This sermon is entitled When a Man of God Looses his Faith by David Wilkerson, the title on youtube is to show the big picture of the story of King Asa, that we may learn from his failure not to do like him.
please open your Bible to second
chronicles 14 and leave it open on your
lap please don’t race the head trying to
find my message you won’t find it I have
to show it to you
second chronicles 14th chapter and just
leave it open on your lap my message
today when a man of God loses his faith
when a man of God loses his faith now
there’s a story in this chapter the
chills me to the bone chills me to the
bone it shaken me to the core of my soul
it’s a story of a very godly righteous
man who lost this faith after many
faithful years of ministry to the Lord
a man mighty in God who lost his faith
in his final days now Paul the Apostles
write that these stories were recorded
in the Bible for our learning and they
are examples for us who live at the end
of time the scripture says then we had
better take heed to what we hear and I
have taken heed to what I’ve heard from
the Holy Spirit and I speak having
trembled at the word God has given to me
this morning
his name is King ASA and he started out
right the scripture says look at verse 2
chapter 14 verse 2 neza did that which
was good and right in the eyes of the
Lord his God in the eyes of the Lord his
God now here’s the mark of a truly godly
holy man he understands that he lives he
walks he moves under the very eyes of an
all-seeing God that there can be
absolutely nothing hidden in his life
there can be no flirtation with sin
there can be nothing that is unlike the
honor of Jesus Christ the honor of the
Lord God to whom he search there can be
nothing because he understands as David
did the Lord in heaven his eyelids trier
test the children of men I exist that I
will walk righteous Oliver clean and
holy life because I know his eyes are on
me every hour of the day that there’s no
to hide there’s nothing in me that I do
in the matter of iniquity that can be
hidden from the Almighty eyes of the
Lord
for his eyes are upon the ways of man he
sees all his goings there is no darkness
no shadow of death where the workers of
iniquity may hide themselves there is no
place that a man of God or a woman of
God who whats be used of God can hide
sin there can be no dark place there can
be nothing that book the life has to be
an open book and this is what Isaiah it
says of him he was did right in the eyes
of God
this sense this constant knowledge that
God is looking at me God sees everything
I do as a new that God brings to light
the hidden things of darkness and
exposes the counsels of the heart he
knows that there’s nothing hidden from
the eyes of him with whom we have to do
now this man knew he was called by God
to a special ministry to a backslidden
church of backslidden people he’s a
young man when he comes to power the
scripture says he made a decision
somewhere in his young life he made a
decision that he would be a seeker after
God now I believe that this young man
studied the life of his
great-grandfather Solomon because they
had the Chronicles at the time and I’ve
read this young man because it’s
apparent he said it’s hard to seek God
and a seeking heart will always bill I
was called to preach when I was 8 years
old and my dad my father’s preaching my
grandfather and I was always a trig by
the work I heard of God in the life of
my grandfather I picked up everything I
could and I know in my heart that ASA
studied from The Chronicles the stories
of his his great-grandfather Solomon he
heard of his wisdom he read his proverbs
and he heard and read of the majestic
way that he approached the Holy of
Holies and the majesty the all and the
respect and the honor he read of the
blessings of God of this man how the
whole world came to hear his wisdom
I’m sure he was deeply moved by the
stories of his great-grandfather and he
read what his grand great-grandfather
had written lust not after a strange
woman you’ll be taking fire in your
bosom whoever commits adultery destroys
his own soul an adult will bring on
himself dishonor shame reproach and
poverty his reproach will never be taken
away her steps the adulterous steps lead
straight to hell he read this and then
he learned that his great-grandfather’s
own lust for strange and different women
cost him everything and that his
reproach was still there written in the
pages of the Chronicles he’s the man who
said your reproach will never be removed
if you give yourself to fornication and
you give your body over to lust into
adultery and you flirt and play with
these things his old great-grandfather
said that a man the wisest man who have
lived on the earth other than Jesus
Christ preached this powerful message
yet himself in his last days lost his
faith lost his touch of God and lost his
anointing cost him everything his
approach was still with him a total loss
of confidence in God turned to idolatry
Asia must have wondered how could a man
who starts so right and has such an
anointing in his life how is it possible
that such a spiritual heritage a clear
revelation such gifts in a man how could
he blow it at the end what happened to
my great-grandfather who ends up his
life saying it was all vanity vexation
it all had no meaning and I know that
gripped him he says I don’t want to be
that man I’m not going to weigh my
great-grandfather went he also knew what
