A petty word this morning I want to
deliver to you.
The famine has begun.
I want you to go to Amos, the
8th chapter, please.
Amos, the 8th chapter.
And folks, please keep in mind, many of
the messages that are preached here from this
pulpit are not only for this congregation, but
they go out all over the world.
This message is for this church and for
all who will hear it wherever it is
going to go.
It goes far beyond the doors of this
church.
This is a message that many, many will
hear around the world.
Not because it's special, but because we send
them out in our mailing list.
Start verse 11, Amos, 8th chapter.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God,
that I will send a famine in the
land, not a famine of bread, nor a
thirst for water, but of hearing the words
of the Lord.
And they shall wander from sea to sea,
and from the north even to the east.
They shall run to and fro to seek
the word of the Lord, and shall not
find it.
In that day shall the fair virgins and
young men faint for thirst.
They shall seek the word of the Lord,
they shall not find it, a famine for
the hearing of the words of the Lord.
Let's pray.
Holy Spirit, you put this on my heart.
You put it in my heart when I
was shut in with you.
And I pray, Lord, you deliver it the
way you want it to be delivered.
And I pray for the unction, the anointing
of the Holy Spirit.
Lord, we are in a famine in this
land, a famine of hearing the word of
the Lord.
And it's going to get worse.
It's going to rage, and many are going
to starve spiritually and fall by the wayside
on the right and on the left.
Oh, God, open our eyes and our hearts
and our understanding this morning.
Let us hear the living word of God.
Sanctify me.
Let the word go forth in power, unction,
anointing of the Holy Spirit, I pray in
Jesus' name.
I take authority, every demon spirit, every prince
of Pontian, power of darkness.
There shall be nothing, nothing, into the word
of the Lord this morning.
Give us hearing ears to hear.
Lord, anoint me.
Give me the power, the fire of the
Holy Ghost this morning to speak your mind.
You put your mind in my heart.
Now deliver it through me.
I yield my body as a vessel to
the Holy Ghost.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amos was sent by God to deliver these
very frightful words in this prophecy.
Behold, the days are coming when I will
send a famine in the land, not a
famine of bread, but of hearing the words
of the Lord.
Beloved, that day has come.
The famine of the hearing of the word
of God is upon us right now.
Now, there have been spiritual famines since the
day that Amos gave this prophecy.
There have been a number of them, but
there have never been any, as far as
I'm concerned, that have any resemblance to what
is upon us now and what we are
about to face.
We are facing the utter fulfillment of this
prophecy of Amos.
Now, let me say before I go any
further, God's plan for either shaking a nation,
redeeming a nation, or warning a nation has
always been the preaching of the word of
God.
It's always been God sending a preacher.
Surely the Lord will do nothing, but he
revealeth his secret unto his servants, the prophets.
God said to Jeremiah, Behold, thou camest not,
before thou camest out of the womb, I
sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet
unto the nations.
And then later, Jeremiah could say, The Lord
touched my mouth, and he put his words
in my mouth.
When God wanted to reach Jeremiah's generation, he
touched his lips, he put a word in
his mouth, and God delivered the word through
the prophet.
Now, in every generation, God has raised up
and set aside chosen vessels.
These have been touched with the burning coals
from the fire in the altar of God.
God has put his word into their mouth,
and he has sent them out, and he
has used this principle ever since the beginning.
Remember, God has no other plan.
God has no other alternative.
He has no other plan to save or
warn a nation or a people or a
society other than sending a preacher.
He sends men of God anointed to preach
his word.
Now, in Genesis 6 and 7, don't turn
there, but we hear God saying, Of that
generation, the end of all flesh has come
before me, for the earth is filled with
violence through them, and behold, I will destroy
them with the earth.
Now, here's an entire society about to be
annihilated.
Here's an entire society that's going to be
wiped out.
Men and women, children, cattle, the whole society
is going to be annihilated.
The end of all things has come.
What is God's plan?
How does God send mercy?
How does God deal with this last generation?
He sent a man, sent a preacher.
The scripture says, Noah, a preacher of righteousness,
2 Peter 2.5. He didn't send a
politician to try to legislate some false piety
to bring the people back to God.
He didn't send a poet or an orator
to try to play on their emotions.
