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There's a precious quietness in God's glory here

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tonight.

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Tonight there's to be a prayer meeting, and

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everything I was going to preach died on

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me.

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The preaching brought revival, we'd had it twenty

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years ago.

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In every chapter of the book of Acts

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they prayed except for two, and in those

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two chapters they were in trouble.

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Paul said in Philippians, in everything by prayer.

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D.

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Patton said, prayer is God the Spirit talking

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to God the Father in the name of

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God the Son, and the believer's heart is

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his prayer closet.

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Prayer is the most highly, holiest, trembling activity

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a man or woman or child could ever

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engage themselves in.

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We hear much of a George Whitfield that

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God used mightily in this nation in the

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1700s, and yet we don't hear much of

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his prayer life.

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But he had a tremendous prayer life.

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I believe he took 2 Chronicles 7, 14

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seriously.

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As does our heart cry tonight here, where

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God said, if my people who are called

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by my name shall humble themselves, and pray,

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and seek my face, we're not here to

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seek revival.

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We're here to seek his face, and turn

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from his wicked ways.

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Then, then will I hear from heaven, and

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will forgive their sin, and will heal their

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land.

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So work it backwards.

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Our land needs healing.

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In the Old Testament they had denied their

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Lord.

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They defied his law.

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They had defiled the land.

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And God withdrew his glory, and they tried

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to bring it back a way that wasn't

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God's ordained way, to bring back the Ark

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of the Covenant back to the place of

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God's residence.

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And Uzzah stretched forth his hand to stabilize

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it.

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God struck him dead instantly.

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Why?

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It wasn't the pattern that God had laid

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out to bring the glory back to the

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place of his people.

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And our God is a holy and a

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jealous God.

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And those that try to bring the glory

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of God back any other way, except through

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the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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are absolutely doomed to failure.

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God said, if my people, historically it's Israel,

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practically it's me.

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It's you.

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It's each one of us.

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It's not the person sitting behind us, or

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in front of us, or someone who wasn't

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here tonight.

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It's not somebody who's backslidden and barely...

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No, no, no, no.

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If my people, those who have laid hold

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of my name, that he is Yahweh, he

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is Jehovah, and we've embraced that name, and

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he's embraced us, if we may apprehend that

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for which we have been apprehended.

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And God has laid hold of many of

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us in salvation.

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Me at seven years old, when God got

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a hold of my heart and life and

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showed me I was a religious sinner in

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need of a savior, that my daddy being

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a preacher wouldn't get me to heaven, that

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my praying mama wouldn't get me to heaven,

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that my praying grandparents would not get me

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to heaven, I had to come through that

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door myself.

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And it began with a relationship with Jesus

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Christ.

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In Oxnard, California, God broke me and smattered

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me and smashed me, and even at seven

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years old, I knew I was a sinner

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headed straight for hell without Jesus.

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I trembled that night and broke in the

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pew of that church way back in the

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back, and I stepped out, and right there

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in the pew, I said, yes, Jesus, I'm

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a sinner, God, forgive me.

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God, cleanse me.

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Jesus, Jesus, you died on the cross for

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my sins.

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You rose from the dead for my sins.

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You're not dead, you're living, Jesus.

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I come to you in faith, oh God,

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forgive me, cleanse me.

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Come into my life, be my Lord, be

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my God and Savior.

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And on the spot, he saved me.

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And my life changed.

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He saved me from the penalty of sin

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he bore for me.

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He saved me from the power of sin.

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I'm crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live.

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Yet not I, but Christ lives in me.

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And the life which I now live in

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the flesh, I live with the faith of

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the Son of God, who loved me and

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gave himself for me.

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And to say with Paul, to live, Christ,

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and to die is gain.

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Beloved, the Christian life is not a difficult

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life, it's an impossible life.

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No one ever could live it but Jesus.

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No one can live it but Jesus.

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Only he will live it as we walk

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by faith in the indwelling Christ to live

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in us the life that he is.

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It is simply to the believer, his deity

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clothed with our humanity.

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That is Christianity.

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You and I can no more live the

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Christian life.

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You and I can no more do anything

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apart from the grace of God.

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But I love what Alan Redpath used to

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say, and my mentor and father in the

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faith Stephen Oldford used to say, and men

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of God of years gone by, I'm sure

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the A.T. Persons and all the great

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men and women of God have said this.

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That every demand that God makes on your

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life, every command God gives you, he gives

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you with it the dynamic to do what

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he says to do.

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Stretch forth your hand!

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But I've never been able to!

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Stretch forth your hand!

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It happened!

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Fill the water pots with water.

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Every command Jesus gives, he gives us the

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dynamic to do it in the power and

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grace of the Holy Spirit of Almighty God.

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So when God says, as far as the

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pathway of revival, if my people who are

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called by my name shall humble themselves.

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I pity the man, woman, person who ceases

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hearing the voice of God.

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I feel for the one who once walked

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with God, and the glory was on their

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life, but they let sin creep into their

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life somewhere.

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And all of a sudden, prayer is not

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real anymore.

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Jesus is not real anymore.

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Christianity is not real anymore.

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Worship is not real anymore.

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And they've lost the glow of their faith

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in Jesus Christ.

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I don't know why.

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It could just be a valley that God's

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taking them through.

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It could be like the golden eagle.

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God's taking them through a molting stage.

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Someday I'll tell you about that.

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Where they lose their feathers.

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They go to a high place in the

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mountains.

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They once soared high with God.

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And it may be you've not sinned.

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It's not something necessarily wrong.

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But God's taking you through a process where

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those golden eagles only eat live animals.

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Golden eagles only eat dead animals.

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And God takes you to a place where

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once you soared with him.

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But all of a sudden, you can't hunt

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like you once hunted.

