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I want to speak to you this morning

about the healing power of afflictions

the healing power of afflictions I have

two verses I want you to see some 119 if

you have your Bible would like to turn

and you can leave it there open once you

get to 119 leave it open on your lap if

you would please verse 67 of psalm 119

before I was afflicted I went astray but

now have I kept thy word 71 it is good

for me that I’ve been afflicted that I

might learn those statues now can you

can you swallow that are you willing to

take God at His Word verse 71 especially

is good for me that I have been

afflicted that I might learn his

statutes Oh hallelujah

verse 75 I know Lord that the judgments

are right and that you have in

faithfulness you have afflicted me now

that’s even harder to swallow but that’s

God’s Word Heavenly Father we have a

world in a fiction we have a church in

affliction we have people everywhere

suffering is there’s never been

suffering in history as far as we can

see in determine and Lord we bring a

word from heaven we bring a word from

your heart

Lord Jesus change our our attitudes

change our thinking change our heart

Lord concerning those things that we go

through that we may see Christ we may

see God in every circumstance in our

life Lord let the word go forth with

your unction your anointing give us ears

to hear what you say spirit spirit the

Living God use my vessel use my voice

use my heart and just speak the words to

those people have you spoken them to me

you’ve spoken comfort to me through

these words may we be comforted by the

Holy Spirit

as you move thank you for your presence

in this house thank you for being with

us

now Lord I yield my body my spirit my

mind my voice to you to be a vessel to

deliver this word we pray in Christ’s

name Amen I don’t need to explain to you

what afflictions are those are the

circumstances and the troubles that keep

you awake at night cause you to lose

sleep trying to figure out how to make

your way through it how to figure out

what’s happening to you

and many are the afflictions of the

Wrights as the Bible says but I’m

convinced more than ever that God uses

afflictions to heal both saint and

sinner let’s take the sinner first and

I’ll give you for example Manasseh

one of the worst kings in the history of

Israel he was a worshiper of bail he

established altars he built altars right

in the temple court to bail he was he

sinned about said worst of the heathen

he offered his own children in a

sacrifice casting them into the red hot

belly of bells Idol in devil worship he

was a he was into sooth saying he was

into fortune telling he he would not

listen to any prophet he turned against

God he was one of the most vile tyrants

in the history of Israel’s kingdoms and

he shed blood the Bible said needlessly

of a bloody tyrant and God comes God

raises up an enemy God raises up the

Assyrians and they come they capture

Israel they are the Jerusalem and they

take King Manasseh as prisoner and the

captives of Jerusalem and folks when you

read history and Josephus history and

learn how they tortured them on their

force marches and being marched hundreds

of miles through desert and and hardly

any food or drink and the Bible says of

this

this man this evil wicked man and when

he was an affliction he sought his God

and humbled himself greatly before God

in his affliction he turned to God he

began to pray he began to intercede and

the Bible said he humbled himself

greatly and as a result of that he was

restored to his throne and became a

fighter for God tearing down the very

idols that he had built and established

and you may know of sinners – that it

there are those who who seem to be the

most wicked the most vile and folks you

can’t give up on them God has ways God

has ways through affliction to bring

your loved ones and sometimes you have

to stand back in pain you see a special

loved one somebody near you you see them

going through to affliction and pain and

you stand back you can’t do anything

about it

but folks if you’re praying and seeking

God God could use that affliction to

bring conviction and bring them to

Christ King David said his affliction

came from the hand of God the Lord in

faithfulness has afflicted me folks

listen to it let those words sink in I

can’t go any further unless you deal

with this one scripture in faithfulness

God God God has afflicted me before I

was afflicted I went astray but now I

keep his word it’s a good thing for me

that I was afflicted that I might learn

his statues how did the Word of God

become a lamp to David’s feet how is it

he can tell the whole world I delight in

his word how is it that he’s come to

this sweetness and to this prayer Lifan

and to have a heart after God how has he

come to this he’s had a revelation from

