Visit to Ipoh and Kampar (May 5-6, 2023)
On May 5 and 6, a few campus serving ones and FTTMY trainees went to Ipoh and Kampar to visit the campus students. We really thank the Lord for all the young people. They are crucial to the Lord to turn this age.
In the Old Testament, Daniel was one who was used by God to turn the age. Although Daniel lived under the idolatrous Babylonian ruling, he was used by God because he was a separated person; he would not follow the tide of the world. Rather, he stood as an anti-testimony in his age.
Furthermore, Daniel was also one who was joined to God’s desire through His word. He did not read God’s word for the purpose of finding out some knowledge or merely for finding out God’s will. Rather, as soon as he touched God’s desire through the Word, he immediately joined himself to that desire. When he read from the book of Jeremiah that God had ordained seventy years of captivity for the Israelites, and that after seventy years God would turn back to bless them, he immediately joined himself to God’s word and fasted and prayed.
Daniel’s prayers were not at all common. His prayers were prayers that turned the age. In every encounter, at every crucial time, Daniel could be found praying to God. Even when King Darius decreed that anyone who petition within thirty days would be cast into the lions’ den (Dan. 6:7), Daniel “went to his house and three times daily he knelt on his knees and prayed and gave thanks before his God, because he had always done do previously” (Dan. 6:10). Daniel truly had the spirit of martyrdom. He did not care for his own life; he only cared for God’s interest.
Brothers and sisters, today’s age is the same as Daniel’s age. The whole world has come under Satan’s ruling. Everyone in the world has been swept into this current. But we must be today’s Daniel. First, we must be persons who have a clear separation from the world. Second, we must be one who not only read the word regularly, but also join ourselves to the Word. Third, we must be one who cooperate with God through prayer. Fourth, we must not care for our own life and care only for God's will. May the young people among us be men who turn the age.
