We read these words in a number of
verses, Mark 11, 24 Whatsoever things ye desire,
whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray, when
ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and
ye shall have them.
Staggering statement, that Christ, God, manifests in the
flesh, God with us, God the Son, God
told us, Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye
pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye
shall have them.
John 14, verse 13, Whatsoever ye shall ask
in my name, whatsoever ye shall ask in
my name, that will I do.
This is God, God promising, He cannot deny
Himself, the Bible says, He cannot deny Himself.
Of course there's conditions attached to every single
promise, radical conditions, that we have to fulfill.
But I'm looking now at the Holy God's
promises.
If ye shall ask anything in my name,
that is the will of my Father in
heaven, that will I do.
If ye shall ask anything in my name,
that is the will of my Father in
heaven, that will I do.
God promised.
Now God's name is at stake.
He has a holy obligation, of His holiness,
to be secure.
You say that's sacrilege, saying God has a
holy obligation.
No, it's sacrilege not to say that.
Not to believe with all your heart that
what God has said, He will do.
Whatsoever you ask anything in my name, that
is the will of my Father in heaven,
that will I do.
Amazing.
Then one last little passage as a stepping
stone into this book, into this sermon tonight.
We find that, of course, in Timothy.
A passage that staggered me from the first
day I read it, 53 years ago, and
every time I've been through the book I've
been staggered again.
Because in 1 Timothy chapter 2, verse 1,
I exhort thee therefore that first of all
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be
made for all men.
I love that.
You ought to have a staggering Bible study.
Go home and get a concordance and take
just the passage, all men.
Read from beginning to end of this book,
all men.
If you doubt that God doesn't want all
men, be careful of that doctrine.
I exhort thee therefore that first of all
supplications, prayers, intercessions, be made for all men.
Verse 3, for this is good and acceptable
in the sight of God our Saviour, who
will have all men to be saved.
I believe that.
Who will have all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the
truth.
Hallelujah.
Who gave Himself a ransom for all.
Prayers, supplications, be made for all men.
Who will have all men to be saved.
That's a staggering statement.
I heard a staggering statement when I was
a young preacher some 50 years ago now.
I had a staggering statement when I was
a young preacher that affected me radically for
the rest of my life.
If you're saved, someone prayed for you.
If you're saved, Keith, boy, don't doubt this,
someone prayed earnestly and compassionately for you.
That staggered me.
Is there anything Satan fears more than a
soul winner on his knees?
Because if a soul winner isn't primarily driven
because of what happens on his knees, he's
false, he's a soulman.
Any soul winner is the result of what
happens on his knees, crying to God.
If he's not there on his knees, groaning
to God for the souls he wants to
win, the rest is a sham.
You see, we conscious, without Him we can
do nothing.
That makes us go to our knees.
And the promises of God from this book
drive us to pray compassionately, earnestly for the
salvation of souls.
Who will have all men to be saved.
Who will have all men to be saved
to come to the north.
Some people say, this is speaking politically, to
pray for those in government over us.
That we can leave, that's totally out of
its context.
The context is to pray for them, not
for peace, for us to have a good
living.
It's to pray for their souls, contextually.
Do you?
For those who are over us, who have
all men.
When you pray for political people, it's to
pray for their souls to be mightily saved.
Or you're missing the mark.
When you're praying for peace, for those who
govern us, you miss what God says He
wants you to be praying for.
You're praying in the will of God, the
Father.
When you pray for all men, no matter
who they are, to be saved.
Who will have all men to be saved.
To come to the knowledge of the truth.
This is the contextual and discerning acceptance of
what God is saying.
If you're saved, someone prayed for you, boy.
Don't you doubt this, Keith.
And they prayed earnestly and compassionately for you.
The incomprehensible weapon God has given us of
prayer.
I think it astonishes God that we don't
have it in our hearts or use it
for the salvation of all men.
It must astonish God.
If you're saved, someone prayed for you.
When I was a teenage boy, our home,
our family, experienced much sorrow and shame and
tragedy.
Continual tragedy through my teenage years.
I don't want to talk of any of
those things.
Our neighbors, generally around quite an affluent area,
daddy bought this brutal home.
They were all conscious.
I don't think there was anybody in our
neighborhood that didn't look at us and wonder.
As the stories went around, as things were
obvious of the shame and the tragedy and
the suffering and the sorrows of our home.
Above most homes, to be honest with you,
I believe.
