My name's Dan Beiser.
I've set this call for a solemn assembly
up.
I pastor two churches, one here in West
Virginia, one at Fox's Hall of Baptist Church
over in Romney, West Virginia, and then here
at Kaiser, we have a house church.
We just call it Kaiser Church.
And so, the Lord has laid on me
for these years prayer conferences and to prevail
in prayer.
A number of years ago, we did Broken
Before the Throne.
Many of the speakers this weekend was a
part of that first one and those experiences
that we did, Brother Sammy Tippett and Brother
John McGregor.
And so, we're glad to have them to
be back a part of this time.
So, welcome to those.
Continue to pray.
And as the word is brought, again, we
want to bring the word and proclamation, and
then we want to give you prayer points
that you can write down and continue to
pray so that we might prevail.
Satisfied with nothing less than to prevail in
prayer.
All right?
So, 1 Samuel chapter 1.
Now, there was a certain man of remote
Zothan of Mount Ephraim, and his name was
Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of
Elihu, the son of Toad, the son of
Zuth, and Epithet.
And he had two wives.
The name of the one was Hannah.
The name of the other was Paniah.
And Paniah had children, but Hannah had no
children.
And this man went up out of the
city, yearly worshiped and sacrificed unto the Lord
of hosts in Shiloh.
And the two sons of Eli, Hophnah, Phinehas,
the priest of the Lord, they were there.
And when the time was that Elkanah offered,
he gave to Paniah his wife and to
all her sons and daughters portions.
But unto Hannah, he gave a worthy portion,
for he loved him.
But the Lord had shut up her womb.
And her adversary also provoked her sword, for
to make her pray, because the Lord had
shut up her womb.
And as he did so year by year,
when she went up to the house of
the Lord, so she provoked her.
Therefore, she wept, and she did not eat.
Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah,
why weepest thou?
Why do you not eat?
Why is your heart grieved?
Am not I better to you than ten
sons?
So Hannah rose up after they had eaten
in Shiloh.
And after they had drunk, now Eli the
priest sat upon a seat by a post
at the temple of the Lord.
She was in bitterness of soul.
She prayed unto the Lord and wept sore.
She vowed a vow and said, O Lord
of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on
the affliction of thy handmaid and remember me,
not forget thy handmaid, but will give unto
thy handmaid a man child, that I will
give him unto the Lord all the days
of his life.
And there shall no razor come upon his
head.
And it came to pass, as she continued
praying before the Lord, that Eli marked her
mouth.
Now Hannah, she spake in her heart, only
her lips moved, but her voice was not
heard.
Therefore, Eli thought that she had been drunken.
Eli said unto her, how long wilt thou
be drunken?
Put away thy wine for me.
Hannah answered and said, no, my Lord, I
am a woman of a sorrowful spirit.
I've drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but
I have poured out my soul before the
Lord.
Count not thy handmaid for a daughter of
Balaam, for out of the abundance of my
complaint and the grief have I spoken hitherto.
Then Eli answered and said, go in peace,
and the God of Israel grant to you
thy petition that you have asked of him.
And she said, let thy handmaid find grace
in thy sight.
And the woman went her way and did
eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
And so they rose up in the morning
early, worshipped before the Lord, and they returned.
And they came to the house to Ramah,
and Elkanah knew Hannah, his wife, and the
Lord remembered her.
I want to begin this introductory session for
our weekend with this example of the scripture
of prevailing.
This is the emphasis.
What did they do?
How did they come before the Lord and
make their request that God not just hear
their request, because God listens to us.
Many of you have been praying for a
long time for revival.
You've been praying a long time for the
lost souls of your family and your friends.
You've been praying for the nation that would
be a turnaround.
And literally, quite literally, what we have seen
is none of those things happen.
Our nation has gotten worse.
The church has become less holy and more
with lacking of power of the Holy Spirit.
And there is evidence today in the stats
that there are few that are coming to
Christ in the United States.
We rejoice in other countries, but what we're
hearing about in that 1040 window in places
of China where the church is growing by
leaps and bounds, it's like the book of
Acts, that was daily added to the church,
such as should be saved.
And we rejoice with that.
But in our place, in our position here
in the United States, we've got to ask
ourselves what's going on.
I mean, as I was preparing for this
weekend, trying to get the scriptures laid out,
one of the things that we shared of
prevailing again is the most obvious, which is
over in the book of Genesis, where Jacob
wrestled with the angel and he prevailed with
God.
And he had that statement said about him.
He not only prevailed with God, he prevailed
with men.
What a great statement.
So we took that verse and we used
it as our theme for this weekend.
But again, it is a call for a
solemn assembly.
Solemn assembly is to deal with what's wrong,
to fix it, and to plead with God
to make the wrongs right.
So again, we're rejoicing for what's coming next
month, but before we ever get there, if
we get there, because things are happening so
fast right now, is that we wanted this
weekend to saturate the very atmosphere of the
things of church gatherings, of you as brothers
and sisters in Christ, what's happening on the
streets of our cities, what's going on in
the homes, and what's happening in the minds
and the hearts of men and women.
There's great eve that is happening.
We have a victory.
We have a power in the name of
Christ that can overcome all that.
But again, it is that our iniquities and
sins have pushed him that again, he has
withdrawn himself in the fullness that we so
desperately need.
We want to get back to that.
So when I've read this account, the Lord
led me back here.
I love this account, but the Lord led
me back here to go back over this
and I read back down through it several
times.
And every time I read it, there was
another phrase saying, oh, that's what we need.
Oh, that's what we got to have.
That's what must be in my life.
And the scrutiny begins with me as an
individual.
And so again, I'm presenting to you what
the Lord has said to me for this
time.
And so I'm going to bring a word
here for the next 45 minutes or so,
a sermon.
And then I have these prayer points that
I want to give to you to ask
of you that you would pray in agreement
with me for these things.
So let's begin here as we see.
Now again, as I just got done saying
here is that the reason of a call
for a solemn assembly is to find over
in the book of Joel chapter one and
chapter two, something's wrong.
And there is descriptive things that happen there
in the book of Joel that he says,
there is a calamity upon the land that
again, God has sent a family.
The drought has come and the crops have
been burned up.
The enemy has come.
There's an army that has come in and
has ravaged the cities and the young men
that were soldiers have been killed and young
women have been brutalized and prisoners and the
young sons and daughters have been taken as
captives.
Cities are no more.
And the way of life that they used
to know with peace and happiness is all
gone.
And there's a hesitancy of life.
