Revival | Pr Ronson

You're listening to a message to go from axt church.

We hope this message will light up your team.

Our team is Revival. Everyone say with me Revival. So

this year we really want to believe God for revival

to come into our life, not just in our church,

but in every aspect of our life. You know, God

has so much in store for all of you this year.

If you believe it'say, Amen, and some of you, God

is going to encourage you to lift up your faith

to another level. For some of you, it could mean

doing new things that you never imagine that you are

going to do. For some of you, God is going

to be opening doors for you. But it always comes

back to this one important thing that you and I

must hold dearly too, which is our relationship with God.

Which is about enduring in our journey of faith, making

sure that we thrive in our faith and let the

fruits of our life testify that we have that relationship

with God. The Bible says that you can do nothing

unless you abide in Christ. It is true abiding in

Christ that we can lead to a life that is fruitful. Amen.

So encourage your neighbor next to you and say, be

fruitful and to another neighbor, I will be fruitful, all right.

So revival is God restoring our spiritual life and for

God's people to come near to Him. In other words,

it is a reawakening of hearts. Right. Many of you

may have been in the faith for some time. This

year will be my twenty one year in the Lord.

I've been a Christian for twenty one years, and I

can say to you that if you are in the

Lord for some time, you will know that there will

always be seasons, seasons like summer, seasons like autumn, seasons

like winter. There are always times up in the mountain,

times in the valley. It is not always a walk

in the park. It is not always a bait full

of roses. Isn't it true? There are days where we

are so on fire for the Lord. When the Lord

says jump, we say how high? But there are days

where we just like to stay in the cave, and

the Lord say, laturus come forth, and we decided to

remain in the tomb. Isn't it so? What I'm trying

to say is that life is such that not every

day we will be on fire for the Lord in

as much as we want to. But when we look

at a revival, we want to believe that God will

reawaken our hearts, especially hearts that has grown cold, distracted

in our walk with God. Sometimes Christians too can be directed,

losing our focus, losing the essence of why we believe

in Christ in the first place. In other words, sometimes

Christians can enter in the time where compromise were made

in our life, compromise that will quench the fire of

God in our hearts, compromise that will quench the Holy

Spirit in our life. And sometimes we grow weary, sometimes

we are spiritually asleep as well. But this year, I

want to encourage you to lay aside all this very

real challenge and come back to God, come back to

the heart of why we believe what we believe in,

And we want to believe that revival will result in

a genuine transformation of life. When you read scriptures or

when you study revivals around you understand that the fruit

of revival essentially to me back to two things. Number one,

there will be a great houvest of souls. In other words,

there will be salvation where hearts will come to receive

Christ in a way, where there is genuine repentance, where

people are genuinely sorrowful of their sin and their hearts

are turning to a savior, and that salvation can be

found in Christ and Christ alone. Second thing is that

you will see genuine rededication, meaning this are for believers,

you and I where our hearts have grown cold, but

we are turning back to God to say that God,

we are just like the prodigal son. We have wasted

our time, we have wasted our life in the world,

but we are turning back to You. So revival is

also meant to turn back to God from our ways

to His way. Carry an amen. Isn't it one of

when you want to hear and you want to see

that people are added into the Kingdom of God. Isn't

it wonderful when you hear testimonies of people who were

once far away from God, but they make the decision

to come back from God. The call of God upon

every Christian is to be an effective weakness for Him.

That means you and I have the capacity. You and

I have the capability to be God's instrument to bring

about a revival that He's going to bring in your family,

in your campus, in your marketplace, and in your life.

Can hear amen. So so says preparing this message. The

worse in Revelation Chapter two, verses one to five became

very strongly, of course, in a book of revelation, when

you read the Angel of the Lord's spook to seven churches,

of which the Church of Ephesus was one of the

church that the Angel of the Lot addressed too. So

it must says to the Angel of the Church of Ephesus,

right this thing, says he who holds the seven stars

in his right hand, who walks in the midst of

the seven golden lamp stands. I know your works, your labor,

your patient, and that you cannot bear those who are evil.

