth as the waters

cover the sea oh when shall this Christ he saw how the Moravians function how dedicated they were

to the word how obedient they were how looking forward to the future they were even during times

of funerals he was so moved by this that he begins to cry out saying oh when shall this Christianity

cover the earth as the waters cover the seas and I'm saying the time is now and that we already

have the first fruits in this church takes a couple of Daniels Josephs Azariahs Hananiahs and

to change an entire Babylonian system it's doable I should ask Don to come up last I don't know when

when planes used to fly Don and I went to this little nowhere town called Down near a place

called Pune and spend some time with 600 young people yeah do you want to grab a mic because

I'm not giving you mine you may want to stand here next facing the camera so in 2018 April

Jacob and I we 19 April sorry it was April for sure and so Jacob and I we went to Pune and before

I go there let me just quickly tell you something so one and a half years back God put something

in my heart for young guys and it was a burden and I didn't know how to do anything with it and

I've spoken with some of you guys about this passion for young men and women and I know that

the same thing was put in some other people in the same in x29 and people started doing the same

thing you know without like we didn't know about it but now when Jacob was telling about the revival

among young people I know that God has been you know starting the process and preparing us towards

it so I am for sure like my heart is rejoicing in what God is doing with this revival with young

men and women and God has been using and preparing this church for what is about to come and in Pune

what I saw was just truth setting people free and I'll give you one quick instance where Jacob

was teaching about God being the master and mammon not being the master and this quick I probably

told about this one before and this is for the guys who haven't listened to this story

so Jacob talked about you know money not being the master but it should become our slave and God

should be the master and towards the end as a symbolic action Jacob asked people to you know

just drop money in front and this is around 600 people in a big camp so people started coming up

there was a little bit of hesitation because people didn't know about this right for them it's a

whole new thing where you know because you work hard for money you don't just give it away

so this was a great thing where people just started coming slowly they dropped 10 rupees or

you know 20 rupees little by little and then a lot of people started coming in and then

so we have a heap of money right now and people thought that would be it right and they could just

you know the church will take it but then Jacob said you know what if anybody here has anything

like if there is a need for money come and pick it from this this heap here and nobody started

responding so minute went by two minutes went by and then one person stood up and he he he's weeping

he's bawling and he he comes and he takes a note from there and then slowly two or three or four

people come and then there's this great I don't know how to express it but there's this great

bondage being broken feeling the truth setting people free and then they realize this is what

body means where you can come and take and God just does not you know he he does sometimes but

it's not always about showering money from heaven to its you know people coming together using the

body helping each other and people are just crying and as people are taking money more people come

and they put money in and at some point people started throwing the whole wallets their credit

cards their car keys so what I've realized that is that truth will set people apart that will set

people free and you know I am coming from a similar tradition where for a long time God's

face was distorted because of people because of traditions because of denouncing people's

traditions because of denominations and everything they bring in and there are young men and women

who are actively pursuing God but they cannot find the truth and that is where people like us

who knows who knows the truth we should come in and we we should show the face of God and once

we show the face of God forever their lives are transformed forever their lives are changed I

know that Prashanth is meeting in a small group unbelievable things are happening and you know

people are getting healed recently a girl from a Hindu background she she got saved and now she

is going out and she's doing this we are just raising leaders guys and God is doing great things

through this through this church and like I'm extremely happy that you know God is doing this

revival and we can be part of it thanks

guys what happened over the three days in this place that Don and I went to was remarkably

like he said when when young people see the face of God and see it without distortion

it does something to them because they're pursuing God even through the distortion

and when they see it without distortion it does something to them it just flips them and just

imagine what God can do when he starts a sovereign move like this I would say to you begin to pray

that in the few that begin to pray that oh God would you end this pandemic so that this revival

can take on the take on take on wings oh God that that we can actually go that it won't be through

zoom that they'll see they'll see it in flesh and blood begin to pray for the end of this pandemic

just so that what God has begun will begin to go guys these are good reasons to pray and enter

something eh pray and enter something so that something else can start so that in different

cities in Pune in in Slovakia in Lithuania in places that we haven't gone to yet that we will

be able in the name of Jesus Christ I had to say name of Jesus Christ after doing that yeah so that

