David Wilkerson – When God Stops the Plundering – New Sermon
Isaiah 33 verses 7 to 10 follow me if you will please behold they’re Valiant ones shall cry without the ambassador’s peace shall weep bitterly the highways light waste the wafering man ceaseless he hath broken the Covenant if despise the cities he regardeth no man the Earth mourneth and languishes Lebanon is ashamed and hewned down Sharon is like a Wilderness Basin and caramel uh Carmel shake off their fruits now will I Rise saith the Lord now will I be exalted now will I lift up myself now folks don’t don’t get alarmed by what sounds like a very confusing text that I’ve just read to you it’s not it’s very very simple that’ll be open to us now if you have a baby that cries by the way we we I I preach loud but not as loud as some of the babies so you could escort them to exit seven and uh that’ll help me tremendously when God stops the plundering heavenly father I thank you for the word that you have placed in my heart we come to you now holy spirit I need your help without your help without your unction your anointing I can’t penetrate anybody’s heart I can’t get into the mind and the Heart Lord I can’t even preach my words will fall right in front of me that have to be anointed by you Holy Ghost I thank you for Clean Hands and pure hearts by faith in the finished work of Jesus Hallelujah Lord let us have ears to hear what the spirit have to say tonight God we thank for what we’ve heard today now Lord finish your work in our hearts for this day I pray amen when God stops the plundering now this whole chapter is God’s promise to stop the devil from spoiling and plundering our homes and our marriages and our lives it’s what it’s all about and we’ll show that to you in just a moment now to plunder means to Rob and steal valuable Goods forcibly it it’s as a thief or somebody comes in and overpowers you forcibly takes everything that’s good and valuable away from you that’s to be plundered Now everywhere you look in God’s house today everywhere you turn you see the devil at work plundering and spoiling homes and marriages and lives it’s not just out in the world it’s in the house of God it’s in the Church of Jesus Christ amazing things that are happening today Satan is spoiling marriages he’s looting good families he’s stealing their peace he’s robbing everything that’s good and pure from so many many Christians armies armies of demonic principalities and Powers have invaded the lives and the homes of multitudes of God’s people I have to tell you all my years of Minister I’ve not seen so many homes and marriages and lives and young people and ministers who are plundered by the enemy absolutely being overtaken and everything good and precious and valuable being stolen from them it’s uh armies of these demonic Powers have invaded marriages especially there has never in history been so many troubled broken marriages here in the United States one of every two marriages now in the divorce 50 percent divorce rate one out of every two marriages now it’s absolutely incredible that in Evangelical circles now we have the highest rate of divorce in the country among Christian evangelicals not Wicked Sinners but Christians divorcing marriages that are broken marriages that are in turmoil it’s affected the children are our children who deserve to have had quiet homes where both mother and father at peace they are living in turmoil with screaming parents they watch parents hitting one another striking one another let me tell you sir you hit your wife and you were in trouble with God I am telling you you’re in trouble with God you lift your hands and sister I’m going to tell you you lift your hands against him the same thing he said well he big strong guy he can take it now it may sound a little funny but it’s not funny in the sight of God and it’s devastating when children see it that’s the devil coming to plunder to to destroy I see a whole generation of young people that are confused today literally their lives being plundered Satan seems to be able to tempt them at will they begin they’ll last for a while just begin to fall and just begin to crumble and wither away you see it everywhere you turn I think my main English now is up close to 900 000.
from all over the world and the letters my wife is here tonight she reads thousands and thousands of letters and the troubled homes and the young people who have no sense of direction they have they say there are no Heroes there’s nobody to look up to they don’t respect to even the worst among our Minister’s children children who have lost all uh respect for their fathers and you see devastated Ministries that enemy coming and plundering and spoiling and looting taking everything precious and holy uh I told I think last week of the letter we received and we received many like them from The Minister’s Wife said we we we decided to to bring a satellite dish into our home and my husband and I started watching porno movies and we started uh lusting after awful sinful ways in our our marriage and she said my husband became so obsessed with pornography he quit the ministry it just dropped out and she we he had just walked out of them said now he’s left me and she said our home is in ruins the church is in ruins my husband who was successful is a pastor for so many years his life is in ruins the church is everything is in Ruins they had been plundered and looted by the devil absolutely wiped out other other ministers that write to us they’re