July 24, 2016 - Carter Conlon - In The Day When I Cried

if you'll turn in your Bibles please to to passages as a scripture Psalm 138 and then when you find that go to 2nd chronicles chapter 16 and just leave a bookmark in that if you will we'll start at some 138 and then moved to 2nd chronicles chapter 16 the father I thank you with all my heart God Almighty for your presence being here with us I thank you Lord for the anointing of your Holy Spirit the strength that you give the power that you put behind your word the transformed lives that you're willing to give us we are willing to call out to you with honest hearts I ask you God that you would overshadow my frailties this morning God that you would speak through me as a vessel in your hand to your people let your kingdom come let your will be done in our hearts today O God in full measure just as you have sent your word to do help us Lord to get beyond our struggles help us to get beyond the barriers that we have put or our enemies have put in front of us to get us to conclude that is only so far in you that we can go god help us as a church age to embrace you again to embrace your word again help us to go forward help us O God to unashamedly be able to cry out to you again and we thank you for it in Jesus name Amen this message is entitled in the day when I cried in the day when I cried Psalm 138 a psalm of King David I will praise you with my whole heart before the gods I will sing praises to you I will worship toward your holy temple and praise your name for your loving kindness and your truth for you have magnified your word above all your name in the day when I cried out you answered me and made me bold with strength in my soul all the kings of the earth shall praise you O Lord when they hear the words of your mouth yes they shall sing of the ways of the Lord for great is the glory of the Lord though the Lord is on high yet he regards the lowly but the proud he knows from afar though I walk in the midst of trouble you will revive me you will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies and your right hand will save me the Lord will perfect that which concerns me your mercy O Lord endures forever do not forsake the works of your hands now this Psalm 138 is a psalm of victory it's written by King David a man after God's heart who obviously knew the source of his strength that one thing above all else that made him a man after God's heart is that he was a person who knew that God's heart was to give strength to those of us who in our need would call out to him that is the heart of God for you today out of God is not waiting for you to find some magical formula or clap your hands just right or get your whole act together before he will bless you he's looking to give you strength when you and I have the courage to recognize that it's his strength that we need and we realized that in ourselves we don't possess I mean apart from God in us we don't possess sufficient strength to even live a victorious Christian life and David knew this all of his days that's why he was called a man after God's heart it's not that he did everything perfect we know from his history made terrible mistakes along the road in his life but yet still the testimony from God's mouth about this man is that he was a man after God's heart he had the courage and the humility to admit when he was in a mess and to call out to God for deliverance 2nd chronicles 16:9 says the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal towards him did you know that this morning that God's eyes are on you this morning looking to show himself strong if you're struggling if you're in prison if you're hurt if you're wounded if you're failing if you're faltering if you're confused if you're dead inside his eyes are on you today not for evil but for good to give you victory to give you a song to give you something that can only come from him that ultimately our testimony the whole kingdom of God folks is about dead people living you know that that's what the kingdom of God is about that's what makes this gospel completely different than anything else that is taught or thought about in this world is that in Christ we have life we have resurrection life we have eternal life we have abundant like weapon a full life now most of us know that we desperately need God when we first come to him anybody say amen to that I knew it you know it you know you can't you couldn't change without him you couldn't get out of your prison you couldn't change your patterns of behavior you couldn't tell the truth of your life depended on it there are many many people who you know I desperately needed God and you came to him in that desperation very very few people answer an altar call for salvation clapping and jumping up and down almost everybody is with tears and with wringing hands that final admission god I can't do this without you I can't do this there's no way without your mercy I can't save myself I can't change myself I can't be the husband I can't be the wife I can't be the son that can't be the daughter the employee the person that you've obviously longed for me to be I can't and you found out that God's eyes were on you his heart was towards you you you found out you didn't have to plead with him to save you he was more than willing to give you eternal life and to give you the promise that in Christ all things are made no and you became a new creation thank God doesn't happen overnight folks you all know that right it doesn't happen overnight but it happens the seed of life comes in and takes over from the death that once was at work inside all the members of your body when we first came to him we knew but we