I Know What Your Calling Is! by Carter Conlon

[Applause] how many here are not sure what your calling is in the body of Jesus Christ can I see your hands go ahead be honest I thought so I know what your calling is a message that the Lord has given to me and this is something that's been stirring in me for a little while there's a season in history and in our time when the church is called together for a collective reason in other words let me say it simply there is a reason there's a specific calling that is on you and is on me at this critical juncture in history and make no mistake about it we are at a critical juncture right now in history in this nation in the world that we live in this is a critical time and it's a time that God is calling his church for a specific purpose we're going to read about it and talk about it a bit in Ezekiel chapter 22 please if you go there Isaiah Jeremiah lamentations Ezekiel now father I thank you for the anointing of your Holy Spirit I thank you for strength I thank you Almighty God that you will speak very deeply into each of our hearts we will understand something when this is finished and not just understand it but have the power to put it into practice give us faith Lord take its way way beyond where we've been help us to understand this is your idea of not ours Lord we're not being presumptuous you've called us to your throne and we're coming there we're coming with faith we're coming with expectation we're coming Lord believing that you are the God who can change Nations Lord we thank you for this in Jesus mighty name before I begin let me just say for those who've been praying for us while we were in Haiti thank you so very much for your prayers we had a marvelous marvelous visitation of God in Haiti first time in my entire life in ministry I've ever seen a complete stadium now when I say complete was about I think they say six to eight thousand people that night that just left their seats and came forward and then the next night was even more soft thank God the President of Haiti was watching on television apparently very moved and as called a seven day fast for the whole nation so thank God [Applause] Ezekiel 22 beginning at verse 25 now this is this is the condition of a nation just prior to the judgement of God coming upon it there's a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof like a roaring lion ravening the prey they have devoured Souls they've taken the treasure and precious things they have made her many widows in the midst thereof her priests have violated my law and have profaned my holy things they put no difference between the holy and profane neither had they showed difference between the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my Sabbath's and I am profaned among them her Prince's that means her that would be both the secular leaders and those that perhaps have some financial control in the country her princess in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood and to destroy souls to get dishonest gain and her profits have dubbed them with untempered mortar seeing vanity or nothing and divining lies unto them saying thus saith the Lord God when he has not spoken the people of the land have used depression and exercised robbery and affects the poor and needy yeah they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully and I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found none look at the condition of this nation just prior to God judging it now I want you to think of it in parallel to perhaps something of what maybe you were seeing today around us it's religion had become self-serving and powerless a conspiracy calls it of the prophets the lines are blurred as to what is acceptable to God and what is not the people are confused secular leaders begin to seek their own benefit at the expense of the people they're supposed to help and to serve those charged with bringing the people to strength in God start building with materials that have no strength of God in them he calls it in the scripture untempered mortar you know boasting that we're building the kingdom of God as it is but building it with something that can't withstand you can't build on it it has no power to withstand the onslaught of the times that are against it the people have cast off restraint they start to take for themselves they neglect the poor and they lose compassion for the struggling strangers that are in their midst many most or even all of those that God can still speak to are unable to hear they're unable to hear something that he's asking them to do god forbid that that should be you and me in this generation and so the question comes what could he be asking us to do now before we answer this question I want to look at something in each of our hearts that could cause us not to hear what Christ is asking us to do in this hour number one it is easier most often to identify with the judgment of God rather than the mercy of God it's easy everybody is blaming somebody today and if we're not careful we're gonna fall into that category if you spend more time listening to the news channels than you do reading your Bible most likely you're falling into that right now you are just pointing your finger at people blaming this blaming that blaming this politician blaming that group caught in a sense of the this day word spiral of really identifying more with judgment than with mercy John chapter 9 for