looking through dark glasses looking
through dark glass go to First
Corinthians 13 please First Corinthians
13th chapter
King James for now we see
through a glass Darkly
but then face to face now I know in part
but then shall I know even is also I am
known now by the faith hope charity of
these three but the greatest of these is
charity
we see through a glass Darkly looking
through dark glasses Heavenly Father
you’ve sent me on a mission this
afternoon Lord I Thank you for the joy
we’ve experienced in this house thank
you for the joy of our young people in
the choir thank you Lord for the faith
that you’ve given to us and the
confidence in our salvation and the joy
we have and the shed blood of Jesus what
a joy to be protected and covered in our
sins washed away and buried we thank you
for all that but Lord there are people
here that are not ministering and living
in in the hope that you have given to us
Lord I pray that you take off the dark
glasses today Lord you sent me on a
mission and I want you to help me to
fulfill it spear the Lord come upon me
Lord we love your word we’re going to go
into the word I Don’t Preach my mind I
preach your heart and Lord I Thank you
for the revelation of the word this is a
simple message Lord but it has to be
heard in the heart I I’m asking Lord
everybody in the balcony and everybody
in the main floor and everybody around
me on stage let us hear this in the
spirit so that we can be quickened by it
in Jesus name amen by the way don’t miss
tonight’s service hear what this message
that’s so impacted Pastor Carter
Conlin’s life don’t miss this please
looking through dark glasses for now we
see through a glass Darkly that does not
say we see in a glass but through a
glass this is not a mirror this is
something we see through apparently the
picture here is looking at at a clouded
dark glass looking through at an image
beyond the glass now of course that
means that we don’t know the things we
ought to know and we’ll know when Jesus
comes when we’re glorified we’ll see
everything clearly but folks in modern
times I see this as the glasses that
many people are looking out at life on
they have dark glasses it’s been said
that an optimist is one who looks at
life through rose-colored glasses a
pessimist is one who looks at life
through dark glasses
I I think all my life I’ve been what you
call a pessimist I’ve always looked on
the dark side of things until recent
years God has done a great work in my
heart but I want to talk to you very
clearly tonight this afternoon
there are many people that are sitting
here now your outlook on life everything
you look at on the job in your home
everything in your life every situation
every trial you’re looking through dark
glasses you’ve got shades on you’re not
seeing it the way God wants you to see
it
the Bible says go with me to Luke 11
please I want to show you something
before we go any further the 11th
chapter of Luke
folks I’m into a lot of the word today
but I want you to get it from the
scripture Luke 11 chapter
verse 34 beginning to read
Luke 11 34 the light of the body is the
eye
therefore when thine eye is single that
means clear
the Greek is clear
when your eye is clear thy whole body
also is full of light
but when thine eye is evil then that
means murkier clouded the body also is
full of Darkness take heed therefore
that the light which is in thee be not
darkness in other words make sure that
the light inside of you the revelation
God has given you is not clouded by your
murky eyes you’re not letting that light
come out you’re not seeing the way God
wants you to see now what do I mean by
looking out of dark glasses I mean it’s
looking at life listen to me now it’s
looking at your life in all its
situations without hope
without hope
for example your marriage
how are you looking at your situation
many many even sitting here now I I have
no way of knowing how many or in what
you would call a difficult marriage a
marriage that is not satisfying to you
and in fact you looked at it and what
the eyes that you see through and the
dark glasses that are on your eyes right
now there is no hope you say I can’t
make it I’ve tried it and I hear this so
often anymore even from people who
attend this church Christians both
husband and wife Christians and I hear
it said
I I’m I guess we’re not in love anymore
we try and we just don’t communicate we
don’t talk to one another and when we do
we’re always hot and bothered by one
another
and it just seems I hear it say brother
looks I just don’t see how our marriage
can make it
and and it’s all over as far as I’m
concerned well of course it’s all over
of course it’s the end of the road
the way you’re looking at it
the eyes the the clouded glasses that
are on your eyes of course you can’t
make it because you’re looking at it
without hope you’re looking at it
without hope
a brother came to me just recently in
essence this is what he was saying he
said brother Dave I had given up on my
