MM33
His Mandate, My Mission
By Rev Winnie Ong, Lifeline Family Church
MM33 explained and envisioned.
The first AG 2TiP (Training and Together in Prayer) of the year was held on-site at Trinity Christian Centre on January 6, 2022. Attendees wore masks throughout and stayed within designated zones.
MM33
General Superintendent Rev Dominic Yeo was in USA and addressed the gathering of ministers through a pre-recoded video tape on MM33, the initiative of the World Assemblies of God Fellowship. MM stands for Mandate and Mission. The number 33 refers to the movement to bring in a harvest of a quarter billion people in a million AG churches worldwide by the year 2033, which is the 2000th anniversary of His Resurrection and the Day of Pentecost.
The Call
It calls for every council, church, and leadership to engage in church-planting or center-planting, to see revival coming into our world, and reap the greatest harvest of souls before the return of Jesus. To realize these benefits, two things must be seeded into our hearts.
1. The Mandate of God that Jesus Is Coming Soon (Revelation 22:20).
The mission for churches is that men and women must go out and bid people to come into the Kingdom before He arrives. The Lord’s coming is definite; it is just a step away from one more soul, and one more church. The watchman warning in Ezekiel 33:6 is that ministers and churches must blow the trumpet to announce the Mandate that Jesus is coming back. Our mission is to warn souls to repent and to come into salvation in Jesus Christ.
2. Prayer is the Seedbed of Revival
Churches are likely impacted by typhoons and floods in the region. Without prayer, we will not see the heavens manifested in our lives. Seasons of prayer lead to seasons of revival. We don’t need a crisis in Singapore. It’s happening around us. Jesus says in Matthew 24, “When you see all these signs, know that the time is coming to a close.” When the church is busy doing everything except to pray, then we truly have missed the work of the Lord. Jesus had strategic withdrawal to the place of prayer. He understood that the source of power is in prayer. Let us teach our church to tarry before the Lord in prayer. That’s when the heavenly invasion comes into our lives. Our focus must be on Him and on souls, and not on the pandemic.
MM33 is About Restoration
Rev Dominic reiterated that MM33 is about restoration. Before that can come, repentance must first take place. Churches must repent from making God the priority instead of the foundation. We need to repent from prayerlessness, from a consumeristic culture, from a convenience mindset, from pride, and from our wrongdoing. We must have the sense of godliness. COVID-19 and other variants are like one locust plague after another. The prophet Joel promises that God is going to restore the years that had been devastated by plagues. Let us approach the throne of grace with humility. God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Joel 1:13,14 urges us to mobilize prayer in our family, church, and ministry. God’s glory will once again be upon the earth for He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient.
Prayer Time
Rev Dominic led the congregation through a time of repentance and asked the Lord to help the AG to realize the benefits of MM33 in our generation.