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We invite you to come, Lord Jesus, and
walk in the midst of the candlesticks again
tonight.
Lord, let your manifested glory reveal in us,
in each and every one of us in
this house, in the area in our lives,
O God, where we fall short of the
fullness of what you have purchased for us
on Calvary.
If our hearts be otherwise minded, O God,
if we're looking in a wrong direction, if
we're looking to things apart from you, Lord
Jesus, to fulfill and to give strength and
to give joy, let your manifested glory reveal
these things.
Let us cast them to the earth as
filthy rags, O God, and put on the
only righteousness, the only true joy, the only
truth that is found in you, O God.
Lord Jesus, we ask that you would clothe
us with righteousness in this last hour of
time.
To the prophet Isaiah, you said that in
the midst of the fire there would be
a bride that would burst forth with glory
and with singing, strong singing in that day.
God, make us of that bride, Lord, here
in New York City.
Those who look heavenward in the midst of
all destruction and say, There he is, here's
our God, we have waited for him.
Hallelujah.
Jesus, walk in the midst of our hearts
tonight.
Walk in the midst of our hearts, Lord.
God, I thank you for setting us aflame.
Thank you for the anointing of your Holy
Spirit.
Thank you, Lord, that you haven't saved us
because we're wise or strong, but God, you
truly choose the foolish and the weak of
this world and the things that are despised
and things that are not or nothing to
bring to nothing things that are.
I thank you, Lord God, that you promised
that out of my belly would flow rivers
of living water.
Speak to your church tonight, O God.
Speak to your people tonight by the power
and anointing of your Holy Spirit.
Open every prison door.
Seek out every hiding place, O God, where
those have sought refuge from your holiness and
sought refuge from your truth.
Lord, bring us out into your glory.
Bring us out into the midst of where
you are.
Hallelujah.
Let us see ourselves in the light of
your countenance.
God, I ask, O Lord, for such a
manifested glory to come upon your church in
this last hour of time that all of
New York City would have to stand up
and take notice and say truly of a
truth, their Lord is God, the Lord is
God.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you for the unction to speak this
message and thank you for the ability for
the hearers to hear.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
Revelation, the last book in the New Testament,
please.
Revelation, chapter 3.
It will be the second message in a
series of seven that I'm going to be
speaking on the seven churches of Revelation.
Now, the book of Revelation is a book
of the revelation of Jesus Christ.
If you go back to chapter 1, verse
1, it's not a book, it's the revelation
of Jesus.
Jesus walking as John saw Him in the
midst of the seven candlesticks.
Now, we know in verse 13 the seven
candlesticks represent the seven churches.
Jesus walking in the midst in His purity.
John saw Him, he said, and His hairs
were white like wool, as white as snow.
His eyes were as a flame of fire.
The eyes of Jesus are in this house
tonight.
He looks, nothing can be hidden from Him.
He looks beyond our suits and our fine
clothes.
He looks beyond all of the hairdos and
everything that are found in this house.
He looks beyond the yeas and the amens.
He even looks beyond exuberance, if it be
birthed in Him or not birthed in Him.
And His eyes go right into the very
center of our inward being.
And He's able to discern who and what
we are.
And that's what happened in Revelation.
You see, these churches had been established mainly
by the missionary journeys of Paul.
And about 63 years after Christ's resurrection, the
Apostle John, who is the same John that
leaned on His breast at the Last Supper
and loved Him and the disciple that Jesus
loved, John was lifted up in a place
of exile.
He was lifted up into the presence of
God.
And a fresh revelation of Jesus Christ was
given to John.
And that revelation of Jesus Christ brought to
light things that were found in these respective
churches that were good, but also brought to
light things in the respective churches that were
not good in the sight of the Lord.
Now we know in Revelation the seven churches
were literal churches.
They were actual church bodies that were founded
at that time, that particular point in history.
But traces of the key elements in each
of these churches have been found throughout biblical
history and also are found today.
You can find individual churches throughout the whole
world which would perhaps typify the Church of
Philadelphia or churches that have gone through or
are going through suffering, churches that you're sure
that if Jesus were to appear today collectively
that He would speak certain words to these
churches.
And so traces are found both collectively and
individually.
In this house tonight there are traces of
all seven churches that are mentioned in the
book of Revelation.
There are things that are good in each
one of our lives and yet there are
things that the very presence, the manifestation of
Jesus would expose to be disapproved by the
presence of God.
You have got to have the heart that
John had.
I'm sure that all of these churches thought
they were doing well.
However with the revelation of Jesus Christ pathways
that they had begun to take which were
a diversion from the high calling of God
and the purity of that calling were revealed.
The Apostle John said in Revelation chapter 1
verse 4 in verse 6 rather, He has
made us kings and priests unto God and
His Father.
To Him be glory and dominion forever and
ever.
Amen.
And so that's the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus on each one of our
lives.
We're not made just to sit in a
church.
We're not made just to be partakers of
some blessing.
But we are made to be kings and
priests.
The Apostle Peter in 1 Peter 2 verse
9 says, You're a chosen generation.
We're a royal priesthood, a holy nation.
A peculiar people called to what?
To show forth the praises of Him who
has called us out of darkness and into
His marvelous light.
We are as a church, we are individually
as well as collectively called of God to
be the virtual representation of Jesus Christ here
on this earth.
We're called to be His body.
We're called to bring the manifested presence of
Jesus to this lost and dying generation that
we're living in.
John said in Revelation 1, When I saw
Him, I fell at His feet like a
dead man.
The revelation of Jesus Christ brings an end
to all flesh.
The revelation of Jesus brings an end to
thinking and speaking and walking and doing things
that are contrary to the very essence of
who Jesus Christ is as the Son of
God.
These churches needed to desire that revelation to
return to the purity of their calling.
You remember the prophet Isaiah?
I shared on it last time I spoke
on Ephesus.
Prophesying to Israel for around 28 years, lifted
up in the year that King Uzziah died
into the presence of God.
And the very manifested presence of Jesus brought
an end to Isaiah.
Brought an end to who He thought He
was and what He thought He was doing.
In spite of all the prophesying, in spite
of the fact that He was one of
the few that were standing for truth, Isaiah
said, Woe unto me, I'm undone.
I'm a man of unclean lips.
I dwell in the midst of people of
unclean lips.
For mine eyes have seen the King of
glory.
I've seen the Lord of hosts.
