Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace.  And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

Enclosed is a very hard message, but a very important one too. I have received so many questions asking why this terrible terrorism was allowed by God, and what each and every one of us should do now.  What should our response be as people, and as Christians.  We all want answers.  David Wilkerson has done a great job of answering these questions.

Please, please...take the time to read this!  Our very lives may depend on it.   I know I am going out on a limb here in sending this to many of you, but this is so very important.  My heartfelt prayers go along with this email. 

 

Please, after you read this, forward it to everyone you can.  Get the word out across this country!  We are in the end times.  Don't stick your head in the sand and pretend all is well.  Just as our President has told the nations that each must take a stand now, so too, each of us must take a stand spiritually.  Where will you stand?  Chrissie

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"The Towers have Fallen and We Missed the Message"
-Pastor David Wilkerson.

 

Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the twin towers of New York City
were destroyed.  Five days later right outside the door, you can still see the smoke
pouring out of the ruins.  I looked out my window because when I prepared this message in my
study I overlook the whole scene and the smoke this morning was drifting over the
Statue of Liberty and all over New Jersey. 

 

I stood there last night weeping and begging God for mercy.
Mercy for the grieving families who lost loved one.  Mercy for those still digging in
the ruins, retrieving bodies and mostly body part.  Mercy on the workers - the police, the
fireman, the volunteers who openly weep at the indescribable destruction.

 

Times Square Church was given a site at ground zero.  Pastor Carter tells me that the
tents were put there - this church was the closest to ground zero and to the disaster. 
Workers were working and are still working 24-hours around the clock and still working,
feeding and ministering and being there in this time of horror.

But you see, Times Square Church  was warned a calamity was coming.   We are now in
the seventh week of a visitation of the Holy Spirit and if you have been coming to this
church you know that even weeks before that the Holy Spirit moved on the pastoral staff here to cancel everything. 

 

We cancelled the Mission's Conference, we cancelled the Youth Conventions, we
cancelled every speaker.  We cancelled everything to come and call this body to prayer. 
We started with two weeks of prayer and those weeks of meetings continue this week
again - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and stopping only when God says to stop.

 

But something indescribable has been happening in this church in this past seven weeks. 
Every service, as you witness today, a holy hush - a silence from the throne has come to
this auditorium.  There was one night when we sat for one hour in total silence and
nobody could move.  I remember putting my hands on my knees to stop them from
trembling because of the awesome presence of God.

 

As the pastors began to pray and you remember if you've been here, you've seen the
pastors weeping and wailing.  I've seen pastor Neil laying here crying out to God.  We
were repenting.  We were crying out to God and then the Holy Spirit spoke clearly that it
was happening because a tragedy was coming - a calamity was coming to this city and to
the nation and we didn't know what it was.  Suddenly a calamity struck the nation and
especially here in New York City. 

 

One network anchorman said this, and I quote him, "Just think of it.  Our two symbols of
power and prosperity have been smitten in one hour."
 
He didn't know he was quoting from Revelation 18:10, ".Alas, alas, that great city
Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come."

 

One of the police officers from this church who is working at this site spoke with us, the
pastors, on Friday night and he said his fellow officers who know he's a Christian are
asking, "What's this all about?"

 

Police officers and fireman are sitting down and just weeping and crying like children. 
Others are being asked now, "Where is God in all of this?  Where is God?"

 

There's a lady from this church who moved to California, she was active in this church, I
know her by name.  She's been gone about two years, she attends a church in California
and she called this week, yesterday I believe it was, to a sister here in this church who
then called me and said, "Please tell the pastors of the church to keep on warning and
preparing the people because since I sat under ministers who were warning I was
prepared and ready.  Everybody in the church where I attend now is losing it.  Everyone
is weeping and they are going to the pastors saying, why didn't you warn us? 
Why didn't you prepare us?"

 

She said, "Please don't stop warning."

 

Now understand where God is in this calamity.  You've got to absolutely believe in this
book.  You have to put everything - all your faith in what God says in His book.  Not
experts, not those who are called. the talking heads on television or radio. No, what
God's word says!  If you are ready to hear that we'll begin to understand where God is in all of this.

 

I can assure you God wasn't taken by surprise.  I can assure you that every thought of
man is known by the heavenly Father. He reads every thought.  Every ruler, every desk
spot, every terrorist - God knows when he sits down, when he rises, he knows where they are at.