They don't know where they're going to eat,
where they're going to get their food.
They don't know where to get water.
The freedoms that they were enjoying and the
prosperity that they had has all been taken
away.
Safety is no more.
And when we look at the news in
this hour, we know this, that we're not
too far from them.
Is that again, just by watching what's happened
in the last week, our land is being
ravaged by natural disasters.
The homes and the streets are in chaos
and the church really has not had a
voice that they have spoken during these days
to say, just save the Lord.
And it is time for us is that
we would get before the Lord, come boldly
before his throne and obtain the mercy and
the grace to help us in this time
of need.
And so Hannah gives us a picture of
that.
And so we see the problem here.
So let's walk down through these verses and
let's imitate what Hannah did in our minds,
in our hearts, in our souls, in our
lives, that we may obtain the same thing.
Because I've read all these verses that when
we get to verse 19, the burden was
lifted off of her.
She got up, they worshiped the Lord, they
packed their bags, they went back home.
Elkanah knew Hannah and she conceived and God
remembered her.
Remember that's exactly what she had asked.
Lord, if you would remember me and the
request that I'm making.
And she obtained what she asked for.
And so that's the very desire that we
have for this time, this weekend, is that
God would not just hear us, but that
God would answer us and say, I remember
what you prayed.
I have seen your tears.
I've seen your fast.
I've seen your brokenness.
I know what's on your heart and your
mind and I am finally going to give
you what you desire.
And the blessing of that will be a
revival to the church.
It'll be a spiritual awakening to the United
States and it will be the fulfillment of
his kingdom to the four corners of the
earth, that the gospel will go out and
his glory will be demonstrated to the nations.
That's my prayer, if it was answered.
And I'm praying that many of you that
I see signing on here are like-minded
in that same one.
So let's walk down through these verses.
So we begin here with this in verse
five and verse six, we begin with the
problem.
Now verse five at the very last phrase
that it says, but the Lord had shut
up her womb.
Now that's mentioned back to back, verse five,
verse six, her womb is shut.
Now this is not the first time that
we see this in scripture, is it?
We go back to the book of Genesis
and we go back and we see where
Sarah, who is the wife of Abraham, is
that God shut her womb.
She was not allowed to have a child
while she was in the age of normal
childbearing.
Matter of fact, way past those years of
childbearing before God finally opened the womb to
allow for her to conceive, which would be
a part of the covenant.
And Isaac was born.
And again, what a miracle that was.
Then you, not two generations later, you have
Isaac and Rebekah.
She has the twins within her, Esau and
Jacob, and they wrestle and Jacob have I
loved, Esau have I hated.
And here comes Jacob and he has 12
sons and a daughter and you get to
his four wives with Leah and the two
servants.
And then Rebekah or Rachel and Rachel can't
conceive.
And she comes to Jacob and she says,
give me children because Leah is having children
left and right.
She's had numerous boys before Rachel hasn't even
conceived one.
And she comes to Jacob and says, give
me children.
Hannah here can't have children and no doubt
they've been trying.
And we know people, and some of you
might be in this condition that again, where
you get married and you want to start
a family and you say, well, we can't,
we've been trying, but we can't and something's
wrong.
And in this day and age with the
advancement of our medicine, we run to the
doctors and we say, something's wrong.
Tell us what's wrong.
And they have means and remedies now to
fertilization and all those things of science and
medicine that's going on.
But in this, where it says is that
she, her womb was shut and God would
not allow for her to have a child.
And on top of that problem in verse
six, the other one comes and is just
downright mean and causes her with slang sayings.
And you just know the venom that was
pouring out of her towards Hannah and, well,
look at all my kids.
You don't have kids.
And I'm not going to spend time, but
you can imagine what she was saying so
much so that Hannah was crushed.
And so then in verse seven, as they
went up to the house of the Lord
and the husband now Elkanah says, in verse
eight, he tries to appease to Hannah and
to comfort her and to give her a
word of encouragement saying, am I not enough
for you?
Am I not more than worth 10 sons?
And the answer of that is no, you're
not.
It's one thing to have a husband and
a wife, but again, when a woman wants
to have children, there is a great frustration
in the midst of this.
And that's the word that was spoken there.
The adversary provoked her and to make her
to fret in verse six, provoked her and
caused her to fret.
And the womb was closed.
Is that not where we're at?
The ability of the church to reproduce, to
be fruitful is gone.
God has stopped it in the United States.
Now again, every outpouring and the baptism or
salvation and answer to prayer as the angels
rejoice over one soul that is brought into
the kingdom.
So we rejoice.
I'm not discrediting that in any way, shape
or form, but let's just be honest that
again, I can remember decades ago is that
people were coming to Christ on a weekly
basis.
I can remember is that the numerics of
the church and Christianity in North America was
flourishing and there were great meetings and there
were great revival services and evangelism services.
And there was missionaries going and there was
decency in the land and a moral compass
that was there.
And all these things that we're talking about
this night was not even mentioned or thought
of at that time.
And all of a sudden, there's a problem.
And the fruit that the church was bearing,
the holiness and righteousness and faithfulness is now
eroding away.
And that's a hard thing to find among
Christians.
We see in the example of liberty, just
all the conflict that they're going through and
praise God tonight, they're having an all night
prayer meeting.
We join with them to pray for their
future and the things going.
But again, the way the world is watching
the church of saying, you all talk about
you serve the true God, that there's victory
in Christ and that there's deliverance and there's
power.
Where is it?
Give us evidence.
Where's the fruit?
You can talk all the talk you want,
but where's the fruit?
And this is where it is, is that
God has removed the power of the church
right now.
And it is for us during a weekend
like this to get back and to say,
God, pour out your spirit on us, that
we might be light and salt in this
day and age because of what we're facing.
And the provoking and the fretting is not
on the side of God that he has
been provoked by our nation.
He has been again of all the blessings
and all the mercies and all the things
that he has done for the United States
and for the North American church.
Again, that we would act as we are
acting so carnal, so tempting, so selfish that
he would say, is there, could I not
have done anything more?
Remember that what he said about Israel in
the Old Testament?
What more could I have done than what
I did for them?
I gave them a land.
I made them a nation.
I entered into a covenant with them.
I established prophets and I gave them David
and God did everything that was meaningful.
And so can the church say that today,
God has done everything meaningful.
We don't lack anything.
But when we despair, provoke and fret the
cause of God, it has a direct relationship
to the fruitfulness of the church and to
the individual sin.
