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Let's get right to the word, Ezekiel, the
47th chapter, 47th chapter of Ezekiel.
The river is rising is the name of
my message, the title of my message today,
the 47th chapter of Ezekiel.
And I want you to just leave it
open on your lap.
And I'm going to be preaching the first
12 verses from 1 to 12, Ezekiel 47.
The river is rising.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for this service
this morning.
Thank you for your presence in this house.
Holy Spirit, in this place, we depend on
you.
We can't depend on our own strength, our
own abilities.
We come to you, Holy Spirit, because we
know of no other place to go for
strength, because you bring Christ and reality to
our hearts.
You reveal Christ and his fullness to us.
Will you now speak by your word?
Lord, come upon me and deliver your heart
and your message to this people for this
day, this morning.
We thank you for your blessing.
We thank you for your presence.
In Christ's name, amen.
In the 12th chapter of Ezekiel, the prophet
is given a vision.
He sees a river flowing up from the
throne past the altar and a little stream
at first, and it begins to come out
the outer gate and out through the east
gate.
The east gate was closed.
So he had to go out through another
gate.
And a man met him.
A man's name is not given in this
account.
The man says, follow me.
And he has a measuring line in his
hand.
And he gets to the eastern gate and
water, a river, rivulet is coming out from
under the gate.
And as it goes, it's increasing.
It's getting deeper and wider and swifter.
And it stretches now all the way out
as far as he can see.
And the man says, follow me.
And he leads him in the middle of
the stream.
And he gets 1,000 cubits, which I
think they say is about a third of
a mile.
And the water was up to the ankles.
Nobody is explaining anything to him.
He's just told, follow me.
And he goes 1,000 cubits, and the
water is up to his ankles.
And the man, evidently, motions to him, follow.
And he goes another 1,000 cubits, another
third mile.
And the water is up to his knee.
The river is flowing faster and increasing and
deepening, widening.
And he is told to follow further.
And he goes another 1,000 cubits, and
it's up to his loins.
And there's no explanation.
And then he goes another 1,000 cubits,
and now it's up to his neck.
And there's no explanation.
In fact, Ezekiel never does explain this vision.
He never gives the meaning of it.
And now he's up to his neck.
And ahead of him is a sea, the
Dead Sea.
And this is going to empty into the
Dead Sea.
And at this point, the man with the
measuring rod, measuring line, asks him to come
out of the water.
And he's at the bank of the water.
And the man says to him, what do
you see?
In other words, what do you understand of
what he's seeing?
And he was told to look back.
And he looked back.
Now, this is coming through a dry land.
And he looks back.
And on both sides, both banks of this
river, there are trees that have sprung up,
fruit, green grasses everywhere.
And it was a fertile scene.
He was flabbergasted.
He said, behold, I see trees on both
banks.
And that's all he was told.
Do you understand?
Now, there was no way he could understand
because this vision was not about his generation.
In fact, Peter said that the prophets of
old, they searched and searched to find out
what these things meant.
If the spirit of Christ, Peter said, was
in them for telling about the suffering and
the grace of Christ to come.
But the spirit caused them to know that
what they were seeing was not for them.
But Peter said for us.
Now, this river that we read about here
in the 47th chapter of Ezekiel, many interpretations
have been given by Bible scholars.
I've been I looked at some of them
this past weekend.
There's no proof of any one of these.
There's not much biblical proof for any of
these concepts of this river that I could
find.
Some say it's for the millennial age.
There's going to be a thousand year reign
of Christ.
And that's when God's going to open the
eyes of the Jews.
And that river is going to be a
river of gospel going out to various nations.
And they will come to Jerusalem.
And the river is going to flow with
gospel through converted Israel.
And others say that this has to do
with the time the kingdom age that's coming
after Armageddon.
And they put it off in the future.
Now, I don't see that.
And there are some of the great old
time Puritan pastors have seen what I've seen.
I am nobody.
I'm not asking.
I'm not suggesting that I have some great
new revelation.
It's an old revelation.
And I believe with all my heart that
what the prophet is seeing is the time
from Pentecost to this very day when God
poured out his spirit.
Because the Bible said the river that's springing
up within you is the Holy Spirit.
He said the well that's in you and
the water is the water of the Holy
Spirit that quickens everything that it touches.
And that's what the Holy Spirit was trying
to show.
