CONDITIONS FOR REVIVAL ~ Part (IV)

Conditions For Revival 
by J. Edwin Orr

Part (IV)

              After the people of God had turned away from their idols, Samuel made the way clear before them. "Gather   all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the Lord "
( 1 Samuel 7:5 ).

              We recall that Jacob wrestled with the angel of the Lord and cried : "I will not let thee go except thou bless me" (Genesis 32:26).  He prevailed. In consequence, his name was changed from Jacob, the sup planter to Israel, a prevailer with God. We know also that Mizpeh means the "place of watchfulness" - and it was the rallying place of the tribes.

           Let us read this verse, the declaration of Samuel, very literally : " Gather all the prevailers with God to the place of watchfulness, and then prayer will be fruitful. " 

           Prayer will bring revival. But it must also be united prayer. Dr. A. T. Pierson, the noted church historian and missionary statesman, has said : " There has never been a revival in any country that has not begun in united prayer, and no revival has ever continued beyond the duration of those prayer meetings. " The idea of praying for revival in one section of the church only is both ludicrous and profitless. We must pray unitedly for the whole household of faith.

          "When God intends great mercy for His people," said Matthew Henry, " He first of all sets them a-praying." But prayer must be real prayer. One may say truthfully that much that goes under the name of prayer is nothing more than hot air, and it rises no higher than the roof. True prayer is the cry of a child to its Father. 

          Prayer will bring revival, and if ever you hear of an intensive prayer meeting, take it as a sure of blessing to follow.

         The people of God hearkened to the advice of Samuel. They meant business. They prepared. They fasted. And they said there : " We have sinned against the Lord" 
~ (1 Samuel 7:6)

          True searching of heart follows the seeking of God's presence in prayer, and it invariably produces conviction of sin. They confessed their sin. I can not imagine from the Bible narrative that these tens of thousands recited the words together : " WE have sinned against the Lord." No: rather it must mean that they individually and collectively confessed their sins to God and sought His pardon.

         It is the same today. Revival is impossible apart from confession to one another. Every hindrance must go. Sin must be confessed in order that it may be cleansed. It is noticeable that Samuel " judged" Israel in Mizpeh. Judgement must begin at the house of the Lord.

          The result of prayer and confession was a mighty revival and a glorious victory over the power of evil.

          

            We have lessons to learn from the story of the revival in Samuel's day. The conditions of REVIVAL remain unchanged. when we, as Christians, are willing to turn away from our idols, and to prepare by united prayer for widespread blessing, then the Spirit of the Lord will convict us of our sins against God, and with the confession and cleansing of these will come a lasting revival of true religion.

              God grant it. ~ The Church must First Repent by J.Edwin Orr.

(Special note: on 29th of Jan 2013. My husband Prophet Benjamin Liu  and I were ministering to a local church named SIBKL Lake City, Setapak, Malaysia, As I pray and hand over the whole service to Holy Spirit and asking The Spirit to take control ..... I had witnesses how Holy Spirit moved in power and super blessings flowing from Father's throne, many received different kind of anointing including worship, dog bark, eagle, fire balls, the Lord set their feet on fire to dance for the Lord both men and women, out pouring of honey and new wine etc. etc. Many have received not only one time but many many times, Hallelujah ! Praise the LORD on earth and in heaven !!! )

Source : Herald of His Coming December 2012

If you have miss any earlier part of "Conditions for Revival" , Please go back to Part  (I) and (II) :

http://eaglepropheticministry.blogspot.com/2013/02/conditions-for-revival.html

CONDITIONS FOR REVIVAL ~ Part (I) & (II)

Conditions For Revival

by J. Edwin Orr

Part (I) 

" IF My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land" ~ 2 Chronicle 7:14.

The word  "revival", in its ordinary sense, means the coming of life and renewal to something that has already possessed life.

Let us take an example in nature. We walk into the garden during the winter season, and there we see the old oak tree-leafless. There it has stood, for several months, a sorry sight - a few withered leaves hanging on empty branches as if in self-pity. To all outward appearances  it is dead. BUT come back again with me next month and I will show you a wondrous thing - little buds of beautiful, delicate green pushing their way upwards towards the light of a springtime sun, breaking through the relics of their winter prison. Soon the tree is in the glory of its leafy splendor. It is a seasonal marvel, this renewal of spring, when all that seemed dead becomes alive before our wondering eyes. What has happened ? There has come about a revival of the old tree.

