This is a message about how God intends to handle our fear problem. There are four great fears: 1- Fear of survival and poverty, 2- Fear of losing children to sin, 3- Fear of calamity and terror, 4-The lack of political leaders. God never intended for His people to live in fear. God is a God who pleads the cause of His people. He pledges Himself to us and He puts His words in our mouth to destroy the lies of Satan that cause us to fear. This message admonishes us to keep our eyes on His resurrection power and to keep the FACE of JESUS before our eyes all throughout our days.
I’m going to speak this morning on the
cup of trembling now please settle back
and don’t say here comes another you
know if you know me if you’ve been to
this church this is your home Church you
know I always end in grace so if you’ll
just bear with me in the first half and
not get scared I’ll show you that this
message is about how God intends to
handle our fear problem first we’ll talk
about the cup what’s in the cup and then
how God intends to remove that from our
lips the cup of trembling with you would
you go to Isaiah 51 please Isaiah 51 I
want you to fall I want to keep your
Bible open on your lap and I want you to
please follow me he addresses Isaiah 51
he says hearken to me he that follow
after righteousness either seek the Lord
now this prophecy is directed to the
church this is to those who seek the
Lord and know righteousness look to the
rock whence you’re kneeling and to the
hole of the pit which you are whence
your dig now once you go if with me to
verse 9 awake awake put on strength of
arm of the Lord the wake is in the
ancient days and the generation of old
are you not him that have cut Rahab and
wounded the dragon
in other words aren’t you this speaking
of Egypt and Pharaoh aren’t you the one
who delivered from the bondage of Egypt
didn’t you deal with Pharaoh and his
forces look at verse 17 if you will
please awake awake
stand up o Jerusalem which is drunk at
the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury
now has drunken the dregs of the cup of
trembling and you’ve rung them out would
you go down to verse 22
thus saith the Lord the Lord now
remember he says it twice thus saith the
Lord the Lord and the God that pleaded
the cause of his people behold I have
taken out of your hand a cup of
trembling even the dregs of the cup of
my fury now shall no more drink it again
I’m going to read to you now from Psalm
75 8 don’t turn there but listen for in
the hand of the Lord there’s a cup and
the wine is red it’s full of mixture and
he pours out the same but the dregs
thereof all the wicked of the earth
shall wring them out and drink them the
cup of trembling heavenly father over
twenty years I stood in this pulpit and
prophesied when you told me to and I
have done it with brokenness and I’ve
done it with obedience and you have
never failed me and you have spoken the
word and now Lord we look at what is
happening in the nation’s today and we
see it all coming to pass it’s unfolding
before our eyes and Lord you have placed
in the hand of this generation a cup of
trembling and we see the nation’s
tremble but Lord you said we God’s
servants we who know righteousness we
who walk in the fear of God or not to
drink from that cup Lord we will see and
we will understand what the prophets
said in that cup and Holy Spirit I step
aside and ask you to take control of
this voice in my heart and the message
that it does not fall to the ground but
in it Lord we remember that you have
lovingly shown us the way you’ve
prepared our hearts now Lord we pray
that we will not tremble when we hear we
will not tremble what we see coming but
we will hear the word of the Lord and we
will allow the Holy Spirit by his own
word but from the very throne of God the
promise I will remove
your lips this cup of trembling in Jesus
name I pray amen
now the prophet Isaiah is saying and
prophesying that a cup of a cup of
trembling will be placed in the hands of
the nation’s and we see that unfolding
before us even now but he is addressing
the people of God those who know the
Lord and those who know writes us as
those who seek the Lord now Isaiah is
the Prophet the one prophet I believe
speaks more to this generation than all
the other prophets Jesus referred to in
Paul referred to him look back nazia
speaks not only to his time but he
speaks to our generation you’ll find it
everywhere you look and I was there I
love to read Isaiah I love the
tenderness of this prophet and I have
learned more about God’s heart through
the Book of Isaiah other than Romans in
the New Testament have learned so much
about the heart of God and this is about
the heart of God the cup of trembling
was put in the hands of the Babylonians
he’s speaking to the children of Israel
who were in captivity of Babylon at the
time it was placed though in the hands