Now, he couldn't know because the prophets didn't
understand.
They just gave these words, believing and rejoicing
that the day would come that you and
I would understand it.
We would see it and bring life to
us.
I want you to try to understand with
me.
And I believe this with all my heart.
I see it in Isaiah.
I see it in Ezekiel.
You see it in all the prophets that
when God says, I'm going to pour out
my spirit upon all flesh, he doesn't end
it before Armageddon.
He doesn't end it because of the gross
darkness that covers the earth.
In fact, the river increases ever increasing flow.
He said this water is going to to
keep flowing.
I'm going to prove this hopefully before this
is all over.
The last days began, I believe, in the
upper room because Peter said when the spirit
came down, this is that which the prophets
all said would come.
And it's come.
This is the beginning of the last days.
And we are now at the last of
the last days.
And if that river keeps increasing every thousand
cubits or you can I don't care how
you figure that as time or whatever it
is.
But you see, he goes looking back now
and he sees the results of the gospel
has been preached from Pentecost to this very
to this time.
He's seeing our time and he looks at
all of the wonderful things that God has
done.
He's seen that nothing could stop that river.
Ten Roman emperors tried to stop that river
from flowing.
Those emperors persecuted and stoned and boiled in
oil Christians.
They cut them asunder, according to Hebrews 11
chapter.
They persecuted them, chased them out of homes
and nations and they hid in caves and
many of them were hungry and thirsty and
they tried to kill.
Atheists have tried to kill this river and
stop it from flowing.
The communists tried to stop it from flowing.
They tried it in China and that river
still flowing and it's wider and deeper than
it's ever been.
Russia tried to stop it.
Closing churches, all evangelical churches were closed.
Bibles were banned.
And what happened?
The river kept flowing and now the river
is wide open in Russia.
You can preach the gospel in schools.
You can preach it in the armed forces.
You can preach it anywhere because nothing can
stop the river once God pours out his
spirit.
And now the Islamic say they have the
power.
They claim that they're going to do what
no other earthly power has done in the
history of mankind.
They're going to stop this river because when
that river hits an Islamic country, they turn
to Jesus in numbers.
So what do they do?
What is their plan?
Their plan is to nuke Israel.
They won't get to the source of the
river.
That's where the river started in the upper
room.
And that's where it spread all over the
world by Paul, the apostle and all the
apostles and all the Christians that were scattered
abroad.
And now they say we're going to stop
it.
And their plan is to build nuclear weapons
in Iran.
And when they get them there, they will
try if they could.
Now, that's all in God's hand.
And I don't believe God's ever going to
allow it.
But their plan is that they were going
to have a limited nuclear strike over Jerusalem
and Tel Aviv.
And now in Iran or in North Korea,
why do you think the devil is planning
nuclear activity in North?
Because South Korea is sending out missionaries all
over Islamic Far East.
Korean missionaries.
Where are the largest evangelical churches in the
world?
In Korea.
And you could see the plan unfold to
cripple the American economy, cutting off oil and
all of these things that they believe that
they can do once they get the power.
They have the oil.
And so America, they hope, would be powerless
to interfere and to defend democratic nations that
allow religious freedom.
Because wherever there is religious freedom and there
are Islamics there, the Holy Ghost stops the
work of the enemy.
The Holy Ghost will not allow it.
And that that is only part of the
plan that's unfolding.
But my God says that when he decides
it's time, he laughs at the foolishness of
men.
And God said they won't even be planted.
He said, I'll blow them away.
Those are the very words of the gospel,
the very words of God.
Now, Ezekiel has looked back and he's seen
all of the glorious results of the gospel
of Christ in this river.
The work of the Holy Spirit down the
ages.
The multitude has been saved in the churches
that have sprung up and all the glories
and the victories of the cross.
And now he's turned to look.
There are other directions told to look forward,
in other words.
And he sees that river moving into the
desert first.
Now, I want you to follow me on
this.
He's being shown what the church is going
to be like in the last days.
He's showing us what lies ahead for the
church of Jesus Christ, because the spirit of
Christ was speaking in him and through him.
And in verse eight, then said he unto
me, the waters issue out toward these country
and they go down into the desert.
Now, let me stop right there.
What is the desert?
That's that's the present spiritual condition in religion
today.
