This is the street that I get to lookout over every morning and evening from atop our balcony that is on the third story above a restaurant called the Canteen Room, where we help serve through ministry. One morning last week I took my guitar and song book out on the patio and began praising the Lord. It soon turned into an intercession set of crying out for the city and the people who walk these streets everyday.
You see, Malaysia has a population of 25 million people and over 60% of them are Muslim. The other percentage includes a vast array of Hindus, Buddhists, and Seeks. However, Christians are gaining by the multitude, and even secretly converting from Islam. On their identity card it still says they're Muslim because if they change it they will face severe persecution, but imprinted upon their hearts and minds is Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
As I sat there with guitar in hand and hope in my lungs, I began to belt out "God of This City". My voice of declaration and praise rose alongside bus smog and car horns to where the air was intermingled in spiritual warfare. This very atmosphere of hopelessness and darkness was beginning to be overtaken by exaltation and light. The God of this city, Kuala Lumpur, was declaring that His city, people, and nation belonged to Him; and that His hope, peace, and light would demolish all of the enemy's stongholds.
Watch out streets of Kuala Lumpur! There is a God that has been set loose to ravish your hearts and renew your minds. You've never set your eyes on anyone like Him and your city has still to see the radiance it's been destined to shine. Greater things are still to be done here!
