David Wilkerson – Lessons We Have Never Learned
I have been preaching a series of messages first uh you were exposed hopefully and prayerfully that you've received the messages that went out in a book called America's last call I preached all of those messages here on in this platform and I'm going to be releasing soon a new book called God's plan to keep his people in the coming depression and that book will be out soon and these are all messages I've preached from this pulpit and today will be another there were two more to come so just rest there are two more to come and these are hopeful messages as I trust this will be this morning and I asked the Lord why we as Watchmen have to keep warning and bring message after message and I found the answer in John 14 after Jesus had warned of coming persecution and very hard times he said to disciples I've told you before it came to pass that when it has come to pass you might believe well they were already Believers believe what frankly I believe that Jesus saying if if you know I forewarned you you can believe that I'll keep you through what I told you was coming he said you can believe if you can believe that I loved you so much to warn you you can believe that I would take you through it and what the Lord said right after that I will be talking to you very much because I'm going to talk to you through my servants remember uh all the prophets the Old Testament talked about a great outpouring coming of Pentecost then when it happened when it came to pass Peter stood said this and that which was prophesied by the prophets and you see the hope is that God who so tenderly warns us says I do this so that you can believe that when the hard times come those same voices will be bringing to you all the hope and the strength that you need from the word of God my message this morning lessons we have never learned lessons we have never learned there are a lot of things I should have done I wished I'd done but didn't do a lot of lessons I wish I have learned but I want to learn the lessons that I'm talking to you about this morning the lessons we have never learned heavenly father I prayed this morning that you anoint me as I deliver it and anoint every here as they hear it Lord I didn't get this from anyone but you I got it on my knees I got it from your throne room and I know Lord Jesus that the message that goes forth today is going to go out throughout the whole world one of these days soon to bring encouragement to millions of your people Lord we say that humbly but we believe with everything in our hearts you're trying to bring forth hope and cheer in a very difficult time that lies ahead so I pray Lord that we receive your word with Grace in Jesus name I pray amen America and all the nations of the world seem to go ignorantly on their way leaders acting as Mad Men totally ignoring the testimony of History never once looking back to see how God deals with Nations that sin absolutely ignoring the past living in a blind presence absolutely judicially blinded to the testimony of History they're making the same mistakes that generation after generation Empire after Empire has made one mistake after another never learning from history Moses commanded Israel to well remember what the Lord thy God did to pharaoh and to Egypt furthermore he said I want you to remember forget not how you provoked the Lord to wrath in the wilderness so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you then Moses went on to declare thou shall remember the Lord thy God what is he that gave the power to get well then Moses added these words it was God Who provided water where there was no water and how he fed you with manna and how he led you through a Wilderness where there were fiery serpents and scorpions and drought Moses is commanding said I want you and your children your grandchildren to look back I want you to look back at the ways that you provoke God and because of your provoking of him he said judgment he sent depression he said deprivation he said I want you to remember all the ways of the Lord and I want you to learn from that I want you to learn from your fathers and your elders he said I want you to go back and look at the record of history and don't make the same mistakes you don't have to be a prophet you don't have to be you don't have to have the gift of Prophecy just study the word go to the word of God and look at the nature of God and how he deals with Nations when they sin when Moses literally cries out to Israel these words remember the days of old consider the years of many generations ask your father he'll show you ask your elders they're going to tell you he said go back in history look at what I did look at how I provided in hard times look how I judged in difficult times when people sin so grievously against me he said I'll do it again I I never change I'm the same yesterday today and forever your generation sins of Sodom I will deal with you with Sodom you sin as Israel did and I will deal with you as Israel did all the Roman Empire The Grecian Empire the Macedonian Empire all of these Empires I will deal with you as I dealt with history now in keeping with the Commandment of Moses I want you to go back with me to a generation I want you in a generation is considered uh anywhere from 50 to 70 years and let's let's go back into