But then God stepped in.
In such a way that none of us
in my home, my alcoholic father smashed, destroyed.
My smashed, crushed mother.
Me as a young boy, 11 years old,
running the streets to flee.
They didn't know whether I was dead or
alive for weeks, months sometimes.
Searching for me.
My brother.
But then God stepped in.
He stepped in in such a way that
not one of us was seeking Him in
truth.
Staggering, isn't it?
The last thing you try is God.
God stepped in that every one of us,
my father, my mother, my brother and I,
sought Him with our souls because we knew
it was God.
Crying out to us, I want to save
you and heal you.
He cried out in such a way that
not one of us didn't turn to Him
with all our heart and soul.
My father stopped drinking, smashed every bottle, never
touched drink again in his life.
In one moment, on his knees, he stood
up, totally delivered from 25 years of alcoholism.
60 cigarettes a day for over 25 years,
never once less, not one day.
Threw them down, never touched them again.
Picked up the sacred book and read through
it 68 times from cover to cover.
In the nine years God spared him and
he led souls to God across our nation
because of who he was, especially the business
world.
They just turned to God.
We all turned to God.
In that home, in one moment God stepped
in.
When there was despair, no hope, God just
stepped in.
If you let Him, when He comes.
It was a short while afterwards, there was
a knock at our front door.
Daddy and mummy were there and we walked
up behind them.
And there stood our neighbours, three houses away
from us.
Afrikaans speaking ladies, Lady and Man, Robbie and
Doris Radley.
Now we had seen them, we didn't know
them.
We knew they were our neighbours, we waved,
never spoke to them.
Saw them on the bus when we wanted
to avoid the traffic to the centre of
one of the biggest cities in the world,
Johannesburg.
We would just greet them, but we didn't
know our neighbours.
But they knew of us, most neighbours around
there were very conscious of the sadness and
the shame and the tragedies of our home
and the sufferings.
Here stood our neighbours at the door.
And daddy looked at them and he said,
Mr Daniel, we have come here to tell
you that for seven years, we have prayed
every single day for you, for this family.
We have agonised in prayer when we knew
of your sorrows as a family.
There was not one day, sir, for seven
years that we didn't go down, my wife
and I and daughter, and cry to God
for you to be saved.
In our church, the Baptist church, in that
area, every single prayer meeting, every single Wednesday
for seven years, we would bring you as
a family there and the whole church would
unitedly say Amen and cry to God for
you.
And I don't believe it's presumptuous to stand
here tonight, Mr Daniel, and to tell you
we believe something of our agony and crying
to God for you as a family resulted
in your salvation.
And we joy with you and we thank
God and worship God for all we see
and witness and hear everywhere has happened in
your lives that you've been saved.
Daddy didn't speak.
My daddy started weeping when he was saved,
right to death.
My father just stood there weeping.
And weeping.
Couldn't even say thank you to them.
He just stood there weeping.
My wonderful father.
You were saved, Keith, boy.
No doubt that someone prayed for you.
Earnestly and compassionately.
No doubt it, boy.
I was preaching in a Methodist church.
Now this particular Methodist minister, his name was
Stephen, for she, in Africa.
And as they sent him to different congregations
around southern Africa, he would ask me to
come sometimes more than once for a series
of meetings like Joel has asked me to
come here.
And so as he moved around South Africa,
I had privileges of speaking in some very
large congregations in the cities where he was
sent.
Now one sermon I preached when I was
in Stephen's Church, was if you're saved, someone
prayed for you.
You see, I was convinced by that time.
And I mentioned what I mentioned here at
the beginning of the sermon.
Someone said this staggering statement to me that
has affected me radically for the rest of
my life since I heard it, to this
day.
Well, Stephen married a girl who was the
direct descendant of the great Andrew Murray.
Her brother, Andrew Murray, young Andrew Murray, he
worked with me and we lived out of
suitcases going from town to town and bringing
many, many, many souls we saw coming to
God as the churches filled out, took it
back town upon town across much of southern
Africa.
One of the great privileges God ever gave
me was to work with this young Andrew
Murray.
Not the old one, not that old.
He was the only man God ever used
in true revival of South Africa.
Any other thing was not a national revival
that turned our country's history.
Other than Andrew Murray, that never happened in
South Africa.
No matter what people tell you is happening
there now.
No, that was the great revival.
Well anyway, his great-granddaughter, great-great-granddaughter,
Elza married Stephen Foushee, the Methodist minister.
