I'll tell you, it's wonderful to know tonight
that His grace is sufficient, and that's one
of the areas I want to deal with
tonight.
It's good to see you here, and I
want to read to you a promise out
of the Word of God that I believe
the Lord wants me to use tonight to
share with you what's on my heart.
I have found in my own Christian experience
through the years, 31 years as an evangelist,
that I have a tendency to go through
a crises, and then when I go through
that crises, I go through several of them,
and then I sort of level off.
I just sort of level off, and then
God has to let another big crises come
along to get me to grow in it,
and then I level off again.
The Bible doesn't give us that kind of
a graphic by which we can live by,
where if there is one that I know
of, that we're supposed to be a spiral,
where we're constantly growing like this, all the
time, never leveling off like this.
And so the reason that we do this
is because we look at the Word of
God, God speaks to us the Word, he
gives us the Word, and beloved, we put
it away in our mental understanding, but we
never allow our lives to become consistent with
that truth, and we do not experience that
truth, we just only understand it.
We understand it to where we can teach
it to people.
We understand it to where it will even
affect people emotionally.
But beloved, when a man faces the Word
of God and responds to the Word of
God, that man's life is changed morally, and
that man's life is changed to, it is
conformed to the image of that Word.
You don't take the Word of God and
make it your slave.
You take your life and you make your
life a slave to the Word of God.
And what we need to do is to
take the Word of God and let it
judge us, and let it correct us, and
let it enlarge us, and let it bring
us to the level of its teachings.
Because if you don't do that, you have
actually missed the objective of the Word of
God.
It's amazing about God, He never said anything
so perfectly without any questions that you do
not have to trust Him.
And yet He said things so perfectly that,
my dear friends, it can correct you and
enlarge you and sanctify you and make you
like you're supposed to be.
That's right, God never said in the Bible
not to smoke cigarettes, but He said enough
that you can get disturbed about it.
Amen.
That's amazing, isn't it, that He didn't say
stuff like that?
Well, you and I have to watch the
Word, and tonight as I deal with this
passage, this is a passage that I trust
you will let God deal with your heart.
I promise you, if you'll let God deal
with your heart from the Word, and you
will obey the Word, then God will not
have to deal in your circumstances to bring
you to the place where you'll have to
obey the Word.
Any time, my friends, God has to work
in your circumstances to bring you to the
place to obey the Word, it's because you've
been spiritually dumb when He's taught you the
Word.
Yes, sir, that's right.
And so God wants us to see the
Word tonight, and this is a passage that
I can't get over, and I love to
preach on things I'm trying to work out
and work in and work through, and this
is a passage that I cannot work out
of and get out of, and I want
to leave it with you tonight.
It's found in the book of 2 Corinthians,
the 9th chapter, the 8th verse.
I want you to look at this verse.
In the King James translation it says, "...and
God is able to make all grace abound
toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency
in all things, may abound to every good
work."
Beloved, that is one of the most profound
promises in the Bible.
I want you to just look at the
God that's making this promise to you tonight
for just a moment.
He's the God wherein there's no bearableness, there's
no shadow of turning.
He's not man that He can lie.
He can't lie.
He can't lie at all.
There's no shadow of turning, there's no bearableness
in Him at all.
The God that made this promise to you
and me tonight is the God that knew
you and me before we were substance.
He knew us before we were substance.
In fact, He wrote down in a book
just exactly what you'd become, because He knew
you so well before you were substance.
He wrote down in a book exactly what
you'd become, and then turned around and laid
it out, His will for your life and
my life, and left us responsible to living
up to it.
And then He turned around and said, I'm
going to give you grace to enable you
to do it.
Now folk, you dealing with a God like
that, you can't be going wrong.
The God that was able to open up
the Red Sea by the breath of His
nostrils, amen.
That's the God we're talking about tonight.
We're talking about the God, my friend, that
when His presence went by in His people
of Israel, the Bible says the mountains skipped
as lambs, and the water fled.
That's the God that made this promise.
That's right.
It's that God that made this promise.