marriage
although I saw it it was hopeless there
was no absolutely no way
and yet I knew that we both had respect
for one another there was something we
could build on East I came home so
dejected one day thinking everything’s
hopeless and something happened to me I
said no I can’t let this happen
my Bible says that God can do anything
nothing is impossible with God and
something happened he said oh hope came
into me that if I change maybe my wife
would see that change and want to work
things out and he said brother Dave God
dealt with me begin to see things about
myself
and God began to touch me my wife saw
the change he said we are making great
progress it looks good
it looks good it looks good his his eyes
have been changed the dark glasses are
gone
he’s not looking through dark glasses
anymore God put hope in his heart
I hear it from teenagers
all over this city I have not heard it
from our young people but there could be
some that are sitting right behind me
and here in the congregation a teenager
for example like the young man who said
listen he said I I live in a poor
District in the city all my life I’ve
watched my mother I have no father I’ve
watched my mother scrimp and save and
work so hard just to pay the rent and
put some food on the table there’s never
been any extra money for clothes
and we get hand-me-downs he said where I
come from nobody drives a car no
teenager has a car except pushers young
pushers with their gold chains and their
uh uh they’re allowed
blasters but all my life and this
teenager says there’s no money for
college
there’s no hope for a good paying job
because all my friends have who’ve come
out of school and they’re in their 20s
and the 30s they’re locked into uh a
poor paying job and always living on the
poverty line and there’s no hope
and folks we have young people getting
in trouble in this city teenagers
especially because there are so few jobs
there’s no money for college if if
you’re up into my a minority class
another group that is living in a very
difficult part of town unable to find
jobs unable to look into the future and
see any hope they said where’s the Hope
indeed because of the hopelessness so
many turned to drugs and they turn to
alcohol
and you may be sitting here now looking
at your life
saying there is absolutely no future
there are some of you sitting here now
listening to me say Pastor David
I am in
I’m at a dead-end job
there’s no dream in my life I don’t see
any hope of my achieving anything above
what I have I’m locked in
there’s not much
to rejoice in in my life now some of you
go to a job I I went with my wife
yesterday
when she said let’s go for a walk
she means let’s go shopping
right
come on now you told me don’t don’t
you went on vacation you said you went
shopping with your wife all right okay
he’s standing there
so pious
sitting there fastly
we’re up on Columbus Avenue yesterday
and we had stopped at three stores
already
I said honey
this is not a walk
one more store I stopped in a lady store
of course and uh there’s a there’s a
gentleman standing at the door there and
we’d be I I was sitting on a cow eating
they had some chairs there
they knew men like me would come in
and I’m sitting there thinking why am I
doing this
and I’m watching that man at the door
he’d been there now and he’d just
standing there I went up to him how long
do you have to do that
he said six hours at a time
without a break
I said six I said yeah
and he looked at me said you have to do
what you have to do
and that and the look on his face and
it’s hard to forget it he said I am
locked in this is all I have and that’s
probably all I’ll have
and there was a hopelessness about it
and folks there are some of you right
now
you are looking at your life through
these dark glasses you see absolutely no
hope of change
now folks that sweeping over the country
and yet my Bible said we are not as
those who have no hope we are not like
the world those who have no hope and and
you look out in in the world and you see
the difference between a Christian and a
pagan is Hope
because the world has no hope the Pagan
has no hope I don’t care how they laugh
I don’t care how they drink and dance
and flit about the Bible says they’re
without hope
folks what would you do if you didn’t
know that you were saved and had
Paradise ahead of you what would you
have there’d be no hope
that folks there has to be hope in the
children of God this is the witness this
is the testimony we have a hope that’s
set before us not only a hope set before
us but we have a hope in this life we
are not hopeless in this life
and the bird of my heart today and the
the mission that God the Holy Ghost has
sent me on is to get your dark glasses
off your face
get those dark glasses off now if you
don’t soon change the way you look at
things if you don’t get that Clear
Vision of someone that is fully trusting
in the Lord believing that God knows who
you are where you’re at he has your