He didn't send a strong-armed general, try
to raise an army, and try to force
some kind of morality on the people, dictate
morality.
He raised up a preacher of holiness, a
preacher of righteousness, and for 120 years, this
man went from city to village to town.
He went everywhere preaching, not just judgment.
The Bible said he was a preacher of
righteousness.
Yes, he warned.
He built an ark.
This man was moved by the fear of
God, the scripture says, and a preacher who
is moved by the fear of God is
not much a motivator of success.
He's not much interested in self-esteem.
He doesn't preach hype.
He doesn't preach politics.
He's moved by the fear of God.
He knows his generation is dying and going
to hell.
So this man stands and he preaches righteousness.
That generation had no other call, had no
other effort from the hand of God other
than God sending a man with a message.
I want you to get that principle in
your mind.
We're going to see it further as we
go.
This is the way God's been working from
the beginning.
When the wickedness of Nineveh came up before
the Lord, He determined to destroy that entire
population within a set time, 40 days after
the time that His servants should arrive on
the streets of Nineveh.
And what does God do?
This generation is doomed.
This generation is about to fall under judgment.
What is God going to do?
Is He going to work through a politician?
Does He work through legislators?
Does He work through poets?
Does He work through attorneys?
Does He work through any other form?
No.
He sent a preacher by the name of
Jonah, a Jewish preacher.
The word of the Lord came to Jonah
saying, go to Nineveh, that great city, and
preach against it, for the wickedness has come
up before me.
You know the story.
Jonah flees to Tarsus, ends up in the
belly of the whale.
But God has no alternative plan.
God has no other plan.
He says, you're going to go.
You're my only plan.
Spits him out of the belly of the
whale, sends him back.
The scripture said the word of the Lord
came the second time under Jonah, saying, arise,
go to Nineveh, and preach it, the preaching
that I tell you.
Nothing else but a man walking the streets.
Crowds gather.
This man is not preaching hype.
He's not trying to win their favor.
He doesn't care what they think of his
preaching.
They're about to die and go to hell.
This man says, you've got 40 days and
you're dead.
40 days and it's over.
You talk about hard preaching.
You talk about tiptoeing around sin.
No, this man did not tiptoe around sin.
He said it bluntly, frankly, and put it
to the point, you're going to die.
Judgment is coming.
You have 40 days.
That was God's only plan.
There was no famine of the word of
God in Noah's day.
There was no famine.
The word of God was heard daily.
The word of God was heard and witnessed
by the ark that was being built.
There was no famine of the word of
God in Nineveh.
This man preached the uncompromising word of God,
and the word of God was so piercing,
so under unction, so anointing, the whole society,
king and all, repented.
Absolutely repented of the preaching of Noah.
In fact, Matthew 12 21, they repented at
the preaching of Noah.
What brought repentance?
Holy Ghost anointed preaching.
John the Baptist comes out of the wilderness
to face another generation going to hell, a
generation under judgment, a generation of religious vipers,
proud Pharisees, hypocrites.
This is the generation that's going to be
visited by the incarnate Son of God.
But first God sends a preacher to prepare
the way of the Lord, to make his
path straight.
John came preaching repentance.
Listen to his message.
All of you who don't like hard preaching,
all of you want to go to church
where there's candy cotton preaching, all generation of
vipers, bring forth fruit suitable to repentance.
He's laid the axe to the root.
Every tree that brings not fruits going to
be cast down and thrown in the fire.
He's got a fan in his hand and
he's going to purge you.
He's going to burn up all the shafts
with unquenchable fire.
This is the preaching that God sent.
This is the kind of preaching that God
sent to make the path straight for the
Master.
It's not a message conducive to self-esteem.
It's not a how-to message.
It's not a success message.
John didn't tiptoe around sin either.
Every one of these men that God sent
were under unction anointing and they were told
to warn people, to free from the wrath
of God.
And the Bible says, and they confessed their
sins.
They heard preaching from John the Baptist is
so convicting, so powerful, so anointed.
They fell on their faces and repented, Bible
says.
Jesus himself came preaching.
Scripture said Jesus went about all the cities
and villages preaching the gospel of the kingdom.
Then he sent forth his twelve.