the Word of God that God was working his

life through his afflictions unless the

law that’s the Word of God I’m reading

from psalm 119 92 unless the law the

word had been my delight I would have

perished

in my affliction if I wasn’t established

in the word in my affliction if I didn’t

allow God by a spirit to draw me to the

word put his fear in my heart if I

didn’t go to him and let him talk to me

let him deal with issues in my life I

would have not been I wouldn’t be here I

would have gone astray I would have lost

it you can say to me that I can’t

believe that God a loving God could

allow such troubles in my life but I

want you to listen and folks this this

is something that we have to learn if we

don’t see God in all of our

circumstances if we don’t believe that

every step of a righteous man is ordered

by the Lord you will crash your faith

will be shipwrecked if you don’t

understand that God has his hand I’m

convinced of this that in all my

circumstances good and bad everything

that comes my way in my life I believe

that because I’ve committed my life to

Him and I believe that the angel the

Lord camps around about them to fear him

I believe that God is ordering my steps

and sometimes it’s in to the flood

sometimes it’s in to the fire sometimes

it’s in to the furnace but I know God is

with me and he has a reason for

everything he’s doing for you Oh God

have proved us you’ve tried as as silver

as tried you brought us into the net you

laid a friction on our loins we went

through fire through water but you

brought us out into a place of abundance

you see David’s not asking questions

anymore he said I know God is doing

something in me I know that I would have

backslidden I know who I am I know it’s

in my heart and I know how God had to

get my attention David now saw God’s

hand in all his afflictions he knew that

his father was was digging into his

heart

he knew in fact the lamentation of 333

though God caused grief yet he will have

compassion according to the multitude of

his mercies he does not afflict

willingly nor does he grieve the

children of men to deprive them of their

cause I want you to hear this in the

spirit you see God gets no delight he

says in the death of the sinner he

doesn’t get into the light about sinners

being damned

that’s not his delight and now Jeremiah

and lamentations said this is God’s

unwilling work he doesn’t do a willing

effect in the Hebrews means without

heart he says god this is not he has he

does this unwillingly his heart is not

in it my I grew up in early Pentecost

and that back in those days they took

the Word of God literally spare the rod

and dam the child you know apply the rod

and my father had a leather belt hanging

on a nail going down to the basement and

when I did wrong and I was just like

every boy and more so and I I know my

preacher dad loved me but when I failed

he would take me into his room and set

me down and explain what I did wrong and

he said now David this is going to hurt

me worse than it hurt you but I never

believed it

but my father would apply the bill he

would apply it to my heart I mean it to

my backside and my heart but you see the

hardest part was not the spanking now

they called that child abuse now God has

so made the human body there’s a place

for spanking very lightly I’m not trying

to be facetious but folks the hardest

part was all of my father says come here

David and he’d put his arms around me

this how I love you and that’s probably

one of the reasons I’m here tonight this

morning preaching the gospel picture the

surgeon who’s in the operating room and

the staff is preparing for the operation

and then there’s a child laying on the

operating table who has cancer and it’s

been diagnosed as malignant and this

herds and stands over that child and

he’s about to cut he knows he’s going to

inflict pain but there’s a tear in his

eye because you see that child is his

and that makes all the difference that

there’s a loving father and when he has

to when he has to allow affliction in

our life it’s because he’s trying to

remove the cancer he’s trying to move

that which is in our hearts that would

destroy us when affliction comes our way

the first thing we’re apt to do is blame

the devil we we talk about satanic

attacks now folks we can talk to you

about job and job was afflicted by Satan

but he had to have permission God had to

take down the protecting wall that was

around Joe we talked about spiritual

warfare we talked about the devil goes

about as a roaring lion seeking whom he

may destroy we know that Paul was

buffeted by a messenger from Satan we

know that Paul at times was hindered

I the enemy hindered by Satan in going a

certain place but I want you to know

friends listen closely I I have said

that time and time again I’m under

satanic attack this is it this is the

devil at work trying to destroy me I’ve

