We thank thee for this night.
We thank thee for the three nights that
we as thy people could gather to seek
our God, to worship our God, to have
fellowship together in song, and listening to the
beautiful music of young people whose hearts are
full of love for their Saviour.
Young people who take their gifts and give
them in a sanctified way for the glory
of God.
And God alone knows if I could have
had any choice tonight, I would have loved
those three houses who have been able to
pray for over an hour for us, just
to listen to what they've practiced and longed
to present to the church, to edify and
to be a blessing.
And maybe, Lord, one day they would give
them, these three ladies, the privilege and the
joy to just have a whole meeting where
the church will listen and appreciate what has
been their ministry now for God's glory.
Oh, bless them and use them, and thank
thee for them.
Thank thee again, God, for dear brother Don
and Vicky, for their lovely children in a
godly home.
Thank thee, Lord, and bless them.
Thank thee for every single one that travelled
from near or far, who's here tonight, who's
been in the meetings before, perhaps couldn't come
back tonight.
But thank thee, God, for them.
Thank thee for what happened last night when
so many, oh God, so many came in
resignation to God's will last night, in a
very moving way.
I do bless thee for them, and I
ask thee to keep them under the blood
of Jesus and to bring much fruit, so
much so, Lord, that it will stagger the
powers of hell to what God will do
now through their lives.
Oh, bless them.
Thank thee for all the faith that comes
to us through thy word that thou didst
give us in that first sermon, just God's
words, not men's, just God's.
What God said concerning when we're persecuted, when
we're afflicted, when tribulation comes.
Thank thee for this book, God, for the
faith that burns in our hearts, the joy,
the comfort, the healing, the courage.
In the face of anything the devil brings,
this book fills us with hope and courage
and strength and faith to know we're not
going to be devoured.
Oh, we bless thee for thy promises.
For this book that is a lamp unto
our feet, a light unto our path, we
bless thee.
Come, O God, in mercy and keep us
now under the blood of Jesus.
Cleanse the atmosphere of this building with the
blood of Jesus and the whole surrounding area.
Protect us with the blood of Christ and
with the angels of God and the Holy
Spirit and the risen, resurrected power of Christ.
Wash me now, God, in mercy and the
blood that I may be clean in the
hand of God.
Anoint me by the Holy Spirit and anoint
thy word in mercy to all of our
hearts.
In Jesus Christ's name, in Jesus Christ's name,
amen.
There's one other thing I forgot to say
thank you for and I don't know how
to say thank you properly.
It's that love offering you talk of.
I come from a very conservative country and
we're not really versed how to say thank
you for such things.
But Americans have a very gracious heart and
goodness.
And I hope you would accept that this
is ethical to say thank you.
That you even thought of that.
My payment, dear brothers and sisters, the joy
of having you people to preach to.
And God knows that's all I want.
But that you thought of that, I thank
you for.
And I thank those of you that were
so kind.
It will be very meaningful to my wife
and me, our family and our work, our
mission in Africa.
But believe me, I came for this.
This is only the word of God.
But I do thank you and I hope
I'm not saying the wrong things.
I'm just trying to be ethical and not
to offend by saying thank you.
So God bless you for that.
There's a chapter that I think we all
know.
I know all the children know it.
Ephesians chapter 6.
Now, those of you who open your Bibles
can't quote it.
So we'll know who knows.
They were so wonderful last night.
They started right at the beginning.
I'm starting in verse 10.
Finally, my brethren.
Now when Paul says finally, that's wonderful.
You might think I'm long-winded.
Paul went on till midnight, brother, sister.
Someone actually fell down stone dead.
Because he preached too long.
Well, the Lord rose him up again.
But I've never done that.
So I don't think I'll be keeping you
till midnight.
Don't fear.
But Paul, when he comes to this word
finally, that's something for Paul to come to,
finally.
Oh my.
Finally, my brethren.
Be strong in the Lord.
In the Lord.
And in the power of His might.
Be strong in the Lord.
And in the power of His might.
Put on the whole armor of God.
Put on the whole armor of God that
ye may be able to stand against the
wiles of the devil.
That ye may be able to stand against
the wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of
God that ye may be able to withstand
in the evil day.
And having done all, having done all to
stand.
Stand therefore, having your loins skirted about with
truth.
And having on the breastplate of righteousness, and
your feet shod with the preparation of the
gospel of peace.
Above all, above all, taking the shield of
faith.
Above all, taking the shield, the shield of
faith.
Wherewith ye shall be able to quench all
the fiery darks of the wicked.
Above all, taking the shield of faith.
Wherewith ye shall be able to quench all,
all the fiery darks of the wicked.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the
sword of the Spirit, which is the word
of God.
The sword of the Spirit, which is the
word of God.
Praying always, praying always, praying always, with all
prayer and supplication in the Spirit.
And watching therefore, thereunto with all perseverance and
supplication for all saints.
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in
the Spirit.
And watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication
for all saints.
I want you to notice that we are
commanded to put on the whole armour of
God for protection before we enter into warfare
on our knees in prayer.
I want you to notice that we are
commanded to put on the whole armour of
God for protection before we enter into warfare
on our knees in prayer.
For we place ourselves on the front line
of the battle between God and Satan the
moment we get on our knees.
We place ourselves on the front line of
the battle between God and Satan the moment
we get on our knees.
We must enter into warfare beloved.
We dare not sit back any longer as
the church of Jesus Christ in hopelessness and
unbelief and allow the devil to destroy this
land of yours.
We must enter into warfare beloved.
We dare not sit back any longer as
the church of Jesus Christ in hopelessness and
unbelief and allow the devil to destroy this
land.
We have weapons and the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal but mighty through God
to the pulling down of strongholds.
There is no stronghold the devil has that
we cannot pull down through prayer.
The weapons God has given us we have
weapons God says if we're daring to do
what he longs for us to do to
enter into warfare on our knees in prayer.
The weapons of our warfare God says are
not carnal, they're not human weapons but mighty
through God to the pulling down of strongholds.
He's speaking about pulling down the devil's strongholds.
We can pull down the devil's strongholds and
God waits for us.
He waits for us.