all have an inner fallen nature every one of us that wants in itself to be God that remember that was the theology that Adam and Eve bit into that you too can be as God is or as God's or judges if you want to go back to the original and you can know what's good and you can know what's even you you can be just as God is and what happens to many who walk with Christ for any amount of time is that we say thank you for those first victories Lord but I can take it from here it was all Jesus in the beginning then it in the middle it ends up me and Jesus and then at the end it just mean ends up me able to live a righteous life and mountain strengthened Paul said to the Galatian Church in Galatians chapter 3 verse 3 are you so foolish having begun in the spirit are you now made perfect by the flesh in other words having needed God having known that this life is a supernatural life are you now going to perfect it or bring it to completion by human effort what happened to you Paul said to the glaciers what will be witched you who took you off the course of faith and brought you into this place where you think that you can be made holy by the amount of things that you do you think that you can live a righteous life by human effort who took you off this pathway of knowing that this whole life is supernatural it's it's it's God religion is heavy it's boring it has no life to it it's programmed but if you live in the spirit morning by morning new mercies you see if you live in the spirit you don't have to figure it out you know who won the victory you simply go to him with a heart that's dependent on him remember the Lord gives grace to the humble but the proud he knows afar off that means those who still are clinging to some vestige of goodness and themselves or human ability to work out your problem second chronicles 26 talks about a king called Josiah and when you read that man's history at Kings history was wonderfully helped he was given to mine to make inventions weapons to defend the nation he was he was it was amazing what God did through this man and verse 15 and 16 of chapter 26 as he was marvelously helped till he became strong and when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction it's it's the dilemma of humaneness it's the dilemma of the Christian church that we start out in a permitting we need God every church starts that way we need God so desperately we know we have no power or strength or future without him then God answers us and souls start coming into the kingdom of God and a building is able to be bought and programs are formulated and then there's and in the midst of all the blessing of the Lord there's this transition that starts to take place and suddenly the whole thing is moving and if without his presence to the point where in some cases his presence is lost and people are not even aware of what happened and there's a program it's so used to success and now it's no longer supernatural becomes natural everything is is theologies of human effort to achieve the success that only the Christ can give in a human's life now in second chronicles chapter 16 there was a king called ASA king of Judah I want to actually go back to chapter 14 second chronicles chapter 14 and it starts out in verse 1 says ASA his son reigned in this place and in his days the land was quiet for ten years verse two says he did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord he took away all of the false altars he took everything that took away the presence of God from among the people verse five says the kingdom was quiet under him verse six he built fortified cities that's chapter 14 of second chronicles he built fortified cities in Judah the land had rest he had no war in those years because the Lord had given him rest therefore he said the Judah let us build cities and make walls around them and towers and gates and bars well the land is yet before us because we've sought the Lord our God we have sought him and he's given us rest on every side so they built and prospered here's a man who starts out right he has a wholehearted dependence on God God blesses him just the way he has blessed you and he has blessed me and the scripture tells us he had an army of about 580 or so thousand men and suddenly an Ethiopian army and verse 9 came out against him with an army of 1 million so the odds are roughly 2 to 1 against him and he went to the Lord in verse 11 and said Lord it's nothing for you to help whether with many or with those of us who have no power help us O Lord God remember that / help us O Lord God for we rest on you that was his heart helped me Lord I'm leaning on you remember when you prayed that remember that if that's been the cry of your heart you've known the blessing of God helped me God for our lean on you and then your name we go against this multitude help us O God from the very beginning of my walk with God in those first years when I stood in my living room after 9 years of suffering held in panic attacks I stood there only in the name of the Lord Jesus unable to get out of that prison unable to escape this fear that had gripped my entire being and yet I stood there with the word of God 1/2 of a verse actually in the New Testament of God before us who can be against us and with faith in the finished victory on Calvary and I said Satan you can only kill me if God allows you and if he allows you to kill me I'm going to heaven so I win I win either way it doesn't matter I said you throw everything you've got at me but I throw back now what I haven't you in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of God I resist you and you know my story you know that from the soles of my feet I felt a