Hi all, - just a snippet of Jaeson ma's webpage. He is a 24 year old ABC(American Born Chinese), parents from Hong Kong. His was recently ordainedas a pastor under covering of a board consisting of Che Ann nad severalother prophetic and cutting edge ministry. Che Ann's ministry wasresponsible for the 1 million strong "The Call" movement that brought youngpeople to pray openly at Washington D.C.Jeremy Wong Read on.............
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Apostolic Preaching & Prophetic Worship on Campuses!!! (The emerging Jesus Revolutions on campuses)
I am writing this message because I sense strongly in my spirit God wants torelease another "GREAT AWAKENING" upon the university campuses of America.We are coming upon the wake of another "Jesus Freak" movement.
In the late1960's there was a major move of God among young hippies all overCalifornia. Radical hippie preachers like "Lonnie Frisbee" preached oncampuses, street corners, bars on Hollywood blvd, & baptized thousands ofhippies in the ocean beaches. What happened in those days was like it camestraight out of the book of Acts. "Signs, wonders & miracles, speaking intongues, thousands of young people swept into the kingdom of God, they wereliving in 24/7 communes together, sharing all things together and enjoyingfellowship while radical street preaching was bringing in the masses to Christ." Do it again Lord! I know You will & now is the time!
In the last 6 months the Holy Spirit has been impressing heavily upon me to see the book of Acts happen again on college campuses. There is too much "timidity" among Christian's every campus I visit. There is a fear of whatother's think. and it is justified by an "I don't want to offend othersmentality." It is compromise. The national average of Christian's on eachuniversity is 4% and more than 90% of those 4% come from Christianbackgrounds (Ivy Jungle Network: source). In other words, Christians aremainly reaching Christians on campus. If we don't see revival now, we will have a post-Christian generation tomorrow. It's time for radical Christianity. or should I say "normal Christianity" to be released on this generation with power.
I've been studying the book of Acts. The more I read, the more I am challenged. Church was never meant to be in a "temple" or a "building"
it was meant to be on the streets. It was meant to be in the marketplace, 24/7 where the people were. Where would Jesus be preaching if He were here today?Where would Peter and Paul be preaching if they were here today? I highly doubt a Sunday morning church service or the next large group fellowship meeting. I know exactly where they would be preaching.. in the middle of thecampus where all those students organizations are promoting their beliefs.It's sad, but there is too much preaching in the four walls of the church & there is not enough preaching to the lost. Preaching was meant for the lost!Yet we have turned the powerful art of preaching into "sermonizing." Lord have mercy & turn us back to the power of God unto salvation!"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me to PREACH good news to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, toproclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those whoare bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day ofvengeance of our God!" Isaiah 61:1-2
Where am I getting at? There is a move of God that will sweep thousands ofyoung people into His kingdom beginning on university campuses across California and then all over the United States of America. What is thismove? It will be a move of two things.
1. Prophetic Worship
2. Apostolic Preaching
Last week a student leader in our campus church network was inspired duringhis early morning quite times to bring his guitar to school. This studentgoes to San Jose State University. Not sure why, he went with his guitar tothe middle of campus where there was the most student traffic. He sensed theHoly Spirit wanted him to break out his guitar and worship at the top of Hislungs. He did. At first, he was scared out of his pants, but as he continuedto worship the manifest presence of God began to descend on the ground hewas worshipping on. He later told me that all he was asking God for thatmorning was one thing, "Lord I want to see HEAVEN ON EARTH come down on thiscampus!" Well, he got what he was praying for. As the Holy Spirit prophetically lead him to sing new songs by proclaiming Jesus over the campus, he sensed he was to pull out his Bible and read itout loud. With authority, he began to read out loud at the top of his lungs,the written Word of God. Students began to look at him, stare at him, evenlaugh at him. He didn't care because he was in the zone with Jesus. Asstudents gathered around to watch this Jesus freak, he began to read theScriptures and prayed for students the Holy Spirit was pinpointing out tohim. While praying for students, he saw a fraternity table with a fraternitybrother sitting there. This fraternity brother was completely gripped by theScriptures being read.
