Revival | Pr Phua Seng Tiong

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where else besides here? Yeah? So when passa Sandra gave me,

he said, you're going to speak at this SG. Uh

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three three zero? So I said, whose car registration number

is that? Yeah? So I think your name again, Carrisa. Okay,

Carissa said, it is well with my soul. So I'm

going to ask you tonight. Uh this afternoon all different

orientation now go light soup must be a night last. Okay,

whatever it is? Is it? So one of the scene,

Uh Jessica. Jessica said about me being boy in school.

So when I shifted from one school to the other,

from one challenging school to another challenging school. Uh because

my students all then they all want the hit singing one.

You know why not because they come from real Chinese school.

Uh those of you come or Chinese school unless you're

hate singing, I don't know, but whatever it is. Uh

so because every time they see the head master or

they're so so sing it polite. Yeah, but so I,

but you see the school that I was in, they

they don't do well in their studies, not because they

are not intelligent, because they are poor in their languages.

So we had to really screw up all that and

then finally there was so much good, so much better.

Then that's not what it is when I changed to

their school, so I only speak to students English and Bahasaoni.

Even though I can speak Chinese, I can speak dialects,

et cetera. So I said, you cannot talk to me.

If you speak to me in Chinese, I don't understand. Okay,

That's that's how how it goes. Huh. So this student

was so maybe uh touched by by what I've done

there in that school. So when I shifted to the

other school, he wrote this letter to me. He said,

dear sir, I hope you are in the well because

because I'm in the well, and together we are in

the well. So when she said it is well with

my soul, I said, yeah, we are all in the well.

So my question do you is are you well in

the Lord? Are you aware of the lot. If you

are aware of the Lord, amen, praise a lot. Yeah,

you sang so amazingly, so many great songs about well

in the Lord, I prayed it is so ah So

as a reminder, remember when we come together as an audience,

as a as a congregations on there is only one audience.

God is audience. We are the one who are the participants.

We are the one who are the worshippers A man

praise the Lord, hallelujah. And even as I was singing through,

how do I, you know, trying to marry what I'm

trying to say even this afternoon to your revival team?

So to me, I think when you talk about revival

means something is dying. Okay, But I don't see your dying.

So so how do I? How do I go and

revive you? Some more? Let me tell you of a

comma story. There's a certain group that I disciple, and uh,

this guy, he's a heavy metal guyer and he's really

into that, but he's come to know the Lord in

some way. Then he fell sick very and he has

some blood disease and the doctor said, we don't know

what's wrong with him, and then he leaps in the coma.

How do you revive him? So of course he put

him with all the tubes, et cetera, and all that

and whatever it is. He was just lying there, unconscious, motionless.

His friends all came, his family people came. They didn't

know what to do with him. Then these guys, the

guys that I disciple, remember this verse and he's found

in John chapters sixth, verse sixty three. And Jesus said,

you know, the spirit gives life. Huh. The flesh counts

for nothing. Every word that comes out from his mouth

is spirit and life. So he said, past you you

taught us that before, you know, And I said, okay, yeah,

so so what is it? Then this is what we're

going to do. Leaving in those words, From nine pm,

when this guy is lying there in the bed, we

all take turns to be with him, and from nine

to six am, because the next day they had to

work and so on. So they did on duty and

so on. They read all the words that read, letter

words in the gospels, every word about what Jesus said.

They read, they read, they read, they read. First night,

nothing happened, Second night, nothing happened, Third night, nothing happened.

Fourth night. Already getting this courage, ah Asa already know

is it true? Maybe the passon triggers, you know, But

I said, these are Jesus words. So then they continue

to read seven, eight day, nine day. On the ninth day,

and on the bed itself there was a stir. They thought, oh,

last breath of read because chroma maybe final breath and no,

but it's like trying to get up and no, going

to get up. You're trying to stand up. And then

they called the doctor day, come come down, missy, missy, missy.

Then he said, Then in the meantime, this guy who

read told told Israel and said, hey, you're supposed to die.

I mean, she blurted out there what it means? So

in his intub the intubator said, he said, meaning who

says I'm dying? I heard every word that you all spoke.