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You can't work like you once worked.

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All of a sudden, the glow is gone

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anymore.

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And you go, God, what is it?

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I don't know what it is.

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But God takes you through that process of

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the golden eagle.

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Where they pluck out their own feathers.

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Like you and I pulling our fingernails out.

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But over a season of time, what happens?

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The older eagles who have already gone through

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it.

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They fly.

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And they come down.

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And they dive bomb.

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And they drop fresh meat at the feet

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of the eagles.

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Going through a molting stage.

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And the cry of a man I know

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about who watched this process happen.

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He said, the cry is this.

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Eat.

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Turn eagle.

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Eat.

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You've got to eat that bread.

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Eat that food.

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Eat that food.

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Eat it.

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Because if you don't eat, you will die.

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And some here, maybe tonight or this week,

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are going to be here.

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Maybe their very usefulness is hinged upon the

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fact that they take some morsel of what

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somebody says.

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Or some song somewhere.

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And they say, oh God, that's for me.

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I need that.

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And it transforms a life.

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And they go back home.

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Transformed by the person of Jesus Himself.

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Give my people the pathway they will humble

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themselves.

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That means I bend the knee.

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That's what it literally means.

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You ever been so hungry for God to

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do something?

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You said, God, I don't care anymore about

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what I've ever thought in the past.

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Lord, I don't care.

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It's like you lose your appetite for anything

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and everything except the glory of Almighty God.

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That's all you want.

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Is the glory.

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You read about it in God using Whitefield.

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He would stand as I was in Exeter,

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New Hampshire last fall.

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In Exeter, he stood out there by the

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dirt roadside at the time.

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And the field across and four thousand people

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there.

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And they put two barrels together.

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And they put a board across the barrels.

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And these men would take George Whitefield.

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And he was so feeble and sick with

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asthma.

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And as they began to lift him up

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onto the plank, one man said to Whitefield,

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you look more ready for death than life.

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He said, yes, but I'd rather wear out

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than rust out.

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And they held him up onto that plank.

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And he stood there on September 29th at

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about 2 or 3 or 4 in the

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afternoon.

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Could you just imagine the breeze blowing?

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Probably a gentle breeze blowing through.

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Could you imagine the wind rustling through the

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tree leaves?

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And people are gathered around.

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And there's such a holy solemnity.

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The people just stay and they sit and

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they stand in silence waiting for the man

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of God to speak.

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And Whitefield got up on that plank.

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And he stood there and held his Bible.

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And the man of God stood there and

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didn't say a word.

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He just stood there and stood there waiting

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and waiting and waiting.

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I'll tell you what he was doing.

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He said later, he said, what I do

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is I stand before the people and I

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wait for the hand of God to come

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upon me before I ever open my mouth

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and preach.

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And he preached to 4,000 people.

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And tears would stream down their faces as

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Whitefield would preach.

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Why?

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God's sovereign, yes, but Whitefield was a man

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who knew how to humble himself and get

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on his knees and say, O God, I

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can't do this.

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I can't do this.

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I'm weak.

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I'm about to die.

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I'm not going to make it.

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I can barely breathe.

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But O God, if you will give me

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your divine assistance, I'll stand once again and

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preach until the day I die.

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And God looked upon that broken, beat up,

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battered, war-torn saint of God.

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And the hand of God came down upon

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George Whitefield and a strength would come into

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him.

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And his voice was a little weak for

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a while there in Exeter.

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But all of a sudden, his strength began

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to grow and grow and grow and grow.

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And God filled the man of God as

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he preached the word of the living God.

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That's what America needs again.

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And the world.

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We want to go to our little internet

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on Saturday night and find some sermon somewhere.

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God's looking for somebody at church.

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Somebody who will say, O God, I take

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your word.

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I open this blessed book.

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I get on my knees like Matthew Henry.

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And I read your word on my knees.

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Whitefield, I read your word on my knees.

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Praying place in Portland, at the side of

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his bed, there were two grooves in the

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floor about six inches long where he would

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pray and rock back and forth on that

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floor and pray and pray and pray and

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pray.

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And the glory of God came down.

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Don't sit or stand or listen and say,

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David, this is 2009.

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That doesn't happen today.

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Oh, yes, it does.

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In my own life, God broke me.

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He smashed me, Pastor Brown.

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God tore me up.

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And he took me to the back side

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of the desert.

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You don't preach.

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You don't sing.

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You don't do anything.

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You get alone with me.

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And God would call me out to the

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deserts of Arizona at night time.

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And I'd turn the light on in my

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car.

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And I'd have a Bible in one hand

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and Arthur Wallace's book in the other hand.

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And God would break my heart in prayer.

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Oh, God, you promised it here.

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You did it here.

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Do it again.

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Oh, God, you promised it here.

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You did it here.

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Do it again.

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Oh, God.

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There was a space of about two years

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where I hardly ever got to bed before

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four or five o'clock in the morning

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because God had called to the place of

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prayer because God wanted to come in great

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revival at a place in Arizona.

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God broke my heart in life.

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And there was a fresh encounter with the

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living Christ during that season.

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And all of a sudden it happened in

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one church, another church, another church.

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We'd begin meetings and they'd go four months

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in one church.

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Four months.

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We'd come to that place.

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We'd come and people would come and get

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in the altar before the service ever began.

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And God would just show up.

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I can't tell you how many times we

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started the service before seven o'clock because

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God had already come.

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And, beloved, when God comes like that and

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you go for hour after hour after hour

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it seems like only 10 or 20 minutes

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and you look at the clock and it's

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10 o'clock it's 11 o'clock or

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it's midnight and you had no idea so

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much time had passed by because God had

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come.

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Leaving there to another place.

