Revive Our Boldness | Pr Dr Daniel Kong

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We hope this message will light up your day.

But today I'm going to be covering question three, you know,

what is our responsibility in preparing for it? After we

understood understand or understood what revival is. And then of

course we will mid bus a little bit. What is

preventing us from from praying these things from happening? And

the next part there I will talk about, you know,

how can be applied in our daily lives. And I've

broken this down further these five questions into next lie,

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Sorry.

The next one that's a yep. Okay, that's the one.

So broken it down into three parts. So very first

part was based on Habit cook three two, which I

think we sort of were flashed and saw a little

bit of it earlier. So that that is the cry

for revival and what it is all about. Today I'm

going to covering this part how to prepare the way,

But the first two parts are on revival. The next

part is settling back in discipleship, and I'll explained it'll

make more sense later on or for those of you

who were here before you, you'll probably understand it's a

bit better. But let's just recap a little bit. Firstly,

we established this in the first segment. Revival can only

happen when there is something to revive, right, as simple

as that, it means it has to live first before

you revive.

It makes sense.

I even went on which I always like to do,

going to the word of things. I remember kai ya, right,

not hiya okay, but kai kya to be more specific,

it's the Hebrew word for revive, okay, And it essentially

means to.

Bring back life again that was there, okay.

Basically, if you see all those medical movies when they

resusceited things or they go and put you know, some

electrical search through, it's actually to search something that has

been alive before and then later maybe perhaps have lost

life and then you want to revive it again.

Okay. So you don't search something.

Essentially that has always been dead or it's lifeless. I

won't search this floor, I won't search this table, I

won't search you know, something that's did right.

So that's the main thing.

So in other words, it can only happen if life

existed before and that was.

The main context.

So the other thing that we talked about, if you

understand that context a little bit more, it's about awakening

something that perhaps has been dominant basically lived before but

over time has become dominant. Okay, So that was the

first part, and of course I also you know, went

through the whole dream acronym again just to remind everybody,

remember we went through a whole of most of December

and till in January as well to talk about the vision, right,

and our vision is for the next for until twenty thirty.

But to build that vision, we have these accurrents of

d R A M.

Right. The first one was covered last year. There was

a year off.

Discipleship disciple first, right, And why we learned a lot

about discipleship is because we will't learn the ways of

following Jesus uh, you know, learning how he lived, learning

how he lived with others also wanted to to basically

understand that, so that we set the foundation for this year.

This year is the year of revival. Right.

The reviving again, just to explain, is to kick start

against something that perhaps has not moved for a while,

or has been alive and perhaps has been dominant for

a little while. So that's what revival is all about,

because just uh, if you don't understand the foundation for that,

there's definitely nothing for us to build on in terms

of getting us going again. And that's why it's very

important next year what's next year?

Team? Just out of curious, do you know what's e evangelism?

How many loves evangelism or how many is an expert evangelism?

How many fear the word evangelism?

Okay a little bit, thank you for your honesty, right,

but this is actually a very big word. But if

you understand the context, evangelism is actually made a lot easier,

right if we actually experienced revival, right, And that's why

there is a step by step process to build from decipe,

pushit to you know, revive, you know, being revived, being

reliving again or should you know, like like literally get

our spiritual you know, livelihood up another notch, getting a search,

getting a hit, and then again perhaps after that evangelism

is a lot easier, okay, and then and that's what

the context.

So that's a there's a it's a scaffolding kind of thing.

And of course trending trying to eight is action and

then trend Train nine is the year of missions. Right,

Like I said, evangelism is most of the time a

fearful thing for most people. Why because it's very natural. Right,

we are all, uh, you know, we have relationship people.

Then sometimes we fear rejection. We fear what if we

say something wrong? What if it becomes awkward after that?

Right?

What if you do not know the maybe the language

or the culture to then do the evangelism, et cetera.

That's why revival is important because revival actually gives you

what bondness to do all these things a lot better.

So today it's going to be preparing the way, and

to be more specific, we're going to be recovering, reviving

something that's important, reviving the boldness that is in this.

So the title of today's message would be revive our

hours and you and me bonus boldness, sorry, boldness blood bondness,

Yeah you bonus. You know you work with your manager.