The testimony of answer prayer, the testimony of
bearing souls, winning people to Christ, of seeing
miracles and mercies of God, of his mercies
being poured out.
That's a testimony of fruitfulness.
Is there evidence of this or does he
cause the womb to close?
Now that's the problem.
Then down when this woman has caused her
to be at a disparate place of despondency,
she does the right thing.
And let's enter into this because this is
the crux of this verse 9.
And she arose and she went to the
temple of the Lord.
She got up.
She went to where the altar was.
Oh, you remember the old altar?
No, again, that old favorite hymn of mine
is you're all on the altar.
Sacrifice laid.
They're bowed the knee to bow the face
to grab hold of the horns of the
altar and to cry out to God.
I remember the old testimony of the old
Pentecostals and charismatic is that they prayed at
the altar an hour before the church service
and they prayed at the altar an hour
after the church service.
Now it is is that for most the
cobwebs grow over and the altar is never,
never used.
And she got up and she went there,
rose and went.
And again, brother and sister, that's why we're
doing this this weekend.
It is time for us to arise and
go to the throne of grace.
It's time for us to arise and to
go before him because of this problem of
fruitfulness that we have provoked the Lord and
fretted the cause of his good name across
this land and in the church house and
to get back to where God wants us
to be.
So she arose and she went and it
is is that verse 10 and she was
in bitterness of soul and she prayed unto
the Lord and she wept sore.
Three things there.
She was in bitterness of soul.
The despair of what we're seeing happening today
in the headlines in the nation causes that
bitterness of soul.
The the lack of souls coming to Christ
knowing that they are in their last breath.
They are walking on as Jonathan Edwards preached
that sinners in the hands of an angry
God, they're walking on a pie crust and
at any moment they can drop down through
and fall into hell if it was not
by the grace of God who holds them
up.
Well, this is where we're at.
So it is is that crying out to
God for this hour and this need that
again God would meet us in this bitterness
of soul for what we're seeing and on
our watch as the church on our watch
this these things have happened and mushroom and
multiply and it is again that as it
has been on our watch so again that
we might be provoked that we might be
at this fretful point and say I'm going
to go before God and I'm not getting
up till you meet us.
Now again why would I do a full
weekend?
Why would we do during broken before the
thorn?
Why would we do a full week?
Well because one of the things that I
believe about the need for the solemn assembly
is that there needs to be protracted meetings.
There needs to be a protracted long time
period and you can't do these things in
an hour.
You can't deal with all the things that
need to be dealt with in just a
couple hours and so time needs to be
given to this.
So again for the full weekend is that
God's Holy Spirit might speak to us that
he might cause that bitterness of soul within
us is that we would be content with
nothing else than to gain the heart of
God so as to prevail for his kingdom
and his name's sake in this hour.
She wept sore tears.
Have you been weeping?
Have you been tears flowing when you enter
into the prayer closet every time that you
see the headline?
Every time that you read about another drug
overdose death?
Every time that you see another murder suicide?
The happenings in our nation?
The devastation and destruction which you saw down
in Louisiana after the hurricane rolled through?
Did you weep?
Jesus beheld the city and he wept over
it.
What causes you to weep when you enter
into your prayer closet?
What causes that bitterness of soul?
Frustration of saying God I know that you're
the answer.
We don't have any answers and we don't
have any remedies and we don't have any
solutions and all of our humanism and all
of our problem solving amounts to zero.
With you God all things are possible.
With you we desperately need you oh God.
Here's the desperation where it mounts and it
bubbles up inside the soul and it comes
out in the prayer meeting when people wail
and howl and scream and lament and sorrow
because again their eyes and their minds have
seen and heard what's going on out there
this night and they know that they know
that Satan is having his will in his
way with people's lives and homes and on
the streets.
His activity is greatly multiplied and increased in
the United States and it seems like there's
no barriers.
It seems like there's no restriction but there
is and you and I as the church
have the power and the ability in the
name of Jesus to stop it and to
put it down.
Here's the remedy.
In the bitterness of her soul she goes
to the altar weeping saturated in tears and
she makes this in this statement that's here
and she says and she prayed to the
Lord.
That phrase pray to the Lord is about
a dozen times in the Bible in the
scriptures and I want to go through a
couple of those just so that you get
it because it is the primary point of
this prevailing prayer that we not just pray
but again add it with bitterness of soul
add it with the provoking and the fretting
add it with the weeping and the wailing
and the lamenting and the howling in the
morning of Joel 1 and 2.
Come before God and not be satisfied till
God speaks the words from heaven I have
heard you and I will grant you the
desires of your heart.
Now the first one of these that we
come to and again besides in Genesis where
Jacob wrestled and he prayed and received blessing
from the Lord he prevailed.
We go over to the book of Numbers
and for those who've been following for us
over these months of Bible study we've come
through the book of Exodus and we see
the children of Israel well over in the
book of Numbers twice it's mentioned there the
first time is that it says and the
children of Israel they murmured and they complained
against the Lord and against Moses.
You know that they bowed down and they
worshiped false gods and it says is that
God sent fiery darts among them he poured
out fire on them and they came to
Moses and they said Moses we've sinned against
you we've sinned against God and God's destroying
us again.
When you see these things happening call for
a solemn assembly.
When you see the problem the womb is
shut up there's a provoking there's a fretting
call for a solemn assembly.
Gather the people pray to the Lord in
bitterness of soul with weeping lament and confessing
repenting and waiting upon God till he bestows
and gives us what he wanted to give
us all along.
They come to Moses and he did and
Moses always did this he was a great
intercessor for the children of Israel and it
says is that he prayed to the Lord
and God repented and he stopped the fire
and he stopped consuming the people and he
and he gave them a period that they
would get back to doing what they were
supposed to do.
This is the evidence of remedial judgments.
God sends judgments upon a land upon a
people upon the church upon individuals then he
gives them time to repent.
If they don't repent in the next round
of judgments as Leviticus 26 tells us seven
times works.
How did we get here in this fight
2020?
Well we didn't we never repented.
We never got right on all them other
times over the last 40 years that God's
been sending remedial judgments to us and we
weren't in bitterness of soul.
We were content content.
Are you content tonight with the way things
are?
I you've preached funeral services and I just
was reminiscent about this not too long ago
and not too far from here in the
graveyard.
I'm standing there doing great graveside service and
I had heard this poem recited for years
by other pastors and whatnot.
The poem goes like this and it says
as you are now so once was I
as I am now so you will be
so prepare to follow me.
