If you would turn to the letter of
the Romans, Paul's letter to the church at
Rome.
Paul, of course you know, was a Jew,
took the gospel to Europe.
There was this church in Rome which had
Jews and Gentiles in it.
And he longed to go there, and he
did get there one day.
And so he wrote to them, and in
Romans chapter 11, the Lord had given him
revelation how the church, the body of Messiah,
was Jews and Gentiles together.
That's the way it began, and I believe
this is the way it's the culmination of
the end of the ages.
It's going to be restored.
It's happening.
So as he writes to these Jews and
Gentiles, he explains to them that there are
two olive trees.
One is the natural olive tree of the
Jews, and one is the wild olive tree
of the Gentiles.
And so he explains that in Romans chapter
11.
And he says in Romans chapter 11, verse
23, And they also, meaning the Jews, if
they do not continue in unbelief, will be
grafted in, for God is able to graft
them in again.
What he's saying is, the Jewish branches of
the olive tree were broken off and died.
They're like dead branches in the desert.
But wild olive branches, Gentiles, were cut out
of their tree and were circumcised, if you
will, and inserted and grafted into the olive
tree of Israel.
And they received from the roots, the patriarchs,
the Bible, the Word of God, the covenants,
and most of all, Jesus, the root and
offspring of David.
But then he says, don't be arrogant toward
these dead branches, because God can take these
dead Jewish branches and graft them back into
their own tree.
Now that's a miracle.
You can't do that.
You could cut up a wild olive tree,
and if you're careful, insert it in a
tree, and it can get some sap and
it can get some life.
But you can't take a dead branch and
put it back in a tree.
And he says, God is able.
And what I want to talk to you
tonight is about is God is able.
Whatever is happening to you, whatever is happening
in America, whatever is happening in Israel, whatever
is happening in the Middle East, God is
able.
Hallelujah.
Lord, I ask you to take this word
and put it in our hearts.
Lord, help us embrace this word and walk
in it.
You are able.
I'm here to testify that God is able.
If he can put a dead branch in
a tree and bring it back to life,
he can do miracles in your life.
He can bring your dead children that don't
know the Lord back to life.
He's able to do it.
He can heal your marriage.
He can give you a job.
He is able.
If you will walk with him.
Now, we've been gone almost 20 years.
It's amazing.
Karen and I were talking.
Pastor David Wilkerson prayed over us right here
20 years ago in 1989.
And he said over us, we would be
the first fruits, Karen and myself.
And the gospel was to the Jew first.
And that this congregation would honor Israel.
And so we went to Israel.
But he said, and this congregation will be
ascending church.
Now, I want to tell you something.
That word has been fulfilled a hundred times
over.
There are ministries that have been come forth
from this church that have gone all over
the world.
Praise, praise.
God is able.
I'm telling you, God is able.
Now, in 1989, when we moved to Israel,
right after that, as we became citizens of
Israel, the Soviet Union collapsed.
And people had said, communism will last 500
years.
Well, it was 70 years.
The time was up.
And the Soviet Union just collapsed.
And I knew friends that had walked around
the Kremlin and prophesied, wrote a book about
it called Exodus 2, that this was going
to happen.
Because all these Russian Jews were going to
come back to Israel because the Bible says
he'll bring them back from the north.
And they're going to meet him on the
mountains of Israel.
So we knew it was going to happen
because it's written.
Karen's grandparents fled the persecution in Russia in
the beginning of the 20th century.
That's why they came to America.
The Jews were persecuted in Russia and the
Ukraine.
And all of a sudden it collapsed.
The doors were wide open and all these
Jews started fleeing.
And all they had was plastic bags and
their belongings in them.
And they came into the port of Haifa
where we had moved into an old deserted
building and were living up on the top
floor of this building.
And we had been sent to start a
rehabilitation center to Jews and Arabs.
And when we got there, the Arab pastor
says, you can't work with both.
I said, I know I can't, but God
is able.
The Jewish pastor said, you can't work with
Jews and Arabs.