heat hit my body go through my legs my torso my chest and out the top of my head that's almost 40 years ago now totally set free by the power of God and traveled all over the world preach the gospel to countless thousands of people Oh Lord God we rest on you we have no power help us Lord God see that's a cry that he will never turn away from that's a cry that you and I must never be too proud to pray I think it's a cry that has to come back into the Church of Jesus Christ again in our generation when we look at the threatenings when we see what's happening in our cities we have to have the courage to say Oh Lord God we have no power to fight this help us Lord for we rest on you and in your name we go against this multitude Oh Lord you are our God do not do not let men prevail against you ASA cried out o God don't let anything of this world be able to triumph over the testimony of who you are and what you are willing to do for those who call out to your name he won a marvelous victory marvelous victory not only did they defeat that army but they brought home tremendous spoil after the victory and in verse chapter fifteen verse one says the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of O dead and he went out to meet ASA and said to them hear me ASA and all Judah and Benjamin the Lord is with you while you are with him if you seek him he will be found by you but if you forsake and he will forsake you and the forsaking is not just saying we don't believe in God anymore when we read it we think that's that's the the tenor of it but really what it means is if you turn away from trusting in him if you turn away from crying out to him believing that this is a supernatural walk with Him and you start leaning on human ingenuity and human effort you will lose the presence of God for long time verse three Israel has been without a true God now this is the prophet still speaking to ASA and without a teaching priest and without law but when in their trouble they turned to the Lord God of Israel and sought him he was found by them and then those times there was no peace to the one who went out north to the one who came in but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands see there's no peace when we're not seeking Christ there's no peace when we're not calling out to him for victory there's no peace when we're not simply declaring his victory and entering into that victory by faith so nation was destroyed by nation and city by city for God troubled them with every adversity in other words the Lord allows adversity to come to remind his people one more time it's not by power it's not by might it's by my spirit says the Lord it's not by human ingenuity it's not by intellect and I'm not I'm not decrying intellect I thank God for learning thank God for understanding but that learning and that understanding must bring us again to the power of God must bring us again to that place of humility bu-but you be strong for seven - do not let your hands be weak for your word your work shall be rewarded and when they saw heard these words in the prophecy of oded the prophet he took courage and removed the abominable idols and all the land of Judah and Benjamin from the cities that he had taken in the mountains of Ephraim then the scripture tells us he he gathered the people to himself they made sacrifice to God verse 12 of chapter 15 says they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul and this man was so jealous about this that he made a decree that whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel was to be put to death it was that important to him whether man or woman that didn't matter they took an oath before the Lord verse 14 with a loud voice with shouting trumpets and ram's horns all Judah rejoiced at the earth for they had swarmed with all their heart and they sought him with all their soul and he was found by them and the Lord gave them rest all around he even took his own mother out of leadership because she had built some kind of obscene idol in the vicinity of where she lived now we go to chapter 16 in the 36th year of the reign of ASA so now there's there's been a lot of prosperity there's been a lot of spirituality this there's been a knowledge of truth and necessity of seeking God there's been victory there's been spoil I can't tell you how many people I have seen totally blow it at the end of their days how many walked with God how many churches walked with God how many individuals walked with God and they they they had this testimony of his presence his power his victory it like with they started out like with Pastor David in this group of young students winning hundreds to Christ in impossible places and then he gets to the 36th year of his reign aren't we supposed to be getting smarter as we get older is it possible we get so used to the victory we start taking it for granted we get so used to the fact that the presence of the Lord is here with us that we forget the presence of the Lord is here with us we as human beings we all have a tendency to become bored with the familiar that's what happened to I believe with all my heart that's what happened to Solomon he got bored with the presence of God he got bored with the temple of God the work of God the fact that God wanted to answer prayer he just got bored and he started using this brilliant mind that God give him to to start raising up choirs and cattle and hedges and vineyards and waterfalls and he started doing all this other stuff other than what he was called to actually do and here is it's the 36th year of the reign of a son Vasia the king of Israel came up against Judah chapter 16 and and verse 1 and he built a stronghold to