Before the Fire Falls - Part 2 | Pr. Yvonne Chong

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So I'm going to go into the sharing second part

of what I started last month here. Okay, it's about

a month ago already. So I started with, you know,

talking about just our preparation for revival?

What can we do? All right?

And and you know I titled it then which will

I will use the same title as well, Before the

Fire falls, Gay the fire Revival before it falls?

And we saw you know in Acts too as.

Well, right, the disciples there waiting in the upper room

and they were praying and seeking God and then the

fire holy spirit just fell on them and they started

spaking tongues and prophesying and reaching out and getting people

safe as well. So before that happens, you know, what

can we do to prepare for that?

All right? So that is part two, and I want

to do a.

Yeah, we can can show the slices this recap okay.

All right, a recap for us. While I talked about

you know, it's good.

To have some memory refresh moments as all right. So

what does revival mean? I talked about it being a

spiritual awakening and it being believer us coming alive.

And it's actually drawn out.

From there's two words in Hebrew and in Great with

his choir and uh. And I always find it hard

to pronounce this, although I try to memorize.

But yes, that's the one on screen.

Both is to talk about spiritual awakening and restoration in

our hearts, but also to rekindle the spiritual fire and

to fan into flame the gifts that God has given

to us. All right, So revival itself, you know, for

us to understand further, it's not just a hyph okay,

but it is a change and a transformation happening in

the lives of believers, all right.

And what is that change? There is resurrection. Uh. You know,

everything that is dayed comes alive. No.

If you read an Easy Guilt thirty seven, it says that,

you know, when God breathed everything that was dry bones,

you know, it actually described it as dry bones everything

that is date And we know that if you look

at the skeleton, okay, if you are able to see bones,

meaning there's normal life right to that being either a

human being or animal. Whenever you see bones missed. The

thing is dyed and it has decomposed or you know,

if you go through the fire, you know, being cremated

as well.

You see only bones left. That's death.

But when the breath of God is breathed, breathen breath.

God help me with my English. But yes, when God

breathed life, his ruler comes in uh. And it forms together,

if you read it forms together, the different threats and

the different muscles, ligaments and skin comes together, and the

person becomes alive.

Uh.

And and when a revival happens in a believer, there

is a very significant transformation as well that people around

can actually see it. Okay, So I talk about personal preparation,

you know, before everything else, we have to personally be

prepared because this is the vessel right that God wants

to use.

Uh. And we have to desire, you know, God, make

me alive again. I don't know what.

The different ones of you are going through, but sometimes

you may feel like you know, different areas of your

life could be date, could be stagnant, could be dry

like bones like date bones. But in revival, you know,

and if you want revive, we want God to move

in your life. You know, desire God, I want to

be live again. I want to be set on fire,

that will not burn me out, that will not consume me,

but will cause me to grow. It will cause me

to draw even closer to you. And I talk about

you know, how do we carry personally prepared?

You know, first it's to repentance.

We have to repent, turn from our always uh, to

turning towards the Lord, all right, and you know, repent

and come to God in humility, you know, I talk

about that as well, and uh, and and not just humility,

you know, every area of our lives. If that compromise,

we have to turn away from it because a double living,

right I talk about it, then, a standout double living

actually really dilutes God's us working our life and spiritual

authority that we have in our lives as well.

And and compromise.

Is also very closely linked to secrets scenes because hidden

scenes can actually extinguish spiritual hunger, because your EPI type

will just be filled with flash right with your canel

nature wanting more and more to just indulge in sine uh.

And there's no more hunger for the more God in

our lives as well, So it will prevent us from

pursuing a deeper intimacy with God and with his word.

All right, and you know revival starts, you know, I

I you know, spoke on this as well, that reviv

only can start when our excuses and okay, uh and

and and compromise. Sometimes in living in compromise, we give

a lot of excuses. So why it cannot you know,

why we can't give God our best, why we can't

give God our hearts? But it can only transformation of

our lives can only happen when we say.

No longer God. I want to live in this and

I want to pursue after you. Okay.

Second part on how we can prepare ourselves is in

the area of hunger and how can the hunger come

about when.

It's through our secret place? And it's true us rebuilding.