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One night in one place over 300 people

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the audience was only a little over 500

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over 300 people in a message that was

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only 10 or 15 minutes long when God's

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on the scene it don't take 45 minutes

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over 300 responded to give their hearts to

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Jesus.

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Jesus' people weeping broke Him in repentance when

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God comes.

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So how do we approach Him?

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I bend my knees we bend our knees

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and we pray that literally means to judge

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oneself it's self judging it means that I

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call sin what Jesus calls sin in my

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life it's not morbid introspection let me ask

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somebody here a question are you tired of

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not seeing God show up in His glory

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maybe in your church or somewhere that you

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know about beloved that's exactly where God will

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bring you and I to that place that

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we're sick and tired of living without the

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glory of God and God says what will

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you do about it He said I promised

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you if you humble yourself and pray and

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seek my face God's seeking and turn from

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your wicked ways of self repenting He said

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that's the pathway but I'm not so sure

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let me say this clearly and if you'll

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hear the words I hope this is clear

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now I don't believe this is so much

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a prescription for revival as much as it

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is a description of revival earlier in the

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chapter they had prayed the glory of God

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fell on the place God gave the word

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of my people who are called by my

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name will humble themselves how

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many have come to the point maybe time

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and time again when you say oh God

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maybe I really don't know how to seek

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your face I have the God I hear

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about prayer and I read about David Brainerd

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we were David Brainerd's gravesite last fall as

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well looking at that gravesite where that man

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of God would pray about 96 or so

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pounds he would witness to the Susquehanna Indians

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up there in the north eastern part of

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the US and it was said that he

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would go out sometimes in the morning and

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he would kneel down in the snow and

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by the evening the snow had melted all

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around where he was kneeling in the snow

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because the heat of his body from fervent

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praying and prayer had melted the snow all

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around him we hear about Charles Grandison Finney

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and that's well but have we ever heard

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of a man named Daniel Nash Daniel Nash

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another man we used to travel ahead of

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Charles Finney they'd find a room somewhere in

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a house or somewhere just to pray because

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Finney was going to come and please don't

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anyone sit don't anyone sit back and throw

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a rock at me because I use the

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name Finney I don't care what you do

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or don't believe about Finney just forget that

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Daniel Nash was a man of prayer God

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can use a donkey listen, listen, listen let

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me say this if we would get over

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our critical spirits in the church and

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quit dissecting everyone around us you don't cut

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your pie like I do and all of

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a sudden you're out there all by yourself

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and what you start saying is this well

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at least we're pure maybe you're not maybe

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you're just a Pharisee if my Bible tells

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me it does that the fields are wide

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already in the harvest Jesus said to dub

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their eyes the fields are wide already in

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the harvest He said the harvest is plentiful

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but the labors are few that it's not

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an issue that we're more holy than anybody

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else it's an issue we're not going out

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there to get them either he did or

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didn't say it either it's a lie or

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it's the truth we know it's the truth

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I asked a pastor a friend of mine

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in Arizona we were leaving the Christian bookstore

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he talked about how horrible it is in

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churches nowadays and how things are just playing

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off or declining and not going as they

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should I said brother let me ask you

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a question he said well certainly I said

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of all the pastor friends you know don't

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get me wrong I love pastors I was

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one and one I'm one whatever it is

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I used to pastor a church I love

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pastors I didn't used to like them when

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I was a kid I didn't like them

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at all they'd come in with their hair

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sprayed hair you know and look like they

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thought they were just I just didn't like

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them I wanted to go up to them

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and go like this mess their hair but

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there were some godly ones but I asked

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him just one question I said brother can

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I ask you a question about all your

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pastor friends I said not critical I'm just

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curious sure go ahead I said of all

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the pastors you know how many of them

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are soul winners he stopped I said I

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guess I can only think of one I

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said then whose fault is it gods or

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ours I said the great commission is still

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in the book Jesus said oh it's getting

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quiet in here now maybe what God wants

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us to do God allows the declension in

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churches all over the place in order to

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bring us each one of us all of

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us to a deeper sense of desperation and

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hunger for God to show up and show

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out and do something you say David I've

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tried I've handed out tracts I've done this

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I've done that some of you are doing

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everything God's called you to do but that's

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not the majority probably someone said to me

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recently they knew someone who was praying for

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persecution to come to America because the church

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in China is so pure and other countries

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and people are dying for the faith so

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they're praying fervently for persecution to come to

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America to purify the church I don't know

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about you I never once prayed for my

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daddy to give me a spanking if I

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had it coming to me I got it

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I never went and asked him for it

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I believe revival can come through either desperation

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or devastation or persecution I'd rather it be

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through desperation wouldn't you God said but if

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you'll humble yourself and pray and seek my

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face and turn from your wicked ways and

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promise I'll hear from heaven I'll forgive your

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sin I'll heal your land Jesus

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taught the disciples to walk with him before

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he said go work and then he said

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tarry in this city of Jerusalem until you

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be endued with power from on high and

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I believe one of the means and reasons

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we come together for a week like this

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is to by faith believing in prayer wait

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upon God and to seek the face of

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God for a fresh empowerment of his Holy

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Spirit Amen I close and we'll go to

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prayer with a story I read years ago

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the evangelist was preaching in Detroit or somewhere

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up north man came to him before the

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service he said will you talk to me

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after the service tonight he said well I'll

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be glad to and the man left the

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men of the church came to him and

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said what did that man want he said

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he wanted to talk to me when the

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service was over they said don't go with

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him he's a dangerous man he said no

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I told him I'm gonna go I'm gonna

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go and sure enough the man met him

548
00:25:35,750 --> 00:25:37,230
after the service was over and they walked

549
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down the street it was in the city