example Jesus and His disciples are walking by a man the Bible says was born blind and there's a question in the mouths of the disciples the question was what can we do or how Lord we know you have power let's change the situation they said no who did sin this man or his parents that he was born blind they're just looking for somebody to blame they're not looking to change the situation whose fault is this we shouldn't deploying people as it is this is in the nation of Israel these are the people of God this is these are the children of the miraculous and yet here's a man born blind and you see when we judge others we absolve ourselves of any responsibility for the situation when we judge other people we simply can just carry on and walk by judgment was going to walk by but mercy was going to do a miracle and you and I must be careful that we're not caught in that stream of innocence agreeing that the nation should be because statistically and historically it can actually be true the nation should be judged it had come to a time the scripture said that there was nothing left in the nation there was there was nothing that God could point to to restrain his hand from judging the nation and if we are careful we can simply just start we can walk by a situation of judgment and mister miracle judgment allows us to express indignation at the obvious failing of others while still feeling good about our own standing John chapter 8 they brought a woman taken in adultery a type I suppose of our society a type of even our church age the bride that has in great measure not lived the way she should in relationship with her husband and judgment wanted to kill her judgment wanted to pronounce death upon a judgment wanted one immediate punishment and penalty but mercy was going to forgive the spirit of judgment allows us to carry on in religious duty and song even though we might be completely bankrupt of the heart of God in Luke chapter 10 there was a man taken by thieves and stripped of his clothing and left for dead and that Jesus tells us in this parable that there were three types of people that approach this situation the first two were known religious one perhaps with a reputation of upholding the law and the other has a reputation of somewhat of being a worshiper of God but the judgment in the heart as they passed by you just picture it as as the man who knows the law and the man who knows how to worship they both passing by they look at this stranger this is lying in the roadway beaten up and robbed and left for dead like much of our society some at least of our society is today but judgment allows us to pass by unaffected by the plight of people and because judgment just says well they must be deserving of the state that they're in look at what they've done no wonder they're laying down in their vomit on Friday night half drunk no wonder the situation is such and so the a heart that has really embraced judgment over mercy feels quite confident to come to the house of God like we are today to lift our voices to say we love truth to worship God but passing by a whole society a whole generation that has been robbed of the devil himself beaten up stripped as it is of the righteousness of Christ and left for dead in our streets judgment was going to hide in its religion but mercy bends its need mercy gives of itself and mercy does something mercy wants a miracle mercy wants to forgive mercy bends its knee mercy gives of its resources mostly simply agrees with God and does something it's that simple so what does it mean then when God says I sought for a man among them in verse 30 says I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found none what does it mean I looked for somebody can imagine I mean this is one of the most religious nations on the face it is probably the most religious nation on the face of the earth it has come to a point of behavior it has come to a point of corruption in the house of God corruption in the secular financial world corruption and leadership at every level that God says I have to judge it but I don't want to I'm looking for somebody who knows my heart I'm looking for somebody who's willing to come in before my throne as a son or a daughter of God I'm looking for somebody who's not afraid to take meant my word and with my promises and close the door the prayer closet and come in and stand in the gap and said Lord I want you to reconsider this I'm looking for someone who knows the mercy of God who knows the Christ who watched the government in Pilate washed their hands of him he heard the religious condemned the very expression of God's heart he watched even as his best friends abandoned him in his hour of need but yet he said Father forgive them for they don't know what they do John 3:17 says God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved but wait we say doesn't there come a time when judgment must come yes of course there's a time when judgment must come and it had come in our opening text it had come it had arrived at the nation of Israel but God was searching for one person who one person who could touch his heart and give him a reason to extend a season of mercy that's what we were called to do now as the Church of Jesus Christ that's what you're called to do that's what I'm called to do I find myself praying in a new way lately I find myself going into the prayer closet and saying this to God and it's not presumptuous I'm praying