a message has been burned in my heart
for a couple weeks in a really
know in my heart that the Lord wants me
to deliver it this morning I didn’t know
who would be here so if you can’t say
that I prepared it for you I had no way
of knowing you would be here I knew a
few of my staff would be here
and few of the regulars but I have no
way of knowing you
would be here so the Lord has prepared
it
a Spirit of Slumber
and it’s
it’s a heavy message but I want you to
know I deliver it in love this morning
I believe that’s the role of a shepherd
to speak
with the authority of the Lord Jesus and
the power of the Holy Spirit
but when the holy spirit gives a message
it’s up to him to make it real to the
heart I can’t do that he he has to do it
we’re going to invite him to do that
right now because unless the word gets
through to some of us this morning we’re
going to fall into the Spirit of Slumber
into a deep sleep and never recover
outside of God’s miracle Grace and his
Sovereign work
there’s some of you sitting here this
morning that need to be awakened you’re
on the verge of falling asleep
you’re in the verge of going into a
spiritual coma from which you may never
recover and it’s a very dangerous thing
there’s a warning in the scripture about
it and we’ve all got to hear it
I have numbers of my staff here and I
invited a lot of my staff to come today
to skip from their church and come not
because I’m directing at them but I want
them to hear
because when I stand before the Judgment
seat I don’t want to have one say that
you didn’t minister to me
and it should never be that you can come
to a service like this and not hear a
clear word from God
and then have to go elsewhere because
something I don’t mean another church
but go to into or call to go into
anything else because you’ve not heard a
clear word from heaven
Heavenly Father make it clear this
morning
I want you to baptize me with love so
that I can Minister this in love and not
Wrath Lord I have no wrath in me I’ve
got your love and yet you said show my
people their sins Lord you said to
minister your word in power and unction
and authority and I can’t do that Lord
that comes from your hand but I pray for
that special Divine Touch from Heaven
Lord you gave me this message and I pray
that you drive it deep into our hearts
don’t let anybody walk out of here this
morning unchanged we’re not here to be
stirred this morning we’re here to be
changed changes from glory to glory to
be more and more like you if there be
any Lord on the verge of slumbering and
sleeping awake us this morning get word
into our hearts awaken us and do
something deep within us oh God I pray
for your touch I pray for that open mind
that you give freedom of the holy spirit
that the word would go forth the
Simplicity and the truth of the spirit
in Jesus name amen
now you won’t be able to farm in your
bobber because I’m going to give you a
lot of scripture and I just weave it
into it so just if you will close your
Bibles for a moment and listen to me
I’ll give you the references and then if
you want more you can call my office and
I can make sure that you get it I’m
going to go through quite a few
scriptures I’m going to begin with
Romans 11 chapter the 7th and 8th verses
Israel hath not obtained that which he
seeketh for but the election hath
obtained it and the rest were blinded as
according according as it is written God
hath given them the Spirit of Slumber
eyes that they should not see and ears
that they should not hear to this very
day then Isaiah 29 10 and 11 for the
Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit
of deep sleep
and hath closed your eyes the Lord hath
poured out you’ve heard of the Holy
Spirit been poured out the Lord hath
poured out upon you the spirit of deep
sleep and God hath closed your eyes the
prophets and your leaders and the seers
hath he covered in other words you don’t
understand your preachers anymore and
the vision of all is become unto you is
the words of a book that’s sealed closed
the book is closed to you now you don’t
hear preachers because I have poured out
upon you a spirit of deep sleep and then
I’ve told you Romans he calls it a
Spirit of Slumber and I think Romans 7
11 7 has got to be one of the most
heartbreaking scriptures in all the
Bible here it is Israel hath not
obtained that which he seeketh for
Israel has not obtained but the election
has obtained it and the rest were all
blinded they were blinded now think of
it an entire race of people spent their
whole lives looking for truth and
satisfaction they were looking for the
rest they were looking for fullness and
they never found it even to this day
there’s only a small remnant of Jews who
believe in Jesus Christ just a handful
of Jews and you know that they found
grace through faith the rest of them
were blinded Paul says emphatically God
has given them the Spirit of Slumber God
has given it to them they’re absolutely
blind and deaf to the gospel there’s not
an evangelist there’s not a teacher on
the face of the Earth it can penetrate
their Darkness not Billy Graham there’s
no Prophet there’s nobody penetrates
that wall that blindness that darkness
that Spirit of Slumber that God has
given to the Jews
and very few are saved and Paul calls
them a Remnant according to the election
of Grace Just A Remnant elected by grace
Paul says this coming a day when all
Israel shall be saved and the deliverer
shall turn away the ungodliness from
Jacob now I don’t understand all of that