A godly girl and he's a godly man.
Nonetheless, he walked home after I preached about
this, and in his home he said, This
Keith Daniel, he said something this morning I
don't know if I can agree with.
You're saved.
Don't doubt this.
Someone prayed earnestly and compassionately for you.
No one.
No one prayed for me.
I'm saved a long time now.
And by now someone would have come to
me and said you were saved.
I was in sin, wicked.
No one ever came to me and said
I prayed for you Stephen.
Not one.
I would have known by now.
No one prayed for me.
Well his little mother-in-law, Elza's mother,
Mrs. Murray, crippled with arthritis.
Gentle and Christlike.
She stood up in that room and looked
at him and said Stephen you're wrong.
Someone did pray for you earnestly and compassionately.
Who?
Me Stephen.
When my daughter was born at that moment,
I prayed this prayer.
God somehow put it in my heart.
That the man who would take her heart
one day.
The man that would come somewhere in her
life that would win her heart.
No matter how we raised her, no matter
how protected we were.
No matter what we taught could be destroyed.
If she made the wrong choice.
You see Stephen I've seen so many godly
homes, their children who they raised.
Married the wrong person and all that they
did was crawl in shame.
And I didn't want that to happen to
my daughter Stephen.
And I felt compelled and burdened right from
her birth the day she was born Stephen.
To pray that one day.
The man that would come in her life
would love Christ.
That thou would save that man's soul and
not only save him but make him a
blaze for God.
Turn him from sin and make him so
consistent.
Deeply conservative and apologetically valiant for the truth.
And serving God with every breath in his
body.
I prayed for you not only then, I
prayed every single day Stephen.
And even when you took my daughter.
After all the years that I prayed for
you.
I knew this must be the answer to
my prayers.
My agonizing, my fears as I prayed.
I have prayed since then Stephen every single
day including this day for you.
I will pray till I die for you
my boy.
Because it's my daughter you took.
And I don't want any man that took
her to destroy her life.
Like it seems most Christians that I met.
They married someone that destroyed their lives.
And brought nothing but sorrow to the parents
who raised them.
Oh I prayed for you Stephen.
Every day.
Someone prayed for you Stephen.
With a burdened and fearful heart Stephen.
For what I saw could happen.
When she finally does fall in love.
A gentleman phoned me once in southern Africa.
He's very loved, known across much of Africa.
Ordering on I would say a household name.
I will not give his name.
But he phones me.
This is quite a long time ago now.
He says brother Keith.
Forgive me phoning you like this.
But I have a great shame and a
great sorrow.
That has come into my home.
And I thought of you.
You see my son Keith.
Has reached a certain age where he can
go independently.
And he looked at us as a family
and said these words.
I don't want God.
And I don't want you.
I want to serve the devil.
I am sick of being dragged to every
meeting.
Because I was your child I was forced
to sit in conventions and meetings upon meetings.
And I couldn't say no.
But now I do.
I don't want to ever see you again.
I have nothing but hatred to you.
Don't come near me till I die.
I am going to serve the devil with
all my heart.
With both hands fervently.
And you can't stop me.
You can't stop me now daddy.
He walked out in such a way saying
things.
That we just wept as a family and
we haven't stopped weeping.
I was shocked hearing this come from this
boy.
And then we've been thinking of you Keith.
There was one occasion when he actually listened
to a sermon.
And was affected by it.
Was when you preached a while back.
That he actually said something.
And we thought well this is the first
time this boy is speaking positively.
And I want you to go and see
my son.
I want you please to prayerfully go and
see my son.
Because we believe he'll listen to you.
If not to anyone else in this world
he'll listen.
Will you please go see my son?
Well I said okay.
I didn't have a physical address I just
had his workplace.
Even the daddy didn't know where he was
living.
But he knew where he was working.
So I eventually landed up in the centre
of the city in this big block.
Went to this floor.
Went down the passage.
Passed a lot of offices all with glass
panes dividing the offices down this long passage
in this whole floor.
And as I was getting close to where
they were leading me to where he was.
This young fellow.
In this office with a few other people.
He saw me through the glass panes.
And he did something that staggered the entire
floor.
He stood up screaming.
He lost control.
He ran out screaming and he was using
foul language.
But so angry.
That people were shaken.
The whole place stood in shock.
As he lost total control and he screamed
at me get out.
Get out of here.
And he came at me forcibly with his
body full.