address
he has your address he knows exactly
what’s going on in your life he numbered
every hair on your head he knows all
about you he has not forgotten you but
if you continue to look at your marriage
and look at your life and your job and
everywhere you look you see Darkness
there’s no hope
the Bible makes it very clear that you
have to snap out of that you have to
change you cannot go on that way because
it’s very very dangerous
the scripture says by the multitude this
happened to Israel by the way
Isaiah came to the Israelites and he
said by the multitude of thy ways thou
has worried thyself
for you have said it is hopeless it’s
hopeless
they they had become weary of of all of
the discouragements Israel had become so
wary of all the battles and all the
struggles he looked at God’s people and
he said you’ve wearied yourself
and you’re going through your day day by
day now saying it’s hopeless there’s no
hope
and then he goes on he says you no
longer reference the Lord this is Isaiah
57 reading verse 11. you no longer
reverence me
the Bible says also it has made you
afraid it has worried you you went
straight way to others for help you’ll
find that in verse 9 57 9 and here’s the
tragedy here’s what happens if you don’t
get hope if you don’t take those glasses
off and look at life through faith in
Jesus
unless you can believe that God has a
plan for you that God has something good
prepared for you if you look at it
negatively all you do is talk negative
you speak negative you live negative you
see nothing but negative you see nothing
but Darkness ahead of you if you don’t
come out of that the scripture says not
only will where are you the scripture
says that you will not reverence the
Lord anymore because you’ll feel he’s
forsaken you others are being blessed
all around you and here you are
forgotten absolutely forgotten no money
no future no hope
but the Bible says you will turn to the
flesh for help you’ll turn away from the
Lord you’ll turn to others you’ll try to
make of God away from God and out of his
will
it’s that’s how hopelessness affects the
human mind
now looking out of dark glasses is not
an innocent thing with God
in fact
hopelessness is a grievous sin
according to my Bible it’s a grieve your
sin
the Prophet Jeremiah cried the virgin of
Israel has done a very horrible thing
that’s 18th chapter Jeremiah verse 12.
and what is this horrible thing that the
prophet accuses them of
they have said
there is no hope
he said you’ve done a horrible thing
you’re looking at life now as though
it’s hopeless you’re looking at your
life and your future and you’ve said I
looked into the future I look at my life
and I have come to the conclusion
there’s no hope
there’s no hope
and then Jeremiah goes on and he said
they have said there’s no hope therefore
we will walk after our own plans and we
will everyone do the stubbornness of his
evil heart
beloved if you will not ask God by his
holy spirit to take those dark glasses
off your eyes
and ask the Holy Spirit to help you look
at your life the way the Holy Ghost
looks at it and not the way your
pessimistic mind may look at it or your
downcast mind your mind is full of doubt
and fear and condemnation right now the
Holy Spirit can relieve that and I’ll
tell you how in just a moment but if you
don’t ask the Holy Ghost to dispel that
and take these dark glasses off your
eyes it’s very clear here you will you
will not obey the word of the Lord when
you’re in a crisis
if it’s in your marriage you’ll say I I
know what the Bible says I know I’m not
to walk out on my commitment but I can’t
handle it I have to go and you’ll do the
stubbornness of your own heart he said
you said no hope so therefore you said
we will do what our hearts tell us to do
we would do our own plans and that’s
when people really get out of the will
of God they don’t believe in the miracle
they don’t believe that God has an
answer to it for them and they they look
at it as absolutely hopeless and if you
continue in that hopeless State of Mind
you will end up disobeying the word of
God in every area of your life you will
do what feels good what looks good
you’ll take the shortcut you’ll do
anything you’ll listen to other people
but you will you will say I know what
the word says I love God but I have to
do it my way
and that’s what’s happening how many
people are in trouble
they are doing things that are
absolutely out of the will and the mind
of God
ending up in all kinds of messes all
kinds of troubles doing things their own
way because they gave up hope
they just said it’s useless it’s
hopeless
oh God help us it’s not an innocent
thing
I’m telling you now you’re really not
alive you’re truly not alive if you
don’t have hope
if you’re looking through dark glasses
you still have grave clothes on I want
to show you this is something Holy
Spirit came open to me this past week I
want you to go to Ezekiel 37 in the
valley of dry bones
Ezekiel 37.
