Apostolic Preaching & Prophetic Worship on Campuses!!!

I am writing this message because I sense strongly in my spirit God
wants to release another “GREAT AWAKENING” upon the university
campuses of America. We are coming upon the wake of another “Jesus
Freak” movement. In the late 1960’s there was a major move of God
among young hippies all over California. Radical hippie preachers like
“Lonnie Frisbee” preached on campuses, street corners, bars on
Hollywood blvd, & baptized thousands of hippies in the ocean beaches.
What happened in those days was like it came straight out of the book
of Acts… “Signs, wonders & miracles, speaking in tongues, thousands of
young people swept into the kingdom of God, they were living in 24/7
communes together, sharing all things together and enjoying fellowship
while radical street preaching was bringing in the masses to Christ.”
Do it again Lord! I know You will & now is the time!

In the last 6 months the Holy Spirit has been impressing heavily upon
me to see the book of Acts happen again on college campuses. There is
too much “timidity” among Christian’s every campus I visit. There is a
fear of what other’s think…and it is justified by an “I don’t want to
offend others mentality.” It is compromise. The national average of
Christian’s on each university is 4% and more than 90% of those 4%
come from Christian backgrounds (Ivy Jungle Network: source). In other
words, Christians are mainly reaching Christians on campus. If we
don’t see revival now, we will have a post-Christian generation
tomorrow. It’s time for radical Christianity…or should I say “normal
Christianity” to be released on this generation with power.

I’ve been studying the book of Acts. The more I read, the more I am
challenged. Church was never meant to be in a “temple” or a “building”
it was meant to be on the streets. It was meant to be in the
marketplace, 24/7 where the people were. Where would Jesus be
preaching if He were here today? Where would Peter and Paul be
preaching if they were here today? I highly doubt a Sunday morning
church service or the next large group fellowship meeting. I know
exactly where they would be preaching…. in the middle of the campus
where all those students organizations are promoting their beliefs.
It’s sad, but there is too much preaching in the four walls of the
church & there is not enough preaching to the lost. Preaching was
meant for the lost! Yet we have turned the powerful art of preaching
into “sermonizing.” Lord have mercy & turn us back to the power of God
unto salvation!

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed
Me to PREACH good news to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of
the prison to those who are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of
the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God!” Isaiah 61:1-2

Where am I getting at? There is a move of God that will sweep
thousands of young people into His kingdom beginning on university
campuses across California and then all over the United States of
America. What is this move? It will be a move of two things…

1. Prophetic Worship
2. Apostolic Preaching

Last week a student leader in our campus church network was inspired
during his early morning quite times to bring his guitar to school.
This student goes to San Jose State University. Not sure why, he went
with his guitar to the middle of campus where there was the most
student traffic. He sensed the Holy Spirit wanted him to break out his
guitar and worship at the top of His lungs. He did. At first, he was
scared out of his pants, but as he continued to worship the manifest
presence of God began to descend on the ground he was worshipping on.
He later told me that all he was asking God for that morning was one
thing, “Lord I want to see HEAVEN ON EARTH come down on this campus!”
Well, he got what he was praying for.

As the Holy Spirit prophetically lead him to sing new songs by
proclaiming Jesus over the campus, he sensed he was to pull out his
Bible and read it out loud. With authority, he began to read out loud
at the top of his lungs, the written Word of God. Students began to
look at him, stare at him, even laugh at him. He didn’t care because
he was in the zone with Jesus. As students gathered around to watch
this Jesus freak, he began to read the Scriptures and prayed for
students the Holy Spirit was pinpointing out to him. While praying for
students, he saw a fraternity table with a fraternity brother sitting
there. This fraternity brother was completely gripped by the
Scriptures being read. All of a sudden the frat brother left the table
and walked up to my friend.

He said, “I don’t know who you are, but while you were singing those
songs to God, I felt the presence of God touch my body. You see I’ve
been a backslidden Christian for over 3 years & this weekend our
fraternity house burnt down. Everything I’ve ever owned burned down in
that house this weekend, but there was only one thing left… my Bible!”

This fraternity brother broke down under the conviction of the Holy
Spirit and the spoken word of God. He encountered the presence of the
living God in the middle of the day on a university campus while
sitting outdoors at his fraternity table. Now, that’s what I’m talking
about!

