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Revive our hearts O Lord | Pr. Daniel Chong

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from acts church.

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  3. Okay, let's let's get right right to it. All right,

  4. I lost my voice in the week or so. I

  5. rarely used to lose my voice. In fact, I think

  6. this was the first time ever in my life that

  7. I lost my voice to a certain extent. My wife

  8. was also unwell, but by the grace of God, we

  9. are both made well in Jesus name a man. And

  10. there was once I remember during youth cam that my

  11. wife also lost a voice youth cam. There was I

  12. think last year. If I'm not to take on a

  13. year before, I'm not sure. But the way she lose

  14. her voice is that she will have a very deep

  15. and very like low thought and hello, yeah, very deep.

  16. I cannot replicate. But when I lost my voice, I

  17. sounded like a cheap monk. Okay, I sounded like a

  18. cheap monk. And the funny thing was that right after

  19. worship survey last Sunday, we had an amazing Niacary celebration.

  20. Some of the kids were having their their time of

  21. their life with us, right with me, so they look

  22. at me, they hear my voice they're going to take

  23. the helium balloon in heally, and then they make fun

  24. of me. Look, I say, yeah, praise the Lord. Good

  25. that you have a voice. Make sure you use it

  26. for the right reason. Amen. But voice is important, It's

  27. really important. I was visiting my favorite chicken rice patron, right,

  28. you know. By now you should know I love chicken rice, right,

  29. And I was trying to order chicken rice, the one

  30. that I like from this patron. And I was just

  31. in so much pain because I cannot communicate this person. Yeah.

  32. I was trying to say, yeah, call kay fun right,

  33. and I asked for kai pei. Hey what let me

  34. stick away the bonon? And then I want to chast

  35. you and I want to pull face out. This is

  36. my order, you know, very long one. And then the

  37. sauce must be said, I pray so because I don't

  38. like the sauce to be mixed in together the chicken.

  39. You know, it gets all soggy, not nice. I could

  40. be separate, but the chance your sauce I like to love. Now,

  41. how am I going to replicate that without voice? So

  42. I was trying my best to order the worst part

  43. of it is that on that day, the main guide

  44. is I didn't know to come. So it was the maid.

  45. It was a cut helper, and she could couldn't understand Mendraine.

  46. To save her life. She can't understand Barasa. So I

  47. had to type. I had to type in Mandarin to

  48. type in Bahasa what I wanted. Yeah, And it was

  49. such a really, such a torrid experience because I couldn't

  50. get my order. And upon the time time, I just

  51. looked down and I almost started sobbing in my heart.

  52. I just wanted my chicken rice. I just wanted to

  53. eat my favorite kaifan. It was so sad, right, I

  54. tell you what. The moment my voice returned partially on Thursday,

  55. I rushed back to the same chicken rice shop and

  56. I had my chicken rice praised a lot, you know,

  57. that day when I wanted to order chicken rice, I

  58. couldn't because she just couldn't understand me. So I ordered,

  59. I got my chicken rice, but what I got was

  60. guy home fun, dry and not nice, not tender, praise

  61. the Lord. So voice is very important, you know, voice

  62. is very important. And I just want to just give

  63. glory to God and we have the opportunity to speak.

  64. I was I had a little bit of an experience

  65. of how the death and blind you know what, the death,

  66. the one that cannot speak, the muted ones. It's such

  67. a experience, you know, it's such a and yet we

  68. look at them, and we look at them praising God

  69. giving your best. Look at brothers and sisters and expert feels,

  70. they give their best. Now they're not they're not mute,

  71. they're deaf, but they used our language to communicate. So

  72. I was just practicing my sign language and the past

  73. big alone and I want I want to show you

  74. something and I don't know whether it will come across

  75. correct or not, but it should be Lah. So I

  76. don't know how many you understand SID language. So what

  77. is this? Yeah? What is this? You know I'm doing

  78. it right? Yeah? So everywhere I go, I was doing this?

  79. Loves you? Yeah? Correct? Right? Am I doing correctly? Why?

  80. Or you? Yeah? Praise the Lord. God loves each and

  81. every one of us. And I have the title for

  82. us today. I'm going to speak from my heart. Is

  83. that okay? Say? Okay? Church? Yeah all right? Can I

  84. have the first slight up today? Yeah? We are in

  85. the in the team of Revival, d R. E. A. M.

  86. And The title that I have for us this morning

  87. is revived our Hearts, Oh lot. Now, I pray that

  88. after we end today, it will no longer just be

  89. a title that you go and say, passidam preach. Was

  90. this sermon title Revive our hearts? A Lord, I pray

  91. that by the end of this message, it will be

  92. your crime. Amen. I prayed that by the end of

  93. this message, or even by the center in the midpoint,

  94. it will be your cry. It's a cry to our

  95. Lord to revive our hearts. You know, I'm not sure

  96. how I will get this across. But except the fact that,

  97. let's say, for example, you have a love one in

  98. front of you and the love one is no longer breathing.

  99. Now that same cry that you'll alter the Lord, revive

  100. this young child, or Lord, or revive this person or

  101. Lord give him breath once again, that he can breathe

  102. and he can live normally, revive his walking condition. I

  103. don't know how much of you have been struggling with

  104. caring for a love one that is unwell. You would one.

  105. It paints a heart, right, I know, children, brother, children

  106. is going through that right now. And Roy, I just

  107. want to encourage you and Ettor and Nancy or wherever

  108. she is, and to encourage you this family that you

  109. can just continue to press on, give your dad the

  110. best that you can, and we pray. We're all in

  111. prayer with you. You know, everyone in this room is

  112. in prayer with you, Roy, and I just want to

  113. encourage you. You know, don't lose heart, but it is a

  114. cry when you see someone that is not well, not

  115. even your love one. Maybe someone here you would have

  116. the heart empathy to ask God, hey, I pray that

  117. it would get better. Yeah. So I pray that at

  118. the end of this message, this will become your crime. Right.

  119. I pray that if you look at this right now

  120. and nothing is stirring in your heart, I pray that

  121. by the end of this message, something will stirn in

  122. your heart because it is important. It is important to

  123. have a heart that is alive. I don't know how

  124. many of you walk around thinking that it's okay to

  125. have a heart that's dead, because in the days to come,

  126. and the scripture says this, that it would be more

  127. and more barren, that we will lose, start to lose

  128. love for one another. It'll be more and more barent.

  129. That means what we think that we used to have

  130. that certain love. Now I'm not talking about romantic love.

  131. I'm talking about a love, a care that for good,

  132. so love this world. You walk around and you go like, hey, brother,

  133. I love for you, and that's why I care for you,

  134. and that's why whatever you're doing is wrong. Therefore come back.

  135. But they will come a point in time where we

  136. will start going to that same person and even though

  137. he's wasting his life away, we will go, like I

  138. tell you want that's his own business, and we feel

  139. that no, no longer feel the need to communicate that anymore.

  140. Friends and family that needs revival, right, friends and family,

  141. Our hearts need revival. I pray that we will never

  142. come to a point where we will pass by someone

  143. in need and we'll go like I got to go

  144. to church, pass by someone in me and say, oh

  145. I got to go and you know, go for this meeting.

  146. I pray that we'll never reach that point. Amen. You know,

  147. there was so many times in Kazas Highway. I just

  148. want to tell you a real story. I was driving

  149. on the way to work. This was when I was

  150. still in Sunway working for Sunway, and on the opposite

  151. side of Kasas Highway. I saw this young lady right

  152. stranded beside the road and can clearly see that her

  153. tire or spongela right Becasus. Now, if you're not Casus, you

  154. know you'll get to the other side one as you

  155. do a big fat EU turn right all the way. Now,

  156. as I was driving to work, I was just looking

  157. at the leader. I'm in my mind. The first thing

  158. that I thought is someone will help her. So in

  159. my mind I couldn't try drive, try and try all

  160. the way that my heart was stirring, like I think,

  161. better go and Checkla, better go and check help my mind.