of the PERS and the Assyrians and all
the nations of that time it was that it
was a troubled time it was a chaotic
time in this cup of iniquity every
nation was drinking from it and in this
cup of iniquity
Isaiah outlines he shows us four
mixtures and remember I read from Psalms
that this cup of red intoxicating wine
is a mixture and the prophet Isaiah
outlines he describes four of the
elements that are mixed in this
intoxicating drink that the nations of
the world are drinking then he was not
only speaking to his time but he was
because most of this
some of these prophecies have not been
fulfilled that God’s Isaiah spoke to his
own generation that are now being
fulfilled in detail let me show you the
four great fears that Isaiah’s
generation had to drink and we outlined
them because they mirror the very
mixture that these are the very mixtures
in the cup of trembling facing America
and the whole world today there are four
of these and I when I speak of these
they’re outlined very clear in the
scripture you can get your Bible you can
follow me this is not a prophecy that I
got in a dream or a vision this is
nothing that came from the flesh its
outline clearly in the prophet Isaiah
here the fifty first hop to our fear
number one in this mixture a daily
personal fear of losing everything and
there were a fear of survival because of
the world conditions because of the
chaos all about him verse 13 you feared
continually every day because of the
fury of the oppressor as if he was ready
to destroy and further on you fear you
will fall into a pit of poverty and the
to bread is going to fail that’s what it
means in the original Hebrew there was a
fear that came upon the people now want
you to know God’s people were sharing
this fear he’s talking he’s speaking
directly to God’s people
these were praying people these were
righteous people these are those of
their seeking God but it was such a time
when there was such a fear and there
were so many chaotic troubling signs and
things that are coming their speed there
they were they were acknowledging
evidently by rumors were coming that the
Persians were coming the persons were
going to eventually bring babbling down
and there was fear they they had
remembered the loss of their houses some
of them were children when they were
driven out of Jerusalem and
lost homes and lands and possessions and
were homeless and even now in the 42nd
chapter of Isaiah he said many of you
living in prison houses and and holes
and in caves and he’s living under
bondage you’re living under fear this
was the first fear the the the fear am I
going to survive what is happening with
everything around seems to be falling
there was ruling on all sides and there
are warnings and there are fears men’s
hearts failing them for fear how am I
going to survive how are we how our
family the fear of survival is the first
element a intoxication in this cup of
trembling let’s go on to the second one
the fear of losing their children to the
Babylonian system and you’ll find that
in verse 20 the sons have fainted they
lie at the head of all the streets now
this was an overwhelming fear if you’re
a parent you know something of this fear
their children were becoming senseless
to God forgetting their heritage
fainting on the streets and God had
allowed this in the cup of iniquity in a
cup of trembling because of the idolatry
and sensuality of that generation and
these in other words they were
Israelites and now in the Babylonian
system and their children were fainting
on the streets the children of the
ungodly of course hardened but now this
great fear of losing their children to
sin losing their children to a
Babylonian system their children would
wind up on the streets is what it means
the third drink
the third mixture in the cup frightful
calamities and terror on all side
terrorism verse 19 these two things have
come upon you who shall be sorry for you
desolation destruction famine the sword
terrorism terrorism
now Isaiah doesn’t give us a hint he
doesn’t list in detail what those
calamities were but folks if you know
history if you’ll read I I’ve spent
weeks even on on the study of the
conditions and going back to the
commentaries and what history books I
can find in my library and it was a very
very desolate time full of destruction
on also personal crises and personal
anxieties and the fourth thing in the
cup and I want you to listen very
closely there was no more leadership
there were no leaders there were no
guides there were no princes there was
no one to lead and guide it was a
leaderless times there were false
prophets that were gaining personal gain
saying there’s going to be peace when
prosper and prosperity right in the face
right in the middle of all the chaos
these voices rise that was peace it’s
going to pass quickly and it’s it’s it’s
nothing don’t don’t don’t even concern
