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I've got a message this morning.
Getting ready for God's new thing.
Go to Isaiah 43, please.
Isaiah 43.
I'm going to begin reading in verse 18.
Do you believe that God is not stale?
He's not stagnant.
He's always doing something fresh anew.
And God is even now doing a new
thing in the land.
God, wake us up.
Help us not to bypass it, not to
see it.
God, open our understanding.
He's shown us the covenant, and I'll be
showing us the new thing that He's going
to do.
Start verse 18, chapter 43 of Isaiah.
Everybody in the annex and overflow, get your
Bibles now and follow me.
I'm preaching right into the camera.
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider
the things of old.
Behold, what's it say?
I will do a new thing.
Now it shall spring forth.
In other words, even now it's beginning.
Shall you not know it?
I will even make a way in the
wilderness and rivers and the desert.
The beast of the field shall honor me,
the dragons in the isles, because I give
water in the wilderness and rivers in the
desert to drink, to give drink to my
people, my chosen.
As people have formed for myself, they shall
show forth my praise.
Look at verse 25.
I, even I, am he that blotteth out
thy transgressions.
Why?
For my own sake, and will not remember
thy sins.
My God, open our eyes and give us
a holy understanding.
We are living in days that are frightening
to the human flesh, but exciting to the
spirit of the living God that abides in
us.
God, open our understanding.
Come upon me, Holy Ghost, and deliver your
heart through me.
Sanctify this vessel that there would be no
controversy with God or the Holy Ghost, and
the word can come forth, Lord, with no
hindrances, and the blessing and the anointing of
Almighty God.
In Jesus' name I pray.
Amen.
I call this God's new thing, because that's
exactly what God calls it.
He said, I, behold, I will do a
new thing.
Then he goes on to promise, and now
it shall spring forth.
In other words, it's already happening.
Shall you not know it?
God won't do it without, he will not
hide what he is going to do.
God declares, there is none can deliver out
of my hand.
I will work, and who shall reverse it?
God said, when I decide to do something,
who's going to stop me?
Who can reverse what I promise to do?
Now, God is going to rise up, as
I said last Sunday, to defend his holy
name that's been defamed.
He's no longer going to allow his name
to be mocked.
He's not going to let men rob him
of his glory, and the glory of his
name.
For my own sake, even for my own
sake will I do it.
For how or why should my name be
profaned?
I will not give my glory to another.
Isaiah 48, 11.
Ezekiel 20, 14.
I will act for the sake of my
own name, that it shall not be profaned
in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel repeats it in verse 22.
In one chapter, he repeats it two times.
God's saying, I am going to act for
the sake of my own name.
Jeremiah understood there comes a time that God
has to act.
There comes a time that truth is so
cast into the mire, the commands of God
so mocked and ridiculed, and the holy name
of Christ, the holy name of the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, this great and mighty
name is so mocked and so ridiculed and
so cast out by society.
God says, I can't carry the pain any
longer, and God must act.
Very clearly, Jeremiah 14, 7.
O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us,
do thou it for thy own name's sake.
Our backslidings have been many.
We have sinned against thee.
Now, the new thing that God is going
to do, and is even now begun to
do, is going to outshine anything he's ever
done in the past.
It's going to outshine and be greater than
anything history has ever known.
Behold, the former things are come to pass,
and new things I now declare.
Before they spring forth, I tell you of
them.
He said, it's going to be so glorious,
you're going to have to have a new
song to sing.
I want you to go to Isaiah 42.
If you're in 43, just turn left, please,
to 42.
But God said he's going to come and
act suddenly because of the jealousy of his
name.
He's jealous over his name.
Chapter 42 of Isaiah.
And I want you to, you're going to
follow me through numbers of scriptures here this
morning.
Isaiah 42, verses 13 and 14.
Here's what he's going to do.
The Lord shall go forth as a mighty
man.
He shall stir up jealousy like a man
of war.
He shall cry, yea, roar.
He shall prevail against his enemies.
I have long time held my peace.
I've been still.
I've refrained myself.
But now will I cry like a traveling
woman.
I will destroy and devour at once.
God said, folks, I want you to hear
this very clearly from the prophet.
I've been silent for years.
I've taken it for years.
I've listened to this rebellion for years.
I have done nothing, but I refrained my
anger.
I allowed this to continue year after year.
I've been still.
But he said to Jeremiah, I'm going to
rise and I'm going to defend my name
now.