  162. But then I just passed the gem. You know you

  163. know then jam, Now I have to you turn back

  164. then if I have to get back to work. Gone

  165. a day, one hour gone. So I went all the

  166. way to the Uthan and my heart I really cannot

  167. be So it was either you turn after you turn,

  168. turn left, go up the Sunway ram and turn back

  169. into Banasaway. So you don't know Casas Away. I'm sorry,

  170. but there is a ram that used to take I

  171. was telling myself, Okayla, tell you what someone will go.

  172. I went straight, said to go straight, listen to the

  173. inner voice of my heart went straight all the way

  174. there to the shell, which is right behind the shell,

  175. and went there, and I look, someone was helping Herdy,

  176. someone was helping her. In my mind, I thought, I

  177. told myself to see then I told you already you

  178. shouldn't have done that. Why can't you just listen? You

  179. know why you waste the time? Now your boss is

  180. going to call you because you're late to work, and

  181. everything is going to just spiral our control. And then Sally,

  182. the Holy Spirit, I remember very clearly, just ministered to

  183. my heart. Hey, at least now you know the length

  184. that I had to go to to reach those that

  185. perhaps think that they need help. But the moment I

  186. have arrived, they no longer look to me. Some of us,

  187. sometimes we are at the place of dependence to God.

  188. Your child sick, she say in the hospital. Bit you pray,

  189. you pray, you pray, you pray, something happens, the person

  190. gets healed, and then now the pray is gone. God

  191. is there. In fact, perhaps it's perhaps it's the Holy

  192. Spirit that allowed this person to experience their breakthrough or

  193. their healing. But when you are at a position where

  194. you've already received what you wanted for you're no longer

  195. talking to God anymore, and God is just there. The

  196. Holy Spirit is just ministering to men and say, perhaps

  197. this is something that you would feel now you put

  198. yourself in the shoes. You know, I'm omnipresent, I'm there

  199. all the time. But yet when people receive their breakthrough,

  200. more often than not, they shut the door to God.

  201. That's just something that I just wanted to just share

  202. with you. It's not about you actually fulfiling what you

  203. need to do, which is to help them urben change

  204. a dire. It's about you being there, and it's about

  205. your heart being stirred to do the right thing. And

  206. I pray for all of us this morning. Do not

  207. feel that maybe because God has called you to a

  208. certain someone and you reach that place and you see,

  209. oh there's already someone, there is already done. It doesn't

  210. mean that you waste your time because God is not

  211. in there for you and your actions towards the thing

  212. that needs help. God is in there for your heart.

  213. God is saying, will you obey, will you obey me?

  214. Will you bring the isaac up to the altar to

  215. be sacrificed. Amen? And a lot of us needs our

  216. heart to revive. And I pray that this message is

  217. in time for the CNY that is about to happen. Yeah,

  218. because this is the time. More often than not, this

  219. is where you need bondness because many friends and family

  220. out there needs to hear the gospel. Amen. And you

  221. can't do so without the baldness in your heart. So

  222. I pray that this for touch the inner parts of

  223. your heart this morning, and I pray that from a title,

  224. it will become a cry, your cry revive our hearts

  225. all on a call to revival. A call to a

  226. heart revival is a subtitle or a revival of the heart.

  227. Can I have the next slight? Very quickly? Got to

  228. show you a picture of what perhaps many young people

  229. think revival look like. Although I would kind of understand.

  230. But we see these in a Daylor Swift concert as well.

  231. We say, we see this in a K pop concert

  232. as well. We see this in I tell you what.

  233. Sometimes if you want to know what Christianity looks like

  234. or sounds like, go to and feel Yeah, go to

  235. Liverpool Football Stadium. I tell you what. All hands lifted up,

  236. scarves all in the air, right, I tell you what,

  237. And worshiping, worshiping, you'll never walk alone. That's like a cathedularity.

  238. You know, you go over there and it's nothing special.

  239. But look at that hearts cry out? Are they really

  240. worshiping God? There? Yeah? Maybe perhaps? But I saw something

  241. that kind of wrote recently on his Facebook. If you

  242. haven't been following him, show me a young person worshiping

  243. God in the church service. I am unimpressed because it's

  244. more important than what that person, what the young person

  245. does from Monday to Friday, because what's the point. Because

  246. I tell you what this where you are right now,

  247. it says a tone. Don't get me wrong, don't go

  248. use this example there and say it. Come to church, actually,

  249. don't need to raise u pans on, don't need to

  250. worship God, just don't come. Don't come at all. Now.

  251. It sets a tone, right, But imagine if you are

  252. set apart to God, you're you're you're smiling like the

  253. little girl that the girl that is smiling, or mouth

  254. open shouting there the lungs out right in God. And

  255. the next moment you go back home and you forget

  256. about who you are, and you're rute to your parents,

  257. You're rute to your children, not just during the parents

  258. are parents sure' as well? Rude to one another? You're

  259. rude to the waiter. You didn't say thank you to

  260. the waiter. Is this signs that, hey, this is a

  261. transformed heart or is the hard man to be revived

  262. only on Sunday alone. If that's the case, you would

  263. die because the heart needs to continue beating for the

  264. rest of your life until there's no more breath. Amen.

  265. Now I'm going to show you in that picture and

  266. h this may not mean a lot to you many

  267. of you here, but it means a lot to me.

  268. Next light, how many of you know who? These two

  269. young gentlemen are same age, one much taller than the other.

  270. One is first the mess child, the one in green.

  271. That's Nathan Nathan Chung. I call him the smallest uncle

  272. that I know. He's also a walking g I found out.

  273. The other one is Timmy. Sounds familiar Timmy, Megan and

  274. uh Sylvia works for Timmy. Right. And then the work

  275. that they're doing over there is amazing special and this

  276. organization is named after Buster Elvin's eldest child. Now, let

  277. me demonstrate to you how he was chairing so he

  278. what they're doing there is they're chairing day like what

  279. Rachelle did, amazing job, but this is what he did morning,

  280. and welcome to Exten's. Uh, this is time to worship God.

  281. Let's lift up a shot of praise and worship him. Okay,

  282. so you may look at that and you go like

  283. what in the world, But if you know he's background

  284. him to stand in that position, for him to put

  285. that mic to his mouth, that is a revived hut

  286. a man, a boy that used to cost so much.

  287. Hevo at home. For some of you who may not

  288. know this TM is diagnosed, what is the exact diagnosis?

  289. Do you know, Megan? Sorry? Sorry, s T one SD

  290. one is part of the autism spectrum. Yeah, is it

  291. quite mal Yeah? But many of you, Megan may not

  292. know timmy brighter. You know. But when I first knew Play,

  293. I knew that they was struggling. They had a lot

  294. of struggles. Another child that I don't have a picture

  295. over here is Jerome. Jerome I have the privilege to

  296. teach him piano, and tell you what many of us

  297. would give. I felt like giving up because he can't count.

  298. Now he can count, but he just doesn't want to

  299. because he can distracted by. There was one time I

  300. was just teaching him, teaching him, teaching him, and then

  301. an end start crawling and he was like He literally

  302. got up his seat and followed the end. I was like, you, who,

  303. what are you doing? I got to catch this end.

  304. But now he's playing. In the mighty name of Jesus,

  305. he's playing. He tells me, Then I want to serve

  306. on extreme when I hear these stories as compared to

  307. the picture prior, because perhaps the picture prior is Yeah,

  308. I'm not denying that lives are changed, But when I

  309. hear these stories, it gives me a greater purpose of

  310. the reason why I'm doing what I'm doing. Nathan thirteen

  311. years old about to hit the growth spurt very soon,

  312. I believe if he follows after past the man. But Nathan,

  313. Nathan memorizes thirty five Bible verses. How many of you

  314. here can memorize one? Don't put our hands thirty five

  315. Bible versus. Nathan reads a lot. The team asked me,

  316. who shall we put up the chair for the upcoming extines?

