I want to speak to you tonight about
the touch of God.
How does God touch a man's life?
I'm talking not about individuals, but a corporate
body of men and women who rise above
the turmoil, rise above their hurts, and they
begin to hunger and thirst for God, and
God does something miraculous.
And why does God choose certain men to
touch them?
Now, when I say men, I include women
in this, so please don't correct me after
the service.
This is both men and women.
Heavenly Father, since your anointing on this meeting
tonight, you have come to touch us.
You've come to heal us.
But Lord, you've come also to dig deep
into our hearts.
Lord, my heart is open to hear what
will be taught and preached from this pulpit.
When I step down, Lord, I want to
hear.
I'm ready for reproof.
I'm ready for correction.
I'm ready for edification, whatever you have in
mind.
Lord, I'm asking you to come down upon
my heart now.
You've humbled us before you.
And who are we to speak, Lord, to
those far more educated and those who have
prayed more than we have?
But they've come, Lord, out of a hunger.
Lord, speak for me tonight.
Lord, just speak your mind, I pray, in
Jesus' name.
Amen.
God has a remedy for a world in
chaos.
He has a time-tested plan that He's
used all through time.
He hasn't changed it.
It's the same plan from the very beginning,
the Word.
How does God remedy a generation?
What does He do to correct a generation
that is in chaos, that is slipping out
of control?
What is God's plan?
He's always used man.
He's used men that He has chosen.
He's laid His hand upon them.
He's separated them.
He called them to Himself and touched them
in a special way.
The God-touched man is described in Psalm
65, for blessed is the man whom thou
choosest, and causes him to approach unto thee,
that he may dwell in thy courts.
Blessed is that man that is especially touched,
that woman especially touched by the hand of
God, and the Holy Ghost causes him to
draw nigh to the Lord and dwell in
His courts.
This man, this woman begins to dwell in
the presence of God, and everything about him
and everything in him changes.
It's a wooing of the Holy Spirit that
many of you that are here now know
and understand.
It was the wooing of the Holy Spirit
that called you to prayer.
History proves what I've been saying to you,
because it's very painful to read the history
of Israel.
The constant backsliding of God's people.
Generation after generation getting more wicked than the
other.
But what did God do all through this
Bible?
How did God deal with it?
How did He bring reviving?
How did He change everything and bring it
back to His heart?
The Scripture says, Samuel chiding Israel, said, when
you forgot the Lord, He sold you into
the hand of your enemies.
Then you cried unto the Lord and said,
we have sinned.
The Lord sent Jeroboam and Bedan, Jephthah, Samuel,
delivered you out of the hand of your
enemies on every side, and you dwelt safe.
God touched men, became the instruments of deliverance.
And folks, I'm going to tell you, God's
not going to send angels down to solve
our problems.
He's not going to send heavenly angels or
heavenly forces down.
He's going to touch men.
He's going to touch women.
He's going to cause them.
And He's going to woo them to draw
a knife to Him.
God touched men, become His instrument, and have
been that all through Scripture.
Now, why does God touch certain men?
There's something amazing that happens when God touches
a man or a woman.
It's an awesome sight.
It's an awesome thing to be around these
people.
I am not there, but I know what
He's calling me to, and I know the
way, and I want to follow Him in
it.
You see, these are men, not just men
of destiny.
No, no, no.
You see, Saul was called just as David
was called.
And the Scripture says that God had told
Saul, I had planned to give you an
everlasting heritage.
An everlasting kingdom was to be yours.
And he aborted God's plan because he went
halfway.
These were not supermen.
I believe that there are two calls that
God gives to every man or woman that
He touches, and raises up to reach a
people, to change things.
Even a whole generation.
There's a call to come up, and there's
a call to come out.
And Moses best exemplifies these two calls.
And how you respond to these two calls
determines the intensity of God's touch in your
life.
How you respond to this call to come
up.
The Scripture says, If Moses, the Lord, came
down upon Mount Sinai and the top of
the mount, and the Lord called Moses up
to the top of the mountain, and Moses
went up, and the people stood afar off,
and Moses drew near to the thick darkness
where God was.
He's called out of his busyness to start
an unshackled pursuit after God, and to be
called into His presence to become a praying
man.
His own father-in-law, Jephthah, chided him,
rebuked him kindly that he was too busy.
He said, Be thou for the people of
Godward.
Let others be appointed to bear the burdens
of the people.
In other words, he said to his father
-in-law, Why don't you shut yourself in
with God?
