1 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:14,600 Hallelujah, I think we can do better isn't it? 2 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:21,120 Hallelujah that's good. So we are studying the book of 3 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:27,000 Nehemiah. We ended the 1st chapter ended 4 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000 with I was cup bearer to the king. 5 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:33,720 I described in my last message, who is a cup bearer is a is a 6 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:38,480 most trusted position because King's life is in the hand of 7 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:41,440 cup bearer. If somebody wants to poison him, 8 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,520 put some poison into the drink and it can kill the king, kill 9 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,840 the king. So before the king drinks, he 10 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:54,400 has to drink it in front of the king and then pass the cup to 11 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,600 him. So it's a very responsible 12 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,400 position. And basically you see in this 13 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:04,160 chapter 2, what's happening here in chapter 2 is in the month of 14 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,800 Nissan, in the 20th year of King Artax exists. 15 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,480 When wine was brought for him, I took the wine and gave it to the 16 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:16,520 king. Where did the whole story start? 17 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:24,480 In the month of Kislev? That's in chapter 1, verse one 18 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,000 in the month of Kislev in the 20th year where I was in the 19 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Siddle of Zusa between Kislev and a Nissan, you got three to 20 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,720 four months time. So we see that after he heard 21 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:42,000 the report that walls have been broken down, gets burned down, 22 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:46,440 temple is torn down. So all the news he hears, he sat 23 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:51,200 down and wept and prayed and prayed, weeping and praying, 24 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,640 weeping and praying. And as he was doing it, he 25 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,640 gathered some people around and they started joining him and it 26 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:04,120 became a movement of prayer. So you see by the end of the 27 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:09,720 chapter 1 he says verse 11. Oh Lord, let your ear be 28 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,960 attended to the prayer of this your servant that is referring 29 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,600 to Nehemiah himself and to the prayer of your servants who 30 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,840 delight in the in revereing your name, your servants referring to 31 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:22,400 others who are joined him in prayer. 32 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,680 It became a movement of prayer. Everybody say movement of 33 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:30,040 prayer. You heard Haley mentioned about 34 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:35,760 prayer 21 days of prayer. This is very much in our heart 35 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,480 that we should become a praying people. 36 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:43,720 Why you look into the real life of Nehemiah, There's no 37 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,680 revelation. There are no angels visiting 38 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,120 him. There are no dreams, divine 39 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,720 dreams. But he fulfilled something in 40 00:02:53,720 --> 00:03:00,720 his life. He was playing a very key role 41 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:09,360 in fulfillment of prophecies and Nehemiah, I would say represents 42 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:14,960 every New Testament Christian. Sometimes you may say you may 43 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:20,880 not have any dreams or visions or supernatural experiences, but 44 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,920 still you can fulfill the plan of God. 45 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:31,000 You can, you can fulfill very key things to happen for the 46 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,840 church, in the church through your life if you begin to pray. 47 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:43,320 So prayer is the key. Prayer is the key for revival. 48 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,640 So for the walls to be rebuilt, I told you the walls are very 49 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,000 important. Why? 50 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,240 It brings disgrace. If you live in Jerusalem and the 51 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,360 walls are torn down, the enemies will taunt you and say, hey, 52 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,440 you're living in a city that has got no walls. 53 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,920 There's no safety for you guys and it is not something to be 54 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:07,440 proud about and it is not something they can gloat about. 55 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:11,480 Also, they cannot talk about it. So it is, it is shame, basically 56 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,720 shame, sense of shame. You know, the sense of shame is 57 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,680 there in so many things. When somebody cannot have 58 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,959 children, it becomes a part of sense of shame. 59 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:22,200 In the Old Testament times, not now anymore in the New 60 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,080 Testament, but in the Old Testament, Hannah was not able 61 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,240 to have children. It is a sense of shame for her. 62 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,800 And you look at the Abraham say I was not able to have children. 63 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,880 It was a disgrace for her. Elizabeth in the New Testament 64 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,000 is a disgrace. But I tell you, all these things 65 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,120 they have overcome in every situation of shame and rejection 66 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:47,280 they have overcome by prayer. Any other means they have 67 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:51,800 overcome. No, we all know about prayer, 68 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,320 but we don't pray. I tell you, there was a time in 69 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,280 my life I used to be preaching the Word of God. 70 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:02,040 I even speak in a prayer conference or prayer meeting on 71 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,120 prayer. But in my personal life, I have 72 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,480 not prayed. It's not something to be proud 73 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,440 about. But my life changed when I began 74 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,800 to pray. That is what I'm hinting at. 75 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,440 If we want things to change, we must begin to pray. 76 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,160 So now he has got how much time to pray? 77 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,560 Three to four months of prayer and it has become a movement of 78 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,600 prayer and people are gathering around him every evening, day 79 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,400 and night. He says day and night he was 80 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:34,600 crying and praying, weeping and praying day and night, three to 81 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,880 four months. And that showed up in his face 82 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,920 when he stood before the king with the cup and he handed over 83 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:46,160 the cup to the king. And king says why does your face 84 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:50,720 look sad? Why does your face look sad? 85 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:53,480 What does this exact words he uses? 86 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:59,400 Why does your face look so sad when you are not I'll You are 87 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,880 not physically sick but why is your face looking so sad? 88 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:08,240 That one sentence of the king can mean death to Nehemiah in 89 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:12,200 one second. They don't play, kings don't 90 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:16,440 play. He just lifts his finger. 