what was called The Roaring Twenties the 1920s it was called The Decade of Decadence and I want you to listen I have studied history I've studied the word of God and I've gone back through the history of the United States I came to you prepared this morning I did what Moses commanded me to do go back in history what I want you to take about 10-15 minutes with me and I want to remind you of what happened in the United States of America and you we have over 103 nationalities in this church some of you are newly here in America you don't know the history of America I want to give you a little history lesson I want you to listen closely and then I'm going to tie it in spiritually to what I believe God is saying to us today The Roaring Twenties God sent a Great Depression at the close of that time those Roaring Twenties came to a sudden halt he was trying to give us a warning it's I called a likewise warning remember he said when the tower fell on them he said if you don't repent it's going to be likewise he said when the galileans were destroyed by far likewise you he was given little warnings he was telling them I'm going to burn Israel with fire and the towers are going to fall all the towers he was giving the little sample and he said likewise this was a likewise judgment he's trying to tell us what was going to come later he was just giving us a warning in the 20s you know up to 19 20 1919 America changed from a religious well-mannered Society into a drunken selfish ill-mannered sex-obsessed country there were two main contributing factors as the invention of the radio there was no radio until the 20s and no closed automobiles only model T's up high no roof convertibles or no tops 1920 came the enclosed car and usually only the rich had it but when the closed car came newspapers called them brothels on Wheels there was a sexual Revolution broke out in the 1920s the revolution of manners and morals in 1920 remember women's suffrage that gave women the vote and up to the time up to 1920 women were the keepers of morality in the United States the alarming thing happened and many of the people of that day secular people the writers of the New York Times for example tied it to the shortening of the hems of the skirts of the women of the day because up to 1919 the long dresses were to the very ground I want you to listen to this an alarm fashion writer in New York Times in 1920 explained or complained he said the American women are now lifting their skirts Beyond any modest limitation and one writer said if they're nine inches off the ground today there's going to come a day that America will become so immoral that it may reach the kneecap now folks that sounds a little funny to you and it sounds legalistic that what would our father say if they saw the mini skirts and saw the bikinis and nakedness and address of today you talk about immorality these were not preachers these were these were unconverted men in the Press they had the flappers of the day that introduced the short skirts and short sleeve dresses for the first time and then suddenly women began to smoke they had never smoked before this time in public and even what they called the nice ladies begin to smoke and there there were uh preachers who thought they were in with the times and they they weren't they encouraged the parents and there's nothing to worry about the kids that are having sexual experimentation in their closed Automobiles and it's nothing wrong with the sensual dancing because dancing became very very Central in 1921 and 22 the theaters became sensual for their time the society became obsessed with sex it was the first time cocktails were introduced women for the first time were not only smoking but they ended up by the 23rd 1923 and 24 going to the bars putting their feet up to the rail just like man and getting as drunk as the men being carried out to their cars Victorian morality was mocked women begin to choose snuff men be all everywhere men were carrying hip flasks give whiskey in the Liberal Liberal preachers were saying don't worry the drinking of gin the smoking the intimate dancing in public it's not going to lead to deeper immorality that folks that was the beginning the United States of America became ill-mannered up to 1920 there were there it was Unthinkable to use the name of God in public cursed the name of God unthinkable it was Unthinkable to get a divorce because in 1919 only 8.8 percent went only out of 108.8 divorces in 1925 out of 100 divorces 12.4 in 1929 one out of six marriages ended in divorce because the sexual immorality revolution in the United States broke up the hopes mocking Victorian principles where people would get in their cars and travel everywhere for the dancers and every report instead all night the standards and the codes of marriage begin to break Chastity faithfulness became outdated and so America in the 1920s was called a wild roaring prosperous Nation The Roaring Twenties and from 19 23 to 1929 seven years now folks we have had that same seven years of prosperity here but seven years of unending bull market it was said it would never end the stocks of the railroads the railroads were busting with prosperity automobile industry tens of millions of automobiles being produced radio Montgomery Ward Woolworth General Electric numerous other companies their stocks