Somebody answered that little poem and it said
prepare to follow you I am not content
so I know which way you went.
I'll stay in there in the cemetery when
families were coming out of their cars and
pallbearers carried casket up and I'm standing there
waiting for them and the funeral director to
nod and tell me to go ahead and
as I look down there right right down
from me I'm looking at the back of
a tombstone and there's that poem on the
back I couldn't believe it.
I sat there marveling at that pointed out
to all them that that was gathered around
family and friends there at the grave site
I am not content so I know which
way you went.
Are you content?
I am not content with the status of
the church today.
I'm not content with what I see happening
in our nation today and I know I
know God's the only answer for our problems.
I know that he's able to open the
womb.
I know that he's able to remember us
and to give us the desires of his
heart.
I know that he's able to pour out
his spirit in revival and that we can
experience that which you have been birthed within
you to pray so many of you to
pray for revival to pray for his manifest
presence.
God can do that.
This is the hour for that.
That's why he said when you see these
things call for a solemn assembly.
Gather the people together.
Gather the bride together.
Gather the church together.
Call upon the Lord.
Pray unto the Lord.
Let's go through a couple more of these
where we see these.
Let's go over to the book of Daniel
chapter 9.
There's Daniel the prophet.
He has been reading the book of Jeremiah.
It doesn't say that he read Lamentations.
It just says he read the book of
Jeremiah and it says is that he understood
that there were 70 weeks determined against Israel
and Judah before they would be delivered from
their captivity and it says and Daniel prayed
unto the Lord and made confession for his
people.
When he knew why they had been put
into captivity for 70 years.
Remember Daniel was one of the first.
Him, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were one of
the first young men that was taken to
Babylon as young wise men, scholars there to
be before the king.
He'd been there a long time and when
he saw this he prayed unto the Lord.
A couple chapters over from this and first
Samuel chapter 8.
Samuel is now the prophet and he's the
ruling voice of the Lord in the land
and the people come to him and they
say we want a king.
The thing just flees Samuel.
He went before the Lord.
There's the problem.
When you see these things, the problem.
He went to the Lord and prayed.
Well, you can go through all these.
When Isaiah comes to him and says get
your house in order.
You're going to die.
There's a problem.
I'm going to die.
I only have a few hours left, a
few days left and it says he turned
his face to the wall and wept and
he prayed to the Lord.
I want to ask you where your prayer
life is.
When I ask you where your heart, your
mind, your soul is when you see these
things happen.
Because you see these things have been happening
for a long time and there has been
a sound of alarm going out to many
churches and to pastors across this land of
all denominations.
For a long time they've been content.
Almost like Laodicea is that we have need
of nothing.
Not even God.
You see now things are crumbling.
The fabric of society is crumbling.
Homes are decimated.
Marriages are dissolving.
Young generation coming up with no knowledge of
God whatsoever.
No fear of the Lord.
Churches are at their all-time lowest.
Baptisms are at their all-time lowest and
the prayer meeting which should be the highest
attended thing in this day and age, but
what we see happening is the least attended
thing in the church.
When you see these things happen, we are
in a desperate fight brother and sister.
You know that.
You wouldn't be a part of this if
you didn't know that.
You have the same urgency in your spirit
as I do in mine.
You know the remedy.
I know the remedy, but there may be
someone sitting listening tonight and that they have
not resolved within their mind.
I am not content.
You've been saying prayers.
You've been going to church.
You've been reading your Bible, but you haven't
fasted.
You haven't wept.
You don't have that bitterness of soul.
You see when I teach on prayer, I
teach the power of the difference of apathy
versus empathy.
What's going on in Portland?
What's going on?
What happened in D.C. last night to
all those that were coming out of the
Trump meeting, the Republican National Convention meeting there?
They were harassed and thrown.
What's happening in Wisconsin?
I don't care.
That's not happening in my city.
That's not happening on my street.
That's happening.
Every time children are disappeared and taken and,
well, that's not my child.
I'm not worried about that.
Drugs and alcohol, well, I don't have any
issue with that in my home.
We're all clean.
We might drink a little bit or this
and that, but we're not addicts.
I'm not worried.
That's happening.
The church is happening, but the empathy, it's
just like the Geronimo.
That bitterness of soul and that desperation wells
up within you comes from that that, again,
like she had been provoked by the other
wife.
Every time she saw her children, every time
she saw her children playing, every time she
heard those children say, Mama, it touched the
cord inside of her, and she was at
that point of desperation to say, I can't
go on like this.
God, if you don't do something, I can't
go on like this.
I have used over the years, and I
share it with you here tonight, that point
of desperation.
There was a man that come up out
of Africa, and he was addressing church and
prayer leaders here in the United States decades
ago.
I think it was back in the 90s.
They was down in Florida, and they was
interviewing this guy.
They said, tell us about what you experienced.
He had been part of these villages.
I think it was Rwanda when they were
doing the genocide down there.
The army come in, and the soldiers come
in, and they were just killing anything and
everything.
Those people didn't have any ability to fight
back.
They didn't have any power to fight back.
They had been living, worshiping God, living in
safety, living in casualness.
They were content.
They got too content.
They didn't see the clouds rising out of
the sky of warning.
He said, we didn't serve God with fear.
We didn't serve God in urgency or desperation,
because we just thought everything was always going
to go on like that.
Well, what happened was, was that the soldiers
come in, and it drove them out.
They ran for their lives, and they ran
out to the swamps, down into the water.
Didn't worry about crocodiles.
Didn't worry about whatever else might be in
there.
There they, in the reeds, in the march,
they hid.
Had to stay there all night, because the
army soldiers would sit on the banks and
wait for anybody to come back up out
of the water and kill them.
But they wouldn't go into the water after
them.
They just said, let them stay out there.
And that man said, during the stars out
over the top of them, he said, you
could hear the wails, screams, and shrieks, not
knowing what happened to their family members, in
the darkness, crying out of desperation.
He says, that famous statement, he said, if
you will not learn to pray out of
desperation now, you will pray in desolation.
Brother, sister, the fabric of our society is
coming apart, and the bitterness of our soul
is out of an infinite.
And it's happening to one, it's happening to
all.
What's going on in one church is happening
to all the churches.
What's happening to one family is happening to
all of us.
And that urgency wells up within us.
And it is that bitterness of soul that
comes before God saying, God, this is just
awful.
This is not what you intended.
This is not what we're supposed to be.
And oh God, we've caused this, and we've
allowed this.
