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I want to talk to you about being allured Into the Wilderness as a lord and I’d like you to go to Hosea the second chapter of Hosea Alert Into the Wilderness uh second chapter verses 14 and 15. therefore behold I will Allure her and bring her into the Wilderness and speak comfortably unto her and I will give her her Vineyards from thence and the valley of acar for a Door of Hope and she shall sing there as in the days of her Youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt Heavenly Father I pray for a word from heaven for those tonight who are discouraged and those that you brought to this service who need a miracle those who are here for the first time those are here Lord on just a few times those who make this their Church home Lord you know exactly what was needed tonight and you prepared it and I pray Lord Jesus you give me your touch that the fire of the Holy Ghost burn these words Lord we’re not here to put in time we’re here to minister to you and be ministered to Lord this is life and death so I acknowledge you my need for you the anointing the power and the presence of the spirit of the Living God make these words as simple as they are and short as they may be God drive them into our hearts I pray in Jesus name amen now I want to talk to you tonight about your trying times your times of testing your difficult troubled times your discouraging times your Wilderness times your downcast times the times when you’re blue and down and out and hurting now look at me please I would I would imagine I would hope to believe that the majority of you sitting in this church tonight are not down in fact you’re high you’re on some spiritual High I wish everybody was on a spiritual High I mean just just haven’t you’re on the mountain today God bless you if you are you can just sit by while I talk to those who are going through it and by the way get the tape and save it for next week the Christian experience is not always on the mountain it’s not always a spiritual High and I want to tell you why if you’re in a spiritual struggle tonight I want to tell you how you got there and what it’s all about when you know how you got into this place this Wilderness dry place that you’re in if you know how you got there and you know why you’re there then it makes it easier to endure and that’s why I want to take you into this now in in Hosea the first chapter and in the second chapter up to the 14th verse God is talking to Israel as a harlot wife who has cheated on him and gone out and committed idolatry and he comes back with a prophet and he says I want you to plead I want you to plead for Israel Israel at this point was really backslidden and God said because you’re backslidden I’m going to strip you I’m going to strip you of all of those things that you loved I’m going to build a wall around you so that you can’t penetrate it I’m going to wall you in I’m gonna I’m gonna put thorns in your path so that you are confused in fact you try to walk any further away from me it’s going to be very very painful for you and when you read Hosea the prophet the first chapter and the second chapter you see God saying you have cheated on me you have sinned against me and because of that I’m going to have to make things very very difficult for you and yet the Lord saying I’m not going to give up on you and folks this is the most important thing I believe a Christian has to understand that God’s not mad at his people that that God is always out to save us he’s always out to redeem us he’s always out to deliver us God is a deliverer by name that is his name he is a savior he’s a deliverer and and folks uh the way some preachers preached today you would think that that God has just got a whip in his hand all the time and loves to chase him no God says he that’s not his favorite thing God does not love to Chase and he chastens those he loves but he calls that his hard task it’s difficult for God it’s the pain of God I remember some of you remember a message I preached in fact the pain of God there had been a number of people that had slandered me at that particular time out of nowhere stuff that was off the wall and and it was very painful and I said God you’re gonna have to deal with them and God made it very clear he said if you knew how hard it is for me to discipline how hard it is for me to spank my children and how painful it is you would ask for that I do it because it’s my law but it’s a painful thing for me to do that I I remember telling God when I came through a hard time I said Lord I don’t ever want to have to go through that again and Lord said neither do I neither do I don’t want to go through that with you again David it pained me to see how you hurt it pained me all that you went through and all the discipline I had to give it was difficult on me and I know that to be a fact here God is saying to the Israelites though you have failed me and now they’re at the point of total discouragement they have no hope uh the world no longer answers to their cry they have a foreign a hedge of thorns about them they are walled in they don’t know which way to turn and so at this moment God says therefore or because you’re at this hard place folks I don’t know how you got into your hard place at first how it begin now sometimes our hard place comes by sin and the sin that I want to talk about is the sin of unbelief now you can talk to me about adultery fornication gambling drugs promiscuous sex all of those sins and God despises those but he’s more patient with all of those sins combined than he is with the