MN: A Two-day revival sees breakthrough! “Just believe-don’t doubt”-Pastor McNay

Born an orphan in the heart of Africa where opportunities for school and work seemed rare, God transformed young McNay Nkashama’s life from childhood and he’s on the road today, preaching salvation, deliverance, love of Jesus Christ, and telling everyone to only believe so God can do the rest for them.

By James Kokulo Fasuekoi; Editor/Publisher

Pastor Song Lee is a Hmong and originally hails from Asia. And so are almost all of the members of her congregation at Agape Love Church, located along University Ave., West St. Paul, MN.

For weeks, ahead of their church’s revival services they prayed for a Breakthrough and asked for God’s Spirit to show up at the revival and heal people of broken-hearts and other ailments.

Answers to their prayer manifested Friday night, the first night of the church’s two-day revival services as worshipers shivered and shouted praises to God as they knelt down at the altar.

Some lay helplessly flat on their back under the power of God’s anointing, crying out in praises to the LORD.   

Still, others remained in their seats, laughing out their hearts endlessly just as guest speaker, Pastor Mcnay Nkashama had foretold at the start of the revival titled: BREAKTHROUGH!

Mcnay’s healing message to the new Hmong Christian congregation was quite brief and simple as the theme of the revival itself. He told everyone he prayed for to “Just believe and don’t doubt.”

He carried the same message over to day two of the revival and when they obeyed, the glory of God manifested across the sanctuary and touched many lives.

Using Genesis 32:22-32 Mcnay Nkashama, a world evangelist, started off by walking his audience through the life story of Jacob; his fight with his brother Esu while they were yet in their mother’s womb.

Jacob, a swindler, he said, would later go on and rob his brother Esu, of his Esu’s birthright by feigning Esu, thereby making their Father Isaac to bestow the blessing intended for the first-born (Esu) upon him, Jacob.

Thereafter, friction escalated between the two brothers, causing deep separation among them, a situation that made Jacob to flee for his life to what many would called today as exile.  

Pastor Mcnay cited Jacob’s riches-two wives, two women servants and eleven sons, and said Jacob had been blessed by God in the beginning, a blessing that would follow him for the rest of his life.

He described Jacob as a “very successful man”, an indication that God’s prophecy in his life was on track.

But in spite of Jacob’s wealth, Mcnay said, his life was beset by many tragedies; he was a “fugitive,” and his heart remained very troubled.

While Jacob was “succeeding materially, his heart wasn’t succeeding” and that’s because, there was something missing inside of him, Jacob, Mcnay maintained. “He was rich and blessed by God and yet struggling with something inside [of] him.”       

Pastor McNay said true fulfillment is not the outward achievement but rather, it is having a deep sense of peace on the inside of the individual and Jacob wasn’t an exception.

There comes a time in life he said when one gets tired of running away as was the case with Jacob. The person may even attempt to mend his or her brokenness but finds it impossible to do it on his own and that’s when God, he said, will come in and heal the person. 

Reverting to Jacob’s story where he’s about to cross the “ford Jabbok”, Mcnay, founder of Minneapolis’ Across the Nations Church and a lecturer at Spiritual Life Bible College in Minnesota, said Jacob found himself at such hopeless point.  

Narrating further, he said Jacob was left alone and a man came that night and wrestled with him (Gen. 32:24). The man is believed to be God, or Jesus Christ who had come down to Jacob in Angelic form.

He said God’s visitation often comes with a breakthrough when one finds himself at a cross road in such predicament as Jacob’s where he’s left alone and can’t go further nor backward.

Like in Jacob’s situation, he said, the person may not even know why he’s at a particular place all by himself; it’s because, God arrested him.

“Why would you want to send everyone away and be by yourself?” he asked. “It just happened and then someone shows up to fight with him.”

He reasoned it is not all of life’s misfortunes or “struggles” that are generated by the devil.

Some, according to him, come from God: “It’s God trying to catch your attention…it’s God trying to change something.”

A true breakthrough he explained is discovering God in an unusual manner as it happened in Jacob’s case for example.

A true breakthrough, he continued, doesn’t end with a single miracle but discovering the source of the power which is God, “who gives to man continually.”

Following Jacob’s all night wrestle with the Angel, Mcnay said, “And God in His kindness doesn’t win the battle” but allowed Jacob to prevail as He God apparently had something good in store for him.

God wanting to see whether Jacob is eager to get something from Him, eventually, told Jacob, “Let me go…” but Jacob refused, and instead demanded God to bless him first, Mcnay observed.

God then asked Jacob “What’s your name?” and Jacob told God “My name is Jacob.”

By stating or confessing his name, Pastor Mcnay noted, “he [Jacob] was admitting the state of his heart” as a “swindler” while at the same time separating himself from his old character and misfortunates of his past life.

As it happened, he said, God gave Jacob a new name that night, calling him “Israel” which means “he who strives with God” or, would “rule as God.”

The wisdom of Jacob’s story is that he had reached a point he couldn’t run or fight anyone; neither could he make it on his own any longer after his wrestle with God (which apparently applies to his own life in general), and the dislocation of his hip. 

“For God to break you lose, you’ve got to be willing to lay all [your burdens] on the altar to allow Him give you a new name.”

He told the audience to examine their own personal lives and figure whether or not they needed a new name from God like Jacob.

One of the biggest problems with the current generation is that they love to live a fake life, he said. They live a life of what he described as “masked people.” “We live lives that aren’t real but for people to see.”

But revival, he added, only comes “when people start to get real with God” and stop pretending to be what they aren’t. 

He told the audience Jesus is the answer for all of their nightmares and no one can tell him [Mcnay] that Jesus can’t solve whatever problems they face.

“I have seen drugs addicts go free…I’ve see metal plague disappeared. When you get real with God, He gets real with you. Tonight lay all on the altar,” he implored the audience.

Evangelist Mcnay, comes from a humbled background and doesn’t shy away from discussing his past life’s struggles especially when teaching at the bible college or preaching sermons.  

He gave a gripping testament of his childhood life while growing up in the heart of Africa-the Democratic Republic of Congo-formerly, Zaire-then ruled by one of Africa’s worst dictators, Mobutu Sese Seko.       

Born an orphan in a large family, and not so loved by his siblings, amid lack of opportunities for work and education, Mcnay told his audience he has seen “sufferings” at first-hand and encouraged everyone to trust in God to transform their lives as He (God) did for him many years ago.