 Okay, good morning everyone Welcome to another session Can one of us please start in prayer before we begin Abhishek Can you please lead us in prayer sure? Heavenly Father we come before your throne of grace this morning in the name of mighty name of Jesus Christ as You give us new grace and blessing each morning Lord new opportunities thank you for that Lord and So Father bless our teacher our pastor with the spirit of revelation wisdom knowledge understanding and remove every form of distraction So that this class will go smoothly without any kind of distraction Bless bless each of the student with a listening ear and understanding heart so that we can not only hear but hunger for more of you Lord and Thank you for hearing this prayer in Lord Jesus name. We pray amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you Abhishek alright so We continued yesterday sorry looking at how you know the Holy Spirit continued the outpouring in different places right now Let's do a little bit of a review of what we did yesterday We looked at the Korean revival. We looked at how God Especially in Korea. They saw seasons of revival every two years. There was an outpouring right, which means every two years there was some kind of a move of God where People were convicted. There was turning away of sins. The churches were increasing so Korea saw a large You know church being established in the early 1900s. Then we also looked at Revival in North China and Jonathan go forth a Canadian missionary. He went to Not China and he began to You know evangelize and he became more of an evangelist there and one of the great things we saw in the revival in China was There was already plenty of churches, but this revival brought in New leaders new leaders were formed new pastors new missionaries were sent out to different places So it was a little different kind of a revival and then we saw How God used to older women in their 80s To bring revival in the small island called the Hebrides Island, which is more of a tourist destination, but God put it in these two old women Peggy Smith was blind and Christine who had double arthritis To pray for this small island and they prayed 10 p.m. To 3 a.m. They did that for about three months and God began to move right God began to touch people's lives and Everything else was stopped Buses trains people who are coming even as tourists also experience You know the the move of the Holy Spirit and they all began to flock to the churches and It's interesting to see How wonderfully God, you know put that desire into these old women To pray for revival and this revival from the Hebrides Island went to different places again Then we saw something very unique In the early 1960s known as the hippie age where Rock and Roll sex drugs alcohol You know all of this was very open Very, you know, it was all Everyone accepted it. So this rock and roll the hippie age saw again a Downfall in Christendom in Christian life and but even through that God used this wonderful young couple Charles Smith and Kay To minister among these hippies what started with 25 churches began to grow and there were thousands of churches everywhere now this movement came to be known as the Jesus movement and Because of this movement there's something called as Christian Contemporary worship began right. So when I say Christian contemporary worship, you know Maybe earlier on the early 90s even before that as well. It was just An organ or these wind instruments that people would use during their times of worship, but now Because of the you know, the 60s 70s had no bands Rock bands being formed people were coming out of that culture coming into the knowledge of Jesus Christ and so this movement Made a pathway to contemporary music and so Maronata Singers Jesus culture Keith Green You know, some of you can go ahead to YouTube. I think there are a few videos of Keith Green. It was a wonderful Worship leader. He died at a very young age But God used him to write wonderful wonderful songs. He also came out of these He was in the Jesus movement and then we also see Petra Which is another rock band and so what happened was there was a shift there was a shift in style There was contemporary Worship coming into the church yet Not all was well because some of them Outside the church was saying oh, we are bringing in the you know, the worldly influences into the church We are bringing in all this, you know these rock kind of Music into the church And so many of them did not agree to it did not agree to these movements yet the Holy Spirit was moving and These churches began to grow large churches large fellowships were formed and then we also looked at Asbury College and how the campuses in the campus students were praying and Just maybe about 20 of them were praying in an auditorium and the next thing, you know They could not have classes. There were days continued days of prayer 1500 C to auditorium was completely packed and even after Things got back to normalcy. This auditorium was left open for prayer and intercession and Then the last thing we looked at was David Yongee Cho Who sparked off the Korean revival? And there was a phenomenal growth in his church one of the things we also saw that the In the Korean revival The most important emphasis was prayer and ministry of the word and then out of it flew You know out of it came the healing the miracles the Cell groups and all the you know the media and all of those things but but the main aspect of the Korean revival was Prayer and ministry of the word of God And so we stopped there. We will look at a few more today and then we'll end with some of the key observations now