91 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,440 There will be people, others who will come and put the thing on 92 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,400 his face like what they did to Heman. 93 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:28,040 Heman, the king, said, do you molest the queen in my presence? 94 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,080 That's all he said. And eunuch came and put the 95 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,920 black thing on his covering, on his face, and took him away and 96 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:40,040 hanged him on the gallows. So if you are found sad in the 97 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,800 presence of the king, that cannot be anything other than 98 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:46,760 sadness of heart. That means you must be 99 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,640 conspiring against the king. And who knows if there is poison 100 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,480 in the cup? That's why your face is 101 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:55,040 different. So when he said it, what 102 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:59,040 happened to Nehemiah, he said I was very much afraid. 103 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:05,360 I was very much afraid. This is a natural reaction to 104 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:10,720 the situation there. And that can just simply his 105 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,600 life will end in one second. It doesn't take long. 106 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,040 So he was afraid to hear those words from the king. 107 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,640 So he says, may the king live forever. 108 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,840 Why should my face not look sad when the city where my father's 109 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:27,680 have buried lies in ruins and his gates have been destroyed by 110 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:32,040 fire? So king asks a question, Why is 111 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:34,760 your face sad? You are not sick. 112 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:36,240 Why? Why is your face sad? 113 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,920 And in response, he is asking one more question. 114 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:46,320 Is that how you talk to a king? He asks you a question. 115 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,840 Why is your face sad? Oh, how can I not be sad? 116 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:53,440 My city, where my father's are buried, is in ruins, gets burned 117 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,240 down. So he is asking another 118 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,120 question. This is a rhetoric way of 119 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:04,480 answering, eliciting sympathy. He was trying to appeal to the 120 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,080 sympathy of the king. Hey, my king. 121 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,280 Long, Long live the king. May nobody ever do anything harm 122 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,280 to you. I've got nothing of the sort. 123 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,520 I wish the best of your interests. 124 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:19,760 But the sadness of my heart is because the ancestors, where 125 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:23,560 they are buried is the gates are walls have been turned on. 126 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,480 The gates have been burned down. Can I not be sad? 127 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,600 Should I not be sad? Or if you were there, we need 128 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:38,480 not be sad. So he has the wisdom to answer a 129 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:44,120 question with another question, eliciting sympathy from the 130 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,160 King. You know what? 131 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:51,120 He prepared himself for this moment, praying day and night, 132 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,000 weeping and praying. He must imagine every situation 133 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,120 in his mind. I go into the presence of the 134 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,280 King, and if my my sadness shows up in my face and he asked me 135 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,200 this question, what am I going to say? 136 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,480 Or if you ask me some other question, how am I going to 137 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,720 answer? He must have rehearsed different 138 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,360 situations in his mind hundreds of times. 139 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:15,280 Every time he was praying. Oh my God, I need your favor. 140 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:17,400 Give me favor in the sight of this man. 141 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,360 He is prays in chapter 1. Give me favor in the sight of 142 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,960 this man. Why that favour is going to 143 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,240 change the situation. That favour is going to change 144 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:32,240 the situation. So here we see the king said to 145 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:38,240 me, what is it you want? So the moment he, the king says, 146 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,600 what is it you want? You know, most of the times in 147 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,960 the in the Old Testament, you see kings always asked, what do 148 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:46,440 you want? Up to half my Kingdom. 149 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,720 Because if they don't, they don't want to give more than 150 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:51,640 half the Kingdom. They want to give half of the 151 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,000 Kingdom. That's what you see so many 152 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,120 times. Queen Esther goes, what do you 153 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:57,320 want? Up to half my Kingdom. 154 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,280 Is he going to give half of the Kingdom? 155 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,720 Is she going to ask for it? No, that's just a gesture of 156 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,040 generosity. And kings always have behaved 157 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,800 with generosity. But this fear in the heart of 158 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:14,320 Nehemiah to go and ask about it. But he can be a professionally a 159 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:19,000 cup bearer having a high trusted position and he has access to 160 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:25,080 handing over the drink, the wine and he he will be trusted with 161 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,200 many other things as well. You know, you go to a Barber, he 162 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,320 does a lot of little talk. He may begin from the big 163 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,360 beautiful bill and he may talk about so many other things, but 164 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,480 they do the little talk. Same way he doesn't care whether 165 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,800 you are a professor, whether you are a plumber, the Barber 166 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:44,680 doesn't care, but he gets into the talk. 167 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:47,840 Same way you have access to the king and you do talk. 168 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,240 And sometimes kings can talk what is close to their heart 169 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,440 with the cup bearer and cup bearer. 