I remember hearing a preacher making a statement that nearly caused the audience to brand him as a heretic. He said, “Our God is wild!” Before the audience began hurling stones at him, he qualified by saying, “…in the sense that He cannot be domesticated as a pet!” Hilarious as it may sound, it is indeed a statement worth pondering as our God is indeed “outside-the-box”.

God has led my family to the supernatural ministry of CKRM Malacca more than four months ago. Despite having experienced God’s presence and power through different ministries in the past, I adopted a very careful attitude during the earlier days’ trips to the Saturday meetings. Many people may have been taken aback by the boisterous physical manifestations and unconventional methods of ministry employed by the pastors. However, by the grace of God and all glory to Him, God has done great things through this supernatural ministry in my life!

CKRM Malacca, being an empowerment ministry, has the mandate to prepare and empower God’s end-time army to fulfill their callings and destinies of God for their generation. Little did I know that empowerment would also mean God clearing up the mess in my life, healing and restoring my life and sharpening my spiritual sensitivity towards God and His voice. Indeed, the Lord has empowered me with the roar of the Lion of Judah and other gifts but I would like to share the fruit of God’s work through CKRM ministry. Amongst the many things that God has done, I would like to testify, giving all glory to Jesus of the following: -

(1) God has set me free from the bondage of habitual sins that I have struggled with for many years. The holy fire of God has broken the yoke of bondage and delivered me completely;
(2) He has healed and delivered me from my inner hurts and rejections which was hindering my walk with Him;
(3) God has led me to forget the past and not to allow the past to become a stumbling block for God to fulfill His destiny in my life. Through different ways, He began to restore to me my spiritual inheritance and other things that the enemy has stolen from my life;
(4) God has sharpened my spiritual sensitivity to His leading and His ways. He has also led me to a deeper level of yielding and surrendering to Him;
(5) Most of all, God has drawn me closer to Himself. He has intensified my inner desire to love Him, worship Him and walk with Him in deeper measures.

Through God’s supernatural ministry at CKRM, He has also taught me to treasure His calling in my life and the basic spiritual principles of obedience, guarding our hearts and mouths and not judging falsely have become powerful truths to live by within His perimeters of protection.

I rejoice and I am very thankful for the many good things He has done in my family and we believe and expect more of Him. There was once in a meeting where my 2-year old daughter drank of the heavenly wine and was healed of a bout of persistent cough. Praise the Lord! God has done many marvelous things that deserve all praise, glory and honour!

CKRM Malacca is indeed a place where the Spirit of God is given the room to move freely and minister to His people and to draw them to God and His love using unconventional “spiritual weapons” that confound the wise. Even though one may not fully understand what is going on initially, when we open our hearts and let God “outside-the-box” of religion and our limited knowledge, we will truly be blessed. In Acts 5:38-39, we read that even a Pharisee named Gamaliel had enough sense regarding God’s ministry, “V.38 And now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan or this work is of men, it will come to nothing; V.39 but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it—lest you even be found to fight against God.”
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Pastor's Footnote:
Benjamin is an in-house legal counsel from Kuala Lumpur. The Lord led him and his family to CKRM Malacca. Since attending the Saturday meeting for the 1st time few months ago, he has faithfully attended & never missed any Saturday meeting despite the travelling time. He now serves in CKRM in the worship, playing the keyboard.

Email from Sharon

Well Pastor Paul, I missed your session during Chinese New Year time as I was away hometown and when I came back and heard of all the things that God did and what happened in Portals of Glory and also from Gina and also reading your blogspot and the various testimonies I was very eager to experience for myself for it is nothing like seeing and experience it for yourself.

When you finally agree to come to Portals of Glory on 15 April 2009, I came early from office and did not go back home in Subang as I did not want to be caught in the traffic jam and we started early and worship before the rest arrived.

When you called me for to be prayed for the anointing of the ‘Roar’ of the Lion of Judah, yes I was a bit sceptical at first as I have never done it before and yes I have seen the manifestations before.

When the anointing was released to me, I felt like something within my body and sometimes it is so hard to describe I just know something is different and it just makes me want to just let go and I could not control it. I have always been a back bencher and observe and that day I just let the Lord use me and it was my first experience.

I can’t believe myself roaring in front of people ...that is not me ...anyway....!!!! When you called me for the second time to be prayed again, I felt more comfortable and was able to receive more. Praise God!!!

