1 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,160 We welcome you to the We Are Zion sermon podcast. 2 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,120 We are a church based out of Chennai, India. 3 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,800 We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will 4 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,480 be refreshed, revived, and energized by what you hear. 5 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,320 Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of 6 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,960 purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus. 7 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:33,720 The year 2025 is 1 where we will be positioned by God to possess 8 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,880 our promise. We continue our sermon series 9 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,000 called A Recipe for Revival where we look at different 10 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,400 instances in the Bible where God poured his spirit out on His 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,800 people leading to reformation and restoration. 12 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:50,760 We hope that through this series, God will fill you with 13 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:55,040 the Holy fire so that you are blazing for Christ in a Dark 14 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,080 World. Such as welcome and even it's a 15 00:00:58,080 --> 00:00:59,920 joy and a privilege for me to bring God's word. 16 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:02,560 Last week we saw the recipes for revival. 17 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,319 That's the entire series we've kept because there are so many 18 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:10,480 things that make revival happen and many a times we are just 19 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,720 looking at one specific thing. But God saying, would you 20 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:16,480 prepare your hearts so that I can do so much of work in you 21 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,840 through you so that my revival can be seen and felt across the 22 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,720 entire nation, across the entire world. 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,440 We saw last week from the life of Elijah and what that looked 24 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,440 like because he was one of the prophets who really sought after 25 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,040 God. He stood for God, and that 26 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,680 caused him to really go through so many realities in life. 27 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,160 In fact, when you read through Elijah's life, you'll see there 28 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,840 were these high moments, but there were these also low 29 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,000 moments where he was discounting and discrediting and, you know, 30 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,920 really making himself feel bad. And that's where God comes in 31 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,400 and says, I am with you. He's considered as one of the 32 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:55,800 greatest prophets to have walked on earth. 33 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,960 And I believe that's because he stood against every other God 34 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:03,480 that stood against the real true God, the God of Israel. 35 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:07,240 And today I want to ask you if what are what is our heart 36 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,360 posture? Because when we read from 37 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,360 Elijah, there were two key things that came out. 38 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:15,280 One, we need to pick a side. Very clearly there was a group 39 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,040 that had picked the side of Bal and we saw that they didn't make 40 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,160 it the the, the very thing that they were cutting their bodies 41 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,600 and spilling blood. Nothing came out of it. 42 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:29,840 And God is reminding and asking us today, will you allow me to 43 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,440 be by your side? Can we pick and choose to be on 44 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,280 God's side no matter what? The second thing we saw is we 45 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,680 need to live unaltered lives. Maybe our altars are broken. 46 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:40,600 Life has happened. It's treated as bad. 47 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,720 We've broken down altars. We've really said, God, you are 48 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,440 not there with me. But can we rebuild those altars? 49 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,080 Because when we rebuild these altars, when we lay everything 50 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:53,200 down, the sacrifices, when we quench it with water, his 51 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,320 supernatural fire will fall. You know, one of the verses that 52 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,960 caught me last week, which has been resonating with me along 53 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:02,320 through is from Leviticus chapter 6, verse 13. 54 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:06,040 And this is what it says. The fire must be kept burning on 55 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,000 the altar continuously, it must not go out. 56 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,480 The fire must be kept burning on the altar continuously, it must 57 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,200 not go out. This is basically a command that 58 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,640 was given to Moses as he had taken his people through the 59 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:18,360 wilderness as he set up God's temple. 60 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:22,040 The lamp stand where it said the altar of God must continuously 61 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,400 be burning with fire, It must not go out. 62 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,960 And I pray that would be a heart that we would be continuously 63 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,640 burning, continuously burning in season, out of season in in need 64 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:35,680 of a miracle, in the midst of a miracle. 65 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:40,720 After receiving the miracle, our hearts will keep burning on the 66 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,200 altar continuously. And today with Jesus coming in 67 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,680 and today with the with the with the assurance of the comfort of 68 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,160 being with us when we call on him, the Holy Spirit is next to 69 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,600 us. We are called to move towards 70 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:53,680 this. And then today we're going to be 71 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:58,760 looking into the life of Moses and one of the key incidents in 72 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:00,920 his life of being there by the burning Bush. 73 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,480 And I even as I'm, I'm, I'm excited to talk about this topic 74 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:09,560 because spiritually speaking, I'm Moses son and I'm named 75 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:15,440 Geshum, the son of Moses who was born in Midian and his name 76 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,040 means a stranger born in a foreign land. 77 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:22,160 And every time I relate to this because after he had everything, 78 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,400 God comes and meets with him. And I believe a lot of us are in 79 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,560 need of a revival after we've pursued certain things in life, 80 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,120 after we have certain things, there's still that emptiness, 81 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,640 that void that that lacking, that purpose that God's created 82 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,440 me for. And I pray that as you receive 83 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:42,040 this word, this recipe for a revival will be your recipe for 84 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,160 your revival. The biggest threat to revival is 85 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,840 not our surroundings, our circumstances, climatic 86 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:51,440 conditions, political landscapes, but it always has to 87 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,520 do with us personally. The biggest threat to revival 88 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:55,800 has to do with us. Why? 89 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,960 Because our own struggles, our own turmoil within causes us to 90 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,040 discount the revival. And today, what is revival? 91 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,320 When you look into the word of God, a revival is a place of 92 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,120 obedience. A revival is a place of coming 93 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,240 for renewal. A revival is a place of 94 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,320 expectancy. A revival is a place of wanting 95 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,880 God to show up. There's no specific word as 96 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,000 revival. We've seen glimpses of revival 97 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,160 across history. After the church came, when we 98 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,680 read the Scriptures, we see postures of revival. 