yourself there were no leaders there
there was nobody to guide them verse
eighteen there’s none to guide her among
all the sons that she’s brought forth
neither is there any that taketh her by
the hand and all the sons that she has
brought forth there’s no political
leader they are leaderless now these are
the four mixtures mentioned in the 51st
chapter of Isaiah and then if you look
at verse nine the ninth verse God in the
midst of all this a cry comes up from
the people of God there were there was a
remnant in babblin who had not given
into the spirit of the age there was a
remnant that was seeking God but you see
it was a remnant that who was walking in
fear drinking out of this cup that was
meant for the nation’s it’s a mixture of
why and the Lord said the wicked shall
drink of it it’s it is the nation’s it
is God keeping his word it’s gone
not doing everything he said he would do
everything all the warnings everything
that God has ever said there’s nothing
new to this and and God’s people are
waking up every day and and listen to
what they said verse 9 for I’ve read
read verse 9 with me if you will please
you I hope you have your Bible open
they’re awake
I’ll read it you don’t have to repeat
it’s clear enough awake awake now these
are God’s people these are the righteous
people in Mississippi chaos awake awake
and put on strength o arm of the Lord
awake as in the ancient days in the
generation of old look at verse 10 argue
not it which has dried the sea in the
waters of the great deep that have made
the depths of the sea away for the ramps
of the Passover God wake up this is an
accusatory prayer God wake up as if God
were asleep God has already promised
them his arm is not short his arm
reaches out that he never sleeps
he doesn’t slumber and to this God they
had preached and preached who he wasn’t
and proclaimed his everlasting
outstretched arm and they had been told
they could read it in the scriptures
that they were under the arms and under
the wings of the everlasting and they
come to this God that they had
proclaimed oh you’re the god of ancient
miracles you opened the Red Sea you see
we’re just like that we have a gospel of
the path we can we can stand on the Pope
and preach marvelous sermons oh we talk
about how Jesus fed the multitudes and
raised the dead but when it comes to our
everyday life when it comes to believing
God for the next paycheck when the bleed
when the doubts and fears come moving in
about mortgages and my children and all
these things you see we we start
drinking from the cup fear anxiety
despair
err worry fret they said they look back
and they could preach this wonderful
thing and they’re telling God how good
he was in the past and basically that
that’s what that’s what I have been
guilty of too you know in my own life
talking and preaching I’ll come up in
this pulpit or wherever I’m preaching
and talk about this god of the past this
is God thank God for the god of the past
but if he’s the God of the past of the
god of miracles if he raised the dead
then certainly he can take care of you
today the cup of trembling it was put in
the hands by AJ’s generation is the same
cup that’s been placed in the hands of
this generation I want to show you I’m
going to go over these four mixtures and
you tell me whether or not this is what
our nation is drinking and what the
nations of the world are drinking right
now tell me if this is not the cup of
Anna the cup of trembling for our
generation I’ll just hold on the same
fear of survival number one we’re facing
the worst housing crisis since the Great
Depression in 1930s and the next year
and a half a million half people they
sing will will lose their houses in the
past month January 50% in American
people quit shopping suddenly 50% nobody
told him to it was something
supernatural that just happened
you see I picked up my book this past
week that I wrote in 2001 after 9/11
about the Holocaust that economic
Holocaust coming to America for which I
was mocked and ridiculed even by those
that were Pentecostal
and I was reading this past week is a
warning there the biggest problem that
would be terrorism but it’s going to be
housing collapse and the bond market
says the bond market because the those
who insure our bonds these are municipal
bonds for cities and states the bond
insurers China last week bailed out one
of our largest insurers before they went
bankrupt this week and if they’d gone
bankrupt this place would be shaken but
that’s the next shoe that’s dropping
very suddenly shortly China just build
us up
China has put 650 billion dollars into
our banking system it’s short recently
just to save our banking system folks
when you know the Bible when you know
the Word of God you know exactly where
we’re at let I’m not trying to scare
anybody but in Deuteronomy the 28th
chapter now hear this
now if you say this should not be done