  317. Should we get Laisha? Nothing about Elias, great great chairer.

  318. You know everyone knows that good CG Raced up very well,

  319. and Jordan looked at me and asked, who are the

  320. older ones that we would like to put up the chair?

  321. Give me names in this list? None of them? None

  322. of them. Body is two. I look at that. I say,

  323. since XPJ is hosting this, can we consider some of

  324. the teenagers from XPJ. But what's the dad. We don't

  325. have anyone that is enthusiastic and able to carry the service.

  326. I say, what do you mean? Because Jesus wrote in

  327. on a donkey. Because Jesus, although he was gone, when

  328. you walk past him, you won't even recognize that that

  329. is him. Here's nothing. He has no features that a

  330. woman will go like wow. No scripture says that you

  331. may think that I'm doing bleashem me. No, he says

  332. in scripture, nothing to be desired of. Jesus was a

  333. normal man. So I told the team just put them on.

  334. Sometimes as leaders, as parents, we're just going to do

  335. the right thing. I start the probleming my heart or

  336. his spirit spring. Put this two young gentlemen on, and

  337. I say, go for it. And it did so well.

  338. Praise the Lord. Amen. There was Nathan's first time praying

  339. for Jerusalem loud in using a mic. If we don't

  340. give them the opportunity, if we don't give ourselves the opportunity,

  341. we will never be able to experience the fullness of

  342. what God has insolved us. Amen. Some of us here,

  343. seated in this place, needs your hearts revived. All right,

  344. some of us seated here in this place, Perhaps you

  345. are at ninety nine percent blockage already. Now, I'm not

  346. talking about your physical heart yet, because if so you are,

  347. please go and get yourself checked. Okay, don't play a fool,

  348. don't play a fool. But some of us is spiritually.

  349. We are in a place where we are in dire

  350. need of heart surgery. I'm not going to ask you

  351. to lift up your hands. I'm not gonna do that

  352. this morning. But those of you, you know, when we pray,

  353. we say to those of you who believe, say, amen,

  354. what does that mean? It means that you have faith

  355. in Christ Jesus. You believe that He is the author

  356. and perfector of your faith. I want to ask all

  357. of you this question this morning. Let me linger in

  358. your heart before I move on. What was that feeling

  359. when you first accepted Jesus Christ in your hearts? What

  360. was that first love experience that you had when he

  361. took you out of that Marie Clay, you give glory

  362. to God. You put it on your Instagram, you put

  363. it on your social media posts, and you go like, God,

  364. you took me out. Now, question is that man just

  365. for social media or do you really mean it? Do

  366. you really mean it for the bottom of your hearts,

  367. because some of us here now I'm just sensing it

  368. in my heart because it happened to me as well.

  369. You have lost a little bit of this. That spark

  370. that once got you so excited to come to church,

  371. now it's being replaced by something else. The spark that

  372. got you so really excited to have worship nights with

  373. your family now is replaced by something else. So friends

  374. and family, very livingly. I just want to encourage all

  375. of us here that if you need CPR, I pray

  376. that this message gives you CPR. All right. Christ prioritizes,

  377. prioritize in your life, brings about revival CPR all right. Next,

  378. it's like for you this morning, change lives now. The

  379. church exists for change lives now. I want to just

  380. quickly recap what we went through as leaders in the

  381. ex Leaders Conference retreat pas the canev share with us

  382. that you know what. There was a question that came up,

  383. and uh, you should ask my wife this about me.

  384. And I really really love the topic of end Times.

  385. I love it. I like to you know, my name

  386. is Daniel, So the last seven chapters of Daniel, it's

  387. all about end Times. Yeah, it points back to revelation.

  388. I like to do study, book study. I like to

  389. do so many things, you know, like sometimes I want

  390. a question like why can't we hear more about this

  391. in church? True enough, someone from the crowd asked the

  392. question of us and bus. His response was this, there's

  393. knowing about the end times change who you are today.

  394. You may be equipped with the doctrine, Yeah, but does

  395. it actually change the way you live? Because in X

  396. there is a space, there's a time for that. Go

  397. and sign up for X class. Pus I met. There's

  398. a good job at the Book of Revelations and study

  399. because if you really want to know, if you really

  400. want to go deeper in end Times, sign up for

  401. the cost six weeks. Go for it. If you want

  402. to know more about the Book of XTS, sign up

  403. for the course. It's right there. Do not say that

  404. we are not offering this to you. We are, but

  405. when you come to church in the Sunday morning, we

  406. are interested in your lives being changed. It means we

  407. are interested in seeing that. I tell you what, if

  408. you leave this place, if your life is changed a little,

  409. even a little bit, that's our objective. Yeah, and that's

  410. why you rarely hear. You rarely hear. And it's a

  411. mandate given to the speakers. Yeah, speak about change lives.

  412. That's church. We all celebrate one another where we see

  413. someone going through their break through. We celebrate because we

  414. see change lives. Amen, What else are we after the

  415. the next light? We grow small, to grow big, only

  416. to be sent out again and again and again. I

  417. remember when I was in Monash as a young Kemper student.

  418. I got so close to my homies right and I

  419. just didn't want to leave the homes. And whenever my

  420. home leaders speak about multiplication, I often cringe. Again. Man,

  421. I just got to know one another and then now

  422. multiply again. I couldn't understand. I couldn't comprehend it. But

  423. now as I grow up a little bit more and

  424. I'm mature a little bit more, I realized that perhaps

  425. in this life is not just about us. The world

  426. doesn't revolve around us. I love being in company of

  427. friends and family, but we don't have to always be

  428. in the same homes, because what's the purpose of homes.

  429. We wouldn't be where we are this morning if we

  430. didn't grow small. We wouldn't see share on the keyboard,

  431. if we didn't grow small to be sent out again

  432. and again and again. This is some context for you.

  433. I'll go straight into it. Okay, let's go next to

  434. me next night. Some definitions. This is from the Harvard

  435. Dictionary of the word revive. Yeah. Oxford Dictionary, Harvard Dictionary.

  436. I don't think that exist. Welcome, come, come, you see

  437. it all right? It says to become or to make

  438. somebody or something become conscious or healthy and strong again.

  439. How many do you like to do that this morning? Yeah?

  440. How many like to be healthy in this place? Yeah?

  441. Something to make something start being used or done again?

  442. How many of you is something in your house that

  443. hasn't been used in a long time? Fenty? Rachelle is

  444. so loud because I'm a horder. She's a trower. One day,

  445. one day, I tell you, Rachelle, one day you won't

  446. realize it. But one day that screw will be very

  447. useful to you. Okay, very useful. Right, that light bumb

  448. that is not working anymore? One day, one day, one

  449. day it will be used. This is according to the

  450. Oxford Dictionary. Right, let's let's go through some some Greek

  451. or some Hebrew. Let's go next light very quickly. Revive

  452. in Hebrew is chaia. Right, it means too sorry, I've

  453. got some Chinese exxon O there chaia, but I'm pretty

  454. sure it's not chaia something else. But it means to

  455. bring back to life, to restore. It implies that revival

  456. is not creating something new, and repeat, revival is not

  457. creating something new because some of us look at the

  458. word revival and they go like wow, this word is

  459. too big for me, because I I am not ready

  460. for something new in my life. So it implies the

  461. revival it is not creating something new, about bringing life

  462. back to something that was once alife. You mean that

  463. has become weak, sick, or spiritually dead. The relationship that

  464. you had, we've got once was a life. Now it's

  465. starting to become a little weak. Because initially you were

  466. bringing this everywhere you go and now because it weighs

  467. an extra europe in trees CAGs, there's even right way

  468. that much. Now it becomes an ornament in your house.