With the most incredible blasphemous language.
People started weeping in the office who didn't
know anything about this boy's anger at life.
People started coming out of all the other
offices.
Hearing the commotion, the screaming.
And him coming at me physically.
And I began to fall the way he
was pushing.
Oh the anger in that boy.
And then he said these words.
You tell my father.
That if he ever sends anybody else to
this place to see me.
In my entire life I will hurt them.
I'll hurt you sir.
I will beat you if you come near
me again.
To talk about God.
You tell my father that I will beat
you.
I'll beat anyone.
I hate it.
I'm finished.
I'm going to serve the devil now.
Get out.
And he began to come again.
Well I was a little bit hurt.
Some people tried to restrain him.
And then I stood there and looked at
him.
And I said these words with a loud
voice.
Because the whole place now had come out
in the passages.
Shaken at this commotion in the way he
was carrying on.
And what he was saying.
I said you listen carefully to me now.
You listen very carefully to me.
You may be able to stop me from
speaking to you about God.
But you cannot stop me from speaking to
God about you.
And I want you to remember this from
this day till I die.
I will agonize on my knees for you
for God to make you miserable in your
sin.
To hate sin.
To live in fear of life when you're
in sinful places with the devil's people.
In the devil's houses eating what the devil
disses up to satisfy the people he has.
And you will hate what he disses up.
You will end up hating it.
Hating that you will never ever know happiness
or any form of fulfillment.
Or joy in sinners company or in sinful
places.
Till the day you die.
You will live in fear of your life.
I'll be praying for that.
That you will never know any peace until
you find it with God.
And you'll just know fear and torment and
shame.
And you can't stop me.
And don't forget it now.
Now of course I was weeping.
And I left.
Now I don't know how long after that.
It was three years maybe, I don't know.
I was washing my face in an ablution
block in some big conference center where I
was to preach.
So I was down and I looked in
this little mirror on the wall above the
basin.
And I saw the reflection of someone standing
behind me in the ablution block.
And so I turned, looked and there he
stood.
Do you remember me, sir?
Well I looked at him.
Oh yes, I remember you.
I heard you would be here.
I didn't want anyone else to tell you.
I didn't want to phone you.
I wanted to see you face to face.
I wanted to look in your face and
tell you this.
I'm saved.
You can stop praying.
I've given my life to God in a
way I'll never be able to take it
back.
And I'm back with father and mother and
ask forgiveness.
When you stood there and you said those
words to me, I was so shocked I
couldn't believe what you were saying.
I started living in fear from the moment
you said that.
I went home.
I tried to go out to sin that
night.
It was so terrible, the danger that I
suddenly found orchestrated that I literally ran for
my life from the sinful place back to
my apartment.
There has not been one single occasion since
you said that.
That I have not feared for my life,
that I have not hated, feared being in
sin, being in sinful places with sinful people.
There was not one single occasion.
I used to run back and go back
into my apartment and say, is that Keith
Daniel praying for me?
I was angry with you.
Well you can stop praying now, sir.
I am saved in a way I can
never take it back.
When he became a missionary in South America
to this day, thank God, thank God.
I was in the home of one of
our great preachers of Southern Africa.
He died the same year, the same month
that I was saved.
But he was a household name across our
country.
He led so many people, found Christ through
his preaching in life.
Amazing, staggering testimony across our land of what
God did through him.
But his family took me under their wing
when I was first saved.
Went to theological seminar.
And there were Saturdays off, sometimes weekends off
from our Bible school.
And I would go there because father and
mother lived on the other side of Southern
Africa.
Could never get back there just for a
weekend off.
And suddenly this was my little family.
His wife, one of the godliest women I
think ever lived in history.
I felt so privileged being near her, learning
from her, learning from her conduct.
No matter what she faced, just Christ-likeness
and love was in those eyes even if
she was weeping.
What a staggering life, Mrs. Ann Smith.
She had children.
The eldest daughter, 19 years of age.
Ann also.
She was in sin.
With sinful people.
This godly home with one of the most
loved preachers of Southern Africa's history.
And here she was with this godly mother
going out into the world.
When I was there, sometimes the most terrifying
things would happen.
She would go dressed like the world in
this godly home, this God-fearing home.
And there was people sitting in the vehicle
blowing on the horn.
They wouldn't come, they wouldn't stoop to even
come.
They'd just sit there.
And I used to look out at the
people.
Whoa, rough baddies.