You can still be concerned for the people.
You can still have hands on.
But you're going to wear yourself out.
You're going to wear the people out.
You go to God.
You go to the mountain.
Moses placed all counseling and arbitration in the
hands of his associates, and those who worked
with him.
And Moses went up unto God, and went
near to where God was.
Folks, that's a message in itself.
Moses went up unto God, and he went
near to where God was.
See, the Scripture said chosen and caused to
approach to dwell in His presence.
Not every man who's called up to prayer,
not every man who receives this inner wooing
of the Holy Spirit to be a man
of prayer, to seek Him as never before,
to know the times, to come to the
end of himself and say, God is going
to take more than I've been giving you.
It's going to take more time, more quality
time than I've been willing to give you.
I can't be on my own agenda, and
expect to make a mark, a humble mark,
not to be somebody, but even, oh God,
to be a vessel, an instrument, that you
use in these last days.
And so many people have been called to
a life of prayer, called to come up
to the mountain.
And they went so far.
And every man, every woman who's called to
seek the face of God, not all of
them go to the mountain.
The majority go halfway up.
And there they stop.
They don't respond to this call.
How many times has God called you, sir?
And ma'am, how many times has the
Holy Spirit said, I want to lay my
hand on you.
I want you to be such a man
of prayer that your life is changed, your
family knows it, God knows it, everybody around
you knows it, and every time you stand
in the pulpit, there's a word that touches
the heart.
And He's called you out of the world,
and out of your business, and out of
your own agenda.
And He's spoken to your heart many times.
He says, come to the mountain.
Come away with me.
Come up.
And you see, God gives that call to
those that He wants to use.
And many respond.
Moses was not the only man that went
up the mountain.
There were others called.
And He, speaking of God, said to Moses,
Come up unto the Lord.
Thou, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, the 70 elders of
Israel, and worship ye afar off.
And Moses alone shall come near the Lord.
For they shall not come nigh, neither shall
the people go up with him.
You see, God had a wonderful plan for
all of them.
He wanted to take them all to the
top of the mountain.
He wanted them all to come down with
their sins, with power over their sins and
their iniquity.
He wanted them to come out of His
presence with that glow that Moses came out.
The Scripture is clear on that.
Here's the promise that He made to Aaron
and his sons.
I will sanctify the tabernacle, the congregation, and
the altar.
I will sanctify also both Aaron and his
sons, to minister unto me in the office
of the priest.
He said, I want you to become ministers
to me.
Sudden with me, ministering to me.
That was the call to Nadab and Abihu.
He said, I will make you priest unto
me, to the elders.
He said, I'll make you priest unto me,
O holy nation.
So why were they told when they got
halfway up the mountain, worship me afar off,
don't come near me.
This is God speaking.
You cannot come up to the top of
the mountain.
Only Moses shall come up.
Every one of them called.
Every one promised by God.
They were going to touch their lives.
They were going to use them in a
high order that they would be ministers unto
Him.
And then halfway up the Lord says, Nadab,
Abihu, Aaron, He said to the elders, you're
not coming.
Why was Moses the only one invited to
go to the top of the mountain?
Sudden with the glory.
These men didn't have their heart in it.
God knew what was brewing in their hearts.
He brings them halfway up, hoping that in
His utter holiness, in His presence, because God
appeared to them and ate with them, and
they saw a sapphire path leading right into
a dark cloud, and they knew, no man
had seen God, but they knew He was
there.
You would think that you and I, if
we were there, we would fall on our
face in the presence of utter holiness and
righteousness, that we would fall, and those things
hidden in our hearts would be exposed, and
we'd cry, my God, have mercy.
But in the presence of an almighty, holy
God, they were unmoved, and their hearts, full
of sin, were totally unmoved.
He brought them halfway up, that He may
take them all the way, that He would
convict them by His holiness, because He loved
these men.
He doesn't give up on His servants.
He loves them.
He loves them to the end.
Please understand and know that God loves you.
He loves me.
No matter what we're going through, no matter
what we may be enduring, God calls you
to the mountain.
They may deal with you in love and
in His holiness, not to judge you, but
to give you power and authority in His
name, and let your face shine with His
glory.
They are exposed to this utter holiness, as
if God is saying to them, Brethren, there's
something in your heart keeping you from a
full revelation.
There's a besetting sin keeping you from intimacy.
You can't be intimate with me unless you
break.
There's Aaron.
He's a man whose heart is tainted with
jealousy over his brother, Moses.
He fears man more than God.