99 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,840 And so today, even as we read, I wanted to take one verse and 100 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:31,840 just quickly go through that as part of the intro before we get 101 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:34,840 into the life of Moses. Romans chapter 13 verses 11 to 102 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:36,520 14. And this is what it says in the 103 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,640 NLT. This is all the more urgent for 104 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,600 you know how late it is. Time is running out. 105 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:48,000 Wake up for a salvation is nearer now than we first 106 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,600 believed. The night is almost gone. 107 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,680 The day of salvation will soon be here. 108 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,120 So remove your dark deeds like dirty clothes, and put on the 109 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,800 shining armor of right living. Because we we belong to the day, 110 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,120 we must live decent lives for all to see. 111 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,960 Don't participate in the darkness of wild parties and 112 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,880 drunkenness, or in sexual promiscuity and immoral living, 113 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,120 or in quarreling and jealousy. Instead, clothe yourself to the 114 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,360 presence of the Lord Jesus Christ and don't let yourselves 115 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,920 think about ways to indulge your evil desires for revival to 116 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,560 happen. There are two key things that we 117 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,440 need to be aware of even as we're living in this world 118 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:28,840 today. I've taken this passage 119 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:31,240 specifically because Paul writes us to the Roman church. 120 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,760 The when he's writing to them, they are constantly in in a 121 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:36,880 culture war. They are constantly in a war 122 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,280 where they're trying to fit in and also trying to be a 123 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:40,720 Christian. This is what he says. 124 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,600 The first thing that he wants us to be aware of and he tells us 125 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,440 is wake up. The first thing, it's no longer 126 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:50,360 us who are called to be sleeping, but rather we rise up. 127 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,040 If you notice, if you're pursuing the culture of this 128 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:56,760 world, there's a certain subtlety that we lie dormant. 129 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,240 We lie dominant. It might look like we are the 130 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:00,560 end thing. It might look like we are 131 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,240 pursuing the things that the world is calling as great and 132 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,960 things, but in our spirit we are dominant. 133 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,280 And that's what we speak to our spirit and say wake up. 134 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,400 This is not what following Jesus looks like. 135 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:17,240 It needs us to wake up so that we'll be able to to see what God 136 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,760 is calling us to do. Because when we are not waking 137 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,840 up in a spirit, in a physical sense, we are absorbed, we are 138 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,840 exhausted, We are taking. We're just so caught up in 139 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,560 taking care of our day-to-day obligations that, mind you, 140 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:33,240 these are all important. But at the end of the day, we 141 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,280 are no different than anyone else in the world who's pursuing 142 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:40,000 their careers and everything. If we have Jesus within us, 143 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,880 there is something that our spirit desires. 144 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,600 There is something that our spirit wants us to pursue after. 145 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,680 And so I would ask you churchly, can we all wake up? 146 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:54,160 Can a spirit man wake up? The night is over, dawn is about 147 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,600 to break. Wake up because God is doing 148 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,880 something. Wake up because God is doing 149 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:00,640 something. What are the some of the things 150 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:02,520 that we've been sleeping dominant at? 151 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,160 Probably our family, our marriages, our parenting, our 152 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,320 children, probably the society we see. 153 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,840 Every aspect of this is crumbling. 154 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,880 It's crumbling. You know when you actually hold 155 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:18,640 a wooden piece that's been infested by termites, you will 156 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:22,880 soon realize outside it looks like a plank, but the minute you 157 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,480 take it just falls down like dust. 158 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:30,080 That is what our lives look like if we haven't woken up because 159 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:34,159 today the church has to wake up. The revival happens when we wake 160 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:38,120 up in our spirit man. When we wake up and say no, this 161 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,679 seems hype now, but it's not the future. 162 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,680 This will leave a generation thirsty. 163 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,960 This, if I continue to do this, will destroy my marriage. 164 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,240 This will wreck my children's future. 165 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,480 This will take me away from Jesus. 166 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:59,200 So church, would you wake up? The second thing Paul says to 167 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,240 the Romans is put on because many a times you've put on the 168 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:06,200 things of the world to fit in, but you can't wear 2 clothes. 169 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:11,080 You can't wear three clothes. You know, the me, my wife is a 170 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,360 die hard fan of friends. And there's this one episode 171 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,760 where, you know, Joey and Chandler are roommates and he 172 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:23,520 wants to get a Chandler that he decides to wear all his clothes, 173 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,440 all the clothes that are in his wardrobe. 174 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,480 He comes out wearing all the clothes. 175 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:31,320 And so today I want to ask you, you can't wear it all. 176 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,800 You can only choose one outfit. And that one outfit, is it of 177 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,920 God or is it of the world? Is it of Jesus or is it against 178 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:43,120 Jesus? It says here in the message it 179 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:48,000 says don't loiter and linger. What is loitering and lingering? 180 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,840 When we loiter, we linger in the wrong places, we stop in 181 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,080 unnecessary places, we are aimless, we are without aim, we 182 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:57,800 have no intentionality. And I pray the Holy Spirit 183 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,760 brings intentionality back. When we put on Jesus, when we 184 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,680 put on his garment of praise, everything changes. 185 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:06,280 And that's what revival looks like. 186 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,040 Because today if you and I have to have a recipe for revival, 187 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:15,000 it'll happen only when we wake up and only when you put on God 188 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:20,000 clothing over our life. The second thing we see in that 189 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,600 same verse when we read the message also, it says don't 190 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,760 loiter and linger. It also says stop bickering and 191 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,200 grabbing. We are meant for eternity and 192 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,600 time and again I'm that emphasis has been coming from the sermons 193 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,200 that we've been preaching. Keep your eyes on eternity 194 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,680 because we end up grabbing so many things that slow us down in 195 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:41,680 this world, that slow us down in this Christian walk that slow us 196 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:47,640 down in pursuing Jesus. And I pray that we won't be too 197 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:54,000 dead, we won't be too heavy to say God, I can't partake of 198 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,280 revival. But when we put on God's 199 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,840 clothing, when we wake up from the slumber that the spirit man 200 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:05,600 is, we have a deep desire because we know a sinful state 201 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,520 keeps us distracted, keeps us aimless, keeps us loitering. 