We went from the first century church all the way To the present times now And we saw the Holy Spirit working on different people in different ways Moving Powerfully among people touching many lives So we'll just look at some key observations from what we learned from The first century church to now so before that let's just look at a few more Few more, you know outpouring some revivals that happened now the early 1990s a Man named Rodney Howard Brown was a South African evangelist He came to the USA in early 1980s You began a small revival here. Sorry a small church and Small meetings would happen now during these meetings something unique happened now many of them You know don't Subscribe to this and they feel it's a heresy from God But what Rodney Howard Brown was very, you know, he was very hungry for God he spent many hours praying and all of that and Somewhere in the early 90s 92 the holy laughter Began to break out so people would begin to laugh In their meetings and it was called a laughing revival which happens even now Now there are different Reactions to this like many people in in Christendom said, okay, this is completely of the devil some people said no the Holy Spirit brings joy So there was a mixed reaction But here's the way to Understand, you know the work of the Holy Spirit you always look at the fruit It was their fruit in the ministry Can God bring, you know, holy laughter upon people where they are There's a joy unexplainable. Yes, but what is important is the fruit Right, so Jesus himself said you shall be known by your fruit right So always remember whenever you're looking at, you know ministries or you're listening to them It's the fruit Now when I say fruit, it's not okay not only about, you know, the numbers But it's about what are they teaching? Is it is it in line with the word of God? Is it fruitful to the kingdom of God? Is it fruitful to the people who are there? In the church and so Rodney Howard Brown was desperate for God He would teach the word of God and while teaching people experienced this whole Sense of joy and they began to laugh in the spirit. So this went on for many years even now If you listen to a few of his summons You know towards the end during the ministry time people are you know as either slain and the Holy Spirit or the laughing But here's the thing the teaching of the word is done. There is fruit thousands of people have Accepted Christ many have been healed many have been delivered and so this went on for a couple of years and Very strongly this revival was and then it slowly died down And so the laughing revival was really not accepted by many of them Right, they said this is not right. This is not how the Holy Spirit works But then we saw a move of God, right? This revival went on to The Toronto revival actually what happened was this couple John and Carol are not they came to Listen to Rodney Howard Brown and when they listen to they asked him to pray for them as a couple and then they went back to Toronto and the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship Church and There was a there was just a small church they invited Rodney Howard Brown to come and preach at times and They invited other people Randy Clark to come and preach and then in Toronto. They began to see a revival people You know were shaking what was about 120 people in attendance quickly quickly became about Every Sunday's attending church There was a move of God People were trembling people were fallen on the floor under the conviction of the Holy Spirit crying speaking in tongues They were overcome by the presence of God It was also said like just like other revivals they You know, they fell on the ground and they wouldn't wake up for a long time because they were under conviction So the prayer meetings eventually kept going on and on there was no break and then by the end of 1995 that's only just one year There were about 600,000 people who visited who visited Toronto during the Toronto revival People from all across the globe came to witness what was happening here again out of this came but new Contemporary churches people who came there went went back to their hometowns started their own church services started their own churches and You know, they they continue to do this this whole thing of contemporary worship contemporary I would say ministry contemporary way of ministry started off during this time so though I would say that the the revival in Toronto was a key in the early 90s because it was the start of a decade and It was a season where People were more open because the hippie movement brought People more open to the work of the Holy Spirit open to different styles of worship. So people were more free during the early 90s and so So we see that the Toronto revival did spark something new for that entire decade. So it was from 1992 to about It went on to about 2002-2003 The Toronto revival kept, you know, when we say revival, it was more of an the outpouring happened So two years three years. It was like Thousands of people coming in and then it would, you know, slowly dampen But then there would be times where God will suddenly the Holy Spirit would suddenly make a move and then there would be, you know Again, thousands of people coming into Christ. So the Toronto revival was powerful and They started Bible colleges Bible schools there And after they started Bible schools thousands of thousands of people began to come to this place to be equipped by the word of God and It was out of this that, you know, Bill Johnson Also was encouraged to continue his ministry strong and we know about Bethel Church and Redding, California known for mostly