just let it happen I don’t want to hear
it
I’m going someplace with this and if you
lived in Christ days and you heard Jesus
say to his church into the city of
Jerusalem he said not too long from that
that temple you see that Golden Temple
there won’t be one stone left another
than that and you see there’s walls that
protect you they’re all coming down and
he he was trying to warn of a million
people are going to die a million people
are going to die in just not too many
years but some 30 35 years and folks
God’s people we’re not big nerd of the
devices of Satan but let me show you the
Word of God and you put this together
with me
Deuteronomy don’t turn there please God
said through Moses if if a nation if
this nation and any nation will honor me
honor my word and just turn from their
iniquity but honor my word and obey my
word let me show you what God said what
happened
I’ll set you above all the other nations
I’ll bless you and overtake our blessed
blessings will overtake you their
enemies will be defeated before your
eyes the Lord will open to you his good
treasure you shall lend to Nations and
you shall not borrow you shall be the
head and not to tell now let me show you
what God said and it’s here and I don’t
understand why it’s not being preached
God says now let me tell you what
happens to nations when you deny my word
and put me out of your society let me
tell you what’s going to happen
he said you lose control of your
children verse 20 32 and 28 nations
shall turn against you despise you
strangers and foreigners in your midst
are going to be lifted high and you’ll
be brought down low and think of the
American dollar strangers shall lend to
you you shall not lend anymore to him
they shall be the head you become the
tail your lenders are going to put upon
your neck is they’re going to put a rout
a net around your neck and you will not
know it you see in just the lesson 50
years America has gone from the greatest
lending nation we lend to the world and
foreign aid and we have become now the
world’s largest debtor we have disbarred
in the past three years three trillion
dollars and our nation is bankrupt
now folks that that’s not the scary disc
I meant nobody trying to scare you but
and here’s what the script here’s what
the prophet said would happen it’s
happening before our eyes this is number
two you face the desolation famines and
terrorism in the cup of trembling 50,000
I just heard on their radios fifty
thousand a month of dying in Congo from
starvation
ethnic cleansing in Sudan is depleting
displaced 300,000 if you’re from Africa
God put us give us a broken heart chad
is in civil war kenya is being
terrorized we were there a year ago in
nairobi and i walked those slums half of
which have been burned to the ground our
art we support an orphanage in nairobi
kenya skids and they have taken in 200
of those kids in that slum that are
homeless that’s all they can handle
a year ago in our meeting almost every
tribe ethnic tribe was represented the
Spirit of God came down there was a
warning
in fact our ministry financed what they
called unity meetings two bishops from
different tribes going around calling
all the tribes and all the churches
together to pray for unity you see God
God is faithful he always warns he
prepares his people and we’re in daily
contact by email for our context in
Nairobi in all through Kenya and the
Christians those that are living in this
term wall and in this God is providing
God is God is keeping them and they’re
caring for one another there’s a
spiritual awakening God is doing
miracles right in the middle of it
because you see when these things shake
everything shakes God begins to move in
and say now will you listen to me now
can I get through to you and he’s doing
just that
Nigeria is headed for civil war there’s
no question that Nigeria the world is
the third in the cup of trembling is the
loss of children our college campuses
have become direct they’re drowning in
alcohol and drugs I don’t know if you
heard this news story a college campus
was concerned about a helicopter kept
flying over
I don’t know what is two or three days
or a week
a father who feared for his daughter had
hired a helicopter to supposedly rescue
her his daughter in that college if
there were breakout of violence hired a
helicopter because of the fear the
shootings and those things that are
happening on our college campuses
crystal meth is sweeping the world now
and it these crystal meth sir in garages
and all over the United States I had a
call from a young person that was on
crystal meth and I was told by this
young person going to commit suicide
that night and this is what I heard the
past today we’ve you ever heard of
chasing the dragon I said yes but said
that that’s from crystal meth because
when I’ve been on all the drugs had been
heroin and cocaine but when I took
