Europe: Give Me This Mountain - Repentance

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The Day Has Broken Upon Us

Psalm 110:1-7 (KJV) - “The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion; rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen; he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore, shall he lift up the head.” 

Matthew 3:1-3

“In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,

And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.”

John 1:19-23

“And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.

And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.”

Isaiah 40:3-5

“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the  desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be  made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”

John 1:31- 34

“And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing  with water. And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it  abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptize with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.” 

• Repentance is a critical ingredient in the manifestation of the Lord unto men

• Repentance first of all prepares the ground of the hearts of men to receive their Saviour.

• Repentance raises every valley of humanity and human decadence to a level that they can now begin to receive the Lord.

• All the mountains in different cultures, lifestyles, standards of living, values or lack of it, morals beliefs systems are levelled as whole communities, nations begin to repent.

• All crookedness of men, at home, in the workplace, on the street, in business, in government, are straightened as men begin to repent their hearts are turned to the Lord.

•  Repentance levels the mountains of individual, collective, community, national sins, sinful habits, so the veil can be removed men can begin to themselves as God sees them and begin to cry for deliverance.

Prayer Points

• Lord, have mercy on us Europeans; we have sinned against You in every way.

• We have removed You from every facet of our activities as humans; we have removed You from schools, from hospitals, for the government and even now from the church.

• We have re-written Your ordained precept about relationships, marriage and family life; we have adopted and made into law, decrees that are abomination to you, O Lord.

• We have gone AWOL and followed after Satan; we have given our children over to him via all the various means that he has sold us through the media, music, fashion, digital technology, education, sex and abortion.

• We have refused to retain You as God even though all creation points to the fact that there is a God and our conscience says tells us so, yet we refused You because we did not want to be curtailed by You or obey you; now You have given us up to a reprobate mind, a mind that is devoid of judgement between what is wrong and what is right.

• Have mercy on us, O Lord; we confess our hedonistic lifestyle;  our self-seeking, pleasure loving, money chasing way of life.

Confession

We have wearied you oh Lord with our iniquities.

We have despised you.

We have dishonoured you.

We have caused You to fret, we have broken Your heart.

Our sins are ever before us, we have…

Let Us Begin to Recount and Confess All Our Sins, Inquities as Europeans.

Prayer Points

•  Lord, please pour out upon Europe a spirit of repentance.

• O Lord, begin to brood upon the hearts of men, begin to cause an unrest, an agitation, a turbulence in the hearts of Europeans.

• O  dear Spirit of the living God, send Your word like a sword into the hearts of Europeans, like a dagger, like a hammer that breaks the rock, like fire that melt mountains so that we Europeans can begin to see our sins the way You see them.

• Then we can begin to confess, to be sorrowful, to mourn for our sins, our rebellious, insolence, with which we have wearied You, O Lord.

• Then we can begin to make a complete U-turn and turn away from our sins and turn back to You.

•  Pour upon all the nations of Europe, a deep sense of our own unworthiness, worthlessness, shame, at our defiance to You, O Lord!

God Wants Everyone to Repent if Possible.

2 Peter 3:9 (CEV)

 “The Lord isn’t slow about keeping his promises, as some people think he is. In fact, God is patient, because he wants everyone to turn from sin and no one to be lost.” 

Ezekiel 18:23 (TLB)

 “Do you think I like to see the wicked die?” asks the Lord. “Of course not! I only want him to turn from his wicked ways and live.” 

God is Only Looking for a Voice Crying.

Jonah 1:1-2
“Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.” 

Jonah 4:1-2
“But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore, I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.” 

A Rod, a Voice Like John the Baptist.

• How did John the Baptist know that he was “the voice”?

• He discovered from Scriptures as morning by morning, he diligently spent time alone with God.

• His discovery led to his devotion; he determined in his heart to be devoted to his call.

• His devotion led to his discipline for the role of “a voice”, a forerunner of the Lord Jesus Christ.

• His diligent study of the word led to his discovery; he made a decision to give his whole life’s attention to the call; he was determined to see the showing of Lord Christ and this led to his discipline of life.

Prayer Points

Let our John the Baptists discover their purpose from the Scriptures.

• Let “the voice” who will prepare the way for the Lord in every nation of Europe discover their call as they diligently study the scriptures.

