A Do or Die Decision - Anthony Mangun

happy about that so glad to be back with the greatest church in the world there's nobody like you melders we're glad you're home you helped build this church we're glad you're here in the franklins and all that's in so glad you're daniel chapter 1 verse 8. tonight 5 30 the prayer rooms and could pastor make a special appeal if you don't have children or they're already out of school age please come tonight we have over 50 of our elected officials our appointed officials almost all of our school board in fact i think all of our school board is here tonight i know president brewer and the vice president of louisiana college is going to be here i know the president of lsu a is going to be here i know a number of our principals are going to be here so i ask a personal favor that when they come in here that this church would create an atmosphere that we pray over with school shootings and things that's going on we got to plead the blood over our children tonight and if you're in the 60 plus and you don't have any children in this church please be here tonight and we're going to plead the blood over all of our children our families i want to congratulate and say it's very glad to have the jeff powell family and all their family here for the first time he's the new superintendent of education graphics parish we're glad he's here daniel 1 8 and daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with a portion of the king's meat nor with the wine which he drank therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself 6 16 then the king commanded and they brought daniel and cast him into the den of lions now the king spake and said unto daniel thy god whom thou service continually he will deliver thee now wouldn't that have been a mess for you to be a king throwing a man in the dinner lines knowing that he's coming out the king said the god that you serve he will deliver you my subject this morning is a do or die situation put your bibles down and one more time before you seed it give a praise to god like he deserves hallelujah thank you god thank you god you may be seated daniel purposed daniel determined daniel resolved daniel made a do or die decision in his heart and in the depths of his soul in his innermost being i will not defile myself eating the king's food which was forbidden for a jew he said i'm in babylon but i'm not of babylon i'm not a babylonian i am a jew and i have given myself heart soul mind and strength to the great god of heaven and earth my body is a temple it is a dwelling place it is a temple of the holy ghost where my god is pleased to dwell it is a vessel of honor in his great house not some shack by the side of the road therefore daniel said i will make a do and die decision i refuse to defile the temple of god such a promise was twofold number one it was the lord god of heaven and earth and number one it was that he would move away from the things that would defile him on this great lord's day as we enter into this school season many of destiny determining events of history are beginning to happen as we open this year i ask you do you have any daniels in the house is there anybody in here that's got their mind made up i will not allow this world to defile me i'm making a do or die decision can i tell you right up front that a do or die decision will carry you through the changes and conditions of life to a glorious and enduring victory through jesus christ in babylonian siege of jerusalem a well-favored young man were chosen of god daniel and his three hebrew friends hananiah mitchell and azariah they were used in whom was no blemish they were well favored by god the bible says they were skillful in all wisdom they were cunning in knowledge and in understanding of science such as they had the ability in them to progress in that world and they could stand in the king's palace young men whom they might teach and notice the learning and the tongue the king wanted to of the chaldeans he recognized that there was something special about these four men and he wanted to make sure that he got the israeli jewish part out of them and placed in them the chaldean culture and habits and way of life and language it was a common practice in those days that kings would use foreigners in their court because the king would have prestige and it would remind others that he had conquered and it was a sense of trophies that he had in his palace these four men were trophies to the king that he had accomplished by instructing these counties of high rank it might cause them to lose interest in loyalty in their own country and in their own religion this would strengthen the king's realm it will remove dissatisfaction and possibly the uprising of the counties that would ever come against the king and these jewish young men chosen were four outstanding men in their ability young men who were stalwarts faithful to god of their fathers but also notice almost almost continually by the king his goal was to break them they would not yield to their surroundings i was studying this this week and i noticed their parents must have put something in them of quite significance because when you look at how their god-fearing people named these four men it gave emphasis to who and what they were each one of these four men had a meaning to their name daniel meant god is my judge hananiah means the grace of the lord miesha means he who comes from god and azariah means the lord is my helper these names of these young men were not pleasing to the babylonians so they decided for us to change them we must begin by changing their names because if we change their names