And you have tested those who say they are apostles

and are not, and have found them liars. And you

have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My

namesakes and have not become weary. Sounds like a good church,

isn't it. A church that is active, a church that

is good in works, a church that exposes lies in

the kingdom. Last year, God clearly told in my spirit

that before he judged the world, he will judge his

church first, because starts with the house. So you won't

be surprised In fact, it's happening that more and more

people whom you and I may know, either globally and whatnot,

You will see they if they're not in line with God,

if they've been doing evil things, they will be exposed.

Whenever God exposes saying, it is a reminder to his

people that there is also forgiveness in him. God doesn't

expose saying so that his people will feel condemned. Every

time God exposes saying is a window of opportunity for

people to come back to the heart of repentance. All right,

so it's easier. Nevertheless, I have this against you that

you have love. Sorry, you have love, your first love.

God wants us to stay in love in our first love.

The dinger in ministry is that we can love the

ministry more than a master. We can be so in

love with our role that we forget in essence relationship

with God. Matthus, we can be so in love with

a church that we forget to love Christ. We can

be so fixated with a Sunday attendance that we forget

that relationship with God. Matthus. So church in ephicis that

the Angel of the Lord is addressing too. Obviously, they

had everything right On the outside, the outside looks good.

The homony of you know that man may look at

the outward appearance, but God always always looks at our inward.

So then outside the church may looks good, but inside

the Lord knows they have left their first love. This year,

come back to your first love. In fact, today make

a commitment to come back to the one who draws

you to his kingdom. Come back to the one who

demonstrated his love for you and me. That Bible says

that while you and I were still sinners, God sends

Jesus to die for a sin. He says said, or

else I will come to you quickly and remove your

landstand from its place unless you repent. I want the

church to understand that whenever the scripture says repent, it

is a good thing that we should not see the

word repair from a point of condemnation. But repentance is

an invitation from God for you to enter into eternal life.

Repentance is an invitation from God for you to editor

into His kingdom. When you read the Gospel, you understand them.

When Jesus preaches his first message, what do you say?

He says, repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand.

He didn't say be blessed, he didn't say be prosperous.

He didn't say have your breakthrough, because he knew, and

he's teaching us the key to every blessing, the key

to every breakthrough, the key to every prosperity, starts with repentance.

And if the church one who believe in revival, we

must preach repentance because repentance always precedes revival. You cannot

preach revival without preaching repentance. Otherwise, what is the need

for revival, Because revival is meant for hearts to turn

back fully to the Lord. And revival to me is

coming back to our first love. Is to abide in

our first love. That despite the hustle and bustles of life,

the business of life, and its challenges and priorities, we

choose to dwell in our first love. I understand that

love cannot be built just by religion. Christianity. We all

know this is a relationship with God and that we

should do our part to build our relationship with Him

by coming back to our first love, abiding in our

first love. Have you in if you've been in church

long enough, I'm not knocking anyone who's doing this. But

often you will be very familiar with revival meeting, revival concert,

this revival event dead. It's a good thing to spark

you're a hunger. But I'm here to share with you

that revival is not a big event because how many

times we have experienced it ourselves, that we go for

revival gatherings only to go back and not having a

change life. Because revival is allowing the Holy Spirit to

come into our hearts, to change life. That when we

leave every revival meeting we live, even church. We know

what it meant to offer forgiveness to people who have

offended us. We know what it meant to serve people

who are in need. We know what it meant to

love people, even if there are differences. So revival is

God working in us insight out that our love for

God grows deeper, grows stronger. There's a renewed obedience to God.

There's a renewed holiness. But we are able, by the

grace of God to not dwell in temptation, to not

dwell in sin, which the Bible says can be so

easily and sneering ess. So there's a renewed desire for holiness.

