Combined Churches Revival in Penang 16th-18th October 2025: Glory Night and Testimony Night

Introduction:

The series of revival–themed meetings were organised by the Penang Revival Planning Group (PRPG) consisting of seven key senior pastors and leaders of the city from a cross section of mainline denominational churches as well as non-denominational ones. The group was formed in February this year and the monthly revival meetings to build prayer, praise and worship capacity at the combined churches corporate level started in April and culminated in the three October nights of Revival meetings namely Glory Night, Testimony Night, and Power Night.

Each had a specific focus and purpose but all under the overarching theme of stimulating Revival in Penang and beyond. From April to October, the revival–themed meetings were held in 8 different church locations across the city of Penang and saw believers’ participation from more than 20 churches and prayer organisations, etc. With the online viewing statistics and those physically present for the three nights, there were about 5000 participants. Remarkably, there was also news of several online healing cases. Truly all glory be to God.

Day 1: Glory Night At FGA Centre, MBF Tower

Four hours of praise and worship in different languages began with the declaration of who God is in Philippians 2:9 “Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,”

God is Lord over our hearts, over this place and over this land. God will take His rightful place through His saints, that He will establish His throne in this land.

When we are in the Father’s house for a special meeting, we want a face-to-face experience like that of Moses. We want a piece for heaven. We want to carry that with us every day, every hour. There is fullness of joy. Our hearts just beat a bit faster. We breathe a bit harder because we are excited. It is in the spirit of the revival in Penang.

At the end of the meeting, Pr Alvin Chew of Fettes Park Baptist Chruch share what God had laid upon his heart based on Luke 2:19 “But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.”

“The psalmist tells us that God’s presence is the best place on earth. We will rather be in God’s house than anywhere else. We had a foretaste of heaven. We want to remember that many people do not have the opportunity. I asked God why there is so little hunger in my heart for Him, that I sometimes wear out even in a few hours of worship. The Lord said to me, ‘Son, it is capacity. Capacity is the key to revival for Penang.’ The reason the Lord is not doing there what He did in Ashbury is because we do not have the capacity. There isn’t enough hunger in our hearts. The room in our hearts is so filled with so many other things that the Lord just has no room to fill our hearts. We must repent before the Lord for ourselves and for our church and for our city, that we will truly prepare rooms for God to come in. When Revival comes, there will be hours and hours of worship because incense will rise day and night, night and day. That is what heaven is like. So pray for capacity.”

Day 2: Testimony Night at Georgetown Baptist Church

The first speaker was Dr George Annadorai from Singapore whose parents hailed from northern Malaysia. He is a teacher of the Bible, particularly in the prophecies, a student of revival and a writer of several books in relation to the destiny of nations.

The word that was downloaded into his spirit to capture and to communicate the heart of God for Malaysia for such a time as this was the word “RAKYAT”:

R: Revelation of

There are four quadrants in the church history. Quadrant 1: the early church. Quadrant 2: the European church. Quadrant 3: the evangelical church in America, and Quadrant 4: the end–time church in Asia. And the story ends at quadrant 4. As the end-time church in Asia, we must get our act right instead of learning from trials and errors.

Acts 2:18-21 (ESV) is a statement by the Apostle Peter that God wanted to see the Restoration. This was the early church.

“18 even on my male servants and female servants
    in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in the heavens above
    and signs on the earth below,
    blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;
20 the sun shall be turned to darkness
    and the moon to blood,
    before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.
21 And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’”,

Historians point out that God wanted to see the Reformation accomplished in Quadrant 2. In Quadrant 3, God did something very unique in America, the Revival. In Quadrant 4, the heart cry of God the Father is to reveal His Son Jesus to us as never before. In the book of Revelation, the first verse of the first chapter is “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave.” Our quest is to allow the Father to reveal Jesus Christ in all His glory before His people at the end-time church in Asia. If that one thing can happen, then all things can happen.

A: Adam & Eve

A can also stand for “Anak sulong” or “orang Asli”.

Every character in the Bible goes into default in his destiny if the land or the nation is taken away from him. Destiny plus nation equals destination. When a man is sovereignly planted in a particular land, he has picked up the destiny of this land.

In Genesis Chapter 2, we read that God created Adam out of the soil, the land. God took Adam and planted him in a land called Eden. So God creates us and then He chooses where to plant us according to Acts 17:26 “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,”

Without land, no one can find, follow or fulfill his God-given destiny. Strangely and surprisingly, few Christians are given the understanding concerning the significance of land.