happened to his own grandfather oh ho ho
The Chronicle said of him he did evil
because he prepared not his heart to
seek the Lord and he saw the results of
not seeking God
scripture said revolve had war
continually all the days of his life
there was no divine order his whole
family everything in the kingdom
everything he touched everything he did
was wrong there is no divine order
there’s nothing but turmoil because he
would not become a seeker of God he was
not a man of prayer at the same time
this young man had the good example of a
bye to his father he had to have been
there with his father when eight hundred
thousand Israelites declared war and
King against him against Judah and
stirred this small army of Abijah his
father his father was a praying man a
man who sought God his mother
maja was absence daughter she was born
and raised in an adulterous rebellious
home and she was an idol worshiper but
his father was a righteous man and he
was down to mountaintop when the
Israelites came around an ambushment
from behind and he heard his own father
say In God We Trust the battle is the
Lord’s we have sought the Lord and He
alone is our captain those are the very
words that he heard and something
happened this young man’s life he said I
give my life to God I’m going to be a
prayer warrior I’m going to be a man of
Prayer I’m going to seek God the rest of
my life and he said his heart to seek
God because they relied on the Lord God
of their fathers God delivered them so
AZ comes to the throne having three
great lessons that before his heart
first of all that good and holy man who
overcome by their lust good and holy men
who give themselves to fornication
adultery end up ruined loss of God’s
presence and anointing they end up
miserable failures they lose their faith
secondly men who do not set their hearts
to pray and seek God in
everything end up with no peace they end
up with war on all side turmoil in every
walk of life no divine order in their
lives or their homes thirdly he learned
that the secret to having God’s favor
the secret to victory over all the
powers of hell is simple and available
to anyone who desires it and that is
simply to see God with everything that
is in you he said I will seek God with
all that is in my heart he commands
Judah to seek the Lord God of your
father’s and then his own testimony was
this because we have sought the Lord our
God we have sought him he has given us
rest on every side so they built and
prospered because we have sought God he
himself has put everything order in
order when he prayed God spoke to him
about his own mother who was queen that
she had an idol on a hillside he went
and destroyed and stamped out that Idol
and took her away from the Queen ship
and sent her aside
he loved herbage that you no longer
Queen you have my daughter tree in your
heart because when you pray God
straightens out your home God
straightens out your business he
straightens out everything does a divine
order that comes to the church that
comes to the home when you seek in the
face of Almighty God divine order
because we sought the Lord he’s given us
rest on every side and they built and
prospered but praying man godly man
those who seek God with all their heart
are not immune to attack from the enemy
and an enemy attacks Rises against this
godly man the largest invading army
recorded in history the largest in
history a million man army of Ethiopians
come against him 300 iron chariots the
battle was said in the Great Valley and
the Bible says in verse 10 he went out
against him he went out against this
army
when we tell you something he had no of
Asia had no other war plan but to pray
and seek God none whatsoever
look at chapter 14 verse 11 beginning to
read it verse 11 and ayzik cry verse 10
the nation went out against him they set
the battle away in the valley as if a
thought and Morasca and ASA cried unto
the Lord his God has said Lord it is
nothing with thee to help whether with
many or with them who have no power
help us O Lord our God for we rest on
thee and in thy name will go against
this multitude o Lord thou art our God
let not man prevail against thee till
the Lord smote the Ethiopians before
Asia and before Judah and Ethiopians
fled no other plan no other strategy but
then to seek the face of God now where
did this man get this the spirit of rest
that was upon him he went into this
battle without turmoil he faced this
Bible said he rested in the Lord there
was a calm there was a peace where did
he get it he said his heart to seek the
Lord he was a man of prayer and folks he
did it in the time when God said there’s
no war there there was peace in the land
that was prosperity they were building
everything was peaceful there was no
emergency
there was no crisis Oh many many of
God’s people pray in crises every time
trouble comes I run to the secret place
and cry out to God that’s fine
God did that that’s that’s all in good
order but folks the man who really wins
the battle the man who’s ready to face
anything that the devil throws out of
hell is the man or woman in which
studying God when there’s no crisis when
everything is well when there seems to
be blessing and prosperity that man is
diligent before God and seeks
face and that’s what Asia did he sought
the Lord with all of his heart and then
we under hilltop and he sees a million
man army he is not powered a praying man
is his bold as a lion there’s no demon
or no devil in hell that will scare him