“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with
praise.” Psalm 100:4

We don’t need more persuasion evangelism in this postmodern
generation. What we need is more presence evangelism, encounters with
an Almighty God. How do we bring the presence? It is only through
worship and prayer. It’s prophetic worship that sings to Jesus from
the heart, not from a power point slide. It’s passionate, raw,
un-plugged worship that touches the heart of God and ends up touching
the heart of a generation.

I see thousands of new prophetic worship bands hitting the shores of
the college campuses during the day and into the night. Bands of young
radicals who pull out their guitars, banjos, drums, all kinds of
instruments and worshipping at the top of their lungs in the middle of
campuses. It’s a prophetic band of worshippers who aren’t just singing
the latest hit worship song, but they are worshipping in their own
way, singing new songs, creating new lyrics, going all out,
undignified like King David. It’s a sound that even the Christian
world has never heard. They are the new sounds that come from the
streets of heaven. Get ready because the sons of thunder are coming!
They worship in spirit and truth while students are passing by, while
others are gathering at tables, while others are watching…the presence
of God comes. The lost have never heard this kind of worship, with
such passion, with such beauty & attraction. It’s prophetic, for the
spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. This prophetic presence
all of sudden invades and touches the hearts of young people & they
begin to come under the overwhelming love of God. This generation is
waiting to see true passion. But where is it? True passion is only
revealed when we passionately worship the passionate One…our suffering
King Jesus. When this generation sees true worship, they will come to
worship God!

Prophetic worship is what ushers in the presence of God. But it’s
Apostolic Preaching that ushers in the power of God.

“And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark
of the Lord. Then seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns
before the ark of the Lord went on continually and blew with the
trumpets. And the armed men went before them. But the rear guard came
after the ark of the Lord while the priests continued blowing the
trumpets.” Joshua 6:12-13

Joshua followed the strategy of the Lord. He sent out the priests (the
prophetic worshippers) into battle first, while the armed guard
(apostolic preachers) stood prepared to attack. The presence of God
must be ushered in first, in order for His presence to anoint the army
for war. This is the same in relationship to prophetic worship and
apostolic preaching for the campuses.

First of all, what is apostolic preaching? Let the book of Acts explain…

“Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to
Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we
do?” Then Peter said to them, “Repent and let everyone of you be
baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and
you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. “For the promise is to
you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the
Lord our God will call.” And with many other words he testified and
exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” Those
who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three
thousand souls were added to them.” Acts 2:37-41

Apostolic preaching is the so powerful preaching of the Gospel that it
cuts the hearts of men resulting in deep repentance and mass
conversions. It happened in Peter’s day where we see three thousand
coming to Christ in a day. We see 5,000 saved in a day later in the
book of Acts and whole cities pushing their way into the kingdom
through Paul’s apostolic preaching. You say that happened in the days
of old, but certainly not in highly sophisticated campus cultures like
Yale or Stanford? Why not? It happened in the 1st and 2nd Great
Awakenings of America. Where Jonathan Edwards a young preacher who
attended Yale preached an unapologetic message around 1734 called
“Sinners in the hands of an angry God” that sent all of all of the
East Coast into repentance and ushered in a sweeping revival to a hell
bent America. In 1790’s Yale University had totally forgotten about
the great revival just years before. The student body had fallen into
drunkenness, blasphemy and the majority of students were attacking the
Christian faith because of a turn towards atheism & deism. During that
dark hour, a young man named “Timothy Dwight” the only Christian on
campus began to preach on the infallibility of God’s Word and His
moral standard. By the end of the year more than one half of the
entire Yale University campus had turned in repentance toward God. Do
it again Lord! Surely, He will & now is the hour!

I’m passionate about this kind of preaching coming on the scene again,
because I’ve experienced it. I use to travel from campus to campus
preaching to crowds of students sometimes three & other times
hundreds. There was never a time that the anointing of God to preach
did not show up. No, when there is the preaching of the Gospel, God is
obligated to show up, because He is obligated to His mission. “Go, and
make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, teaching them everything I have taught
you, and I am with you always unto the end of the age.” (Matthew
28:18)

I remember one time when I was at a junior college and a crowd of
nearly 500 students gathered the day after the school was saved from a
planned bomb attack. I got up in the middle of campus and began to
preach how God had spared their lives, how Jesus had saved them with a
calling through his suffering, death and resurrection. I challenged
each of them to repent & turn to God. No one threw a stone at me,
instead the entire crowd was dead silent while I preached and many
began to cry under the conviction and presence of the Holy Spirit.

