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Brother Yun (1958–present). Born Liu Zhenying on January 1, 1958, in Nanyang, Henan, China, Brother Yun is a Chinese house church leader, evangelist, and author, renowned for his role in the Back to Jerusalem movement. Raised in poverty, he converted to Christianity at 16 in 1974 after his mother’s renewed faith led to his father’s miraculous healing from lung cancer, sparking a family revival. Lacking a Bible, Yun fasted and prayed for one, receiving it after a divine vision guided evangelists to deliver it. He memorized Scripture, including the Gospel of Matthew, and began preaching at 16, reciting entire chapters to villagers, leading to widespread conversions despite China’s clampdown on Christianity in the 1980s and 1990s. As a house church leader, he faced severe persecution, arrested multiple times, tortured, and imprisoned for over seven years, including a 74-day fast he claims sustained him miraculously. In 1997, he escaped Zhengzhou Maximum Security Prison, attributing it to divine intervention, and fled to Germany, where he gained asylum. Yun authored The Heavenly Man (2002) with Paul Hattaway, detailing his persecution and miracles, and Living Water (2008), sharing his teachings; the former won the UK Christian Book of the Year in 2003. Married to Deling, with two children, he now ministers globally, advocating missions to unevangelized nations. He said, “We shouldn’t pray for a lighter load to carry, but a stronger back to endure!”
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This sermon by Brother Ren and Brother Yun emphasizes the power of surrendering to God, sharing personal testimonies of miraculous healings and encounters with Jesus. It highlights the importance of being bold witnesses for Christ, even in the face of persecution, and the need to trust in God's plan for our lives. The sermon encourages believers to pray for revival, to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and to step into the mission God has for each individual, spreading the gospel to the ends of the earth.
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Brother Ren, are you ready to come up here? There's a group of people that are gonna pray over you first. Father, we thank you for what you're doing at this hour. We thank you for Brother Ren and Brother Yun. Lord, I ask that you anoint them, that they will speak the truth, that they will speak the truth in boldness. Lord, we're all here because we want to hear the truth. We're all here because we want to get real. Lord, we are not here to play church. We're here to find out what you want and then to do it. Yes, Lord, we thank you Father for this evening. Father God, thank you Lord that we can gather together under your name in the name of Jesus. Father, thank you for Brother Yun and Brother Ren, Lord, that you brought them into this area, Father God. And now, Lord God, I pray for an impartation, Father God, of your Holy Spirit to come down. A double anointing, Lord God, would come down over them tonight, Father God. Your peace would come down, Lord, over them. Father, I pray there will be an open heaven over this place. I pray, Father God, for your ministering spirits, Lord God, to go up and down, Father, and release from your throne into their lives what you want us to hear tonight. Father, it's not an accident, Lord God, that they've been praying for us for ten years, Father God, and that you brought them into this area now, Lord, for such a time as this, Father God. And now, Lord God, would you release the prophetic word, the word that you have, whatever word it is that you have for this region, and this time, this season, Father God, would you release it through my brothers tonight in Jesus' name. Lord, we do bless your name. We do thank you. It is grateful hearts, Lord, that we've gathered here tonight. And Father, tonight we are very thankful for these messengers, these vessels. And yet even as our ears are open to the words that come from their lips, yet even so our hearts are looking to you, Father, through them to supply the need of our heart and of this hour. And Father, by your Holy Spirit tonight, would you come and would you do something that is beyond even just the words, something that is beyond just so many things, Lord, so many doctrines, so many facts, but something that has to do with eternity, something that has to do with Jesus Christ, something that will affect this world with the mighty power of God. Lord, we ask for, we lift up our hearts, we lift up our voices, we lift up our eyes to you, Lord. That is where our help comes from. And we are crying out to you in this hour to see that you will come and reign righteousness upon us and change us, Lord, more into the image of Jesus to fulfill that work which he commissioned us to do, which is not yet being completed in Jesus' name. Yes, Lord, I thank you for these brothers that travel across the land to come into our communities to bless us and to speak to us. And God, I ask for your blessing on them. Lord, you would bless them in their walk and their ministry and where they go, their goings to and from, Lord. I pray that we'll be open to receive the blessing, Lord, from heaven tonight. And the word that you want to speak to us through our brothers in Jesus' name. Lord, I ask for an awakening within our hearts through the vision that you have for us that will lead us into the place where you want to take us. Lord, to be used by the fullness of the calling that you called us with. Lord, to release that within us. God, cause an awakening to happen, a vision to be birthed that is from God in Jesus' name. Amen. Father, we thank you for this evening. Lord, we ask that you would prepare each one of our hearts that we can receive, we can receive the word that you have for us through our brothers tonight and that we can all take whatever that is that would unlock the things in our hearts that need to be unlocked so that we can move forward with you and we can be obedient to your call, Lord, in Jesus' name. I greet you all in the name of Jesus. Now, just to get it all right from the beginning, there are some things that are really the truth. And one part of the truth is that Brother Yun is nothing and Brother Ren is a little bit less. But Jesus is everything. Amen. So, can we agree on this point? So, if you really are sincere tonight, you would look neither Brother Yun nor Brother Ren, because we really cannot do anything. But Jesus can do everything. How many of you were in those few meetings in these neighborhoods about 10 years ago when the Heavenly Man book was launched? Can you raise up your hands? Actually, there are almost 10 people out of 5,000, so it's quite good. How many of you have read the Heavenly Man book? Oh, so that's why you have come here. Because we have been driving around in Lancaster area today. I mean, where are all the people? But actually, you were sitting already here waiting for us. So, this was the answer. Praise God. Now, I'm so thrilled to be back here. I never forgot that my wife, who is sitting here, she's my witness. I was completely changed after those two weeks of meetings in Pennsylvania, and I think in Idaho, what other place we were to, three different states among the Amish and Mennonite communities, and I was sharing what God is able to do in every culture, in every country, where there are people who are willing to lay down their lives for Jesus, and for Jesus to take use of their lives. Now, together with Brother Yun, we have tonight two kinds of Chinese here. We have Brother Yun and his wife, Sister Terling, who is sitting here with my wife. Later on, she will stand up. They are real Chinese. It doesn't matter how thick, deep in you go into their skin, they are as yellow in as they are out. And then there are people like myself and my wife. We are what they call chicken egg Chinese. We are white outside, but very, very yellow inside. Together with my wife, we've been serving the Lord among Chinese in Far East now more than 32 years. And then we have a third kind of Chinese. I don't know if any one of them have arrived here tonight. We call them for banana Chinese. They are yellow outside and completely white inside. They've been totally westernized, and their thinking, and their speaking, and everything is very, very western. Now, when we get started tonight, this is the first of our maybe four meetings in this place. I'm going to use a little time to bring you to that reality where we are coming from. How many of you have visited China? I'm surprised, maybe 20 people. That was the biggest group so far as we have been traveling in years. And all of you, 20 people, you can be my witness about this, that China is a little bit bigger than America. And there are more people in China than there are in America. Now, the global Chinese population