Oh, it was Daniel that was drawn into
the presence of the Lord and was left
as a dead man, his breath gone from
him.
And you and I tonight need that desire.
We need it with all of our heart
if we're going to be able to hear
from the Lord.
And you and I have got to say,
Lord Jesus, come into the midst of my
heart.
Walk in the midst of the candlestick that
is within me.
The Spirit of the Lord, the Scripture says,
is the candle of man searching all the
inward parts of the belly.
Holy Spirit, Holy Jesus, come and walk within
my life.
Could that be your prayer tonight?
God, I have a zeal.
Oh, this church, I've never been in a
church anywhere in the world that has a
zeal like this church.
But there's still room for Jesus to walk
in the midst of every heart.
There's still room for Christ to come and
search the inward parts of our bellies.
We are, I'm sure, alive in the things
of God.
But there's always room to come more alive
in the things of God, that God can
touch us.
We need that desire.
Precious and holy Lord Jesus, we invite you
tonight to touch our lives.
I invite you to touch my life.
Oh God, as I preach this word tonight,
Father, I'm not exempt from the word that's
about to be spoken, for it's your word
and it comes from your book.
God, it doesn't come from my heart.
It comes from your heart.
Lord, we're asking tonight, I'm asking that you
walk in the midst of this house, collectively
and individually, Lord God.
Walk in the midst of our hearts, Lord.
If there's anything that's in us that was
found in the church of Laodicea, let it
be revealed, oh God.
Let it be cast off like filthy rags
and works of death.
Let there be a shout of glory and
a shout of victory, oh God, as we
move on from image to image and glory
to glory in Christ Jesus.
Jesus, I ask above all things that you
would birth your heart in my life and
birth your heart in your church in this
last hour of time.
Deliver us from our own hearts, oh God.
Deliver us from our own ways of thinking
and let your heart and your mind be
birthed in us, oh God.
May we be found alive and abridged, bringing
honor and glory to your name in this
last hour of time.
Hallelujah to the Lamb of God.
Glory to Jesus.
I thank you, God, for what you're going
to accomplish in this house.
I thank you that you're going to break
the bondage of lukewarmness that may be found
in any life that's in this house tonight.
I thank you that by tape you're going
to speak to hearts, not only in this
house but across this nation.
God, you will speak to hearts that have
gotten into a trap of lukewarmness and are
in danger of losing you, Lord God.
Oh, Jesus, speak to your church tonight.
Speak to your church.
Lord, I'm a frail vessel, oh God, but
I don't stand in my own strength.
I stand in your strength.
I stand in your victory and in your
righteousness.
Speak to every heart tonight.
I ask this in Jesus' name.
Hallelujah.
Revelation chapter 3, beginning at verse 14.
The last church age, probably most representative of
at least Western society, the Laodicean church age,
it's always been impressed upon my heart that
this, if Jesus were to come back and
speak, especially to the Western world, that this
would be the words, the exact words that
he would speak to much of what has
happened to the church of Jesus Christ in
Western society, especially since the Industrial Revolution.
Now, unto the angel of the church of
the Laodiceans writes, These things saith the amen,
the faithful and true witness, the beginning of
the creation of God.
I know thy works, that thou art neither
cold nor hot.
I would that thou wert cold or hot.
So then, because thou art lukewarm and neither
cold nor hot, I will spew thee out
of my mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased
with goods and of need of nothing.
And knowest not that thou art wretched and
miserable and poor and blind and naked.
I counsel thee to buy of me gold
tried in the fire, that thou mayest be
rich and white raiment, that thou mayest be
clothed and that the shame of thy nakedness
do not appear.
And anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou
mayest see.
As many as I love, I rebuke and
chasten.
Be zealous therefore and repent.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
If any man hear my voice and open
the door, I will come in to him
and sup with him and he with me.
To him that overcomes will I grant to
sit with me in my throne, even as
I also overcame and am set down with
my father in his throne.
He that has an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit sayeth unto the churches.
The counsel of Jesus.
Jesus said to this church, the Laodicean church
age, He said, you are miserable.
Here's a church that by their own testimony
said, I'm rich and we're increased with goods
and we have need of absolutely nothing.
I think Pastor David spoke this morning on
some of the trace elements of that church
that are so vividly found in this generation.
These user-friendly churches that we're finding now
all throughout the land.
And he said, you're miserable.
The original word in the text is Elilios,
which means you're full of misery and you're
worthy to be pitied.
You think you're rich and you think you're
increased with goods, but the Lord is saying,
I look down upon you and you're worthy
of pity.
You're naked.
The word is Gumnos.
That means naked of spiritual clothing.
That is the imputed righteousness of faith.
In other words, Christ is looking down on
this church that says we're rich and we're
increased with goods and have need of nothing.
And He looks down upon this church age
and He says unto this church age that
you're worthy to be pitied from where I
stand and from my perspective.
Now, we're talking about the Son of God,
the head of the church, walking in the
midst of the seven candlesticks.
He says you're naked of spiritual clothing.
You haven't got the full armor of God.
You don't know how to put it on.
And the righteousness that's imputed by faith, you've
lost faith and because you've lost faith you
don't know what righteousness is.
And even though you have a great and
grand testimony of yourself, I look down from
heaven, saith the Lord, and I see something
else.
I see a pitiable naked people running around
talking about riches and blessing.
If there were a word that describes the
Laodicean church age, it would be the word
lukewarm.
Lukewarm.
Every time you think of Laodicea, I'm sure
if you've spent any time in the Bible
at all or in any church, you're thinking
of that word lukewarm.
Now, there's some characteristics about lukewarmness.
Now, first of all, lukewarmness.
Think about it now.
How many here like going home to a
lukewarm supper?
Neither hot nor cold.
You would wish that your wife or your
husband, whoever's making the dinner, had made up
their mind either it was going to be
a cold buffet or a hot lunch.
But there's just something about a lukewarm meal
or a lukewarm glass of water.
Have you ever tried eating a lukewarm ice
cream cone on a summer's day?
The best that it can do is drip
all over your hand and make a mess
of your clothes.
Lukewarm.
Think about lukewarm water.
Lukewarm water is not good to give a
stranger that comes to your door.
I can imagine if somebody came to your
door and they were thirsty and you went
to the stove and you had a pot
of lukewarm water and you gave them a
glass and they'd take a half a sip
and spit it out and say, if you've
got something else, I prefer it with either
hot or cold.