Again the whip is very different, the fact that you don’t literally see the whip and when it is released, I felt so much power, fire, and I don’t know,,,very strong anointing, entirely different from the first and it was yes very very strong.

As a result, I am now even more sensitive to the move of God when I am in the presence of God and just wanting more of God..., spending more time in worship and the word.

Praise God and all glory to Jesus for what He has done!!!!


Sharon

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A Reader's Research on the Lion's Roar.

Our Mission to the Klang Valley

犹大狮子吼叫的恩膏和耶稣的鞭子使到我对神的带领更加敏锐。

Sharon 姐妹的电邮

保罗牧师，因着我回了家乡，很可惜的，我错过了在农历新年时的聚会。当我回来的时候，我听到好多神奇妙的作为，以及在Portals of Glory祈祷院所发生的一切事。除了Gina姐妹的分享，我也上网到你的部落格读了许多的见证。我好渴慕,很想自己也能亲身经历到神的能力。

当你答应在2009年四月十五号来Portals of Glory 祈祷院 时，为了避免遇到交通阻塞， 就提早从办公室离开到祈祷院去。在其他人还没到达之前，我们就开始在那儿敬拜。 我虽然曾经见过犹大狮子吼叫的彰显， 但是，当你要为我祷告领受犹大狮子吼叫的恩膏时，我起初有点怀疑，因为我从未吼叫过。当那恩膏浇灌 在我身上时，我觉得我身体里有一股力量（有时就是不知怎样用言语来形容，只知道在我体内跟平时是不一样的）， 这股力量使到我无法控制，那感觉就是想要释放出来。

一直以来，我都是时时坐在后排观看。却在当天，我降服於神，让祂使用我。那就是我第一次的经历。我真不敢相信，自己会在众人面前那么的吼叫。无论如何，那可不是我。。。。当你再次为我祷告时，我感觉舒服多了，也能够更多的去领受。赞美神！

此外，耶稣的鞭子果然也很不同。虽然我的肉眼看不到鞭子，但是，当你用鞭子释放在我身上时，我感觉到极大的能力，很多的圣火，和很强的恩膏在我的身上。这与我第一次所经历的狮子吼叫恩膏，是完全不一样的，而且那恩膏是非常非常的强。

四月十五日的奇妙经厉，改变了我的属灵生命，现在我对于神的带领更加敏锐。当我在神的同在中，我只想要更多的得着祂，更多的敬拜祂，和在祂话语上花更多的时间。
赞美神！一切荣耀都归于祂！

Sharon 姐妹

(Printed the Reader's email with his consent)

Dear Pastor Paul Ang,

I was doing some searching on the internet trying to find out information on the Lion’s Roar. Let me give you a bit of background. I’m a seminary student at Regent University working on a Masters in Practical Theology in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA and God has drawn me to the Hebraic Roots of Christianity, I am a born-again believer and am waiting on the Lord Jesus to show me what He wants for my life. In doing some reach for various projects, I discovered that in Jewish literature (Midrash) it describes this story:

“The midrash tells a fascinating story of how Judah and Joseph
almost came to blows over the release of Benjamin. Judah roared like
a lion, and displayed super-human feats of strength, tossing boulders
into the air and pulverizing chains with his teeth, all to show
what Joseph would have to contend with. Joseph then gave
Manasseh a look, and Manasseh stomped his foot on the floor so
hard, he made the whole palace tremble, while Joseph kicked a marble
column, breaking it into pieces, to which=2 0Judah wisely replied,
"Such stamping comes from Father's house," meaning he recognized
these feats as only accomplishable by those related by blood to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, thus he sought a non-violent alternative.
(Chassidah, Encyclopedia of Biblical Personalities, pg. 331.)

As looked for examples of this on the internet I came across references to the Lion’s Roar first in one of your congregants blogs and then on your blog site. While the above quote is certainly not a scriptural reference for the Lion’s Roar gift as it is the Midrash, I do think it is interesting. I don’t have access to the Encyclopedia of Biblical Personalities personally as this is a secondary quote from a magazine called Targum. I don’t normally contact people out of the blue like this, but felt the prompting of the Holy Spirit that this was rather important for you to see.