we will be able to get together maybe 20 youth maybe 600 but change them dramatically show them

the face of God tell them listen the time has come now is the time you will learn in a very

short while what would have taken you much longer you will have the courage to step out of tradition

to step out of the old wine skin even if that means who is my mother and my brother so be it

because what is at stake is at least two or three generations

Oh when shall this Christianity cover the earth as the waters cover the seas I will see it

you don't realize how each of you has been set up for a time like this think back think back

think back at how you became a believer think back through the story of your life think back

at how you arrived at this ragtag bunch of guys called acts 29 think back

and you'll realize he set us up for a time like this

this

I still remember an old man in white shirt and white

pants I think I wasn't sure whether it was a dhoti or a pant but with a flowing white beard

putting his gnarly big hand on my head and saying this man will serve God and he will see things

and I think that that time is coming now 50 years later man we've been set up

the last

trajectory of revival that we should pay attention to is global revival global revival

global revival so we've been through personal corporate territorial or regional societal

cultural and finally global global revival happens to nations through cities two nations

to nations through cities two nations through cities two nations through cities

two nations through cities

so nations are affected through cities and this is an old holy spirit strategy he'll pick certain

nations he'll pick Antioch he'll pick Rome he'll pick Ephesus he'll pick these strategic cities

because he knows their influence and he knows that if something can be established there

it'll spread why rome why at that particular time because rome was building roads man

things would travel faster

you think god hasn't planned this revival perfectly so that things happen through zoom

and live stream and then through real time flesh and blood his timing is so wise that satan is

always kicking himself thinking i got him now i don't have him at all

so global revival happens in nations through cities how does it happen initially it happens

through peter and john and apollos initially

it happens through

initially it happens through peter and john and paul and apollos meaning it'll happen through

people that god has raised for a time such as this they go out and they affect cities or they

affect congregations so initially through equipers that god has set up for a time such as this then

it happens through timothy's elijah's david's

samuels

so these are ones who run with a double portion because they've learned well from their fathers

and they now begin to run with twice as much strength cover much more distance in a much

shorter time just because of the of that scripture that they will join you at the break of dawn with

a vigor of youth resplendent and holy armor then it goes to the syrophoenician woman

the ethiopian eunuch

the neyman's

centurions these are people that are affected in the process by peters of john's paul's

um elijah samuels timothy's these are people affected by them that have been touched by god

these are people who are almost second generation they were affected by what god did through these

by the syrophoenician woman the ethiopian eunuch the woman at the well

the woman freed from divination in act 16 they begin to carry this into nations

and then the last category is those that listen to your sermon on a mountain like people did

listen to the sermon on the mount from jesus or those who come to argue with you at mars hill

at mars hill like they did with paul in athens or those that gather in a church in troas

till euticus falls off the windowsill because it's a midnight meeting or leaders in some

church you've never met who gather at a beach in militus to listen to paul give them final

instructions now these are unknown people that you may only meet once but the thing with torch

bearers is once the torch is lit it will set on fire any piece of wood that is offered

best that people not come anywhere near you with any kind of wood or anything flammable

for the next little while because within two or three zoom conversations

they'll find that you're not interested in the weather

and as you're obsessed with this thing that obsesses the heart of god right now

and either it's the fire is too hot or they'll catch it and run you won't be less fun you'll be

as absurd and quirky as you already are but there'll be something obsessive about your

quirkiness manoj won't change don won't change emily won't change cheldon definitely not

but there'll be something about them that will be oh my god don't even go there

but there'll be something quirky about them yet there'll be something that is so flammable about

them i know i'm trying to make it light but it ain't light man

there's this beautiful words in hosier 223 it says

that is what happens in a revival the strangest of people josea chapter 2

josea chapter 2 says

my beloved and my people i will be called my beloved and my people as in

those that are not mine will be called beloved and will be called mine and that is what happens in

mine and that is what happens in a revival the strangest of people josea chapter 2 verse 23

that is what will happen i want to say to you that you'll find in the next little while nations

i'm talking about this global revival connections and nations that you never thought you would have

that you never sought that come to you slovakia for instance i'll tell you something else bangladesh

is coming but we'll have some kind of a inroad into bangladesh

these are the nations that will come just because this revival is global