• Morning by morning, Lord, show them that they are “the voice” crying in the wilderness of Europe to call the people to repentance.

• Lord, capture their hearts so they can become devoted to the call to see Jesus manifest in their nations and in their generation.

• Let them be able in the power of the Holy Ghost to exercise the discipline they need for the call of the forerunner.

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Nigeria: Occupy Till I Come In all Tribes, People and Tongues (1)

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Revelation 7:9-11 NKJV

⁹ After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, ¹⁰ and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” ¹¹ All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshipped God,

Revelation 7:13-17 NKJV

¹³ Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?” ¹⁴ And I said to him, “Sir, you know.” So he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them. ¹⁶ They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat; ¹⁷ for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

We know that: The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. Psalm 24:1 KJV

•       The earth (including Nigeria) is the Lord’s, all that is in it, including all the citizens of Nigeria –  over 173.6 million citizens.

•     Nigeria is the Lord’s because God created Nigeria, God set Nigeria’s boundaries (not the British colonialist), God created all the tribes and people groups of Nigeria and located then in Nigeria. – over 300 tribes.

•    Both the land, the seas, the resources, the animals , the people, the citizens, the foreigners within Nigeria are His.

•     God has not relinquished His ownership of Nigeria nor the people therein to anyone, to any power or to any authority.

•       Nigeria is the Lord’s.

We know that: God [or Christ; He] stripped the spiritual rulers and powers of their authority [disarmed/despoiled the rulers and authorities]. With the cross, he won the victory and ·showed the world that they were powerless [publicly shamed them; made a public spectacle of them; like a triumphant general displaying his captives in a victory parade].  Colossians 2:15 EXB

•       Christ has a claim over every person in every tribe in Nigeria because of the work of the cross.

•       At the cross, every conflict was finished; every power of darkness was finished. Satan lost it.

•       God purchased the people of Nigeria with a great price the blood of Jesus.

•       All the tribes, peoples and tongues in Nigeria are numbered among the great multitude standing before the throne and before the Lamb.

We know that: Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. ³² And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.” ³³ This He said, signifying by what death He would die.  John 12:31:33 NKJV

•       Christ has been lifted up from the earth and He will draw all peoples to Himself.

•       Satan has lost it.

•       This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? Isaiah 14:26-17

•       All the tribes, peoples and tongues in Nigeria are numbered among the great multitude standing before the throne and before the Lamb.

Prayer Points| Spirit of faith come down

•       Let us thank the Lord for what He has purposed concerning Nigeria.

•       As we lift up Nigeria before the throne of God, let us ask the Spirit of faith to come down upon us. Lord, give us faith to believe what You have purposed.

•     Open our eyes to see that everything contrary to Your will in Nigeria has been dismantled by the cross.

•       Let us ask the Spirit of faith come down upon the people of Nigeria.

•       Lord, have mercy on the people of Nigeria; reveal Christ to them. Reveal the work of the cross to them. Give them eyes to see that the ruler of this world that has held them bound has been cast out.

•    Take away the covering of darkness over their understanding and bring them into the knowledge of the Father and of the Son. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4.

•      No man can truly say that Jesus is the Lord unless You take the veil away and  breath the Living Word. Spirit of faith, visit Nigeria and do what only You can do.

Challenge the ‘Gates’ in Nigeria

Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Psalm 24:9-10.

•    Gates of unrighteousness in the school system, political system, health system and in every facet of society.

•       Gates of ungodliness and wickedness.

•       Gates of religion (Islam, indigenous beliefs).

•       Gates of distraction caused by economic instability.

•       Gates of Mammon

•       Gates of ancestral spirits and endless genealogies.

•       Gates in the church (preaching philosophies and ideas, not Christ).

Prayer Points| Challenge the gates

•       Lift up your heads, o ye gates in Nigeria! Lift up you everlasting doors.  The king of glory will come in.

•       Christ has said: “It is finished!” The veil has been ripped from top to bottom.  We declare the victory of the cross over Nigeria.

•       “You shall declare a thing and it shall be established unto You.”    Job 22:28.

•       Declare that wickedness will not over-run Nigeria.

•       Declare that Nigeria is the Lord’s and all that is in Nigeria.

•       Declare that the King of glory will come through every gate.

•       Declare that the God will reveal the message of the cross to every heart as He has purposed.

•       Declare that Islam will not over-run Nigeria.