maybe we can get them to conform to the worship of babylon and the babylonians so they changed the name they took daniel who means god is my judge and they changed daniel's name to belcher the treasure of baal they took hananiah's name and they ch which means the grace of the lord and they changed it to shadowrack which means the inspiration of the son they took michelle who comes from god and they change it to meshach who he belongs to the goodness of shisha and they took ezeriah which means the lord is my help and they change it to abednego which means the servant of nego the names of these use were changed but what nebuchadnezzar never understood and what the chaldeans never got a hold of is they could change their names but they cannot change their minds they could change their name but they could not change their character they could change their name but they cannot change their faith in hero israel the lord our god is one and besides him there is no other and they said as david said oh god our heart is fixed our heart is fixed and nebuchadnezzar and the babylonians and his staff they could not bend them they could not break them nor could they conform them their mind was made up and as we begin this school year to you great parents and to your students i believe we have a group of people in the p.o.a that's a group of young people that's got their name made up you can say anything about us you can call us whatever name you want to call us but you won't change our beliefs you won't change our doctrine you won't change what we stand for you won't change us [Applause] hallelujah we had a student come back from magnes he was quite shaken up he came to pastor and he said pastor my professor said he asked us all to raise our hands that were christians he said and probably half of the class raised their hands he said when i get done with this semester there won't be one christian in this room he will determine to try to change their doctrinal beliefs but what he found out is when you're grounded it's something and that something is grounded in you it doesn't matter who the professor is it doesn't matter what they think or what they believe i've got my mind fixed and i got my heart fixed and i got my heart established on god they said we're non-conformists we're anchored in jehovah the one true living god we shall not be moved our hearts are fixed it's a do or die situation to us they were like though the book of john had not even thought about being written at that time by man it said in john 15 19 if we were of the world the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world but i have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you remember the word that i said unto you the servant is not greater than his lord and if they persecuted me they will also persecute you if they've kept my saying they will keep yours also devil we've got our mind made up to this infahil world to this worldly system i'm going to preach to you parents you better not have your eyes on this worldly system it's going to crumble you better invest in the church of the living god you better inverse your kids in the kingdom of god it's the only thing that's going to stand and last we defile ourselves i will not define myself for the things of this world i will not eat the king's meat nor drink the king's wine he said prove us let's have a little test right here you go ahead and let your men eat your food and we're gonna fix that's a little bowl of vegetable soup and we're gonna drink nothing but water and when we get through we're gonna find out what's what we're gonna find out if a liberal world if a world that's given themselves to alcohol and drugs and promiscuity if we're living in a school where they teach everything is legal and everything's okay you go your way but i'm gonna go my way and we'll see what it's like when everything is over and at the end rocky of 10 days their countenance appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat 10 days later it only took 10 days of eating there was a significant difference between those that ate what god what was pleasing to god rather than what was pleasing to the king and the babylonians and the bible says that when king nebuchadnezzar had brought them before him that he communed with them and he found none he found none like daniel hananiah michelle and azariah notice and in all matters of wisdom and understanding that the king required of them he found them 10 times better than all the magicians and astrologers that was in the realm all the far-reaching kingdoms god's kids were 10 times better look at me young people look at me straight i'm not going to say you're going to make better grades because it didn't help me on that end i'm not going to tell you it's going to get you at the top of the class you got to do that through studying and applying yourself but what i am going to tell you is when you make a decision to stand for god and you make a decision to get your foot on a solid rock that god's going to come down and put a blessing on your life god's going to bless you you walk in that school tomorrow you walk in there with your shoulders held back with your head held high you understand that god's gonna honor you your body will be healthier it'll be ten times smarter than the rest of them they may know the grades but god will bless you where you'll have the favor of the principle the teachers and the students walk in there full of the holy ghost walk in there full of the power and the ups and the spirit and let god be operating the lord god saith for them that on earth me i will honor first corinthians 1 27 and 28 i love this i would