170 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:57,480 Cup bearer must have intelligence enough to have a 171 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,200 meaningful conversation with the king. 172 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:02,480 Its not a simple job, that's what I'm trying to say. 173 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:08,000 It's not a simple job. A cup bearer, take the cup, give 174 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,320 to the king. It doesn't require any great 175 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:15,360 intelligence, but because of the sensitiveness of the position, 176 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,680 the cup bearer has to be intelligent enough, trustworthy, 177 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:24,400 sincere and he overseas from the time the grapes are planted, 178 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,560 Grapevine is planted until the harvest and the wine is made. 179 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:32,520 He he is responsible for his purity, he is responsible for 180 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:37,880 its quality and is responsible for making sure that is given in 181 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,040 the purest form to the king to make him happy. 182 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:48,480 He is a responsible position. So because of that, now King 183 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:53,880 could say what is it you want? But you know when he says what 184 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,640 is it you want? Up to half of his Kingdom, 185 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:02,920 whatever it is, I'm just joking, but he is disposed to grant 186 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:12,000 whatever he's going to ask. Just think about Christians, you 187 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,400 are going to the King of Kings, Lord of Lords. 188 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,320 We have boldness to enter into the very presence of God prone 189 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:20,680 room of God. You know that's a great 190 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:23,320 privilege. Its a great privilege for a 191 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,840 Christian to go and pray in the presence of King of Kings, Lord 192 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:32,760 of Lords. And so many times we are not 193 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,520 having the reverence that we need to have in the presence of 194 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,640 God. This man is in the presence of 195 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:45,880 another man, but he has reverence, he has fear, and he 196 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,640 is able to address him as Long live king. 197 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,280 And then he says, why should I not be sad? 198 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:53,760 This is the happening. And then now king says, OK, what 199 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:58,840 do you want? If a king, a human king can 200 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,520 connect with a cup bear and say, what do you want? 201 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:06,080 And when you go in prayer, will the king of kings, Lord of Lords 202 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,200 create of the whole universe? And he will he not say what do 203 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,360 you want? Will he say it or not? 204 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,640 Can I hear something little bit louder? 205 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,840 What do you want? You need to know in order to 206 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,680 when that question comes, you need to know and that answer 207 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:32,200 comes from prayer. That answer comes from prayer. 208 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:36,480 He prayed for 3-4 months long and he rehearsed every situation 209 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,040 and when the King asked what do you want, immediately He gives 210 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:45,560 us the list of things that he wants in prayer. 211 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,800 There are different ways of praying and in particular there 212 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:53,720 is a book called 4th Dimension, if you ever have heard about it, 213 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,840 written by a David Yangicho. And in that he says when you go 214 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:02,360 to God and you ask for, let's say a pulpit, you want, you tell 215 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,680 him what exactly you want. You want it in blue color, you 216 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:07,880 want it so much of length, so much of breadth, so much of 217 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,240 height. He says that is how you imagine 218 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:15,960 and look into the situation and say what exactly you want, ask 219 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:18,640 God specifically and that is how God gives. 220 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:25,200 I mean fully 100% with that theory, I am, I may not be, but 221 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,560 just one of the ways you pray and I tell you, I encourage you 222 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:34,000 to sit down and think what do you want God to do for you? 223 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:38,280 And that answer that you give to God, what do you want when you 224 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:42,160 ask is going to depend on what is going to happen in your life, 225 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,320 rest of your life. Your life is going to change 226 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:51,640 based on what answer to God. You should know what to ask and 227 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,200 you will know it only through prayer. 228 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000 What to ask will come only through prayer. 229 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:03,160 So here he prayed to the God of heaven. 230 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:06,520 Then I prayed to the God of heaven and I answered the king, 231 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:12,280 How much time you think Nehemiah had to pray to the God of 232 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:17,160 Heaven? Suppose he closed his eyes with 233 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:22,000 the king said, what do you want? He closed his eyes, let me think 234 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:31,200 his head will be gone, head will be gone next second, take him 235 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,840 out. He's contemplating something bad 236 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,720 about me. King will think so. 237 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,920 He had fraction of a second because he prayed for three to 238 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,680 four months. That prepared him to have that 239 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:49,000 one second prayer. Lord, be with me now and 240 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,120 immediately He says this is what I want. 241 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,240 The long prayer prepares you for short times of prayer. 242 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:59,600 It is not the other way around. You cannot say somebody good 243 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,960 morning God in the morning. Good afternoon. 244 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,280 I hope you had a good, good day so far. 245 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,600 Good evening. I suppose you really had a 246 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,360 fantastic day. Is that how you pray to God? 247 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,120 I know some guys they say, oh, I pray three times, what do you 248 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:21,480 pray? I just say I pray for my 249 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:23,240 business, I pray for this, I pray for that. 250 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:30,200 I said you are not praying when you put your heart into prayer. 