That same day, a New York City police officer spoke to me about the uncertainty and alarm within the police force and fire departments. Their macho exteriors hid secret fears because most of them had lost friends during the 9/11 attacks. Even now, years later, each time some New Yorkers travel through tunnels and over bridges they hold their breath and pray for protection. A stalled vehicle can cause panic. The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, carrying nuclear or germ capabilities. Many people began carrying small gas masks. The citizenry seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will eventually strike. No one knows when, but the thought hangs heavily over the populace.

I ask God not to give me some detailed

theological answer to this problem of a

mountain of unbelief how do I cast it

out how do I get this thing out of my

life that hinders everything that God

would do

Anders ministry marries and there’s

everything in life because you see a

prophet came to Asia after he Syria

builder he got his deliverance but the

word of the Lord came to him said

because you did not believe from now on

you will have wars everything’s going to

be out of order

everything’s going to go right all right

everything is going to turn into flesh

you’re going to get all your directions

from the flesh now ah I have been there

when you get out of God’s will then you

get out of faith and you begin to panic

first of all it’s the grief of God’s

heart and secondly you’re going to turn

to your own answers your own thoughts

and your own fears are going to become a

way of life and I ask God Lord how do I

get

how do I cast this thing out of me

because you see he’s made it our

responsibility so you speak to the

mountain and say be gone and it she’ll

go and then when this mountain is gone

then you whatever you ask or whatever

you say everything you you want and

desire you shall have it and a lot of

people stop write this and we’ll wait a

minute I’ve been there it doesn’t work

everything I ask we see he sang after

you remove them out so I ask God and

last night he really spoke to my heart

do you really want to walk that life

because I’m going to have you I’m going

to show you something it’s going to cost

you and has no merit to it it’s the only

way to get rid of the mountain is

another way well somebody said well no

no you you just have faith it says speak

the word just speak the word Mountain go

folks you try that without what I’m

about to tell you and the Devils will

laugh at you just as I did the disciples

when they tried to cast out a demon

adèle and they laughed at him because

you see Jesus said this comes by prayer

and fasting no merit but if you want

authority over this mountain if you want

authority over demon powers if you want

thority over those hounding fears and

doubts there’s a place you have to go

and there’s a prayer you have to pray

when you get there in that place that

Gethsemane this is the garden where

Jesus went when his cup became so

overwhelming and his child so crushing

he goes into this garden you see people

say no no this is not a generation of

tears we don’t cry anymore

we just celebrate well but I celebrate

Jesus Christ

I love songs on celebration but you see

in our modern church in this time of

gold and riches and fun and pleasure and

backslidden cold prayers we don’t want

to cry we don’t want to put our face on

the ground and plead we don’t want to

intercede but you see Jesus goes into

the garden now he’s never experienced

unbelief that’s a sin in he is this is

not a matter of his unbelief but he’s

got a mountain and the cross he goes in

and he said I’m I am

sorrowful unto death have you ever

prayed that if you ever told your

husband or your wife or if you told

anybody how have you ever had a an

encounter with God you what you’re

saying if not in words is this is too

much on my understanding it if this goes

on it’s going to kill me

have you ever wept tears that were so

hot they’re like blood running out of

your face you know so we don’t want to

touch that anymore because it’s all and

why can’t we just say well God’s a God

of love I have preached so much love

reasoning and you get from this Pope we

preach grace we preach love but we also

cannot do away with this Yosemite

experience jesus wept

he prayed he interceded he called on God

he sought the Lord Lord if it’s possible

let this cup pass from me don’t let me

have to take any more of this now forget

trying to explain what’s in the cup but

folks if if he there’s touch with things

of our infirmities there’s got to be

things that are in our cup the same kind

of cup I don’t want to get into the

theological a framework of this but I I

do know this he said I’m in a situation

father I hope I would plead with you and

I beseech you enough enough that’s where

you are right now you’ve said God that’s

enough

and you have got to believe like Jesus

did that his father loved him and his

father is about to reveal something

marvelous to his heart you see we are

there was a series of Agony’s that Jesus

went through series this is the fasting

the prayer the weeping the tears the

prostration that’s a series of of

spiritual episodes that are leading to a

place and then after the tears have

stopped flowing and you know the father

bottled every tear and after the tears

can no longer flow and after all of them

been said and done Jesus praise the

ultimate prayer

now that word ultimate one of the

explanations when the definitions of

ultimate is the end of the series the

far-out end in other words everything

has been tried the ultimate is there and

he gets up looks God in the face he said

and this is what he’s saying I’ve prayed

I wept a fasted I’ve done everything

unload my soul to you Father but I’ve

come to this place nevertheless not my

will but your will be done your will be

done and it’s it you can’t move that

mountain till you pray that ultimate

faith and that prayer and you can’t pray

that until you have unloaded everything

it’s in your soul to where you go to the

Heavenly Father yes go it’s not it’s not

a way of living it’s not our daily walk

but it’s a confrontation where you come

to the place where you sign I’m at the

end and you pour your soul out to God

and you quit looking at the

circumstances and believe that God loves

you and he will not allow anything in

your life except that which is good

which is right which is according to his

will according to his will in his mind

so you give up trying to figure it out

and you cast yourself in the arms of the

Heavenly Father and say Lord this this

is not what I want I don’t think I can

handle much of it but I know your God

Almighty and I cast everything into your

hands and now I prayed the ultimate

prayer your will be done and when you do

that God begins to you starts opening

your eyes to a revelation you’re going

to you see a lot of people have cried

and went for God to use them into God to

give them patience and God to do

something in their families and God

knows what he has to do and soak