said that many times but I want you to

just follow it in the scripture for just

a moment there’s no way not any of these

any of this that I’ve mentioned now any

of this yes the devil the devil can do

the attacking but he can’t touch a child

of God without permission he cannot

touch you he cannot afflict you he

cannot change you let me talk to let me

give you the scripture Psalm 89 20 took

notes he said God said I have found

David I anointed him with my holy oil my

hand and my arm so strengthen him the

enemy shall not deceive him the son of

wickedness shall not afflict him the son

of wickedness can’t touch I found David

I found this man this this is my child

this is David my son and I’ve got a

strong arm to protect him and I’m

pronouncing to the whole world that the

enemy Satan cannot afflict him he cannot

flicked him without permission Satan

shall not afflict him in Zakaria the 3rd

chapter and the Lord said unto Satan

Satan came to stand before God with with

the brethren or with the Saints to

accuse them before the father and god

said Zechariah

3rd chapter and the Lord said to the

devil or to Satan Satan the Lord rebuke

you now folks I want to tell you what I

believe I believe with all my heart

before the devil can touch you as a

child of God before the enemy can

afflict or do any damage to it at all he

has to go to the throne of God and he

has to stand between right before Christ

and there’s the heavenly father

he has to bring a greater argument than

the blood of Jesus Christ he has to have

something on you yes does something that

is greater than the blood of Jesus and

there’s nothing conceivable to the mind

of man that is greater than the blood of

Jesus Christ he cannot break the

bloodline as the mountains are around

Jerusalem so the Lord is round about the

people from now and forevermore the rod

of the wicked shall not rest upon thee

lest the righteous put forth their hands

to Anna kitty the rod of the wicked of

the rod of Satan cannot be put on the

back of God’s people now folks I I have

said and we said this is of the devil

and these there are there are attacks

from the devil there is a messenger that

was allowed to go and buff it Paul we

know it’s in the flesh now folks I’m not

I would have to condemn 50 years of

preaching about this if I didn’t if I

came to conclusion suddenly in my final

day in my older days at my old age some

new doctrine know there are attacks

there are attacks but there they there

has to be permission and it has to be

something that God knows that just as

the king of Assyria was users as God’s

rod of affliction he can only be used

and he can only be used for a time and

he cannot touch he cannot kill you he

cannot destroy you

this was the limitations put on the

devil when he came to afflict Joe yes

you can touch him but folks Paul the

Apostle said I prayed three times that

God will release me from this messenger

Satan now that was from the devil so he

is afflicted this is a messenger from

Satan but God said my grace is

sufficient for you my grace will let you

in not only endure but stand strong and

he acknowledges it’s because I was a man

of

fine I had visions that if I told them

if I testified about them would make me

a very proud man and it could have

destroyed me and God was saving a man

that he loved allowing this affliction

there’s another response to afflictions

and it’s this I’m being afflicted

because I’m paying for my past sins and

then suddenly we replay all those

sentence that we have committed in the

past and then we set them up against we

put them as a standard up against the

affliction we have and say well I can’t

understand this I fasted I prayed I’ve

done everything that a Christian should

do then I’m still under affliction and

it has to be because God I must have

crossed the line somewhere

I must have sinned so much against light

I must have done something so terrible

in the eyes of God that he’s having to

he’s having to afflict me he’s having

he’s allowed this in my life because of

some hideous thing and those things will

be brought to memory this example of

that in the scripture the life of a Soph

hey Soph was music director and choir

director in the temple under the reign

of David and Solomon both and he was a

praying man he was a godly man he was a

trusting man but there came a great

affliction into his life and he says in

Psalm 77 and is all in Psalm 77 he said

I am so troubled that I can’t speak

there was an eviction that came into a

staffs life godly man and he said it was

silver woman he gives us no details but

he said it it was so wrong he says I am

so troubled

I am so troubled I can’t speak and then

then you can hear him in the 77th psalm

you hear him saying I stretched out my

hands to my god

I stretched out my hand but there was no

answer he said I am so troubled that I

cannot