But boldness is what we're talking about. Right, And if

you circle back the time around, we talked about reviving

your why or you are capital y or you are

work right, and it just reminderybody that is God's work

because we also declared that revival actually belongs to the Lord.

It's of the Lord.

It's his sovereignty in terms of how revival works. Even

so we can't demand when it comes.

It's all his.

We are just there to tap into the you know,

to to the revival when, if, and when he wants it. Okay,

to some extent, but we can definitely pray and to

revive our business. And this is what we're going to

be focusing on today. Every okay, so far with the

introduction again sorry, and this is just for the benefit

of those who are not here.

And that's why I say setting the foundation.

So back to revival, right, it can only happen when

something has lived and then you can apply it. So

just like in the physical context you put a search through,

in the spiritual context you used to do the same.

You need to surge it to allow it to live again.

So we're talking about a spiritual awakening, something that maybe

have been dormant in terms of believers, but so far,

you know, it's look warm. We want to let it

live again. And how can we do this? Any guesses

through the spirit of course, more specifically the Holy Spirit,

the power of the Holy Spirit. So this is what

we're going to be covering today. And what better way

to look into spiritual revival than to look into the

Book of X. Right, that's where it all well in

terms of spiritual revival. That's your mainstream biblical revival, the patterns.

So what we're going to be covering now is to

look at, if you're in the right notes, the biblical

patterns of revival. Okay, and this is what we're gonna

be covering. Let's look so this will be coming mainly

from X one to and four. Okay, So let's just

study some patterns and you will see there is some

persistent prayer in there as well. There is people seeking

the Lord. There is also people coming together in unity

before the manifestation of the Holy Spirit actually is seen. Okay,

so let's turn to X chapter one. If you have

your Bible's review, we're gonna be stay in the Book

of X today, So X one two, four, Okay, back

and forth a little bit, but it's all going to

be there. So if you're there, let's just read a

little bit of it, okay, now, just to get some

context as well. This is forty days after.

Jesus Rosamond X chapter one. Okay.

Then he assembled his disciples, and then he commanded them

not to depart from Jerusalem. Chill, stay put, do not

leave first, but wait for what if you if you

look over here, let's just read okay in chapter sorry,

verse three, to whom he presented himself alive, showing that

he's resurrected. Okay, and then sorry, alive after he's suffering

by many infallible proofs, let me showing that I'm resurrected

is me after forty days?

Right?

And then speaking now chapter four, he said they exampled

them together. He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem,

but wait, wait for what, Wait for the promise of

the Father, Father God, right which he said, you have

heard from me for John truly, for John truly baptized

with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy

Spirit not many days from now. So when he actually

met the disciples, they'd be like, oh what this man

that just to wait.

But it's a few days from now.

Something will happen, right, And that's some some some days

from now, which is not mentioned here yet, but we'll

know how how how much longer from there?

And then you can see here it says uh.

Therefore, when they have come together, they have asked them saying, Lord,

will you at this time.

Restore the kingdom to Israel. Okay.

So again the context is he promises a sorry, he

commands for them not to depart, and then he promises

that they, the disciples, will be baptized in verse five

by the Holy Spirit, not many days from now, okay,

coming soon okay, And he says day, So we know

it's not gonna be years, It's going to be soon.

Right. So in verse eight you just skip forward a little.

Bit and he says, here you shall receive power when

the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall

be witnessed to me in Jerusalem, in all Judaea Endsmaria.

And to the ends of the earth. Okay. So just

to reflect on this a little bit, just to stop

for a while, you think about it.

Right, these people have hung around Jesus for quite some time,

right before he uh, before he was put it across.

They lived together, they ate together, they did ministry together.

They saw healings, they walked with him. They saw him

drive out even the demens, et cetera. And he saw

healings and of the sick et cetera. And all these

things right were in place, so they know Jesus quite well,

these disciples, right, And yet if you see here, it

seems as though something has been disconnected. When Jesus said, chill,

it's going to come back to you, right, if you

ever thought about it, right, they are saying that she

has he stated here is that hang on wait for me.

I'm gonna go up first. But in that period there

is a period of what's the word like a like

a like a interim period, right that it's not like before,

It's not when the power comes to you.