their, you know worship the way they lead worship and Their Bible school school of ministry and all of that. So even Heidi Baker's ministry, they were all encouraged during this revival All right The mid-2000s Saw something unique in our nation of India right The Shalom revival happened between 2006 to 2007 The Belch revival of the early 1900s reached the Cassie Hills in Shalom Revivals started among the Presbyterian church right, it was not The, you know, the contemporary church or the charismatic church Revival started in the Presbyterian church in Shalom. There was people were engaging in prayer And suddenly there was a visitation of God And about in April 2006 a huge gathering of about 150 people at the Myrang Presbyterian church You know in the afternoon service one like 50,000 people came people continue to pray continue to sing for hours They were under the conviction of the Holy Spirit local churches began to thrive because of what was happening in You know this this place and Miraculously people were converted people who were Living sinful lives mostly people who are into drugs and alcohol Began to just give it up In in a moment and they all came to their families families were restored Children began to you know accept Christ children began to see visions of Jesus People began to see visions of heaven and hell and all of that Regular classes and schools was disrupted the Holy Spirit was moving powerfully among children during that time and and the Shalom revival a very vaguely Remember reading about it About the Shalom revival It was a powerful move of God to say that There was no place in Shalom in the sense that there was no halls Which are auditoriums that could host so many people and so they would You know have these open fields and there would be thousands of people coming to hear the word of God Now the interesting thing is in this revival it was not through one person or a group of people that You know the revival happened They prayed it was almost immediate You know when we look at some places previously that we studied They've been praying for revival. They prayed for two years. They prayed for three years They prayed for five years and then slowly there was an outpouring But here in the Shalom revival. It was just one year Of course the groundwork was done from the time from the early 1900s when the Welsh revival You know the outpouring happened in India, but then this Presbyterian church Leaders just prayed for one year and the next year they saw this outpouring Shalom revival was known for its You know, it's ministry to especially the sick the poor the the orphaned and the drug addicts the alcoholics Scores of people You know were convicted of their sins and they accepted Christ as their personal savior So this is what happened India did see a move of God that Shalom revival went to different parts of the Northeast. I Wouldn't say it came to south when you read more of history on this It was in the Northeast Shalom So it went upwards more But it never really touched towards the south of India But there was a wonderful impact in the northeast of India through this Shalom revival right So we come to an end of all the outpourings and everything that we've studied So What is happening today? When we've studied all of this and we look at the church at the current situation What is what is it that we are seeing? We're seeing that God is moving God there is an outpouring of God there are manifestations of his presence different parts of the world, right? God is using many many Wonderful leaders pastors evangelists To bring healing to bring deliverance to bring You know wonders miracles gifts of the Holy Spirit and all these wonderful things But there's something interesting that we are seeing now In the present outpouring or the present revival that we are in we are seeing God is equipping people to You know impact even every sphere of influence Now if you remember the layman's revival It was more for the working professionals. They were just layman Working professionals were impacted. So the same way even during this time We are stepping into a place current generation. We are stepping into a place where We have we need to make this outpouring and a habitation of God Which means it is a normal thing Science wonders and miracles should be a normal thing in the church and We are coming to that place The working of the gifts of the Holy Spirit should be a normal thing right The move of God a heightened You know revelation of God should be a normal thing in the church right Yet we know that the enemy is always trying to trying his best to bring false doctrines bring false dogma and You know like a lion roaring lion. He wants to devour the children of God Right. So the enemy can bring in You know, it's he's he brings in counterfeit Right. The counterfeit is exactly like the original When you look at it, you can't make out which is the original which is the which is counterfeit It looks the same So the enemy brings in counterfeit Into the church, let me give you this example. I don't know if I've used this example here This is this happened it's a true Story and it's a true if these are true events that happen In two thousand and Think it was two thousand and fifteen odd. I forget the year. Maybe somewhere during that time So we have these How many of you have heard of the word of faith, you know people who just stick to the word, you know, they teach the word every time We have this whole In a group called word of faith movement, right? Now people have you heard of that? How many of you have heard of that the word of faith movement people just stick to the word preach the