speak in Chapter 73 he says God is good

to those who have a clean heart God’s

good to those of a clean heart in other

words you have to be good to avoid

affliction which is a wrong doctrine all

our goodness in the world doesn’t keep

us from affliction then he goes on but

for me my feet of almost my feet were

almost gone and my feet almost stumbled

he said I almost crashed I almost back

slid because I was envious and then he

looked around and he saw the prosperity

he was envious at those who were

prospering and those who didn’t seem to

have a problem in life and were not

afflicted as far as he could see and

something rose up in his heart and he

says I I have fasted I have prayed I’ve

cleaned my hands I’ve sought to and if

you read the seventy third chapter

you’ll find it all there

and he said I’ve struggled to be pure

and walk righteously before the Lord and

all I get are afflictions and there was

a jealousy that came into his heart and

then he only conclusion and he lets us

in on the cause of his troubled heart he

said I don’t understand this I don’t

understand why I’m not being blessed

when all around me ungodly people are

being blessed and he said it’s because

it’s sin and you see there was a problem

in his life he was envious and that Envy

could have destroyed him there’s nothing

more danger no more serious or crippling

than envy and jealousy and it could have

destroyed him God loved this man God

would not let him go you see when you’re

in this kind of situation when when you

are struggling with thoughts from the

enemy and from the flesh that God is

allowing some hardship in your life

because you’ve been such a dirty filthy

sinner and even though you’ve been

serving the Lord

you still slip you still go back and you

failed and so now God’s getting even

with me no no no hear it well because

you see you come then at this place to

what I call trial by the word until

Joseph’s time came the but the word of

the Lord tried him tested him and you

see where we always tell people and I

preached this and you hear that when

you’re in trouble

go back to the Red Sea go back to the

manna go back to the water out of the

rock and look at all the miracles God

did in the past well he did that he did

that in chapter 77 he went back to

Israel he went back to the opening of

the Red Sea he went back to the miracles

the the cloud and the manna and the

water out of the rock in the healing of

bitter waters and he only got worse for

him you see when you’re being tried by

the word of God you can go back you can

go back and you can look at all the

miracles but it’s going to take more

than just looking back because he said I

remember God and I became troubled I

remembered all the miracles and you see

why is he feeling troubled after looking

at the miracles and doing what we’re

supposed to do he said because I don’t

see that in my life I don’t see my Red

Sea opening I don’t see water out of my

rock and see we’re tried by the Word of

God it’ll try you in folks if you stayed

there you can shipwreck your faith if

you try to figure it out no because you

see yes

go back remember the good things God has

done but you hold on to your faith God

is with you in your trial now let me

give you a statement I want you to

remember God is not with me I in spite

in spite of my failures my sins my

slothfulness he’s not with me in spite

of it he is with me in a and throw it

he’s with me in my struggles

he’s with me in my pain he’s with me in

my failure he never leaves he never

forsakes he is still there

and that’s the lesson and Asaph finally

learned that and God brought him out to

a glorious victory hallelujah who is he

that condemneth it is Christ who died

yes rather he is risen again who is even

at the right hand of God who also makes

intercession for us scripture says their

sins and iniquities will I remember no

more

there is now therefore no condemnation

to them that be in Christ Jesus who walk

have those spirit and not to flesh no

condemnation to those who be in Christ

Jesus hallelujah

now there’s another response that I

believe it’s the right response to

afflictions and it’s this Lord are you

trying to say something to me in this

affliction or do you have a message

heavy if I’ve been blinded to something

that you’re trying to speak into my life

the scripture makes it very very clear

that God does speak and he speaks

through afflictions now that this came

into this message was born out of

something I’ve learned through some

personal afflictions sometimes the worst

afflictions come from friends from

people that conflict you and turn on you

and speak evil of you and I remember

over my lifetime and ministry faces I

can remember if those who are supposedly

my friends and turned on me and and

wounded me deeply and looking back I

remember one occasion when someone got

in touch with me that I thought was a

