 Okay, good morning everyone. Welcome to a new week. Let's just begin this time with the word of prayer. Can one of us please lead us in prayer? Kennedy, can you lead us in prayer, please? Okay, Rose, can you lead us in prayer? Yeah, sure, Pastor. Thank you. Father in heaven, all glory, praise and honor to you. We thank you for another space in time when we can learn more about you. Father, help us settle in this moment so we may receive what you have reeled to reveal to us. Father, prepare our hearts, prepare our minds. Let them become fertile soil, sow your word by produce fruit after hearing your word. Let them take root in our hearts, Lord. We commit this hour to you, Father. We commit our teacher, Pastor Paul Emmanuel, to you. Father, supply the right words through his mouth. Supply your wisdom through him. Father, thank you most of all for having us group again from all far corners of the world to hear more about you. In this season of your teaching, help us to grow more in holiness, in Godly wisdom and Godly character. All these we ask through your Son Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Rose. All right, so before we go ahead, let's do a quick review of what we did last week. Last week was very interesting where we looked at what a manifestation of God's glory looks like, right? And we picked up from Exodus 33, the whole encounter where Moses goes up to the mountain and meets with God. And they have this wonderful experience of the glory of God. So we also looked at what happens, you know, in the expressions of God's glory. We saw that God told Moses, my goodness shall pass by. You shall not see my face, but I will put you in the cleft and my goodness shall pass by. So one of the expressions of the glory of God is his goodness. And then he says, I will bring my, he brings revelation to us. So the glory of God brings revelation into our spirit. It brings grace, it brings compassion. The glory of God sometimes, you know, we studied about this as well. Sometimes reveals and sometimes conceals, right? So we may not know all the answers to all the things that we are praying for. We may not know when revival is going to happen. We don't know how it's going to happen, who God is going to use. But we are sure of this, that God is a promise keeping God. If he has said, you know, that he will pour out his spirit, then he will do that. So this is what we looked at last week. And it was a powerful encounter. There's so much that we can learn. We also looked at different varies of God's glory. Where, you know, for example, God revealed his glory to Moses. And then Joshua was there. And he did not reveal his, you know, the entire thing what he revealed to Moses. He didn't reveal the whole glory to Joshua. But the same Moses who went down, the Israelites said, cover your face for we can't see your face. So we see varied expressions of God's glory. Another important thing we learned is that, you know, when we are pursuing God, when we are calling upon the Lord and his glory, his presence comes upon us. The Lord God, he supplies or he shows himself in accordance to our capacity. So he knew that Moses will be able to take this, this what I show him. But he didn't let Joshua see some of it. And but then he revealed himself even to Joshua, but he didn't let the other Israelites see. We see that God responded in different ways. His glory was revealed in different measures to different people. Right. So it's basically, we can conclude to say that the more we are intimate with God, the more we are, you know, our hearts are turned towards him. We are pursuing him. The more we will see the glory of God in our lives. For example, Moses, even before he was, you know, even before he was going to die, one of his requests was Lord, I want to see more of your glory. I want to see you more. The King David also, he says, God, I want to know you more. Apostle Paul, he says, I'm pressing on because the love of Christ constrained me. And so we see how God, you know, responds to these hungry hearts. And even as we are hungry and praying to God, remember that God will pour out his glory. So we'll pick up from page 91, understanding the manifestations of his presence. Now, we may have learned some of this in the class of the Holy Spirit class, but we will just go ahead with this just to refresh our memories. Now, we know that the Holy Spirit comes in different manifestations, right? There's different manifestations. So let's look at a few of them. His presence is like a burning, is like fire burning up the shaft and destroying the works of darkness. No, we always say that, right? Holy, the fire of the Holy Spirit. It's one of his characteristics. There will be times when, you know, maybe we're praying for somebody or we may have experienced it too, where suddenly we may feel like, you know, our body is on fire, you know, or parts of our body is on fire. It is the work of the Holy Spirit. It's a manifestation of his presence, right? His presence is like fire. Two, his