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Now here is very important chapter.
This is so fully loaded, I would say I'm afraid to preach on this
passage as well. At the same time, this is not
something I didn't choose. It's just coming along.
After 5 comes chapter 6. So we have to preach.
So what is the main thing here is that you you have this
character called Nehemiah. He is a man of vision.
Everybody say man of vision. If you don't have vision, you
cannot be a leader. That's very simple.
Whether it's a company, it's a business family.
There has to be somebody with a vision where the father has a
vision for the family or the mother has a vision for the
family the business has got. The CEO must have a vision for
that company. Otherwise things will not work
out. They will not be success.
Vision is the key. And when there's a vision and
that man will not back down, will he back down?
No. When I worked for a company,
they had in their mind a vision to prosper the company and sell
it for a big money. And they were, they were making
changes all the time. They made us read some books and
get caught up with the vision with a lot of resistance.
We all did not like it. Most of us didn't like it.
But ultimately what what he said is you got to obey your boss.
So everybody has to do what they say.
I told them you are going to end up with lot of inventory, the
parts will be too many on the floor.
Just do what you are told to do. So we did.
They end up with one and a half million worth of parts, extra
parts everywhere. But the business grew and they
sold it for a big money. So vision is in the boss head
not in the employees. So sometimes there will be
resistance. Change is always resisted by
people and that is any management book you read.
I am not telling you anything new.
Any book on management you read, they will say public will resist
change. That is one of the things we
have to fight. Even in the church it is easy to
talk about. For Nehemiah to talk about
rebuilding the walls because they have fallen down, broken
down, burnt, it is very easy. But in the modern day, when we
talk about vision for the church, it is more difficult.
It is there in the head or the mind of the pastor.
He has the vision and it is his responsibility to communicate it
to the congregation. And it is up to the congregation
to say I am joining in with the vision.
And if there is no unity, then there is no progress.
There is no unity, there is no progress.
Let's say we talked about praying for 21 days.
They only have maximum of 15 people came, I suppose, if my
math is right. So half the church was there for
praying, but half the church was not there.
So the half the church, I believe has caught up with the
vision of praying and something is going to happen after the
prayer. So we praise God for that.
I would say just did extremely well sustaining them.
Just coming every day between 7:30 and 8:30, praying for an
hour. I'm sure your lives are
different and changed because of that.
Holy Spirit will never abandoned a soul that seeks Him.
So some measure of blessing. I'm sure you all have got it.
So now here is a man, Nehemiah, and he had this vision to
rebuild the broken walls and to install the gates.
So he came and he has succeeded to a great extent, was one when
the world came to San Bala, Tobiah, Geshem, the Arab and the
rest of our enemies, that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap
was left in it. There's no gap anymore. 1.8
miles or 2.4 kilometers of the perimeter of the Jerusalem
walls, There's no gap left. That's last chapter.
It came up to half the height, and now it is completely built.
Only gates were not set up yet. The doors were not set up yet.
So when the news reached the enemies, they will be always
enemies of the vision. You know, you, you take the
Bible everywhere there will be a man with the vision and there
will be an impact because of the vision.
Think of Joseph, he was a man of vision.
The vision was not just for saving his own family, 70
people, but the vision excelled far beyond to save the nation of
Egypt and surrounding nations, to see them through the famine
for seven long years. So that is what a man of vision
can contribute. And think of Daniel who was a
mighty prophet and who was in touch with God and he was able
to be the advisor because he was the most intelligent man and he
successively has been the Prime Minister or the highest post he
held for 5 or 6 kings successively.
And the Kingdom is better because of Daniel.
Kingdom is better because of Daniel and because of what he
spoke, what Daniel spoke. You have the book of Nehemiah
fulfilling what Daniel has prophesied, Jeremiah has
prophesied, Ezekiel has prophesied and now is the time
of fulfillment. And now you have got these
characters, Sun ballot, Tobiah, the Ghesham, the Arab and all
other enemies, many others. We we looked at in in the map
one of the days before the the enemies were there from four or
five directions who want to stop the work.
So there will be opposition. So what is happening here is
Sanbar and Geshem sent me this message.
Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain
of Oh no, Oh no, Oh no is the name of the place.
Can we see it on the map, please?