202 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:16,160 But we rise up to see that God's given a God-given identity in us 203 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,440 to seek for revival. And you might be thinking, guess 204 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:21,920 from I've heard the word revival and I've seen it happen in 205 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,680 groups. But today, God saying, I want 206 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:28,000 you to pursue revival, you and me have to pursue it so that 207 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,120 when we gather, we'll be able to witness the revival. 208 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:33,840 We'll be able to witness the revival. 209 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:37,160 Over the last couple of months, you know, we've been even now 210 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,400 Friday prayers that we've been praying. 211 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,000 God's been giving us a vision of this entire stretch in this 212 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,560 entire room here being like a river of God. 213 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,280 And we had even, in fact, one of the guest speakers, his wife, 214 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,280 when he walked in, she said, I had this image of river flowing 215 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,960 here. And she said, I hope people come 216 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,280 and drink from it. The river of God is here and I 217 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:03,160 pray if our hearts are revived, we will be able to take water 218 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,520 and partake of it. We'll be able to take water and 219 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:10,280 live in the fullness that God wants us to live. 220 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,560 As I mentioned, we'll be going. We'll be looking into the life 221 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:16,200 of Moses and a lot of you know the story of Moses. 222 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,800 For those of you who watched the 10 Commandments, the Prince of 223 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:24,520 Egypt and all that, Moses was born into a Jewish Home, into a 224 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,160 home of Levite. And we see right then the 225 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:31,160 Pharaoh given orders that all the kids, male children had to 226 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:34,960 be killed. And this mother did something 227 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:39,080 daring and I think she knew that this child was someone special. 228 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,520 Put him in a basket, sent him along the river. 229 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:47,800 Pharaoh's daughter finds the baby, takes him in. 230 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:52,200 He grows in royalty, but there comes a point in time when he 231 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:56,040 knows he is not one among the Egyptians, but his people are 232 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:59,600 the ones in slavery strikes one of the Egyptians. 233 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:05,200 Now he's accused of murder, and before he can be accused and 234 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:09,240 charged, he runs away. He lands up in the land of 235 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:13,920 Midian, ends up marrying the chieftain's daughter, and life 236 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:16,120 happens. And this entirety that I just 237 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:20,560 summed up is technically around 80 years of summing up. 238 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:27,120 But even here, this is where God wants him to actually meet with 239 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,400 him. God has a plan in store. 240 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:32,080 And so don't even. I've been repeating this time 241 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,120 and again with even with the Easter message that I spoke, the 242 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,480 resurrecting life. You don't get to tap out of your 243 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:39,960 race when you're following Jesus. 244 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,760 You don't get to tap out. You get to ask God, God, give me 245 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:44,680 the strength, but we don't get to tap out because there's 246 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:46,840 something more that God always has in store. 247 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:52,120 He could have tapped out way back, but God had not was not 248 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,200 done with Moses yet. And so even as he's in this 249 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,960 scenario, we're going to look at three things that caused Moses 250 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,000 to actually experience revival in his own life. 251 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,040 The emphasis is for his own life, yes. 252 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,600 The outcome of it, what he did was for an entire nation. 253 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:12,880 That's different, but the revival that happened initially, 254 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:17,120 the revival that Moses experienced was from God himself 255 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:21,160 on his own life. And I would ask you to turn your 256 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:22,720 attention to the first thing that I want to say. 257 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,840 Revival causes me to turn towards God's consuming fire. 258 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:30,480 Revival causes me to turn towards God's consuming fire. 259 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,920 And even as I mentioned this, there's a very much locked in to 260 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,360 Moses story because he saw that burning Bush. 261 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,520 And so as we read this, I want you to come to a place to 262 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,640 realize God. What is it that I need to see 263 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,480 off you? The distance between Median and 264 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,000 Horeb, Muhoreb is where God decided it's called. 265 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,640 The mountain of God is roughly around 25 miles. 266 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:55,760 It's roughly a day's journey for someone who's actually 267 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:58,360 shepherding and who's taking along their cattle. 268 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:02,800 And we see that as Moses had left and was tending to his 269 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,840 flock, he landed up at the mountain of God. 270 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,880 He didn't know it. He was there at the mountain of 271 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,480 God at Horeb. And we look at the timeline, as 272 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,320 I mentioned, 80 years. God meets him at his 80th year, 273 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,720 meets him to tell him he's not done yet. 274 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,920 Revival can start at any stage of our lives. 275 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,760 And like Moses, many of us today are at peace with our lives. 276 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:29,640 We are like, you know what? I don't think I can handle more. 277 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:31,440 You know, I've strived far too long. 278 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,200 Well, I've, I've got here with great difficulty, but God 279 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:36,960 saying, son, daughter, I have much more for you. 280 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,480 I have much more for you than what your eyes can actually see, 281 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,320 than what your hearts can actually desire for. 282 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,640 To experience the revival of our hearts, we need to be at the 283 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,880 place where God resides. That is the fundamental truth. 284 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:53,480 To experience the revival, we need to be where God resides. 285 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:58,240 And I believe it's no accident that Moses moved from Midian to 286 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,800 Horeb with his cattle. He did it as part of his work, 287 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:04,240 but he didn't realize that he was entering God's territory. 288 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:06,880 He didn't realize he was entering the Holy of Holies 289 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:11,640 where God resides in Moses wet with God right where he was 290 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:15,040 residing at Exodus chapter 3 verses one to four we are 291 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:19,040 reading the amplified because this is where I felt it really 292 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:24,040 caught Moses micro expressions. Now Moses was keeping the flock 293 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:28,200 of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led his 294 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,400 flock to the West side of the wilderness and came to Horeb 295 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,280 Sinai, the mountain of God. The Angel of the Lord appeared 296 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,360 to him in a blazing flame of fire from the midst of a Bush, 297 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,320 and he looked and behold, the Bush was on fire, yet it was not 298 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,200 consumed. So Moses said, I must turn away 299 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,560 from the flock and see this great site. 300 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:54,720 Why the Bush is not burnt up. Moses said, I must turn away and 301 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:58,840 see this great site. I must turn away today. 