You have to choose one or the other.
I said, I know I can't, but God
is able.
I don't believe in the wisdom of men
anymore.
I believe in the power of God.
And he said, he broke down the wall
of division between Jews and Arabs and Jews
and Gentiles on the cross and created in
himself one new man putting to death the
hatred to become a dwelling place for God
and the Spirit.
It's Ephesians chapter 2.
It's right in the New Testament.
So as we moved into this old place,
all these Russian speakers were coming.
We became citizens, so we came back to
New York to ship our furniture.
We had an apartment in Greenwich Village we
were giving up to ship our furniture to
Haifa.
And we believed we were going to get
that big old building, which was deserted, and
we were living in it.
And the place was overrun, the weeds all
over the place, and the plaster was falling
off, it was dilapidated.
But the Lord has spoken to us that
he would give us that building to start
the rehabilitation center.
So we're back here at Times Square Church.
The Gulf War was approaching.
Desert Storm.
The Allies were about to go into Kuwait
and drive Saddam Hussein and his army out
of Kuwait.
They had invaded Kuwait, they were raping all
the women, they were throwing the babies out
of the windows of the hospitals, and it
was horrible what was going on.
And as the Americans were approaching and getting
ready to attack, and the Gulf War was
about to happen, we were back here shipping
our furniture to Haifa.
And we had a round-trip ticket on
TWA.
TWA and all the other airlines canceled their
flights to Israel, because the war was about
to start.
So there were no flights.
So we were with Pastor David, and I
said, we've got to get back there.
He said, do you have disciples there?
And I said, yeah, we have a Bible
study, young guys who want to work with
drug addicts and so on.
And he said, well, let's pray.
And he said, Lord, make a way for
them.
So I called El Al, and they said,
no, no, no, there aren't any seats.
So I went over to Rockefeller Center, and
all the Israelis, see, every Israeli is in
the army until they're in the reserves until
he's 40 years old.
So if you're traveling somewhere in America, a
war is about to start, you go home
and get in the army.
And so everybody was packed in there trying
to get back to Israel.
So I go into the El Al office,
and I finally get to the front, and
I said to the lady, I need two
seats to Tel Aviv.
She says, there aren't any.
I said, will you look in your computer?
She said, listen, there are no seats.
I said, just please look, will you?
She said, oh, wow, there's two seats there
in the back of the airplane tonight.
We were on the plane, hallelujah.
Look, God is able.
So we got back there, three o'clock
in the morning that night, we're living in
this old building that's falling apart.
We're up on the top floor, and the
air raid siren goes off in Haifa, and
we're on Mount Carmel overlooking the port city
of Haifa.
The air raid siren goes off.
We jump out of bed.
We put our sneakers on.
We're running through the night trying to put
our gas mask on, and the first missile,
the first Scud missile from Saddam Hussein hits
Haifa, and there's this tremendous explosion, and the
mountain shakes, and we almost fall down.
We didn't have our masks on yet.
If it was gas, we were in trouble.
So I screamed to Karen, run.
We ran, and before we could get to
our bomb shelter, the next rocket hit.
The next missile hit.
Boom.
The port, you could see, lit up like
noonday.
We got in there, and we prayed all
night, and in the morning we listened.
We heard the birds were singing, so we
knew it wasn't gas.
Hallelujah.
So we came out of the bomb shelter,
and we looked at the port, and the
most beautiful rainbow I ever saw came up
over Haifa Bay, and the Lord watched over
us.
We found out just recently, because the information
has been declassified, that first Scud that hit
Haifa missed the major oil storage area of
the port by 50 yards.
The whole port would have gone up.
Listen, God is able.
Amen.
God is able.
Whatever hard times you might be going through,
when you walk with Him, when you hear
His voice, when you walk in it, when
you're humble and obedient and you trust Him,
He will take you through.
Hallelujah.
Now, turn to Jeremiah chapter 1 for a
moment.
Jeremiah, the first chapter.