That's what Jesus was talking about.
There's a lukewarmness that can settle in to
people's lives that is really good for nothing.
But I thank God with all of my
heart that I saw something in here tonight.
I want you to, next time that you
put a pot of water on the stove
and you turn the heat on high, watch
what happens to that water.
There begins to be a stirring in it.
Now, I'm not a chemist so please don't
cast me down for not getting all of
the technology right here.
But all of a sudden there seems to
be a stirring in that pot then bubbles,
I don't know from where, begin to rise
up from inside.
I know that water is made of three
components.
I got that far in school anyway.
The oxygen begins to get heated up and
the bubbles begin to come from, it seems
like all it was was water but all
of a sudden there seems to be life
in there.
And the hotter it gets there seems to
be a jumping up and down begins to
happen in that pot.
Seems to me I saw that in this
house tonight.
There seems to be a joy, an exuberance
that's birthed from within.
It's not orchestrated by the flesh.
It's born of the Spirit of God.
And then all of a sudden you see
the water level beginning to go down in
the pot because in that joy there's an
escaping.
There's such a heat that there has to
be an escaping.
There's a transformation from what they were into
another form.
Hallelujah.
And truly when God's Spirit is working upon
a people there is a transforming power that
comes upon our lives.
We don't have to be brought into the
house of God and have somebody as a
cheerleader choreograph us and get us going and
try to crank up the old machine and
get the jukebox rolling in the house of
God.
When God's Spirit is working within a people
there's a natural zeal for God that comes
up from right down in the inward parts.
Hallelujah.
Now one of the characteristics of lukewarmness the
first one is loss of an outward focus.
The loss of love for God equals the
loss of compassion for the lost.
If you love God with all of your
heart if we love Him with all our
heart and our soul and mind and our
strength then automatically we love our neighbor as
ourselves.
When that lawyer came to Jesus tempting Him
saying what's the most important commandment in the
law without hesitation Jesus said love the Lord
your God with all your heart your soul
your mind and your strength and the second
is like unto it you shall love your
neighbor as yourself.
He said on these two hang all the
law and the prophets.
When lukewarmness begins to set in there's a
lack of love for God.
There's a lack of love for the word
of God.
Pastor David said this morning from the scriptures
it's because they receive not the love of
the truth that God sent strong delusion upon
them.
It's the beginning of apostasy when lukewarmness begins
to set into the heart.
All of a sudden there's a lack of
outward focus and the whole focus is me
and mine and what I can get and
how God can bless me and what can
happen to me when I come to church.
There's a development of an inward focus when
lukewarmness sets into the heart of any people.
You see that principle in Mark chapter 4.
Turn there please with me.
Hallelujah.
Mark chapter 4.
I want to show you a people who
have an inward focus.
I think the scripture pretty well illustrates that.
Hallelujah.
Mark chapter 4 verse 35.
Now Jesus has been teaching.
They've seen his miracles.
They're excited about following him.
Now he says to his disciples in verse
35.
Mark chapter 4.
In the same day when the evening was
come he said unto them let us pass
over to the other side.
In other words we're going on a journey.
You know it should have been sufficient for
those disciples to hear the words of Jesus.
We're going to the other side.
I'll tell you brothers and sisters in Christ
when God says you're going to the other
side you're going to the other side.
Hallelujah.
When they had sent away the multitude verse
36 they took him even as he was
in the ship and there were also with
him other little ships.
In other words they took off in the
boat they had the son of God with
them and there were also other little ships
heading across to the other side.
And there arose a great storm of wind
and the waves beat into the ship so
that it was now full.
And verse 38 says he was in the
hinder part of the ship asleep on a
pillow and they awoke him and said unto
him Master cares not that we perish and
he arose and rebuked the wind and said
to the sea peace be still and the
wind ceased and there was a great calm.
Now listen to what he said to them
and he said unto them why are you
so fearful how is it that you have
no fear in your faith?
We need to understand this thing.
They were going to the other side and
of all people I think these disciples were
to be pitied at this particular moment in
history.
They had the son of God in the
boat with them.
And the scripture said in the storm there
were also other little ships.
There's three words that sometimes we fail to
pick up in the scriptures.
They weren't the only boat going to the
other side there were also other little ships.
And in the midst of the storm they
began to fear for themselves.
Their focus was inward.
There was no concern.
It wasn't they woke him up because you
see they had God in the boat.
Hallelujah!
If you've got God in your boat you've
got absolutely nothing to fear no matter what
kind of storm comes along.
But something had happened.
The heart of Jesus was not yet perfected
in these early disciples.
And they woke him up and they said
Master do you not care that we perish?
There was an inward focus in their lives.
They had God in their boat.
Do you understand?
Of all people they should have felt safe.
Their thoughts should have been woe be unto
those other little ships that are out there
trying to make it through the same storm.
Thank God we have the Son of God
in the boat with us.
We don't have to fear drowning in this
boat.
And that's the way it's got to be
with the child of God once your eyes
are open to who Jesus is.
You and I are not to be focused
on ourselves.
We're not to live for ourselves.
We're not to pray always for ourselves.
We have God in our boat.
No matter how strong the wind gets.
No matter how big the waves are.
God is with us.
The Son of God is with us.
He's promised he's going to take us to
the other side.
Our focus has got to turn away from
ourselves and to those other little ships that
are out there.
The moms, the single moms and their children.
The men and women in prison.
Our sons and daughters in the streets committing
suicide.
Our focus has got to go out beyond
ourselves to them.
Say Oh God they perish.
Jesus they perish.
God touch my heart with your heart.
An inward focus leads ultimately to a preoccupation
with self.
Pastor David spoke this morning about an anti
-Christ spirit and that's what I've got written
down here.
A preoccupation with self is an anti-Christ
spirit.
Jesus said if any man will be my
disciple let him deny himself and take up
his cross and follow me.
Pastor David spoke this morning.
If you weren't here I would really encourage
you to get that message.
One of the most powerful that I've heard
in a long long time.
Talked about the development of an anti-Christ
spirit in this last hour and I believe
that the open door to much of that
thinking is self-preoccupation and doesn't that characterize
this church age that we're living in?
The testimony of the Laodicean church Jesus said
in Revelation 3 17 you say you say
I'm rich and increased with goods and have
need of nothing.
