David Wilkerson – The Sin of Indifference – Prophetic Word

Ralph Christmas, Holidays & Celebrations, Technology & Electronics

the sin of indifference Heavenly Father we honor your word in this church we honor you and we honor your word you’ve honored your word above your name we know it’s truth alone that sets us free there are no manifestations anywhere that can free our souls there are no spiritual Thrills that can set us free it’s the word the word of the Living God bring it forth Lord Sanctified sanctify me holy from the top of my head to the souls of my feet let there be the Sanctified influence of the Holy Spirit we pray Lord that life shall produce life oh God give us ears to hear what the spirit is saying to us today in Jesus name I pray amen I want you to open your Bible to go to the book of haggai and leave it open on your lap please leave it open on your lap and I’ll tell you what for the new Believers go to the last chapter go to the end of the new test of the Old Testament and go left two books and you’ll find hagyad between Zephaniah and Zechariah does that help hagiai we’re going to be in the book of hagya this morning so just open your Bible and leave it on your lap if you will please I still hear the rustling of leaves I’ll wait until you get there if you see someone next to your struggle don’t try to help them they’ll find it you have an index by the way you can look from the back of your Bible get the number thank you Jesus for the word now in this uh book two chapters this Prophet speaking to a people who had spent 70 years in Exile in Babylon in Babylon they’d spent seven years weeping by the Rivers of Babylon and now God by his Spirit moving upon them and through the preaching of prophets has excited them about going back to Jerusalem they’re back in Jerusalem now to rebuild the walls the city and this and and the country they’re rebuilding now they’re very excited God is doing a great work among the people there’s Zeal there’s excitement the wall the the first thing first a few months they erected The Altar and instituted a pure worship of Jehovah they were surrounded by Samaritans who had a mixed religion of mixed uh worship a mixture of Hedonism and worship of the of true Jehovah and now the pure worship of Jehovah has been established now these people got a surprise when they went back because under the Jewish uh thinking that when you obey God automatically you’re blessed they anticipated because they obeyed the Lord to go back to Jerusalem that they would find houses built they would find Vineyards they would find fields and ready for Harvest they would find friendly neighbors of course what they found was a wall that was torn down a city that was devastated they found that there were no there there was no Harvest there in fact there was embroidered on famine and they didn’t have any friendly Neighbors in fact their neighbors were so uh set against them they became incensed because they were refused when they offered to help rebuild the city and the walls and so they write to King Cyrus and they’re able through their influence to stop the building of the Tabernacle or the temple and the walls and the people in verse 2 haggai 1 2.

thus speaketh the Lord of hosts saying this people say the time has not come the time that the Lord’s House should be built look at me please they’re saying uh evidently this is the will of God God would not allow this to be stopped unless it was his will and immediately the burden was gone the Zeal of God’s house waned stopped completely everything that had to do with the work of God the Eternal purpose of God was absolutely stopped there was a wild melee they they decided to go on now and build their own houses they’re running to the hills and bringing down Cedar they’re building their beautiful Cedar houses and painting them with wonderful okra and red and uh spending their time getting their businesses established getting their homesteads and their farms and their cattle and their herds God’s house is completely forgotten now totally indifference indifference means a loss of Interest a total loss of Interest they’re no longer interested in the temple the waltz even the altar of God now there’s an obsession throughout all of Jude and Jerusalem now to do their own thing everybody’s focused on making the dollar or making money it’s amazing thing verse three to five then came the word of the Lord by haggai the prophet saying is it time for you oh ye to dwell in your sealed houses in this house lie waste now for thus saith the Lord of hosts consider your ways I found now were people totally wrapped up in making a living totally wrapped up in uh and the essence essence of what they’re saying as soon as we get established as soon as we get our work together we get a hold for our family surely God is interested in our establishing our own families and providing for our own as soon as we have our business established as soon as we have our houses built then we’ll get back to the work of God I remember a young Minister who told me a number of years ago he was dropping out of the ministry to make a fortune he said I want to get rich and then I won’t be obligated to anybody I’ll be able