is today about 2 billion people. About one out of four people who are living on this earth today are Chinese. And in China, we have a saying that God so loved Chinese that he made so many of them. And it's very difficult for me to argue with God about this because I'm born in Finland, so I am all Finnish from the beginning. And Finland has only 5 million people. And this is quite interesting because I believe that when we get to heaven, as believers of Jesus Christ, we will discover that one out of four people who are walking in heaven, they look exactly like the key speaker of tonight, Brother Yun. So when you see Brother Yun standing here tonight, you can see an image of one fourth of the world population of heaven. Now, the church in China, they are not happy about this. They are thinking that we are going to squeeze in more Chinese to heaven than one out of four. In order to do that, every believer in China is actually an evangelist. Every believer is actually a disciple of Jesus. And what does they do? They go and they share about Jesus to others. They pray for other people that they may also receive Jesus. And you know, if you feel that there's no revival in our neighborhoods, the number one reason usually is that nobody is not working for revival. Nobody is paying price for revival. So in China, God has been doing some amazing work. Now, the gospel started 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. And Jesus said in the book of Acts chapter 1 and 8, you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, all Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the world. Now, it's a very good question tonight to answer. If anybody has an answer better than mine, you can come to talk to me and correct me after this. The end of the world, 2,000 years ago, nobody knew that the world is round, is a ball. So if you start to go one direction in one from one point, and you are looking for the end of the world, you actually have to go around the whole ball and come back to the same place. And that is the beginning, and that is the end of the world. Do you understand? So actually, when Jesus was standing on the Mount of Olives, how many of you have been in Jerusalem? More than in China, praise God. Do you remember when you're standing on the Mount of Olives, and you look towards Jerusalem, you saw the golden gate? And the golden gate is the eastern gate of Jerusalem. So obviously, Jesus was watching towards west when he sent out his disciples. And this is what we believe in China. We believe that Jesus gave a geographical direction for the gospel that day. He sent his disciples, you will go west all the way back to Jerusalem with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Sixteen chapters later, Apostle Paul, a great missionary, the best missionary ever been on this earth, most successful, and most anointed with all these visions and dreams and revelations, he decided one day, I want to go to Arabia, I want to go east. And you remember what happened? Holy Spirit stopped him. How is it possible that the man with all these dreams and visions and relationship with Lord Jesus himself, he can get it wrong? Not only one time, same day, he decided, it seems to be at not to east, let's go north to Missunia and Pithunia. If Holy Spirit had promised Paul to go east, the gospel had arrived to China 2000 years ago. And we don't understand why the Holy Spirit stopped Paul going east. But what we know, when Jesus was born, there was a census in China. It's still all these documents are at some history museums in China. The Chinese population was the birthday of Jesus, already 67 million people. China was the largest nation 2000 years ago. But the Holy Spirit did not allow Paul to go the shortest way to China. And neither allow him to go north. If the gospel would have been allowed to go north, then it would have reached all the way to Russia 2000 years ago. But it was no go. And it took a vision, a revelation from God. Next night, a man from west, from Europe appeared. And he said, Paul, come over and help us. So if you sometimes think that I missed it, I didn't get it right. Be encouraged. Paul got it wrong two times one day. You can make better, you can do better. So the gospel started to go to that same direction where Jesus had sent it. Go west all the way to the ends of the world. And it came to Europe and from Europe to Americas. And then 1800 years later, the China reached the gospel. The gospel came to China. 1807, first missionary Christian, modern missionary, Robert Morrison came to China. And he started to translate the Chinese Bible. And he was a very, very special missionary. He was so fluent in Chinese that his translation of a Chinese Bible was so accurate that the modern Chinese Bible today is still more than 90% the same as Robert Morrison's translation of Chinese Bible. Then 1853, a 19 year old British doctor, Hudson Taylor, arrived to China. And he started to share the gospel all over China. And he started to call young men and women, come, come to China. China needs you. There is a nation, the largest nation of the world, and they have not yet heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. And the China Inland Mission was established. And very soon, hundreds and thousands of missionaries came to China. At the peak, 1949, when the revolution was completed in China, there were more than 10,700 Western missionaries who were working in China. There were more than 360 different kinds of Christian churches in China. I don't think that you can even come up to that number in America even today. 360 different kinds of Christian churches. And the missionaries, they did tremendous work in China. They laid a foundation for the gospel of Jesus Christ. They gave Bibles to the people to read. And they were ministering to people. And they were helping the sick and the poor people. And many things in the society were run by the missionaries. For 100 years, missionaries were working hard in China. But then one day arrived when God said, thank you very much, you faithful workers. Now it's time for you to retire. And none of these 10,700 missionaries agree on this. They said, Lord, I'd rather die than I leave China. There was nothing wrong in their work, their ministry. But the problem was that the Chinese society, Chinese people, they believed that Jesus is a Western God. He's a big giant with white dead light skin, big nose, very, very dangerous God. And the people on the streets in China, they rejected Jesus Christ. We do not need Western God. And I don't know where they got it. To my understanding, Jesus was not born in Washington, D.C. or in any other country, Western country. But that's what they think. And there was a saying in China at that time, one more Christian Chinese equals one less Chinese. So the border was very tight. You are either Christian or Chinese. You cannot combine this. And was this good news for kingdom of God? No. This is the one and only reason that God wanted to change everything in China. Something has to be changed. And it happened like it's written in the book of Isaiah. Behold, I will do a new thing. Anytime God starts to do something new, it is very shaking. It is very painful because it is something that nobody really know what is coming. And this was the same in China. The missionaries, they could not believe that anything of kingdom of God can happen in China after their depart, after they left China. The only thing they were doing more than 10,000 missionaries. They were praying in many locations throughout the Far East. God, if you by the mercy open the door back to China again, we will be going back and we will start from zero again. There are no Christians left in China. The wind of atheism and communism have destroyed every single believer. But we are ready to go back. God, open the bamboo doors for us to go. And God didn't answer this question. This prayer, it was an honest prayer. I remember in 1950s, after I was born and I was at the church, church meeting after another, we were praying, God open the door back to China. And he didn't answer this prayer because God has decided to introduce Chinese Jesus Christ to everybody in China. Not a white American Jesus, a Jesus that every Chinese can receive as his Lord and Savior. And then in order this to happen, everything that missionaries had done in China have to disappear. And that was painful. First the missionaries expelled, all the church buildings were destroyed so totally that still 30 years later, 1978, they were not even one building in whole China where it had a cross on the roof or inside cross on the wall and people were worshiping Jesus, not even one church left. All the hospitals, all the Bible seminars, all the schools that the missionaries had built with hundreds of millions of mission dollars, everything was destroyed. And not only that, all the Bibles were burned in public bonfires. All the Christian literature were completely burned. All the Christian music was destroyed and all the national pastors and evangelists and leaders, they were arrested and sentenced to labor camp, to be re-educated through hard labor for 20 plus years. And this happened in every location everywhere in China. I can share an example. There's a city at the east coast of China with name Wenzhou. And most of you ever have heard that city. I don't know how you missed it. It has more than 8 million people. 