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To Coincide with Fasting Prayer Service Session III

Peace and grace in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Revelation 14 is about the seven sprinklings of blood in front of the Ark of Covenant. It refers to the suffering in the flesh of the church together with Jesus as the last sanctification for reaching the quality of being flawless or perfect.

Revelation 14 can be divided into three parts as follows:

  1. Verse 1-5 = the church's following Jesus as the Lamb of God (it is explained from General Service in Malang, August 15, 2021to Prayer Service in Malang, October 14, 2021).

  2. Verse 6-13 = the notice about the judgment (it is explained in General Service in Malang, October 17, 2021)
  3. Verse 14-20 = the reaping on the earth.

ad. 2.
Revelation 14:12-13
14:12. Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
14:13. Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.' "
"Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them."

Blessed are the ones who die in the Lord.

Who are those who die in Jesus?

  1. The ones who have lived in Jesus for all his life (it is explained in General Service in Malang, November 28, 2021).
  2. The ones who get the experience of death with Jesus in his life and willingly suffer with Him (it is explained in Bible Study Service in Malang, November 30, 2021).

ad. 2
Why must we bear the cross with Jesus? We must bear the cross with Jesus so that we do not rely on ourselves (it is explained in Bible Study Service in Malang, November 30, 2021).

Tonight we learn that we must bear the cross in order to experience the renewal of life from fleshly man to the spiritual one like Jesus.

2 Corinthians 4:16-17

4:16. Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewedday by day.
4:17. For
our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

The suffering we experience right now is light and is for a moment compared to the eternal glory we will receive.

'do not lose heart' = the renewal starts from the hardness of heart or being easily disappointed to the gentle heart or being not disappointed.

There are three places where we are easily disappointed or losing heart as follows:

  1. In the marriage.
    Colossians 3:21
    3:21. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

    We need love in marriage life. The hardness of heart means having no love.
    Getting married without love means as follows:

    • Husband is rude to wife.
    • Wife does not obey husband.
    • Children are not obedient to their parents.
    • Parents make children become discouraged. It happens when parents force their will that is not according to the Word to them or let the children follow the will that is contrary to the Word.

    The consequences are as follows:

    • The marriage never becomes one, but it is scattered even though living in one house.
    • Without love, everything is in vain and suffering. It means living in this world but having the atmosphere of hell.
    • We can neither be perfect and nor enter the marriage supper of the Lamb. It means being destroyed forever.

    Therefore, we must bear the cross, one of which is through fasting prayer. We experience the renewal from the hardness of heart to the gentle heart that is full of love, so we can love one another in marriage. Love will make the marriage happy and one up to perfection, namely reaching the marriage supper of the Lamb. It means that we can enter the Paradise and New Jerusalem.

  2. In the service and ministry to God.
    2 Corinthians 4:1
    4:1. Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.

    It is the same as losing God's mercy or losing everything.
    Especially for us the Gentiles, we must remember that becoming the priests and kings is all because of the grace and mercy of God through His sacrifice on the cross. The price of our priesthood is the blood of Jesus which cannot be replaced by anything.

    When we lose heart, the consequences are as follows:

    • Being unfaithful until leaving the service and ministry to God.
    • Losing the full right to enter the kingdom of Heaven.
      2 Peter 1:10-11
      1:10. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;
      1:11. for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly
      into the everlasting kingdomof our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.


    Therefore, through fasting prayer, we experience the renewal from the hardness of heart to the gentle heart that always cherishes the mercy of God. So, the results are as follows:

    • We are faithful and fervent in spirit in the service and ministry to God up to the end line.
    • We labor more abundantly to be more faithful to God.
      1 Corinthians 15:9-10
      15:9. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
      15:10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but
      I labored more abundantlythan they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

      2 Peter 1:10
      1:10. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligentto make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;


    As the result, we have the full right to enter the kingdom of Heaven forever.

  3. In the temptation.
    Proverbs 24:10
    24:10. If you faintin the day of adversity, your strength is small.

    The consequence is losing strength or being without the Holy Spirit. There is no power to face sins, the period of pre-persecution and the time of the persecution of the antichrist. This kind of life becomes discouraged like the salt that loses its flavor.

    Matthew 5:13
    5:13. "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

    By being unsalted salt, the consequences are follows:

    • Having no power to give salty flavor.
    • Cannot become the testifier but the stumbling block.
    • Having no power to detain / resist rottenness.
    • Being useless, only being trampled, and surely worshipping the antichrist, so they become the same as the antichrist who will be destroyed forever.

    Their lives are not happy.