but evidently there’s a day coming when
God Will Open the Eyes of the Jew and
they will see the Messiah and suddenly
he who’s been here all the time will be
recognized by them they’re going to see
him whom they’ve pierced and they’re
going to come by way of the cross
but I do know that right now
there is a deep sleep there are Jews
that are dying right now and going to
hell they’re dying in a spiritual coma
there’s a Darkness there’s a blindness
if you ever talk to a precious Jew
have you ever talked to him about Jesus
have you ever tried to show him Jesus
Through Moses if you tried to show him
through the law and if you want Jesus
he’s all through the book and anybody
tells me you don’t see him in the Old
Testament the Old Testament has no
meaning for a day hasn’t seen Jesus yet
in the Old Testament if you see Jesus in
the Old Testament he comes a precious
precious Covenant
they need not die in blindness Paul said
and they also speaking of the blind
slumbering Jew if they also if they
abide not in unbelief shall be grafted
in for God is able to graft them in
again
in other words if they sit in a meeting
like this and hear the gospel and
believe they’re grafted in
the grace is still there the offer is
still there
has it ever amazed you that missionaries
can go to the darkest heathenous
countries in the world in the heart of
Africa and all over the world and preach
the gospel and darkened unbelieving
Heathen suddenly have their eyes open
that they see Jesus they begin to
worship Him and suddenly they receive
him there’s no Slumber there’s no sleep
they receive the Lord gladly
drug addicts alcoholics prostitutes on
the street the street services this
summer we look with forward to his
anticipation because of the hunger
they gladly received the gospel and they
see it you preach it one time to many of
them I see it I want it
Christ has revealed manifest before
their eyes
but that the Jew
on the other hand is still under the
Spirit of Slumber a deep sleep from the
Lord and they understand nothing that is
said or preached about Jesus did God
cast the Jew away did he say uh just uh
arbitrarily I’m going to cut them off
from the vine so that the Gentiles can
be grafted in
were they predestinated to be blind
were they predestinated to be in a
Spirit of Slumber absolutely not Paul
said
he said very clearly because of unbelief
they were broken off
but to Israel he said all day long I
stretched forth my hand to you but you
were disobeding stubborn people
all for years I called and I called and
you turned your back on me said you were
the natural branches
you didn’t attain what you were looking
for
they should have accepted Jesus Christ
because they were his own and he came to
his own and his own received him not
they should be the present-day
evangelists traveling around the world
Jerusalem should be the headquarters of
Christian Christendom right now
Jerusalem should be the capital of the
Christian religion right now the faith
of Jesus Christ would be originating out
of Jerusalem the Jews should be the
greatest evangelist on the face of the
Earth right now one day they will be but
they should be that now but unbelief
cast them off unbelief caused the Spirit
of Slumber from the Lord to be cast upon
them they said this man shall not Reign
Over us we want nothing to do with him
so they hardened their hearts and they
provoked the Holy One of Israel they
tempted God they proved him they saw his
mighty Works yet the Bible said they had
in them an evil heart of unbelief they
wouldn’t accept him
they would not hold on to confidence in
the Lord
they preferred Moses to Christ
not one of them could enter into the
rest they couldn’t find what they were
seeking and God grieved over them
God grieved over his precious people
Paul wrote so we see that they could not
enter in because of unbelief now why is
the Jew blind because of what unbelief
hardened in his unbelief his unbelief
turning into a Spirit of Slumber
God really turning his their hearts over
in their minds to that which was in
their hearts blinding their eyes
but Paul
the think of that that’s a tragedy
millions of spiritually hungry in the
Jewish hungry spiritually hungry star
searching
but they can’t find it the Messiahs come
he’s here in the world he’s alive the
spirit is working
they see nothing it’s like talking to
the wall
you can’t penetrate it there’s this
there’s a slumber it’s a deep sleep
try it go to a precious Jew on the
street and talk to him about your Jesus
you’ll know what I’m talking about
you see Paul was writing this to
Gentiles to Christians his message
really is this don’t say poor blinds
slumbering Jew
so don’t
pity the slumbering Jew
but rather
say poor slumbering Saints
because this is written to Saints this
is written to the Gentile Saints
Paul is warning all of us he said well
in other words that’s fine because all
of unbelief they were broken off that’s
one matter he said Paul said this is one
matter
because of unbelief they were broken off
and you stand by faith you’ve understood
Christ you’ve accepted him haven’t you
at least you’ve made a profession
whether you’re living up to fullness or
not you made a profession you said I
know Jesus
but be not high-minded but fear for if
God spared not the natural branches take
heed lest he spare not you
he said you think you stand be careful
that you’re not cut off like the Jew is
cut off because of unbelief because of
lukewarmness because of rejecting him
Paul even goes further and he warns of