1953, 49 pastors from city of Wenzhou, they were sentenced to the iron mines, to the labor camps in Manchuria in far northeast China. And 20 years later, 1973, only one brother came back home. 48 died during the coming 20 years. Now you think that how is it possible that there is even a church in China today? If everything disappears like that. Now I come to the good news. The church of Jesus Christ is not a building. And it's actually much cheaper to run a church when you don't have a building. And the church of Jesus Christ is not depending whether you have a pastor or not. It doesn't harm to have a pastor. But the pastor is not the church. And the church is not this pastor's church. It's a church of Jesus Christ. And the truly church of Jesus Christ are you and I living stones one by one. And every brick have the same size. It's perfect. And they fit together in this beautiful structure, the body of Jesus Christ. And we have learned in China that it's good that the church have Bibles. It's big help. But Jesus is more important than Bible. And Holy Spirit is more important than Bible. With Bible alone, it's very difficult to keep together the church of Jesus Christ. But if you have Jesus with you, and you have Holy Spirit, and then as a cream on the cake, you also have a Bible, then you will be successful. So this start to happen. The church in China before revolution they were sitting as nice at the church as you are sitting tonight, listening. And when they say, let's all stand up, everybody stand up. Let us all say hallelujah. Everybody say hallelujah. Let us all pray. Everybody pray. They were doing exactly because as a missionaries, we have a tendency to keep birth to spiritual babies who look alike. It means that the Mennonites, they keep birth in China to wonderful Mennonite Chinese. And the Lutherans, they gave birth to wonderful Lutheran Chinese babies. And the Pentecostals, they just kicked out wonderful Pentecostal Chinese. And the whole spectrum of kingdom of God. And it was so strong identity that if you would be walking somewhere in northwest of China, northeast of China, and you would see a little tiny, this is an average height of a Chinese. So I'm really long man in China. And you will see an 80 years old grandmother. And you will go to this wonderful woman with no teeth. And she's smiling to you. And you ask her, who are you? How do you do? And she would say, I'm a German Lutheran. And you immediately, there's something wrong. At least two things are wrong. She does not look like German. And there's very little Lutheran on her. But it happened to be a Lutheran missionary who shared the gospel and baptized her. So she became Lutheran. It was good news for her, but not for the rest of the nation. And God wanted to bring everything down and build up a Chinese church of Jesus Christ, where Jesus Christ is the head and the believers are the body. And in order this to happen, and it was a sad thing, the missionaries were not able to take one step backwards. They were always pushing forward. And that's why God sent them to retirement. 1978, the first delegation of Western Christians get permission to come to Beijing. And that was about two years after the death of Mao Zedong. And his wife was leading the country together with those three other men. And when these Christian leaders were talking to her, they were asking, what about Christianity in China? And she started to laugh. And she said, oh, in China, we have sent God to History Museum. And we have also sent, there's only one Bible left in China, one Chinese Bible, and that is in the History Museum. If you want to see one Chinese Bible, you go to History Museum. And this was only about 30 years ago. So total was the absence of word of God in China. But we come with good news. Missionaries left behind 800,000 Chinese believers with no spiritual fathers, with no churches, with no organization, with no Bibles, with no anything. Just simple, fearful believers of Jesus Christ. But they learned the lesson number one for spiritual life. They learned to pray. Because you cannot sit and pray anymore, because there are no seats to sit on. The church is gone. The building is gone. The books are gone. The preachers are gone. All what is left is my personal faith to my father in heaven. And they started to pray and bombard heaven. 800,000 laser beams were hitting the heart of the father and it started to burn. And our God, our father in heaven, he started to do the God stuff. The God's way. And what's that? Impossible with man, but not with God. With God, all things are possible. And this started to happen. Supernatural miracles started to happen in China. These simple believers, whatever problem they had, they didn't have a phone number or an address to a pastor to go and ask, what am I supposed to do? I need some counseling. I have problems here, problems there. Actually, until today, the account for counseling expenses at the church in China is still zero. The believers have learned to pray to God and ask God to help them. And God started to answer. And people started to see. Brother Yun is one good example, not the only one, one out of 10,000 of testimonies from China, that how he, together with his mother and his rest of his family, when they were praying around his father, who was dying in terminal cancer, had only two weeks left to live. They prayed and called upon the name of Jesus. And the power of God hit his father and he stood up completely healed and restored from terminal cancer. And the whole family came to faith in Jesus. And the same miracle happened here. And tonight, I have good news from China. Every month in China today, more than 1 million people come into kingdom of God. Every month, 1 million people. They make their life best decision. I don't believe communism anymore. I don't believe that God does not exist. I believe that Jesus is alive and they receive Jesus Christ. And the number of Christians in China has been increasing dramatically. So today, according to the government figures, these are all secret government figures. They would never allow this to be publicized in China. But we know this from these government documents. When this new president, Mr. Xi, came to power, he, last year, at the end of the year, he got reports from all the provinces about situation in different parts of China. And he was told that there are at least 160 million followers of Jesus Christ in mainland China today. And then they started to prophesy. And it's quite interesting when atheist, communist, they start to prophesy. Anything can come. So they said, if this continues in China for 15 more years, one out of three people in China will be born again, follower of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. That is actually more than 500 million people. That's more than one half of, one and half of America's population in the kingdom of God. Now, why is this happening in China? Why is it not happening here? There are several answers to this question. But my, I'm answering that with another question. What do you think? If there is a country where every person who is living today have heard at least thousand time the name of Jesus, and have heard the gospel hundreds of times, his only problem is he has not received the gospel. And when you have a country, and many countries where people have not yet heard about Jesus even one time. What is more important for Jesus? To continue to speak to people who does not want to listen. Or to get everybody introduced to the greatest gift of God in Jesus Christ. And I believe that is part of the honor. And there are many countries still in the world where people have not yet even one time heard name of Jesus. So in this revival that is going on in China, it has been going on already 31 years. It started 1983. And it started with tremendous persecution. The persecution was so heavy in the beginning of 1980s, that every leader that I know of, who was active already those days, they actually already prepared a place where they said, I want to be buried here when they get hold of me and they execute me. So they visited graveyards all over China. And any place where they knew there are western missionaries who have been buried in this graveyard, they wanted to be buried together with these western