For my name's sake, I'm going to act
because they have polluted and profaned my name
long enough.
And God mentions to Jeremiah that his pain,
his pain would cause him to rise up
in the last day.
And this is exactly what I believe he's
doing.
I'm going to deal with those who profane
my holy name.
And folks, when God said he's going to
come forth and defend his name, I want
you to tell me where you find an
army that can stand against his jealousy.
Show me a judge that can stand against
his jealousy.
Show me a Supreme Court.
Show me any government.
Show me any power on the face of
the earth.
When God said I'm going to rise and
I'm going to act, show me anyone.
You talk about the Supreme Court of the
United States of Europe now.
You talk about the Supreme Court of the
United States who now is trying, really standing
with the homosexual agenda, making these rules.
They're taking to the Supreme Court now this
gentleman in Alabama who has a granite plaque
in front of the courthouse that has the
10 Commandments that have been there for 40
years.
And now the federal court has ruled to
take it away and he refuses.
But one of these days, God said, I'm
going to rise.
You think this judge is going to have
any power at that moment?
Does he have a voice?
God's going to take away the voice and
the power and the authority.
God's going to do something supernatural to defend
his holy name.
God declares wicked men will not stop my
people from praising me.
Now, all the major prophets saw this new
thing God was going to do.
They looked down into the future and they
saw the incarnation of Jesus Christ in human
flesh.
This was the new thing that the prophet
saw coming.
He would come and dwell in human flesh
and he would redeem mankind.
This was the primary goal.
This was the primary vision.
This is a dual prophecy, but the real
heart of the prophecy is the coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ to redeem men from
sin.
But also it says the Holy Spirit would
be a part of that new thing.
The Holy Spirit would come to undo men
with power to live the life that Christ
had supplied by his sacrifice.
But there was a dual prophecy.
Also, in the last days, God would initiate
something new.
His own initiative.
Not because people have prayed for it.
Now, we fast and pray, but folks, I'm
going to tell you, you need to change
the emphasis of our prayers and our fasting.
You know, if my people who call by
my name shall humble themselves and call me
Lord, I will hear their crying and heal
their land.
But folks, you've got to understand, we need
to change the concept of how we pray.
It's God, glorify your name on the earth.
Glorify the name of Jesus Christ.
Folks, this is all about the honor of
God.
This is about all the pain in the
heart of God and how this country and
the nations of the world, Islam and other
religions, and even in Protestantism now, how the
name of Christ is being dragged through the
mire and mud, cast into the streets, the
word of God rendered meaningless.
And this is all about the honor of
God's name.
He's not going to do it just for
the sake of His church.
He's not going to do it because we've
been faithful.
God says, no, I will do it to
defend my name for my name's sake.
I will arise and I will deal with
this.
Bible says, the anger of the Lord shall
not return or turn back.
In other words, God said, I've made up
my mind.
Nothing will stop me until He has executed,
until He has carried out the purposes of
His heart.
And in the latter days, you will fully
understand this.
In the last days, you will fully understand
this.
That's Jeremiah 32, 20.
This is all about the last days and
God rising up.
Zion is called to awaken and shake off
the heavy bands.
Psalms 92, rather, Isaiah 97, of the increase
of His government, there shall be no end.
You see, God is always increasing, increasing in
mercy, increasing in love and grace.
But He's also increasing in the jealousy for
His holy name.
And there comes a time when there comes
an end.
God's been patient up to this time because
of the harvest.
What a loving, patient God we have.
But you see, there's no end of the
increase of His government.
And because He increases in authority, because His
justice increases, there's always increasing of His government.
There comes a time when His government has
to say, enough, or there will be total
chaos.
It came during the flood, it came during
Sodom and Gomorrah, and there comes a time
God says, no, this is it.
The first manifestation of this new thing was
the coming of Jesus Christ, His birth, His
life, His death, and His resurrection.
But you see, in the last day now,
God said He's going to come, He's going
to rise up in jealousy over His house,
and He's going to cleanse His church.
He is going to cleanse His church.
Did you hear it?
He is going to cleanse His holy house.
Remember what Jesus did?
He went into the temple with a whip,
and He drove out the money chambers, and
He said, I'll only do what I see
my Father doing.
He saw how God finally, the Father says,
so far and no further.
They've turned my house of prayer into a
den of thieves.
Now go in, because this is who I
am, and this is how I act.