Karen and I have moved to Israel.
We're living in this old building.
We don't have a car.
We don't have a fax machine.
I didn't even know what a computer was.
And we didn't have much money.
But the Lord was speaking to us about
this building, and He was going to start
this work for Arabs and Jews when everybody
was telling us that we couldn't do it.
Jeremiah chapter 1, verse 11.
Moreover, the word of the Lord came to
me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see?
And I said, I see the branch of
an almond tree.
Then the Lord said to me, You have
seen well, for I am ready to perform
my word.
Five o'clock in the morning, I'm reading
this word.
It's dark.
I'm living up on the top of Mount
Carmel in this old building, just Karen and
myself alone in this big old building, three,
four stories high and so on.
And I read this word, and as the
light comes up, the sun comes up, I'm
looking at Mount Carmel.
The building is built into Mount Carmel, and
there are trees all around it.
And as I look out the window, this
tree, the light comes up, and there are
white blossoms all over the tree, this tall
tree.
And they weren't there the day before.
And I'm looking at this tree going, what
is that?
And I didn't know what it was.
And a young Arab that was going to
work with us, who's a pastor now, he
came over to see me that morning, and
I said, Joseph, come on out back here.
What is that tree there?
He said, that's an almond tree.
I had just read this.
God is watching over his word to perform
it.
It was a sign to me that we
were exactly in the right place, because God
is able, amen?
The word in Hebrew, it's a play on
words, almond and watch.
It's the same word, actually, it's the same
root.
And in Israel, we call it the watcher.
It's the first tree that blooms in February.
They all just bloomed recently, before we came
here, white almond trees.
So the Lord will speak to you, and
in the midst of a war, this was
in the midst of the Gulf War.
The Russians were coming, they were terrified now,
because Saddam Hussein was firing the rockets, they
were coming into the port.
I mean, it was a spiritual war and
a physical war, and we were right in
the middle of it on Mount Carmel.
But I want to tell you, God is
able.
If you will trust Him in the midst
of your difficulties, if you will trust Him
in the midst of whatever you're going through,
He will bring His people through.
Hallelujah.
God did it over and over and over
again with us in those early days.
Now, turn to 1 Kings chapter 18, chapter
17.
If you have your Bible, if you don't,
I'll read it with you.
1 Kings chapter 17, verse 9.
Elijah is at the brook.
The raven has been bringing food to him
for a year.
He's been drinking at the brook, spending time
with the Lord.
There's a drought that he has prophesied.
There's famine all over the land.
Jezebel is looking for him to kill him.
Ahab's army is trying to find him to
kill him.
And Elijah is sitting there alone with the
Lord and seeking the Lord.
And the Lord finally speaks to him and
says, verse 9, this is 1 Kings 17,
9, Arise, go to Seraphat, which belongs to
Sidon, and dwell there.
See, I have commanded a widow there to
provide for you.
Seraphat means refining.
God says to His Jewish prophet, I'm going
to refine you a little bit, prophet.
I want you to get up and go
to a heathen widow.
In Seraphat, Jezebel's hometown, the last place on
earth he wanted to go.
Yeah.
Well, look what this prophet did.
He arose and he went.
Brothers and sisters, if you want to move
in the spirit and power of Elijah, you
hear the word of the Lord no bad.
It's simple.
It's instant obedience.
And he went.
And God had commanded a heathen widow to
provide for the Jewish prophet who had prophesied
the drought.
What a mighty God we serve.
I don't know how he spoke to her,
but he did.
I think she was a God seeker.
She was crying out to God, probably.
So I don't know how he got there
without them catching him.
He must have traveled at night.
Look, there was no food.
It was a famine.
There was no rain.
It was an economic disaster.
And Elijah, the prophet, is going to Seraphat.
He gets there and he comes into this
heathen town.
It was the occult center of the Middle
East.
They were doing all kinds of horrible things
there.
And here comes this Jewish prophet into the
town.
And look what happens.
He rose and he went.