302 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:03,440 Church, I want to ask you, are we so caught up in what God has 303 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,800 already given that we are not willing to turn up and look at 304 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,839 what God is calling us to see today? 305 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:10,560 What is it that God's calling us to see? 306 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:14,079 Every one of us have our own flocks. 307 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,119 Every one of us have something that we closely guard. 308 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,880 Probably our work could include a marriage, our parents, our 309 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:25,640 children, everything. There is something that we hold 310 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:27,960 close, we guarded. But God's saying, would you look 311 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:29,680 up? Because I'm wanting to do 312 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,600 something more than what you already are experiencing. 313 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,480 I'm wanting to do something more. 314 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,960 What Moses saw with his eye did not make sense by his logic. 315 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,720 What Moses saw with his eye did not make sense with his logic. 316 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,200 You know, ever since we came into this hall, into this place, 317 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,480 and one of the things that as we've been praying repeatedly, 318 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,800 the constant thing that I've been sensing is that God let 319 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:54,520 this place be like a burning Bush. 320 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:56,920 Let this place be like a burning Bush. 321 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:58,800 Why? Because we want people to come 322 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,400 in here who don't have jobs to come in here, who have 323 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,400 sicknesses to come in here, who have ill health to come in here, 324 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,040 who have confusion of the mind to come here. 325 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,960 And when they encounter the burning Bush, that is your 326 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,680 presence. That is your very presence. 327 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,520 Things will change. Things will change, revival will 328 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:22,640 happen, and I pray that each and everyone of us will lift up our 329 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,840 eyes to see what God is doing. God is constantly doing 330 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,040 something. Can we lift up our eyes? 331 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:33,280 Proverbs chapter 15 verses 14 says the mind of the intelligent 332 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:38,120 and discerning seeks knowledge and eagerly inquires after it, 333 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:42,280 but the mouth of the stubborn fool feeds on foolishness. 334 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,240 And the reason why I took this is because our mind and our 335 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,560 intelligence has to discern things here. 336 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,520 Moses was intelligent. Moses was like, this is odd. 337 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:56,880 It looks like it's burning, but it's not burning. 338 00:18:57,520 --> 00:18:59,600 What is happening here? I need to go see it. 339 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:02,720 Probably it's it's probably it's too hot. 340 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,640 It's too bright. Probably my eyes are weakening. 341 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,840 Probably I'm getting old. No, but I need to witness this. 342 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,040 There's no smoke that's coming. It is not burning. 343 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:15,840 I need to go see it. There is something that does not 344 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:19,280 make sense to logic. That is something that does not 345 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:22,760 make sense to logic. And I pray that we will rise up. 346 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,880 I pray we will rise up. I pray we will rise up. 347 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:32,840 John, 15 versus 16 to 17, says you have not chosen me, but I 348 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,120 have chosen you, and I've appointed you and placed you and 349 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:38,960 purposefully planted you so that you would go and bear fruit and 350 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,000 keep on bearing that your fruit will remain and be lasting. 351 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,480 So that whatever you ask in my Father's name as my 352 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,920 representative, he may give it to you. 353 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:52,680 This is what I commanded you, that you love and unselfishly 354 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:57,360 seek the best for one another. Jesus tells this and he tells us 355 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:00,000 that he is the one who's chosen us. 356 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:06,120 So today when we look over here, God is probably evidently doing 357 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:08,760 something in all of our lives. He wants us to grab our 358 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:13,840 attention when we are not, when we are stagnant, when we fail to 359 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,400 put on. When we fail to wake up in our 360 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,680 spirit man, he will be doing certain things and I pray we'll 361 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,440 respond like Moses responded. He moved. 362 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,640 His primary attention was a flock. 363 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,360 He moved it to what God was doing. 364 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,760 And I pray we all will have that boldness to look at what God is 365 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:39,000 doing. Move, take that step, inquire, 366 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,480 say God, what is happening? Pray about it. 367 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,880 God, can I go towards this? God, is this where you're 368 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,400 wanting me to go? Meditate on His Word so that 369 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,040 it'll align with where He's taking you, so that you will be 370 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,560 able to experience that. Remember, whatever God calls you 371 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,280 to do, it'll be out of His presence and not without it. 372 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,560 It'll be out of His word. Confirmation will come. 373 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,040 You will get confirmation through others. 374 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,200 You will get your prayers being answered. 375 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:09,240 You will see time and again God is moving this as you seek after 376 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,120 it. He will work things out as you 377 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:13,640 seek after it. He'll clear everything that's 378 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,080 been confusing you. He'll clear everything. 379 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,720 The fog lifts up. You're able to see clearly what 380 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,160 He's calling you to do. And so I pray that we will lift 381 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:27,920 up our eyes and turn it towards God's consuming fire, Towards 382 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,200 God's consuming fire. What is our horeb today looking 383 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:32,640 like? Where you and I? 384 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,040 What is our horeb looking like today? 385 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,120 What is our horeb looking like? It's not within the four walls 386 00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:39,920 of our home coast. Really. 387 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,280 We can be so siloed and think, you know what I think I'm 388 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,960 waiting for a burning Bush experience right where I'm at. 389 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:48,600 But God is saying you will find it in the company of His people. 390 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,600 With Jesus coming into the world. 391 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,520 He came for his bride. And who is his bride? 392 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,480 You and me are His bride. The church that gathers is His 393 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:01,400 bride and it says clearly that when we gather He is present. 394 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,280 Matthew chapter 18, verse 19. You all know this verse. 395 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:08,040 It says again, I say to you that if two believers on earth agree 396 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,440 that is our one mind and harmony about anything that they ask 397 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,920 within the will of God, it will be done for them by my Father in 398 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:20,200 heaven. The sheep for Moses was not the 399 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,120 focus. He had a true call in his life. 400 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:26,880 And I pray that in the midst of pursuing yes, we do come once a 401 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,440 week to church. Yes, we come for close to 90 402 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,960 minutes. We have a service, but I pray 403 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,960 when you're in the midst of everyone, say God show up, God 404 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,520 confirm, God, speak to me because it'll be through his 405 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,600 people, it'll be through his Word, it'll be for his glory. 