and that I had helped mentor and and did

so much in the way of help financially

in every other way and just poured out

on me incredible I was a liar I was

achieved I was arrogant and and I’m just

a torrent of stuff that broke my heart

and wounded me and I went home and I

said that’s the most devilish thing that

that that is the devil himself trying to

destroy my rest but there was something

nagging at me we’re really nagging in my

spirit something that was burning and

turning inside and I went to the Lord

and prayer laid flat on the ground and I

said oh god I have a wounded heart and I

I went through all the things you know

what blamed the devil all these

responses I thought well trying to

examine what sin did I do I went through

all these all this stuff we go through

trying to come to conclusion about why

we are afflicted by the Word of God I I

quoted verses that seem to to not match

this problem this situation you know and

the Lord seen that still small voice

said I’ve allowed this because I’ve been

talking to you about something and

you’re not listening and a boy I heard

it I knew at the moment he whispered I

knew that one issue that God was putting

his finger on and the Lord said aloud

this now I want you if you will obey me

now he said I want you to do something

now and folks this is the wonderful

thing about the love of jihad and the

love of Jesus for his children he says

remember I told you how my father would

deal with me chasing me and then want me

to hug him and then he hugged me well

you see that’s the way

the Lord is who he loves he chastens and

I the Lord the Holy Spirit led me said

now get your concordance and I want you

to read and get in your mind every

scripture you can on the tender loving

kindness of the father I opened up my

Bible and I got you know folks here’s

what I started reading I prayed that

you’re merciful this is this is David in

his affliction I pray Lord that your

merciful kindness common comfort me that

I might live

I read that Lord said you understand

what I’m saying I’m going to comfort you

now and you take all learn to who I

really am right now and when these

afflictions come the Lord is gracious

full of compassion slow to anger and of

great mercies the Lord is good to all

and his tender mercies are above all his

works his tender mercies are above all

his works another whatever you’re going

through right now

mercy is there God’s mercy is there

God’s tender loving kindness is there

he’s not out to spank you or hurt you

he’s there to deal with you now please

don’t go out of here and try to say well

I don’t know what it is and and I can’t

handle that just go to the Lord

go to the Lord with an open heart if

there’s an issue there he’ll tell you he

will not condemn you he will not push

you aside you say now let me love you

through this let me love you through

this I have numerous books and I’m going

to wrap this up in just a moment I have

numerous books on apologetics and men

try godly man wonderful men of God

intellectual men and women

have tried to explain the suffering of

those who suffer especially those who

suffer week after week month after month

and year after year and nothing seems to

change prayers don’t seem to get through

like I think of so many in wheelchairs I

think of so many that are suffering and

hurting and and I’ve read and read this

in this past week I’ve read a number

also of messages from those who knew

apologetics but it never satisfies me it

doesn’t really answer something that is

is just something that doesn’t add up

I cannot explain to you theologically

why some of the most godly people we

know praying people trusting people

suffer I can’t explain to you fully how

my own son one of my son’s is still

going on and on in pain no this is a

fourth year I think I don’t try to get

an explanation I have I have something I

know I know that I know that God is

trying to do in him I know it there’s

something just from the Holy Spirit

David just be patient I’m working on

something I can’t tell you theologic I

can’t give you I can’t walk you through

it I’m not that intelligent I don’t

I couldn’t execute the word enough to

put your mind at ease but I I do see

something that anchors my faith then

helps me I have human witnesses human

witnesses to the faithfulness of God in

long time effects

in unthinkable affliction I’m thinking

of elder Sam this church is on our

elders board Sam has been suffering pain

in under enix excruciating pain for 15

years he’s downstairs right now praying

he he leads the group in prayer while

we’re preaching Sam has been operated on

time and time again we just sent him

months ago to Europe for an operation on

his back and he’s he’s still in Cannes

he walks with canes and he can’t sleep

at night but you see you read Hebrews 11

all the heroes of faith to me Sam is a