We have provoked you in front of the
cause of your great name.
God, we come before you again.
You've closed the womb, open it that we
may bear sons and daughters to the kingdom,
children to be saved, adults to be saved.
Give grant to us the power again of
the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
Preach the word of faith.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the
word of God.
And they prayed unto the Lord, and there
was an answer.
Every great revival has come in those moments
of desperation.
Every great revival has come.
Someone prevailed in prayer.
And you and I are at this day
and age just to say, why not us?
Why not this week?
Why not now?
Some of you have been laboring longer than
I have for the cause of revival and
spiritual awakening.
You've been praying in the midnight hours longer
than what I have.
But it is birthed within you, and content
we are not until we see God answer,
God to move us to that place that
we're supposed to be.
So it goes on with these.
And again, I could go to Jonah chapter
2.
Jonah disobeys.
He runs the opposite way.
The fish swallows him when you throw him
over the boat.
And he's out in the sea.
And it says, out of the belly of
hell, cry it out.
Pray to the Lord.
Just walk right through the scriptures, and you
can see that little phrase in there, pray
to the Lord.
Brother and sister, you and I are here
to pray to the Lord for these causes.
I want to go on with this because
again, there are these moments here in scripture
that just kind of gives to us these
things, these moments.
She makes a vow in verse 11, right
after this sorrow of heart, right after this
weeping.
She makes a vow.
It almost is a parallel.
What we see with Sam.
I won't cut his hair.
I'll give him unto the Lord that Nazarite
vow.
Again, he's yours.
If you just open my womb and give
me, I'll give that child back to you.
Here again is that throughout scripture, Abraham and
Isaac.
Abraham, you're a hundred years old.
I'm going to give you a son in
your old age.
He has Isaac.
Now, as you know, 112 boys, 12, 14
years old, something like that.
And God says, take him out.
And I want you to sacrifice your own
child for me.
God gave him how God requires it.
Then of course, the same mirror reflection is
that we have that found in the New
Testament where God the Father sends forth his
only begotten son, sends him into the world
so that he might be slain, that he
might bring us into a relationship and a
covenant with him forever.
God gives and God calls back.
So Hannah makes that her vow.
She says, if you give me a child,
I'll give him back to you.
That's it.
I don't know too many mothers that could
do that.
I don't know too many that are willing
to be so extreme.
We do it in children dedication or the
church used to do it.
Is that child is born and parents bring
the child before the church and they make
a vow.
They enter into a covenant.
They tell God from the time that this
child has understanding with ears to hear, mind
to understand, we will bring this child up
into fear of the Lord and the knowledge
of the Lord.
And the church stands and they make a
vow and they make a covenant.
And they say, we will support these parents
as they raise this child to fear the
Lord and to know the Lord.
And we will do our part to pray
for them and to instruct them and support
them and edify them and rebuke them and
correct them, but to be here for them.
I remember.
That's a hard thing to find anymore.
Here it is again, to say for your
child, my child is set before the Lord
saying, Lord, they're yours.
You do with them what you want.
Bring honor and glory to your name through
their lives, through their testimonies, through their witness.
And that's what Hannah does.
And here, here, here we have, here we
have the testimony and the statement of this.
She called his name Samuel.
Ask of the Lord.
Here at the end of August for this
weekend, God gives us that opportunity to pray
to the Lord in bitterness of soul for
what we see in no time.
Anguish, desperation, crying out to God, weeping, saying,
Lord, give us a Samuel.
On the gatherings of your body, the church
gatherings, O Lord of your people, gatherings that
are happening where they're lamenting, howling and weeping
and mourning for the sins of our nation
and the sins of the homes and the
sins of the families, crying out to God,
have mercy and wrath.
Remember mercy, O Lord.
Burning California, burning Colorado.
You sent the hurricane through Louisiana and Arkansas,
floodwaters and other places.
Oh, God, the streets are filled with protests
and looting and stealing and death and dying
drug addicts and alcoholics and murder suicides.
Right on down the line, we go one
thing right after another.
Oh, God, desperation, here I come.
That old song, pass me not, O gentle
Savior.
Hear my humble cry, while on others thou
art calling.
God, please, please don't pass me by.
Please don't pass us by, God.
Give us a Samuel.
Break forth, Lord.
Break forth.
It says, and they worshiped the Lord and
went back home, knelt in the new hand
of God with them.
God cannot forgive.
He knows who we are.
Our names are engraved on the palms of
his hands.
He knows how many hairs are on our
head.
He knows how many breaths we take.
He knows how many steps we take.
He knows us.
And he gives to us the divine opportunity
to come before him in the same as
him.
No, it is not that we are not
able to simply physically bear children.
Some of you, that might be your condition,
your case physically, but this is not about
physical issues.
There are always the physical requests that we
must pray and bring them before the Lord.
This is about bringing forth the preciousness of
the Holy Spirit and fullness upon the church
for revival, upon the streets and the homes
of America for spiritual awakening.
Only God can do it.
God is waiting for us, that we would
come before him and do exactly what he
told us to do.
When you see these things happening, call for
a solemn assembly, gather the people together, confess
and repent of the sins, make the wrongs
right, and then I'll come back to fullness
and restore that which I broke.
Again, all the examples of Moses, Daniel, Job,
David, Hezekiah, right on down the line, when
they was faced with this, they prayed to
the Lord, God remembered them.
Our opportunity tonight is that God will remember
us in our prayers.
One thing that I said when I set
this up is that when I get on
the other side of this, no matter what
comes in September through the rest of this
year, again, two-thirds of this year is
now almost now complete.
The glory of the end has been, we
all say that, we all know that.
What will the last one-third of this
year bring?
Most people are very fearful and fretful about
what it may bring, but you and I
are allowed to come before him that he
may hear our cries tonight, through this week,
that as we offer them, we're not just
praying prayers, but now the bitterness of our
soul, the desperation of the hour, the tears
in the week, languishing for what we've become,
content.
Oh, may we say, I am not content
until I know which way to go, not
content to live like this anymore, not content
just to say prayers, not content to go
without, not content to be filled with apathy.
I don't want to be like Laodicea, have
need of nothing, not even God.
I want God.
We need God.
And there's no other answer.
Regardless of what happens in November, there's no
other answer for the church.
And again, it is that I share with
you this account of 1 Samuel, chapter one
of Ham, she prevailed.
It is the example that for the rest
of this week, speakers to come and bring
these accounts in scripture to our minds, to
our hearts, souls, to teach us what it
is to prevail.