Holiness is not boring, guys, Holiness is still required in

a modern day today. Please don't say that holiness is

just the Old Testament. The Bible say is that without holiness,

no one can see God. If you want to see

God in your life, the veritude WI say, Blessed are

those who are pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Somebody says, who shall ascend to the heal of the

Lord He who has a pair of clean hand and

a pure hearts. Cande has this, saying purity is possible

because the Holy Spirit lives in us. That Jesus knew

that in our sinfulness, he paved the way for us.

That as his as his blood, forgive us of all

our sin, forgive us of all of our uncleanness in

the past. His blood is still able to wash us clean.

So that today when we stand before God, God doesn't

look at me. God look at Christ in me. God

sees the righteousness of Christ in me. God sees the

righteousness of Christ in you. So holiness is important. Revival

have to be the work of the Holy Spirit. So

to me, an event that occur in XT Chapter two

gives us an insight that as the church prepares for revival,

what the church must be looking for. So X Chapter

two is divided into four portions. We know that in

XT Chapter two, the first thirteen verses speaks about how

the Holy Spirit came. You know, Jesus gave a commandment

to his disciples terry in the city of Jerusalem until

you are endeal with power from on high and X

one day. But you shall receive power when the Holy

Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my weaknesses

in Judea, Jerusalem and Samerianti the ends of the earth.

So Acts Chapter two fulfills that the Holy Spirit came

upon the disciples in a grand entry. You'll read tongues

of fire resting upon the disciples. You'll read that when

Holy Spirit comes, it comes like a rushing wind. And

then when the people of all nations that were gathering there,

they were so astonished. Why are these one hundred and

twenty disciples praising God using our own language that we

learned from young but they are not our own. They

begin to think that they were drunk. The timing was

nine am in the morning, and Peter decided to use

scriptures to expound and share with the people there that

whatever they have seen is a fulfillment of the prophecy

in a Book of Joe. Then in the last days

God will pour out his spirit upon all flesh. And

God is still doing it today, that his continued to

pour out his spirit upon all flesh. And as he

begins to share from scripture about the Book of Joel,

he then proclaimed Christ, how God sent Christ, attested by signs,

wonders and miracles, how Christ was betrayed by the Jews,

sent to be crucified, and how Christ rose up from

the date ascended to heaven. So Jesus was proclaimed, He

was entrolled. The people was just listening to Peter, And

the scripture says that on that day three thousand people

came to know the Lord. The message of the Cross

hasn't changed across the centuries because Peter didn't preach about

self help. Peter didn't give a motivational talk. Peter didn't

give a feel good talk. And now these days, if

you're not careful, we can swing to the other extreme

about making people to feel good by an original message.

Later you'll read the scripture says that they were cut

to the heart, meaning there's a deep sense of conviction

that came into their hearts. There's a deep sense of

conviction that came into their spirit, because if our heart

is not cut, that will mean that our heart is hardened.

When a heart is cut, the heart is being convicted.

Usually it is a soft ground for the Lord to work.

So the message hasn't changed. He preached about Christ crucified,

He preached about Christ's reason from the dead. Do not

substitute the Gospel for something else. In Acts two, verse

thirty seventh, to the Uniniteedy states, Now when they heard this,

the means the people there they were cut to the heart,

and say to Peter and the rest of the apostles,

man and bedroom, what shall we do? Then, Peter say

to them, repent, and let every one of you be

baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission

of sins, and you shall receive the gif of the

Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to

your children, and to all who are afar of as

many as the Lord our God will call. Is the

exact mirror of how Jesus would have preached. The first

word that aftered from Peter was repent. This is when

you have conversations with people, you tell them to repent,

they'll most likely say, why are you judging me out right?

But the word that came from Peter was repent. Make

no mistakes. No one is perfect before God. Everyone is

a sinner. I'm a siner too. We all need the

grace of God. So the word repent here basically means

to change one's mind, a decisive inward turn that results

in an outward turn. Because you see the people back

then rejected Christ. Uh. They say that he's not Lord,

he's not Savior, he's not the Messiah. But when Peter

began to use scripture, God allowed their eyes to be opened,

and then they began to have that realization that what

they used to believe was wrong, and how even in

their own thought, even in their own belief, they have

wrong and innocent man Jesus. So repentance basically just mean

to change one's mind. Are then't mindset that needs to

be changed even in our own life at as sudden

mindset with regards to God that we need to fix.

