Now we're just about to go into another season of fasting again. I need more of God! I want to know Him. I want to touch His power and see people's lives transformed. Noah warned of God, of things that were not yet seen; by faith he committed his whole life to building an ark, and the result was all his family, the next generation, were part of what God did.
The next generation of your family… maybe you've made mistakes, but it's not too late to start to pray for them, and start to put things right, start to sow again, and build. That's in your own natural family, but the family of God is bigger than our natural family. It involves other people. We need to be committed to build the local church. We need to be committed to build small groups, to be built places where God can come because we're praying and believing.
It's not the how of it, it's just the function of it - that we gather, and build up one another, and encourage one another, exhort one another. When you come… come with the truth! Spend time in the word of God, bring something God is speaking to you about. Come, not with an empty life, but a full life.
I'm passionate for God, I'm hungry for His kingdom, I'm seeking the Lord with all my heart! I'm in the word of God! God is speaking to me and changing me, oh I have something to give. That's for everyone. It's for everyone.
Closing PrayerWhy don't we stand to our feet right now... Come on, I want us to give honour to Jesus. He is warning us of things to come. He's saying: lift your eyes - look! You can read the signs of the seasons. Look at the sign of the times, look at the time you're living in. Look at the time we're living in! How exciting to be alive when the greatest things that God has planned will come into the earth! How glorious! God's glory will be seen in the whole earth and we're called to be a part of it. Oh, we want to arise, come on, let's worship Him. Lift your hands to Him right now! Thank You Lord! Thank You Lord! We give You the honour. We give You the glory! Come upon us, glory of God! Come upon our nation. We commit to prayer. We seek revival. Awaken Your people. Awaken our hearts. Awaken the city.
Jesus said: beware, take heed, lest you be deceived, lest you think you're doing okay and you're not. Get a love for the truth, and then as He goes through the parables He says this: I tell you, watch, pray, watch, pray, watch, pray. Build your prayer life. Build your prayer life. Build intimacy with God. Spend time with Him.
He begins to tell of the parables of the Servant and the House, who begins to abuse the other servants - speaking of having a bad attitude to the body of Christ. He talks about the virgins who were prepared, who had paid the price of intimacy with Jesus. He talks about the faithful servants who had served faithfully. God is telling us - wake up, wake up church, wake up! Wake up!
Thank You Lord! Awaken us! Thank You Lord! We honour You Jesus. Come in strength! Come in glory! Come in power! We reach out to You Lord. We hunger for You Lord. Come in revival! Thank You Lord. Come awaken us Lord! We honour You Jesus. We cry out, pour out the spirit of revival. Have mercy on Your people. Let the glory of God be seen upon us. We honour You. We praise You. We bless You. We give You thanks. Our hearts are filled with joy and expectation for the things You're bringing in being. Amen.
I want you to consider your own prayer life, your own walk with God. Take the message, go back over it again, and ask yourself: what is the Holy Spirit speaking to me about. Read Matthew 24 & 25. Start to think about it. The days of Lot, what was going on? What was happening? You will find that it's happening in the world today. Read 2 Timothy 3 - in the last days, perilous times, what will people be like? Look around, you can see it now.
Church, prepare. Prepare. Say God, awaken my heart. I want to be like Noah, who being warned of God, of things not yet seen, built an ark. Amen. There's a great presence of God here. Carry that presence out into the community. Our prayer as a corporate body is for revival in our city, revival in our region, revival in our nation. Amen. God bless you.