For Such A Time As This
Global Day of Prayer, 2006.
It is that time again. There cannot be life as usual. He quickens my spirit and compels me.
snippets of faith...
Pastor Edmund Chan, CEFC:
"...something the Lord put upon my heart and I cannot NOT say it. And I want to come and lay upon your heart what I believe the Lord has laid upon mine. "
"...In the decade of the 1990s to 2000, 300 million people converted to Christ. 300 million!"
"...We don't need your money and we don't need your participation. That will come and that is the last thing I ask of you. Rather, we need your faith to join with ours"
On gideon and his 300 vs the 135,000:
"God plus nothing equals everything. The corollary is true. Everything minus God equals nothing. "
"...because so much is at stake"
Old guard...
Bishop Moses Tay, St Andrews Cathedral
"I believe the challenge from the heart of the Lord is in this one word: Kairos."
One of his points:
REJOICE with the flow of the river of life. Picture the river in Ezekiel 47 flowing from the throne of God, bringing life to every place it flowed. Church leaders, who recognize the importance of living water, have been working to put into place a system of spiritual water pipes. That may be the best thing we can do, but today a river of God is flowing! I submit that the best thing we can do, as I try to do so in my retirement, is to flow with the Lord. The flow is fast, and the flow is becoming a flood, going beyond ourselves, boundaries and structures. As the flood water rises, the ducks, previously separated by enclosures, now come and swim together in great joy. The flow of the spirit of unity is going beyond organizational structures.
by the numbers..
Pastor Daniel Foo, BBTC
These charts were put up at the last GDOP pastors briefing. If you look at the 10 years, 1990 - 2000 - you find that there was an explosion of people ushered into the kingdom of God. Many were converted to Christianity world wide compared to other religions. The purple column on the left of the chart shows a phenomenal increase from an average of 2% to 7%. Why? How did this happen?
If we look at the Prayer Movement of the Church in the world then, you remember that there was a lot of emphasis about prayer through the 10/40 window that began with AD2000 Movement. In the early 90s, 92-93 there were intensive prayers being poured out for the nations of the 10/40 Window, there was great unity of purpose, there was massive prayer - praying through the window and there was world-wide action in missions -mission teams, trips, mission agencies, missionaries, full time workers thrust into the nations of the world with the gospel and with that we saw the increase of people ushered into the Kingdom.
Sadly, the AD2000 prayer movement ended in the year 2000. Everything slowed to a near standstill. The conversion to Christianity in the three years- 2000-2002 collapsed to its previous level of just about 2 ½% compared to the other religions. The purple column on the extreme left went back down.
Do you now see the correlation of prayer and the fulfillment of the Great Commission, of nations coming into the Kingdom of the Lord?
Dr Ernest Chew - From Cross to Pentecost
"The whole life and mission of Jesus was sustained by prayer. Most of His words on the Cross were prayers. In His great high-priestly prayer in John chapter 17, our Lord Jesus prayed for the sanctity and unity of His disciples, of His church, so that they could accomplish His mission, the evangelization of the world, to the glory of God. Hence the call to repentance and renewal. "The Global Day of Prayer" expresses the Unity of God's people in prayer, because of the Universality - and urgency - of the mission. "As the Father has sent Me, so I am sending you" (John 20:21). "
This is the fight of this life... shall go to take my place in the line... however small it might be.
That all nations will worship before His throne.
It is that time again. There cannot be life as usual. He quickens my spirit and compels me.
snippets of faith...
Pastor Edmund Chan, CEFC:
"...something the Lord put upon my heart and I cannot NOT say it. And I want to come and lay upon your heart what I believe the Lord has laid upon mine. "
"...In the decade of the 1990s to 2000, 300 million people converted to Christ. 300 million!"
"...We don't need your money and we don't need your participation. That will come and that is the last thing I ask of you. Rather, we need your faith to join with ours"
On gideon and his 300 vs the 135,000:
"God plus nothing equals everything. The corollary is true. Everything minus God equals nothing. "
"...because so much is at stake"
Old guard...
Bishop Moses Tay, St Andrews Cathedral
"I believe the challenge from the heart of the Lord is in this one word: Kairos."
One of his points:
REJOICE with the flow of the river of life. Picture the river in Ezekiel 47 flowing from the throne of God, bringing life to every place it flowed. Church leaders, who recognize the importance of living water, have been working to put into place a system of spiritual water pipes. That may be the best thing we can do, but today a river of God is flowing! I submit that the best thing we can do, as I try to do so in my retirement, is to flow with the Lord. The flow is fast, and the flow is becoming a flood, going beyond ourselves, boundaries and structures. As the flood water rises, the ducks, previously separated by enclosures, now come and swim together in great joy. The flow of the spirit of unity is going beyond organizational structures.
by the numbers..
Pastor Daniel Foo, BBTC
These charts were put up at the last GDOP pastors briefing. If you look at the 10 years, 1990 - 2000 - you find that there was an explosion of people ushered into the kingdom of God. Many were converted to Christianity world wide compared to other religions. The purple column on the left of the chart shows a phenomenal increase from an average of 2% to 7%. Why? How did this happen?
If we look at the Prayer Movement of the Church in the world then, you remember that there was a lot of emphasis about prayer through the 10/40 window that began with AD2000 Movement. In the early 90s, 92-93 there were intensive prayers being poured out for the nations of the 10/40 Window, there was great unity of purpose, there was massive prayer - praying through the window and there was world-wide action in missions -mission teams, trips, mission agencies, missionaries, full time workers thrust into the nations of the world with the gospel and with that we saw the increase of people ushered into the Kingdom.
Sadly, the AD2000 prayer movement ended in the year 2000. Everything slowed to a near standstill. The conversion to Christianity in the three years- 2000-2002 collapsed to its previous level of just about 2 ½% compared to the other religions. The purple column on the extreme left went back down.
Do you now see the correlation of prayer and the fulfillment of the Great Commission, of nations coming into the Kingdom of the Lord?
Dr Ernest Chew - From Cross to Pentecost
"The whole life and mission of Jesus was sustained by prayer. Most of His words on the Cross were prayers. In His great high-priestly prayer in John chapter 17, our Lord Jesus prayed for the sanctity and unity of His disciples, of His church, so that they could accomplish His mission, the evangelization of the world, to the glory of God. Hence the call to repentance and renewal. "The Global Day of Prayer" expresses the Unity of God's people in prayer, because of the Universality - and urgency - of the mission. "As the Father has sent Me, so I am sending you" (John 20:21). "
This is the fight of this life... shall go to take my place in the line... however small it might be.
That all nations will worship before His throne.
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