The Christian faith has to be change evident. It has

to be changed evident adambirds. It means that in your year,

to your growth. You must continue to grow fruits. Grow

in patience, grow in love, grow in your kindness, grow

in your gents, grow in your character. Don't just grow

in your works. Remember the change in efficence. They did

all things good, but they left their first love. So

honest to focus on our being more than our doing.

The doing is important, it's important to serve, but it

always starts with the being. They were cut to the heart.

It basically means to pierce to sting sharply, to be

deeply pricked, a sudden internal puncture, like being stepped away

to conscience. Have you had ever had a conversations where

suddenly people present to you the truth you felt out,

Then you also agree to it because your heart is open.

It was a painful but necessary clarity that is needed.

Yet it takes humility. So every year, or do my

medical check up. Yesterday I did my checkup as well.

Thank you to the company because they gave her package.

Every January, I will do my checkup. I will be

the first person in the health center seven point thirty

registered and go through a very comprehensive checkup, including my

stress test. You have to run on the treadmill ultrasound,

so yesterday. The doctor look at me. The doctor look

at my report because we are told to take our

previous report to come. So I open up my previous report.

Then you got a new report. The doctor look at me, hmmm,

your cholesterol increases. Then she looked to me in the eye.

What happened? Yeah, yeah, yeah, life happened. Right. I felt

very embarrassed. I felt really embarrassed because I thought I

control my diet. I thought that, you know, because last

year was very good, this is certainly not good. I

thought I control my diet. I thought I did everything right.

So I doctor, okay, Chinese eat less than LA, and

I can say, oh, it doesn't work that way. Say.

My point is, when the doctor tells me this, right,

it's something that I already know. Right, what do? What do?

What do we know when it comes to health? Right?

Something basic? It well, stay away from fright foot lah, Okay,

do your exercise only the things we know. Really, if

you want to get healthy, be watchful what you eat,

and have a form of healthy living through exercise. Who

doesn't know? Everyone knows? Right? Somebody tells me is I

felt like I felt very convicted. It's like these are

the things I know, but I'm not doing so when

I be able to reflect about this message for Christians,

it can be true. Also, we know what the Lord

requires of us. We know his word, but are we

doing it? Because if we are not applying it, we

are in the danger of leading our spiritual life to

have a probably a spiritual cholesterol which will lead to

a probably a spiritual heart attack, or it would lead

to something else. Because I know. I know because for

two years in a row, I have malfatty liver, but

I'm not doing enough to control it. So later lunchtime

don't fit me or the good food? Okay, say must

he have some boy vegetables for you? Here's some clear

soup for you. So whenever there is conviction, conviction is

God showing mercy and not God shaming you because shame

is not a language of love. The devil wants to

shame us, but God says, your shame is COVID. So

yesterday I felt very shameful in front of the doctor.

Say okay, okay, next I'll come back with good reading,

good reading, So mercy is conviction. The next two we

know that the people there they rejected Christ. They realized

that they were part of the rejection, so their heart

was cut. They now believe that the claim that Peter

made was true because Peter testified about the resurrection of

Christ and they recognized that they were wrong about Jesus.

They feared the covenant consequences because they realized that they

have rejected God's anointed king. So the question that they

asked isn't like out of a place of uh date end,

But essentially they were saying, how do we get right

with God? Now? Right? They say, must we do so

in some of your child that you're going through, or

maybe you're away from God and maybe you're still seeking

for God us, What can we do now to get

right with God? Because the only way to revival is repentance.