It's a funny, strange period. But it's going to only

going to be a few days. That's why it says there.

Okay, So in some sense, the verse sort of implies

that they are suddenly powerless during this period. So they

do not know, but they can cling on and know

that Jesus is prom is power.

It will come. And this is why they are, like,

you know, in this position now. So they're waiting. They're waiting.

You can't for them for waiting. Why because Jesus said wait.

You know parents, you know you say wait, wait wait.

The kids are like socially kids these days, right, I

always say that this is the funny generation that people

always want something very quick. Right, they say wait and

in worse point says wait and then it works. It

talks about the gift that's about to come given by

God the Father has promised. Now, just to also focus

on the word power. What's receiving power? Like you know,

for some it's like T and B that's power. Right,

you have a new property or a new place, you

always want to make sure that power comes in otherwise

things cannot work. Right, This is receiving power now. Power

in the Bible right is described as donamous okay.

If you dunamis is.

Where the word dynamite comes from. Hey, when you hear

dynamite is like ou cha, you know, explode? Sorry, canto

is only other thing I know, but yeah. In the

in the description, it talks about supernatural explosive authority of

God used in creation and miracles and also resurrection. That's

the inherent attribute of God. Again, not human but of God, okay.

And this is to enable us as believers through the

Holy Spirit, to witness there's a reason for the power,

and also to overcome any spiritual warfarees that the enemy

may throw your way, and that's the purpose of this power.

It's not just for ourselves.

Okay, that's the Greek definition, by the way, right, I'm Chinese,

So what is the Chinese definition of dunamis?

Yeah, there's dunamis for me? Okay.

Why why is this thing? The first thing that pops

into mind is because the last few days I've been

just it's just keeping me awake, you know, non stop,

especially the nine day, nine day and nine day. It's

just it's just incredibly Yeah. So this is how it contextualize.

Do not miss okay, and how many of you play

fireworks still?

Do yo? Keep keep me awake here? Uh? Okay.

This year has also been a bit strange because you know,

the first few days of CNY it was a bit wet.

So we had something planned, I mean, the cousins had

something planned, but it didn't quite work because of the rain.

So it was at least we didn't contribute to the noise.

But you know, this, this, this photograph, this picture here

is a very common thing now. In fact, nowadays, I

see why there's so many shops like this. There was

there used to be a point of time that you know,

they had a closure or they and this is all

illegal for some time, but now they're back in full

force almost every corner. Uh, you see these shops okay,

And this is a likened to the power. You know,

there's boxes and boxes and boxes of this firepower.

No pun intended.

Also power that is inherent in the package boxes. And

why are these sellers not too afraid of the boxes

if there's so much potential to explode?

Why they're not afraid of it? Have you ever thought

about it? Right? It's because it is not lit. Is

that the cool term that they use.

It's not lit right that the kids the gen zs

or maybe it's already. But yeah, I must understand even

though there is potential, without the proper fuel or ignition

or even a spark, nothing could happen.

And this is exactly what it is. It's inherent.

There is something in this already, but sometimes we need

to engage the Holy Spirit it or wait for the

Holy Spirit to engage so that the spot could then

maximize the potential that's within us. Okay, So that's what

do namis is all about, right, because we can have

all this potential illness if there is no involvement of

Holy Spirit we will not also achieve our purposes, just

like how this will just sit there and not do anything.

Okay. So that so back to the disciples.

They had all the knowledge, they had, all the experiences.

They've seen it being done. I was used to wait

on top and gun and it's so delready right, they've

seen it, right, but somehow they cannot They feel helpless

in that situation. They've also had relationship with Jesus. Don't

get me wrong, they've seen you in enricement. Not it's

just there, but arguably as well, you know, the others,

even the Pharisees and all that. Those they are very

good with the the you know, the the Torah with all.

The rules, even they know all this knowledge is there.

But knowledge doesn't make the extremely mean revival because it's

just your knowledge.

Right, So you have to be very careful with this. Right,

we can be experts of the.