And He said, and God is able to
make all grace abound toward you, that you
always, I love that always, having all, I
love that all, sufficiency in all things.
I'll tell you, is there any place left?
I like the encompassing limits of this, of
boundaries of this verse.
You say, what do you mean?
Well, He didn't say God is able to
make all grace abound toward you as long
as you're under 65.
Amen.
I'm going to tell you something, folk.
This verse is my retirement plan.
Amen.
He didn't even say 95.
He said all sufficiency, always, under all circumstances,
folk.
I tell you what, you can retire.
It would be safer for you to retire
on this verse than it would be from
the Texaco company.
I'm not kidding you.
I mean, folk, this is the Word of
God.
This is the God that runs this thing,
saying, my grace, God's grace.
I mean, it's something.
He didn't say, do you got 65?
I love it.
Amen.
And by the way, He didn't say, He
didn't say, if you're well.
My grace is sufficient as long as you're
well.
He didn't say that, folk.
He said, my grace is sufficient.
My grace is able under all circumstances, under
all situations, always sufficient in everything.
And my dear friends, He didn't say as
long as you are a well person.
I'll tell you, this is the best hospitalization
policy you can ever find.
Yes, sir.
Now God may use a hospitalization policy, but,
folk, I'll tell you, this is a good
underwriter here.
Yes, sir.
All sufficiency in all things.
He didn't say all sufficiency in all things,
always, if the oil prices are good.
That's right.
He didn't say all sufficiency in all things
if there's not inflation on.
Now folk, this is the Word of God.
God said, did you hear that?
It says, God is able to make all
grace abound towards you, that you always, having
all sufficiency in all things, may abound to
every good work.
It doesn't have any kind of limitation on
it whatsoever.
I mean, there's not one limitation on this
promise.
I mean, absolutely not one limitation.
Now you may not hear me tonight, but
one day you'll hear me.
One day you'll remember, my dear friends, a
preacher talking about the most encompassing promise to
mankind from the Almighty God.
And I'll tell you, it's all sufficiency in
all things.
That's right.
This verse does not take in any kind
of limitation whatsoever.
I love it because it defines how wealthy
a saint is supposed to be.
You know, this crowd today preaching, name it
and claim it and if you're right with
God, you're rich.
You hear all of that stuff over the
television?
I'd like to see those jaybirds go to
India and preach that same message.
I'd like to see those people who are
lying on the Word of God go to
Russia and preach the same message.
And go to China.
But I'm going to tell you something, folk,
you can go to India, China, or communist
countries anywhere in the world, you can go
any place you want to and preach this.
All sufficiency at all times in all situations.
I mean, folk, this will work anywhere.
Amen.
And this crowd that says, boy, if you'll
just get right with God and God will
make you rich.
You know what they're talking about?
They're talking about dollars and cents.
But this verse is talking about dollars and
cents plus.
It's like back years ago a man came
to me one time and he said, Brother
Manley, I'd like to put you on a
$30,000 a year salary.
About 27 years ago.
He said, I'd like to put you on
a $30,000 a year salary.
Quite a salary back in those days.
And I prayed about it and I said,
I can't do it.
He said, why?
I said, because you're only worth one million.
And I might need two.
You say, what in the world are you
talking about, preacher?
See, folk, if you're resting on this verse,
it says all sufficiency at all times in
all places.
And I've got news for you, folk, a
million dollars don't even start it.
You say, I don't understand what you're talking
about.
Let me just give you a little, a
sweet note of what I'm talking about.
Last Sunday, Saturday, my son and I, John,
flew down to San Antonio, Texas.
And I preached twice Sunday morning at Castle
Hills Baptist Church.
And we had, came back to the room,
had lunch and took a rest for a
few minutes and then went to the airport.
And when we got to the airport, we
realized that we had a 30-minute delay,
just 30 minutes to make our flight in
Dallas.
Well, my dear friends, we got to watching
this thing change and the plane we left
San Antonio on was not going through to
Oklahoma City where we were headed.
And that plane in San Antonio turned up
being an hour late.