as a son before the throne of God father your word says that if I ask anything according to your will that you will do it your word tells me that if I speak to a mountain it will move and I start just quoting the promises of God and what God has said about himself and what he has promised about his own character and I stand before the throne of God and one time I was praying I said Lord it wouldn't be right if eternity recorded that somebody was at your throne asking for new york city and you didn't send a season of mercy it just simply wouldn't be right it wouldn't be right that somebody was there because in this passage of Scripture you said I just looked for one man I look for one woman I look for one person to stand there was a gap as it is there the hedge was gone the protection was gone I looked for one person to stand between the sinful condition of society and the wrath of God that eventually must be known towards it one person that said just stand and say hold on just Oh God just wait give us a cease and give us two years of New York City give us a season God where you sweep our streets and sweep our colleges and sweep by high schools sweep our apartment buildings sweep the entertainment industry touch the finance give us a season of God God wouldn't have looked for a man if he if it wasn't in his heart to change his mind he just wanted somebody to walk with him in agreement for that moment and I do believe according to what I read here that one man could have stopped his hand for a season one man could have kept the enemies a hundred miles outside the borders of the city one man one man could have caused the glory of God to come back in the temple again just for a moment one man woman how much more a whole search says how much more you and I as the people of God going into the throne room of Almighty God and saying father in Jesus name hold back the hand of judgment in Jesus name for the sake of the widow for the sake of the children who've been raised in our streets and told that you don't exist for the sake of God of those that have been blinded by Finance and fame Lord God we don't want them to be judged and neither do you or you wouldn't have gone to a cross what would that be all about if you wanted them to be judged one person you know in this church my daughter is the only one who once in a while cancels all my appointments closes my office door and comes in sits down says you and I have to talk anybody else try that they might be in trouble but my daughter it's my daughter and I find this this delight in my heart this willingness to listen sometimes it's about something undoing that she says you know you shouldn't be doing this you shouldn't be saying things this way she came into my office one time when pastor Teresa started to going to Pennsylvania to the college she said across me from the desk I said you're alone too much you're going to get weird she said I'm going to walk you [Applause] now anybody else tell me that but my daughter can tell me that do you understand you and I are sons and daughters of God we're not just statistics on a list called the church were sons and daughters and in the book of Hebrews we're told to come boldly to the throne of grace we don't we don't come in groveling we don't come in in our hands and these are some people who think that's holy I frankly don't I have an invitation to stand at the throne of God as the son of God go to Exodus chapter 32 please with me Exodus 32 I'm going to just nail it now so you'll see it verse 7 now these people have made a mess they've been brought out of bondage they've been given new life they've seen the power of God and they they make a golden calf of their earrings of all things and they say this is this is God and they strip off their clothing and they begin to run naked and rampant and immoral and it's just an absolute abomination at the bottom of this mountain where God is giving his law and now the Lord says to Moses verse 7 go get me down he says for thy people which thou brought us out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves they've turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them they've made them a molten calf and of worship dip and have sacrificed their unto and said these be thy God's o Israel which had brought thee up out of the land of Egypt now I want you to think about this nation for a moment so many came here looking for a better life some of you that are here today us rather came here because it was in a sense a land of opportunity land of freedom many came here to escape at least initially religious persecution and various other things and it was the nation founded on the principles of God I know historically some of it was not exactly clearly lined up with the Bible but at least the principles were there and God blessed it and God gave intelligence to this nation this nation response but probably most of the technology we have today around the world put people on the moon there was it was it was a it's been called a social experiment experiment but actually was the hand of God that produced something and we did the same thing that these people did we took the blessing we took their resources and began to worship Dow Jones more than Jesus Christ in this name we built a golden calf and said this is our God which brought us out of the land of bondage subsequently there's disorders there's poverty starting in the nation there's the threat