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Just leave Ezekiel 37 open on your lap
and join me in prayer now that the
Lord will help me to convey the mind
of the Holy Spirit here tonight.
Heavenly Father, I desperately need you.
I need your touch and your anointing.
Lord, you're trying to say something in this
service tonight to all of us.
And I yield my body and I yield
myself to you and I ask you to
come with a special anointing.
Give us ears to hear what the Spirit
has to say.
Lord, sanctify me.
Purge me.
Let me be a vessel of honor to
your glory.
And Lord, what we hear tonight, let it
not just be something that stirs our emotion,
but something we take home and long remember.
And it could be something that will change
our lives.
Touch me, Jesus.
Quicken us.
Pastor Carter needs a touch.
Touch him in his body also tonight.
Minister to him.
And Lord, take this word.
Use it for your glory.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Ezekiel 37.
Let's read the first three verses.
The hand of the Lord was upon me
and carried me out in the spirit of
the Lord and set me down in the
midst of the valley which is full of
bones.
And caused me to pass by them round
about and behold, there were very many in
the open valley and lo, they were very
dry.
And he said unto me, Son of man,
can these bones live?
And I answered, O Lord, thou knowest.
The prophet Ezekiel was taken into a vast
valley with nothing but bleached bones as far
as the eye can see.
That's New York City.
You see, we're not talking about physical bones.
We're talking about spiritual death.
We're talking about spiritual dead bodies.
This is the valley of vision of dry
bones.
And most of us have heard about this.
There was a song years ago.
Them bones, them bones, them dry bones.
The hip bone connected to the thigh bone,
the knee bone.
How many remember that?
It was taken from this very chapter.
And some preach that this chapter speaks only
of the restoration of Israel because Israel is
mentioned here.
These bones are the whole house of Israel,
Ezekiel said.
But folks, we're talking about the spiritual Israel
and I can prove it because in verse
24 it says, And David my servant shall
be king over them.
That's after they're resurrected.
And they all shall have one shepherd.
They shall all walk in my judgments and
observe my statues and do them.
King David had been dead years.
You see, this is King Jesus.
This is the church of Jesus Christ.
Now, there is a restoration of natural Israel,
but this is talking about something spiritual having
to do with the body and the church
of Jesus Christ.
Verses 21 to 24, beginning to read in
verse 21, Say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord God, I will take the children of
Israel from among the heathen.
Whether they be gone will gather them on
every side and bring them into their own
land.
Now, folks, that is speaking not only of
the restoration of Israel as we've seen it
since 1948, but coming into the land here
is coming into the fullness of Jesus Christ,
coming out of the kingdom of darkness into
the kingdom of light.
It's a spiritual vision that Ezekiel is talking
about.
My servant David shall be their prince forever.
That's in verse 25.
I will set my sanctuary in the midst
of them forever.
That is not natural Israel.
That's the church of Jesus Christ.
Verse 27, My tabernacle also shall be with
them.
Yea, I will be their God, and they
shall be my people.
That's speaking of Jesus Christ alone.
Beloved, the valley of dry bones is still
with us today.
When Jesus, the Holy Ghost, called me back
to New York City, it was ten years
ago now.
How quick that time has gone.
It just seems like yesterday.
I arrived in this city with a burden
to start a church here in a Times
Square area.
But what a wonderful thing we've seen the
Lord do.
But it's a valley of dry bones.
It's a valley of dead people who don't
know Jesus Christ.
Because any man in sin, the Bible said,
is dead.
He's dead in trespasses and in his sins.
I want you to listen to a note
I got from somebody.
They said, Brother Wilkinson, you see the negative
thing of everything.
In fact, this lady referred to me as
a doomsday preacher.
Because you see, when Jesus commanded his disciples
to go to Jerusalem and wait for the
Holy Ghost, they thought that this was going
to be the restoration of the kingdom.
That was it.
They were going to go back to Jerusalem.
Jesus was going to come back from the
dead.
And he was going to come marching in
as king.
He said, Will thou at this time restore
the kingdom of Israel?
And there are people right now trying to
resurrect this dead nation through politics, that the
church should get more involved in politics.
I believe that Christians should vote.
I believe that we should be concerned.
I believe we need to pray about it.
But listen to what this woman says.
She had read one of my prophecies about
the last days of America.
And she wrote and said, Mr. Wilkinson, how
hopeless you are.
You need to visit some of the television
evangelists and get a vision of the coming
kingdom.
Don't you know that America is about to
be rescued?
Pastor so-and-so, she mentions his name,
has got thousands of people praying.
And a woman just got a vision of
a black cloud that was about to fall
on America, but she chased it away.
That's what she said.
She chased the black cloud from America.
