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My message this morning, devil, you can't walk
on me anymore.
Open your Bibles to Isaiah 51 and 52
and just open your Bible and leave it,
lay on your lap, open to Isaiah 51,
if you will, please.
Hallelujah.
It's going to be a very powerful week
for the Wilkerson family.
We have the conference and then next Sunday,
50th wedding anniversary.
And we're looking forward to that very much.
Devil, you can't walk on me anymore.
Heavenly Father, we're not going to rail against
the devil this morning, but we're going to
take your authority that you have given and
you ask us to take in command.
And Lord, we pray that you open your
word this morning, that you anoint us.
Lord, you have prepared a message, especially for
some that have gathered here, perhaps for the
first time, others who are part of this
body, who are going through a great dark
night of the soul, going through a testing
time.
Lord, you always have a word in season.
And I ask you, Lord, to deliver it
from my heart as you gave it to
me, to speak to my own heart as
it comes out of my mouth, that I
will apply this to my own life.
And it will not just be theology, it
will be something, Lord, that's worked into the
very fiber of our nature.
Lord, quicken us to hear the word of
the Lord, I pray.
Lord, I need your help.
Do help me, Father, in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Isaiah 51-1, hearken to me, ye that
follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord.
Now, stop right there for just a minute.
These are captives he's addressing.
The prophet Isaiah is speaking.
The Lord is speaking to the prophet Isaiah,
and he's speaking to those who are in
Babylonian captivity.
But they are followers of righteousness, and he's
speaking to a remnant in this great captive
audience.
And he said, I'm going to speak, I
want the ear of all of those who
hearken to me, that pursue after righteousness, ye
that follow or pursue after righteousness, ye that
seek the Lord.
And look at me, please.
This is for this congregation this morning.
You wouldn't be here unless you're a seeker
of the Lord.
You wouldn't be in this church, particularly, if
you weren't a seeker of the Lord.
You wouldn't last.
The Holy Ghost would have convicted you so
by tonight you'd either humble or run.
You wouldn't be coming here.
You're here as a pursuer after God's heart,
and you love Him.
And he said, I want to speak to
you in particular.
He first addresses them as followers after righteousness,
and in verse 21, then, he calls them
afflicted people, drunk but not with wine.
51 verse 21, if you'll look at that,
if you will, please.
Therefore, hear now this.
The same people he's speaking to that seek
after righteousness, thou afflicted and drunken, but not
with wine.
He said, you're righteous, you're holy, so don't
think for a moment that what has come
upon you is just the result of sin.
He said, you're a pursuer after God, but
you're drunken.
In other words, you're drunken with a situation
that's come upon you, a crisis, and it's
put you in some kind of a spiritual,
physical stupor.
It has affected you physically, mentally, or spiritually.
And he said, there's a drunkenness, not with
wine.
In other words, you have not transgressed in
this matter, but you are righteous, you are
holy, and this has come upon you.
And he said, I want the ear of
every God-pursuing person who is drunken, but
not with wine, who's afflicted in some manner.
Now, I don't know what your affliction may
be when you walked in here this morning,
but I do know for those who are,
and those who are going through a trial,
those who have a dark night, maybe dryness,
deadness, whatever it may be, testing in your
home.
It could be with your children, could be
with your family.
I don't know what it is.
I don't need to describe it.
God knows it, and you know it.
But the Lord has brought forth the word
this morning, especially for you.
He said, I want your ear, I want
every spiritual-minded captive, I want every one
of you who have been accused or tormented
by the enemy to hear me.
He said, I want your attention, all godly
servants, all of you who perceive that you
have failed God in some way.
You're under the weight of some kind of
a crisis or sin or problem.
Therefore, verse 21, therefore, hear now this.
I have a word for you.
I've come to deliver you.
I'm going to bring you a word now.
You're righteous, you're a seeker after me, and
I want you to hear me.
And he said, I make you a promise.
I'm going to take out of your hand
the cup of trembling and put it back
in the hand of those who have afflicted
you.
I'm going to take it out, and you'll
see it, verse 22, thus saith the Lord,
the God that pleaded the cause of his
people, he said, I'm here to plead your
cause.