And I feared for her.
They were such bad influence, they wouldn't even
come to the door in respect.
They were just waiting for her.
And I thought, how can she be going
with this?
And I saw her mother, this godly Mrs.
Smith, looking out the window in tears.
She was pouring down her eyes as she
saw.
Suddenly the girl runs out.
She's gone.
I saw Mrs. Smith sitting there, tears just
coming down.
Praying in her heart for this girl.
Well, one night I stopped her.
She was incredibly beautiful.
Incredibly beautiful.
I said, Anne, what is God going to
have to do to stop you from pursuing
sin and sinners like this?
Those people are dangerous, Anne.
They're indecent, just look at them.
What is God going to have to do
to stop you?
Look at your mother, Anne.
She's one of the godliest women I've ever
met in my life.
Just look at her.
Look at her tears.
Look at her looking right now at you,
leaving.
Look at her tears, her broken heart.
God has to do something, Anne, to answer
your mother's prayers and holy obligation to the
promises your mother has concerning prayer that instigates
faith, that initiates faith.
Don't believe that God isn't going to do
something.
Anne, God's got to have to answer her
prayers and obligation to His Word.
She fulfills the condition, you know that.
She's godly, as few have ever attained.
Anne, what will God have to do to
stop you?
God's got to have to do something to
answer her prayers.
She stood there so shocked at what I
said, tears welled up in her eyes.
She looked at her mother and she said,
Keith, do you think I enjoy going out
into sin with a mother like this?
Keith, I'm backslidden.
I've been through the whole Bible.
I don't know how many times I led
people to Christ.
I don't know how it happened.
But I am backslidden, Keith.
There's something about a backslidden that's so tragic,
Keith.
I believe it's a hundred times harder for
someone to find vital reality with God again
who's backslidden than for a wicked, defiled person
to find God initially at salvation to come
firstly.
There's something tragic about a backslidden.
You don't want to go.
You can't enjoy it.
Do you think I enjoy knowing when I
come back late and there's my mother on
her knees waiting, three o'clock in the
morning, doesn't matter.
I say, Mother, you can get up on
your knees, I'm back.
Do you think I enjoy that?
Thinking of her when I'm trying to enjoy
sin, the Holy Book says, even in laughter,
the heart is sorrowful.
Who's speaking of, Keith?
The next verse is, the backslider in heart.
Even when you laugh, you're crying, Keith.
You can't enjoy it, but you don't know
what it is.
There's something gripping you, taking you back.
You can't say no.
Something of the willpower is destroyed if you
backslide.
And she walked her out to go with
these people.
It was, I suppose, a month later.
They told me she was lying in hospital.
She was given two weeks at the longest
to live.
No symptoms.
Riddled with cancer.
No warning.
Two weeks left.
I think they said at the most, two
weeks.
Those days, they used to cut you open,
you see.
Wouldn't do all this scanning.
And then they just closed her up and
said, she has two weeks to live.
There's no point in touching her, or even
radiation.
Nothing will help.
So I went to the hospital.
And I looked at her.
From the door.
She said, do you remember what you said
to me?
What will God have to do to you,
Ann?
He's going to have to do something to...
This is what God had to do, Keith.
To stop me.
I said, I know people who prayed.
And people were healed.
Some even saved from cancer.
Don't bring anyone here to pray for me.
Please don't.
I want to die, Keith.
You see, if God healed me, I know
even now, I'm too weak to stand.
And I'll go back to sin, Keith.
I just thank God, He stopped me now,
that there's time to get right with Him.
I just thank God, Keith.
You see, I've had time to get right,
to get the blood, to look by faith,
to confess.
And I'm right with God now, for the
first time in a long time, Keith.
I am right with God.
And I know, He has to take me
now.
So don't bring people to pray for me.
I want to go, Keith.
While I'm right with God.
And she was crying, when she told me
this.
But what does she do?
She got right with God, but she didn't
stop there, she staggered everybody.
You see, in that little while, she had
left to live.
She called every single friend she had on
earth, to her deathbed.
How do you say no?
They lined up.
And one at a time, she asked, would
come to the bed.
And she lay there weakly with a little
Bible, open.
And tears with everyone.
I asked for forgiveness.
You see, I knew you were going to
hell for eternity, but I never warned you,
because I was backslidden.
But my heart condemned me every day, every
night, when I was with you, that I
couldn't warn you, you wouldn't listen, because I'm
there with you.