The Bible said to preach the gospel to
every creature.
Scripture says he ordained twelve, sending them forth
to preach.
They were to preach from the housetops.
Then Paul is raised up and Paul says,
it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching
to save them that believe.
And Paul makes it very clear, unmistakably clear,
that when God is about to judge a
nation, when God's either about to bless with
the revival or he's about to send judgment,
he uses preachers.
He raises up men of God that have
been shut in with him.
He gives them the message.
He anoints them.
They come forth fearlessly from the presence of
God.
And the scripture according to Paul says, God
hath in this time manifested or revealed his
word through preaching.
That's Titus 1.3. Now let's talk about
our time.
Let's talk about this present generation.
As I see it, if there was ever
a generation that needed straight, holy ghost, warning,
convicting, soul-stirring preaching, it's this generation.
It is our time.
We are far more perverted than Sodom.
We are far more violent than Noah's day.
We are far more wicked than none of
us could have ever conceived to be.
So if ever a generation needed the word
of the living God, it's today.
We need powerful preaching more than any past
society.
We need a smiting conviction that smites the
heart.
Instead, sad to say, what we most need
we're not getting in the United States.
Instead we're witnessing a famine of hearing holy
ghost preaching.
I say it again, God's only plan is
through the preaching of his gospel.
That was the plan for Christ's generation, for
the apostles' generation.
That's the plan for this last hour.
Folks, it's not through politics.
And everyone running around the country who tells
me we're going to organize and we're going
to legislate holiness, you don't know your Bible.
God raises up anointed, fearless prophets and preachers
of his word to bring a nation, a
generation to their knees or to harden their
hearts before judgment comes.
For example, I'm telling you now that I
believe that there's a famine in the land
and it's already begun.
For example, we're told that television ministries reach
the most people in the United States.
Now I'm going to tell you straight off
that 20 years ago I could name four
or five.
I know Billy Graham is one who stayed
true all through these years, but I could
name three or four.
These were friends of mine, acquaintances of mine
that were on television and they had a
Jeremiah type message.
They thundered against sin.
They spoke against leaders who were living in
adultery and fornication.
Those evangelists I've watched over the years.
I've preached in some of their meetings and
you know where they are now?
They have now opted for talk shows and
men who used to fire, the fire of
God shone in with the Lord and people
were smitten and fallen on their knees.
Now they're hosting talk shows about beauty tips,
dieting, exercise.
And you look at these men and I
look at them and say, God has stripped
them from the Word.
There's a famine.
One of my dear friends is an evangelist.
I just got a newspaper clipping.
He wants to be the Christian David Letterman.
He wants a talk show now that God
blesses his heart that could be sponsored by
businessmen, by the sector of business.
I'm sure that scares the daylights out of
the devil.
I'm not trying to be facetious, but folks,
I remember the day that I was in
the pub with that man and he would
point a finger to an audience and preach
against sin with such power.
There was smiting conviction all over the house.
People would fall on their faces.
And what a shame now to hear him
talk about how to lose weight in 10
easy lessons.
Folks, it's sad.
Name me one Jeremiah type preacher on television.
Name me one man who stands unashamedly, not
afraid of his income, not afraid of anything.
Name one in the media now that's standing
up like Jeremiah or John the Baptist.
Where are they?
Where are the voices?
You got mamby-pamby talk shows, half politics,
and a little bit of gospel that doesn't
shake anybody, doesn't even shake a leaf, let
alone a soul.
There's a famine of the convicting Word of
God in the media.
Now, I'm not saying there are no more
prophetic voices in the land.
Thank God for a small remnant of Holy
Ghost-filled preachers on fire and still proclaiming
the Word, but most of them are in
little churches.
They're unknown and they're persecuted and they're disheartened
because people don't want to hear it.
One pastor of another writes to me.
We get two or three letters every week
now from pastors of churches, 100, 200, 300,
and they say, I can't preach it anymore
because down the road somebody's got a sinner
-friendly church.
They've got one of those outsider-friendly churches
and they've only been in town for a
year and they've got 1,500, 2,000
people and here I am preaching the gospel.
Nobody wants to hear it.
My people are flocking down for skits and
little 15 minute sermonettes for Christianettes.