And I looked to John and I said,
John, I said, back when your dad was
a young man, I used to live very
daringly.
I used to plan meetings, stopping on Sunday
morning and starting on Sunday night.
And I said, all over this country, God
worked a miracle one Sunday after another to
get me to that place by Sunday night.
And I said, John, I said today, this
plane says it's an hour late.
But I said, I want you to see
God literally take control of this total airline
and get us to Oklahoma City in time
to preach Sunday night.
Little old John, he didn't know what to
say.
He, here his daddy was telling him, God
is sufficient to literally control an airline, an
airline where the airplanes cost millions of dollars.
And I said, son, you just watch it.
And I'll tell you, we left San Antonio
one hour late and we got in Dallas.
And when we got in Dallas, the plane
that was going to go to Oklahoma City
was sitting there waiting.
Usually when you're way late like that, they'll
go ahead and give you seats away.
And there was the chairman of the board
of deacons of the church where I was
headed to in Dale City, he and his
wife wanting to get on that plane because
there was two seats on that plane and
the people wouldn't let them because they were
waiting on John and myself to get to
that plane so we could get home.
Little old John's eyes got big as saucers,
folks.
But let me tell you something, my dear
friends, this promise here is a great deal,
more than a million dollars.
Those airplanes cost more than a million dollars.
But my father who says, my grace can
be manifested to you that in all situations,
all situations you in, always, he said, you
can find the sufficiency you need.
My dear friend, listen, you're talking about a
promise.
Brother, you're talking about a promise, that's something
else when you start looking at this promise.
And I'm praising God tonight, friend, that there's
no limitations on this promise.
When you start that always business and that
all business, that includes everything and God's promise
is to you and God's promise is to
me right here tonight.
Yes, sir, are you talking about a promise
that you can hang your hat on under
any kind of situation you have ever, ever,
ever found yourself in.
This is absolutely a promise you can depend
on.
Now, what I want you to do tonight
is see the context of this promise for
just a moment.
Paul was writing the church at Corinth and
he had obviously shared with the church at
Corinth that the people at Jerusalem needed some
help financially.
And this crowd at Corinth obviously got up
and began to brag about what they were
going to do.
That's right.
They began to brag about what they were
going to do for the church at Jerusalem.
And so time obviously had passed.
It looks like about a year almost had
passed.
And Paul wrote this church at Corinth and
said, listen, I'm going to send a couple
of fellows over there and I have bragged
about you all over the country and especially
to the church at Macedonia, I have bragged
about what you're going to do.
And you have mouthed off.
In other words, he said, you've sort of
mouthed off about what you're going to do.
So I'm sending these couple of fellows over
there to help prepare you.
And if you don't do it, they're going
to wring it out of you.
That's right.
He said, they're going to wring it out
of you.
Now, Paul kept on talking to them.
He said, now the church at Macedonia, the
church in Macedonia has really laid down the
pattern that I want you to see.
And this verse, this promise is made in
the context of this message to the church
at Corinth.
And here's what Paul said about the church
in Macedonia.
He said, these people have actually given out
of their poverty unto riches.
Now the amazing thing about it is how
he has dealt with it.
He said this crowd down there at Macedonia
first gave themselves.
Secondly, he said they have given what they
could afford to give.
And thirdly, he said they have been able
to give what they could trust God to
provide to give.
Now, Paul is saying in this context, in
the context of the fact that people have
given themselves, they have given what they could
afford, and they have given what they could
trust God for.
In that context, he is making this promise.
This is the promise that I have read
to unite.
God is able to make all grace abound
towards you, always having all sufficiency in all
things may abound unto every good work.
My dear friends, during this day and time,
people obviously are so blinded by the devil
that they actually think they can walk in
on the great promises and blessings and benefits
of God without having to face the issue
of coming to the end of themselves and
letting God be God in their situation.
But that is not possible, my friend.
You cannot leave the cross out of your
life and get in on what God's got
for you.
And this promise tonight is made to me
and you.
What an awesome promise.
What an abounding promise.
What a unique promise.