if he’s praying in faith so the Lord
smote Ethiopians before Asia and they
returned to Jerusalem with great spoil
and as he’s marching toward Jerusalem
God sends a prophet out dinner cept him
now why would God send a prophet with a
warning to manage this one the greatest
victory in his career in his life
everybody shouting they’re praising the
Lord they’re giving God glory even aces
praising God because he trusted the Lord
and because he trusted God gave him the
victory but here comes a prophet and
stands before him face to face with the
loving warning the other Bible said of
Jerusalem of Israel Jerusalem waxed fat
grew prosperous and forgot God hey God
understands the danger those who love
Him those who are holy those who are
gone to the danger of becoming weary and
relaxing and becoming spiritually lazy
after the greatest victories my dad
taught me that when I was a teenager he
said when you go out you preach and God
blesses you and you see soul saved watch
out
you’re the most dangerous place you can
be after your greatest victories azor I
as the Prophet comes to him and says
look at chapter 15
first one the Spirit of God came upon
Azariah the son of Odin see they’re not
coming into Jerusalem with this great
spoil in bounty after victory the Spirit
of God comes on
Azariah the son of it obut Oh Deb and he
went out to meet ASA it said unto me
hear ye me ASA and all Judah and
Benjamin the Lord is with you while you
be with him if you seek him he will be
found of you but if you forsake him he
will forsake you now listen why would
God send a man with that message to a
godly praying man because God for Saul
what was going to happen in this man’s
heart he foresaw that this man in his
blessings in his prosperity would wane
in his love that some pride would arise
in him confidence in his own flesh he
would leave the secret closet he would
try to ride the crest of his reputation
as a praying godly man and he would lose
the anointing and eventually lose his
faith and the Lord knew that potential
the Lord force all the danger lay ahead
and he comes to him loved and he said
now look agent you’ve come this far by
faith you come by you’ve come this far
by staying on your face before God you
bring everything to God
you’ve brought everything to prayer and
you trusted the Lord and because of that
you’re blessed and he is saying you know
if you’ll continue in this path if
you’ll continue being a seeker after God
if you’ll stay on your knees God will
continue to bless you you’ll have his
favor
you have divine order in your home and
in your kingdom and in your life but if
you neglect it if you go the way
Jerusalem is gone over its past history
if you go like your grand
great-grandfather and your grandfather
if you turn your back and stop
seeking my face I’m going to lift my
hand I’ll lift my favorite and that that
word for sake means to relinquish to let
go
he said if you let go of me if you no
longer cleave to me if you no longer
trust me with everything that is in you
then he said I’ll have to let go in the
way of favor and blessing and anointing
upon your life he goes on for long
season Israel has been without the true
God without a teaching priest without
law but when they and their trouble did
turn unto the Lord God of Israel taught
them he was found of them he said AZ
check your chronicles shift from the
very beginning every time people had
their homes messed up every time there
were problems every time the enemy tried
to come and destroy the plan of God if
they would fall on their face and return
to the secret calls it if they would
learn to call on me once again I was
found of them every time not one time
did I fail to respond to those who set
their hearts to seek me look at history
in those times there was no peace team
that went out nor did that came in but
great vexation were palmed inhabitants
of the country’s nation was destroyed of
nation city of City for God did vex them
with iversity so be strong therefore let
not your hands be weak for your work
shall be rewarded
what do you think heesu I bring a word
from God’s throne to you be diligent now
be diligent more than you verb you’re
going to need God more than you’ve ever
needed in that you’ve had a great
victory God has blessed youth God has
rescued so but now you’re going to need
it you’re going to be tested like you’ve
never been tested in your life now God
wants to reward you’ve got his plans for
you but be careful as you get so busy
unless you get to building it into
projects unless you’re family unless
your ministry
lest other things come in and track you
and take your time the anointing will
left the favor will left the divine
order will be gone and you’ll just be
like every other generation that is
failed lost their faith
but when they in their trouble did turn
of the Lord God of Israel saw him he was
found of them if you’d have gone to Asia
after this and said ASA what’s the
secret of your blessing and favorite God
god’s favours on you folks you couldn’t
tell when god’s got his hand on somebody
you see the favor of God you see yes
many of the flicks of the righteous but
you see God God stop every war there’s a
war but God brings the war to a
conclusion God by His grace brings mercy
and blessing he brings strength to take
till a hold of the promises of God to
seidman through their toughness and
roughness times and those Wars cease he
make it all worse deceased many the