now a very familiar passage of scripture
Ezekiel uh is called by God to go out in
a valley and drive bones now folks
listen to me please some people have a
very vivid imagination what they see are
Beats bones laying all over the field
that’s not it at all because the Lord
says this is the house of Israel and I’m
going to bring him out of their graves
this is a graveyard it’s a massive
graveyard uh there were no tombstones uh
there because they were just markers and
under the ground buried in these graves
in these caskets here are just a valley
full of grave a huge graveyard and all
the bones and in those caskets the the
Bones have become disjointed there’s no
flesh and the Bones have just Fallen
apart and these bones are laying in
these caskets as far as the eye could
see this huge Valley of Grace
and the Lord comes along he says speak
to those bones and those bones start
coming together
and then he speaks again and the flesh
comes and covers the bones and flesh
tubs what a wonderful thing and then he
prophesies to the wind and the wind
comes and blows life into them this is a
picture of what the Lord did for you
when he saved you isn’t it you were in a
you were in a casket of Despair and sin
cut off from God and life itself you
weren’t living
you were dead in trespasses and sin the
Bible said and the Holy Ghost breathed
on you and he breathed life into you
here are these people now that uh they
are
uh
they’ve got bones and life is pulsating
through their Veins and Skin has covered
these bodies
in that wonderful now they’re alive
they are able to move their muscles and
their arms and flex they have hair on
their head their eyes can see their ears
can hear they have a heart that’s
pumping blood they are alive
but look what happens this is amazing
thing in verse
Ezekiel 37 why don’t you go to verse 11
here
if I can find 37 here it is
and then he said unto me verse 11 son of
man these bones are the whole house of
Israel behold they say our bones are
dried and our hope is lost we are cut
off
for our parts in other words there’s no
hope there’s no hope we’re at the end of
the Rope we are absolutely cut off now
folks isn’t this amazing here here is
here is a whole picture the Lord has
come to the with the message it said
there’s life
you’re not going to to
continue in that condition and this is
the most glorious part of the House of
Israel I give you life Abundant Life
they’re already given the promise
they’re already God said you are alive
and they’re coming along says we have no
hope
they’re still in their graves they’re
still thinking death
they’re talking they were they they’re
talking the way they did before death
claimed them they’re still seeing death
they’re talking death they’re living
death
folks God’s not interested in bringing
you out of your grave of sin
and putting his life into you so that
you can just go around talking death
that is no testimony
there’s no testimony for you to look out
of eyes that see nothing but Darkness
you cannot enjoy the life that he’s
given to you cannot see it you cannot
feel it you’re going to touch it
he’s not interested in that kind of
testimony that’s no testimony for
somebody said the Lord save me but I’m
hopeless
the Lord saved me but I have no future
oh I’ve been saved and baptized with the
Holy Ghost but I don’t see anything good
ahead of me
God’s not going to raise people out of
the graves he’s not going to call him
out of the graves just to be that kind
of a death testimony to the world never
I’ve been
I’ve been lovingly rebuked by the Holy
Spirit
I’m not saying that you have to go
around with a that I call the Colgate
grin on your face a silly grin is not
from the heart
in fact they uh
they ask Christian they ask in China why
the Christians lost their smile when
they got saved
and the Christians said well
the customer of the gentleman is to have
a four smile all the time every time we
smile it was forced when we got saved we
didn’t force it anymore we have the joy
of the Lord but we didn’t have to put on
that false face anymore
God doesn’t want a false face
he wants the joy of the Lord in your
heart but he wants to take off those
dark glasses these people have flesh
they have bones that have come together
they have blessed they have life but
they’re without hope
folks we’ve got a church like that today
all over the United States so many that
God is raised from the dead and so the
Lord comes along and he says therefore
prophesy son them thus saith the Lord
God o my people I will open your grace
and cause you to come up out of your