Law, but with doubt the power that comes from God,

nothing is gonna it's gonna go amiss anything. So point

number three is the missing spark. I don't sorry, I

don't have to notes here, but the missing spark, right,

the power of the spirit is important. If you're missing that,

then what's the point of memorizing whole Bible? What's the

point of uh, you know, studying and studying it? Not

even if you don't engage the Holy Spirit, nothing will

happen you just there's no explosion in life, all right,

It's just like the fireworks. Sorry, So next lie, So

revival manifest in power because it does say here right,

when revival comes, power will come. Okay, likened to the dynamite,

do not miss. Potential is present, but the power, sorry,

the potential can only go to the next level when

the spark all the few ignites it.

Okay.

So this comes from verse eight basis you know, you know,

power is inherent is coming all right. So you know

what when the even if you don't want to experience revival,

when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, just like how

if I were to be naughty and go there and

just chick out a lighter and mess around the boxes there,

the boxes cannot elect to say, I'm not going to

get burned, I'm not going to explode. And this is

exactly what revival is all about. When the Holy Spirit

hits you, like it or not, really or not, you

are going to go.

Kaboom.

Okay, so the question next question will be do you

still want to pray for revival? Because we always pray

for revival? Right, who say, oh God, I want revival?

Come?

Are you reading to kaboo? Are you ready to explode

right in a good way?

In a good way? Okay, not not not the anyway. Yeah, anyway,

let's go there. All right, So next point it's the

posture before revival.

Again, I don't have the things there you can write

down point before posture before revival. Let's go back to

X chapter two. Okay, it's in the slide over there.

This is the coming of the Holy Spirit. This is

the day at the Pendeconst. So when the day a

Dependacosts had fully come, they were all with one accord

in one place.

Okay.

Accord means they are united, and they are obviously physically

together as well, these a one hundred and twenty believers.

I think el uh uh.

The Elder King talked about the Upper Room last week. Okay,

this is the upper room that we're talking about. Sony

believers came together. Uh oh, I actually have it as well.

Sorry. The next night I just paused for a while.

The Upper Room meeting. Okay, the prayer, the prayer meeting.

So if we look at all this uh day, they

returned from Jerusalem from the mound called Olivet, which is

near Jerusalem on the Sabbath day's journey. And then when

they had entered, they went up into the upper room

where they were staying. So all these names, Peter, James, John, Andrew,

blah blah blah blah, they were all there and they

all continued with on the court. Not just together how

they have fun, okay, but they were huddling together two.

For prayer and supplication. They're not just play.

They're there. They are actually doing this continuous gethering. And

this comes back to the X one that we've read earlier.

What were they doing.

They were waiting on Jesus say, wait, matter of days.

So this is the matter of days. So there were

ten days to be exact, ten days of continuous gathering,

continuous prayer, continuing, continuous seeking the Lord and believing, believing

in one accord for one united purpose. You see the

power of vision, the power of unity. Before that, right,

they were all probably like you do this, I think

you should do that in but when they come together

there is power in movement. So waiting, guys, is not

a passive thing, by the way, it is actively seeking.

And that's why last time we came about I mean,

I did encourage you to always actively seek, actively pray.

Right and believing in the promise. What's the promise again?

Promise that power will come in the form of the

Holy Spirit.

Right, because John will baptize and then in a few

days you will baptize your whole spreer. Right as you

how many days a prestiicular way, and how many days later?

Ten days?

Okay, ten days from Jesus extension, let me see chowity

he left? Ten days later? Was the day of the Pentecost?

Imagined this ten days of prayers service? Ten days, not

ten nights. Ten days of prayer service, hey, sometimes that

were prayer service are once.

In every two weeks.

People who struggle to you know, to commit, right, it's

ten days in them and why because they prey instructions

in days. But they will show a time is it

really ten days? And again, like I said before, we

are in this generation, right, we want things quick. I

called the McDonald's generation to drive to generation right. You

want your fast food immediately. Now we asked for something

one in minutes, wait for one hours, so can diary,

you know, like ten days, ten days, imagine that and

imagine nothing seemed.

To be happening. But what did they do? They carry on.

Believing, carry on praying, careen, coming together and meeting together. Right,

Why because they're united unity, all right, in one accord?

All right? Now, let's move back to verse two of

our X chapter right, chapter two of verse two as well.