the severity of the Lord God
and in a day when we hear God is love
God is love you’re loved that’s true but
that’s only half the gospel listen to it
behold therefore the goodness and
severity of the Lord the goodness of God
and the severeness of God two sides of
the same coin
I’m glad he sold me his goodness first
you know Paul or Moses made two trips to
the mountain remember he spent 40 days
up there and the first time he came down
with the law his face didn’t shine the
second time he came down his face did
Shine he had to put a veil over his face
because the sinful Jew couldn’t stand
the sight of their Holiness written on
the face of Moses but what caused his
face to shine the law doesn’t make your
face to shine it was because the second
time God hit him in a cliff of a rock
and caused his goodness to pass before
him and he saw the goodness of God and
the goodness of God made his face to
shine
and when you know the goodness of God
you have that shine on your face
but I’m glad I know his goodness and I
also know his severity I know how he
judges I think it was Irene Raven who
said you’ve got to know God’s love but
you also strike when he strikes and
that’s the severity of God listen to it
behold therefore the goodness and
severity of God Romans 11 22 on them
that fell severity but unto thee
goodness if
unto you goodness if you continue in his
goodness otherwise thou shall also be
cut off
we hear so much of this
goodness of God but he’s severe the
scripture says to those who do not
continue in his goodness and Harden
their hearts you know there are people
who preach once in the vine always in
the Vine
that once you’re in you can never be cut
off
well I’ll let the Bible explain now what
does the Bible say the goodness of God
to you you know him you’re in the faith
that’s fine as long as you continue in
that goodness by faith otherwise you’ll
be cut off
oh toward the goodness if thou continue
in his goodness otherwise thou shall be
cut off for if God spared not the
natural branches take heed lest he not
spare you if he wouldn’t spare his own
people the Jew how is he going to spare
an unbelieving faithless Christian
and there are unbelieving faithless
Christians believe me
I wish every drunken Sergeant adulterous
Baptist could hear that this morning
let every lukewarm Pentecostal hear it
and every Playboy Christian take key
lest he spare thee not the Bible says
you know our teams are out Roger’s team
goes out in these small towns in Texas
and down along the border towns and they
go down where the bars are and hold
Street meetings and you see deacons
coming out Baptists Dickens and
Presbyterian deacons and some of them
Pentecostal Deacons
a few of them and they’re coming out of
these bar rooms staggering and they’re
drunk and they’ve got a harlot or
prostitute draped over their arm and
they come up saying praise God
I’m saved just like you are I reckon
myself Dead with Jesus
in a drunken
they’re unbelieving but some preacher
told them that once in Divine always in
divine
no my Bible says take heed lest you be
cut off
if he spared not the natural branches
how is he going to spare you if you’re
unbelieving
they come stumbling down the streets
full of adultery and their eyes are
closed and they’re going to hell in a
deep sleep
last summer in New York four prostitutes
one night came up and they had their
tricks hanging on their arm they all
went to uh once in Divine always in
Divine Church
they’re standing there looking at me and
I’m saying let me pray for you need
Jesus oh we’re saved we’re just as holy
as you are Mr Wilkerson you’re no judge
of us
we are dead in Christ Jesus looks at us
under the blood we are in Christ Jesus
dead to sin and off they walk with their
tricks
they’re sleeping they’re in a deep sleep
there’s no preaching the world can
penetrate that and nobody’s going to get
through to their minds they’re locked
they’re in a deep sleep they’re in a
coma
and I listen to this kind of talk in
fact I when those four harlots said that
I stepped back and I thought oh God how
can anybody say that they’re serving the
lord Jesus when his eyes are too holy to
even look upon evil and here they are
living as prostitutes the tricks right
in front of me bring him right into a
holy ghost meeting
and then I remember
the scripture says that they’ll be under
a strong delusion that they should
believe a lie and they’re fast asleep
they’re fast asleep those prostitutes
were in this Spirit of Slumber this deep
sleep
now folks I’m more concerned about the
deep sleep that’s falling on Believers
in the house of God than any other kind
the parable the ten virgins says they
were all slumbering and sleeping this
suggests the whole church is going to be
asleep when Jesus comes just prior to
his coming into Christ made behold the
bridegroom cometh go out to meet him
they all slumbered and they all slept
and really we are asleep compared to
where we should be in the Lord
when the Midnight Cry was made they all
awoke and they went out to meet the
bridegroom but five of them had lamps
that were going out
and those words send a chill down my
spine lamps going out
lamps going out
lamps that used to burn with holy oil
those that once had an unction and
annoying took a deep love for the Lord
Jesus Christ lamps going out
I’ve been thinking about all week about
that and all the people I knew
who once maybe years ago were so devoted
to Jesus so filled with his love so
filled with the Holy Ghost so on fire
for the Lord they burned and passed into