550
00:25:38,990 --> 00:25:40,710
they walked down an alley and the man

551
00:25:40,710 --> 00:25:42,810
took his keys out and unlocked the door

552
00:25:42,810 --> 00:25:45,770
in the alley of some business opened the

553
00:25:45,770 --> 00:25:47,250
door and walked in and turned around locked

554
00:25:47,250 --> 00:25:48,970
the door behind him turned back around and

555
00:25:48,970 --> 00:25:51,930
pulled the gun out he said I have

556
00:25:51,930 --> 00:25:53,650
to ask you a question he said well

557
00:25:53,650 --> 00:25:56,350
what was it he said did you mean

558
00:25:56,350 --> 00:25:57,950
what you said last night in your sermon

559
00:25:57,950 --> 00:25:59,750
he said I don't remember exactly what did

560
00:25:59,750 --> 00:26:02,910
I say he said you said the blood

561
00:26:02,910 --> 00:26:07,150
of Jesus Christ God's son cleanses from all

562
00:26:07,150 --> 00:26:10,010
sin and sin he said yes sir it

563
00:26:10,010 --> 00:26:13,490
does he said see this gun he said

564
00:26:13,490 --> 00:26:16,590
yeah he said I've killed many with this

565
00:26:16,590 --> 00:26:20,630
gun can God forgive a man for sin

566
00:26:20,630 --> 00:26:23,890
like that he said sir the blood of

567
00:26:23,890 --> 00:26:28,050
Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin he said

568
00:26:28,050 --> 00:26:29,930
sir across this wall I have a gambler's

569
00:26:29,930 --> 00:26:33,370
saloon I have gambling over on the other

570
00:26:33,370 --> 00:26:34,910
wall over here it's hidden the police don't

571
00:26:34,910 --> 00:26:36,250
know they come for raids and we clear

572
00:26:36,250 --> 00:26:38,970
out real quick and turn things around he

573
00:26:38,970 --> 00:26:40,490
said I've had men come in here they've

574
00:26:40,490 --> 00:26:44,030
left my business here they've come in they're

575
00:26:44,030 --> 00:26:46,270
alcoholics and I get what I don't what

576
00:26:46,270 --> 00:26:47,870
money I don't get from them over here

577
00:26:47,870 --> 00:26:49,970
on the drinking and beer I have every

578
00:26:49,970 --> 00:26:51,930
table rigged I get all the money over

579
00:26:51,930 --> 00:26:54,130
there he said wives have come in my

580
00:26:54,130 --> 00:26:57,150
store my place here with their children begging

