night time musing

All Consuming Fire by Misty Edwards

All-consuming fire

You're our heart's desire

Living flame of love come baptize us

Let us fall more in love with You

Let us know how high how deep how wide Love Love Love

Sang by Melissa How

i pray that my heart would awaken to Love and to love...

my first post is an old post.

So basically to inaugurate my first post here on Blogspot, I will put up an old post I wrote back on April 29, 2003. Why? I'm about to begin the longest fast I've ever done for breakthrough in Long Beach. By the grace of God, I believe we will see a massive outpouring in Long Beach- one so big that it will shake California, the nation, and the world. I realize that God's glory shown through revival has been the ache of my heart for FIVE years already. This was written back then dedicated to my church. But I now declare this over my city of Long Beach. Read on:

"If my people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My Face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." -2 Chronicles 7:14

The verse above is dedicated to my church, the Filipino Baptist Fellowship located in Long Beach, California. For the past two months, I sense God telling me that a revival is going to happen. A revival of great magnitude. I can see dozens of people being saved through our church. I can see our worship bursting in joyous praise. I can see people walking down the aisle, tears flowing from their faces committing and re committing their lives to God. I can see a youth re-energized singing "Lord, Light the Fire Again". I can see adults fired up for the next missionary project. I can see a church united in Christian love, striving towards reaching out the lost through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Yes, I can see God doing greater things within us in the future. Sounds like a dream huh?

Well, this "dream" does NOT come without a cost guys. To the people reading this who attend my church there are certain conditions to be met. A higher standard to which God wants us to do. Only when we pray and humbly admit that without Christ we are nothing this "dream" will never happen. Unless we come before our God admitting our worthlesness realizing that we have fallen short so many times, this "dream" will never ever happen. Unless we turn from our prideful and sinful nature that seeks only to satisfy our needs, this revival wont happen. To the SOULJAS of Long Beach, CA if we come together in prayer crying out to God, humbling ourselves before Him, asking Him to break our hearts for the sin in us, then, AND ONLY THEN, God can heal us.

Jeremiah 33:3 says "Call unto me and I will show you great and mighty things which you do not know". If we are to be the church that God called us to be, then we must meet His standards of holiness only found through Jesus Christ. IF WE ARE TO START A REVIVAL, IT MUST START WITHIN EACH AND EVERYONE OF US.

This next song is dedicated to my church and to the rest of the Christians striving to spread the saving Gospel of Christ:

Send Revival, Start With Me
Matt Redman

We're looking to Your promise of old/ That if we pray and humble ourselves/
You will come and heal our land/ You will come, You will come/ We're looking to
the promise You made/ That if we turn and look to Your face/ You will come and
heal our land/ You will come, You will come to us

Lord, send revival/ Start with me/ For I am one of unclean lips/ And my eyes have seen the King/ Your glory I have glimpsed/ Send revival/ Start with me