 

Very soon they'll be in hell because God deals with them. He knows every thought. 
Nothing on the face of the earth is done without His knowledge, without His permission
and even sometimes by His doing.

 

Years ago, in 1973, God gave me a prophetic word called, The Vision.  I distributed it in
a book and when the Lord gave me that vision is was so frightful I begged with God,
please, I can't deliver this word without some hope.  You've got to give me some hope.  I
feel hopeless by what I see coming.  If you want me to. you have to give me something
and the Lord did.

 

It was five words, "God has everything under control."

 

Having received that word is the only way I could release the message.  I say again today,
God has everything under control.

 

Now if you are a praying, Bible believer, you know instinctively in your heart that God is
trying to speak to this nation and the world through this.  God is trying to send us a message.

 

Theologians and pastors all over the country even around the world are saying to their
congregations, "God had nothing to do with these calamities. God would not allow such
a thing to happen."

 

Because of that thinking and because of that preaching, we are quickly losing the
message and missing what God is trying to say.  We are missing it.

 

Beloved, we need a word from heaven.  I've wept and grieved just as others have but
deep within I've experienced this week a deeper grief than just those who have been lost
in this catastrophe.  I'm going to show you how God weeps.  I'll show you how God
grieves over it and I'll show you how God has no pleasure in the death of anybody.

 

It's the grief that if we miss the message He's trying to proclaim to us, if we turn a deaf
ear to what God is loudly proclaiming, much worse is in store for us.

 

I found the word of God, the prophet in Isaiah spoke directly to what is happening today,
right now.  He spoke clearly to this experience.  If anyone here objects to my using and
Old Testament story as an example of God's work today then you need to be reminded
of what Paul the apostle said. 

 

"Now all these things.(in other words, everything that happened in the Old Testament,
happened unto them for examples). they are written for our admonition upon whom
the ends of the worlds are come."

 

Isaiah went through a similar experience in his nation.  So similar that it's similar yet we
get from it how God moves in times like this. 

 

For nearly 250 years God patiently dealt with Israel.  Patiently wooing and sending light
afflictions, as they were called at first.  Light afflictions - trying to woo back into his
blessing and into His favor and into His love.

 

They were called to humble themselves before the almighty hand of God.  All the
prophets came to them speaking the same word, humble yourself.  Turn from your
wickedness, turn from your wicked ways. But the scripture says instead they served
idols.  That the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah by all the prophets
saying, "Turn ye from your evil ways.  Keep my commandments and my statues.
 They would not harken but they've hardened their necks."

 

This chosen nation, this so blessed nation of God, was called to repentance.  Instead
they began to mock their prophets.  They began to follow vanity, they became vain,
they left all the commandments of the Lord their God.  They sold themselves to do
evil in the sight of the Lord.  Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel.

 

God sent wake-up calls to Israel.  One of the first was the Assyrian invasion of two
provinces - Zebulun and Naphtali.  Only the coast was touched in two places.  This
was the first wake-up God gave to Israel. 

 

Suddenly Israel lost it's sense of security.  It had never happened in this measure before. 
But it was limited damage.  Their heartland wasn't touched.  It was limited to two places.

 

But in it, God was speaking to Israel and Israel missed the message.  Israel was given a
second wake-up call and this one was very damaging, very severe.
 Isaiah makes it very clear, and I'll show it to you in just a minute where it's
located, that the enemies of Israel - they were called the enemies of Israel, Assyria and
the Philistines - combined their forces and suddenly attacked Israel.  The attack is
said to have come from before and behind.  From the east and from the west.

 

Now we come to the heart of what I want to talk to you about.
Where was God in the sudden invasion of his chosen land of Israel? 

 

I'm going to go to the word and I'm going to show you from the 9th chapter of Isaiah, the
prophet Isaiah.  I want you to look at verse 8 with me please.

 

In the midst of all of this - turmoil and chastening by the hand of God - verse 8.

 

"The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel."

 

Look at me please.  Never in the history of mankind has God left his people clueless
during a time of disaster.  Never.  He's never left us clueless.  He's never left us trying to
figure it out on our own.  He's always given an understanding.

 

God spoke to his people in a time of calamity.  Even now while I stand here God is
raising up prophetic messages today in pulpits all across America and around the world. 
They are preaching just what I'm preaching to you this morning.