581
00:26:57,150 --> 00:26:58,870
me not to sell beer to their husband

582
00:26:58,870 --> 00:27:00,890
anymore and I've ran them off he said

583
00:27:00,890 --> 00:27:02,450
I've been a miserable mean man can God

584
00:27:02,450 --> 00:27:05,910
forgive a man for sin like that he

585
00:27:05,910 --> 00:27:07,550
said sir the blood of Christ cleanses from

586
00:27:07,550 --> 00:27:11,290
all sin and shame he said sir one

587
00:27:11,290 --> 00:27:14,170
last thing and I'll let you go he

588
00:27:14,170 --> 00:27:15,410
said about 15 years ago I went to

589
00:27:15,410 --> 00:27:16,970
New York City met a beautiful woman told

590
00:27:16,970 --> 00:27:18,210
her I was a businessman back here in

591
00:27:18,210 --> 00:27:20,450
Detroit persuaded her to marry me and brought

592
00:27:20,450 --> 00:27:23,790
her home and we got married and she

593
00:27:23,790 --> 00:27:25,150
didn't know it was this kind of business

594
00:27:25,150 --> 00:27:27,970
and I've given her nothing but misery all

595
00:27:27,970 --> 00:27:30,710
the years we've been married he said two

596
00:27:30,710 --> 00:27:32,390
weeks ago I went home and my wife

597
00:27:32,390 --> 00:27:33,570
and I got in a fight and my

598
00:27:33,570 --> 00:27:34,910
daughter Maggie tried to get in the way

599
00:27:34,910 --> 00:27:36,850
to stop us from fighting and I slapped

600
00:27:36,850 --> 00:27:38,290
my daughter out of the way I came

601
00:27:38,290 --> 00:27:39,590
home drunk again and I live in the

602
00:27:39,590 --> 00:27:41,510
house he said catty corner from this corner

603
00:27:41,510 --> 00:27:42,710
on the other corner is where I live

604
00:27:42,710 --> 00:27:46,630
that house over there he said my daughter

605
00:27:46,630 --> 00:27:48,190
I knocked her down and she fell on

606
00:27:48,190 --> 00:27:49,910
the floor furnace in the hallway remember the

607
00:27:49,910 --> 00:27:53,430
old floor furnaces she fell down on that

608
00:27:53,430 --> 00:27:54,990
and she scarred herself from her wrist to

609
00:27:54,990 --> 00:27:58,670
her shoulder she'll be scarred for life he

610
00:27:58,670 --> 00:28:04,530
said I'm horrible God forgive a man for

611
00:28:04,530 --> 00:28:08,430
sin like that he said sir you have

612
00:28:08,430 --> 00:28:10,010
a grim story to tell but the blood

613
00:28:10,010 --> 00:28:13,410
of Jesus Christ God's son cleanses from all

614
00:28:13,410 --> 00:28:17,510
sin he said thank you sir that's all

615
00:28:17,510 --> 00:28:19,010
I wanted to know I unlocked the door

616
00:28:19,530 --> 00:28:22,650
and let him out about seven o'clock

617
00:28:22,650 --> 00:28:24,510
the next morning the man his shirt tail

618
00:28:24,510 --> 00:28:27,970
was all out he was sweaty disheveled tear

619
00:28:27,970 --> 00:28:30,130
stained eyes he began to walk across to

620
00:28:30,130 --> 00:28:32,350
his home but go back to that saloon

621
00:28:32,350 --> 00:28:35,110
and those gambling tables he had broken every

622
00:28:35,110 --> 00:28:37,250
bottle in the place the cards laid smoldering

623
00:28:37,250 --> 00:28:39,770
in the fireplace he had torn over and

624
00:28:39,770 --> 00:28:41,850
pushed over and destroyed every table in that

625
00:28:41,850 --> 00:28:46,130
whole place how it had ruined and shattered

626
00:28:46,130 --> 00:28:48,690
his life he thought it was the promise

627
00:28:48,690 --> 00:28:52,630
of peace and it wasn't he walked in

628
00:28:52,630 --> 00:28:55,490
his house across the street his wife was

629
00:28:55,490 --> 00:28:57,190
making breakfast he began to go up the

630
00:28:57,190 --> 00:28:59,590
stairs his wife said Maggie honey go up

631
00:28:59,590 --> 00:29:01,510
and tell daddy breakfast is ready to come

632
00:29:01,510 --> 00:29:04,350
on back down he's ready she ran upstairs

633
00:29:04,350 --> 00:29:06,050
and daddy had already gone to the bedroom

634
00:29:06,050 --> 00:29:09,370
and daddy had sit in his big sofa

635
00:29:09,370 --> 00:29:12,990
chair he looked up and saw Maggie at

636
00:29:12,990 --> 00:29:15,730
the door and he said Maggie Maggie darling

637
00:29:15,730 --> 00:29:18,590
she'd never heard words like that from daddy

638
00:29:19,850 --> 00:29:22,530
she ran back downstairs mama mama mama daddy

639
00:29:22,530 --> 00:29:26,450
called me darling I'm a father at this

640
00:29:26,450 --> 00:29:28,670
time and Maggie ran on her head and

641
00:29:28,670 --> 00:29:30,170
Maggie got to the door and daddy said

642
00:29:30,170 --> 00:29:31,850
Maggie I'm not going to hurt you sweetheart

643
00:29:31,850 --> 00:29:34,210
come on over to daddy for a minute

644
00:29:34,210 --> 00:29:37,750
she walked over and he took her set

645
00:29:37,750 --> 00:29:39,170
her on his leg and just put his

646
00:29:39,170 --> 00:29:40,630
arms around his girl and hugged her and

647
00:29:40,630 --> 00:29:43,630
hugged her his wife hit the door and

648
00:29:43,630 --> 00:29:45,830
looked at her and said sweetheart I'm not

649
00:29:45,830 --> 00:29:48,790
going to hurt you come on over and

650
00:29:48,790 --> 00:29:50,290
she came on over and he hugged his

651
00:29:50,290 --> 00:29:55,170
wife and his daughter he said you have

652
00:29:55,170 --> 00:29:59,350
a new daddy home to stay the blood

653
00:29:59,350 --> 00:30:09,720
of Jesus Christ how

654
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:17,470
do we approach the throne it was at

655
00:30:17,470 --> 00:30:23,050
the cross at the cross where I first

656
00:30:23,050 --> 00:30:26,910
saw the light and the burden of my

657
00:30:26,910 --> 00:30:33,550
heart rolled away it was there that by

658
00:30:33,550 --> 00:30:40,270
faith we received our sight and now I

659
00:30:40,270 --> 00:30:47,900
am joyful all the day let's just come

660
00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:50,740
to the altars if you want to kneel

661
00:30:50,740 --> 00:30:52,220
here on the steps if you just want

662
00:30:52,220 --> 00:30:55,060
to sit on a pew you can let's

663
00:30:55,060 --> 00:30:58,020
come for a season of prayer to commit

664
00:30:58,020 --> 00:31:00,260
this week to the Lord Jesus let's do

665
00:31:00,260 --> 00:31:02,560
what that verse says let's bend our knees

666
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,320
and there's sometimes you can't bend a knee

667
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,960
for physical reasons then do this oh God

668
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,660
right now I bend my soul to you

669
00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:14,920
I bend my soul to you God I

670
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,640
bend and humble my soul before you let's

671
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,140
come let's kneel or sit and let's have

672
00:31:20,140 --> 00:32:08,940
a season of prayer let's

673
00:32:08,940 --> 00:32:11,080
take that verse in our hearts and prayers

674
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,480
and say oh God I'm your child and

675
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,600
if you're not his child cry out to

676
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:22,680
God the Savior cry out to God have

677
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:27,380
mercy on me for God so loved the

678
00:32:27,380 --> 00:32:31,460
world that he gave his only begotten son

679
00:32:32,740 --> 00:32:38,420
and whoever believes in Jesus shall never perish

680
00:32:38,420 --> 00:32:45,360
but have everlasting life God sent not his

681
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,500
son into the world to condemn the world

682
00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:50,040
but that the world through him might be

683
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:56,310
saved the Bible says whoever shall call on

684
00:32:56,310 --> 00:33:00,570
the name of the Lord shall be saved

685
00:33:02,190 --> 00:33:04,950
run to Christ flee from the wrath to

686
00:33:04,950 --> 00:33:08,790
come run to Jesus those watching by the

687
00:33:08,790 --> 00:33:12,410
telecast tonight over the online right where you