406 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:47,680 It'll be for his glory. The second thing that we see 407 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:52,640 with revival is revival causes us to respond to God's voice. 408 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,240 It'll cause us to respond, yes. The first thing is our attention 409 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:01,200 is seen is God our he moves us and then we'll respond to God's 410 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:02,920 voice. Exodus chapter 3 verses four to 411 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,040 six goes on to say when the Lord saw that he turned away from the 412 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:09,920 flock to look, God called to him from the midst of the Bush and 413 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,960 said, Moses, Moses and he said, here I am. 414 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:18,640 Then God said, do not come here. Take your sandals off your feet 415 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,040 out of respect, because the place on which you're standing 416 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,040 is holy ground. Then he said, I am the God of 417 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,960 your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of 418 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:32,040 Jacob. Then Moses hid his face because 419 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:37,320 he was afraid to look at God. Then Moses hid his face because 420 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:43,880 he was afraid to look at God. When the Lord saw that, he 421 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,080 turned away from the flock to look. 422 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:51,640 God called to him. God wants your attention. 423 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,320 It's interesting. As I was preparing, you know, I 424 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,000 was reading through the story and I knew there was something 425 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,920 more. I was reading it across 426 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:02,960 different versions and for some reason till I think Tuesday or 427 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,880 Wednesday, I didn't move to reading it in the Amplified. 428 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,520 But when I read in the amplified, I realized these 429 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:14,000 micro expressions matter to God. The micro expressions are a 430 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,840 direct route from a heart posture. 431 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,920 So what looks here? When the Lord saw, he turned 432 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,840 away from the flock to look. There was suddenly expectancy. 433 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,440 There was suddenly what's happening? 434 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,400 What is this? This is new. 435 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:33,120 When he could respond to God's supernatural fire, the consuming 436 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:38,520 fire, God decided to talk. A lot of us are probably today 437 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,160 sitting there and realizing, you know what? 438 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,920 I can't hear God speak. It's probably you're not looking 439 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:44,440 at God, you're looking at someone else. 440 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,680 I can't look at someone else and expect the person who I need an 441 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,080 answer from to answer. I need to look at the person who 442 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,320 I want an answer from to actually get an answer. 443 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:01,560 I pray that we all will look to God so that He can speak to us. 444 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:06,000 We are many a times looking to a person who's already praying and 445 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,160 thinking that person is enough for us so that they can listen 446 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,200 and tell. No God is saying, I came down. 447 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,760 I bridged this relationship so that you and I can have a 448 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,360 conversation so that you can look to me, so that you can 449 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:21,360 behold me. You can behold me. 450 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,960 I pray to us that we will never take our worship lightly. 451 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:30,000 We get to worship our Creator. We get to worship our God who is 452 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:35,680 seated on the throne right here every time we gather and as we 453 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,640 worship Him, He's willing to respond. 454 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,960 If our eyes is on Jesus, many times our worship, our eyes are 455 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,040 on people in front, Our eyes are on the mistakes that they are 456 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,800 making when singing. Our eyes are on the distractions 457 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,280 that are preoccupied our mind and I pray it will be consumed 458 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:57,000 with fire so that we will be able to look at Jesus. 459 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:02,000 God responds to Moses eagerness of the supernatural because he 460 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,200 turned away and was looking at the burning Bush. 461 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,800 God called him out. David, who's a worshiper of God 462 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:13,080 whom who God says, you know he captured my heart with his 463 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:17,360 worship, says this in Psalm 113. A lot of us would have probably 464 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:20,760 read it says, Oh Lord you are examine my heart and know 465 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,560 everything about me. You know when I sit down or 466 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,520 stand up. You know my thoughts even when 467 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,480 I'm far away. You see me when I travel and 468 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,080 when I rest at home. You know everything I do. 469 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:35,400 You know what I'm going to say even before I say it. 470 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,160 God knows everything, yet He's waiting for a response. 471 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,840 God knows everything we would say, yet He's waiting for us to 472 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:47,880 look at Him. And behold, God knows what our 473 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:52,120 choices and the outcome for choices are, yet He's waiting. 474 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:54,640 Because that is the gift of free will. 475 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:58,280 He doesn't govern it. He doesn't get to control it, 476 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,760 but he delights that we choose him. 477 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,520 God draws Moses into His Holiness and in his presence 478 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,320 immediately. And I pray that that will be 479 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:15,520 something that when we obey to the supernatural, God calls that 480 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,320 we'll realize that we are in his presence. 481 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,560 He establishes who he is. He tells Moses, if you've 482 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:26,280 thought you're seeing a ghost, no, I am the God of Abraham. 483 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,080 I am the God of Isaac. I am the God of Jacob. 484 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:35,200 And I pray that as God reveals himself, fear won't cause us to 485 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,840 move away, but would cause us to stay. 486 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,320 The fear of God will cause us to stay and not move away. 487 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:48,480 When my heart and my attention are set on God, he speaks and I 488 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,120 get to listen. So today I want to ask you, what 489 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:53,840 is your burning Bush looking like today? 490 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:59,200 And I mentioned earlier as a church, I believe there's a 491 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,920 burning Bush here. I believe you're called to be a 492 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,040 city on a hill. We're called to be a light that 493 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,600 shines and attracts one person at a time. 494 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,880 But today, even as I'm responding to the consuming 495 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:15,200 fire, I'm asking you, are you responding to the supernatural 496 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:16,960 thing that God's causing you to see? 497 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,120 What is God causing you to see? I'll tell you time and again, 498 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:25,320 back in 2011 when God called me and was telling me something, 499 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,320 dreams which are far beyond what I could think of, that undress 500 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,400 that He was giving me with regard to media, and I had to 501 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,240 take that step. I didn't know it. 502 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,080 I didn't know it, but I knew. God. 503 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,840 You are calling me to this. I'll be obedient. 