GOSPEL AND THE HOLY SPIRIT

 

PROMISED REVIVAL

 “God is faithful and almighty. He promised He would do it and He did it”: Malaysian pastor in Asbury

 

Witnesses at Asbury University have described the Revival as "the tangible presence of God's peace, joy, and a freedom to worship and adore the one true God". Photo by Pastor Leow Hong Too.

By now, news of the almost two-week long Asbury Revival has carved a fiery trail across churches around the world. 

Asbury University president Dr Kevin Brown posted that “the continued flourishing of such a movement invites us to commission our Asbury community, visiting students, and other campus guests from across the world to neighbour-serving, God-honouring work”.

But it is not the first time that Asbury, a Christian school of less than 1,700 students, has hosted what has been called “revival”.

As many as eight have been recorded since 1905, the most famous, arguably, being in February 1970, when classes were cancelled for a week while service continued for 144 hours.

Then, as now, thousands from across the United States and, indeed, the world travelled to Asbury in Wilmore, Kentucky, to be a part of the experience. 

Pastor Leow Hong Too in prayer. Photo from Pastor Leow Hong Too’s Facebook page.

 One in particular has been a sojourner there for the last seven years. A Malaysian theologian, Dr Leow Hong Too, has shared on Facebook that he received a “revival dream” on February 21, 2016, while he was in Wilmore at Asbury Theological Seminary. Sensing a call from God to pray revival in, his first reaction was: “What?”

He sought, with much scepticism, the counsel of two of his professors. They gave him their affirmation and blessings, and he began to pray as instructed by God. 

In December 2017, while on holiday at Asbury Seminary, “God spoke to me clearly, asking me to come to Wilmore, praying full-time for revival in person”, he said.  He quit his job at Malaysia Bible Seminary in November the next year, even though he had reservations – “I got paid for teaching but I get no pay for praying”.

The only assurance he had was this: “Jesus promised He would take care of me and my wife, just to trust Him alone.”

He described: “I spent a couple of hours daily praying for revival, walking around, joined many prayer groups, seeking signs that would spark the revival.

“To be honest, during these periods, sometimes I was disappointed, frustrated, going through ‘motions of praying’ and also a bit lost.”

Nonetheless, he stayed focussed, refusing advice that for him to land a job in a Chinese church would be prudent, especially since there was a dearth of suitable pastors. 

Fast-forward to June 2020: “God spoke to me me clearly that I should carry signs of repentance, calls to revival etc, while walking-running almost every day on North Lexington for about two years. 

Signs that Ps Leow Hong Too carried around the town as God had instructed him to. Photos from Pastor Leow Hong Too’s Facebook page. 

“It was not easy as I had to go out carrying signs during winter time for an hour.”

 He also fasted a meal a day during those years. Calling it “a struggle”, he attributed his ability to persevere to God’s grace alone. 

In May 2022 he and his wife left for New York City upon an “urgent call” to minister to the homeless there. He felt his work in Wilmore was not yet done, but “God told me that He will not send revival while I was still here.

“God has promised me that after we left Wilmore for New York City, He will then send revival so that I may not be prideful or take credit for this revival.

“God is good to me. He knew I would take credit for this revival.

“I did not know when God was going to do it. But after eight months, revival came to Asbury University Chapel.

“When I heard about it, God wanted me to come right away. Immediately I booked (a) ticket and flew from New York City.

“God is faithful and almighty. He promised He would do it and HE DID IT.”

Dr Leow signed off: “Glory to (the) Triune God, God the Father, God the Son Jesus and God the Holy Spirit alone. Amen, amen, and amen.”

SOURCE: https://saltandlight.sg/news/god-is-faithful-and-almighty-he-promised-he-would-do-it-and-he-did-it-malaysian-pastor-in-asbury/

A FRIEND WENT TO HELL

 

By Rachael Abigail Mushala (Glofire)

When the Lord revealed Himself to me , the first time,He said to me and my sister, " I want to show you so many things. I have so much to tell you and to show you."