  469. You no longer carrying it around because it's a hassle.

  470. Now do you still love God? Yes, you claim that

  471. you still love him, But now things are starting to

  472. show it has become a little bit weak, some of

  473. us even sick. Oh I need a break. I need

  474. a break from God. I need MC from God. God.

  475. Can you issue Angel, Gabriel? Can you issue me empsy

  476. from God? I need three days to recover. I don't

  477. want to be in the presence of God for three

  478. days or even though it's spiritually dead. Let's go to

  479. some great next light, I believe, and to recover life

  480. or to live again. I shall not attempt to pronounce

  481. the second one also sounds like anazo, but there's a

  482. pyro behind there. That's why it's to rekindle, pyro right,

  483. to rekindle, to stir up or to fan into flame.

  484. How many of you barbecue before? Yeah? Fire stutter? Who's

  485. good at stutting fires? Yeah? Rogers, good at stutting fire?

  486. No rogers. I shall not tell the story of what

  487. happened a few years ago. So funny like you? How funny? Oh,

  488. my goodness? Should I tell it? Just? Should I? Should

  489. I tell it? I? No? It's really yeah, Billy? Should

  490. I tell it? No? Just say if you're the blushes,

  491. it's okay, okay? Fire startter? You know you you want

  492. to start a fire. You want to start a fire.

  493. What do you have to do? Right? Put the fire? Startter?

  494. Put in the cold any expatience, but you have to

  495. fan it. And you can't find it too heart either.

  496. There's an angle to fan in the flame. Some of

  497. us here rekindle. Wow, rekindle more often used in love. Right.

  498. This couple needs to rEFInd their love, need to rekindle

  499. their love for one another. There's a spark that comes

  500. into their eyes again. Another word for revival also means cooling,

  501. a refreshing touch from the lord or revival. Amen. Just

  502. giving you some some meanings of the word revival before

  503. we go into it. Palms eighty five six. It's not

  504. in a slight bay. It says, will you not revive

  505. us again? That your people may rejoice in you? Palms

  506. eighty five you're taking notes Somes eighty five six. You'll

  507. notice that revival is requested. It's a request. Yeah, some

  508. of us here, Perhaps you have not experienced your passion

  509. being stood up again, because maybe let me just give

  510. you're an argument. Maybe you are seated there and you're

  511. waiting for God to do something for you. Maybe you're saying,

  512. is why we haven't experienced revival yet? A buzzard, dan,

  513. why are some of the chairs still empty? Now? Question

  514. back to you by the Holy Spirit is what the

  515. Holy Spirit is prompting me? Did you ask for it? Now?

  516. First question? Do you ask? Second question, did you do

  517. anything about it? Did you do anything about it? Revival

  518. in Psalms eighty five six was requested by God's people?

  519. And what is the result? It results in? Joy? Amen.

  520. I don't know if actually you can put that verse

  521. ut very quickly. It says, word you not revive us again,

  522. that your people may rejoice in you your results, enjoy.

  523. It also implies that perhaps your previous life and whatever

  524. that you have lived has now faded away, right because

  525. you're being revived from what you used to do. You

  526. used to go into every meeting with a sour face,

  527. but now because you ask God, God, give me a

  528. face that's not sour. And now you enter to the

  529. ind his course, thanksgiving, and be praised wherever you go,

  530. all the abundance of your heart. And you're now smiling

  531. and now joy. It just feels every part of the

  532. room and now that life that you once used to

  533. live is now gone because you're not revived from Amen,

  534. but not over there. It starts with a request, so

  535. stop sitting around waiting for God to revive you requests.

  536. Let your requests be made known to God Amen. Psums

  537. is a book that very often use the word revive. Yeah,

  538. revive me, oh Lord, according to your word. Revive me

  539. in your ways, revive me in your righteousness. Actually, I'm

  540. not sure if there's a slight for that, but if

  541. there is, then you can put it on. I say

  542. fifty seven and fifteen. I'm just going to give you

  543. some verses this morning. For that says the high and

  544. lofty one who inhabit eternity, whose name is holy. I

  545. dwell in the pigh and holy place with him who

  546. has a contract and humble spirit. To revive the spirit

  547. of the humble, to revive the hearts of the contract

  548. ones Luke fifteen twenty four. For this is my son

  549. was there, and it's alive again. He was lost and

  550. is found alive again, alive again. I'm just gonna take

  551. a break now to pray finding the name of Jesus

  552. before we go on to the mid of this morning's message,

  553. which is just a simple six point structure. Lord, I

  554. pray that right now in the name of Jesus, those

  555. a few those I said, I see that in this

  556. room this morning, I pray that something begins to stir

  557. in their hearts there will result in them crying out

  558. to you, Lord. Revive my heart this morning. Revive my

  559. heart for your people. Revive my heart for my family.

  560. Revive my heart that the next moment I travel back

  561. to wherever I'm going, God, if there is an opportunity,

  562. If there is an opportunity, lo God to present or

  563. to share the good news. May my lips not remain silent.

  564. May my lips open up with the bonus that comes

  565. from You God, and may you receive all the glory. Amen. Next,

  566. like the first point for you this morning is that

  567. revive will begins with the heart. Amen. Revival begins with

  568. the heart. Can I have here a good Amen? Ephesians

  569. one eighteen. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that

  570. you may know what is the hope of His calling,

  571. what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance

  572. in the Saints. As I was struggling in the past

  573. week to speak, this message came to me because a

  574. lot of us sometimes we choose not to speak. But

  575. when the ability to speak was taken away from me,

  576. I understood. I understood that whatever God has given to us,

  577. we have to put it into practice, we have to

  578. put it into good use. Amen. The eyes of your heart,

  579. says another version Ephesians one, eighteen years v version says,

  580. the eyes of your heart and enlightened. It means your

  581. hearts now light up again, that you may know what

  582. is the hope, because if your hearts are dark, you

  583. may not know the hope in which He has caught you. Too.

  584. You're not seeing, you're not opening up your eyes. And

  585. sometimes you can see your eyes, but you're not seeing

  586. your heart. And that's why you do not know or

  587. you do not know that at the end of the

  588. road there is a glorious inheritance that is waiting away.

  589. So I was here, what's the point I share the

  590. good news to my uncle ten thousand times he asked

  591. me to go a fly. Guy. What's the point. Now,

  592. It's not about Remember, it's not about action, It's about

  593. your heart. God sees the heart, He sees the willingness

  594. to even open your mouth, because did you not know

  595. these friends and family. It is not you who saves. Amen.

  596. It's not you who saves. If that person does not

  597. accept Jesus, it is not on you, because it's the

  598. Holy Spirit that convicts. But it's you who opens the door. Amen.

  599. But one verse before it says this that the God

  600. of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may

  601. give you the spirit of wisdom and of all revelation

  602. in the knowledge of him. Now, Paul is the one

  603. who wrote the Book of Phssions, and he is writing

  604. to the believers. Yeah. He is not writing to those

  605. that are not in the faith follow us of the way.

  606. He is writing to those that miss all of us,

  607. those of you who believe. Amen. Therefore this is important. Yeah.

  608. You know when Paul writes, you know it's important. He

  609. writes with no filter. Yeah. And in this particle context,

  610. he is not praying for the conversion of Sinus. Paul

  611. was not praying for the conversion of Sinus. He was

  612. praying for what he was praying for, what is on

  613. the slide. He was praying for the awakening of the saints.

  614. That means, in this point of time, there was a

  615. dying and urgent need for the saints to be awakened.