try to starve out the people of God and we're not that far from this kind of a moment in history where I don't know if you can feel it yet but the encroachment of a godless society trying to press in on the church and saying well you'll practice your religion inside your own little city but don't dare bring it outside the gates don't bring it into the marketplace don't talk to us about Christ we're not interested in your viewpoint and so they built a fortified city to try to keep the people of God contained and really to starve them to death with inside the walls of their own boundaries now what does he said Oh what did he formerly do he formerly went around you he went he said Lord ASA cried to the Lord and said Lord it's nothing for you to help whether with many or whether those who have no power help us O Lord God for we rest on you and in your name we go against this multitude o Lord you are our God do love and do not let man prevail against you and now we come to chapter 16 what the days to do it says he went and verse 2 it says ASA brought silver and gold from the treasure of the house of the Lord and of the Kings house and he sent had been had that king of Syria who dwelt in Damascus know basically what he did is he hired a foreign army with all the treasures that were in the house of God he turned from trusting in God and he started trusting in his own ingenuity he instead of looking to the Lord where we all do in our poverty he started looking to the wealth of what had come into his life because of what God had given him in the first place and instead of turning to God he turned to the treasure he turned to human ingenuity and he hired the king of ben-hadad the king of syria hearted foreign king rather to come up the king of syria to come up against the king of israel that was standing against him and he won and he and he took the spoils of of that city that had been a camped against him his strategy worked in other words and then he with it he built two cities in verse 6 it says with him he built giba and Misbah it's he turned to his own reasoning and he began to revel in his own victories can you can you can you hear him at the dedication of his cities cities that were built with his own reasoning was built with his own strength I probably gave the glory to God but God wasn't even in it he never did pray he never did his it's a type of one as a church age we have ceased to pray and we we have tried to strategize our victories and yes some victories have been won there's it's it's not even debatable he won this particular victory but then the Word of God comes to him again in chapter 16 verse 7 it says at that time Hanan I the seer came to ASA king of Judah and said to him because you've relied on the king of Syria not relied on the Lord your God therefore the army of the king of syria has escaped from your hand we're not the Ethiopians in the loop of a very huge army with very many chariots and horsemen yet because you relied on the Lord he delivered them into your hand for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to him in this you have done foolishly therefore from now on you will have wars in other words what you have accomplished is only temporary enemies that should have been completely vanquished will come back at you again and again and again you will have a constant fight on your hands because you relied on human ingenuity rather than on the power of God and the faithfulness of God you can you can find yourself a theory about how to get free from something and you can form your seven strategies and you can actually apparently win a victory but what you will find is that enemy will keep coming against you and keep coming against you because you're not fighting against it as a spiritual battle you're fighting against it with human effort and human ingenuity now look at his response unlike David the king who when reproved by Nathan the prophets that I'm the man I went in before God and began to cry out again to God for mercy now ASA didn't crowd for mercy it says in verse 10 ASA was angry with the seer ASA was angry with the voice of God sent to turn him from the pathway of weakness that he had created I can hear ASA speaking to this prophecy don't you know who you're speaking so I am the king of me myself and I cities are you ignorant of the victories that I have won are you ignorant of the strategies that we've employed and the things that apparently has given us and they said was angry and put him in prison and he was enraged at him because it's like the type of a person sitting in this church and you're hearing what I'm trying to say you get so mad at me you're gonna put all my DVDs on the shelf somewhere behind a book and so I'm not listening to him anymore he will not congratulate me in my victory will not congratulate me with what I have done now the activation first and last are indeed written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel in the 39th year of his reign verse 12 Aysen became diseased in his feet and his malady was severe yet in his disease he did not seek the Lord but the physicians in other words he was brought to a place where he couldn't go forward yet it was still too stubborn to humble himself before God I feel that the Lord in His mercy will always try to get a hold of us if he can't speak to us he will try to get a hold of us in other ways I know this from personal experience I have over the course of my life tried to do things in my own strength only to have my own strength taken away only to find myself going down the street shouting out wat and the Lord saying now we can talk you're going your own way you're doing this in your own reason and you're