•       Every hindrance to the spread of the gospel will be lifted up in the name of Jesus.

The Church in Nigeria

•       There is hope.

•       The invisible Church has already emerged from the visible Church.

Romans 11:3-5

³ “Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”? ⁴ But what does the divine response say to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” ⁵ Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Prayer Points| The Church in Nigeria

...till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; ¹⁴ that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting…  Ephesians 4:13-14

•       Pray for the message of the cross to be the only message, so that the people of God will no longer be tossed to and fro.

•          Pray for boldness for the remnants to arise and make disciples.

•      Pray for the growth of the invisible church, the body of Christ, to attain to ‘a perfect man’ which is CHRIST.

•       Pray for the leaders of the Church, that the Lord will encounter them; that the Lord will equip them with the DOCTRINE OF CHRIST without which the Church cannot grow.

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Europe: Give Me This Mountain - Rods / Labourers in their Youth

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The Day Has Broken Upon Us

Psalm 110:1-7 (KJV)

The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

God of Creation 

Genesis 1:1-5

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. 

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

How can they believe if they have not heard?

Romans 10:14-17

How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

1 John 1:12-14

I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

Old Testament Revivals

 Joshua and the generation under 20.

Your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. (Deuteronomy 1:39)

David, the young hero. 

You are not able to ... fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth...(I Samuel 17:33)

Josiah, the boy king who started a revival. 

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David ... and he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places ... (II Chronicles 34:3)

Jeremiah, the young prophet. 

Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth. But the Lord said to me: "Do not say, I am a youth. For you shall go to all to whom I send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak." (Jeremiah 1:6, 7)

New Testament Revivals

John the Baptist and his radical message.

Now John was clothed with camel's hair and with a leather belt ... and he ate locusts and wild honey.(Mark 1:6) 

Jesus’ disciples. 

Now Jesus Himself began His ministry at about 30 years of age.

The disciples who followed Jesus probably ranged in age from 21 to 35 and many others followed Him included teenagers and children. From these young leaders, the Lord established a Church that "turned the world upside down."

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles; (Luke 6:2-13) 

The Great Reformation - 1500s

John Calvin - He was converted at age 25 and within a year had completed the first draft of a now famous book, Institutes of the Christian Religion - a book called "the single most influential book on theology in Church history."

 Martin Luther - Himself a young man, Luther was joined by Philipp Melanchthon, a 21 year old scholar, as they lectured hundreds of university students during the years of the Reformation.

 William Tyndale - Burnt on a stake for translating the Bible to English, he prayed, "Lord, open the eyes of the King of England," as He was dying. A couple of years later, King James commissioned the translation of the entire Bible.

The Great Awakening - 1700s 

George Whitefield - Began to preach at age 21 and was one of the greatest preachers of the 1700s.  he and often spoke to crowds in excess of 30,000 people with no amplification.

Johnathan Edwards - A young preacher in Northampton, Massachusetts, Edwards had a great influence on the youth of his day. In 1734, some exciting things began to happen among the young people of New England.

Yale College - In 1796, 26 Yale students founded an organisation on campus called the "Moral Society" which discouraged profanity, immorality and drinking. By 1800 nearly one half of the college students were members and this group is credited with laying the foundation for four revivals that occurred later on that campus in the first few decades of the 19th century.

Charles and John Wesley - Set up the "Holy Club" at Oxford University when they were students. This became the nucleus of the Wesleyan reformation of the 1700s.

The 1875 Revival

 D.L. Moody - In 1858, Dwight Moody began an outreach to young people in Chicago. He started a Sunday school for youth in a vacant tavern which soon grew into a church filled with young believers. This was the launching pad for one of the great ministries of the 1800s.

C.T. Studd - A convert under Moody's ministry at Cambridge University in England, Studd "was the toast of the nation, captain of their champion cricket team ... top sportsman, and inheritor of a small fortune." He became part of the "Cambridge Seven". This group consisted of Moody's helpers or his converts, who toured universities and challenged students for missions. They were called holy madmen, launched out to redeem another generation of spiritual warriors.

Wales - From a report in 1859, "one of the most striking characteristics of the movement was its effect on young people and even on children. The youth of our congregations are nearly all the subjects of deep religious impressions. Very young people ... children from 10 to 14 years of age, gather together to hold prayer meetings, and pray very fervently. In many places, the young people hold a prayer meeting of their own, and these sometimes proved instrumental in bringing the powerful influences of the revival to that particular locality. The majority of all converts of the revival were young people.  