  616. Now it brings a little bit more context. Right, Why

  617. is it that sometimes when we walk past someone in need,

  618. we do not act? Do we see? We saw that

  619. personally need? Why is it that we need not act?

  620. Because perhaps in our hearts we are asleep. We're not

  621. even aware of what's happening. We're not opening our eyes

  622. of our hearts to understand what's happening. So therefore we

  623. need to wake up. All right, believe us we need.

  624. It's time. It's time to wake up. Yeah, it's time

  625. to wake up. Wherever there we are, it's time to

  626. get up again. I know how many of you still

  627. still praying and still asking God, God, please give me

  628. more meat. God is saying, do do and I will

  629. reward you with even more more than you can even

  630. ask or imagine. But do wake up, Daniel, wake up

  631. enough next light, Because although it is God's desire that

  632. all are safe, Amen, is this that desire that all

  633. are saved and come to the saving grace of knowledge

  634. of Jesus Christ. That is God's part. Yeah, God desires

  635. all to be safe, and it's for us to accept

  636. him or not. But the second part over there is

  637. important for all of us. It is our part to play.

  638. Is awakening of the saints. And what does the saints mean.

  639. It means the laborers, Amen, the laborers to be sent out.

  640. Matthew nine thirty five to thirty eighth says this. Then

  641. Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in

  642. their synagogue, reaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing

  643. every sickness and every disease among the people. But when

  644. he saw the multitudes, he was more compassion for them,

  645. because they were very and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.

  646. That he said to his disciples, the harvest truly is plentiful,

  647. but the laborers are few. Therefore, pray the Lord of

  648. harvest send out laborers into his harvest, into his harvest.

  649. The phrase the eye of your understanding in Greek it

  650. means the eyes of the heart. I'm going back to

  651. Ephesians one eighteen. The eyes of your understanding. It means

  652. the eyes of your heart, which can tell us something

  653. very profound. Yeah, he tells something very profund. I think

  654. it's in the next like, Yeah, you can have physical

  655. sight but be spiritually blind. You can have doctrine. Many

  656. of you know that Jesus is coming back again, but

  657. yet you lack the revelation you made at then church,

  658. but yet fail to see Jesus. This really hurts me

  659. sometimes because I prayed and I and it's one of

  660. my prayer, break my heart for what breaks yours, and

  661. try to say that prayer as much as I can,

  662. because I just asked myself, you know, what would Jesus

  663. do in this place? People used to carry their sacrifices

  664. to church. People used to bring by then they reach church,

  665. they're all sweaty. But yet now it becomes so easy

  666. because we can just come to church and revel Store

  667. sells a Bible, and we can acquire State Scripture from

  668. rail store without having to brave the jam all the

  669. way to Salvation bookstore. This it still exists. We go

  670. around having the form of Godliness, but yet we deny

  671. its power. It's just a form that we have, and

  672. it hurts we no longer operate by the giftings of

  673. the Holy Spirit. We no longer pray, we no longer

  674. seek the Lord. It hurts. It hurts me sometimes whenever

  675. I go through it myself and I can just look

  676. around and and just my pray is that, Lord, forgive them,

  677. forgive me, forgive me, for I really do not know

  678. what I'm doing. Reveal more to me, revive my heart. Lord,

  679. allow me to see again what you want me to see,

  680. because when we do that, we will start to realize that, hey,

  681. there's so much more. It's tough for us. Amen, there's

  682. so much stop more, it's tough for us. Next night,

  683. very quickly. This was the first that I said earlier.

  684. Let's keep this. Revival starts when God reopens the eyes

  685. of the heart, so we remember who he is, what

  686. he has done, and why we even fell in love

  687. with him in the first place. Yeah, I'm not sure.

  688. Married couples here, when you look at one another in

  689. the eye, are you reminded? You really start to look

  690. at Rachel. Ay, Hello, that's my wife. A joky, just jokey.

  691. You look at one another again, and do we realize, Hey,

  692. this is the person that you were catting for then

  693. your entire life, you know, and now just because she's

  694. your wife, you no longer have to wash the clothes,

  695. you no longer to do the dishes. You no longer

  696. have to get her flowers on Valentine's Day, Yeah, I didn't.

  697. I was showing Rachelle a picture of a bouquet of

  698. a Franklin takeable, so I was like, I'll much prefer that. Ah,

  699. Praise the Lord. Why why we fell in love with

  700. God in the first place. I pray that everyone in

  701. this room your eyes will be open again and you'll

  702. leave this place knowing that, Hey, I tell you what.

  703. God took me out of my weekly. He took me out,

  704. he picked me up, He turned my life around. I

  705. used to struggle. I used to have no money, but

  706. yet now I am filled with money. Praise the Lord.

  707. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. You're filled with money now,

  708. so much in your bank account. Now it gets harder

  709. to give. It gets hard to take out that one gift.

  710. But when you were lacking at the time, when you

  711. will only had two ring it in your wallet, so

  712. easy to give to ring it? Why because you are

  713. nothing mhm. But now when you have everything. That's where

  714. God touches you. Will you give? It's not about whether

  715. God needs it, you know? And many of us like

  716. to liken it to money, and and and and say, oh,

  717. why the church are we talk about money? Because money

  718. touches you. That's why we speak about money. I'm not

  719. going to shy away from the fact. Lea's time. I

  720. used to like, you know what, Yeah, I'm just talking

  721. about that. Learn I'm talking about your time. No, I'm

  722. talking about your money. It's not that the church needs it. Yeah,

  723. it's not that God needs it. It's about whether you

  724. are willing to give. Now, don't even talk about exterercial life.

  725. Don't even talk about extras. But you've got most of your

  726. heart to give to some orphanage. Will you Nothing to

  727. do with exchers, nothing to do with me, But will you?

  728. Will you give? That's why in the only church, in

  729. the first church, nobody had any lack. Nobody had any lack.

  730. Why in the first place, my prayer again this morning

  731. opened the eyes of your heart next night, very quickly.

  732. Second thing I have for you is revival. Is God

  733. reviving the lordly. Now it's not just our hearts need

  734. to be revived. We also need to understand who which

  735. prayer gets answered, which posture of the heart gets answered,

  736. Because you may recite a prayer, you may ask God

  737. for something, but God sees the depths of your heart.

  738. And if your heart is one that is of a

  739. very proud nature, then perhaps that's why your prayers doesn't

  740. get answered. Because revive it's got reviving the lowly, not

  741. the proud. Let's go to the scripture next verse, Isaiah

  742. fifty seven fifteen. I read this very quickly earlier. I

  743. think it's the next light TV. He's going to zoom

  744. in into the last two sentences with him who has

  745. a contract in humble spirit to revive the spirit of

  746. the humble and to revive the heart of the contract once.

  747. What does that even mean? It means that God does

  748. not revive the self sufficient God does not. I don't

  749. know if this was fake news or fake tweet or

  750. something like that, but I saw recently Elon must tweet

  751. something he did? It was it really him? Yeah? And

  752. some of you who follow Elon masks, you know what

  753. he is? It still called tweet or is it called

  754. x he xd something? Uh? He says something along the

  755. lines if no matter how much money I have, I

  756. can't find happiness. Wow. Because if you know Elon mass

  757. he was actually of the opinion that money can do

  758. everything everything. You know. You know, he's upbringing and whatnot.

  759. He came from a really self self brought up background

  760. and then now he's one of the richest I think,

  761. in fact, he is the richest man in the world.

  762. And he shed this on his biggest platform. He said, money,

  763. come buy and come by happiness and he was lonely.

  764. He revised the lonely. I experienced this, uh, personally. I

  765. experienced this very personally and in a very personal way

  766. because the there was a period of time in my

  767. life where I felt that I was climbing the career letter.