presence is like light and reveals what is hidden bringing conviction and repentance. Now, we know the Holy Spirit causes, brings conviction and that conviction turns us to repentance. So his presence is like light in the sense that he is able to bring light to the darkest areas of our life and minister to us in that way. Right? So, first one, he's like fire. Second, he's like light. His presence is like rain, you know, brings refreshing, brings fruitfulness. Remember, we talked about the latter rain and how important it is because the latter rain is when, you know, okay, the harvest is ready. Only after the latter rain, the harvest is ready. So rain brings refreshing, brings fruitfulness, right? And his presence is like a heavy, weighty glory overwhelming us with his goodness and mercies. If you remember some of the revivals that we studied, the revival in Toronto, you know, what happened was they were, they were overwhelmed by the goodness of God. They said, God, you are a good God. It was something unusual, right? It was Bible teaches us God is a good God. But when his presence and the Holy Spirit, you know, manifested his presence in that place in Toronto, they were suddenly, you know, convicted or they had come to this understanding of, hey, God is a good God. And so they were, there was tears of joy, tears of conviction and people, you know, received that message in different ways. And so his presence is like brings goodness and mercy into our lives. Then we see that his presence brings signs, wonders and miracles. That is something that we must all desire for, right? Even, you know, wherever we are, even in a small setting, you may be a ministering to a friend or even if you're serving in the church. Remember that his presence causes signs, wonders and miracles. It's nothing, it's just that it's a natural that we have to do, right? So for example, a couple of Sundays back we were, you know, we were praying for a, you know, a young man, I was praying for a young man in the church and he was saying, you know, I'm going through this pain, my neck has been many years and please pray and I said, sure, I'll pray and it was nothing. It was just a simple prayer. I said, God, Lord, thank you for your presence. Thank you for your Holy Spirit. That brings healing, right? And let the weight of your glory cover this boy, even as he, you know, even as he claims healing, even as he's praying for healing, let your presence heal him. It was just a simple prayer, right? There was no screaming, no shouting, you know, no doing any extraordinary thing. Just a simple prayer. And immediately he felt like a burning sensation. He said, after the prayer, he said, I felt hot near my neck. And I said, okay, how do you feel? He said, it's getting better. So we prayed again, prayed again and said, God, let your goodness, let your grace, your mercy. I just said whatever, you know, remember the presence of God just brings healing. So just regular prayer. And by the end of it, he said, I'm healed. I don't feel any pain right now. And he came back to last Sunday and yesterday. He said, I haven't got any pain up to now. So what am I trying to get at? You know, the presence of God can automatically cause signs, wonders and miracles. His presence is like a cloud leading us, covering us, providing a promise for the future. His presence is like a wind lifting us higher, moving us to higher realms of his presence. You know, wind is a wonderful feeling. Imagine on a hot day, you know, you're standing and sometimes we look for a tree to get some shade and suddenly you'll, if there is a breeze, and the branches of the tree moves about, you feel a refreshing wind. I don't know if you've experienced that, but on a sunny day, stand under a tree and suddenly if there's a breeze, suddenly your body feels refreshed. You feel energized because of that breeze. So the Holy Spirit is like that. He refreshes. He lifts our spirit up and so his presence is like the voice of the Lord that is mighty, providing direction and instruction. I know we've all learned this in the Holy Spirit class, but we must understand the manifestation of the Spirit wherever we are. It can be different to different people. The Holy Spirit may choose to manifest his presence like fire to you, but to me he may choose to manifest his presence like wind or like rain or the goodness of God or the grace of God. Now why are we learning this? Because when we as a church community or as a church as a whole, when we are praying for revival, we are pursuing God, God, the Holy Spirit may reveal himself in different ways. Now we are not to judge that. And we are not to say, we should not come to a place and say, hey, how can he scream and shout? Why is he running around like this? Or why is this person always crying during prayer? Maybe he's got a problem. So we are not to judge that. We must understand, we must have the bigger picture and understand that, hey, it is not about what we are doing. It is the presence of God touching