quitting the ministry not by dozens but by hundreds are quitting the ministry in total despair that’s why when there’s there’s word of Revival someone somewhere they they get on a plane or a bus or just drive they’ll drive all night to get some place where where they can they want somebody to solve their problem just lay hands on them or Get Zapped and suddenly uh get back to God it doesn’t work that way there’s a price to pay and they’re not willing to pay it they’ve been looted by the devil and somebody just just going to Revival meeting is going to not put the devil to chase it’s not going to solve the problem it’ll last for a few weeks of emotional high but that doesn’t solve the problem well Isaiah lived here in the 33rd chapter he’s living in a similar time as this where the devil was absolutely plundering the people of God plundering Israel at will King sennacherib had come within Assyrian army a huge Army and demanded that Hezekiah hand over Jerusalem and he’d already plundered many of the cities in Judah in fact the prophet says that Lebanon Sharon Carmel and Basin had been absolutely ruined already he’d gone through four of the most fertile wonderful fruit-bearing provinces and regions of Israel and he had plundered it he had gone through all the cities taken everything valuable all the cattle he had stripped all of The Vineyards of all the grapes he had milked every cow he he had taken everything in Satan now he’s in Jerusalem and they’ve had to open the gates and this is an amazing moment in time this plundering Army coming against Israel and against Jerusalem especially is a type of the Devil Himself Sinatra is a type of the devil it is Army a type of the Demonic forces and coming looting and lusting after everything that’s precious and pure and valuable and demanding interest now at this time nothing has been able to stop snack room in his army he he has moved at will the plunders in the 33rd chapter are already inside the walls of Jerusalem this had to be an awful time for King Hezekiah and the children of Israel because the scribes were going all through the city uh taking inventory of everything they plan to possess as soon as they marched in they were going to take everything they went into the uh the the vaults of the city of the the state government and they took inventory of every gold bar every piece of silver every piece of brass they went into the Palaces and took inventory these scribes and these monitors were were literally monitoring everything now the Bible says that they spoke a foreign language that the children Israel didn’t understand can you imagine what it was like how would you like to have somebody come into your home uh another government a communist government for example is coming in and they say we’re going to take everything that you possess it now belongs to the state it belongs to us we’re going to ship it all to another land and they send in monitors and scribes and they go all through your house listing everything that’s valuable and though you don’t understand the language you can hear them excitingly jabbering because they have their eye on this this will fit very well with my wife this fur coat goes on my wife this this piece now watch everything that everything they can tell from the excited talk that these people are lusting after it and they’re drooling everything is precious and holy in fact they had scribes and monitors that were up on the towers counting the towers pushing aside The Watchmen and they are excitedly talking what look how far you can see this is ours now we’re going to possess this is going to become our stronghold the city of Jerusalem on a hill they were going to push God out and the devil is going to come in and take over and make every strong place they had to be his strong house his stronghold what a picture and that’s what the Bible says these things happen unto them as an example unto us upon whom the ends of the world have come you have the greatest Bible truths and lessons in these Old Testament truths I love to read these Old Testament stories because they’re not just stories they’re about me they’re about you and you learn the secrets what God is saying it’s there if you just dig for it if you listen God will give you a secret right now God will give you a secret he’ll give you a plan to stop the devil from plundering your marriage your children your home it can be stopped tonight in this house [Music] Hallelujah you see the devil is set his scribes already he’s gone through your house whether you know it or not and I want you to know that he’s monitored and he is taking inventory of every peaceful moment you’ve had he goes after every happy marriage he sees you happy in the Lord I want you to know that everybody in this house that has a good marriage I’m not trying to scare it but I want you to know the Bible said the devil as the Roaring line goes about seeking whom he may devour that is scripture and you can’t be lazy about it you have to be on guard you have to know of his devices and everyone that’s happily married everyone that is happy with your children everyone that has people children around your table and you are blessed the devil has taken inventory and his scribes have been there and he is lusting after everything there he’s after the Gold in your life your faith that is more precious than gold everything that’s presses and holy and pure he has his eyes on it that he may loot it from you he’s after every Watchman on every