688
00:33:12,410 --> 00:33:15,410
are oh get on your knees right there

689
00:33:16,450 --> 00:33:18,730
give your heart to Jesus, cry out to

690
00:33:18,730 --> 00:33:21,830
God in your hearts wherever you are oh

691
00:33:21,830 --> 00:33:25,790
Jesus I'm sorry for my sins I'm a

692
00:33:25,790 --> 00:33:31,490
sinner God have mercy on my soul Jesus

693
00:33:31,490 --> 00:33:35,290
save me Jesus you rose from the dead

694
00:33:36,090 --> 00:33:38,490
you paid the debt I could not pay

695
00:33:38,490 --> 00:33:40,670
I owed a debt I could not pay

696
00:33:40,670 --> 00:33:44,310
you did not owe Jesus thank you for

697
00:33:44,310 --> 00:33:45,990
shedding your blood for my sins and you

698
00:33:45,990 --> 00:33:47,950
rose again from the dead you are the

699
00:33:47,950 --> 00:33:49,550
son of the living God and oh God

700
00:33:49,550 --> 00:33:52,350
I'm convicted of my sin and I flee

701
00:33:52,350 --> 00:33:54,270
and run to you oh God in faith

702
00:33:57,020 --> 00:33:59,390
Jesus said whoever shall call on the name

703
00:33:59,390 --> 00:34:05,280
of the Lord shall be saved and the

704
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,540
rest of us here tonight just oh God

705
00:34:07,540 --> 00:34:10,960
I come to you as your child search

706
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:16,020
me oh God Lord I pray search me

707
00:34:18,570 --> 00:34:22,929
search me this week oh God ransack my

708
00:34:22,929 --> 00:34:31,460
soul oh God Father we come to you

709
00:34:31,460 --> 00:34:33,679
tonight to humble ourselves to bend our knees

710
00:34:38,550 --> 00:34:40,350
to acknowledge that you are God and we

711
00:34:40,350 --> 00:34:44,230
are not you are supreme and sufficient and

712
00:34:44,230 --> 00:34:49,260
sovereign and we are not but your loving

713
00:34:49,260 --> 00:34:53,100
kindness has drawn us unto yourself tonight and

714
00:34:53,100 --> 00:34:56,220
oh God we can't think of anything more

715
00:34:56,220 --> 00:34:59,520
deserving to you than the power and the

716
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,620
humble ourselves before the God of creation the

717
00:35:03,620 --> 00:35:07,120
God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob Yeshua Lord

718
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:17,710
Jesus the Savior the Prince of Peace and

719
00:35:17,710 --> 00:35:34,730
seek your face the

720
00:35:34,730 --> 00:35:37,510
face of God is the pleasure we have

721
00:35:37,510 --> 00:35:39,410
it in grace but grace moves us to

722
00:35:39,410 --> 00:35:42,030
seek his face the grace of God is

723
00:35:42,030 --> 00:35:45,050
the approval of almighty God the face of

724
00:35:45,050 --> 00:35:49,630
God is the manifest presence of God oh

725
00:35:49,630 --> 00:35:52,890
the wonderful promise therefore come boldly unto the

726
00:35:52,890 --> 00:35:57,570
throne of grace that you may obtain grace

727
00:35:57,570 --> 00:35:59,390
and find mercy to help in time of

728
00:35:59,390 --> 00:36:03,170
need Father tonight we acknowledge our need the

729
00:36:03,170 --> 00:36:07,710
water pots are empty oh God the water

730
00:36:07,710 --> 00:36:14,330
pots are empty let's tell God our need

731
00:36:14,330 --> 00:36:31,570
tonight to

732
00:36:31,570 --> 00:36:41,120
have my wicked ways my twisted ways my

733
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:41,760
twisted ways oh there's a lot of us

734
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,700
here tonight we have come to realize in

735
00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:47,260
our lives that we've had things that have

736
00:36:47,260 --> 00:36:48,900
been twisted we didn't realize it twenty years

737
00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:50,720
ago or ten years ago or ten months

738
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:59,440
ago and God has brought us to the

739
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:11,360
end of ourselves we

740
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:15,440
come to the fountain of cleansing and when

741
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,220
we come to the fountain of cleansing we

742
00:37:17,220 --> 00:37:19,660
find we come to the fountain of life

743
00:37:25,970 --> 00:37:29,390
beloved where the blood of Jesus cleanses the

744
00:37:29,390 --> 00:38:14,920
spirit of God anoints maybe

745
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:16,640
somebody who would like to just lead us

746
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,700
in prayer there's a microphone here for anybody

747
00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:24,100
who would like to verbally just pray you

748
00:38:24,100 --> 00:38:27,800
can pray right where you are maybe two

749
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:29,500
or three or several would like to just

750
00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:32,380
just lead us in a public corporate prayer

751
00:38:33,320 --> 00:39:18,760
feel free to come up here you hung

752
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:36,900
naked for me Lord and

753
00:39:36,900 --> 00:40:17,100
Lord even when I was

754
00:40:17,100 --> 00:40:26,680
Lord may you be magnified in the hearts

755
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:37,190
of the people Jesus I love

756
00:40:37,190 --> 00:40:50,880
you Jesus from the

757
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,080
moment you walked into my heart I love

758
00:40:53,080 --> 00:41:07,900
you Jesus you're

759
00:41:07,900 --> 00:41:16,880
my very life you're my very life Jesus

760
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:27,090
I'm walking I'm

761
00:41:30,070 --> 00:41:45,890
not ashamed of that at all I could

762
00:41:45,890 --> 00:41:52,920
not live my life without you I could

763
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,160
not get up tomorrow morning without you Jesus

764
00:41:57,140 --> 00:41:59,860
I could not lie in my bed tonight

765
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:07,780
without you Jesus I could not love my

766
00:42:07,780 --> 00:42:17,560
wife without you Jesus I could not

767
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,820
take my children in my arms and love

768
00:42:19,820 --> 00:42:26,400
them without you Jesus you took a heart

769
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:31,020
of steel and you gave me a heart