He said, I do what my Father, I
see my Father do.
Before I see what the Father is going
to do, the same thing He did through
Christ, His Son.
He's coming with His own whip to drive
out of the church the money changers.
Oh, thank God, many are going to be
convicted and saved and changed.
God, in His mercy, is going to take
some of those out of those false doctrines,
and take some of these false prophets, and
sanctify them, and give them an authority, and
they're going to be able to stand up
and say, I was there, and they're going
to expose their own doctrines that they once
pushed upon the body of Jesus Christ.
Daniel 8, chapter 14, verse, he was asked,
how long shall the sanctuary be trodden underfoot?
Daniel spoke of many, many days into the
future.
He says, the sanctuary will be cleansed.
Every prophet said the same thing.
Now, let me show you what I believe
is going to be the main work of
God's new thing.
What are we talking about?
I believe that God is going to do
something He has yearned to do, He has
longed to do.
He's made every effort to bring people into
this new thing.
It's really not a new thing.
It's an old thing that's never been claimed.
He's going to finally bring a people into
God's promised rest.
You see, when you get to Hebrews, you
read, there still remains a rest.
It was offered to the children of Israel,
and they refused it.
It was offered during the time of the
judges, and they refused it.
It was offered to the time of the
prophets, and it was refused.
It was offered in the time of Christ,
and the Bible says it was not mixed
with faith.
And the majority refused it, and only some
entered into that rest.
But I'm telling you now, God is not
coming for a church.
Jesus didn't build a church without a people
coming into the rest.
There will be a people before Jesus comes
that enters into the rest of God.
This is the purpose of God's new thing.
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people
of God.
But they did not enter in because of
unbelief.
So there still remains that some must enter
in.
Now here we come to the last of
the last days, and only a few.
And God says, this new thing I'm going
to do, I'm going to bring a people
into my rest.
The rest that he offered through Jesus Christ.
Now, we understand the foundation of this rest
is complete confidence in the finished work of
the cross.
We know that when you believe that Jesus
stays and keeps, and you're not living in
fear and bondage, but you're trusting in the
power of the blood.
That's what brings rest.
And rest is the evidence of faith.
It's the evidence.
The man who believes is going to have
a heart at rest.
But folks, I want to talk about the
practical side, the practical things that God wants
us to bring his body into inside this
framework of rest and what is described as
the rest of God.
First of all, he's going to purge out
of his sanctuary everything that is false.
I'm going to raise up shepherds after my
own heart.
Oh, folks, I see this all over the
country.
I see it here from young men that
are on their face.
They want nothing to do with the foolishness
and the hype that's in the church of
Jesus Christ today.
These young men are praying.
They are firebrands for God.
They're hearing and seeing truths and manifestations of
God's glory like I've never seen.
It's all over the world, even in Russia.
You meet young bishops on fire for God.
They're starting churches all over Russia.
I mean, they get people saved.
In six months, they send them out to
start another church.
And they are hearing from God and they're
seeing this new thing that God is doing.
The marvelous thing that God is doing all
over the world this very moment.
And the word is going to come forth
sharper than it's ever come.
It's going to come more convicting than it's
ever come, more piercing than it's ever come.
And it's through this piercing preaching of holy
men that God is raising up.
He's waking up grandfathers that once had the
touch of God.
They've gone in front of a television set
and lost the fire.
And the Holy Ghost is coming back saying,
I want you to rise up, get back
on your knees and be a testimony to
this generation.
And God is doing that now.
He's awakening old time men and women, mothers
of Zion, who've been wasting time in front
of a Babylonian idiot box.
And God is restoring them once again, awakening
their hearts.
Let's talk about the practical things he's going
to do.
First of all, he's going to bring people
into a rest whereby they no longer fear
man.
Any man.
Never fear man again.
Go to Isaiah 51, please.
Turn right.
Folks, I'm not preaching out of my own
head.
I'm giving you Bible.
Isaiah 51, verses 7 and 8 right now.
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the
people in whose heart is my law.
Fear ye not the reproach of men, neither
be afraid of their revilings.
For the moths shall eat them up like
a garment, the worms shall eat them like
wool.
But my righteousness shall be forever and my
salvation from generation to generation.
Look at verse 12 and 13.
I, even I, am he that comforteth you.
Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid
of a man that shall die?
Look, what kind of a believer are you?
What kind of training have you had?