I believe staggered that the only army America
has that can save this country from what
the devil wants to do to this country
is the army of God on its knees
in prayer.
There is no army in this land though
it might be the greatest military army in
the world that you could look to to
stop what the devil wants to do to
America.
Apart from the army of God on its
knees in prayer there is no hope for
America.
The only fear I have for America the
only fear I have for this land is
that the church of God won't get on
its knees in time into warfare, into warfare.
God waits, believe me.
God is waiting for the church to get
on its knees.
I will therefore I will therefore that men
pray everywhere.
Oh, that God says this.
He's waiting.
I want them to.
I will therefore that men pray everywhere.
Everywhere.
I will therefore that men pray everywhere lifting
up holy hands without wrath or doubting.
There's always a condition attached to prayer being
answered.
There's always a condition for God answering prayer,
beloved.
Holy hands.
Is the church able to be the army?
Have they met the condition?
Holy hands.
I will therefore that men pray everywhere lifting
up holy hands without wrath or doubting.
James says, Let him ask in faith, nothing
wavering.
For he that wavereth is like a wave
of the sea, driven with the wind and
tossed.
For let not that man think that he
should receive anything of the Lord.
A double-minded man is unstable in all
his ways.
Let not that man who doubts, who doesn't
come in faith, let him ask in faith,
nothing wavering.
For he that wavereth is like a wave
of the sea, driven with the wind and
tossed.
For let not that man think that he
shall receive anything of the Lord.
It's not just praying.
There's coming without wrath, without wrong motives, without
the wrong attitude to God and sensual motive
like James 4 verse 1 tells us, why
God cannot answer our prayers.
Without wrath and without doubting, without doubting, a
holy confidence in God.
And that comes, beloved, through a life that
is holy.
Listen to these words, 1 John 3 verse
20.
For if our heart condemn us, God is
greater than our heart.
And knoweth all things, beloved, if our heart
condemn us not, then have we confidence toward
God.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him,
because we keep his commandments.
And do those things that are pleasing in
his sight.
There's always a condition to the promise.
Can you pray without a condemned heart, beloved?
If our heart condemn us, God is greater
than our heart.
1 John 3 verse 20.
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then,
then have we confidence toward God.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him,
because we keep his commandments.
And do those things that are pleasing in
his sight.
The eyes of the Lord are over the
righteous.
His ears are open unto their prayers.
But the face of the Lord is against
them that do evil.
The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man
availeth much, accomplishes amazing things literally.
God will do amazing things.
The eyes of the Lord run to and
fro throughout the whole earth, seeking to sow
himself strong in the behalf of them whose
heart is perfect toward him.
God is seeking.
I sought for a man.
God said of a whole generation in a
land about to be destroyed because of sin.
I sought.
The eyes of the Lord run to and
fro, seeking if there's someone whose heart is
right, who can lift up holy hands.
I sought for a man.
I sought for a man among them that
could make up the gap, stand in the
gap before me for the land, that I
don't have to allow the land to be
destroyed in righteous judgment upon the land, that
I don't have to let a land be
destroyed because of her sin.
I sought for a man.
I sought.
God is seeking.
I want to ask America something.
Does God say what he said of that
generation?
As he's looking across America right now with
what the devil seems to have the right
to do, I found none God changed.
God looked for something that he couldn't find.
One man that had the right to pray,
like Moses.
Did you notice about Moses lifting up holy
hands?
When Moses' hands were held high in prayer
in his old age, the people of God
were conquering the enemy.
The enemy was retreating.
But when Moses grew weary and his hands
lowered, the enemy started making advance upon the
people of God.
Oh, they were victors.
The enemy came victory, victorious over the people
of God.
Now, people were watching Moses' hands falling down.
And they saw the battle now being lost
by the people of God.
And what did they do?
They, who were near him, overlooking the battle,
took his army and held them up in
desperation.
Oh, they held him up and they watched.
And suddenly, suddenly, God's people began to have
victory over the enemy.
What was God teaching us?
Nothing was meant for history.
Nothing was meant for nice stories to tell
children.
Everything was meant to reach your heart.
Every word weighed in the balance of the
Old Testament from Genesis 1 right through to
the last verse.
Don't doubt it.
Beloved, God was saying to you and me,
that man's hands weren't what was being answered
in the prayer.
They didn't look for someone else to lift
up their hands.
You know what they knew about Moses?
This man is holy.
It is his praise that will save us.
They were, they were encouraging him to pray
on.
That's all.
Encouraging him, praying on.
I will therefore that men pray everywhere, God
says, lifting up holy hands.
Come now, there's a condition.
It's not that someone else prayed that there
would be victory.
Moses was holy.
And God sought for a man among them
and he found someone in Moses.
He found someone in Moses.
But he looked in a generation at some
stage and said of the people of God
and of their land, I found none.
Is it possible?
Is it possible that the church is in
such a state that God who looks for
a man whose heart is perfect toward him,
that he can show himself strong on the
behalf of, that he can do great things,
you know, I found none.
I sought for some.
He wondered that there was no intercessor.
Do you know what that means?
God was staggered.
The Bible actually said, something staggered God.
He was staggered that no one was praying
while their land was being destroyed.
He was staggered.
Will the children of God sit back and
allow their land to be destroyed in this
land?
That's what I'd like to ask America.
War is war, beloved.
It's not something for one night when the
church decides let's do something.
War is when you get down until the
battle is won.
And you don't withdraw from war until it's
won.
If you're any army that has any consequence
on the enemy.
We have weapons.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
but mighty through God to the pulling down
of strongholds.
I guarantee you, American Christians, I guarantee you
that what the devil has taken 50 years
to do in this land, in bringing demoralizing
things, in undermining integrity and decency, in defiling
your land, so that your land faces judgment.
I guarantee you that what the devil has
taken 50 years to do, we could undo
in a few days as the people of
God on our knees in prayer.
But do you honestly believe in that?
Or is it just a statement that stirs
you but won't motivate you into warfare?
Will you wake up when your country is
totally destroyed, America?
I'm speaking to the Christians.
Thank God you've got a president who is
the only president in the whole world.
There's not one nation on earth apart from
America whose president has said publicly he's saved
and loves Jesus Christ.