It is the same in the spiritual realm. Revival, primarily, is the renewal of life in something that has already possessed life. It is impossible to revive something that has never been alive. But there is one important difference - the dying of the summer life of the tree is due to natural causes, and the same causes bring about the springtime awakening. Spiritual death, on the other hand, is due to the disease of sin.

         The best definition of "revival"  is the phrase : "  Times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord "~ Acts 3:19.

Beginning with the understanding that a revival is an awakening among Christian people, let us study the conditions under which revial is given. The prayer of the psalmist. " Wilt Thou not revive us again ?" (Psalm 85:6), teaches us that God is the source of revival.

It is easy to make the bible our textbook in this study, for it abounds in examples of revival. In the Old Testament, one of the best studies is found in the story of the revival at Mizpeh.

The antecedents of the story recounted in the first Book of Samuel, chapter 7, are important. It is clear that a period of confusion and anarchy was brought about by the spiritual disobedience of God's people. Point by point, we may compare this state of affairs with the present day - is it not true that spiritual disobedience has caused a great decline today ?

As a result, defeat came on every hand, and after that a period of eclipse. The Ark of the Covenant, that sacred possession of the children of Israel, was lost to their bitterest enemies - and, comparing it with today, the Ark may be considered as the symbol of the mighty presence of the Lord. And we know that we have lost such glory has departed.        

     
The Church must First Repent by J.Edwin Orr.
  
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Part  (II)

              The Ark was returned to the keeping of Kirjath-jearim. "And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearin, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord"  (1 Samuel 7:2 )

         The fact that it seemed a long time to wait, and the fact that all the people of God lamented after the Lord, is one of the negative encouragements. They had come to the end of themselves : they were in despair.

         Look around our own country today. Christians know well that many years have passed since any great demonstration of the power of God. The time is long, and the people are lamenting.

          I say again, it is encouraging. The fact that little prayer groups of saints are lamenting after better things and praying in the agony of despair for revival is surely an encouragement. The tide has turned.

         Satan never persuades folks to pray for a revival. The prayer itself is born in the will of God. God wants to revive us. And, knowing His will, despairing of ourselves, we are thrown back upon God. "  O Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the years ..... " (Habakkuk 3:2).

It is at that stage we come across the intervention of God by the mouth of His servant. It seems as if God said : " I want to give you revival even more than you desire to have it; but you must pay a price. " So it is with us.

" And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve Him only: and He will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines" (1 Samuel 7:3).

    "If ...... "  God's blessing is conditional upon our wholehearted desire. " If you really want revival, here are My conditions."

     "Put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you." Today we no longer worship idols of wood and stone, but just as much as ever before, we sin against the Lord by enshrining in our hearts idols of our own making. Strange gods - the gods of the outside world. no matter what it may be. If we fall away from wholehearted service to God, we generally put something else there. Who or what is the usurper in your heart ? Sin, greed, anything ? Any strange god has got to go.

     The dearest idol I have known,

Whate'er that idol be,

         Help me to tear it from Thy throne,

And worsip only Thee.

Ashtoreth or Ashtaroth is called the "Abomination of the Zidonians." Its worship was the worship fo the flesh. God's people must get rid of all that taint.

The Church must First Repent by J.Edwin Orr.

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               " Prepare your hearts unto the Lord. " We prepare our hearts unto the Lord by seeking His will, and then accepting it. supposing I was to say to you, just before a meeting in which we expected the blessings of God, ..... 

..... to be continue Part (III)

http://eaglepropheticministry.blogspot.com/2013/03/conditions-for-revival-part-iii.html

                      Source : Herald of His Coming December 2012

Mistreatment of City Harvest Church,Singapore toward Full- time ministers sent by the Lord

   Upsets created during our last visit to City Harvest Church,Singapore

A BLOWING OF SHOFAR(LAMB's HORN) into the spiritual realm LED BY HOLY SPIRIT TO BREAK THE STRONGHOLDs OF DEVILS AND TO GIVE GLORY TO KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS. LET'S WORSHIP OUR LORD !     

https://soundcloud.com/junelai/shofar-blowing-jan2013

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          As a wife, I supporting and  involving fully with my beloved husband Prophet Benjamin and we both serve the Lord faithfully in Apostolic and prophetic ministry.  I was beside my husband in all time in this Singapore prophetic mission trip. I am the eye witness and aware of how the treatment of City Harvest Church toward both of us not to mention full time ministering and serving our Lord but also as a children of God.