251 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:36,560 You will sweat out when you are groaning in the presence of God. 252 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:41,480 You will not be the same when you get up because something of 253 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:45,400 God will be rubbed on you. Your heart will carry the burden 254 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,800 of Gods heart. Your mind will be enlightened by 255 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,480 the consents of God and you will have a purpose and you will have 256 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:54,560 a power to do what you want to do. 257 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:57,840 Because you have spent the powerful time in the presence of 258 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,080 God, you cannot pray and be the same. 259 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,760 You cannot be, you cannot be praying and be the same because 260 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,480 prayer is supposed to change you, not God. 261 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:18,040 Because God is changed us. If he changes, he is not God. 262 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,760 Sometimes you will see in the scripture God repented change 263 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:27,560 his mind when he created man, when they became sinful and he 264 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,320 set the flood and finished the whole race except that Noah and 265 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,600 his family. Did God really change his mind? 266 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:36,160 Did he really repent about making the man? 267 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:41,560 It is called anthropomorphism. In theology you attribute human 268 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,960 qualities to God to understand and explain things. 269 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:47,840 Its not that he needed a change, not that he repented. 270 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,520 He had all things planned beforehand. 271 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,920 He is the lamb that is laid before the foundation of the 272 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,000 world. He made the answer before you 273 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:05,440 have a problem. So he prayed to the God of 274 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:11,200 heaven, and I answered the king. If it pleases the king, and if a 275 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:16,640 servant has found favor in his sight, let him send me to the 276 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,040 city. In Judah everybody says send me. 277 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,120 When you want answer to God, When you want answer from God, 278 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,520 you must be willing to be involved in the answer. 279 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,960 If you don't want to be part of Gods plan, if you don't want 280 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,320 Gods part of Gods answer. What are you praying about 281 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:39,600 South? What am I saying here is if we 282 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,080 begin to pray, revival will come. 283 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,000 This is the time God wants to bless the whole world. 284 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:49,440 What are we doing as Christians? Since 3 weeks I am shouting and 285 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,520 asking. I want to see people who will 286 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,920 volunteer to come for one hour of prayer. 287 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:59,840 One hour you may say no, no, I want to be in my home. 288 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,640 I want to do it. I will join you on the what is 289 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,080 Zoom meeting. I don't believe in it. 290 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,960 I'm telling you honestly before you, I don't believe in Zoom 291 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:13,720 meeting. They will start the meeting, 292 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,520 turn off the camera and go in the kitchen and do their job. 293 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:27,280 So if you care for God, I want you to come physically for one 294 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,960 hour. If it is 7 to 8, seven to 87, it 295 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:31,600 will start, 8, it will end. That's all. 296 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,680 No preaching, nothing. You will come there and pray for 297 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,480 one hour. Pour out your heart. 298 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,680 Pour out your heart because God, we need the revival of the 299 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,280 church, we need revival of the city. 300 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:42,680 That's what you're going to pray. 301 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,080 We want God to move. Put his finger in your own life, 302 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:48,000 in your own family, in your own children. 303 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,440 Though things are going to change after the 21 days of 304 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:53,760 prayer, things cannot be the same. 305 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,120 Why? You have come to the King of 306 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:59,400 Kings who answer you, and he says, what do you want? 307 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,600 And if you know what you want, you will get it. 308 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,720 If you don't know what you want, you will not get it. 309 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,760 Simple. It's very simple. 310 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:16,360 You should know what you want. So what do you want? 311 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:21,040 And he says, send me to the city in Judah where my father's are 312 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:22,920 buried, so that I can rebuild it. 313 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,920 Send me. That's the first thing he says. 314 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:28,760 And second thing is then the king with the queen sitting 315 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:30,680 beside him, you know, this is very important thing. 316 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:37,400 This is not a public banquet where king is available, all his 317 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,160 officials are available. In that situation, queen will 318 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,360 not be present. This is a private event where 319 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:47,800 the king is sitting with the queen and he's in a good mood 320 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,160 now. And he asked him what do you 321 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:51,840 want? And he said what do you want? 322 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,160 Send me. And then he, he with the queen 323 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:56,920 beside him, he asks the next question. 