And then I saw Jesus and he said, go back

tell them that I'm alive. Wow. And two weeks later,

in a week's time, he was discharged. Two weeks later

I met up with him. God, woll you mean that effective? Wow?

And two weeks later I interviewed him and he told

me his story, amazing story and and and so then

I realized, yeah, it's true. They to me unless you

in your lifetime you are. When you are alive, you

are deaf, then of course you cannot hear. But even

not in a coma, there's a last sense you lose. Wow.

So when when they spoke the words of the law

and became spirit and live today this guy, now he's

not a heavy rock metal but he still involved except

that he writes amazing songs. It's one. And as I

begin to think about this guy, then I said, the

church cannot afford to be in a coma. Okay, the

church is in a comma. We're in trouble. So there

is there's a there's a unfinished last all over the place.

You want revival, you need to be alive. And that's

what Jesus said. So we just celebrated resurrection Sunday. Amen. Yeah.

And what did Jesus say If you ever memorize this,

that means you don't believe it, you know, because you

said ah. In John Sapte eleven twenty five twenty six,

what is you say? Jesus said to Mather, I am

the Resurrection and live those who for those who believe

in Me, even though they die, they will continue to live.

You know why, because those who believe in him will

never die. But you see he doesn't stop there. There

is a question at the end of this verse, in

verse twenty six, do you believe this? Come on, do

you believe this? You see a lot of us we say, yeah,

says we know Jesus is live, but we all live

lives as though he's dead. Come on, that's not not possible,

isn't it. But then again, if that's what it is,

then I say to you, that's why we need revival.

If that's what we need revival, then I think we

need to desire to be alive in Jesus. To be

alive in Jesus is to know who he is and

to believe in who he is. As what I was

just sharing with a group of something seventy prisoners just

last Tuesday. Last Tuesday, I was telling them, do you

know who you are? Yeah? We are prisoners? Are I said, Noah,

you're prisoners? You believe in Jesus already? Yes? How many

of you? So? They all the seventy put up there,

say you sure? You're very sure? He says, yes, so

you are alive. How can your prisoners? You're not in

prison anymore. But but through my fast we are. We

have we're not free yet. Yeah, I say, yeah, you're

not free. But when you know Jesus, what did Jesus say?

In John chapter eight thirty six, he says, when the

son of men say you are free, you are free indeed,

So what does that mean? You are free? You're set

free from all their saying. So I share with them

John chapter one, verse twelve. He says, as many as

receive him to them, he gave them the right to

become sons of God, even to those who believe on

his name. And so I said, have you received Jesus, Yes,

have you believed in his name? Yes? Then you have

a right to be sons of God. So you are alive.

You are related to the one who has died for

you and prison from the day. As you begin to

understand that. As I was sharing with them this and

so on, suddenly some of them are began to sort

of like still. He said, yeah, it is true, it

is true. Yeah. And so that's why I said, do

you know you have been called by God to be

part and part of this family. So the first thing

I want to share with you is that you want

to talk about revival. You need to know your calling,

all right, What is your calling is found in first

pirits of the two verse nine. Uh the first millitch

of the two vers nine says, you are a chosen generation.

You are a royal priesthood, you are a holy nation,

and you are a people belonging to God. You see,

that's your identity, that's your DNA. But how does that

DNA come about? Well, it's in the second part of

that verse. He says like this. He says that you

were that you would decline the praises of him who

what call you out of darkness into his marvelous life.

All of us who have received him, all of us

who are believe in him, we are already called. Okay,

that's why you're a chosen generation. If you are not called,

it is not possible to be chosen. If you are

not called, it is not possible to be a priest

in the in the understanding of what Jesus said, you

can minister to one another you are. You cannot be

a holy nasa because you are not separated, because you

are still in the darkness, all right, So you need

to be drawn into that. Just two sundays ago, I

said with a young man. He's about six feet and

uh and uh he said there he was so sad.