  768. You know, I was doing well in my work, and

  769. I still had that prayer. God opened my eyes to

  770. see those that needs you break my heart for what

  771. breaks yours. But nothing happens but the moment I lost

  772. my dad, and I will say that place of really

  773. brokenness and sadness, God started to open my eyes towards

  774. those who perhaps are struggling or going through loss themselves

  775. as well. It wasn't until I experienced loss that I

  776. knew what it really felt like and sometimes God places

  777. is true that I want to encourage all of you,

  778. you know, especially when you're going through a tough time

  779. in your life. Do not think that that is because

  780. God has forsaken you. He's still there, imen, He's still

  781. there no matter what happens. But it makes a little

  782. bit more sense three four months down the road why

  783. you had to go through what you're going through, Because actually,

  784. if you think about it now, for all of us

  785. who believers, experiencing laws is not a sad thing for

  786. the person. The person is sparting. If Jesus up there

  787. in heaven, I'm pretty sure my dad doesn't want to

  788. come back here, man, I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure

  789. my dad doesn't want to come back to this place

  790. that is John's that I don't. I don't think sola

  791. right if you give them a second chance. Hey, you

  792. want to come back to Blanet Earth? Hello? No? Thanks, Okay,

  793. I'm good, I'm good. Why I am so? I don't

  794. think it's very good, jump or very mean of our

  795. God to take someone home when it's their time. But

  796. some we feel that way because we are the one

  797. that is hurting. We are the one that is in sorrow.

  798. We are the one that is in pain. But yet,

  799. if we see it from a different perspective, God allowed

  800. that to happen, took him up by his grace and

  801. his mercy, and now he's having a good time up there.

  802. But yet he's putting you through this season because someone

  803. else is going through something. Someone else is about to

  804. lose your father, and the only person that someone else

  805. could listen to it is you. And sometimes we say, God,

  806. please please let that happen to a person a down

  807. the street. Don't let that happen to me. I want

  808. to outlive my parent. You know, sometimes we say these

  809. kind of things and we don't know what we're saying.

  810. So God, let's not say that. He doesn't revive those

  811. who say, I'm fine spiritually. How many if you feel

  812. that you're fine spiritually, I'm fine. God, Yeah, I've read

  813. the Bible three times now, I can memorize thirty five

  814. five b B verses. I'm fine. I'm good, not Church now,

  815. I'm good. I'm good. I can recite you cannot. I

  816. can recite you know, the entire genealogy of from Adam

  817. and do Jesus. I can't. You cannot the entire two

  818. Chapter one. I can, I can memorize.

  819. Can.

  820. I'm fine, Yeah, you can be fine. God will say,

  821. you take that fine, you take that genealogy and you

  822. and you keep it. But God will revive those that

  823. is whispering, whispering, you know, too afraid, too afraid to

  824. speak out loud because perhaps people look at at them funny,

  825. but in their hearts they're going, God, I don't know.

  826. I don't know how to be a good husband anymore.

  827. I tried everything. I don't know how to be a

  828. good dad anymore. I don't know how to be a

  829. good Christian. I don't know how to be your child.

  830. Because nothing of me resembles you God, nothing of me

  831. resembles who you are. You know, those are the people

  832. that God will revive. Those are the ones Lord, something

  833. in me has gone quiet. Holy Spirit will come and

  834. feel you. He'll come and encourage you, and the eyes

  835. of your understanding, your heart will begin to open again,

  836. and you will now see what you have left to

  837. see and enjoy. Will feel your heart Amen, next, Light

  838. revival is not God making strong Christians stronger. Yeah, yeah,

  839. built from a position of strength. That's the term that

  840. the world uses nowadays, right, But that's not what revives

  841. about you know, the stronger you are, the more He

  842. wouldn't be with you. The stronger you feel you are

  843. no longer need to depend on him anymore. It's about

  844. God breeding life into weary, bruised and honest hearts. You know,

  845. I had a revelation one day that if your life

  846. is all well, perhaps you're not really living the fullness

  847. of His glory. If someone asks you, Rachelle, how can

  848. I pray for you this morning? And you answer to

  849. that person and say, are all good? Life's good? Man,

  850. l G. Buy me a fridge. That's all I need.

  851. But it's time to start considering that because scripture says

  852. those that desire to live a godly Christian life will

  853. go to persecution. So if you have nothing to be

  854. prayed for, are you leaving a godly Christian life? Are

  855. you living a life that is what God has meant

  856. for you to live? Not talking to just the young

  857. people here, I'm talking to all of you, full of experience,

  858. full of knowledge. Are we living that life? You may

  859. think that, Oh I tell you what, I'm eighty one

  860. already this year. I'm eighty one ready. Hello, Abraham God

  861. Isaac at eighty okay, one hundred, got the prophecy at eighty.

  862. If to you you're wondering or perhaps this is not

  863. this is not for me. I'm done. I'm waiting for

  864. Jesus taking me home. There's the reason why she's says

  865. that't taken you home yet. That's why you're here. You're

  866. still here. God brave life into those that are weary,

  867. those in this place that you are in a place

  868. of desperation. The name of Jesus made the breath of

  869. God be upon you this morning, next light. Revival also

  870. restores the voice of the heart. Amen. So you start

  871. from a place where it's a cry. You don't go

  872. to a place where you realize that, hey, I tell

  873. you what. It's not about being prideful. It's not even

  874. about being fine. It's not even about being good. It's

  875. about understanding that it is from a position of humility

  876. that God revives you, and that heart that now is

  877. unable to speak, all this wild now gains its police

  878. once again. That's what revival does. So I'm giving you pointers.

  879. You know by step if you're going to revival, this

  880. is the symptoms of what you're facing, because if you

  881. are a revived person, you can't help but speak. I

  882. can't help. I can't wait to go back to the

  883. same chicken rice store to order my Gui bai Hey,

  884. God charge you fun God on the day. Because I

  885. went for a tournament and I've lost all of my games.

  886. The only thing I wanted to do was to eat

  887. my chicken rice after that, in silence and alone. But

  888. I enjoyed it very much. Revival restores, restores the voice

  889. of the heart. Next light very quickly, Let you twelve

  890. to be four, very very famous verse. For out of

  891. the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. For out

  892. of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. When

  893. the heart is alive, praise flows naturally. Amen. When the

  894. heart is revived, praise flows naturally. You can't help but pray,

  895. praise God. You can't help to come up to prayer

  896. service and to share your test of money because God

  897. is good. Amen. And if God can do it for me,

  898. he can do it for you too. Amen. Praise the Lord.

  899. He can and he will because I experienced him taking

  900. me out from the Marie Clay, a place of no hope,

  901. no future, desperation, and he transformed into a place where

  902. now I have a hope in the future. Now I

  903. can't wait to share this with you because I know

  904. that God has the same in stuff for you. A

  905. revived hard will do that. Now, am I saying all

  906. of you are not revived? No, all of us need

  907. more of God. Amen. That's why, that's why we are

  908. focusing on revival of this year. It's not just about

  909. the big cathedrals. You know. I went to Korea. I

  910. saw the harps and I got a whoa. This is revival, right, No,

  911. it's not. It's about the change lives. It's about that.

  912. It's about that young chap saying to the Ajuma Ajuma,

  913. I say you go up there with the beast, vers

  914. you or not? I hold it off for you. No,

  915. it's about dead, right, It's about the young gent that

  916. is on the train station getting up offering your seat

  917. to a pregnant woman. It's about dead because what's the

  918. point singing all praise to Christ the King in church,

  919. and then after that in the in the in the

  920. in the kt M, it's all praise to my phone

  921. and my legs. A pregnant woman comes in and you're

  922. in you're not Jesus, Why should I give you the seat?