He has a tendency toward sensuality.
He stripped the people naked, remember?
Nadab and Abihu.
They had the seed of lust and adultery,
fornication.
They were hardened in their lust.
Folks, if God in His utter holiness couldn't
reach them, no preacher could ever reach them,
no prophet.
What a horrible place to be.
They had not an ounce of fear of
God in them.
The seventy elders, they're not under authority, because
they're thinking, I'm as holy, we're as holy
and righteous as Moses, and that came out
in their rebellion later.
God's warning these chosen men, He's giving them
a mercy call.
They should have been slain, but instead He
reveals Himself to them.
Halfway up the mountain, halfway to the touch
of God, halfway to the fullness of His
presence, they saw the God of Israel, and
under His feet a pavework of sapphire stone,
and upon the nobles of the children of
Israel He laid not His hand.
And Moses went up into the mount of
God, and he said unto the elders, carry
ye here for us until we come back
unto you.
Now evidently they had food supplies, everything, and
Moses says, I'm going up, God's called me
all the way up, and I'm going up,
will you stay here and just wait until
I get back?
He probably presumed he'd be there five or
six days.
You see, I imagine Nadab and Abihu being
the first ones after a few days, saying,
what has happened?
What's happened to Moses?
And you see something back there is calling
them something that has attached itself to their
spirit, and calls them back to their adulterous
ways.
And so I presume they were first.
I think probably the seventy elders went next.
You see, if you've got sin in your
heart, waiting on God is the hardest thing
you'd ever be called to do, and you
don't want to do it, and you can't
do it.
Just waiting on the Lord in His presence.
Just waiting for God to speak, waiting for
God to act.
Because people who move in the flesh don't
know how, cannot wait on the Lord.
And then I would imagine that Aaron probably
was the last to go.
And the cry that came down from the
mountain, or the talk that came from the
mountain, what has happened to this man Moses?
And the whole camp picks it up, remember,
what has happened to Moses?
These two ministers and these laymen, hardened in
adultery and lust, they represent those today that
are into pornography, into all kinds of sins,
aborting God's attempts to deliver them.
See, the call now to all of us
has come up, and the Lord said unto
Moses, come up to the mount and be
there.
Come up and be there.
That hit me so hard.
Just come up and sit.
Just be there.
For six days Moses wakes quietly, waiting outside
the cloud of glory.
And the seventh day he called unto Moses
out of the midst of the cloud, and
Moses went into the midst of the cloud,
and was in the cloud forty days and
forty nights.
You see at Camp Hathaway, I presume they're
gone by the sixth day.
Did God call you to give yourself as
a man or woman a prayer?
Did God cause you to draw nigh to
Him at one time?
You said yes, but how long did it
last?
Did it last a week, two weeks, six
months?
How long did it last?
And you were at Camp Hathaway, and God
had something on the mountain for you, and
something called you back.
Busyness!
Something of the world.
Come up and be there.
Solomon said, On thee do I wait all
the day.
They that wait on the Lord shall renew
their strength.
They shall not be ashamed who wait upon
you.
You'll never be ashamed if you wait upon
me, he said.
This is the man, this is the woman
who said, I'll not settle for anything less
than face-to-face intimacy with my God.
I'll settle for nothing else but answer that
call to go to the mountain to be
in His glory.
I don't care how the rest of the
world goes.
I don't care what the new fad is.
I don't care what new thing has come
down the turnpike.
As for me, I hunger for God, and
I'm going all the way.
I'm going to seek His face, and I'm
going to wait on the Lord.
Secondly, there's a call to come out.
Exodus 33, 7, And Moses took the tabernacle
and pitched it outside the camp, afar off
from the camp.
And he called it the tabernacle of the
congregation.
And it came to pass that everyone which
sought the Lord went out of the tabernacle,
went out to the tabernacle of the congregation.
This was not the wilderness tabernacle.
That had not been constructed as yet.
This was Moses.
He called it the tent of meeting.
This was his prayer closet, his prayer tent.
This is where he prayed.
You see, God's presence had been lifted from
the camp.
There was such idolatry and such lust and
sensuality.
There was such idolatry in the camp.
God left.
His presence was lifted.
The fiery cloud was lifted.
The pillar was gone.
It was gone.
God left.
Folks, I've been in churches.
Occasionally when I've been on vacation or been
off for Sunday.
I've been to church and I say this
kindly.
How many times I've walked in and within
five minutes you know God is gone.
The presence of the Lord is not there.