of disorder is content even our own mayor said in not-too-distant past he feared for violence in our own streets in the city he says they've turned his side quickly out of the way which I've commanded them verse 8 and they've made a molten calf and of worship death and if sacrificed there and two and said these be thy gods who Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt and the Lord said to Moses I have seen these people and behold it's a stiff-necked people now verse 10 astounds me he says now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them and I'll make them I'll make a V a great nation let me alone don't talk to me you see because Moses you have the power to change my mind so leave me alone I'm setting this this is God speaking to Moses folks he says now listen I'm gonna judge them I brought them out they've made a mess they made a golden calf they've become highly immoral that they've corrupted the image of God and so now I'm going to judge them I'm going to destroy them all and all thank God that Moses didn't have that same didn't have what can happen to any of us in a society when we see the hand of come to a nation that Moses is not at the foot of the mountain setting bring it on God bring it on Lord destroy them all and fulfill your promise to me and make of me a great nation and God says to Moses now leave me alone I'm intending on doing this let me be let me become angry he's saying let my wrath watch hot against them leave me alone and let me become angry now Moses doesn't listen to God that's an incredible thing he says and Moses besought the Lord his God and said Lord why does that wrath wax hot against thy people which you brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say for mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth he says I want you to consider your name and consider your reputation I'm finding myself in the prayer closet saying lately you're the one who died in the cross you are the father to the fatherless you are the defender of the widow you are the God of all mercy and the God of all comfort and so I stand and I'm willing to not let God alone I don't know about you I'm willing to stand in that gap because the Lord one more time is seeking for somebody he says turn from this thy fierce wrath and repent now it's not a repentance like we do because when we do wrong we repent God wasn't about to do wrong he's righteous in his deeds but he's talking about turning turn away from this that you're considering against your people verse 13 remember Abraham and Isaac and Israel that servants to whom you swear by yourself and said to them I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and all this land that I've spoken of will I give them to your seed and they shall inherit it for ever I want you he said to think about your promises you ever prayed that way you ever stood in the gap if you ever have you ever stood between life where life is and we're potential death is you ever true become an intercessor somebody that knows the heart of God I know the heart of God I know the heart of God is mercy he didn't come into the world John 3:17 to judge it but that through his song the world might be saved that's evident that's in Scripture I don't have to make that up that is there I'm not looking for some kind of a mercy that's not in the text of Scripture I do know judgment has to come I do know the world will be judged I do know that societies have been judged in times past but I'm also aware there has been an innovator also where the Assyrians were violent vicious godless people and Jonah didn't want to go to them because he knew this about God he knew that God was merciful he wanted the Assyrians annihilated he didn't want them to be any mercy he wanted them to be to be cast down to stay blind to be run over by the thief himself he didn't want to bend his knee he didn't want to be part of the help he didn't want to be part of the solution so he took a trip and he went in the opposite direction and finally when God got a hold of him he walked that three-day journey through the city and ironically just as what has just happened in Haiti that the king of the city called for fast called for repentance in the sight of a holy God and God forgave the Assyrians for an entire day they were eventually judged but for an entire generation they were forgiven and knew the mercy and had access to the blessing and the forgiveness of God that's just who God is Jonah sat on a mountainside all in a nod about some plant that had died around him unable to see the miracle of tens of thousands of people having been forgiven and found the mercy of God he's all concerned about himself that he that it inconvenience the trouble he's gone through and he says to me says Lord I knew that's what you were going to do and didn't we talk about that in the first place before I even can I knew you'd be merciful if these people repented that's why I didn't want to come see the spirit of judgment was on him not mercy but I want to remind you in the scripture that mercy triumphs / judgment mercy triumphs judgment must come we may know a day in our society where there is judgment that perhaps is deeper than anything we've ever anticipated but mercy mercy triumphs I may I may die in whatever judgment we have to go through as a nation but knowing Jesus Christ's mercy has triumphed over that judgment because folks is not about time it's about eternity