770
00:42:31,020 --> 00:42:40,810
of flesh when I was

771
00:42:40,810 --> 00:42:42,570
almost at the bottom of the bottom of

772
00:42:42,570 --> 00:42:43,950
this pit and you took me out of

773
00:42:43,950 --> 00:42:52,670
it Lord oh thank you with all the

774
00:42:52,670 --> 00:42:54,790
strength that was left in me I cried

775
00:42:54,790 --> 00:42:59,260
out to you Jesus I could do nothing

776
00:42:59,260 --> 00:43:16,260
else and you came out of

777
00:43:16,260 --> 00:44:12,040
that pit my king

778
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:26,950
in the

779
00:44:26,950 --> 00:44:33,730
desert place you came to me you created

780
00:44:33,730 --> 00:44:38,550
rivers in the desert Lord Jesus where there

781
00:44:42,300 --> 00:44:47,440
was no joy and all around me was

782
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:53,450
darkness Lord Jesus you brought your marvelous light

783
00:45:00,910 --> 00:45:03,270
oh Lord of those people out there in

784
00:45:03,270 --> 00:45:08,510
darkness may they cry out to you oh

785
00:45:08,510 --> 00:45:24,800
God in faith oh God I could

786
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:26,860
only laugh because you put joy in my

787
00:45:26,860 --> 00:45:37,570
heart and soul glory

788
00:45:37,570 --> 00:45:43,540
to your precious name yes Lord even in

789
00:45:43,540 --> 00:45:45,300
your name Lord there is power in your

790
00:45:45,300 --> 00:45:58,810
name Lord be

791
00:45:58,810 --> 00:46:06,600
glorified Lord be glorified we glorify you tonight

792
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:12,380
understand our state Lord we know that we

793
00:46:12,380 --> 00:46:21,840
are totally dependent upon you I thank you

794
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:30,770
for your presence right now that hovers over

795
00:46:30,770 --> 00:47:23,880
this place praise

796
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:49,480
father that

797
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:53,660
you would show us you father and save

798
00:47:53,660 --> 00:48:14,790
us from ourselves amen I lift up

799
00:48:14,790 --> 00:48:17,070
my life that I lift up this you

800
00:48:57,100 --> 00:49:07,100
God with your aroma no pain

801
00:49:07,100 --> 00:49:12,440
no suffering no persecution no anything father God

802
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,340
I pray that you would give the glory

803
00:49:14,340 --> 00:49:28,910
father I pray that you would strengthen for

804
00:49:28,910 --> 00:49:51,030
God open

805
00:49:55,740 --> 00:50:05,010
that door God you're not passive

806
00:50:22,070 --> 00:50:28,320
take us to you Jesus the blood we

807
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:34,590
have on our hands the perversion in our

808
00:50:34,590 --> 00:50:49,350
land God bless America once more even me

809
00:50:49,350 --> 00:51:27,570
father please God praise

810
00:51:27,570 --> 00:51:30,550
you give you all the glory and power

811
00:51:30,550 --> 00:51:35,330
I can I love you so much I

812
00:51:35,330 --> 00:51:44,220
thank you for loving me God I praise

813
00:51:44,220 --> 00:51:47,800
you Jesus in the mighty name of Jesus

814
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:53,940
mighty name the name above all others the

815
00:51:53,940 --> 00:51:56,940
name that can reach out there God in

816
00:51:56,940 --> 00:51:59,700
your name Jesus Christ God the father holy

817
00:51:59,700 --> 00:53:30,430
spirit have your way amen thank

818
00:53:30,430 --> 00:53:33,690
you heavenly father thank you for worship thank

819
00:53:33,690 --> 00:53:36,950
you for your people thank you for the

820
00:53:36,950 --> 00:53:39,030
prayers of your children thank you for the

821
00:53:39,030 --> 00:53:41,850
prayers of a young girl such sweet music

822
00:53:41,850 --> 00:53:44,350
Lord thank you for the sounds of love

823
00:53:44,350 --> 00:53:49,470
rising up to you father you were saying

824
00:53:49,470 --> 00:53:51,990
a while ago come by here come to

825
00:53:51,990 --> 00:54:02,190
your people

826
00:54:13,910 --> 00:54:18,530
how will the world find you we really

827
00:54:18,530 --> 00:54:21,410
need you we your church really need you

828
00:54:21,410 --> 00:54:27,770
to come by here and maybe we think

829
00:54:27,770 --> 00:54:31,550
sometimes we might think we need you to

830
00:54:31,550 --> 00:54:37,560
show us what to do but father we

831
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:39,000
just need you to come and fill us

832
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,920
if you come here and fill us it

833
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:43,640
doesn't matter really where we go or what

834
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:45,740
we do everywhere we go you'll be going

835
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:50,640
everything we touch you'll be touching so we

836
00:54:50,640 --> 00:55:03,260
just need you to come William Macdonald

837
00:55:04,240 --> 00:55:15,920
he spoke about we want

838
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:17,760
you to so come to us father we

839
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:20,360
need you to so come to us that

840
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:24,040
we learn dependence on you we learn to

841
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:31,050
walk in dependence on you he talked about

842
00:55:31,050 --> 00:55:34,350
the crisis of dependence coming to a point

843
00:55:34,350 --> 00:55:37,710
where every moment of our day is a

844
00:55:37,710 --> 00:55:43,520
crisis of dependence on you Lord that's what

845
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:46,240
it means to walk with you it means

846
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,360
like our brother prayed a few minutes ago

847
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:52,060
that we can't do the things we're doing

848
00:55:52,060 --> 00:55:56,420
in our life unless you're with us and

849
00:55:56,420 --> 00:55:59,320
doing them through us we cannot do them

850
00:56:02,860 --> 00:56:05,460
Lord yeah I ask you to teach us

851
00:56:05,460 --> 00:56:11,680
to walk in the crisis of dependence I

852
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:17,060
ask you to keep teaching me how if