    Therefore, through the fasting prayer, we bear the cross to experience the renewal from the hardness of heart to the gentle one that is full of the Holy Spirit. This is the incredible power of God.

    The usefulness of the Holy Spirit are as follows:

    • The Holy Spirit is the same as the east wind that could divide the waters.
      Exodus 14:21
      14:21. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east windall that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.

      For us now, it means as follows:

      1. The dead can be made alive or there is miraculous preservation from God to us who are little and helpless up to the era when the Antichrist rules over the world, until the eternal life.

      2. Every impossible problem is resolved.
      3. There is successful and beautiful future ahead.
        At that time, the Israelites were hopeless. But, when the Holy Spirit blew, there was hope. We only need to wait for His time.

    • The Holy Spirit is like the water that gives us satisfaction from Heaven.
      The Samaritan woman asked for living water to Jesus. She had committed divorce-remarrying five times.

      Without Holy Spirit, the Gentiles will never be satisfied in marriage and surely lead to wrong marriage, infidelity, mixed-marriage, divorce-remarrying, and marrying-being given in marriage.

      When there is Holy Spirit, we will be the testifier like the salty salt that gives delicious flavor, up to worshiping God. We do not need to seek more satisfaction in the world that makes us fall in sins up to the peak. The satisfaction of the world also does not need to be used in church.

    • The Holy Spirit is like the fire that has power.
      Romans 15:16
      15:16. that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

      The fire of Holy Spirit sanctifies and renews the Gentiles from the hardness of heard to the gentle one, namely the strong and courageous heart.
      It means that we are not disappointed and do not lose heart or commit sins, but keep believing and hoping to God.

      By being strong and of good courage, the results are as follows:

      1. We are used by God in the edification of the perfect body of Christ.
      2. We have strong heart to wait on His second coming.
        Psalms 27:14
        27:14. Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart;Wait, I say, on the Lord!

        When Jesus comes a second time, the life that had experienced the renewal and died will be risen in the body of glory. If he lives until Jesus comes, he will be renewed in the body of glory.
        Both will be united as one perfect body of Christ to be worthy of welcoming His second coming. We will enter the Paradise and New Jerusalem forever.

God blesses us.

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  • General Service in Malang, October 23, 2022 (Sunday Morning)
    ... will perish forever. Do not look for money until forgetting God leaving the service and ministry or legalizing all ways The mouth is false namely lying slandering and blaspheming. Proverbs With her enticing speech she caused him to yield With her flattering lips she seduced him. Being loud and rebellious. Proverbs ...
  • General Service in Malang, March 02, 2014 (Sunday Morning)
    ... gave authority to his servants and to each his work and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. Watch therefore for you do not know when the master of the house is coming in the evening at midnight at the crowing of the rooster or in the morning lest coming suddenly he ...
  • Bible Study Service in Malang, June 15, 2023 (Thursday Evening)
    ... and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Acts . When they heard this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Colossians - . In Him you were ...
  • Prayer Service in Malang, August 19, 2021 (Thursday Evening)
    ... endured the cross despising the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. nbsp For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. The conditions for following God until we reach the perfection nbsp ...
  • Youth Service in Malang, May 02, 2015 (Saturday Evening)
    ... is its own trouble. Anxiety in shocks. Luke . And there will be signs in the sun in the moon and in the stars and on the earth distress of nations with perplexity the sea and the waves roaring Anxiety results physical death and it is the main killer in the ...
  • Bible Study Service in Malang, April 24, 2014 (Thursday Evening)
    ... to the two commanders of the armies of Israel to Abner the son of Ner and Amasa the son of Jether whom he killed. And he shed the blood of war in peacetime and put the blood of war on his belt that was around his waist and on his ...
  • Prayer Service in Malang, May 27, 2014 (Tuesday Evening)
    ... righteousness bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly The example is God warned men at the age of Noah so they could be saved from the flood punishment. On the other hand the men mocked God so only Noah and his family could survive. Peter - and ...
  • Prayer Service in Malang, December 03, 2020 (Thursday Evening)
    ... lying spirits. The false teachings refer to the reversing of the Bible or the interpretation according to the will and logic of men. It means that the verses in the Bible are added or taken away according to self- will or self-interest. Isaiah - For the leaders of this people cause ...
  • Bible Study Service in Malang, January 25, 2024 (Thursday Evening)
    ... not being signified with the birthright but just a part. Genesis - . And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD. . Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. ...
  • Bible Study Service in Malang, March 21, 2013 (Thursday Evening)
    ... fire coming out of heaven will also happen on these last days until the world perishes. It will happen when the Church is going out of the world to meet Jesus on glorious clouds. Jude keep yourselves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus ...

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