in the kingdom of God it's about where I end up when I die it's a it's about that season of mercy the triumphs over whatever judgment has to come the Lord says I look for somebody to convince me for I don't want to destroy that which I love I look for somebody see I titled this message I know what your calling is I know what my calling is there's we've come to a collective time in America where we are called as a body to the throne of God to intercede like we never have in our lifetime to want to see the mercy of God and we don't find ourselves out in the streets railing against anybody but pleading for everybody pleading for mercy forgiveness for that which Calvary truly represents not found with the spirit of this age upon us which is why I believe that's why I believe in Ezekiel he said I saw it for a man I couldn't find one because almost everybody that went to my house wanted judgment it's harder than anybody left it wanted mercy Oh God said mercy God be merciful to the people on Wall Street Lord be merciful to the actors who don't know where they're headed for God Almighty be merciful to our kids in the street that we've raised to believe there is no God be merciful O God to the the angry my merciful to the unthankful be merciful O God to the unholy Lord Jesus Christ be merciful my heart's cry is that when I go into the prayer closet that the Lord has to say no no not you again didn't I tell you to leave me alone and I come in again it's your son I've closed the door and I've cancelled all of your appointments at the moment you and I have to talk I'm here to talk about New York City I'm here because you planted a church in the middle of Times Square and you have other good churches in the city with good Christian people I'm asking you Lord to breathe on us that we may come to your throne that we may have your heart God Almighty that our prayers might be filled with faith that we not be found before your throne confessing the circumstance and whining and pleading and asking for judgment like everybody else around us but Oh God we'd be found knowing your heart knowing why you went to a cross knowing your character knowing who you are pleading Oh God for your good name in our generation how is it possible that the 2,000 people from this church could go to the throne of God asking for mercy and God not send it I don't think it is possible I believe if we go there our sons and daughters of God and stand in that gap and say Lord hold back the day if it's only a year if it's only two years if it's only five years it does but all Jesus we're asking you Lord to occupy New York City we're asking you God to fill our streets and our parks and our schools and our colleges we're asking you Jesus to come to every church every ministry every name every denomination fill every house of God bring the people in from around the city and let to be a great turning to you in our generation Oh God we're asking for mercy in this time I know what my calling is [Applause] my calling is not just to preach sermons in this church once or twice a week as marvelous as that may be not far beyond that the greatest part of my calling is in the prayer closet now to be able to move the hand of God for I know what God can do I've just come from Haiti folks I've just seen America I've watched what God can do I've seen the heavens read in a moment of time one more time Sartain Jamaica saw it in Nigeria saw it in Zambia so you've seen it in other places now I've seen it in Haiti and everybody who was there knows it happened in a moment of time it happened in one moment the middle preaching I was wondering why is everybody shouting behind me the people were shouting it was a very different kind of a shout and I was thinking that it was very distracting one what are they doing and suddenly in the stadium people began rising to their feet and I didn't even realize it but God himself had rend the heavens and suddenly that that oppression was lifting and suddenly the Gateway was up and suddenly when people were free to come to Christ [Applause] glory to God I want to tell you that didn't happen in the stadium that happened in the prayer closet it happened in the prayer meetings in this church had happened in Montreal when they fasted for 21 days for Haiti it happened in the hotel rooms were people dozens of people came to Haiti and laid on their face and their hotel rooms and they're seated that's where the victory came folks [Applause] all when we get to heaven we find out who the real Warriors were there's some of us who get to stand in the public but the real warriors quite often are not seen the real Warriors have closed the door they prayed in secret and God has rewarded them openly as the scripture says the real Warriors have found the heart of God the real Warriors understand why there was a cross why God became a man why God walked this earth why God let us spit on him and kick him and beat him and mock him and reject him and went to a cross the real warriors understand the very essence of God is love they know it and they go in the prayer closet and they say Lord forgive me for not being here sooner but God Almighty I am here and I'm willing to walk in agreement with you everything in my natural census says the judgments had come but I've been in your word and I know your heart when you should have judged as you died for us when you should have thrown us away you picked us up again time and again Oh