Monday, July 11, 2005 - revival. : revival. we always hear so many christians asking for revival. praying for revival. but yet, what sets me thinking is this. how hungry are we for revival? we always ask for revival, we always ask for a harvest right before an evangelistic event, yet on any other day, we never cry out to God. we are instead so caught up in our own salvation, our own spiritual lives, so much so we're more interested in edifying ourselves than others. whenever the word "evangelistic" is mentioned, i can almost see the grimace on the face of christians. why are we so afraid of proclaiming our faith? why are we so ashamed of winning souls for God? why are we so reluctant to bring back the lost sheep who are hell-bound? is our face worth more than the souls of the ones we love and care for? why on earth do we fear rejection? did Jesus give us the Great Commission - the preaching of the Gospel- only to fail? or did He give it to us that we may bring back the ones that has gone astray?

its time to WAKE UP to the realities of being a christian. its time that we get out of our comfort zone and take back the land that God once possessed. its time that we blow the trumpet of God and raise the banner of Christ and claim the souls that the devil has stolen. its time that we as the chosen ones of this lost generation RISE UP and BREAK OUT of our comfort zone. its time for us to look BEYOND our calvary and our salvation and BRING salvation to the ones who does not have it yet. WAKE UP, brothers and sisters in Christ. God did not save us that we may worship Him and praise Him, but that we may bring back His people to Him. only then we worship and praise Him with all of our heart, all of our strength, all of our soul and with all of our mind, for all the great things that He has done in empowering us to bring in the harvest of lost souls.

many a times i hear so many christians asking for revival, yet i hear no desperation, i see no hunger. perhaps there is a hunger,and i could be wrong. yet i do not hear of the desperation of the christian community in sajc. i see nothing being done. there are prayer meets, there is the asking for revival, but where is the hunger? God gives revival by how hungry we are, how desperate we are. is sajc desperate? is sajc hungry? its time for some serious praying. its time for some serious desperation. my church reaped the harvest, yet not because we were special, but because we were HUNGRY. DESPERATE. we cried out to God to give us the nation, to give us this generation. no eye was dry, no spirit was left untouched. our hearts burned with the need to save the lost.

the harvest we reaped was because of our DESPERATION. we prayed almost everyday leading to the Night of Fire, we cried out and screamed,

"GOD! Give us Singapore or we die!"

its time for such a cry once more. CRY OUT TO GOD, SAJC.

C.K blogged at 6:01 AM