Heavenly Man — Brother Yun

Let us be a few seconds before the Lord. Just think what is Jesus speaking to us right now. And as you are meditating, let us concentrate our thoughts and let us pray on behalf of Sister Deborah, the sister of Peter Sue.

And all these other brothers and sisters, they may be in torture and persecution right now, in this moment. And let us be in the freedom here of hearing the word of God coming to us, that the Lord himself will stand by side of these sisters and brothers in Chinese persons.

Let us be silent and let us pray together. Risen Lord, it wasn't that we first loved you, but you first loved us so much. Because of your great love, you were willing to die for our sins on the cross.

Lord, as we are coming before you today, I thank you for all the suffering you have given my whole nation. Lord, I ask you to remember all those workers of yours who are suffering for the sake of the gospel in Chinese labor camps and prisons, and remember their families outside.

Lord, no matter how great the suffering is, I ask you to preserve the gospel in China, so that they can rely on you in their suffering, and not give up the gospel. I, Feng Jingming, declare that the power of the Father and the Son of God cannot be greater than your gospel.

Therefore, tonight, I, Feng Jingming, declare that the fire of your resurrection will burn in this country once again. That the revival is coming back to UK! In the name of Lord Jesus! Amen! Amen! Hallelujah!

Obedience to the Gospel and the Storm of Persecution

Hallelujah! When this brother was sharing, he was sharing about the victories of our testimony. And you understood that because of the obedience, God let me out from the prison. But many of you, you haven't heard about the testimonies of our failures.

We are human like you are. When we are imprisoned in China, it's not because of our crimes, but just because of our obedience to the gospel. When you are in obedience to his commission, as fast as you are moving, there will be a storm hitting your boat.

Like when Jesus one day said to his disciples, let's take a boat and you will go to the other side of the lake. And not longer after the disciples entered on the boat and they started to row over, a storm hit the boat.

In the same way like me, you receive the commission from the Lord that all Chinese are going to be saved. And the gospel will leave China to all the nations between China and Jerusalem. And because so many were willing to follow after Jesus with this vision, the storm hit the church.

Satan created the storm and he totally surrounded the nation and brought it into darkness. All the church buildings were destroyed. All the pastors were sent to labor camps and all the Bibles were burned.

The Atheist regime thought we destroy all the visible presence and this will be the end of Christianity. But nobody can imprison the word of God. There were no Bibles in China, but the seed of gospel being proclaimed by the missionaries.

It was alive and nobody could hinder it. And many times in China we have been like the disciples in the boat. When finally in the middle of the storm, Jesus appeared walking on the water, they said it's a ghost.

And we haven't had Bibles in China for tens of years. We haven't had church buildings, but Christianity has more than 100 fold growth. The Holy Spirit has not stopped to work one second in these past 50 years in China.

Jesus Christ Delivers His People from Impossible Circumstances

So many times we have been imprisoned for the sake of the gospel. And sometimes we are really, we think this is weird. But you have to remember, if you are willing to witness about Jesus, Jesus will witness on your behalf.

If you are obedient to his commands in your life, he will listen and answer to your prayers. I still want to proclaim that Jesus is same yesterday, today and forever. And when we were in prison in China, in a prison, one day Jesus came into prison.

Jesus came to prison and he started to speak to us. He said, Lord Jesus, this is a top security prison and he was frightened. And the same moment I heard the same voice saying to me, my name and say, today is the day of salvation for you, I will take you out from prison.

And I said to Jesus, Lord Jesus, this is a security prison. But then the voice was growing from my inner being saying, the prison is a trial, but I am the truth. Jesus is the truth. And it is only truth that can set you free.

My brothers and sisters, no matter how big problems, they are just rocks. When we are here in the meeting, arranged by living water, the purpose is that we start to learn to walk on the water. And a miracle happened on the sea that day.

In the middle of the storm, when the boat was just about to go under, Jesus just said a few words. He said, it's I, and right away somebody was willing to leave the boat and walk to Jesus. And Peter was in the boat, when he heard it's the Lord, his heart started to beat and he started to pray.

In the same way as I said to the Lord, if you want me to go out, I want to be obedient, I want to walk out. And as I left my cell and I started to walk towards the door, the doors were opened for me automatically.

One after the other, the doors were opened. Cancer in your body is a trial. The situation in your family, in your business, in your life is a trial. But Jesus Christ is the risen Lord. And he has the mighty power, he can bring us out from any kind of cell.

Leaving the Boat in Faith

Let us all take hold of the promise of the Lord and his word and leave the boat. How many of you know more about the Chinese Church? There are no famous preachers at the church in China. But always when the believers are hit by difficulties and impossibilities, they kneel down and they start to cry out, Jesus, Jesus.

And they are shouting to the Jesus to give them the Holy Spirit, that the Holy Spirit will lead them to the truth. I am standing as a living testimony about that Jesus is alive. He lives today and that is why I can stand here as a living witness.

After I came out from the prison and I came to overseas, to Westworld, I started to have these non-stop meetings all over the world. And every day from morning to evening I was preaching and sharing my testimony.

Recovering First Love and Responding to God's Discipline

And one day after being in this rally for many, many months, I heard the Lord speaking to me, you have lost your first love to me. And the Lord said to me, I have promised to open doors for you, nobody is able to shut.