grace and be your land of Israel you
shall know that I’m the Lord when I’ve
opened your Graves o my people and
brought you a part of your grace folks
it’s time to get out of that grave
you’ve been in that grave long enough
you said everything is hopeless your
marriage hopeless your job hope
everything hopeless
that’s grave your talk
that’s the talk of somebody still in the
grave still in the casket I could have
called this message living in a casket
you’ve been around somebody it’s already
talking death
it’ll bring dead you should listen to
people so monitoring and complaining all
the time everything is bad everything is
glooming everything is this and that but
there’s no joy there’s no talk of Faith
there’s nothing good
I listen to some Christians and I wonder
if God has ever done anything good for
them
I wouldn’t want to serve a God who
treated people the way they sound like
they’re treated
poor commercial for Jesus
folks
come on
today
this afternoon you come out of your
grave of Despair and hopelessness take
off by the power of the Holy Ghost those
dark glasses and say Jesus I want
Delight in me to be a pure light that
comes out of fresh Light and I want to
come out of clean eyes Pure Clean eyes
of Hope
and not despair
they said we’re all dried up it’s
they’ve just been resurrected in their
sins were all dried up it’s hopeless
It’s The End
no
it’s not the end it’s just the beginning
the joy of the Lord is your
strength Hallelujah
bring you up out of your Graves and it
shall put my spirit in you and you shall
live verse 14 and also put my spirit in
you you shall live and I shall place you
in your own land and you shall know that
I am the Lord that spoke and performed
it saith the Lord hallelujah look at me
folks
why do you think God gave you the Holy
Ghost
why do you think he gave us the Holy
Spirit the holy spirit is not the Gloom
of God he’s the joy of God
Hallelujah
if you if you are
walking through life looking at
everything dimly everything negatively
never rejoicing in the goodness of God
folks the one thing that you have you
should start rejoicing and it should be
the the source of joy every day is that
you’re redeemed
that you are not as the world that you
are not going to die and go to a Godless
hail you’re going to spend eternity In
the Arms of Jesus that’s that’s the
Blessed hope that we have in Christ you
begin with that you start rejoicing in
that
there was a time when I was a young
preacher every Everything anytime
somebody brought me a word like you know
my son was in a crash first oh he’s dead
he’s dead he’s dead
when I got there it wasn’t a scratch on
him
my wife had cancer and then when Debbie
got cancer I got the word she was down
in Houston
that’s it she’s dead
you know I was talking death not waiting
on the Lord to get that that that sweet
Assurance of the Holy Spirit
that God has everything under control
and folks I just got tired
of those dark glasses one day
I got tired
of talking such despair because I was
bringing everybody around me down
I remember uh I I used to talk all the
time this is about 15 years ago all I
would talk about was now folks I still
prophesy and I believe everything God
told me to preach and prophesy I’m not
taking any of that back
but when we would get around preachers
they would start probing me and and
talking about what’s coming and and all
I talked about was was was collapse and
ruined
and and one preacher I remember his dear
friend of mine he got up he said David I
believe that too
but he said do you have any Joy
I said yes I do but he said let’s speak
it
and that’s when God began to deal with
me when whenever people are downcast and
everything tell the word preach the
truth some of these things folks are so
sharp and they’re so cutting and they’re
so reproving and that’s what we have to
have we have to have that reproof but
God began to teach me all right but
always before you close your message
bring into hope bring in the Hope
Hallelujah and if if you ever since I’ve
been in this Pulpit I have never
preached to my memory uh negative mess
or a hard message what was a hard
reproving message without bringing the
good side because we have to have that
hope we have to be able to look through
those eyes with hope
I would say to that young person that
God knows where he’s at
God’s made a covenant with that young
man if you’ll serve with all his heart
God will do him good I’m going to read
it to you
it’s a uh
in fact I want you to turn with me to
Psalms 146.
talking about the good part
psalm 146.