         We reached CITY Harvest Church, Jurong West, Singapore on Thursday morning about 10:10 a.m., I was in awe when I see how large the building is. Beside us, there was another full -time minister came all the way from Korean was attempted to visit and pray for the church premises but was rejected both him and his partner. They were only allowed to view from outside the church gate. (The Lord mentioned church is NOT MERELY THE BUILDING)

Special Note: A church is not a building, nor is it merely a ministry; it is the body of Christ. So seek people who love the Lord and who love each other -- people that will love you and people to whom you can give your love.

         It was a raining morning, thanks to the Lord that we brought an umbrella with us. After inquired about Kong Hee, one of the church brother ( Joshua )  who was in charge to take care of the building as a security called up the corporate office and then tell us that we can meet Pastor Kong Hee there. We have lack of finance, hence I asked Joshua to gave us some Singapore coins to take a local bus to their HQ and this journey took us more than 4 hours.       

        When we reach City Harvest Church Corporate Office at No. 8 Temasek Boulevard, Suntec Tower Three,  Singapore, It was 4 p.m. which has far pass lunch time and we did expect someone in the office can bless us a lunch but the answer is “NO”.  We were told by the receptionist to write down the prophetic message on a piece of blank paper, my husband refused to do that, he insisted that we should meet with Pastor and then only will the message be released. We were tired and all we got the answer is “Our Senior Pastor is not around in HQ and he is not available to see you “. “ But if you are keen to see him, you are welcome to join our Saturday evening service where Pastor Kong Hee will be ministering for Christmas event.”

THE LORD EXPOSED THE DISHONESTY; HE WILL NOT ALLOW US TO COMPROMISE WITH UNRIGHTEOUSNESS !

  

          When we have travel by bus for such a long hours due to raining day and all they can do was receiving us by asking us to wait at the Lobby with few cups of drink from the dispensable machine, they even refused to bless us a lunch although I have to bring this request to the attention of one of the pastor. How shameful for these people who called to be the servant of God to treat us as one body of Christ to such manner during Christmas season “ A time of giving”; when the Bible  clearly says  " Love one another so that the world will know we are His disciples “  ~  John 13:35.

         After revealed to two other pastors whom from worship team (which once again requested by us that we need to speak to pastor position) who came out and met us and we told them frankly that we need a place to stay for two nights till Saturday but the request was firmly rejected and knowing we are lack of financial aids. One of the American lady  pastor told us to use our credit card (encourage us to go into debt indeed of allowing us to stay at their home ) on this matter without offer any loves of financial blessings. How sad !

City Harvest Church, Singapore does own an personal apology  especially those ministers who pray earnestly for the them and being mistreated  during our visit to their church.

            That evening we left City Harvest Corporate office with huge disappointment and we told to each other we will never come back to this church of Singapore again to receive such a bad treatment ! On this prophetic mission trip, the Lord would not allow us to simply leave Singapore until we has deliver His message to Pastor Kong Hee. We were struggling with need of places to stay for two more nights ??!!! We spent much time in prayers and seeking God for directions as we usually do.  And due to finding a cheaper place to stay, we ending up putting on the chairs outside of Starbucks Coffee shop on the street, it was a raining night too.

          Thanks the Lord, on the next day God directed us to put up one night at Crown Plaza Changi airport which is next to Singapore Expo. The Lord will handle this night with His righteous way.  I clearly  remember due to lack of  money on both Singapore dollars and Malaysian ringgits we were sleeping in a restaurant (closed after midnight) inside the Changi Airport. May God judge City Harvest Church of Singapore on  mistreating His prophetic ministers whereas Hotels whom run by unbelievers can give us complementary (FREE) stay at suite room for their wrong doing for this coming Valentine’s Day.

City Harvest Church, Singapore  own us a another personal apology in writing and in person especially to those ministers whom they have mistreated during our visit to their church.

         As we went back to City Harvest church on Saturday evening 5pm service, they told us to stay at Expo 2 hall instead of Expo 1 hall (where  Kong Hee is preaching for that evening). We informed their “ Chief Security “ that we are here to meet  Kong Hee which was promised by the church pastors two days ago. Once again they told lies to us that we are able to meet Kong Hee . A young pastor at Expo 2 with the  help of the church “ Chief Security” refuse to bring us to Expo 1 with  excuses and even accused us that we did not make any pre-arrangement in advance, what a nonsense ! The hall was already full.