And suddenly then came a sound from heaven, as of

a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled the whole house

where they were sitting. But with them I supposed to end,

I'm not using the time, sure, okay, who we're gonna rush?

Okay?

Then there is It appeared to them divided tongues as

of fires, and one set upon each of them, and

they were filled with the whole spirit and began to

speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance.

So this is the miracle side of things, right, The

power did descend on them.

And what was the response? Verse five?

And then there was they there were dwelling in Jerusalem, Jews,

development from every nation under heaven. And when and when

this sound occurred, the multitude came together, they were confused

because everyone heard them speaking their own language. They were

amazed and marvel and they marveled saying to one another,

look are not all these who speak Galilians? And how

is it that we hear each other's own language in

which we were born? So this is speaking a tongues part,

and of course the verse nine on words the same thing.

They're perplexed, you know, why are they speaking in tongues

all these things that we do not understand?

Someone them, even at the end they says.

Oh, maybe they are drunk their muble okay, But instead

of focusing on the gifts or the power that is

the secondary effect of the gifts.

This is a part the manifestation, of course, But more.

Importantly, if you see the context here, all of them

are talking about how good.

God is in different languages.

Right when they receive the power in their own language, saying,

you know, cold spirits here, how good God is, And

that is revival. That's how revival broke, the first documented

revival ever when there's power, and we did establish this

before hypercook Tree too. You know revive your word right,

Revival belongs to the Lord. The last time I came

up here and spoke about it. Revival is God's work,

and they understand that because that's why this how good

God is in all different languages. Otherwise, the danger is

that we can see it as oh, I've got the power,

got the power. I gotta say that. Yeah, you know

it's all for myself, right. They acknowledge it's God's power.

So that's the amazing part that happened when revival comes.

And if you look very closely, it didn't happen in

a I established the last time.

It didn't happen in a rock concert.

It didn't happen in a conference, although it can happen

in a conference. It happened in a small room where

people come together to prey.

Imagined that point number five when revival comes. What to

expect the exception aside.

Okay, like all those things that the concerts and all that,

don't get me wrong, they are also good. Let's look

at what happens in some historical accounts.

Okay.

And I believe that whenever the church collectively becomes humble,

and I've covered this before, when we set our gender

aside personal agenda, that is, we seek God collectively in

one of the chord, like we've read earlier, revival will come.

So sometimes when we say I wonder why revival don't

come right, it is because maybe perhaps we're still all

you do your thing, I do my thing. We don't

align ourselves, and therefore even praying, uh, it's a wishless

kind of the thing.

We're not even aligning our prayer.

And as I mentioned to you last time, Hypercok has

to humble himself to say, Lord, I see all those

historical things that's happened in the past. I see the

problems as well. You know the first two, the first

two chapters. But in Hyperchook three two, he just hunted

to prayer. I see all that. I'm hungry. I just

wanted it happen again in my lifetime. That's all he

prayed for, right, So the posture, So when revival comes right,

our posture will change. It will no longer be me centric.

It will be God or you know what's the mock

kingdom centric approach. And that's what we want to pray

for as well. And that's what happens in the Pentecost,

all right, even a follow pattern, that's what happened, and

therefore it can happen again when individual prayers, you know,

converge and come together united in accordance to God's will.

And that's what revival is all about.

Why, because at that point in time, they believe in

the same God, they believe in the same vision, and

the specialist vision is very important, right, and we always

believe right vision is of God.

It's not you know.

Of course, we sometidys trusted different leaders to download from

the Lord, but it's still off the Lord and need

to run together now. So next point there, oh wow,

of us revivals activated through community seeking. So this is

when everybody comes together, we seek, we wait on God together.

We believe in the same God.

We believe in the same vision, different individuals as I've

written here, united in.

Faith, vision and purpose.

I mentioned this before the last time around. You know,

we cannot orchestrate revival and you can do formulas. I'm

an engineer, you know, I tend to think that way.

Can I just duplicate or replicate right in the science,

So we call it repeatability, right, right to repeat something

and show that it's not just a coincidence that we

do things and then it happened by chance.

But you know, no matter how.