So where is it? Oh no, you got 1 white rectangle
on the top. On the left is Oh no, there's a
dot, block dot. And from there to Jerusalem is
about 37 miles or about 60 kilometers, so 60 kilometers of
distance. They are saying let us meet in
the plains of oh, no, one of the villages, not one particular
place, one of the villages. Now that place has a politically
it is closer to some area that is Tobias Sun Ballads place and
it is something that that actually was not belonging to
Israel or to Judah for a quite a long time.
Oh, no, sorry, it's too hard for reading.
I can see a lot of people stretching their eyes, eyes
coming out. So if you have the thing, I
could have just pointed it out. It's just here.
Oh no, see Ashdod. And after that on top of the
three more places, and then you've got Oh no, And on top of
that you've got effect, the big rectangle, not that rectangle,
small one. That big rectangle there next to
the left is oh, no, cool. So basically what they're trying
to do is they want to draw Nehemiah away from his
commitment to the vision. A day's journey, they said.
Day's journey, 60 kilometers. In those days, I do not know it
have taken more than a day. Probably many people think it is
a day's journey, 60 kilometers. I do not think they can cover
unless they go on a horse or something like that.
Thank you. Oops, sorry.
That is. Oh, no.
And Jerusalem is here. Yehuda Jhuda, that is.
I think it is Jerusalem. Yeah.
Even I am not able to read anyway, so you have this Tobiah,
sorry Sun ballot Samaria, then Tobiah from somewhere here Ramon
and then you've got enemies when he said other enemies is Ashdod.
And then you do Mia here down South, everywhere you have
surrounded by the enemies and in the times difficult times, he
rebuild the wall in 52 days. Everybody say 52 days if it took
for him to travel from Suisa, the capital, to Jerusalem, three
or four months. He wanted things to be so quick
before the message goes to Suisa and comes back.
He wanted the watch to be rebuilt.
There's a time constraint. So he is a man of vision and
because of that vision he had, he was able to motivate the
people a lot. What each one should do.
We say all that in the previous chapter, how he organized the
thing. But when this is all done now
they are still saying, OK, gates are not set up, doors are not
set up. Now is the time we had to stop
the work. So they sent him this letter
saying come, let us talk in the villages of Ono to draw him away
so that they can harm him. You know, you have a similar
kind of a situation in the New Testament.
The Jewish Jews asked the centurion that Paul be produced
at certain place and when they asked, there were about 30 or 40
people who wowed. They will not eat food until
they kill Paul. So traveling from one place to
another is just a big risk and Nehemiah was being exposed to
the risk. And Nehemiah understood their
ulterior motive that he had the discernment to know that they
want to harm him. So he said, what is his
response? He says but the scheming to harm
me. So I send messengers to them
with this reply. I am carrying on a great project
and cannot go down. I'm carrying on a great project.
I'm doing a great work. I cannot leave my work and go.
And this is what will happen with a man of vision.
He will not take any time off. He is just after it all the
time. So, so many times I think about
our own church, Omega. Is there a vision?
Is it out of my own mind? I said we should have a church.
No, we have been disappointed going to church for many years
in New Zealand, many places, many churches, either you will
find the word of God preached there and no work of the Holy
Spirit, or you see the demonstration of the Spirit and
no word is being preached. So we were completely, totally
discouraged about the whole thing.
And the vision is not just after experiencing these things.
Vision started in the year 2000 when the Lord gave me a vision.
I'm not trying to make up a vision.
No, it is a vision that God has given me.
And he said come build my church.
And it took more than 20 years before it happened.
I did not want to engineer it. I did not want to create it.
I do not want to force it. I do not want to do any of those
things. So the vision is in my heart.
Sometimes vision will be resisted, but we are not trying
to be very harsh with anything these matters.
It is natural. It is natural, like I was an
employee, I didn't like what my boss told me, but the boss gives
you an ultimate, OK, either you do what I want or you go.
So I did not want to go. So I did what my boss wanted.
You know, that was I am forced to do it.
But the same way vision always is challenging because not
everybody will understand the vision.
They will only understand partially.
So I cannot find for everyone about it.
We can only encourage, that's my job, is to put that vision
before everybody. How we are to study the world
and then how we are to obey the world, to bring that revival,
end time revival in this city. That's my job to keep that
vision fresh all the time. I was just thinking about Billy
Graham. What made a turning point in the
life of Billy Graham? Billy Graham had another person
who was more popular than Billy Graham, drawing more people to
his meetings. And suddenly one day he says I
don't believe in this God anymore.