crystal meth it was like 1,000 shots
1,000 shots of cocaine mr. Northup okay
folks this is the fear that’s sweeping
America and if you’re not careful it’s
going to get into your heart and it will
overwhelm you you’ll drink the dregs you
see it so it is a parent as a
grandparent now I have grandchildren
that are in school I have two grandsons
in one school and it sits in a pretty
nice neighborhood and they tell me you
there’s hardly anybody in the junior
senior class doesn’t smoke pot and in
the drinking and in the drugs and even
our kids here in Times Square Church how
many will tell you how difficult
it is go Church and fine I go to school
find anybody who knows God anybody who
who really knows Jesus and how hard and
how difficult it is and you have to send
children out and grandchildren out into
this world and I get letters from all
over the United States and parents and
grandparents they said this is one of
the greatest fears and it’s something
they have to fight every day they send
them out to school and know the kids are
going into a an atmosphere of pot and
drinking and sex and and folks yes
there’s a cup of trembling in let me let
me race through this so I can get to the
promise part and believe me there is
let’s talk about leadership let’s talk
about this fourth element of the cup
there was no leadership now we’re in
election year and we hear the same
promises being made that have been made
to regeneration oh I agree for all the
college kids and young people today now
folks I’m not I right now if I had to go
into voting booth and vote I would write
Jesus on the I can’t see one that I
would vote for
but you see how much I want you to
whether a Democrat or a puppet they
don’t have a clue they don’t know what
to do with the economy they don’t know
what to do with the health care they
don’t know what to do with anything it’s
far beyond them there is no more
leadership there is no prince
there is no politician there is no
president I pray for President Bush but
I think he just waiting to get to his
farm and I say that in love I think he
said oh I hope I can lay this burden
down in fact I who wants to be
listen to what the scripture says let’s
go to the word if you will please
he said there’s not any among you let me
find the scripture on that please there
is none verse 18 there is none to guide
her among all sons whom she’s brought
forth none to take her by the hand
there’s this this there’s no one there
taken by the hand in fact I said he
talks about the sons of the church also
there’s not one of the sons of the
church there’s there’s nobody the claims
to be a part of the church that is
standing up and have the answers tell me
any politician any man any woman on the
face of the earth right now that has the
answers and said no you know you see
everyone with we’ve got sons of the
church they’ll call we’ve got a Mormon
claims the BA son of the church we’ve
got a Baptist preacher who is a son of
the church the church the modern church
the the denominational setup and then
we’ve got Obama Doug as also a son of
the church Christ Church I think in
Chicago and Hillary Clinton carries your
Bible they all carry their Bibles
they all love to mention Jesus once in a
while claiming to be sons of the church
young people don’t don’t care who you
who you see it who you’re getting
excited by don’t get your expectations
very high there’s no leadership only
King Jesus only the Savior only God can
do this there’s no other hope there’s no
other answer but you see God comes back
these people who are praying and saying
oh god awake rouse yourself awake where
is your strong arm God comes back he
comes back and if in Isaiah 51 go to
verse 17 awake awake
stand up Jerusalem now when verse 9
awake awake that’s God people trying to
wake God up God comes right back said no
no wait a minute you wake up you wake up
you stand up Oh Jerusalem which a drunk
of the hand of the Lord the cup of his
fury that was drunken the dregs of the
cup of trembling and wringing them out
you see there’s some people I know and
this is a fact they they have drunken so
much from the cup of trembling that
they’ve drunken the very drugs mean they
have drunk it dry that means that they
have they say I can’t handle one more
problem I can’t handle one more fear
message I cannot handle on another
problem because I’m going to break that
it’s it’s far as I’m concerned I I have
heard even ministers say I’m at the
brink of just walking away from
everything and there are some of you
listening to me right now you’ve been
drinking the cup even to the dregs
you’re drinking until it’s dry and you
see I can’t there’s nothing more I can
take
I have taken all I can take and drinking
the very dregs
of this cup God says no you stand up now
God has made a provision and I want you
go now
I said 20 verse 21 therefore now hear
this you who are afflicted and drunken