people's life and the Holy Spirit is deciding to manifest his presence in his own way. So we must be open to that. We studied in revival, people mocked, people ridiculed, people didn't understand in some places, but in some other places people understood. In the Toronto revival that we studied as well, they were so overwhelmed that they would fall on the ground and they were crying for days. Now, if we don't understand that, we may say, hey, why is this only crying this person? Is only crying every time? Is she or is he or is she faking it? We must not do that. We must not try to judge the other person because the Holy Spirit is doing the work. And so there will be varied reactions, varied responses to the presence of God. Remember that the Holy Spirit and God has the right to touch our spirit, our soul and body. Remember that, right? Because the Holy Spirit unites with our spirit and he can use our spirit being, he can use our soul, he can use our body to minister to us. How is it at times, we are maybe in church, we are listening to us during the worship or during the word, all of a sudden the Holy Spirit may give you a word into your spirit and you'll be like, hey, I remember reading this a couple of months back and it's now making sense. What is that? That is the Holy Spirit speaking to our spirit. So God has the authority, he has the right to touch our spirit, soul and our body, right? The reactions may be varied, right? Many a times, you know, we get prepared, we go on stage for the worship, prepare for the worship or we have to share the word. Many a times, you know, even before during the worship, we get words of knowledge or a prophetic word, you know, and so it's, God may give it to us through a word, God may give it to us through a knowing, you know, through the, you know, the gifts of the Holy Spirit is, one of the gifts is the word of knowledge. So he may give it to us in different ways, each one of us, right? So we must be open to that as well, right? And do not bring condemnation or criticism on, you know, on people who maybe, you know, experiencing a different kind of manifestation of God's presence. Let it be, right? Let us not be people who will criticize and condemn, but allow them, allow the Holy Spirit to speak to them in his own special way, right? Very rarely, I'll give you this example, very rarely, you know, many great leaders and pastors have prayed over me. Now very rarely have I, you know, shaken and, you know, started screaming and shouting and fallen off. It doesn't happen to me, right? But I do receive whatever they are giving me. So it does not mean that when maybe that same minister spring to somebody else and they may, you know, just begin to weep and cry and fall on the ground, does not mean that, you know, hey, they are receiving what I'm not receiving now. I'm receiving it in a quieter way, right? Because the Holy Spirit is, you know, revealing it to me that way. But the other person, the Holy Spirit is revealing in a different way. So we are not to criticize and condemn, right? Now, we looked at the fruit of revival. One of the, we looked at the characteristics of revival and the fruit of revival is almost the same as the characteristic. Let's look at a few of them. An important aspect in revival, the fruit of revival is a greater revelation of who God is. We saw that. People began to understand that God is truly who he says he is. A greater revelation of his holiness, his righteousness, his power, his authority is revealed into people's heart. Why do we say this? Now, remember in the North American awakening that we studied, you know, the churches were empty. There was no, all the churches were like, you know, the entire nation of America was going through depression and moral and financial and all kinds of problems. They were at the complete decline. But as the revival came, what made people, where churches, there were only 10 or 12 people, what happened that all of a sudden there are thousands of people? What happened? This person didn't go and preach to all these, you know, cities and towns, do evangelistic meetings. Nothing they did. All of a sudden, when the revival started, thousands of people started coming to the church. What was it? It was a great revelation of who God is. People began to understand, hey, I can go on with my life this way. I need God. My life is full of sin. And these are things that I need to change. I need to go make things right with God. God is a holy God. God has created us. So there's this whole understanding, this whole revelation that they get. That is what made them go to church and go and, you know, be part of those revivals. All the revivals. We don't see people going and, you know, distributing tracks and, you know, standing on the street corners and preaching. It didn't happen. It was only the spirit of God bringing a greater revelation of who God is. There was a heightened revelation of spiritual truths and realities. People were, you know, in the sense that they began