(Special Note: Most churches we visited, they do reserve special seat for full-time ministers even New Creation church, Singapore). These are a bunch of liars who cannot keep their words.
Proverbs 6: 16 &17 “There are six things the Lord hates, haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, “

         
             We were mistreated again by lies, instead of getting upset and leave, we decided to stay on and attend the whole service that evening without a proper seats (we were  squishing into  two empty seats at the last row ( just in front of  an equipment which look like sound engineer board ). As Kong Hee was giving altar call for healing at the final part of his sermon, we inform the security we cannot wait any longer and he gave us direction how to proceed to Expo hall 1.

City Harvest Church, Singapore  owns a personal apology especially those who mistreated ministers, during our visit to their church.

      As we were proceeding to Singapore Expo Hall 1 where altar call was called and Kong Hee and  his wife Sun were supposed to pray for the sick and who so ever needed healing. A few security men blocked our way to go in front though I have informed them that my knees were hurting and facing some skin problem. One sweet Chinese lady came, lay her hands and pray for me. What kind of rude behavior that City Harvest church Singapore has raise up for past 10 years ….. Sigh ! One brother name Steven migrated from Malacca, Malaysia to Singapore after married a Singaporean Chinese was hindering and obstructing us ,wrestling ( in words) when we want to get closer to Kong Hee and deliver message from the Lord. After they escort Kong Hee out of the auditorium, Steven still struggle with us for more than ½ hour without even giving a helping hand.

      

         I STRONGLY urge ministers of God do not visit this church, because of their rebellious spirit and keep quenching Holy Spirit. They are proud and arrogant because of BIG buildings, lack of Christ love, compassion and righteousness.  Please think twice, or even three or four times before you accept the invitation to minister to this bunch of “Barbarians”.

City Harvest Church, Singapore  owns a personal apology especially those who mistreated ministers, during our visit to their church.

** This report is writing by Prophetess Cassandra Lai with the Leading of Holy Spirit, exposing the lies and unrighteousness within the Body of Christ.

 A BLOWING OF SHOFAR LED BY HOLY SPIRIT TO BREAK THE STRONGHOLD OF DEVILS AND TO GIVE GLORY TO KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS. LET'S WORSHIP OUR LORD !

https://soundcloud.com/junelai/shofar-blowing-jan2013

All Glory to God !

        MANY Great testimonials to share as we are doing our ministry and sharing and giving prophecies as lead by the Holy Spirit.... praise the Lord always....

         This fresh new year 2013, the Lord is moving both of us Prophet Benjamin Liu and myself Prophetess Cassandra Fun Tze Lai to a higher level of service and faith Apostolic Prophetic ministry. I was receiving a " Super Woman Anointing "from Apostle Paul Ang from Singapore at Gideon Camp held at Nilai end of Last year 2012.
Pray for us and our ministry for great favor, faith, grace, mercy and wisdom from above to carry His cross across the nation and to other nations too in God's timing.
Many miracles have already happened since end of last year and many more we believing and each walk when we take in His faith and trust God's mighty hands and His blessings and favors are upon us.
Last week, I shared a testimonial on a super favor blessings from the Lord at SIB Lake City Church, Setapak, Malaysia.
Thank you O LORD and love you so much for making both of us a blessings to others for this End-time season. ♥ ♥ ♥

 

                      All Glory to God !

 

DIVINE REVELATION FROM THE UPPER EAST REGION OF GHANA

DIVINE REVELATION FROM THE UPPER EAST 

REGION OF GHANA.

        A Pastor was traveling last week, he saw an old man, and gave him a lift . While they 
were going, the old man said, " My son, do you know what happened in Heaven last night?"

       The pastor was so terrified and hurriedly parked his car and asked: " Sir are you sleeping? How did you get the information about heaven?" The old man said:" Last night in
Heaven God became very angry with man and asked the angels to blow the trumpets,
the angels picked up the trumpets and as they were about to blow it , Jesus fell down and
began to plead in tears . The blood that came out of his hand and body were very fresh.