Folks, if you've been coming to this church,
I'll ask you, who are you to fear
man?
Why are you afraid?
You've been, I mean, you've been grounded in
the word of God.
I boast not on my preaching, but I'll
boast what everything I've heard from men and
women of God in this pulpit.
Why are you afraid?
Of man that shall die and of the
son of man which shall be made as
grass.
Oh, these Supreme Court judges, it's grass.
God said it's all going to burn.
Why are you worried?
Why are you afraid?
And you forget the Lord thy maker and
has stretched forth, who stretched forth the heavens
and laid the foundation of the earth.
And you've continually, you feared continually every day
because of the fury of the oppressor as
if he were ready to destroy.
Where is the fury of the oppressor?
Oh, come on, folks.
Listen to the heart of God.
He said, who are you, my people, that
you should be afraid of all these revilings?
All of this spouting out, all of this,
all of this stuff that's coming out of
the hearts and lips of ungodly men.
Who are you that you should fear?
Why should you be afraid?
God says they're going to be eaten like
a moth.
There's going to be desolation.
God said he's coming out to despise everything
they say and I'll deal with it.
Fret not.
I'm reading from Psalm 37.
Fret not yourself because of evil doers.
Neither be thou envious against the workers of
iniquity, for they shall soon be cut down
like the grass and they're going to wither
like green herbs.
Fret not yourself because of him who brings
wicked devices to pass.
Fret not thyself because of evil men.
Neither be envious at the wicked.
Now, folks, that word envious is important.
Christian, listen to me.
That word means provoke.
Do not allow these things you see and
hear to provoke you.
And it means also don't provoke them.
Leave them alone.
Don't try to take wrath in your own
hands.
The wrath of men cannot accomplish the purposes
of God.
Leave them alone.
God said the day is going to come.
I will laugh at them.
Don't fret about it.
Don't let it in your spirit.
Don't let it get hold of you.
Oh, folks, I know.
David said, how long, Lord, shall the wicked
triumph?
How long shall they speak these hard things?
And all the workers of iniquity boast.
They break in pieces thy people, O Lord,
and they afflict thine heritage.
And what he's saying, Lord, all these things,
it breaks the heart of your people.
Sure, it breaks our heart.
Sure, it makes your spiritual blood boil.
You see the rampant in your face, militant
homosexuality.
You see the lewdness.
You see Hollywood mocking Christ.
You see all of the mockery.
You see the drunkenness.
You see the narcotizing of our society.
You see and hear all of these things
and it gets to you.
And God said, no, don't let it in
your spirit.
You're here to praise me.
Get into your heart.
They set their mouth against the heavens and
their tongue walks through the whole earth.
And the righteous say, does God know about
this?
That's in verse 11 of Psalm 73.
But God said, you're going to do a
new thing as in a dream when one
dreams.
So, oh, Lord, when you awake, you will
despise this, even their image.
How soon they're going to be brought to
desolation.
Let's take it a step further now.
This resting clue that God is bringing his
people into in this last hour includes no
fear of any calamity or any bad news.
No fear.
Scripture says those who are.
He's talking about the righteous.
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings.
That's bad news.
His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.
Oh, hallelujah.
I'm going to tell you something.
There are so many in this church doing
this blackout that have not one moment of
fear.
They weren't panicked like others.
For instance, your sister in this church, she
was stuck on an elevator for about two
hours with her two children.
And there was another lady in the elevator.
And that lady panicked.
That other lady panicked, literally panicked.
It's their sister in my church.
She's probably here this morning.
She just prayed, just said, Lord, this is
up to you.
Not afraid.
And some man walking by, there was no
superintendent, nobody in the building that could do
some man walking by told her later, he
just walked by and he thought there might
be somebody stuck in an elevator.
I better go and check.
And this man walked the street, walked in
and brought the elevator down and got her
out.
She shall not be afraid of evil tidings.
Her heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.
There's another lady.
I'm sure she's here this morning.
She'd been praying for a long time that
God, I don't know if she's in the
choir.
She'd been praying for a long time.
This story was brought to me a long
time.
She'd been so busy, Lord, I need some
quiet time with you.
I need some quiet time with you.
She's in her apartment, the lights go out.
No radio, no nothing.
So for the next five hours.
Hallelujah.
She said, thank you, Jesus, for the time
alone with you.
She had all night.
And outside everybody's running around sucking beer and
getting drunk and wondering what's going to happen
next and full of fear and anxiety.