As I read about this, I thought to myself, I think I may have this gift. Several years ago in Korea (around 2000), I was at a worship services where I could not stop shouting “Glory” at the top of my lungs, after that I hadn’t experience or seen anything like it before or after, until this past year. I was in Iraq and praying with my prayer group on top of the Chapel. We were doing our weekly intercession and I felt the Lord urging me to yell “JESUS” as loud as I could, It seemed at one point deafening and I felt I could go even louder, but the Chaplain came up and stopped us for being too loud. The Chaplain that stopped us on the roof (who by the way is a Spirit Filled Believer in Jesus), was very encouraging and recommended we continue in the Base Chapel, just not on the roof. I haven’t really used it since and not even sure what to use it for, though I knew instinctively that I was doing for Spiritual warfare.

The other reference that I found was that the “Lion’s Roar” was a type of Kung Fu, which was portrayed in a Kung Fu Movie called “Kung Fu Hussle” Which had a lady roaring supernaturally to defeat her opponent. Certainly Satan will try to attempt to twist any gift that God has bestowed, so that didn’t surprise me.

I was hoping that perhaps you could shed some light on the subject for me regarding this spiritual gift, how it is used in your congregation and elsewhere and any other insight you could give me on the subject. Thank you for your time and may God richly bless you in the coming weeks.

In Christ,
Robert

I also wanted to say that I appreciate the links you sent me I read both the blog and the testimonials previously, but I had not read Elder Dainel Ng’s testimony so thank you!

Additionally, For those interested Targum is a small press PDF Game Magazine that is no longer in publication (though you can find it on the internet http://www.rpgnow.com/) The focus initially was on a Game called Testament: Role-Playing in the Biblical Era. I wanted to fact check the magazine’s article so I found an online copy of the Midrash on the internet at http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/loj/loj203.htm and it fully confirms the story in the Midrash.

I’ve included the full text of the stories below for your review, with portions concerning a loud voice, cry, shouting, etc. in Bold.

When the brethren yielded to Joseph's demand, and consented to leave their brother behind as hostage, Simon said to them, "Ye desire to do with me as ye did with Joseph!" But they replied, in despair: "What can we do? Our households will perish of hunger." Simon made answer, "Do as ye will, but as for me, let me see the man that will venture to cast me into prison." Joseph sent word to Pharaoh to let him have seventy of his valiant men, to aid him in arresting robbers. But when the seventy appeared upon the scene, and were about to lay hands on Simon, he uttered a loud cry, and his assailants fell to the floor and knocked out their teeth. Pharaoh's valiant men, as well as all the people that stood about Joseph, fled affrighted, only Joseph and his son Manasseh remained calm and unmoved. Manasseh rose up, dealt Simon a blow on the back of his neck, put manacles upon his hands and fetters upon his feet, and cast him into prison. Joseph's brethren were greatly amazed at the heroic strength of the youth, and Simon said, "This blow was not dealt by an Egyptian, but by one belonging to our house."
These words had such an effect upon Judah that he broke out in sobs, and cried aloud, "How shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me?" His outcry reached to a distance of four hundred parasangs, and when Hushim the son of Dan heard it in Canaan, he jumped into Egypt with a single leap and joined his voice with Judah's, and the whole land was on the point of collapsing from the great noise they produced. Joseph's valiant men lost their teeth, and the cities of Pithom and Raamses were destroyed, and they remained in ruins until the Israelites built them up again under taskmasters. Also Judah's brethren, who had kept quiet up to that moment, fell into a rage, and stamped on the ground with their feet until it looked as though deep furrows had been torn in it by a ploughshare. And Judah addressed his brethren, "Be brave, demean yourselves as men, and let each one of you show his heroism, for the circumstances demand that we do our best."

In the meantime Manasseh had assembled a great army, five hundred mounted men and ten thousand on foot, among them four hundred valiant heroes, who could fight without spear or sword, using only their strong, unarmed hands. To inspire his brethren with more terror, Joseph ordered them to make a loud noise with all sorts of instruments, and their appearance and the hubbub they produced did, indeed, cause fear to fall upon some of the brethren of Joseph. Judah, however, called to them, "Why are you terrified, seeing that God grants us His mercy?" He drew his sword, and uttered a wild cry, which threw all the people into consternation, and in their disordered flight many fell over each other and perished, and Judah and his brethren followed after the fleeing people as far as the house of Pharaoh. Returning to Joseph, Judah again broke out in loud roars, and the reverberations caused by his cries were so mighty that all the city walls in Egypt and in Goshen fell in ruins, the pregnant women brought forth untimely births, and Pharaoh was flung from his throne. Judah's cries were heard at a great distance, as far off as Succoth.

