You better be prepared to die.
You see, this is a place of death
before it's a place of life.
If you came here and you say you
gave your life to Jesus Christ, I want
you to know that there's a place that
you can point to, there's a time that
you can remember, and there's an experience that
you can remember when you die.
The word of Cain Malone, the law of
God slew you, absolutely You were so convicted,
and you were slain on the law.
It absolutely took away all your excuses and
all of your own ideas of how you
can please God in your own righteousness and
your own goodness, and there had to be
a place that you died.
You've got to die first before you can
live.
And unless that gospel is preached, that you
die to self, you die to self-will,
you die to self-ego, you die to
self-ambition, if that's not being preached, the
gospel's not being preached.
I had another young man one time sit
in my office, his father was a minister,
a preacher of the gospel, and this young
man almost broke my heart, 17 years of
age, and he said to me, if the
God that is of heaven is the God
of my father, I don't want to serve
him.
I see my father in the pulpit, but
I tell you, he said, he's another man
at home.
You see, this man was a poor reputation
among those of his own house, and he
preached the gospel, became a hindrance to his
own family coming to the saving knowledge of
Jesus Christ.
God forbid, God forbid that in my life
or in your life, that we should become
the very barrier that shuts our sons and
daughters, our brothers and sisters out of the
kingdom of God.
If they make a choice to reject God,
then let it be on their own heads,
but let it be with a perfect knowledge
of who God is.
Let it be with a touch of heaven
if they make that rejection.
Imagine coming into your children, and yes, they
might be in rebellion, and yes, they might
have the world all over them, and yes,
their attitudes might not be right, but imagine
speaking to them as the voice of God.
What drew you to Christ?
Was it condemnation or the promise of new
life?
What was it that drew you?
Was it the angry older brother or the
thought of the father standing at the door
waiting for you to come even in your
ignorance so far away?
What was it that drew you?
I remember before I came to Christ, the
thought that so provoked my heart was not
even so much about Calvary, as wonderful as
Calvary is, but the thought that gripped me
was that I could have a new life.
Amazing.
I remember this man that shared with me,
he says, if any man is in Christ,
he becomes a new creation.
God promises you not just eternity, but that
you will be another man on this side
of eternity.
And I remember how that, I couldn't shake
it.
I couldn't, it wouldn't go away.
It stuck with me day in and day
out.
I'd wake up thinking about it.
I could be another man.
I could be a new man.
It sounded so impossible.
I had died around my own altars.
My bones were very many and very dry,
but somebody came and spoke to me on
God's behalf.
Somebody who wasn't looking to gain something from
me.
Somebody who was not looking for me to
open my wallet and give to them.
Somebody who was honest came into my house
with no objective, but to gain my soul
for the kingdom of God.
And thank God he did.
We're called to make a difference.
We're called to tear down strongholds.
We're called to vanquish the plans of the
devil.
We're called to break the strongholds and the
dominions of sin and death and hell and
darkness and see God's creation.
Those that he loves set free into the
glorious liberty of Jesus Christ.
This is the call that's on your life.
It's not just for a select few.
It's not just for the preachers or those
that have had theological training or all these
other wonderful things that prepare men and women
for ministry.
It's you and me.
The moment the Holy Ghost came upon you,
you had a calling of God to acclaim
your inheritance and to see the power of
the devil broken and others brought into the
inheritance of God.
This is the call of God on his
church.
This is the call of God on your
life.
How does God glorify his name?
He does it through people.
He does it through those who are not
afraid of the devil, afraid of man, afraid
of calamity, and people who are walking in
faith, believing that God can do all things.
That is the man.
That is a woman who glorifies God on
the face of the earth.
Hallelujah.
The Lord's going to bring his people into
rest by bringing divine order into individual lives
and into our homes.
Folks, the devil has been unchallenged long enough.
Folks, it's time that this chaos in the
Christian family and individual Christians has to stop.
Of course, for too long, he's allowed unchallenged
to come and bring depression, fear, and anxiety.
He has come to try to destroy marriages.
He's come to try to take away your
children and destroy the destroyer.
But God is rising now, and he said,
now you wake up, O Zion.
You wake up, and you take authority now
in Jesus' name.
Take authority in the name of Jesus Christ
over all the power of the enemy, because
God is moving.
Let not the moon rise on another night
of compromise and sin.
That's got to be a prayer for ever
going to know the power of God in
our midst.
If you're ever going to know it individually
as Christians, you've got to say, God, stop
this area of fruitlessness in my life and
don't let the moon rise on one more
night of sin.
God, give me the power to turn.
Let not the sun go down on another
day of strife and discord in my home.
Mothers, you can pray this.
Fathers, you can pray this.
Husbands, wives, you can pray this.
God Almighty, stop it.
Let not the sun go down on it.
Stop the discord.
Stop the strife in my home.
Let not the moon rise on another night
of rebellion and confusion in my children.
O God, move heaven and earth and bring
my sons and daughters into their inheritance that
is theirs in Christ.
Move heaven and earth.
Move it.
O God, we have the power to do
this.
He said, pray and say to the mountains,
be moved and it will move.
Command it to be moved.
Stand believing and you will have whatsoever you
ask.
Let not the sun go down on another
powerless day in my life when I'm supposed
to be a testimony of the grace of
the living God.
Let not the sun go down on another
day of it.
Let not the moon rise on another night
of depression and regret.
Jesus, Son of God, make a difference in
my life today.
Let not the sun go down on my
drug-infested, violent, confused neighborhood without my life
having made a difference to somebody.
God, don't let the sun go down tomorrow
before I have touched the soil somewhere, before
you have reached out through me to some
sick person and brought the loving touch of
Almighty God into their life.
Don't let the sun go down on self
-consumption.
O God, don't let the moon rise on
another night of living for myself.
Let not the moon rise without a testimony
of praise to your faithfulness on my lips.
Let not the sun go down without my
heart saying, Jesus, you have been my supply.
You've been my counselor, my friend, my defender,
my tower.
You're my king.
My God.
We have the choice to get up and
move to what God is speaking or we
draw back and we say, no, it can't
be.
I've made too many mistakes.
My family is too far away from God
or perhaps I have too little influence.
Oh, Pastor, you don't understand how religious my
family is.
Oh, God does.
He had a very religious family.
He knows.
He understands.
But he'll give you the strength and the
grace.
But you have to get up.
You have to get into the battle.
He's not going to come and just do
it for you.
Your part is to believe him and get
up and get into the battle.
Say, God, no more.
I'm not letting the sun go down on
this thing any one more day.
Today I'm coming to an altar and I'm
believing God you're going to deal with it.
You're going to strike a death blow to
it.
You're going to burn it in the fire
of your presence.
You're going to lift me out of depression.
You're going to lift me out of despondency.
You're going to lift me out of all
my struggles.
God, you're going to give me hope again.
You're going to give me victory.