sin of unbelief it was the sin of unbelief that brought Israel into idolatry and our modern day idolatry is the sin of unbelief or how that ties the hand of God how that strips us of everything that God wants to do how it stops the flow of rivers I preached that I was in Montreal last weekend I wasn’t here Sunday if you recall I preached to the largest giving of men in the history of the corrupt Province and to see God’s holy spirit come down I’d preached about all your Rivers flowing a message I’d preached here how when our unbelief comes to the surface it blocks up all our rivers of blessing of joy and peace and these people had all the rivers blocked nothing of blessing was coming into their lives and they were hurting and folks God in his love will let you reach a place where you hurt where where all comfort is taken from you it’s not that the Holy Spirit has left you but you’re in a in a place where God is trying to speak and trying to do something now look at verse Hosea 2 verse 14 again therefore in other words listen very closely because you’re at your lowest possible place because I brought you down and you seem to be hopeless therefore behold I will Allure her and bring her into the wilderness now look at me please that word allure in Hebrew is a a root word that means to open and enlarge God says because you’re in this tight place I’m going to do something I’m going to bring you into the Wilderness I’m going to bring you into a very dry hard uh place where there’s no water there’s no refreshment I ain’t going to bring you it’s not the flesh it’s not the devil now folks this ought to be encouragement to you when God says because you were you have brought yourself into this place and because I love you I’ve had to allow you to come down I’ve had to strip you I’ve had to bring you this place now therefore I’m going to bring you into a drier place you’re in a hard I’m going to bring you into a place that is absolutely lonely where it’s just you and I and he said I’m going to bring you into this Wilder I’m going to lure you now that’s not tempting that’s not seducing the real word is I’m going to bring you into a place of enlargement I’m going to open up your spirit I’m going to open up your personality you’ve been closed in I’m going to bring you into a difficult hard trying dry empty place well I can enlarge you I will bring you look at it again therefore behold I that’s God speaking I will Allure her and bring her into the Wilderness who brought you into the wilderness is that God speaking it’s God speaking I will bring you into this wilderness now some of you may not be there but I think you’ve been there if not then there you’re going there I heard uh tape someone sent me a tape this week from a Prosperity conference and it was brother Jim Baker speaking and I tell you did he preach oh he said I’m here to tell you and people were walking out by the hundreds and you can see on the camera they had their hands folded he said God sent me to jail God took me to that heart empty dry place because my theology was wrong he said I took out of the Bible all the suffering and all the pain and all the testing and he went through it he said we have made a mistake and he just the power of God was on him I never heard such preaching in my life it was incredible but you see many people don’t want to hear that they don’t want to hear that you know they want to hear well God will bless you he will prosper I believe God wants to bless his people I believe God just like I love to bless my children I love to do things for my children God loves to do things for his children he wants us to be blessed and happy in him but that can’t happen until he produces the character that can handle it the hardest thing to handle is prosperity I’ll tell you what you talk about being tested people will pass the test of poverty when they can’t pass the test of prosperity the Bible says when children of Israel were prospered Jerusalem Jesuit which is Jerusalem Israel backslid they grew fat and cold and hard they couldn’t handle the blessing because they hadn’t had the testing to bring out the character that could handle the blessings oh God will bless you when he knows you can handle it but God says I’m going to bring you into this place I’m going to let you suffer I will let things be dry it’s called a dry spell and some of you are thirsty here tonight because you’re in a dry spell and you’re going to get to the Altar and I want to give an invitation and you’re going to get soaked because of God’s promise Hallelujah this is not a depressing message this is a positive message of hope that prophet’s giving us here I will bring her in to the Wilderness and speak comfortably and in Hebrew it’s be kindly unto her now isn’t that the grace of God when we have through our unbelief and through our sinning brought ourselves into a very difficult place where God has to stop us right there and say all right here’s where you brought yourself this is self-imposed difficulties now I’m going to bring you into my place of difficulty I’m going to bring you into Wilderness where it’s just you and me and folks when you stand at the Judgment Day your pastor’s not going to stand beside you the hospital wife are not going to be there it’s one on one we all answer to God for ourself so you’d better have a handle now you’d better know where you stand with God God so I’m going to bring you and Israel when God took Israel out of Egypt he’s I brought you to myself brought them into this place of testing unto his own heart he said I will speak kindly to you in other words you’re going to