the Lord nothing else mattered they told
the whole world what Jesus meant to them
you know look at their lives now and I
see them slipping away and I see the
coldness and I see the deadness in them
and I say their lamps are going out and
that really frightens me
a vessel in which there’s no more oil
the anointing is gone
it’s midnight and Jesus is about to come
and there’s a darkness in them there’s
an emptiness the joy is gone the faith
is gone there’s no leading there’s no
convicting of the Holy Ghost In other
words the glory of the Lord is departing
from people just before Jesus comes the
glory of the Lord is departing from
their lives
there are many preachers preaching today
in puppets Across America that don’t
have an ounce of anointing they haven’t
spent an hour in prayer they’ve rushed
from their handball court into the
pulpit and not us they picked up
something from an old message Barrel
from uh their former church not a fresh
word from God and they’re standing In a
Pulpit with lamps going out
our male just cries people from all of
America cry where can we find a church
where there’s something that changes the
heart that warms our soul where it can
be moved closer to the Lord Jesus Christ
and there’s very little of it today in
America because the church is asleep
preachers are used to Thunder with
unction anointing they’re squatting in
front television set with their junk
food getting fat
down at Freddy Garcia’s a couple weeks
ago when I was talking about getting rid
of that Idol and spending more time
seeking the face of God I heard those
dear young preachers stand up preach
like a house of fire and then when they
heard the message come back to me
backstage and talk point to the big
belly and see how I got you know I got
that big belly squatting in front of a
television set three and four hours a
night eating junk food watching every
pitiful thing out of the pits of hell
now I said I wasn’t talking more about
it but I can’t help it
you have any Sunday night in America you
look out and what the Lord must see he
sees millions and millions of your
Saints with the lamps growing up parked
in front of Dynasty in Dallas and
watching the pits of hell and losing the
fire the oil is leaking out of their
vessels evaporating gone
Christians who were once on Fire full of
love and joy looking for his return and
drifting Cold full of Doubt half asleep
yeah
look at these wise virgins the Lambs Are
Burning Brightly
they’re
full of the Holy Ghost Fire and
excitement they’re going out to meet the
bridegroom they’re on their way to the
marriage supper of the Lamb they’re
rejoicing and they’re seeing there’s
fire there’s excitement there’s joy
and then look at these foolish virgins
you can see the sputtering lamp and some
of them already died there may be one or
two Sparks left it’ll sputter and it’ll
go out and they’re trying to protect
that little flame
but they’re running around weeping
saying somebody help me oil I need oil
my lamps going out
that’s why I wanted some of my staff
here
I’m going to tell you even though you
minister with a man who prays
and you hear me bring the word to your
heart
so my own staff I see it the Lambs going
out
you always have to be prodded always
have to be pushed and you keep saying
someday I’m going to read I’m going to
be a student of the Bible someday I’m
going to open that and learn to love it
and see Jesus in it I’m going to grow
and be cleansed by it
but you have time for everything else
but this word
you’d say one day I’m really going to
pray I’m going to lay down every Idol
and I’m going to start cleaving to the
Lord and I know he’s coming soon I’m
going to go out to meet him
but that’s talk
let’s just talk
until you shut everything else down in
life and say I don’t care what it is
nobody nobody can meet me now because
I’m going to shut myself in the secret
closet and I’m going to become a man and
woman of prayer quit talking about it
Saints do it
do it
because there’s danger
that that slumbering
Spirit on you now is going to turn to a
deep sleep
if we really took God in his word we
wouldn’t be lazy and half-hearted
see I don’t fear the devil and all the
Demons of hell as much as I feared God’s
causing a Spirit of Slumber
and no demon in hell can do to me what
God can do to me
there’s no demon in hell that can put me
to sleep
I take it just as it’s written here God
hath given them a Spirit of Slumber
I take it as the Bible says it
God hath given them the Spirit of
Slumber for the Lord hath poured out
upon you the spirit of deep sleep you
are blind your death the word is sealed
up to you now
I remember going to hear
when he first came to America
Reverend Moon
Sun and Moon
and I sat there appalled as he said
I am the Forerunner of the Messiah
and some of you will come to realize one
day that I really am the Messiah
here’s this little ball-headed man
standing up there saying he’s Christ
and I remember what Jesus said many will
come say on Christ and so I go out in
the hall I get up while he was preaching
not in the Hall these nice dressed young
people
very intelligent most of them college
students
and I there were four young people
standing out there by the hall selling
literature and I said come here you hear
what that Korean saying that he’s Christ
you hear it
do you believe it yes sir
get my Bible out and I said look what
this says false Christ
look at me with this dumb look he’s
Christ
he’s Christ nothing I could see they
were sleeping there was a slumber