I am amazed at everything I’m reading and I’m interested in what you will have to say, especially if you get a chance to read the whole story as these are simply excerpts from the story about Joseph meeting his brothers. Of course, none of the Midrash scriptural as it is not in the canon of the Bible, but it is fascinating.

We know that the spoken word is powerful, and this was demonstrated in Genesis 1 when God spoke the world into existence. Matthew 12;36 tells that we know that we’ll be held accountable for every word that proceeds forth from our mouths, so it is no surprise that the Lions Roar as you describe would be so powerful a gift thru which the Holy Spirit operates. It also interesting to see how the Midrash potrays the destructive power of voice as well. I’m going to continue to explore this subject study and prayer and I'll keep you posted on what I find. Please keep me in prayer as well not only in my school studies, but also for discernment in where God wants me to serve along with discernment about that have been imparted to me by the Holy Spirit. Please let me know how I can be praying for you and your congregation. I look forward to hearing back from you on these Midrash excerpts, and feel free to include these in your blog as well. May God richly bless you in the coming weeks.

In Christ,
Robert
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一位读者关于狮子吼的研究 (中文翻译由中国Sarah Shan博士完成)

（经作者同意取自于email）

亲爱的保罗牧师:

我在网上搜索想找到关于狮子吼的信息。首先介绍一下我的背景。我是美国维州维吉尼亚海滩维真大学神学生，攻读实用神学硕士学位。神带领我来到Hebraic Roots of Christianity。我是一个重生的基督徒，现在正等候神对我生命的呼召。在对一些项目进行研究的时候，我发现在犹太文化(Midrash)中记载了一个故事。

midrash中讲述了一个精彩故事，犹大和约瑟因为释放便雅悯的问题几乎争打起来。 犹大如狮子般吼叫，展示超人力量，向空中投掷大石头，并用自己的牙齿磨碎链子，他展示这些技艺，要看约瑟用什么来跟他比试。约瑟给玛拿西一个眼色，玛拿西就在地上跺脚，力量之大以至于整个宫殿都颤动。而约瑟则踢向一个大以萨理石柱，将其踢成碎片。犹大看到了这些，很智慧地回答一句：这样的力量来自父的家。意思是说，他认出来这些技能只有亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各的家族才会拥有。于是他选择不用武力来解决问题。（Chassidah, 圣经人物百科全书Encyclopedia of Biblical Personalities,第331页）

我在网上查找关于这个故事的例子时，首先查到了您的两位会众Blog中关于狮子吼的文章，进而找到您的Blog网站。虽然我上面引用的故事不是关于狮子吼的圣经依据，因为是在Midrash中记载的，但我确实认为很有趣。我没有亲自查找圣经人物百科全书，因为它也是引用另一本杂志叫做Targum。我通常不会这样冒昧与人联系，但感动圣灵催促我，让你看到这个故事是很重要的。

读这个故事的时候，我自己想，我认为我可能有这个恩赐。几年前我在韩国的时候（大约2000年），我在一个敬拜会中禁不住声嘶力竭地呼喊“荣耀”，在那前后我没有过类似的经历。直到去年，我在伊拉克与我的祷告小组一起在礼拜堂房顶上祷告，我们一起做每周一次的代祷，我感觉主催促我尽我所能地大声呼喊“耶稣”。声音似乎已经震耳欲聋，但我感到还能更大声。牧师上来阻止我们，因为声音太大了。到房顶来阻止我们的牧师很受鼓励（他也是经历圣灵充满的基督徒），但他建议我们到礼拜堂地下继续祷告，不要在房顶上。我实际上没有再用过这个，也不确定这是用来做什么的，我只是本能地知道我那样做的时候是在做属灵争战。

我找到的另一个参考信息是：“狮子吼”是一种“功夫”。在一部叫做“功夫”的功夫片中有描述 。片中一位女士超自然地吼叫，打败她的对手。当然，撒旦会试图扭曲神所赐的恩赐，因此我对此并不感到惊奇。