324 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,160 What is the question He asks him? 325 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,000 How long will your journey take and when will you get back? 326 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,200 How long will it take for you to go and come back? 327 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,360 That simply when he said those words, when he asked that 328 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:12,560 question, Nehemiah is intelligent enough to understand 329 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,920 that the king is disposed to give the grant the request that 330 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,520 he is going to ask. So next words he says it pleases 331 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,400 the king to send me, so I set a time. 332 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,520 He doesn't tell you how long he set a time. 333 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:25,840 Did he say next year I will come back? 334 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,960 Maybe because it used to take three to four months to travel 335 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:32,680 and you do the job, you have to come back another three to four 336 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,040 months to travel. So he must have said one year 337 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,000 probably, and king must have said OK, go. 338 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,360 But in the book of Nehemiah itself, we don't have a record 339 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,880 as to when he went back until you read in the chapter 5 340 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,600 somewhere. He visited Suisa, the capital, 341 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:55,520 after 12 years. Did he tell the king I am going 342 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,600 away for 12 years? I don't think so. 343 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:05,280 But it doesn't necessarily mean again that he never went back in 344 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:09,280 between. He could have after the 52 days 345 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,000 the walls were reconstructed. Then he would have said, OK, 346 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,840 let's put let's make sure the government is going well, that 347 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,520 the enemies of Judah, enemies of Israelites are all in the right 348 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,480 place and he must have staying in the position and they put the 349 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,000 administration in the right direction. 350 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:28,000 He see was just running it right and he must have said OK. 351 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,520 Then he called his own brother Hanani, who brought the news and 352 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:32,840 made it the governor in his place. 353 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,560 And then he shoots back to capital of Sousa 3 months again 354 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,560 on foot or courses or donkey or whatever. 355 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:44,000 And he goes back and comes back, goes and comes in between. 356 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,680 But it's not recorded for us because it is not possible for 357 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,320 him to be absent for 12 long years and still retain his 358 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,680 position. So he must have made short 359 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:58,400 trips, go there, serve the king for season 3 months, six months, 360 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,200 give the cup again, say OK its time for me to go back again. 361 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,640 Let me go and see what what is happening there. 362 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:10,440 So for 12 years he was there as a governor and he goes back to 363 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:18,120 capital of Susa. So he says verse 7 onwards. 364 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,200 I also said to him, if it pleases the king, may I have 365 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,560 letters to the governors of Trans Euphrates so they will 366 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,720 provide me safe conduct until I arrive in Judah. 367 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,200 Now he wants letters of recommendation or authority 368 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,680 letters. So he is having authority in his 369 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,760 hand, and what is what else he wants? 370 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,560 May I have letter to Asaf, keeper of the Kings Forest, so 371 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,240 that I will. So he will give me timber to 372 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,760 make beams for the gates of the citadel, but the temple and for 373 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,840 the city walls and for the residents I will occupy. 374 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,160 He wants to build his house, he needs timber. 375 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,360 He wants to build the temple, he needs timber. 376 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,560 He wants to set up the gates, he needs a timber. 377 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,600 He is asking for enough timber that he will need from the from 378 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,480 Asif who is in charge of Kings Forest. 379 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:14,000 So Nehemiah has done a lot of groundwork, lot of research. 380 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,240 Who is the in charge there of the forest? 381 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,280 He founded the name Asif. Oh, I need a letter to Asif. 382 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:25,200 In between you cross through so many, so many different satraps 383 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,280 and everywhere there will be a governor and they can stop this 384 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,160 guy and say, hey, where are you going? 385 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,960 Here is the letter. I have it from the king to go to 386 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,880 Judah to Jerusalem. You can't stop me. 387 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:42,000 Not only that, he had with him cavalry to support him. 388 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,480 You see there. And because of the gracious hand 389 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:50,320 of my God was upon me, the king granted me requests, plural, not 390 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,600 one many requests. He got her everything. 391 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,120 And then so I went to the governors of transportation and 392 00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:00,400 gave them the kings letters. The king had also sent army 393 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:06,560 officers and cavalry with me. You not only travel, but it is 394 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,520 safety. You need protection. 395 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:14,040 So he has asked for cavalry and army officers to go with him to 396 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,560 Judah. A long journey. 397 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,600 You know there are different styles of leadership. 398 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:24,320 Nehemiah is a leader, he is a born a leader and here from 399 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,800 being a cup bearer he is transitioning to become a 400 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:32,960 governor. How can you dare if you if you 401 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,840 if you met Nehemiah and he talked his plans. 402 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,880 I want to ask king and I want to go as a governor to You are a 403 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,320 cup bearer and you want to become a governor. 404 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:49,160 Tomorrow you will open your mouth and be surprised, But I 405 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,240 tell you, when your heart is filled with God's purpose, when 406 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,240 your heart is filled with the with the plan of God, purposes 407 00:25:56,240 --> 00:26:00,040 of God, your heart will be so stirred up that nothing will 408 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:05,040 look too unachievable for you from cup bearer. 409 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:07,480 You will become a governor overnight. 410 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:15,280 And the Word of God says God has made each believer a royal 411 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,560 priesthood, holy nation. Gods own people. 412 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,200 You are a priest and you are a king. 413 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:24,560 That's what you are. You are a priest and a king and 414 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,640 you are approaching the throne of grace boldly. 415 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:32,240 And you should know what to ask. And I tell you what, prayer is 416 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,720 not something you do occasionally. 