to repent. They began to realize that, hey, I need to change my life. I need to make things right. There are realities as heaven, this hell. There are things that God has called us to be. There's a spiritual truth involved, you know. And so there was this heightened revelation. And how did they get that? Through the teaching of the word, right? Then third one, an increased passion, a fervor and zeal in God's people towards spiritual things. Now, we did see that. And remember, almost all the revivals, they would come and stand out of the church at 5 a.m. so that they can finish the first service, then get to work. Right? That's because of the passion. The zeal for God, they wanted to know more of God. What about the layman's revival? In the afternoon, one hour of prayer. Now they could have done anything else, but they decided, hey, let's pray for one hour. And that caused the revival. Why did that person, Jeremiah Lanphire, it was a zeal or a passion in his heart to say that, hey, we need to do something. We need to pray a passion for who God is. Right? And so here's an important thing. Many of us, I've read this in many books. And I also try to apply it in my life because we should never lose passion for God. Right? We all are passionate about things. Maybe some of us are passionate about instruments or some of us are passionate about travel or cars or bikes or anything. When we are passionate about something, we will be willing to go out of the line, willing to go out of our comfort zone to pursue that passion. For example, if you're passionate about music, if you're passionate about music and don't do anything about it, we're not going to learn an instrument. Learning an instrument involves sitting, practicing, dedication, hard work. It's not easy. You can't say, okay, I want to learn instrument and just sit and do nothing about it. No, no, we have to sit and prepare. A lot of times, people, especially young people, they come and say, how is it that you're playing like this on the stage? You said, practice. That's all. You have to practice. And they say, oh, we practice, we spend an hour a day. It's not enough. No, but we have college. Finish your college, finish your assignments, do everything. Sit at night and practice. Oh, no, we'll be tired. Then you need to be passionate about it to go out of your comfort zone. I hope you're getting what I'm saying. So when we are passionate for God, we will be willing to step out of our comfort zone. So always check our hearts. And I always tell this to our church folks as well, people that I meet. Do not lose passion for God. We may not know many things in the Bible. Are we still learning? Yes, that's good. But the moment you lose passion, it starts to lose that focus, that interest more of God will go away. And so we need to pray and ask God, a zeal, a passion to know more of you. And that's what happened in the revivals. They closed the shops. They went to the churches and began to pray. Coal miners closed their shops, went to pray. You could say it was like a lockdown. The entire city was, all the shops are closed and locked. Where's everyone? Everyone is sitting in the church. A heightened passion for God. And another fruit of revival is obviously an increased gathering of souls into God's kingdom. Many lives being touched. Many lives being added into God's kingdom. An increase in supernatural manifestations and signs and wonders. Again, that's a very important fruit of revival that signs, wonders and miracles followed. Another important aspect of revival is, fruit of revival is transformation of societies. Societies have been transformed. We saw that in different revivals where the lawyers had no work, the police had no work, drinking and pubs and all these things were closed because of the move of God. Now, this was in cities and towns. One of the questions that may come up is, one of our e-learning students had put a question saying, but what about cities like Bangalore and maybe these metropolitan cities in our nation and even different nations? What about them praying for revival? I think that God can move in such a way that the police won't have a work and that people will turn to God in such a huge way, like thousands of people coming together. My response to that was, yes, God is able to do it, but he needs us to, God responds to hunger. So the more we are passionate, the more we are seeking God, the more there's unity in the body of Christ, only then we will see all of this happening, a move of God transforming societies. One of the interesting things that I read recently was with all this persecution towards Christianity coming in India, we see that church denominations are coming together and that's a wonderful thing. We are forgetting about our denominations, the church is coming together to fight against these works of the enemy and the persecution that is happening towards Christianity. That is a good sign. If we continue this way, we continue praying together, having one vision, one focus