And because of that, God showed her America
is now safe from judgment.
We are electing Christian mayors now.
We are getting Christians into the arts.
We're getting very, very strong in politics.
Soon we will be in command.
Another vision is that God has secured all
our borders.
Our borders are secured, the north, south, east,
and west.
Through prayer, we have secured American borders so
that judgment can't proceed.
Brother David, don't be so sad.
Please don't talk so gloomy.
The kingdom is coming, Mr. Wilkerson.
Rejoice.
You know what Jesus said?
Jesus said to them, it's not for you
to know the times or the seasons which
the Father put in his own power, but
you shall receive power.
After that, the Holy Ghost has come upon
you, and you shall be witnesses unto me.
It's the preaching of the gospel that changes
lives.
It's sticking to the preaching of the gospel.
You will be witnesses to me.
You will reign later.
Right now, you witness.
You will reign later with Jesus Christ.
Now, God put Ezekiel in the middle of
this Holocaust scene.
It must have been an incredible sight as
he walked through.
In fact, in the Hebrew, it says, he
caused me to pass round and round.
In other words, he caused me just to
walk back and forth through all of these
bones.
And what an incredible thing.
I have a hard time walking through a
cemetery with the bones underground.
He's walking over dead bones.
Everywhere, there's nothing but bleached bones.
There are skulls, and there are leg bones,
and arm bones, and fingers, and toes.
Everywhere, it's just a valley of bones out,
bleached, out in the open in this great
valley.
And what a tour it was.
Because the Bible said there were many bones,
and they were very dry.
Have you ever been to a church like
that?
Full of dry, dead bones?
America's full of churches like that.
You can't say that about what you saw
and heard here tonight.
It's not just the noise or anything else,
but it has to do with that intensity
of love for Jesus Christ, and the moving
of the Holy Spirit that draws you out
of yourself into his presence.
Here stands a holy prophet of God, and
the Bible says the hand of God was
upon him.
And he's led by the Spirit.
Now get this, please.
He's a holy man, and he's being led
by the Holy Spirit into a very dry
place with many dry bones.
He's put right in the middle of it,
the middle of death.
And he didn't turn to Ezekiel, he didn't
say, How did they get so dry?
How did they die?
How did these people get like this?
Let me make a confession to you.
The first 10 years of my ministry, I
had such a burden for the church, and
I saw the ruin.
And I spent a lot of time, and
I wrote a few books I'd like to
call back.
And basically, not because it was wrong, but
because I became so good, I was like
a specialist doctor who knew how to diagnose
disease.
There are doctors like that.
They can't heal, they can't operate, but they
can diagnose.
They can tell you what's wrong.
I became a spiritual diagnotician.
I could tell you why America was suffering,
why America was brought to ruin.
The prophet Ezekiel was not asked, How did
this ruin come about?
And it doesn't pay us, and I learned
this, and I thank God that he taught
this to me, that it's not enough just
to go around preaching about the destruction and
the ruin, and how it happened.
Sure, we kick God out of our schools,
there's no more prayer.
You know all of those things, but that
doesn't solve anything.
It still leaves us in ruins.
It just tells us how we got there.
And Ezekiel was not told a thing.
He's not told anything about analyzing the situation.
There's only one question.
Ezekiel, can these bones live?
Can these bones live?
What's he supposed to say?
What would you say?
Well, Lord, what's the plan?
I look at this city.
I live on the 30th floor, a block
from here, and I have a view of
downtown.
I see the Statue of Liberty.
I see all downtown.
And I look at these buildings, and, you
know, some of these, there are certain projects
that have at least 30,000 people in
one set of projects, as big as some
towns in America.
And I look at these projects, and I
look at these buildings, and I say, oh,
God, they're dead.
This is a city.
And some people have come to me, some
loving people.
They weren't correcting me.
They were saying, well, it looks complete.
I was saying when I look at these
high rises, I see tombstones.
Because they're full of thousands of dead people,
spiritually dead.
And one lady comes and said, oh, don't
say that about this beautiful city, these beautiful
towers and beautiful city.
Yes, but they're still tombstones.
The people inside are dying.
And I stand there, and I said, oh,
God, how do we reach them?
We have a city.
The greater metroplex here, including all of the
metroplex of New Jersey and areas of Connecticut,
there are 17 million people in this greater
metroplex, 17 million.
And, you know, even if we had 25
,000 in this church, that's one project.
You know, it's staggering.
It's absolutely staggering.
And sometimes I feel like Ezekiel when I
walk these streets.
I see dry bones.
I see dead, bleached, dry bones everywhere.