             He told God that his death shouldn't be in vain. God couldn't stand the pains of the 

saints and the wickedness of the evil ones. So he said," I AM GIVING THEM THIS LAST 

CHANCE. Jesus then turned to the angels and told them to move down in their numerous 

numbers to tell the world that : " THE END IS NEAR, JESUS IS COMING VERY SOON."

        The pastor sweating and crying asked: " Said how did you know this? "
  
        The OLD MAN REPLIED: " I am one of the angels sent to the world . Please use every 

medium of communication to send this message. No time to waste, Please!"

        And the old man disappeared.

        Brethren, this story is real. Christ is coming soon. PLEASE REPENT. I beg of you please 

pass this message round. Copy and paste it , share it, call, email and text it. PLEASE SAVE A 

SOUL TODAY. I have done my part, it's now yours to spread the Gospel. No wealth can be 

compared to life everlasting in Heaven. DON'T IGNORE IT!! 

Revelation 1:13, Revelation 9:1-21.

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加納上東部區的神的啟示。

          一位牧師上週，他看見一個老人，給了他一個方便（载他回家）。

        老人說，“我的兒子，你知不知道在天堂昨晚發生了什麼

事？”

       牧師嚇壞了，趕緊把車停了他的車，問：“先生，你睡

著了嗎？你是怎麼得到的信息天堂嗎？”老人說：“昨天晚上

在天上的神與人很生氣，問天使吹號，天使們拿起喇叭，因為他們要炸毀它，耶穌，就俯伏開始懇求眼淚。走了出來，
他的手和身體的血液很新鮮。


他告訴神，他的死亡不應該是徒勞的。神無法忍受的痛苦

聖徒和邪惡的邪惡的。因此，他說，“我給他們這最後的

的機會。耶穌的天使，並告訴他們要向下移動，在其眾多

數字告訴世界：“到底是近了，耶穌很快會來到。”

        牧師出汗，哭問：“說，你怎麼知道？”
  
        老人回答：“我的天使，向全世界發出，請使用每

的溝通媒介，發送此消息。沒有時間可以浪費了，求你了！“

        老人消失了。

        弟兄們，這個故事是真實的。基督即將到來。請悔改。

我求求你了，請傳遞此消息圓形。複製並粘貼它，分享它，

電話，電子郵件和文本它。請保存 SOUL今天。我已經做了

我的一部分，它現在是你的傳播福音。可以沒有財富

永恆的生命在天堂。不要忽略它！



啟示錄1:13，啟示錄9:1-21。


Note : Message above share by Prophetess Faithful Nana from Accra, Ghana
             Pictures below attached by Prophetess Cassandra Lai 
              and Prophet Benjamin Liu from Malaysia.

Morning.clouds~早晨的白雲

Blossoming of white clouds,

       Floating in the sky oh~

Little bird,

       Flying at high ,high sky oh~

Early morning women's group,

      Exhibiting boxing in Tai Ji Quan~

Gentle sun shines,

       Shinning onto the earth~

This  happy morning mood,

      Can make you and I start dancing on the green,

 green grass ~ ~. . .

WAKE UP O SLEEPER, RISE FROM THE DEAD, AND CHRIST WILL SHINE ON YOU.

[Ephesians 5:14]

朵朵的白雲，

在天空上飘着哦～

点点的小鸟，

在高空上飞着哦～

早晨的妇女团，

展拳于太極拳～

温柔的阳光，

照呀照着大地～

愉快的心情，

能让你·我在草地上起舞～～。。。。

“喚醒睡著的人，從死裡復活的基督～就要光照你了。”

以弗所書5:14

Cassandra Lai (黎焕诗) Morning.clouds 早晨的白雲 26/11/2012 

神（上帝）的爱 The LOVE of God

世上海洋當作墨水，

诸天穹苍作为纸张，

世上万茎用作笔杆，

全球文人集合苦幹，

竭尽智力描绘神爱，

海洋墨水用乾；

案券虽长像天连天，

仍难描述尽详。

以上的一首诗歌还美妙地描述神（上帝）的爱是何等的长，阔，高，深。

诗来自“每日箴言”

Below poem has beautifully and wonderfully describe the love of God:-

The world ocean as ink,

Heavens skies as the paper

Earth stems used as a pen,

Global literati collection of hard work,

Do our intellectual depicting God love

Oceans of ink to dry;

Case coupons long like days and groaning,

Still hard to describe the best detail.