Verse 10.
And when he came to the gate of
the city, indeed a widow was there gathering
sticks.
And he called to her and said, Please
bring me a little water and a cup
that I may drink.
And as she was going to get it,
he called her and said, Please bring me
a morsel of bread in your hand.
Verse 12.
So she said, As the Lord your God
lives, I do not have any bread, only
a handful of flour in a bin and
a little oil in a jar.
And see, I'm gathering a couple of sticks
that I may go in and prepare for
myself and my son that we may eat
it and die.
She was about to eat her last little
morsel of food and then lay down on
her bed with her boy in this famine,
in this economic collapse, in this drought, and
die.
And Elijah says, Give it to me.
Now, why did he do that?
That's not a very nice way to treat
a widow.
Because God had told him, I have commanded
her.
Listen, he obeyed the word of the Lord.
Most of us never would have gone to
Tzeraphat.
We would have said, God, I don't think
I heard you right.
I don't want to go up there.
So look what she does.
This lady, this widow.
Verse 13.
Elijah said to her, Don't fear.
Don't fear.
She's about to die.
And he says, Don't fear.
Because he knows what the Lord has told
him.
Go and do as you have said, but
make me a little small cake from it
first and bring it to me and afterwards
make some for yourself and your son.
Now, this lady, most widows probably would have
said, What kind of a man are you?
But look what she did.
Elijah said to her, Don't fear.
Verse 14.
For thus says the Lord God of Israel.
He had a word from the Lord.
The bin of flour shall not be used
up, nor shall the jar of oil run
dry until the day the Lord sends rain
on the earth.
So she went away and did according.
She obeyed him.
She did it.
She went and made this little cake of
food with oil and a little meal and
gave it to him.
And look what happens.
She went away and did it according to
the word of the Lord.
Word of Elijah.
Verse 15.
And she and her household ate for many
days.
The bin of flour was not used up,
nor did the jar of oil run dry
according to the word of the Lord, which
he spoke by Elijah.
Brothers and sisters, when there are hard times,
those who consider the poor, blessed are those
who consider the poor.
They will be blessed on the earth.
It's Psalm 42.
When you give, when you care about other
people, God's economy kicks in.
He multiplies it.
Get our eyes off of our own problems.
This scripture here that the bin would not
ever dry up, this is what kept us
through the Gulf War.
We started bringing drug addicts in just as
the war was over, and we didn't have
any money, and food started to come, and
people brought us food, and somebody from Switzerland
emailed and said, we'll send you $10,000.
I only met him once.
Some people from Holland showed up and said,
we're going to do a video thing about
what's Jews and Arabs here, and they sent
us two Volkswagen.
All this stuff started coming in, and all
these Jews and Arabs were coming to the
Lord.
But look, listen, God is able.
Look, we're in a drought in Israel right
now.
It's the worst drought in our recorded history.
Our land's under judgment.
We don't even have a government.
We just had an election, and nobody can
figure out who won yet.
Maybe we're better off.
I don't know.
The government is on his shoulders.
Amen?
Now, listen to me.
The bin of flour shall not be used
up, nor shall the jar of oil run
dry until the day the Lord sends rain
on the earth.
God will take you through this season of
what's happening in America, and he will take
us through Israel.
If we will trust in him, and if
we will be generous and reach out to
other people, he will care for his people.
Even though it may not make any sense,
that widow gave it to him.
And look what happened.
We're talking about her thousands of years later.
And he raised her son from the dead.
Hallelujah.
God is able to do it.
Over and over and over again.
I have seen him work miraculously.
After our congregation was born, he gave us
the building I'm talking to you about.
We've had it for 18 years.
Hundreds of drug addicts, alcoholics, Arabs and Jews
and Russians.
The place is filled tonight.
It's just gone on and on and on.
A congregation was born there.
At the end of the Gulf War, the
first Gulf War, 1990, do you know that
it ended on the day of Purim?
The Jews are celebrating Purim tonight.