You go to apartment houses where you have
a concierge, perhaps, or you have a doorman
or just your neighbors, and you talk to
them about Jesus, and they're so dead they
don't understand what you're talking about.
There's a death on the job around you.
There's a terrible death.
There are dry bones on your job.
You're working with corpses.
Spiritually, they are dead.
You don't have to analyze them.
You don't have to go tell them how
they got that way.
They know where they're at.
But he says, Ezekiel, can these bones live
again?
Look at the death.
Look at the emptiness.
Look at the stench.
Look at the utter hopelessness.
Ezekiel, how are we going to resurrect them?
How are we going to bring life to
this death situation?
And, oh, I stand, been here 10 years
now.
Thank God for what he's done.
Thank God for the many people who have
been saved here.
Ever since we came here, these altars have
been opened by the Holy Spirit.
Literally hundreds and hundreds have been saved.
Thousands have been saved, in fact.
Every service, people are saved.
I thank God for that.
The church is packed to capacity.
Thank God for that.
But we're not trying to pack these pews.
We're in a city of dry bones.
And I don't think we can just come
to church week after week and just get
a little blessing for ourselves and enjoy ourselves
and shout.
That's wonderful.
We've got to give God praise and honor
and thanksgiving.
But, folks, when we stand before the Judgment
Day, we have to give an account that
there be no blood on our hands, that
we enjoyed his salvation, we enjoyed his gospel,
and we did nothing.
God put us in a valley of dry
bones.
Like it or not, you have been played.
I have been planted right in the middle
as a pastor in one of the biggest
valleys of dry bones on the face of
the earth.
And the Holy Ghost comes and says, Pastor
Dave, Pastor Carter, what are you going to
do about these dry bones?
Do you believe these bones can live again?
Oh, that's a big question.
Lord, does that take faith and understanding of
the ways of God?
God knows how.
He has all the power.
He knows how to resurrect the city.
But I'll tell you what.
He has to use people.
He has to use individuals.
He has to use his own people.
The death is going to hold on until
God's people do something about it.
And God said to Ezekiel, Prophesy upon these
bones and say to them, Hear the word
of the Lord.
You know, he could have stood there, a
God man, holy, righteous, brokenhearted, because he loved
Israel.
Ezekiel had a heart for Israel.
The Spirit of God was upon him.
He had a broken heart.
He could have walked among those bones and
cried and bawled 24 hours a day.
He could have got down on his knees
and prayed, Oh, God, break my heart over
the lost condition.
But all his tears wouldn't have done it.
All of his pleading wouldn't have done it.
Because the Lord commanded these words, Prophesy unto
these bones and say to them, Hear the
word of the Lord.
Only truth itself is going to set people
free.
Only the truth.
He said, you're going to preach the truth
to these bones.
Now, folks, that takes a lot of faith
for a man to preach to a congregation
like this.
There's no orchestra.
There's no brass band.
There's no choir.
Nobody's raising their hands.
Nobody's wiggling their toes.
Nobody's smiling at him.
Nobody's saying praise the Lord because nobody has
the voice yet.
This man is told, preach to the wind,
preach to the air.
Just preach.
I said, where are you going, brother?
Just hang on.
Follow me.
At this time that he's told to prophesy,
Israel had ceased to be a nation.
They were in slavery.
They were living in captivity.
There was despair.
All the prophets of peace had told them
just before the Holocaust came, the nation of
Israel, Judah was filled with prophets of prosperity.
They were saying, the temple is here and
the temple is going to protect us because
God made a promise he'd never abandon his
temple.
And as long as the temple's in Jerusalem,
the walls are secure, everything is fine.
There was nothing but the preaching of prosperity
and everything was going to be fine.
There'd be no judgment.
There'd be no enemy armies.
And then when the Assyrians came in and
destroyed and burned the city to the ground
and took all the false prophets off to
Babylon, and now this is the devastation that
remains that the prophet Ezekiel is being forced
to look at.
God is saying, Ezekiel, I'm commanding you to
tell these bones that they're going to live
again.
I'm going to bring life out of death.
It's going to take that kind of faith
and obedience in the church of Jesus Christ
on this last day.
It's going to take that kind of obedience
to the Lord to go out on the
streets, to go on your job, to go
into your home with the message that you
can live, that there is life.
This is the message, the only message that
the world is going to receive today.
They've heard nothing but death.
They get death everywhere.
Their music produces death in them.
Their pleasures produce death in them.
The only hope, the only sound of life,
the only hope of life is to have
somebody full of the word of Jesus Christ,
the word of resurrection.
Only life produces life.
And God wants his church to be so
full of the life of Jesus Christ that
every word you speak on the job and
everywhere you go, you produce life.
You produce hope.
And when you look at somebody that is
so dead, they look so hopeless, that there's
no hope.