He looks so sad. Somebody told me, he said, can

you talk to him? I said, sure, why not? So

I sat down and talked to him. Of course he's

not someone who WO normally allowed to go to church. Okay,

so uh you read between the lines up. And then

as I talked to him, whow he was? He was

all over from top here, big huge dragon. And I said, okay,

you could do Why do you he said, I was

after eighteen. You know, I have my freedom. I told

my parents I can do anything I want to do.

You don't. You cannot control me more. And so that's why.

So all the wrongs that he did, he was a

mother rampid, was this and that and all that. His

life became zero. And so when he said there he

told me all this, and then he showed me on

his handphone he's all the images about himself and so on. Ette. Honestly,

I didn't know how to talk to him. Only I

just said, you know, I sense that you are zero

of love? Then you know? And me, he said, how

do you know? I said, I don't know. I just sailah.

Actually I tell you how I know because God just

told me. What do you mean? God told you, yeah,

because he's my father. Then he administrates it what means

your father? And then he told me he has a

very bad relationship with his father. Okay, I said, so

long story shot. You know. It was quite some time

there to him. And then finally he was crying. And

then I said, you know, God, the Father loves you

very much. And the scripture tells us in Romance of

the five US eight, he says God demonstrated his love

and that while we will yet seen us, Christ died

for you. Do you know Jesus died for you? Do

you know even when your mud rumpet, when you're on drugs,

when you're on this and then on, Jesus still loves you.

That's why he died for you. And anyway, you and me,

he said, wow, I said, I'm not gonna push issue

all right for you. I'm gonna ask you to now

consider come back another day. I'm gonna talk to you more,

but today this is what I'm gonna do, all right.

And then because it's six feet no, so I'm doing

and I'm almost as his cart. Then then I I

hug him, you know, I said, let me be a

grandfather and a father to you. And I hug him.

He just ball. He cried and cried and cried. I

want to tell you, I believe he was beginning to

be called from his darkness into his motherless life. If

you have been called at, you have only one story

to tell. Praising God, declaring the praises of him as

first pirits of the two. Verse nine, declaring the praises

of Him who call you out of darkness into his

mother's life. He marched up the three march up the tree,

yes right, and verse fourteen, Verse the teen says like this,

and Jesus you know when he came down from the

mountain and actually is Luke. Chapter six twelve, he says

that he spent the whole day praying because he's gonna

select twelve guys, not twelve guys that that probably have

all their issues and backgrounds and baggage extra trials on.

And then he says he says that Jesus call all

those he wanted. In verse thirteen, he called all those

you wanted. Tell your neighbor Jesus wants you. Yeah, come on,

tell the other neighbor, Jesus wants you and when you

say that, yeah, it's because he calls you. So if

you are under the calling, remember that that's why he say.

He called you out of darkness, out of your your

your predicament, out of all your situations. He brought you

in you know. Yeah, that itself is a revival already, okay,

from death to life, which is what Jesus said. Yeah,

those who believe in me, even though they die, they

will still live, all right. So He's brought you from

darkness into his motherless life. And when we understand that,

Jesus called all these riff guys, uh, two of them

will call down heaven to hit people to send their

cause sons are thunder, you know. And uh one two

guys who all the time taking money okay, another another

guy who always speak first before he can think. Yeah.

And then another guys said, I won't believe until I

see it with my old eyes. It is that gris

that Jesus call. You know, you think that, you know,

if they were to apply for any job with the

CV abase away, how good what kind of CV they have?

You know? But actually Jesus saw so much potential in them. Okay,

So once they were in darness now they're in the

light camera are they calling? Is so amazing he called them,

but you see he called them this That calling has

to do with recognizing that they're in that situation. Now

they can be lifted up from that the other situation.

And I pray that if you really have come to

know the Lord, you really need to be excited about

the calling that God has given to you. You know, you,

as you think about this man possitions on go with

me to efficiency of the four verst one efficients are

the four verst one is called the guy who persecuted Christians.