to give a lot of money to the work of God but first I’m going to go and establish my business he went out and and it just gave himself to establishing a very profitable uh Oil Business and as you know when you have that as your goal when you get the money you forget what you said and that I’ve seen that all through my lifetime I’ve seen ministers I I think of a minister right now who was so poor always house poor poor is it the proverbial church mouse and he he said I can’t live like this he said I’m going to I provide for my family first my family comes first and so he left the ministry and established a great uh business in the midwest in fact two years ago I got word that he was building almost a city he was building everything in sight and had wild crazy dreams of a fortune being spent in this past six months he went bankrupt and he’s back now worse than he was before put money in in a bag with holes in it and that’s what you’re going to find in this verse six ye have sold much and bring in little you eat but you have not enough you drink but you’re not filled with drink you clothed you close you but there’s none warm and he that earned the wages earneth wages to put it in a bag with holes folks listen to me please here’s the heart and the essence of my message this morning when you become indifferent to the work of God when God’s house is no longer first God’s interests are no longer first you’re all wrapped up now in your business you’re all wrapped up in established in your own way in your house and your furniture and your cars and spending all your money and your time and your energy in trying to keep your own interest alive folks God is not against us having nice homes he’s not against you having nice furniture he’s not against you driving a nice car but he will not stand for being put aside he will not take second place in our life or our business or our energies he has he demands he literally demands he has a reason for it he demands the best of everything we have of our time our energy our money everything he will not be slighted and these people were slight in God and they were using this uh decree of Cyrus to back away from the Eternal purposes of God beloved when you gave your heart to Jesus Christ and you came you said I want to be a part of the body of Christ the Lord heard that you became my building Stone in the new temple of God the rebuilt House of David in these last days and you are a living Stone you are part of this building that he’s building and folks when you you decide that you have got for some reason of it you you don’t have time now these people had no time for the house of God they had no time for the work of God they were all wrapped up every dream every desire all their planning all their scheming their dreams everything in their little house their family and now you see a people who are not satisfied with anything they do they strive to make money and they put it in a bag that has holes in it now their money’s not going very far some of them have more money than they’ve ever had and it doesn’t go as far as it did when they had almost nothing how many know what I’m talking about how many carried that bag around with holes in it I just put something on my heart because there I remember when I first came here to New York City in the first year when we were we were God was establishing this work this church I never saw such excitement in my life there were people businessmen busy busy businessmen many career people from almost every kind of career in New York City from Wall Street United Nations from all over the city the king got was doing a new thing and there were such exciting people would hear the message go by the tape and listen to it two or three times during the week and never miss a service never Mrs irvish and I watched it took maybe two three sometimes maybe four years and I watched them little by little beginning to back away and I know what was happening first of all they were no longer into the word of God they were depending on the sermons that we were preaching they were not getting they’re all fed in the secret closet they were not seeking the face of God anymore they were not on their bended knee coming having been fed by the Holy Spirit and then coming to give something the house of God they were not praying they were not reading their Bibles anymore and then they not only did they neglect that they became Sunday Morning Saints never saw them again during the rest of the week and when I drop in on their business they’d say Pastor I’m sorry but this city is so demanding my time is so stretched and I I think to myself well you were just a stretch you were just as busy when we began you had a heart for God you used to sit at the edge of the sea you could hardly wait for the word to be preached but now Something’s Happened I can taste the indifference in them I can see it when I’m in their presence and I began to watch they they would finally come Sunday morning and get that little touch of God Just a Touch many of them are no longer even going to church they’re not here they’re not in any church they’re not only lukewarm they are cold they’re no longer in the house of God indifferences