You hear the testimony of this Laodicean church
saying we've got Bibles of every translation on
our shelves.
I'm going to look beyond just the natural
riches.
We are the richest generation that's ever lived
on the face of the earth.
I'm going to look beyond the carnal covetous
preachers and their church congregations that have taken
the word of God and virtually blaspheme the
name of Jesus Christ by saying that he
died so that we might inherit the treasures
of literal riches here on this earth.
They're so lost in space that it's not
even worth discussing their doctrines tonight.
No, I'm talking about the church that says
I'm rich.
I've got a Bible of every translation sitting
at home on my shelves.
We've got seminars for every appetite now all
over North America.
If you, whatever your personal problem is, whatever
your personal quest is, we've got seminars to
deal with it.
You just have to pick up some of
these brochures and you can pick and choose.
We're rich and increased with goods and have
need of nothing.
But Jesus said, you don't realize that you're
naked and blind.
You've lost something.
The whole of Scripture cries out against the
lukewarm approach to God.
The prophet Amos, let me just read it
to you, cries out against this in Amos
chapter 6.
He says, And it was woe unto them
that are at ease in Zion, that trust
in the mountain of Samaria, which are named
chief of the nations, to whom the house
of Israel came.
And in chapter 6 verse 4, he says,
They lie upon beds of ivory.
They stretch themselves out on their couches.
They eat lambs out of the flock and
calves out of the midst of the stall.
They chant to themselves of the violin and
vent to themselves instruments of music like David.
They drink wine in bowls.
They anoint themselves with the chief ointments.
In other words, all of their quest is
for themselves, all of the anointing is for
themselves, all of the healing is for themselves.
But he says they are not grieved for
the affliction of Joseph.
There's no grief in their hearts.
And in verse 7 he says, Therefore now
they shall go captive with the first to
go captive, and the banquet of them that
stretch themselves shall be removed.
The Lord says even they sit and they
nurture themselves.
And they're a totally egocentric people.
They are constantly looking to better themselves, and
constantly looking to fill themselves, and constantly looking
to pacify themselves.
And there's no grief in their hearts for
those that are out on the streets and
those that are without God.
There's no grief for the poor.
There's no grief for those that are suffering
in the body throughout all of the world.
There's no outward focus, the whole focus is
inward.
Lukewarm, Jesus says, lukewarm, lukewarm is the testimony
against this church.
Isaiah, the prophet Isaiah, cries out against it.
If you'll turn to the book of Isaiah
please with me.
Isaiah chapter 58.
All of scripture and history cries out against
lukewarmness in our relationship with God.
Listen, God speaks to Isaiah in Isaiah chapter
58.
He says, cry aloud, verse 1, spare not.
Lift up your voice like a trumpet, and
show my people their transgression, and the house
of Jacob their sins.
Well, God says to Isaiah, I want you
to cry out.
I want you to not spare, lift up
your voice like a trumpet, shout it from
the mountaintops Isaiah.
Show my people their sins.
Now what sins?
The list begins in verse 2, it says,
They seek me daily, and delight to know
my ways, as a nation that did righteousness.
Now here's the people going to conferences, and
they have a pretense of wanting to know
his ways.
They have an outward expression of righteousness upon
their life, and they forsook not the ordinance
of their God.
They ask of me the ordinances of justice,
and they take delight in approaching unto God.
In other words, there are people that are
crying out, at least in some measure, or
they're giving a pretense of caring about abortion
issues and things in the land, and they
want that justice of God to come into
the nation.
They appear to have a delight in approaching
unto God.
They are a people who fast, and they
do all kinds of things.
But the Lord says, This, as in Isaiah's
day, the Laodicean church, they had no doubt
an outward semblance of seeking God.
But the error of it was, that all
of their seeking was for themselves.
Everybody today wants spiritual passion, with no cost
and no cost.
We have seminars on spiritual passion, we have
conferences on holiness, you name it, all over
the nation.
But everybody wants the passion with no cost
and with no cost.
And I will tell you this day, that
you and I can't have God's heart until
we're willing to share the heart of God,
and to allow it to beat within us.
All these people get, who seek for themselves,
is ever deepening delusion, ever deepening darkness, ever
deepening self-seeking, ever deepening lukewarmness, because their
whole heart is for themselves, and not to
allow the very spirit and nature of Christ
to possess them and allow the works and
heart of God to begin to beat through
them and cry out through them.
In verse 6, the Lord says, Is this
not this the fast that I have chosen?
Is it not to loose the bands of
wickedness?
To undo heavy burdens?
To let the oppressed go free?
That you break every yoke?
You see, the Laodicean church couldn't do this,
because they didn't have the armor of faith.
They didn't know what it was to be
free themselves.
So how could they take freedom they didn't
possess to others around them?
Things that are going on in the nation.
And what has it done?
Brought a church that has to be designed
around user-friendliness.
I tell you brothers and sisters with all
my heart, it's time that you and I
get back to the good old fashioned power
of God and trust Jesus to sanctify and
set apart our lives.
Hallelujah!
We don't have to understand it, all we
have to do is seek Him with all
of our hearts.
God will set you free if you seek
Him.
He'll open every prison door.
He'll heal the wounds in your heart.
You don't have to go back to your
third and fourth grandfather.
Go to Jesus with all of your heart.
Is it not to deal your bread to
the hungry and bring the poor that are
cast out to your house or to this
house?
And you see the naked, you cover him
and hide not yourself from your own flesh?
You see, these people had a pretense of
seeking God, but their pretense was bankrupt.
All they wanted was pleasure for themselves and
strength for themselves.
They had no intention of ever allowing the
heart of God to be manifested in them.
Hallelujah!
I shared last week that the church of
Jesus Christ has been built upon the foundation
of sacrifice and you can't build anything else
on that foundation.
God the Father sacrificed His Son.
God the Son sacrificed His life.
The apostles and prophets gave everything they were,
they gave their lives, they gave everything they
had upon that foundation of sacrifice and you
can't build stones, you can't build wood, hay
and stubble on that foundation.
The church of Jesus is built upon sacrifice.
Hallelujah!
The Lord says through Isaiah, He says, If
you will do these things, then your light
will break forth as the morning, your health
will spring forth speedily.
If you will allow my heart to be
produced in you, your light will break forth
as the morning, your health will spring forth
speedily.
You won't have to go to any more
seminars on inner health.