That secret place as well, you know something of us

have not been guarding our secret place jealously. What is

that secret place? It's a space that you can actually

go and set aside. It's just between you and God.

It's like a personal date, if I'm going to put

it in these days term. You know, it's a personal

date with the Lord drawing ourselves away and you can

see Jesus's life, right a lot of times in his

ministry he's surrounded by a.

Lot of people, but there are.

Also many many times that he drew himself to the

secret place so he can spend time with his father.

All right, so revival really believe us are not just

event dependent. Okay, Revival does not happen just invents. Uh,

just not it started right saying that revival is just

not a hyphe Sometimes hype can very well, sorry, events

can very well generate hype.

But then it's not just that revival.

Happens when believers are dependent on the Holy Spirit. When

each and everyone of us are dependent on the Holy Spirit,

we are not dependent on like Okay, the next time

I come to church, there are feemal alive.

The next time go the wst film a life, or

next time I go.

To care conferences or you know a different band Christian

bands coming and go worship there and become our life. No,

U become alive because we are Holy Spirit dependent. Okay.

So the third point is in the area of obedience.

How can we work on on the area of obedience? Obedience? Okay,

removing delayed. Yes, a lot of.

Times we will see you say yes to God.

But it's delayed, right, So the very outright and obvious

it's always a known, but a delay. Yes, it's also

I know all right to the Lord as John fourteen fifteen,

if you love me, God says, keep my commandments, all right.

So revival can only spread, you know, besides just you

know us one thing to be revived. Revival God can

work in and through our lives so that the people

around us can also experience Him.

But it can only spread through obedience.

Okay, not to our talents, not to our popularity, and

not to any platform, but to our obedience. Small obedience

prepares us for a big uppouring of the Holy Spirit.

Okay.

Revival can start personal, but revival never stays personal, right

because fire spreads, if you know.

Now it's sport.

In Malaysia, I think the most recent closest to where

I is, there was a huge forest fire. It was

three combined chunk area that that that forest reserve area.

So there's a huge fire and it keeps spreading, right, Uh,

and it lasts I think overnight. They thought they extinguished it,

but then it came back again.

Right, that's what you know.

Sometimes the world can try to extinguish our fire. Or

sometimes seemingly you feel like you know God, maybe to

what I do to my hidden closet, the skeletons I

have in my closet, and all did I break your heart?

They are extinguished? You know what you are done in

my life.

But when we desire for God's fire, we desire for

the Holy Spirit to fill us again. The fire carrying

night right, and no one can extinguish it. And once

it real nights right, it spreads like wildfire, right, but

it can come under controls. So that's the amazing thing

about the fire Holy Spirit. Uh, it will not go

out of control, which I will talk about that a

little bit more so it will spread from personal to

a community revival, right from personal to corporate. All right.

So today I got touched on part two and is

how can we prepare together as a community. Then the

last round I schemed through quite fast, but I will

slowly take time on this part two. But I will

we kept this first point. Okay, I will not go

in detail, but the first point is unity. It requires unity.

How can this community then, you know, be ready for

their revival to happen? Is that when we are united

as one?

All right?

When we read X chapter two, Verse one. Let's see

the verse on the screen. It says, yeah, when the

day of Penticosts had fully come, they will all with

one accord in one place, all right. The day of

plenty coost was when the fire revival fell on How

many people are there praying in the upper room?

Anyone here? I wait? How many people in the upper room? Puting?

One hundred and twenty? The O I think it one

hundred and twenty. You can read back your Bible, okay, intentionally,

just you know, put that question there back, find out, okay,

how many people in the upper room. It wasn't just

one or two persons, right, It was a group of people.

And it says you're right.

In Acts two to one they were all with one

occout in one place. That speaks about unity. And because

of that, you know, the fire of God fell on them,

all right, And you know, unity is really really important.

Before we just want to more of God's power. God

commands a blessing right when his church and his body

is united. That's what he says in his word as well.

So when that's unity, the power God moves supernaturally.

Also, okay, so maybe.

Different ones of us here, you know we come to

church like, okay, we are all different individuals, definitely, but

many times, you know, we just come to church. I've

been there, I've been there, you know, just being regular churchgoer.