word Yes, okay So I was I was reading this article And I think there's a video on it also on YouTube Now I'm trying to bring in the counterfeit, right? I'm gonna I'm trying to show you how the enemy can you know distract us When there is an outpouring or how the enemy can distract our minds From the focus of Jesus to put our focus on something else Right now. What happened was there's this whole season Where people began to experience supernatural moves of God, right? So people would see angels people would during the church services would see You know gold dusted material or gold dust falling on them Now I'm not against all of that, right? God can do it God can do it in his way The Holy Spirit can move in his way But what had happened was during one of these Meetings there was this I forget who was that preacher How many of you have heard of Paul washer Paul washer is a wonderful wonderful Teacher and preacher of the word of God Doing a wonderful ministry right now. So and so he was preaching in a church and After preaching in the church, he was talking about how you know, the church has lost its flavor The church is supposed to be Empowered and all of that so he was talking about the power of the church against the enemy after the service Some one elderly woman came up to her came up to him and said I used to you know, be in one of these Won't say contemporary churches, but I used to be in one of these churches was focused more on the you know, the the physical Expressions of the Holy Spirit like you know, the focus was more on that and so he was I leave the name of the church Are named I don't want to name it And the pastor I don't want to name the pastor as well, but here's what happened. She said that Before the service Maybe two hours before the service, right? They would buy cans of gold Dust right you get these decoration dust that you get gold cans Two hours before the service they would go up. They would empty those cans into the AC ducts They'll close the AC ducts and then during the service They would switch on the AC's the AC's will blow out that dust and the dust would fall on people and That was the Holy Spirit This is counterfeit Why did why is all this happening? because We have changed our focus from Jesus and the work of the Holy Spirit to science wonders miracles Right remember we spoke about this in the initial classes as well our heart should our heart and mind should be fixed on Jesus and not on The you know the healings the miracles the work, you know All of that is part of the ministry that God has called us for But it flows out of our knowing in Jesus Right and so the present day outpouring. I'm not saying that it's happening everywhere but these are the things these are counterfeit works of the enemy and I believe that this is one of the reasons why we are not seeing an outpouring in the church worldwide But God is faithful Just because of some of them God is will not withhold the Holy Spirit. He will do what he has called You know what he purposed to do so let's look at a Few observations from what we studied from early 1900s to now Right now, I just want to put this out if you if any of you believe in You know All of you know the gold dust and all of it go ahead. I mean there's nothing wrong God can the Holy Spirit can do it right not saying it's wrong So don't get me don't misunderstand what I'm trying to say the Holy Spirit can do it But We are not to you know, try cheap methods And blow it out of proportion saying it's a work of God right We shall be known by our fruit. So always always Look for the genuine work of God genuine work of the Holy Spirit and Then you will see that God begins to you know, bless the work of our hands there will be wonderful work remember in This side tracking, but I just want to bring this point out Paul is writing to the Corinthians. He says your work will be You know Tested by fire. So there's gold as hey, they're stubble Now when you look at hey, it's it's very big so everyone can see it Golden silver If you test it by fire gold becomes pure you test the silver by fire it becomes pure But if you test hey By fire it becomes ashes So our works are going to be tested by fire It's very important that we that we you know the things that we do are done out of the Holy Spirit out of the empowerment of the Holy Spirit and not From our own flesh, right? Some key observations from what we studied in the timeline, right? First one Reformation I'm on page 61 if you want to track along Reformation revival Restoration missions and church growth Wherever there was an outpouring. There was a reformation Reformation prepares the way for revival right What is reformation reformation or coming back to its original? prepares the way for revival revival Results in the restoration of the church Somewhere along the path when the church when the church has gone astray revival brings it back restores and Everywhere there was an outpouring of God. There was missions. There was church growth Right. So these are common In terms of reformation and revival revival Infuses us with increased measures of God's presence and working Right, especially during revival times. We will have this urge or somewhere You know these times of outpouring. I'm sure some of us may have sensed it I personally have felt it where You know, you have your regular days. You're praying you You go through your days and then there are times you set aside. Okay. I'm gonna fast 10 days of 15 days or you know five days whatever But during those five or 10 days didn't those times of fasting and prayer you sense and increased measure of God's presence and you know during that time. Why is