And He said, "I want to show you hell so that you can warn My people."

Since then, The Lord has shown us so much about the spiritual world and the after life.

But I want to talk about what He showed me on how Satan has continued trapping people into hell with worldliness of fake hair, makeup, jewelry, trousers (pants).

I had just finished midnight prayer with my sister, Zipporah Mushala and went back to the bedroom to sleep.

But when I just laid down on the bed, I went into a trance.

The Lord Jesus took my spirit and I found myself standing in hell, surrounded by numerous flames and darkness at the same time.

There were these very short, fat demons which looked translucent white in color.

In their hands, they carried very long Spears , hooked at the edges.

Their eyes revealed extreme hatred and maximum evil.

They were torturing people and this is when I realized that I was in hell.

I stood there, shocked at the reality of what I was seeing, when I heard a noise behind me.

When I turned back, I saw a narrow,deep put.

Human hands appeared at the edge of the pit and fell back in.

I realized, someone was in this pit!

Then I noticed that the pit was filled with utter darkness, and completely void of oxygen.

It was also filled with very hot coals of fire.

I recognized the woman who was in this pit.

She had been a close friend of mine during her lifetime.

The pit was very narrow in width,but very deep.

She was doing all she could to pull herself out of this pit.

The short,fat, translucent demons I had seen earlier, noticed her efforts to get out of this pit and quickly ran to her, stamping her hard, back into the pit.

Her fingers had been stretched out as she searched for a grip on the edge of the pit so she could lift herself up.

These demons stepped on her stretched out fingers, stamping her with all their might saying, "You fool! You thought you could deceive God!"

The sight before me was a horrible sight,tears flooded my eyes, falling on my cheeks.

I couldn't believe it,I was screaming and crying because of what I was seeing.

The demons kept torturing this woman, I was screaming and covered my eyes with my hands,but I could still see everything.

Covering my eyes didn't blind me even for a second.

The Lord told me that my friend was in hell because of worldliness and because of wearing short and indecent clothes,trousers, using makeup,fake hair,fake nails.

This woman was a very prayerful woman with a prophetic gift.

Several times, God had told her things about me that were completely true and she had on several occasions delivered prophetic messages to me.

She fasted alot,and prayed.

But she still loved the world and did not live in holiness because she was wearing tight and revealing clothes.

She used to wear bareback tops,wore skirts revealing her thighs,and makeup, jewelry and wigs.

The bible says it's impossible for us to love God and love the world at the same time.

1 John 2:15-17 says,"Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever."

This woman ignored the messages of warning the Lord had given me on how outward holiness is just as important as inner holiness.

It is impossible for inner holiness to be present, and not show on the outside too.

Jesus said if you wash the inside of a cup,even the outside will be clean.

But if the outside is dirty,it just shows how dirty the inside still is!

She had ignored messages of holiness and thought it's not important to Jesus,as long as she prayed.

But this woman died and everyone talked about how she's gone to heaven because she was a woman of God,but I was standing in this place, watching her suffer in hell.

As the demons kept torturing her, I kept crying and screaming on top of my voice because I couldn't bear the sight.

I didn't know that as I was screaming and crying here,my body was doing the same.

My husband just heard me crying and screaming,and he kept shaking me, trying to wake me up.

He didn't know the Lord had taken me in a trance to show me this.

Finally the Lord brought me back,my husband asked me,"what's happening?you kept screaming and crying?"

I was still shaken by what the Lord had shown me because this was a woman I had loved,she was a close friend and I had realy wished she would make it.

He kept asking me,"why were you screaming?what's happening?"

Then I told him,"God just showed me this person went to hell."

The Lord told me that the reason the demons were telling her that she thought she could mock God was because when this woman was alive, she disregarded holiness and thought it'd about the heart only.

She ignored holiness then on her death bed, when she realized that she was dying,she asked God to forgive her.