And that's about it will stop.

You know.

You know, I'm not involved and participated in the body

of Christ.

I don't encourage you.

You know.

We talk about, you know, the spiritual family, and God says,

in his body, right, there are many functions all of

us here one body, and God being the head of

the church, we have all many functions, right. Some of

us are the ears, some of us are this pinky,

which is good for different riches, you know. Some of

us are the toes, the hands, the hair. But we

all play one role, and that one role.

Is to see the glory the Lord cover the earth.

Uh.

And before the glory can come, unity has to happen,

all right. So this unity will cranch revival, okay, or

the other word will be it will extinguish a revival

as well. Right, this unity, how does it look like?

You know, different words are doing different things or sometimes

you know, thank God, it doesn't happen the ex church,

but maybe just outside, you know, people are back by

thing against each other. They are complaining about every single thing. Uh.

You know why why is the stage you know this color?

Why the chest black? You know, black is of the devil?

I don't know.

Uh, you know because in the light every day, you know,

everything should just be bright. And like I don't know,

I'm just giving extreme, extreme answers or examples. Okay, So

but you know, let's come together united rarely around the

leadership of even this church as well, and see you know,

and desire for God to bring about a transformation in

this community. Second part you know I talk about as well,

is that you know, the church can actually.

Step up further in prayer, right. Uh.

And it's a prayer culture and not just a program culture.

What does that mean? You know, the difference between prayer

culture and program We can run many many programs, but

if the program is not making an impact, it's not

bring a change. You know, for example, your life with

just not done another revival evening because it's revival theme

right in the whole of actions. But if you didn't

desire God through this Revival evening, even one life experiencing

that change and transformation, it.

Makes it all worth it.

And yesterday, you know, when we heard from Ian that

you know, has been desiring for the gift of tongues,

and we know, you know, even upon receiving that gift,

that's going to be a further growth even for him.

So that he said and that happened, right, we'll all

enjoy seeing emited all worded. Well, you know, the investment

or resources that I was put into it, so you know,

at the end of the day, the different things that

we're doing is just not you know, for entertainment, because

program it's always about entertainment, right. But X two the believers,

the disciples, they were gathered in one counity.

But what were they doing.

They were praying first and then the fire of the

Holy Spirit fell on them.

Okay, so revival follows prayer, all right.

From even as you look at X two, revival not

does not just follow branding, not posters, not like, not sound,

not music.

But it follows prayer.

And the two even revivals that I just mentioned, the

last round that some of us were known, it's known

as the Welsh Revival that was like a right in

the UK, and locally closest to home is the revival

that happened Barrio as well.

So both of these revivals.

What were the significant difference is that the different growths

of people they gathered and pray.

Uh Barrier Revival was among students.

They prayed and prayed and the spirit of God fell

on the land and it caused a lot of people

to turn away from sin. You know, I shared about

Ralsh Revival, No people start and I showed Barrier as

a difference started. The were one started coming up and sharing. Okay,

their scenes, but what God has caused them to do.

And for Ralcial Revival, right, they saw a lot of

the local pubs, drinking places started closing down because everyone

was just drunk to church. No one's drunk to alcohol now,

but they got high on the lot, instill high on

the spirit the alcohol right high in the Holy spirit. Yeah,

drinking places closing, closing down, a lot of social problems

and started reducing as well. For Barrial also the same

in Malaysia. Barrier is actually in Malaysia also the same.

And it's all the transformation happening, and we passed on

even to the different generations. So James chapter five, verse sixteen,

the Word of God says, you know, the prayer of

a righteous second part of the verse from n IV version.

The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. No,

do not undermine prayer. I do not just see a killer.

It is my duty as a Christian to pray. But

prayer of a righteous person is powerful. Right, it brings

transformation and it is effective. Revival must turn into then

a daily into discipline for you to become a daily habit,

all right. So, like I said, you know it is

not a programmed culture, but it is prayer culture, right.

And culture speaks about lifestyle, right, it speaks about living

it out daily. So it must turn into a daily

discipline for each and every one of us.

The fire.