我希望您能在这个问题上给我一些亮光，使我能理解这个属灵恩赐。您的教会中或其他地方如何使用这个恩赐，您在这方面能给我的一些什么看见。谢谢您付出的宝贵时间，愿神在接下来的几周丰丰富富祝福您。

在基督里,

Robert

我也要感谢您给我的链接，我读了您的笔记和以前的见证，但我还没有读Dainel Ng长老的见证。谢谢您！

另外，如有人感兴趣，Targum是一个小规模的PDF游戏杂志，现已不再出版（但可以在http://www.rpgnow.com/网站上找到），内容源于一个叫做“约”的游戏：扮演圣经时代的人物。我想查找杂志中的一片文章，结果在网上发现了Midrash的文本（http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/loj/loj203.htm）。在Midrash中完整地确证了这个故事。

我把完整的故事列在下面以便您阅读，有关大声 呼喊 吼叫等的部分。

当弟兄们屈服于约瑟的要求，同意留下他们的兄弟做人质时，西缅对他们说，“你们要待我象从前待约瑟一样吗” 但他们绝望地回答说：“我们有什么办法呢？我们全家都要饿死了。”西缅回答：“按你们的意思办吧，但我要看看谁敢把我投入监狱。”约瑟传话给法老，让法老派给他70个勇士帮助捉拿强盗。但当70个人来到并要动手捉拿西缅时，他发出大声，这些人倒在地上撞掉了牙齿。法老的勇士们以及在约瑟旁边的人都吓坏了，只有约瑟和他儿子玛拿西镇静不动。玛拿西起来，对西缅后颈击打一下，把手铐戴在他的手上，脚镣戴在他脚上，把西缅投入监狱。约瑟的弟兄们对这个年轻人的英武非常震惊，西缅说，“这一拳不是出于埃及人，是我们家族的一员”。

这句话极大触动了犹大，他禁不住呜咽，大声哭道，“我怎么回去见我父亲呢。他的呼声达到了四百里（古波斯单位）之外的迦南地，但的儿子户伸听到了，一步就跨到埃及，与犹大一起呼喊，整个大地因他们发出的极大声音几乎塌陷。约瑟的勇士们牙齿都被震掉，比东和兰塞城被毁坏，留下废墟直到以色列人在督工手下时被重建。之前保持安静的犹大的弟兄们，也都大发雷霆，用脚顿地，直到地好象被犁出深沟一样。犹大对他的弟兄们说：“勇敢起来！我们暂且屈尊如人，各人展现自己的英勇，因现在的环境使我们不得不尽力如此行。”

玛拿西也同时召集了一支大军，五百骑兵加一万步兵，其中有四百能不用刀枪徒手作战的勇士。为了震慑他的弟兄们，约瑟让这些人用各样器具奏出大声。他们的声势的确使约瑟的几个弟兄害怕。但犹大对他们说：“你们害怕呢什么呢，这是神要赐怜悯与我们。”他拔出剑来，发出狂呼，使所有人惊慌失措，在逃跑的混乱中很多人互相践踏死亡。犹大和他弟兄们追赶逃军直到法老宫殿。回到约瑟那里后，犹大再次大声吼叫，其回声之强烈，使埃及和兰塞所有城墙倒塌，怀孕妇女流产，法老从宝座逃走。犹大的呼喊声达到极远处，直到疏割。

当我读这个故事时，对里面的记载感到非常惊讶，我也很想知道您会说些什么，尤其当您有机会能读完整的故事时，因这只不过是约瑟与众弟兄会面故事的摘录而已。当然Midrash不是在圣经正典里，不能作为圣经根据，但它却很精彩。

我们知道讲出来的话语很有能力，创世纪1章也证明了这一点，神用他的话创造世界。马太福音12:36说我们口中所出的一切话都要句句供出来。因此，您说狮子吼是圣灵所运做的一个极有能力的恩赐，也就不以为奇了。很有意思，Midrash也描述了声音的破坏性能力。我会继续祷告并研究这个主题，如果有所发现，会转发给您。请为我祷告，不只是做学术研究，而且也使我能分辨神要我在哪里服事并分辨圣灵给我的恩赐。请让我知道我应该如何为您和您的教会祷告。期待您对这些Midrash摘录内容的反馈意见，这些内容您可以随意发布在blog中。愿神在以下几周丰丰富富赐福与您！

在基督里,

Robert