These pastors are brokenhearted and they say there's
a tremendous pressure to compromise.
Folks, the pulpit was meant to be a
burning bush where a fire was never to
go out and the man who stood in
that sacred pulpit is supposed to be a
man shut in with God, a man who
waits on God in God's presence till he
hears the Word of the Lord and till
he hears from the throne of God and
he comes out and stands before the people
with the mind of God and he's to
preach with plainness the scripture set of speech,
not in the wisdom of man.
He's to preach with spiritual authority.
He's to be absolutely fearless.
He's to name sin.
He's to be the voice of the living
God in these last days.
This is a burning bush but nowadays the
pulpit is more of a stage and the
preacher is more of an actor.
Modern preachers today have in their right hand
a computerized printout of a survey that's just
been taken in their community and they've discovered
what the people want who are sinners and
they say we do this because we want
to reach the unchurched.
I don't buy that.
That's never been the program of God.
The program of God is to raise up
men that preach the gospel in spite of
whether the crowds receive it or not and
you know what the crowd wants?
They want one hour meetings at the most.
They want no hard preaching.
They want nothing said about sin or their
lifestyle.
Now you may not like what I said.
You might think it's unkind but I'm telling
you there are thousands of preachers in the
pulpits today that are giving the people nothing
but husks and the people are starving.
They're emaciated.
They don't have anything with which to stand
in these days that are coming and I
tell you when judgment falls and when the
economy begins to collapse and when things get
very very hard, can you imagine what they're
going to do to these pastors and these
shepherds who have blinded them and comforted them
in their sins, told them they could smoke
and blow smoke in Jesus' face and smoke
and carry on and go to nightclubs and
never have their lifestyle changed and long as
you spend one hour Sunday morning in God's
house.
I say the church is to be a
Holy Ghost hospital and the pastor is supposed
to be a surgeon.
Listen, can you imagine a hospital?
Can you imagine a hospital with no beds
no surgeon, no operating room, no x-ray
or scanning equipment and all that the nurses
do and run around in the rooms.
They've got overstuffed chairs and people.
The whole motto of this hospital is we're
here to make you comfortable.
We love you and so they've got smiling
nurses running around and all they're doing is
sedating the people and giving them painkillers and
they're going around saying I'm okay, you're okay,
you're going to make it.
People are dying left and right but when
they're hurting, if the cancer's there, they're just
going to cover the pain with some pain
medicine.
Everybody is sedated.
You go in many churches today, the whole
congregation is sedated.
Many are going to hell but they've got
a painkiller, a little message that kills the
pain.
Folks, let me tell you Times Square Church
is a Holy Ghost hospital.
Pastor Carter and I are surgeons with a
knife sharper than any two-edged blade.
This building is an operating room and the
Holy Ghost is the x-ray technician and
we've got many, many nurses in this church.
Wonderful people are walking with Jesus and they're
not going to give you a painkiller.
They're not going to tell you you're okay
if you've got a cancer, the x-ray
says, and you've got a brain tumor messing
up your head and you need a blood
transfusion.
You need a new heart.
We're going to tell you no, you're not
all right.
You need a blood transfusion.
You need an operation.
You need that cancer taken out and if
we come out of the presence of God
and we have his mind, we know right
where the cancer is.
We know where the tumor is.
The Holy Ghost knows right where he's pinpointed
it and that's why when you come to
a church where there's Holy Ghost preaching, you
say, who told him about me?
You know why?
Because the Holy Ghost knows how to diagnose.
There's diagnosis in this hospital.
I am diagnosing the body right now through
the Holy Ghost.
The surest sign of a famine in the
land is the sight of multitudes running to
and fro looking for a word or experience
and they shall wander from sea to sea,
from the north even to the east.
They shall run to and fro to seek
the word of the Lord and shall not
find it and we are seeing that prophecy
being fulfilled right before our eyes today.
Thousands are jetting from sea to sea, from
city to city, land to land looking for
some kind of blessing or a word.
Charted planes and charted buses filled with starving
pastors and starving lay people, hungering, thirsting for
a satisfying word or experience.
Beloved, when Christians are well fed, they don't
run.
They don't go to and fro.