That's the desert, the dryness, the deadness.
Now, folks, in the past few months, I've
had a few Sundays where I could go
and visit churches.
And so I've gone to these churches and
with an open heart, no judgment, no, no
animosity, just hungry, thirsty.
Lord, I can't get to Times Square Church
this week, but I want to I want
to be fed.
I just I just want to go and
worship and I go.
I've been to four churches in the past
six months.
And, folks, I look around and such death,
such dryness.
There's no moving of the Holy Spirit.
There's nothing of repentance.
It's a 20 minute little sermon on how
to cope with problems on the job.
That's fine.
And these are moral instructions.
But there's nothing about sin, about repentance, about
about suffering or pain.
None of these things.
And I see people, you know, eleven thirty.
They're looking at their watches trying to to
last till noon.
And you sit there and you you you
feel the death and you hear people.
Folks, there's never been a time when people
are more dry and more hungry and thirsty
than they are now.
Especially young people.
They are thirsty.
We have a whole generation that have been
bombed out and bummed out on what you
call it on drugs and and meth.
And their their ears are ringing with iPods.
And I'm not putting it down, but they've
got this some of that move that pounding
music constantly.
And sitting watching games that blowing up people
limbs flowing all over.
I haven't seen it.
I've heard about it.
Folks, that that creates an emptiness that creates
a hunger because they get tired of it.
They get bored of it.
And now we have a whole generation wanting
reality, wanting truth, want to be moved by
the spirit of the living God.
And I'm going to tell you this.
Jesus said he's not coming back for a
crippled church.
He's not coming back for a devastated, weak
church.
He's not coming back for a church that
is allowing the enemy to roll over their
young people and destroy a whole generation.
I can't believe God's going to let the
most populated, most educated generation in all of
history, allow them to go to hell without
a moving of the Holy Spirit, without a
river coming to change and bring life.
I can't accept that.
God said he's coming back for an overcoming
church, a victorious church.
And, folks, in the days ahead, things are
going to change.
I believe with all of my heart.
When God said, I'm pouring out my spirit
upon all flesh, your sons and daughters are
going to prophesy.
I believe that.
You can't show me one place in the
scripture where that stopped.
It didn't stop just because the enemy comes
in like a flood.
Revelation, the 12th chapter said the earth helped
the woman, which is the church, and swallowed
up the flood.
And that's what God's going to do.
He's going to swallow up the flood by
awakening of pastors.
I believe that the greatest awakening the church
has ever seen is yet to come.
I believe this with all of my heart,
that God supernaturally, just by the breathing of
his own spirit, because of his own glory,
his own name, just because he's not going
to let the devil have the final say.
The devil is on a last ditch stand.
He knows his time is short.
But the Holy Ghost says, no, this far
and no further.
You can't have my church.
You can't have my generation.
I'm going to pour out my spirit.
And there will be men that fall on
their face and run to the secret closet
again.
God is going to revive a spirit of
prayer in the house of God, starting in
the pulpit.
God can do that supernaturally.
All through the Old Testament, he stirred up
siren.
He stirred up this.
He stirred up this one and this one.
That's the work of the Holy Spirit, stirring
people.
And God, by his spirit, is going to
awaken all the dormant gifts of the spirit
that have been lying dead in the church
of Jesus Christ because of unbelief.
There's been a drawing back from prayer, but
God is changing all of that, folks.
There's a cry rising up in the church.
No more borrowed preaching.
No more borrowed sermons.
They're going to come to the house of
God.
And I know to be a fact right
now that there are people who writing me
said that in love, they got together prayer
groups and they've gone to their pastors.
And in love and in tears, it said,
please, please give us something from the throne.
Give us something from heaven.
Tell us what's happening.
We're hungry.
We're thirsty.
There's been a dryness, a terrible dryness.
And God, not just in answer to prayer.
We've for years.
We've we've quoted those scriptures.
My people call bow on their knees, confess
their sins and call the Lord.
I'll hear from heaven.
Meet their need.
But, folks, the prayers have not gone up.
So I believe the Holy Spirit is going
to take it in his own hand.
And he's going to do it in this
in two ways.
I believe he's got it.
First of all, pastors who know anything of
their Bibles and look at the events that
are happening and falling.
They're going to see the handwriting on the
wall.
Many, many people, you're far from they're going
to see the handwriting and they're going to
know it.