You are the only nation on earth with
such a man.
Don't condemn him.
Don't criticize him.
He's only saved 7 years, I believe.
He's a babe in Christ.
Be careful.
Just thank God he's saved.
And pray for him.
Pray for him.
That's your duty.
The Holy Ghost is in him if he
is saved.
But I'm going to stagger you, Mr. President,
if you ever get to hear this.
And I'm going to stagger your military armies.
America has a greater need than you, sir,
being saved.
America has a greater need than armies.
America's only hope, sir, is not you.
It's God's people across this land, of all
denominations, the true born-again believers getting right
with God.
If my people, which are called by my
name, shall humble themselves and pray, was said
in the Old Testament to Israel, that's its
context, but there was not one verse in
the Old Testament God didn't have in mind
for you and me to tell us his
heart.
People of God, that promise was meant with
you in mind when God gave it because
it's the word of God.
If my people, now, in the gospel dispensation,
who are called by my name, shall humble
themselves and pray and turn from their wicked
ways, from their sins, confess their sins and
turn from their wicked ways, then will I
hear from heaven and will forgive their sins
and will heal their land.
That word, heal their land, is an amazing
statement.
God will heal this land when the people
of God get right with God, when they
get holy hands, when they begin to pray
effectual, fervent prayers in their righteous people.
When they are asked, don't condemn them in
the light of this book, and they get
on on their knees, they will undo every
stronghold the devil has in this world against
them and they will undo every stronghold the
devil has built up over 50 years and
even more to bring this land to a
place where judgment could come upon it unless
we start praying.
Christians, you could turn this land back to
God in days that the devil will crumble
when the people of God get right with
God.
God has a holy obligation if we do
that and he's waiting for it, brother.
Otherwise, all these verses...
we have weapons...
will startle you to the degree that when
you start seeing what God can do, I
don't think any of us will recover at
what God will do through us.
We'll be so startled.
I've often been amused, I've often been amused
at the testimonies of men who had no
idea of the power of prayer.
I have often been amused at the testimonies
of men who had no idea of the
power of prayer until they prayed a burdened
prayer in desperation against the devil, in indignation.
I know a minister.
I won't tell you what denomination it is.
He was telling me, in our country where
I come from, it is the denomination, you
don't go where you want to go, you
go where you're sent after a certain term.
It's not up to the minister where he
goes of this particular denomination.
He was sent to a new town in
our country, to a new pulpit, the same
denomination, but a new congregation.
He stood up, his first sermon, Sunday morning,
and he preached faithfully for God.
He preached about hell.
He preached the judgment of God and unrepentant
sin and sinners.
And he cried out, except a man be
born again, he cannot see the kingdom of
heaven.
He cried out, there's no hope of you
going to heaven unless you're born of God,
born again, which results through repentance and faith
by grace, through faith in the blood of
Jesus Christ and receiving Christ as your savior.
He cried out, repent or be damned.
Well, thank God, someone's still crying it out,
because that's the whole Bible from the heart
of the God of love that you say
wouldn't say those words you liberal theologians say
when you're sending people to hell just so
you can have a job.
But you don't live from this book, sir.
You're in for a terrible shock.
In the next moment, you'll be in front
of God, not only with your own soul
to give account for, but those you kept
from truth.
This man didn't hold back.
This man preached truth and thanked God for
such a man.
But after he preached the sermon of hell
and repentance, oh, and being born again, all
hell broke loose in the church.
Where did it come from?
The chief elder.
Before he was at the bottom step of
the pulpit, the chief elder with all the
elders and all the deacons, they were all
upset.
But the chief elder was the voice.
He came and did he bless this man
while the congregation was still standing there.
You will never, ever, ever preach like that
again in this church.
Don't you dare ever preach these things again.
You will never use the word hellfire in
our pulpit.
You will never use the word born again
in our church.
Don't you ever tell us or imply to
us that we are going to hell.
We're Christians, man.
Don't come and preach to us like we're
hellbound sinners.
We're Christians.
What do you think you're doing?
Don't you ever use these words again.
Repent.
Don't you ever use that word again.
Everybody's behind him.
Yes.
Well, this man went home with his wife
after his first sermon and his heart was
down.
Oh, what have I come to?
I can't say a man must be born
again.
The one thing Jesus said that has to
happen for you to have any hope of
him and I can't tell him to be.
I'm forbidden to say what God says has
to happen for you to get to heaven.
Oh, he was really heavy.
Had a few weeps and really was heartbroken
at the new pulpit he's now finding himself.
Well, it comes Saturday night.
It was the youth meeting.
So he and his wife decided we'd better
go and show our faces to the youth
and see what's going on.
So they went up the house, down the
block, around to where the church stands and
they stood.
He said he started to weep within seconds
on the corner.
The music that was coming out of the
house of God.
You'd think it was coming out of the
devil's house.
It was the devil's music.
He said, look, what is going on?
Listen to this music, full blast.
What you'd expect in a nightclub or a
disco with drugs and sin and sensual perversions
going on where people who hate God go,
where no one who names the name of
Christ could dare venture.
But you would never have the right to
the name, the name of Christ again in
your life.
If you did, hear this music.
It's coming out of the house of God.
Out of the hall attached to a church
where the youth gather.
Well, he started weeping.
Oh, it was the devil's music.
How did the devil get that right?
Church of this generation.
How did the devil get it right that
we're playing his music, that honestly, you might
say it's called gospel rock or whatever you
want to say.
Where do we become like the world to
win the world?
When did the church decide to do that?
Listen to me, you church leaders.
Listen carefully.
You may be offended, but this is the
truth.
You cannot win the world by being like
the world.
The world will win you the day you
start that.
That's all that will happen.
All that will happen is the world will
win you and you.
The world will sit comfortably in your church
and be comfortable in their sins.
They won't come to repentance.
And tragically, you'll find the heart of the
church will be in the world when it
gets to that state that the church finds
the world comfortable with them.
You cannot use worldly methods.
Man, this music is devilish.
It's devilish.
I don't know how the devil got it
right.
The moment I hear this music, you know,
I think it's the closest I've ever been
to hell.
I don't think I've ever sensed what hell
must be like more than when I hear
this modern day music.