This is the biblical holiday of Purim.
Purim is the story of Esther.
Do you know what happened at the end
of the Gulf War?
See, Pharaoh couldn't destroy the Jews.
Herod couldn't destroy the Jews.
Haman couldn't destroy the Jews.
Hitler couldn't destroy the Jews.
And neither could Saddam Hussein, and neither could
any other tyrant.
Because God's Word stands.
He is able to graft them in again.
And he's doing it.
He is able.
Hallelujah.
At the end of the first Gulf War,
the kids were going back to school and
celebrating Purim.
Everybody dresses up like Esther in Mordecai.
Nobody dresses like Haman.
We always do a production with our kids.
Last Shabbat, we did it on Mount Carmel.
Some kid plays Haman, and everybody boos him
when he comes in, and all that.
But I go up on the promenade where
I live, Mount Carmel, overlooking Haifa and Galilee,
and there's Lebanon.
The mothers are taking the children to school,
and the little girls are dressed like Queen
Esther, and they have their gas mask over
their shoulder.
And the little boys are dressed like Mordecai.
You know, they have a sword and so
on, and he will bow down to the
bad guy.
And they're all dressed up, and they go
and read the book of Esther about the
deliverance of the Jews supernaturally because some people
prayed.
Because Esther fasted and prayed.
Hallelujah.
And to me, the Lord was speaking to
me that He's watching over Israel because they've
returned in unbelief, and we need to stand
and cry out and pray.
Like Elijah prayed, turn their hearts to You,
O Lord.
And it's happening.
Do you know, somebody gave me a book
not long ago.
It's a wonderful book in many ways.
It's not written by a believer, but it's
a history of America's involvement in the Middle
East.
And I didn't know it, but it goes
all the way back to right after the
Revolutionary War at the time of Thomas Jefferson.
All these Americans started to go to what
was then the Ottoman Empire.
It was the Turkish Empire, the Ottoman Empire
from what is today Turkey.
It wasn't called Turkey in those days.
And it was all Muslims everywhere.
The Holy Land, you know, Egypt, what is
today Lebanon.
It wasn't Lebanon then.
Syria, Jordan.
There was no Jordan then and so on.
And so for 400 years, the Muslims had
control of that whole place we call the
Middle East.
But after the Revolutionary War, all of these
believers started being sent from America because they
were restorationists.
They read the Bible and they saw that
the Jews were going to be restored to
their land and meet the Messiah and then
He was coming back.
So they saw this was starting to happen.
So all these people went.
They went to Jerusalem.
They went to Jaffa.
And you know what happened?
They didn't see any fruit.
Muslims didn't come to the Lord.
Jews weren't interested.
A lot of these people died there.
Their children are buried there.
They were in Jaffa.
They were in Jerusalem.
They went to what is now Istanbul and
Damascus.
Muslims killed them.
Some of them were beheaded and so on.
Sometimes the Muslims were nicer to them.
They established schools in what became Lebanon and
Egypt.
But it was a movement of the restorationist
movement.
It was a movement of Bible believers and
presidents of America were involved in it.
Theodore Roosevelt was supporting it.
Woodrow Wilson was supporting it.
Harry Truman supported it.
They were all Bible believers, these presidents, that
saw that God had these purposes for the
Jews.
So when we came to Haifa and we
got this old building, I found out the
history of it.
Believers from England had built that building at
the beginning of the 20th century.
It was a medical mission.
A doctor had lived there for 50 years,
named Dr. Churcher, and they never saw Muslims
or Jews come to the Lord.
There was no fruit.
So we move in.
The place is run down.
There are wonderful fruit trees all over the
grounds, but they were all kind of the
fruit falling off.
Nobody was taking care of them.
There's grapefruit trees there and fig trees there
and almond trees.
And so we move into this place and
I realize we are in the footprints of
these people that went before us and we're
walking in to reap what they sowed.
And I had such a gratification in my
heart that this was so holy, what we
were about to do.
So as we came in there and all
of this was happening, guess what started to
happen?