And a little lady is sitting in her
apartment saying, thank you, Jesus.
That's what the Holy Ghost is trying to
tell us.
That's the rest of God.
Oh, hallelujah.
Furthermore, those who are going to be brought
into the rest are going to be infused
with a militant faith.
I mean, a militant faith.
I want to tell you something, and I
believe with all my heart.
Jesus is not coming back for a passive,
lazy, beaten-down church.
He's not coming back for that kind of
body.
Luke 18, 8, Jesus said, when the Son
of Man cometh, shall he find faith on
the earth?
Now, it doesn't say, Jesus didn't say, when
I come, I will not find faith.
He just asked a question, will I find
faith?
My answer, yes, yes, yes.
You will find faith because God's going to
see to it.
That's part of the new thing he's going
to do.
He's going to infuse a militant faith in
those who seek him, in a holy remnant.
And that's going to be a great multitude
worldwide.
You put his remnant together in China and
in India and Africa, United States and in
Russia, I mean, they have millions now turning
to Jesus in China.
And you put that holy remnant together, you're
going to have a multitude which no man
can number, infused with a militant faith.
God's going to cause it to happen.
Now, it might be hard for some of
you.
He's a sovereign God, but God says, I
will cause you to walk in my ways.
That's the new covenant.
I will give you a new heart.
That's the covenant.
But he says he's going to cause this
great infusion of faith.
It's going to be something he initiates, something
he chooses to do.
He's going to baptize this last generation with
faith like no other generation has known.
And we're going to have warriors that are
not overcomings, but more than overcomers that are
going to use the weapons that are not
carnal, but mighty through God and pulling down
strongholds.
Here it is.
God shall cause, Isaiah 61, 11.
God shall cause righteousness and praise to spring
forth before all the nations.
There's a spring going to come up.
You know, the Holy Ghost in us is
a spring of living water.
He's going to come forth with a spirit
of faith, a militant faith.
That doesn't mean it's not in your face.
It's not following the agendas of this world,
but it's those who are going to have
faith for nations to be saved, even nations.
This, I want you to listen to this,
please.
Isaiah 48, go to 48, six and seven.
I want you to see it in black
and white.
Start in verse six, Isaiah 48, thou hast
heard, see all this.
And let's see if I have the right
verse here.
Isaiah 48, six and seven.
Yes.
Thou hast heard, see all this, and will
not ye declare it?
I've showed thee new things from this time,
even hidden things, and thou didst not know
them.
They are created now and not from the
beginning, even before the day when thou heardest
them not, lest thou shouldst say, behold, I
heard them.
Yea, thou heardest not, yea, thou knowest not.
You see, the ear has to be open
from that time that thine ear was not
open.
Now, listen to me, please.
God said, I'm showing new things from this
time, even this time, hidden time.
I'm not preaching some new doctrine.
I'm preaching something old that's in there that's
been hidden.
And God says, I'm going to bring it
out.
I'm going to bring it out.
Now, if you will look at verses three
and five, I have declared the former things
from the beginning, and they went forth out
of my mouth, and I showed them.
I did them suddenly, and they came to
pass.
Verse five, I have, even from the beginning,
declared it to you.
Before it came to pass, I showed it
thee, lest thou shouldst say, mine idol hath
done it, my graven image, my molten image
hath commanded it.
God says, the old things, everything I promised
you, suddenly I did it.
He said, now I'm telling you, that's the
past.
Now, I'm going to tell you now something
hidden, something new you haven't heard from before.
He said, I'm telling you now.
Now, he's talking, of course, about the incarnation
of Christ.
He's talking about Jesus Christ first and primarily.
But he's also talking about what happens at
the end of the last days.
That was the beginning of the last days.
At the final end of the last days,
I believe this with all of my heart.
And there are other proof scriptures for it,
because he said, this you will understand in
the last days.
I declare it, showing you new things from
this time, hidden things that you did not
know.
They are created now and not from the
beginning.
God said, I'm going to create something new.
This is a creation.
Faith will be created.
A creation and a fusion of faith in
the body of Jesus Christ in the last
days.
Hallelujah.
I searched through my commentaries on these verses
and not one commentary had made any sense
on this.
They just, they could not see it.
But not one of them could refute what
I'm telling you now, that this refers to
the end times.
Not one of them.
This new infusion of faith into the hearts
of the righteous has to do with trusting
in the strong arm of God.