after sleep
every cult the same thing passed asleep
I refuse to shrug off this awesome
warning to the people of God because
he’s talking to those who are once
believing
but now they’re a rebellious unbelieving
lukewarm
and I’ve seen Christians who are living
under the spell of this deep sleep not
just Moonies but I’ve seen Christians
under the curse of a deep sleep from the
Lord and when that happens
you can sit and Witness
and you can talk
they don’t hear a word
they just I don’t see it
just don’t understand I’m not convicted
I don’t feel anything anymore there’s an
emptiness there’s no Zeal there’s no
fire there’s no commitment they just
coast along you can preach like Paul the
Apostle to them they sit through
precious Bible studies
they can be around Christians who are
growing in the Lord but they’re going
nowhere themselves they simply shrug it
all off they don’t believe it’s
necessary to change anything in their
life they’re not hearing what God is
saying they’ve rejected the Lord so long
they’ve wallowed in fear and unbelief
they have complained and murmured and
griped they’ve lived for themselves for
so long they’re falling into asleep
I’m gonna have somebody come into my
office and spend three hours they say
I’m desperate I’ve got to talk they’ve
got a problem in my life
not go home and honey says you spent
three hours there David you must add
some prayer meeting and said no he
didn’t hear a word I said
shook his hands
brother Jack Rice calls him yes but yes
but yes but yes but
they’re numbed
they go around in a soul sleep
just looking at this scripture
Ephesians 4 18 having the understanding
darkened being alienated from the life
of God to the ignorance that’s in them
because of the blindness in their hearts
who being past feeling have given
themselves over to lasciviousness to
work all uncleanness with greediness and
that’s where it ends if you get this
Spirit of ignorance in you and you come
into the sleep of this number you
finally become Godless sensuous and
wicked
that’s why I can’t understand
when ministers write to me said my my
wife was active in church he loved the
Lord and she ran off on me she ran off
with an ungodly man who doesn’t even
love the Lord and she’s drinking she’s
smoking she’s cursing
I’m dealing with the preacher in El Paso
right now has been asking for for help
and his wife was with him in Mission
field for eight years
came home at the airport and said
goodbye to him and ran off of the drug
addict and she’s living now with a drug
addict
and you talk to her one passed after
another’s talked to her and she says I
had don’t care what you say I love the
man I’m staying here
wouldn’t matter if Christ himself the
Holy Ghost came down she can’t hear
anymore she’s asleep
she’s in a deep coma
the Spirit of Slumber from the Lord
because of hardness lukewarmness and
unbelief because of murmuring and
complaining
I’ve been going through my Old Testament
and I’m finding how
severe God is on his children who murmur
and complain
and who have no faith who question his
power question his guidance
he said I’ve demonstrated my power to
you I’ve given you no reason to doubt me
but he said you go through life thinking
well this is just my words I’m not
hurting anybody yes God says I read
every I read every thought I know what
you’re thinking
a Spirit of Slumber leads to two
hopeless conditions
an inescapable trap in the church and an
everlasting burden in the home and I’m
going to show it to you in the scripture
and David saith let their table be made
a snare in a trap and a stumbling block
and it recompense to them or reward them
and bowed down their back always
and he was quoting Paul’s quoting in
Romans 11 9-10 from David in Psalm 69 22
let their table become a snare before
them and that which should have been for
their benefit or their welfare let it
become a trap to them that which should
have healed them that which should have
ministered comfort to them let it become
a trap a stumbling block reward their
Disobedience reward their unbelief
reward their bickering their
self-centeredness reward them by making
their table a stumbling block and a
snare to them and let them carry a
burden the rest of their lives
oh listen David said thou be past the
table before me in the presence of my
enemies 23rd chapter Psalms you know
that what’s he talking about the table
of the Lord is worship it’s the house of
God it’s Godly friends
it’s it’s all that God gives us to build
us up in the faith to make us grow it’s
the house of God it’s the presence of
the Holy Ghost
it’s the table he spread forth this
morning right here in worship and praise
it’s the sense of the body right here
this morning all being one in Christ
this is the table of the Lord
then he said you that are in a deep
sleep
you who continue in your unbelief
and I called and I called and I called
and you refused and you refused and you
were sleeping and you’re eventually
going to fall fast asleep and God is
going to give you over to your sleep and
that’s the Deep Sleep of the Spirit of
Slumber
he said the time will come
that every time you walk into the house
of God it’ll be a trap
you’ll be trapped every song you sing
you’re digging your grave deeper
every moment of worship is just a snare
to you because you don’t enter in you
don’t understand it
and yet you’re caught in a No Man’s Land
because you don’t want to go back to sin
there’s nothing there for you you’re not
comfortable out there with the ungodly