Now, folks, he said, I'm not mad at
you, but I'm here to plead your cause.
Behold, I've taken out of your hand the
cup of trembling.
You've been trembling under this, even the dregs
of the cup of my fury.
Thou shalt no more drink it again, but
I will put it into the hand of
them that afflict thee, which have said to
thy soul, bow down, that we may go
over, and thou hast laid thy body as
the ground and as the street to them
that went over.
Now, in plain language, that says the devil,
for some of you, has been successful in
getting you to bow down.
You're facing the dust down on the street,
and he's walking all over you.
Bow down.
This is what the enemy has said to
you.
Bow down, that we, all the demon powers
and all of those men who are used
by the enemy, may go over you.
You've laid your body to the ground and
to the street, to them, plenty that walk
over you.
The Lord's saying, I want you to hear
me.
I'm on your side.
I've come to deliver you.
You've been allowing the devil to disturb you.
You have been allowing the devil to take
his own way with you.
And he said, it's enough.
You have laid your body down in fear.
You've laid the street in despair.
You have allowed them to walk over you.
God looks at this incredible scene.
He sees sincere, God-loving people that are
bearing burns they need not bear.
He sees people that are discouraged, that need
to be encouraged.
And he says, very plainly, 52 verse 5.
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the
Lord, that my people is taken away for
naught?
They that rule over them make them to
howl, saith the Lord, and my name continually
every day is blasphemed.
He's looking at this in disbelief.
He said, what do we have here?
What is this, that my people are being
so harassed?
My people that love me, that seek me,
are allowing the enemy to walk over them.
He said, what do we have here?
What do I have on my hands?
And he says it very lovingly.
How is it that Satan is taking my
people for nothing, ruling over them, blaspheming my
name, causing them to howl in pain?
Now, if you just open your heart to
the Holy Spirit, you'll see it right there
very clearly.
God again speaks to His bowed down people
in 51 verse 5.
My righteousness is near, my salvation has gone
forth.
Look at verse 5 in chapter 51.
My righteousness is near, my salvation has gone
forth, my hand shall judge the people.
Now that means judging righteously.
Now look at me please.
I said, what do we have here?
We have a people who are seeking my
name, who love me, and they're still walking
in oppression from the enemy.
He's having his free course.
He's walking over my people.
They have bowed their back and allowed this
to happen.
And then he comes with this message.
He said, now, I want you to know,
and he said, and this is something God
wants every one of you that are suffering
this morning to know, God says very clearly
here, my righteousness is near you, my salvation
has gone forth.
I have already spoken the word of deliverance.
I've already given the word.
And folks, I've always said the hardest part
of faith is the last half hour.
Just when God has already spoken the word,
we've become the most burdened down.
And at that time, we're on the street
and we're in the dust with our face
in the dust.
And the Lord said, please, you've got to
know now, lest you give up.
You've got to know now even while you're
in this state.
I've already spoken the word.
I've already given the word.
You're going to be delivered.
He said, I'm going to comfort you.
Verse 2, 51, verse 2, verse 3.
For the Lord shall comfort Zion.
He will comfort all her waste places.
He will make her wilderness like Eden.
You see, you're in this wilderness now, and
you're in a waste place, allowing the enemy
to deceive and overwhelm you.
And the Lord says, I'm going to comfort
you in the midst of this, and I'm
going to make your wilderness like Eden, and
your desert like the garden of joy of
the Lord.
And I'm going to bring joy and gladness,
thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
He said, while you're in this, get this
in your mind.
I've spoken the word.
You don't have to let the devil walk
over you anymore, because I've spoken the word,
and you're going to come out of this,
and you're going to sing, and you're going
to make melody in your heart, because I
have said the word.
I've given the word.
Hallelujah.
God loves His people.
He said, you have your head bowed down.
You've laid your body to the ground.
He said, I've got to make this clear
to you.
I want to deliver you, but I've got
to tell it like it is.
And I'm telling you, you have laid your
body down.
You are allowing this in your life.
God seems incredulous in verse 12, chapter 51,
verse 12.
I, even I, am He that comforteth you.