But my dear friends, in the context of
this promise, you first must realize that the
people he is sharing this message to must
be people who have first given themselves.
Man runs around in a conference like this
and other meetings and say, Oh God, if
you'll just show me what to do, I'll
do it.
I do not find anywhere in the Bible
that God promises to meet people on that
level.
You say, what do you mean?
Romans 12, 1 and 2 says, But
be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind that you may prove what is that
good and acceptable will of God.
In John 7, 17, the Bible says, Now
what I'm trying to say to you is
this.
Man has a tendency to say, Oh God,
you show me what to do and then
I will make a decision as to where
I do it.
That is not a surrendered man.
That is not a person that has given
themselves first and foremost.
That is a person that is saying, God,
you show me what to do so I
can decide on whether or not I'm going
to do it.
That is not a surrendered person.
That is not a yielded person.
If you're in any kind of question tonight
about what God is saying, folks, you can
be assured that most of the time it's
because you're trying to ask God to show
you so you can make up your mind.
Your mind is not already made up.
Your surrender has not already been made.
The surrender has to be made.
You have to first give yourself.
You have to completely take hands off of
your life.
You have to completely say, God, whatever you
say, here's my life.
I like this illustration.
I've used it for years.
Absolute surrender is man taking a clean sheet
of paper and signing their name on that
sheet of paper and turning it in to
God and saying, now God, here's my life.
You write on it what you will.
That's right.
You don't say, God, write on my piece
of paper and then I'm going to decide
whether I'm going to sign it or not.
See, this promise that I've read you tonight
is not made to the person who's trying
to run your life.
This promise is made to the person who,
my dear friends, first and foremost, you have
signed that sheet of paper and said, God,
there is my life.
Yes, sir.
There's my life.
So if you want this all-sufficiency at
all times, under all circumstances, folk, there's a
price to be paid.
And that price is you must sign that
sheet of paper and say, God, there is
my...
Yes, sir.
See, if you want to experience this verse,
if you really want to live in the
all-sufficiency, you want to know God and
live in the all-sufficiency always, under all
circumstances, you must come to that place of
that absolute surrender.
And that is giving your life to Him.
And if you're not willing to do that,
my dear friend, you can be assured that
that verse is not applicable to you.
You'll not experience it.
You want that all-sufficiency at all times,
under all circumstances?
You'll have to take hands off.
It'll have to be God, whatever.
That's right.
Yes, sir.
The second thing, if you want that verse
applicable to your life, you want to enjoy
that verse, we have to see that you
have to give what you can afford to
give.
You say, what do you mean by that?
Well, in the particular context, in the particular
context, they're talking about finances.
But in the principle of this message, we're
talking about a great deal more than finances.
You see, when you study the Word of
God, you discover the person of Christ, you
discover the precepts about God and Christ, and
you discover the principles.
And here we have not only the person
of Christ revealed in the Word of God,
the precepts about God in the Word of
God, but we have the principles that's laid
down.
And this passage, even though it's applicable about
material things, in principle, it's applicable about everything.
Health, family, whatever.
Well, whatever.
It's absolutely inclusive.
I mean, there's no limitations on this verse.
None whatsoever.
And he's saying here, they gave what they
could afford.
You see, after you give yourself, then you're
free to give what you can afford to
give.
You say, well, what do you mean?
I thought if you gave yourself, you'd be
giving everything else.
Not necessarily.
You see, you and I have been blessed
with children.
We've been blessed with homes.
We've been blessed with all kinds of things.
And once we give ourselves, it means we
just give God freedom to put His finger
on whatever He wants.
And so then He starts putting His finger
on what you and I can afford.
Amen.
And if you want to get in on
this blessing, folk, you've got to not only
say, here's my life, you've got to be
willing to say, Lord, point out what I
can afford.
Back years ago, Dr. C.
L.
Culpepper, who died about six weeks ago, went
to China.
He signed a sheet of paper.
He gave his life for China.
And he was out there in China, and
one day he rode out of a town
on a horse.
And as he started riding out of that
town on that horse, he saw a pack
of dogs dragging some little object.