frictions of the righteous but God
delivers them out of them all there’s a
difference in you concede the divine
order you to asking where where did this
divine order came from he would tell he
wouldn’t point to his half million man
army he wouldn’t point to all in
buildings he’d built in all the walls he
built and all of the inventions that he
had invented he would point to any of
that or of his own ability he would say
the secret is I go to my closet and I
pray I seek God and in prayer he tells
me what to do where to go and he gives
me promises so there is no other secret
than that
I hear talk nowadays of church growth
we’ve got armies of young expert joining
all over the world with their charts on
how to bring people into the house of
God and some say y’all you’ve got to
have flags and March down with flags and
wave the flags and and all kinds of
charts and skills on how to be people
friendly and bringing the people without
offending them most of that is
nauseating to the heart of God let me
tell you something you show me a pastor
or pastors you show me Sunday School
teachers workers Christian workers car
members whoever it may be
usually those who have a call of God in
their heart
shut in with God daily diligent and
fervour and prayer permanent prayer and
I’ll show you a place of attraction I’ll
show you a place I’ll show you true
biblical growth verse 9 chapter 15 and
he gathered all Judah and Benjamin
strangers with him out of he frame and
Manasseh and came out and out of Simeon
and they fell to him out of Israel in
abundance when they saw that the Lord is
God was with them so they gathered
themselves together Jerusalem in third
month listen what it says they fell out
to him this man of Prayer this man who
spoke because he came from the throne
there fell out the vision and abundance
when they saw that the Lord his God was
with him it was not great preaching
there was no threat there was no army
trying to gather them but there was a
fire burning at Jerusalem at the throne
there was a man of prayer and people
came from all over best in Israel to be
a part that what God was doing in
Jerusalem because God was moving by his
spirit because there was a man on his
face
and because it set the example all of
Israel had called for a covenant and
they coveted to seek God with all of the
heart the Bible says they entered into a
covenant to seek the Lord God of their
fathers with all their heart and with
all their soul and they sought him with
their whole desire and he was found of
them and the Lord gave them rest
roundabout and everybody came said when
you walk into Jerusalem now you feel the
Spirit of God there is rest of there’s
peace in the land nobody is fighting
there’s unity there is joy in the land
why because they had set their hearts
their whole soul in their mind to seek
God folks just one thing to seek God
when we have some body trying to build
50 stories over us yes that’s a crisis
and that’s we need to lay hold of God
this one thing to pray when there’s
there’s sickness or disease it strikes
your family or an accident in trouble
yes that’s fine but what God desires
more than anything and I think what
blesses the heart of God in heaven is
that those in their good times when all
is well they’re not parked in front of a
television set watching some filth they
are not foolishly laughing at some
program they are taking special loving
time alone with God they’re praying for
their families building up faith for the
hour of tribulation they’re seeking the
face of God and God is bringing divine
order on all sides and they know the
secret of it and there’s I’m not gonna
let go of it I know why God’s blessing
me I know why there’s peace in my home I
know why God’s blessing my Mary’s I know
what’s happening I talked to a bastard
too many months ago whose family was in
great turmoil he was told and I heard it
told to him if you’ll seek God with all
your heart you’ll get ahold of God by
faith now and pray this thing God will
put your family and order God will heal
your marriage and that pastor began to
pray and see God God began to melt all
of his family he started a healing
process but it blew up in this case
and in a conversation with me not too
long ago I said I I can tell you what
happened and I said you know it let me
tell you what happened you got too busy
you saw God moving and used to God you
were praying to a secret garden God was
healing God was doing a miracle in your
family in your home and you got too busy
you don’t pray you don’t read your Bible
and see God anymore he said that’s right
and he said because I haven’t sick I
haven’t been seeking God I end up
blaming God for my problems and because
I’m not seeking God and blaming God and
I’ve opened my heart to temptations that
I’ve never experienced in years and it
goes down and down and down because in
no longer seeking the face of God
every time I got to preach for
conference I am asked to preach about
marriage because many ministers
marriages the families are there in
great trouble there’s divorce there’s
turmoil in so many Minister homes now
and I’m asked to preach on it I don’t
have I’ve thought that I don’t have a
special message God has people who God
uses specifically for that and it’s
their calling I don’t have a special
message for ministers and they keep
asking I’m sorry I don’t have one but
let me tell you something I know one
thing sir if your family your pastor
your Minister your Christian worker and