see folks if if you want happiness I
mean the true happiness of the Holy
Spirit
then you’ve got to come to this place of
hope hope is what produces that
happiness of the Lord and in fact this
chapter brings it out 146 it’s only 10
verses read the whole chapter praise ye
the Lord
praise the Lord O my soul
while I live will I praise the Lord I
will sing praises unto my god well I
have any being put not your trust in
princes nor in the son of man in whom
there’s no help his breath Goes Forth he
returneth to the Earth in that very day
his thoughts perish happy is he that
hath the god of Jacob for his help whose
hope is in the Lord his God
now folks here’s why he had hope he said
I serve a God who made Heaven Earth and
the Sea and all that there is in it
which keepeth truth forever now look in
for just a minute he says here’s how you
can have hope because the god that you
serve
created the heavens and the earth and
the Sea and everything in it and if God
can create the heavens and the earth and
the Sea and everything in it God
concrete a good future for me God can
change things for me I serve a mighty
creator of God
that’s why it’s tied into him seeing him
it’s all powerful
Hallelujah which executed judgment for
the oppressed which giveth food to the
hungry the Lord luceth the Prisoners the
Lord openeth the eyes of the blight in
other words God takes off those glasses
the Lord raises them that are bowed down
the Lord loveth the righteous the Lord
preserveth The Strangers he relieveth
the fatherless and the widows but the
way the wicked he turneth upside down
the Lord shall reign forever even the
god thy God o Zion unto all generations
Hallelujah
folks I I have to confess to you that
I’ve had a holy indignation lately
burning in my heart and it’s a holy
indignation about the subjective way so
many Christians are living rather than
living in dominion and Authority
my Bible makes it very clear
this is the victory that overcomes the
world even our faith Luke 10 19 behold I
give you authority to trample on snakes
and scorpions and all the power of the
enemy and nothing shall by any means
hurt you we need to stop right there and
say then why aren’t we living is that
just a suggestion is this just
hyperbolic is this just talk or is this
the Living Word of God I’ve given you
authority over all the power of the
enemy why aren’t we taking that
Authority in our home why do we have to
be so subjective talk everything around
us our conditions in every crisis that
we fear man we fear that God has
forsaken us no the scripture says I have
given you power and authority and
nothing shall by any means hurt you
nothing
[Applause]
Romans 5 17 they which receive abundance
of Grace and of the gift of
righteousness shall reign in life by one
Jesus Christ listen to me they shall
reign in life not in eternity the we
will rule and reign with Christ yes but
he says they will reign in life that
word Reign they shall live as a king
with authority that’s what the Greek
means my people shall live as those who
have total Authority
folks we do not have to bow down to
every whim and wave of Doctrine we don’t
have to bow down to the devil we don’t
have to give up on our marriage is we
don’t have to give up on anything the
devil will try to take from us because
the Bible says we shall reign over him
we so reign in power
[Applause]
now the god of Hope fill you with all
joy and peace in your believing that you
may abound in Hope through the power of
the Holy Spirit you’re not just to have
hope you have to have an abounding hope
he said that’s over abundance all that
you would ever need to live in Hope
Hallelujah
wonderful Jesus
the Lord luces the prisoners he opens
the blind eyes
he raises up those who are bound down
with their problems
I can say with David
I have set the lord always before me
because he is at my right hand I shall
not be moved therefore my heart shall be
glad and my glory Joyce My Flesh shall
also rest in hope my flesh
this flesh that gets up every morning
and looks out at life
this fresher gets up and say I’ve got to
go to work today
this flesh that comes into the room to a
teenager that’s in Rebellion
My Flesh so rest in Hope
I face a marriage problem I face a
situation my home I have to go to a job
I’ve got to do things and it looks so
hopeless My Flesh shall Rest In Hope
Hallelujah
one more scripture
Psalm 33
psalm 33.
then we’re going to
go through the audience and take off all
your dark glasses
Psalms 33.
Verse 18 beginning to read we’re going
to read the five verses to the end and
if you have King James I want you to
read along with me why don’t you stand
up
you can read standing I think
I’m reading standing
chapter 33 begin to read verse 18.