And then when the pastor gets up you
know there's nothing but death.
And folks, there's nothing more tragic.
There's nothing worse to be in what is
called God's house and the presence of Jesus
is not there.
He's gone.
He's left.
I have about 700,000 people on our
mailing list.
And we receive thousands and thousands of letters
from all over the nation.
And the number one complaint.
The number one by the thousands.
Yesterday.
I hate to get up Sunday morning.
I hate to go to my church.
All denominations.
Because there's no life.
Don't feel the Holy Ghost.
Teenagers don't want to go.
There's nothing there.
After 9-11, the churches in New York
for six months were packed.
People poured into the churches.
And now, in fact, just about a month
ago a poll was taken and the New
York Times said that now, it was after
five months I believe it was, after 9
-11, church attendance is lower than it was
before the blast.
And they asked people why they quit going.
They said, we went and there was nothing
there that would give us any reason to
want to go back.
Nothing there.
Nothing.
And Moses tries to pray in this atmosphere
where there's defilement.
Now, the camp was defiled.
And God said, Moses, I'm not going to
hear you.
You see, God had told Moses, I'll give
you another congregation.
And folks, a lot of pastors would take
that new congregation.
They're so fed up with where they're at.
Not this man.
He doesn't want another congregation.
He doesn't want to move to another congregation.
He said, no, these are your people and
I'm not going to leave them.
I'm a shepherd.
And he said, they're defiled, but what do
I do?
The Lord said, you get out of the
place of defilement.
You go out in the wilderness.
You get out to a clean place.
Now, Moses was not unclean, but he represents
what God is demanding of us if we
want to be touched.
If we want His power and His authority.
If we want spiritual authority.
The true spiritual authority where Christ speaks to
us and His Word comes plainly with convicting
power.
He said, you have to come out Can
you imagine the people willing to go on?
What a scene of death when God leaves
a congregation.
You see, Moses cried out, God, the only
thing that makes us different is your presence.
If we don't have that, we're just like
the rest of the heathen around us.
Folks, what do you have in your church?
I don't care what the program is.
I don't care what new thing you bring
in.
I don't care how you try.
I've been in some of these dead churches
and folks, no matter how loud they sing,
no matter how they try to work it
up, it's death.
And the louder they sing, the deader it
becomes because it can't be worked up in
the flesh.
It doesn't work.
This is what we pray at Times Square
Church so many times.
In fact, every time I go in the
service, every time I go and sit in
my seat, I cry out in my soul,
in my heart, oh God, if we don't
have Your presence today, we don't have church.
And God, if You ever lift Your hand
from this place, I would rather You shut
the doors, close the doors, and sell the
building because we have nothing to offer people
without Your presence.
Nothing.
God was gone.
And He refused to come back into the
camp because He was defiled.
God said, they're stiff-necked, they're worthy to
be destroyed.
Moses intercedes in the camp and after much
crying, God said to Moses, now go, lead
the people into the place of which I've
spoken.
My angels shall go before you.
I will send an angel.
I'll drive out your enemies.
I'll bring you into the land of milk
and honey.
But I'll not go up in the midst
of thee.
I read that.
I had to go over and over.
God!
You're telling these people, I'll send an angel.
You go ahead, I'll give you victories.
You go ahead in the land, go and
take your houses, take your land, get your
automobiles, get all them things, go, go, go.
But I'm going to go with you.
Go ahead.
Any gospel you want.
I love you so I'll not destroy you.
But I'm not going to go with you.
And Moses knew the risk that would be
involved in that.
They would always be open to the attack
of the enemy.
They should go ahead.
And many in that camp were willing to
go on.
Folks have honestly believed that there are men
today who could run a seat, be CEO
of any great corporation.
They're brilliant men.
They know how to do it.
I heard a man say that once, a
pastor.
And all the people around him said, that
man can do it without the Holy Ghost.
Words to that effect.
Very intelligent.
Because if you're going to do it in
the flesh, if you're going to stay in
a place of defilement, I'm not going with
you.
Now that makes me tremble.
You may not be a pastor, you may
be a lay person from Times Square Church
or wherever you're from, and you're in here
tonight.
If you're in a place of defilement, God
says, I'm not going with you.
I'll woo you.
I'll call you.
But you're going to have to leave the
camp.
You're going to have to leave the defilement
behind.
You're going to have to get out into
a clean place.
And Moses picks up his tent.
God says, no use praying.
Don't intercede.
Don't do it because there's defilement.