but not with wine saith the Lord you
notice he he calls himself to God who
pleads the cause of his people God says
no I am not asleep
I’m the same God who opened the Red Sea
I’m the God who raises the dead and he
says now I want you that I’ve made
provision for you to never again drink
from the cup of trembling this was not
meant for you God never intended his
people live in fear and bondage no
matter how the conditions are no matter
what happens in our personal lives in
the nation or in the world god never
intended his people to live in fear
Luke 1st chapter it says he was going to
come and deliver us from from fear who
all our lifetime
and he says to live without fear all of
our lifetime
now there will be pangs of fear there
will be those sudden things that come on
us and in the natural we fear but folks
with what is coming in the days of head
it can’t be just coming to church and
getting pumped up with the faith message
you and I are all going to have to have
something of faith in us by which we
stand if we have to stand alone where
there was no preacher you don’t I got a
letter from somebody this past week and
and they said Pastor Dave the last few
months your sermons are all repetitious
it sounds like you’re trying to pump
people’s faith don’t your readers know
their Bibles and you see thank God that
we can encourage you that’s why we come
to the house of God we hear the word and
we’re encouraged because God has given
according to Paul the Apostle major
faith to all of us but that faith has to
be expanded it has to be fed it has to
be nerve
and that is from reading the book this
this book that he’s provided for us he
said faith comes by hearing and hearing
by the Word of God and he says to Israel
I put my words in your mouth and I’ve
made a covenant pledge to you that I
will keep you I have pledged myself I am
your God I am this I am NOT I am he says
it twice I am I am is going to deliver
you I put my words in your mouth
he has made a everlasting covenant
behold I’ve taken out of your hand
verse 22 I have taken out of your hand a
cup of trembling even the Tuaregs of the
cup of my fury thou shalt drink it no
more what is this saying
God’s not just going to come down
supernaturally inside in the remove all
the fear out of our hearts now folks I’m
preaching this because I ask God to give
me something to keep me now yes I’m
concerned about his church but what
right do I have to come and preach until
I’ve learned something that works in my
own life I have no right to preach it
unless God has worked it into my very
being and that it’s working and I put it
on trial networks folks you get up every
day and you lay hold of two or three
promises of his keeping grace you lay
hold of those and you get up every day
and the Lord says I’ll wake up through
some standup that’s what Paul Paul says
all through his epistles stand up be of
good courage and he’s saying to those
facing hard and difficult times those
who who took joyfully the spoiling of
their goods folks I’m telling you you’ve
heard it from all these pastors every
pastor Carter I have never became to be
a prophet but I know how God has
instructed me it’s just two or three
minutes here before I close let me tell
you
I see God instructed me has instructed
me to keep my eyes on the resurrection
of Jesus Christ that’s how Paul survived
that’s how his he brought the church
through those days keep your eye on the
resurrection power of the Living God as
if as it is saying to us if you can see
that power that resurrection power what
can he do when you’re in a condition
that looks hopeless like it’s death
there’s no hope keep your eye on the
resurrection and then secondly and this
if you’re going to live as Jesus lived
and do as he did as were instructed in
the word acts 2:25 you have to turn
there
I foresaw the Lord always before my face
for he is on my right hand that I should
not be removed said I keep the face of
Jesus before my eyes all day I keep my
face on him to wake up in the morning to
wake up each day and the cloud is there
the news is worse than ever but in the
midst of all to say I have committed
everything live or die I am the Lord’s
and and to go into Psalm 34 and just
start quoting those to yourself and to
God and to the devil especially and say
no no no live or die
he says he’s put his word in me I have
the word I have an anchor and I’m not
going to be shaking I’m going to keep my
eyes focused on Jesus and folks that’s
that’s what are you going to have if
someday for a season and it’ll come for
a season that not be able to get to a
house of God wherever it may be and and
you were there with your family do you
will you trust him you say I don’t know
well folks that’s what the Holy Ghost is
for it’s to ask the Holy Ghost – it
enable you in to strengthen you we say
this we preach it over in a hundred
different ways but it always comes back