It's ugly.
And that Christians could say you like it.
Man, young people, be careful.
What you condition yourself to listen to you
like, you could get to like the devil's
music.
I sit in a car at the red
lights, traffic lights, and a car pulls up
next to me.
The young fellow, his radio, his music is
on full blast these days, you know.
They don't say it's late.
It has to be full blast.
I don't understand.
Why?
Why don't you just suffer yourself?
Why doesn't everybody suffer with you?
It has to be blast.
Now all his windows are shut, by the
way.
And you're sitting there waiting like a decent
human being for the red lights to go
green.
And this guy pulls up next to you
and all you hear is BOOM!
BOOM!
And you You know, you hold on.
You think, well this is my end.
And you look what's happening, you know.
And you see this fellow's enjoying it.
And his windows are shut and your ears
are nearly blasted, you know.
How can he be in there and stay
alive?
You're nearly dead.
What shocks me is that he's enjoying it.
You know, I think if we hadn't conditioned
the children, we suddenly placed today's devilish music
to a generation that hadn't heard for 20
years, just 20 years, you'd play today's music
and most people would fall down dead of
heart failure, even the young people.
We've conditioned ourselves to like it.
Be careful what you listen to, what you
allow, even if it's because of friends, just
to impress friends.
Just give it a little chance.
You'll find yourself appreciating, you know.
Well, he was enjoying what wasn't beautiful.
But think about this.
There was nothing beautiful.
It's just this ba-da-boom, ba-da
-ba-ba-boom.
And every now and again some scream, ra
-ra-ra, you know.
How could anybody stay sane listening to that?
What worries me is they're enjoying it.
You could enjoy the worst form of anything
if you allowed yourself to be conditioned.
You young people don't give yourself a chance
to put on modern radio stations.
Trust me.
You think that it won't affect you.
What you listen to just once, it might
be ugly the first time.
After a while, I guarantee you, you'll enjoy
it if you listen to it for a
while.
Jesus says to you, if you'll name the
name of Christ, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, if there be any virtue,
think in these things.
In other words, allow these things into your
mind.
Even music.
How can you allow yourself to enjoy ugly
music?
There's nothing lovely in this.
This rap, this is the worst I've ever
heard.
I thought underground music was bad when they
played it.
I ran screaming.
Well, they can tell you about that.
But this, this thing of rap, I mean,
it's so ugly, it's demoralizing.
You defile it, even if you don't understand
the words, by the way they're singing.
There's something defining, there's something satanic about it.
Don't let's argue anymore.
Let me tell you something.
You haven't got any argument.
You want the world's music in the church.
Most of the music, the record publishers will
admit, are satanists.
They admit they're satanists.
There's no shame to them anymore about it.
Just take a look at their photographs to
know if they're satanists.
How can we do it?
They're satanists, and do you know what percentage
the record companies of the world will tell
you?
You've got no argument, church.
The record companies of the world will back
me up, though they're unsaved.
They'll tell you what percentage of the record
sold out with the defiling language, the blaspheme,
the filth, the depravity, this young fellow telling
the children to rise up and stab their
fathers to death, or to commit suicide.
What happened to the governments of the world?
I'd like to ask you, when did you
become so weak?
When I was young, we'd put people like
that into a mental home, or a jail.
Today we're too scared because money speaks, but
we don't mind a whole generation being defiled
by the most immoral young man alive.
What went wrong with you?
Does freezing of speech mean you can defile
my children and a whole generation?
Wait, sir.
Wait till that generation's grown up.
You won't know how to walk out of
your front door without fearing for your life
because what you sow you reap.
You don't only sow it individually, you want
to sow nationally perversion, you reap perverts.
You reap them in their millions, and how
many millions of money are you making through
these records that tell people to kill their
fathers?
And just because of money, you let them.
What you sow, you reap, America.
You're sowing men who are allowed to say
these things.
You reap nothing but young children swearing filthy,
vile language, the violence that you would expect
from the gutters.
It'll become the language of the home because
you made it.
Because of money, the language of entertainment.
Because he makes money, he can stand up
there on a stage because he makes money.
All the world's in a state, but let
me tell you something.
When that type of music, just to win
the world, comes into the church, then we're
worse.
You want to stand up and tell me
there's fruit, sir?
Yes.
I've no doubt some miracle of God's divine
grace might have taken one statement, perhaps through
that worldly music, but the majority of it
will produce nothing but people saying they're born
again, that look like the world, behave like
the world, and sin like the world, and
they say they're saved.
You can't win the world by being like
the world, sir.
You can't.
And that music should not be allowed in
our churches.
Heavens, where did you bury the heritage God
gave us of the beautiful hymns?
To substitute it through these things that sound
like you're in the world.
And God took me out of the world.
I don't want to come to the house
of God.
You want to play dance music?
They'll dance in the church.
What do you expect?
Do you honestly think they won't land up?
And when they dance, we'll say, well, it's
holy dancing.
Be careful.
This man, by the way, seeing as I
went on a tangent, this man now comes
down the street and he looks inside his
church and he's weeping now.
And what were they doing?
They were dancing.
You allow dance music in the church, brother,
they're going to dance.
You want to justify it, fine, but I
can't.
They were dancing.
And it wasn't a holy dance.
It was a sensual dancing of the world.
So you want to have it doing in
the church so that they stay pure.
Oh, since when do we allow sin to
come into the church to keep them out
of the world, sin?
No, they were dancing.
He just began to weep aloud.
And he said, let's just go home.
His wife said, no, let's go in.
Let's go in.
She said, let's just show our face.
We've taken over the church.
We're here.
It's the first youth.
Let's just show our face.
We'll stay for a while and we'll go
home and pray.
But don't speak.
Don't say anything, she said.
You're in enough trouble, she said.
Listen, the chief elder's son is the youth
leader.
And you know what the chief elder said
to you already?
Don't get into trouble with his son now,
please.
Let's don't sin.
Let's go in.
We show our face.
We go after a little while.
So they walked in.
Now he's holding back the tears that he's
been flowing out there and trying to not
look judgmentally as he sits down now.
As he walked in the dancing stop, ooh,
this minister is different from the rest.
