" GOD BLESS AMERICA "
From The Desk Of :
Robert Dickerson
" Are we really concerned about America? "
Before you read this message below I will warn you that you may or may not agree.
America is falling at a rapid rate of speed. I only intend to wake up the sleeping church that our eyes may be opened to our fallen condition as a Church.
We have strayed from the old paths and gone whoring after other Gods and God is going to judge us if we don’t wake up, I am deeply concerned that it may be too late.
This great country was founded on Biblical principles (The Bible) and there can be only one God, not many.
I am not a pessimistic person, but the hand writing is on the wall for America, THIS COUNTRY I TRULY LOVE.
The future of this country lies in the hands of the people.
But our God is a respectful God, and when we tell God we no longer want him, he will shake the dust off his feet and write Ichabod
(The Spirit of The Lord Has Departed FromThis Place)
over the door of this great country we love so much.
You don’t appreciate what you have,until you lose it.
( FREEDOM )
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
America needs a healing and will only get that healing when we begin to realize the state we are in and once again begin to Anguish over our fallen country.
America has become a modern day Babylon.
Where are the Modern day Nehemiah’s?
Nehemiah 1:3
1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
2 That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
7 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
9 But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
10 Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
11 O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
Anguish is a thing of the past. Are we really concerned ?
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
David Wilkerson speaks about the perversion in America and the sinfulness of the church. He points out how the church today is married to the world.
People are seeking places where smooth messages are being preached. Christians no longer want to hear about God's coming wrath and the necessary correction of their lives.
This broken and God-fearing man denounces the passivity of God's people.
Christians are blind to the Luke warmness and the sinful mixture that has crept in little by little. He warns how the spirit of blindness is the least recognizable thing.
He calls believers to leave their passivity: "You have lost your fight. That's all the devil wants to do is get the fight out of you and kill it. So you won't labor in prayer anymore, you won't weep before God anymore.
You can sit and watch television and your family goes to hell. If you are expecting somebody else to win your family or to do this work you are mistaken." Through this very deep, challenging and anointed message, God calls believers to a baptism of anguish and to fervently pray for the recovery of a nation.
A Call to Anguish, by David Wilkerson
Posted by Trent Arwine in David Wilkerson on August 23, 2009.
This message is a partially transcribed excerpt from an original message spoken by David Wilkerson. The full message is titled: “A Call to Anguish.” and can be downloaded from “www.sermonindex.net.”
And I look at the whole religious scene today and all I see are the inventions and ministries of man and flesh. It’s mostly powerless. It has no impact on the world. And I see more of the world coming into the church and impacting the church, rather than the church impacting the world. I see the music taking over the house of God. I see entertainment taking over the house of God.
An obsession with entertainment in God’s house. A hatred of correction and a hatred of reproof. Nobody wants to hear it any more. Whatever happened to anguish in the house of God?
Whatever happened to anguish in the ministry? It’s a word you don’t hear in this pampered age. You don’t hear it. Anguish means extreme pain and distress. The emotions so stirred that it becomes painful. Acute deeply felt inner pain because of conditions about you, in you, or around you. Anguish. Deep pain. Deep sorrow. The agony of God’s heart.
We’ve held on to our religious rhetoric and our revival talk but we’ve become so passive. All true passion is born out of anguish. All true passion for Christ comes out of a baptism of anguish. You search the scripture and you’ll find that when God determined to recover a ruined situation… He would share His own anguish for what God saw happening to His church and to His people. And He would find a praying man and take that man and literally baptize him in anguish. You find it in the book of Nehemiah.
Jerusalem is in ruins. How is God going to deal with this? How is God going to restore the ruin? Now folks, look at me… Nehemiah was not a preacher, he was a career man. But this was a praying man.
And God found a man who would not just have a flash of emotion. Not just some great sudden burst of concern and then let it die. He said: “No. I broke down and I wept and I mourned and I fasted. And then I began to pray night and day. Why didn’t these other men… why didn’t they have an answer? Why didn’t God use them in restoration? Why didn’t they have a word? Because there was no sign of anguish. No weeping. Not a word of prayer. It’s all ruin.
Does it matter to you today? Does it matter to you at all that God’s spiritual Jerusalem, the church, is now married to the world? That there is such a coldness sweeping the land? Closer than that… does it matter about the Jerusalem that is in our own hearts? The sign of ruin that’s slowly draining spiritual power and passion. Blind to lukewarmness, blind to the mixture that’s creeping in. That’s all the devil wants to do is to get the fight out of you and kill it. So you won’t labor in prayers anymore, you won’t weep before God anymore. You can sit and watch television and your family go to hell.
Let me ask you… is what I just said convicting to you at all? There is a great difference between anguish and concern. Concern is something that begins to interest you. You take an interest in a project or a cause or a concern or a need. And I want to tell you something. I’ve learned over all my years… of 50 years of preaching. If it is not born in anguish, if it had not been born of the Holy Spirit. Where what you saw and heard of the ruin that drove you to your knees, took you down into a baptism of anguish where you began to pray and seek God.
I know now!!!
Oh my God do I know it!!!
Until I am in agony.!!!
Until I have been anguished over it…
And all our projects, all our ministries, everything we do… Where are the Sunday school teachers that weep over kids they know are not hearing and are going to hell?
You see, a true prayer life begins at the place of anguish. You see, if you set your heart to pray, God’s going to come and start sharing His heart with you. Your heart begins to cry out: “Oh God, Your name is being blasphemed. The Holy Spirit is being mocked. The enemy is out trying to destroy the testimony of the Lord’s faithfulness and something has to be done.”
There is going to be no renewal, no revival, no awakening, until we are willing to let Him once again break us. Folks, it’s getting late, and it’s getting serious.
Please don’t tell me… don’t tell me you’re concerned when you’re spending ours in front of internet or television. Come on.
Lord, there are some that need to get to this alter and confess: “I am not what I was, I am not where I am supposed to be.
God I don’t have Your heart or Your burden. I wanted it easy. I just wanted to be happy. But Lord, true joy comes out of anguish.”
There’s nothing of the flesh that will give you joy.
I don’t care how much money, I don’t care what kind of new house, there is absolutely nothing physical that can give you joy.
It’s only what is accomplished by the Holy Spirit when you obey and take on His heart.
Build the walls around your family. Build the walls around your own heart. It will make you strong and impregnable against the enemy. God, that’s what we desire.
And if we must be brought to ANGUISH in our souls then Lord open our eyes to see your truths before it's too late God before we all here in AMERICA have to look back and say....
You Don’t Appreciate What You Have,
Until You Lose It........Until It Is Gone!!!
" FREEDOM "
Excerpts taken from:
David Wilkerson's Message
" A CALL TO ANGUISH "
http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=KLZ7YLNX