God says, no, don't look at their condition.
Don't look at their dryness.
Don't look at the death in them.
Go with hope.
I thought after Israel and Nicky Cruz got
saved, I'd never doubt God again.
Then I meet a man who murdered 11
people.
Cut off the heads and hands of 3
of them.
Because he was with the mafia.
And I listen to this story and my
heart's sinking.
And I'm thinking, well, I don't think I
want to spend much time because he's hopeless.
I don't know if I want to even
witness to him because he's hopeless.
And you kind of back away.
No, you don't back away from anybody.
You don't leave that valley of dry bones,
say they're too dry, they're too dead, it's
too hopeless.
Nothing is impossible with our God.
That husband of yours, he's
not too far gone.
I don't care what condition he is.
You may not know it, but sitting right
by you, in front of you, behind you,
some of those wicked sinners that New York
ever knew.
And they're sitting here now, redeemed by the
blood of Jesus Christ.
If you only knew who you were sitting
there.
If you only, right?
How about it, fellas, how about it?
What God has done?
Come on, tell me, didn't some of you
think you were hopeless?
Yourself?
You're too dead, there's no way you could
be resurrected from that death.
But you know what amazes me?
Some fellas like those from Timothy House here
and Sarah House and others, they get saved
and they're resurrected.
And then when they meet a hard case
five years later, after God's using them, they
get that same doubt, I wonder if God
can do it.
And they forget what God did for them.
Don't ever forget the pit God dug you
out of, so you have hope for everybody
else.
You know why God's saying to Ezekiel, preach
to those dead bones?
He's trying to show him that nothing was
impossible, that you never give up on Israel,
you never give up on anybody.
You don't give up.
Doesn't matter how dead they look, doesn't matter
how hopeless it looks, preach to them, witness
to them, hold on, pray for them.
Oh, hallelujah.
I think everybody in this house knows somebody
that looks absolutely hopeless.
I met recently with the director of Macaulay
Mission.
Macaulay Mission is about 150 years old.
Jerry Macaulay, the founder, backslid 99 times.
It was the 99th time, I think it
was he got saved for good.
And everybody said it'll never work, he'll backslide
again.
God got a hold of him, and that
mission's still going on strong for God here
in New York City.
Amazing.
No, you don't give up.
And there are some of you here need
to backtrack a little bit because there's somebody
you know you gave up on.
Is it a brother, sister, husband, wife, a
child?
I don't care if your son is out
right now in drugs.
I don't care if your son is a
homosexual and you've given up on your homosexual
son or daughter.
Don't give up.
You keep giving the word as God gives
you the wisdom and the knowledge and you
do it as sweetly as you can, anointed
to the Holy Ghost, but never ever give
up.
This church should believe God for absolute miracles
of the impossible.
You know, we're talking about God being able
to heal cancer and AIDS and every other
problem, folks, but in the spiritual realm regarding
salvation.
Don't give up.
There's a brother, Mark, who works with me
down at Isaiah House.
He has a burden for a man.
I see every time.
In fact, you can see him right up
here near Columbus Circle right on Broadway.
And he's a little fellow.
I don't think he's more than 60, but
he looks about 90.
And he's got this flowing hair and flowing
beard.
And you cross him.
He'll spit on you.
He'll curse you.
He will try to chase you.
Poor little guy.
He's an alcoholic and he's crippled.
And Mark, every time he goes by him,
just goes over.
If he's cold, he'll pull the blanket over
him and he'll just try to talk to
him, be nice to him.
He's got a burden for that guy.
And it made me feel a little bad
because I didn't have that burden for that
man.
I went by that man and looked at
him and said, oh, man, he's three weeks
from hell.
He's three weeks from hell.
And because, you know, I don't like to
be spit on.
And I don't like to be cursed.
And here's Mark.
He's not even pastor of Times Square Church.
And he's going over there and he told
me, I love that man.
And where's the thing?
He loved the man.
He wanted to help him.
He's got a burden for him.
He's praying for him.
He's not giving up on that man.
I went past him yesterday.
And as I went by, I walked a
little further away from his spitting projector.
But I said, oh, God, I'm going to
pray with Mark that God help Mark to
get through to him.
He could be a jewel.
What a testimony he could be for the
glory of God.
I think that man's been sleeping on the
street for 40 years.
Looks like he's been sleeping there for years.
Oh, don't give up.
I've got to move on here.
As I prophesied, as I was commanded, there
was a noise.
And behold, a great shaking, and the bones
came together.
The Lubavitchers had a rebbe or a priest,
Rabbi Schneerson.
And Schneerson, is it Schneerson?
He passed away.
And you'll see their mobile units all over
the city.