We've never had a man preaching like this.
So they stopped dancing.
Now they all feel a bit uncomfortable.
But they didn't put the music off.
And it was these big sets, you know,
these hi-fi sets, these big loudspeakers, full
blast, full blast.
It was deafening.
Hang on.
Well, he sat with his wife and he
said he was in such a state, he
just got worse and worse and he was
shaking as he thought of all the neighbors,
all the neighbors listening from the house of
God, the world music, what they must be
thinking.
And he said he looked at this in
such desperation in the end that they just
stood around looking but left this music just
going on.
And he cried something he's never cried out
before.
He said, God, he said in his heart,
blow that thing up.
Please, God, blow it up in Jesus Christ's
name, he said.
And suddenly when he said in Jesus Christ's
name there was a bang so loud it
was like a bomb.
Ba-da-bong!
He jumped up.
Whoa!
He said smoke and flames.
It was like a bomb, not like some
little electrical machine.
And he says to his wife, I just
prayed for that.
Well, the smoke filled the whole place.
All the young people screamed, ran out.
There was a fire coming.
They were all after the building in shock
that such an explosion happened.
Well, he was very happy.
He was full of joy and faith and
stunned, staggered, but God answered his prayers.
Do you know, he said to me, they
never managed to repair that machine.
It was in such a state nobody even
thought of repairing it.
No one ever gave him another one.
Hallelujah!
No one ever gave him another one.
That was the end of the dance, that
prayer in the church.
And of course, with his ministry, eventually God
did come.
God knows how to break down the strongholds
of the devil even in the house of
God.
And there it is.
You want to know who the enemies of
the cross are?
Preach truth and watch who's the first to
fight you.
Preach a standard.
You name a man in this country that
preaches a standard, I guarantee you the church
leaders are fighting him.
They fight you by...
Oh, to pull down the strongholds of the
devil in the church would be something we
need to begin with.
Let these voices just stop and let God
deal the devastating blow with the world and
the church and the argument.
Please do it, God.
God's more grieved than you are at that
music.
You think you're grieved when you come into
a church and you've got to listen to
modern music to sing and they bury the
heritages of our faith, of the old sanctified
hymns for this rubbish and start throwing...
Oh, my.
I was in a Christian book room in
my country and I was looking for something
and suddenly they started this music.
Gospel rock, okay?
I don't know how you could even dare
to say that, let alone sell it.
But they started some music.
I admit somewhere in all the din of
this modern rubbish, you heard the word Jesus.
I admit that.
The moment the music started, it was the
end of me.
I just turned and I walked out.
And of course I'm known in my country.
They came, a whole lot of people and
said, Mr. Daniel, is there anything we can
help you with?
Is there something you wanted to buy?
Something we could help show you?
And I said, no.
I'll be honest with you, I don't remember
why I came in your shop.
I came for something.
But the music you played is so devilish
I had to get out.
What?
I said, listen.
It's the closest I think I can ever
say I've come to hell listening to that
type of music.
It's the world's music.
I admit I heard the word Jesus there,
but you're deceiving yourself.
If you think that's God glorifying, that's the
devil.
It's from the pit.
And I can't come back in your shop.
I can't stand that music.
I can't bear it.
I deny anyone who's right with God can.
We agonize under it.
What are you doing?
I said.
I just walked away.
I don't know what they said.
I don't care.
Someone had to tell them just once the
truth.
But oh what God will do when we
pray.
What God will do when we pray.
A young man came to me and he
told me how startled he was, how stunned
he was when God answered his prayer against
evil.
He came, sought me out.
He said, you know what happened?
He said, I was on the train and
I was coming out of the suburbs into
the center of the city on this train.
And the train pulled up in this one
station and I looked out the window and
I saw this building.
And this building had such defilement on it
that I couldn't believe my eyes of advertising
what was going on in that building.
It was so defiling outside that heaven help
us over go on our own side.
If it could be so filthy outside.
Openly, openly oh this law of freedom of
speech has just said to the devil do
what you want to defile us.
We can't touch you.
That's all it is.
I wish you would get rid of it.
If it means defiling a nation at least
get rid of that part.
But he looked at this and he said,
oh what's become of our nation?
How could they allow this?
How could we have stooped to this?
It was filth.
His heart just sank.
He began to weep in shock.
And the train started to pull away.
And you know what he prayed?
He prayed in desperate, righteous indignation Oh God
it would be wonderful if I would just
burn that whole building to the ground God.
Burn it to the ground.
In Christ's name.
The train pulled away.
Later on, three hours later he said he
was coming back from the town, from the
city.
And as the train pulled into the station
he just looked out and glanced where the
building stood and he stood and he nearly
fell out the window.
The whole building had burned to the ground.
Oh beloved, that doesn't just happen.
God's more grieved than you and I are.
He's waiting for us to pray.
Do you know anything, everything the devil has
done can be pulled down if we just
started to pray.
Don't get me wrong now.
Christians are not aggressive.
We're not caused to be militant like these
other people who think they're serving God and
say they're doing it for Allah by bombing
people and bombing buildings.
Don't get me wrong, that's not Christianity.
Beloved, we don't hurt anyone physically.
We don't.
We're not called to do that, to get
our way.
But the moral side, so that those souls
can be saved, there's nothing God won't do.
We need to get into warfare to do
it.
Leave the religions of the other worlds who
say they serve God by bombing up people.
Oh, and if any of you of that
other religion are listening to me, get out
of that religion.
Use your brains.
It's deranged.
How can you believe it's God to put
a bomb on a child's body and say
you can be a suicidal bomb and you're
serving Allah by killing other people?
Just use yourself.
Turn from that and turn to Jesus first.
How can your mind reconcile that God could
want you to do that, to justify your
political reasons or your Christian or your religious
reasons?
Get out of it for God's sake.
Use your brains.
We're not called to hurt people.
That's not our aggressiveness.
We're called to fight the devil on our
knees, to put on his strongholds that keep
people from God or hurt people morally and
other ways.
Let me tell you something in passing.
No, I won't.
Let's leave that till the end.
I've been to America 13 times.
This is my 13th visit from the other
side of the world.
And I know God has privileged me.