The guy was in dumbness who thought that he was

in the light by persecuting Christians, putting them in jail

and causing them to die. He was a persecutor. Now

is a preacher. Can you imagine that? What a change

he's calling from a being a persecutor, which he thinks

he's right and so on all the time, which is

which is what a lot of people are like that

all over the world anyway. All right, So, but as

you begin to realize that, Paul says, you know, now

in efficiency the fobust one. He says, therefore, as a

prisoner of the Lord, he's not a prisoner of Rome,

even though technically is as a prisoner of the Lord.

I know my calling. So he says, all of you

outside there, what worthy of the calling? You have received?

A calling? You your call from dumbness in the light.

Now stay as in the light. So that's why. That's

why he says, you know, you need to walk according

to the calling received, and that calling it is to

walk in the light. And that's why he wrote later

on inefficiency of the five verse. I think it's verse nine.

He says, you know, as you are in the light,

live as children of the light. Okay, so now you

you see the connection. So that's why our calling is

always there, all right? Now you activate the calling by

doing what you are that where you are. I was

just talking to Daniel and Dnie was just telling me

that he's now a lecturer in the so so is

he called to be a lecturer in the monsh? No,

he's not called to be He's called to be a

disciple of Jesus in bonnesh and do the best for

the Lord because of the calling. So you see, that's

a that's the reason why. So when Jessica said, you know,

I didn't turn the school around. I asked the Lord

to my calling as a disciple of Jesus, to live

as like Jesus in the school so that the students

can see who I am not because I'm so good

at doing the things. No, I'm so good at wanting

to shine that light in a dark situation. And somebody

said this way. He says, light only shines the brightest

in darkness. So if you have been called out of that,

then that light. So when you talk about revivment, it

has to do with actualizing your calling everywhere you go,

all right. So if you're a homemaker, you be the

best homemaker to your children, and also be an example.

If you are married as a couple and so on,

you become you, you actualize that calling in your marriage,

all right, as you as you become that who you

are in Jesus. So that's the first thing everybody, everybody

enjoined me saying calling, activate my calling, actualize my calling,

because that's what it is. When you come to know

who Jesus is in your life and so on, you

get excited about it. And that's why when Paul wrote

in Roman, chapter one, verse sixteen, he says, I'm not

a shamed. What does it mean. It's not because he's

a shame. He said, I'm not a shame because I'm real,

I'm true. It's authentic what has happened in my life.

You know, it is like the Gospel exploited. That's what

it says. It is it is the power of God

unto salvation. That's what has happened. It has exploited me.

Now I'm no more a prosecutor, I'm a preacher. Now

I'm no more a pharisee. I'm an apostle. Can you

imagine that? So you can do that again and again?

What God wants you to do? You actualize activate a calling.

That's the first thing that I think when we talk

about revival, it has to do with knowing your identity.

Who are you in God? And that's why when I

was sharing with the with the prisoner, I said, we

we we sang the song Dallam Yes, and then I said,

Dalam Jesus Anna Allah, I am a child of God. Yeah,

that's a that's it. That's my darnay. Okay, if you're

an Allah, then aku ada kabe basan. I'm freedom agan

because I have victory. Yeah, because I I visited those

who are on death row, and and you know, when

they're on death row, you don't ask them, you know,

how you today and so on, because they're all waiting

to dimer. Okay, so what do you do? The first

time I did that, you know, but I didn't know

what to do. And then this guy said, your pastor

is in it. I said, yeah, I'm past Yeah. Why

he said, you don't know why I'm here? I said, yeah,

you tell me. Why are you on death row? He said,

I killed my friend. I said, I mean, I I

was so so, you know, looking very brave in front,

but there was a cold shiver down my brain. Not

every day you made a mur drama. So and I

look at him. Then he looks Okay. Then I asked

him when you when you murder, when you kill a frienner?

Where a Christian? And then this is what he did you. Oh, noah,

if I'm a Christian, I won't kill him. I'll just knock,

he said. I said, oh, you got a great sense

of humor. Yeah, so I thought you're already waiting the diimer.

He said no, no, no, no, no, no no, he said.

My favorite verse is from Philippine s Cup to one

verse twenty one. I said, what is that verse? He said,

you know our passa. I said, you want to test me?

He said, I said no, no, no, no, no no.