get to know my voice folks let me tell you at my age now and having served God all my life in our prayer time today I reminded the Lord said Lord I’ve never known the world I’ve never wanted the world has called to preach at eight years of age and preached as a teenager in all these years my whole life has been Jesus and I thank him for keeping me but I I want you to know right now that if I have learned to know his voice and that which I know of his voice has come to me in these testing times it’s come to me when he’s taken me apart and allowed me to to feel uh the absolute uh downness of the flesh the helplessness and hopelessness of the flesh until I I can’t hear any other voice until I get hungry to know God I want to be holy dependent upon you and this woman Israel in Hosea 1 and 2 had been the Bible calls her leaning on her lovers now when we lean on our lovers that means leaning on the flesh turning to people for advice turning to counselors turning to the telephone always wanting somebody to give us a word and not knowing the voice of God ourselves and sometimes and I believe that clearly for somebody tonight the Reason God brought to this place you’ve called everybody you’ve tried everything else God says now when are you going to be holy dependent on me when are you going to let me speak that still Small Voice into your heart where you get to know my voice God said I’ll speak to you but not until I get you in the wilderness first you’re going to get to know my voice and that that hard testing time that’s where I’ve got to know his voice I was thinking about it I was telling someone about it yesterday a number of years ago my wife in I think her third or fourth operation of cancer my daughter Debbie with cancer and at that particular time everything their financial problems in the ministry foreign my son had been on a headline Collision but was delivered but it just seemed like everywhere I turned it was Wilderness it was testing and it got the place where I couldn’t handle it anymore in the flesh and I remember going into my wife was in the hospital I said I can’t even go in there and face her now I’m too damp I don’t know what to do Lord I went into a hotel room near the hospital and laid on the bed and stretched out and said Lord unless you speak to me I can’t go on another moment I’m just gonna have to lay here and try to sleep for the next 48 hours I don’t know where to turn I don’t know what to do and holy spirit in that time said David don’t do anything just lay down and let me embrace you and he put his arms around me in the spirit and gave me one word one word he makes all wars to cease he makes all wars God said David you have nothing to fear though has no power I’m able now let your Wars one by one let him go let your wife go put her in my hands let your daughter put her in my hands your son he smashed the car it was totaled but he came out of it without a scratch didn’t he all my Wars he started putting out all the fires and all the wars it’s not go up get up go into hospital room administer to Gwen I get up and from that time on there was a change because he took me to the wilderness and he spoke to me there kindly when you’re down and you’re hurting God’s not going to send a prophet and beat on you he’s not going to send a preacher and tear your soul apart when you’re down and out he’s going to do just like he’s doing now he’s going to minister kindly he said I’m going to speak kindly to you God is not mad at you God brought you to this place but he did it because he wants his word to get into your heart he wants you to be holy dependent on him and not trust in man or flesh Paul said I know no man after the flesh from now on I know only Christ and him crucified that doesn’t mean that there there is good advice but if anybody gets advice you already got your word from God anybody’s anything anybody it has to confirm what God’s already told you I see people running all over the place doing so many stupid things that who told you that well brother so and so said somebody handed me a letter I was at our Bible school yesterday and the student had a letter some big prophecy somebody gave to him said this time next year you’re going to meet your wife well that poor kid he’s going to be 12 years looking at every woman that comes in around that poor kid’s gonna and if and if if it’s a 12th month and there’s nobody there at the last two weeks if that Providence if it’s not fulfilled he’s going to get desperate and he’s going to make a compromise if he doesn’t wake up God doesn’t put somebody under a burden for 12 months you just serve God while your heart heal or she or he will cross you a path God will do it supernaturally [Applause] that was a a man of faith I will give her Vineyards from fence from that place I’ll give you Vineyards now listen he said I’m going to take you Into the Wilderness I’m going to do that and there I’m going to speak kindly to you and then he says in that place I’m going to give you Vineyards now he didn’t say I’m going to give you a tree which represents or I’m going to give you a basket of fruit I’m going to make you fruitful he goes beyond that he’s saying something here that’s so superlative so Supernatural he’s talking about character he’s giving us that really the tree that produces the fruit character is the tree that produces the fruit everything comes from having honesty and Truth in the inner man having Godly character God says I’m working on your character I’m going to make it so that you you don’t have just Sparks of fruit you just don’t have times and seasons of goodness and