You understand this?
If you will just do it the way
it's written in the book.
Seek God with all of your heart.
Let the heart of Jesus be manifested in
you and develop an outward focus.
That's the only focus is of God.
He says, And your righteousness will go before
you.
The glory of the Lord will be your
rear ward or your rear protection.
You will call and the Lord will answer.
You will cry and He will say, Here
I am.
If you take away from the midst of
you the yoke, the putting forth of the
finger and speaking vanity and draw out your
soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted
soul, your light will rise in obscurity and
your darkness will be as the noon day.
Listen to the promises of God.
The Lord will guide you continually.
He will satisfy your soul in drought.
He will make fat your bones.
Hallelujah.
You will be like a watered garden and
like a spring of water whose waters fail
not.
Hallelujah.
If you will do these things, if you
will allow the heart of Jesus to be
birthed within you and move in that anointing
power, if you will stop seeking for yourself,
Laodicea.
Hallelujah.
It's my personal opinion that the preoccupation with
self and the loss of God's heart had
produced in this church age a multitude of
counselors.
A multitude of counselors.
Take a trip to any Christian bookstore today
and you'll see the preoccupation with self just
by the titles on the books.
I don't even have to explain it anymore.
Self has interwoven itself into the titles.
How to help yourself.
There's one out there called Helping Yourself.
Do you realize that self can't help self?
Self-actualization.
Self-improvement.
Self, self, self, self, self, self.
A multitude of counselors trying to build up
the old nature that Jesus wants to destroy.
Somebody asked me one time, Pastor, do you
know any good books on self?
I said, yes, the book of Romans by
the Apostle Paul.
Talks about crucifying yourself, putting off yourself, dying
to yourself.
Jesus had come down in the day of
John to a church that was supposed to
be a glorious representation of Christ on the
earth.
That's the only call for you and I
as the church of Christ were to be
a glorious representation of Jesus.
Representation of His heart, of His freedom.
That song we sang tonight that Jesus dropped
the charges were to stand forth and declare
not so much by our words but our
life by who Christ has become in us.
But Laodicea had become just another chronic care
hospital with a spiritual emphasis.
And it's sad to say that many of
our churches in North America today are chronic
care hospitals with a spiritual emphasis.
Places of incessant counseling.
Counsel, counsel, counsel, counsel.
It's all you ever hear.
Now I'm not railing on counseling.
I agree that there are times that we
need to talk some things out.
We need to get back to the Word
of God.
We need to find somebody that knows the
Word and pour our heart out.
There's nothing wrong with that.
But when we begin to depend more on
counseling and counselors than we depend upon the
revealed Word of God, something is wrong.
Jesus uses these three words to the church
of Laodicea in Revelation 3.18. He says,
I counsel thee.
Hallelujah.
Go to Revelation.
It's the only time that he uses the
words I counsel to any of the churches.
And I feel with all of my heart
that it's because of all the counselors that
had developed in this church age.
I counsel thee, Laodicea, to buy of me
gold tried in the fire.
You're a church that's pursuing all kinds of
individuals.
You're pursuing all kinds of materialism.
You think that you're going to find wholeness
in the things that you've been offered.
But I counsel you to buy of me
gold tried in the fire.
The psalmist David says in Psalm 12, verse
6, the words of the Lord are pure
words.
As silver tried in a furnace of earth,
purified seven times.
In other words, he's saying, I counsel you
to get back into this book again.
I counsel you to turn away from these
things you've been looking to.
You've been looking in the wrong place.
You've been looking in buckets that are full
of holes.
Get back into the Word of God again.
Ask the Holy Spirit to make it alive
in your life.
Come into the presence of the Lord.
Doesn't Jesus say, those who do truth, come
to the light, that it may be proven
that their deeds have been wrought in God.
Hallelujah.
Buy the truth, Proverbs 23, 23, and sell
it not.
Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Buy the truth, Jesus is saying.
Get back into this book again.
Let's look at the book of Proverbs, please.
Chapter 8.
Proverbs chapter 8.
It's a promise of the Lord for those
that will get back into the Word of
God again.
Verse 10.
Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge
rather than choice gold.
For wisdom is better than rubies, and all
the things that may be desired are not
to be compared to it.
I, wisdom, dwell with prudence and find out
knowledge of witty inventions.
The fear of the Lord is to hate
evil.
Pride and arrogancy and the evil way and
the froward or the crooked mouth do I
hate.
Do you hate these things yet?
Truly, do you have the fear of the
Lord in your heart tonight?
Counsel is mine and sound wisdom.
I am understanding, I have strength.
By me kings reign and princes decree justice.
By me princes rule and nobles, even all
the judges of the earth.
I love them that love me, and those
that seek me early shall find me.
Riches and honor are with me, yea, durable
riches and righteousness.
Hallelujah.
My fruit, now he's talking about the Word
of God, is better than gold, yea, than
fine gold, and my revenue than choice silver.
I lead in the way of righteousness in
the midst of the paths of judgment, that
I may cause those that love me to
inherit substance, and I will fill their treasures.
Hallelujah.
Oh, dear Christian brother and sister, in all
you're seeking, in all you're getting, make sure
that you're seeking Him and make sure you're
getting Him.
Seek Him as you used to seek silver
and gold before you came to the Lord.
Look away from those things that are diverting
you from the pureness of Christ.
Open this book, and as Pastor Dave said
this morning, don't say, Oh God, speak to
sister so-and-so or speak to brother
so-and-so from this passage of Scripture.
But oh God, reveal my heart in this
book.
Lord, walk in the midst of my heart.
Speak to me, oh God.
Let me yearn for Your Word, for I
know that in the love of Your Word
is freedom.
I know that there's deliverance in the love
of Your Word.
Oh God, help me to be a man
or woman that receives the love of the
truth in my inward parts, that I may
be saved.
Hallelujah.
And White Raymond, he says, I counsel you
to get of me, White Raymond, that the
shame of thy nakedness do not appear.
Now, the word shame in the original text
means that feeling that leads to the shunning
of what is unworthy out of an anticipation
of dishonor.
And where Jesus said that the shame of
your nakedness does not appear, in other words,
that your nakedness would not be made known
by divine revelation.
What Jesus is saying to this church is
that you would shun what is unworthy by
allowing the divine revelation of the Word of
God to touch your life anew and afresh.
That you would open your heart and say,
Jesus, touch my life.
