Prayer Service in Malang, October 21, 2014 (Tuesday Evening)
(To Coincide with Fasting Prayer Service Session III)
Peace and grace in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Revelation 2:1-7 is about the congregation in Ephesus.
Revelation 2:4
2:4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
God honors what the congregation in Ephesus has done, but in the last purification He has a thing against them because they left the first love.
In Tabernacle, there are three levels of upgrading love, as follows:
- The Court refers to the first love.
- The HolyPlace refers to the growth of love through shepherding.
- The Holy of Holiestrefers to the perfect love.
The practices of having the first love are as follows:
- Faith or believing in Jesus (entering the Gate).
Romans 10:17
10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
The true faith comes by hearing the Word of God that is anointed by Holy Spirit.
Jeremiah 15:16
15:16 Your words were found, and I ate them,and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;for I am called by Your name,O Lord God of hosts.
Having the first love is being fond of hearing and enjoying the Word of God.
Luke 24:32
24:32 And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”
We are fervent in hearing the Word of God in anointing of Holy Spirit so we can understand, believe, and be convinced and the Word becomes faith in heart.
- Repentance (the Altar of Burnt Offerings).
It means as follows:
- If the heart believes, the mouth will confess to Jesus. It means confessing the sin to God (vertical) and others (horizontal). If we are forgiven, do not sin anymore.
Romans 10:10
10:10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
- Stop judging and blaming others.
- Being reborn from water and spirit.
John 3:5-8
3:5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
3:7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
3:8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Water refers to the water Baptism (the Brazen Laver). The dead must be buried, or else the body will decay.
Romans 6:4
6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
The true water Baptism is one, who has repented and died from sin, must be buried together with Jesus in water, then come out from it to get the new or heavenly life that is the one in righteousness.
Being born from spirit refers to the Holy Spirit Baptism (the Door of Tabernacle) or fullness of Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit Baptism results the obedient life until the flesh does not sound anymore.
Romans 8:15
8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
John 3:7-8
3:7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
3:8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
One who is born from water and spirit is like the wind and fire.
Psalm 104:4
104:4 Who makes His angels spirits,His ministers a flame of fire.
The servant of God is like the windmeans obeying the Word, living in righteousness and holiness. The servant of God who is like the wind brings the cold and peace thus the unity of body of Christ will happen.
The servant of God is like firemeans being faithful and fervent in ministry according to the ministry that is trusted by God until the end line. It means until we die or the second time of Jesus coming.
Thus, having the first love is the servant of God who appears as the wind and fire that is holy, faithful, and fervent in ministry.
Daniel 7:9
7:9 “I watched till thrones were put in place,and the Ancient of Days was seated;His garment was white as snow,and the hair of His head was like pure wool.His throne was a fiery flame,its wheels a burning fire;
The throne of God is like the flame of fire.
Thus, the servant of God who is holy, faithful, and fervent is His throne. Whenever the throne of God appears, there is His attention.
Psalm 11:4
11:4 The Lord is in His holy temple,the Lord’s throne is in heaven;His eyes behold,His eyelids test the sons of men.
God will heed, care, and understand our situation and struggle for us. Until Jesus said, ‘It is finished,’ when He was on the cross.
The results are as follows:
- God heeds solemnly the life in labor, heavy burden, suffering, and tears.
Exodus 3:7-8
3:7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
3:8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
God heeds to give peace and relief so everything becomes light and easy.
God also cares our life in this difficult and impossible world, until we live in abundance, give thanks, and have eternal live forever.
- God heeds the life that had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
John 5:5-6
5:5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”
It means facing the impossible problem (illness, economy, study, future, marriage, and children).
God is struggling to finish everything.
- God heeds the flawed and imperfect life.
Mark 10:21
10:21 Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.”
Stinginess means one cannot give for God’s work and others in need.
Greediness means taking God’s and other’s belonging.
God willingly purify and change us so we are able to give for God’s work and others in need. We are employed in the revival of faith or the building of the perfect body of Christ. Until we are changed to become as perfect as He is and worthy to greet His second coming.
God blesses us.