Tower to come in and say I’m taking over this is going to be my strong tower he’s after everything that’s pure and holy and godly in this church and in your life believe me Satan sees young alcoholics former alcoholics and drug addicts sitting here in the front seats when sure house they’re not here tonight when they sit over here and in our Bible school students that are sitting over here many of you that are sitting in congregation up in this balcony and behind me the devil saw the day you got saved he watched as you begin to grow in the Lord he watches so many beautiful valuable things were given to you a robe of righteousness of Faith that’s more precious than gold he saw the wonderful things God was doing in your life and he began to lust after it he began to come against you with all the forces of Hell the whole sennachian Army so to speak and he says he’s he’s written it all down and he’s told his demon forces this is all ours we’re taking over and he wants nothing more than to take everything that God gave you take it from you and put you back on the street put you back where you were be sober be Village and Vigilant because your adversary the Devil is a roaring lion walketh about seeking who may he may devour in fact in this time in the 33rd chapter of Isaiah things became so bad it looked like the devil had a sonakra had had literally taken over everything was devastated and everything was in ruined if you turn to I say do you have Isaiah 33 open look at verse 7 even the strongest among them begin to whimper and weep verse 7.
uh let’s see 33 chapter 33 verse 7 behold their Valiant ones shall cry without the ambassadors of the Peace So whip weep bitterly the original Hebrew reads even the lionhearted of God shall cry in their midst and those Messengers are those who desire peace will weep bitterly look at me please there are some that are sitting in our midst tonight that at one time were so strong you looked at your home you looked at your marriage you looked at you looked at your life and you were so peaceful your stories that’s the way it was prior to this Israel had been blessed of God but now the plunders had come plundering and ruining everything in sight and and the strongest among them those those who never thought they could weep as they did strong-hearted men who’d never wept in their life people who had strong Wills they began to weep men were weeping now because it looked and all peace had been taken there was no more peace the basil and peace are Weeping the small lionhearted ones are Weeping now I wonder how many there are listening to me right now you never thought it would come to the place now in your life or you look over some rude and Devastation that the enemy has wrecked in your wreaked in your life and in your home and now you cry yourself to sleep there is no peace like you once had the enemy has come and Disturbed Into no peace in your home or in your life or your marriage the peace is gone and and you were you were so strong at one time you were unmoved by things but now you break down that you you’ve absolutely broken down you said I don’t know how it got like this I don’t know what happened it’s all broken down everything’s upside down everything’s messed up there are people sitting Among Us here tonight right now you didn’t know there would come a time that you would weep over your life as you do now and you wake up in the morning you have that heavy Cloud hanging over your head you wake up and there’s no joy because the enemy has come and plundered he has done a job on you he’s done a job on your home and you you say how did things get so ruined and so messed up what happened there’s some of you here now that have been divorced I’m not here to blame you I don’t know how it happened I’m not putting you under any guilt trip or anything else but I know there are many of you hearing me tonight and you have you are just like this the Valiant ones the lionhearted shall cry they’re so weak because of the ruin they see all about them Israelites cried out the highways lie wasted verses eight and nine and the Earth mourneth and languishes and what is saying life has become so messed up now everything’s turned upside down so I’m mourning all day long and my work and my coming and my going seems so empty now there’s so many troubles in my life I am so dull and lifeless languish means to be dull and listless and lifeless I’ve become lifeless I don’t even feel like getting up in the morning I can’t sleep at night and this was the devastation this is what happened when the plundering was in full shway and I see Isaiah is looking at this and he’s grieving over it it seems to him as though the enemy is going to Prevail over Jerusalem Jerusalem is going to be overrun Devil’s powers are going to be in control the strongholds of God are going to become the strongholds of the enemy God’s strong men are becoming wimps peace is taken from the city it’s gone the presence of God is departed there’s only going to be shame and broken lives a whole generation left in ruined and that’s the that’s the setting of this 33rd chapter a time just like today something happens to this prophet he looks at this and he’s not willing to let it go he’s not willing to stand by and allow the devil to take over the spirit of God came on him and in the Holy indignation he said this plundering has to stop so he goes to his knees and to the promises of God he goes to his knees you find that in the second verse chapter 33 O Lord and