Message Notes

YAG 6th RETREAT
Pulai Springs, JB
8-10 November 2007
Theme: “Revive me”

Session 8

SECTION C
POST REVIVAL (PERSONAL PLANS)

1. A deeper knowledge

a) Pursuit of knowledge                                Hosea 6

b) Person of God                                          Isaiah

c) Discipleship                                             Gospels

d) Filling of the Spirit of God (episodic)        Acts 2, 4

2. A deeper sensitivity

a) To the problem of sin         Cf. Psalms 25, 32, 51; 2 Samuel 24 (David)

b) To the prompting of the Lord         Acts 8; 10-11 (Philip, Peter)

c) To needs of the multitude – compassion     Matthew 9:35-38 (The Lord Jesus)

3. A deeper practice of prayer

a) Interrogative-Interactive prayer

i) Asaph

“ LORD of hosts,
How long will You be angry against the prayer of Your people?”    Psalm 80:4

ii) Moses

“Return, O LORD!
How long? And have compassion on Your servants”                      Psalm 90:13

b) Intercessory prayer

i) Ezra

“For we were slaves.
Yet our God did not forsake us in our bondage;
But He extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia,
To revive us, to repair the house of our God, to rebuild its ruins,
And to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this?
For we have forsaken  Your commandments,
Which You commanded by Your servants the prophets…”    Ezra 9:9-11a

ii) Daniel

“O LORD, hear!
O LORD, forgive!
Listen and act!
Do not delay for Your own sake, my God,
For Your city and Your people are called by Your name”    Daniel 9:19

4. Cultivation of a significant lifestyle
2 Peter 1:1-8

a) Power

“As His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue”        2 Peter 1:3

i) Divine power

ii) All things that pertain to life and godliness

iii) Through knowledge

iv) Called by glory and virtue

b) Partakers of the divine nature

“By which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” 2 Peter 1:4

i) Exceedingly great and precious promises

ii) Partakers of the divine nature

c) Progressive development

“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence,
add to your faith virtue,
to virtue knowledge,
to knowledge self-control,
to self-control perseverance,
to perseverance godliness,
to godliness brotherly kindness,
and to brotherly kindness love”         2 Peter 1:5-7

i) Faith

ii) Virtue

iii) Knowledge

iv) Self-control

v) Perseverance

vi) Godliness

vii) Brotherly kindness

viii) Love

d) Productivity

“For if these things are yours and abound,
you will neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”            2 Peter 1:8

i) Above things appropriated

ii) Above things abound

iii) Not barren

iv) Not unfruitful