 

I received a call from a pastor, a friend of mine from the West, last night.  He said,
"Pastor Dave, I have to deliver a message tomorrow to my people and I'm scared to
death.  It's so against what everybody seems to be telling people today.  I'm scared to
death and I want to run it by you."

 

When he ran it by me I said, "Well my friend, that's what I'm preaching tomorrow." 

 

All over the country because these men have heard from God and they weep and they
grieve, they repent, but still they know that they have to proclaim what God's word says
and to bring the message home to our hearts.

 

I'm going to give you a word that I don't think.  I really don't want to hear, in my flesh,
and most of you don't want to hear.  It's going to sound heartless to some and cruel and
untimely and like unkindness in a time of grieving.

 

But if we don't hear it, if we don't face it, the nation is doomed.  Absolutely doomed. 

 

 "Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his
enemies together"  (Isaiah 9:11) 

 

"For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, netiher do they seek the
Lord of hosts."  (Verse 13)

 

The Lord himself set up the adversaries.  The people did not turn unto him that smiteth.

 

Now let me tell you that God uses. For Israel during Isaiah's time God used the
enemies of Israel to rod, to chasten and warn them to repent. God had to use it as a last
resort to bring them back into his heart.  To bring back the blessing and to destroy their
enemies and to put up walls of protection.

 

You read Isaiah 5, he said because of the sin God let the walls down. 

 

God used Assyria - let me read it to you - as a rod to correct Israel.

 

 "Oh Assyria, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.  The
weapons in their hand are my indignation.  I will send him against an hypocritical nation,
and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take
the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets." (Isaiah 10:5, 6)

 

He said, I'm going to take an evil nation and I'm going to use it as a rod, as a last resort
to bring my people to repentance and to my heart.  That I make provisions and I provide
for it and I protect it but they've turned their backs upon me.

 

As soon as he was finished with Assyria, he destroyed it.  Now let me tell you what
is going to happen to the terrorists.

 

Please look at chapter ten, Isaiah 10, verses 12 through 15.

 

God is saying, yes, now you've lifted yourself with pride and now I'm going to destroy you.

 

I can assure you that it won't be long until everyone is in hell.  God is going to do it.  God
himself is going to deal- in some miraculous way he will deal with all these adversaries
and the terrorists.  You can mark it down - God will deal with this.  God will deal with it.

 

Suddenly as the Assyrians come and God in his love is chastening Israel, suddenly the
buildings are collapsing.  The Bible says in chapter 9, verse10, the bricks are falling
down.  Look at it, "The bricks are fallen down.thy sycomores are cut down but we
will change them into cedars."

 

In fact, the forests were on fire, buildings were on fire. Israel was in flames. 
 
But I ask you a question, now listen to me closely please.  Did Israel repent?  Is there any
national acknowledgement that God was warning?  Did any of those who were rulers
seek God in the calamity?

 

No, because it's very clear from the scripture the initial fear gave way to a flood tide
of national pride. 

 

Look at verse 9:  "And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of
Samaria [you see, this is the heartland] that say in the pride and stoutness of heart."

 

The word "stoutness" there in Hebrew is "a sense of greatness".

 

A sense of greatness in their pride and a sense of greatness of heart and they are saying
the bricks are falling down but we will build with huge stones.

 

"The bricks are fallen down.thy sycomores are cut down but we will change them into
cedars."

 

Here's what they were saying by their actions and listen closely please.  These calamities
are just fate.  An unfortunate disaster that can't be explained.

 

Aw, but we're a great people.  We're a mighty nation unbending.  We are proud people. 
Let the world know we will build it up bigger and better.

 

Where there were bricks we will rebuild with impregnable stones. Where there was
cheap construction destroyed, the sycamores will build with better materials. We'll build
with cedar.  We are a blessed nation - proud and powerful.  We will come through this
trouble better than ever.

 

But you see, no one was asking, "Is God saying something to us?
Is God trying to speak to us?"

 

Does this sound familiar?  God himself sent a covert chastisement on Israel to wake them
up and to bring them back to himself to protect them but they don't even once
acknowledge His working in it.  They don't heed the message. 

 

But they use this disastrous occasion to defy the very thought that such a proud, great
nation could ever be humbled or chastened by God.

 

Now folks, I thank God for a moral President.  We prayed for him before this happened. 
Remember we were pleading and interceding, "God give wisdom to this President.  God
something is about to happen.  Give him wisdom." 