hero of the faith this man prays for me

every day he prays for the past of this

church he prays a pastors

he’s a praying man every time I see him

he has a word from the Lord and the love

of God and the sweetness of Christ

that’s coming out of him and Sam told me

this morning he says I know I know what

God knows about me I know that this if I

see God in what has happened in my life

I think of Jimmy Macri my Secretary’s

husband Jimmy’s had since he’s a child

he’s had cluster migraine headaches that

are mind-boggling he has he’s lost 90%

of his sight and most of his hearing but

I’ve never met a sweeter man I’ve never

met anyone as kind

I called him mr. fantastic and the

reason every time you see him even

though he has excruciating pain and he

has clusters of headaches that not the

most potent drug can relieve there’s

there’s no drug that has been able now

to relieve his pain in fact he’s home

today with a cluster just a block from

here and yet every time I see him how

you doing Jimmy fantastic fantastic

you see I have living proof yes the word

but you see we’re human and God just

lays these scenes before us you could

look around and you can see it I see it

most of all in my wife when who’s here

this morning 25 operations at four or

five for cancer cancer in both dark two

two daughters in the death of our 12

year old granddaughter to brain tumor

and I have seen you see Gwen has never

never complained

never she’s lost a good part of her

sight from macular degeneration but I

see he could tell you through 50 years

50 years suffering all there been a lot

of good years from pain free but she’ll

tell you God has had his hand every step

and Gwen is my hero I look up to her

every time

then who would cause but try to cause my

faith to waver I look at her and her

braveness now look at Jimmy I look at

Sam you have these witnesses before you

to the god is faithful and God shows

forth his tender mercies in the hardest

of times if God has done and with this

eye closed if God has done anything in

my life if there’s anything of worth in

my life if I have learned anything I

have learned it in my darkest hours I’ve

learned it in times of pain I’ve learned

it in times of agony and God because I

just held on said God I believe you’re

in this I believe I can see you in every

circumstance that takes the load off you

don’t even try to figure anything out

anymore hallelujah God is with you

the devil’s a liar take a stand and say

God is with me and God in His time

God in his way many of the fixin’s of

the righteous but the Lord delivers them

from them all some of us are some of us

are delivered when Jesus comes many of

us going to be delivered in various ways

and in his own time and way he will

deliver but I believe that I am

delivered the moment I am above my pain

when I’m above it I am delivered the

deliverance is that the devil can’t

hinder me any more he can’t lie to me

anymore because by faith by faith I’ve

been raised

I’ve been resurrected out of my doubts

and fears and now I stand on faith I can

face every problem because I know God’s

in it with me hallelujah sand your feet

hallelujah glory be to God do you

believe God is with you no matter what

you face folks we’ve got to believe this

because of what we face coming in our

times we’ve got to get a hold of this

God whatever happens whatever happens

and this is not resignation this is not

just going into some kind of state of

mind that yes I don’t accept it no it’s

an act of faith that says that I believe

I believe that God will go with me

through this and I’m not going down I’m

going to hold on and believe God right

through it Heavenly Father we thank you

for your precious word Lord there are

people listening to me now that aired

during great afflictions great

affliction but I ask your Holy Spirit to

bring peace of heart and mind

and a confidence that God who is

promised will keep his word David said

comfort me by your word comfort all the

times that no man can comfort us nobody

can give us a word but we go to your

word and we find about your tender

loving kindness in your multiplied

mercies for us thank you Jesus give hope

and faith to everyone in this house and

all who hear me in Christ’s name Amen

now in closing I want to open the front

of this church there’s some and also

those in the overflow rooms and answer

the watching through the large screens

you can step forward for prayer but here

in the main auditorium I invite all of

those in this building that have heard

this word and you are listening closely

you are you have been overwhelmed what

with what you’re facing it could be

financial it could be physical it could

be marriage I don’t notice but you you

came this morning overwhelmed at the

breaking point and there there is a

breaking point you go one way they

either get bitter or you turn to the

Lord with all your heart and if you’re