and when it’s saying oh Lord this man is crying out to God he’s on his knees now oh God Lord he’s not gathered with the princess he’s not with the King he’s not with any other human being he’s not turning that is less Lord You’re our only hope oh God that’s ruined there’s Devastation on all sides Be gracious to us we have waited for thee be thou their arm every morning our Salvation also in the time of trouble in prayer the prophet’s Faith begins to soar the spirit of God reminds him and he wants him to remind all of Israel you’re not alone in this it looks like it’s hopeless it looks like there’s ruin in all side that you have a God who still has a mighty strong arm he is all power he is Almighty is all strength you find the first reference in the Bible to the stronghold of the Lord in Exodus 6 5 and 7 and the first mention of the arm of the Lord is that it’s mighty it’s all powerful and it’s stretched out you look at your concordance you’ll find out his arm is stretched out stretched out stretched out his power and authority is offered is what it means it’s freely offered God says I am willing and I’m standing by to stop this plundering to end this Devastation in your life this world I’m I have all that you need all the proud you know that I know that you can’t you could be a baby in the word of God you could be almost an illiterate in the word of God and a little bit you heard you know that God has all the might and all the power in his strong arm in Exodus the 15th chapter don’t turn there but Moses in his song began to say then the Dukes of Edom who are The Dukes of Edom the Devils the demons that harass you and me the Dukes of Edom he said they shall be amazed the Mighty Men of Moab trembling shall take hold of them fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone God says I’m going to so deal with your enemies and harass you that they’re going to be a silent and shut up like a stone Hallelujah now folks Isaiah was no Pollyanna preacher he was no sweet soft talking teacher he knew how bad the crisis was and he wasn’t about to whitewash it now folks I look at the devastation in the house of God and the broken homes and marriages and children I see all of this in a very very easy to just say I could stand here and say bless God he’s going to stretch forth his arm he’s going to deliver you and set you free now that’s true but there’s a problem and Isaiah lays it out very clearly he said behold the Lord’s hand is not shortened it’s not a matter of God not having the power or the willingness to move on our behalf he said that’s not the issue it’s not short that it cannot save neither is his his ah ear heavy that he cannot hear but your iniquities have suffering between you and your God and your sins have hit his face from you that he will not hear you Isaiah said and look Israel look Jerusalem Hezekiah listen to me God wants to show his power he wants to stop this invasion his arm is ready he stretched out ready to move but there’s a sin problem he said we are not in this nation ready to do what he commands us to do we’re not ready to do what he’s asked us to do you’re not walking according to truth he said you’re living a lie your lips speak falsely your tongue speaks error in fact another Prophet put it strong more strongly he said you come and cover my always with altar with tears and your treacherous towards your mate he said You Weep when you cry you cover my altar with tears but you have treachery in your heart you want me to stretch out my arm and deliver you but I can’t do it because of the treachery that’s in your heart it’s not that I am not winning and ready or that I lack power I want to move on your behalf but I can’t because of this thing in your heart Isaiah’s actually saying there’s some Mischief in you your thinking’s been perverted you you can pray you can tell people you want to obey God you you say I want to obey God but you’ve spun a web you’ve had a scheme and now you’ve made excuses around that web and Alibis and you built your own case you place the blame on somebody else you really don’t want to obey God’s word you want out you don’t want to be saved from your condition you want God to save you while you keep your present position and God told Isaiah he says now I will arise look at verse 10.
now when I arise saith the Lord now will I be exalted now will I lift up myself and Isaiah and is actually saying this they’re going to come a time that God’s going to rise up he said that’s enough and God’s going to act and then the Bible says oh woe to the devil woe to the power so they could look at verse one water them the spoilers and thou was not spoiled until dillest treacherously and they dealt not trenchlessly with thee when thou shall cease to spoil thou shall be spoiled and will thou shall make an end to deal tragically they shall deal treacherously with Thee God says I’m going to send my heavenly host and now devil you’re going to be the one that’s terrorized you will not terrorize my people anymore you’ll be the one that’s terrorized in verse 3 God says I’m going to come forth and make a noise at the noise of the two more to the people at the noise of the two more the people fled at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered God says I am going to Roar against your enemies I am going to rise up and shout like a man that just awakened from sleep I am going to make a Roar and when the enemy the Bible talks about the roaring lion that the roaring lion doesn’t know anything