I'm not barring any part of my life.
I'm not pre-assuming anything.
But I invite you, Jesus, to touch my
life.
I invite you to touch my heart.
I invite you to touch those areas where
I have resisted you.
When's the last time you prayed a prayer
like that?
God, those areas where I have resisted you,
I invite you to come and touch.
I invite you to challenge me.
I invite you to walk in the midst
of the candlesticks of my life, oh God,
and reprove me.
And show me, oh God, where I have
fallen short of the high calling you have
upon my life.
Jesus said through Paul in Romans 2, 4,
Do you despise the riches of His goodness
and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the
goodness of God leads you to repentance?
It's the goodness of God.
It's the treasure of Christ.
It's the true riches of the Word that
leads you and I to a place of
repentance.
You know, to try and make it simple,
there are so many people running around wanting
counseling for marriages that are out of order
in the church.
And all I can...
And they run from this counselor to that
counselor and some will take you back and
say, well, it's because of your grandfather that
you're not able to relate to this person.
Or because your mother and father didn't buy
you a dog.
Or it just gets as stupid as the
human mind can make it.
I'm serious about this.
Hallelujah.
I exhort you with all my heart, if
you've got a marriage problem, get into the
book of Ephesians chapter 5 and find out
what the problem really is.
Husbands, are you loving your wife as Christ
loved the church?
Are you willing to give to her?
Are you willing to make all of your
decisions that she may profit and that your
children may profit?
Have you put yourself last before your family?
Begin there.
Begin in the Word of God.
Wives, have you learned what it is to
reverence your husband?
Oh, but pastor, you don't know what kind
of a man he is.
But it doesn't say that in the Word
of God.
Have you learned to respect him just because
of who God made him?
Just because of the place God has put
him in?
When we begin to get back into the
Word of God again and stop trying to
look to blame somebody else for the way
we are.
That's what the Scripture is talking about.
That you would get back to a place
of getting gold that's been tried in the
fire.
And bring your life under the blood of
Jesus Christ again.
That's what repentance is all about.
Get of me gold tried in the fire
and white raiment that your nakedness would not
appear.
When we get back into the Word of
God, the very first thing that happens is
Christ reveals to us the areas in our
life and nature that are against him, that
are contrary to his will, contrary to his
Word.
And when God's Spirit has full access to
our heart, we say, Lord, I repent of
this.
God, put it under the blood.
Change me, transform me in this area.
That's what Jesus is saying to the Laodicean
church.
The way out of lukewarmness is to get
back into the Word again.
And let the Word prove you and let
the Word examine you.
And when God's Spirit exposes something that's not
right in your life, bring it back again
under the blood if we confess our sins.
He's faithful and just to forgive our sins
and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
That's where your healing comes from.
Brothers and sisters in Christ, God has had
to heal me over the years.
There were things in my life that only
God could take out of my life when
I came to the Lord.
But I thank the Lord that I was
stuck way out in the boonies somewhere on
a sheep farm.
I had nothing to turn to and nobody
but the Word of God.
And I turn to Him with all of
my heart and He has set me free
from all of my fears and delivered me
from every power of hell.
I can stand here tonight a free man
in Christ Jesus declaring plainly to you that
the Word of God and the Spirit of
God and the blood of Christ are sufficient
to set you free.
Hallelujah.
And He says in Revelation 3.18, And
anoint your eyes with eye salve that thou
mayest see.
The writer of Hebrews says, Looking unto Jesus,
the author and finisher of our faith.
That's where we need to be today.
Looking unto Him.
Looking unto Him as John did, as Isaiah
did, as Daniel did.
Looking unto Jesus.
Look away from yourself, Church of the Living
God.
Look away from your dependency on other people.
Look away from all the places that you're
looking to for satisfaction and you're looking to
for freedom and you're looking to for wholeness.
Look away from these things and look unto
Him, the author and finisher of our faith.
Hallelujah.
His blood is sufficient to cleanse you from
all sin.
His Word is sufficient to open your eyes
and be a lamp for your feet and
a light for your path.
His Holy Spirit is sufficient to empower you
to have victory over sin and over the
devil and over hell itself.
Hallelujah.
Anoint your eyes with eye salve.
Jesus said that you may see the book
of Ephesians chapter 1.
Please turn there with me.
Hallelujah.
Jesus wants to give us a revelation of
Himself.
An absolute, absolute revelation that brings us into
revival.
That brings us into a place of absolute,
unspeakable glory in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians chapter 1, verse 17.
Listen to what God says to the Apostle
Paul.
God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
of glory, may give unto you the spirit
of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
Him.
In the knowledge of Him.
That the eyes of your understanding be enlightened.
That you may know what is the hope
of His calling and what the riches of
the glory of His inheritance in the saints.
This is the end of side 1.
The Lord is saying to Paul, your eyes
need to be opened.
You need to understand Him.
You need to see Him high and lifted
up.
You need to know where He sits.
You need to understand that His Word has
preeminence over every situation, every hurt, every past
thing in your life.
Jesus Christ is sufficient to heal you.
Hallelujah.
You need to understand that you're seated tonight
with Him in heavenly places.
He is the head of all principality and
power.
Every name that is named is in subjection
to His name.
No power of hell has a right to
your life tonight if you're a child of
God.
Jesus said, Anoint your eyes with eye salve
that you may see again.
That you may understand.
That you may turn away from the beggarly
things of this world that you've been looking
to for freedom.
That you may see Him again.
And what is the exceeding greatness of His
power to us who believe according to the
working of His mighty power.
That you would see how He longs to
pour out of His Spirit upon all who
call upon Him.
That you would see He stands before every
prison door tonight with a key in His
hand.
All you have to do in honesty is
cry out to Him.
In honesty ask Him to reveal what causes
you to be behind that door.
Repent of your sin and Christ will open
it and fling it off its hinges and
let you go free.
Hallelujah.
I thank God with all of my heart
that you guys in Timothy house and girls
in Hannah house that you weren't birthed into
the kingdom of God in some place that's
preoccupied with simply counseling.
I thank God that you're learning to seek
God with all of your heart.
You're learning that freedom comes when you're on
your face before God.
You're learning.
You're learning that He is sufficient to meet
every need.
You don't have to understand it all and
neither did I.
There are circumstances in your life that are
pain beyond pain in the past.
You don't have to go back and blame
somebody for what happened to you.