Many have forgotten because we've been so long
without bearing fruit.
Our wounds have been closed.
We haven't multiplied.
We haven't made disciples.
We haven't prevailed in prayer.
We say prayers, we offer, we go to
church, we try to live in the right
way with the Lord, but we have no
evidence of it.
God says, I can change that in a
moment.
When you see these things happen, call for
the psalms.
So we begin.
So I want to close out my time
here in the next moment.
I want to give you these prayer points.
I want to walk down through these scriptures.
I want to come back to these points
that I brought to you in the sermon
and bring back to you.
But again, we can offer them up as
petitions.
Again, one of the things that I'd like
to do, and the time does not allow
me to do that here this evening, is
that for the hour of prayer, like we
did last month, over these months, I've been
teaching prayer, trying to help for those who
struggle in their prayer life of how to
pray an hour before the Lord.
You know, again, we sing that song, sweet
hour of prayer, but it's a rare thing
to find a Christian that's an hour before
God.
So I just simply offer verses and prayer
targets and prayer points for three subjects, worship,
confession, and petition.
Would you allow for me tonight just to
share those with you, that you might worship
the Lord for a few moments, bring confession
before the Lord, and then bring petitions before
the Lord.
And again, as I speak these things to
you, in your respective places where you're at,
if you have a way or a means
that you can get down before the Lord,
you know, again, driving, I know that might
be hard, or busy with something else that
might be difficult.
I'm just asking you right now to make
a point.
Hannah King rose up, arose, and went to
the temple in the altar, and she came
to God in prayer.
I'm asking you to rise up and to
go to God where you're at.
Meet him, who is the God of the
universe, who's the God of all things, and
worship him for you.
Understand that, is that again, your very existence
is because God brought you forth into this
world.
God gives life.
Thank you, God, for giving life.
Thank you, God, for opening wounds.
You know, some of the writers in the
scriptures, Job, Jeremiah, they lamented their their day
of calamity.
They said, it'd been better that I had
never been born, than that they should have
announced, is that to the parent, is that
you have a son.
Better that you were said that have been
stillborn, and never raised in this world.
You are where you're at right now, because
God allows you.
God caused you.
God has given you opportunity in life right
now for his name's sake.
Would you honor him with that acknowledgement for
those things?
We read these accounts, it seems impossible.
Many are frustrated when they have that and
they're exhausted with the medical profession and fertilization,
and they can't conceive a child, and then
when all other means fail, they say, well,
let's pray about it.
And God opens the wound.
Isn't it a miracle when God opens the
wound?
The story of Mary, a virgin, never knowing
a man.
She was by the Holy Spirit incarnation.
What a miracle.
Praise your name, Father, for the miracle of
Christ's birth.
Spiritually, for truth, Lord, I thank you for
every answer prayer.
I thank you for every mercy that you've
given in life, that you've shown me that
you are able to do the impossible.
You saved the wicked, wretched man like me.
Paul writes those words, I am what I
am by the grace of God.
Thank you, God, for your praise, God, that
the word went forth.
Someone took time to pray over me.
Someone took time to give me the gospel,
and they bore it.
They not just planted the seed, they reaped
the harvest.
Thank you, God, for the harvest.
Thank you for the word, which is the
seed.
On and on we go with that worship.
We just need this.
You are able to do exceedingly abundantly above
all that we could ask or think here
tonight, and I praise you for that.
I want to be respectful of my time.
So let's go into this confession for the
next few moments, and then we'll conclude our
time with petitions on this confession, and to
not provoke him.
And you hear me speak, and I spoke
tonight on it, and I've shared it other
times, and those of you that may not
be familiar with me, I understand that, but
this is one of our sins.
As a church and as a nation, we
have provoked the Lord.
We've legalized abominations, judicial edicts that have set
into motion everything contrary to the word of
God.
God, we stand before you guilty as a
nation that we have provoked you.
As the church, we've divided our time and
our affections.
It says, set your affections on things above,
but Lord, we set our affections more on
things of this earth than you.
Forgive us for provoking you for jealousy.
Very natural disasters in the remedial judgments that
we see upon our nation.
The epidemics that we're facing in our nation
comes because we've provoked you, God, in front
of the cause of your great name.
This was not what God intended for the
United States.
This is not what was intended for anybody
to experience, but this is the price you
pay when you provoke a holy God, and
we're reaping that which we have sowed.
The church who knows the answers and has
the answers has not followed through with a
remedy.
It's called for a solemn assembly.
1860-some was the last solemn assembly that
was called for in the United States.
Wow, 160 years before we finally come back
around to say, Lord, it probably can't get
any worse.
Well, yes, it can.
Why would we want to provoke the Lord
any more than what we already have?
Why would we want to fret the cause
of Christ any more than what we've already
done?
Forgive us, God.
Forgive us for our time that has been
wasted, our opportunities that have been diluted, prayer
has been obsolete, and again, we have not
borne fruit for your name's sake or your
kingdom.
I always quote that old hymn, must I
go empty-handed, not one soul to bear,
not one soul to give him, not one
soul to share.
We're like that unprofitable servant when he was
given a talent and it says he went
in the backyard and dug it, and when
the master of the house came, he gave
it back to him.
Everybody else had been fruitful and multiplied.
Five gave ten, two gave four, but the
one gave one.
He said, you unprofitable servant, find a man
to feed, take him out to do good,
whether it's weeping and wailing and gnashing of
teeth.
Are you an unprofitable servant?
Not one soul to give him, not one
tear to shed, not one prayer to offer.
Oh God, forgive us for dry eyes.
Forgive us, oh God, for not bearing fruit.
Forgive us, oh God, for not being what
we're supposed to be as servants unto you,
for your great name's sake.
Forgive us that we've been ashamed speaking your
name.
Forgive us that we've missed opportunities.
Forgive us that we haven't created opportunities to
speak the name of Jesus to our neighbors
and to our co-workers and to our
families.
Again, the urgency of the hour that we
don't literally see them going down into hell.
Forgive us for our callousness Lord, because there
is no way possible that there is any
one of us who understands the truth of
the gospel and see souls in hell cannot
be unmoved by that.
When I talk about using catalysts to stir
yourself up, you see your loved one there,
you say, again, an urgency in the bitterness
of spiritual cause, exactly like Hannah, that to
say, don't let that happen, God.
You are dogmatic, definite with God.
Don't let my loved one go there.
And forgive me, God, that I've been content
to watch other thousands of souls go to
hell, and I've not cared one iota about
them.