504 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:43,160 Things, circumstances, everything within my capacity I 505 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,920 thought will be OK and enough. But God caused me to leave 506 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,280 certain things because my identity was starting to get 507 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,920 built on that. God moved me out so that my 508 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,760 identity will be built on Him. And so today, if you're doing 509 00:28:55,760 --> 00:29:00,280 what we are doing, it's solely because we could sense at a 510 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,800 point in our time that we saw the supernatural hand of God, 511 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,160 supernatural hand of God. And we continue to seek that 512 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,960 because that is the one that causes us to sustain. 513 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,000 That is the one that causes us to see him here. 514 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,320 That is the one that causes us to be in the centre of His will 515 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,280 because of the hindrances that are around us. 516 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:25,120 What are our eyes fixed on? Revival cannot start corporately 517 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,280 until the flames are ignited personally. 518 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,520 So today, if I'm wanting to see a revival in church, if I'm 519 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,000 wanting to see a revival in Mia Zion, I can't expect it if I 520 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,840 don't desire for it, if I don't pursue it, if I don't respond to 521 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,880 what God's calling me to see and do. 522 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:46,240 Personal revival is key. Personal revival is key. 523 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,520 And I want to turn our attention to the New Testament. 524 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:52,080 One of the examples that I see how personal revival is key, it 525 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,760 goes beyond whatever the nature of us, whatever we've done, 526 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,760 everything, because the minute you encounter the supernatural 527 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,120 work of God, everything changes. And I'm talking of a character 528 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:03,720 which I loved talking about earlier. 529 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,240 His name is Zacchaeus. It says in Luke chapter 19, 530 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,560 verses 1 to 10, it says Jesus entered Jericho and was passing 531 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:10,920 through. A man was there by the name of 532 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,080 Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and 533 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,000 was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, 534 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,000 but because he was short, he could not see over the crowd. 535 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,520 So he ran ahead and climbed the Sycamore 50 to see him, since 536 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,760 Jesus was coming out of the way. So Zacchaeus was the chief tax 537 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,760 collector, hated by all because he was serving the Romans. 538 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,600 He was collecting their taxes. But there was a deep desire in 539 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,000 his heart to see Jesus. There was a deep desire for him 540 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,360 to see. The only problem was he was 541 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,560 shot, but what did he see? Because he had a deep desire. 542 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,400 He responded to the deep desire and what did he do? 543 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,920 He ran ahead. He ran ahead, meaning he ran. 544 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,360 If Jesus was over here, he ran ahead. 545 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:50,680 He found something that he could climb. 546 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,080 He climbed on top and he was waiting for him. 547 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,840 He climbed. And I pray that we all will have 548 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,600 something we want to see in Jesus because that will cause us 549 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,520 to move, that will cause us to put on, that will cause us to 550 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,680 move from a place and be expectant. 551 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,680 That's when revival sets in. Verse 5, when Jesus comes, what 552 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,400 happens When Jesus reaches the spot? 553 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,680 He looked up and said to him, Zacchaeus, come down 554 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,400 immediately. I must stay at your house today. 555 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,880 So he came down and once and welcomed him gladly. 556 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,640 The outcome of the wanting plus running bus climbing is equal to 557 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,520 revival. The outcome of the wanting plus 558 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,360 running bus climbing is equal to revival. 559 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,640 What revival happened when Jesus walked in, everything changed. 560 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,840 The very thing that he had taken in terms of underhand dealings 561 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,680 and everything he said, I'll return it not just once or 562 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,000 twice, but 3 * 4 times, I'll return it back. 563 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,240 If I've cheated anyone, I'll give it back. 564 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:48,320 That's what revival cause and that Jesus says today salvation 565 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,120 has come into this entire household. 566 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,600 I'll give half my positions in verses it says, but Zakir stood 567 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:59,280 up and said to the Lord, look Lord here and now I give half of 568 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,960 my positions to the poor. And if I have cheated anybody or 569 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,240 of anything, I will pay back four times the amount Jesus said 570 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,080 to him today salvation has come to this house because this man 571 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,520 too is the son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to 572 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:17,320 seek and save the lost. So today, church, I want to ask 573 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,360 you, are you willing to see God for who He is so that you can 574 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,800 hear and talk to Him? Are you willing and wanting to 575 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,240 see Him, that you're able to run ahead and wait for Him to show 576 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,480 up? Our seeking will only lead us to 577 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,600 His holy place. Our seeking will only lead us to 578 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,440 His Holiness. Our seeking will only take us 579 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,360 back to the Holy of Holies where we meet with Him, where our 580 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,920 altars are there, as you heard last week, it'll be just us and 581 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:49,680 our altar with our head down. We will be praying in a way 582 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:54,240 where our eyes are wanting to see God alone, are wanting to 583 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:58,320 see God alone. The third thing that we read 584 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,160 from the story with Moses encountering God at the burning 585 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,880 Bush. Revival causes me to step into 586 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,520 God's mission. Revival causes me to step into 587 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,080 God's mission. This is what I love about the 588 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:16,000 way Moses encountered God. He took his eyes from his flock. 589 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,880 He responded to God's supernatural. 590 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,640 Because he responded to God's supernatural, God spoke. 591 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,960 He was able to hear God's voice. Because he heard God's voice, he 592 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:31,960 was able to hear to the mission God had for him, and he was able 593 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,560 to step into God's mission for his life. 594 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:42,040 Revival causes us to step into God's mission for the time, the 595 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,960 place, the season. God's placed us in God's 596 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,920 mission. It's not my mission, it's God's 597 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,480 mission. It's not my work, but it's God's 598 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,200 work. It's not my doing, but it's 599 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:56,520 God's doing. Exodus chapter 3 verses 7 to 6 600 00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:00,040 goes on to say the Lord said I in fact have seen the 601 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,000 affliction, the suffering, the desolation of my people who are 602 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,040 in Egypt and I've heard their cry because of their 603 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:10,560 taskmasters, the oppressors, for I know their pain and suffering. 