escalated out of sight Herbert Hoover was the elected President in 1928 and President Coolidge had ruled over those seven years of prosperity and when Herbert Hoover was elected president United States in 1928 in his inaugural address he said this we in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than before in all the history of the land the poor house is Vanishing we are now in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation six months later the depression the stock markets smashed all records when Hoover became president seemed everybody was playing the market this shoe shine man in the corner that made bus drivers Housewives Butlers ministers in cities and small towns All Over America and on the trolley cars coming out from work five out of six people they said would get the paper and turn to the stock report every little town all over the nation had a brokerage house everybody Millions were investing in the stock market it was like our present-day Lotto games there were there were stories of people getting rich overnight the two golden Idols they said of the 1920s the sports in the stock market these were the two idols of course you had Babe Ruth being idolized at the time every rule of logic was broken and people were reasoning here's the reasoning according to history they said because people have been warning of a crash coming every class of the past years has been followed by recovery so there's no reason to sell your stock just hang on to it write it out it can only go up there were only a few prophetic voices crying out on October the 7th 1929 the standard trade and security service warned that the stock market was going to crash this was on October the 7th a few businessmen said the same thing a few creatures stood up here in New York City in their pulpits and warned at crafts was coming that God was going to judge America for its sins Freudian philosophy swept the land religion was being mocked remember what I've said from this Pulpit whenever Zion is attacked God judges but all the experts said be bullish on America even the front pages of the New York Times Prosperity is here to stay invest spend let me read you what one of the famous writers said in just before the crash he said America now free from poverty and toil new science new Prosperity Road swarming with millions of new automobiles airplanes darkening disguise lines of high tension wires carrying from Hilltop to Hilltop power to give New Life to a thousand new labor-saving machines and devices skyscrapers were thrusting above once little Villages vast cities are rising now great geometric messes masses of stone and concrete and roaring with perfectly mechanized traffic smartly dressed men and women are spending spending spending with the money from the stock market spending spending spending September the 3rd 1929 the market began to shake and everybody in America knew something was happening and something was wrong margin buyers were fleeing the markets but again the soothsayers raised their loud voices to try to calm the panic the Harvard economic Society said this is just a Readjustment system Market correction this is not the beginning of a depression Professor Fisher said within a few months the Market's going to be higher than ever the president echoed what almost everybody in the financial markets believed he said America's industry situation is absolutely sound doesn't this sound familiar this is what President Clinton said yesterday in His Radio remark very words American industrial situations absolutely sound our factories are humming business is healthy the economy is in good condition there's nothing fundamentally wrong with us no underlying business or credit structure is in danger it's a good time to buy stock one newspaper had these headlines on October 16 1929 American Business is not too big and diversified the country's too rich to be influenced by the stock market fluctuations too big too powerful then on Thursday October 24 1929 the market collapsed hearing Panic struck by noon time here in New York the stocks kept falling and there were no bargain hunters there were no investment buyers no big operators looking to buy back their own stock all across America thousands swarmed to their local brokerage houses screaming lining up in despair trying to sell at any price but by noon there were no more buyers The Exchange system could not cope with the fightful selling the party was over within eight hours suicides All Over America that day President Hoover got on the radio and he said there's no reason to panic the fundamental business of the country is sound and on a prosperous basis but it was too late the communication systems of America were jammed there were only Sellers and no buyers anywhere a little boy walked in and he bought a major stock for one dollar panicked all the foreign markets around the world across the world people were so stunned and shocked they couldn't speak that the great nation of America had fallen the paper prophets vanished overnight in every city and Village in the nation families were cast into poverty having lost their paper wealth the Depression had begun here's what one writer said after the crash he said this I believe was in the New York Times there's hardly a man or woman in the country whose attitude toward life has not been