Is revival, but if you do not put fresh wood,

that fire will eventually die, all right, If you don't

continuously feed the fire your diet and how do you

feed it? Is true your secret place sho your daily devotion,

keep feeding on it so the fire will continue burning,

all right. So, and that feeding of the fire is

very key in the area of discipleship. So if you

look at both our Welsh and barrel revival, it it

fizzle out after some time because you know different words.

I have done a study and and and it fizzled

out after some time, because there wasn't a strong discipleship

after that, all right. So discipleship is saysial without revival,

it is like feel without fire, all right, or fresh

wood without fire, and revival without discipleship is like fire

without fuel. It can burn out and burn off really easily.

So today I just want to bring a focus to

the area of discipleship. Okay, every fire, every fire needs

fuel to keep burning.

Okay. So today, you know, I just want to ask ourself,

you know.

If it all thirty people suddenly, you know, maybe to

your small group in nothing her university or true church,

suddenly thirty people give their lives to Christ who will

start following out on them?

You know, are we ready to fall out?

Are we ready the different ones of us here ready

to walk them through it?

One on one? All right?

Uh? You know, one on one discipleship is definitely more

effective as well. And then X you know, we practice

relational discipleship, right Ah, So to be a relationship is

one on one.

So at least thirty of you here already.

To disciple when God starts moving, you know, don't just

depend on leaders.

Ah.

And I think it from the head of being a

leader and so don't just depend on us, because every

hand right into the plow, every laborer counts as well.

Uh. And and as we labor together, you know more

can can be rich. Also, Okay, just.

Not talk about revival without structure can create chaos.

But discipleship itself gives a structure.

Okay, And I'm really really happy that even in acts,

you know, God has given us a structure, a framework

of how discipleship, a relational discipleship.

Can be, all right. Uh And and but if.

It's just full on structure itself without revival, it creates dryness.

Ah.

I'm not really a full science person, but if I'm

gonna stare this chemical thingy see, I can't ever find

you for it will be so both boring and drive

for me because I wouldn't fully understand why it is

as well. And it's dry, right, So we need both, Okay,

structure and revival X chapter two. Let's turn to it

right now and let's read it X Chapter two first

forty two to forty seven. So if you're there, you

can say yes, and we shall read it together. So

if your Bibles, you can turn to it. If not,

you can share with a friend that's next to you.

Yep there, Okay, let's read it, and I count tree.

All right.

You can read whatever version or Bible that you're using,

but I'm reading from the New King James version, okay,

in one two entry. And they continue step fastly in

the apostles, doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of and

in prayers. Then fear come upon every soul, and many

wonders and science were done through the apostles. Now all

who will believe were together and had all things in common,

and sold their possessions and goods and divided them among all,

as no one anyone had need but forty six. So

continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking

bread from.

House to house, they eat.

They are food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising

God and having favor with all people. And the Lord

added to the church daily those who were being saved.

When God says revival, and when revival happens, as you

can read here, discipleship becomes something that is not optional,

all right, And it becomes urgent, and it becomes a need,

and it goes deep, and it requires a multiplication as well.

So I'm going to touch on that today.

All right, How does the discipleship then look like in

the event when revival happens? Okay, one of a few

checkpoints for us, and I will try to cover as

much as possible. But the first one is that disciples

ship becomes immediate. You know, when revival happens, there's no

time like okay, let me wait another six months.

Before it happens.

Why let's look at X chapter two, verse forty one

to forty two. Okay, and I'm going to read it

to us. It says than those who glad they received

his word and were baptized, and that day about three

thousand souls were added to them. It's not just give

an example, you right, but if three thousand comes to examine,

can you imagine it? And they continue to stepfastly in

the apostles doctrine that speaks about discipleship and fellowship disciples

it as well in the breaking up bread and in prayers. Okay,

So when Vira broke up at Pentecos, we can see

these treatming things happen.

Three thousand was safe.

They will immediately baptized, and they will immediately disciples Okay, immediate,

that's the word immediate, all right, Uh, disciple ship, then

it's not just like okay, I'll see you next Sunday,

I'll see you next month.

Okay.