417 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,680 Oh, I prayed last six months ago. 418 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,680 I prayed 6 months ago. What were you doing all other 419 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:46,440 days? Is not something that you do 420 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,240 occasionally. No, it is something like 421 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,920 breathing. You cannot exist without 422 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,600 breathing. Try it for the next one minute. 423 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,840 Hold your breath. You will fall off your chair. 424 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,000 But I'm telling you, as breathing is so important for 425 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,840 existence, so is the prayer. Life is important for a 426 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,200 Christian. You need to be praying, you need 427 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,560 to be praying, you need to be praying in order to survive as a 428 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,040 successful Christian. The one who can put the limits 429 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,160 to the devil and say, hey, you cannot come beyond this line. 430 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:27,040 And if you want to do that and walk in authority, which Jesus 431 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:32,240 has already given before you were born, before you were asked 432 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,640 for the authority, Jesus already gave you power of attorney, 433 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:38,680 power of attorney. You know what it is? 434 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:41,800 Once you get a power of attorney, like if I have 435 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,720 property, I can give power of attorney to somebody and they 436 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,480 can sell the property in my name. 437 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,680 They can do whatever like they like with the property that I, I 438 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,400 make them, I give them power of attorney. 439 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,320 And God has given you the power of attorney. 440 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,000 Jesus has given you power of attorney. 441 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:02,520 When Jesus said, he who believes in me will do what I have done, 442 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,480 and greater works than this shall He do. 443 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:09,800 He has given you authority already before you ask, before 444 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:14,720 it entered your mind. He has given you authority and 445 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,440 He has given you safety. He said, behold, I give you 446 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,800 authority to trade up on snakes, scorpion, all the power, the 447 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,040 enemy, nothing by any means will harm you. 448 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:28,720 That's what Nehemiah asked for, safety, protection and 449 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,600 authority. And Jesus is giving you safety, 450 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,440 protection, authority. And he's given you the Holy 451 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,560 Spirit to be your guide, to go before you, to show you the way, 452 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,320 to give you strength in the times of weakness, to give you 453 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,360 wisdom when you're not knowing what to ask for, what to do. 454 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:50,520 He is there with you, in you. I tell you how much I got fired 455 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:51,720 last night. I can't tell you. 456 00:28:58,440 --> 00:28:59,720 There's still time. That's good. 457 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:07,880 So now how was how was Nehemiah fulfilling the prophetic time 458 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:14,000 timeline 95 years before Nehemiah stood in the presence 459 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,480 of the king and asked for permission. 460 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:22,200 Daniel had told can we put the scripture up please Daniel 461 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:31,400 chapter 924 to 27, 70 weeks, 70 sevens are decreed for your 462 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,080 people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an 463 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,880 end to sin, to attend for wickedness, to bring in 464 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,760 everlasting righteousness, to seal a vision and prophecy, and 465 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,040 to anoint the most holy place. No one understand this. 466 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:48,040 From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem 467 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:54,400 until the anointed 1 the ruler comes, there will be 7 sevens 468 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,600 and 62 sevens. It will be rebuilt with streets 469 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,840 and trench. But in times of trouble after 470 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,280 the 62 sevens the anointed 1 will come. 471 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:10,800 This is spoken by Daniel 95 years before Nehemiah went and 472 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,760 asked for permission to rebuild the walls. 473 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:26,280 What does it say here in the? No one understand this from the 474 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,400 time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem 475 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,760 until the anointed one. The timeline begins to tick from 476 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:40,960 the time the decree goes out to rebuild Jerusalem, to rebuild 477 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,520 Jerusalem. If you look into the history 478 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:47,440 three other times the Persian kings have issued A decree. 479 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,760 The Cyrus said go back, he sent the people back to Jerusalem, 480 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:57,440 first people to return and two other times, but no one time it 481 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,080 is mentioned to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. 482 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:05,000 This is the time. So the timeline begins from 483 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,040 here. This happened in the month of 484 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,880 March 5th I think 444 BC and he was in the Press of the King and 485 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,480 asked for permission to go and rebuild the walls. 486 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:19,480 And the timeline of Daniels prophecy began to tick from that 487 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,320 day onwards. Because when he put down the 488 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,960 number of years it will come to AD 33. 489 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,760 That is the day Jesus entered into Jerusalem on a humble 490 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:35,200 donkey, colt of a donkey, and he appeared to the Jewish people or 491 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,920 the nation of Israel as the Messiah, and then he was 492 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:44,240 specified after three days exactly fulfillment of the 493 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,040 prophecy of Daniel. What is the role of Nehemiah? 494 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:52,760 A simple guy, a cupbearer. He went and asked king for 495 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,640 permission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. 496 00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:00,640 Did he have a revelation? Did the Angel appear to him? 497 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:06,480 Did you have a dream? What made Nehemiah to kick start 498 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,760 the prophetic events in his life? 499 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,520 Just because he was concerned for Jerusalem, its wars that 500 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,800 have been broken down and the gates that have been burned 501 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,280 down. His heart was aching, he was 502 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,520 weeping and praying and he wanted to do the right thing 503 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,040 because of the knowledge that he had. 504 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,440 And he goes to the king and asked for the permission. 