Adam was the first born, “Anak sulong”. But then Eden had a destiny to fulfill. He had to be there but Adam alone could not bring Eden to the fullness of its destiny because in God’s mind, Eve had to come along, not the first. And so after a gap, Eve was created.

And Eve was also planted together with Adam in Eden. So that the firstborn and the afternoon could now together allow the land called Eden to come into the fullness of its destiny.

As we look across the nations of the world, we come to the realization of the significance of the firstborn. And nations have destinies based on the word in Deuteronomy 32, verses 8 and 9.

To us, nations are cultures, political entities and borders. But to God, nations are sons (Exodus 4:22). If Israel is God’s firstborn son, then all other nations by design are sons. The father felt it necessary to endow each nation and inheritance, a birth right and a destiny.

We are in Malaysia and Malaysia has a destiny. The firstborn are absolutely vital to the equation. The sons and daughters of sovereignly called, closed, consecrated by God must find their place in this land.

To the people of God, when Malaya gained independencein 1957, it is likened to Exodus 3:8: “and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.” God ordained for Malaya not only to come out to be set free from foreign rule, but free to pursue our God-given destiny.Therefore, we must learn to walk together and to work together in order to lift up the destiny of our nation.

K: King Jesus

The early church saw Jesus as their King, the Messiah. As long as we say that Jesus is our Saviour, we are constraining Him to be concerned over souls. In the book of Revelation, the Jesus who is to come is a ruler of all the kings and nations of the earth.The end-time church desperately needs the revelation of Jesus Christ and allow Him to be King of kings and Lord of lords in our thinking, preaching, praying and acting.

Many Christians have taken on a belief that their future is out there in heaven. However, the book of Revelation shows that our future is down here. Therefore, the urgent need to prepare the nations to receive Jesus as King is critical need of this hour.

It is Jesus’ destiny to be enthroned in Malaysia. The church should not be the stumbling block to this fulfillment.

Y: Year 2027

In two years’ time, Malaysia will turn 70.

Daniel humbled before the Lordand prayed for the people of Israel. Two years later, God acted on that prayer. And the exile was over.

The highest goal of the early church was to disciple the nations. Having neglected that core calling, it is now up to us at the end-time church in Asia to pick it up once again. The Spirit of the Sovereign God will move amongst the churches across Malaysia and rekindle this ancient idea that the call of the church is to evangelize.

Prayer 1: The Spirit of the Sovereign God will move amongst the churches across Malaysia and rekindle this ancient idea that the call of the church is to evangelize.

A: Advancing In Your Destiny

T: To Come Out From “Exile” at 70

For Malaysia to come into the fullness of its destiny, the sons and daughters sovereignly planted by God on the soil of Malaysia must remain in Malaysia. Malaysia can go into default if they choose to abandon their nation for whatever reason, except for those who are genuinely being called to go across to foreign land.

Prayer 2: The Holy Spirit will speak to the sons and daughters who have abandoned Malaysia need to come back if their destiny is tied to the land of Malaysia.

The second speaker was Pr Solomon Bulan. Before he gave his eye-witness account briefly, he had first acknowledged the missionaries who had gone to Bario, Sarawak in 1928. There was mass conversation from spiritism, paganism, and drunkenness. The church planting went on very actively until the 1950s and 1960s. After 40 and 50 years, the church went into nominalism. People went to church but they did not live the Christian life. Many were still keeping the old non-Christian practice. In early 1970s, new missionaries began to go to Bario. Their preaching was fiery. One of them was Dr Petrus Octave. He triggered the work of God revival among the Bario people. People began to realize that drunkenness and immorality came back when they went into nominalism. The godly remnant began to pray. As a young teacher then, Pr Solomon led an inter–Christian fellowship meeting every week which included prayer and Bible study.

On 4th August 1973, they had a visitation in the prayer meeting. One of the boys began to pray by confessing his sins out loud. He cried in repentence for a few minutes. That went on for a few minutes. When he had finished, two other boys took turn to confess their sins and repent. The teenagers were very timid previously. They were usually silent or they mumbled in their prayer. Pr Solomon recognized the scene as a sign of revival. He encouraged other boys to pray at the same time. The whole group just burst into loud prayer. Some of the children in the nearby hostel heard them and joined their prayer in the classroom.