God you've been merciful to us now Lord we're coming into the throne room and we're asking you Father in the name of Jesus that you'll be merciful to this generation we're asking you for New York City we're asking you my god for every pearl in the city we're asking you for every church every denomination every preacher but God we're asking you for every place that can be filled to be filled Mercy Mercy Mercy I look for someone to convince me because I don't want to destroy that which I love I look for somebody even Sodom and Gomorrah and all of its wickedness he said if there were ten righteous people I would spare it that wasn't just bravado talk on God's part that was true as there were ten righteous it would have a season of mercy ten righteous if there would be ten people who were found how about ten thousand willing to go into the prayer closet who have of the hour we're living in who understand this is a season of blindness this is a season that people beat and bruised and left for dead in the highway this is a season of a people caught living a lifestyle they shouldn't have and bringing disgrace to their own being as it is into the very character and heart of God but yet it's a season of miracles and mercy I look for somebody who's willing to walk with me through the miracle who's willing to believe that I'm able to do it I look for somebody who's not walking by the sight of their eyes but walking by what they know in their heart about God I look for somebody who's not governed by the news but governed by the good news I look for somebody because it was not sharing the heart of blame of this generation I look for somebody who is willing to rejoice in seeing others restored and forgiven to rejoice even the certain executives get saved and filled with the Holy Ghost in spite of what happened to your 401k I look for somebody who's willing to rejoice in seeing forgiveness I look for somebody who's willing to bend to give and to do something to help not just simply to pray and walk out of the prayer closet and say well that is that no but to be thrown into the prayer Lord be merciful and let my life be an extension of that mercy God do something and do it through me Lord help those who have no helper and help them through my life surely if you are the Christ in me I am your body this is your temple God reach out through these hands put something of faith in these eyes put something of life in this voice put something of of compassion in this heart I'm not willing to hide in religion when God is willing to be merciful I've said it a hundred times and I'll say again New York City doesn't have to go to hell as long as we're still in it now let me alone hallelujah I love those words I remember the first time Pastor David Wilkerson and I stumbled on those words reading through this passage of Scripture and both of us just looked at and went huh now let me alone let me alone Oh God do you understand there's something a prayer that we're only touching the surface of now something of authority something of sonship and daughter ship in the kingdom of God something of the right that we have to go to the throne the invitation to walk with God agree with God talk with God reason with God didn't he say through the prophet Isaiah let us reason together I know what your calling is I know what mine is I don't know how long we have but I know what my calling is praise be to God I want to give an altar call this afternoon for those who are simply willing to walk and with God and see the miracle to rejoice in seeing others restored and forgiven and willing to bend give and do something to help it's that simple to go into the prayer closet with a brand new authority as an authority you've never had before you've never known a sonship authority an invitation this is your father you can walk in and you can talk to him not offended even if you're wrong he's not offended as long as you're sincere you come in and say oh God I'm asking you to spare these people I'm asking you Lord to or honor your name and glorify your own character I'm asking you to be everything you say you are and to come into that prayer closet and to put ourselves in our prayers and to believe that in our generation God can do a miracle may it never be written I looked in New York City to find a man and could not find one may it never be said god forbid in our generation did it not be said that God couldn't find somebody to walk in agreement with him hallelujah this is a high calling it's an incredible calling it would take your prayer life to a place you've never dreamt it was going to go we'll give you a spiritual authority that you've never had in your entire life but if you're willing that's all if you're just willing to be part of that company that stands in the gap for this city and for this generation it's not a program folks it's something in your own heart it's something you read in the Word of God it's something you take into the prayer closet and you live in the expectancy of mercy if that's you today as we stand we're going to worship just for a moment and I'm going to ask you to meet me here at the front of the sanctuary we're going to pray together and we really are going to pray together today as we stand please if you'd make your way here and we'll spend a moment in prayer in the balcony you could either exit as we all stand up please the education annex will wait for you if you make your way down thank God