It it was a shock to a young Billy Graham how this man,
intellectually so powerful and who was having the oratory
skills were drawing so many thousands of people to his
meetings, suddenly says, I don't believe in God anymore.
He shook him thoroughly. He said, what am I believing?
What is the gospel I am believing?
What am I going to preach? How am I going to sustain my own
faith? Somebody's disbelief has shaken
Billy Graham to the core. And one day he went into the
woods. When he went into the woods, he
found a stump, put the Bible on the stump and said, I believe
that this is the word of God. I believe this is the word of
God. Whatever happens to me, I don't
care, but I believe this is the word of God.
And one of the times when he was preaching on the book of Jonah
and he said book of Jonah, you see that the fish followed Jonah
is the is the Bible said that the Jonah swallowed the fish,
the big huge fish. I will still believe it.
What is important is our commitment to believe the Word
of God is very, very important. This word will not change.
This word is the one that is given for the church to grow on
it, to become strong. Your vision should come from
this book, no other. That's why we say Bible study is
important. Why everything I do in this
church is very well thought about.
It is not random. I have seen a church that they
meet six days in a week. They were tired of going to the
church and there are times there are people who don't care to go
to church. I said if even having personal
quiet time is a struggle to many people because you have a job,
you have got so many commitments.
Some days you will read the Bible and pray.
Some days you don't read the Bible and pray.
I know the human weakness. That's the reason why I said if
you get a strong word on a Sunday and a strong word on one
of the weekdays, if you obey that word, your life will not be
the same. You will be changed because you
obey the word. I'm going with the minimum
thing, not the maximum. I'm going with the minimum.
I'm not pushing too much. If you have the word 2 days, it
will carry you through 7 days. Cool.
So here is the man of vision and he replies saying I'm doing a
great work. See, that's what everybody
should have. A father must know the vision
for the family, mother must know the vision for the family, the
boss should know the vision for his company, and the pastor
should know the vision for the church.
And if the pastor does not have vision, that is a church that
has no hope. So we need more pastors with
vision. That's very important.
If the word of the Lord does not come to a man and starts a
church, he can still start. He can, he can still gather
people. In particularly in large
populous nations like India, anybody can start a church and
there will be people coming there.
It's not very difficult at all to gather a crowd there.
So now, but there was scheming to harm me, so I send messages
to them. I am carrying on a great project
that cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I
leave it and go down to you? So we need to know that work
will be stopped. Distracted discouragement and
the enemy can attack. That's the reason why the leader
must be focused on the vision, and he was focused on the
vision. And because of that, four times
I sent the same message and each time I gave them the same
answer. That's very important.
Same message was sent. He gave the same reply because
the vision has not changed. The vision to rebuild the walls
has not changed, so he had to give the same reply.
So this is the first strategy to discourage Nehemiah from
completing the work. Walls are up now and the doors
have to be fixed and they want to stop it.
So they resorted to strategy #2 plan 2.
Plan 1 is failed. Was the plan 2.
Now they gave a man a messenger. A open letter is not.
It is not a scroll rolled up with a seal on it so that only
the intended recipient will open the break the seal and read the
letter. That is how it was in those
days. It has to be sealed probably
with wax wax or something like that and then the wax is easy to
break and then you open the scroll and read it.
Instead they sent a open letter. Now this is like open letter is
anybody can read basically. It is like gossip.
It is like bringing the man down
by words that were to discourage the man.
And in fact, yeah, the unsealed letter came in which it was
written. What did he do in this letter?
What did he write in this thing? First thing is it became from
private attack to public attack. Previously they sent four times
the sealed envelope. OK, read this for yourself.
That was private. Now its an open letter from
private became public. So they will try to bring the
man down by publicly attacking him with the words.
What are the words they used this they have they said it is
reported among the nations and Geshem says it is true.
You know these, there's a man called War on VSB.
In his commentary he says many churches are down, they're
pulled down because of it is reported, it is true.
These are dangerous words in a church.
It is reported, it is true. So everywhere it is reported, it
is true. It is reported, isn't it true?
And then people scatter everywhere.