behold the eye of the Lord is upon them
that fear Him upon them that hope in his
Mercy to deliver their soul from Death
to keep them alive and famine our soul
waiteth for the Lord he is our help and
our Shield our heart shall rejoice in
him because we have trusted in His holy
name let thy mercy O Lord be upon us
according as we hope in thee we hope in
thee glory to God
all these young people behind me I’ll
tell you I’ll look you right in the eye
and tell you right now God has a
beautiful plan for your life
he absolutely does
when God called me
nobody but God could have found me up in
those Hills of Pennsylvania little
talented 1500 people
I weighed 115 pounds I’ve gained 50
pounds since then can you man take 50
pounds off of this body I was skin and
bone
I said Lord I’m going to be up in these
Hills the rest of my life
and God one day said you pray and I’ll
Make A Way
if you’ll seek my face
I’ll open the windows of Heaven for you
I’ll do the impossible for you
and God said if you seek me just give me
all your heart
I’ll take your life to places you can’t
believe
he took me to Psalm 25 and made me
promises
who is he that feareth the Lord him
shall he teach in the path he shall
choose his social dualities his seeds
shall inherit the earth I didn’t know
I’d write books in 50 languages then I
didn’t know anything about he said and
the secret of the Lord is with him that
fear and the Lord will show him his
Covenant and he’s about to show me his
Covenant and keep every word he’s ever
promised me
God found brother Carter in a smaller
town than mine
he keeps blessing him and blessing him
and blessing his family
my God has has more open doors than
there are people
[Applause]
I don’t care if you are an orphan I
don’t care if your father’s not there or
your mother is not saved I don’t care
what kind of problem you have I don’t
care if you have a dime I don’t care if
you don’t have a college any money for
college or anything else if you will
seek God and put him first and if you’ll
have hope and in Jesus and his
faithfulness he will bless every one of
you not one of you will be left out not
one not one
I’m not promising you a Porsche
automobile
our Mercedes-Benz
I’m promising you a fulfilled life
useful fruitful in the sight of God and
the most important thing God can give
you is who he is and the knowledge of
himself Hallelujah
I’m not done
you will never beg for bread the Bible
says
never
you’ll always have a roof over your head
and I will tell you something else you
trust him and quit trying to make things
happen he’ll give you in his time in his
way he’ll give you a husband he’ll give
you a wife
it’ll be his husband his wife for you
you don’t have to choose isn’t that
right come on all of you guys right
you’re married God did it I told you God
did it
God did it
so what they went up I’m 50 years old
and I
I’m stuck
listen with God nobody stuff nobody
stops
nobody stopped
he said I I’ve got pleasures and
blessings you’ve never even heard of
Hallelujah
[Applause]
Hallelujah
all right it’s time to take off the dark
glasses
I’m talking about the way you look at
things so God
and folks one I told you one day I got
tired of it and I said no more and I
changed and occasion I slipped back but
not very often and I’m asking you right
now to say God by your Holy Spirit
take off
these Shades that are on my eyes not
talking about physical glasses those
those
awful awful spiritual Darkness glasses
of spiritual Darkness I want to see you
Lord as my God you said I’ll be a God to
you you’ll be my son you’ll be my
daughter and he says I’ve made a
covenant oh
one more
one more the best one I forgot
this is the New Covenant in fact I’m
going to be studying this the next two
weeks and and this is part of it I want
to read this to you and if if you’ll
take this now
it don’t turn it’s Jeremiah 32
and it’s verse 40. this is part of the
Covenant
now listen to me with a spiritual ear
now please
and I will make an Everlasting Covenant
with them that I will not turn away from
them
to do them good but I will put my fear
in their hearts that they shall not
depart
from me I will make an Everlasting
Covenant with them that I will not turn
away from them to do them good
God says I’m going to do good by you
you just seek me with all your heart
and with this I close I was in prayer
this past week and every day that I was
in prayer
uh
Holy Spirit came to me
he said David
if you will continue
to seek me as you have with all your
heart
your best days are still ahead
and you can’t conceive the good that I
want to do for you
and that goes for every one of his
children
the good my mother’s mother died when
she was 94 I think it was and she was 89
and she was praying and you’d think at
89 everything’s over
but she’d always wanted to learn to play
the piano
so she prayed and God let her have piano
lessons he learned to play the piano
before she died it was just one of those
blessings one of those good things God
did for Grandma Martin 89 playing the
piano
[Applause]
oh that’s a little thing but God has so
many little things that are wonderful
things for his people hallelujah
please bow your heads
Lord
this is a wonderful wonderful hope that
we have
that you have a plan you have a purpose
for our lives do you have not just
thrown us out into this planet to walk
our own walk and do our own thing
Lord You’ve numbered the hairs on our
head you know every step we take Lord
you know our going out and are coming in
are down sitting in our Uprising you
know every step every breath has been
monitored by a loving heavenly father