And you remember you have time sign up for you know,

maybe ours class later or you know, if you have time,

come and join homes. There's no space for ev. Sorry,

my Malaysian came out. There's no place for Eve because immediate, right,

immediate happened. Immediate grounding happens, Immediate grounding in teaching of

the word, learning of the word immediate. You know, fellowship

happens in the midiate of breaking or break together, and

and and no.

Prayer happens as well.

Revival then producers an urgency in us to get into

business right uh. And and you know causes us to

have an urgency to then help those who have experienced

you know, God's love in our life and given that

has to him to start growing.

Okay. Second point, Second point.

How would it look like, you know, under revival discipleship

under revival is it becomes word centered. Okay, that's part

of the structure. It's not some chaos that's happening on me.

It's not just a hyph you know, hyphen it's just

sometimes it can develop the chaos, but there is structure,

and the structure is going deeper in the Word and

centered around it. From Collusions, okay, Chapter three, verse sixteen,

You guys can turn to it Collusions three sixteen. Okay,

So let's read it together, all right, and my cow

in one two entry, let a word of Christ there

in you, richly in all wisdom, teaching and amnishing one another,

in some and himes and spiritual songs, singing with grace

in your hearts to the Lord. When revival happens sciences.

So people are hungry for the Word of God, you know,

they don't just they are moving on from just emotional experience.

Gods hype is also emotional experience, right, all just senses involved.

Or they don't just want more and more worship moments

or spiritual heiighths. They actually want God's truth. I don't

know more. You know, I want to grow deeper in

God's words, you know, I want to have a strong

foundation in my faith. You know, people will start being

hungry for that, uh, and then you know they will

carry out you know, like some one one nine, verse

twenty five. It says, yeah, my soul clings to the

dance Revive me according to your word. You know, people

will start crying out, God, revive me according to your word,

and you know their life will now then.

You know, become very Bible satuated.

You know, the Word of God becomes a whole part

of them, and it becomes a lifestyle for them as well,

you know, to read the Word of God, to digest

it and to really draw out from the world of

God and living it out as well.

Okay, third part it all how it did then look

like as all?

It becomes holiness focused he Bus Chapter twelve, verse fourteen.

Let's turn to it when revival happens, right, this happens. Okay,

if you're there already, say yes, okay, let's really together

in one t entry pursue peace with all people and

holiness without which no one will see the Lord. Revival

itself brings conviction, and with that conviction, discipleship happens as well,

because we are then kept accountable for it, right, and

there's someone walking you through it to help you, you know,

identify one are the areas that we have to make amendments, okay,

to make a restitution, to break strongholds. What a strongholds

in our life that has to be broken. You know,

Discipleship itself is allowing someone to work with you, right,

I started with that. It's a one on one relational discipleship,

and the person, the discipler, will help you bring that

very strongholds to cut off every compromise as well. Right,

I talk about, you know, just now living no room

in our personal life for every and for any compromise.

Sometimes it takes someone to remind us, like, hey, I

thought you want to work on it already, and you know,

let's do this together. So discipleship helps us with that,

all right. First Peter, chapter one, verse fifteen to sixteen.

If you're there, you can say, yes, okay, let's read

it together in one to entry.

But as he who called you is holy, you also

be holy in all your conduct, because it's written, be

holy for I am holy. Yep, all right, be holy

for I am holy. Be holy in all of our conduct.

It is not okay. When revival happens. It's not just

becoming a casual Christian anymore, but it is a life

that is consecrated, a life that is set apart for

the Lord, all right. And holiness is setting ourselves apart

from the world, setting ourselves apart from all the compromises,

or from all you know, the sinful nature of this world,

the kinnel nature of men, to set apart so that

we can continue to pursue after the Lord.

Fourth point all right.

Is then discipleship becomes very community driven. All right, Uh,

you have hurt a few times the importance of community

as well. But revival creates a spiritual family, not spectators. Right.

We are not here though, like whoa watch another or

England Thomas. Sorry, I'm into badminton, so I use all

this international competition examples. You know, I'm out here just

to cheer the team on and then by you nothing

to do, just what spectators are for, right, to create

just the hyph. But then there's no personal relationship. But

when ReViral happens, who become a spiritual family? I talked

about us becoming one body, different functions and in family

different functions as well, right in chapter two of X

forty four to forty six, which were fred just now,

but we do us again, it says, and not now

all who believe were together and had all things in common,

and sow their possessions and goods and divided them among

all as anyone had needed. So continuing daily with one

occord in the temple and breaking braid from house to house,

they eat their food with gladness and simplicity of heart.

