POSTURED FOR REVIVAL
From across the nations, the family of History Maker came together once again, to urge each other to press on toward our upward calling in Christ Jesus. 2009 was fraught with challenges, but God had been ever faithful, and testimonies abounded from the pastors and leaders who came. A day before the conference, God was already ministering to the leaders, through His anointed servants Rev. Roberts Liardon (U.K.) and Ps. Shekhar Kallianpur (India), who shared the Word of God to these men and women of God.
On the first day of the conference, Rev. Roberts wasted no time defining Three R’s of the Move of God. There are two ways to study a revivalist – by what they say, and by what they do. And there are three ways to study a move of God – the refreshings (Acts 3:19), the revivals, and the reformations. A refreshing could be personal or for a church, and it would usually last one to two years. A revival would last for ten to fifteen years. Most people never make it to the next revival because they make doctrines out of their personal preferences (1 Cor. 12), and end up being resistant to God’s new spiritual emphasis and new style of doing things in the next revival. A reformation would last for a generation, between twenty to forty years, and its power influences every facet of society. Martin Luther the reformer, broke the back of the dictatorial powers of Europe, along with the erroneous teachings and unbiblical structure of the church. He paved the way to democracy, and revealed to all that the only way man shall receive life, was by faith in Jesus Christ alone (Gal. 3:11). Like Luther, a true reformer would not care if he were to die for the cause of our Lord. There is no secret formula to the move of God, but to simply find the promise, believe the promise, and confess the promise of God; until one day, it moves into a spirit over and in you.
The baton was handed over to Ps. Leonard Griffin (U.S.A.), who taught us about Seven Postures that Produce Revival – spiritual postures of prostration (Num. 24:1-4), kneeling (Eph.3:15), sitting (Eph. 2:6), walking (Eph. 4:1), standing (Eph. 6:13), running (Heb. 12:1) and dancing (Song 6:13).
By the evening, Ps. Shekhar showed us how each of us could proudly proclaim, “I’m Not Ashamed” of the gospel – for the gospel is salvation to everyone who believes, and the gospel is the power of God for every situation today (Rom. 1:16).
In our three days of conference, we were treated to many other sessions that were also anointed in teaching, lethal in preaching, and Spirit-led in ministry; by Ps. Aaron Wong, Ps. Sam Surendran, Ps. Amos Tsang, Rev. Paul Min, Ps. Wee Tiong Howe, Ps. Dam Suan Mung, Ps. David Park, Ps. Hanny Yasaputra, Ps. Naomi Nakama, Rev. Philip Ong, Rev. Larry Nelson, Steve Roberts and Rev. Hakan Gabrielsson.
On the morning of the second day, Rev. Roberts taught us about Staying Awake During the Revolution. Firstly, we need strong leaders in order to move forward (Judges 5:6-8). And when things are moving forward and working for us, we must increase in the things that we used to do that brought us to that point of spiritual birthing. During such a time, it is your responsibility and not God’s, to keep your physical health from breaking down. As you minister signs, wonders, healings and salvation to the masses during a spiritual revolution, you have to keep reading the Bible for yourself, confess the Word for yourself, and keep building your spirit – not for the masses, but for yourself.
Rev. Roberts continued in the night session, about Living in the High Call. The high call is the continual habitation of grace and tangible anointing upon one’s life, that has the power to affect the world. He taught us about praying in a way that gives us victory wherever we are – with an inner voice of authority, and with new tongues that can claim new territory (1 Cor. 12:28). We have to go from speaking, to declaring, to performing; and by enforcing chapter and verse, be taking new ground, binding the devil, building the church, raising the dead, healing the sick, and making money for the work of the gospel!
A History Maker conference is never complete without its prayer meeting at 5.30am; as it is often said, if there’s anything you shouldn’t miss, it’s the History Maker morning prayer! There were two prayer meetings in this conference, one on the 5th and one on the 6th of November. On the 6th of November which was the final day of the conference, the day started with a prayer meeting that concluded with the our hands laid on the flags of different countries; claiming the salvation of souls, and declaring the sovereignty of Jesus over those nations.
Later that morning, Ap. Richard Brown (Japan) declared, “No Risk, No Return!” He said that whenever God wanted to perform a miracle in our lives, He would so often put a demand on our resources. Jesus would wait until we have exhausted everything, and then say something like, “Why don’t you try this?” (Luke 5:1-10) Like Peter, we need to receive God’s Word as mandate. And when we step out in faith to obey, His Word will produce the thing for which He had sent His Word to accomplish! (Is. 55:11)
Upon reaching the last hour of the conference, Ps. Richard William brought us back to the heartbeat of God. He spoke of a “God’s Rambo” found in Matt. 11:11-13. John the Baptist did not seek to be great on earth, but he was called the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. To further illustrate, Ps. Richard highlighted some generals of God from Asia – Wang Ming Dao, Mama Kwang and Sadhu Sundar Singh. They did not fit the mainstream, they went through the most difficult persecutions, but they worked the works of God with power and authority, and brought the gospel to the world in ways unprecedented. Ps. Richard then told us a true story about a fourteen year old girl from Pakistan. This girl went to Christian meeting and got saved. She knew that her father would find out about it, so she kept reading the Bible and started sharing about Jesus to her friends quickly, for as much as she could. Three months later, her father found out about it. As she stood her ground for Jesus, 
her father beat her to death. But by then, this girl had already started a youth movement in Pakistan, stirring among her friends about who Jesus was. Within three months of knowing Jesus, this fourteen year old girl had already done far more than the average person who had been in church for years. Is something wrong with our Christianity? If you and I have missed God’s will for our lives in 2009, let us not miss it again – in 2010, nothing in my life shall overtake my commitment to sharing the gospel, and nothing in this world shall surpass my love and passion for Jesus!