set in he says now that you become indifferent and now that I am no longer the center of your life the church is no longer the center of your social life I believe in all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ the Brotherhood of saints should be the center of everything in our lives of course you know that I’m speaking of the body of Jesus Christ he being the head and we being the body he said you eat but you don’t have enough now you’re never satisfied there’s something missing you can’t find any satisfaction at all and he said he that Earnest wages earneth it to put it into a bag with holes and he sang from the time you lost your Zeal for the Lord and You Begin spending your energy and your time on your own interest he said from that very moment he said God knows the time it may have been slipping up on you slowly but God God remembers the time and when God finally looks down in your heart and he says now you have become indifferent you become apathetic you have an apathy toward me you don’t have an appetite for the things of God like you once had he said from that very time listen to me your money your finances became very troubled he said it didn’t go very far you worked you wanted your you wanted the time you had to make money and when you made it just doesn’t go very far it’s put into a bag with holes in it it just goes like water he that Earth wages earneth to put it into a bag with holes now I told you that God wants us to give ourselves to hard Earnest work God wants you to minister to your family in fact the scripture says Heathen neglects his own households worse than an Infidel is denied the faith certainly God wants you to have time to do all these things but he also said seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you and I find that people that put the house of God first his ministries Eternal purposes first I find they sweat far less than anybody else on the face of the Earth I wonder how many hearing this message this morning have been cooling off in your Zeal for the things of God in the house of the Lord ask you to examine yourself this morning have you been cooling off are you just as excited about coming to church as you were even a year ago come on now are you just excited about hearing the word of God or you get just a little peeve now when you hear messages like you’re hearing now folks I promise God I preach this in great love this morning and I am you’re going to see and feel that love of Jesus through what I’m saying this morning are you so wrapped up now in in in just your things for sake not the assembling of yourselves together I’m talking now about coming to church Church attendance listen to me forsake not the assembling of yourselves together as the manner or the custom of some is but exhorting one another so much the more as you see the day approaching the Lord said times are going to get difficult the day of the Lord is coming near if there was ever time for you to be faithful to the kingdom of God in the house of God it’s now dog forsake the assembling of yourselves together where are you Sunday night you said we’ll wait brother Dave the church is packed I have to stand sometimes even on Sunday night or Tuesday night that’s not the point you miss entirely what the Lord is saying when you come and you become a part of the body of Jesus Christ you give yourself to him listen to what the Bible says happens very very clearly you become fellow citizens with the Saints and of the household of God you’re built upon the foundation of the Apostles and the prophets Jesus Christ himself being the Chief Cornerstone in whom all the building fitly framed together growth to a holy Temple in the Lord in whom also ye are building together for habitation of God through the spirit you are a living Stone built up a spiritual house a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable God to God by Jesus Christ now listen to me please when Solomon built the temple he set a army of men into the uh to the the quarries they not only cut the stones to size they were all numbered and they were brought to Jerusalem by another Army of thousands of workers and how they did it I don’t know when the great feats in history to bring those huge Stones cut and numbered everyone was numbered and they were built by number they were built in space number four went here number five when here number seven number eight number nine every one of those huge Stones were in place they were numbered they were cut out purposely to fit that he said you are fit in the body you are a living Stone if one of those stones is missing admires the whole construction of the building it Mars it it’s not a complete building and you say I I my attendance folks I’m not trying to build up the attendance with people standing with downstairs School we’re trying to seek the people but that’s to miss the whole thing what the holy spirit is saying in his word is that when you join the body of Christ through faith you become a part of what he’s doing all the ministries of the church honor The Fellowship of the church I’m not talking about Times Square Church I’m talking about the Church of Jesus Christ we being a part of it but he said if