Understand that repentance is not an emotion. Not how often

I come up to the altar, Lord, I will not

repeat it again. Then leaders will come and pray and

pray only to enna after church one week or two

later ended up in the same right, I'm not knocking

people who come up to the altar and pray, for

we believe in autocol, We believe in crying and expressing

our tears, sorrow, repentance before the Lord. But I'm also

here to let Christians know that repentance is beyond emotion.

It has to be translated into a way of life,

and entence is an everyday thing. Give us this day

our daily breate, and forgive us of our sin, as

we forgive those who have trespassed against us. So in

festimity to one seven. Therefore I exhort you first of all,

that supplications, prayer, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made

for all men, for kings, and all who are in authority,

that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in

all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable

in the sight of God, our Savior, who desires all

men to be saved and come to the knowledge of

the truth. For there is one God and one mad

data between God and man, the man Christ, Jesus, who

gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in

due time, for which I was appointed a preacher and

an impostor, and speaking the truth in Christ and not lying,

a teacher of the gentiles in faith and in truth,

Yours Paul writing to Timothy. Remember this, there's one God

and one mediator. Scripture is very clear. No one can

come to God except through Christ. If you're a Christian here,

you believe that Jesus is one of the way, and

Jesus is not the only way. I encourage you to

change that way of thought, because scripture is very clear.

The message of the Cross will be offensive. People will

ridicule you. People will tell you how can Jesus be

the only way? That many other ways? People will tell

you a lot of things. But you what do you

believe in? You must have a stand. So repentance is

important because if you're a believer here you will know

that all have seen and fallen short of the glory

of God, Roman Street twenty three, and the wages of

sin is death, but the give of God is eternallive

in Christ, Jesus our lot. Now the death here, basically,

it doesn't just mean a physical death. It doesn't just

mean today. If you're a believer and the Lord decided

to take you home, you change that dress from earth

to heaven. It doesn't just mean death. The word death

also means there is a spiritual death inside of you,

where you are numb towards the things of God, where

there is a separation between you and God. You might

be saying, I'm a Christian. I believe Christ as my

Lord and Savior, good good, But are you sensing God

when you read the Word of God? Does it speak

to you in your spirit? Does it connect to you?

Or are we just Christians by name and not Christian

by relationship? There is a difference. There is a difference,

And this year I want us to move from a

Christian by name to a Christian by relationship, a Christian

by doing, to a Christian by being. Because ultimately, what

is the Lord looking for our hearts? A surrendered heart

before him? Extraly one nine, he says, repent therefore and

be converted, that your sin may be blotted out. So

when we repent, our sin will be blotted out. In fact,

the scripture says that if we confess our sins to him,

he is faithful and just to forgive us of our

saints and cleanse us all from all unrighteousness. So I

love Jesus because he doesn't condemn, he forgives. But the

day will come when He will come back as a

judge in his second coming, to judge you and I

that the times of refreshing may come from the presence

of the Lord. You can underline that the times of

refreshing many of us in our what we christ we

need to have a time of refreshing, a time of renewald.

The common lingo that you and I used to use

is or I'm in my season of wilderness or I'm

feeling dry. However, you used that before, I've used that before,

and we all need that times of refreshing to come.

But times of refreshing can only come when there is repentance.

It's not about attending more regular services. It's not about

serving more. It's not about doing more. First thing first

is about coming back to the heart of God. So

when I counsel people, we always ask how's your relationship

with God. It's not from a point of judging, but

from a point of reminding each other that at the

end day, there are challenges in our life that is

caused by our lack of proximity with the Lord, the

challenges in life that have inevitably come in because we

have been far away from God. So there's no point

talking about all these external challenges without first talking about

what we are going through internally, because the first step

to break through always starts internally, even if by the

grace of God. You receive your breakthrough externally, but if

you are not strong internally with the Lord, there will

always be another time where another setback will come in.

So revival doesn't begin with louder music, it doesn't begin

with bigger gatherings. Often the best revival is in the

secret place you and the Lord. The scripture says that

as you pray, shut the door and then pray to

your Father, who is in secret. That is the heart

of revival. Because what's the point of being able to

pray publicly? I mean, we go back from Monday to Saturday.