it because we are giving him that extra time for God and we're asking God to move Right and there are times when You know, during regular times we try we pray Close our eyes pray. You feel it's one hour. You open your eyes. It's just 10 minutes. Say God But there are times when You know, you're fasting and you're praying you're really seeking God There are times you close your eyes and you know, it just goes on for hours. Why? Because there's this the Holy Spirit is working at that time Right Reformation is a discovery and aligning to spiritual truth Restoration lifts the church to a new level Right. So wherever there's restoration the church has gone from one level to another right Another observation we saw from the early church as well is there have been seasons of Global revival. So revival happened in one place. It went to the entire world We seen the first great awakening from America. It touched Europe. It went to Africa went to Asia and touched many parts of the world second great awakening again Went from North America to different parts of the world third great awakening went from England to different parts of the world So we see that the Holy Spirit is not contained in one place He may choose a certain place To start his work But just like how we always say the Holy Spirit is like fire It began to spread to different parts of the world and so So what was happening in one place? replicated in different countries Right Christopher has a question first when you fast for 10 days, how do you do it? No food? Okay Okay, I'll answer that now Christopher in the book of Isaiah talks about the chosen fast Now there are different ways of fasting right you can choose how you want fast that are some of them Who would like to have one meal? at some of them Have two meals just fast one meal. Some of them don't have anything to eat right then there's a There's fasting where people just have fruits right or There's another fast which says which is more of you know, I will not have Non-wedge food. I will just stay on veg food. So The book of Isaiah talks about the chosen fast The reason I brought this out is because the fasting is not so that you know, we can say that I've achieved something The whole point of fasting is that we get closer. There's an intimate Our intimacy with the Lord is increased There are times when we fast for personal needs or for for the church needs So when I personally fast You know, I usually do a 10 or a 12 day fast So I try to do it without food Now there are people in our church also who do this but a lot of them are on medicines now if you are on medicines You, you know, you you have a certain health condition. You're on medicines You're supposed to eat food go ahead and do that, right? Now the wrong thing would be, you know No, I will not eat. God is my healer. Yes, all of that is right But if you're on medicines, the doctor has told you to you know, you got to eat after these medicines or whatever Please follow that because I know of a young man Full of zeal for the Lord and he used to fast Every time and his his you know, his parents would call and say, you know, he's fasting But he's got to have his medicines. He had some problems in his stomach And he's got to have his medicines and so he's fasting now. He's not supposed to be fasting. Can you please tell him? So I would tell him don't do that. I'd have something to eat. It's not about, you know Ticking off something in your list. Okay, I did 10 days fasting. It's it's you know, it's about Getting to know God and you can even without fasting and but what happened was he continued on They had to admit him in the hospital. He went through, you know, about One week of intense medication Cause a lot of damage in his body. So God has given us wisdom Right when we are young And we don't have any, you know medications to take go ahead You can probably do full fast or you would have one meal or so you can Uh, but if you're on the medications And if there are elderly folks Wisely make decisions. So Yeah, so but when I fast if some there are sometimes I fast for five days I just have maybe only breakfast or It's 10 days. I try not to have anything. Let's have water Uh, so you can choose However, you want to fast, but most importantly, it's not about taking off something in the list. It's about uh, you know, it's about growing closer to God and Growing closer to the Holy Spirit developing a deeper relationship with God. That's the whole point, right? Now if you if you're fasting and then we keep thinking, oh Uh, man, I wish I could eat this. I wish I could eat that. There's no point of that fasting Might as well eat and then pray and do everything that you have to do. So Uh, so that's why it's the intentions that count. So Yeah, I hope that answers your question, Christopher All right Okay, so we see this Move where God is, you know, the what God is doing in one place It was replicated in different place Uh, different regions and this has been a pattern of God's working In church history. So there will be times when God use God can use worship Right worship times can be Maybe, you know, it happened in our church in APC once where There was this phase I think it was six months in APC where Uh, every now and then The worship would go on for one and a half hours We wouldn't have preaching I forget what year it is but Every now and then so Mostly in the other locations There were times when worship went on for one and a half hours It's straight. There was no word because You know, it was just an overwhelming presence of the Holy Spirit. We were doing the worship series at that time. So God uses those seasons To, you know, bring