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Thank you, Lord.
Hallelujah.
Lord, we love you.
We ask tonight that our love could be
translated into action that is pleasing to your
heart.
Holy Spirit, you've got to give us the
hearts to be able to respond to the
Word of God.
There's no way that we can unless you
quicken us.
You have to empower us.
And so tonight we come before your throne
and we lay before you, God, and we
say give us the grace now to hear.
Give us the grace, mighty God, to do
and to obey.
And let it be a joy and a
chief delight of our hearts.
Father, we thank you for what you're going
to accomplish in this house tonight, what you've
begun and what you're going to bring to
completion.
Lord, before this night is out, there are
going to be miracles, transformed lives.
Mighty God, we thank you for it.
We praise you for it in advance.
We bless you for every backslider that's going
to come home, every confused Christian that is
going to find their way.
Oh, everyone who's oppressed is going to be
set free from the grip of the enemy.
Mighty God, thank you that your kingdom has
come and no power of hell, no gate
of hell can withstand the name of Jesus
Christ.
We give you all blessings and honor and
glory.
We thank you, God, for your power.
I thank you for your quickening power.
I thank you, Lord God, that you will
enable me to speak your heart tonight.
I ask you for the grace to disappear
and stand behind the cross, that you alone
may appear, that your words may be heard
in this house, that your kingdom may come
and your will might be done.
Father, we thank you for it from the
depths of our heart tonight.
In Jesus' name, amen.
My message tonight is called Snares, Traps, Scourges,
and Thorns.
Joshua chapter 23 in the Old Testament, if
you'll go there.
Welcome, please, to all of our visitors tonight.
We know that you've felt, as we do,
the manifest presence of Jesus Christ here in
our meetings, in our midst.
Wonderful to be in the presence of God.
Hallelujah.
Joshua chapter 23, beginning at verse 8.
Now, beloved, this is the third time today
you're about to hear the same message.
This frequently happens here at Times Square Church.
And when God confirms His Word in the
mouths of two or three witnesses, the Scripture
says, let everything be established.
If you have been here this morning at
10 o'clock, you've heard Brother Dave speak
on, essentially, the topic that the Holy Spirit
has given me.
You've heard Teresa speak on it at 3
o'clock, and you're about to hear it
again tonight.
This is God speaking to His church.
Let it be established.
Not just as fact, but let it be
established in our hearts.
This is really where the establishment has to
happen.