They don't go from sea to sea.
When everybody's saying, come on, you got to
come with us, they say, why I am
satisfied.
I am full.
I don't have to go to a restaurant.
Pastors and preachers who are shut in with
God travel no further than their secret closet.
No further.
Nobody's hand has touched them but the hand
of Jesus.
Listen, I believe there is a minister laying
on of hands.
I'm not against that at all.
I believe in that.
But folks, there is something that some pastors
need to know.
I've enjoyed it.
I know Pastor Carter's enjoyed it.
And that is to get shut in with
the Lord and have, you talk about laughing.
I have laughed in his presence.
I've been slain in his presence.
I've had Jesus touch his, put his hand
on my forehead and lay me down.
Get up, he lay me down again.
I've had his hand on me.
Why would I want to go to Timbuktu?
Why would I want to go anywhere?
I've got a place to go.
I get shut in with the Lord.
I get all I want.
I get my food.
If you come to Times Square Church, you're
dishonest if you think you have to run
somewhere and get a blessing.
If you can't stand the word of God
here, it's because you don't want to receive
it.
You don't want to hear it.
I hear preachers say, I hear people say,
isn't it wonderful there's a great revival down
in Tennessee or Cincinnati or Cleveland or wherever.
Isn't it wonderful that people are coming from
all over the world?
No, it's the saddest thing I can see.
It's proof positive that we are in a
famine of the word.
They say people are coming.
Why are they coming?
Why aren't they standing faithful in their church?
Why aren't they right there witnessing where they
are?
Why aren't they full?
Why do preachers have to go somewhere to
get a blessing?
Why?
Because they don't know the heart of Jesus.
They've got to go somewhere and get something
from somebody.
The Bible said they will run to and
fro seeking the word and not find it
because you can go to a big healing
crusade.
You can go to stadium meeting.
You can go to any kind of meeting
and I tell you it will leave you
empty and dry.
It will not satisfy the inner longing of
your heart unless there is a preacher in
that meeting that is preaching under the anointing
exposing sin.
Here's what the Bible says.
Listen very, very closely.
Thus, the Bible, this is 1 Corinthians 14
25.
This is about a meeting where people are
falling under, falling out before the Lord, falling
on their faces.
But let me tell you why they're falling
on their faces.
Because there is a preaching of the Word
of God that is convicting them of sin.
The Bible said if there's such preaching, thus
are the secrets of the heart revealed so
that falling down on their faces they will
worship God and report God is in you
of a truth.
And if you follow the Greek through it
says those who are speaking under inspiration.
If they're speaking under the inspiration.
Folks, many of these so-called revivals, there
is hardly any preaching whatsoever.
The revivals of the past where people fell
on their faces before the Lord is because
there was such convicting preaching.
Phineas stood in this very city down on
Chamber Street and they had a great revival
in this city.
But you ought to listen.
You ought to read those sermons of Phineas.
No man exposed sin like Phineas did.
Now, I'm not a Phineite, but folks, those
those sermons that he preached, he preached an
hour until people couldn't sit in their seats,
couldn't even wait for the altar call, would
run down to the crying room down the
basement, run
to God and fall on their faces convicted
of their sins.
Now, who or what is responsible for this
famine in the land of the word?
Is it the devil?
Now, we know the devil's out to destroy
every true man of God.
He's trying to ruin and bring reproach on
anyone who's preaching the gospel.
Of course, the devil's out to try to
destroy honest Holy Ghost preaching.
But I'm telling you now that there's no
devil in the universe.
There is no power in the universe that
can hinder God's anointed ministry when he's appointed
it to be preached.
No demon, no devil, nothing can hinder when
God appoints a man or ministers to stand
and preach his word.
It's going to be preached.
No devil can stop it.
He may try to hinder it.
He may try to persecute, but the word
of God will go forth.
No, it's not the devil.
It's not the devil at all.
In fact, here's what the scripture says.
God's doing it.
The Lord God saith, this is 812, I
will send a famine in the land, a
famine of hearing the word of the Lord.
Listen to me, please.
A famine of the word of God is
the judgment of God upon churches and societies
that reject reproof, reject the warnings and the
woes of the Holy Ghost.
That's exactly what happened in Amos day.