He said, in the light of all my
promises, in the light of my sending the
word, and I've given you the word.
Folks, you've heard the word from this pulpit
time and time again, the promises of the
covenant, the promises God has made to you
that He's already spoken the word.
He's already got the plan of deliverance.
He's already got all the joy, everything you
need.
But He says, who art thou that thou
shouldest be afraid of a man that shall
die and of the son of man which
shall be made as grass?
He said, what's going on here?
Why are you afraid of man?
Why are you afraid of what people think
of you?
Why do you measure yourself with other men?
Why do you think you're a failure because
you don't measure up to what you think
is some standard?
Why are you letting people walk all over
you that the enemy is using and you
let them bring depression and fear and bondage
into your life?
He said, who are you in the light
of my promises?
And he says it lovingly.
Who are you or why do you allow
this when I've told you never have to
fear man?
I'll never put you to shame.
And he said, I'm going to take the
cup of trembling they tried to put in
your hand.
I'm going to put it in their hands.
I'm not, I'm not talking about any kind
of spirit of revenge or anything as God
has told us clearly that the devil uses
people.
He possesses people and they'll come to harass
you.
Ungodly, wicked people will come and harass you
and try to cause you to tremble.
Verse 7, hearken unto me, 51-7, hearken
unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people
in whose heart is my law, fear ye
not the reproach of men, neither be afraid
of their revilings, their gossip, their talk can't
hurt you.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but
names will never hurt me.
Don't be afraid of man.
Don't be afraid of the wicked.
Don't be afraid, the Bible says, of the
raging of the heathen.
He said, you brought a reproach on yourself.
You bring a reproach on yourself when you
don't take your spiritual authority.
God said, you have, verse 13, look at
verse 13.
I think it's verse 13, 15.
Here it is.
He said, you have feared continually every day.
You've feared continually.
That's in verse 13.
You've laid the foundation there and has feared
continually every day because of the fury of
the oppressor, as if he were ready to
destroy.
Where is the fury of the oppressor?
You know what God is saying?
Look back over history.
Show me, God says, any time I have
failed my people, I have failed to deliver
those who are under the oppression of the
enemy.
Where is the fury?
Look all through history.
You will not find God ever failing.
And God has never once failed you in
your trial.
He's brought you out of many, many trials
up to this point where you are now.
You look back and say, he's faithful.
I stand at this time in my life
after 50, more than 50 years of ministry
and 50 years of marriage, and I can
tell you, I have walked through fires and
I've walked through floods and I've walked through
afflictions and distress, but my God has never
once failed me.
Never once has he failed.
And he's not failed you.
He has not failed you.
He said, you have feared continually every day.
David said, I'm feeble, I'm sore broken because
of the disquietness of my heart.
Some of you right now, you're feeble and
your heart is disturbed.
All over the world now, you find broken,
bruised people, especially in the ministry.
Many ministers have already quit and others are
anticipating leaving the ministry.
They live in this continual fear God is
talking about, especially their wives who see their
husbands in such turmoil, not just in the
ministry, but everywhere else from the job and
pressure on the job.
They fear poverty.
They fear they're going to be unemployed.
I'm going to lose my house.
I'm going to lose this.
What are we going to do in this
terrible fear of the future?
For many ministers, this discouragement is because they
see so little fruit, not just Christian workers
in general.
And those who are serving the Lord, they
see so little fruit for their labors.
I have two preacher sons and one of
my sons called me a month or so
ago and he said, Dad, what do you
do when you've done everything right, but nothing
seems to turn out right?
What do you do when you're prayed up?
You're walking in holiness.
You're trusting God with everything in you.
You have everything in order in your ministry,
in your life, in your home.
You're full of faith and God makes you
promises that are dear to your heart and
you don't see them coming to pass.
And he says, when you put so much
of your time and effort into people, you
minister and give your life to them and
then for no reason at all, they walk
away.
Even worse, they turn on you.
He said, what do you do then?
What do you do after you've done everything
right?
And I began to think about that.
I thank God that my son has worked
his way through that because God was doing
a marvelous work in his heart and he
was answering this to other ministers.