853
00:56:17,060 --> 00:56:18,880
there's anything in my life that I can

854
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:26,920
do without Christ it's not worth doing please

855
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:30,300
grow that spirit of dependence because you told

856
00:56:30,300 --> 00:56:33,260
us Lord unless we become as little children

857
00:56:33,260 --> 00:56:35,540
we would not see the kingdom we would

858
00:56:35,540 --> 00:56:39,320
not enter the kingdom children are so good

859
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,160
at being dependent please make us like children

860
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:54,140
Lord we ask these things we're

861
00:56:54,140 --> 00:58:23,110
so dependent on you to

862
00:58:23,110 --> 00:58:26,150
be like what we heard tonight to be

863
00:58:26,150 --> 00:58:28,650
people that are consumed with your glory that

864
00:58:28,650 --> 00:58:35,140
walk that way to your church once again

865
00:59:07,660 --> 00:59:20,300
around the nations that cast

866
00:59:20,300 --> 00:59:22,360
ourselves and other dependents we have no backup

867
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:25,520
plan we have nothing else Father and in

868
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,120
desperation we choose to cry out to you

869
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:41,290
we have nothing else to do and we

870
00:59:41,290 --> 00:59:43,950
say give us a cross take us wherever

871
00:59:43,950 --> 00:59:46,630
you want to take us Father if only

872
00:59:46,630 --> 00:59:49,210
you can glorify your name once again as

873
00:59:49,210 --> 00:59:52,210
you have in days gone by Father while

874
00:59:52,210 --> 00:59:54,290
we intercede for this town and we intercede

875
00:59:54,290 --> 00:59:57,070
for this church my God and that this

876
00:59:57,070 --> 00:59:58,950
is great Father it is not enough for

877
00:59:58,950 --> 01:00:01,090
just a little stirring in a church somewhere

878
01:00:01,090 --> 01:00:03,150
God it's time for you to hit a

879
01:00:03,150 --> 01:00:05,530
nation with your presence God that you would

880
01:00:05,530 --> 01:00:07,590
pour out your glory once again in this

881
01:00:07,590 --> 01:00:11,410
land on this sleeping church my God oh

882
01:00:11,410 --> 01:00:13,570
please God for your glory's sake won't you

883
01:00:13,570 --> 01:00:16,290
come once again God we will not let

884
01:00:16,290 --> 01:00:18,130
you go we cannot let you go till

885
01:00:18,130 --> 01:00:22,390
you come we have nothing else we have

886
01:00:22,390 --> 01:00:24,870
no other plan we've seen the futility of

887
01:00:24,870 --> 01:00:28,170
flesh the folly of organization trying to accomplish

888
01:00:28,170 --> 01:00:30,890
the work of the Holy Spirit we've witnessed

889
01:00:30,890 --> 01:00:32,830
it from our youth and we're tired of

890
01:00:32,830 --> 01:00:33,990
it and we're sick of it and we

891
01:00:33,990 --> 01:00:38,490
want something real once again my God oh

892
01:00:38,490 --> 01:00:40,990
please God for your glory's sake not even

893
01:00:40,990 --> 01:00:43,110
for our sake God though we want to

894
01:00:43,110 --> 01:00:45,350
see you move though we want to have

895
01:00:45,350 --> 01:00:52,010
the joy of your presence for the sake

896
01:00:52,010 --> 01:00:54,830
of your dear son Jesus is it right

897
01:00:54,830 --> 01:00:56,550
that his name is such a curse word

898
01:00:56,550 --> 01:01:00,130
in this land God is it right is

899
01:01:00,130 --> 01:01:01,810
it right that there's steeples all over the

900
01:01:01,810 --> 01:01:05,950
city while crime goes unpunished and babies are

901
01:01:05,950 --> 01:01:08,630
slaughtered is that right it is not right

902
01:01:08,630 --> 01:01:11,730
God it is not right that this nation

903
01:01:11,730 --> 01:01:13,770
has the name of a Christian nation yet

904
01:01:13,770 --> 01:01:16,290
is defiling the world with its entertainment and

905
01:01:16,290 --> 01:01:20,610
smocks oh God bring holiness and righteousness once

906
01:01:20,610 --> 01:01:24,600
again my God start with the people that

907
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:30,920
are called by you do what we cannot

908
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:34,460
do like our brother says we can pound

909
01:01:34,460 --> 01:01:36,380
ball pits we can do so many things

910
01:01:36,380 --> 01:01:38,760
God but you must come in a mighty

911
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:41,760
outpouring of your presence God if you would

912
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:44,520
do that I know sinners would cry out

913
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:48,140
for mercy I know it Lord like you've

914
01:01:48,140 --> 01:01:50,120
done in days gone by like we've read

915
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:54,060
in your holy scriptures in history we will

916
01:01:54,060 --> 01:01:56,060
not let you go we cannot we have

917
01:01:56,060 --> 01:01:59,800
nothing else there's nothing else will work God

918
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,280
will bring us through nothing we have no

919
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:04,960
other plans so it's all we can do

920
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:17,690
years ago

921
01:02:17,690 --> 01:02:19,650
he said if God doesn't come in 10

922
01:02:19,650 --> 01:02:25,580
years we're done and it shows God give

923
01:02:25,580 --> 01:02:28,900
us a revelation yes Lord and take away

924
01:02:28,900 --> 01:02:32,200
those things that hinder God cause us to

925
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:34,500
be fit to be alive wash us God

926
01:02:34,500 --> 01:03:37,640
make us real God for Jesus formally

927
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:40,100
dismissed those who want to stay couldn't stay

928
01:03:40,100 --> 01:03:43,100
but were formally dismissed so God bless you

929
01:03:59,650 --> 01:04:00,790
just like to