you if you think that you’re God’s Gonna Let You just slip away and lay there on the ground isolated by yourself one stone well I’m a stone I’m a living Stone no you have no life until you’re placed until you were there in the structure you are not a Lone Ranger you’re not out there by yourself because you make yourself open to all the attacks of the devil they come at you from the right into the left demon powers know you they’re a part of the body of building a beautiful building that he’s building for the glory of Jesus Christ God help you if your home doing church night watching television sitting there feeding your mind until we feed I’m not going to get on this very much do you know why Pentecostal churches especially don’t have Sunday night meetings anymore the early days of Pentecost Sunday night you couldn’t find a seat in most churches they were packed there was an excitement that’s that was the great soul-winning night all through my Boyhood I couldn’t wait for Sunday night because there was good singing there was hand clapping there was rejoicing in preaching on the coming of the Lord and people weeping and getting saved a loved Sunday night and I still do when I first came to New York and talked to pastors and burdened my heart about a church in Times Square they said well one thing you can’t do is have a Sunday night service because everybody’s home watching television that’s the best TV night I said I don’t care what anybody says I don’t care if it’s uh TV night if God’s going to raise up a Remnant people that have the Eternal purpose of Christ embedded in their heart Sunday night will be a powerful night and you see it when you come Sunday night you see it here a church that’s full and people getting saved I don’t want to be a part of a church I don’t want to be a part of a church where the people’s interests are not only given to the Lord I want to go with the people holy Remnant and say Lord I Thank you for raising up this house this is where I get my meat I want to fit into the body of Jesus Christ and I want that to be my first interest Hallelujah I want to come and meet Jesus of course he’s first but his work you can’t isolate him from his work and his house amen enough about television God God said in verse 10 therefore the heaven over you has stayed from due and the Earth has stayed from her fruit I called for a drought Upon This land and upon the mountains and upon the Coronet upon the new wine and upon the oil and upon that which the ground bringeth forth and upon men and upon cattle and upon all the labor of your hands look at me please I I want to explain this the best I can that’s the Holy Spirit to help me he’s saying you wonder why things are going bad now from bad to worse we have people get up and testify I said boy the devil’s give me a hard time the devil’s just harassing me I don’t know what haggai said this passage he says the Lord said I have called for a drought he said the Lord is withstanding your progress the Lord is hindering your harvests he said and he is hindering all the labor of your hands everything you do there’s something blocking you’re not getting through it’s not working and he said stop and consider from the time you became indifferent from the time you laid down your trial and and you no longer had my house was no longer your first Memphis now your own interest your things you’re all wrapped up in that he said from that time on I called for a joke all these hindering forces in place it would not there’s nothing to do with demons nothing to do with hell nothing to do with the Devil it was God at work he said stop and consider you find this all through had you consider consider it consider stop and think I’ve got to stop here and before some of you who are being tested by the Lord and he’s allowed uh maybe a spiritual drought a dryness a lot of Christians I know what that’s the what that’s like to go through weeks of dryness where you you wonder if if you’re ever going to have them moving the holy ghost in your life again I have gone through times of testing like that such dryness such emptiness wondering if God would ever use me again feeling absolutely empty useless now those are testing times that has that’s not what we’re talking about here and I don’t want you to get discouraged if you’re going through that some of you are going through financial testing he’s God’s trying to bring Faith out of you that’s not what this is about so don’t try to put yourself into this picture we’re talking about indifference we’re talking about people now who are all wrapped up in their own things they have no time for God I’m not talking about people who still love Jesus with all their heart I’m not talking about pastors and ministers who who are just in Rapture with the Lord but they’re being they’re going through a very very difficult time that’s something entirely different and I would feel very uh sad if you would try to think that I’m identifying you in this picture we’re talking now about a people who have lost interest in the things of God they only want to come and get a touch in fact the prophet goes on in the next chapter and he says I’m gonna read it to you it’s in Chapter 2 in verse 12.