God's given ministry of counseling and God was
working this out in his own life.
What do you do after you've done everything
right and nothing seems to turn out right?
And there are many of you sitting here.
You've done everything.
You've got the situation on your hands.
You have fasted.
You have prayed.
You can't see any sin in your life.
You're under the blood.
You're walking in the righteousness of Christ and
yet you don't see God answering your prayer.
He made you a promise and now time
goes by year after year after year goes
by and that promise does not seem to
be fulfilled.
A Lutheran pastor talked to me recently and
he said, our whole city, our whole area,
all the pastors are discouraged.
We used to meet monthly.
Now he said, now there's a few come
because the meetings were so down and the
pastors are saying we see so little fruit
for what we're doing.
They're working harder than ever and see so
little fruit and people are falling away and
they say, what should we do?
Their wives are discouraged and now here in
New York, in the United States, we have
a whole nation under distress.
Stress everywhere you look.
Newsweek magazine this week said I think 65
percent of American people can't anymore.
And here in New York City, fear of
bioterrorism, fear that the tunnels or bridges will
be blown up.
Now it's nuclear.
We may have a dirty bomb.
Now over in Long Island they're afraid that
the atomic plants will blow up.
There's fear on every side and stress on
all sides.
Folks, we've got to get some word from
the Lord.
We've got to start putting our trust in
him once again.
And in this time of terrible distress, God
says you feared continually every day because of
the fury of the oppressor as if he
were going to destroy you.
Folks, I'm going to tell you, there is
no scenario that you can paint.
There's no situation of terrorism or anything else
you can paint where the devil or any
enemy can destroy you.
That doesn't mean that you're not going to
die in one of these things or I'll
die.
It means that if I go in instant
glory, I am not destroyed.
I'm getting a new body.
It's nothing to fear because I pass from
death into life.
We Christians should be examples in this last
day for people all around us who are
stressed.
That's one of the greatest testimony that you
have the rest of Christ in your heart.
You're at peace with the world.
You're at peace with God.
Live or die, I am the Lord's.
Folks, there's no other way to rest but
say, I don't care.
I'm his.
Put your life in his hands.
In chapter 52, verses 5 and 6, the
Lord makes a promise.
In the day that your enemy walks over
you, in that day when you howl and
cry because of fear of the enemy, therefore
in that day they shall know that I
am he that doth speak, behold, it is
I.
The Lord says, in the middle of your
trial, your fear, God says, I'm going to
appear.
I'm going to appear and say, be still.
Don't be afraid.
Be of good cheer.
It's me.
It's your Savior.
It's Christ.
And folks, that was literally fulfilled in Matthew
14 in the middle of a storm.
Disciples are in a boat that's tossed by
wind and waves and Jesus comes toward them.
Folks, every time we're in some kind of
a trial, Jesus is always coming our way.
He's always coming.
Hallelujah.
And in this time of tossing, in this
time of fearfulness, the Lord said those very
words, it is I.
Be not afraid.
Be of good cheer.
You know, I got to thinking about that
and he says, be of good cheer to
men who think they're about to die.
Be of good cheer.
And the word means be relieved and be
happy.
Be released from your fears.
And he expects because of who he is
and the promises he's made, he's expecting us
to act on his word alone by faith.
Just to act on his promises.
There's nothing else.
I can't see anything else in the scripture
that would bring you out.
The Lord puts his finger now on the
cause of our fear and our discouragement.
He puts his finger right on the cause
in verse 13.
He said, you afraid of man and first
thing and forget us the Lord thy maker
that have stretched forth the heavens and laid
the foundation of the earth.
Look at me, please.
He said, let me tell you why you've
allowed the enemy to walk over you with
all this fear.
Because you're forgetting who I am.
You're forgetting that I reign as king of
kings and Lord of lords.
You're forgetting my majesty.
You have forgotten that in your crisis, you've
forgotten who I am.
And folks, if you'll stop and look at
where you're at today, the fear that you
brought into this house with you, you remember,
you've forgotten the Lord thy maker that has
stretched forth the heavens, laid the foundation of
the earth.
Verse 14.