And as he looked closely, it was a
body of a child.
Well, you see, in that providence of China,
where he was working, they worshiped a dog
god.
And when a little baby died in that
town, they would bear that baby three or
four inches under the ground without a casket.
So the dogs would come and dig it
up and drag it and tear its little
body and eat its body because they were
worshiping God that way.
Dr. Culpepper saw.
He saw this.
He saw these dogs dragging that little body.
I mean, it just cut him to the
depth of his soul.
He had given his life for those people.
But he said, Oh God, whatever I can
give, I freely give it, that these people
might see and know the living Lord.
Whatever I've got, I can give.
It is yours.
He had many things he could give.
He did not know what would be asked
of him.
But when he made his trip and came
back home, his beautiful little girl, about five
years old, was sick.
And she died.
And when she died, because they were Christians,
they made her a beautiful little silk dress
for her burial.
They built her a beautiful little coffin for
her burial.
And they took her out and buried her
in the first Christian burial that ever took
place in that city.
And thousands of people came and saw the
beauty of this sacred moment.
And my dear friends, they began to repent
of their sins and turn to Jesus Christ,
the Son of the Living God.
And a mighty revival came.
Why beloved?
Because a man had first given himself and
then he gave what he could afford to
give.
He gave what he could afford to give.
Now if you want this promise made real
to you, all sufficiency in all places and
all times, you must not only give yourself,
but my friends, you must give what God
calls on you to give out of what
you have been blessed with.
Now, folks, we're getting down to business.
None of this foolishness.
No spirit of frivolity.
We're meaning business.
Do you want that promise?
Do you want that promise of all sufficiency
in all times and all circumstances?
Do you want it?
Do you really want it?
They first gave themselves and then they gave
what they could afford to give.
And then the amazing thing about it, they
gave what they could trust God for.
You say, Brother Manley, what do you mean
by that?
Well, obviously from the study of this chapter,
these two chapters, 2 Corinthians 8 and 9,
that the people of Macedonia that were living
in poverty learned how to give themselves and
then what they could afford and then they
learned how to tap the resources of God.
They learned how to tap the resources of
God.
Where, my dear friends, they were not limited
by what they gave when they gave themselves
and what they could afford.
They were only limited by the resources of
God Almighty.
Amen.
By faith, that therefore the only limitation they
had was the heavenly will of God and
God's ability to supply.
And he told the church at Corinth about
how they did it.
A few months ago, a few months ago
I read that Dr. Oswald J.
Smith had died.
When I was a young, young man, I
used to read his books.
And people wonder sometimes how God has blessed
me.
And one of the things that blessed my
life out of Dr. Oswald J.
Smith's book is when I was a young
man, 19 and 20 and 21, 22, on
up until I was 30 years old, so
influenced by Oswald J.
Smith that when a holiday came like Thanksgiving,
rather than go and play and frolic around
and satisfy my flesh, I would go and
fast and pray every holiday.
And Dr. Oswald J.
Smith had challenged me to do that.
And I would give my life to fasting
and praying on those holidays.
And it really, really upsets me today when
I see the moment some of these young
boys, it's called themselves preachers of the gospel,
the first thing they do when they get
free of a service is run and grab
some stupid ball and go out and want
to play ball and all of that junk.
It really shows you folk where people's souls
are and where people's attitude is and what
they understand about the eternal things of God.
Amen.
My dear friend, I love that man.
He ministered to me through his books.
And then one day, right here at this
place, I got to meet that man.
I don't even know how old he was
when he was here, but oh my, he
was so old.
But I got to meet him right here.
He was right here.
He came to my house.
And it was just such a blessing to
know this man.
This article, when I read this article about
him dying, I thought about all those years.
And you know what it said in that
article?
Listen to me carefully.
It said in that article that this man
in his lifetime as member, as pastor of
the People's Church, Ontario, Canada, that church and
that church alone gave $248 million to missions.
The first question came into my mind.
How did he do it?
And I remember reading those autobiography of this
man.
I remember reading all of his sermons and
all the other books that he wrote.