You lay it down and forgive all that
have wronged you.
That's what the word of God says.
Turn to Him with all of your heart.
Begin to pray for those that despitefully used
you and God sends freedom and healing into
your soul.
That's what the gospel is all about.
Hallelujah.
That your eyes would be opened.
Oh, listen to what the Lord says through
the apostle James.
Let me just turn it there.
I agree.
Some would say, Pastor Cullen, do you have
to shout all the way through your message?
Yeah.
Hallelujah.
That's just the way God made me.
He says through James, draw nigh to God.
James chapter 4 verse 8, and He will
draw nigh to you.
Cleanse your hearts, you sinners, and purify your
hearts, you double-minded.
In other words, if you've been looking to
anything other than Jesus, purify your heart.
Be afflicted and mourn and weep, and let
your laughter be turned to mourning and your
joy to heaviness.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord,
and He shall lift you up.
Let your eyes salve.
The Lord is saying, I want to give
you an eye salve of tears.
Let your tears no longer be for yourself.
We heard Pastor Ritchie speaking about this today
at 3 o'clock.
But let your tears be for the shame
of what you have lost in Christ.
Let a new heart be given you, and
let tears of sorrow be turned into tears
of joy.
The scripture says that weeping endures for a
night, but joy will come again in the
morning.
The Psalmist David says, O God, restore unto
me the joy of thy salvation.
Restore unto me, O God, the joy.
Is that your cry tonight?
My covenant God.
Laodicea, let the heart of Jesus within you
produce tears again for the lost.
You see, Laodicea doesn't weep for the lost
because Laodicea doesn't have the heart of God.
Psalm 126, please.
It'll be our last scripture.
Hallelujah.
Did you know in this house that we're
going into revival?
Did you know that here at Times Square
Church?
We're moving into revival.
Revival is a revelation of Jesus Christ.
That's what it is.
It's not a carnal exuberancy.
It's not some new thing.
It's Jesus being revealed in the hearts of
His church.
Revival is not an exterior thing that you
walk into.
Revival is an interior thing that bursts forth
in your own life.
Revival is the heat of God being turned
on under lukewarm water.
And all of a sudden a bubbling starts
to happen.
And it gets very uncomfortable and you begin
to sweat a little bit first.
But all of a sudden you can't contain
it anymore.
You cry out to God and surrender and
begin to repent.
And all of a sudden you find yourself
leaping out of that pot.
Hallelujah.
There's been a transformation in your life.
There's been a new joy.
And all you want to do is leap
into the very heart of God.
And have the very heart of God leap
into your earthly body which is the temple
of the Holy Ghost.
You become an earthly ambassador of Jesus Christ.
And the way He feels is the way
you become to feel.
Where He would go is where the places
that you and I go.
And all of a sudden it's not all
just joy, but there are tears of sorrow
begin to come into your life.
I've become a strange creature since I came
to Jesus Christ.
There are times that I feel the burden
of the Lord to get up and go
down into my living room.
And I would perhaps think sometimes that it's
going to be just a time of quietness
before God or a time of worship or
maybe a time of joy.
But sometimes great heaving sobs come right from
the depths of my very bowels.
I can't even explain it.
It's a groaning that comes upon me.
And I'm beginning to think of those in
this house who don't know Him.
I'm beginning to think of all the sheep
all over the world that are not hearing
the Word of God.
I'm beginning to think of the people in
New York City that walk these streets and
never had an opportunity to hear about the
saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I begin to think of the students in
the schools all over our cities that are
yearning for truth and longing for truth.
And a great heave starts to come from
within.
And great tears.
And sometimes it's a crying with such agony
that I virtually feel that my guts are
literally going to come out.
That's the way I feel.
I know that's not necessarily the best way
of putting it, but that's the way I
feel.
Because it's the Spirit of God within me
sharing something with me for that moment.
It's not something I conjure up in the
flesh.
I don't go down to my living room
and bring a box of Kleenex and say,
now I'm going to cry for the lost.
And take an onion and start squeezing it.
Boo-hoo, boo-hoo.
No.
It's the Spirit of God within me.
It's not something you anticipate.
It just happens.
Over the years, at times I've been sitting
at the dinner table.
Sometimes even at other people's houses.
And I'll be sitting there and all of
a sudden a brokenness begins to come upon
me.
Because of something somebody says.
Or a thought that's come into my mind.
Or I hear of another marriage that's broken
up in the house of God.
And all of a sudden a brokenness.
I was...
A couple of nights ago I went to
pick up my daughter at a school and
I parked the car outside of the school.
And all of a sudden this brokenness started
to come upon me again.
And I was sitting with my dog behind
the wheel of the car.
And I started to cry and cry.
People coming out of there must have thought
that I was trying to hide it.
I was turning my face away.
So that they wouldn't think I was losing
my mind.
But it was the Spirit of God.
I had heard about a church that had
a really wicked pastor over them.
A wicked hearted man.
Who cared nothing for the people.
Now that sounds hard.
And some dear friends of mine that had
suffered or were beginning to suffer because of
this.
And something welled up inside of me.
And I began to cry out to God.
Because I desire to share His heart.
The heart of Jesus will produce within you
tears for the lost.
Laodicea had no tears for the lost.
Their testimony was, I am rich.
I am increased with goods.
I have need of nothing.
I, I, I, I.
A totally inward focus.
That it produced a lukewarmness.
There were no more tears for the lost.
If you're here tonight and you don't have
tears for the lost.
You better let the Holy Ghost begin to
examine your heart.
If you have the heart of Jesus.
I'm not saying you walk around with some
kind of long face all over New York
City.
But there are seasons when weeping will come
upon you.
There have been seasons in my life when
weeping has come upon me for days.
I just can't seem to get out of
the, the weeping mold.
Because God's speaking to me about something.
But I've been down in my living room
praying.
And then after the tears have been cried
out.
And then I've been holding my stomach until
I feel like my stomach is going to
burst open.
Then all of a sudden joy starts to
come over me.
I start thanking Him.
Oh God, you're going to save the lost.
Oh God, thank you for every sinner that's
going to come into Times Square Church this
Sunday and be saved.
Thank you for every drug addict you're going
to set free.
Thank you for every marriage you're going to
heal.
Thank you for every young person you're going
to save.
And I begin rejoicing as He reveals His
heart of salvation.