He said, the captive exile hasteneth that he
may be loosed, that he should not die
in his pit, nor that his bread should
fail.
Now, look at me, please.
I'm not going to yell at you.
I'm going to say it clearly and quietly.
And that's the Holy Ghost to drive a
wonderful place, drive it deep into the innermost
part of your being.
The Lord said, because you don't have your
eye on my majesty and my power, because
you're not looking to me as a God
who can work out all your problems and
you're not listening to my word, you're not
hearing me because you're so anxious to get
out of your problem.
You're a captive now by this thing.
You hasten to be loosed.
God, get me out of this, rather than
ask God to show you his majesty in
the trial, his delivering power in the situation
that you're in right now.
God, just get me out, because I'm afraid,
Lord, that if it goes on, I'm going
to spin out, I'm going to get lost
in this pit, and also that my bread's
going to fail, that I'm going to lose
my livelihood, and I'm going to be in
poverty.
And God says no.
God said, David expressed the heart of God
when he said, I'm old and gray, and
I've yet to see God's people beg for
bread.
God's always going to feed you and clothe
you and take care of you, or he
couldn't be a loving father.
So that's no reason whatsoever to fear.
Now, God commands his people in chapter 52,
he commands his people to wake up to
the fact that they're being walked over, and
he says, wake up, put on thy strength,
O Zion, verse 152.
Put on thy beautiful garments, shake thyself from
the dust.
He says, get up.
You're laying in the dust.
The enemy's walking over you.
He says, now, get up.
I am God.
I'm reigning as king of kings and lord
of lords.
You don't have to let the devil walk
over you anymore.
Get up.
Rise up out of the dust.
It's an act of faith.
Get up.
And he says, now, put on your beautiful
garments.
He said, you're still righteous in my eyes.
You've allowed the enemy to tell you you're
filthy, you're dirty, you're unclean, and you have
no right to put that garment on.
He said, put it back on.
Walk in faith that I am righteous in
the sight of God.
He's my lord.
He's not forgotten me.
And he said, get up and sit down
as queen.
Put your garment of righteousness on and sit
down as reigning with Christ.
Oh, Jerusalem, the holy city, for henceforth thou
shalt no more come into the uncircumcised and
unclean.
He said, the devil's not going to have
access to you as he has in the
past.
Now, let me tell you plainly what I
believe it takes and how God worked in
my life to stop this bowing down to
the enemy and allowing him to walk over
me.
No more.
No more bowing down.
First of all, I learned that all my
springs are in Christ.
This is Psalm 87, 7.
Don't turn.
All my springs are in thee.
I found out after all these years that
my wife, as much as I love her,
she can't satisfy this thing that's so deep
in my soul, crying out for...
there's a hunger and a thirst that only
Christ.
He's the spring and I have to dig
down into Him.
I have to get my satisfaction from Him.
I don't get my satisfaction from my family.
I love them.
They'll hopefully tell you that I'm a good
father and husband.
I don't get my satisfaction from my ministry.
I thank God for the ministry to give
me and I love to preach His word,
but it's not my ministry per se.
It's nothing I've ever built.
Folks, you can take every book I've ever
written.
You can take every building and every institution
the Lord's put in my heart to build.
You could take any major success I may
have been given by the hand of God.
You can take it all because none of
that satisfies.
The only thing it satisfies is that God
comes and gives me a revelation.
You can have all that if you give
me a revelation and let me draw a
little closer, see Him clearer and understand His
ways a little better.
That's what makes me shout and what makes
me jump for joy because God has shown
me something about Himself.
He's revealing Himself inside.
My satisfaction comes from drinking in this one
well, in Christ.
And when you come to that place where
all your springs are in Him, you're not
looking for your husband or wife to satisfy
you.
You're not looking it from your job or
your career.
You're not looking it from any ministry, how
big or how small.
You're not looking for anything from man or
from this world.
You're not looking for satisfaction out of being
somebody.
You're satisfied because Jesus is talking to you.
Jesus is revealing Himself to you.
He's manifesting Himself in you.
When you come to that place, I really
believe you have to come to this place
where you say, Lord, it doesn't matter to
me anymore whether or not you change my
condition or my situation.