505 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:31,440 And when the King says OK, go, what Daniel decreed 95 years ago 506 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:36,640 began to happen. Jesus is coming back soon. 507 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:42,920 He is coming back very soon. And my question is, what do you 508 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,480 want to do like Nehemiah did? What should you be doing like 509 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,760 Nehemiah did? You though you don't have a 510 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,400 prophecy, you don't have a revelation, you don't have a 511 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,000 word. Nothing is happening 512 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,480 supernaturally. But what you can do is pray like 513 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:01,920 Nehemiah did, so that you will become that answer to Gods plan 514 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,920 in the end times. That's why we are saying, 515 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:09,280 brothers and sisters, we need to begin to pray and I'll give you 516 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:13,080 a few instances of how prayer changed things and then we will 517 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,720 close. There was a Moravian revival in 518 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:23,720 the year 1727 in Germany. Count Zinsen Dorf prayed 519 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,960 together with bunch of people 24 by 7. 520 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,520 Prayer chain began and lasted over 100 years. 521 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,360 What started as a small prayer meeting lasted for how long? 522 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,440 100 years. And a modern missionary movement 523 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:46,320 was born through Zinandar prayers. 524 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:51,480 And one of them that was influenced by Count Zinandar is 525 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,640 John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church. 526 00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,400 So when you begin to pray, you must say what is there in for 527 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,400 me? What is my benefit? 528 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:07,080 God will bless you, God will bless you, your children, your 529 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,840 family, your business. He will bless you, your health, 530 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:15,600 He will bless you. It is just a natural thing to 531 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,600 happen when you come into the presence of God. 532 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,239 Everything that belongs to will be touched by God. 533 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:28,440 Take my word after 21 days, if you have don't have a testimony, 534 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,600 come and tell me. There will be a testimony. 535 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,560 Everybody will have a testimony. Why? 536 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,520 Because you have gone into the presence of the King of Kings, 537 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:41,199 Lord of Lords, and you have asked and he says, what do you 538 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:44,360 want? He's saying, what do you want? 539 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:50,600 1790 to 1718 forty in the in the in the United States and Great 540 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:56,719 Britain, John Eskind called for united prayer. 541 00:34:58,240 --> 00:35:01,560 And as the prayer started, there's one man was touched by 542 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,800 the prayer movement, Jonathan Edwards. 543 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,880 And through Jonathan Edwards, God brought a mighty revival in 544 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:13,320 America, mighty revival. He was a man whose vision was 545 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,520 very, very poor. Imagine his picks and you coming 546 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,520 a horn coming out of the sticks, the glass. 547 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,360 And he had a candlelight on the pulpit, and he wrote a message 548 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,800 on the paper, and he came and read it with great difficulty 549 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,280 under the candlelight. He was reading the message. 550 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,240 Sinners in the hands of angry God. 551 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,680 And the people were so convicted of their sin. 552 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,280 They were holding the walls and the pillars and say, Fall on us, 553 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,680 fall on us. We cannot face the King of the 554 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,520 kings, Lord of Lords, his holy presence. 555 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,920 And they repented, and the revival was born. 556 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:53,720 People were saved that night. Prayer breeds revival. 557 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:59,720 Prayer beats revival. Then in the year 1857 to 1859 in 558 00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:04,640 New York, America, there was a man called Jeremiah Lanfear. 559 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,360 He was a businessman, not a not a pastor. 560 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,600 He was not a priest, He's not a pastor. 561 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:14,160 And he was just a businessman. And he started called for prayer 562 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,920 in the afternoon, maybe at work. He said, OK, let's all gather 563 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,800 the lunchtime and let's pray. And that became a moment of 564 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,680 prayer all over. It happened in Manhattan. 565 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,920 It spread across America. And then after the things were 566 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,160 going on for some time, 1,000,000 people were converted 567 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:36,480 in America because one simple man, a businessman, said, let us 568 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,800 pray in the afternoon. Let us pray in the afternoon. 569 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,040 One more. You were thinking, oh, when is 570 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:46,600 he going to finish? One more. 571 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:54,160 This is happening in Scotland. Hebrides revival, 1949 to 1952, 572 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:59,600 Scottish Hebrides Islands. Two women, Peggy and Christine 573 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,600 Smith, they prayed for revival. Just two women. 574 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,200 They started praying for revival and churches were filled at all 575 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,960 times. Every church you go, morning 576 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,040 8:00 people are there. 6:00 people are there. 577 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:13,680 Night 10:00 people are there. Why? 578 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,880 Because two women are praying for revival. 579 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:20,960 The whole country is filled with people in every church is full 580 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,480 of people. Because two women started 581 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:28,000 praying for revival and people are convicted of sin. 582 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,720 People are repenting and being born again. 583 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:40,760 The question is, do you want to be a Nehemiah and say, Lord, we 584 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,600 are in the end times. We need a reviver. 