She found no forgiveness because she wasn't repentant, and if she had been given a chance to live, she would have continued in her sin.

So the demons said ,"you thought you could deceive God" because she thought she could live however she wanted then just repent on her death bed.

But God isn't mocked.

Repentance on the deathbed is for those who realise the truth on the death bed,not deliberately ignoring till you know you are dying.

Because then you are not asking for forgiveness because you are sorry, but because you are scared of death, if life is granted,you will continue in your sin.

She prayed,fasted,and was very annointed.

She prayed for people and miracles happened.

But she still dressed like a person of the world, wearing indecent clothes showing parts of her body not meant to be seen publicly.

She wore clothes that left part of her thighs out, she wore trousers as a woman, and also wore tight skirts and trousers, thereby exposing her body indecently.

The Bible says we must present our bodies as a living sacrifice,Holy and acceptable to the Lord. Romans 12:1

God is not going to accept a body dressed in sexy clothing because that's not holy or befitting to Jesus.

It's lustful and belongs to the god of this world,satan.

Hell is a real place.

When the Lord showed me an aerial view of hell,it was just unimaginable!

It is soovery vast!

I couldn't see the end of it.

It's seemed to just go on forever and it was filled with so many people like the sand of the sea!

These people were all crying out in agony,their voices unified in the air,with great agony.

These are humans like us who once we're on earth but loved the things of the world so much that they failed to turn from their sin.

I remember at first,I just heard the sound and I was wondering where the sound was from when my spirit started descending down extremely fast.

The noise increased as I went down.

Then I saw so many people down there.

I have seen hell several times but this sight was unimaginable, i had never seen how vast it was!

I thought to myself, "so this place is very real?!"

I looked on my right and the crowds of people just went on forever, literally.

I couldn't see any end!

It was the same sight on my left.

Hell is so vast and never full.

The time the Lord told me that when people arrive in this place, everything of the earth loses its meaning,all they want is another chance to go back to earth to repent and serve the Lord.

Anything they ever did on earth that wasn't done for God,any conversation that wasn't about God, everything just suddenly seems like a waste of time.

They wish they had used up all their time to pray,read the Bible,evangelise,and talk about God.

They wish they could go back but know it's hopeless.

And the sin that tool them to hell suddenly loses its significance.

Even if this thingwas very important to a person,when they go to hell, the Lord allowed me to hear their thoughts saying, "I was such a fool,how could I allow myself to come to hell for this small thing.

No one felt their sin was important enough to go to hell for.Everyone was saying, "I was such a fool"

Others said, "that conversation wasn't necessary, I wasted my time."

Everyone yearned for a chance to go back to earth so that they can serve God with all their might, but it was too late.

They all knew they can't leave hell but kept wishing.

My heart was broken.

Even things that weren't sinful that had taken up people's time now seemed like a total waste.

Anything that they had done that wasn't done for God seemed like a total waste.

Hell is very real,we still have a chance to repent and live for God.

Worldliness of sexualized dressing; showing cleavage, short tight clothes, are just as sinful as more obvious sins of lying,killing, stealing.

It's not easy to deliver these messages from the Lord.

It comes with a very high price because satan targets you for attack.

However God is very faithful.

My allegiance is to Jesus and I will never ever sugar coat them even if it may offend some,

I will say it as the Lord told me.

All I want is to hear the Lord say to me,"well done My faithful servant."

And for Him to give me the crown of life.

Don't toy with sin because Satan isn't playing games.

He wants your soul.

Come to Jesus and ask Him to forgive you of your sins.

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 ***No one knows what day or hour is the Rapture, but God has His own timeline. And we are almost at the borderline, a transition, a shift between now and the coming 7yr tribulation period. While the world is being set up for the coming of the Antichrist, God is preparing the Bride of Christ to be taken away at the Rapture. Don't be left behind!!!