Folks, there are things that are coming in
the near future that are going to be
so incredibly fearful, so overwhelming to the whole
world.
They're going to say on the news reports
everywhere.
This is supernatural.
This is the hand of God.
This is the handwriting on the wall.
They're already saying that.
Secular journalists in their writings and wherever you
go, what is happening?
The world is spinning out of control and,
folks, one of these days and it's happening
now.
There's going to come a cry in the
house of God, just as it was after
9-11 in this city when the churches
were filled and pastors got up and didn't
say anything about it.
And people were getting up right here in
New York.
And I've told you about this.
It was in The New York Times.
They were demanding to know why.
They wanted to know what's the Bible say
about it.
There was no word.
There was here.
There was other places where the word was
here.
We're praying pastors who knew the times were
able to tell the people what God was
doing.
He was sending a message.
Wake up.
We missed the message.
But God's not going to let it be
missed much longer.
Hallelujah.
He's going to stir up by showing his
handwriting on the wall and by supernatural storing,
restoring those dormant gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Faith.
Evangelism.
All of the outreaches that have been lying
dormant and those that have just been gimmicks.
And folks, haven't we had enough merchandising of
Jesus?
Haven't we had enough of this?
Jesus balloons.
Jesus shirts.
Jesus watches.
I don't know who's making all this money.
But folks, what a far cry from what
God's talking about here in his book.
What a far cry from what God's plan
is for his church.
And it's not going to come out of
a conference, not mine or anybody else's.
It's going to come out of the supernatural
work of the Holy Spirit in his last
times.
He said the river went into the desert
and everywhere it went, life began to spring
up.
Then it went to the Dead Sea.
He saw it empty into the Dead Sea.
Now, I don't have to stretch very far
to explain to you what that represents.
What do you think the Dead Sea represents?
It's this convoluted, confused, wicked society and time
in which we live.
Where there's death, pedophilia, perversions of all kinds,
false doctrines and false prophets, saying that Jesus
wants you to be rich.
One of those false prophets said publicly, and
it was said on television, Jesus can't come
till you have your new house and your
new car.
You know, we live in this, our society
today is the Dead Sea.
There was nothing that lived in the Dead
Sea.
Everything was dead.
There were no fish.
This represents, here is the prophet looking at
this.
He doesn't understand it, but he said that
there's waters to swim in.
And that word in Hebrew is swarm.
And it has to do with fish.
And the Bible says, Ezekiel said, he saw
the river.
Well, let me read it to you.
And it went down into the desert, and
it goes to the sea, which being brought
forth into the sea, the waters shall be
healed.
The waters shall be healed.
If our Bible is what we believe it
to be, the inerrant word of God, and
if God said, I'm going to pour out
my spirit in the last days, surely in
the last of the last days, we're going
to get the greatest flow that has ever
come out of the throne of God.
We are destined for that.
I believe everything in the Bible prophesies that.
And then everything that ever where the river
goes, the Bible said, everything comes to life.
Now, let me tell you why this vision
has to be for our time and not
for a kingdom age timer for the millennium,
because the Bible says the banks are going
to be filled with fishermen and they're going
to stretch out their nets.
Well, when we get past Armageddon, when we
get in the kingdom, nobody going to be
fishing, nobody going to eat fish.
This this represents a harvest, the greatest harvest
in the history of the church.
Let me read it to you.
And it shall come to pass that everything
that lives and moves wherever the river comes,
it shall live.
There should be a very great multitude of
fish because these waters have come thither, for
they shall be healed and everything shall live
whether the river comes.
It shall come to pass that fishers shall
stand upon it or on the banks.
It shall be a place to spread forth
their nets.
Their fish shall be according to their kind
as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly
many.
Folks, fish.
What did Jesus?
I'm going to make you fishers of men.
These are men.
These are women.
These are former homosexuals, former drug addicts, alcoholics,
businessmen, people of all life.
And folks, when the river comes, all the
limits are taking off.
No one is now unreachable.
Not the homosexual community.
Now, folks, the time is coming when I'll
not be able to tell you what I'm
about to tell you because I would probably
be led to jail.
That's right.
In the United States, this is in Europe
right now.
In some countries, we are saying I'm saying
to the homosexual community right now, simply this.