604 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:14,280 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand power of the 605 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:18,520 Egyptians and to to bring them up from the land to a land that 606 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:22,199 is good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey in a 607 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:25,440 land of plenty, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the 608 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,360 Amorite, the Pedicite, the Hivite and the Jebusites. 609 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,600 Now behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to 610 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,040 me and have also seen how the Egyptians oppressed them. 611 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:39,560 Therefore come now and I will send you to Pharaoh, and then 612 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,679 bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. 613 00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:47,440 But Moses said to God, who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and 614 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,840 that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt? 615 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,880 And God said, certainly I will be with you, and this will be 616 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,960 the sign to you that it is I who have sent you. 617 00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:02,520 When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve 618 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:09,960 and worship at this mountain. God wanted not just Moses, but 619 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,920 an entire nation that he had set apart to worship him, to seek 620 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:18,200 him. The primary focus for all of us 621 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:22,640 as we seek His face and presence is we will be able to listen to 622 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,960 what He's telling us, listen to telling us. 623 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,880 And I pray many a times the mission of God that is over our 624 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,200 lives will look like us going back to the very things that we 625 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,360 were muddling up in our sinful nature and redeeming. 626 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,560 When God redeems, He's redeeming people from their sinful nature. 627 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,400 He came to seek and save that which was lost. 628 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,600 He will send you back to the seeking and the saving that 629 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,840 which was lost. The JD that is a job description 630 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,040 is not going to, He's going to invite you into a throne room of 631 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,120 just sitting where servants will come and help you. 632 00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,040 No, that's not the Christian life that he's calling us to. 633 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,360 He's not calling us to a life. He's calling us to a life of 634 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,400 what he modelled here on in this earth. 635 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,920 If he walked, I have to walk. If he stayed, I get to stay. 636 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,120 If he touched people, I get to touch people in his name, in his 637 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,160 power. That is what God is calling us 638 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:19,960 to do the mission of God as much as we culminate and put words 639 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,320 together, vision, mission. And you know, this is what our 640 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,680 next five years are look like. This is what the next 15 years 641 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,000 are going to look like. Rise up church, rise up. 642 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:33,240 We need to hear the mission directly from God because when 643 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:38,280 God speaks, he will speak to the insecurities of our own hearts, 644 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,400 to the areas where we don't want to go. 645 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,120 Moses didn't want to go back to Pharaoh. 646 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,440 Moses knew what all was happening. 647 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,000 That Moses was would have thought, you know what, this is 648 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,080 40 years too old. But God was like, no, I'm 649 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,480 raising you up to go there. I'm raising you up to go there. 650 00:36:54,320 --> 00:37:01,720 Revival is so that we will be God's storehouse right in the 651 00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:06,240 place where he's called us to be, that we'll be storehouses of 652 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:11,240 his presence, of his power, of his magnificence, right where he 653 00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:15,120 has called us to be. I want to draw attention to a 654 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:20,040 story that I came across, the stories about revival meeting 655 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:24,360 that broke out in New York and was started by this lay pastor 656 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,600 was appointed to oversee this Dutch church, Old Dutch Church. 657 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,440 The church was not growing, and it was, but he grew up. 658 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,840 This person grew up as a tailor. He was a businessman, an 659 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,560 ordinary businessman. 48 years later, his life shifted 660 00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,800 completely when he was offered a new position he took up. 661 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,440 Without hesitation. He left his business and moved 662 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:49,880 into a small room, into a dying church on the corner of Felton 663 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:55,600 and William streets in New York. Other churches had left as well, 664 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,400 but many thought the old Dutch church should throw in the 665 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,920 towel. And they got his layperson, his 666 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:05,720 name is Lanfier, who was hiring, they hired him as a lay 667 00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:08,000 missionary. And because they hired him, 668 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:12,000 they, they, they knew he was convinced for the right job. 669 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,160 And as he was doing, he was doing house visits and 670 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:17,640 everything. But then during the afternoons, 671 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:22,640 he realized what will happen if I actually start an afternoon 672 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,880 prayer for business people and the whole. 673 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:31,520 He put a signage out on the front, sing afternoon prayer. 674 00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:36,760 We meet from 12 to one stop for 510 or 20 minutes or for the 675 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:41,280 whole hour, as your time admits. And as Lanfia was meeting there, 676 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,560 he was worried. Did I do something? 677 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:49,800 Did I did I? Am I doing something that won't 678 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,400 work out? There's no one who's told 679 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,640 whether this will work out or not, but this is the beautiful 680 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,760 thing. God definitely has been speaking 681 00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:59,920 to him. Because if God had to alert him 682 00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:03,720 to something, God caused him to respond to what he wanted him to 683 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:06,280 do. And so as he waited there, four 684 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,720 people trickled in their next. They plan to meet next 685 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:11,200 Wednesday. It moved on. 686 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,480 And the next Wednesday they had six people. 687 00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:15,600 The next Wednesday again. And then they decided, you know 688 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,040 what? Why are we doing this every 689 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,240 Wednesday? Let's do it every day of the 690 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:21,320 week. Because businessmen could 691 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,720 forsake their lunch and come. And before they knew it, 20 men 692 00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:26,800 came to the second noon prayer meeting. 693 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,520 Then the Wednesday after that, 40. 694 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,720 They decided to make it on a daily basis from October 14th. 695 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:37,000 The nation was shocked because they went into one of the worst 696 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,800 financial crisis in history. Banks were closed, many people 697 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,800 went hungry, but landfill never even flinched with the meetings 698 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,360 but continued to grow and grow. And that was revival. 699 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,360 What started in New York spread across the nation into different 700 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,320 states. One of the outcomes that as we 701 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:59,520 read we see is that the they call it a big revival. 