your family is in trouble if you’re not
a praying man no amount of preaching no
amount of teaching no amount of
counseling nothing going to get through
you nothing going to do the job until
you yourself get on your face before
gotten ahold of heaven all my preaching
I can preach the most powerful message
God can ever give a man on earth
how about marriage and how to get your
marriage healed but if that husband and
wife not willing to go home and turn off
the television or take some godly
precious time alone with God and pray in
faith and take authority over the devil
in their home no amount of preaching
no matter streaming from the pulpit is
going to change anything this godly man
who started out so right ended up losing
his faith in God’s favor and his
anointing he’d been warned by Azariah
that the height of his blessing Efrain
just defeated the world’s largest army
having spent years seeking God years of
doing only what God had told him to do
it was then that God had warned him
let’s skip now from this great battle in
this test where he comes home with
Azariah says rice prophesized to him if
you seek him he’ll he’ll stay with you
if you forsake him you’ll forsake you
and for a season he had such hatred for
sin there was a genuine revival in the
land but somewhere along the line
something happened in this man’s life we
skipped to the 36th year of his reign
he’s now in his mid-60s according to it
as best I can tell from those who search
out these things as it is earlier in mid
60s the 36 year of his reign and another
enemy rises against Judah but 15 years
have gone by since the great revival
since the warning from the Prophet and
now the king of Israel comes and just
five Muslim Jerusalem in Roma he sets up
he takes the city captures it and
fortifies it to stop the trade caravans
coming and going to Jerusalem trying to
cut off all trade and it was a threat to
the survival of Judah
Jerusalem this man who at one time would
never make a move without seeking God
this man who was so godly had such faith
in the Lord looks at this enemy at his
gate he doesn’t even counsel with the
Lord this time doesn’t even go to the
Lord not one mention of prayer was
seeking the face of God we find him now
setting out his own plan
he goes into the temple and he strips at
all of its gold and silver he goes to
the princess and says I want your gold
and silver I want all the riches you
have any gathers together a hoard of
silver and gold and he sends an
ambassador to the king of Syria this is
Israel’s deadliest enemy enemy God hated
the very enemy that God was now planning
to destroy God had a plan to end once
and for all the invasions of Israel and
Syria against Judah God had a plan in
place you’ll see it revealed by a
prophet another prophet that comes to
him then he sends his ambassador and he
bribes the king of Syria he said I want
you to go against Israel declare war on
them I want my city back and here’s
bribery this kind of bribery is skillful
political maneuvering succeeds his real
abandons the city stops his declaration
of war against Judah and against Asia
the nazar sits back and he feels quite
comfortable what he has done he didn’t
need God this time he had his own plan
but God was incensed God was totally
displeased because he had not trusted in
the Lord his God chapter 16 please verse
7 you see he’s just succeeded in his
plan and at that time and any the seer
of the Prophet came to ASA king of Judah
and said unto him because that was
relied on the king of
Syria and not relied on the LORD thy God
therefore is the host of the king of
Syria escaped out of thine hand
we’re not the Ethiopians and the lupins
a huge host with very many chariots and
horsemen yet because thou didst rely on
the Lord he delivered them into thine
hand for the eyes of the Lord run to and
fro throughout the whole earth to show
himself strong in the behalf of those
whose heart is perfect that means
cleaving toward him the heart that
Cleaves to him
herein thou has done foolishly therefore
from henceforth thou shalt have warts
look at me please God sends a prophet
said you’ve played the fool and look at
the next verse then a said verse 10 ASA
was rocked with the seer and put him in
a prison house and he was in a rage with
him because of this thing and a zapped
race oppressed some of the people at the
same time now I want you to listen very
very closely I think of George Miller
great men of faith England it was – it
was he was not an ordained minister but
God put it on his heart to care for
orphans and through this prayer alone
through nothing but prayer this man
prayed daily he said the secret of his
ministry was that he sought God daily
with all his heart and he determined to
have a conscience clear of offense
toward God man and clear conscience and
stay on my knees and he raised up
orphanages that cared for more than
2,000 orphans at a time and when he’s 70
years of age God came to George Mueller
and said you’ve been a man of prayer but
now I want you to pray more than you’ve
ever prayed because I’ve got something
else I’ve got something for your last
days that you couldn’t conceive I want
you to go all over the world and set
pastor soles on fire it’s 70 years of
AIDS this man renewed
his prayer life this man thought God he
never saw him and I want you to know if
you know the story of George Miller even
at 95 he was still preaching he traveled
for 25 years around the world and