missionaries. So tough was the beginning of the revival in China. And still today, no matter what the government propagate from China, it is life dangerous to be a messenger of the gospel and to be a Bible teacher in China today. You always have to run for your lives if you want to continue your ministry. And if they caught you, they will throw you to prison. That is for sure. And this is the country where we come from. And you would think that people are really sad in China. They have a long face. And they just need comfort and they need deliverance every day. And they need compassion. And when they are singing, nobody is singing. Everybody is wailing and mourning and just in tears. I have never seen so happy people like I see at the church in China. We would really need that makeup. All of us. They look like the most happiest people on the earth. And when I asked them, why is it possible? Yesterday you were still in the prison. They were torturing you. Now you are out and you are like you just won a lottery. Five million dollars. You are so happy. And I said, how is that possible? Are you faking? And he said, no. Joy is a decision. It has nothing to do with your feelings. You can decide, I am happy. And it really starts to feel also in your bones. So they just, as Jesus said, don't be, don't worry in the world because I am greater than the world. You will overcome because I have overcome. You just follow me. And with joy they carry their cross every day. They don't want to look shortcuts. Is there any little bit more easy way for me? Is there any way that I don't need to need to climb over that mountain? Maybe I can do a tunnel through the mountain or find a shortcut. No. They go wherever the Spirit of God leads them and they continue to share the good news. Because a person who is joyful and have peace, he has something to share to this world who is filled with fear and don't have any destiny. And not only that God is working mightily in China. In the middle of this revival, God has started to speak to his church that the gospel is still on the way. It started from Jerusalem and it has gone around the globe and now come to China, to South Korea, Indonesia, and even India today. But it's still on the way, the last leg from China back to Jerusalem. And God has started to speak to them about this, the back to Jerusalem vision. And the Chinese believers, they believe that God has preserved this last passage for the gospel from China to Jerusalem for believers that are arising from Far East. A mighty tsunami of Kingdom of God that will go over the house of Buddha, the house of Hindu, and the house of Muhammad all the way back to Jerusalem. And they are so excited about everywhere I go to China today. And we are gathered as workers in the harvest. They are just praising God. Thank you God for this calling. Thank you God that we are able to go to Saudi Arabia. Thank you God we can go to North Korea. We can go to Iran. We can go to Pakistan. We can go to Syria. We can go to Yemen. We can go to Jordan. We will go to every nation between China and Jerusalem. And we will share the gospel of Jesus Christ. And the same Jesus who changed China will change these nations. And that's why we are here this weekend together with Brother Yun. We've been traveling now in West already I think 16 years together. And everywhere challenging believers. Why don't we work together and get the work done so that the gospel will come in power back to Jerusalem. So that the Great Commission is going to be fulfilled. And when the saints from the Middle East and Central Asia and from Far East are marching into Jerusalem, then the second coming of Jesus is at the door. This is what we believe. And we hope that after this weekend you also start to believe that there is something out of God in this. And you start to pray. And I already want to warn you when you start to pray for back to Jerusalem, be aware it may hit you. God wants to change the reality within this generation. And he wants to bring every person to obedience to the gospel. And now we are going to watch a little three-minute video. And it's called Bless Your Enemies. And we are going to introducing two countries where the Chinese missionaries are working today. Two countries that has really been a headache for Barack Obama. One is North Korea. I don't know how many good news he's been able to share with you from North Korea. But tonight you will hear good news from North Korea. God is saving people through Chinese missionaries right now and right inside North Korea. The Chinese missionaries are the only one who can freely move inside that country. And they are all messengers of Jesus Christ. The other country we got to share about is Iran. 80 million people who are totally sick and tired of Islam. I was just a few months ago in Tehran. And I've met many friends in Tehran. And this is what the believers say to me. There is an underground church in Iran. And the brother said, if you only as a believer can work with yourself so that you come over the fear. And you just share what you have experienced with Jesus to anyone on the street. 100 out of 100 they will say, I want to receive Jesus into my life. So tired is that country in Islam. The Islam has totally raped the country and has stolen everything from that country. And there is ayatollahs who are in power. They are punishing people. It's just so different to walk in Tehran or any other country or city in Iran to see these religious police, how they see they are measuring the woman, how much of their hair is covered. And if it's not the proper place, immediately they will be punished on the spot. And they are measuring all different kinds of things. It's going all the time everywhere. But at the same time, the gospel of Jesus Christ is now getting into that country through Chinese missionaries. And the years to come, you will hear messages what God is doing in Iran. So let's try if we can get this to work. Today, believers are sitting in prisons across the globe for their faith in Jesus Christ. In China, churches are raided on a regular basis. In North Korea, the mere crime of possessing a Bible can result in execution. Believers in Iran are whisked away in the middle of the night and thrown into prison, where they are subjected to torture even before they are given a trial. Iran, China and North Korea are not only a threat to Christians, they are a threat to countries with religious freedom. Threats from North Korea's nuclear program has the world community questioning how to bring security. China, with one of the highest numbers of unquestioned executions in the world, together with its growing military and economic strength, is proving to be an up-and-coming superpower. Iran is not content with flexing the muscle of their nuclear program. But they are obsessed with the complete and absolute annihilation of Israel and anyone else who gets in their way. The world community has spent billions of dollars on preventative measures and sanctions to address this global threat. Despite gathering the best experts in their field and pulling together every resource to resolve this issue, it remains outstanding. But God is at work amongst the nations. China is now seeing one of the largest revivals in history. In Iran, thousands are coming to Christ. In North Korea, Christians are standing strong instead of running in fear. God is also raising up a humble new generation in China, which is reaching out to North Korea and Iran with the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are marching into enemy territory between the borders of China and Jerusalem, taking the land for the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, calling their vision back to Jerusalem. So perhaps the world's governments are fighting the wrong fight. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness. For generations, the nations have been battling for their own agenda and in their own strength. But to what end? In the 1950s, thousands of troops have been stationed on the border of North Korea. Has this brought about change? Since 1979, sanction after sanction has been imposed on Iran. Has the situation improved? Jesus told us in the Sermon on the Mount, You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. What if instead of bombs, we send Bibles? What if instead of soldiers, we send servants of the living God? What if instead of starting war with our enemy, we send the best gift of love known to mankind? Bless your enemies. Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me now, giving you life. Amen. And now let us welcome Heavenly Man, Brother Eun, Eun Tae-seong Hwang. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Let us all stand up and let us give all honor and glory to our God by clapping our hands. Hallelujah. Amen. Glory to Jesus. Glory to Jesus. Glory to Jesus. And now with fluent Chinese, say to one another, Jesus loves you in Chinese. And now just start to repeat it to one another. And one more time, take hold of a hand person next to you and say with passion, so that you don't forget this first Chinese sentence of your life, I will give you something to help. Yes, Jesus. Jesus. Yes. Oh, yeah. I, I, this is I and me. Yeah. Yeah. Jesus loves you in Chinese. One, two, three. One more time. Do it quickly. Hardly. Loudly. Amen. Please be seated in peace, like you say in China. Beginning to the end, eternally, we are one family in Jesus Christ. And now the second sentence we are learning tonight is, we are one family in Jesus. Yeah. Say that to one another. We are one family in Jesus. Amen. Amen. I want you to get moving. The other one, you fall asleep. So just talk to one another. We are one family in Jesus. Amen. I'm not upset even if you use English to say that. Just say, we are one family in Jesus. We are one family in Jesus. Amen. Amen. I'm one of your family members. Brother Yun, heavenly man. How many of you believe that Bible is the living word of God? Amen. How many of you believe that it's only in the name of Jesus Christ that we can be saved? Amen. Only Jesus is the way, the truth, and life. He's the only way to our heavenly father. Amen. If you believe, your eyes will see his glory. I'm coming from mainland China, but before I was born, I was not given a possibility to decide whether I wanted to be a Chinese or not. And I was not given an option to decide what family I'm going to be born into, and what culture I'm going to be born into. And I was not given an option to decide who will be my parents, and what will be my mother language. None of these things I could not select myself. And I was not given a possibility to decide whether I'm going to be a woman or a man, or if I'm going to be born healthy, I'm going to be born with sickness. That was our destiny. But only Jesus can change everything in our lives, and give us a new destiny. And not only is he able to transform our lives, but he's also able to use our transformed life to start to transform other lives around us. And I believe that you are sitting here tonight, it's not because that you first loved Jesus. It is because his tremendous love towards you was drawing you to him. Now, these last few days, I've been traveling among Amish and Mennonite communities, and from the beginning, I have this big question mark in my mind. Who are these people? And as I was praying, the Lord answered to me about this. And the Lord said to me, these people, they are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that they may declare the praises of him who has called them out of darkness into his wonderful light. Amen. Now say this in English to one another, do not fear, you are chosen people. Amen. With your hands, speak with your hands. Don't fear, we are chosen people. Amen. You were not given options to decide whether you're going to be a Judas or going to be a Chinese, or even you would be an Amish man or woman. That wasn't your choice. And that's why the Holy Spirit spoke through his servant, Peter, to every believer, that you are all together a chosen people. And not only that we are chosen people, we are a royal priesthood. Priesthood. Hallelujah. Let us repeat this aloud together, we are a royal priesthood. Amen. Amen. And not only that we are Americans, or we are Chinese, or from any other country, but above everything, we are a holy nation, kingdom of God. Amen. Let's repeat this aloud to one another, we belong to kingdom of God. Amen. Amen. And now, with great passion, after all these three declarations, you already can say to one another, we are all children of living God. Wonderful. Oh, this is so important, stand up together and hug one another, that we are all children of God. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We are one family in Jesus Christ, all we belong to God's kingdom. Amen. Amen. We are one family in Jesus. We are one family in Jesus, from beginning to the end, eternally, we are one family in Jesus. Amen. Please be seated in peace again. Now, I was surprised that so many of you have read my life story, The Heavenly Man, that is not so important. The most important is that every day you study the word of God, and you memorize the word of God. You have to understand, according to the Bible, everything will pass, but the word of God will remain eternally. Hallelujah. This name, nickname, Heavenly Man, it was given to me by my mother and father. Half of you who have read my story, you remember, I got the name, it happened after we had been conducting some special meetings in China, in 1980s. And I remember in that discipleship school training that I was conducting those three days, I was preaching from this same Bible verse, that we are all chosen people, we are holy nation. That was my message for three days to my co-workers. One of the first things, as you become a believer, is very important for you to know who you truly are yourself. And Jesus, I saw that he was not only interested that I would know who I am, and even more than that, he wanted to introduce himself, who he is. And also, not only that you know who you are, but you also know what is God's purpose, and God's calling for you. Every disciple of Jesus Christ who are sitting here tonight, I have something important to say. So I'm not going to only emphasize that you would know that you belong to chosen people, royal priesthood, holy nation, children of God, but also, why you are all this, what is the purpose of your life, what is the mission of your life. We are all called to be messengers of light, to bring light into darkness, and gust away the presence of darkness among the nations. New believer, my first encounter about Jesus, I saw the mighty healing power of Jesus, so I thought that Jesus is the number one doctor, he's the number one healer in this world. My father was dying in terminal cancer, and my wife, my mother, wake us children, five of us, and she said, children, there is hope for my family, let's all kneel down and call upon name of Jesus. It was a very difficult time in China during cultural revolution, I was 15 years old, few years earlier, my older brother had starved to death, we were so poor, more than 70 million people starved to death, just within few years. My mother had received the gospel in 1930s, through western missionaries, so she was a believer before revolution. As brother Ren was explaining to you, that the first thing that Mao Zedong did, he expelled all the western missionaries, and destroyed the visible presence of Christianity throughout China. And biggest numbers of national leaders, pastors, and preachers, they were sentenced to labor camps, and big numbers of them died during the coming years of revolution. Mao Zedong at that time, the Bible was a forbidden book in China, if it wasn't forbidden, the Cultural Revolution would have burned it all. Even Mao Zedong's wife, Dr. Tang, told us, with pride, that Christianity will soon enter the history museum. Mao Zedong was wrong. But she got everything wrong. All these people who said God is dead in China, they are dead, but Jesus is alive in China. Hallelujah. Jesus said, my sheep recognize my voice, and I know my sheep. One night, Satan came to my mother, and he started to steal, kill, and destroy. He said, look at you, your first born child starved to death. Now your husband is within two to three weeks is going to die in terminal cancer. There is no hope for you, a widow with five children in the midst of this starvation. You better kill yourself. And my mother believed what Satan said to him. Satan is very good in stealing, killing, and destroying. But thank God, Jesus is on the mission. He has come that we would have life, an abundant life, according to the Bible. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And Jesus said, all that my father gives to me will come to me, and nobody is able to take them away from my hands. And one midnight, my mother was standing on the chair, and she was connecting her neck to the rope hanging from the ceiling. And just about to suicide, she heard a strong voice saying, my child, don't give up, come back home, Jesus loves you. And my mother looked around, what was that? Who was speaking to me? Suddenly she remembered the last word of the missionaries about twenty years earlier, when they had to leave. to leave China. The last word the missionary said, don't be afraid. Jesus loves you and he will never forsake you. And my mother told us afterwards, she said, I kneeled by the chair and I reconciled myself with Heavenly Father. I said, Father, for more than 20 years I have totally forgotten you. I have not prayed, but you have not forsaken me. She repented in tears. And that was the moment after that she came and walked as five children and said, children, there is hope for my family. And I was born into a similar culture as where you come from. So whatever mother or father told us children, we obeyed immediately. We didn't know, we didn't have any clue who Jesus was. Mother had not even once mentioned the name of Jesus. But as we started to call in prayer the name of Jesus, we saw that tears started to run from my father's eyes. So my prayer was that night, Jesus, I don't know who you are, but I need my father. Have mercy upon my father. And I said, Jesus, I need my father. Have mercy, have mercy upon my father. And that was the first time in my life, as a 15 years old boy, I saw that tears were running like a flood from my father's eyes. I had never seen him crying before. He was a tough soldier, former soldier. And when we saw our father was without sound, he hadn't speaking for three months anymore. But we saw tears, he was crying, and we were crying with big voice, Jesus, have mercy upon our family. And praise God, and praise Jesus, he's alive, and he does answer to our prayers. He is our healer, according to the Bible. And as an answer to our prayers, within one week, my father stooped up, completely healed, and restored from his terminal cancer. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The Bible says, Jesus Christ is same yesterday, today, and forever. He never changes. We have to change in many ways. The very same day, as my father stood up from his bed, completely healed, he said to us children, children, now quickly, go and invite all our relatives to come to our house. I want to share with everybody what Jesus have done in my life. And that was during the Cultural Revolution, it was completely forbidden to have any kind of public gatherings, except the government gatherings. But my father became so bold, that he didn't care, he said, they have forbidden to have public meetings, but they haven't forbidden to invite relatives. Go and invite all the relatives into our house. I want to share with them what God has done in my life. All our relatives, they knew already the bad news. They knew that my father is about to die in last stage of cancer. So they did not believe us children, when we were trying to invite them to come. And when we said, our father is alright, and they only respond, they said, when did he die? But they were shocked, when they walked into the yard of our house, and they saw our father standing there, and welcoming them into his house. And when my father and mother kneeled down on the ground, and they said, dear relatives, our whole family, we all need more of Jesus. You have to believe, Jesus is alive, he has healed us, and he has saved us. And that day, we all together kneeled down, and my mother was praying with all of us, and our whole family, more than 40 people, received Jesus Christ as the Savior that one day. Hallelujah! And now, say this in English to one another, aloud. Don't be afraid, Jesus loves you. Don't be afraid, Jesus loves you. Do not allow your past to hinder you anymore. Amen. Your past has very little to do with your future. And your shape has very little to do with your future. And your wealth has very little to do with your future. I've been almost in a shock. I'm coming from China with one child policy, and when I have understood that here you have a van packed with your children, and I have really admired you mothers, and I really pray for you, you have your ministry in your van to bring all your children to Jesus. Hallelujah! How many mothers we have here tonight? Can you all mothers stand up? All mothers stand up tonight. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Man, please be seated in peace. You have all this calling. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! You have to chance for every one of your children to become little brother Yun and sister Yun. Hallelujah! Do you know the meaning of brother Yun? His name, brother Yun, it was not given to me by my father and my mother. I got this name from the church after I started to witness about Jesus. And it comes from a book of Hebrews, chapter 12, in verse 1 and 2, it talks about we are surrounded by this cloud of witnesses. Yun means cloud in Chinese, so I'm a witness for Jesus Christ. Now how many other witnesses of Jesus Christ we have here tonight? Amen! Now you can clap yourself in your heart, I got the new name tonight, I'm brother Yun or I'm sister Yun, I'm a witness for Jesus Christ. Hallelujah! Amen! God has a mission for you in different circumstances to be his testimony. God has a mission for you to go to different circumstances, different cultures, different kind of people groups, different nations, and everywhere just do this one thing to witness and to be a living testimony for Jesus Christ. Now because of circumstances, my mother who was an illiterate and had for 30 years had not heard anything about Jesus, she became our first preacher and teacher at our home church. Now you may say that I have difficulty to read and write, you are nothing compared to my mother, she couldn't even sign her own name. Hallelujah! Gospel does not require whether you can read or write, your whole body will become a testimony for Jesus. Amen! Hallelujah! How many of you have heard or maybe even memorized book of Acts chapter 1 verse 8? You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. How many of you have heard this Bible verse? Oh everybody! In that case, you know more Bible that my mother did when she started to be our preacher. My mother's first preaching was supposed to be a message from book of Acts chapter 1 verse 8, but she had misunderstood almost every word. And it wasn't her fault, she was illiterate and the missionaries had a lousy Chinese, so she just got all the words and the tunes wrong. And I think that the missionaries they were speaking like if you who speak the old Dutch or the old German, and another person from modern German will come and claim I speak German and you can hardly even communicate with one another. So with great anointing my mother started to preach, you will receive power when the Holy Dragon comes upon you. She was for sure that the missionaries they said Sheng Long and not Sheng Ling. And the first one was Dragon and the second one was Holy Spirit. And for sure she did not hear them saying that you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem. She heard for sure that they said you will drag all your sicknesses and you will bury them into Jerusalem. She couldn't read, but they still believed in Jesus. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Because the gospel is the power of God for salvation for those who believe and the gospel is Jesus. It has nothing to do how much you understand about the gospel, it's just to receive the whole package, the salvation in the name of Jesus. It took many months before I came to understanding that actually every powerful message I've been listening of my mother they were one or other way they were completely wrong. We were pushing our mother hard, she had to have a bible study every day. We were hungry new believers and my mother was speaking everything she remembered for 30 years ago. And finally my mother was sick and tired of my questions and she said son I cannot answer one more question anymore, I don't know. I will bring you to meet the man who have been in prison because he had the bible, he may answer to your questions. As he said if we are very successful it may happen that that brother still have a hidden bible somewhere and he may allow you to bring it with you back home so you can read the bible yourself. I was just a simple country boy, I wasn't afraid at all, so I went with my mother to visit this brother. And after I have told him about the miracle in my family, I said to this man, I said I have heard from my mother that you may have a hidden bible, would you mind to bring it to me so I can hold the holy word of God and I can read bible myself. This happened during the last years of cultural revolution and it was life dangerous if you still would have a hidden bible in your possession. And this old pastor he was really smart, he said bible is a heavenly book and the same Jesus who healed your father from terminal cancer, he is able to drop a bible to you from heaven. And I am quite sure that he did not even believe himself that it would start a bible train from heaven. And I always say to preachers and bible teachers, I said sometimes you get an idea from the Lord that you hardly believe yourself, you should still preach it out because somebody in the audience believe and they will get it. And I was the one who believed every word that this old pastor told me. So I went back home and because he said go back and pray, so I kneeled by my bed and I was praying from morning to evening and from evening to morning, I was just praying Jesus to send me a