affected in some degree by this sudden brutal shattering of Our Hope with the marketing shambles Prosperity is fading Americans Now find themselves living in an altered world Everything Has Changed day by day now the newspaper is going to be printing To Grim reports of suicides and folks it started on that day and lasted over 10 years now who brought down the American Stock Market and the stock markets of the whole world who shook America to its core overnight and turned Prosperity into poverty who brought on this depression the same God who destroyed father and Gomorrah for its sins the same God to judge Israel and brought the army of Titus in because of its idolatry and sin the same God who's been warning this nation for years by men who stand Brokenhearted the same God the America's modern Babylon to listen to what God has to say about modern Babylon you have said I shall be a lady forever so you did not lay these things to your heart you didn't remember the latter end of it he said I judged you back then to warn you you forgot all about it yours I'm a proud lady I'll never fall now you're giving over to pleasure you drove carelessly and you say in your heart I am and there's none like me therefore so evil come upon thee thou shall not even know where it comes from Mr shall fall upon thee thou shall not be able to put it off or Shake It Off desolation shall come upon thee suddenly which you shall not even know of that is found in Isaiah 47 7 to 11.
we have chosen to ignore the history the lessons of history of Egypt of Israel and Jerusalem of Sodom and Babylon the Roman Empire all the empires that apart we have forgotten and ignored the lesson God is teaching us sinners reports to Any Nation whom God says when you mock me would you put me out of your Society you make it politically correct to obliterate my very name from your Society you would mocked history God is saying to this nation don't ever forget what I did to your nation years ago a generation ago how your country provoked me to Wrath and I had given you the power to get wealth so that you could be a great missionary Nation we were a great missionary Nation for a while is this nation learned anything from the past is our government leaders have our government leaders considered God's past judgment upon Wicked nations are they even thinking about it is the president United States like Josiah Josiah was told by a scribe that they had found a book with the history of God's dealing with Israel the scripture says Dear Sir and it came to pass when the king heard the words about the book of the law that he rent his clothes they they read the history of God's dealing with Israel in the past how when they send God judged and he looked at his nation and he was shocked and began to tear his outer garment who put sackcloth on Josiah was alarmed and he said to his confidence if this is true if this is how God is judged past Generations we're in danger God's Wrath is already kindled against us though ye he said inquire of the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah concerning the words of this book that is found for great is the Wrath of the Lord that's kindled against us because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book to do according to all that is written wherein concerning us Josiah did Justice Moses commanded he looked back and he studied history and he heard about it he said we are in danger we are worse than our fathers if God judged them then he has to judge us now do you know of any world leader you know of anyone in Congress or any world leaders we stand on the brink of a worldwide judgment you know anybody that's considered considering the past looking to the book of God as Josiah did is there any leader with the boldness to say we've sinned worse than Sodom we're far more wicked than our forefathers for that matter can you name many preachers who have gone into the book and studied the patterns of judgment how many are there listen to me I don't take lightly these words of the Prophet Ezekiel I believe that every preacher is a Watchman I believe that every minister of the Gospel has been called to be a Watchman to his people if the Watchman sees the sword come and he blows not the trumpet and the people be not warned if the sword come and take any person from among them he's taken away in his nickname iniquity but his blood I will require it to watchman's hand and you know what that's saying to me any Minister the gospel he loves God who prays he brings this word and he's not digging in he's not seeking God and he doesn't look at the history he's not doing his Moses command and look back and he doesn't stand and warn his people and they are caught unawares in their apathy and in their sins God said every single one of them I will require their hands when they stand before me in judgment the blood will be on their hands and I don't take that lightly how screaming if I have to that's why you you hear it from these ministers well there's another lesson we've not learned from the past we have not learned how to fully trust the Lord in perilous times because we've not been tested or we've had the little test death sickness some financial problems most of us get mad at God when he doesn't heal a headache we have not learned the consequences of unbelief David said our fathers trusted indeed they