And they ask you to come in there
and be told about this man.
This priest is going to be resurrected from
the dead because he's the Messiah.
They had a march recently in Brooklyn.
The Lubavitchers had 10,000 of these Orthodox
Jews saying, Messiah now.
Messiah now.
You know what's happening?
The noises are beginning.
There are noises.
He said there was a noise, but there's
a shaking.
You see, there's a hunger for the Messiah.
There's a hunger for some reality.
And that's why people are going to New
Age.
They're going to all of these things because
there's a hunger driving them.
People are so empty now.
People are so dry.
This is the valley of dry bones.
And people are just reaching to anything.
Can you believe the stuff that people are
reaching out trying to find a little bit
of hope?
Just a little bit of hope.
And he said, as I prophesied, there was
a noise, and behold, a great shaking, and
the bones began coming together.
I want you to read Ezekiel 37, 8
to 10 with me, please.
Go back to verses 8.
Let's start with verse 7.
So I prophesied as it was commanded, and
as I prophesied, there was a noise, and
behold, a shaking, and the bones came together,
bone to his bone.
And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and
the flesh came up upon them, and skin
covered them above, and there was no breath
in them.
Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the
wind.
Prophesy, son of man, and say to the
wind, thus saith the Lord God, come from
the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon
these slain that they may live.
So I prophesied as he commanded me, and
the breath came into them, and they lived,
and stood on their feet an exceeding great
army.
This is the end of side one.
If you will please.
The wind of God is the Holy Ghost.
The Holy Ghost is often exemplified as the
wind in the scripture.
Prophesy to the wind.
Say to the wind, thus saith God, come,
breathe upon these slain.
Now that is nothing short of spiritual authority.
Spiritual authority.
Faith in the power of the Holy Ghost.
And he was told to prophesy to the
Holy Spirit.
Prophesy, speak to the Holy Spirit.
It's not that he's commanding the Holy Spirit
as some kind of superpower.
He's not doing it out of arrogance.
But because this is where the hope is,
this is where the life is.
The Holy Spirit himself was going to come
into that valley, and he was going to
cause life to spring up.
Bone coming to bone.
What a sight.
Now this is just a vision.
But he's standing there watching.
Can you imagine the noise, what he's hearing
is the rattling of the bones.
And every bone is coming to the proper
part of the body.
And there's an order coming.
It had been disorder, and now there's order
coming.
And wonderful things are happening.
And flesh is coming on.
Sinews and muscles are beginning to appear.
And things are beginning to happen.
Because one man, one man is speaking to
the Holy Spirit and saying, Holy Spirit, come
and breathe.
Now this church has been in a 30
-day, 24-hour-a-day prayer chain.
This is the third week.
We've just concluded the third week.
We go into the fourth week now of
a 24-hour prayer chain around the clock.
I'm asking you in this last week to
pray in one specific way.
I want you to pray the prayer that
the Lord commanded is equal to pray.
I want you to speak to the wind,
as it were.
I want you to speak to the Holy
Spirit.
And I want you to call to the
Holy Spirit along with your pastors.
And say, Oh, Holy Spirit, come to this
valley of dry bones.
He alone knows how to reach this city.
There's no use.
Most of what we do is going to
be in vain.
When I came to New York City the
first year here, pastors of various churches that
had been here for years came to me.
The first thing they were going to have
when I came here was a Jesus march
in Central Park.
And I said, Well, what are you going
to do?
And the man who was directing it said,
Well, we have balloons that say, Jesus loves
New York.
And we've got hats and T-shirts, Jesus
loves New York.
And I said, Wait a minute.
You're going to march and you're going to
release balloons?
And you're going to sell T-shirts and
hats, Jesus loves New York?
Yeah, we're going to march and we're going
to sing.
I said, And?
And?
He said, Well, that's it.
It's called a Jesus march.
I said, I'm sorry.
I said, We'll not have Time Church involved.
Time Church involved.
How the devil trembles at balloons.
Can't you imagine every demon running when they
see the T-shirts?
I'm not trying to be facetious.
Folks, what kind of thinking is this?
It's all over.
We've got marches for Jesus.
I'm not against those things.
If they're just done to give our young
people something to do, as long as they
march and spread out to the crowd and
get down on their knees with them and
get a hold of people and say, Jesus
really loves you.
And here's where it is.
It's right in John 3.16. And let
me take you to the rest of it
here and show you the rest of the
story.
Well, if the Holy Spirit is, you know,
every young pastor I meet now, I have
every week, I have a young pastor who
started a ministry and writes me a letter,
gets on the phone.
Brother Wilkinson, we've got some terrible needs in
our ministry.
I said, What are they?