stirred and changed the lives of
thousands of Ministers because he stayed
on his face he didn’t miss out he didn’t
lose his faith it moves his anointing
because he stayed on his face before God
and yet I can tell you the story after
story of men of God who been used to had
anointing who were blessed of God were
men of prayer who are prophets and in
their older age in their mid-60s and in
their seventies and I’ve been with some
of them and all I hear are stories of
old-time religion or old revivals and
there’s no new word because the man is
sitting in front of a TV set now he’s
not on his face mean yet he wants to be
respected for what he was and what he
had and all I hear is something in the
past he doesn’t set my soul on fire but
when a man comes to this pulpit or any
pulpit and I’m sitting in the
congregation and this should be true of
every one of us when a man has been
siding with God you’ll know he’s been
with Jesus and that be something touch
your heart before you walk out but not
so with this man he’d lost his faith he
was no longer a man of Prayer and now
he’s doing his own thing his own way
trying to work out his problems by
himself here inversed
Danny’s in a rage a prophet came to him
and said because you’ve relied on the
flesh you’re not a man of prayer anymore
and you were warned now you’re going to
have nothing but turmoil the rest of
your life why is he in a rage why did he
throw the Prophet in jail why did he
start oppressing the godly people who
are shocked at this
I tell you why he’s in a rage they’re
standing before him as a man who
represents everything he once was
they’re standing before him as a mirror
here’s a man who is very consciously and
evidently been shut in with God because
he speaks the howl of God and it so
strikes him and it so angers him because
he remembers what God told him he
remembered how he walked just like this
man said to her one day a little
preacher hood committed adultery God had
lifted anointing he was in poverty
everything in his life messed up his
home his life is everything in a mess
and his only thought is counting the
days till he died the young minister
came to me once he said brother Dave I
don’t know what to do he had moved into
the city and just overnight built a
great Church and in that city was an
older man in his sixties a man who in
that same city years ago had been such a
man of Prayer and raised up a great
church himself
this man had power and authority with
God he was known and loved to respect it
all of the city because it was a man of
prayer and faith with God but over the
years he got so busy in his own affairs
he got so busy in his own projects no
longer son God he stood in the pulpit
with borrowed messages we get something
from a book and stand and delivered to
the people this young man movie said
Pastor Dave I got a problem
I love this man I’ve respected and loved
him for years but now he is angry at me
there’s a bitterness toward me and I
don’t under
and why and I told them I said I’ll tell
you why because this you’re representing
everything that this man had it’s
everything he lost and you have it now
because you stayed on your knees this
young man I’m talking about is a man of
Prayer he’s a man of diligent prayer and
seeking the face of God he was a
strongest
praying young men I know I had a chance
to speak to that pastor God gave me a
few hours with him we’re walking the
street and I’ve never heard such
harshness in my life
he said bless God my church know she was
on who’s boss in our place I’m the boss
he said anybody want to cross me I show
him the door you see that’s what happens
when you don’t see God there’s a
meanness there’s a self-pity you see
this this man was hit whole time was
giving me advice how to pass the times
for church because you see he wanted me
to look at him as the man he was he
wanted me to listen to the wisdom he
once had he wants to change me and
affect my life because once he had
something that would work but now all I
hear is noise all I hear is something I
have to buy here this mean as I hear
this cruelty and I told that young man I
said just love him and pray for him and
folks you know what they pastor the last
thing he said he said I can’t wait til I
retire and I thought to myself Lord Rush
today
there’s four people the poor people that
sit under that backslidden days of
ministry and aids in the 39th verse 12
Reina vis his reign was diseased in his
feet his disease was exceeding great yet
in his disease he sought not the Lord
but to the physicians now this man spent
his last two years and nothing but pain
and agony he had the disease in his feet
we don’t know what it is now this is not
an indictment against doctors what the
real indictment is here is that in that
time in the Eastern culture the doctors
primarily were nothing but mystics and
charmers who use potions and
enchantments from the devil there’s
nothing – all you have to do is read as
far as it says and he’s not not the Lord
stop right there you don’t have to go
any further you know what’s his heart is
forget the doctor it’s nondating against
doctors God gives doctors wisdom we have
godly doctors in this house
god bless every one of them I know that
every doctors in this house you know
that you can’t do anything God does all
the healing our true doctor knows it God
does the healing he thought not the Lord
in his last days now I started this
message by saying that this story chills