bible. And after I had been kneeling by my bed for one month, I was starting to think maybe my prayer position is not correct and that is the reason I haven't received a bible. So I decided to revisit the pastor alone and I said I have been praying faithfully every day by my bed and I still haven't received a bible, what is wrong? And this old pastor, he said to me, young man, if you are that serious about the bible, you have to start to skip the dinner, you just eat a little rice in the morning and rest of the day you just fast and pray and you just cry in tears and you will get the bible quicker. Hallelujah! And I have a personal testimony, if we believe, our eyes will see God's glory. As an answer for my prayer and have fast fasting for 100 days, early morning on the 100th day, God has spoken to two men and they have been walking 40 miles during the hours of the night and four o'clock in the morning they knocked the door and they delivered the first bible to me into my house. And I still didn't know who Jesus was, I thought that bible is Jesus. So I decided I'm going to eat up this book from cover to cover and I decided that every day before I eat anything I will memorize one new chapter from the bible. And after four months when I had memorized all the gospels, I came to the book of Acts and I started to memorize one morning book of Acts chapter 1. And when I came to the verse 8, it hit me like a fire, oh there is something familiar in this passage, and I rushed to my mother. And I said to my mother, mother there is nothing about holy dragon in the bible, it says it's holy spirit, who is he? And my mother was very innocent, son I don't have a clue, I don't know, you have to ask Jesus. Hallelujah! Now say this aloud to one another, go and ask Jesus. Amen! Amen! There are so many things you don't understand, don't ask the pastors, don't ask me, go and ask Jesus, he will answer you. Amen! And from that day on it became my prayer, Jesus I'm ready and willing to be your witness, but I need the power of holy spirit in order to be your witness. And 12 days later, as I was memorizing chapter 12, I was filled with the holy spirit in my home. We have personal experiences, how we were filled with the holy spirit, it all depends on our background, where we are, what we've been doing. When I was filled with the holy spirit, until that day I had never been able to sing, but suddenly when the spirit of God came upon me, I started to sing wonderful scripture songs that were coming from all these books of bible that I had memorized. And it was like a living river that was flowing from my innermost being, and I was singing with the fullness of my voice. And right after, the same night, I heard the voice of Jesus for the first time in my life, and he said to me, brother in, stand up and be my witness to south and west. I didn't know it was Jesus calling me, I thought it was my mother, so 10pm I went to my mother, and my mother said, son, you have lost your mind, you start to hear voices. I said, mother, Jesus is challenging me to stand up and be his witness to west and south, and I cannot disobey. And my mother, she was really upset, she was tired, it was late, she said, son, if Jesus would speak to somebody in this family, he would first speak to me because I am an old believer. I went back to my bed, but I couldn't fall asleep. But that was the moment when I first met personally Jesus, and I was so filled with his presence, I could not sleep anything that night. So I started to wait the new day to dawn, so I can go to west and south, and start to witness about Jesus. So next morning before 8, I said to my mother, now I'm leaving home, and first I'm going to walk to the next village, locating west from our home village. And then in the afternoon I will come back home, and in the evening I will go to the village south of our village, and I'm going to witness about Jesus. And my mother could not stop me, she said, ok, what time do you want to come back? I said, I come back to visit in the afternoon, and then I go for the evening, I go to south, and then my mother allow me to walk out from house. As I was walking to the next village, I had the problem because I had never met a real preacher in my life, and I never been listening any preacher. So I didn't know what they do with their Bible as they are preaching, do they keep the Bible against their heart, or do they possibly keep it on their head? And then I said to myself, the Bible is above everything, so it requires the highest position, so I kept the Bible on my head, and I started to share the book of Matthew from my memory, from chapter 1 to the last chapter. How many of you have visited China? You can witness for me, China has a little bit more people than here. So then when I was standing at the village square, and I started to shout, and people heard my voice, they didn't understand what I was saying, but all they come out from their houses, and they came towards me, and hundreds of them, they surrounded me. And they were wondering, what in the world is the business of this young man, he seems to have a book on his head, and he's red in his face, and he's shouting loud, something that we don't understand. Now when I was the first time on my mission trip, I had a defect, so when I got excited about something, my speaking became very blur, I had like a hot potato in my mouth, so nobody understood what I was saying. And as I got more understanding, now there is a communication problem, they don't understand what I try to say. I remember, that a few months earlier, when my father was dying in cancer, my mother told us, you should kneel down, we should kneel down, and call upon the name of Jesus. I saw among the people, there were many sick people in my audience, I pulled them forward, one by one, and I forced them on their knees, and I said, now you repeat the name of Jesus after me. It wasn't inside any building, it was just in the intersection, in the middle of the village. As these sick people were kneeling down, one after other, and the very moment they said this name, Jesus, one after other, they stood up, and they gave a testimony, I am healed, Jesus is alive. And all these people who had been healed, they pulled me, and they said, you have to come to our village, I have relatives, they are sick, they need Jesus. And I had been, I understood my mission is, to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom, and heal the sick. We have to always proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. I didn't have any clue what it means to preach the gospel, but I understood that the name of Jesus is most important, to preach about Jesus. And I still had only this experience, that the best thing that Jesus can do, is that he is able to heal any sicknesses. And within the first year, as a 16 years old, uneducated, poor, country boy, I saw more than 3,000 people have an encounter with the living Jesus Christ, and receive him as the Lord and Savior. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! And within, after that worst year, I got an official recognition about my ministry, I became a wanted criminal, a contra-revolutionary, because I was proclaiming everywhere that God is alive. And they called me contra-revolutionary, a false teacher, a sect leader, I got all kind of titles from the government. And in his wisdom, God used the persecution to keep me moving from one county to next county, from one city to next city. So as the persecution started to arise, I just crossed the borders to next place, and I started all over again. And after I'd been more than 7 years, non-stop in the ministry, and moving all different states in China, the Lord saw that I'm exhausted and tired, and he said to me one day, I am going to give you vacation, I'm going to give you holidays. And the Lord said to me, before you go to rest, I want you to gather all these young believers around you, your co-workers, and make sure that they all understand that they are called to be his disciples. Now, to follow Jesus, it's supposed to mean that we are all his disciples. How many of you want to be a disciple of Jesus Christ? Amen. No turning back. Amen. Don't turn around, don't go back, don't go back. Amen. Amen. And it was in that meeting, I was sharing that we are a holy nation, we are children of the living God, and we are the royal priesthood. And that was my message to these young believers. And I was teaching them, it's so important for them to know that Jesus is much bigger than just only our healer and our Lord. Jesus also wants to help us to understand what is our truly identity in Jesus Christ. And the mission that we are called into is to bring light into darkness. So, when the authorities surrounded that farmhouse, and I was captured, and they took off all our clothes, and they were pushing us on the icy ground, and