to build God's kingdom. I'm sure God will do a great work among us. Whether persecution is there or no, God will do a great work when we are united and we have a passion and zeal for God. There are a couple of risks in terms of revival. It's always risky. Leaders have to take the risk to pursue that path. The enemy may oppose it. People may oppose it. People may not understand. You may have church folks who are 30-40 years in the church, but they don't understand what God is doing in the now. They say, when we were 20 years back, this is how the church was. It's a risk. You should be willing to take that risk to answer critics and all of that. It's very important to understand that we need good leadership during revival. What if people think you're wrong and they stop coming to church? Big problem. What if you or your church get branded as fanatics? All these people are only praying for revival and some people come. They're only crying the whole day. They're crying and praying. Where is the joy of the Lord? All of these things, people may question different ways. What if the motives for leaders are questioned? If we see the revivals that happened previously, some of the leaders were questioned. Remember the Jesus movement? They were questioned. Why are you going to these drug addicts and all these people and trying to share the gospel? You just leave them alone. That couple, I forget their name, the couple that went to minister to them said, they need to know God as well. They were criticized. What happened? The Jesus movement was a wonderful movement out of which came all the contemporary worship bands and worship songs. It was a wonderful work of God as well. People may misunderstand as leaders. What if people get tired of praying? Tired of just caring for people? What if there's a burnout? That's another thing. What if enthusiasm and passion for revival dies off? What if nothing happens even after two or three years of praying? All these things may come up. One of the interesting questions that people have always asked me is, and I've noticed it happens is, there's a couple of pastors that we always keep in touch and one of them said, Paul, I'm getting tired of ministry. I'm getting tired. It's a tiresome thing. We are listening to everyone's prayer request and some are saying I'm suicidal, some are saying this is my problem, that is my problem, and then you go home, we have to look after your home and the needs of the home are so overwhelming at times. We don't deny it yet. It's very important as leaders to take rest. Remember, I forget his name, was that Hudson Taylor? Yes, Hudson Taylor. He went in China. He was so full of zeal. Started the China Inland Mission. He did everything he could at a very young age. He kept working hard. He kept pushing his boundaries, pushing his limits, and then came us. He had a nervous breakdown. He was completely burnt out. His mental health was deteriorated. He lost his family because of that, he went into depression, all kinds of things. It's very important that even as we are pursuing revival, as we are pursuing God, we are to take rest. Rest physically, rest mentally. If you are in the leadership team, remember to do that. Remember, it's okay to take a break. It's not unholy to take a break. It's alright. You've been serving in the whole year. You feel you just want to get rest. It's alright. Take rest. It's biblical. It's good to take rest, taking care of what God has given you. Even during these revivals, as we pursue God, remember these things. People may question, people may ask you, what are your motives? You may get burnt out, get tired, enthusiasm. All these things may come in the way, but we are to be in wisdom. And walk the right way. Right. So we finished chapter 7. I won't go into chapter 8. What we'll do is we will, if you have any questions, feel free to ask questions. But we'll pick up chapter 8 from tomorrow onwards. And what I probably look at is to complete the chapter, the entire portions by the following week. So it gives us time to study and prepare for your final exams. Any questions, any thoughts, anything that you'd like to share, feel free to probably unmute or you can ask your questions on the chat. Anything from the beginning to now, anything that you have, maybe questions or something maybe in your mind that you want to ask, you want to share, anything, go ahead. Any questions? Nothing? Okay, is it too much? Is it something that is, you know, are you able to relate? Yes, say, go ahead. Yes, Pastor. I was just still kind of sinking in everything you've been talking about. And I just, what just came to my mind or what the spirit has just dropped in my mind while we were talking about, you know, people getting tired in ministry. You know, sometimes we could be praying for our city, expecting change. Sometimes we could be praying that, you know, the pews in our churches, you know, will have more inflow of people and people who come to the Revolution will go, we keep praying and keep