trusted and doubted to deliver them they cried to you they were delivered they trusted in you and they were not confounded David himself was one of those fathers that we remember who fully trusted God that he said there was a time in his life when hard times came he's I almost fainted but then he regained his faith he said then I believe to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living and if you read Psalm 91 you will hear David's confession of Faith no matter what came to his life and you know I wonder sometimes if we Christians fully believe the word of God we'll go into the scripture we read the incredible acts of Deliverance in the Old Testament for years you and I have been hearing we've been reading we've been taught about the opening of the Red Sea water out of a rock Manna falling from Heaven birds falling from Heaven Food stored by Joseph to save Israel from Extinction fiery furnished Lions Den David Goliath on and on and on but evidently we've not been able to apply it to our own Hearts to chase the Panic from our own spirits because you can spend a lifetime seeing Miracle after Miracle of Deliverance you could you you can say I have a history with God I've seen him deliver me here and here and here and that suddenly made a crisis and for God just as Israel did here we say our fathers trusted indeed and they were delivered but then you keep reading in Psalm 78 you read the history of Israel and you'll find that finally they came to the hardest part of their test and they failed God literally failed him yeah he smoked here's where they finally arrived in unbelief yes he smote The Rock the waters gushed out streams overflowed but can he give his bread also can he provide flesh for his people God heard the murmuring he saw the unbelief and it angered him because he had delivered them time and time again because they believe not in God and trusted not in his salvation God sent judgment because they believed not in God and trusted not in his salvation in my spirit I hear the Holy Ghost literally screaming remember consider study the word learn the terrible consequences of unbelief and not trusting the Lord folks it doesn't matter how dark the days may get gross darkness is going to cover this Earth it doesn't matter but it doesn't matter if you have to get up every morning and pray in your daily food supply and that's where we are going to be driven violently it doesn't matter at all God says I'm I have given you an ex examples I have given you a whole Testament I have shown you my power if you look back first of all learn the lesson about the Judgment but also learn about the provision that I make in those hard times for my people he said if you don't you'll end up just like Israel consumed in vanity and years of trouble and grief which we're very close to the time probably most likely that the world goes into a chaotic condition where they will be crying for a powerful world leader to bring them out of the chaos and bring order very close to that Kingdom called answer Christ very very folks things are moving so fast now that nobody can keep up with it I brought the New York Times last night and I sat in the living room my messaging prepared and I've been prayed up and I said I'm just going to take a look through this and folks it was so mind-boggling I turned to Gwen I said this is unbelievable I picked up Fortune Magazine and it talked about the collapse of the pig market New York the ties everywhere nobody knows what's happening and everybody says going so fast you can't keep up with it now folks I take my role as a Watchman very very seriously as I told I intend to have no blood on my hands are Faithfully warned of the Judgment that's coming it folks it's not a fun message my bowels boil and I don't rejoice when I see these things coming I don't turn to my wife and said I told them so do you know in the last six weeks the market has lost two trillion dollars worth of worth two trillion dollars in the last six weeks I don't rejoice my wife is hearing about oh honey I hope it doesn't happen now God help us for many months I've been searching the scriptures I have wept and pleaded with the Lord in my secret closet a prayer from message of Hope and encouragement for God's people especially here in New York City in Times Square Church especially I think of all the little children folks of all the joys of pastoring this church because I was an evangelist but of the many joys one of the great Joyce to see the little children I'll meet him on the street there's Pastor Dave and they'll come up and grape big eyes and grab my hat and want to give me a high five or shake my hands what a thrill that is but then I think oh God these are the children that are going to face the hard times we have people who love you we've got a multitude living in the city they can't flee out into the country they can't buy some five acres and have a cow in their own Rail and and a garden and everything else like everybody's trying to do today or so many are trying to do and I have walked and prayed I've been in my closet I have sought the Lord I went through the whole I went through psalms and I marked you you can see it here four stars on every wherever there's a promise of God's provision I've got four stars there and it's all through I went through Deuteronomy I went through