me to the bone
and I’ll tell you why before I closed
because I remember his call in my life
I remember how my father taught me to
pray I remember my teenage years when I
sought God and the glory God would come
upon me I would roll under the bed and
the glory of the Lord would come upon me
sometimes when I was a teenager I
couldn’t even get up off my back
I remember before I came to New York
City pastoring little country church and
I remember just a handful of people Lord
said if you’ll seek me there’ll be no
room to seat the people and I saw within
five years at Tel Aviv I would brother
at that time or Roberts is the only one
television
and I had a television program covering
good part of eastern United States and I
was 25 years old that was a man of
Prayer and I saw people line up to get
in the church talking logic act if it
where Souls being saved and I’ve known
the glower in the power of the favor of
God and the divine order that goes with
it but I’ve also known what it’s like to
grow lazy and slip away from the secret
closet I began to make my own plans and
watch everything go awry watch
everything go wrong watch everything
step out of order this fall out of place
it’s your God what’s going on try to set
up fires here and try to put out a fire
here try to deal with this this Miss
contended person here and deal with a
rebellious child here I’ve known what
that’s like I’ve known what it’s like to
almost lose my minister because I didn’t
seek God like I once did and I know what
it was like to spend a whole year before
I came to New York City before this
church was established I knew it was
like for a whole year to be so in prayer
with God so in tune with him I’d go out
in the woods and preach to the trees I
would fall on the grass I remember
people come to my house and spear God
with columbic why because I’ve been in
prayer
I’ve been stinking his face the Spirit
of God fall right in front of company
and they thought I was crazy and I
remember one day the Holy Ghost coming
down upon me and saying go to New York
and I remember those times of prayer and
there’s no gun if you raise up a church
here it’s got to be a house of prayer
and God said it can’t be a house of
prayer unless you set an example I’m not
telling you that all the 14 years I’ve
been here that I’ve been
that man of Prayer and I ought to be but
I do know that God’s been gracious to me
and he keeps calling me back and I fare
you been on my face said God I am NOT
going to let by your grace I don’t ever
want my children to have the grief of
seeing their father in his 70s just
about six weeks I’m going to be 70 years
old I don’t want my children my
grandchildren who love to hear me pray
and love to hear the voice of God
through my lips I don’t ever want my
children to see the grief and shame of
me sitting in front of a television all
day never opening my Bible not seeking
God saying what happened to dad let me
ask you is a church you’ve heard me
preach somebody been here with me for
years how would you feel you picture me
no longer passing the church because I
got discouraged because I wasn’t on my
knees I just got discouraged because
that’s what happened to get discouraged
and you see me walking the street here
one day you know I still say but there’s
no anointing you see a downcast man
because not been on space before God and
you turn to somebody he used to be our
pastor no no no no I see God and you
need to pray for me you need to pray for
every pastor of this church God keep us
humble keep us booked and before God
keep us on our face God keep me Brooke
keep this charge broken God don’t let us
sit back on a crest of blessing and get
lazy and see this order come again to
this house we take authority in Jesus
name over that spirit of laziness my God
my God we don’t want to stand and
sermonizing this pulpit we don’t just
want crowds we want your glory in this
house of God we want your glory of your
power for God a Kimball at your word
let us tremble this morning that is
possible for countrymen and godly women
who once prayed who was that such an
anointing if I who lose it
god help us help us in this day of
temptation when all hell is breaking
loose god help us determine I will seek
God I’ll be seek God with all my heart
and all my soul and all my strength and
all that’s in me will you stand
there’s something between you and the
Lord get to this altar right now let’s
get out of your seat there’s something
standing between you and your freedom
and prayer something blocking your
prayer life if you have backslidden if
you’re not right with Jesus come if God
speaking to you right now saying there’s
disorder in my family there’s disorder
in my home I have not been seeking God
and I want you to get up you’re seeking
come and then the annex we just go
forward between the screens please
please don’t block the screen but just
go forward between the screens I’d like
to pray with you that God set your soul
on fire again and renew you you’re
backslidden if you don’t know Jesus come
with these that are coming up in the
balcony go the stairs and come down any
aisle and Indy an X in the overflow
rooms will you please just step out of
the crowd just go forward I’ll pray for
you we believe the Lord together now an
awakening don’t be afraid to cry in his
presence let those tears wash away all
apathy listen very closely I’m not
trying to pump up some kind of a prayer
zeal here that just suddenly spurts and