if one bear holy flesh from the skirt of His Garment and with his skirt he does touch bread or pottage or wine or oil or any meat shall it be holy and the priest answered and said no and look at me please this is a picture of a priest coming home from the sacrifice and he has his portion he probably has it wrapped in some kind of of uh a rapper he puts into his armor under his outer garment and he has it there carrying it home he said had you I said if if that Holy meat touches bread or wine or anything else does that touch of that Holy meat sanctify does it communicate Holiness to anything it touches and the priest said no and here’s the Dilemma of the children of Israel at the time they had erected the altar the altar was holy and it’s on the ground and their thinking is that’s Holy Ground now that means that it is communicated Holiness to all the ground that why isn’t the ground bringing for fruit because we have a Sanctified altar that altar should communicate Holiness to everything it touches now look at me please we’re talking here the prophets talking about a casual attitude toward the things of God a casual touch oh folks we have people like in California there’s a a whole group of churches now and the whole thing is casual worship they don’t even have a form of service you come in and there are young ladies that serve you coffee and donuts during the service and you’re told not to wear a suit you you come with the most casual clothes that you have you can come you know in short shorts and tank tops whatever you want and you put your feet up on the chair in front of you and you just relax if there’s a if there’s a sermon there may be a sermon if not we’ll talk we’ll just communicate and and a friend of mine acquaintance of mine was asked to minister in one of those saw one of those services and she was told before she ministered don’t mention the blood and don’t mention sin cozy casual atmosphere to try to bring them in slowly this person was absolutely shocked at the casualness and they were glowing in their casualness not even not a word about sin or anything else folks we have a whole casual attitude in America today toward the things of God that’s why our young people don’t want anything to do with it their rock and roll is not casual it’s intense everything they do is intense and they’re going to come to the house of God for just a casual touch the Casual touch doesn’t communicate Holiness you can’t come and just get a touch Sunday morning I believe that every time this church is open every type especially prayer meeting night I believe that when this church is open no there are some of you have jobs understand it you don’t quit your job to come what about the time alone with the Lord in the secret closet what about this good book have you become casual to it have you thought well I’ll I’ll do it when I get time no the Lord says you will not put me aside like that when you go to Malachi you find the people uh we’re so casual about the sacrifice rather than expecting to hurt and bringing the best of the flock they would pick out any [ __ ] sheep or lamb and just bring it pastly to the Altar and God says no he says you go try to offer that to the governor you offer that to somebody but you won’t offer to me I want your best it has gotten so quiet in this house our hope and trust is because the Holy Ghost is talking to all of us Hallelujah he said from the time the the time that you became indifferent that’s the time that I I had to stretch forth my hand take away the joy take away the satisfaction I had to hinder your Harvest and I had to withstand you and everything your hands do and he does that lovingly that we may consider that we may look at it but you know something folks we’re not like that we’re just like Israel when things go wrong we don’t stop and consider and try to to say well Lord where did I go wrong am I indifferent am I apathetic toward the things of God do I have this Zeal of the Lord I once had we don’t stop and examine our hearts anymore we say well it’s just one of those things I’m going through a hard time I’ll make it through this is just one of those difficult times listen folks God is asking us this morning to stop and consider and look at your life am I as a child of God as a living Stone is his house his work the winning of Lost Souls the minister the Lord the minister to him is that everything in my life is that first is that my focus I know what it’s like to lose that Focus years ago as an evangelist preaching to thousands and I got so busy absolutely busy I was mightily blessed and I was building a big house on 50 acres with an indoor swimming pool and playing around with antique cars I’m just losing my focus comes a place where I think I lost the focus completely I could still preach because I had sermons that I’d learned to deliver I tried to be as sincere as I could I don’t think I ever stood in a pulp without being sincere but I know what it’s like that’s why I preached this was feeling this morning I know what it’s like to lose that Focus and when you lose that Focus the things of God become burdensome they become a weariness and it became a weariness I traveled in in two big half million dollar buses custom made and I traveled with a big truck full of hundreds of thousand dollars worth and I had a whole Entourage and they would