So we need to be very careful before we open our mouth to
destroy a church. We should be very careful not to
do those kind of things. So they have done it.
Its true that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt and
therefore you are building the wall.
What is the purpose of building the wall?
You want to revolt against the king, you want to become the
king and then you want to appoint false prophets to go and
tell the people this man is the king, go from God to proclaim
that he is the king from God. False prophecies.
So that is what they are trying to say here.
Moreover, according to these reports, you are about to become
the king and have even appointed prophets to make this
proclamation about you. In Jerusalem there is a king in
Judah. The prophecy is there is a king
in Judah. Nehemiah is the new king.
That's why you appointed prophets to proclaim it.
How dangerous is that? It is very dangerous.
He has, no, he doesn't have any of these things.
So how do you counter a false report that is circulating in
the community or in the church? Only by speaking the truth.
So what is the truth? He spoke, he said I sent him
this reply. Nothing like what you're saying
is happening. You're just making it up out of
your own head. That's your imagination, sun
ballad. That's the imagination, Tobiah,
that's your imagination. And Geshem, that's your
imagination. It's not at all true.
I my intention is not to revolt. My intention is not to become
the king, and I do not have false prophets to proclaim it.
For me. Religion, politics, everything
is mixed up in this chapter. Religion and politics are mixed
up, and that becomes a dangerous explosive.
So what happens here? No.
Now this report will get back to the king.
So come, let us come comfort together.
Let's meet and talk. What they're trying to say is,
hey, you can't be doing things alone.
Let's talk together. Let us have a part from the
beginning. They said you have no part in
this. You have no part in this.
And now they're saying, I'm, we want to force your hand to come
to this table to talk. Let's talk.
That's, that's that's what they were trying to do.
Then he said they were all trying to frighten us, thinking
their hands will get too weak for the work.
Two factors are there. One, psychological warfare is
happening here to frighten Nehemiah and others were
involved in building, rebuilding the walls.
Fear. They won't put fear.
Hey, if you build the walls, the king is going to come to know
and he will send the army and you are all gone.
You are all dead. So that was, that is the fear
they are trying to create. And the second thing is his
hands will go limp. That means you will be
discouraged. He will not have the motivation.
He will not have the energy to do what he wants to do.
And what Nehemiah did, he exactly prayed something similar
to what they were wanting to happen, but in the opposite
effect. He prayed a simple prayer and he
said, I prayed now strengthen my hands, strengthen my hands,
strengthen me because I want to do your work.
I want to do the vision that you have.
You know, it puzzles me. Whenever I think of Nehemiah's
life, it puzzles me. He is fulfilling every prophecy
that has been foretold beforehand through Daniel,
through Jeremiah, Eskil, everybody.
But he himself doesn't have a vision in the sense a
supernatural communication, an Angel appearing to him, having a
dream, none of these things. But why it is important is for
us New Testament Christians, when you are committed to the
world and obey the world, that revival will come, the revival
will come. And when when it comes to
vision, sometimes you know it will be like Paul.
Paul had a vision, vision that they should not set sail.
The weather is going to be rough, its going to cost human
life. He told the captain, hey
captain, we should not be sailing now because this is not
the right season for us. Let's winter here.
They said no, no, no. Everybody said no, no, we are
not going to listen to you. And then they go and get stuck
in the storm for two weeks. There are no sun and you know
rest of the story. Sometimes it is very rare.
It is a negative example of a vision I am trying to give here
is not a positive. Like Joseph is a +1, Daniel is a
+1, but Paul is a -1 He had the vision.
No one listened to him and they landed up in the storm.
But because of that vision of the one man, they were all saved
with their life. The ship is gone, it was broken
into pieces, the cargo is gone, but they all were shared.
Because of the one man's vision. An Angel of God stood by him and
said not a hare will be lost, Paul, because I am with you and
all the people on the ship I give to you.
They were all saved. They all believed in the name of
Jesus because of one man. So whether it is positive
vision, negative vision, vision is very important.
Whether you are driving or the captain having a vision, or you
are a sailor or you are just a passenger having a vision, when
the vision is from God, that vision will succeed.
Nobody can stop it. That's why Jesus said, I build
my church on this rock and the gates are fell shall not prevail
against it. And the pastor is one of those
guys who should have a vision to lead the church.