an outpouring there were times during those times. I remember You know, there was this one time we will we were in one of the locations And we began with worship And I was really tired I said, God, I can't do this. Uh, I was like, okay, let's just get done with this half an hour worship Four songs Okay, and so I went up very tired. We began the first song And we just began to sing right nothing Nothing we did were not in fasting and prayer nothing. It's just a regular sunday Came prepared with the songs we began with the songs And, uh, you know in the tiredness I just started to sing And at one moment, uh, you know, uh, I just opened my eyes I felt it was like 10 minutes But we have our morning service at 8 30 and we close at about 10 Uh, I opened my eyes And it was 10 15 Right, so we started at 8 30 And it was 10 15 Nobody stopped me Nobody said, okay, your time is done nothing And for me it felt like it only felt like 10 minutes right Now we know that these kind of seasons are seasons where God is doing something I didn't have to tell the church. Okay church. Come on lift your hands pray Come on lift your hands worship the let's sing together. I didn't have to do anything They did everything on their own the moment I opened my eyes. I saw it's 10 15 And I saw the people they were on their knees crying people were praying people were worshiping God. We didn't feel like stopping Unfortunately the uh, the Kanada service was starting next so we had to end it There will be times when God uses these seasons. He can use worship. He can use the word of God Um, right to just, uh Uh, maybe are so focused on the word. We forget about time. We forget about things that are happening around What normally takes a 40 minute session of four songs? Uh, it felt like just 10 minutes Right, uh, so there there will be we must be tuned to what the Holy Spirit is doing We must capture the essence of what he's flowing with right, uh, there was this other time Uh, I think we were in, uh Ajmer and Rajasthan and we were Having this time of prayer Because pastors all pastors uh from different parts of uh, north india had come and so we were about 300 odd pastors And we said, okay, we'll have I think it was 6 to 10 6 p.m. To 10 p.m. Worship and prayer So we began Just singing songs and uh, it was all hindi songs and not many of us were prepared with hindi songs We were more used to doing the english worship But we had a few songs in mind. We were able to start off with that And we began to sing and then after the You know a couple of songs we saw there was a mighty move of God in that place, you know Everyone were on the ground. They were crying. They were weeping. They were saying God, you know praying for the city praying for the nation. We didn't have to do we didn't have to do anything Right, it was like about 350 pastors all of them crying weeping And then we looked at the time we were way past 12 We were into the midnight just going on praying and So they were during these times Uh, we just got to flow with it Right, uh, don't have to say okay stop. It's you know 10 o'clock. That's all back up and close No, because God is beyond all of those times he if he chooses to Send an outpouring at a time we are to be in tune embrace that you know that flow that he's You know, I remember during that time during that pastors meeting any of them were healed and received healing Blind a few blind men people who had cancer were healed. Nobody prayed for them Nobody prayed for them. We were just praying Praying for pastors praying for churches praying for uh, north india. Nobody prayed for anyone Yet god more people received healing People who were possessed you know, there were people Few of the church members and people from other places also came so Those who were possessed began to manifest during the worship time We didn't say we didn't go and pray. We didn't do anything Why because it we just knew okay. It's an outpouring. God is doing something in this place right Now here's a very important point. We are not to copy methods forms or structures Right, we cannot copy and say okay. This is how they did it. So we will do exactly this way right Now we we there are certain truths that we have to follow by you know, if we want revelation, we have to pray Right, we have to seek god for that. We can't say okay. We're copying them No, but we don't have to copy the way that they did things right The holy spirit may move differently In whichever place we are and so uh embrace the truth the revelation there are spiritual dynamics which you and I need to Embrace and there will be times when the holy spirit is releasing something It may be something new to us You know, but stay on sync with that That was the season again Where you know, we were doing a series on the holy spirit And during that time You know During the preaching time almost all the churches like all our locations all five locations during the preaching time god would give us words of knowledge If we're preaching the word god would give us a prophetic word god would give A word of knowledge or god would give an idea or a thing to do in the future A plan and and so we remember as a pastoral team we used to sit and uh, we all had the same kind of feeling and we were wondering okay God we realized that god is moving in a different way That was a season where god was moving in through times of worship Now god is working through words of knowledge prophetic words Uh for the church. So there were times when uh, I think we even do it now where After the service we will have ministry time when Prophetic words were declared words of knowledge was released people who