crowd but you’re not comfortable in the
house because you’re not entering into
the worship you’re numb
you just sit there numb
numbed by unbelief
and fear
this is unspeakable it’s almost too
awful to think about
but those who overcome by this deep
sleep because of their stubborn unbelief
and here’s how it works every message
you hear only hardens you now
it’s just another layer of hardness upon
layer after layer after layer of
hardness caused by every time you walked
into the house of God it becomes another
trap to you another layer of hardness
and some of you here this morning even
though the Holy Spirit has been here
manifesting himself revealing Jesus you
didn’t sense it you didn’t feel it
you’ve been sitting here dead even while
I speak now you’re dead
God himself coming down here and
fleshing Jesus Christ could not
penetrate you now
you’re here trapped
you don’t want to go out with that
Wicked crowd but you’re uncomfortable to
hear you’re not comfortable anywhere
you’re in a trap
pours you
go through the motions it’s a spiritual
vacuum
because when you’re lukewarm you’re in a
no-win situation
you enjoy nothing
you have to endure God’s house
so then because Thou Art lukewarm and
neither utter cause spew out of my mouth
and I wonder sometimes why some people
come to church I really do
they don’t enter in they get nothing out
of it they come and they sleep
and they’re dead it’s like a man in a
hospital he’s in a coma but he hears
every word and he wants to reach out
he’s screaming and saying side saying I
can hear you and they’re talking as
though he’s dead they’re talking about
pulling Accord and he’s hearing every
word but he’s in a slumber he’s going to
come he can’t move there’s nothing he
can do and I’ve talked to some like that
say I’d like to get saved they can talk
but they can’t act
I used to be saved I used to be on fire
for God I used to have a touch from God
and I’m going to look you all in the eye
and I know there are 10 or 12 of you
here that once knew the Lord and you’re
cold and you’re indifferent and
everybody in the world’s loved you
everybody’s trying to get through to you
and right now you’re you’re just about
to go so fast to sleep and you’re going
to slip into that spiritual coma God
says all right I’ve loved you I’ve
stretched out my hand to you disobedient
gang saying I’ve loved you I’ve done
everything I know how go to sleep
you want sleep sleep
God hath given them the Spirit of
Slumber
thank you
and every time the church door opens you
walk into a trap
that which should have been to your
comfort that which should have been to
your welfare that which should have been
a blessing to you that which should have
couraged you and set your heart aflame
only adds to your slumber
then secondly he said bow down their
back always
David goes on to explain what that heavy
burden is that God says I’ll put a
burden on your back for the rest of your
life
Psalm 69 25 let their habitation be
desolate
that’s your home
let their home become a place of
emptiness lovelessness
joylessness
he said they’re going to go to church
and walk into a trap and then they’re
going to walk home to a burden what
could be worse
what could be worse than to walk into a
home where there’s no love
where there’s emptiness
trapped everywhere you go
and when are we going to wake up and
realize that the Desolation in our
Christian homes as a result of a
complaining unbelieving lukewarm Spirit
that’s what it is
it’s not a husband and wife problem it’s
a Jesus problem
the problem of the Holy Ghost and you
then the home becomes a burden there’s
no more refreshing there there’s no more
joy there’s death and Gloom
that Grieves me that thousands and
thousands of Christian couples are just
merely existing now putting on a false
front there’s a deep sleep in their home
a spirit of slumbers endangering them
David said let none dwell in their tents
let none dwell in their house nobody
wants to come and visit because there’s
such Gloom the kids don’t want to come
and as soon as they get old enough they
run they don’t want to be there the
husband and wife finally end up closing
it down in the for sale sign goes up on
the house let them no longer live in
their tent let their habitation be
desolate
well that’s prophetic from the word of
God that’s David prophesying what
happens to those who won’t wake up who
show God touch me
God keep me cleaving to you
God doesn’t go around with a like a
sandman with sand in his face just
promiscuously spreading the Spirit of
Slumber
no he watches patiently and Tenderly
calling and dealing and dealing and
finally God says I cannot deal with you
any longer you persist in it and I’ll
tell you what if he gave up the whole
tribe of Israel except for three men
and they were cut off
and I look I look at Christian homes now
I see people come to church and I see
them not entering in they’re such a
shallowness
how many are there in this town in Linda
and all these towns around here just
going Sunday morning
I suppose that’s why I could never
belong to a Baptist Church
and I’m not putting a Baptist down
brother sister but when I go to church
and I see Sunday morning and I see all
deacons everybody stand there smoking
their cigarettes and they can’t even
spend two hours without puffing their
cigarettes
and I’m not saying no cigarettes along
and send them to hell
but when is it coming a time where we
can find people not just looking at the
clock
not just common because it’s a thing to
do on Sunday morning
but just coming longing hungering