Nehemiah and Andrew and I went through through the scripture and wherever there's a promise because I'm going to include many of those promises in my book but and they're all encouraging but I said oh God I want you to say something special to my heart because I want to tell you the truth when I see these things come in my flesh I get scared to death it's frightening and if you think otherwise you're not telling the truth in my flesh I don't want to see this happen in my flesh when I get a priests like this I'm thinking the choir behind me thinking well what about my job what what am I going to do to survive first of all not everybody going to lose their jobs that's not the issue right here now and I said God there is only one hope where do you go that's why the Apostle said to him so we go you have the words of eternal life you have the word it has to be a word that is born by the holy ghost in your heart and in prayer last week and the reason I'm preaching this message Holy Spirit came upon me he said David I'm going to give you one scripture that will anchor your soul to every hard time so that the people don't they are going to be driven to the word study the word there are many people that are just going to have something at the tip of their tongue there's going to have to be uh an anointed word from God God somebody give you one scripture if you'll commit your life to it you can ride out any storm no matter what happens I'll keep my word if you will believe what I'm going to tell you and I tell you I got excited Lord where is it our one verse one scripture to see me through the darkest depression through Unemployment through shortages through deprivation one verse yes and I sat and waited the Lord is very called me said just go to your study I'm going to show you where to go and I went into my study and he led me to this verse Hallelujah very simple your father knoweth what things you have need of before you ask now let me expand on that for just a moment please in Luke 12 Jesus himself enumerates those things talk chapter verses 22.
28 he's talking about things that you eat things that you drink and things that you wear Jesus said give no thought for your life what you should eat meaning for the body what you shall put on if God so clothed the grass which is today in the field and tomorrow's cast into the oven how much more shall he clothe you oh you of little faith and clothe you that means shelter he said no stop and think about him and he said you see the grass in the yard it comes up today and it's gone tomorrow it's cut and you collect it and you throw it and burn it and he said I've brought the greenness to it I brought the life in it I cared for it as long as it was there do you think the moment and I don't know what you mean that I'm not clone and feed he feeds that grass from the ground from the elements he Waters it even though it lasts for a day he said I took care of it Jesus said all these things do the nations of the world seek after but for you your heavenly father verse 30 your heavenly father knoweth that you have need of these things these things he already enumerated food water and sauna now listen to me please here's what the Holy Ghost said to me David I'm aware of every desire and dream and wish but I promised only to meet what I know to be the lead my father knows what things you have need of there's a scripture that says my God shall supply all your need according to listen to God in Christ Jesus well let me reason with you if God Almighty knows before you ask everything you need he knows every can that's in your closet every can of soup every bag of beans he knows every ounce of water he knows everything you have in your closet he knows all about your rent about your need to have a shelter over your head he cares for your children more than you care for your children Israel said what about our children they're going to die in the wilderness said no because if you don't believe you are going to die in the world your children are going to be saved folks don't worry about your children those are his children they're under his wings now when he says take no thought he's not saying don't prepare in the original Greek it says don't despair over it don't focus on it don't let it distract you you put your trust in me and as you put your trust in me I'll tell you what to do thank you now if if God knows everything everything I need if he knew that and did nothing about it he's not God they could not be God will you let that sink in if God did not I couldn't do that as a father how much less there we accuse our heavenly father of knowing exactly what we need and him not fulfilling that need glory be to God Hallelujah Jesus said fear not little flock seek first the kingdom of God in his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you all these things the good you know what you know what that word in Greek added means to proceed further than promised foreign ly abundantly above all you could ask or think he's not going he's not going to answer all your dreams and wishes and prayers for this and that he knows all you need is enough to eat all he all we need is enough to drink of water and and milk for our children all we need is a roof over our head and God said those are the things he enumerated them he said I'm going to need that they're going to