God begins to allow afflictions David

said if I had been afflicted I would

decide the Lord and God knows the path

he knows the cost of that and the moment

you prayed that he went into action and

the next day the next week things

started happening in your life and you

missed the answer you’re going around

despising the answer this is God at work

I’m going to close in just a moment but

to illustrate this and right to the

point I remember I thought of again last

night my youngest son Greg back in the

pastor’s office number of years ago he

asked me to come back with him and he

threw himself on the floor began to weep

and cry and wail before God is a dope

dad died such a burden for young people

and I don’t know how that I don’t know

how to reach out and get hold of this

thing but I God has to do something as

the we’re losing the generation and I

was dumped I didn’t know what to do I

just sat there and said Oh God whatever

it takes

answers prayer and so he goes into the

greatest job of his life for years of

incredible pain

his faith and very life being tested but

you see I’d made an ultimate prayer and

said oh whatever it takes because I

trust you you will only do what’s right

and this past few months God has been

bringing him out in a glorious way and

he called me last week he said dad thank

you for not giving up on me and thanks

for not giving up on your faith I put

everything I never once doubted that God

was at work none of this is going to

work unless you are convinced totally

convinced that God loves you it’s not

going to work if you focus on your sins

it won’t believe you start right there I

commit to keeping of my soul I’m not

going to spend the rest of my life

trying to make things up to God

I’m not going to try to be God anymore

and try to answer everybody’s prayer how

does a via all the joy of God then when

we cast our self into his care will you

stand

you know there was a time that uh when

Gwen and I would walk home from the

service

I’d say honey how’d I do and Lord showed

me that that was a sign of a kind of

hardness in my heart I should have been

asking the Lord and myself see I don’t

do that anymore but I should have been

asking did I preach that in love what

was my point

well what was I trying to accomplish

when this church was established that

took in my estimation for years – for

God to make me even a low-class kind of

pastor because I used to see people in

multitudes and they were all faces and I

never got to talk people and so it was

just just faces and then when you come

face to face with people in trial and

hardship and all of this you can’t just

say oh now I’m gonna love you have to

work these things out and your own heart

first and I know that you know that you

have pastors and elders here that love

you

we’re not into race issues in this

church because every one of these men

black white Hispanic whatever it is

there’s something God has done by his

Spirit that is supernatural

I hope what you know I hope you

understand I’m trying to say that God in

His love is spoken to my heart and yours

and this is what he’s trying to

accomplish that you now pour your soul

out to God nothing all retreat free

preach my sermon you don’t have to come

to the altar to do that in the annex you

can do right where you’re at I don’t

want you to pray ultimate prayer here I

don’t want you to just flippantly say

all right not my will Lord but yours be

done they get all the other stuff out

first tell him tell them like it is talk

to him get alone and say I’m not leaving

this room I’m not leaving this place

until my soul is that rest

and you’ll know the mountains gone when

you have this rest I’m not trying to do

it anymore your own we’re questioning

God’s work by resting on his promises

and his word Heavenly Father would you

show us your heart show us where we are

in our walk with you now are we resting

on your side

are we accusing you father of child

abuse or is there anything in our hearts

that would hinder us now remove it by

your grace

take it out of ours hallelujah

hallelujah would you lift your hands to

the Lord both hands put your Bible down

whoever has just lift your hands before

the Lord and would you begin to thank

him for his love for you just begin

that’s where you start thank you for

loving me see God’s not mad at anybody

here he’s not mad at you let’s thank him

for his love Lord we thank you that no

matter what we’re going through you have

given us evidence that you truly loved

us we are under the love of God we’re

under the Covenant of God we’re under

the grace and mercy of God but Oh Lord

we’re also friends with God and Lord we

can approach you as a friend and say I

have an issue in my heart now Lord Jesus

give me the Holy Spirit in greater

measure so that I can pray from my heart

and surrender to the perfect will of God

wherever that takes us wherever it ends

that we will go your way in full

surrender now one thing before we close

the service up in the balki in here the

main floor

if you’re not where you know you should

be with Christ if you know in your heart

you’ve grown cold or indifferent to him

I want you to step out of your seat if

you feel the tug and pull of the Holy

Spirit I want you to get out of your

seat and come and I will pray with you

and we’ll believe the Lord to bring you

back to his heart if you have strayed

any way at all or if you’ve been living

in dreaded fear absolute dread fear now

I’m not just talking about something

that happened last night but you it’s a

way of life now you live day by day

under a spirit of fear I want to pray

against that spirit I want you to get

out of your seat up in the balcony down

either side and here on the main floor

come this way and those in the Annex you

can move between the screens and I’ll

pray you’ll be able to see in here in

just a moment well our instruments are

playing get out of your seat I don’t

care if there are 10 people God wants to

do something in your heart before this

service is history there’s only one

thing you can give to God down you can’t

give him any righteousness because you

and I don’t have any of our own we’re

saved by his righteousness you can’t

give him any money because he owns it

all you don’t have to give him tears

that doesn’t merit anything you don’t

his as followers of Christ we don’t

merit anything by our Bible reading and

by our prayer and by our tears and

prostration we don’t merit anything but

there’s one thing you can give him one

thing he wants and that you have the

power and ability to give him and that’s

your faith

your faith will you pray this prayer

with me nor Jesus forgive my unbelief I

trust you

I love you and I do the best I can to

give you my small faith Jesus I receive

your love I receive your forgiveness

touch my heart take all the questions

out of my mind and teach me how by the

Holy Spirit to trust you every single

day not to worry not to fear but to rest

and the promises jesus made

thank you Father thank you Jesus thank

you Holy Spirit now give him thanks