go ahead of me and I would glance here and she knows I said oh no I gotta hit the road again and I I would get on that bus and say oh no and I was so tired and so weary of it all absolutely weird that weirdness that tiredness came because I was not now praying as I should I was not seeking God in this book just to find the reality of Christ I was looking here just for sermons absolutely cold in heart and I wanted to tell you folks the Lord during that time did something I will never forget during that time half my staff resigned I couldn’t understand one by one they were leaving our finances dried up sickness in our home my son’s Greg Greg is here and during that time I got a call head-on collision God delivered him without a scratch but I remember standing there looking at that head-on collision and thinking of everything in my life and Ministry going wrong everything was wrong the anointing was gone I’ll go through the motions just gone through emotions and didn’t know how to get out of it sick inside and weary and almost thank God I just I can’t go on I don’t want to preach anymore I know what that’s like I’ve been to this point this drought this opposition from the hand of God Gary correction east and west north and south everywhere everything’s Raw when I stood by that accident the Lord said now will you listen to me and I said I’ll listen and I had to leave I think two or three days later another Crusade still had weariness great prophet of God Leonard Raven Hill gave me a book Christian and complete armor it was 1200 pages that thick and I took it kindly but I threw it in the back of my bus and said who who’s going to read 1200 pages I just thought I’ll never look at it but you know we weren’t 20 miles down the road and the Holy Spirit said go back in your Suite back there and open that book and start reading it and and I’ll tell you it was the prophetic voice of God within a half an hour I was laying on the floor of that bus weeping and crying and confessing the fear of God the wonderful reverential fear of God Came Upon My Life once again I went to the rest of the fellas I said fellas This is Our Last Crusade I said I’m out of here said I’m not going to go like this anymore I’m not going to be a phony I said I’ve been miserable the work of God is I just been preaching by wrote I’ve been preaching by habit God’s blessed in spite of me but I said I can’t go on like this I’m going to take a year off and speak to the face of God and I canceled everything and I shut myself in with God and I thank God for that day or I wouldn’t be standing here now and God’s interest from that day on [Applause] beloved from that day on his interest I I left all of that I gave a bus to the singing group and they went their way and I sold the other Buffs and I just began to seek the face of God and from that day to this his interest has always been first in my life and God that’s my prayer God don’t ever ever and I have to pray diligently about it because you see we can’t do it we can’t when you get to that place humanly in your own strength you cannot shake yourself from indifference you cannot shake it off in your own strength and your own power but what happened here in the book of haggai they listened to the prophet they listened to the word of God you see God sent his word to me through this book through prophet a prophet of God he sent the word to me and I heard it and I believed it and I wanted to hear it if you want to change listen to me there’s a word here and I you have to get this before I close God said I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands yet you turn not to me saith the Lord you know what the prophet’s saying you I got God God’s saying look I came to you with judgment I came to you with blasting and mildew I did everything to get your attention and my judgment message didn’t touch you you didn’t hear remember what Proverbs says I called and called and you refused you did want to hear my reproof now listen to me clearly before I close this message I could stand here this morning and I could blast you with the word of God there are scriptures here that I could just blast I could talk to you about the mildew that’s happening in your life I could point a thing at you and say the reason you’re in this condition the reason your finances are all messed up and I can come down on this and I could hit as hard I could take the hammer of God and I can preach judgment from this pulpit and not one chain of apathy would be broken God says I blasted you I tried to get you out of your indifference but it didn’t work he comes now with the prophet hagiah into a indifferent people to a people who were putting all of their time and energy in their own interests he comes to them now he says I’m still with you I’m still with you and you know what that loving message did and I hope it’s what you hear from your pastor this morning I’m not here to blast you I’m not here to to to bring judgment message to you but I want to tell you something when I read in this book when I read this that a loving God trying to get the attention of his people says I called for a drought I cut things off I laid this on you when I hear a loving God say that then he says stop and consider I’m going to listen and that’s what I hope now that you will say well brother Wilkerson that’s me and if that’s you