I don't like it.
But Lord, I want to be in the
place where I'm drawing everything out of you
and I'm not looking at my condition no
matter how bad that condition is.
You said you have a supply of grace
that's equal or above everything that I can
endure and you won't allow me endure anything
more than I'm able through Christ.
So you come to a place where He
brings you above your circumstances.
They're still there.
You know, it's an amazing thing when Jesus
goes to pray three times, Father, let this
pass from me.
And after the third time, an angel comes
and ministers to Him and strengthens Him.
You know what the next word says?
You see, it's like coming to church.
You're in a crisis and you hear an
encouraging word and you're so, this is wonderful
and there's a flush of freedom and thanksgiving.
And you go out the door and your
condition is the same.
Because after the angel came, you know what
the next word was?
And he'd be in agony, prayed the more
earnestly.
Because he'd been strengthened by an angel.
And the next word, and he'd be in
agony, prayed the more earnestly.
Jesus knew the secret of overcoming all the
powers of hell.
I'm going to keep praying to my Father
and I'm going to pray more earnestly.
Amazing.
When the agony is still there, you go
home, you may get some deliverance in just
hearing the word and the word will wash
over you.
But the agony may continue and that's when
the devil comes because the agony is there.
Say, well, there's no deliverance.
Yes, Jesus was strengthened.
That strength took him right through to victory,
all the way to the cross.
It helped him to drink the cup of
pain that had been handed to him.
But there's still agony.
But the Lord was, the Father was more
than sufficient.
The Holy Spirit was more than sufficient.
It has to come to the place where
you say, Lord, I want deliverance, but I'm
not hastening to be loosened.
I want to know you in my crisis.
I want to know.
And I want to trade all my dreams
for the reality that is in Christ.
Let me tell you a story in closing.
A beautiful story that was given to me
two nights ago.
A telephone call from a pastor.
Pretty well explains what I'm trying to bring
you this morning.
He has a young lady in the church
that was born with a disfigurement in her
face.
Pretty severely disfigured.
And yet all of her teenage years, she
prayed that God would send a man, a
husband, when she was old enough, who would
love her in spite of her disfigurement.
And she prayed for years.
She wanted, first of all, the Lord would
give her somebody that would love her and
that she could have a child.
And for all her teenage years and into
her twenties, she prayed that prayer.
This was her dream.
And last week she came to the pastor
with a bar of soap and a baby
rattle.
She said, please take this off me, off
my hands.
She told him the story.
She said, all my life.
And so I said, now this bar of
soap.
When I was a little girl, my daddy
would say, honey, go get me some soap.
And she would go get her daddy soap.
And she identified that with being needed and
wanted a man in the house.
And she identified that with a loving husband
who one day might say to her, honey,
bring me a bar of soap.
Just so she could respond in love.
And she said, the rattle represents the baby
that I wanted.
And she said, I've carried this dream all
my life.
My face is not ever going to change
because there's no operation, nothing can change it.
She said, there's my lifetime dream.
She said, I want to tell you something,
Pastor.
I laid that down months ago.
I laid that dream down and it's been
replaced by another dream that's far greater.
Jesus has become my husband.
And she said, if you notice now, all
the children flock to me.
I have so many children.
And the pastor said, she's not fighting that
dream anymore.
She's not carrying that weight anymore.
She said, Pastor, I'm so free and I
want to get rid of these symbols.
Now, please take them.
So he took them.
And he told me, Pastor told me, he
said, she's the most loving woman in our
church.
She is so happy.
The Lord has restored everything the cankerworms have
eaten.
She is at peace.
The whole church loves her.
Children flock to her.
And she said, I couldn't be happier.
You see, you may be carrying some kind
of a dream, just like the pastor's dream,
who suddenly he realized how selfish his dream
had been, that God hadn't given him a
bigger church and his congregation wasn't growing like
he thought.
And he always dreamed of having, you know,
a good-sized church.
Not selfish, but he just wanted a bigger
church.
And he wanted fruit and all of that.
And then when he saw what was happening,
he listened to a woman who came home
from vacation and she's on the beach, sitting
there in a beach chair, watching her husband
waving.