Forgive me.
Forgive your church.
Forgive the body of Christ that we have
provoked and fretted because of Christ.
We've been unfruitful.
We've not borne.
The bloom has been claimed.
It's going into this.
It says they prayed unto the Lord.
My house shall be called a house of
prayer.
Father, forgive us.
At the houses of worship today, the churches
that are structural and organized and gathering or
not gathering during these times, Lord, they have
not been houses of prayer.
They have not consecrated one hour a week
to have a prayer meeting.
They open in prayer, they close in prayer,
but they pray, and they don't prevail.
Forgive us for being content.
They offer and say prayers like the Muslims
do, or like the Buddhists do, or the
Hindus do, and never see anything.
Forgive us for being content and satisfied with
Jesus, but the question still remains, Lord, are
you satisfied with me?
Father, forgive me that I have been too
satisfied in this world with my goods, my
possessions, my health, my freedoms, and I didn't
realize that there was a price to pay.
These things that matter on them.
Now, let's go to a time of petition
as we close out here in the next
10 minutes or 15 minutes to break off
on this, and here we go into a
time of petition, bitterness of soul that I've
been mentioning throughout this sermon.
Some of us have never experienced this, so
maybe it's time right now when I'm talking
about desperation, and I'm talking about wrestling, and
I'm talking about prevailing, and you don't understand
what I'm talking about.
You've not seen this in your church, you've
been a part of it.
I understand that.
There's a lot that is missing for some.
Others of you, I understand.
You've been there.
You know what I'm talking about, but for
the vast majority of the church, they don't
know what the bitterness of soul is about.
Again, just to give you a quick example
here, again, I'm asking you to pray as
I speak these petitions to you right here
in Kaiser a number of years ago.
We was, again, the last couple years, here
we are in August where it was supposed
to be brown grass and brown fields and,
you know, dry with dog days and all
that, but we have had rain consistently in
this area, in this region.
The last couple years, the summers have been
very wet, but a couple of years ago,
we was in a drought, and New Creek,
which is right down off of my house
here, supplies for the water there, and it
was practically bone dry.
A bunch of the pastors and church leaders
in the city were gathering every once a
week to pray, and I shared with them.
I said, we're going to wait till the
water finally dries out to say, let's pray.
Let's pray now.
So, we had a solemn assembly.
We invited all the churches and all the
pastors, and we came together that night, and
I forget how many was there, and I
forget how many churches was there, but the
place was packed.
Hadn't been done for a long time.
We stood that night.
We worshiped God.
My responsibility was confession, and I went down
through from A to Z the sins of
our city, sins of our homes, sins of
the church, sins of our own hearts specifically,
and the last part of that was the
petition where they cried out to God to
give rain, and within 24 hours, rain came,
but it was two ladies that was in
a Presbyterian church and sat out in the
parking lot of the church that night, and
they shared with someone later on that got
back to me and just said, we have
been in the church for almost 50 years,
and we have never seen anything like it,
where again, if you don't have water, you
don't survive.
When you see these things happen, here they've
been in the church for 50 years, and
they've never heard this, and again, when you
see these things in the headlines, and you
might shake your head saying, boy, that's just
awful.
That's just wrong, and that's as far as
it goes, but down in your soul, you
don't understand what God looks at that as.
The way the church is supposed to view
that is that bitterness there saying this is
not the way it's supposed to be, and
again, for some that you remember, this isn't
the way that it always was.
We didn't have this kind of happenings, so
again, it is that it causes within us
a stirring.
We grab a hold of the altar, and
we come before God with that promise in
Hebrew that we can obtain mercy and find
grace to help in this time of need.
God, I haven't had that in my soul,
and I haven't had that in my spirit.
Stir me up, oh God.
Teach me what it is to be desperate.
Make me to pray in desperation before I
pray in desolation.
Cause me, oh God, to pray so as
to prevail.
Teach me how to prevail in prayer.
That's the petition.
Father, my church is not a house of
prayer.
Lord, how do I change that?
Show me what I need to do.
Lord, my prayer life.
Throughout the prayer conferences for 15 years, we've
had this pastor stand up and say, I
have no prayer life.
For people in the churches, we have no
prayer in our church.
That's the confession that was and is and
unfortunately shall be unless things change.
God's able.
He can do it.
Pray for that.
Lord, make us to be a house of
prayer.
Pray for your church right now where you're
at.
Pray for your pastor right now.
Lord, let him be a man of prayer.
Let him be more on his knees than
he is with men.
Spurgeon said that.
Pray right now for those of your brothers
and sisters in your church, in your Sunday
school class, in your region, your place, brothers
and sisters in your city that you meet
with and have studied with or have fellowship
with.
Pray for them.
Hold them up.
Let them be a man of God.
Let them be a woman of God.
Don't let them be content for what we
see happening in our city.
Stir us up, O God.
Make us that, O God, that bitterness in
our soul that moves us, O God, content
with nothing less than to prevail with you,
O God.
Grant to brothers that they may join.
Don't let me bear this alone.
May we all be involved.
Cause us and teach us how to pray.
Remember the disciples asked Jesus that.
Lord, teach us to pray.
Maybe you just need to ask God that
fourth this evening, Lord, teach me how to
pray.
I already mentioned it, but let's go back
to it.
Lord, give me a Samuel.
Remember, Samuel means ask of God.
There might be some petition, lost soul, some
specific thing in your life you've been praying
for and you haven't been granted that yet.
You've been praying for revival, for spiritual awakening.
That's the emphasis of this weekend.
We haven't seen that.
We've seen as the psalm, there shall be
showers of blessings.
Mercy drops round us for fall, but for
the showers.
Lord, give us a Samuel.
Ask of God.
May it be a testimony in history and
eternity forever.
This is when God rent the heavens and
came down.
I always use Duncan Campbell's Hebrides.
When they pray, said the ground shook.
Duncan Campbell and that Scottish voice appears and
God stepped down.
Not in wrath and anger, not because you're
provoked and fretted, but Lord stepped down in
grace and mercy for your name's sake.
Bring glory and honor to your name.
Bring souls into the kingdom.
For I would have none to perish.
I would have none to go away from
me.
Oh God, give me a Samuel.
Give me the desire of my heart.
Ask of the Lord.
Take a moment right now just to pray
for me.
I come to the last moments here and
I want to save this for the very
end.
I wrote an article and I posted it
on Facebook, a call for a psalm assembly
and I posted here about two days ago.
Where is the urgency?