  923. If Jesus walks in the room, I will gladly give

  924. up my seat for Jesus. Are you sure, Because at

  925. the rate you are going, you may not even recognize

  926. that that is Jesus. He's the least of least. You know,

  927. he's the he's the he's the last. He's he hears

  928. the beginning, but he's also the last seas of the first.

  929. He's the last. He's everywhere. And if you can't even

  930. enjoy God in his fullness, how will you recognize him

  931. when he comes in with rags, saddled with with with

  932. cloth that nobody desires of? How would you even recognize him?

  933. Because Jesus recognizes even the you know, was he was walking?

  934. He was walking and Sally, who touched me? So many

  935. people here, Jesus, which one you're talking about? He recognized

  936. that one person that was desperate. Yeah, the rest touching him?

  937. Are they not desperate? Well? He recognized that one, and

  938. that person receives hur revival, amen, praise, food sactually testimony

  939. all those friends and family. Are you in the third

  940. state of revival? Prayer becomes desperate and real when Rachel

  941. and issues the call for the altar to come up?

  942. Is your mind again or the steps coming down the

  943. Legacy studios, Because I tell you what, if I was

  944. seated up there, I'm not pointing to anyone, Okay, in

  945. case your thing, I am. But if I was sitting

  946. up seated up there, and I rewind the clock to

  947. June twenty twenty twenty five, I will be running down

  948. the steps. Of course, I'm desperate, desperate for God to

  949. heal my dad. If your SPM result is coming up

  950. tomorrow and you know you messed up, you will come

  951. up here for prayer no matter what. Trust me, I've

  952. seen enough. I've seen enough to know that it's desperation

  953. that brings us forwards. But did you know that revival

  954. means that you are always desperate for God. You're always

  955. desperate for God to move in your life wherever you are.

  956. You're desperate for the opportunity to speak for God. Of

  957. the abundance of the heart. The month will speak next,

  958. like very quickly when the heart is now. So this

  959. is the opposite. Worship becomes silent, faith becomes private, and

  960. some smart alect will caote scriptures saying, I tell you

  961. what must the dan Whatever I do in secret, Lord

  962. will reward publicly. So therefore my faith also must be

  963. in secret. You know what this faith becomes private means

  964. to me? Yeah, it is. It means right when you're

  965. asked who is Jesus, and I don't know how many

  966. you will catch the reference, he'll say, I do not know.

  967. You really do not know. You have been fooling him

  968. all this while who am I talking about? And I

  969. know I don't know you all know this? Right? Who's Jesus?

  970. H But I just saw you with him yesterday, but

  971. I don't know who this person is. That is faith

  972. in private, because in private, when you are with Jesus,

  973. you'll be said, Jesus, if that's the case, right, don't

  974. just wash my feet, wash from here to toe, please

  975. wash me, because initially you started by saying, now, don't

  976. touch me, don't touch me. God, You're God all mighty.

  977. You know why would I even want you to wash

  978. my feet? I don't about better. But then faith becomes

  979. private means you are only worshiping God in private, where

  980. you should. But out of the abundance of the heart,

  981. evil show. A revived faith will show in public. Amen. Faith,

  982. exercise it, and then bonus starts to disappear. This is

  983. the one boness starts to disappear. Now you wonder why

  984. or why when you're faced with an opportunity to share

  985. the gospel, nothing comes out from your mouth because I

  986. tell you what. The thing that comes up is not

  987. a simple task. You know, it requires boldness and it

  988. will touch on that very quickly. Let's go next, like,

  989. when was the last time we use social platforms to

  990. give glory to God? This is some reflection for us.

  991. What is stopping us from doing? So? Yeah, my Instagram recap?

  992. What was it? But chet GBT recap? I don't know what.

  993. There was something, There was a there was a trend

  994. going around that I didn't really agree with that if

  995. you did it, it's okay, but it's fine because you're

  996. putting your pictures online and then they show you the

  997. decent net. So I just without uploading my picture and

  998. I said that, hey, do a recap of me. The

  999. recap that I got was cats Liverpool, how to surf,

  1000. how to return, nothing about Jesus what that means. I

  1001. didn't ask JGBT about versus la. I did actually sometimes,

  1002. but not enough fler. I ask him more about cats.

  1003. It is ingesting cat fur bed for health. Yeah, what's

  1004. stopping us from doing so? Next weight the ending rason,

  1005. fourth stage or revival revived. Hearts cannot stay silent, Non

  1006. stopped talking on none stopped talking. Let's go X for

  1007. eighteen to twenty. This is Peter and John. He was arrested,

  1008. threatened and commanded to stop. To speak of Jesus is

  1009. the context? Yeah? Do I have the verse on the slight?

  1010. Next four eighteen twenty. So they called them and commanded

  1011. them not to speak at all, nor teach in the

  1012. name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said

  1013. to them, whatever it is right in the sight of

  1014. God to listen to you more than to God, you judge,

  1015. For we cannot but speak the things which we have

  1016. seen and heard. We cannot but speak the things we

  1017. have seen and heard. Not this very carefully. They did

  1018. not say we have studied. They did not say we

  1019. have trained. That means essentially coming to church, receiving the gospel,

  1020. studied about it, read about it, train. No, they say

  1021. it in which things that they have seen. Now, friends,

  1022. and let me ask you a question this morning. Have

  1023. you seen or heard of God's goodness in your life?

  1024. Just spending across have you seen or heard about God's

  1025. goodness in your life but in life of artists? Because

  1026. I'm pretty sure people have been sharing. So please do

  1027. not say I have not heard that. We cannot but speak.

  1028. You remember they were threatener it. If you do not

  1029. stop speaking her, you might be in prisoned, even worse die. Yeah, next, like, yeah,

  1030. just say that next night. Revival produces witnesses, not just knowledge.

  1031. How many of you here filled with knowledge? So it's

  1032. not just knowledge that you get when you come to church.

  1033. It's not just knowledge when you get when you will

  1034. do your quiet time. No, it produces witness if you

  1035. are revived. Fourth stage and revival. These were men whose

  1036. hearts had been broken by failure, restored by the resurrection,

  1037. and filled by the Holy Spirit and man. And once

  1038. a heart this revived, silence becomes impossible. I think I

  1039. have this on the slidest well. They didn't speak because

  1040. it was safe. They spoke because it was overflowing. Peter

  1041. and John, not Peter and Jane. Peter and John didn't

  1042. speak because it was safe. Friends and family. How many

  1043. of us wait for a safe environment before we start speaking.

  1044. In the Tuesday SBO, the pastors were given a warning

  1045. that in the days to come, and uh, it's getting

  1046. a bit real now that at any given time authorities

  1047. may be able to storm in this place and take

  1048. me away. Because I'm standing here when they come here

  1049. and ask who's the buzzer of this church? Was your answer?

  1050. Did you know that they can do that? Are they

  1051. right to do that? Nah? I don't think. I don't

  1052. think it's legal, but it can and it's happening. It

  1053. happened in the future just already our our chest planning

  1054. x D lie he went through it. So it's a

  1055. bit close to home now because you may be thinking

  1056. maybe they went all the way and is yeah the

  1057. place that place life just happened the other day and

  1058. forces came in, so ronson was questioned. So it's getting

  1059. a bit real. I don't know how many of you

  1060. are jumping from me and brought that mela see you guys,

  1061. why Richard and all over to you raised the Lord man.