about Roar this God of ours is going to Roar and shake the heavens and the Earth every demon in hell is going to hear it God says enough deliver my people God says then he’s going to let you take back everything the devil’s plundered from you verse 4 and you’re spoiled or your loot shall be gathered like the Gathering of the caterpillar as the running to and fro of locusts shall they run upon them I’ll tell you what this is exactly what God did to sennacher’s Army you remember the angel Lord came down this room the middle of the night and they don’t know why but but what 185 000 were slain by one angel and they go out and it takes them days just to collect the loot everything that they had stolen from all of Judah from Bastion and Lebanon everything that they collected Israel got it back plus everything synapricable he they took it all back [Music] you said Brother David that’s what I want I want God to act on my behalf I want God to rise up for me how many want God to rise up for you against the devil and everything has come to to Rob and steal everything that’s good and holy and pure in your life all right the three things you say what grows up here didn’t he yes but there there are three reasons why God Rises up and you’re not going to do it until well let me explain it to you all right first of all God waits to stretch out his arm of Deliverance only when we forsake all confidence in the power of our own arm now listen closely please for they got not the land by their own sword neither did their own arms save them but the right hand and thine arm O Lord and the light of thy countons because thou didst favor them the Lord commands Deliverance he all God has to do is speak the word that’s his strong arm his very word God just has to Blink at the Devil it’s over God just thinks the thought in it’s over God commands Deliverance he says do it move now I don’t believe God ever wastes the word through thee will we push down our enemies for I will not trust in my bow neither shall my own sword save me but thou have saved us from our enemies and put to shame them that hated us you’re never going to have God rise up in your defense if you are trusting in flesh if you’re trusting in man you’re taking your problems to somebody almost every wife or husband that’s in trouble rather than many many rather than running to the Lord and trusting in them they have they look for sympathetic ear see they built their own case and they’ll talk and talk and talk till they’ll find somebody oh yeah yeah yeah yeah I hear you I hear you because every big tongue that go find a big ear some psychologist you can sit down there and just spill your guts you know what it cost you a hundred dollars asking my good psychiatrist yes yes yes yes that’ll be 175 dollars good for you thus saith the Lord cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flash his arm and his heart departs from the Lord you don’t believe it by the way you know what the lord’s name is counselor how many have that in your Bible counselor you don’t pick up the telephone and turn to the flesh you go to the secret closet of prayer and when somebody comes to me week after week week after week with the same problem and I’ve told them go to prayer and a week later a month later a year later they’re telling me the same story I know exactly what the problem is there are leaning on the flesh they’re looking for somebody to give an answer they are not shut in with God they’re not hearing from him they’re not trusting An Almighty God will never expect out his arm God will never work on your behalf never until you’re looking for somebody till you step all night trying to figure it out you’ve got it all figured out wife you’ve got it all figured out where the problem is in your marriage you know exactly what your husband’s doing that’s wrong and same with the husband I I know if he would do this or she would do this I know I know if we we just we get the right counselor if we just do this we do that you’ve got it all figured out and you build this case in your mind and I’ll tell you what when you lean on the flesh you will never in a million years figure out how to get out of the mess never well how many staying up half the night figuring it out if you go to the Lord and trust him he’d give you a good night’s sleep [Applause] it’s not a matter of saying well okay pastor I’ll go back into the battle and I’ll try harder I’ll I’ll try I’ll do my best I I really believe it’s too late but there’s no hope but I’ll try no no no no no that’s not what he’s looking for it’s it’s a matter of saying no Lord in in myself and my strength I can’t do it it’s hopeless In the Flesh it looks hopeless but I believe that your God and your God to me you promise to be a God to me that nothing’s impossible with God and I believe with all my heart that you are able to do the impossible lord I can’t do it but I’m going to trust you I’m going to seek your face with everything in me I’m going to turn away from All Flesh then I’m going to put my absolute confidence and trust in you hear ye that are far off in ye that are near acknowledge my might it’s right there in verse 13.