and you really want to change you can’t do it your own strength but the Lord comes with this message I still love you I’m still with you I’ve not left you my hand is still on you and we’re gonna lose you and the Bible says that the fear of God Came Upon them and they started rebuilding again and now haggai comes I think this is his third or fourth message that God’s given him in these two chapters and he comes finally they’ve been about two months now back to rebuilding the Zeal of the Lord is back it was not it did not come through a judgment message oh folks I traveled all over the world for almost 15 years prophesying and preaching judgment thank God for those that were saved but the church was hardly moved it was hardly moved here in Times Square Church we have preached the truth we have not compromised God helping me and examining my heart I don’t think once I’ve ever stood in this pulpit and compromised the word of God what I’ve been told to preach strong I’m pretty strong Pastor Carter the same way but it’s always been bathed in love is being bathed in love this morning and if you’re honest about it say well brother Wilkerson I have been indifferent about my church attendance I’ve been indifferent about my tithing I’ve been indifferent about praying and can God and his work I’ve become indifferent I’m not where I was before and I want to get back to that first love I want God’s work to be first From This Day on in my life there’ll be no chastening from this pulpit there’ll be no threats this this is a message of the Prophet God says I’m with you if you will simply now allow me the Holy Ghost comes now the Bible says and I I read this to you listen to what God did then speak hagyah the Lord’s messenger in the Lord’s message under the people saying I Am with You saith the Lord and the Lord stirred up the spirit of zerubbabel and the spirit of Joshua and the high priest the spirit of all the remnant of the people they came and did the work in the house the Lord of hosts their God as soon as they accepted this message examine their heart and returned God says now I’m going to stir up your heart I’m going to move on you supernaturally this becomes then the work of the Holy Spirit if you sit under my preaching this morning you say Pastor I believe you’re preaching to me in love and I want to take I want to consider like the prophet said my own life now and I want to come back to my first love I want the things of God to be first in my life I don’t ever want to come to the place where he is secondary I I put him aside now in closing listen to this consider now from this day and onward this is chapter 2 verse 18 from the fourth twentieth day of the ninth month even from the day that the foundation the temple was laid considerate is the seed yet in the barn yes yet the vine and the Fig Tree the pomegranate the Olive Tree hath not brought forth but from this day will I bless you you know what the prophet’s saying and now I close he said you may not see the results yet you don’t see many changes yet in your life you don’t see your finances changing you don’t see a lot of changes but he said I promised you from the day you set your heart to seek me with all that’s in you that’s the day I started blessing you and now it’s been sown a harvest it’s going to come now I’m going to bless you Hallelujah folks I believe that you you can change everything in your life by coming back to your first love this morning and making up your mind with the help of the Holy Ghost Lord I want you to keep my heart stirred I want you to stand with me right now [Music] Hallelujah love it look this way I’m not even gonna pray right now I want to pray later when you come and ask the Holy Spirit right now to breathe on this congregation I want every honest soul in this house this morning just buy your head for a moment and I want you to do what haggad the prophet said consider consider think about it do you have a sense that God’s withstanding and holding back but everywhere you turn you see a hindrance you’re going to ask yourself is it because I’ve led up is because I’m not seeking the Lord with all my heart if you have to acknowledge this morning that you’ve been drifting that you’ve been a little haphazard about the house of God and the things of God I want you to get out of your seat and come here now repent I say Lord I hear your word this morning I don’t ever ever Lord to have to have you withstand me because of my indifference and my apathy I want my soul on fire if you’re backslidden if you don’t know the Lord I want you to come with these that are coming up in the balcony there are two stairs on either side go down those stairs and come down any aisle and meet us here if you will heavenly father not convict us speak lovely to us let us hear what the spirit has to say let us receive it and Lord change our hearts I pray to come forward I thank God for his great love for his church how God loves us I’m convinced that I’m loved no matter what I’m going through that love holds me that love brings me through before I say a word I want you to be convinced that God loves you has a great love in his heart for you because he said you draw nigh to me I’ll draw near to you you’re you’re wanting to come near to him brings him and attracts the Holy Spirit he comes quickly to move upon you now look at me please