like for you to read it with me would you just read with me but god hath chosen now there's a pretty good word isn't it god has chosen the to do what and god has chosen the to confirm the things which are mighty and he's chosen the base thing next verse and he's chosen the base things of the world and the things which are despised has god chosen yea and the things which are not to bring the nog that are he'll take things that look like foolishness he'll take things that look like they're naught but he'll take it and turn around for your glory god will take what may be the enemy or someone may bring against you god will shift that thing to a blessing for you and in the name of jesus i speak a blessing over every family in this church today first corinthians 1 25 throw it up there scream it out with me because the weakest thing of god is much better than the strongest of man the weakness of god is stronger than men the foolishness of god is much wiser than any wisdom of this world when you hook your star to the alpha and omega when you hook your star to jesus christ when in this church as a family you make your mind up that jesus christ is going to be first and foremost when you make your mind up that jesus said in sunday morning sunday night or wednesday night but when you make your mind up that you're going to have a relationship with god you will see god [Applause] you will see god operate in your midst [Applause] these captives in the court of babylon these four young men who made do or die decisions their spiritual strength came out of one of the greatest revivals of all of history out of this revival came the spiritual strength that carried daniel through the following years of tragedy and captivity from a young man now to nearly 100 years old coming out of a dean of hungry lions shouting praises to god and his king darius interpreting not just a dream daniel didn't just interpret a dream he interpreted a forgotten dream he not only told the king what was in the dream he said let me tell you the king had forgotten about it he said you had a dream and let me tell you what it meant god took him when he stood for god when he took his stance god took him and elevated him to where everything bowed and bended to him because daniel decided that my mind is made up i am going to serve god i am casting my lots with god i will not let the school system i will not let this world system i will not let my job i will not let my friends i will not let anything affect my relationship with the lord jesus christ we are in this church enjoying such a great revival right now thank god for this crowd this morning what we heard last sunday morning mickey and i were in our room and yes gentry we were watching and i appreciate all the good things you said about your mother you didn't have too many things to say about me but thank you anyway that was a powerful anointing message on praise thank you pastor gentry for that message we had listen to this 13 baptized we had eight last sunday morning to receive the gift of the holy ghost does anybody got a praise in their heart over that 13 baptized eight received the holy ghost i saw something i'm praying that a double portion of my father's spirit forget me rest on gentry andrew and ryan i'm praying that g.a mangan falls all over the m3 right there i'm praying god baptizes them with the fresh anointing i'm praying that it falls on them like it's never fallen i believe god's going to raise them up to use them to do mighty things [Music] [Applause] but all of your life even after those servants it's going to come down to crisis decisions they're right decisions and wrong decisions there's high roads they're low roads almost every day for me for you there's a fork in the road where we are today where you're sitting today whatever the circumstance where they there due to turn in the road yesterday most of the destiny determined decisions we found we made were made when we were youth it was do or die decisions for daniel under that ruthless king nebuchadnezzar were the destiny determining decision that carried him through life the rule and the reign of kings that followed and daniel continued even in the first year of king cyrus he was the steel flourishing in the first year of king cyrus 70 years later at the age of 90 phil under king darius when he was thrown into a den of hungry lions where even the lions and the angels of the lord watched over him he was brought forth and those that put him there were thrown in the bible says for they ever hit the bottom the lion destroyed them then dara said wow there's something to this guy i'm going to make a new decree there was a heaven sin or shaken revival as under nebuchadnezzar when he made this decision he said and it is daniel 2 46 46-47 then the king nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and he worshipped you ready for this and he worshiped you know who no didn't say that it just said he worshipped daniel it didn't say the goddess i got you on one finally she missed one 99 you don't get 100 on the test it goes on to say later but it says his faith and he worshipped daniel and he commanded that they should offer an ablation and sweet odors unto him the king answered unto daniel and said of a truth it is that your god is a god of gods and the lord of kings and a revealer of secrets seeing that thou could have revealed this secret in other words daniel you were laughed at when you were young you took your stand now i'm going to make those that did all those things come and worship you i'm going to make them feed you you hear me this morning when you stand for god god will make every one of your enemies