The first transformational impact upon the students:

1. Strong conviction of sin and confession of sin.

2. Repentance and Restitution

3. Deep love for people

4. Strong desire to pray and sing praise

5. Much forgiveness and reconciliation between all people

6. Strong urge to share and evangelize

7. Respectful mannerism and bad habits ceased

8. Attentive in class and diligent in studies

9. Great love to read the Bible, God’s word.

As people began to love and forgive one another, there were no court cases for 3 years.

Revival was expanded to

1.Secondary and primary schools young people.

2.Parents, teachers, relatives and friends.

3.The communities and surrounding villages.

The impact of the revival in the community:

1. Daily and nightly revival meetings attended by young and old, from near and far.

2. Inter-generational church – young and old coming together.

3. Preaching outreach teams were unstoppable.

4. Excel in education, social life and administration.

5. Healing of the land (2 Chronicles 7:14: “If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”)

The Bario revival has become the Malaysian revival. From Bario, it went to Ba’kelalan, then Sabah and right now among the Penan.

What does this mean for us here today?

1. Malachi 3:6 and Hebrew 13:8: The God we are serving today is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

2. Our God is a God of Generation: “Will you not revive us again, that your people might rejoice in you” (Psalm 85:6). What He has done in the past He can do today.

3. Acts 2:38-39: “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.” The Spirit of the Lord is hovering around today.

The third speaker was Pr Rachel Solomon, daughter of Pr Solomon Bulan. She showed a short video of the Bario revival. Then she shared about the tribal gathering which was actually called PKS (Persekutuan Kelabit, Sabrun, and Berawn). Those were three of the smallest tribal peoples in Sarawak.

The movement was based on Revelation 7.

In 2023, after nine months of prayer, God gave them two mandates:

1. The revival from the mountains which is where Bario, Bakalan, Orang Hulu people were, will overflow to the sea to the Ibans and Bidayus.

2. The revival cry for the sake of their children, the next generations.

In January 2024, they were invited to Sitiawan. The Lord told them to give the pastors an amber from Bario. They also brought the following message:

East revival = revival of fire, gathering of families.

West revival = revival of water well, gathering of resources

The passionate love of Christ will come back into our hearts so that we will not live our mediocre Christian life anymore, and that we will find that there is something worth to die for in Christ.

Pr Rachel warned that Satan is speaking very loudly to our children. As parents and gatekeepers of the next generation, we should speak even louder for truth and restore the passionate love of Christ. We should mentor our children, invest into their lives to go for conferences and get trained, to go to mission trips.

The fire of the living God would burn in us because it is a vehement flame, is stronger than death and water cannot quench. There is nothing wrong with water if water represents structure, organization, systems. But if we have all these things without the passionate love of Christ, it will become religion. And so the idea is not to remove the water, but to become one with water. That fire and water will move together as one. We can reach far more Malaysia and then we are doing now in our own churches, in our own tribes, in our own people groups.

We are going to need an interdenominational partnership with other churches, with other leaders to work together as one family.

The last speaker was Chen Wong, a Foochow originally from Sibu and grew up in Miri. As she grew up, God opened her spiritual eyes to see unhealthy strongholds among families, such as survival mode mentality which often comes from the root of fear. Even people of God strive without knowing that they have not fully surrendered, which hinders our walk with the Lord. And families control in the name of love.

As her relationship with the Lord grew deeper, the Lord showed her that on the surface, it was a little compromise for comfort. But the truth is that it is a compromise with the spirit of fear. This spirit always seeks to protect at the expense of obeying God. Finally, she was delivered from the stronghold of fear. At first she seemed to be in the worst stage in a worldly view, as she continued to fully depend on the Lord, she was filled with the Holy Spirit and no longer struggled with fear, anxiety and panic attack. And the Lord restored and strengthened her relationship with her family.

“We do not need to strive, because the greatest strength is when we surrender ourselves to God,” Chen Wong concluded. 

The meeting ended with a call from Pr Rachel for repentance and consecration. She led the congregation to lay their hands on the floor as a symbol of laying hands on the land of Penang while praying for the restoration of the love for the city. She also prayed for protection and covering for the pastors who formed a circle on the stage.

Lastly, the congregation prayed for the new wine and new wineskin for Penang.