Burning Heart

Last night, as I was struggling with picking songs for this Sunday, my heart was pounding and I was feeling so anxious I don't know why. I know that I don't have to worry so much about which song would bring more presence of God to the crowd, I just needed to get together a simple set and He will do the rest. When I was driving back to LA for RJ practice, I was praying. I prayed that God would show up during practice, and suddenly for some reason I prayed for the fear of the Lord to fall upon churches. It's random I know. However, I think it has to do with what I read about in a magazine a few days ago...

Ever since Jesus Culture Reddings I've been overwhelmed by the "urgency". The feeling is getting stronger and stronger everyday, and I know that Jesus is coming very soon. It's as crazy and as real as a slap on the face. Two days ago, me and my roommate saw a magazine titled "WORLD WOULD END ON THANKSGIVING DAY!" Subtitled: "Hidden in the Bible: God's Final Warning to Mankind." We were curious and bought the magazine back to read it through. It's basically saying that from the three passages in the Bible (2 Cor. 4:14-16; Philippians 4:5-7; Jeremiah 30:18-20), they were able to decode the hidden message with computer. The message goes, "Thanksgiving Day 2008... end of world... without warning... sinners burn in Hell in Satan... dead will rise... new world... return of Christ... glory be to God."

Now, a few pages afterwards, another article talked about a man's vision/trance of angelic encounter of heaven visitation. The man's name is Wovoka, he saw the heaven and the angels told him that "humankind had one more great war to face. That battle would occur in the 21st century and it would truly be the war to end all wars. After that, peace would reign eternally on Earth. Also, by a miracle, God will solve the problems that are plaguing the environment and restore Earth to the purity and splendor she once enjoyed. There would be enough food for everyone to eat - no one would go to bed hungry again." After reading these two articles, I remembered what Jack has shared with us 2 years ago about Christ's return. He said based on sources, Christ is predicted to come back in two thousand something. Do you feel the urgency yet?? (If you don't feel it, let me know and I'll pray for you.)

What I thought after reading these prophetic articles was, how accurate are the articles I don't know, but what I know is, Christ is coming back soon and I have a school, a bunch of friends, and family members to save!! People say, "Oh it's good to have the urgency inside of you. Good for you!" No! That's not it!! It's not just "good" to have the urgency of the little time before Christ's return, for lost to be saved, for the way to be prepared for the Lord. It should be a essential part that's embedded inside the heart of every sons and daughters of the King! I cannot stress the importance of the "urgency" more.
Ps. The purpose for posting these articles is to encourage and give people more motivation to go out there to spread the gospel. Not here to scare off anyone ok?

Healing revivalists, prophetic revivalists, or any kinds of revivalists need to constantly recharge their battery. With the "authority" that's always there for us to back us up, however, without a tight relationship with the "authority", how can we walk in power and do all these kinds of evangelism? YOU ARE A REVIVALIST! That's why you need to spend time with the Lord everyday and develop intimacy relationship with Him. I'm challenging myself to spend at least one hour with the Lord everyday in the morning. I have class at 8am or 9am every morning, you can count back and see what time my alarm clock would go off. Lol, not that easy! However, God is faithful. He has been waking me up every morning at the time I set the alarm. Thank you Lord! Also, going back to write my spiritual journal everyday... or at least try to write it everyday.

Las Vegas has the "Burning Man". We are consumed by and are the "Burning Hearts". Behind each burning heart, there should exist an awareness and confirmation of God's unconditional, everlasting, and perfect love. It is which that roots the ground of all work done in His Name so we don't get burnt out or commit spiritual suicide. (More of this is elaborated in Jaeson Ma's blog.)

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Currently working on... Carmen.
She's a cashier who works at Ride Aid in Riverside. She has experienced a tremendous car accident in January. It was her and her fiance in the car, the entire car flipped and totaled. None of them died. The man was able to walk out without any injury and Carmen, the driver, had her left elbow bone stuck out of her arm. However, now she can use her arm normally. There is a huge and ugly scar left on her arm, and it is not going away. When me and my roommate first saw her, we prayed for her and told of God's mercy and love on her. She said she believes there has to be somebody up there watching over them, it was a miracle that they were both alive. We prayed for her wound, and her work. It is me and Karen's desire and urge to bring her to Christ and get her baptized. Last night, we went to Ride Aid again, and this time Carmen gave us her cell# and home#. Now it's easier to reach her and do "caring network". Wahaha! We told her that we're looking for jobs and she got us applications, and it was during the time that we waited for the application that we spotted the prophetic magazine. Anyhow, after Carmen explained to us how to apply and who to talk to, I saw the manager, his name is Sean, and his left index finger has a cast on it. I asked him what happened and he said it's dislocated from an accident last week. I was about to ask him if I could pray for him, but he looks mad or irritated, and he was waiting to talk to Carmen, so we didn't pray for him right then. However, we prayed for them both when we got into the car. Everyone please pray for Carmen, and the Ride Aid store. I believe that God will do amazing things in that store! God is good!

-sala<3