702 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:03,400 And the reason why it was so unique was it was a layman's 703 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,200 movement. It wasn't a person who was 704 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,480 ordained or anything. It was a person who was ready to 705 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:10,480 obey what God had called him to do. 706 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,160 The second thing it was it was non sectarian, which means there 707 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:19,920 was no denominational that people are from different 708 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,160 denominations. They just gathered to pray. 709 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,760 They gathered every tribe, every nation, every tongue gathered to 710 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:32,480 pray. And this brought about unity in 711 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,200 the body. This brought about unity in the 712 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,960 body. And today I want to ask you, are 713 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,840 we desperate for a revival? Are we desperate for a revival 714 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:47,080 Because Moses, when he was there, was given the mission to 715 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,600 do? Today, with Jesus coming and 716 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,640 going, we all have a mission to do. 717 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:57,360 We might not get specific ones like what was given for Moses to 718 00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:01,480 go and liberate in it, but we'll get glimpses of that. 719 00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:04,720 Liberate those who are captive. It could be those who are caught 720 00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:07,880 into bonded labor. It could be different aspects of 721 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,920 society. Whatever it is, the ultimate 722 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,720 thing is we need to get people from the clutches of sin, from 723 00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:17,200 the camp of the enemy into the camp of God. 724 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,680 And what does that look like? That they'll find freedom in 725 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,160 Jesus. They'll find hope and strength 726 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,680 in Jesus that they will be able to call on Jesus and say You are 727 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:30,320 my God and Lord. So today, our time here on this 728 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,760 earth is very short. Time here on this earth is very 729 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,120 short. Each of us, Moses lived 120 730 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,080 years. Most of us, we don't know what 731 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,640 our timeline looks like, but our time is short. 732 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:45,800 Eternity is real. People are dying every day. 733 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:50,960 Without knowing Jesus. We don't have the luxury of 734 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:55,840 casual ministry. So today, if we are calling the 735 00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:00,120 church to be reminded about revival is we are not OK with 736 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,840 casual ministry. We are just not OK with just 737 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,720 meeting and just encouraging the ten of us again and again. 738 00:42:05,720 --> 00:42:09,320 No, God, what do you want this tent to do individually speak to 739 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,120 us. We need to be in different 10 740 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,440 different directions so that when we get together, we 741 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,840 encourage one another, we strengthen one another and we go 742 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:21,200 out into the world so that we'll be able to take the world in 743 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:25,760 your name, in your name. So even as I close, you might 744 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,360 have heard the story of land fear and you're like, you know 745 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,480 what God, that seems too big. It isn't too big. 746 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,200 It just comes to the simple thing as we saw from Moses life, 747 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:39,680 He saw the supernatural. He heard God's voice. 748 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,960 He responded to God's call. If land fear could do it, we all 749 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,120 get to do it. He started a 12 to one prayer in 750 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,600 the afternoon. What is God calling you to 751 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,120 start? What is God positioning you? 752 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,600 Even as we go through this year's theme about being 753 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,760 positioned to possess the promise, what is He positioning 754 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,160 you for? Because today, what you and I 755 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,360 are getting positioned for are far bigger than what the world 756 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:08,160 has to offer, is far bigger. So I pray that we would wake up. 757 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:12,040 I pray that we'll put on. I pray we'll be able to witness 758 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,360 the supernatural with our eyes. I pray we'll be able to hear 759 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:19,360 God's voice and in turn step into God's mission for our life. 760 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,480 So Church, can I pray for you, Lord? 761 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:25,440 I just pray and ask, Lord, that even as we heard your word that 762 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,920 it'll sink deep. Lord, I pray, Holy Spirit, come 763 00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,040 into every space. Lord Jesus, your children are 764 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:33,200 listening into, I pray into homes, into offices, into buses, 765 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,160 into cars, into walkways, wherever, Lord, wherever they're 766 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,760 listening and watching. You would flood in like a flood, 767 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,680 Lord Jesus, right now, I pray that Lord, we would respond. 768 00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,640 Lord Jesus, we will wake up from the slumber, Lord Jesus, that 769 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,560 we've been, Lord, having in this world that we'll wake up. 770 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,520 Our spirit man will be awakened. I pray we'll put on your 771 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,320 clothing, Lord Jesus, so that we'll have the boldness that 772 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,160 comes from you, Lord Jesus, through you. 773 00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,920 And I pray you'll be able to respond like Moses into revival, 774 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:03,000 into our areas. I pray our families will see the 775 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,080 revival. Our neighborhoods will see the 776 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:06,760 revival. Our church will see the revival. 777 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,960 I pray we ourselves will see the revival from head to toe. 778 00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:13,560 Lord Jesus, anoint each and everyone, strengthen each and 779 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,280 everyone, bless the work of their hands. 780 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:20,040 So I pray that Lord, we will be missional about everything we 781 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,040 do, Lord Jesus, not just that one thing, but everything. 782 00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:27,840 Be glorified, be honoured, be praised. 783 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,240 Go before us. I pray, Lord, as we wait on you, 784 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,320 we are waiting for something marvellous. 785 00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:33,880 We are waiting for something glorious. 786 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,440 Lord, do your great work in and through US. 787 00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,520 Lord, be with us. In your most holy name we pray, 788 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:44,120 Amen, Amen, Amen. I pray that even as you head 789 00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:47,920 out, you will be revived inside out. 790 00:44:48,240 --> 00:44:51,400 You'll be able to respond to the supernatural God has been 791 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,760 wanting you to see. In your response, God's voice 792 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,880 will be heard and you'll be able to live without the mission that 793 00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:03,160 God set out for you yesterday. Pray that you have a blessed 794 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:04,480 week. God bless you all. 795 00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:07,760 Thanks for listening to this message. 796 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,600 We hope you were blessed to hear more messages like this. 797 00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:15,960 Make sure to subscribe and check out our podcast channel for past 798 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,280 episodes. If you like what you are 799 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:22,840 hearing, consider rating us, subscribing and even sharing it 800 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,400 with friends. That would really help us. 801 00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:30,720 For more content from Via Zion and to connect with us, go to 802 00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:35,880 Via Zion dot in. Remember, whoever finds Jesus 803 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:36,920 finds life.