received healing would come in front and Uh, you know, uh, testify of their healing. So all of these things were happening even happens now. So Uh, so that's so we need to be in sync with what the holy spirit is doing third point Those ignited by revival became carriers of revival Right, we see william caddy. He read about things that happened in admissions and he said I want to go to india and because of what he read You know, he did so much in our nation And so there are many people that way many missionaries who read about others and were sparked with revival and they went Went and uh, you know did a great work. There are even times when Um where people intentionally went to that place To catch that spark of revival and bring it to their hometown now There's something called as impartation Uh impartation Is important But impartation is not the only way Where we can receive, uh, you know an outpouring It's not like, okay, this man great man Praise over me and I don't have to do anything Outpouring or revival will follow me. No, uh Yes being prayed for, uh, you know Preachers and great men of god women of god. It's very important to be prayed by them Yet there is a responsibility that we must do Right of praying and seeking god and then God will begin to have that same kind of outpouring move into our place as well uh Focused intentional pursuit of god paves way for revival Right people did not look for science miracles and wonders They looked at holiness. They looked they pursued righteousness. They pursued to live a holy life. They pursued to know god Right, uh, and so because of that Focused intentional pursuit of god brought away of revival yesterday You know, uh, we were talking Briefly, we talked about how intentions are very important Why do we want a revival? Is it to be famous? Or is it so that our church becomes big and then we don't have to worry about other things? So intention is very important And finally the last point Sharing revival stories often ignites revival So the reason we are studying this Is so that god can start a revival a move inside us Right, uh, so the more we read all of this you say hey god God used people This way in the old times he can definitely use us as well So we need to be prayerful and seek god Continue to pursue him for the things ahead. So We come to the end of chapter three chapter three was a long chapter had a lot of things to study on but I I just hope that each one of us have been able to capture the essence of revivals outpourings of god Okay, we've passed our time, but any any of you have any questions any thoughts you want to share? Any questions any thoughts? all right okay, so We'll pick up from next week We go on to look at some of the characteristics of revival and characteristics of people who are Missionaries and reformers So we can learn from that as well. All right. So let's just close in prayer Could one of us please close in prayer Christopher? Can you close in prayer, please? Hey, uh, Shri Kumar if you're there, I think you raised your hand. Yes pastor. I need I just want to know one thing Can I ask? Yes, go ahead I just want to know that one thing like as we learning about how the revival used to start but It it like it never stays for a long time So is it possible pastor like um that revival can stay for a long time like Can it continue? Is it or Or is it the characteristic of a revival that it comes for once and Like it's it will be there for three years four years or you know, and it's just a slow down or Is it also possible that the a like an atmosphere of revival can continuously flow in a church or in a Uh In a place is it possible just that's my question. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Shri kumar. That's a good question Is it okay shri kumar if we answer this next class because Because you asked me if anyone I think a question. Yeah, yeah, no since it's 9 50 Remember this question. It's uh, we will answer this question next class. Thank you. Uh, can you please close in prayer shri kumar? Sure sure Go ahead Our precious father. We thank you for your honor you for this wonderful day, which are given to us regard Thank you father god for your wisdom and input of father god, which is strengthening us Thank you for the god for the revelation. Thank you lord master Lord master you are equipping us with your word of father god We pray that father every word what we received a father let it deeply rooted in us so that father we should not Lord master miss anything we should not miss our race of father god We should able to finish our race of father god We should able to fight the good fight of faith of father god We could able to finish our assignment Which is on this earth of father god and we pray that father god equip us Equip us oh lord each one of us irrespective of our weaknesses. Let these words strengthen us Let this word lord master remove every blurness of vision which is before us so god let it let it lord energize Oh lord master us so that we can able to achieve that vision which are kept ahead of us as the paul said I have I had a vision and lord master He lived a lord master for that vision of god. He died for that vision of god. He suffered for that vision I pray that father god through this revelation through this lord master input through this knowledge of god Let your vision be given to us so that we can able to focus on your call and we can be a lord master We can be a source of the revival. Thank you for this wonderful time of god. What you've given to us in jesus name. We pray amen Amen, amen. Thank you so much. Thank you everyone. Have a wonderful week ahead. We'll catch up next Monday