thirsty for him
and I see these couples
come to church and you can see them when
they sit here
you’ve got a Discerning Spirit you can
see it you know that there’s been
Gloom
fear there’s no joy
and they say well I think I’m losing my
love oh yes you are
for him
your Lamb’s going out
and that’s where everything else is
going out
the relationships are burning low
everything else
not I I look at the way
you know
I think it was week before last we got
between five and six thousand prayer
requests
you know male
and our staff has been broken by and
Gwen and I were reading hundreds of them
Christian wives and my husband
I wish married 25 years my husband just
walks off
it doesn’t happen just like that he just
walks off
no see bowed down their back
is because you’ve been asleep
you haven’t been awake to the Lord
and I look at all this and I so God how
severe you are to those who are
unbelieving how severe
caught much of this is you’re allowing
you’re allowing it because of the Spirit
of Slumber and unbelief
and I say oh God why can’t they see it
why won’t people just wake themselves
and Shake themselves and say my God help
me
wake me up
all right now that’s the bad side let me
give you the good side
God’s given us a glorious promise that
there’s going to be a mass Resurrection
from the dead
that multitudes of sleeping slumbering
Saints are going to rise up as an army
of Overcomers Hallelujah
Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones
remember the hands of the Lord was upon
me and he carried me this is Ezekiel
talking carried me out in the spirit of
the Lord he set me down in the midst of
a valley which is full of Bones that’s
the church
bones dry bones
and caused me to pass by them around the
boat you’d see Ezekiel he’s walking just
like there’s been a war 10 years ago and
everybody died and the bones are
bleached and the carcasses are empty the
birds have plucked every bit of Flesh
including their bowels everything is
gone they’re dead and dry and he’s
walking through this Valley and behold
they were many in the open Valley Lord
they were very very dry
now that doesn’t picture the church one
big Valley very very dry Bleak bones
nothing does
but listen and he said to me son of man
can these bones live and I answered oh
Lord only you know
that’s what I’d say
only you know
God I can’t how can I say these bones
are going to live again and this is the
question I think God’s going to ask
every preacher who preaches the gospel
now he looks out and God says do you see
how dead the church is do you see how
dead my people are you see the death
that’s hanging over so many now you see
this great vast Valley dry bones
don’t give up on my church
don’t give up on them
I’ve just written
it comes out about two weeks it’s at the
Press right now a book about judgment on
America now I’ve written a chapter
called building of temples Hosea said
when my people backslide they build me
temples
and I’ve taken a strong stand against
television Ministries that are building
junk
and yet the Lord told me I couldn’t
preach that unless I started praying for
those men in loving them
and every day now I bow before God and
pray Lord baptize me with love in my
heart for these men and God says don’t
give up on any Ministry don’t give up on
anybody you’re not the judge you speak
my word and then love and try to heal
and bring back restoration and listen to
what the scripture says glory be to God
God’s saying don’t give up there’s a
great shaking coming I’m going to
breathe once again before I come there’s
going to be new life resurrected Saints
Once Dead are going to be raised in
power listen to it again he said unto me
prophesy upon these bones and say unto
them oh yea Dry Bones hear the word of
the Lord now I’ll preach the
congregations that were the valley of
dry bones
not here thank God behold I will cause
breath to enter into you he said here’s
your message you preach you go after
this dead dry church and you say oh dead
dry church God says he’s going to
breathe on you and you’re going to live
and I’m going to lay sinews on you and
bring up flesh upon you and cover you
with skin and put breath in you and you
shall live and you shall know that I am
the Lord
now I I believe it’s a day of
Destruction I believe America is going
to be destroyed by fire no question
about it and I believe I’ve given enough
scripture to prove it in a book and I
don’t care what anybody thinks God made
my face like flint and put a steel rod
in my backbone and I don’t care what
anybody says but I do know that before
judgment comes there’s going to be a
Revival like you’ve never known there’s
going to be a restoration the slumbering
states are going to be breathed upon
again the dead dry church so I
prophesied as I was commanded and as I
prophesied there was a great noise and
be all the shaking and the bones came
together bone to his bone and when I
beheld low the sinews and the flesh Came
Upon them and the skin covered them and
there was no breath in them
I think that’s about where we are now
there’s been a shaking there’s been a
bit of movement then said he unto me
prophesy again
this time prophesied of the Wind
and prophesy son of man
prophesied with son of man and say to
the wind thus saith the Lord God you
know that’s my message that’s our
message today oh Breath of God come from
the Four Winds o breath and breathe upon
all these slain that they may live and
so I prophesied as he commanded me and
breath came into them and they lived and