 

We have prayed and interceded for him.  Thank God for the Christians in high places. 
Thank God that, at least temporarily, there is a turning to prayer around the nation and
around the world.

 

Do you remember the Gulf War?  Do you remember how packed all the churches were in
New York?  Do you remember a whole three days of prayer?  Then the next week
New York City came apart with parties? 

 

Do you remember?  A whole nation called to prayer.  Thank God President Bush, Sr.,
spent the night with Billy Graham on his knees and that's probably why it was successful
in that occasion.

 

Thank God for people who are sober and beginning to re-think their lifestyle.  And we're
to pray for our leaders and thank God we live in a land of freedom but still we're missing
the message. 

 

We have moments of silence and we call that repentance?  We see politicians on the steps
of the government building singing "God Bless America" and we call that
turning back to God? 

 

We applaud the NFL for calling for a moment of silence at halftime and we call that a
spiritual experience.  Is that all that's going to come out of it?  One moment of silence
and back to the painted faces, back to jugging beer and screaming for their favorite team? 

 

Back to sitting in front of the television laughing with Leno?

 

This morning I turned on the radio to hear what was happening and they were re-playing
as the the Senators and Congressman on the Congressional Building steps were singing,
"God Bless America, stand beside us, lead us, guide us."

 

I wept and cried, I could hardly stand it because God was saying, "David, don't you
understand?  There's only a handful that believe that.  These are the same men that have
ruled me out of their society.  They are trying to remove my name from the school books. 
They have aborted babies.  And now they're singing God stand beside us!"

 

What hypocrisy!

 

These politicians pontificating about God now.  The very ones that are protecting
abortion rights. 

 

You see when a nation is under divine correction it will do one of two things.  It will
humble itself as did Ninevah or it will give God lip service and then turn to it's own
strength and power to rise above the correction.

 

The cry is rising now - "We have the strength and the power, the ability, the resolve to
endure any disaster because we're a proud and great nation."

 

Now thank God for patriotism.  Thank God for the American flag. I thank God for the
temporary national unity and folks, that's what it is.  It's temporary. 

 

I thank God for the incredible heroic efforts and sacrifices we've witnessed.  The world
wonders at the fortitude and love of the New Yorkers in this time, and the Americans in
general, in Washington, D.C. and everywhere.
 
But folks, we face now the same danger of missing God's message as did Israel.  We're
at the same crossroad now that Isaiah spoke of .

 

If you and I lived in Jerusalm and Judah at the time of this prophet, I have a sense that
many of us would have walked out on him.  We wouldn't have listened.  We wouldn't
have heeded it because the nation refused to believe that Jerusalem, their favorite city, or
the nation of Judah could be brought low.  And here comes Isaiah preaching while all the
false prophets were preaching peace.

 

He said, "Shall not God as he has done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem
and her idols?"

 

He said, What makes you think you're exempt Jerusalem?  Don't you know that I have
just destroyed nations all around you for their idolatry?  This same idolatry that you
are practicing? 

 

And he comes now with this message, "Shall not God as he has done to Samaria and her
idols, so do also to Jerusalem and her idols?"  What makes you think your nation is exempt?

 

All across America now we hear of prayer and remembrance meetings. 
Prayer and remembrance.  Now folks, we've got to remember those who died.  That's
scriptural, that's honorable. Thank God for what's happening.  But why do we find it so
impossible to call for prayer and repentance meetings?  Why?

 

Is it remembrance and revenge?.. . this has to be dealt with. 
I'm for that 100%. 

 

But where is the call for turning back to God in America?  Where is the call? 
Where is anyone hearing the message? 

 

Let me give you the message God is trumpeting.  Time is running out.

 

I've sent you prophets and watchmen.  You've been warned over and again.  I prospered
you above all nations.  I endured your worship of gold and silver.  I endured your
shameless sensuality.  I endured your mockery, your continuous shedding of innocent
blood and murdering of babies.  I've endured your timeless efforts to eradicate my name,
even from your history books. 

 

Now I've stricken in hopes of saving you, that you would repent and turn from your
wicked ways so that I could heal your land and I will destroy your enemies.

 

Now folks, show me where that's not scriptural.  Prove to me from God's word that He
will not judge America as He's judged Sodom, Rome, Greece and now Russia.