praying and keep praying and keep praying. And then we don't still see it. I think we should just take encouragement from all the things we've been learning that even though we don't see it now, understand that certainly we're sowing a seed and certainly that harvest will come and even though we don't get to see it in our lifetime, wherever we are located in our different parts of the world, understand that the Father in Heaven has seen our label and whatever reward, you know, is attached to the harvest will still come to us. So I just want to encourage everyone of us that we're not wasting our time. Keep praying for your city, the Lord, our Father sees everything we're doing and indeed He will reward us greatly in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Wonderful. Yes, it's very important, right? Remember that, you know, we're praying, we're praying, we spoke about this last class also, we continually praying, we may not see it. Eventually we may feel, hey, you know, let's stop praying or we may give up. But as he mentioned, it's, you know, we may see it, we may not see the revival in our day. 1 Corinthians chapter 3 talks about it so wonderfully. He says, you know, Paul is putting into context the whole thing of the judgment seat of Christ where we are standing and God will test everything by fire. So imagine, you've put in so many hours of prayer and God is testing that by fire. It is a reward for you in heaven, right? It is a reward that God is, you know, it's never a waste. God is never going to you know, say, discount all the prayers. Oh, you prayed, but it was not answered. So let's discount this. No, no, no. Everything will be tested by fire. You'll be rewarded accordingly. Right. So we encouraged him that, right? Anybody else would like to share your thoughts or any questions? Can I share? Go ahead Rupa. During the past few months before the this classes have started this semester I had the privilege of watching and studying about the torchbearers about all those people we are studying who brought revival in their times. So these classes have reinforced and made it very very strong and it is a great blessing, sir. Thank you and very blessed and asking God what he want us to do during this time what is the prayer he wants me to pray and what does he wants to accomplish in our generation that is the prayer and asking God and thank you. Praise God. Thank you for sharing Rupa. Yes, it's wonderful. Anybody else have any thoughts any questions? Maybe I could encourage each one of us in the leadership team of your churches maybe your local church or maybe you're already a pastor or leader in the church or pastoring a church or go ahead and begin to pray these points and instill faith in your church members instill words of encouragement teach them about this that God has done this in the past. God can do it even in our days so very important to encourage the church folks put that as a point prayer point. God maybe it's just 5 or 10 minutes or during your fasting prayers Wednesday prayers the men's meeting women's meeting go ahead and encourage each group to pray so that way every group is praying for the point of revival anybody else anyone would like to share or we can just close in prayer as well right so we close in prayer we'll pick up from chapter 8 tomorrow and chapter 8 is the pursuit of revival a lot of it is maybe just reminders of what we have studied from chapter 1 but we will pick up a few examples from the Old Testament as well and the New Testament of how people pursue God and how God answered them alright let's close in prayer Samuel can you close us in prayer please sure pastor Heavenly Father we come to your presence and we thank you we are really grateful we cannot live without thanking me we thank you for including us in your family we thank you for choosing us we thank you for calling us to your purpose and we thank you for equipping us we thank you for this class we thank you for pastor Paul and we thank you for his ministry and his teaching and his class on revivals a lot as we learn about as we look into the lives of all your chosen ones whom you've used and how you've used them to create revivals we aspire and we ready ourselves to be vessels for you for your usage for us equip us so that we can go out to the world and we can create revivals we can be part of revivals we can bring lives to you we can touch lives and we can spread your love to this aching hurting world we can bring your healing Lord bless each and every one of us in this class Lord as we learn and as we build ourselves be with us, teach us, guide us protect us and every area that concerns us Lord we keep it in your throne in your presence we dedicate ourselves and our lives to you and we pray that everything that we've learned will come into use that's in everything we ask in the name of Lord Jesus Amen Thank you so much Samuel Thank you everyone for joining Have a great day ahead tomorrow Bye now Thank you Pastor Thank you, thank you, God bless