The Bible does condemn the sin, but it
also condemns adultery, fornication and all of these
others.
But I am saying now the Church of
Jesus Christ has given up on whole segments
of society.
They've given up the homosexuals as incurable.
And rather than sending out hope to a
generation of young people who've given themselves to
that lifestyle, who live lonely lives, it eventuates
into loneliness and sometimes to alcoholism and the
emptiness, not just in the homosexual community, but
in all these communities that are going into
something looking for peace and looking for rest
for their soul.
And we've backed away from that and just
given up.
And I'm saying to the homosexual community, I
don't know how far this gets outside of
this church through tapes or whatever or videos.
We're still saying to those who are restless
and those who are tired and those who
are discouraged and empty in these communities, Jesus
is still the cure.
This river has the power to heal you
and set you free.
Nothing is impossible with God.
Sitting in front of me now are former
drug addicts.
Many of you were on drugs, alcoholism.
You were bound by sexual problems.
You were bound by all kinds of sins.
And the river came and you went into
the river and the river went into you
and you've been changed by the power of
God.
Testimony to just the beginning of what God
wants to do.
In these troubled times, when men's hearts are
failing them for fear of seeing those things
come on the world, the river.
Folks, it's been flowing in this church for
20 years and it's getting deeper.
It's getting wider and more and more souls
are coming to Jesus.
We may have to baptize every Sunday now
in the future to handle what we see
coming.
We are not trying to build up numbers
in this church.
We don't know how many attend this church
because we don't have a membership.
The only thing that holds you here is
the Holy Spirit.
And we are not trying to build some
mega super church.
Thank God for them.
We don't care where you go to church
when you come here as long as you
get a Bible church.
But, folks, we're going this new moving of
the Holy Spirit, not a new moving, but
an intensified moving of the Holy Spirit is
going to happen.
Slowly, but surely, the closer we get to
the coming of the Lord, I see the
Holy Spirit standing up against Satan saying, I'm
taking charge now.
Oh, God, my prayer is forgive us for
our small thinking.
We're not thinking about greatness or huge buildings,
but having to do with the fish.
My Bible says and Ezekiel says it, and
I believe this standing here.
I believe it with everything in my body,
mind, soul and spirit that this is a
prophecy for this time, this day, right now.
God said that river is going to flow
into the Dead Sea and it's going to
bring healing.
Now, a lot of hard hearted stuff is
going to flow over into the marshes and
turn to salt.
But the Lord said there's going to be
a great work happening right in the middle
of Dead Sea.
Fish are going to start growing and expanding
and increasing and they're going to be a
multitude.
And what does the Bible say on that
day when we stand before the throne of
Christ?
Multitudes, which no man can number.
Hallelujah.
And where did they come from?
They came from the most populated societies in
history.
Never has it been a greater population than
right now.
Hallelujah.
I'm going to close in a minute, but
I want to talk to my Christian brothers
and sisters here who say, well, you talk
about a river passing day, but I feel
very dry.
I don't feel like much of anything coming
out of me have benefit to the kingdom
of God.
I don't feel like I am.
There's no river flowing out of me.
It could be right now that you're going
through your greatest problem ever.
Now, in the Old Testament, you had to
draw the water out of the well.
The scripture says you'll draw water out of
the well.
But in the New Testament, you don't draw
the water.
It's an artesian well.
It's a well springing up.
An artesian is a well that has a
subterranean pressure that causes it to flow constantly
and increasingly.
Subterranean, way down in the depths of the
soul of Almighty God.
The pressure of the Holy Spirit.
Now, you may not believe it, but that
well, I don't care if you see it.
I don't care if you feel it.
Go back to Ezekiel.
Watch him go through the water.
Did his feelings have anything to do with
the flow?
He walking down there and suddenly the enemy
comes and lies to him and says, you're
not in the water.
That doesn't affect the flow.
And I don't care how you feel.
I don't care what you're going through.
If you believe the Holy Spirit is the
power of God and given to all who
ask.
If you're walking with Jesus Christ as your
Lord and Savior, the artesian is there.
There's a well that's flowing.
And the only thing that can hinder that
flow is unbelief.
Nothing else.
Unbelief.
The mother of all sins.
That's the only thing that can hinder this
river.
So while you sit here now and you
feel dry and you feel that there's nothing
good coming out of you.