He said for me to leave his Christ to die

is again said you know every day should the day come,

and actually actually passive, we are all very fortunate because

we will know the day when we will die. But

you don't know. And I said, what do you mean,

don't simply talk her? He said, you go over you

accident die now where you know here? I only know

the day when. Now we hang it out. Yeah, so

they do it so flippant, you know. But he said, no, no, no,

now that I know Jesus. Every day I wake up,

this is my prayer. Thank God, one more day to live,

thank God, one more day to live for Jesus. I

see you got alter motiv. He said, no, because I

really want to live for Jesus. Because why that the

other part of the verse is to die is gain

So again ah ah, win win situation. You know, I leave,

I live for Jesus. When I die, I also would

go to be with Jesus. Yeah, when Wienna, he said,

that's how they all, that's that their version so so

I was so touched by that. But you know, we

actualize our calling all the time. But you know when Jesus,

if you read in Mark chapter three, was what in

Jesus called all those he wanted, and he appointed them

as apostles, and then he called them to be with him.

Everybody says, with me, with him? With who with Jesus?

With him? So they will spend the next three and

a half years with Jesus. Do you know that? Yeah?

So wow, to be with him. But there is a

purpose if you read in the same verse he says,

so that he might send them out. He says that, okay,

he might send them out and and to share the

good news, and you will give them the authority to

cast out demons. Wow. Not only having the message but

also having the power of that message. Yeah, and so

that's why, that's why to be with him. So that's

the next next point I want to bring across with you.

It is in connection with Jesus all the time. If

your call is because you're connected. If you're not connected,

no way, all right? Yeah? Uh. In in the early

days when we I mean all the time, when we

want to charge something, in charge to the main main

season it. Huh, they're only your your device will charges

as long as you take over the blog. There is

no connection. You and I needed that connection. That's why

Jesus took them and made sure that they're really known,

not only they're calling, but their connection who you are

with all the time. All right. So there, that's why

we need to remember that every time in our secret

life a manner, I wanna say to you, okay, in

your secret life, who where nobody can see, are you

still connected to Jesus? And I think that when you

talk about revival, it has to do with that, because

you know the calling, you know the connection, and you're

constantly connected to him, and that's why you will just like,

why I this these guys that are disciple, I said,

you know when you hear it, the holy spell will

tell you, because you'll guide you, you speak to you

and so on. And then one of these days he

so they were coming to see me, he said, and

they rang me said I cannot come. I said, why,

He said, you are you? Say Holy Spirit tell mar?

I said, yeah, I did, so what is it? Oh?

This should have bisic braku. He's already whispered to me.

There's somebody following, you don't come, Yeah, because it's risky.

So then I said, oh okay. Suddenly I felt there

was a slap on my face. That I teach, but

doldn't believe a lot of times you teach, you don't believe.

You know, they cannot fully believe, they fully cross and

so on. Yeah, and so that's why when I met

this guy, uh he works among terrorists. Then he looked

at me when I was on the island. Some of

you know in mindan Now, yeah, where is a Filipino brother?

H yeah, you do? You do you go to Midnaawa?

You've never been? You know why not? Because you're afraid

to go. Yeah, all the Filipinos tell me, pastor, why

do you want to go to Zabanga? I said, because

you're not going. That's where all the abusai felasa today

many of the terrorists have come to note a lot.

But why, I'll tell you what happened. You see when

when when something like this happened. They this this guy

who is working about them told me just just last

year when I was there on this island called Basilon,

that's where the kid and pers kidnap people put them

there ass or ransom before they can release and so on.

So when I was on there, I said, he told

me it's dangerous to be here. I said, yeah, but

it's dangerous for you to stay here. He said, you're right.

He said, I'm not supposed to actually talk to you.

What him mean because I'm not supposed to be alive today.

I don't. I said, you're telling riddles. I don't understand,

don't quite understand your word. Then he said, do you

know just before COVID I was told I have only

three months to live. I've pancretic answer and fastage going fast.

I don't have money for treatment. Even if I should have,

it would be a waste of money, because the doctor

says I don't have. So is it? My life was

hanging by a thread, and I don't know what to say.