There are more testimonies where we even saw a few hundred saved at
one time at San Jose State University after preaching the Gospel to a
completely unsaved crowd of students in the middle of campus.

Just today at the university, while my two friends were leading
prophetic worship outside on campus I began to join them in prayer. As
I paced back and forth interceding for the lost students on campus out
loud I could sense the anointing of the Holy Spirit increase. People
thought I was crazy, who cares, but as I prayed out loud I began to
preach. We were only there for an hour, we didn’t draw a crowd of
hundreds, but we did get to pray for at least 4 students who randomly
came up and asked for prayer. We did get to converse afterwards with a
bunch of fraternity and hip-hop looking brothers who wanted to know
more about Jesus. Whether it’s one or one thousand, my question is
what happened to the powerful preaching of the Gospel? Isn’t this what
Jesus did most of the time…preach? With signs, wonders and miracles
confirming the preaching of the Word.

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of
God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also
for the Greek” Romans 1:16

“How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And
how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how
shall they hear without a preacher?” Romans 10:14

Where are the apostolic preachers in this generation? Where are those
who will preach with authority and power in the Holy Spirit? Where are
the Peter’s and Paul’s who preached with a holy fear of God that
resulted in entire cities coming to Christ with signs and wonders
confirming? There was a Jonathan Edward for the 1st Great Awakening.
There was a Timothy Dwight at Yale University in the 2nd Great
Awakening. Where are those who will step up to the plate, pray like no
tomorrow and preach like there is only today in this last Great
Awakening?

As the Son is shining, during the middle of the school day, I see
university campuses with prophetic bands of young warriors worshipping
with all their heart and preaching with pure passion. These apostolic
& prophetic warriors will have big posters advertising… “FREE PRAYER,
FREE DREAM INTERPRETAION, FREE PROPHECY…CAUSE GOD LIKES YOU!” I SEE
OTHER WARRIOR BANDS WITH “THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST” PLAYING AS A
BACKDROP AS THEY PREACH…PASSING OUT TESTIMONIES AND GOSPEL TRACKS
EXPLAINING THE SUFFERING, DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF THE PASSIONATE SON
OF GOD! I SEE YOUNG RADICALS CARRYING A HEAVY WOODEN CROSS WITH THEM
AS THEY WORSHIP & PREACH THE GOSPEL WITH IT FROM CAMPUS TO CAMPUS…I
SEE A HOLY REVOLUTION.

There is going to be an outbreak, an uncontrollable movement of God…a
spontaneous revival hitting the campuses of America once again. There
will be hundreds of students here, & thousands of students there, and
small pockets of students everywhere having Church in the university
courtyard. Yes, it’s church without walls, it’s a holy movement of God
that can’t be touched or defined by some method of evangelism or some
slick small group program. No church building can contain it and no
conference can explain it. It’s God or nothing. There is a nameless
and faceless army God is raising up at this hour on campuses across
America. Do you hear the calling? Will you be willing to lay down your
reputation, your comfort zone, your Christian bubble, possibly your
very life to see revival on your college campus? Now is the time, now
is the hour. Get on your face and pray until it hurts. Worship until
He comes. Then get up and preach unapologetically & watch if God shows
up! I’m praying to see HEAVEN ON EARTH on every campus in America.
REVIVE THE CAMPUSES OF AMERICA LORD! REVIVE THIS GENERATION LORD!
REVIVE OUR HEARTS AGAIN AND USHER IN THE LAST AND GREATEST AWAKENING
THIS NATION HAS EVER SEEN…LET THE JESUS REVOLUTION BEGIN….

Praying for campus revival,

Jaeson Ma
www.campuschurch.net

(If you are one who desires revival & is committed to lead out in
prophetic worship and apostolic preaching on your university campus
email: coach@campuschurch.net)