we're not gonna let this city die hallelujah thank you Jesus Lord we stand here today probably a thousand strong or more we lift our voices to you Lord we lift up New York City before you we are undeserving of mercy Lord we have behaved irresponsibly with the blessings that you've given us as a people we've raised our children to believe that you don't exist Lord we've let immorality abound and oh God and many are not innocent in this but Lord we stand at your throne by invitation we stand here as the sons and daughters of God and you told us not to come when we're strong but you said to find grace to help in our time of need so Lord we first asked you to help us and give us strength Lord in our inner man to be the bride of Jesus Christ to be the Church of Jesus Christ cleanse us of god of all filthiness of spirit and mind and practice lord help us to put away that which offends and blinds us to who you are my god help us to know your mercy in a new way Lord green upon us mercy rain upon us of God wash away Lord out of our minds the oppression the images God all of the things wad that try to rob us of who we are in Christ and what our calling is in this generation lord help us in these things Lord wash these things away the father give us faith help us to read your word and to see who you are and to simply walk in in agreement with what you say about yourself the God of mercy the God of all comfort the God of peace wonderful counselor mighty God everlasting father Prince of Peace the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world that's who we come to the one who came to the earth and walked among us to save us and to forgive us Lord you let your face be beaten that we might be able to stand before your face to stay o mighty God let your mercy be known let your mercy be sent abroad by God we ask you to be merciful to the city be merciful to every body from the highest and the lowest Oh God be merciful Lord oh Jesus Jesus Jesus help us to pray like we've never prayed before help us to know your heart help us to come into the tone my God my God put faith in us Lord faith like we've never known before faith it's deeper than anything that we can procure with our own efforts ambitions Oh God Almighty I thank you for my brothers and sisters in Christ I thank you Lord you wouldn't be leading us to do this if you didn't intend on being merciful you're calling for people to agree with you Lord you're calling for people who can dance in our streets when we see mercy when we see forgiveness when we see restoration when we see the goodness of our God we thank you Lord for letting us share your heart at this time o mighty god mighty god mighty god mighty God we ask you to use vessels Lord that would astound us we ask you to do this in such a way that nobody could touch the glory not even a fool could attempt to touch the glory my God do it so sovereignty so powerfully that you bring your own name to reputation have everybody in the world who's looking to Occupy Wall Street now as some kind of an illustration we ask it occupy New York City Almighty God [Applause] occupy churches occupy our prayer meetings occupy our school by God let the whole world have to stand up and take notice the mercy of God came to New York City in these last hours of time you swept away the refuge of lies and brought in mercy Lord we thank you for this God we praise you we praise you we bless you oh Jesus we expect to see this we expect oh god the fulfillment of what you put on our hearts we expected Lord we expected God we expected in our streets we expected in the city Lord hallelujah hallelujah lift your voice to the Lord now you cried to God hallelujah [Applause] thank you lord thank you Jesus thank you mighty God I'm asking you today for a baptism of fire to come upon this church Lord do something deeper in us that we could ever do in ourselves if we're dead raise us if we're dull sharpen us if we're blind give us sake we're not willing to die in religion but we have a living Savior within us my god you said the people in the last days you know you will be strong and do exploits that's what your word says that's what I stand on that's what I believe in [Applause] we're not willing to settle for less we're not willing to live in mediocrity we're not willing to go down with the ship my god just like Paul stood on the neck of that ship we have an answer we know God we know Christ is we thank you for that strength Lord hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah glory to the lamb of God glory to the lamb of God thank you for strength and power hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah glory to God from this day forward I'm asking father that we never be the same in the prayer closet again oh Jesus we thank you we praise you and your precious and your holy name hallelujah folks I'm believing God the prayer meetings in this church are going to explode the prayer meetings in churches around the city are gonna the same things going to happen we will know a touch of God in this city before Christ comes by God's grace or he wouldn't plant it in our heart if it weren't so hallelujah now let's give him a shout of praise in this house [Applause]

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Keywords: Carter, Conlon, Revival, Repent, God, Sermons, Jesus, SermonIndex

Id: 32ssdLXYFlA

Length: 46min 36sec (2796 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 06 2011