they stood up upon their feet and
exceeded great Army
in otherwise says only a Remnant is
going to be saved but you know if only
10 percent usually a Remnant in Israel
was ten percent of 10 percent of the
world’s population going to be saved
that’s over half a billion
that’s some remnant isn’t it
that that’s that’s uh millions and
millions out of America alone even a
Remnant a remnants compared to the great
masses of people that are being Damned
but what a what an army that’s going to
come forth out of the drive bones of the
valley all my people God says Ezekiel 37
12 14. oh my people I will open your
Graves
and cause you to come out of your Graves
now put my spirit in you and you shall
live When God Says live you live
God says I’ll put a deep Slumber upon
you but he said before I come I’m going
to breathe on you
oh Hallelujah Breath of God an exceeding
great Army that’s going to rip off their
grave clothes
we’re going to come walking out of
graves
these dead dry churches God go move in
the audience and the preacher’s gonna
sit there wondering what’s happened
people walking out of their graves right
in front of him
and he may see him get out of the grave
and he’ll want to get out of his grave
and suddenly the Holy Ghost will hit him
and some of the deadest driest churches
in America God go and just breathe on
him he said I’ll manifest myself to
those who sought not after my name I’ll
breathe on them
now that doesn’t mean he breathes on
those who stay in their hardness it
means that they’re people they’re
praying and seeking the face of God and
God’s answering
God’s answering God’s moving even though
it’s Sovereign he moves sovereignly on
those
who’ve been calling on his name you say
well how can I call if I’m dead asleep
well I’ll tell you something this
preacher was sleeping
and I want to tell you I thank him for
waking me up
the past few years and what he’s been
doing in my life I thank God for this
dear man came to me
and just lovingly
showed me I was going the wrong way
and I’m glad because I was sleepy I
wasn’t fast asleep but I had a spirited
that could have led me off into deadness
and dryness
and I’m glad for that moment not
Awakening and I I I look back at it and
I said Lord there wasn’t a good thing in
me there was nothing I did to deserve it
it wasn’t one good thing there wasn’t
one good thing in the upper room that
deserved the outpouring of the Holy
Ghost Peter had denied the Lord they’d
all forsook him and fled they all
everyone in that Upper Room had failed
the Lord
they weren’t worthy God doesn’t do
anything because you’re worthy of it
Hallelujah for one of these days
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and I believe it’s right now
I believe he’s breathing right now I
believe some of you are sensing God’s
saying I’m going to breathe on you and
you’re going to live
the devil been lying to you telling
you’re going to die no he said I’m going
to breathe on you and you’re going to
live
I’ll feel his breath every waking moment
now I feel the breathing let it breathe
on me let the Breath of God
though he is the spirit his breath let
it breathe let his breath Breathe on Me
if you and I knew how close we are to
judgment
this nation is going to be rocking with
earthquakes like you have never known
this nation is going to be judged
America has committed the unpardonable
sin he’s God said your cure your wound
is incurable but there’s still time for
individual repentance
individual repentance
and I’ve delivered my heart to you and
I’m not gonna
push it any further because I believe if
I preach what the Holy Ghost told me to
preach
and you needed it well I pray is going
to drive it to your heart
we had bad
breathe o Breath of God
I prophesy to the window Breath of God
come and breathe on these
said I’ll bring you out of your grave
Lord there are some that are not only
sleeping they’re dead they’re fast
asleep in death
breathe and waking Lord this morning
free though Breath of God
I’m going to do something that we have
not been doing here in these service but
I’m going to do it today
I’m going to give an old-fashioned Alder
claw
I sure am
going to ask God I want to ask every
Christian to pray that the breadth of
god let’s prophesy to the window
Brethren God come and breathe Breath of
God come and breathe on this house
breathe life
breathe life upon us right now the holy
life of Jesus the life of the Holy Ghost
breathe
breathe o Breath of God on every one of
us wake us up
all right now look just a moment while
your head’s above just a moment
this is for my staff this is for
visitors this is for everybody that’s
here this morning
somebody been murmuring complaining
you once had
something with the Lord that was so
powerful So Glorious
you’ve been asleep
you’ve been slumbering
the Lord’s saying it’s time to get
down to business with me
no more games are you going to cleave to
me
you’re going to seek my face
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will you seek my face
will you let me breathe on you
now don’t you dare come unless
you have you no be on any shadow of a
doubt that God’s dealing with you today
and there’s been a spiritual Slumber of
sleep in you and you want God to shake
it
and awaken you and breathe on you
then you get up and come and stand here
just as many as we can accommodate here
you get up go lay hands on you and ask
God to wake you up
wake you up
just stand right here
you don’t come please don’t come unless
you know that
that’s truth to you