We need a computer so that we can
network.
What do you mean network?
If we can get this, we can get
on the network and we can network with
all the other ministries and find out what
they're doing.
We'll get all the best ideas and we'll
exchange these ideas.
And these ideas are flowing all over the
airwaves.
Ideas.
And reams and reams of paper.
You ought to see the beautiful ministries I
see on paper.
For color.
Beautiful pictures.
And no life.
No life.
The bones are still bleached.
There's no noise.
There's no moving of the Holy Spirit.
But there's a lot of computers clicking.
We don't buy computers for people.
If you're looking for a computer, don't come
near my office, please.
Not against computers.
I've got a whole office full of young
computer whizzes.
But they're using it for missions in a
different way.
That's not what I'm talking about.
Please understand I'm not being facetious.
But how is Wall Street going to be
warned?
How is the theater district going to be
warned?
Some people say, well, Brother Dave, you talk
about God sending you.
You said God sent you to this city
to raise up a holy remnant and to
warn the city of coming judgments.
And that hasn't been done yet.
How do you do it?
Folks, if you ask me what our plan
is, we don't have one.
We don't have a plan.
The only thing I know to do is
what God told Ezekiel to do.
Say to the wind.
Say to the Holy Ghost.
Holy Ghost, come and breathe life in this
valley of dry bones.
Go into the subways.
Go down to Wall Street.
We will pray.
Listen.
He only gives the Holy Ghost to those
who ask.
That means prayer.
The Holy Ghost is given to no one
unless they ask and pray for it.
And the Holy Ghost will not come down
on any city unless it's prayed for in
and by and through the Holy Ghost.
Folks, there's a praying in the Holy Ghost.
This man prayed in faith.
This man spoke to the wind.
He was speaking to the Holy Ghost.
Oh, Holy Spirit, come down.
I have no plan.
There's no way how in the world humanly
could this man do anything about that valley
of dry bones but believe that God had
the power.
God had the plan.
God had the method.
And the Holy Ghost had the life.
And you know what?
I feel so much better since I laid
my burden down, my burden of trying to
reach this city, my burden of trying to
figure out what kind of literature.
Folks, I have walked around my apartment and
I've prayed and prayed.
Oh, God, we do it this way, do
it this way.
Because I'm a good idea man.
If you want ideas, I can get in
the flesh and give you all kinds of
good ideas that won't get you anywhere.
And the Lord says, no.
You begin it.
You ask all my people in Times Square
Church this next week when you pray and
in your praying from now on, I want
you to pray to the Holy Ghost.
First of all, if you don't know how
to pray, just open your mouth and let
the Holy Ghost pray through you.
Because you don't know how to pray as
you ought anyhow.
But say, oh, Holy Ghost, help me.
I speak to you, Holy Ghost, come and
pray through me that you bring forth your
spirit into this city.
You begin to convict people on Wall Street.
You know God can do that?
God can just breathe like that right into
the stock exchange and suddenly a spirit of
emptiness and despair like they've never known.
And it'll probably come on a day when
the Dow goes down 500 points.
And they begin to think, well, what's this
all about?
And they begin to think of the emptiness
and everything else.
Sometimes that's how the Holy Ghost breathes.
And if you've got stock, you're saying, I
hope he doesn't breathe like that now.
Well, folks, if you've got your faith in
the stock market, let it breathe.
I don't know how he does it, but
when his breath comes, I've told you, and
I'm going to close soon, I know when
the Holy Ghost comes to the meeting.
Now, he's always here, but I know when
he's moving.
And you that walk in the spirit, you
know the very moment the Holy Spirit begins
to breathe in the house, there's a sense
of his presence.
There's a breathing.
There's a moving.
There's a drawing.
There's a wooing.
Something happens in the meeting.
Please don't come to this church, if this
is your home church, till you have prayed,
oh, God, breathe in this house tonight.
All through every song service, every worship course,
every praise song, I sit here now breathing.
If I'm standing, if my hand's up, I'm
breathing.
Holy Spirit, come to this meeting.
Holy Spirit, breathe on this congregation.
Find every empty, hungry person.
Resurrect every dead person, dead in their sins
tonight.
Breathe on them, oh, God.
I pray that.
I speak to the wind.
You speak to the wind about your unsaved
family.
You walk home, some of you walk home
to a valley of dry bones.
You walk into a, almost like you're walking
into a tomb, because there's death all around
you.
I talked to a dear lady today, 89
years old, saint.
She just, Jesus just comes out of her
life, full of Jesus.
She has no family to speak of that
really cares.
She's the only one, and she was talking
to me about her departure to be with
the Lord.
We had a wonderful time talking about how
soon she's going to be in the presence
of Jesus.
