19 March 2025 – CHRIST our CORNERSTONE
Week 5 – CHRIST Our CORNERSTONE
A Nation in Disarray
A Nation Hungry for Revival of the individual, the family, the state, social society & of all
PRAISE, Honour, Glory & Adoration to the King & Lord of Our Hearts. His name to be hailed & His greatness to be revealed over all the earth.
RESULTS OF A REVIVAL
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►The presence of God placed a huge burden upon people to pray.
►Prayer meetings became a regular part of church life, whereas before the revival they were practically non-existent.
►People began to share their faith.
►People were daily being saved.
►Church attendance grew dramatically.
►Remarkable unity among believers was displayed.
►Many families experienced reconciliation.
►Businesses stopped their unlawful practices.
►Working conditions changed for the better.
►Juvenile crime and sexual immorality stopped.
►Slowly the prisons emptied.
►Restitution and payments were made for old debts.
►Missions giving multiplied.
►Renewed emphasis on missions emerged, whereas before the revival there was an “anti-missions stronghold” that gripped the region.
►Not less than 50 young men were called into the ministry (Dutch Reformed Church).
►The Women’s Missionary Union was established.
►Not less than 30 young men started training as missionaries.
►A Missions Training Institute was started.
►Seminaries began to pop up in different locations around the Cape.
►Due to the revival’s influence, the Dutch Reformed Church alone started 12 new mission stations in various nations on the African continent. By 1900 they had 304 missionaries and 72,079 converts.
►The Dutch Reformed Church started 1,147 schools with 2,699 teachers and 96,309 students.
►An orthodox-oriented newspaper was started, which was greatly used by God to counter the liberal-oriented newspapers that were attempting to undermine the work of God.
►The effects of the revival continued for well over 50 years.
Now in 2025 – The Name AZANIA – A Name that was previously used in political circles in the past has been now reinvigorated from the stage of the FNB Prayer & Repentance Event on 22 March 2025 – Apostle Linda Gobodo .
The Hebrew meaning of AZANIA means – God Has Heard”
1. CHRIST OUR CORNERSTONE – Our Rock & FOUNDATION.
He will be Present. He will meet us there.
Eph 2:17-22
(17) And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.
(18) For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
(19) Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
(20) having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,
(21) in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
(22) in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Luk 20:17-18
(17) Then He looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written: ‘THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE’ ?
(18) Whoever falls on that stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.”
1Co 3:9-11
(9) For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.
(10) According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.
(11) For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
2Ti 2:19
(19) Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”
Let us stand in the gap & repent for the iniquities coming down through our bloodlines
2. PRAYING for THE UN-BELIEVER, THE LOST, BROKEN & BURDENED, DOUBTING THOMAS
Luk 21:36
(36) Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Act 4:7-14
(7) And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, “By what power or by what name have you done this?”
(8) Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel:
(9) If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well,
(10) let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.
(11) This is the ‘STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED BY YOU BUILDERS, WHICH HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.’
(12) Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
(13) Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.
(14) And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
3. THE BELIEVER
What will move the heart of man to fall before his God in prayer and repentance to become involved in prayer for this nation and not only for themselves but for the corporate picture for our nation and for all those who still need to come in the lost the broken the bound the burdened the compromised the afflicted the poor the weak the sick the lame?
Prayers for all Believers in South Africa:
- Called to a pivotal personal revival encounter before, during & after 22 March 2025 .
- Attending with great expectation to be touched & changed by God.
- A Holy Spirit induced expectation & petition for God to invade time & space.
- Outcry for revival with the testimony of signs, wonders & miracles.
- Humble, repenting & prepared hearts, increased faith & capacity for more of & for God.
- Declaration of our utter dependence on God & total submission as a nation in distress.
- NO prejudice, judgement of speakers and/or other believers – to pursue UNITY in One Spirit – the Holy Spirit
- To be covered in prayer for protection, availability to pray, business & finances, health, relationships.
- Resources, internet connections, time, availability, re-scheduling of agendas to be able to attend on 22.03!
4. THE CORPORATE CHURCH – GOD is BUILDING HIS CHURCH
Zec 10:1-12
(1) Ask the LORD for rain In the time of the latter rain. The LORD will make flashing clouds; He will give them showers of rain, Grass in the field for everyone.
(2) For the idols speak delusion; The diviners envision lies, And tell false dreams; They comfort in vain. Therefore the people wend their way like sheep; They are in trouble because there is no shepherd.
(3) “My anger is kindled against the shepherds, And I will punish the goatherds. For the LORD of hosts will visit His flock, The house of Judah, And will make them as His royal horse in the battle.
(4) From him comes the cornerstone, From him the tent peg, From him the battle bow, From him every ruler together.