come lay down at your feet when you stand for god god will make every one of your enemies bow at your feet come on couples come on families come on grandparents come on children don't let this world affect you get your foot on the rug get your mind made up and don't let anything in this world change it put your hands together and shout to the lord that's it balcony shout to the lord [Applause] daniel 3 29 put it up there if you have it therefore i make a decree that every people every nation every language which spake anything amidst against the god of shadowrack meshach a bed they go shall be cut in pieces wow god's god got ticked they shall be cut to pieces and their houses shall be made dunghill because there is no other god that can deliver out of this sword that was not a preacher that was the king he said i'm going to cut everything to pieces that doesn't serve daniel's god when you serve god and when you stand for what you believe you let me tell you something god's going to come stand with you when everything around you may bow you just keep on standing you just keep on holding your shoulders high [Applause] oh daniel 6 26-28 i make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble in fear before the god of daniel for he is the living god he steadfast forever and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed his dominion shall be even unto the end he delivereth and rescueth and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and the earth he had delivered daniel from the power of the lions so this daniel that stood for him has prospered in the reign of darius and in the reign of cyrus the persian god said he stood and because he stood i will stand with him and if every member of this church if the 60-plus if the young married couples if kingdom life if the youth department if poa kids if everybody will get your mind made up i am going to stand for god i am going to stand for truth though all the world may turn against me the all of hell may turn against me i'm going to stand i look back at my life i look back at my life i look back at my life and i know how sports i love sports and i know you won't believe this because i'm telling you if all the preachers that i've heard preach since i was a kid as good as sports as they were we'd have some kind of sports team in the upc i'll tell you that everybody was always something but you can ask the guys of this church i was a pretty halfway decent athlete and i could have probably gone to college i know that and i could have possibly my cousin did he punted for uh in professional football i was a halfway decent athlete but i could punt a football and i could punt it with any professional i'm talking five six second hang time i'm talking 60 70 yards ask the guy we played flag football ask larry he'll confirm it i could punt a football i could have got an education and made a living punting a football but i had to make a decision of what was important in my life and dad he said son i am going to stand against you on this and the coaches came and talked to my father and mother but i see he said if you'll give your heart to god if you'll give your heart to god god will do something for you dad was trying to tell me he knew that if i gave way that it'd be something that could swing being i still have to keep my flesh under subjection over sports but he knew that it was something that would consume me and though they came and talked to him i had to make a decision and i made a decision there in my life and dad said son one day if you'll listen to what i'm telling you you may not make it into a football stadium then it wasn't domes he said you may not make it into football stadiums and you may not be playing at lsu football stadium but he said you'll walk in the stadium and people will hear your voice and you will change your life i stand here today not being presumptuous or bragging on myself i preached in the superdome i preached in the hoosier dawn i preached in the alamo dawn i preached to thousands of people because when you make a decision for god and you say i am going to choose this way he is going to be my god and i am going to be his people i went to bible school i went to bible school and i was all messed up and i i didn't want to go to bible school i was fighting the call of god of my life i'll never forget it the longest day i lived and i called mother daddy i said i'm coming home main reason i was coming home was not to call of god is cause i was home sick to see my mama but i said i'm coming home and i started flying airplanes and i wanted to fly airplanes commercially for a living and god put me in a storm and it was in the middle of that storm that i looked over at my instructor when i was getting my commercial my instrument rating and we were in a horrible storm it came out of nowhere i said sir if you'll just give me about five minutes i'll take care of this and i begin to crowd to god god if you'll get me out of this cessna 150 i'm making a decision right now i'll go where you want me to go i'll be a missionary i'll go preach wherever you want me to preach i don't have to go to alexandria i don't have to be at poa mickey i'll go start a church i'll go do something whoever you give me god which was mickey will go do something for you but god if you'll just let me down i made a decision right there i love flying and the other temptations that's come along in my life that's tried to pull me pull me away from this pulpit i have had to say no i've had the opportunity in this city my father taught me because of who i am and because of who i was from everything from funeral homes to real estate to everything