and you’re not going to let your
children strand it never you have a
purpose in our lives Lord fill us with
hope remove this Darkness from her eyes
give us hope hope for our children hope
for our marriage Hope on our jobs hope
in the church hope hope hope
from the Living God
but now Lord there are people that are
standing here right now
faith is and hope has become very dim
and some who have lost hope
I ask you to heal their Spirits this
afternoon
amen folks look at for just a moment
when the elders were praying for the
sick and one else came back I said how’s
it going
it’s about Dave a lot of despair
some of you came up and whispered that
that despairing need in your life
if you if if your hope is is waxing dim
yes or you may be here and say well I
agree
been at the end and I’ve I guess I’ve
lost hope
the Lord wants to fill you not just give
you a little dab
or a little dip to give that abounding
joy that you can walk out of here with a
heart
just pulsating with his joy and with his
hope
now that requires a confession
up in a balcony here in the main floor
once you come out put it right out of
your seat and come up here I want to
pray that God fill your heart with hope
take away that dark view that that
hopelessness that despair give it to God
if you’re backslidden if you’re running
from God if you don’t know the Lord come
with these no one has to know why you’re
coming no one has to know you come and
say Jesus I want this to him in my day
changed my life
God give me a New Hope Jesus give me New
Hope in my life
Hallelujah you that are in the aisles
and here in the front
isn’t it about time
that you changed and about time that you
spoke faith and live faith and believed
and said oh God I don’t want to go
through life anymore with this negative
downcast for depressed
life I don’t want this anymore you have
to turn your back on that first empty
you have to get sick and tired of being
sick and tired you just have to say
that’s enough Lord
God moves when you you you you say I
want to change I’ve got to change
now folks that’s a commitment you’re
making right now as you stand here
coming down you’re not going to do your
bit of good unless you’re making a
commitment right now and saying look I
have to change God I’m going to change
by Your Grace by the power of your
spirit I want to and I’m going to change
first thing you can do is start talking
a different talk
you say my God is able from now on
some of you been so depressed you’re
depressing everybody around you
it’s it’s time I don’t care what you’re
going through I don’t care what
anybody’s done to you I don’t care God’s
bigger than all of it God is bigger than
all of it
[Applause]
now let me tell you what’s going to
happen listen to me closely
probably not going to change your
situation right away
he’s going to change you
he gonna pick you up and put you on top
of your situation where you can look
down on it said it doesn’t bother me
anymore
God wants to bring you up above all your
crises and your troubles and your
situations and rest in his love amen are
you convinced the lord loves you
absolutely loves you
Hallelujah
how many of you that are that came
forward have to acknowledge Pastor Dave
I have said those very words there’s no
hope raise your hand there’s no hope
I’ve said those very words there’s no oh
come on everybody said it everybody said
it
some time or another it’s hopeless it
looks so it looks so bad
are you willing to admit that it’s so
bad Lord that’s the same thing doesn’t
look good
well quit looking at that get your eyes
on Jesus and keep your eyes focused on
Jesus and that’s where you begin that’s
where the Hope begins to uh well spring
up inside when you get your eyes looking
unto Jesus the author and the finisher
of our faith looking to Jesus he’ll
finish the good work that he’s begun in
you are you ready to pray now
pray right live with me Jesus cleanse me
and forgive me of all my doubts my
unbelief my hopelessness
remove these dark glasses
take it away
that I may see clear
that the Lord is on my side
God is with me
and he’ll not fail me
I trust you Jesus
give me hope
hallelujah hallelujah thank you Jesus
Lord I give you thanks I give you praise
next
I want you to rise up in faith in your
spirit right now I’m going to come
against this in Jesus name I’m going to
take his authority but you have to agree
with me right now raise both hands raise
both hands in Jesus name I come against
that spirit of fear I come against now
in Jesus name I speak now clearly
powerfully against the spirit of
hopelessness drive it out God remove the
hopelessness
heal our eyes that we may see
now just put your hand on your eyes now
these these are your natural eyes but
Lord I pray that by putting our hands on
our eyes we’ll see our spiritual lies
that you will open them now folks take
it off and open your eyes right now and
say Lord do that in my spirit open my
eyes take away the doubt take away the
fear take away the hopelessness now in
Jesus name take it away father we take
your authority over this
how many ready to reign in your life now
you great Reign and rule in Christ’s
name Hallelujah
[Applause]
I want you to repeat this with me in
Jesus name
I take authority
complete Authority
over every lie of the devil
every evil suggestion
and every temptation
and by faith
I have Victory and Authority in every
area of my life
because in Jesus
I am more than a conqueror thank you
Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus
thank you Lord
glory be to God
Hallelujah glory to God this is the
conclusion of the message