And I knew how he did it.
I knew he first gave himself.
And I knew he gave what he could
afford to give.
But more than that, folk, he learned how
to touch the unlimited supply of God and
trust God.
That church never ran over 3,000 in
Sunday school a day.
But yet that church in that man's lifetime
gave over $248 million to missions.
Do you know if he pastored that church
from the time he was 30 till he
was 70, did you know that's somewhere around
$4 million a year that church gave to
missions?
That's right.
Over $4 million a year that church gave
to missions.
And you know what?
Not any of them were as successful financially
as you are sitting here.
I guarantee you, your standard of living right
today was at least 50% better than
the people of that city.
All during his ministry.
And he gave $248 million to missions.
You say, so what, preacher?
Your debt for God and your meaningfulness of
God is always determined by what you give
away, not by what you keep.
Your holiness before God is revealed by your
righteousness before man.
Yes, sir.
My friends, this man had a secret.
It was the secret revealed out of 2
Corinthians 8 and 9.
He learned how to tap God's resources.
He learned how to live out of God's
abundances.
He learned how.
He first gave himself.
Then he gave what he could afford.
And then, my dear friends, he gave what
he could trust God for.
They used to have those fabulous missionary conferences
where they would have the missionaries in and
they'd send a card home with every member.
And that member was to listen to those
missionaries and pray for weeks.
And weeks they would pray and they would
come back having signed those cards saying, this
year I'm going to trust God for this
amount of money and this amount of money
to give.
I do not have it, but I will
trust God for it.
And my dear friends, they began to touch
the unbelievable resources of God and they began
to be able to give out of God's
resources not out of man's.
Yes, sir.
And that's how they did it.
That's how they gave 248 million dollars to
missions.
You say, Brother Manley, why are you going
this direction tonight in the light of where
we've been?
Because, my dear friends, the souls of men
are lost and headed to hell and they're
going to be there forever.
And there's only two ways to reach those
people.
Either go and preach yourself or send somebody
to preach.
That's the only two ways there is.
Yes, sir.
That's right.
That's the only two ways.
You don't believe it?
You look at Romans 10.
10.13 Thou shalt confess with thy mouth
and believe in thine heart that God has
raised Jesus from the dead.
Thou shalt be saved.
How shall they believe unless they hear?
How shall they fear unless they be set?
That's right.
There's only two things you can do.
You can either go yourself or you can
send someone to go.
You may do both.
God says all sufficiency at all times in
all places.
Doesn't make any difference about the economy of
the day.
Doesn't make any difference about your health.
Doesn't make any difference about retirement.
Friends, when you can claim this promise, you've
got a promise that will last you till
you walk in the gates.
Amen.
God gave it to you.
God gave it to me.
God has given it to you.
This is not just a promise.
This is what I call a fact.
You see, a promise is some of the
truth God takes and make real to you
for your given situation.
But this is a fact that's applicable to
every man, woman, boy and girl in this
building tonight.
This promise.
This is a fact.
God's grace is able to make all sufficiency
in all places at all times be yours.
You say, Brother Manley, I want to get
in on that promise.
You need to.
It's yours.
Amen.
It's yours.
It's absolutely yours, but you'll have to pay
a price for it.
You'll have to give yourself first.
Amen.
Then you'll have to be obedient to what
he put his finger on.
And then, my dear friends, you'll have to
be brought to that place and taught how
to live by getting what he's got and
not what you've got.
Live out of his resources.
It's yours.
You hear about the fellow that hunted for
diamonds all of his life?
Hunted for diamonds all his life.
Really did.
Sold the farm he was living on.
And the greatest discovery of diamonds in all
the history of the world was on the
farm he owned.
And tonight, my friend, God has given you
a diamond mine in this promise.
I mean, it's the Word of God, folk.
It's not my opinion.
It's not my interpretation of this verse.
It is the Word of God.
It's yours.
He's given it to you.
Are you going to sell it out for
a miss of pottage?
Are you going to sell out your birthrights?
This is your birthright.