We can get all the sounds right, all the instruments,

get the right speaker, we can even get the right instruments,

the right mood setting, the space atmosphere, but we cannot

replicate revival. Why because revival belongs to the Lord. So

when he comes he wants to happen, it will happen.

And that's why I have.

A cook create his prayer. Say Lord, I've seen it.

I just wanted to come and happen. But he cannot

say that, or I do do want to ten ab

four c. Everything will come. You cannot. So we can

demand for it to happen in this worship service. We

can demand for it to happen in our church conference,

we can demand for it to happen at home, sell groups,

et cetera. It will not until God allows it, right,

But historical facts, it's more likely to happen in a

prayer service, is what I'm trying to say, not in

a large concert hall, but more likely here.

Okay, because in the Bible is consistently like this. It

broke up in prayer meetings. And that's why we as

a church, we are big on worship.

Where's a big on prayer Because why when if you

really want revival.

Right, how else would it? Byfically, how else can it happen?

I said, even for a pattern, it's mostly gonna happen

at the PS of prayer service, right, So that's why

you gotta go. You gotta be hungry, You got to

seek God together. You can't just leave it for the

few to one that hunger.

They have the hunger. So just a challenge, or rather

a call to you.

If you've never been to a prayer service, and it's fine,

let's start again this year. Let's experience God differently. Come

to prayer service and see God move all right. Now,

you may also say that, oh, this is won't happen

in my lifetime. And now, last time I showed you

right the barrio, the barrio example happened, very closest, ninety

seventy five happened. But let me just say that it

can happen elsewhere as well. You cannot just uh near

and also far. I'm gonna stop here for a while.

I'm just gonna show you a quick video.

What what what?

What is your first thought about what has happened? It

wasn't like the typical revival that you think about all right,

it's just a very simple In fact, the music was

like a bit not so charismatic, right all right, I

don't know.

And after they also delivered worship and that was it.

But this seemingly uh basic prayer service happened.

In in in in ash Ashbury University. So it's actually

a campus uh prayer service. Mkay, no famous bands, no

fancy lights. I would even say that the speaker is

probably not like your typical dynamic revival kind of speaker, right,

but if you look it up, look up Ashbury Revival.

The next day it exploded, just one small prayer like that.

It didn't stop, you know that in that space, right,

people were hungry, people keep coming. At one point it

recorded about fifteen hundred people started small. Fifteen hundred people

came to that place from the whole by town, nearby

town to experience God because they heard revival happening, and

all the people they were just staying on at the

prayer service and they received. What I'm trying to say

here is that sometimes we see revival as a very

different kind of perspective. Can you just play the video

a little bit more just to show you maybe just another.

Half a few seconds. So that was eighth of February.

This is twelveth of February, okay, and people just came.

They flooded the place.

It went all the way to about I think maybe

two weeks later, and they peaked at about seventy thousand people.

I think it stopped there here.

But what I'm trying to say is that when revival

hits you, it's explosive. It is not light, sounds and

all those same things. When the Holy Spirit hits you,

what seemingly seemed like even like a service like this

can actually be very different. Because why when hunger hits you,

when people hears of the revival happening, people want to come.

They were they were out of space, by the way,

and the university had to issue these don't come here anymore.

We've got no more space.

And you can look it up. Like I said, you

look it up. That happened not to long Ones, about

three years ago. I started two also three years ago, right,

And this is just phenomenon all right. And of course

last time I shed the Barrier movement, I think Charles

are going to Barrier soon, right.

Yeah. So for those of you who may not have

heard of.

It, this is a small little village town in very

remote you have to take childers telling me to take

propeller planes to that place. But what also started was

just again a small group of missionaries that went in there. Uh,

there were some some educators and some students. They pray

and then they started confessing sins et cetera. And then

they saw miracles and signs to follow. Revival happened in

a small remote place. Sometimes you think revival it happens

in the in the urban places where we got all

the right fields and sounds and you know environment.

Et cetera. But no, when God.

Moves, when the Holy Spirit moves, like I said, you

were just taboo. Okay, and that's what radical is. Now

let's come back to the first revival. Some observations I've

put up the next line. Okay, So some observations from

the first revival. People stayed together, united in one accord.