So next thing you see here is a plan 2 also failed and
afterwards they have a plan 3. Now the plan 3 is in the plan 2.
What are the things that did is false accusation.
Nieman accounted them with the truth.
They attributed a wrong motive to become a king.
They attributed to him that is going to revolt against the king
of Persia and then he was they were he was they were telling
that they were using he was using the false prophets to
proclaim he is a king. But in fact, they use those same
strategy again another time. We will see very soon.
So what is the what is the plan 3 They selected a man called
Shimaya. He has a reputation of being a
prophet, but this prophet, he must have had a reputation being
a prophet, but now he's sold. You know when a house is sold,
they put a sticker, sticker sticker house is sold.
So this man is a sole prophet. So what did what they did, they
paid the money and said you have to prophecy.
So he shot himself in the house. He didn't want to move out as if
he has got a burden full a vision and he's got a message
and a prophecy and he's so burdened he cannot go out of the
house. So he called Nehemiah to his
house. So Nehemiah goes to the House of
Shamaya and he says, hey, they are going to kill you tonight,
you are going to be killed. So let us go and hide inside the
temple. Where?
Inside the temple? Why?
If he listens to the advice of the man and goes into the
temple, what is going to happen is he is going to disobey the
word of God. He's going to deserve the word
of God. How he's going to deserve the
word of God because he does not belong to the he's not a Levite,
he's not a priest, and he is not supposed to go inside the temple
of God. Inside the temple of God,
anybody is not a priest can only go as far as that altar, bronze
altar where you offer the whole bond offerings.
You cannot go farther. You can bring your offering
there, put it on it, that's it. You can't go further.
There was a king called Ujjaya. He dared to offer a strange
fire. He took the golden censor, put
the fire on it, put the frankincense and everything and
went into the presence of God. And leprosy broke out on his
face instantly. And the priest said, King, there
is leprosy on you. Leave the place now.
Rest of his life he had to be separated from his own palace.
They had to build a separate house for him to live.
And his son ruled in his place. So you don't play with God.
Basically, we don't play with God.
And this man, he is now being forced to hide inside so that
they can say, hey, you are thinking Nema is your leader.
Don't believe that guy. He went into the temple.
He was afraid, He got afraid because we have forced him to be
afraid and he got afraid, got into the temple.
Why do you follow him? He has desecrated the temple by
going into the temple. He is not allowed to go in.
So that is how they said, thinking that he will commit sin
and they can take advantage of it and talk negatively about
him, to put Him down in the eyes of the people, to challenge his
leadership, to challenge his vision, to bring it to nothing,
to stop the vision. They were playing that this is a
plan #3 they brought it. So what happened?
Now the other other motive also is that God by himself might
kill him. If he goes disobeys and goes
inside the temple, God will be his enemy, just like the
Moabites in do entice the the Israelites and Israelis went and
offered worship their idols and indulged in sex with the people
and God's anger came upon them. Many thousands died.
So that's the reason why they thought they can force him to
deserve a God, to make God his enemy and to discredit him.
But he said, should such a man as I flee, should such a man as
I run away for my own life, my life is nothing.
I am not afraid to die. Guys.
You can't frighten me anymore. So Niema stood up his ground and
plan #3 failed. Are we together?
You following how Niema has been attacked so that he will not be
a good person doing the work of God.
Sure, such a man as I run away and then they has they have
hired false prophets. Verse 12.
What does verse 12 say? But I say, should a man run away
or should one like me go into a temple to save his life?
I will not go. I realized that God had not sent
him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and
Sanbarak had hired him. There's so many things there.
Three main points is that he first thing is he discerned that
God did not send these people. The the particular prophet.
God did not send the prophet. Why?
He was telling him to disobey and do something contrary to the
will of God. That's already expressed in the
Bible book of Numbers or Deuteronomy.
No one other than a priest can enter the temple of God.
So there he is. When somebody tells you to
disobey the word of God, then you start from God.
It's very simple. Even a prophecy somewhere I
think Jeremiah himself says how do you know a prophecy is from
God when it is fulfilled? It is a prophecy from God.
And secondly says even if a prophecy is fulfilled, but the
the essence of the prophecy says go and worship idols, that
prophecy is not right. Whatever prophecy that takes you
away from God and his vision is false prophecy.