I have nothing in my heart to preach
in other lands apart from my land.
I'm not like some preachers who regard it
as a great honor.
There's nothing in me that wants to go
all over the world.
I would never have come back to America
if you had invited me to the liberal
churches, the liberal evangelical churches.
I would have run and never stopped running.
I have nothing.
Why I love America is because you people
brought me to the conservative Christianity.
And I want to thank you for that,
America.
I don't know if there's a man so
privileged as this poor man to be given
the conservative pulpits as I have been given.
And I thank God for your Bill Gothards
and your Denny Kennistons and Harold Vaughans and
the Soterra Twins and other men who have
a standard, who have a fruit.
As I look at the fruit of these
men's ministry across your land, I see the
Church of Christ as God meant it to
be.
There's a fruit in your young people.
Look at them.
Noble and pure and unspoiled by the world.
Thank God they don't love the world's music.
They play godly instruments that can bring godly
beauty.
I do thank God for the Church that
I've been brought to.
This is the 13th time.
And I love to come to America.
I've come to be as burdened for this
land as I am for my own land.
No less.
I love it so because God gave me
the privilege of meeting the godliest of the
godly through your land.
And there are many, there are many more
than you believe, beloved.
God has a people who love him and
who do not compromise with the devil, even
today.
And I thank God that's where I'm preaching.
And I thank you for letting me come
to your country to know such a people
exists and to love you and to preach
to you.
I am privileged for that.
About the third time I came to America,
I was invited by a church I think
it was the fourth time to be honest,
sorry.
And this particular church was a very, very
big church which had a great influence.
In the morning, in my quiet time, I
said to the Lord, Lord, I leave my
family alone most of their lives for thee.
And they know it and I know that
I would never leave them for a million
dollars, not once like I leave them, not
once, but for a million dollars I wouldn't
God.
The only reason I leave them is to
fulfill the call of God in my life
and the only reason they're willing to let
me go and to do it with joy.
You know, my wife has never complained when
I've left her, when I've left her most
of her married life to preach.
She's never, ever, ever said one word of
complaint.
She stood with tears in her eyes and
she said, we do it for Jesus.
As I look back at her tears, she
just says, we do it for Jesus and
we do it with all our hearts willingly,
Keith.
Oh, I have a jewel of a wife
from God's heart to me.
Next to the Lord Jesus, she's the most
precious gift God ever gave to me and
I love her that she didn't bury my
ministry, she made me fulfill it.
My children and my wife will be the
most shattered people if I gave up leaving
them, though it cost.
I've never, ever heard them speak of the
cost, but I know they want me to
win the world to God if I can.
They so love God.
But I said to God that morning in
my quiet time, God, I leave them so
often alone.
They never complain.
They've never stopped me.
Wouldn't it be wonderful, God, if one day
they could come to America too, now that
I've brought me to these conservative pulpits.
A missionary in South Africa cannot afford to
fly his children across.
Only wealthy people will fly your family to
America, let me tell you.
But I said, Lord, I would never ask
a man that I will ask thee, God.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if my children and
my wife knew they were not just left
behind, but they could come with me when
I come here again one day.
I'd love them to meet the conservative people
of this land, to see something of this
land as I'm seeing it.
Not my will, though, Lord.
I won't argue with thee if it doesn't
happen, but thy will be done.
That night, the preacher of the church stood
up before I was to preach.
I was sitting behind him and he stood
up and he said, this morning in my
quiet time I was praying, and God suddenly
whispered something in my heart so deeply, he's
so impressed with me, that we should ask
this man to bring his family, that we
as a church should bring his whole family
with him the next time.
He leads the Lord in so much to
preach, and it's coming to our continent more
and more.
I believe God wants us to bring his
whole family with him the next time we
pay for them to come.
He said within an hour of God impressing
it in my heart, ten people, nine other
people, ten of us, had phoned me saying
in their knees, in their quiet time, they
had deeply been spoken to by God that
we as a congregation should bring this man's
family to America the next time he comes.
Oh, he turned to me and he said,
Mr. Daniel, would you give us the honor
of bringing your family with you next time?
And I smiled.
He didn't know I prayed for that.
Isn't God good?
I don't think there is a man on
earth that God is so good to you
as he is this man.
I will be stunned, brother, if in heaven
God ever shows me another man that he
was ever so tender with him, so good
as he is to this man.
And I love him for that.
Well, I flew from that church and a
few other things.
I went back to New York, and I
had three days in New York where they
put me in an old missionary home overlooking
Central Park.
It has antique furniture, and you've got to
be a millionaire to stay in any of
those lofts, but the old missionary...
Become a missionary and you become a millionaire
sometimes, you know.
Without a few, I think it's $20 a
night to actually apologize, to charge me.
That's not bad, I said.
Lovely people.
But anyway, I was in this missionary home
and I looked at New York through different
eyes suddenly, you know.
I looked through the eyes of a tourist.
I thought, well, we're going to be with
God's people, but we're going to be...
they said they're going to give us a
little time in this missionary home.
The whole family for six days we were
going to be...
just to be able to meet Christians in
New York and see New York.
Now, I'm not a tourist, and some people
are devastated by that.
I'm so anti-tourism.
You can't believe it.
Poor old Mr. Gotthard's friend, Brother Otto Corning.
How many know him?
Put your hands up.
Oh my, I'm in trouble if I say
the wrong thing here tonight.
He took me under his wing, you know,
Mr. Gotthard said when I was with him
preaching last year this time in the center
in Chicago, just to get videos of messages
from Mr. Gotthard there.
Well, Mr. Gotthard said to Mr. Corning, you
take him around, show him Chicago, anything he
wants, just a little bit of space here
and there.
So, Otto Corning took me down to Central
Chicago and he said, you see that building
there?
It was as big as a building, you
know, the tallest now that the Twin Towers
have come down, that's the tallest building in
America, I believe.
He said, do you want to go up
there?
There's a deck at the top for tourists
to see.
I said, no.
He said, no.
Where do you want to go?
Oh, it's terrible not being a tourist type
of a person, you know.
I said, I want to go and see
Moody's Pulpit.
Moody preached in Chicago.
He said, Moody's Pulpit, well let's go and
see.