All of a sudden the frat brother left the table andwalked up to my friend. He said, "I don't know who you are, but while you were singing those songsto God, I felt the presence of God touch my body. You see I've been abackslidden Christian for over 3 years & this weekend our fraternity houseburnt down. Everything I've ever owned burned down in that house thisweekend, but there was only one thing left. my Bible!" This fraternity brother broke down under the conviction of the Holy Spiritand the spoken word of God. He encountered the presence of the living God in the middle of the day on a university campus while sitting outdoors at his fraternity table.
Now, that's what I'm talking about!"
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise."Psalm 100:4
We don't need more persuasion evangelism in this postmodern generation. What we need is more presence evangelism, encounters with an Almighty God. How do we bring the presence? It is only through worship and prayer.
It's propheticworship that sings to Jesus from the heart, not from a power point slide.It's passionate, raw, un-plugged worship that touches the heart of God andends up touching the heart of a generation. I see thousands of new prophetic worship bands hitting the shores of thecollege campuses during the day and into the night. Bands of young radicalswho pull out their guitars, banjos, drums, all kinds of instruments andworshipping at the top of their lungs in the middle of campuses. It's aprophetic band of worshippers who aren't just singing the latest hit worshipsong, but they are worshipping in their own way, singing new songs, creatingnew lyrics, going all out, undignified like King David. It's a sound thateven the Christian world has never heard. They are the new sounds that comefrom the streets of heaven. Get ready because the sons of thunder arecoming! They worship in spirit and truth while students are passing by,while others are gathering at tables, while others are watching.the presenceof God comes. The lost have never heard this kind of worship, with suchpassion, with such beauty & attraction.
It's prophetic, for the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. This prophetic presence all of suddeninvades and touches the hearts of young people & they begin to come underthe overwhelming love of God. This generation is waiting to see true passion. But where is it? True passion is only revealed when we passionately worship the passionate One.our suffering King Jesus. When this generationsees true worship, they will come to worship God!Prophetic worship is what ushers in the presence of God. But it's ApostolicPreaching that ushers in the power of God.
"And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark ofthe Lord. Then seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns beforethe ark of the Lord went on continually and blew with the trumpets. And thearmed men went before them. But the rear guard came after the ark of theLord while the priests continued blowing the trumpets." Joshua 6:12-13
Joshua followed the strategy of the Lord. He sent out the priests (theprophetic worshippers) into battle first, while the armed guard (apostolicpreachers) stood prepared to attack. The presence of God must be ushered infirst, in order for His presence to anoint the army for war. This is thesame in relationship to prophetic worship and apostolic preaching for thecampuses. First of all, what is apostolic preaching?
Let the book of Acts explain."Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter andthe rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?" Then Petersaid to them, "Repent and let everyone of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift ofthe Holy Spirit. "For the promise is to you and to your children, and to allwho are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call." And with manyother words he testified and exhorted them, saying, "Be saved from thisperverse generation." Those who gladly received his word were baptized; andthat day about three thousand souls were added to them." Acts 2:37-41Apostolic preaching is the so powerful preaching of the Gospel that it cutsthe hearts of men resulting in deep repentance and mass conversions. Ithappened in Peter's day where we see three thousand coming to Christ in aday. We see 5,000 saved in a day later in the book of Acts and whole citiespushing their way into the kingdom through Paul's apostolic preaching. Yousay that happened in the days of old, but certainly not in highlysophisticated campus cultures like Yale or Stanford? Why not? It happened inthe 1st and 2nd Great Awakenings of America. Where Jonathan Edwards a young preacher who attended Yale preached an unapologetic message around 1734 called "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" that sent all of all of theEast Coast into repentance and ushered in a sweeping revival to a hell bentAmerica. In 1790's Yale University had totally forgotten about the greatrevival just years before. The student body had fallen into drunkenness,blasphemy and the majority of students were attacking the Christian faithbecause of a turn towards atheism & deism. During that dark hour, a youngman named "Timothy Dwight" the only Christian on campus began to preach onthe infallibility of God's Word and His moral standard. By the end of the year more than one half of the entire Yale University campus had turned inrepentance toward God. Do it again Lord! Surely, He will & now is the hour!