That's why God had him stand and prophesy.
He prophesied to the king, Jehoiada.
He prophesied to the people.
He said, you are going into captivity because
of your abomination and your sins.
He went up and down through Bethel preaching
it.
His home base was Bethel at this time.
The high priest Amaziah came to him and
he says, enough of this.
Let me read to you his very words.
Well, first of all, the scripture says God
came and said a plumb line in Amos
day.
He said a plumb line.
You know what that plumb line was?
It was a holy preacher, a holy prophet
named Amos.
He was the plumb line.
He was measuring people by the word of
the Lord, by the honest holiness preaching that
came forth from his lips.
O thou prophet, this is Amaziah the priest
saying, O thou prophet Amos, flee away from
the land of Judah.
Go preach to the land of Judah.
Preach there, but preach no more again in
Bethel.
You know what he's saying?
And that's why God was going to send
a famine.
God says, I care about Judah.
I care about Bethel.
He sent a man to preach the gospel,
to preach his word, to reveal his mind,
to send him to be a plumb line
among the people.
And the people turned away.
The king said, shut him up.
The church represented by Amaziah said, enough of
this preaching.
We don't want to hear any more of
it.
Folks, listen to me.
I get about four years ago, four and
a half years ago, I was prophesying so
strong, even from this pulpit.
And I got so many letters from all
of the United States.
People saying, Brother Dave, we get enough doomsday
in the news.
We hear nothing but bad news on television
and radio and our newspapers and magazines.
Please, we've had enough.
And I would hear it from preachers.
I heard it everywhere I went.
And it just, it just came on me
from all sides.
We need to be encouraged.
We're hurting.
Folks, the word is encouraging.
The word is life-giving.
There is a message of hope and mercy
and grace.
But folks, we have a generation dying and
we have a generation going to hell.
We have a generation standing on the brink
of judgment.
And God, I told the Lord, Lord, I'm
tired of prophesying.
I'm really weary of hearing all of this.
We don't want to hear any more doomsday
preaching.
And I said, Lord, I'm tired.
And the Lord took me at my word.
And for almost three years, He wouldn't let
me prophesy.
But I repented of that.
And I said, oh God, you speak to
me because I don't hear the voices in
the land today.
I don't hear many people crying out anymore.
I don't claim to be a prophet.
I claim to be one of His watchmen.
But folks, I see now what God's about
to do.
He's beginning to silence so many prophets.
Twenty years ago when I was prophesying, there
were prophets all over the land warning about
the economic collapse coming to America.
Everywhere you went, there were newsletters and warnings.
We had about 10 years, late 70s and
the first five years of the 80s.
There were messages and warnings and crying.
And people got weary of it, didn't want
to hear it anymore.
Put out of our churches, Pentecostal churches, Baptist
churches.
They don't want to hear it anymore.
In fact, I got so tired of hearing
it.
I said, Lord, I'm tired of hearing all
the bad news.
And so this is what happened in Amos
today.
We don't want to hear it anymore.
That's what they said in Amos day.
They said to Amos, God said, this is
a rebellious people, children that will not hear
the law of the Lord, which say to
their prophets, see not, prophesy not unto us
right things.
Speak to us smooth things, even prophesy deceit.
Give us a smooth message.
Comfort us.
Folks, I love to comfort.
I love to preach life building messages.
And that's the message of grace.
We preach mercy.
We preach justification by faith.
We preach all of these encouraging things.
But folks, God helped this church.
God helped you as a Christian.
If you ever come to the place where
you no longer want to be reproved by
the word of God, where you don't want
to listen to judgment, you don't want to
hear any more doomsday preaching.
And then you say preaching here at times
square is getting too hard and you want
to go somewhere else and hear a smooth
message.
Man, you're doing that right now.
But I'm telling you, I tell you now
that more and more, you're going to hear
from this pulpit, the warnings of the Lord,
because God said, I won't do anything until
I tell my servants the prophets.
I'll tell my pastors that are shut in
with me.
It's impossible to shut in with God without
hearing his voice, without knowing his mind.
We didn't come here to build a big
church.
We didn't come just to pack out the
pews.
We came to warn this city of coming
judgment.