following your own course and when you do that you're going to bring not only weakness into your own life you're going to bring it into the lives of the people that you are leading and God's trying to get a hold of this man and there are some people here today you can't go forward just like ASA you're stuck as pastor Teresa is going to teach on at 3 o'clock you're stuck in a place and you can't get out of where you are and so what do you do you've walked as a Christian and somehow you embrace this idea that I've been a Christian so long I shouldn't be stuck and so what it needs to do he he just he could not humble himself he could not meant that in all of his former victories and all of his present pomp and circumstance that he needed God just the way he did when he began there's something in all of us that when we're successful to a measure we we start actually fighting against the Holy Spirit instead of moving with God the way we did in the early years we start wanting to take over we start wanting to chart our own course and to guide our own paths and we we lose out with God and we don't even know we are but God in His mercy God in His mercy if you're here today and you just know pastor you're just you've been you've been in my apartment in the closet you've been listening to my prayers you've been listening my my murmurings if you're not even praying but listening to your murmurings you've been listening to my complaint I am stuck I can't go forward and I should know better I've been a Christian for so long and why am I in this place and why these old sins trying to visit my life again and why am i fighting the way I'm fighting I remember the days of old I remember when I first came I knew this marvelous victory and and now the only song I can sing is in church on Sunday morning my my worship through the week is gone i I just grown on the subway I don't praise God on the subway I've grown I've grown all the way to work I grown all over looking for work and I grow all the way home and I've lost I'm stuck I can't move I can't go forward and that's exactly what happened to this king in the 39th year of his reign now we know we know that all things that God allows have a divine purpose we know that this man didn't have to be diseased in his feet but God allowed it to him to tell him ASA you're on a pathway that is a pathway of weakness you're gonna bring weakness not into your own life only but those who follow you and but he would not seek the Lord how tragic that's a constant prayer of my life now I pray it every day God helped me to finish well don't let me grow cold and following it don't don't let don't let me read your word out of road let this book live in my heart don't let me get bored with your presence deliver me God from that which seems to afflict so many when they get older and so verse 14 is the fitting end to this King it says they buried him in his own tomb which he made for himself in the City of David and they laid him in the bed which was filled with spices and various ingredients prepared in a mixture of ointments and they made a very great burning for him so there he is ASA dead but smelling so sweet that's where he ended you know a lot of people in church end up like that especially dead but smells so sweet instead of rags we now have suits nice clothes instead of looking like a mess where at least a little better than we used to look and we've got our language is all right where we know how to say praise the Lord when we come to church and we slow everything down and we become nice and Sunday morning most become nice except those who lose their seats they have a tendency to please bear with me if you're willing not and we we look so pretty you go to a lot of churches across the nation even some in this one look everybody looks so pretty but they're so dead just laying in a tomb they built for themselves surrounded with sweetness everybody sweet but dead and that's where ASA was at the end of his life and it's a picture that should scare us he made the tomb for himself the scripture says he made his own grave if people who will not crowd to God make their own grave churches that have no there's a lot of sweet-smelling churches in America that can't even we've got we've got a young team of people out on the streets administrating the street gangs and they've got 256 conversions in one week but we have a lot of church is filled with people with knowledge a lot more knowledge a lot more experience and they look so sweet and they smell so good but there's no life that can be an effective city block God for bid you see the point I'm trying to make is right in the beginning David said I will praise you with my whole heart before the gods I will sing praises to you in verse three says in the day when I cried out you answered me and made me bold with strength in my soul and that's that's the whole message God's put on my heart in the day when I cried out you answered me and that's what made David a man after God's heart because he didn't cry out just one time he cried out all of his days all of his life he was not too proud to recognize that without God he had nothing and with God he had everything there is a huge difference that's why I said all the kings of the earth will praise you O God when they hear the words of your mouth they will sing of your ways o Lord for great is the glory of the Lord though the Lord is on high yet it regards the lowly I think they put the proud he knows from afar David said though I walk in the midst of trouble you will revive me you will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies and your right hand will save me in the day when I cried oh I pray with