When revival happens, right, it actually destroys isolation. It destroys

individualism as well, because individualism opposes the word of God.

Right, because the world God clearly saysier.

Those who believed were together, not just together, they had

all things in common.

Uh.

And when there's a relationship right involved, you don't mind

going to extrama for the person. Right, And this extrama,

I thought is really radical. They sell all their possessions.

They sold all their possessions.

Ah, how many of yours?

You all sell your car so they can help raise

fun so that you know, someone can actually go to

college because the person is family for you, you have

you know people have done that before. So revival, when

it happens, it destroys isolation. When there's discipleship, it destroys

isolation because there's relationship involved already.

Right.

When that's relationship, what happens, You're okay to share meals.

With each other.

You're okay together every day as well. Right, Actually, if

you have all.

The time in the world. You don't mind hanging out

with each other one.

It's just that you know, now a lot of commitments

are right your world, your your bosses need you there,

You have your thesis, your assignmon fyp to do, but

you have the time, right. You don't mind, right, gathering daily,

don't mind sharing meals and and definitely you don't mind

sharing burdens with each other, so lending that shoulder to

cry on the years of listening. You don't mind sharing prayer, right,

and you don't mind also, you know, sharing your struggles

and repenting each other as well. Right, because you're not alone, right,

You're realize that, hey, you know, the more I am

around with someone, the more I enjoy it. That requires

a lot of transformation because as as human beings, right,

we are creatures of quite.

We are quite lacking our.

Own personal space and own personal time, even for extroverts, right,

certain things, you know, although you're extrovert in nature, but

there's a lot of things as well. Naturally it's an extrovert,

they will keep a lot to them their own nos. So,

but when revival happens, right, extra introvert, it becomes all

normalized according the Word of God already.

Okay, uh point five okay, point five?

Disciple ship becomes obedient based, all right, James. One two,

let's turn to that, and if you're there you can

say yes and we'll read the world got together?

Yes, all right, let's.

Read it in one two entry thedoers of the word

and not hearers only deceiving yourself. Oh, it did not

stop at be hearers and do us on it. It

actually wrent not to say, do not deceive yourself. Okay,

So it becomes obedience based and disciple shape sometimes or

many times, some different ones have different you know, school

of thoughts, and the only thing that okay, it's good

you're reading a Bible, you're getting to know more of

the Word. But it shouldn't just stop that acknowledged accumulation, right,

it should turn turn into obedience, all right, not knowledge accumulation,

but obedience activation. Right, And a very evident example when

obedience kicks in, when what you have caught you put

it into action, living in it up all right.

For example, people who.

Have experienced that experience God's fire will be able to

forgive really quickly, not harboring unforgiveness and like they muted

into something else, and and and it all becomes a

totally different form after that. And and then from unforgiveness

turns into bitterness and it hits us up and it

kills us after that. Right when someone starts leaving out

the world of God as well, they decide to end

different sinful relationship. Uh. And it talks about set apart again,

you know holiness. Uh, people will start, you know, sharing

the gospel boldly. How many of us here are afraid

to actually share the Gospel with someone? Uh? Yeah, always

always uh and and a lot of times. O, My

God Holy Spirit helped me so yesterday because you know,

Good Friday and it's coming up, you guys know that.

And we are in the midst of our twenty one

days of fast and prayer. Uh so so nearli campus,

you know, being fasting and praying, and we have scheduled

flying times into you know, district before Good Friday and Easter.

And one of the things we did that we decided

to prenut posters so we can physically invite. So yesterday

after Revival evening and we went on nearby Mama to

eat uh.

And I told him.

Guys, let's put our faith into activation. Now you know

their experience revival evening. So let's go out and allow

God and give God space to speak to us at

the Mama place. Okay, God leaders to invite leaders to

talk to different ones. So it happened, all right. So

we met a group of Japanese, got to know them,

invited them, and then they say you want to come.