We don't even pray privately. What's the point of reading

scripture publicly our Bible on a Sunday, But from a

Monday to Saturday we don't even open our Bible. We

are not called to be a church. In emphesis, in revelation,

don't leave your first life. So repentance preceeds revival. That

has to be the prerequisite. It has to be no

other way, no other way. So true revival always focuses

on the insight. So might be saying, what are we

saved from? Number one? We are safe from God's coming judgment.

God will judge you and I. One day we will

stand before His judgment throne. We are safe from sein

and guilt. Understand it. In cry, he offers forgiveness, cleansing,

restored relationship with God. We are safe from belonging to

a crooked generation. In fact, Peter told the people in

next two and be safe from this perverse generation. I

don't have to go far to talk about how morally

corrupt society is today. I don't have to go far

to let you know how dark in a world we

live in. You're exposed to social media, if you're not

follow world news, you're on campus ground. You know, you know,

you know. In fact, Jesus says in the last days

it will exactly be like the time of Noah, where

their corruption left right center. The land is filled with weakness.

Christ is your art. You've got to remain righteous in

a world that is constantly challenging your biblical values and

your biblical standard. So God saved us from belonging to

a generation, a perverse generation. That's why he calls you

a royal priest, generation chosen to serve Him that you

may proclaim His light. So don't despise people who are

not having the same faith with you. In fact, because

you have come to know Christ, it is your responsibility

to share to them the message of hope. It is

your responsibility to share to them a message of light

when they are in darkness. Because you are to proclaim

His light, you have to proclaim His love. That's what

revival do you know? I don't even talk about revival.

If we don't even want to share the gospel, then

what's the point of revival? Is it just for Christians

to feel good? The accompanying sign of revival will always

lead people to a place of greater witnessing. In other words,

there will be a greater urgency to share the gospel

that there will be no place for apathy or any

form of indifference, because sometimes we can be in the faith,

but we can be very indifferent of our faith. But

the fire of God when revival comes in your life,

will always causes you to share about Jesus. So Peter

preached straight from scripture. Any revival that is start, any

revival that needs to be sustained, has to be scripture focus.

Anyone who doesn't use scripture to encourage people, Anyone who

doesn't your scripture to uplift people Anyone who doesn't use

scripture to encourage people to the power of repentance is

in danger. So the spark of revival is the Holy Spirit.

As noted in next two. The Holy Spirit came in

a green entrance, and it is sustained by application of

his word. The prophet Jeremiah, if you read his life,

is quite said in a sense that he is one

of the prophet that is probably persecuted left right, centered, ridiculed.

A lot of horrible things were done because of his

obedience to God and because of his obedience to proclaim

a message to God's people. So, in the context of

Jeremiah twenty ver was nine. He says, Jeremiah says, then

I said, I will not make mention of him, not

speak anymore in his name. You know why, because every

time he spoke about Jesus, sorry not Jesus, but the Lord.

Every time he spoke about God and impending judgment, he

gets prosecuted. He also needed to confront false prophets. It's

like you're in the same kingdom and you have an

internal struggle. And he says, here, but his word was

in my heart like a burning fire, shut up in

my bones. I was weary of holding it back, and

I could not. And when you read in the New Testament,

in the world to immouse the two disciples who encountered

Christ without knowing it was Jesus. But when Jesus needed

to open the eyes, Jesus opened their eyes with scripture.