And it just thrilled my heart.
And I saw life, just absolute life pouring
out of her because she's given her all
to the Holy Spirit.
She's given her all to Jesus.
Folks, let me tell you, let me tell
you what I believe is coming to this
church, and then I'm going to close.
We have ministered, in this past year especially,
to hurts.
We've ministered to you about justification, sanctification.
We've ministered to you about the doctrines of
the church.
We've tried to build you up in the
faith.
We have laid before God, I tell you
this past year, there's never been a time
that I've stood in this pulpit without a
broken heart.
And I know Pastor Carter the same way.
We have stood in this pulpit to try
to build up this congregation and their faith
because we've been telling you that there are
riots coming, race riots.
There are going to be over 1,000
fires burned in this city.
We've told you and warned you.
We've been building you up.
God's getting you ready and prepared.
But let me tell you what's coming.
We talked about it this morning, and God
added to it this afternoon.
He's beginning to lead this church.
Listen to me, please, to become a soul
-winning church.
He's going to send us into our environment.
He's going to send us into our jobs
with a new vision and a new burden.
And we're going to get our eyes off
of our own problems.
We're going to trust all that to the
Lord.
Those problems may not have gone away, but
say, Lord, I'm going to put your interests
first now and get a new burden for
your unsaved loved ones.
Some of you, shamefully, have given up on
your family.
You're not seeking God and praying for your
unsaved loved ones anymore because you almost have
given up on that.
God's going to give that burden back to
you.
You know why?
Because we're going to keep coming at you.
We're going to keep preaching it through the
Word of God until the Lord produces it
in us.
Hallelujah.
We're not going to sit still in a
valley of dry bones.
We're not going to walk away from that
valley of dry bones and say it's hopeless.
With this, I close.
When I first came and the Lord asked
me to start a church here in Times
Square, I would have gone home if I
listened to all the preachers I talked to
and all the Christians I talked to, said
this is the hardest city on the face
of the earth.
People don't want God.
We've been here for 45 years, Brother Dave,
and there are 70 people.
You can't have church Sunday night.
Nobody will show up because everybody will be
watching television.
Look around you, saints.
As God asked me that same question, can
these bones live?
I said, you know it can, Lord.
And he said, prophesy.
Prophesy to the wind.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
God wants to reach a multitude, absolute multitude.
Down in Brooklyn Tabernacle, Brother Jim Simler is
preaching the same way, and I know some
other churches preaching the same way now, and
their people are out winning souls.
People are being saved by multitudes now because
of the burden of the Lord.
And the happiest thing that you can do
is win souls to Jesus.
You talk about joy, that will give you
more joy than anything you've ever known.
Hallelujah.
I want all the guys from Timothy House,
you start praying now that God help you
win all your old buddies, that God help
you win drug addicts to Jesus, that you
won't be able to sit in Times Square,
just enjoy your salvation.
We want to see, we're going to have
Isaiah House open soon.
We're going to have more room.
We're going to have beds.
But it's not just having beds, and it's
not just drug addicts, not just alcoholics, but
the goodniks as well as the beatniks.
All of the uppers and downers and everybody
else in between.
Will you believe God with me that nothing
is impossible?
You don't know it, but we've had a
number of show people showing up in these
meetings.
They're sitting here.
We have strippers, topless dancers.
How do you know?
Because our staff has been witnessing to them
and ministering to them.
I told you, you don't know who you're
sitting next to.
I see people looking at themselves.
Listen to me.
This is my last word.
I used to think that to be a
soul winner you had to just moan, look
sad, and weep.
I went to a ministry once, and everybody
looked like death.
Everybody was sad.
Everybody said, Oh, God.
They were so burdened down and weary.
Somebody came here and saw our workers and
how happy they were and how joyful they
were in winning souls.
Because that joy that you have as a
Christian is what the world is looking for.
They've got enough sadness.
They don't need yours.
The joy of the Lord is your strength,
and they need that strength.
Hallelujah.
Will you stand?
Glory to God.
Jesus, I love you.
Lord, I want to prophesy to the wind,
Oh, wind of God.
Oh, blessed Holy Spirit, come and breathe on
New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, and all
this great surrounding area.
God, breathe your life.
And when you begin to breathe, then the
noise, then the shaking.
God, shake everything that can be shaken.
Bring life.
Raise up people, Lord, with the burden of
the Lord.
Lord, forgive me.
Forgive this congregation for being too focused on
our own problems and our own needs.
Forgive us.
And, Lord, give us an eye for the
world, an eye for the lost, a burden
of the Lord for the lost.
But, Lord, let it not.
You said your yoke is easy and your
burden is light.
We can do this with joy.