We met a Miama student and so he used to

come to church a few times, then stopped coming, ghosted

us a long time. Then yesterday the mama from far.

We're like, okay, I think we should go approach him.

Then I got the guys, guys, I think that's the

guy that God is also leading us. So as as

you know, as a leader, sometimes to help facilitate your

leaders will help facilitate that. So they'll put you like,

can I go come on, you can do this. Then

the guys at my table are like, ha, go talk.

What do we do later? He cannot speak, mandine, How

that's like just speak?

Like just talk. I also don't know how Holy spreby

with you. Amen. So they then spoke.

Then you're like, hey, this is the guy that has

ghosted us. Ghost at us for a long time. So ah,

then they so happy pray for the guy. Then can

by the table. It's like, yeah, happy, we're given out.

The flyer invited him. Then I felt the Holy Spirit

wasn't done that. So I'm like, why not you take

your food, You'll go over and see him goes he's

eating alone, and then continue on the relationship.

You're like ha again, so yeah, you can do this.

So they went over and sat with the guy, and

at the end, the guy came, we got God sometimes.

Uh you know pis Yeah, you call that shy. No shy.

It's not just shy.

It's like, ah, it is a shy mixing shame and guilt,

like you know, uh embarrassed.

Yeah yeah, yeah, all those words together. Uh. You know

you're like trying to avoid this girl of people. But

he actually came over, uh and said hi to us. Uh.

So I thought, okay, you know, God you have got

in his heart. Then the final thing he said like

I will join you guys, and he thought like there's

a new bunch of uh so they are about close

to four hundred MIMA students now in the university. Uh

that he said that I know quite a few of them.

I want to invite them over for good.

Friday's so glory to God.

And you know, obedience space Sometimes He require us, He

require someone to cheer you and stir you, all right,

But when we're willing, you know, God can work all right.

So it produces us to be doerus. But the next

pint I saw that it's closely link. It becomes missional. Okay,

Matthew twenty eight nineteen. All of us know, go therefore

and make disciples of all nations right and baptizing them

in the name of the Father and the Son of

the Holy Spirit.

Revival.

That's not just end in the room. That's not just

remain the four walls. But it moves outwards. It all

like yesterday, it moved outward closest to home. Example, you know,

just now I talk about the Welsh and barrel. You

didn't stop in that prayer room right the day of

Pentecost as well.

X two. It didn't stop in the prayer room, but

it moved out.

And lies will charge, touch, lies will change and transform. Okay,

And let's look at X eight four. It's easier those

who had been scattered than what did they do? They

just didn't go on and tell everybody you know, Jesus

love you. But they preached the word wherever they went.

That's why say X it for all right, Revive disciples,

multiply disciples. Okay, a revival without multiplication is an incomplete revival.

I'll see it as that way. At the end of

the day.

Don't God does not give us the gift of salvation

just for our own benefit, rights, so that we can

help others to experience this gift of salvation. Uh, raise

them up to be a disciple of Christ. And then

they go out and like ys and multiply it all right.

And in Second Timothy Chapter two, verse two, that's my

seven point already.

Wow, so many points.

Yes, finishing, finishing, multiplication happens second Timothy to to and

these things that you have heard from me among many witnesses,

commit this to faithful men who will be able to

teach others. Also when it happens, it helps us identify

emerging leaders really quickly.

Uh you uh, you know, for leadership.

And I'm also learning through it right sometimes, like God,

why are only two two years are able to raise

someone leader? But I believe you know, when the move

of the holy spirit happens. Uh, we are able to

identify leaders quickly because they're already hungry from all God. Right,

they are already readiant reading vessels, all right, and we're

able to train them up quickly and so and then

we're able to even send them up quickly, all right.

Last point uh, sorry before that, before the last point.

Why we are able to train up leaders quickly then

because the harvest becomes more and more plentiful different ones

and like saying, God, I want you, you know, receiving

the gift of salvation.

So what do we do with them? Right? That talk

about you know, the move of God happening.