You do not open the eyes of your friends with

a good book. You do not open the eyes of

your friends with a good story. You open the eyes

of your friends with scriptures. And he says, here, and

they say to one another, did not our heart burn

willing us while he talked with us on the road,

and while he opened the scriptures to us? Whenever we

talk about revival, we also say fire, fire, fire, kind

of What kind of fire are we asking God for? Yes? Seriously,

it's a good question, right. I think as Christians we

should do more in being curious when people say fire,

What fire? Okay? Yes, fire of the Holy Spirit? Great,

because the Holy Spirit symbolizes fire as well. Great. He

will badfies you with the Holy Spirit and fire. But

out of the form of fire to me is a

fire of his word. We have to come back to

read his word and allow his word to burn in

our hearts, allow his word to transform our hearts, because

to stay in our first love is to stay with

his word. Because it's easy to say, yes, I'm staying

with Jesus through your words, but let your words abide

in his with so revival also means come back to

the place where we spend time with God reading his words. Yes,

I know it's challenging. I know I'm speaking from experience

as well. It's so hard to give time. Really, you

have many roles. You need to care for our kids,

you need to do this, you need to do that.

Maybe we all need a spot from the Holy Spirit

to align our life back to scripture again, to give

time to scripture. God knows your busyness, but your business

must not detect your life. Conviction of his word equals

to fire inside us equals to revival. That's the formula

Psalm one nine five. My soul clings to the dust.

Revive me according to your word. This can only happen

in a place of humility. I think some of us

we need to open our hearts. We need to soften

our hearts before the Lord, because if our heart is hardened,

his word cannot transform us. We make God's word ineffective.

Humility and faith comes hand in hand go to allow

his word to come in. Why I say humility is

because the Sumi is acknowledged that his so clings to

the dust, and he wanted a revival and asking God

to revive through his word some of one nine. That

is seventh fun fact for you. Some one one nine

is the longest chapter in your Bible. Did you know that?

How many verses are there in this chapter? Fun fact?

One hundred and seventy six verses one hundred and seventieth

verses all about God's word in summer one nine one

o seven. I'm afflicted very much. Revive me, oh Lord,

according to your word. So revival and God's word is

associated together. Oh end by reading Some one one nine

one six nine to one seven six. And this is

my invitation to a semonie to read it together as

a prayer. We want to start this right, and to

start it right is always to start with this word.

So if you have your Bible, you can flip to

page number four to nine like my Bible or any

other pages. If you have your e Bible, you can

just swipe it to Palm hundred and nineteen versus one

sixty nine and one seven six. These are the last

few verses of some one nine one one nine. And

when I read it yesterday, I felt that many of

you may resonate with these verses. And I felt that

instead of I declaring it, why don't we declare it together?

Before that, let me share with you why I'm doing this.

When you read the Book of Ezra, when you read

the Book of Nihimaya, it was a time where the

walls of Jerusalem were in ruin, and when Ezra ani

Maya began to coordinate the effort, they read the Law

of the Lord. And scripture says that the entire community

web why because scriptures opened their eyes. Scripture cuts their heart,

but it did not lead them to a place of condemnation.

It led them to a place of restoration and hope.

That's exactly what our faith is all about, restoration and hope.

So revival is also about a form of restoration in you.

To know that as you're being restored there is always

that hope. So I like to invite you to stand

as back then the scriptures they stand as well. And

when you read, I know that sometimes it can be

very dis like yours. Is another version I'm reading this word.

It's totally fine. Don't be distracted, but just read it loudly.

I'll give you time to prepare your lungs expand a

bit because this might be quite challenging. And we're just

going to declare this as a prayer. Amen. Everyone. You

have your Bible better, abe, Bible, you have your book

ready to do this, all right, So I'll count to three.

Then you'll read from verse one sixth nine as a prayer. Guys,

when you read it, read as a prayer. Read it

to deposit into your heart. Read it as what Jeremiah

and the disciples did when Scriptures was expanded. The fire

came into their bones, the fire came into your body.

So read it in that lens. Amen. So one six nine.

Let my cry come before you, Oh Lord, give me

understanding according to your word. Let my supplication come before

you deliver me according to your word. My lips shall

utter praise for you. Teach me your statutes. My tongue

shall speak of your word for all your commandments our righteousness.

Let your hand become my help, for I have chosen

your precepts. I long for your salvational Lord, And your

Lord is my delight. Let my soul live and it

shall praise you. And let your judgments help me. I

have gone astray like a lordship. Seek your servant, for

I do not forget your commandments.

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