The Russian wave hit and all these people
started getting saved.
God is able to graft them in again.
It's now.
It wasn't 50 years ago.
It is now.
It is happening now.
It's the prophetic event of our time.
They are going to turn to the Lord.
The gospel is going to go to the
ends of the earth and He's coming back.
Hallelujah.
Praise God.
Now, if you would, please turn to Romans
4.
Romans 4.
Romans 4, verse 17.
The last sentence of the verse.
He gives life to the dead and calls
those things which do not exist as though
they did.
When we moved to Haifa, when we moved
to Mount Carmel, I was invited to speak
in all the congregations in northern Israel.
Arabs and Jews.
And I had this word that God was
going to bring into existence what doesn't exist.
And there was a lot of skepticism.
God calls into being that which does not
exist.
He's talking about Abraham and Sarah, of course.
And as I went into these congregations, these
pastors, they were discouraged.
They were beaten down.
They were saying, Oh, you're an American.
You'll leave in a year.
You know, they come and go.
And there's a bronze heaven and nothing's happening
here.
And it's all depressing.
And Karen and I would go back to
the old building where we were living on
the top floor.
We'd break off unbelief and we'd break off
doubt.
We'd say, Lord, you said it.
We know you're going to do it.
You know what's happening now?
We built our building up on the top
of the mountain.
Some of you came over and helped us
build it.
Praise God.
It was the first indigenous building owned by
indigenous believers since the book of Acts.
And we didn't know it.
We sent out 10 families.
They have a building.
They sent out some families.
They got a building.
Arab congregations have buildings.
Our Arab congregation, the pastor that we trained,
is on our worship team.
He now pastors an Arab congregation in Haifa.
They got a building.
And it's the largest meeting place for Arabs
in Israel.
And all across Galilee, God has called into
being that which did not exist because he
is able to graft them in again.
God is able.
If you will trust him in your circumstances.
Yes, the circumstances are hard.
I don't like running from missiles.
I don't like running into the bomb shelter
10 times a day when Hezbollah was firing
all those rockets at us 3 years ago.
I don't like doing it.
But listen to me.
God is able.
And in the midst of it, we go
into the bomb shelters with Bibles and food.
We preach the gospel to the Russians that
are terrified in the bomb shelters.
God is...
The enemy is trying to stop what God
is doing.
But whatever you are going through, I'm telling
you tonight, God is able to take you
through.
If you will trust Him.
Verse 19.
And not being weak in faith about Abraham,
he didn't consider his own body already dead
since he was about 100 years old and
the deadness of Sarah's wombs.
He didn't waver at the promise of God
through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith.
My brothers and sisters, the man was 100
years old.
His wife's womb was dead.
And he believed.
And she got pregnant.
Can you imagine what the neighbor said?
And he said, God is able.
Hallelujah.
And Isaac was born.
And Jacob was born.
And Judah was born.
And we're celebrating the line of the tribe
of Judah tonight.
Hallelujah.
God is able.
We don't waver in unbelief.
We stand on His word.
We believe it.
He watches over it to perform it.
It's supernatural.
You just have to believe.
It's just faith.
Not faith in faith.
Faith in Him.
He's the author and the finisher of our
faith.
Hallelujah.
Now look what he says here.
Verse...
I love this.
He didn't waver.
Verse 20.
He didn't waver at the promise of God.
We would have wavered.
Can you imagine?
I would have come in the tent and
said, He said, We're going to have a
baby.
I'm not going to ask you what you
would have said.
Well, she laughed behind the door.
You remember?
But she was laughing when that baby was
born.
I named him Isaac.
It means laughter.
Hallelujah.
The promise came.
He did not waver at the promise through
unbelief, but was strengthened, was empowered in faith.
God wants to empower your faith.
If you will trust Him, if you will
believe His Word, He watches over it.
He's the watcher.
He performs it.
He does it.
He said He would be born in Bethlehem.
He was born in Bethlehem.