But I am also able to shut the doors and nobody is able to open the doors. My brothers and sisters, it does not help you if you in the past, in the history, have been obedient and have been following Jesus.

Because God does not allow us to get away from the calling in our lives. And if you are not willing to repent from your situation, and if you are not willing to repent from your sins, He is going to give you another kind of storm to direct your life.

Disobedience and Arrest in Burma

And for the fourth time when I ended up in the prison, it was not because of my obedience to the Gospel, it was all because of my disobedience. When God started to direct me and discipline me, I did not correct my life.

I had only transferred my family because of this calling back to Jerusalem, and they were living in a Buddhist nation. I was already personally living in Germany, and when the government promised that they would allow my family to be reunified and moved to Germany.

So together with my family, we started to fast and pray. And as we were praying, the Lord started to speak to me. And the Lord said to me, when you are leaving with your family from Burma, Myanmar, you have to leave behind all your possessions and all your documents.

And when I saw a vision, and in that vision I saw my family members, how they peacefully were able to leave Burma, but when I came to the border, I was handcuffed and I was thrown into prison. And the morning when I woke up, I told this to my wife and all my co-workers, and I said, very bad, I am not going to be able to leave this country tomorrow.

And I told what I have seen, I said, tomorrow when we are about to leave, you are able to leave, but I will be handcuffed and I will be arrested. My wife said to me, do not take any of those documents with you, and you are able to leave.

But the pastors, the local pastors, they started to speak very sweet words to me, and say, you are so loved by God, we will pray for you, for protection, and you are able to leave peacefully. And I listened more to these pastors than I listened to my dear wife, and I decided, I am going to take my Burma ID document with me when I leave the country.

And when I am in disobedience, started to travel, and I was in transit in Burma International Airport, the thing happened, they found those papers, and I was arrested. And after I have been in the cell for several months, finally a few months later, they asked me, is everything true what you have said, and they said that I will be sentenced for 7 years imprisonment in Burma.

As I was in the prison that time, I was crying to the Lord, and reminding His promises, you said you are going to open the door for me, that nobody is able to shut it. But the Lord replied, if I lock the door, nobody is able to open it.

My brothers and sisters, I really, from my heart, I tell you, if God has given a calling upon your life, be obedient to that calling in your life. It is impossible for me to share all what happened to me in prison that time.

Jonah's Flight from God's Calling

But I tell you like it happened to Prophet Jonah, when he died to suicide, to kill himself, to get away from his calling, he was not able to die. He was calling upon his life so clear, to go to Niniveh, but he was thinking, if I am able to get money, and buy a ticket on a boat, away from that direction, they cease the will of the Lord.

And when he was dead, and the storm was hitting the boat, he was willing to die, rather than to be obedient to the Lord. And when Jonah wanted to commit suicide, God sent a big fish, and the fish swallowed Jonah.

The fishes are always obedient to the Lord, so the big fish was open mouthed, waiting, Jonah will come in. And after he had been washed inside the fish for three days, and he was willing to repent, God just commanded the fish, you just vomit Jonah out from your mouth.

And I think that when Jonah was washing, cleaning his eyes, so that he could see where he was standing, he was thinking, the Lord has mercy on me, I am standing outside Tarsus. But then he discovered, I have been brought back to the gates of Niniveh.

God is able to use many ways to correct our lives, and bring us back to the calling in our lives. And sometimes the reason why we are in a storm, is because we are disobedient to the Lord. And sometimes financial difficulties hit a nation, it has to do with the disobedience of that nation.

God created to correct his creation. Maybe there is somebody in the meeting tonight, and you feel like you are in the tummy of a big fish, and you are really feeling ugly. And don't say that I am under demonic possession.

And don't say that it is impossible. The Lord is just expecting you to stand up and start to walk in obedience. The Lord is expecting you to repent. And if you are willing to repent, the fish is going to open their mouth, and you are coming out like a new born person.

I believe that the most important thing is for us to live our lives in obedience to the Word of the Lord. And nobody can tell you what you have to do in your life. We have all our plans, we have all our ideas, like Jonah.

But the Lord wants to give you a vision. And he has a commission for you. The Gospel has to be preached to every person living on this earth. The Buddhist nations are going to be changed. And the great power of the Gospel of Jesus will change the whole of India.

Proclaiming the Gospel to Every Nation

The Muslim nations are going to be changed by the mighty power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The people who are living in these big nations, they are going to be changed by the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Holy Spirit is calling out of my Holy Spirit. How many of you know that what is going to happen when there is going to be a change of Lordship in the house of Buddha, Hindu and Islam, who will be the Lord?

Jesus Christ is the Lord of Mankind. India and the Buddhist world, they are going to bow down and be crushed at the feet of Jesus. God has never said that the world will be filled with idols. He said that the world will be saved.

The commission and promise God gave to two sons of Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. The people of Egypt are going to be saved. The Muslim nations are going to be saved. The Jewish people are going to be saved.

The descendants of Isaac and Ishmael are going to be saved. They are going to embrace one another saying, Muhammad is not the Lord, Jesus is the Lord, Jesus is the Messiah. Do you believe that this generation is called to be saved?

Jonah, stand up! Jonah, let us stand up! Let us all stand up and say to the Lord, Lord I want to be obedient. The calling of Jesus Christ is unchangeable. Don't go back to your old life. This calling, this commission is life-urgent.

Let us all pray together.