I used the account out of the book
of Genesis, where the Egyptians were, they were
pursuing, I said Genesis, I'm sorry, Exodus and
they were pursuing Israel across the Red Sea.
And again, the plagues that happened, the nine
plagues, but the 10th plague came, death.
And that death came to their homes every
morning from the barrel right on down to
the surface.
Flesh and animal died that time when the
death angel crossed over.
And there's a little verse there that says
that when that everybody woke up and they
found someone dead in their house and every
house that did not have blood experienced death
that night.
It says that they were urgent to get
Israel out of Egypt because they were all,
and they said that we'd be all dead.
Brothers and sisters for years, I've been standing
in front of a live stream and in
my churches and prayer meetings, and I've been
touting stats and numbers of drug overdose deaths,
70,000 a year, alcoholism, 80 to 90
,000 causes of death a year, suicides, 50
,000 a year, homicides, 50,000 a year,
murder suicides, 30,000 a year.
We have been dealing with this for a
long time, death and dying.
But I'm telling you that within the last
five years is that those stats have skyrocketed.
I share and post on our prayer targets
and our prayer points is that we are
now at a place, what happens when it's
happening every day, every other day, that there's
death and dying like what we're experiencing, unnatural,
unnatural, not growing old, not simply heart gave
out, but because of disease, because of foolishness,
because of sin, and God wages of sin's
death, death has come.
The death angel is sweeping across the United
States.
We're dying faster as a nation now than
we are reproducing.
I wrote that article and shared where's the
urgency because I cannot express to you as
much as I could possibly do and what
I'll attempt to do over this weekend for
my allotted slots and sessions.
We're out of time.
Our nation is out of time.
We're not going to make it on the
path that we are currently on.
Our streets are filled with anarchy, homes completely
obliterated, the family structure I saw opposed by
James Dobson.
You know James Dobson from the family has
instituted for marriage, for traditional family, and he
has fought all of his life.
He's got to be in his 80s by
now.
He's fought all of his life for what
God intended.
A man shall leave his mother and father
and shall cling to his wife and those
two shall be born.
And the man and the woman shall go
into each other and have children and raise
the children up in the spirit of the
Lord.
That's what God's plan is, but that's not
what's happening.
Abortion, butchery, crime, sin, evil, wickedness, Satanism, agnosticism,
atheism, right on down the line.
We are out of time as a nation
and the church ought to have its hand
on that button of urgency and say we
just can't go on like this.
That's something else that produces that bitterness of
soul.
See what you see and know that your
loved ones aren't going to wake up in
the morning.
Your loved ones went out, simply went to
the store, simply went to the ball game,
simply went to work.
They're not coming home because they're going to
be shot and killed on the way back
or on the way to.
That's the tragedy of today.
And so it is is that with some
kind of whatever it might take in your
mind, heart, and soul to be urgent for
this hour for what we're facing.
And as I just don't sense it, I
don't sense in the church and I don't
sense among those prayer meeting, they say prayers
as if they don't expect nothing to happen
and they don't care whether anything happens.
Welcome to Laodicea.
But I'm telling you is that before we
get there, that there would be an urgency
in your spirit.
And I know for some of those names
that I've seen that have joined us tonight,
you haven't.
You've had it for longer than I have
and you've joined me in that same field
and I thank you for that.
But let's pray for all the bond.
Understand God's not going to let us see
the end of 2021.
You think it can't get no worse?
I wrote in that just how worse it
can get.
We'll know what destitution is.
We'll know what it is to just simply
survive day to day.
Religious freedoms will be gone.
Electricity, running water will be gone.
Stores, availability of food will be gone.
We saw a glimpse of it back in
March and April when the panic hit and
they screamed into the stores in Horton.
That was a glimpse that if we don't
get this thing turned around and prevail with
God, we're going to live that day in
and day out.
Our children and grandchildren will have to grow
up in that.
All the luxuries and all the advantages and
all the freedoms that we've had will be
gone.
It's an urgent time and that requires an
urgent response.
You cannot just say prayers.
Quote Leonard Ravenhill when we started this and
I put it in the letters and the
invitations to you, Leonard Ravenhill said, God does
not answer prayer.
God answers desperate prayer.
I'm adding on to that.
Desperate, urgent, fervent prayers.
Here we are.
If there was ever a time to pray,
it's now.
Not just pray, but pray so as to
prevail.
Again, this is what this weekend's all about.
When you see these things happen, it's all
one and two.
All of us all on a Sunday.
In September, they're going to have one.
But for this weekend, it's for the body
of Christ to come together.
It's for these speakers to come and encourage
us not to be content, not to be
satisfied, not to be complacent, not to be
filled with appetite, to stir some, to realize
the lateness of the hour.
And again, we talk about the last days
for the second coming.
I'm talking, we're in the last hours, the
last minutes for our nation to survive.
If the church doesn't prevail, and prevail we
must.
Every one of those examples that I gave
in the scriptures, they pray to the Lord,
they prevail.
God heard it, God answered it.
And that's the reason is that again, if
I can give you a promise first, let
me give you Jeremiah chapter 33, verse 3.
Call, and I will answer, and show you
great and mighty things.
Content I am not just to call, I
demand that God answer.
Again, he teaches us these things of importunity,
urgency.
Gives us that example over in the book
of Luke, the man that rose up in
the middle of the night, knocked on his
doors.
And he said, he said, I need food.
I have company that has come and I
don't have anything to give.
Rise and give.
Jesus using a parable, he says, and because
of the urgency of the hour, the need
that's at hand, the opportunity that's there, that
man will rise up out of bed and
give to you.
How much more will your heavenly father do
for you?
So here we are to begin for this
week.
My opportunity was just to present an introduction
to you while we're doing this, what this
is all about.
Why do another call for a solemn assembly?
So as we can prevail.
And I want to thank you for signing
on tonight.
I want to thank you for watching and
joining.
We're going to get ready here to transition
for a moment, but I want to close
here in prayer.
I want to ask you that you would
close in prayer where you're at.
We're going to have this weekend in front
of us, full day tomorrow, eight hours on
Sunday and every moment that we not just
be haphazard.
I pray that you're not being distracted.
I pray that you're not trying to watch
and listen a little bit as you're doing
something else on Facebook or whatever, social media
or whatever.
I want to ask you for your attention
and your time because this is serious business.
And I want to tell you is that
the certainty of our nation hangs in the
balances.
That again, you and I can prevail this
weekend before and the church can see mighty
things for his glory.