I cannot question God because he my life is in

his hands. I don't know how to respond to what

has happened. And you call me to work among these people. Lord,

I'm with you as you are with me. So he

pledged together with a wife and his mentor. His mentor

told him, why do we fast three months? Every day?

Three months fast? And for three months if faster, he said,

but I'm already sick. Okay fast, he said, yeah, you

Your life is in God's hand, so trust in him.

So we spend time praying and fast and pray, fast

and pray. After three months he went for a checkup.

Zero cancer. This was this happened. I met him personally.

I heard his story. That's why he says, I'm not

supposed to be standing here talking to you, because I'm

supposed we did so. Then the one word that he

gave to me is because Jesus was with me and

I'm with him, so you're calling it also to be

clear in your connection who you're connected to. If you're

connected to him, it means that Lord, Lord, whatever the

situation is, just like this prison that the death row

guy says, for me to leave his Christ to die

his Kain, I'm totally eternally connected to Jesus. It doesn't

matter what happens, but that's what it is. Just that's

why why Paul and encourage so many people about this

kind of situation. In Roman fourteen, verse eight, this is

what he said. You know, if I live, I live

for him. If I die, I die for him. Whether

I live or die, I still belong to him. Come

on right, everybody say, we still belong to him. Whether

I live or whether I die, I still belong to him.

That's the kind of connection we have, eternal connection. That's

why Jesus said, those who believe in Me will never die.

Why what it means. It means you're totally connected with him.

The reason why Jesus died and rose again from the

dead is for that purpose to reconnect us when we

have been disconnected by our sid So he solved the

sain problem for you. You receive that forgiveness. You now

can have direct access to who he said, I'm the Way,

the Truth, and the life. Okay. So that's the connection.

The calling is there from darkness. In doing Mara's side,

you continue to praise God for that you are connected

to him. That's why Jesus told his disciples before he

went to the cross in John chapter fifteen, in juns

of fifty, verse voices, remain in me, and I remain

new how can you're going away? How to remain? So

he's talking about the Holy Spirit being in us, and

that's that's that's an amazing thing. And in no worry

that In chapter fifteen, verse seven. He says, you know,

if you remain in my word, we need this living

word again and again, be connected knowing where your life is,

but be connected knowing the words of Jesus. That's why

I started with the coma story. The words that come

forth from Jesus mouth our spirit and life, and when

you speak it, the spirit will come. But you know why,

because he's just like, what what the Lord told this?

This very funny character in the in the Bible, is

he kill h Ezekiel? You know? Yeah, so he said Ezekiel.

He brought him to a valley of dry bones. It

is he Kuil, chapter thirty seven. And then he he

asked this Ezekiel. Ezekiel said, Sannaman, do you think these

bones will leave? Then then he didn't know what to answer.

He says, oh, Lord, sovereign Lord, only you know? Good answer? Okay, yeah,

this very neutral answer. If I say no, you're no faith.

If I say yes, you sure so? Only you know? Okay,

that's a good question. Go go answer so because why

because they the word of the Lord that came in

verse eleven in the same chapter in chapter thirty seven,

and say that we are all dried up, We all

cut off. Yeah, we have no hope, and what who

can do that? Who can help? And then then this

is what he told this exequ is prophesie over the bones,

use the word of the Lord, streak live okay. And

then knowing it, then he said, but you know, yeah,

but they all connected. But then they still look all skeleton.

He said, breathe live, prophesy, breath, and then there's a mission.

These bones that are dead will be revived and become

a vast army. Wow. I mention that. So when when

you when you begin to think I'm totally connected because

I have a mission with Jesus, all right, And because

you have a mission with Jesus, you continue to be connected,

all right? Where As you say Coloss two, verse six says,

you know, as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord,

what do you do? You continue to walk in him?

Authorization says you continue to live in him? How do you?

How do you live in him? Rooted and built up

in him? That's what he says, he Colos chapter two,

verse six. And then you will be strengthened in your

faith and you are whatever that comes away, you will

always have a thankful heart. Why I mentioned that so

so in the in the in that situation like this,

my neighbor is not a believer and he has bladder cancer.