I want you to begin to just praise
the Lord when you begin to praise the
Lord.
And when you begin to worship him in
your problem, in your trial, the water begins
to flow.
The river begins to flow.
Why don't you lift your hands and say
thank you, Holy Spirit, for the flow.
The Holy Spirit abides.
He shall not could be.
Maybe he shall spring up as living water,
producing life in you, in your family, in
those around you.
You may not see it.
I didn't see it when a young man
received a letter just recently.
A young man in the middle of the
country with a gun in his hand, sitting
in his room, tired of life and pain.
There's a gun revolver to his head and
a still small voice says, wait, go to
the mailbox.
He puts his gun down and this is
what he wrote to me in letter.
He said someone sent me the cross and
switchblade.
He said, I got your book.
I start reading it halfway through the spirit
of God came on me.
I got saved and I laid my gun
down and I'm seeking God.
Folks, this river is like the wind of
God.
It goes where it pleases.
Down at the Bible school, they're praying for
a great moving of the Holy Spirit this
year.
Beyond anything they've ever seen, those young people
are going to be fasting and praying and
seeking God.
But, folks, this is the time for faith,
to believe it, to see it in your
eye.
This I close.
The man asked Ezekiel, what do you see?
Do you understand?
He couldn't, even though the spirit of Christ
was on, but it is given to us.
This great hope, the church of Jesus Christ
is going out in the praises of almighty
God, carrying a multitude, the nets full.
Everybody's got a fishing pole.
Everybody pulling in fish.
Everybody is winning souls for Jesus.
I am convinced of that.
This is not some hype.
This is not trying to work you up
into a shout.
Though I feel like shouting.
We stand.
Hallelujah.
How great is your faith?
Heavenly Father, we are people of your word.
We have not seen some new revelation.
It is just a grand old truth laying
right here before our eyes.
Oh, Holy Spirit, you are going to come
and make Christ real.
You are going to make Jesus come alive
as no other generation has ever beheld.
Lord, that brings an excitement.
We look at the times and we see
the fearful sights and sounds and we don't
tremble.
Because, after all, it is a good day.
For Christians to be alive.
It is a good day to be full
of the Holy Spirit.
It is a good day to anticipate what
God has promised.
And we stand on your promises now, Lord.
We lay hold of your promises.
Lord, do it again in New York City.
Do it greater than it has ever been.
Lord, do what has never been accomplished in
any other revival.
God, you are able to save hundreds of
thousands in this city.
Lord Jesus, on subways and buses and on
the streets and in the churches.
Oh God, flow river of life.
Flow into us now.
Flow through us.
Let it spring up, oh God.
Let us begin to just praise you and
worship you and stand on the promises of
God.
No matter how we feel.
No matter what may be happening in our
bodies and our spirits.
Oh, no more lies of the devil.
We'll stand on the written word of God.
We will believe the Holy Spirit has filled
us to do a mighty work in many
lives.
Now, while you stand here in his presence,
I'm asking, I'm going to give an invitation.
We do that in this church after every
service.
Every service.
We don't know who came.
We don't know why you're here.
But God, he arranges things.
You know that, don't you?
He arranges things.
You're sitting, standing right where he wanted you
this morning.
He brought a word to you that he
wanted to give to you.
And I'll tell you, if your heart is
open, he's going to come.
He's going to minister to you.
You walk out of this place satisfied and
filled with his spirit.
If you're here and you say, Pastor David,
I'm one of those in that dryness.
I'm one of those who've been harassed in
my mind by the enemy.
I'm not going to explain all that.
You know what harassment is.
You know what the lies of the enemy
are all about.
We're here to pray.
This is a praying church, and we will
pray for you.
Don't sign anything.
And we don't count heads.
We just want the Holy Spirit to meet
every need in the house.
If you need healing, you don't have to
have hands laid on you.
You can be healed right where you stand
because the river is flowing right now in
this house.
The river, the Holy Spirit, and everywhere the
river went, there was healing.
I want you to step out of your
seat.
Come.
I'll pray with you.
The church will pray with you in the
annex.
You can just go to the lobby, and
they'll show you the way here, down, and
you can come and join us here while
they minister to us in music.
You step out of your seat.
You say, Pastor David, and some of you
say, I've drifted from the Lord, or I
don't know Christ.
You come with these.
You come.