else i've had offer from lincoln to living in this city where i could have made a number a number a number man of dollar money but i made a choice that my father put in me that that man and woman lived their life that i am going to give god everything i got i was made to be a multi-millionaire down here and if god does that so be it i hope he does i hope all of our people are millionaires there's nothing wrong with it as long as we seek first the kingdom of god i'm just unburdening my heart today to get something in your families and get something you young couples and get something your young people the devil's trying to play with your mind he's trying to tell you there's no god he's facing it you're in a uh some kind of generation where the belief systems are being challenged in every way he's coming against you and i'll never forget the longest day i live when the owner of a mega christian television network contacted me and he flew in to this city and me and my wife went out and sat on his big jet and there he offered mickey and i the opportunity to become tv host at a phenomenal phenomenal salary much more that i am making here but i looked at him and i gave him 17 pages and in that was what i believed doctrinally in that was what i would be teaching i said if i can tell that i will come on a part-time basis he called me back he said you can't teach that i said then i can't come and from that day to this i've never had another opportunity but i came to a crossroad in my life i came to where you got to make a decision you've got to get this inside of you where nothing can shake you nothing can harm you your friends can't shake you nobody can mess with your doctrinal belief he said in the last days everything that can be shaken will be shaken don't let anybody shake your doctrinal [Applause] beliefs [Applause] it came from seeds that had been planted by mother and daddy i had parents who prepared the way they exampled everything from me they had me at a great church let me tell this great church before i became your pastor before i became a preacher you invested in me you were praying and fasting you were teaching bible studies you loved on me you didn't treat me any different you cared for me this church protected me my peers protected me thank you this church protected me you watched over me you helped me love this truth to repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ for the mission of sin and you shall receive the gift of the holy ghost i am standing here today as your pastor because of you you watched over me you trained me you took me in my teenage years when i was going through things and yet you kept on loving me and you kept on lifting me up so i am glad that i stand here today not just because of a call from god but i stand here because of a great church that invested in my life and any time you hear that anthony mangan ever did anything and you helped raise me you say i did that i did that i did that because you're the church that stood and i had a place of conference my kids this week michelle and jeff were here and by the way friday night i got we got to baptize jeff did gibson in the name of jesus now all of my family i sit around my family it's not whether we have to or whether you get to i'm going to tell you this i'd rather know why i get to heaven and god said you didn't need to do that why did you you didn't do all that to get up here you didn't need to do that then to not have enough i'd rather go to heaven with a spare tire than to go there without anything i'd rather know i've done too much and not done enough i'm not going to sit here saying i don't have to do that i'm going to say god whatever you got for me i want everything because i'm not talking about going to dallas or houston i'm talking about my eternal destiny and i want to make sure my soul is prepared to meet god i want to be faithful the house of god i want to give him my tithes and offerings my life did not just happen no not some philosophy man is a creature of chance not true don't believe it man is a creature of his choice not chance i am a creature of the choices i make a person has the ability to choose heaven over hell you can choose the narrow road of the broad road you can choose the worldly system and the questioning that's going on against christ or you can choose the church you can choose the pleasure of sin for a season or the kingdom of god his righteousness or you can choose jesus or barabbas the choice is ours but today i have made up my mind i have placed it in my heart jesus is first and foremost and i will seek first the kingdom of god more than anything else one of the greatest things that ever happened to me and what i am took place in a sunday school class let me encourage you young couples it's not the cool thing to go to sunday school now you let me tell you it's the best thing ever happened for your kids i'll tell you what sister poe and and claire and those people they had those flannel boards and they had those cut out people and violet violet taught me and they would put those flannel boards up they didn't have power that was their power points they'd cut them out that worked the night before and they put them on that flannel board and there was all the teaching they would do they took me the word of god i am thankful for every sunday school teacher that is in this room they put something in my heart they place something in my heart they put something in my heart that was real i remember the altar calls we used to have at 16th and day street i remember how we lingered for hours we didn't start church to seven back then and brother we'd have one altar call