I'm not preaching against money, not preaching against
having insurance.
I'm not preaching against, my dear friends, having
a retirement program.
But I'm going to tell you one thing.
If the underwriter hasn't underwritten your program, your
program will dry up.
But this one won't dry up.
It doesn't make any difference what happens.
It doesn't make any difference where you are.
This promise, this fact will go with you
wherever you go, whatever you do.
It'll go with you.
I tell you, I can't say enough about
this, this verse.
All sufficiency, always, under all circumstances.
A little hard to get a hold of,
isn't it?
Amen?
Just sort of hard to get a hold
of.
But there'll come a day when you'll have
to say, God, there's nothing else I can
do.
That's right.
But cling to you.
You don't think you have that occasion coming
in your life, but it will.
Amen.
It will come.
I don't care how much money you save
up, it'll still come.
Amen.
I don't care how healthy you try to
keep your body, it'll still come.
I don't care how secure you try to
keep your family, it will still come.
I don't care who you are, friends.
I don't care what you are tonight.
I'll come a day when you'll need this
all sufficiency at all times, in all places.
And friend, you have no right to it
until you have first given yourself.
Until you have been obedient to what God
has said to do.
Until you have learned to trust Him as
the source and only source with all of
His unlimited resources.
And when you've got there, folk, then this
promise is yours.
This message is yours.
It's yours to experience and live by and
live in it lavishly.
Amen.
But until then, you have no right to
it whatsoever.
Would you bow your heads with me, please?
Tonight, as our heads are bowed and our
eyes are closed, all I have tried to
do is take a verse out of the
Bible and hold up its standard before you.
You know whether or not tonight you're experiencing
this verse.
I realize that you're working the best you
know how to work to keep yourself out
of trouble to where you'll have to depend
on God.
I know that.
That's obvious.
But folk, that's not going to get you
in on what God's got planned for your
life.
You're going to have to come to the
end and get beyond yourself out on Him.
And so I trust tonight that as the
lost world is standing out there awaiting for
you and me to respond to their need,
that some way, somehow, tonight, we can get
in on what God has planned for our
lives.
Are you willing to say, Lord Jesus, here
is my life.
Without any reservation, write on it what you
will.
Are you willing to say, Oh God, I
know my life is surrendered.
Show me anything that must be done by
me to make it possible for you to
do what you want to do through my
life.
God, are you willing to say, Oh God,
tonight, me and all my poverty, teach me
how to live in such a way that
I can give away my life and give
away what I can trust you for.
My friend, we're living in such poverty tonight.
Spiritually, we're living in such poverty tonight in
this whole world because we have not learned
how to trust God in His mighty grace.
Would you let Jesus have His way in
your heart tonight?
Would you do that?
If God has talked to your heart tonight
without any music, God's been talking to you
during these days, why don't you just get
up out of that seat and come and
let God deal with that area.
He's dealing with your heart.
You say, what do you mean, Brother Manley?
I mean like Abraham.
Abraham had yielded all to Jesus.
But my dear friends, one day God said,
You can give something away.
You can give your son, Isaac, away.
The very thing that God blessed him with,
he called on and said, I want that.
Are you willing to say, Oh God, I
can afford it, but I can't take it.
Take this tonight.
Are you willing?
Are you willing to ask God to teach
you and lead you how to tap in
on His resources, not your ability and let
Him have His way with you?
Would you come tonight?
No music?
You just get up out of that seat.
Some have come.
You've come.
Lord, whatever it takes, it may be that
praying one day back in your life, you
said, Lord, whatever it takes.
But you've taken that back.
You've taken it back.
And you have literally run your own life.
It may be tonight you need to renew
that covenant with God.
Would you come?
Young lady, young man, mother, father, if you
are willing to say, God, whatever, I believe
you can get in on this all sufficiency
at all times, under all situations.
I believe you can do it.
Would you come?
As people are continuing to come, would you
come?
Would you come tonight?
God's dealing with your heart.
Would you come?
Sign that sheet of paper.
Say, Lord, here's my life.
Here's my life, Lord.
Amen.