You need a healing, especially in not just
your body.
If we did that, everybody would come.
I'm talking about an incredible struggle that you're
going through.
Something that you can't handle on your own.
Something that has to be done supernaturally through
prayer.
I have something the Holy Spirit just laid
on my heart to say.
Some of you that love the Lord and
walk with him have almost come to the
place where you've given up on your unsaved
loved ones.
You know, there's somebody in your family, your
immediate family, or your wider family that you've
been praying about, and they seem so hard
and seem so impossible that you've given up.
Folks, don't do that, because the Spirit's moving
now as he's never moved before.
There is conviction.
And as the conditions of the world worsen,
and like Jesus said, hearts flitting from fear,
God can use that fear to create a
thirst and a hunger to look for help.
So don't give up.
Keep praying.
Keep seeking God.
Keep naming their name.
All day long, just mention their name.
Paul said, I mention you, I bring your
name up to the Lord.
Bring their names up to the Lord before
his throne and believe God.
Now, for you that have come forward tonight,
this morning, I don't have magic words.
I don't have some phrase or something that
just hits your heart and suddenly change you.
But I can tell you this, the Holy
Spirit said he's given to those who ask
him.
And the Holy Spirit is not some just
emotional thing where you wiggle.
I'm not mocking that.
You don't have to shake.
You don't have to fall.
He can do that, and I've seen him
do it many times.
I've been smitten by the Holy Spirit.
But right now, I want you to invite
him to come, because when he comes at
your invitation, he makes sin become exceedingly sinful
to you.
You don't have to have a preacher tell
you how sinful anything is.
He puts his hand on it and says,
that has to go.
And then he says, it has to go,
but I'm going to come and give you
help to overcome what I'm pointing out to
you is exceedingly sinful.
Do you understand that?
I want you to pray that in your
own words.
I want you to spend just the next
one minute, the next 60 seconds, asking the
Holy Spirit to come right now and fill
your heart.
Come on, and everybody in the house, Lord,
touch me by your Holy Spirit.
Pray that now.
Come on, up in the balcony behind me,
Christians, pray.
We've got to have an atmosphere where people
are praying that everyone who came here will
have their heart met.
Come on, everybody, lift your voice to the
Lord.
Holy Spirit, now.
You show us things, Lord, in our life
that have to go.
You show us things that hinder the Holy
Spirit.
You show us things, Lord, that are evil
and sinful.
Only, Lord, to give us power to remove
it, to deal with it.
Holy Spirit, come right now.
Touch our hearts.
Take out the unbelief.
Remove the unbelief from our hearts, O God.
Bless you, Jesus.
Would you ask Him to forgive your sins?
Would you ask Him right now, in your
own words, Lord, forgive me.
Forgive me for those evil thoughts.
Forgive me for those things that I've said
that would hurt people.
Forgive me, Jesus, for not trusting you in
my trial.
Forgive me, Lord, right now.
He said He's faithful just to forgive you
and cleanse you from all unrighteousness.
Now, Father, I pray for these that have
come forward.
Those who have not received you as Lord.
If they have just now asked for the
Holy Spirit.
Lord, it's your Spirit that draws us.
It's the Spirit of God that causes us
to step out of our seats and come
publicly and make a confession of need.
Thank you for that dealing of the Holy
Spirit.
Thank you, Holy Spirit.
Now, Lord, finish the work that you've begun
in our hearts.
Lord, blot out every transgression by bringing to
us the knowledge of the cleansing blood of
Jesus.
And we just trust you, Lord.
Lord, I pray for all those that are
going through harassment of their spirit and their
minds.
Lord Jesus, that is the flesh.
That is the flesh being manipulated by the
powers of darkness.
And, Lord, we don't have to be afraid
of that.
Folks, I'm going to tell you something.
Don't be afraid of those thoughts that come
against you.
You just say, in Jesus' name, in Jesus'
name, I reject these thoughts.
I reject them.
These are not from me.
These are from the enemy.
These are from my flesh.
I'm going to move into the Spirit.
Holy Spirit, right now, we will walk in
confidence with you.
We will walk in trusting you.
We will walk in the Spirit.
Now, the Bible says, if you believe that,
you have every right to praise Him.
You have every right to worship Him and
give Him thanks.
Hallelujah.
This is the conclusion of the message.