and it was going and we we had church then from seven to nine and then we'd be all around the altar and somebody would say i think we're gonna climb gog off this hill one more time and here we go one more time we'll just about get through and everybody be ready to leave jason somebody say feel somebody say we can do it one more time let's just have one more good prayer i mean here we go and about 10 o'clock that night we carried people home drunk we went staggering out now the next morning at school it was a little rough but we did have church on sunday night mother and daddy wasn't really worried about school the next day they worried about me getting to heaven they wasn't worried about me getting to harvard they're worried about me getting to heaven they wouldn't worry about me being this great educated man they're worried about me getting to heaven and i make a plea this morning to every sunday school teacher and to our student department to our live classes and to our many prayer meetings into our bible study group and make a special appeal to our parents let's make the revival in our homes the greatest revival that this church has ever seen young people young people i'm going to provoke somebody here about two years ago y'all used to go eat on sunday night then remember y'all would come back anybody remember that would you raise your hand is anybody part of those prayers remember y'all would come back why don't y'all start that why don't you one of tonight y'all started back up there tell everybody get a hold of journey get a hold of rush get over everybody say hey we're gonna have a prayer meeting on sunday nights after church we're gonna have a prayer meeting remember those prayer meetings where dozens of young people used to climb up there because in this room all it takes is one significant person and you're not too old to do it and neither am i i look over this congregation gary we're not too old though i'll be 70 in five months i'm not too old to still shake this world maybe i made a little imprint but i'm not too old i'm not too old rick you can do it doug you can do it back there bobby you can do it rick you can do it buddy you've always had a passion for the coming of the lord it's always built inside of you we can make a difference in this last day especially if we don't get anybody else if my kids and my grandkids know this truth and love this truth and love worshiping and serving jesus christ it's worth it all that i can place in him heaven roberts that 24 year old well unknown welch coal miner became so spiritually hungry for god and revival that for 13 years 13 years he prayed spirit of god fall upon me he was at church every time the doors was open he was in his prayer closet every day one year prior to the great revival in wales he prayed for the spirit of god to fall upon him he said spirit of god fall upon me he prayed so loud and so intense that the landlord kicked him out and said you are making too much noise he prayed this prayer bend me o lord bend me bend me then me later they became the message of the church been the church lord been the church then the spirit of god fell upon him he was encamped with god's presence that he was willing to pay to preach so he sold everything he had and he began to preach but the doors wouldn't open up so he went back to his home church and he sought out his pastor and he asked permission to preach on a sunday morning or wednesday night and his pastor said no finally he stayed on his pastor to his pastor said okay on wednesday night after church i'm announce that you're going to be speaking down in the basement and those that want to come hear you after church can go down the basement of the church and only 12 stayed but he announced to them i have a message from the lord and it's a simple message and it's concise he said number one we must confess every known sin and make every wrong done to man right number two we must remove every doubtful habit from our lives number three we must obey the holy ghost prompting and number four you must be public with your witness into the streets for jesus said if i be lifted up i will draw all men under me 12 people heard those four points and with when within weeks every church building in wales was packed with standing room only with hundreds of people unable to get in the nation was shaken and electrified by the presence of god and in that one month what they would call salvation they had 34 000 people saved because one wealth coal miner said bid me o god and god bit him and he'd been an entire nation in this room this morning u.s families you as head of your house you as mother of your home you have the ability to say god bend us bend our home bend our families bend our church give us a revival god that will shake this world shake our homes and shake our families daniels just don't happen g.a mangan just don't happen i was raised by that man and i'm closing but d.a magnus i don't even want any music right now so y'all can hold off we just made music with our voices in our hands this morning g manga just don't happen i watched that man and let me tell you you can compare me to him and i know when i first came here it's pretty much stopped now thank god after almost 40 years but your daddy did it this way you're not your daddy i got that you didn't have to tell me i wasn't my daddy i knew it wasn't my daddy that's the greatest man that ever walked in shoe leather outside of jesus christ he is the greatest man and i know everybody feels that way about their dad but i'm just not talking about my dad i'm talking about my pastor he was the greatest pastor he was a passionate man he lived