  1062. It's it's scary right at any given time, it may

  1063. be your last opportunity to give glory to God. But

  1064. they did not speak because it was safe they spoke

  1065. because it was all flowing. They will already threaten. You know,

  1066. you better keep your mouth silk or else you know

  1067. what's going to happen. Nah, I cannot help, but speak

  1068. of what I've seen. It hurt. You can't. But let's

  1069. see how they get there next. Like Fifth Station Revival,

  1070. the Early Church prayed for boldness, not comfort. Oh Lord,

  1071. I pray for a comfortable house. I pray that I

  1072. don't have to worry for my electricity bill. Ever again,

  1073. I pray God that you know do these do that?

  1074. Do these do that? But yeah, all good, all good prayers. Yeah,

  1075. and God will reward those of yours are faithful. He will,

  1076. he will, And you guys are testify. That's the maning

  1077. for that blessed. He will bless you. But let the

  1078. Early Church prayed for bondness, not for comfort. After being

  1079. threatened the church Gadet. Do you know that? Did you

  1080. know that after being threatened the church actually getet, not

  1081. just be there and John the church Gaddet x four

  1082. twenty ninety thirty one. Now Lord, look on their treads

  1083. and grant to your servants that with all bondness they

  1084. will speak your word. It's like the church coming together

  1085. after just hearing the news that the authorities will come

  1086. in and taking pusson then away. Rachelle can stay. Yeah,

  1087. I hope you will take care of her if that

  1088. ever happens to me. And struggles as well, Please take

  1089. care of struggles. She likes to eat kebbles, he loves

  1090. pets and rooms. Church gaddet pray, it's not Lord protects there.

  1091. You know it's not Lord protect Daniel. Keep him, keep

  1092. the fiery that's away from him. No, the church gathered

  1093. and said give but then or give us the bonus

  1094. to speak exactly what they're asking us not to speak.

  1095. That's what a revived hard nurse stage five. Give me

  1096. the boness because if I don't have your boness, nothing

  1097. comes down. So when you are in the family table,

  1098. reunion table, and you're about to speak a gospel, ask yourself,

  1099. are you praying for that bonness because you think that

  1100. you can do it by your own strength? But Hallelujah

  1101. praised the Lord. You can't hm hm new spirit, new splash,

  1102. you can't. How many of you have tried and failed.

  1103. I have tried and failed many times. And then this

  1104. is what happens after that, and when they had prayed,

  1105. the place where they were assembled together was shaken. Can

  1106. you see that they were filled with the Holy Spirit,

  1107. and they spoke the Word of God with bondness. They

  1108. didn't ask for protection escape easier circumstances. They ask for

  1109. boness and courage. When the Spirit filled them again, their

  1110. voices returned. So Peter and John don't say that they

  1111. were not afraid. They were. They are like us. Oh,

  1112. they are at the apostle. They are the disciples of

  1113. Costler can Hello, Hello, hello, friends. This is the follow

  1114. that denied Jesus three times before the rooster crode next like,

  1115. this is the last stage of revival, or at least

  1116. what I have for you this morning. What does a

  1117. revived heart look like today? Heart revival doesn't always look dramatic. Yeah,

  1118. it's not very dramatic. But the revived heart is deeply transformational.

  1119. It transforms, Amen, It is transformed, be renewed by the

  1120. transformation of your mind. Amen. Let me just show you

  1121. some words that what it looks like the next light

  1122. very quickly. Revival looks like tears returning to prayer. When

  1123. was the last time you actually cried when you pray?

  1124. Think about it. The revival looks like when you're reading scripture,

  1125. you're hungry. How many of us here have went hungry before?

  1126. No food on the table. There was a period in

  1127. my life where my dad was earning, the only one earning,

  1128. and my mom was of course, I found out later

  1129. that the reason why she couldn't withdraw the money was

  1130. because it didn't make sense, so of all out. For

  1131. the longest time, we were just eating food that my

  1132. dad brought back. And there was one day I remember,

  1133. in particular, he didn't bring back any food. There was

  1134. no food on the table. I was a spoiled bread.

  1135. So I started complaining, like, hey, where's my chicken rice?

  1136. Because he always brings my chicken rice, the same one

  1137. with the same shop. Where's my chicken rice? Dad? He

  1138. looked like me and he said, son, sorry, today really

  1139. got no money, and he really didn't have any money.

  1140. It was like, I think the end of the month

  1141. and Bay even came in yet, and we were just

  1142. living on living on Detla. My mom had FT to withdraw,

  1143. but friends, it doesn't make sense to withdraw FT for

  1144. the chicken rice land, Okay, So then just look at

  1145. me and say, sorry, son, no chicken rice for you

  1146. drink water at least what next day came steal, no

  1147. chicken rice. Third day came steal, no chicken rice. All

  1148. we had was bread and egg still got braaingg still

  1149. got bread, eggs, just egges proteen. Fourth day came no

  1150. chicken rice. On the fifth day. Finally, the next month,

  1151. fifth of the following month, his pay came in. He

  1152. came back home and he bought me five packs of

  1153. chicken rice. And I finished it. I finished it. Hunger, hunger.

  1154. You're desperate. You're hungry. Whenever you read scripture, you're hungry.

  1155. You're hungry to see what God has in store for you. You're

  1156. hungry to see to see the verse that says trust

  1157. in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not

  1158. on your own understanding in all your ways. Acknowledge she

  1159. mean he's your direct paths. You're hungry. You're hungry to

  1160. know which path to take. Revival looks like joy, returning

  1161. to salvation, bonus, returning to testimony, love, returning to people.

  1162. Revelations to forty five is the last verse I have

  1163. for you this morning. Nevertheless, I have this against you. Actually,

  1164. we can count right now that if you have left

  1165. your first love. Remember therefore, from where you have fallen,

  1166. repent and do the first works when we give you

  1167. three simple steps in order for you to get back

  1168. on the path of a revived heart. First, remember, yeah, remember,

  1169. he says, remember there for from where you have fallen,

  1170. that Marie Clay, that God took you out from that

  1171. place of desperation, that place of five days without chicken rice.

  1172. You're a laughing because yogaa, five days not chickenized. I

  1173. suffered more. It was yeah, yeah, yeah, you did. So

  1174. remember those days. Remember those days where all you had

  1175. was your voice. Secondly, repent because revival it's not about

  1176. something that wasn't there. Revival is about bringing back to

  1177. life something that was there, Amen, And that's repenting as well.

  1178. Repenting is like returning to the father. You have tried everything,

  1179. like the prodigal son, you no discovered what this world

  1180. has to offer. And when you have nothing left, you

  1181. remember that, Hey, my father is at home waiting for me,

  1182. and I'm coming back to him. And you're saying, God,

  1183. I don't know how to be a good husband, but

  1184. Lord help me. And he helps you. He helps you,

  1185. not just with expectations. I tell you what. You come

  1186. back here again, I tell you the next time you leave,

  1187. you're no longer coming home. No, he comes running to

  1188. you with open arms, and he looks to his other son,

  1189. which is someone worse here in this room, that has

  1190. experienced the fullness of his glory. They say, go and

  1191. prepare the best male ever. Because I come home already.

  1192. I mean, have you go back? I come back, and

  1193. he finally I come back, Go and cook. Wow, my

  1194. grandma used to cook the best male ever whenever sarways

  1195. come back home. Now she can't cook anymore. Memory loss.

  1196. It's that there, you know. Sometimes you watch these you

  1197. think like, oh, I can't relate because God not Asian. Hello,

  1198. Hello to some. To him, bib are like his precious children.

  1199. And when he sees you going out there experiencing everything

  1200. that is not of him, and finally your eyes open

  1201. and you come back, you remember him and you will

  1202. come back to him. He won't go like and tell

  1203. you what. You try this again, I'll never ever accept

  1204. you again. No, he will help. He will welcome you. James

  1205. fall it says, drawn near to him, And he will

  1206. draw near to you. So as long as you think

  1207. the first step God were drawn near to you, he meant.

  1208. The final part, the last hour, is to he says,

  1209. repent and do the first works. Do the first works. Return,

  1210. return back to the place of which you have discovered

  1211. Jesus Amen.

  1212. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

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  1215. this week is going to be a good week.

  1216. I hit for you. God bless