(5) They shall be like mighty men, Who tread down their enemies In the mire of the streets in the battle. They shall fight because the LORD is with them, And the riders on horses shall be put to shame.
(6) “I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back, Because I have mercy on them. They shall be as though I had not cast them aside; For I am the LORD their God, And I will hear them.
(8) I will whistle for them and gather them, For I will redeem them; And they shall increase as they once increased.
(12) “So I will strengthen them in the LORD, And they shall walk up and down in His name,” Says the LORD.
- Let no man stand in the way of what the Father is building through His Holy Spirit
- Let the church repent of standing in the way of the move of God through the GIFTS of the Holy Spirit.
- Let the church repent for her idolatry of pedestals of fame, pride, comfort, prestige, slander, entertainment, business, having a from of life… being dead.
5. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Praying from the legacy of previous spiritual leaders from years ago until now… to call it forth in the next season…
Andrew Murray – Worcester Revival 1860, January 5-13 1861, Graaf Reinet 1822, John G. Lake, & Montagu 1874, Trans World Radio, Evangelical Council of South Africa, Radio Pulpit, Reinhart Bonke, Bennie Mosterd, Ray McCauley, Micheal Cassidy, Janet Brann – S.A. BAck to God, Hallelujah Day 2003 -2008, Global Harvest/24 7 Prayer Ministries, Father’s Heart Ministries, Mighty Men, Angus Buchan, Time to Rise, Patmos Studios, Cindy Jacobs, Suzette Hattingh, Linda Gobodo & the every day believer evangelist on the street…
- Anointing of the Holy Spirit – boldness, strength, authority & FIRE of God on them.
- Message of personal revival & a nation in dire straits to touch base & reach deep into the hearts of every person.
6. Other topics to be held up in prayer & fasting before the Lord :
i. FINANCES – sponsors, donations, ticket sales
ii. STADIUM FASCILITY READINESS & RESOURCES
iii. ORGANISERS & SUPPORT TEAMS – strength, courage, wisdom
iv. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
v. MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNICATIONS
vi. THE UNSAVED, BACKSLIDEN, COMPROMIZED, POOR, BOUND & BURDENED
vii. REVIVAL OF THE BELIEVER, THE CHURCH & RELIGIOUS
7. SCRIPTURES
Isa 28:14-29
(14) Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
(15) Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”
(16) Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily.
(17) Also I will make justice the measuring line, And righteousness the plummet; The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters will overflow the hiding place.
(18) Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; When the overflowing scourge passes through, Then you will be trampled down by it.
(20) For the bed is too short to stretch out on, And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.
(21) For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon—That He may do His work, His awesome work, And bring to pass His act, His unusual act.
(22) Now therefore, do not be mockers, Lest your bonds be made strong; For I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts, A destruction determined even upon the whole earth.
(23) Give ear and hear my voice, Listen and hear my speech.
(24) Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
(28) Bread flour must be ground; Therefore he does not thresh it forever, Break it with his cartwheel, Or crush it with his horsemen.
(29) This also comes from the LORD of hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance.
8. Previous REVIVALS in S.A.
Conference for Revival
At the April 18-19 conference in Worcester, there were ministers from the Dutch Reformed Church, the Methodist Church, leaders from the Scotch Presbyterian Church, Wesleyan and Rhenish Mission Society (German). The conference was made up of 347 ministers, elders, deacons, and other church leaders. There were 20 churches represented, 16 of them being from the Dutch Reformed Church.
During the conference, firsthand reports of the revival in America were given, as well as how the revival had spread to the British Islands and other locations around the globe. There was also an address presenting a scriptural basis for revival.
The Revival Starts in Montagu
Following the Worcester Conference on April 18-19, 1860, delegates returned to their hometowns with a renewed desire to pray for revival. They immediately joined the already established prayer groups.
These prayer meetings met up to three times daily. People began sharing their faith, and many were saved.
BLESSING
Psa 118:14-29
(14) The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.
(15) The voice of rejoicing and salvation Is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.
(16) The right hand of the LORD is exalted; The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.
(17) I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the LORD.
(18) The LORD has chastened me severely, But He has not given me over to death.
OPEN The GATES
(19) Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them, And I will praise the LORD.
(20) This is the gate of the LORD, Through which the righteous shall enter.
(21) I will praise You, For You have answered me, And have become my salvation.
(22) The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.
(23) This was the LORD’s doing; It is marvelous in our eyes.
(24) This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.
(25) Save now, I pray, O LORD; O LORD, I pray, send now prosperity.
(26) Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We have blessed you from the house of the LORD.
(27) God is the LORD, And He has given us light; Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.
(28) You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You.
(29) Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.