I've tried to talk to him earlier before before you

got cancers on. He just put his hand like that

to me almost. I mean, he's very polite. We are

good neighbors. But when he got his bladder cancer, he

he came one day before he went to the hospital.

He said, who these are my house keys. I'm going

to hospital. Should anything happen, there's a truth trip or

power card and all that, because there's lightning and all that.

Can you help to, you know, put back restore my power?

Be sure there was a beginning connection. Then I said,

I'm going to pray for you. It's okay. You don't

say no? Want me to open his house here? How

can you say? You cannot put say no? So I

pray for him. I said, Lord, you know what's happening

to direct and you you're gonna go enaghbor him to

know who you are. So another four five months. The

last one day there was one day very bad traffic.

Jab No. Even the taxi driver the grab driver said sorry,

I put you on the train station. I cannot go anymore.

So put him on. He's just dischargeable hospital. He's got

multiple medical issues and so on. And he called me,

he said, can you come fetch me from the from

the rty station, which is quite near our house. I

said sure, sure, so I took him. Then he was

He told me his whole story. I'm fitted and fitted

to die. I said, why do you say that? Because

the doctor said this operation that you're going that if

I if I actually do for you, Uh, there's a

certain don't know how many percent I cannot remember now,

So I'm people even die on the operation table. Seat.

You mean the doctor told you that? He said, terrible.

Doctor buddy By said actually, in actually fact is good, lad,

because at least he wants you about it. So should

you die on an appreciate table? And then what he

says is charrecter? So then you look at me. And

then he said, so I don't know what to do.

I said, that's good. That's a good question, that's a

good statement. I pray with you. We're sitting in the car.

I pray with you, Jesus. He doesn't know what to do,

but do you know what to do? So you know

whether he can be healed, or I can recover from

this operation. Strengthen him because you're getting wease. Strengthened him

so that he can go to this operation. So I

saw him two weeks ago before his operation. I went

to the hospital and I said, I want to be

friends with you. You you would one who told me

you know people down the operation table. So I asked

you if if this actually happened, do you know where

you're going on? Hey, look at me, I said, you

should know where he's going. So, yeah, I know. I

do want to just do this because you you you

have this problem. I'm going to tell you I have

hope for you. So I said, he said, okay, if

I lead you in a prayer to ask Jesus to

come into your life and so on, I've never I

never thought he would say yes, but he said yes, okay,

please help me. So I held his hand and we prayed,

we prayed, we pray, we pray. This just happened about

three weeks ago. And then I said, held his hand

and then he said I said anything. He said no, no,

I said, something's happening. I said, okay, good, don't need

to tell me what's happening. All I just want to

call it pray. So we finished prayer, and you're so happy.

There was a smile on his face and he thanked

me for it, and so on. He went to the operation.

He's back at home now. I'm not sure how his

situation is. He keeps off and on. I texted him,

I said, how are you? How are you copying? We're

just neighbors, are But he's so shy for me to

go and visit him, you know. So he said, uh, hospital,

I can visit him in the house. I cannot visit him.

I don't quite understand anyway. So he texts me, he said,

thank you for for concern, thank you for praying for me,

and thank you Jesus. Oh that's the beginning. I said, Lord,

your words says so clearly in Romans. Pretend was the ten.

Everyone who calls her the name of the Lord will

be say so, I said, keep calling on Jesus, keep

calling on Jesus. So the connection is a yeah. But

you know, you continue to be connected, and that's why

it's important for you. You want to talk about revival.

Are you continually connected to him? If you are totally

connected to him, then God is going to do something. Yeah,

And so as you receive a calling, actualize the calling

as you are connected to with him, and then you

continue to actually grow in him. That's why it is.

It is that you walk in him so that you grow.

You will not only be rooted, but you grow him.