I'm passionate about this kind of preaching coming on the scene again,because I've experienced it. I use to travel from campus to campus preachingto crowds of students sometimes three & other times hundreds. There wasnever a time that the anointing of God to preach did not show up. No, whenthere is the preaching of the Gospel, God is obligated to show up, becauseHe is obligated to His mission. "Go, and make disciples of all nationsbaptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, teaching themeverything I have taught you, and I am with you always unto the end of theage." (Matthew 28:18)I remember one time when I was at a junior college and a crowd of nearly 500students gathered the day after the school was saved from a planned bombattack. I got up in the middle of campus and began to preach how God hadspared their lives, how Jesus had saved them with a calling through hissuffering, death and resurrection. I challenged each of them to repent &turn to God. No one threw a stone at me, instead the entire crowd was deadsilent while I preached and many began to cry under the conviction andpresence of the Holy Spirit. There are more testimonies where we even saw a few hundred saved at one timeat San Jose State University after preaching the Gospel to a completelyunsaved crowd of students in the middle of campus. Just today at the university, while my two friends were leading prophetic worship outside on campus I began to join them in prayer. As I paced backand forth interceding for the lost students on campus out loud I could sense the anointing of the Holy Spirit increase. People thought I was crazy, who cares, but as I prayed out loud I began to preach. We were only there for anhour, we didn't draw a crowd of hundreds, but we did get to pray for atleast 4 students who randomly came up and asked for prayer. We did get toconverse afterwards with a bunch of fraternity and hip-hop looking brotherswho wanted to know more about Jesus. Whether it's one or one thousand, myquestion is what happened to the powerful preaching of the Gospel? Isn'tthis what Jesus did most of the time.preach? With signs, wonders andmiracles confirming the preaching of the Word. "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God tosalvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for theGreek" Romans 1:16"How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And howshall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall theyhear without a preacher?" Romans 10:14
Where are the apostolic preachers in this generation? Where are those whowill preach with authority and power in the Holy Spirit? Where are the Peter's and Paul's who preached with a holy fear of God that resulted inentire cities coming to Christ with signs and wonders confirming? There wasa Jonathan Edward for the 1st Great Awakening. There was a Timothy Dwight atYale University in the 2nd Great Awakening. Where are those who will step upto the plate, pray like no tomorrow and preach like there is only today inthis last Great Awakening? As the Son is shining, during the middle of the school day, I see universitycampuses with prophetic bands of young warriors worshipping with all theirheart and preaching with pure passion. These apostolic & prophetic warriorswill have big posters advertising. "FREE PRAYER, FREE DREAM INTERPRETAION,FREE PROPHECY.CAUSE GOD LIKES YOU!" I SEE OTHER WARRIOR BANDS WITH "THEPASSION OF THE CHRIST" PLAYING AS A BACKDROP AS THEY PREACH.PASSING OUTTESTIMONIES AND GOSPEL TRACKS EXPLAINING THE SUFFERING, DEATH ANDRESURRECTION OF THE PASSIONATE SON OF GOD! I SEE YOUNG RADICALS CARRYING AHEAVY WOODEN CROSS WITH THEM AS THEY WORSHIP & PREACH THE GOSPEL WITH ITFROM CAMPUS TO CAMPUS.I SEE A HOLY REVOLUTION. There is going to be an outbreak, an uncontrollable movement of God.aspontaneous revival hitting the campuses of America once again. There willbe hundreds of students here, & thousands of students there, and smallpockets of students everywhere having Church in the university courtyard.Yes, it's church without walls, it's a holy movement of God that can't be touched or defined by some method of evangelism or some slick small groupprogram. No church building can contain it and no conference can explain it.It's God or nothing. There is a nameless and faceless army God is raising upat this hour on campuses across America.
Do you hear the calling? Will you be willing to lay down your reputation, your comfort zone, your Christianbubble, possibly your very life to see revival on your college campus? Nowis the time, now is the hour. Get on your face and pray until it hurts.Worship until He comes. Then get up and preach unapologetically & watch ifGod shows up!
I'm praying to see HEAVEN ON EARTH on every campus in America.REVIVE THE CAMPUSES OF AMERICA LORD! REVIVE THIS GENERATION LORD! REVIVE OURHEARTS AGAIN AND USHER IN THE LAST AND GREATEST AWAKENING THIS NATION HASEVER SEEN.LET THE JESUS REVOLUTION BEGIN..
Praying for campus revival,Jaeson Ma
www.campuschurch.net(If you are one who desires revival & are committed to lead out in propheticworship and apostolic preaching on your university campus
email:coach@campuschurch.net)Feb 10 2005
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