Student Volunteer Movement - One of the greatest missionary revivals of this century had its beginning in July, 1886, at the Mt. Hermon Conference of college students. Two hundred and fifty-one students from eighty-nine colleges of the United States and Canada had come together at the invitation of Evangelist D. L. Moody to spend four weeks in Bible study and ended in what became a great missionary movement as university students gave their lives to be foreign missionaries.

The 20th Century Outpouring of the Holy Spirit

Evan Roberts - A movement known as the Welsh Revival began in 1904 when Evan Roberts, at the age of 26, said to his college principal, "I keep hearing a voice that tells me I must go home to speak to our young people in my home church." So began a sweeping revival in which 100,000 people were converted in five months throughout Wales. "The revival seems to work especially among young people. Its form, which was that of prayer, praise and personal testimony, and its absence of method made it the most methodical expression of the emotions of young hearts aflame with the love of God.

Yale - In 1905, nearly one-fourth of the college's students were part of campus prayer meetings and Bible studies.

Student Volunteer Movement- One of the greatest missionary revivals of this century had its beginning in July, 1886, at the Mt. Hermon Conference of college students. Two hundred and fifty-one students from eighty-nine colleges of the United States and Canada had come together at the invitation of Mr. Moody to spend four weeks in Bible study and ended in what became a great missionary movement as university students gave their lives to be foreign missionaries.

What about the 21^st Century?

•       Can revival happen in our time, through our youth?

•       Yes, if God did not withhold from previous generation, He will not withhold from us.

•       We will be praying with persistent insistence that our Lord in His mercy would come for our youth in our generation.

•       We will be appealing to heaven and begging our God. Say to Him, "We, the wombs who bore these children are here."

•       Lord, have mercy and come for our own children, our youth, our young people.

•       We will be tarrying here, begging the Lord and trusting Him for our own generation.

Prayer Points| Tear the Veil

Lord, tear the veil.

2 Corinthians 3:12-16 

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

• Lord, please let the hearts of our children and our youth begin to turn to you.

• Lord, please remove every dullness of the heart to spiritual things; remove every blindfold off their faces.

• Lord, send Your word as a hammer to break every hardened heart.

• Lord, turn them, arrest their hearts, capture their hearts, let Your love overwhelm them.

• Let the sacrifice of Calvary seize their imagination, their thoughts, their devotion, their love.Ignite them with passion for Your name.

• Lord, tear the veil; tear the veil of the natural man, the complacency of the natural man, the contentment with the world system and worldly toys off the hearts of our children and youths.

• Cause an unrest, a conflict, a disillusionment in their hearts, let their cry be, there must be more than this to my life.

• O Lord, tear the veil; tear the veil, we beseech You; tear the veil off their faces. 

Prayer Points| Enlarge their hearts, O Lord!

What happens when a heart is enlarged?

Psalm 119:32 

I will run in the way of Thy commandments, when Thou shalt enlarge my heart - KJV.

I will eagerly pursue your commandments because you continue to increase my understanding - GW.

I will eagerly obey your commands, because you will give me more understanding - GNT.

I am quick to follow your commands, because you have added to my understanding - NIRV.

• Lord, please break the narrow hearts of our youths and children.

• Lord, enlarge their hearts, broaden their hearts with the sight of the man of Calvary.

• Lord, increase the capacity of their heart to understand eternal things and Your eternal purpose for them.

• Lord, broaden their hearts; grant them capacity in the Holy Ghost to understand spiritual things.

• Lord, break their hearts with the sacrifice on Calvary’s tree, let them understand the gospel as the power of God unto salvation so that they can run, and chase, and pursue, set their hearts ablaze with passionate love for You and a pursuit of the establishment of God’s kingdom on earth. 

Prayer Points|Vision Upgrade

Lord, open the eyes of our young ones.

Ephesians 1:18

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints  -KJV.

To make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers - MSG.

By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones)  - AMP

• Lord, flood the eyes and hearts of our children with light; remove every scale off their eyes, O Lord.

• Grant them understanding of what Your will and purpose in Christ for them is.

• Show them Calvary the way they have never seen it before.