There is specific prayer. The next one hundred and twenty

people gathered together continuously to pray for God to move.

They were united on one spirit, one purpose, right, And

why is it like so because there's humidity they want

to seek God, not for themselves. They're realigned it's not

just merely, like I said, a wish list. They're seeking

beyond their own need. They're seeking for God to move

as he wills. And that's what revival is. And I

think established this last time I saw there's going to

be a sudden sovereign move of God. We read it earlier, Right,

all those things, the miracles, tongues of fire, et cetera.

When the spirit comes and dawns upon that place, there

will be manage pectation of miracles. Right, they've spoken different languages,

and of course the practical si it also labels them

to reach those that they may not necessarily know how

to or eat. Luguage is a barrier, you know, that's

a so a practical perrier. But these are all evident

when God loves, when revival happens, I want to skip

past the last one for now transformative outcomes. Of course,

we talk about believeitnessing and all that, But what.

I'm trying to say is that waiting is actually active.

Right.

What are we called to.

Do continually praying and seeking, not a passive kind of waiting?

Right?

When God tells you days are coming, you are to

do what you're called to do.

Okay, now last point, uh, last point.

Yeah, what does revival produce? Okay, revival produces you know

some of the things that recovered there.

Right.

One of the things that I think you have to understand, right,

God was with them at the early start, when Jesus

was walking with them, and then suddenly it felt as

though God wasn't there in the picture, right, and then

when the Holy Spirit come and dawn down on them,

it is.

Not no longer God with us, but God in us.

Right, because we always understand this as well, the Spirit

lives in you, right, So there is a transition when

you're hit when the revival happens. And this also enabled

some of the miracles beyond what we read earlier. You know,

Peter went on to speak his first sermon, right, his

first message, and that you know, Peter is a bit yoyo,

and you know, one moment' is like, oh, you know, fearful.

You know, he denied that one moment is very brady,

go and slash, and then he missed the kind and

he denied. You know, it's his jo yo. So but

when he experience revival, that fear changed into boness. And

that's what I meant by the last point, you will

see transformation happening. And you see transformation happening even in

and true Peter's life, the man who's denied Jesus became

a bold preacher. How many can say that? In your

very first message, there's three hundred people who three thousand

people who say yes, right, imagine that.

Imagine that. So those are the first Revival's characteristics. Right.

So what I'm trying to say is that we have

to always pray for spiritual equipping. Because even God's work,

as good as it is, if you think of God's

were as a fire would as good as it is

if you do not ignite it.

With the help of the Holy Spirit.

It's just like the fireworks that's sitting there in the

box is not a cheap its purpose. Okay, so we

ought to do something about it, all right, So lending now,

I've still got three more minutes.

Okay, lending now, I'm not used to this.

Okay, Next, like, how do we revive or awaken the

bonus winness? Just like how the bonus actually you know,

click started in Peter's life.

You know, how do we do it?

Firstly, we already understand the context of revival, right, it

can only be revived. It is if it's already living

in you. And we also know as believers, the spirit

lives in you.

It's only in you. So maybe you've got to stir

it up a little bit.

Okay, So when that concept is understood, you can then

awaken it.

Okay.

How uh, I'm gonna go through scriptures very fast, okay

X chapter four this is the main one that'm gonna

be covering. The artists wall introduction, Sorry, prayer for Bonus again,

let's be true, and being let go. They went to

their own companions again you see community, Okay. To give

you some context, this is Peter and John. They find

themselves seeing healing happening.

Okay.

They healed a guy who was lame, and then he

walked again. And then this guy was just telling of

his of his of his story of his testimony of healing.

People say that you don't stop it.

And then Peter and John, who are actually thrown into

prison for a while because of that, and then of

course they were also trial okay, and they said, you know,

if you do not stop preaching the good news of Jesus,

you're in trouble.

Okay.

And this is where they they starts here in verse

twenty three. It says Peter, Peter, and John then went

to their companions, okay, and then they raised their voices

again in one accord united. You see the similarities there,

all right. So what I'm trying to say here is

that whenever you're in trouble, sometimes you've got to pray

for bonus. Right, don't just get stuck aer right. Bonus

is definitely something that you can pray for. Then later

you talk about the evangelism and the rest of it.