to the same thing seek God keep the face
of Jesus before you every day and when
the fear is common those stand up and
and proclaim not just read it but
proclaim it say it out loud proclaim it
proclaim it in your family proclaim it
wherever you go I’m proclaiming it right
now the God who’s kept every generation
is going to keep me and my family and
his church going to keep him by his
wonderful matchless grace and the good
news the really good news is that’s when
God starts moving in miraculous ways to
save the backslidden to save those and
all of those who have fallen away the
great in gathering before the Angels
come to harvest the harvest when they
come and gather the Saints of God
together they’re going to be multitudes
and it’s going to be an exciting day
folks I’m not scared
I I think it’s going to be them exciting
days the Church of Jesus Christ has ever
known and you’re going to get excited
because you’re going to win more Souls
than you’ve ever won in times of
prosperity
I want you to turn to eyes closing I
want you to turn to Isaiah 40 fortieth
chapter of Isaiah I want you to stand
with your Bibles open
I thank God for all the all the new
interpretations and the Bible
I’m just so I don’t know I’m stuck on
King James so if if you have a King
James you read along and if you have
another interpretation where you just
mumble it well because the words won’t
match at the it’s not a matter that he’s
not in the same font are you let’s start
reading aloud
I didn’t God’s a put my word in your
mouth
I would rather you take this to heart
than to shout for the next hour without
the basis if you take this this will be
something that will strengthen and hold
you let’s start reading at verse 26 can
you read it in King James out loud lift
up your eyes on high and behold who had
created these things that bringeth out
their hosts by number he called them all
names of the greatness of his might that
he is strong in power not one faileth
let’s say a thou okay Kip and speaker
though Israel my way is hid from the
Lord my judgment is passed over from my
God as thou not known as thou not heard
that the everlasting God the Lord the
creator of the ends of the earth
faints not neither is weary there’s no
search of his understanding he gives
power to the faint to them that have no
might he increases strength even the you
shall faint and be weary young men shall
utterly fall but they that wait upon the
Lord shall renew their strength they
shall mount up with wings as ingles they
shall run and not be weary they shall
walk and not faint glow
maybe to god’s holy word we honor your
word to God of everlasting salvation
hallelujah praise You Jesus Lord be to
God I heard pastor Carter not too long
ago I know if he said it to me privately
or whether it’s public and he said I’m
falling so much in love with the word
that’s what it’s going to take falling
in love with this again and everything
it comes up just run to the arms of
Jesus I keep him ever before my face
that means running to his arms
hallelujah
Church don’t be afraid there’s nothing
that can take away this hope even so
come Lord Jesus come quickly
we’ll review to God hallelujah now I was
praying about what kind of invitation I
should give here this morning and Holy
Spirit whispered to my heart that there
are some of you that under the same
spirit that they were under it during
Isaiah’s time there was a spirit of fear
that had come they were seekers of God
they knew righteousness but it means
that when they prayed they were not
praying in faith and their prayer was
riggity God where are you
aren’t you answering God why are you
asleep David prayed that is it God why
do you sleep why don’t you hear when I
pray and it’s a spirit and there’s a
spirit of fear that’s in the land
because of this cup of trembling and if
you’re here this morning in the balcony
here in the main floor and you have
you’ve been fighting fear that it’s
getting ahold if if you don’t reach out
now and that time of fear and say God I
want deliverance I don’t want to carry
this spirit of fear that spirit can be
cast out
that spirit of fear can be overcome by
faith and by the but by the word of the
Living God if you’re here with a spirit
of failure just you wake up every day
it’s there it’s I don’t maybe moved even
into depression because of it God
doesn’t want you to go out of this
church this morning bound by fear if you
don’t know Christ you come with them if
you backslidden if you’ve turned away
from the Lord if you’re not seeking God
anymore and and God is distr in your
heart a little bit this morning you feel
a tinge or a tug of the Holy Spirit
you can come come and stand here the
front we’re going to pray I’m going to
ask God to break this spirit of this is
a bondage fear has torment it can
torment you and perfect love cast out
that fear I want you to step out of your