 

I just returned from Russia a few months ago and walking through St. Petersburg and
Moscow I was shocked at the total depression.  The average wage is $50 a month. 
Nothing but broken down infrastructures.  Everywhere men are laying on the streets
drunk on cheap vodka.  Drug addicts everywhere now.  Such devastation. 

 

I broke down in front of the ministers and wept and wailed. 

 

We met at a hockey arena in Moscow because they tried to out rule God out of their
society.  They went down the same road we're going down and God said, that's enough.
 
Russia is under severe judgment.  He's turned it into a Third World nation. 

 

Here's the message from the prophet Ezekial.

 

"Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed.  Make you a
new heart, a new spirit, for why would you die, oh house of Israel?  I have no pleasure in
the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God.  Wherefore turn yourselves and live."

 

Folks, God knows the pain and sorrow of the death of the innocent.  Who could be more
innocent than his own son?  Who is more innocent? 

 

God laid the sins of the whole world on the back of his own son and let wicked men kill
him!  So don't tell me that He's not a feeling God.  That He doesn't feel pain.

 

He said, "I take no pleasure in this."

 

And I'll tell you why God bottles tears because they are his own tears He's retrieving. 
He weeps through those who are His beloved children.  Every tear you shed as a believer
in Jesus, and lover of Christ, those are the tears of God. Jesus is still a man and he weeps
and He weeps through His children.  It's the only evidence He can give.

 

I tell you now, Jesus has been weeping.  God pity's and He weeps but his justice and his
righteousness force Him to restrain his pity and carry out righteous judgments as a last
resort.  His justice demands that He lay these sins on His son and that an innocent son
of God would die.

 

Oh yes, so many innocent people have died.  Not that there was personal judgment on
them.  Many righteous died.  But God's trying to save a nation.

 

Now what's going to happen if this nation misses the message and we don't turn back to
the Lord?  The window of opportunity is very short now.  What's going to happen if
abortion continues and we end up killing born babies for research purposes?

 

If we continue rubbing the precious name of Jesus out of our American history?  That's
what they're trying to do now.  All of the school books are being re-written, the majority
of school books are being re-written to remove God's name from American history. Right now.

 

What happens if we re-build bigger and better only to enrich ourselves even more?  And
all the talk I hear now is that somebody is going to build the towers bigger and better than ever.

 

What's going to happen if we don't trust God now instead of trusting our armed might? 
Let me answer that question, not out of my own heart, not out of speculation, but the
word of Isaiah clearly tells us what follows the rejection of His call to repentance and
turning to pride and boasting of greatness.

 

The Bible says there will be devouring fire mounting to the heavens, darkness over the
land, national disunity, a stricken economy, every man out for himself to survive.

 

Now listen to the scripture.  "For wickedness burneth as the fire:  it shall devour the
briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up
like the lifting up of smoke.  "Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land
darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his
brother."  (Isaiah 9:18, 19)

 

It will be every man for himself.

 

"He shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry."

 

God's going to touch the economy.

 

".and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every
man the flesh of his own arm."  (verse 20)

 

That means he's going to protect his little world and God help you if you try to get near
the flesh of his own arm.

 

Let me read to you a message I delivered from this pulpit.  It was September 7, 1992.  It's
entitled, "A Prophetic Warning to New York City".  Some of you where here, perhaps, in
1992.  Let me read this.  This is from this very pulpit.

 

Right now, I believe God is speaking a warning to New York City and I wrestled with
His severe word as I prepared this message and I prayed, Lord, is this really going to happen? 

 

Again and again I heard this still small voice,  "Preach it and warn the people. Those who
want the truth will receive it."

 

Dear Saint:

 

This warning is not meant to scare you.  It's meant only for you to take to the Lord and pray. 
This is what I believe the Lord has shown me. 

 

      Thirty days of chastisement will fall on New York City such as
      the world has never seen.  God's going to let down the walls.
      Unimaginable violence, looting, a thousand fires will be burning
      at the same time throughout the city and it's burroughs.
     
      Times Square will be ablaze and the flames that ascend into the
      heaven will be seen for miles.  Fire trucks will not be able to
      handle it all. 
      Trains and buses will be shut down.  Billions of dollars will
      be lost.  Broadway shows will stop completely.  It will cause
      businesses to flee the city in an unstoppable hemorrhage. 