I don't care how many tears you shed,
sir.
I've been there.
And I've seen His mercy.
When God was dealing with something in my
life, you can shed a river of tears,
you can make Him a thousand promises, but
until you allow the Holy Spirit by His
covenant to come and give you a revelation
of how He can empower you to be
delivered.
Until you want to be free and you
get out of that place of defilement and
you get to a clean place in Christ.
You can cry and pray all you want.
You may see miracles.
You can cast out devils and you can
heal the sick.
You can build great buildings and institutions and
God not be in a bit of it.
God says, I'm not going with you.
That makes me tremble.
It frightens me.
I read and re-read that.
Go, move on, fight, win battles.
You know, I believe there's some churches where
if God showed up, if God sent a
prophet, if God sent someone with a message
ringing from the throne of God and there's
a loving message dealt with sin, there are
some great churches where the majority of the
congregation would leave because they're satisfied, satisfied to
go on without His presence.
Here's what God's calling for.
Here's a man who will not give up
on his people.
Here's a man who won't quit.
Here's a man who's not going to run.
Here's a man who's willing to weep for
his people.
But here's a man who says, Oh God,
I know you can't move in this situation.
There's got to be something you do in
my heart.
And it's something God wants to do in
every heart here tonight.
I don't care if it's gossip that we've
been guilty of.
And I know what that's like.
I have been dealt with that for a
long, long time and God has been dealing
with me to never ever repeat.
In case I'll repeat something and have to
make it right.
I don't have to, Totem Pole said, I
don't have to put my finger on it
but the Holy Ghost does tonight while you're
here in His presence.
He put His finger on it.
And He's called some of you here to
deliver you.
He's here to say to you lovingly, I
know the battle and the struggle you go
through, but as long as that defilement is
there and as long as you're in this
area, this place of defilement, I can't walk
with you.
I can convict you of being there.
The Holy Spirit will deal with you.
I'll not chastise you.
I'll protect you.
God said, I'm not going to beat you.
I'm not going to touch your child.
I'm not going to touch your wife.
I'm not going to send judgment at this
point.
But God says, you're going to miss.
You're going to miss the only thing that
really matters.
Walking in my presence.
Having my presence with you in your house.
Having my presence when you walk the street.
Having my presence when you stand in the
pulpit.
Moses goes out to a place that's clean,
out of defilement.
And it came to pass as Moses entered
into the tabernacle.
He's out in a clean place now.
The cloudy pillar descended and stood at the
door of his tent.
And the Lord talked with Moses.
And the Lord spoke to Moses face to
face as a man speaks unto his friend.
Aaron and the priesthood had become defiled.
The people were defiled.
God was prepared if He had to to
do away with the whole scene.
But one man.
One man says, no God.
Whatever it takes.
And to tell a man it's going to
take to tell Moses, a man meek, a
man shunned with God in so many wonderful
seasons and saying, there's more, Moses.
I ask more of you.
And folks, the more I pray, the more
I hear the Holy Spirit say, David, it's
going to take more than you have been
willing to give at this point.
Because of the times.
It's going to take more of your time.
You're going to have to deal with every
area of your life.
Let me deal with every area of your
life so there's no defilement.
Because if I can find a man out
of the place of defilement in a clean
place with a heart broken to seek me
with all his heart, I'll send a cloud.
I'll send a pillar.
And I'll send the glory.
And I'll talk face to face with you.
Hallelujah.
It came to pass that everyone who sought
the Lord went out to the tabernacle, the
congregation, which was outside camp.
You see, when a man steps out and
he begins to give God everything, his life,
he begins to seek Him with all his
heart, and his heart's cleaning now.
There's nothing hidden.
He's going to attract like-kind people.
He's going to attract every holy, godly people.
Folks, it's...
The issue today is not being able to
pack out a church.
You can get a semi-Christian rock group
and fill any building.
You see, it's not just filling.
It's not just having a lot of people
in the seats.
A young man told me, a recent young
pastor, he said, God's been so dealing with
me, I really thought God wanted me to
pastor a much larger congregation.
But he said, now when I see the
hurts among my people, and I see how
God's been gracious to me, he said, now
I'm asking God to give me a loving
church.
I want to be a loving man.
To me, no, it doesn't matter.
Because my heart is set to seek Him
with all that's in me.
You say, that's Old Testament.
What does that have to do with the
New Testament times in which we're living?
Know you not that you're the temple of
God, and that the Spirit of God dwells
in you?
And if any man defile the temple of
God, him shall God destroy.