We can do it with faith.
We can do it with thanksgiving.
These bones shall live again.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus.
Glory be to God.
Hallelujah.
Would you just bow your heads and talk
to Jesus for a minute and ask him
to make you aware of other people's needs
about you?
Would you begin to think about those people
you go to work with tomorrow?
Would you ask God right now to remind
you tomorrow?
To open a door for you to speak
to them?
Would you ask God to lead you to
people now that are hurting?
Would you pray, Oh, Jesus, when I pray
in this prayer chain now, I'm going to
pray that the Holy Ghost come and breathe
on those around me, those in my family,
and prepare their hearts to hear the word
of the Lord and to bring life.
Father, do that, we pray.
Talk to him right now.
Lord Jesus, remind me of that.
Remind me, Jesus, tomorrow on the job and
all this week, in my home and on
the job and wherever I am, and when
I walk the streets, Lord, not to give
up on anybody, not to give up on
the one who looks hopeless, not to give
up on them, Jesus.
I believe you and I trust you.
In the name of the Lord.
Hallelujah.
Is there someone here tonight, you were called,
God had called you, and you have run
away from that call of God.
You've rejected the call of God.
He laid his hand on you, he called
you clearly, you know it.
You're here tonight, and the Lord's calling you,
and I'm telling you now, if you'll step
out of your seat and come here, God
will restore everything the canker worm has eaten.
God will restore it.
Up in the balcony or in the main
floor, you may be a minister, you may
be a Christian worker, maybe somebody, you've rejected
the call of God, and the Lord is
not angry at you, but he's saying, come
back, he'll restore to you everything that's been
eaten.
You were separated in ministry?
Both have you been separated?
Now Jesus, this is what you're trying to
show us, there's life.
It comes out of death when the Holy
Spirit comes.
I'm asking you to restore his prayer life,
I'm asking you to restore everything the devil
took from him.
That's where the healing comes.
Honey, I'm going to go pray for you,
because he's right here.
Lord Jesus, when you restore the anointing, everything
else is going to be right.
Did you go to this church your first
time?
Where are you from?
Connecticut?
Why did you come forward?
Give your heart to Jesus, you too.
Both of you, put your hand on mine.
Lord, you're going to receive them right now,
and you're going to heal them.
Just say right now, Jesus, I give you
my heart, I give you my sins, I
come to surrender to you right now.
Oh God, now put your spirit upon them.
Put your Holy Spirit upon them.
Let life flow into their hearts, in Jesus'
name.
Let life flow.
God bless you.
What did you come up for, brother?
A chaplain?
Okay, he's a chaplain at Rikers Island.
Okay, Lord Jesus, Lord, touch him right now.
Answer this prayer.
Answer his cry.
Brother, God's hand is still on you.
His hand is still on you.
Jesus, touch him now.
Give him souls yet.
Give him souls.
Restore everything, Lord.
Thank you, Jesus.
Glory be to God.
If you're here, please don't be in a
hurry.
Just wait a minute.
Nothing is more important than to let the
Holy Spirit have his way.
If you're not right with God, if you're
backslidden, we'll sing it again.
Come and join these before I pray for
them.
Let's believe Jesus to bring life and strength
to you.
Come on, if you're a husband and wife
and your home is not what it should
be, you need to take her by the
hand and walk down here and believe Jesus
for a miracle.
Up in the balcony, just go to the
stairs on either side.
We're not going to prolong this, but if
you're hearing the Holy Spirit tugging in your
heart, come and join these who are here
now.
The Lord is healing.
There's life flowing here right now.
Now, all of you who came forward, look
this way, please.
I want you to pray right from your
heart, inside your gut.
Pray it right out with me now.
Just close your eyes and look to Jesus.
Pray this with me.
Jesus, without you, I am helpless.
Without you, Jesus, I can do nothing.
But with you, Jesus, I can do all
things.
I come to you humbly to surrender.
I give up my pride, my sins, everything
unlike you, Jesus.
Come now, Holy Spirit.
Bring life into my heart and into my
home.
I want to be full of life.
I trust you, Jesus, to save me and
keep me, restore me and use me for
your glory.
Now, let me pray for you.
Lord Jesus, thank you.
There are marriages being healed.
There are ministers coming back to the anointing.
Lord, you're doing great works in saving those
who would have been lost.
Thank you, Lord.
Now, do this all over the city.
Lord, do it on Wall Street, do it
in Broadway, do it all over in the
Bronx, in Brooklyn, in Queens, in Yonkers, New
Jersey, in Connecticut, all of these areas.
Breathe, oh breath of God, Holy Ghost, breathe
on this city.
Breathe.
Amen.
This is the conclusion of the tape.