He's out there swimming deeper in the sea.
Big wave came and took him away and
they never found him.
And so she comes home with this pain.
And he's thinking to himself, all of this
selfishness in me, all of this drive that's
in me.
He told me his most tender words.
He said, I have no more dreams about
a large church.
I just want a loving church.
I just want people who love each other.
I want to minister to those I have
and stand before God, knowing that I produced,
by the word, a loving family.
How small or how large it may be,
that's what it's all about.
Sometimes our foolish dreams, we cling to them
and cling to them and we don't trade
them for Christ.
If they're to be restored to us in
his time and his way, he'll do it.
Otherwise, he said, he wants you to live
in peace.
He said, I have commanded your deliverance.
He said, stand up now, rise up, get
up out of the dust.
It's an act of faith.
He said, I've empowered you to do that.
The enemy can't hold you anymore.
Will you stand, please?
As you get ready to sing that song,
God is good and his mercies endureth forever.
Friends, if you're here this morning in the
Annex and here in the Mayan Auditorium, and
you came into the service this morning in
a struggle, in a battle, and something that
was said this morning ministered to your heart,
either convicted you or encouraged you or ministered
to you, I want you to respond as
the Holy Ghost would lead you.
A minister said to me the other day,
he said, Pastor Dave, what's happening?
I've never seen so many hurting people ever.
Many of the pastors are coming to this
conference are hurting, deeply hurt.
Some on the brink of just saying, I
can't go another step.
I can't handle it anymore.
And especially the wives.
But it's not just the ministry, it's everywhere.
People are stressed out, burdened down.
And if you're here this morning, say, Brother
Dave, I walked in here this morning really
under a heavy burden, and I've been down.
I've been depressed and oppressed.
The oppressors come to put something on me
and I can't seem to shake it off.
In other words, the enemy's been walking over
you.
I'm going to ask God to deliver you
from that fear.
I just want to repeat this word from
the Lord.
He said, Rise up now, shake yourself from
the dust and put on your robe, your
garment of righteousness.
Folks, every day I get up, the enemy
tries to come.
Just a word, you're not worthy or something,
just right out of the pits of hell
will come at you.
Not every day, but there are times that
that'll just happen.
And you have to say no.
And you, by an act of faith, put
on your robe of righteousness.
I am made righteous in Christ Jesus, not
any good thing in me.
I put that on devil.
You're not going to tell me I'm unworthy,
or I'm dirty, or I'm filthy, or I'm
lost.
Not anymore.
You can't do that.
You can't walk over me with those lies.
And put it on by faith and let
the joy of the Lord come into your
heart.
When you take that step of faith, and
I want you to take that step of
faith right now.
God has ordered, He's spoken the word for
my deliverance.
He's promised me beauty from my ashes.
He's promised me joy, thanksgiving, and melody in
my heart.
In prayer all week, I've said, God, just
pour in my heart the joy of the
Holy Ghost.
There's a joy that becomes our strength, the
joy of the Holy Ghost.
And He wants to replace whatever you're going
through right now.
You can move through all of that cloud.
You can move through the darkness by a
step or leap of faith right now.
Just a leap of faith.
Just on what He said.
Just what He said.
Will you do that with me now?
Raise your hand to the Lord right now
and say this with me.
Jesus, I am tired and I'm weary of
the enemy taking advantage of me.
I'm tired of the lies and the accusations.
I hear what you said.
You are reigning in the heavens.
You are still king of the flood.
So I come to your word and I
accept what you said.
I need not fear, not man or devils.
I believe God is on my side.
And now by faith, I have confessed and
I have moved out of the enemy's territory
into the love of God.
I am saved.
I'm sanctified.
Now, Holy Ghost, fill me with faith.
I accept you, Jesus, as reigning in my
heart.
Devil's a liar.
God is on His throne.
Now give Him thanks.
God, you are on the throne.
You are on your throne right now.
You reign supreme.
You've spoken the word of deliverance.
You've got to say now by the power
of the Holy Ghost, I reject this.
I will not receive it because the Lord
by His Spirit has said He empowers me.
This is the conclusion of the message.