this 24 hours a day he was consumed with i am not that man my father was he was consumed with a passion and that's why he came to a little city and he took this handful of people in that little church at 16th and day street and he shook it to its foundation and we mickey and i went to plano that was another major decision i thought mickey yesterday afternoon when i was studying this message what if you and i would not have listened to the call of god what if we would not have listened to dad telling me to come home we'd have never had the privilege of how you and i would be stuck in dallas maybe we'd have a couple thousand people maybe we'd have nobody but we would have had something going over there but we would have never had poa would have ever had because of the time we'll never had messiah would have never been a church that affected presidents governors and senators and lawyers and doctors and rank draw centers we'll never had the mercy house in the grace house but god sent us home because we made a decision but it was because there was a man by the name of g.a magnum that was sold out that we all get to sit here today in a foundational church and that's why don't let anything shake you don't let anything it's for your kids don't become a denominal church don't become a denominator church remain an apostolic church where the glory of god rests upon us and the gifts operate and the power of god flows through us [Applause] i thank god for our governor edwards and our legislatures in baton rouge i thank god i don't know how long it's going to last because i'm sure suits are getting ready to start but they've determined in every school they're going to place in god we trust [Applause] that's only hope but the only thing that's going to keep us could you stand together and clap your hand give praise to god for the things he's done could you come to god could you shout to the lord [Applause] please don't move yet it's 11 53 and you don't turn back you don't quit being apprenticed to go back to yourself until 12 o'clock so i got seven minutes but those of you that will pledge yourself to regular times of prayer every day to those of you that will sign up to take a 24-hour prayer shift we've broken it down i hope daddy's not upset with me but we've broken it broken it down where you can play 30 minutes of a prayer shift you can play an hour you don't even have to pray three hours we got it where everybody in this church ought to be able to sign this parachute how many students drive you're a student and you're going to be driving to school would you raise your hand you're a student would you raise it high i can't it didn't look okay there's okay could i ask a favor of you unless you live in ball or marksville or tahoe got out around i understand that if you're going to toga and you live out there but if you go to menard or ash or or pineville or or bolton some are the local schools could you just come by on your would you wake yourself up five minutes early and come by and sign that prayer sheet i'm gonna tell you why because my mother and me and mickey lay hands on that thing every day and i pray for everybody that's signed that prayer shift and if you'll come by everybody in this church all you 60 plus people those of you that's retired well i can pray at home you can my prayers get answered just as much as home they do but there's something about coming by the house of god that i don't want those now if we lived in houston or dallas i could understand it but in little alexandria we ought to have at least 150 or 200 people coming by here every day signing that prayer sheet praying to god i would should make a mind up to faithful attending the house of god well i'm just sunday morning person well i want you to think about it and pray about it i want you to think about setting example for your kids and your grandkids of getting them to the house of the lord those of you don't pay your tithes and offerings that's another thing you need to make us you need to make a commitment to pay your tithes and offerings i got to study yesterday the book of ezekiel the 22nd chapter and i am done but i got to study in that that chapter excuse me the the the 22nd chapter verse 30 of that and israel was in a sad state you can read though everything was polluted and the sad thing though is when they get to 30. it's not what is israel was bad and they backslid and it was horrible but the sad thing was when you get to verse 30 god said i look for one intercessor i looked for just one and i couldn't find one oh god don't let it be said that at the poa he looked for an intercessor and couldn't find intercessors i'm going to intercede for our families i'm going to intercede for this pastoral staff i'm going to intercede for you i'm going to intercede that we can have the kind of revival that god wants to give if you can make in your life i'm not going to tell you the personal commitment to make i'm not going to tell you what to do i'm not going to tell you to make commitment to come by here every day i wish you would i'm not going to tell you to take a 24-hour prayer shift but if you will make some kind of commitment from where you came in at 10 30 and it's now 11 56 if you will make a commitment in your life to do something more than what you were doing for god would you step out and walk to the front right now would you get and please nobody leave right now those of you in the balcony you've walked to the rail you're just going to make a decision that i'm going to do more than i was doing when i walked in the room i really think

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Published: Sun Aug 11 2019