Trusting in the strong arm of God.
The arm of God means power, might and
strength.
Isaiah 5210, the Lord hath made bear his
holy arm in the eyes of all nations
and all the ends of the earth shall
see the salvation of our God.
Isaiah 515, my righteousness is near, my salvation
has gone forth, my arms shall judge the
people, the isles shall wait upon me.
Listen to this, and on my arm shall
they trust.
On my power, my might, on what I
initiate simply because I defend my own name.
My people will trust for things that they
could have never conceived they would trust for
before.
Now, folks, I believe that has to do
with the saving of entire nations.
That doesn't mean that I believe or we're
going to have the kind of faith we
say everybody in the nation is going to
be saved.
But this church, there's evidence of what I'm
talking about breaking out in this church body
right here.
And not only here, but all over the
world, especially in China.
Faith now, you go out and look at
all of those hundreds and even thousands of
pins on those boards with all the nations
there on those boards, the little red pins
where people are praying for nations and praying
with faith now, praying, God, tear down the
ruling power.
And I'm telling you right now, Islam is
in danger, in great danger.
God is raising up people now with faith
to believe.
No more cowering behind and saying Islam is
taking power, not afraid of terrorism, not afraid
of anything that Islam can bring upon the
world or this nation.
No, no, no.
Because there's a militant faith now arising.
We believe that God can bring down Islamic
power on any nation on the face of
the earth.
But God needs his people.
God needs his people to believe him and
to pray it to pass.
Pray that God will honor his name through
this.
Isaiah 30, 30.
And the Lord shall rise.
The Lord shall cause his glorious voice to
be heard.
He shall show the lightning down of his
arm with indignation of his anger and the
flame of divine fire and scattering the tempest
and hailstone.
Folks, she said, I'm going to come as
lightning and I'm going to deal with it
that quickly.
Folks, do you remember how quickly the iron
curtain came down?
I mean, it happened in one week.
Suddenly it was down.
I mean, they had axes, they were hammers.
People were hammering and the gates were thrown
open and the great gates were torn down
and burned.
The bamboo curtain is falling left and right
because the lightning arm of God, the lightning
strength and power of God is moving all
over the world.
Hallelujah.
There are literally millions being saved in China.
Russia is wide open to the gospel.
The gospel has been preaching all over.
It's been preached in Siberia.
And in fact, we have a church in
Siberia that we're sponsoring and God's moving in
Mongolian now.
This church prayed for so long for Mongolia
and God has raised up his jealousy.
And he said, no longer will they keep
me out.
Folks, the gospel is being opened to every
nation on the face of the earth.
In Pakistan this past year, an American evangelist
had 50,000, 50,000 people came to
hear the gospel in one meeting.
And Islam couldn't stop it.
The government couldn't stop it.
We now are sending advanced teams into Tajikistan
and Uzbekistan.
We are planning a crusade in Uzbekistan, the
Lord willing, and we're inviting them in from
Tajikistan and all the stands all around it,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and all the stands.
They're coming from all over.
First time in history.
And they tell us we're going to have
no less than 5,000.
And for that, folks, that's just the beginning.
God is raising up an army, a militant
army of faith as the world has never
before seen.
This, folks, how does God glorify his name?
He does it through people.
He does it through those who are not
afraid of the devil, afraid of man, afraid
of calamity, and people who are walking in
faith, believing that God can do all things.
That is the man.
That is a woman who glorifies God on
the face of the earth.
Hallelujah.
God will deal with the judges.
He'll deal with others.
But in the meanwhile, he's going to raise
up these people with power and authority.
Finally, the Lord's going to bring his people
into rest by bringing divine order into individual
lives and into our homes.
Folks, the devil has been unchallenged long enough.
Folks, it's time that this chaos in the
Christian family and individual Christians has to stop.
For too long, he's allowed unchallenged to come
and bring depression, fear, and anxiety.
He has come to try to destroy marriages.
He's come to try to take away your
children and destroy the destroyer.
But God is rising now.
And he said, now you wake up, O
Zion.
You wake up and you take authority now
in Jesus' name.
Take authority in the name of Jesus Christ
over all the power of the enemy, because
God is moving.
Some of you are here today, and you
are really going through the harassment of your
lifetime.
But he says, come unto me and I
will answer thee.
Show you great and mighty things which thou
knewest not.
Behold, I will bring you health and cure.