585 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,040 We need the reviver. We need your visitation. 586 00:37:47,240 --> 00:37:49,600 We are here, my Lord, we are here. 587 00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:53,760 We want to commit others to pray for one hour, and if you only do 588 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,520 this for 21 days, I believe you'll get hooked to it after 21 589 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:02,800 days to keep praying. That thing that you start now is 590 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:04,280 not going to end in your own life. 591 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,520 It is not going to end. Are you prophesying? 592 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:12,480 Yes, I am prophesying. It is not going to end in your 593 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,520 life. That prayer is going to change 594 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:18,840 you, your family, your children, your business, your finances. 595 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,120 It is going to change the city you are living in. 596 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:22,840 It is going to change the church you are part of. 597 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:26,840 It is going to change everything because you are coming into the 598 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,560 King of Kings and asking for what you want to ask. 599 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,520 And he is asking what do you want? 600 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:38,120 And you should know what to ask. Are you prepared, are you 601 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,920 prepared for this revival to come to the city of 602 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:47,360 Christchurch? And if you, if you say yes, then 603 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,880 we are going to have a great time of 21 days of prayer. 604 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,520 It is very hard. I'm telling you, you will skip 605 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:54,000 in between. Don't worry about it. 606 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,960 Just come. If you can come, it will be 607 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,320 great. Don't worry about the petrol, 608 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:03,480 don't worry about driving. Just come because you are going 609 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:07,560 to see God move powerfully in your life in this church, in 610 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,920 this city. And that's why we need this 21 611 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:14,120 days of prayer. I only wish that the Lord will 612 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:19,560 put that burden so permanently that we will not stop until we 613 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:23,440 see the revival, until we see the revival. 614 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:30,120 So just by obedient, just being obedient to God and become a man 615 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,040 and a woman of prayer, you are going to partner with the plan 616 00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,520 of God, purpose of God for these end times. 617 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,160 And if you agree with me, shout at Amen. 618 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:46,080 Let us pray. Thank you, Jesus, we thank you 619 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,040 for your word. Thank you for challenging us 620 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,760 through the life of Nehemiah. Oh, my father, he was just a 621 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:57,240 cupbearer, but he was a daring to believe to become a governor 622 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,800 and he was daring to believe to bring change to the city of 623 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,280 Jerusalem was to be rebuilt, temple to be reconstructed, 624 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:09,600 degree to be restored. My Lord, my God, I pray now, 625 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:12,960 Father, that the Church. The say the church in this 626 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,200 modern days is like that fallen down Jerusalem. 627 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,720 Walls are broken down, gates are borne down and the church is 628 00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:23,520 still sleeping in the name of Jesus Christ of another, I pray 629 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,640 that you'll put that hand, nail Pierce hand on the heart of your 630 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:30,560 children. Now touch them, wake them up. 631 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,640 I pray, Father, jolt them, shake them until your children will 632 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:39,160 get up on their knees and say my God and cry out to you and see 633 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:44,440 the power far from heaven and you want to commit yourself to 634 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,200 prayer. The 21 days coming 21 days. 635 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,480 I just want you to stand where you are and I'm going to, I want 636 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:57,240 to pray for you. There is a cost, there is a 637 00:40:57,240 --> 00:40:58,960 cost. There is a cost. 638 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,080 When you pay the cost, it is not going to go waste. 639 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:05,600 It is not going to go waste because this is what you are 640 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,240 sowing and you are going to reap. 100% guarantee return. 641 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,760 100% guarantee return. It is not going to be waste. 642 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,320 Thank you Jesus, as your children are responding, I pray 643 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,880 that this prayer movement will be born to the glory of your 644 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,640 name. Sabarana mande Kara sectares 645 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:28,240 astorono ho robo shamaraste sandaranamanasto Rojo secaba 646 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:32,480 Mara re shamarahandasta kurando rosterer mandasta kuroni. 647 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,520 The Lord says I am going to remove sickness from between 648 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,240 you. After this time of prayer, I am 649 00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:45,680 going to say no more delay, no more, no more, no more delay of 650 00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:47,720 the things that you've been wanting things to happen. 651 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:59,960 There will not be any more delay. 652 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:06,640 It is going to be different, says The Lord Is going to be 653 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,880 different. I am going to put my finger on 654 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,480 everyone of you who is going to pray and I am going to change 655 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:19,040 you and you will become a governor, not a cupbearer 656 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,520 anymore. We worship you, we praise you, 657 00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,840 Lord, thank you for this. Thank you for this, O Lord, your 658 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,120 word, and thank you for the presence of the Holy Spirit who 659 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:32,800 convicts us and who catapults us into that space where we will 660 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,400 become mighty warriors in faith to the glory of your name. 661 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:40,120 You're coming very soon and help us to become the right kind of a 662 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:41,760 church to the glory of your name. 663 00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:46,320 In Jesus name we have asked and everybody says Amen. 664 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,520 Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing 665 00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,440 or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to 666 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,800 our website or Facebook page in the links below.