So we need to train our mind with the word of God shedding
the word we are train our mind and then the light comes into us
and gives us the gift of discerning of the spirits and we
will be saved from committing sin against God in all this
endeavor. So then what happened?
He had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanbar had
hired him. So you got the enemy, you got
the false prophecy, and it involves money.
He was hired because he took the money.
He's speaking the prophecy. Those three things are there in
that verse. Then verse 13, he had been hired
to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by doing this, and
then they would give me a bad name to discredit me.
The sin is entering the temple of God is a sin, and then they
are going to use it to discredit him, to give him a bad name.
What a scheme they have come up with.
But when a man is committed to the vision and a man is
committed to obey God, honor God, do his will, he will not be
shaken. He will not be shaken.
A man of vision will not be shaken.
This I am very, very clear about it.
Remember Toby and Sanbarat, Oh my God, because of what they
have done. Remember also the prophet,
prophetess, no idea. And the rest of the prophets who
have been trying to intimidate me.
So this is from one prophet. It went a female prophetess and
it went down to many other prophets.
That means they are buying the rest of the people to team up
with them. Is it looking like a 2500 year
old story? Are it looking like a modern day
church story? So we need to be very, very
clear. We need to be very clear.
So in summary, in verse 15. So the wall was completed on the
25th of Elul in that 52 in 52 days.
That's the record time 52 days. And because of the emergency,
because of its importance, because of the time that is
running out, Nehemiah motivated them, gave them the vision.
The vision is transferred from the mind of Neymar to the people
of Judah and they rebuild the walls.
And it included some of the people who were who were married
into the family of Tobiah and Sun Ballot.
The A family was involved in rebuilding the walls, but they
were married to Sunbharat and Tobiah.
So you will see that there is a communication going on between
the enemies of Nehemiah and the people who are involved in the
building of the wall. You will see it in verses 17.
You see there one more thing. What is the outcome of all this
work when the walls are built in 52 days?
What was the outcome? The enemies of Judah came to
know one thing, that this work has been done by the help of
God. Everybody said they did it with
the help of God, and because it is done with the help of God,
fear came on them until now they are attacking.
But when the work is done, they said, oh, this is a hand of God,
this is the power of God. When Jacob was fleeing from his
brother and the brother comes and meets him and other things.
And then the their daughter Dina was raped by the mites, and the
brothers rose up in the night. They talked nicely with them,
you know, made them circumcised. And that night they went and
invaded and killed every male. And then when the sons came to
the father, he said, what have you done now everybody is going
to come together and finishes off.
Whole family is going to die. And then Jacob, he set up an
altar and offered the sacrifice and the fear of God fell on all
the surrounding people. Nobody touched him and he went
safely back to his father's house.
When we are being attacked the only recourse is to pray and
when you pray Gods fear will fall on those who attack you and
were trying to work against you and that's the only way you can
survive. Pray, pray, pray, pray.
Look to God. When you think you are finished,
look to God. When you think tomorrow is I may
not be alive, look to God and you will see tomorrow and day
after tomorrow also because you have looked to God, He will
sustain you. So they hired people and all
these things. And in verse 17 how it says in
those days the nobles of Judah were sending many letters of
Tobiah and replies from Tobiah kept coming to them.
That is communication going on. And then again in verse 19.
Moreover, they kept reporting to me his good deeds and then
telling him what I said and to Tobias and let us to intimidate
me. They were coming and giving good
reports to Nehemiah. Tobiah is a very nice man son
Ballot, he's a very nice man. You had to be careful and
somebody praises somebody. Why they are praising?
You have to ask the question, what is the motivation behind
the praising? And they were taking the words
of Nehemiah and communicating to Sun Ballot and Tobiah.
They are praising Tobiah and Sun Ballot to Nehemiah and taking
the words of Nehemiah and telling it to Sun Ballot and
Tobiah and Geshem and other people.
So the communication is going on.
But I tell you, on this rock I will build my church and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
That's the word of Jesus and we go with that word.
We go with the Word and we shall accomplish the vision that He
has given and we will see the revival that is going to come
into the city today. Don't look at today, 2025 people
are sitting there. What is this small people are
going to do? How is revival going to come?
That's the reason why we had 21 days of prayer.
That should not stop with the 21 days.
I have not stopped. I have not stopped.