There’s the secret acknowledge my mic deal with it go to God and say Lord I’m not leaving here until I acknowledge before you and the whole world that you have all the might and power to do the impossible now secondly God will not rise up and bear his mighty arm for you until he knows you’re prepared to obey his word until you’re ready most Christians say they’re willing to obey the word of God go to bed I’ll do anything he tells me I am set you ask most people most Christians if God speaks to me and gives a word for you you know I’m a pastor they say who can pray for me and God gives me word and I say well I’ll go prayer in two weeks you come back and see me see this is what they did uh clearly in in Jeremiah 42 remember when uh Israel was overrun by the Chaldeans and only remnants left and the princes that are left and all the people there’s still uh many many hundreds a part of this Remnant and they had a thought they’re going to run off to Egypt and they’re going to escape this and they’re going to have peace down in Egypt Egypt represents the world of course and they go to the Prophet Jeremiah swearing that they would obey they say you go to God go to the Lord seek his direction for us that the Lord may show us the way we’re in we may walk and the things that we may do and they said to Jeremiah the Lord be a true and faithful witness between us if we do not even according to all things for which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us whether it be good or evil we will obey the voice of the Lord Our God to whom we send thee that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the Lord he said you hear from God you bring us a word we’ll do it whether we like it or we don’t like it we will obey I have heard that over and over I know brother Dave I know I’ve got to obey the word I’ve got a walk in truth and I’ll do whatever God says that’s so Jeremiah prays and he comes back with the word and the word is don’t make a move that you’re going to regret don’t do something foolish you stand still now and see the salvation of the Lord God’s ready to help you his arm is stretched out if you’ll stand still and believe God Don’t Make a Move don’t do anything stand still light in your position right where you are don’t do anything but trust and God said I’ll work a miracle the word of the Lord came but you see Egypt already had their heart they’re already set in their own way and you know what they said no we don’t think that’s what God says I don’t know what God’s saying and I’m not saying that to us how many times I’ve heard wives they’re had left their husbands even in this church brother Dave I know what you say I know what you preach but I know what I heard I heard the Lord tell me that he’s not a hard task master and I have all kinds of scripture to prove it and God doesn’t expect me to live in a Loveless marriage God does not expect me to see this thing through because I feel like this man will never understand me the rest of my life I’ve tried everything under the sun and God doesn’t expect them because I serve a loving God and I’ve heard the still Small Voice that has said it’s okay it’s okay you see if that has some if something of Egypt has your heart you can say all you want yes I I I will obey I will obey it you will obey as long as it agrees with your little Idol but the moment the spirit of God comes against it and exposes it for what it really is deception he said don’t make a move don’t you’re going to regret it the rest of your life they said no no no that’s the only way I’m going to find peace I we want peace folks it was we’re going down there for peace Jeremiah said you don’t go to your peace you’re going to die in your sins in Egypt you’re going to die in your sin that we’re not ready to obey God and I’m going to tell you something God will never ever tell you anything is contrary to this book why would God speak a sweet word to you when you won’t believe the pure black and red bird right here God has already spoken he’s done as this week again God says I hate divorce that’s his that’s his word I’m not talking about you dear wives that are here and your husband turned to drugs and alcohol and beat you and left you I’m not talking about that I’m not talking about the man that’s here and your wife is out on the street somewhere a prostitute and left Apostle said let them depart not talking about that I’m talking about those who don’t want to deal with sin I’m talking about those who are not even willing to try because they want out they want to go their own way I’m not talking just about marriages I’m talking about those things that have captured our heart you say I want to be delivered listen God is ready to send the Holy Ghost with all the power and authority that we need it is all in the Holy Ghost it’s not in us he stands by waiting but God will not override a stubborn will he will not override you say well God would even put a will in our heart only if you say Lord I don’t have the power and I don’t even know if I really want this but make me want it I want to be pleasing to you in your sight I want your blessing in my life put it in my heart my will is not broken but break my will rule me till I see it God he’s looking for that kind of heart oh God rush in his arm will rise immediately his arm will come finally yes finally number three God Rises up to reveal his mighty arm at the very peak of the devil’s power when it seems most hopeless in fact King snack in his army was at the repeat of power no one could withstand and this is BC 700 and up to this time for for the 50 previous years no enemy could could stand before King sennacherib in his army as a Syrian Army they overran everybody and everything and you see God this principle I’m talking about where God allows the enemy to to appear like he has prevailed the Lord