But if you don't have bonus in you, nothing can happen. Now,

So treat some points to just wrap this holding up

about bonus. Firstly, you need to have the right companions.

Just like before we read, the right community actually matters. Okay,

that's what the Bible says, be in the right community

and together like in verse four, they raise their voices

praying one accord. And that's why we come together the

support that we create in one accord for one purpose

and encourage each other as well, because when it's a

kingdom response and whenever we go to struggles and trials. Right,

let's look at the next slide for the diverse, for

truly against your Holy Servant Jesus, whom you anointed. Let's

skip through to twenty nine. Now, Lord, look on their threads.

Grant to your servants. This is two of them that

with all the bonus, they may speak your word. So

it's talking about them in their person, talking to them,

you know, talking about themselves. But your servant, your you

know I need your you know your servant needs help.

Your all help again anyway by stretching your hand to heal,

and the signs and wonders have done through the name

of your Holy Servant Jesus. And then you see at

the end there it says they are all then filled

with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of

God with bonus. So again just to remind us, they

are also very specific. You can see they are asking

for a very specific things. Sometimes we talk about between

specific things, right, nothing wrong with that, you know, but

sometimes you must understand the posture must be firstly in

the Connertany's will.

And that's why its always your, your, your, your your,

not my I want to.

Heal, I want to do this. It's always your. If

you look at this right, you can count the word

you're about six or seven times in this struck passage,

it's always in reference to your will. And again this

shifts back to this whole sovereignty of God. It's your revival,

your will. I I'm just an agent, I'm just your

servant if you will for it. Of course, when you

see some you download from the Lord, they will will

pray more specifically as well, based on strategies that the

Lord has shown you. So second point is be specific

when you want to pray for those boness after you

hear from God, don't be afraid to pray for healing,

to stretch your hand to pray for boness. Even it's

okay because it's not by our might, all right, but

by His power right. So the motivation is all okay

as long as we're aligned to hypercaltry. To last, but

not least, how to be bold is that we need

to be filled by the Holy Spirit, fresh feeling with

some of it earlier. We talked about it earlier, right,

fresh feeling of the spirit, because when believers pray, they

will be filled.

And when they are.

Filled, you know, they can then go and speak God's

word woordly, just as it's written in verse thirty one.

And that is nutshell.

What you need to do, you need to be felled

by the spirit. But with the spirit then only you're

enabled to be bond and do what you're called to do.

And essentially, right, it's not really praying for bondness, you know,

ess actually praying for God's presence and in that presence

secondary effects, so the bondness that comes with His presence then,

so it's just a reminder again that we need to

seek courage. We need to pray for his presence and

pray for his encounter and pray for his provision for

the bondness to do what God has caused to do.

So just to recap, if you go back up to

the first.

Slides when we talked about the tree, I think it's

the first field slides the crime revival. Preparing a way

is what we just read in X four twenty nine.

So how they prepare.

The way really just true prayer.

Okay, So I hope this has been Okay. I know

it's a bit to digest, right, but because last time

I made it a short Chinese in your message because

I want everybody to have their Chinese dinner besides a

bit extended. But even then, also I think I'm okay

with time, MANI find me is extra every okay? Would

you just stand, just open up your hands. The posture

surrenderm is gonna invite the band up to minister. But yeah, Church,

revival is not, as I close, It's not something that

we can manufacture.

Really, just like Hypercook.

Did, we are to call to surrender it and allow

God to move no matter how you schedule it. How

like I said in my engineering brain tried to replicate it,

you can't.

You cannot control it. All we can do is just

prepare our hearts and pray.

Why because when you pray, you you're not just persistent,

you also have that humidity that comes to prayer. Because

revival belongs to the Lord, and therefore he's the one

that gets awaken it. So, Church, the question is not

whether God wants revival. He definitely wants it, right. The

bigger question is are we really ready for it? Are

we ready to really go kaboo?

Is the question here?

So wherever you are, I pray that you will just

be able to stand all and stand firm and just

have a posture surrender, because to be revived and to

be bold is really this is not true, My own strength,

not true, my own power, but something of You Lord.

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