1 December, 2020
💞 Dear Royal Praying Priests, shalom!
💎 “His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, ‘Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.’ Now this phrase, ‘Yet once more,’ shows the removal of those things that are shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude—through this we may offer worship in a manner pleasing to God, with reverence and awe. For our God is a consuming fire.” (Heb 12:26-29, TLV)
Thank you for interceding for Rev. Donald and Marlen Young’s ministry in Taiwan faithfully in the last three months. Rev. Donald Young is the Pioneer Director of the College of Prayer International (COPI). It is our privilege and honour to partner with COPI for welcoming the manifest presence of God and witnessing the great revivals among the churches and pastors all across Taiwan. God also opened the door to New Zealand with online teaching in September through our networking! Praise God for visiting Taiwan and New Zealand powerfully, and for bringing the Body of Messiah closer to His own heart. In the next few weeks, we will review the key points of Rev. Donald Young’s teaching. Let us pray for deep activation in our hearts for transferring the information to transformation! Amen.
COVID-19 is a global pandemic and a tremendous crisis. God has been using this crisis to shake the world and change His Church. We need clarity to understand the situation and boldness to take the right actions. A crisis can be a turning point for better or worse, and it is emotional and it can cause radical change to our lives. The days of crisis are the days of opportunities. There are five principles for the churches that thrive in the crisis, and we will review the first principle this week.
- Churches that thrive in the crisis see the reality of unseen.
We live in a world where everything is changing and shaken. Wars, economic collapses, plagues…etc. are all prophesied in the Bible. Yeshua Himself also mentioned all these signs of the End of Time to His disciples (Mat 24:3-9). And the author of the Book of Hebrew intended for us to see that the kingdom of God is not shaken among all the crises.
In crises, we ought to keep the accurate perspectives for seeing the reality above the shakeable things, so that we may live in the unshakable kingdom of God. We have to understand the reality of heavenly places, which were mentioned five times in the Book of Ephesians (Eph 1:3, 1:20, 2:6, 3:10, 6:12). The heavenly places, the earth, and heaven are equally real. Yeshua is now present in heaven and in the heavenly places, and we are in the two dimensions of the earth and the heavenly places. The heavenly places are where we battle with the enemies and where we bind and loose. We need to take up the spiritual authority in the heavenly places, then we can use it on the earth.
When we thrive, we see the battle, and we win the victory in our Messiah! Next week we will see principle 2 – Churches that thrive in the crisis have the battling mindset and use the spiritual weapons.
🙏 Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for giving us the clarity and boldness to stand strong and firm. Open our spiritual eyes to see the reality of unseen in the days of crises, and empower us to act according to Your will. Take us to soar with You above the storms and make us thriving in all crises. We are victors not victims in Yeshua! In the name of Yeshua we pray and bless you, Amen.