He said He would come on a donkey.
He came on a donkey.
He said, I'll bring them back from the
ends of the earth.
They're back from the ends of the earth.
He said, I'll pour clean water on the
mountains of Israel.
We're baptizing them.
Hallelujah.
He is watching over His Word to perform
it to Jews and Arabs.
Verse 21, and being fully convinced.
Are you fully convinced?
That what He had promised, He was also
able to perform.
Oh, it's faith.
When the Son of Man comes, will He
find faith on the earth?
Will we just believe Him?
We walk by faith.
It is not sight.
It doesn't look good when you're trying to
get a gas mask on and explosions are
going off.
You're trusting Him.
It doesn't look good when people come against
you and attack you, say all kinds of
bad things about you or whatever.
It doesn't look good when my Muslim friends
turn to the Lord and they're persecuted and
have to flee Gaza and other places.
But listen, God is able.
I want to tell you something.
There are one million, at least, secret believers
in Iran.
I know people that know.
Hallelujah.
Whole villages are turning to Jesus.
There's a movement of the Holy Spirit where
dreams and visions are happening to whole villages
in the Islamic world.
We're going to Singapore, Indonesia in a few
weeks.
And there's a huge revival going on there.
And you know what?
They read this Word and they love Israel.
And we don't even have a diplomatic relationship
to them.
It's the largest Muslim nation in the world.
They're getting saved by the hundreds of thousands.
The veils are falling off.
And the veils are going to fall off
the Jewish people too.
It's happening.
Hallelujah.
Now turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 9.
I love America.
I lived in New York for 20 years.
When 9-11 happened, I was in Israel.
I was shattering.
I went down.
I came back here six months later.
I went down to Ground Zero.
There was a cross there these firemen had
found in those days.
A metal cross they'd put up there.
I want to tell you, I wept and
wept and wept.
I was convulsed with pain for America.
I couldn't get on the subway.
I had to walk.
I love this nation.
Your nation, you need to pray for your
government.
This new government.
If they will support Israel so that Israel
doesn't compromise themselves into creating, giving away so
much land that they bring a war upon
themselves with an ideology that wants to drive
them in the sea and destroy them.
If your government pushes us into that, we're
not in trouble.
Because we know what God says He's going
to do with us.
You're in trouble.
So you pray for your government.
If they would just read the Bible.
They say they're Christians.
Some of them are.
Read the Bible and just stand with God's
purposes.
So pray for this government.
It's very important.
And you're commanded to pray for your government.
We pray for our government that they won't
give away part of Jerusalem.
God will not stand for it.
He's coming back to the Mount of Olives
and it's not going to be an Islamic
Mount of Olives.
So this is serious business that we're involved
in.
You pray for Israel and pray for your
government.
And God can bring you through.
Okay, 2nd Corinthians chapter 9 verse 8.
God is able to make all grace abound
toward you.
Now what does that say?
God's able to give you a little bit
of grace?
It says all grace.
Can you say all?
All grace.
How much is all grace?
It's oceans of grace.
He is a God of grace.
We can come boldly to the throne of
grace in time of need.
Why?
Because we come through the blood of the
Lamb.
The veil was torn.
It was His flesh.
He made a new and living way for
us to live in the holy place.
It's grace.
He can make all grace abound to you.
It means overflowing.
We don't walk in victory because we don't
go to the throne of grace and say,
Lord, I need some grace here.
This is tough.
This is difficult.
He says He is able to make all
grace abound toward you.
It's a word that means something that splashes
over the edge of a boat.
There's so much in it, you can't take
care of it.
That's the kind of grace He wants to
give His church, His body.
It's favor from Him if you walk with
Him.
Walk in His ways.
Always having all sufficiency.
He is the all-sufficient One.
Our sufficiency on Mount Carmel comes from Him.
Brother Dave said, David, stay on your knees.
It'll all come from your knees.
That's how it comes.
That's how God saves people.
That's how God blesses people.