That's the reason why you need the word, and the

word will enable you to grow. One guy came to

my house one day. I don't really know him, but

you know, he looks so distraught. There's a whole small

group here. And as we were talking, I said, let

me explain to you what the song you're singing. He said,

on the cross, you took my place, You took my sins. Actually,

I said, can I just talk to you? So I

don't know why I use the word jihada, but I said,

this is Jesus the Haad. Then I you know what

Jesus the head is la. This is his the had

is to die himself so that those who are dead

can be alive. Then this guy look at me and

his friend said, this guy's jihad fellow. Now, I said,

I've never met somebody on chiahad fellow, So I said,

what do you mean? So he started telling me that.

Then next thing. He told me. He said, how come

nobody told me that this is the actual jad that

Jesus died? You don't in your chart you're going you

don't going to destroy people. He didn't do that. He

died himself so that others who should be destroyed become alive. Wow,

it's okay, then you're so happy. And I said, so,

how do I follow this chard? I said, no, you

don't follow this chart. You follow the man. So then

he came, He declared, now I want to tell you

when I lead this girl. People some of you may

have heard this. I said, you really want to follow

Jesus killing me? Ask you for questions? Number one, are

you willing to go to jail? Number two? Are you

willing to be confined in the rehab center? Number three?

Do you have a job? You have a job. Are

you willing to lose your job? Number four? Do you

have a family? Are you willing to be kicked out

of your family? And he look at me, he said,

so long, my family. They are afraid of me because

I had so there, that's not issue. I have my

own job now. Anyway, I've been taken in before because

of my background. I said, okay, so he decided to

follow Jesus. We made a declaration. Three weeks later he

came again. I've never seen him. I mean, I don't

really know him very well. I pray for him and

all that. Then he came there with this group. So

I told you somebody new, you know. I say, hello, said,

what's your name? I say, I came here three weeks ago?

You mean you are the guy? So yeah, you told

me about jad. Oh okay, what happened do you? Huh?

You look so good? He said, I've been reading the

Bible all these three weeks. And then he reminded me

of the verse when Jesus said in John chapter fifteen,

I think it's verse two overstree. I can't verse two overstreet.

He says, you have been cleaned by the word wow.

And I realized by reading the word wow, things have happened.

And because of his calling, because he's connected now he

continues to walk with Jesus. It's one you want to

see that happen. Then this is what God wants you

to do. And she ended off. Clarissa ended off with

that verse from Romans to twelve, verse one and two.

He's a commitment. He want to see revival. You need

to be committed, not to revival, committed to your calling,

committed to your connection, committed your continuity. Now you are

committed totally to the mission and the cause of Jesus.

That's how it is. So when Paul wrote those words

in Romans, chapter twelve, verse one and two, he says, therefore,

I appeal to you, my brothers and sisters, and you

present your body as a living sacrifice wholly and acceptable

unto Him which is your reasonable worship. Do not conform

your life to the pattern of this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind. Come on, that's

what commitment is all about. Total. If Jesus totally committed

to die for you and rose again from the dead,

there's no reason why you should not. So this guy

saw Jesus seven times, and I said, how do you know?

Seven times? He said, I opened my eyes, I see him.

I close my eyes, I see him again seven times.

I said, oh, I did, huh, So how do you

know it's Jesus? He said, I don't know. But I

asked these friends who brought me, and I told him,

anytime somebody asked you like that, ask them to read

Revelations at the one. If you have not read read

REVELATIONSIP to one, go back and read and when the reader, yes,

that's what I saw. And that's why I know it's Jesus.

Because I asked them, I were you afraid when you

saw saw that? Said no, so good? Well I really said,

so much peace and assurance. And I asked him how

long ago was that? That's three months ago? Okay, So

what do you want to do with having seen Jesus?

And he said, this is what he is. I've never

heard anybody say this again. There is no reason can

I say this? Ambassad did the others Abu Saeta dear,

there is no reason why I should not follow him.

And I want to say to you, are you serious

about revival? Are you serious about what God wants you

to do? Church is none on Sunday. Church is Monday

to Saturday. You go out and be Jesus to those

who are around you want to see revival, Then on Sunday,

come and tell stories. Come on on Sunday, come and

tell us stories about Jesus. That's what happened. Let's pray.

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