Revival Fire Ministries

Chuka Pictures.  18th – 22nd November.

Our Dear Prayer Partners,

Chuka Kenya 18^th – 22^nd November 2009

On the final night, as we began to pray for the sick towards the end of the meeting, a very gentle rain began to fall and everyone present could feel the drops. To me, it was a picture of what the Lord had been doing. One dear brother testified that he had heard reports of how people had experienced God’s power in a very tangible way on the field and then went home, and then, to their surprise, experienced His power just as strong if not stronger in their own home. On Sunday night, as we left the stadium to return to the hotel, it began to rain heavily and continued throughout most of the night. This is a parallel of what we want to see in the spirit. The rain continuing after we leave.

The Lord began to challenge the local leaders to begin meeting together and praying together. I am convinced that there is a genuine hunger for a move of God in Chuka. I believe that these meetings served as a catalyst. Something has begun in Chuka.

We had to make a last minute change with our December meeting. The new venue is Runyenjes Town, which is on the slopes of Mount Kenya, and takes place from the 2^nd to the 6^th December. The truck and team are already there. Please pray with us for the people of Runyenjes to come to such unity in faith and knowledge of God’s Son that both they and we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.

If you would like to help towards these next meetings, please do contact us. Remember, it is not just finance that helps. One of the most valuable forms of help possible is prayer. Please do hold us up in prayer this coming week.

The Glory in every believer

As we search the internet on Google or simply let our eyes scan our local Christian bookshop shelves, nearly every Charismatic Christian television program, book, and CD is proclaiming to us “The Glory is coming!” And, “Get ready for the Glory!” Also, “Pray for the Glory to come again!”

For it to ‘come’, it has to be absent; in other words – gone. Yet when we compare today’s Christian with the Christian from just 60 or 70 years ago, there is a vast difference. When we look at the spiritual giants of yesteryear, we have to marvel and acknowledge that they had a degree of God’s glory that today’s leaders are lacking. These giants of old seemed to be so full of God.  (To read more on this theme visit: http://brothermel.com/whydidthegloryleaveus.aspx )

Ephesians 3:19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Oh, to have this fullness and for others to see this fullness

There is a powerful story of Dr Chapman taken from The Kneeling Christian.

At one of our missions in England, the audiences were extremely small. But I received a note that an American missionary … was going to pray God’s blessing down on the work. He was known as “Praying Hyde”. Almost instantly, the tide turned. The hall became packed, and at the first invitation, 50 men accepted Christ as their Saviour.

As we were leaving, I said, “Mr Hyde I want you to pray for me.” He came to my room, turned the key in the door and dropped on his knees, and waited five minutes without a single syllable coming from his lips. I could hear my own heart thumping; I felt hot tears running down my face. I knew I was with God. Then with upturned face, down which the tears were streaming he said, “O God!” Then for five minutes at least, he was still again, and then when he knew he was talking to God … there came up from the depth of his heart such petitions for men, as I have never heard before.

What was the key to these men of old being so full of God?

1.         Surrender
“The world has yet to see what God can do through a man wholly surrendered to Him.”
D.L. Moody

“Human selfishness and human pride have consumed and dissipated the very glory and heavenly power that God once gave from heaven to this movement as you have beheld tonight.”
J.G. Lake from the Portland vision

2.         Fellowship

Oswald J smith writes about a piece of iron and a fire. If you want that iron to become red?hot, you have to plunge it into the fire. If it deliberately leaves the fire to go on a mission, taking it for granted that all the dross has been burned up and that it could impart heat wherever it goes, then it will soon find itself cold again, and utterly unable to impart heat. It must remain near to the fire, and only as it does so, will it partake of the heat of the fire. Only then can it impart heat. So it is with us my friend. We may have a great experience, we may partake of divine fire but unless we are in daily contact with the fire of God’s presence, we will soon be cold and powerless. There is no experience that will last for life. The price must be paid. The price in this case is daily contact with God. Have you my friend a place to meet with God? And do you have the time? Or are you too busy? Do you observe the morning watch, the quiet hour? Is Jesus real to you? Do you know Him? You have met Him – of course you have, the day you were converted. But do you know Him? Have you become acquainted with Him? Do you visit Him regularly? It takes time to be acquainted with Him. Do you take the time? You must walk with God.

The secret of failure is that we see men rather than God.
By the unknown Christian

• Romanism trembled when Martin Luther saw God.
• The Great Awakening sprang into being when Johanathan Edwards saw God.
• Scotland fell prostrate when John Knox saw God.
• The world became the parish of one man when John Wesley saw God.
• Multitudes were saved when Whitefield saw God.
• Thousands of orphans were fed when George Muller saw God.

What will happen when the Church sees God, and what will happen when the world sees God and not a denomination? But let each of us not wait for others, let each of us get a vision of the glory of God for himself.

Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart! For they shall see God.

All our Love Roger & Shireen