be so many bitter people because God is Not answering their prayer to keep their Millions safe they're not going to have the money to take that Bahama vacation and they're going to be a lot of people who've never known suffering a whole generation that's never known suffering and they're going to think God's failed them when all along they may be eating just gas food just like they're doing in Indonesia but they are living and folks the Lord said seek me first go to the house of God and enjoy the fellowship I'm going to feed you and go clothe you take care of you Hallelujah you know what Daniel said the Lord knoweth what's in the Darkness and the light dwells in him he knows how dark it's going to get but he said in that Darkness if you just seek me you're gonna have light remember Darkness fell in all of Egypt but there was light in Goshen where the children of God were you know what that light is just simple childlike trust in the faithfulness of Jesus Christ Our Lord and our God to supply every need I think he has enough no you I think that's big enough don't you may I remind you what I said last week Martin Luther said Lord now that you've forgiven my sins do with me what you please he said what could be great doesn't have my sins forgiven if God can forgive my sins he can sure take care of this body if God can give me eternal life if God can build me a mansion and Glory he can take care of me in New York City let's stand now folks I'm not going to stand here and say repeat after me the Lord knoweth what things you have neither before you ask this is not kindergarten but I'll tell you one thing I'm praying the Holy Ghost burn that into your brain burn it into your soul I don't know where what what you're going to hang on to I'm hanging on the whole word but God has given me a real word he's giving me a word he's giving me something in my soul that's going to keep me through Darkness through all the human fears that come against me I'm just going to remind God you said you know you know you know you know everything that I need even before I ask Hallelujah Praise You Jesus Holy Father and ask you to come to this church and bring glorious peace and rest in the Holy Ghost that you'll drive out all fear Lord there's going to be human here Lord the next three months here in America go the most ominous dangerous time in the history of this nation in the world Lord we may see things that we could not imagine could ever happen to this nation we'll remember what Jesus said I've told you these things before they came to pass so that when they came to pass you would believe you would believe my keeping power you would trust me and just put your life in my hands and rest because Lord even the unemployed who lose their jobs are going to find a place of Refuge you're going to take care of them just like you take care of a little baby or take him in their arms in your arms and you're going to walk them through all of this Lord Jesus you're going to feed you're going to house you're gonna clothe your people and we're going to have a camp meeting we're going to rejoice in you and we're going to win souls and we're not going to tie we're not going to hide Lord we're going to be evangelists every one of us are going to be evangelists to Your Glory Hallelujah now folks on my way to church this morning I met a young man who's here and Sir don't worry nobody knows who you are but he said I've been coming to church for a long time here but he said I've got a spirit of fear on me terrible spirit of fear I just right on the street lay hands on them and prayed for him that God removed that and God made me a promise that the fear that he had would never happen and I can say that young man that feared that you have it will never happen you're as safe as you can ever be and it'll never happen and if you're here this morning in the annex and in the rooms watching on the videotrons and main Auditorium here we have never ever tried to pack the altar so to speak but if you're here this morning with a not just fear but a spirit of fear that you can't shake now it could be caused because there's there's been a compromise in your life this is not a time to be mixed up in immorality this is not a time to be unfaithful to your husband or wife this is not a time to be fooling with pornography or foolishness this is the time to get right with God this is timed he said seek me first now he starts seeking me now he said the party's over now get serious about me and if you've been drifting you're not where you should be with Christ you may be here you're not even right with God you're not ready to meet Jesus those that have a spirit of fear first but if you're one of those I've mentioned once you get right out of your seat up in the in the annexes go to the lobby the back lobby Joshua will show you where the door is into this Auditorium you come right down the aisle stairs and down the aisles and meet me here we'll pray with you we're going to come against that spirit of fear and here in the main Auditorium also and up in the balcony go to the stairs on either side and come down any aisle no one will beg you to come because the Holy Spirit draws you say brother Dave I have a spirit of fear on me and there are others that say I I have compromise in my life nobody needs to know who you are or why you're coming you