And how He's reaching out.
And how the Kingdom of God is still
going forward.
In the midst of all the darkness and
blackness of our society.
Weeping comes for a night, but joy comes
in the morning.
In the day of Nehemiah's revival under Ezra.
The Word of God was opened.
And Ezra began to explain it to the
people.
And a strange mixture of weeping and joy
came upon that congregation.
That's what revival is all about.
There's a sorrow, there's a weeping for the
things that we've lost.
There's a shame that comes upon us.
When we say, Oh God, I have left
off of the purest things that You have
for me.
And I have begun to look to the
beggarly things of this world to satisfy the
needs of my heart.
Oh shame, shame upon my own heart.
And a sorrow begins to come when Ezra
made the Word known.
A sorrow came into the hearts of the
people.
But yet that sorrow was mixed with a
very strange anointing of joy that came upon
them.
As people broke free.
As the glory of Christ, the countenance of
Jesus began to come upon their lives.
And people broke free.
There was a mixture of joy and sorrow
in that day of revival.
Hallelujah.
There is no genuine revival when there's no
sorrow.
When there's no brokenness.
When there's no repentance for sin.
When the lost are not convicted.
There is no revival.
It's just a manifestation of a carnal Laodicean
heart.
That's all it is.
We're seeing the result now throughout all of
the western world of the self-seeking carnal
church.
Being given over to their own lusts.
Seeking their own pleasure.
And seeking their own gain.
Seeking their own relief in the midst of
a world that is dying and going to
hell.
Shame, shame, shame on this church age.
Shame on this church generation through the western
world.
I say shame.
I stand here and testify against it all.
All of the carnal self-seeking in the
house of God.
Would be to God we'd get the heart
of Christ once again in His church.
And begin to shed tears for the lost.
And begin to ask Jesus for such a
manifestation of His glory.
That one lost sinner coming into our midst
could not sit in their sin anymore.
But they would run to Him.
Run to Him as the only Savior that
can save them from their sin.
Hallelujah.
Psalm 126 says, When the Lord turned again
the captivity of Zion, we were like them
that dreamed.
God is about to turn away our captivity.
Do you understand that tonight?
I speak prophetically to you tonight.
God is about to turn away the captivity.
He's about to wash away the things in
His house that have captivated the hearts of
His people.
And He's preparing unto Himself a holy remnant
bride in this last hour of time.
A bride that's going to love Him.
A bride that will serve Him.
A bride that will share His heart.
A bride that will minister to His children.
A bride that will meet His needs more
than running around to have her own met.
Hallelujah.
When the Lord turned the captivity of Zion,
we were like them that dreamed.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter and
our tongue with singing.
They said among the heathen, The Lord has
done great things for them.
The Lord has done great things for us
whereof we are glad.
Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as streams
in the south.
They that sow in tears shall reap in
joy.
Hallelujah.
He that goes forth weeping, bearing precious seed,
that's the Word of God, shall doubtless come
again with rejoicing, bringing in his sheaves with
him.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
With the manifestation of Jesus comes a weeping
and a sowing.
The heart of God.
We heard it last weekend also in this
sanctuary when two missionaries who traveled the world
revealed to us the heart of God for
this and every other generation.
It's not for self.
It's for the will of God to be
done in the lives of others.
Hallelujah.
Would it be to God that you and
I would consider ourselves dead that the purposes
of God might be fulfilled in us and
through us in this last hour of time.
Now, Leslie in Revelation 3, he says, Behold,
I stand at the door and knock.
He said, I love you.
As many as I love, I rebuke and
chasten.
Be zealous and repent.
Be zealous.
Jesus is saying, get up and run back
to me again.
Those that are backslidden in heart, run back
to me again with all of your heart.
Be zealous, Laodicean church, and repent of what
you have lost.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
If any man hear my voice and open
the door, I'll come in to him and
sup with him and he with me.
That word sup means, refers to the evening
meal.
It's a long time of lingering time of
intimate fellowship over the longest and most intimate
meal of the day.
He's saying, I'll come in and it will
be a virtual feast.
I'll reveal to you the treasures of heaven.
There'll be a joy in your life and
heart that you've never known.
There'll be purpose in your step that you've
never had before.
I'll come in and speak with you and
you will speak with me.
Hallelujah.
And to him that overcomes, I will grant
to sit with me in my throne, even
as I also overcame and sat down with
my Father in His throne.
He that has an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
He that overcomes, lukewarmness.
That's the whole message tonight.
He that overcomes, lukewarmness.
Would you stand please.
He that overcomes, lukewarmness.
My prayer tonight for my life and for
your life is, Oh God, never, never, never
let me get lukewarm.
Keep me on fire.
Whatever you have to do.
Whatever valley you have to take me through.
If that's what has to happen, God do
it.
But keep me dependent upon you.
Keep me aflame for you Lord Jesus.
May I never, ever get to the place
of self-seeking.
Get to the place where you look upon
my life and say, You say I'm rich.
Increased with goods.
But I see another thing.
Now I've almost felt guilty preaching this message
in this church tonight.
There's such a zeal for God.
There's a holy zeal.
In so many of your lives.
But others, God's Spirit has spoken to you
tonight.
And even though you appear to be on
fire for God tonight, There's always room for
improvement.
In each and every one of our lives.
I want to give an altar call tonight
for those who would firstly say, I am
in danger.
I sense as this message is going forward
tonight, That a lukewarmness wants to settle in
my heart.
Wants to get a hold of me.
I'm seeking for myself all the time.
That's one of the first signs.
An introspection.
I'm always thinking about myself.
I think more of myself than I do
of God.
And that I do of others.
That's a danger sign.
That's something that God's speaking tonight.
I want to open this altar in the
balcony and down below as God speaks to
your heart.
Would you come?
And there are others here tonight that the
Lord would say, That you would say to
the Lord rather, Jesus deliver me from lukewarmness.
May it never get a hold of my
heart.
God I want to stay on fire for
you all the days of my life.
And Lord I invite you to use my
life for your purposes and for your glory.
I invite you to come into the very
inward recesses of my heart and reveal.
You're inviting now Jesus to come in and
reveal things in your heart and life that
are displeasing to Him.
Now this is not a one hour process.
God will begin to speak to you from
this pulpit and begin to speak to you
in your devotions.
As you come we'll wait in the balcony
as God speaks to you.
This is the conclusion of the tape.