AFRICAN REVIVALISTS cry out...
Posted by: prophetic <prophetic@...>
Date sent: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 00:41:51 -0700
"AFRICAN REVIVALISTS cry out..."
-by Michael Chartier.
The church today is being "radically transformed" as never before.
Evidence of this is happening worldwide.
I listened a couple weeks ago to a Ugandan Preacher/Church
Planter named Jackson Senyanga preach about how his entire
country was beseiged a few years ago by a vicious dictator and
everyone was being murdered and living in fear. Now, after seeking
God in earnest, he said his entire country is experiencing REVIVAL,
even the government officials speak openly of God. He attributed
the CHANGE or Revival to 5 FACETS of PRAYER; namely prayer
that is all of these five:
1. Repentant
2. United
3. Intentional
4. Sustained
5. Desperate
All 5 facets of prayer were necessary he said for the REVIVAL to
come. He shared how his country is sending out evangelists/
missionaries like himself to the USA and Great Britain now as we
used to do to Africa, because "God is no respector of persons."
He appoints/anoints, addresses/blesses, and chooses/looses as
He decides, NOT us. America has become so PRIDEFUL, just
like Israel was in the Bible when they were so sinfully stiffnecked
and stubborn in their disobedient rebellion against God. We as a
nation are being judged now for the same spiritual backsliding as
was Israel. We need to REPENT and SEEK God with all our heart
just like Jackson Senyanga said.
I saw another visible sign of this being confirmed on TV. There was
an evangelist/prophet by the name of Damon Thompson. The
message was one and the same. Damon Thompson preached from
I Samuel 17:37... about how God is going to use REVOLUTIONARY
methods to bring about REVIVAL here in the USA, starting with
the REFORMATION of the church, his bride. He likened the coming
CHANGE/REVIVAL/VICTORY to David's victory over Goliath.
He [David] would fight the battle God's way, as David and not as
Saul. He would do so in the power and might of the name of Yahweh,
and not in the name of Israel and the authority of Saul or the might
of military means. Not only that, but David would PROPHESY of
his enemy's impending defeat moments after Goliath had tried to
intimidate and humiliate David for attempting to not only face
Goliath man to man, but do so with such UNORTHODOX or
UNACCUSTOMED means. What is even more amazing is that
David RAN TOWARD the giant TWICE in the same battle. That is
FEARLESS FAITH. He attacked offensively. He did not cower in
fear, nor hope he would find a safe place to retreat to and regroup.
He attacked and as a result felled his opponent with one stone.
Then he RAN AGAIN toward his enemy and used his enemy's own
sword/weapon to turn it against him and decollate his pate and
seal the VICTORY! This is how the CHURCH today, according to
Damon Thompson, will catch the enemy off guard, by using
"unexpected" means.
That was Damon Thompson's point. God is raising up an army of
Davids and John the Baptists (as Andrew Strom has said) to go
forth and do battle with the enemy in such a NEW and UNEXPECTED
way as the CHURCH that the enemy won't know what to do, and
even better, we will get to turn the enemy's own weapons against
himself/them. Awesome!
"The battle is not ours, but the Lord's... It is NOT by might, nor by
power, but by MY SPIRIT says the Lord."
We would do well to hear and heed God's clarion call to
REPENTANCE as a nation and seek Him with all our heart while
He still may be found. May we not remain too prideful nor fearful
to humble ourselves and pray and seek His face. God have mercy
and help us to depend completely on YOU!
-Michael Chartier.
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