We came to find a remnant that wanted
to walk in holiness and righteousness before the
Lord.
We weren't looking for anything else.
I believe we found hundreds that want to
be a part of the remnant in the
last days.
But if you're going to be a part
of this remnant, you're going to reach out
to the Lord and say, oh God, help
me.
Help me to receive reproof.
Help me not to be afraid of judgment
preaching.
Awaken my soul.
I want just two more minutes.
I want you to go to Isaiah 30.
I'm going to give you the good news.
There are going to be a people in
these days of famine.
The famine is going to get worse.
Oh, the famine is going to get worse.
Folks, I wish you could read the letters
we received from all over the United States
and around the world.
The number one complaint all over, even though
there are pastors in small churches preaching, they're
far and few and in between preaching holiness
and being pushed out of their churches.
On the other hand, hundreds of thousands are
writing and saying, we go from church to
church.
You can't find a message that stirs your
heart.
You can't find anything that moves you to
God.
You can't find anything that brings conviction and
smites your heart anymore.
You leave the church empty, empty and hungry
and thirsty.
But I'm telling you, God says there's going
to be a holy remnant.
They're going to have good teaching right till
the last day.
They're going to be fed when others are
starving.
Oh, yes, they are.
God says He's going to bring their teachers
out into the open.
Isaiah 30 verse 18, beginning to read verse
18.
And therefore will the Lord wait that He
may be gracious unto you.
And therefore will He be exalted that He
may have mercy upon you.
For the Lord is a God of judgment.
Blessed are they that wait for Him.
For the people shall dwell in Zion at
Jerusalem.
Thou shalt weep no more.
He will be very gracious unto thee at
the voice of thy cry.
When He shall hear it, He will answer
it.
Now folks, remember, here are people waiting on
the Lord.
Here are people who are crying out to
God.
This is a hungry people.
And those people crying to God and hungry
and waiting on the Lord, verse 20, and
though the Lord give you the bread of
adversity and the water of affliction.
In other words, society may be crumbling, trouble
on every hand.
Yet shall not thy teachers be removed into
a corner anymore.
But thine eyes shall see thy teachers.
Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee
saying, This is the way, walk ye in
it, when you turn to the right hand
and when you turn to the left.
God will lead you in the last day.
If you want it, God will give you
teachers after His own heart.
If you seek Him and cry out to
God, God will keep you in churches.
He'll keep you under ministers and under pastors
that will provoke you to righteousness and show
you the way on the right hand and
on the left where there's confusion all around.
You'll know your way.
Well, I've said all I have in my
heart.
Will you stand please?
One thing I can say on the authority
of this book and the witness of the
Holy Spirit in my heart, there's no famine
in this church.
There's no famine of the word in this
church.
We say that humbly before God.
If God can keep His pastors broken, humble,
and shut in with Him, there never will
be a famine in this church.
Thank God for other churches where there's no
famine of the word.
Hallelujah.
Glory be to God.
Holy Spirit, things are going to get so
difficult.
Lord, we're going to see millions of Christians
running all over the place, starving Christians, confused
Christians, not knowing which way to turn to
the right or to the left.
And they're going to be led into all
kinds of confusion, false doctrines, phony revivals based
on only experience and not on conviction.
Oh God, don't let anybody in this church
fall into that trap.
God, build up a body in this church.
Show into the word of the Lord.
Well taught.
Lord, it means that those who love your
word are going to have to start praying
for their pastors and holding them up that
they come forth with the word of the
Lord in these last days.
Hallelujah.
Lord, keep me.
Keep Pastor Carter.
Lord, keep us by your power.
Keep us under unction and under the anointing
of the Holy Spirit.
Because there's so many going to be coming
to this church, confused and broken.
Lord, let them come and be healed.
Let them come and be filled.
Let there always be corn here.
Hallelujah.
Let there always be plenty of corn to
give out.
Hallelujah.
Let me tell you what the invitation is
and I won't prolong it.
I know the Holy Spirit's here.
See, God just told me not to burden
my heart to you this morning.
And up in the balcony, the main floor,
you may be here for the first time
or you've been here before.
The Holy Spirit has a wonderful way, no
matter what is preached.
It may not have been something to do
with you personally.