then burns out what God’s after is
something that you do alone in the
secret closet it’s personal private
prayer and when you have that personal
private time in your daily seek in the
face of God your seeker after God when
you come to this house no one has to
pump you up to praise God no one has to
create anything you bring with you the
Spirit of the Living God you begin to
see you won’t have to have a counselor
you won’t have to run to a pastor to try
to solve your problems you’ll be
solving them on your face before God
it’s a decision that you make now now
folks
it’s not going to be made through just
tears thank God for tears not they’ll be
made by just raised in your hands and
and saying something has to be that you
set your heart right now by the power of
the Holy Ghost all over in the in the
annex wherever you stand all over this
house everyone who calls yourself by the
name of the Lord
examine your heart right now tell me
have you been on your face have you
given God time every day now you seeking
Him at all are you crying out to him are
you calling him out are you naming your
children are you naming the by name same
God keeping from the wicked one are you
praying for your husband wife or your
marriage you you’re praying for the
church are you praying and seeking God
that he’ll give you revelations and self
are you’re seeking Him you know the
truth is truth is that probably the
great majority who are listening to
minal are not praying except in church
you’re not seeking God I’m not going to
charge you but I stand as in the role of
a prophet now as sure as two prophets
were sent the King ASA here’s your
prophetic word from heaven if you seek
me you’ll find me if you continue
forsaking me I will forsake you that
doesn’t mean he first six his love he’ll
never stop showing his face but he’ll
show you his back his face will always
be towards you but you’ll see the back
and that simply means I wait for you to
come receive all that I have for you and
I can’t do it till you open your heart
it’s in that secret place where you open
your heart to God when you begin to seek
him he’ll tell you how to get power over
your sin he will tell you where to go
and what to do that’s still small
boys will come but you have to say it’s
not something you say well and have been
some of you you’ve set your heart at
other times and you walked away Asia
Asia Asia could have repented dis like
David did when the Prophet come he could
have repentance I’ve sinned against God
and David went on to his greatest
victories Asia could have gone out still
on the blow and he he missed it because
the Prophet was saying you just missed
it ASA God was going to destroy all of
Syria and Israel combined there was
going to be a war it all been planned
and you aborted God’s plan now I’m going
to tell you some gut as a plan for your
life God is something wonderful in store
for you if you’ll seek him but you can
abort that you can change all of that
like ASA did God had wonderful plan and
that’s why ASA got so mad he knew he
blew the plan of God God was saying this
deserves I destroyed that million man
army I’m a I was working on plans for
your life
I was working on a war plan there’s a
story Syria and folks God has a plan
he’s working on you can’t see it I tell
you if you knew what God had in store
for you if you seek Him you’d be so
rejoiced that you couldn’t contain
yourself right now there would be such
joy and faith lies up in your heart the
good things God has I know God’s
promised me some wonderful things from
my last days I know that he’s gonna let
me play at least a part in what he’s
doing here and a part in preaching to
pastors around the world I know what he
told me he wants to do through my life
but that’s not going to happen if I
don’t seek Him
I can abort that whole plan and end up
in disaster and ruin right now you set
your heart you don’t need to scream at
him but I think this whole congregation
everybody that hears me needs to do that
we just just flipped your hands this
lift your hands in front of you if you
want to because you may be cried just in
front of you even pray this with me
whole congregation even those that came
forward than in the annex prayed this
with me Jay
this forgive me for neglecting you for
not seeking you with all my heart all my
strength forgive me Lord for having time
for myself for others and not for you
forgive me Lord for thinking that you
were pleased we’re just the things I did
for you and yet I didn’t give you my
heart I’ve not given you my time I
repent forgive me Lord
sorry I truly repent now Holy Spirit
come on me and woo me and call me and
stir me let me not forget this word I’ve
received the word a prophetic word I
take it to heart
cleanse me sanctify me set me free
no God set my house in order set my life
in order and I will seek your face now
just worship Him now I’m telling right
now Lord I worship you and I praise you
Lord I will seek your face I will see
your glory on my life
in my whole my house blessed be the name
of the Lord hallelujah
now folks in this moment this encounter
with the Holy Ghost is by your head and
right now set your heart set your heart
God don’t let anything this day stopped
me from starting this very day to spend
at least a half hour somewhere I find
alone today and Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday Friday Saturday I will take
time I set my heart to take time to seek
you Lord with all my heart