all my heart that in this church we never become too proud to cry out to the Lord we never get to be a people who just love to look sweet and smell sweet but we're willing to sit in our own grave there was a man called Lazarus back in scriptural history who died and he was surrounded because that's how they buried people he was surrounded by sweet-smelling spices but the the Bible says that his stance rose above the sweetness that's when you know you can live again when you can't cover yourself in sweetness anymore when that man or woman stands and says I I stink I stink in my suit i stinking my pretty dress I'm tired of it and I'm tired of surrounding myself with with an appearance of life I'm tired of the struggle I'm tired of the bat I'm tired I'm tired and I'm tired of living like this I don't want to live like this anymore if I'm gonna live for God I'm gonna live for God and suddenly he hears the voice crying up to here Lazarus come to me and you see it if you have a humble heart you will always hear that voice you'll hear it in yours and your victory times you'll hear it in your defeat at times you'll hear it when you're strong you'll hear it when you're confused you'll hear that voice of Christ calling your names and just come to me just move towards me not to the physicians not to the Treasury not to human effort just get up and move towards me Lazarus and I have to believe in my heart that there had to be something in that man I don't I don't know the fullness of where he was but I do know he could hear the voice of God calling him I don't know what's I don't know in Scripture doesn't record what is the first thing that came out of his mouth it's only conjecture on my part but I feel in my heart that laying there surrounded with all these sweet spices yet his own stench was rising above it nobody else but him knew it don't forget there was a stone rolled over that door so nobody else would know but him he's all covered up all wrapped up all made to smell sweet and everybody outside has an opinion but the only one who really knows what it really smells like is him the only one who could really get fed up with that condition of death is Lazarus himself and I happen to believe that's just a conjecture it's not written in Scripture but I feel the first thing out of his mouth was Jesus you've come you come to me you're not it's not too late it's not over I'm not finished I'm not dead I'm going to live I'm going to sit at the table with you I'm going to be a testimony of who you are people are going to come to you because of me because I dead and now I'm alive again David said though I walk in the midst of trouble you will revive me you'll stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies and your right head will save me the Lord will perfect that which concerns me your mercy O Lord endures forever do not forsake the works of your hands you will revive me you see the kingdom of God is for the humble though the Lord is high he regards the lowly but the proud he knows from afar don't forget his eyes are scanning who was fed up living in death who was tired of trying to escape bondage in their own strength who has had enough of just being spiritually dead when we know that that's not what we're supposed to be who was fed up with human effort trying to produce what only God can produce who's tired of the facade of smelling sweet on Sunday morning and stinking the rest of the week you see revival won't come without a cry we are asking the Lord to send an awakening to our cities to our country perhaps the last day move of the Spirit of God but there will never be an awakening without humility there will never be an answer that touches our generation without a cry there will never be a living testimony of God without a people to recognize I need a living testimony of God my testimony has got to be about him not about me that's what the Lord is waiting for now we can't come to him presenting ourselves as any kind of a reason why he should bless the nation we come to him with truth would come to him in honesty we come to him saying this is what I am and I'm not willing to play the game anymore I want to be a Christian who has the resurrection life of God but the center core might be in I want it to be his victory on my lips not my own his righteousness not mine I want a testimony of him of Jesus Christ that can stir the hearts of my generation again there has to be a cry I want to give an altar call this morning for people who are just whatever it is your trouble is David said though I walk in the midst of trouble you will revive me you will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies and your right hand will save me I want to give an altar call for people they're just willing to say I can't do this anymore and I'm not willing to play the game I'm not willing to pretend there's victory I have been offered life resurrection life abundant life and eternal life that is my inheritance and I am completely unwilling to settle for less it could be a struggle in your marriage it could be a struggle that you have ethical e in the workplace it could be an addiction that's in your life that you've hidden could be secret alcoholism in your life it could be drug addiction it could be pornography you're just simply saying I'm not willing to play the game anymore I'm not willing to make my own grave and lie in it in the house of God Jesus I'll call to you if you're calling to me I'll call back to you and I'm going to trust you for victory and freedom in life I tell you if we if we inherited the full victory that's ours in this sanctuary today they'll be dancing in the streets I'm not I'm not I'm not overstating