• Spiritual things are spiritually discerned and the natural man cannot understand natural things. Tear the veil of the natural off their faces; remove the darkness of the natural man. Please Lord, we beg You, shine Your light upon their heart.

• Bring the light of the glorious gospel of Christ to them afresh; let there be light set upon Your rods in their youth, O Lord our God.

• Shine Your light, O Lord, upon Your labourers in their youth.

 Travail in prayers until...

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you...

Travail for rods/labourers in their youth. Please travail, agonise, labour in the spirit over our children and our youths in the name of Jesus,

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Europe: Give Me This Mountain - Eastern Europe

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“The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.” (Psalm 110:1-7 KJV)

God of Creation

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” (Genesis 1:1-5)

Rods / Labourers Are Few

“Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.When he saw the crowds, He had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field.” (Mat 9: 35- 38)

The People of Eastern Europe are:

Harassed

Helpless

Faint

Scattered

Distressed

Dispirited

Discouraged

Dejected

Weary

Hopeless very receptive

Worn out

Confused

Aimless

Abandoned

Bewildered

Distraught

Malaised

Heart-broken

Cast aside

Travailed

They are influenced by:

Islam

Communism

Nazi

Fascist

Orthodoxy

Catholicism

Poverty

War

Having a residue of the gospel

Yet not averse to the gospel

Very open to the gospel

Quick to repent

A Case Study Of Bulgaria

•      Early Christianity thrived in ancient Bulgaria.

•      The church became orthodox (over 50 monasteries).

•      500 years of Islamic occupation.

•      Liaison with Russia just to get rid of the Turks and Islam.

•      Had to take up communism in exchange for Islam.

•      Now communism is gone but so is the gospel.

•      All that is left nationally are the relics of Christianity, few evangelicals.

•      Majority of the people have not heard the true gospel ever in their lives.

•      Now the pursuit is a comfortable, prosperous lifestyle for the people.

•      Apparently, over 2 million are in the UK and other parts of Europe.

•      Young people are living together, unmarried and unprepared to have children because of the suffering they experienced under communism.

The gate shut tight against the entry of Islam into Europe.

How Can They Believe If They Have Not Heard?

How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Rom 10:14-17)

How Can They Call On Whom They Have Not Heard?

“But how can people call for help if they don’t know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven’t heard of the One who can be trusted?

And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it? That’s why Scripture exclaims, A sight to take your breath away! Grand processions of people telling all the good things of God! But not everybody is ready for this, ready to see and hear and act. Isaiah asked what we all ask at one time or another: “Does anyone care, God? Is anyone listening and believing a word of it? The point is: Before you trust, you have to listen. But unless Christ’s Word is preached, there’s nothing to listen to.” (Rom 10:14-15; The Message).

GO!!!

“After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place where He was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” (Luke 10: 1-4).

Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

Jesus Must Dwell Among The People.

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

“So the word of God became a human being and lived among us.” (  John 1:14; Phillips)

“The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighbourhood.” ( John 1:14; The Message)

Jesus Must Be Heard, Seen, Touched And Handled.

“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.” (1 John 1:1-3)

Awakening

Evangelical revivals in the 1700s were a major factor in the explosion of missionary activity.

As Christians in America and Britain were brought back to the cross; as they were revived and began to live the life of the New Creation Man, the Holy Spirit gave the call again  - Go!!!

And many arose and went, many young people; many left lands, positions, wealth, education, family, plans, ambition and went.

Our going must involved a physical presence of a man who carrying Jesus who can be touched, tested, seen, observed living, coming in and out among the people.

Prayer Points

• Lord, send labourers to Eastern Europeans outside their country.
• Lord, let the Eastern Europeans in the UK come face to face with the gospel, the unadulterated, undiluted gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Lord, hasten, accelerate the preaching of the gospel to Eastern Europeans outside Europe, especially in the UK.
• Lord, help us with language barrier; grant us quick understanding of languages.
• Lord, give us our 'Egyptians' upon whom we must expend heavenly resources until they are revived and will then lead us to the enemy’s camp in their countries. (1 Samuel 30:10-17).
• Lord, bring us to our 'Lydias' of Europe (i.e. the gates into Eastern Europe) and open their hearts to receive the gospel. (Acts 2:14-15).
• Lord, appear to Your vessels of mercy in Eastern Europe and like Cornelius, save them and their households. (Acts 10).