You pray every day. Set aside, say God, what is my
role? If those people, those who are
lifting the rock, putting in the place, they should know why they
are doing it. If they don't know why they are
doing it, they will not do it. So if you don't know why you are
praying, you will not pray. If you don't know what happens
when you pray, you will not pray.
Prayer is the force that God is going to use to bring the
revival. Sometimes it will be very, very
simple. It is.
I always impressed by Jonathan Edwards.
He was a scholar, but he had a visual impairment.
He used to wear glasses and the glass used to be so thick.
It used to come out like a horn. He has to look through that
little glass. It used to come out and he had a
candlelight and he has written down his message, sinners in the
hands of angry God. And he did not preach with
passion. There's no passion, there's
nothing. He simply read the message from
that piece of paper and the people said we don't want to
face the wrath of God. They're holding the pillar in
the church. Please fall on us.
Because the Holy Presence of God was manifest in the church and
the great river broke out. What it needs is being faithful
to the Word of God. This Word has the power to
change our individual life, our families, church, community, and
the nation and the world. This is only hope.
We should come back like Billy Graham, take that word, put it
on a tree stump or even any, any place and say I will believe
this word. I will believe this word.
And that is the foundation we need.
Just think about, you know, if you walk, if you drive from here
to Lincoln, so many fields are there and you will find a lot of
trees planted which grow like a wall to break the wind.
If just imagine a funny conversation, somebody goes from
near my and says, hey, why do you want to be waste so much of
your energy and time building the wall.
Let's plant these trees. They'll become like a wall.
You will laugh at that man. The wall is a wall.
You cannot substitute with the trees.
So vision is very important for a church.
Vision is important, Leader must have the vision and that vision
must be caught by the people around him.
Then the work gets accomplished. So what is the best thing I
would say is when you go back home, I heard this man say so
many things, but why am I in Omega?
Ask the simple question, Holy Spirit, speak to me.
Why am I in the Omega? Do you want to be part of that
big revival that God is sending, going to send?
Don't look at the 25 people today, 30 people today.
Look at the revival that he's going to send.
And that will give you that vision, will give you power,
motivation to become a man and a woman of prayer.
And that is what God is going to accomplish.
There's such a silence. Can we show the Hallelujah so
when we do the will of God, great fear will come on all
because this is done with the help of God.
With the help of God we are looking forward for that vision.
We are looking forward for that mighty revival that will come
into Christchurch, sweep through the churches, carry the people,
thousands and thousands turning to Christ.
We don't have even 1,000,000 people in Christchurch.
Let's pray for that 1 million or 800,000 or 900,000 people in
Christchurch. God, every suburb there must be
revival. Every street must be filled with
the power and every home Holy Spirit must enter.
You know in Egypt he entered the house wherever there was number
blood and people were dead. Now you say, I put that blood of
Jesus on every home. Holy Spirit, enter every home.
Convict them of sin, righteousness and judgment.
Let the revival come. Let the revival come.
That blood when you put up on every home, every home in
crushes, Holy Spirit will enter every home and bring the
revival. If you believe it, shout
Hallelujah. Let's pray.
Thank you, Jesus. Sahara Saara Sandrano
Barasaktukundo sanamare bandre sastaroni hosta boroni mandastar
saharani Karachi sandasta sastaroni Rosso ko borono mane
harabashi sandarano Rosso boroni.
The Lord says I'm a God who makes streams in the desert.
I will lay a road in the desert and I will lead you, says the
Lord. Sakthi bandaram mahastaro
hoshana mahandasta koroni. We pray to Jesus because it it
is who who he who was, who is, who is to come.
You are God who fills time, space and history.
And we worship you and we invite you now into our own hearts.
Right now in our own hearts. We invite the Holy Spirit to
come and to magnify the name of Jesus and the bread of Jesus,
the power of the bread of Jesus that we may believe.
And we may, oh God, hope that this vision that we have for
Omega, the end time revival will come to the word of God.
And we have committed to pray. And I pray that you stir up
everybody that they will allot a certain amount of time every day
to pray in your presence, to wait upon you and to know why
they are here in this church. Help them know why they are part
of Omega. To the glory of your name, I
worship you. I praise you Lord, thank you for
your word. Let it build the walls of our
own heart and our families and the church, the glory of your
name. In Jesus name we ask and
everybody says Amen, Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.
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