at a breaking point I want you to step

out if you if you want God to turn thing

turn you around you don’t want to go

into doubt you don’t want to go into

unbelief you don’t you know where that

leads to that fine a leads to atheism no

God is saying to your heart right now

and come this way follow me up in the

balcony go the stairs on either side

come and we’ll pray for you believe now

if you don’t know Jesus Christ as your

Lord and Savior or if you’ve turned your

back if you’ve been running from God and

God brought you here this morning and

you feel your heart stirred and you you

feel the tugging of the Holy Spirit you

get out of your seat and come here and

the same in the over

low rooms you just go in between the

screens and stand there and you can hear

me and I would be praying for you in

just a moment as as we wait on the Lord

up in the balcony and there are numbers

over here that need to hear this and God

wants to do a work at your heart step

out and we’ll pray with you in just a

moment I want to read the scripture to

you from Psalm 103 he is not dealt with

us after our sins he’s not rewarded us

according to our iniquities for as the

heaven is high above the earth so great

is his mercy toward them that fear him

as far as the east is from the west so

far has he removed our transgressions

from us like as a father pities his

children so the Lord pities those who

fear Him

he knows our frame he remembers that

we’re just dust look this way if you

will please you heard what I read this

way God says in your problem in your

difficulty you he said I give my

sympathy you have my sympathy and just

as the surgeon has a tear in his eye

when he has to operate his own son the

Lord is right here now feeling touched

with the feelings of your infirmity he’s

touched he feels he’s not a dead Idol

he’s a Living God we have a resurrected

Christ and I can’t

through my word I can’t inject faith

into you I can’t change you just by

talking to you it has to be the Holy

Spirit and I believe the Holy Spirit is

here this morning and you can just ask

why don’t you ask right now Holy Spirit

open my heart just say that Holy Spirit

come open my heart to receive and you

can’t get it just from sermon tapes you

can’t get it just from preaching you

have to have your own personal

experience and say Lord Jesus faith

comes by hearing the Word of God help me

now

he said if I hadn’t had your law in my

heart I would have failed if I didn’t

have this word in my heart can I tell

you this most important thing I can tell

you now and we see it and it’s been

repeated over and over again

and the reason it’s repeated because

that’s the one way that faith will come

through hearing or reading and asking

God to show you when you this afternoon

somehow someway even if you’re at

McDonald’s wherever you have your Bible

just turn it and go to the start reading

through the Psalms and start reading

some of these like chapter 34 chapter 34

103 and 106 and 121 and we read chapters

and let faith arise in your heart and

apply those words whatever it says take

it to heart so that the Lord can change

you now if you don’t know Christ you’re

simply right now ask him to cleanse you

and forgive and blot out your sins he

said he’s faithful just forgive him

cleanse you if you’ve been cold and

indifferent toward him

God saw that you stepped out he knew

what was in your heart or you wouldn’t

have come forward and having come

forward now just say Lord Jesus embrace

me I come to your love there’s no

condemnation but there’s love extended

to you from the father’s heart and just

say I receive your love Lord forgive my

unbelief forgive my sloth forgive my

laziness and help me by your spirit to

be moved to be established in faith

Heavenly Father I pray for every one

that came forward and I pray for those

that are in the annex watching on the

screen Lord will you touch they’re in

that room Holy Spirit you are there

you’re in this place and will you bring

peace and rest to those who would just

turn to you with all their heart and say

lord I thank you you never left me you

never first took me now Lord Jesus will

you bring faith will you instill faith

through your word through your presence

and by your spirit I pray will you pray

this prayer from your heart right now

Holy Spirit you abide in me and that’s

what the word says and I ask you Holy

Spirit to restore me restore my faith

give me hope and peace and let me come

into rest I lay down all my Charles

trials I laid down all my fears

believing you Lord Jesus to forgive me

and cleanse me and set me free now look

this way now

you don’t have to beg God you don’t have

to plead he said I’m I am he’s already

God he said I have a readiness to

forgive you he was waiting just to touch

you holiday Halloween did you receive

the word I said did you receive the word

that’s it