I asked for forgiveness, but now I want
to warn you.
And she would quote of the judgment of
God coming upon every soul.
He will return in flaming fire, taking vengeance
on them that know not God and that
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who will be punished and sent to
send us up forever and ever.
God says, concerning the place of the great
well, lake that burneth the fire of Jerusalem.
Oh, she just quoted the judgments of God
to those that obeyed.
And she brought Isaiah 53.
Somehow that was in her heart.
And God says to him that worketh not,
but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,
being justified freely by grace through faith in
his blood.
The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son cleanseth
us from...
Oh, she just...
He would in no wise turn away anyone
who comes to him through Christ Jesus.
He will have all men to be...
She begged them, seek God to save you,
that you don't go to this hell.
I have to warn you that the next
one comes to him.
And she says the same, weeping, quoting the
scriptures mainly and asking for forgiveness for not
warning them what she knew would happen to
them if they died.
And then she did something astonishing.
She said to the nurses, there were many
that didn't come.
Oh, sorry, there were some that didn't come.
Though I asked them, and
I want you to ask that man for
forgiveness that I didn't warn him until now.
Go and phone the nurse and come back,
did you phone him, did you ask him,
did you quote...
Now take this one, this next telephone number
and do the same, right through.
Ann Smith sat back in her bed two
days before she died and she said these
words with a gentle smile.
No man's blood is on my hands.
There's not a single soul left that I
should have warned that I haven't warned.
Staggering statement.
She didn't want to face God with men's
blood on her hands.
God gave her just enough time and then
took her two days later.
Staggering.
What is God going to have to do,
Ann?
He has to do something.
He's obligated to his promises to answer your
mother's prayers for you, to stop you, Ann.
But what is God going to...
Oh, God has a holy obligation.
It's not sacrilege to say this.
It's sacrilege not to believe this.
And not to say it from our hearts
clearly.
He cannot deny it.
He cannot deny himself of what he's promised
if it's the will of the Father.
And we know it's the will of the
Father that all men should be saved and
come to the knowledge of the truth.
I should go on with all these illustrations
but I'm not for time.
George Mueller.
If you've ever read George Mueller, you are
enriched.
If you haven't read it, you're depriving yourself
of one of the greatest privileges God has
given a Christian.
Don't go to the big, thick book of
George Mueller.
Go to the little, for youth, you know,
where it's very nice because it concisely just
brings things of the most significant, important things
of his life.
There's details there that are wonderful.
But listen, George Mueller was a man of
prayer and he prayed in such a staggering
way that the entire Christian world in his
lifetime was staggered and knew the name George
Mueller.
He did something, he took hundreds and hundreds
of people on the streets dying, these little
children, those days in London and across Britain,
and he put them into what we call
orphanages now, but there were none.
He was a man of prayer.
When God heard him pray, God answered his
prayers, mostly immediately.
Have you ever prayed like that?
200 children, 230 I think, sitting around the
tables, not one little crumb of bread, nothing
to eat, but he got them.
He said, children, let us bow our heads
in prayer and thank God for the food
we are about to receive.
That's faith.
My word.
They prayed.
What happens?
In Jesus Christ's name he says, Amen.
Suddenly, as he said Amen, pow, bang, the
children all up, everyone runs outside, the commotion,
you see this delivery cart, those days there
were horses, it was like a little mountain
of bread from the bakery, and this thing
toppled over just at the corner where he
had prayed, and all the bread, like a
mountain against the door.
Oh, we can't sell this, you can have
it.
So he said, well children, take the food
God gave us, let's go and eat.
Isn't that wonderful?
Those amazing prayers that were answered that will
thrill you and stagger you and the school
of God he had to be in before
God got him there to pray like that.
There's a school and there's obedience and lessons
of faith.
But, when he died, he was virtually a
household name now across much of the Christian
evangelical world.
He was even in the front pages of
British newspapers, we've been told about this man,
even the secular newspapers were front pages of
what God was doing through him.
Well, as he died, it wasn't one moment,
it was a long drawn-out deathbed and
suffering, much suffering.
And as he died, they found in his
Bible pages interlinked with all the pages of
the very big Bible, and on those pages
and scores of names.
And many of the names had a tick
on the one side and a date.
Now he's dead.
They made research, a lot of Christians, they
found every single name of the many, many
scores and scores of pages strewn across his
Bible behind him.
As he lay dying all those months and
months, people from across the world would send
him, their drunken husband, their son in prison,
murderer.