But if I preach under unction, under the
anointing of the Holy Spirit, no matter what
I preach, the Lord's going to convict you.
If there's sin in your life, if you've
been straying from the Lord, if you've lost
your first love, and if that's you, the
Holy Spirit's convicted you already.
I don't have to add anything to that
other than give you an invitation to step
out of your seat and come and stand
here and let me pray with you.
If the Holy Spirit has touched you today
and you feel a drawing, you feel God
has to do something in your heart today,
I want you to get right out of
your seat, get up in the balcony, go
to stairs on either side, you can come
down any aisle.
And I'm going to pray for you and
I'm going to ask God to awaken your
soul.
I'm going to ask God to do something
in your life.
Amen.
Don't walk out of here dead.
Don't walk out of here lukewarm.
This is a place to get fired up
and get your soul right.
Amen.
Get out of your seat.
Follow these that are coming.
Amen.
You still come while I'm talking.
God bless you.
Now let me speak to those who came
forward.
Look this way.
There are varied reasons why you came.
Some of you came to be touched by
God's hand.
Some of you God just dealt with you
about something in your life.
It's so varied I couldn't begin to deal
with it personally.
I'm going to ask the Holy Spirit to
do what He has to do to meet
your need right now.
I don't know why you came up here.
I don't need to know.
But all I ask is did you come
up here sincerely that when you go back
to your seat there will be a change.
How many can say that?
When I go back to my seat I
want a change.
Hallelujah.
Look at me.
You don't have to spend hours before the
Lord.
That's a wonderful thing to do.
But if your heart's open and your heart's
crying, He rushes to your side.
He rushes to you.
And the change is made quickly because He
looks on the heart.
Man looks on the outward first, but God's
looking on your heart.
He knows what you're going through.
He knows your struggle.
He knows your battle.
But if you love Him, if you have
a heart reaching out to Him, He's going
to rush to your side right now.
He's going to touch you.
Well, I pray He's going to touch you
right now.
Heavenly Father, I pray for these that have
come to humble themselves in your presence.
Lord, I don't know why they're standing, but
Holy Spirit, you are the mind reader.
You're the x-ray technician.
You're the one who x-rays right into
the mind and the heart.
You know where the problem is.
Oh, God, right now, bring cleansing through the
blood of Jesus.
Bring faith and hope.
Oh, God, forgive and cleanse and transform lives,
those that are standing here right now.
I want you to pray this from your
heart.
Just pray it right out loud, right from
your gut, right from inside your heart, deep
inside.
Jesus, I came forward to admit I have
a need.
I repent, Lord, for those things that only
You know about.
No one else knows but You know, and
I don't want to hide it.
I bring it out into the open, and
I confess it to You, Lord.
I need a touch.
I need a new heart.
I need Your hand on me.
Jesus, I surrender everything, all my heart, all
that I am, and all that I have.
Come, Lord Jesus, change me.
I believe that, and I receive that by
the Holy Spirit.
Now, let me pray for you again.
Lord, I thank You for Your faithfulness.
Holy Spirit, we don't have to beg You.
You said You're more willing to give than
we are to receive.
Lord, I know that there have been lives
that are changed, being touched, being healed, transformed.
They're going to walk out of here with
a new mind and a new heart.
Thank You, Jesus.
You that have come forward, will you just
lift up your hands and just start saying,
Thank You, Jesus.
I accept Your love.
I accept forgiveness.
I accept Your touch.
Let Him touch you while your hands are
raised right now.
Just love Him right now.
Lord, touch me.
Touch me, Lord.
Touch me by Your Spirit.
Touch my heart.
Touch my life.
Let fresh oil, fresh oil of the Holy
Spirit fall over me.
Hallelujah.
He's doing it right now.
Just thank Him.
Thank You, Holy Spirit, for touching me.
Thank You for meeting my need.
Glory be to God.
Glory be to Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Lord, thank You for what You're doing.
Thank You, Holy Spirit.
I give You praise.
Glory be to God.
Now, look at me, please.
How many of you can say you know
God's touching you right now?
I know God's touching me.
Would you turn around and shake hands with
at least four or five people and say,
He touched me.
Testify to it.
He touched me.
Jesus touched me.
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