But the structure is discipleship, and it happens two leaders

are sewing into their lives. So as this goes up,

this goes up as well. Right. If not, you'll be

in a six seven situation. Okay, so uh, it won't

be that it will be just constantly. Uh, it should

be equal okay normal six sevens okay. Uh. For those

of those of you don't get that, you can ask

our gen gen alpha gen z no nine genefer beta

here okay.

Uh.

Last point last pine last pine ah being spirit dependent.

Okay, we'll start walking in the spirit and not fulfill the.

Last of the flash. All right.

Uh, it is not just a change in behavior or

moral modification. Okay, psychologists are very good at that, but

we are not just psychologists.

Okay. Uh uh.

You know we are here to bring a permanent change

in a person, and that change can only happen inside

out from our you know, most being, in our soul,

in our spirit, because behavior modification is just our brains, right,

a cognitive function how we look at things on it.

But it's not that all right, So our close, our

close with this already revived disciples.

Yeah, day will.

Look more and more like Christ. Check for ourselves, are

we looking more and more like Christ in our heart?

And a character in our action?

All right? Uh?

And I'm gonna invite extreme band up and I'm close

with this story. Now we can show the selfie of

a smaller group of people. So the smaller girl of

people they wanted to start. So it's in one of

the campuses they wanted to start a small group. Ah,

and the small girl has always been like just one

of the girls. She really calls like God, I want

to make a difference in my campus.

She started a smagger.

It's always one two persons attending old they have uh

an official c F. So not too long ago the

work came back to us, to our small group h.

Field coordinators. Uh. They told us like, oh we heard news.

Okay, we heard news that the management actually wants to

close down our official Christians Fellowship.

What do we do? Uh? What can I do?

Uh?

You know they're telling us, you know, we cannot mean anymore.

We have to combine our CF with the Chinese Club.

But then it's totally different vision right uh and and

and like okay, that does not see it right with us.

So they asked, what do we do? So we encourage them?

You know, now the decision and management is half. Nobody

is standing on your side because there's no adult that's

actually in a way defending them. No staff, no no lecturer,

no advisor is defending them. But the students are on

your own. Uh. And then you know, like nature takes

its cost, meaning they slowly, slowly just get absorbed into

the Chinese Club. So we prayed and we felt like,

you know, God, you know this is definitely not what

you want. Can you teach us what to do? So

God led to challenge them, start praying and fasting. Start

fasting and praying together, because there's power in that. So

they started doing that, and they started to pray and fast,

and after eventually a certain period of time, the group

started growing.

It's just want to be born and grow, uh to you.

Know, a group of people, a group of students, just

yearning to see a change happening, the change of decision.

Because at the end the day, it cannot just be like, oh,

some news somewhere, right, it has to be a black.

And white written as well.

So I told them, you know, those steps so easily,

fast and pray and see how God works.

So they decided to do it daily.

Uh, even during their semester break Chinese New York break, right,

they still met online to pray together with all the

Chinese New York goodies going around, all the oranges.

And the background and all the snacks. Right, background is

dried meat in square form ord or whatever. Okay, you

get us the Chinese.

Yeah, but people can be visiting, but they chose to

fast and pray.

After forty eight days, the news came back.

It's like, hey, you know, we followed up and with

the person that told us the news and Apparently the

management has changed their mind. Uh to shut down our

cf Yeah, to shut down the Christians for meeting, but

we can now meet normally. Uh.

And you know what that did to them.

The faifth level rolls up uh and they see the

impossible becoming possible. Now the impossible cost of management is nationwide.

Men.

It's just not like on a small little management, a

small little small so but there's a huge management. And

people can only change when God does something in their hearts.

Right. So that's the power that Lord has.

And you know, sometimes to expect revival to be of

a certain form, but that itself, that group, a small

group of people.

I saw a revival happening among.

Them, because before that they've gotten a lot of resistance

among the Christian students saying like, oh, you want to pray? Uh,

you know, and they pray every time that I think

about God. How and what difference can we make for

our campus?

You know?

What change?

Good change that we can bring an impact our friends.

And and God has worked in this way for them,

and that.

Has caused them to see like, Okay, God, that's nothing

impossible with you now. You know you have turned hearts

of kings and rulers.

You can turn the hearts of men, and.

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