come only as the spirit draws you we're going to pray a prayer of faith and we're going to have you pray with us and we're going to believe God that you walk out of here with Assurance absolute Assurance in the presence of God you that came forward let me give you the word listen closely too please for the Lord God's a son and shield the Lord will give Grace and Glory no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly blessed is the man that trusteth in him Lord You've forgiven the iniquity of your people you've covered all their sins you've taken away all the Wrath all thy wrath that was turned thyself away from the fierceness as I anger will thou not revive us again that we may rejoice in you show us Mercy O Lord give us thy salvation I will now hear what the Lord will speak he'll speak peace to his people into his Saints but to let them not return again to their falling he wants to speak peace to your soul look at me please you cannot just be passive and just God just come down and do it now you have to take the word that's a sword and you have to fight off your spirit of fear my my praying with you right now will put to chase I believe will put to chase any demonic oppression of Your Mind and Spirit I believe that but then remember the scripture says that those evil spirits that leave they come back and they find the house empty swept and garnished and it comes back with seven spiritual organs so it's because there was no resistance you take the sword of the word now if you're just standing in that in that one my God knows what I have need of he knows I need the Holy Ghost to strengthen me he knows that I need the power of God to fight my sin and my lust I need to power the Holy Spirit and I need his word in me so Lord I'm going to discipline myself there's a discipline I have to do that hours and hours alone of God in this say what I have a job yes but you you could spend an hour any day of the week any day an hour before the Lord building up your spirit building up your heart so that you can resist Thy word if I hid in my heart that I might not sin against You O Lord and every time I feel that human uh fear trying to come in immediately I run to the word of God I run to this I I just devour the book of Psalms run to the 91st Psalm run to the 23rd psalms run to all your favorite Psalms underline it write it and just get accustomed to it and every time the enemy comes in trying to say oh you're going to lose everything you're going to lose your job you're going to be in poverty you're going to wind up in the streets say double you're a liar and go to the word of God go to the word of God my dad mom lived through the Great Depression of the 20s to my grandparents and folks I used to sit and listen to them it was like listening to a new chapter in the book of Acts have God took care of everything how God supplied God made people's Gardens bring triple harvests God did things that nobody could ever believe that they were told it was Miracle after miracle and the same Miracle working God is our God hallelujah you know what I've always reasoned in my own heart God said I've not given you the spirit of fear and I said well Lord if you didn't give it to me I don't want to put up with it I don't have to put up with it in Jesus name I take authority over this now I want everybody came forward and I'll buy your head before the Lord agree with me right now that this spirit of fear will go father in Jesus name we take your authority over every spirit of fear every Spirit of chaos and confusion in Jesus name God clear our minds that we may learn to trust you as a child your heavenly father knoweth what things you have need of before you ask fill us with that truth let it just crowd out everything that would come in Lord to crush our confidence in you oh what a mighty God we serve I come against that demonic spirit that comes to harass that spirit of fear you must go now in Jesus name and depart from everyone in this house that is trusting our heavenly father now for you that have been apathetic and you that have been running from the Lord and you that have been living in sin I want you to pray this prayer with me in fact you might just want to pray this everyone that came for Jesus read out loud Jesus I come to you to open up my life and my heart I want to surrender to you all my sins my doubts my fears my unbelief all my complaining and my murmuring I want to please you Lord you said I can't do it except I give you faith for without faith it's impossible to please God they that come to him must believe that he is and he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him Lord I know you'll reward me by meeting every need as I draw nigh to you and seek first your kingdom and your righteousness now Forgive Me Lord and awaken my spirit by faith I receive my forgiveness I receive your love now Jesus embrace me remind me of how much you love me will you raise your hands and just eat and drink in that love for a moment say it look Jesus thank you for loving me come on just look up say thank you for loving me Jesus thank you for taking fear out of my heart Thank You Lord you're going to take care of me you want to take care of my children you'll take care of my family you're going to take care of everything in my life you will not not fail me God is faithful you know the message