anything you'd walk out of this house if you're fully comprehended the depth of the victory that is yours you'd be dancing in the streets people would be coming to Christ by the dozens there'd be a song a testimony a life a joy a vision in your eye that can only come from God but first it means that we come out of our graves first it means we leave behind that which is dead and we move towards that which is life and we have the humility to admit it it doesn't matter how long we've walked with God even just lethargy spiritual lethargy is just as much of a grave as anything else just a boring just bored with the things of God you don't want to go to hell but you don't have enough courage to really live for heaven it's a bad place to be but today you hear something you just hear if I have been faithful to what God has put on my heart you have heard Jesus calling your name you've heard him his eyes have scanned this room and he's seen you and scanned you on the internet he's seen you and wants to give you life wants to win victories that could only be attributed to him wants to give you peace ASA had peace until he's walking in the flesh then he had wars the rest of his life there's peace to those who walk in the spirit and we're gonna stand in a moment and if you would just like to come to this altar and call out the Christ - Jesus Christ Jesus help me I'm gonna invite you to do so in the annex in North Jersey here in the main sanctuary let's stand together and if we're gonna worship for a few minutes and as we do just come just unashamedly come wherever you are just come as you are you'll never have it all together just slip out just do it now don't wait don't try to reason yourself out of a victory just slip out you having a hard time to be a father a husband you're having a hard time to be a wife a mother you're having a hard time to speak truth you're a coward when it comes to Christian things you're whatever it is whatever it is whatever your trouble is just come just come we're living in the last moments of time folks just come just slip out of wherever you are don't play any games with God you don't have to play games with God just slip out and we're gonna pray and we're gonna believe God for an incredible victory here this morning in Jesus name you know when you read that scripture that says the eyes of the Lord scan to and fro throughout the earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are loyal towards him it doesn't mean that you're you're walking perfectly the way you should it means that you have not forgotten the source of your strength that's who he wants to show himself strong towards that I recognize that my Redemption my life the breaking of the chains of my past my present my future and my hope for tomorrow is all in you Jesus I'm not going to be disloyal to that you you died because I needed to save you you live because I needed Redeemer this is I'm not going to be disloyal and move away and start trying to resolve this in my own strength and David said in the day of my trouble I cried and he heard me and delivered me and so I can't I can't pray this prayer for you I can't lead you and this prayer it has to come from you everyone who's responded whether you're physically here are you responded in your heart today you know exactly what it is you need to pray so I'm going to ask you ivory we're gonna sing that song softly and as we do you are my hope you are my strength you are everything to me I want you to lift your voice in a cry now cry doesn't mean you have to shout a cry is something that comes from inside it's like Oh God god help me that's a cry God delivered me God strengthened me I can't get out of this and myself I I can't do this without you cry can be a whisper it's good it's got nothing to do with our how we do it can be as loud as that it can be as soft as this gentleman here but I want you to lift your voice now just for the next few moments just lift your voice to God everyone here just lift your voice to God whatever it is that you need you recognize it all comes from him just lift your voice to the Lord now just lift your voice to go don't be ashamed there's no shame in this God gives grace to the humble there's no shame in lifting your voice and declaring your need don't worry about it let's lift your voice to God now father in Jesus name God we ask you to draw us again all of us Lord you told the Church of Ephesus that they had done many things right but they had lost their first love I pray God that you put that burning passion for you in each of our hearts again the willingness to let you speak the willingness to move in the direction you call us give us the grace Lord to put away our own definition of what life should be and to follow you father thank you lord god help your people across this nation now across the city lord help all of us God to come back to you again help us Lord to pray the way we need to to live the way only we can with your spirit God we thank you with all of our heart today I thank you for my brothers and sisters that have come forward today Lord you will not you said if if a son asks a father for bread will he give him a stone how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask thank you Lord that your eyes have seen many in this sanctuary today looking for help and hope and strength for the future the Lord you have not disappointed us you cannot be anything other than who you are you are faithful bless you this day God guide us and guard us now we ask it in Jesus name

Channel: Times Square Church

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Length: 45min 54sec (2754 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 01 2016