Holiness and righteousness and then up and down in and out hot and cold I’m trying to produce in you I want to make you a Vineyard that’s always producing I want character in you he said and in this Valley in this dry spell in this testing time I am going to make you a Vineyard I’m going to give it to you that’s going to be your heritage now folks if you’re in a hard place tonight that ought to be great comfort that God’s producing characters so oh brother books and I can’t see that I can’t feel it no you don’t see it you don’t feel it it’s got something doing Supernatural you may not even know it it may be a month later or two months later that you will know God did something in that hard time you said well brother Dave there’s a cloud over my head because the Bible says next I will cause you to sing there I’m going to make the valley of acar a valley of hope you remember the valley vehicle that’s where Aiken sinned against God they went up against A.I and they ran before their enemies and what what the Lord is saying where before because you lack the the root and you didn’t have the Christian character that you needed you fled before your interview I’m going to give you a strong character I can make your spiritual your personality and the spirit strong you’re not going to run from your enemies on it more you see the valley of acar was the last was absolutely the doorway into Canaan land and folks the place that you’re at is a doorway of Hope into a whole new realm in the Holy Spirit of righteousness that is of his and he says I’m going to cause you to sing you said but I don’t feel like singing when you’re down and out you don’t feel like singing but God says I’m going to put a song in your heart you say there’s a cloud hanging me over brother over me brother Dave there’s a dark cloud hanging over me of depression there’s a dark cloud of fear guilt condemnation I don’t know what it is a cloud hanging over your head but I want you to know God’s saying I’m going to chase that cloud away all he has to do is huff and puff a little bit and that cloud is gone and he says my My Sunshine is behind the cloud and it’s going to break one of these days folks what you’re going through is not going to stay long it is going to be passed I have been in places sometimes I if you could read my journal for for I remember a four-month period of time where I cried every morning my wife had to sometimes pick me up off a chair to move me and and so weary and so uh tested and so tried and you read in my journal it said oh God will this never end will it never end and and and then did we scripture after scripture come to me and God said it will end it will end whatever you’re going through the cloud it’s going to pass it’s going to end you may not understand it that it’s going to end the sorrow the mourning the hardship the heartache the financial disaster the crisis it’s going to pass do you hear it I said it’s going to go it’s going to pass [Applause] Hallelujah and you shall sing there in that Valley of acre Hallelujah you don’t ever want to go back but you’ll thank God when you come through for the character that he’s produced then you realize that God was in it all the time don’t go trying to blame the devil for what God is doing God is doing it he’s he’s producing something in you rejoice now I want you to go now to to Isaiah 54.

here’s the good part really good part before we close Isaiah 54 let’s start verse 14. does everybody have it well I still hear the rustling of the leaves here all right Isaiah 54 I want you to read it follow me please verse 14 beginning to read right through 17. in righteousness shall thou be established thou shall be far from oppression for thou shall not fear and from Terror it shall not come near thee all right now look every fruit just a minute you may be in this Valley Vapor you may be taken into the Wilderness by the by the Lord he’s going to do all these things that he said to you for you but more than anything else he’s producing righteousness in you the righteousness which is by faith because when you’re in the wilderness you can’t do anything you can’t produce anything there’s there are no resources you have to be totally dependent on the Lord and that’s where our rightness is by faith our works are filthy rags our righteousness is his righteousness given to us by our faith we respond Jesus it’s your blood sprinkle me not my righteousness but the righteous of Jesus Christ that’s what he’s going to do in this Wilderness for you and and I’ll tell you what he’s going to deal with your enemies human enemies demon enemies all principalities and powers of Darkness God’s going to deal with you don’t have to be revengeful you don’t have to fight this battle you you have somebody in the job harassing you you have somebody that job hates you and they get together with others and they pile up against you and then you know they’re talking about you every time you turn around do you have relatives in-laws Outlaws is there anybody in this building tonight doesn’t have enemies like your name and address I’d like to give you a medal if you’re doing anything for God you’re going to have enemies you’re going to have enemies but let me show you what happens verse 15 behold they shall surely gather together they’re going to get together against you but not by me God said I didn’t send them out they’re not they’re they I didn’t raise them up against you not by me whosoever Shall Gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake you know people say Brother David you want you want me to prove it’s for you and me look at verse 16.