If we'll just become people that want the
all-sufficiency of Him and not of us.
All-sufficiency in all things.
Do you have a problem tonight?
Do you have a need tonight?
He has all-sufficiency for everything.
For everything.
That's who this God is.
That's why we're singing about His goodness and
His mercy and His grace.
Hallelujah.
It's all mercy.
It's all grace.
That you may have abundance for every good
work.
Now, let me read it again.
God is able to make all grace abound
toward you that you, always having all-sufficiency
in all things, may have an abundance for
every good work.
Do you believe that?
I believe it.
He's proved it in my life over and
over and over and over again.
Every time we have had some kind of
need, He has provided.
It's not about luxuries, it's about needs.
What people need.
And God wants to implant that in us
tonight that He is able.
God is able.
I don't think some of you believe.
Listen.
The devil's twins.
You know who they are, don't you?
Fear and doubt.
We'll break fear and doubt here.
We'll bind fear and doubt here.
Abraham had no doubt.
There was no doubt.
He went forward doubting nothing.
He did not doubt.
Let's stand.
I'm believing God's going to do something through
this church and the ministries of this church.
I'm believing that He is able.
If the Lord's been speaking to you and
you have some tremendous need, if you're wrestling,
if you don't know Jesus, you need to
come here and let me pray for you.
Jesus is all you need.
If you've slipped away from Jesus, you come
down here.
If you have a tremendous need and you
really want this implanted into your heart, that
God is able, and you've been battling and
you're wondering, I'm not going to make it
through, and I've lost my job, or whatever
the situation is, you just come down here
and let the Lord minister to you as
we seek His face.
Okay?
You just come now.
You can come from upstairs or come down
the aisles.
Whoever so will.
Hallelujah.
Just come.
God is able.
There's no good thing in me.
God is able.
When this church began, it was over in
another theater called the Nederlander on 41st Street.
It was called Crack Alley.
Drug addicts were living in cardboard boxes.
That's how it began.
But we cared about them.
We took them into the dressing rooms and
took them through withdrawal in the Nederlander Theater.
Now look what the Lord has done.
Ministries all over the...
Because God is able.
He is faithful.
He is able to set you free from
anything you're battling with.
He's able to reconcile your marriage.
He's able to save your kids.
He is able.
The God we serve is able.
Hallelujah.
Let's lift our hands to the Lord.
Hallelujah.
Why don't you say this?
Jesus, You are able.
You're able to keep me from falling.
You're able to help me.
You're able to take me through this storm.
You're able to forgive my sins.
Forgive me.
Sanctify me.
Set me free.
Fill me with hope.
Fill me with faith.
Fill me with Your Spirit.
Help me reach out to other people.
Help me care for the hurting people.
Now let me pray over you.
Lord, I ask You to implant in every
spirit, every heart, every soul here that's open
to You, that You are able.
You are able.
You can take dead branches and put them
back in a tree and they come back
to life.
You can meet every need that each one
of these people have.
You know their hearts.
You know what they're going through.
You know the pain they've been in.
Talk to the Lord.
Cry out to the Lord.
Speak to the Lord.
He's a good God.
He's the everlasting Father.
He loves His children.
He ever lives to make intercession for you.
Hallelujah.
His name is Yeshua in Hebrew.
That means salvation, holiness, wholeness, completion.
Hallelujah.
He is able.
He's the Holy One of Israel.
He's the King of Kings.
He's the King of New York.
He's the King of America.
He should be the King of your heart.
He is the King.
The King is coming.
The King is in the house.
There's no one like Jesus.
Oh, beautiful Jesus.
Oh, Jesus.
You are able.
You took me out of the miry clay.
You sent me on the rock.
Hallelujah.
Lord, touch your people.
Touch them, Lord.
Touch them.
Have mercy on New York.
Have mercy on these people, Lord.
Have mercy on your people.
Meet their needs.
Open doors for them, Lord.
There's none like you.
There's none like Him.
The children of Israel sang it when they
came to the Red Sea.