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The Importance of Watching

 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.  For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.  Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Luke 21:34-36

#RAPTUREWATCH

REPENT NOW AND BELIEVE AND ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOUR!

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Armando P. Mariano

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CALLED TO MINISTRY

 

Called to the "Ministry"

 Usually a person should keep on with the work he was doing when God called him (I Cor. 7: 20 TLB).

We’ve all heard stories of men or women in the workplace that left their jobs for the "ministry." Certainly God does call people into vocational ministry. However, many times this move is more rooted in dissatisfaction with a career combined with a spiritual renewal or first time commitment to the Lord. The idea of a "higher call" can also appeal to our sense of a greater and nobler destiny.

We have incorrectly elevated the roll of the Christian worker that serves within "the church" or a traditional "ministry" role to be more holy and committed than the person who is serving in a secular environment. Yet the call to the secular workplace is as important as any other calling. God has to have His people in every sphere of life to meet the needs of His creation. Also, many would never come to know Him because they would be separated from society.

I learned this lesson personally when I sought to go into "full-time" service as a pastor in my late twenties, only to have God thrust me back into the workplace unwillingly. This turned out to be the best thing He could have done for me, because it was never His will for me to be a pastor. He knew I was more suited for the workplace.

We are all in missions. Some are called to foreign lands. Some are called to the jungles of the workplace. Wherever you are called, serve the Lord in that place. Let Him demonstrate His power through your life so that others might experience Him through you today. View your vocation as means to worship Him.

Paul said it right; "In most cases we’re going to remain in the place where He first called us."

- Os Hillman

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REPENT NOW AND BELIEVE AND ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOUR!

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Armando P. Mariano

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Refined in a Furnace

 

Psalm 12:6

The words of the Lord are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times.     NIV

      “The words of the Lord” – those are the words that are brought to us in Scripture. They’re flawless, they’re without error. They are absolutely and totally reliable. Do you perhaps wonder how that could be since they  were brought to us by human agents, by men who were often weak and fallible and made mistakes? How can it be that the message that comes to us through such men is absolutely infallible, authoritative?

     The psalmist uses a beautiful picture. He says it’s like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times. You see, the silver is the message of God. The furnace of clay represents the human instrument, the human messenger. There’s a fire in that furnace which is the fire of the Holy Spirit, infinitely pure, infinitely purified, and, as the message comes through the fire, even though it’s in a furnace of clay, the fire purifies the message and makes it absolutely pure and absolutely reliable. That’s why you can put your faith without question in the absolute accuracy and authority of God’s Word, the Scripture.

     The words of the Lord are flawless. They’ve been purified seven times (that speaks of the Holy Spirit) in a furnace of clay, and they come forth as pure as refined silver.

—Derek Prince

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REPENT NOW AND BELIEVE AND ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOUR!

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Armando P. Mariano

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Courage Comes From Faith

 

Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. - Joshua 1:9

Courage comes from trusting God. It can’t be mentally drummed up. It comes from believing what God says regardless of what the circumstances look like. Courage comes from faith! Where does discouragement come from? From fear and unbelief. It comes when you listen to the devil’s lies about what God is not going to do for you. As the people of God, you and I must shake off discouragement and rise up with courage! We must quit looking at our own abilities and failures and limitations and start looking to God. We must rise up in the Name of Jesus and the power of His Spirit and establish the kingdom of heaven upon earth. If you’ve been discouraged lately, stop listening to Satan’s lies. Stop receiving evil reports. Whenever someone tells you God is not going to deliver you, you just tell them, “He’s already delivered me in the Name of Jesus.” Once you begin to realize who you are and what you’ve been given by the power of God, you’ll quit letting the devil run all over you. God didn’t suggest that you be strong and courageous. That is His command! G. Copeland

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REPENT NOW AND BELIEVE AND ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOUR!

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Armando P. Mariano

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DREAMS AND VISION COMPILATION ABOUT JESUS COMING AGAIN