Behold I have created the Smith that bloweth the coals in the fire and to bringeth forth an instrument for his work now I’ve created the ways to destroy and by the way, the hot times that you’re in God’s creating an instrument for his use that’s what he says in verse 16. all right look at this no weapon no weapon no weapon of the devil no weapon of any human being that is formed against they shall prosper and every tongue that shall rise against in judgment Dawson condemn all right here’s the proof that’s for you and me this is the heritage of the Servants of the Lord now are you a servant of the Lord so this is for every servant of the Lord that’s the testimony there and finish it out with me this is the heritage of the Servants of the Lord and their righteousnesses of me saith the Lord God said don’t worry what people say about you I see you as righteous because I’ve been working on you Hallelujah I want you to stand no weapon formed against you nobody going to bring you down nobody’s going to be able to hurt you Hallelujah now I come back to this request hard times I’m having hard times emotionally I need spiritual guidance I hope you’ve got your spiritual guidance through the word here tonight now I’m going to open the altars and I want to pray prophetically tonight and earnestly for those who say brother Wilkerson I needed this tonight God knows I needed this tonight I I am in that hard difficult Wilderness right now I want you to come down these owls and stand here we’re going to pray I’m going to believe God tonight for absolute Victory Hallelujah wonderful Jesus Hallelujah Praise You Lord while you standing one thing you’ve got to be absolutely convinced of before you go there for you’ve been absolutely convinced that the lord loves you how am I going to say that I mean wave your head I know he loves me I know second you’ve got to know that he wants you he wants you to come into a fullness he wants you to have his character he wants you to grow in Grace so that you’re not flying off the handle at everything you’re not gossiping you’re not slandering there’s a sweetness of Christ so you say with Paul I live never blessed yet not I but Christ lives in me how many are willing to admit that what you’re going through now God brought you here God brought you here I’m into this hard place amen you know what that you know what that does for you I give such hope Lord if you brought me here you can get me out if you put me here do and me what you have to do Lord you know what I’ve always said I hope this is what you could say I’ve talked to you as a father listen to me now I say God if I’m doing something wrong if I sinned against you I want you I want to come to you in love I don’t want you to have to whip me and spank me into obedience I want to come and be dealt with because I love you I want to be dealt with in love I want to surrender not because I have to but because I want to I don’t want you to have to because you love me discipline me all the time I I loved it when my children would come and say Dad I did something wrong and I’m so sorry and I had to tell you because I love you I don’t want to hurt you that did more for me I didn’t want to have to investigate and expose God’s not an exposing business he’s in the healing business he said I cover sins Hallelujah but that means you come with a repentant broken spirit and say Lord I want all of you now I’ll tell you you can take the power of this away from the Devil you can take this out of the hands of the enemy right now if you say devil you just stand up by faith and say devil you didn’t bring me here and you can’t touch me here the Lord said he brought me here he’s teaching me and I’m going to open up my heart let the Holy Ghost teach me and produce his character in me and I’m not going to be afraid I’m going to trust you Lord Jesus right now Hallelujah but you’re going to make my cloud disappear no weapon formed against me going to prosper while I’m in this place I’m safe you’re safe in this place don’t have to worry about it Hallelujah I’m safe Hallelujah [Applause] open open your heart to Lord pray this with me now if you will Jesus you brought me to where I’m at because you love me and you care about me and Lord it’s difficult it’s hard on my flesh and I feel convicted I feel hurt and I feel like I want out but Jesus do something in me first I want to be like you Jesus I want truth in the Inner Man I want to be honest and upright before you I yield to you Holy Spirit let there be a song in my heart I ask you Lord as soon as you choose remove this cloud from my heart move the cloud from my spirit and mind and bring me through to your sunshine because I know you love me I want you to lift your hands until the Lord you just love him just love on him right now I love you Jesus I thank you for being concerned about me you’re going to deliver me Hallelujah no weapon that’s formed against me shall prosper no enemy no tongue no tongue that’s raised up against me no group of people against me were able to bring me down for Lord I trust in you heal my unbelief o God take my unbelief I Trust You O God hallelujah now while you’re while you’re worshiping the Lord I want to take his authority over that Spirit of unbelief now I can’t cast that out of you but while I pray the Holy Spirit can help you right now lay down all your unbelief say God when I go back to my seat to pray and join this people to prayer tonight I’m going out of here with faith I’m going to believe God that he he’s with me he’s not forsaken me he knows where I’m at he has all the power to deliver me and I’m going to ask God to heal my unbelief God I come against the spirit of unbelief bind it Strike It Down God that’s one thing you don’t want that’s one thing you’re after you bring us to a hard place to see if we will trust you now Lord help us say yes Lord yay Lord I give you my confidence I give you my faith you are able to keep me from falling and present me faultless before the throne of grace with exceeding great joy Hallelujah wonderful Jesus Hallelujah not just thank him give him thanks [Applause] Hallelujah glory to Jesus I want you to turn around say cancel at least five people and say God has everything under control everything under control God has everything under control this is the conclusion of the message

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