I want you to know something here and hear it deep in your spirit right now he said he’s more willing to give than you are to receive I don’t believe that God has complicated this thing at all he’s made it simple that a child he said could understand it he’s made it simple and you come to me now and you confess I’m not only it cleanse you but if you will trust me with your whole life put everything you have in my hands if you’ll make a commitment to put everything having do with the Lord first in your life his work his church prayer seeking his word if you want that with all your heart God said you don’t have the strength to follow through on that commitment but I’m part of the Holy Spirit and I’ll stir your heart I know what that’s like I I I’ll be get busy and I’ll feel a stirring in my heart and holy spirit’s saying David break away break away get into the word get into the word Holy Spirit keeps stirring when I haven’t had time to pray Holy Ghost said walk away walk away the stirring of the Holy Spirit I thank God for that story he’ll do that for you he doesn’t do it just for preachers he’d do it for all of God’s people he will stir your heart hallelujah thank God for that story and then after he stirs you and you obey that voice the Holy Spirit he empowers you to follow through hallelujah thank God for the power of the Holy Ghost we couldn’t do anything without him I want you to pray this prayer with me right now Jesus forgive me for my apathy for my coldness and my lukewarmness toward you and your house and your work I ask forgiveness forgive my sins my doubt and my unbelief I returned you now I heard your word I receive it I admit Lord I’ve been indifferent I’ve not put you first in my life I’m sorry I Repent they’ll touch my life stir my heart give me power to walk with you Faithfully I need your help Lord thank you Jesus I want you to lift your hands and just thank him right now for his faithfulness to you Lord I give you thanks I give you praise you are worthy Lord you are worthy Hallelujah up in the balcony here in the main floor you can put your hands down if you’re if you came this morning and you’re not right with God I know there’s some of you I say Pastor David I’m not a Christian I’m not I’m not what you call saved I’m not saved there are many of you came because somebody invited you and you’re here now you heard what I preached maybe you didn’t understand it all you you said well that’s for Christians no it’s for you because the very fact that you don’t serve Jesus at all the fact that you don’t walk with him you’ve not surrendered your heart that’s proof that you’re totally indifferent to him you can’t be indifferent to Jesus Christ and just walk your own way the Lord wants you to come his way now he brought you here and the reason you feel that little turning inside that’s the stirring of the Holy Spirit that’s God he’s not he’s not saying hey get down here I’m going to cast you into hell I’m gonna burn you he said no God says I’ve been with you all along I’ve been calling you and the reason you’re here this morning somebody invited you and that’s that was my work I had somebody invite you you’re not here by accident nobody’s in this church this morning by accident nobody [Applause] would you buy your heads right now I’m not even asking you to step out of your seat I’m asking you to give your heart to Jesus Right Where You Are you can do that right now up in the balcony here in the main floor just even under your breath you don’t even have to say out loud God hears Whispers God reads our thoughts I want you to pray this in your spirit in your mind dear Jesus I’m a sinner and I need you I’m going to give you my heart right now and Lord Jesus I’m asking you to come right now and reveal yourself to me I want to get rid of my sins and I want to be a free man a free woman I want my freedom but if I walk out of this building now look at me please the Bible said if you confess your sin with your mouth and believe in your heart you shall be saved you shall be saved [Applause] Hallelujah if you meant that and did it this morning you’re going to tell somebody you’re probably going to tell the first the first one you’re going to tell is the person who brought you and when you walk out of here and and you’re with a friend maybe there’s a sister here and you brought another lady and uh when you walk out and you’ll say to your lady friend I didn’t understand anything there but I felt something you’ll know that’s the Holy Spirit man why don’t you just ask him to explain a little further maybe they can do it better than I did this morning amen how many believe the Lord is with you [Applause] I’m going to ask you another question how many in this building all around me believe that God wants to bless his people God wants to bless his people yes keep your hands raised Lord I’m asking you to help us to become so given to you and we claim this promise that had gave to Israel from this time on Market the ninth day the 20th day the ninth month that was the time he said put it on your calendar I’ve blessed you from the time that you set your heart to put me first Lord I pray that this be marked on the calendar for many on this day in the month of May whatever day it is thank you Jesus blessing blessing Hallelujah blessing this is the conclusion of the message

As found on YouTube