That's the Moody Bible Institute and then there's
the Moody Memorial Church where this fellow Erwin
Litzer is.
So we go inside and I said, he
said he wants to see Moody's Church and
Moody's Pulpit.
So they said, oh, do you want to
see Mr. Litzer?
I said, no, I don't think he wants
to see me.
I just want to see Moody's Pulpit.
Is that where he preaches?
I said, no.
No, this is all new.
This is Mr. Litzer's Pulpit.
And she said, don't you want to tour
around the church?
I said, no, I don't want to tour
around the church that wasn't Moody's.
I mean, it was a Moody Memorial Church.
I want to see Moody's Pulpit.
And the old organ Sankey played on, you
know.
She said, well, it's in the basement, she
said.
So we went down the basement and we
saw there was this plank, you know, with
all marks, oh, just a little plank.
And when the God used him, there was
Sankey, the organ that he, pedal organ that
he played when he moved the world to
God.
Thank God for Moody and Sankey.
And then I said, after the little prayer,
now let's go home.
So I'm not a tourist, OK?
But now my children and my wife was
coming back to America.
We were going to have six days in
New York.
And I thought to myself, well, I know
David Wilkerson's church is in Broadway, in Central
Manhattan.
But I, I thought, I was looking through
different eyes now at New York, you know.
Normally I was praying and I don't wear
glasses when I'm praying because I don't see
much.
And what, I don't want to see much,
so I just don't wear my glasses.
I just, what's the point of seeing things,
you know, I just want to pray.
But now I put my glasses on and
I went through New York, oh, that's the
Statue of Liberty, you know.
I'm going to bring my children, you see,
I got a bit excited when I thought
of bringing them to New York.
I mean, it's not sin, a lot of
vanity, perhaps, but, let's face it, it's not
sin if you come from Africa to show
your children the Statue of Liberty.
And there's the Empire State Building, and now
I know how to get to this, you
know.
And I did a lot of walking and
a lot of looking, I got quite excited.
Then I went to what you call Times
Square in Manhattan, near Broadway, where all these
theaters in the world, as you know, and
oh, it was in the dark night.
New York never goes to sleep.
There were thousands.
Ten, no, there was, good as me, I
would say close to fifty, maybe even up
to a hundred thousand.
I don't know where they come from all
over the world, but it was late when
you and I should be in bed.
Because they were all awake, I thought, well,
I might as well stay awake, then it's
pretty safe and I'll at least look, you
know.
So I look at Times Square, all the
neon lights, it's like another planet, let alone
another country.
It's a vanity fair, but I know history.
I know history like the back of my
hand.
I know most countries' history better than most
people.
You've got to believe that, but I, from
a child, have devoured history.
I've always loved it.
And I knew the significance of Times Square,
the great events that happened politically in your
history in Times Square.
It wasn't the neon lights that attracted me,
but I thought, well, it's two of the
greatest squares in the world, Piccadilly Circus in
London and Times Square in New York, the
two nations.
That's the two greatest squares, the most famous,
where more tourists go than anywhere in the
whole world to the greatness, the significance historically
about that in these great cities.
Well, I was walking and suddenly my heart
sank because I saw a building suddenly with
neon lights that was so filthy, what was
being advertised on those neon lights and the
other things behind the lights lit up.
I could not believe, I could not believe
my eyes that such filth and depravity was
so public.
My heart just sank.
I said, no, oh God, no.
And I began to cry just at seeing
it.
If it was so filthy outside, can you
imagine how defiled a human would be inside
if you walked in?
What would be going on inside?
But to advertise them, it was defiling.
I turned around and looked around and there
was another building.
It was worse, bigger, more lights, worse filth.
And I carried on looking around and there
was another one, three of them in Times
Square.
And I watched men.
Some men walked past there as if they
were going to pass, you know.
Suddenly they pulled their jackets over them and
they ran in hiding their faces.
They were ashamed that someone could take a
photograph or some evidence against them.
They were scared people would recognize them.
Others came past and they were so brazen
in their sin laughing, they just laughed as
they walked in, you know.
I looked at them and I realized they
had no self-respect.
A man who can walk into such a
place, no one in the world respects that
man.
That's why he can do it.
There's no one left, not even his children,
who would bat an eyelid at his stuff
so he can walk in laughing, no putting
his head under the...
I looked at them marching and they're laughing
with no shame.
You lose your children.
Honor.
You've got nothing left in life, sir.
Once you've lost that, you've got nothing.
Well, I began to weep aloud and I
said, God, I can't bring my children to
New York.
I looked at all the children.
Most people in that Times Square late hour
of the night, it was terribly late, in
their thousands and thousands thronging.
Most had children coming from all parts of
the world.
I suppose the last few minutes before they
fly out of your country, they want to
see the last things they can in this
place of the world, this Times Square.
And I watched the children looking and their
mothers and fathers trying to pull their eyes
off and they're looking and I thought, no,
you defile a child bringing your child to
America.
You defile your child bringing your child to
New York, the greatest city in the world.
How do you honestly believe the seeds the
devil is going to sow in New York?
I said, God, I can't bring my children
here.
The devil will put things in their mind.
There'll be no ending to their repercussions.
And I began to weep.
But I began to weep louder than I
thought I was weeping.
I wept so loud that I was standing
there sobbing.
I sobbed so loud.
I was broken.
I was so devastated at what America was
doing.
And I lifted my hands up and I
shouted.
I didn't know I was shouting.
I wasn't trying to be fanatical.
I shouted.
I cried so loud to God in my
devastation, in my anger, that I couldn't bring
my children to the city without defiling them.
I cried out, God, I'll, God, do anything
but close these buildings down, God.
They're defiling the children.
God, this is defiling.
Close these buildings down, God.
They're defiling.
I cannot bring my family here, God.
Close these buildings down, God.
Do anything but close them down.
In Jesus Christ's name, I wept.
And I suddenly wiped the tears from my
eyes.
A few hundred people were standing.
I would say a few hundred, could be
five hundred, close to me, just all looking.
I'm definitely silent.
And brother, sister, I looked at their faces.
Most of them, tears were coming down their
faces.
They'd never in their life seen a man
weep over defilement.