I will cure you and reveal unto you
the abundance of peace and truth.
I will cleanse you from all your iniquities
whereby you have sinned against me.
I don't know about you, but God's been
speaking to my heart and saying, I have
to take a stand.
The devil tries to keep me from this
pulpit.
He tries to keep me from going to
ministers' conferences all over the world by bringing
afflictions on my family.
Terrible afflictions.
It doesn't mean that my wife or my
children are not living.
They are seeking the face of God.
Gwen is in the word of God and
in prayer every day.
But these terrible afflictions that come.
Where the enemy just tries to come into
the house and just knock over somebody, knock
them down.
Literally, tripping and wounding them.
God said, take a stand now.
The enemy knows his time is short.
And he's coming to try to destroy.
But you have to take a stand now
because God said, I'm going to take control.
God has everything under control.
He wants to bring divine order.
I'm going to close with this.
There's an old song that goes something like
this.
When the saints go marching in.
Well, let me tell you how the devil
pictures it.
The devil pictures the saints, the trumpet is
sounding, here come the saints of God, crawling
and tripping into the kingdom of God, weak
and discouraged and downcast.
That's not what my Bible says.
That's not what the Bible says.
My Bible says we're going to come dancing
into the house of God.
Hallelujah.
We're going to come waving our hands.
Stand and praise him.
Let's just stand and praise him.
Lord, we're come marching in with glory, overcomers,
more than conquerors, more than conquerors.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
Hallelujah.
I'm just standing here picturing that, looking at
that picture.
Pastor Neil's trying to outrun me.
Pastor Carter's arm in arm, and we are
shouting, we're singing majesty, worship his majesty.
No, folks, I'm not crawling in more than
conquerors.
And we sing majesty, worship his majesty.
I think this is the kind of song
we'll be singing as we come marching into
the throne presence of our holy God, who's
all conquered.
Folks, don't worry.
Don't you worry, they say.
My Italian friends, don't you worry.
No, he sits king of the flood.
All things are under control.
Don't let it in your spirit.
Just trust him now.
Do you feel something new moving in your
heart?
Truly, we are in the last days, the
last of the last days.
And folks, we can already see the lights
of glory.
There's a drawing.
There's a power.
There's something happening in the hearts of God's
people.
But tragically, there are some of you here
this morning.
You don't have that rejoicing spirit.
And the enemy has tried to agitate or
rob you of your faith.
I'm going to open the altar for those
who are honest enough to say, Pastor David,
my faith is being tested as it's never
been tested in all of my Christian lifetime.
Now, you may not even be a believer.
Maybe you've run from God.
I'm going to open the altar for those
who have drifted away from the Lord and
those who want to receive Christ as Lord
and Savior.
But if you say, Pastor David, today, this
day, this past week, I have my faith
has been absolutely shaken.
You can come.
I opened the altar to you this morning
up in the balcony, go to the stairs
and the other side here in the main
auditorium and all.
If God's speaking to you by the Holy
Spirit, you need to get something right with
God.
If there's been something in your life hindering
you from coming into the fullness of Christ,
you've been hindered, there's something blocking.
Maybe you know it's a controversy, God has
it, because you will not lay something down
that he's been calling upon you to yield.
You're invited to come.
I want everybody that came forward to raise
both hands.
Bible said, would men lift holy hands?
The holy hands only through the blood of
Christ.
But I want you to pray this prayer
right out of your heart.
Lord Jesus.
Loud and clear.
Lord Jesus.
I come to you now.
Fill me with faith and confidence.
Forgive my unbelief.
Forgive my sins.
I come because I need you.
I love you.
I desire you.
And I want to believe you now.
Oh, Jesus.
Use my life and touch me today more
than you've ever touched me.
I believe you, Lord, with all my heart,
that today is my day.
A fresh touch, a lasting touch.
I give you thanks.
With your own voice, praise him now.
Just praise him, Lord.
I give you praise and thanksgiving and worship.
Glory be to your holy name.
Glory be to your precious name.
Hallelujah.
It doesn't take God long when your heart
is ready.
When your heart is open, it doesn't take
God long.
He comes immediately.
He said, I come suddenly and quickly into
your heart and make changes.
The Lord is with you.
How many believe God's with you right now?
The Lord is with you.
He is with you now.
He did not forsake you.
He said, I'll go with you to the
ends of the world.
God bless you.
This is the conclusion of the message.