seat come into the front and pray and
we’ll pray with you and believe the Lord
otherwise this remain in your seat but
only those who who are moved upon by the
Holy Spirit to answer what I’ve just
said along with your fasting and long
with our fasting and praying and it
wherever I met when this starts as
fasting I’m fasting and I feel this very
strongly along with that would you make
it an effort to read the entire Book of
Psalms in the next 30 days the entire
book and get your pen or pencil and mark
it mark it well if you have a Bible you
don’t like to mark it’s probably one
that you should give away and get
another
right I’m not trying to be facetious but
read the Book of Psalms read it and get
grounded in the word because of what is
coming now thanks the Bible says now it
would be so easy and we don’t do this in
this church we don’t manipulate crowd
never would be so easy to say let’s just
get our hands out and let’s just clap
our hands and try to get herself in a
trusting mood that won’t work
Bible said in peace and quiet shall be
your strength because you’ve taken a
stand
you’ve committed everything to God I’ve
got some things I’m facing in my family
with sickness and things I have I just
have to commit I’ve committed no matter
what happens lord knows I have committed
I did that with my granddaughter when
she was 12 years and dying brain cancer
I later in God’s hands and said you’re
going to do what is right and I’m
telling you and hear this pastor well
God put it my heart to come here and
help and found this church and I’m
telling you you’ve been hearing it from
this pulpit there’s times scary and
they’re going to get far far worse than
we could imagine but he said that
there’s going to be peace in your soul
if you are grounded in this word and
that that’s this fasting and praying and
seeking the face of God but there has to
be faith in our praying has to be faith
in our fasting and believe that and I
have committed and I want you that have
come forward and everybody that’s here
in my voice
make a commitment God would not ask us
to do something was not within our power
to do especially with the help of the
Holy Spirit
faith is available your major faith can
grow now if you will water it and bless
until you’re going to be able to stand
and you’ll be able to turn to a fearful
wife or fearful husband or feel fearful
children and say no we’re not going to
we’re not going to fear in this
household we’re gonna believe God’s Word
and God you see we want details God tell
me how you’re going to do it how am I
going to pay bill how am I gonna do how
if we want to plan God says I’m going to
tell you how I got million ways you
couldn’t conceive I got ways you know
nothing about I can keep you I can I’m
going to put a roof over your head I’m
going to put food in your stomach you
will not go naked folks what more could
we ask because we have that and we have
eternal life and we have a walk with
Jesus that nobody can touch glory be to
the Living God
now let’s believe God to cast out this
spirit of fear from all of our hearts
and make a commitment that you will get
into the word of the Lord along with
your keep your regular schedule Bible
reading but go through the Book of
Psalms until you’ve marked every chapter
every single chapter apply it if you see
some verse just say me me others that’s
for me I don’t care what your code is
get a code and codify your whole Book of
Psalms where be to God I think I have
every word in the Psalms underlined just
about every word
my kids are fighting to get my Bible
when I die this I’m not boasting I’m
saying that’s how God’s kept me and
never failed me we’d been through three
recessions I have ministered through
three recessions and I’ve seen God keep
his people through every one of them
I’ve seen God keep his people
hallelujah
would you lift your hands Lord and I’m
asking everyone has their hands lifted
that you will erase every cloud every
cloud of fear and doubt and unbelief I
come against the spirit of fear and
bondage God says who are you that would
fear man who are you you’re my son
you’re my daughter why are you afraid of
man who’s grass why are you afraid
who put this fear in you I have not
given you the spirit of fear but of love
and power and a sound mind so stand up
and believe that God is able now we we
cast off the spirit of fear in the and
necks here in this auditorium we cast it
out in Jesus name Holy Spirit breathe
your breath and blow it away just
breathe your breath right now and come
to believing hearts come to expectant
hearts we are God’s seekers here we are
those who are clothed in the
righteousness of Jesus by faith so Lord
we have nothing to fear nothing to fear
can you say it I have nothing to fear
God has everything under control
will you turn to three or four and just
say that to somebody around you God has
everything under control