Isaiah 61. Jesus read it in the synagogue and said this day this Scripture is fulfilled in Himself. He is the anointed one! I was singing Andy Park’s song Spirit of the Sovereign Lord and was declaring this is the year of the favor of the Lord and vengeance of our God. When I’ve been home I’ve been inviting people to my home to worship and pray on Saturday nights. Tonite as I was praying and declaring this Scriptural song, I also remembered something Luis Palau said at Breakforth that He believes that this is the year for Revival in Canada. He then proceeded to share why. At that point I was assigned to pray in the main assembly and I was walking and praying for the speaker and the people gathered. At that point after the declaration of immanent revival in Canada, I went into travailing prayer, I began to weep uncontrollably and I went onto the floor in the dark amidst the 5000 faithful who had gathered to hear the last speaker at Breakforth. I asked the Lord what is going on. He said to me “You’ve been carrying a burden to pray for Revival since 1988, almost 30 years!” The tears were a sign that the answer to those prayers are coming soon. I started praying for Revival in my first year of Bible School at Bethany Bible Institute. I had been shaken by a book written called 88 reasons why 1988 is the year and specifically Rosh Hashana Sept 18 is the time when Jesus will come to rapture His church. As you might know Jesus never came for His church and raptured us on Sept 18, 1988. The writer said we wouldn’t know the hour but that didn’t mean we couldn’t know the weekend was his justification. Now, the rapture before the antichrist is revealed might be bad theology when you read Mathew 24 and what Jesus taught there doesn’t seem to be any rapture at all, it looks like we are here through it all and severely persecuted. However, with an evangelist who has been through a great revival in Argentina and regular preaches to many and sees many enter the kingdom of God, and he says he believes 2017 is the year. Do we believe him? How do I test a word like that? What does revival mean? What would a Canadian wide revival look like? I’m not sure we can test the word without simply waiting for 2017 to pass, and see. However, the real question is what is Jesus asking of us His bride? To love God with all our heart soul mind and strength and to love each other as Christ has loved us. That is the real question. As long as we are loving Christ and loving one another which we can’t do one without the other, perhaps it doesn’t really matter. The point is we need to faithful to Christ and what He is asking of us. I know if we all did that the church of Christ would be radiant and extremely attractive to the lost. Even so, pour out Your Spirit God on your bride, wake us up, make us shine! Those are my thoughts today. Had a great worship time and prayer time that didn’t record well of Terry Alward and I worshipping and praying our hearts out! I have a 45 minute video which I’m hoping to fix the audio somehow. If you want to hear it anyways, comment please. Hope you all have a great day worshipping the King of Kings today!
Love in Christ,
Your friendly neighbourhood music minstrel!