     
      The violence will be ferocious.  It will shock the whole world. 
      Our streets will be lined not just with National Guard but the militia.
     
      The Los Angeles fires were confined to a few sections of
      their city but New York will be ablaze and its burroughs.
     
      Such things are expected in Third World countries but
      not in a civilized nation like the United States.  Yet in
      not too long a time afterward New York City will go bankrupt.
      The city's Queen city will be cast into the dirt.  A city of poverty.
     
      You ask, when will all this happen?  All I can say is I
      believe I will be here when it happens.  When it happens,
      no matter where we are, in your apartment or on the job,
      God's people are not to panic or fear."
     
I've been asked. so many calls in our Texas office. "Brother Dave, the web sites are
covering this all over the United States.  Is this what you saw?"

 

My answer is, "No, it's not.  Not at all."

 

What I see is far more, far more severe.  The heartland won't be spared.  Because you
see, if we turn away from God now, if we don't have voices rising, then this is what
happened to Israel.  The whole nation came under economic collapse. 

 

You see, I don't like to hear this.  Folks, we didn't want to hear it then [in 1992]
and it's happened and now we weep. 

 

You say, "Well can't any of this be avoided?"

 

Absolutely yes.  Yes! 

 

If this President proves to be a Josiah, a man who sought the Lord with all his heart
according to God's pattern or the tracks of the Holy Spirit we may be given a reprieve for
as long as we have a godly man who does not turn to the right or to the left but
completely trembles at the word of God. 

 

Turn to II Kings and I'll give you that hope if you will.  If you want to know what to pray
about, folks, this is it.  Pray that God will cause President Bush to tremble at the word of
God, that he will stay on his knees and not be turned aside by advisors.

 

God said, as long as you are in power, as long as you weep before me, as long as you
don't turn to the right or to the left, as long as you tremble at my word, you will not see
what is coming.  It will not come under your rule.  It will not come in your time.

 

My prayer is that we would pray that desperately and event his morning before we close
this service, to call this church to pray that God give the spirit of Josiah in the White House. 

 

Our Attorney General Ashcroft is a Pentecostal believer full of the Holy Spirit.  There are
prayer meetings every day in the White House.  We need to plead with God that the spirit
of Josiah, the same spirit that rested on him.

 

Folks, not that we should be afraid of what is coming but to give us some time to
evangelize.  There seems to be a visitation of the Holy Spirit that is running in parallel
with these judgments.  There seems to be God speaking all over the land.

 

Churches in Dallas, churches in Denver are being packed with people. 
This is happening even before. 
Prayer meetings. and these are the Christians, these are the believers that are coming
together.  There's a temporary pull and call among those who are not believers.

 

But folks, this is the hope and here's what the prophet Zechariah said, "Thus saith the
Lord of Hosts, turn ye unto me, saith the Lord, and I will turn to you."

 

... God said, if you will just turn. 

 

We can't reach the world from this pulpit.  But you see, yes, I pray that the nation
repents.  But my most intense prayer is for my own heart.

 

Lord, let me be holy turned to you.  Let me have a repentant heart.  Let me judge my sins
that I may not be judged before the throne.  I'm not looking at somebody else.

 

Folks, you can't find anywhere in this particular thing where God blamed sinners.  He
didn't blame homosexuals, he didn't blame those. 

 

He said, it's because of your pride and your cry of greatness

In your troubled times and in your grief you didn't turn to me with all your heart.  You
didn't come against yours sins but you turned to your own strength and you turned because
you were wounded in pride.  Your pride rose up.

 

God says, if you will turn to me with all your heart I will repent of what I had planned for you. 

 

We can't repent for the rest of New York but we can repent for ourselves and our
repentance this morning can rise to high heaven and touch the throne of God.  We can
move the heart of God, I believe that with everything in us.

 

Folks, listen to me please.  We want to remember in prayer our President.  President
Bush, when he was a candidate, one of his first speeches was given at our Teen Challenge
Center in Lubbock.  We have a copy of his speech and he said, "I was an alcoholic and
Jesus saved me not only from alcoholism but from sin.  I've given my heart to Jesus Christ."

 

Now folks, we're to pray for our leaders even if they were evil.  How much more for
those that have been placed in the power and such a strategic time?  You may not agree
with his politics but folks, if you're a Christian, forget politics right now and let's lay hold of God.