just stands by he’s no hurry he knows what he’s doing everything’s under control or if we could just understand that God has everything under control the devil’s not in control it may look like he’s prevailing he he he’s already taken all of the inventory he’s already they’re already drinking and celebrating their victory and God says now when now at the peak of his part you’ll find it all through the scripture in Daniel 4 King knezer is stricken down at the very Zenith of his glory he’s standing and boasting in Babylon all of the great things he’s done in the very hour he’s freaking down you find it also in the story of Haman he’s just reached the very Pinnacle of power the greatest honor ever placed upon a man of his time and just as he goes home and boasts of this great power and authority this wicked man is hung by the neck King Herod in Acts 12 he’s just made a speech to those of Tyron sidon and the people who gave a shout saying it’s the voice of a God and not of a man and immediately the angel of the Lord smote him immediately you go all through the scripture you’ll see the pattern you’ll see the principle that God waits till the enemy is gloating and until it looks you look around and say oh the the devil is won the victory I am defeated is no use it’s over but there’s a cry in your heart you say I’m so tired of fighting I’m so tired I’m just going to sit back and let God take over and that’s what he’s been waiting for [Applause] Lord if you don’t do it it’s not going to get done Lord it looks black it looks hopeless I don’t know where to turn I don’t know what to do Lord says wonderful that’s what I’ve been waiting for now I will arise you’re not trusting in the arm of the flesh and now you know that I want you to obey only because I love you and it’s the only path to Victory and it’s the only way to release the strong arm of the almighty God on your behalf you say Lord I’ll obey you if it’s bad you’ll give me the grace to accept it if it’s good all the better Hallelujah God says yeah it looks like the devil’s controlling everything looks like the devil’s in power you look at the nation it looks like the abortionists are in control you see the in your face homosexuals gloating against the Church of Jesus Christ and you see these Powers rise and it looks like they’re in control communism thought it was in control going to take over the whole world bang God said enough God smashed the Iron Curtain he smashed in the bamboo curtain and folks that Iron Curtain the Devils tried to put around you and fence you in and make you a stronghold of Satan just when it looks hopeless at the peak of the devil’s power God said now I will arise I will arise and stretch out my strong hand God says you shall conceive he’s talking the devil now you shall conceive chaff he shall bring forth stubble your breath this fire shall devour you in Hebrew it says my spirit like fire is going to consume you I’m going to breathe on you devil I’m going to breathe on your principalities and Powers and the same breath of the Holy Ghost that inspires you is going to burn up everything the enemy has brought against you every weapon of the devil is going to be consumed and everything else the same fire that comforts you destroys the powers of the enemy Same Spirit devouring spirit is our comforting Spirit Hallelujah will you stand please Hallelujah when God stops the plundering God of a Congregation of people most of whom love you dearly a holy remnant wanting to walk uprightly Before You O Lord hungering and thirsting after Jesus hearts that are set upon you wanting to be faithful to husbands and wives wanting to raise their children in the fear of God those who stand here most of them who grieve over sin in their own life and in the world I I stand before Congregation of people Lord that love you dearly but oh God that’s the kind of people the devil wants to come and destroy and devour he’s not interested in the lukewarm and the cold-hearted peace coming against the Saints the elect the chosen of God so Lord we’re not ignorant of the devil’s devices We Don’t Fear the devil we don’t glorify him but one thing we do know Lord Jesus that he comes against us to destroy and devour he’s a Devourer he has come in many lives right now and there are a number of people in this church tonight whose lives are being plundered and spoiled the enemies come in like a roaring lion bringing fear bringing destruction trying to rob the finances Rob of peace and joy especially of Faith trying to take that golden faith Lord Jesus come With Your Precious Love and bring healing stretch out your arm now cause us to want to obey you cause us to want to lay down our sins anything any iniquity that would cause you Lord to stand by and wait Lord arise now in this church arise and heal stretch forth your strong arm against the enemy of those in this house if the enemies come against your home your marriage or your life on your job or in your home or your personal life I want you to come down here now believing that God’s going to as I pray we’re going to ask God to stretch out his arm against your enemies and and if you’ve lost your peace and your joy the Lord wants to restore that if you’re not saved or if you’re baxton or you’re running from the Lord up in the balcony go up the stairs on either side and come and join us wherever you may be folks moving close make room for those that are coming make room for those that are coming God bless you move in very close amen glory