People who knew God answered his prayers, sending
crying out, pray, you pray, for my son,
my wayward boy is a criminal, he's drunk,
he's ashamed.
Oh, people crying out and here this man
was praying.
And they found that that person was saved
on that day, so he kicked him off
and put the date.
But there were many, many, many, many names
that had no tick, no date, and they
found that those names, not one of them
was saved.
He died praying for them and he died
his prayers were not answered.
This great man of faith.
Anyway, all the pages were put back.
Now the British are wonderful they protect everything
of history one way or the other.
You go there, you can go into John
Wesley's home and there's his bed, the same
seats, the same blanket, there's the prayer cushion,
not only him, John Knox, I went into
his home, there's his little desk, there's his
Bible, there's his writings, sermon things, and the
great John Knox said, I fear the prayers
of John Knox more than I do the
Spanish emir.
She trembled, that wicked woman, at this godly
man's prayers that she knew would change history
and did.
Give me Scotland or I die and God
gave him Scotland.
Scotland turned in the Reformation through that man's
prayers alone, away from Rome, the wicked Rome.
Well, two American missionaries, young men, those days
there weren't flights across to Africa, etc.
They had to go via Southampton and then
via, there was no Suez Canal, so they
go all the way, it's a long, long
thing, they went via Southampton and while they
were in England they went to this great
man, George Muller, his home, preserved, protected, they
saw his bed, protected by Britain because if
anything of significance to the nation, even religion,
they protected it as if it's right now
the man was living there.
They didn't change a thing, protect it.
Britain only did that, France to a degree,
but Britain only.
Well, they saw his Bible, the great George
Muller, they saw all these pages and they
asked, he was suffering, crying to
God, but all these names, no tags, no
ticks, when he died they were not saved.
So these two American missionaries said, can we
have these pages for a while, we protect
them, we want to make a research now.
They spent a long time before going further
and they made research that took a long,
long time, every single name was saved on
those pages.
Not seeing them saved, not seeing his prayers,
answer them.
But every single one was eventually saved, that
didn't mean God wasn't going to answer his
prayers.
Mother, if you die and your child is
through drugs and drink and shame, die praying
in faith.
If you die and you don't see your
father, your brother, your wicked friends turn to
God through your prayers, die praying in faith,
unswerving.
Just keep praying, die praying, but don't die
doubting this holy God.
You see, man has a free will, I
will never doubt that, but we have a
lot to blame God for if they don't.
So run screaming for help, if you ever
hear a preacher say man doesn't have a
free will, just run screaming and don't stop
running until you're so far away you could
never get back.
Every man has a free will and God
will not force a man to be saved,
I agree with that.
But, when we pray, I believe even if
we don't see in that wicked wife, in
that wicked husband, in those wicked relatives, even
if we don't see a thing, I guarantee
you, a holy God who with one word
created the universe.
He didn't take years to do it, that's
how great, he's beyond comprehension the greatness of
this God, giving a man a free will.
But when you pray, God will turn, God
almighty who has wisdom a billion, zillion, trillion
times more than any human could have to
know what to do.
That God in holy obligation will do everything
he as God with his wisdom will be
able to bring about and orchestrate to make
that man, that woman, that son, that mother,
that father, that wife become conscious, he will
turn their world upside down and even if
they lie dying and if that's the only
way he'll do that, he'll do that because
your mother prayed, because George Bueller prayed every
single name was saved.
Don't doubt this now, Andrew Murray, our great
Andrew Murray prayed daily for many, many, many
years you'll see this in his books for
every descendant that ever came from his blood
to be saved and not to serve the
devil but to serve God with their whole
being.
Do you know every five years they have
the Andrew Murray Convention of all the descendants
that came from Andrew Murray and his wife.
There are 500 I believe they just have
some convention center in Africa and there they
are and all that happens is they are
asked to testify of their salvation.
The vast majority are saved.
The little percentage that isn't saved are 12
and under and an incredible percentage of full
time service for God.
Do you think that just happens?
Not only to pray for the worries that
you get from your son but the descendants
till Christ returns.
He prayed for in faith.
Do you think this has happened?
He prayed.
He prayed in faith.
God has answered his prayers.
You know when you look at the world
today 300 million Islamic Muslim people are in
the Arabic countries alone.
They say the vast majority have not heard
the name Jesus Christ let alone rejected it.