They'd never ever seen a man hurting and
broken and smacked at God and devastated.
And I looked and I looked face upon
face, tears.
They heard clearly what I was saying.
I put my head down and just pushed.
Three months later, I flew back to New
York, to JFK, to the airport.
When I arrive in New York, if they
aren't there to meet me because of the
early flight arrival or getting through customs fast,
they've given me a coffee shop.
All your leaders that bring me here, these
four or five leaders of the conservative church
of America, they tell me there's a coffee
shop there.
You wait there and we'll get, the people
will come to get you.
So I saw I was through customs.
I went and got a cup of coffee
and a newspaper, the USA Today, and I
sat down and I put it down and
I started to cry again, seconds.
Within seconds, I began, why?
On the front page of the newspaper were
these words, the day I came back.
The mayor of New York says I will
close these buildings down now.
I started to cry.
The day the man that wept three months
later, that day was the day the news
came out of that man.
That was God.
I read on.
This mayor of New York, he's in Italian.
He's not saved.
But oh, has he got things right that
no other mayor's got right in any country
in the world.
Let me tell you.
He's the envy of the whole world.
12 million people are in New York.
3% are affected by crime annually.
He has got such no tolerance, zero tolerance
of crime.
He's the envy of the whole world.
The cities across the world with a tenth
of that population they're scared to put their
foot out of the door in the night
without being mugged.
He's got a city you can walk two
o'clock in the morning and you don't
get mugged most of it.
He's the envy of the world.
He's got people been flying in from a,
brought in by governments.
What did this man do right, this mayor
of New York?
We need to learn from him because no
city on the earth is safe anymore the
way things are going.
What has he done?
Teach us.
Oh, he really is something, this man.
And he's unsaved.
He said these words, the law of freedom
of speech in America gives you the right
to do this.
You're covered by the law but I'm the
mayor of this city, it's my city.
I'm going to make another law to cancel
out the law of America.
I'm going to make a law that every
block in New York City, in Manhattan, every
block that has a resident staying, anybody staying
residential, a family, anybody like a residential, like
a, where homesteads are, in that block none
of these buildings are allowed to, no shop
will be allowed.
And he said, I put people in every
single block, but I'll close you down.
And he said, don't wait for me to
do, don't force me to do that.
He said, I'll tell you why.
Those of you that don't close your doors
now, right now, I'm going to march in
there with my police.
I'm going to go through your books, I'm
going to find things that will crush you
and you, I will crush you.
You close now, or I, I commend you,
sir, if you're ever here this day.
You're not saved, but I pray that I
commend you.
Well, I went and preached, I came ahead
of my family by two, three weeks to
preach around, and then landed up in this
church.
And my family joined me, and then we
went to New York after the lovely fellowship
they gave us and the way they honored
us.
And I took my children to Times Square
and I started weeping again.
My children, my family don't ask me why
I weep, I weep so much, you know.
They kind of just get used to it.
They just looked at me as I walked
holding their hands as I walked through Times
Square, I suppose they wondered why is he
weeping now.
But I was weeping a different weeping.
There was no agony, there was no torment
or indignation at Satan.
There was joy, there was gratitude, there was
worship going on as I said thank you
God as I looked at these buildings.
They were like buildings that had been destitute,
they ripped everything off the outside, every light,
every neon light, every sign and they were
empty like ghost house.
Let me tell you something, Christians of America,
there is nothing God will not do for
you for this land to be healed.
If you get right with God and you
begin to pray on your knees, the only
army that will ever save America from what
the devil is trying to do to her
is the army of God's people on their
knees.
But if you get right with God, if
you begin to seek God America's Christians, stop
fighting my doctrine of a land to be
even liberal in your church later.
You better get right with God and do
what your heart tells you.
Seek God for righteousness.
Get back to this book.
It's my people who are called by my
name in America.
I believe you say it's out of its
context.
I'm big enough to say it's out of
its context.
Let me tell you, there are enough Christians
in America and if they got down as
an army, there's no army that will outnumber
them.
There's nothing the devil has done in this
land that you will not undo in days.
I say give yourself three months and you
will not believe how this whole land is
turning back to God through you.
Do all the things that are defiling, destroying,
despairing you.
Don't wait for the politicians to become righteous.
It's the church.
I don't blame the politicians.
You should be on your knees and you
could undo anything the devil has done but
you're listening more to the television news than
you are on your knees.
You're sitting there watching in hopelessness and unbelief
and criticizing the government and it's our fault.
It's my people, God's waiting for to get
down before God.
Don't worry about the news anymore.
Get down before God, you know enough to
know.
And by the by, these Muslim people, the
world, Islam, suddenly the world's trembling and America's
trembling.
We're all trembling because there's no rational reasoning
with these people that we can think a
decent human being could think.
They're thinking it.
I want to tell you something.
I'm not against your politicians, I'm not political.
What's going on to try and stop those
elements that are all, I'll tell you this
though, you want to stop what they're going
to do to the world, Christians of America
and Christians of the world.
It won't stop.
We're just tasting what's coming.
But they will stop when you get down
on your knees and start praying for Islam,
to be saved, to turn to Christ.
Do you honestly believe that every born again
Christian in America who's truly born and gone
got right with God, which is so easy,
and blood is there if you really want
it and really mean business, and started praying
earnestly every born again believer on their knees
like an army against the devil who's brought
such darkness to these people.
If you do honestly believe, is there one
of you sitting here that doesn't honestly believe
that within three months, millions of Muslims would
turn to Christ if we were all crying
for God to do it.
Do you honestly believe God would turn his
face and say, no, I'll tell you something,
wait for politicians to deal with the problems,
and you won't have a country left, and
further field, you won't have a world left
just now, Christians.
You better get to war with the weapons
God's given you.
While you have a moment left to do
it, you'd better do it, and God will
honor you.
There's only one problem.
There's only one fear in my heart, only
one, that Christians are too proud to admit
they need to see God first, and confess
their compromises so that
God can forgive us first.
That's the only fear I have for America.
That's the only danger America is in, is
if the church is to get down before.
Your history is in your hands, and this
Bible tells God is waiting, God is seeking,
God is longing.
It's not God's fault.