to Jesus Hallelujah God has a strong in fact this is for everybody for me included I’ve come to this conclusion after all my years of ministry listen it’s always a matter of sin that holds back God’s work in our life it’s always a matter of a besetting since something that we won’t let go something that God wants not because so much of God hates sin but it’s more than his hatred for sin he hates it because of what it does to us how it robs us and how it opens us to so many other things of Satan’s Kingdom and Dominion but now listen to me look at me please and listen closely it doesn’t mean that God doesn’t give you his love he gives you there there’s there’s a a passive love there there’s a corporate love that he gives God so loved the world he loves the whole world it’s not a matter of God loving you he loves you dearly it’s not that you’ve lost his love you’ll never lose his love you can go out and become the worst sinner he’ll still love you it’s not a loss of his love it’s really not a loss of his care and compassion it’s very compassionate and it’s not that God forsakes you it’s just that that God is hampered he is hindered first of all I said without faith it’s impossible to please him and it stops the release of God’s Mighty arm working in your behalf so it’s not a lot of matters saying oh oh Lord please your forsake me God’s not forsaken you and God’s not mad at you but you need power we’ve got to have power we don’t have the power we don’t have the what it needs to conquer sin and to have victory in our lives we don’t have it you’re not going to get it from anybody else so how do I get it I get it by coming to him and say Lord I don’t have what I need but you have it and the only way I’m going to get it is to believe you and to trust you I don’t even have the willpower to to to to resist the enemy I don’t have the willpower but God you do I come to you and I call on you so I’m going to have time with you I’m going to get along with you I’m going to seek your face I’m going to call on you that’s what I said did he got on the whole Lord God be our savior be our deliverer in a time of trouble and then God then he he says well God deal with our sins deal with our sins do you want God to begin to bless your life with peace and joy in the Holy Ghost and see God work here and God work here and suddenly things that that were trouble and piling up instead of piling up God’s taking one thing off the pile and another thing off the power and the power is going down and you look around there’s a little Victory here and a little Victory here and God’s doing something here God’s doing something here God’s changing Hearts all around you he’s changing your husband he’s changing your children he’s changing your wife he’s changing things things are changing because the arm of the Lord that’s been stretched out now is able to work because you have opened up your heart and said oh God I don’t want anything in my life that’s unlike you Lord Jesus I come to you now I know you forgive me but now I come to you asking pleading with you in faith now that you give me your power because I want to be free I want to be able to look you in the eye Lord and nothing hinders that Fellowship of that relationship with you I want to be I want an open heart with you Jesus I don’t want anything that’s in the line clogging the flow of your sweetness and love and blessings in my life he said he’s more willing to deliver you than you are to be delivered Hallelujah now what did he say acknowledge my might acknowledge my power let’s do that right now pray this with me Jesus I I can’t do this on my own thank you in my flesh I’m weak and I’m powerless but I acknowledge that you have all the power and all the might and that you abide in me and that your power in me is greater than the power of the enemy but oh Jesus there’s something in my life that’s been hindering the flow I want that out if there’s a black stone in my heart representing a sin take it out of my heart and put the white stone of Purity in my heart give me clean hands and a pure heart caused me to draw nigh to you to seek your face to spend time with you that I get to know your heart how much you love me and how much you want to deliver me thank you Jesus that you didn’t give up on me you didn’t let go of me and I know you love me and I accept that love forgive me Jesus and give me power now over all the power of the enemy rise up now on my behalf and stretch out your arm and be my deliverer now raise your hands and thank him for his faithfulness to you Lord I give you thanks I give you praise Hallelujah I give you thanks and I give you praise you alone have power and might and Glory we acknowledge your might we acknowledge your power we acknowledge your might and we acknowledge your power Hallelujah as Pastor Carter said now be of good cheer be a good year we’ve heard a word from the Lord God delivers his people you say brother Dave I don’t feel delivered well your feelings always lie they lie all the time I want to tell you something sometimes when I have felt the best I knew that I was at my worst and sometimes when I felt my worst I was at my best with God Unity to your feelings are upside down all the time so don’t trust your feelings you trust the word he said acknowledge and trust my might and my power Hallelujah [Applause] we’re going to sing a song now called wonderful wonderful Jesus is to me this is the conclusion of the message
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