They've never heard the vast majority have never
heard the name Jesus Christ.
And that's staggering.
How do you pray for them?
Well let me tell you how you pray
for them.
Two buildings went down in the most sophisticated
city on earth New York.
In a way mankind never knew a war
could be like this where you don't know
where you are you could be dead.
Attacking innocents in the most outrageous ways and
trying everything they can to this day to
protect us.
Now from a warfare we knew nothing about.
How do you battle such a people?
Putin and others said how do you war
with these people?
It's a different war.
They attack they put bombs around little children
women go into buildings you don't know where
you go.
The innocents you're an infidel they'll kill you
and think they're going to get into heaven
or whatever they call it paradise.
With a lot of rubbish.
God have mercy.
Nonetheless two buildings come down the world is
staggered the entire world is so staggered that
this actually happened.
And what happens?
Christians across the entire world start praying for
something they weren't praying earnestly about before.
Islam suddenly we're in danger.
We can get in a plane we don't
know we look suspicious anybody that looks Islamic.
Suddenly we don't know where you're sitting in
a building two thousand dead jumping off the
building.
But the Christians began to pray for Islam
as never before.
Now what happens?
As a result I was told by leaders
of the largest missionary societies and denominations across
earth one after the other there are more
full time workers for God on the mission
field reaching Islam Muslim nations than any other
culture or nation on earth.
Far more than any other nation in China
India Africa.
Suddenly you think that has happened?
That's because we started to pray because we
were forced to.
One man said to me the Islamic people
are turning to God in their masses Keith
across the whole world in such a way
that we don't even know the tip of
the iceberg but they're turning and it's worrying
it's shaking the Islamic faith.
That's why they're so angry telling Christians trying
to stop it.
Wesley said staggering words don't fence me in.
You see they were excommunicating all in the
Anglican state church who came to God through
the great Wesley in Whitfield across Britain.
And so they wanted to form a denomination.
Wesley said no I do not want a
denomination.
He eventually had to give in.
Methodism was created.
Wesley said these words I can't be fenced
into a denomination.
The world is my parish.
God heard that.
Satan heard that.
Heaven heard that.
Hell heard that.
You think God just turned his face away
from such a man.
Well to this day I wonder how many
people have come to God through Wesley's influence
in his lifetime and since.
The whole world is on his heart.
Not just the Methodists that came out of
a church called the state church.
No.
How much of the world is on your
heart?
Of the three hundred million in the Arabic
lands alone let alone every other nation that
they're just storming in the Islamic people.
And we sit there worrying do we?
Well have you prayed for them?
Have you prayed for God's salvation?
Have you prayed for their salvation?
You might not be able to pray for
individuals or three hundred million in a way
that's one on one.
Let me tell you God answers prayer when
we started to pray.
They can't preach to these people they have
to go one on one now.
There are more full time workers supported by
home based churches throughout the world reaching Islamic
people than any other mission field on earth
or people or culture.
Are you praying for the whole world?
It's a rare thing for a man to
pray for the whole world you know.
Because only God has the whole world on
his heart.
You must be close to God's heart if
you have the whole world on your heart.
Do you?
You have this nation on your heart.
The only danger America has is not Islam.
It's the people of God.
If they don't seek God and get right
with God and stop all this entertainment replacing
the gospel and truth.
If they don't seek God confessing their sins
and turning from their wicked ways and it
is wicked to replace this book and draw
crowds and let them go to hell so
long as you get crowds and all that
revival to all those demons and how many
others that they flock to hear these things.
But if the true people of God don't
want mega churches and become entertainers when they
should belong in the theater because there's no
place for entertainment in the church it must
be sanctified godly singing or it shouldn't be
there with godly people not those emulated in
the body language no but if my people
and this is to this day not just
the Old Testament God had us in mind
putting this in the Old Testament if my
people to this day who are called by
my name should humble themselves and pray and
turn from their wicked ways should confess their
sins turn from their wicked ways then will
I hear from heaven I will forgive their
sins and I will heal their land you
see the promises of David that promise what
to do to make us pray do you
pray for your country are you so busy
looking at the news and all you do
is condemn politicians no condemn the church are
you praying for your country in a way
that god can save not only praying for
Islam not only praying for your drunk husband
your wife that's driving you to the grave
early with her wickedness but for the world
who will have all men why did he
say that pray intercession crying to god for
their salvation from the politicians down don't condemn
them and blame them pray for them their
salvation that's all