started to question, and they asked the first question, Who are you? The Holy Spirit responded through me immediately, I am heavenly man. And the police captain said, heavenly man, where do you live? And I said, heavenly man lives in the village of gospel. It wasn't me speaking, it was the Spirit of God answering through me those questions that he was asking. It was my belief, and my prayer, and my hope, that one day China is going to be one big village of Jesus Christ, the gospel of Jesus Christ. Every village is going to be filled with gospel, the village of gospel. How many of you believe that it's true, like the Bible says, that when this gospel has been preached to the ends of the world, to all nations as a testimony, then Jesus will return. Do you believe that? Amen. We are all part of this great commission of Jesus Christ. And then he asked, what is your mother's name, your father's name? I said, my father's name is filled of grace, and my mother's name is faith, hope, and love. And the police captain was really getting confused, he never heard about people like this. Any other people in your family? Oh, I have an older brother, his name is, he's coming back. And then I have a younger brother, he have a deep desire to the Lord. And then the police captain said, this man is dangerous for society, we have to bring him to the police station. How many of you are waiting, expecting Jesus to return back to this world? You are all my little brothers and little sisters. So we are one family in Jesus. In Jesus Christ we are one family. We are one family in Jesus, amen. Hallelujah. And now, in English say to one another aloud, in Jesus Christ we are eternally one family. If I would go on, this is only little beginning of my testimony tonight, it would take the whole night. And some of you would fall asleep. And I did not know that the purpose why Jesus sent me to vacation to the prison, it was that he wanted to bring the presence of the gospel into the prison. Hallelujah. I want now my dear wife, Sister Terling, to stand up so that you can welcome her. Together we have two children, and our son, our first born, he was born when I was first time locked into a prison in China. Terling, you can stand up. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. I bless all you mothers here tonight. My mother really taught my two children, I was not at home, I was always somewhere or in the prison. Today my son is 30 years old and he is a pastor at the church in Germany. And I was away from home in different prisons totally more than 10 years of our life together. But still he trained up my children, so my son is a pastor today, and my daughter is a missionary in Cambodia. And I really see you all mothers with all your children, you can really become a mighty woman of God, and make sure that your children from young age, they really understand the salvation of Jesus Christ. And you are so blessed when in this country, the modern Americans, they hardly have any children, and you will have many children, and they will be all living hope for this nation of America. Amen. I have a deep desire for these four meetings I have in this neighborhood this weekend, that every person within this weekend have a personal encounter and meeting with resurrected Lord Jesus. How many of you truly believe in prayer, power of prayer? Do you have a desire, I really want to pray together with Brother Yun. Yeah? And now I really want us to pray together. And in China, usually we always pray, when we pray, we kneel down before the Lord. If you for some reason cannot kneel down, you can sit, but let us all unify, and together, let us start to call upon the name of Jesus, and pray to Jesus. Let us all pray together. Every tongue confess That Jesus Christ is Lord To be His Lord To be His Lord He has risen from the dead And He is Lord Every knee shall bow Every tongue confess That Jesus Christ is Lord Heavenly Father, we are before you right now, and we pray that your Holy Spirit will open our eyes to see Jesus, and will open our ears to hear the voice of our Master, our Lord. Lord, you know everyone who is before you. You know their past, you know their future, and you know their present. And that's why, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, we once again surrender to you. We surrender to your Spirit, and we pray, Jesus, reveal your authority, and transform our hearts as we pray. Lord Jesus, mighty God, we want to see you. We want to meet you. We want you to change us, so that we become a living testimony for your kingdom. And Father, as you are speaking into our hearts, as you are opening our minds and our hearts to receive more of Jesus, more of the Holy Ghost, thank you, Holy Spirit, that you will speak to us about the mission of our lives. You are calling people to surrender their lives fully into your hands. And you have a perfect blueprint, a plan, ready for each one of us. And you are just asking, step into this plan, and start to serve my purpose for this generation. Father, you know this church, they've been praying for years for a new awakening. They have been praying for years for the fire of revival to ignite in this part of the country. And it will come, it will happen, because of you, living Jesus Christ. Thank you, Lord Jesus, that your love towards us is unchangeable. You are the same, yesterday, today and forever. Thank you, Jesus, that you are healer for each one of us who need healing tonight. Stretch out your right hand and heal our sicknesses. Thank you, Lord Jesus, that you are our deliverer. You will set us free tonight to serve your purpose for this generation. Thank you, Father, that you will bless us all, and you will ignite us in fire for you and your kingdom purposes. And Father, as we are praying together, we pray for your church in China. We pray for your church in North Korea. We pray for your church in Iran, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, in Sudan, in Somalia, in Syria, in Saudi Arabia, in Yemen, in Jordan, in Iraq. We pray for your church in Uzbekistan, in Tajikistan, in Kyrgyzstan. We pray that your power will come upon these nations. In the name of Jesus, amen. Lord Jesus, thank you, Holy Spirit, that you have been witnessing about Jesus through your servants tonight. In the name of Jesus, we deliver, we release the healing power of Jesus Christ upon you right now. And Lord, may your kingdom come upon us right now. And may your will be done in our lives as it is done in heaven. And Lord, may your Word tonight take hold of each one of us. And Lord, as a group tonight, in unison, we proclaim, we want to follow you, Jesus. And Lord is calling you to become a messenger of the Gospel, to become a missionary for the good news of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus, we want to bless all the mothers here, that they become mighty women of God, and they will disciple their children. And they become like Hannah, the mother of Samuel, in the Bible. I pray these blessings in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Let us all stand up and give all glory to Jesus. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. And as a conclusion of my message, repeat one more time, shaking hands with one another, Jesus loves you, don't be afraid. Amen. Amen. And now, Brother Eugene will come up. Amen. Hallelujah.
1 Peter 2:9
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Brother Yun (1958–present). Born Liu Zhenying on January 1, 1958, in Nanyang, Henan, China, Brother Yun is a Chinese house church leader, evangelist, and author, renowned for his role in the Back to Jerusalem movement. Raised in poverty, he converted to Christianity at 16 in 1974 after his mother’s renewed faith led to his father’s miraculous healing from lung cancer, sparking a family revival. Lacking a Bible, Yun fasted and prayed for one, receiving it after a divine vision guided evangelists to deliver it. He memorized Scripture, including the Gospel of Matthew, and began preaching at 16, reciting entire chapters to villagers, leading to widespread conversions despite China’s clampdown on Christianity in the 1980s and 1990s. As a house church leader, he faced severe persecution, arrested multiple times, tortured, and imprisoned for over seven years, including a 74-day fast he claims sustained him miraculously. In 1997, he escaped Zhengzhou Maximum Security Prison, attributing it to divine intervention, and fled to Germany, where he gained asylum. Yun authored The Heavenly Man (2002) with Paul Hattaway, detailing his persecution and miracles, and Living Water (2008), sharing his teachings; the former won the UK Christian Book of the Year in 2003. Married to Deling, with two children, he now ministers globally, advocating missions to unevangelized nations. He said, “We shouldn’t pray for a lighter load to carry, but a stronger back to endure!”