Had a very intense 2-day Restoring The Altar of The Lord conference with Peter Tsukahira from something like 9am to 10pm at night. My leave quota is 2 days lesser, but I am thankful that I came for it. It was more than just learning the word and understanding. It was like a season where the Lord is asking everyone and myself to rebuild the altar of the Lord in our personal life … where we can come to meet Him, where we can commune with Him, where we can come and worship Him, where we are challenged to offer up our best – our dreams, our hopes, our high-paid jobs, our family, our identity, our security, etc – and lay them on the altar for Him permanently. I also sensed that He wants our everything, including our failures, our struggles, our sins, our heartbreaks and aches … and surrender these to Him on the altar, in exchange for His yoke.
This old worship song suddenly just flashed across my mind when I was just uploading this photo on the facebook … and it just blew my mind away! I believe it’s more than just restoration of the altar of the Lord, I believe it brings forth a fire of revival in our personal lives as well as the church, and throughout the land.
And after restoring the altar of the Lord and fire of revival comes forth … we will need the perseverance and His grace to keep the fire burning, rather than seeing the revival just touch and go.
Fires of Revival
I came into the gathering of the people of the Lord
And found my way among them to His Throne
I needed to return unto the altar of my God
To renew again my covenant with Him
And there I built an altar to His Name
And realise that my life would never be the same
And then the fires of revival came sweeping
through my soul
And I touch the Holy Presence of my God
Come build an altar unto the Lord
Return to worship and hear His Word
And then the fires of revival will come sweeping
through your soul
And we’ll touch the Holy Presence of our God
I wanted to discover the first love we once had shared
Rekindling the fire deep within
I found the lamp still flickering in the temple of my Lord
And pour a horn of oil unto the flame
And there I built an altar to His Name
And realise that my life would never be the same
And then the fires of revival came sweeping
through my soul
And I touch the Holy Presence of my God
Come build an altar unto the Lord
Return to worship and hear His Word
And then the fires of revival will come sweeping
through your soul
And we’ll touch the Holy Presence of our God