For the temple of God is holy, which
temple you are.
Folks, I'm closing with this.
I'm saying, this is not normal Christianity anymore.
Not in these times.
Not when we have our president and key
leaders in our country saying, we're going to
live from now on under the gun.
We're going to live from now on under
this.
And you see people everywhere looking, seeking for
a church, seeking for a word from God.
When 9-11 hit, for two months prior
to that, God broke through in Times Square
Church with warning after warning.
We didn't know where it was going to
strike.
All the pastors were slain, different nights just
slain, weeping and broken before God, confessing, opening
our hearts to whatever He said.
And the Holy Ghost would come down at
Times Square Church in total silence.
You couldn't move, you couldn't sing, you couldn't
worship.
Total silence.
One night for over half hour just sitting.
And service after service, and Pastor Carter and
Pastor Neal and all of our pastors, Pastor
Patrick, we would just say, what's God doing?
What do we do?
But you see, God was warning, He was
speaking.
And prophetic words came to prepare our hearts.
And you see, when it came, the next
few Sundays when people came to Times Square
Church and would boast as only in the
Lord in true humility before God, there was
a word, the towers have fallen, we've not
learned our lesson.
And Pastor Carter and Pastor Neal and Pastor
Patrick, there was a word from the Lord.
People didn't have to ask what happened.
God spoke.
Because He called us to go to the
mountain.
God's not asking you to wait six days.
He's not asking you for 40 days and
40 nights.
Fasting.
He's asking you to come up and come
out.
God wants to take you deeper and further
than you've ever been.
No matter how He's blessed you up to
now, you've seen nothing compared to what He
has in store for you.
Truly humble yourself.
That's the cry of my heart.
Will you stand?
I wonder how many there are in this
service tonight.
And say, Pastor David, I know God's calling
me up.
I know He's calling me out.
And I want to yield to the Holy
Spirit tonight.
Folks, we have no place here to give
an invitation and that's not what God's put
in our hearts.
Folks, I have not arrived.
The word I preach tonight, He's worked in
my spirit and my soul.
He wants to work it into your heart.
Before you leave this conference, we would hope
that you'd be so spiritually motivated by the
Holy Ghost.
I would hope that you go to your
hotel even and spend some time with Him.
And say, Oh God, I want to leave
this conference to follow what you've already told
me to do.
And I went so far, I turned back.
And that's what I'm going to pray about
right now.
I wonder how many there are.
And I can't even see your hands, but
God can.
How many of you have to say tonight
in an honest confession before the Lord, I
want to go all the way to the
mountain and I haven't gone all the way
like I want to and I need His
touch tonight.
And I want God's presence in my life.
I want the presence of Christ.
Raise both hands to the Lord, thou will
I pray.
Just lift both hands.
Come on, all over the congregation and up
in the balcony wherever you may be.
Holy Spirit, I pray right now that in
your most kind and loving way, your tenderheartedness,
that you would deal with me first and
deal with every here in this building tonight,
that you would call us out of our
self, out of our busyness.
Lord, the sin is busyness.
Where we can't seem to find the time,
we can't make it and it's getting shorter
and shorter.
Our time with you is becoming less and
less.
When, oh God, we should, whatever it takes,
whatever the cost, we say, oh God, lay
hold in my heart.
God, come.
Lord, I pray for everyone within the sound
of my voice struggling with something that has
come and surprised them, something they didn't ask
for, something they didn't expect, but the enemy
came and surprised them.
Lord, some have to stand here and say,
I have allowed something in my life I
never thought I would or could, but the
enemy has surprised me.
I didn't want this, but it's come.
Oh God, bring freedom while they're here in
these meetings.
Bring freedom tonight.
Break the chains that bind, oh God.
Lord, I know that you're doing this.
I know you're going to do it in
these meetings.
Lord, we give you praise.
Would you just call on the name of
the Lord?
Everybody in this building, just call on His
name.
Speak your heart and your mind to Him
now.
Everyone.
Lord, touch me.
Lord, help me.
Call me.
Cause me to come now into Your presence.
Lord, I've been busy.
I've had time for people.
I've had time for everything in my agenda,
but I've been neglecting You, oh God.
Forgive us and call us back, oh God.
Take us to the mountain, we pray.
Take us out of the house, place of
defilement.
Purge us and cleanse us and sanctify us
in this building, we pray.
We thank You, Your presence.
That's the most important thing here tonight, Your
presence.
God bless you.
This is the conclusion of the message.