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Seated in the house and welcome
to everybody that's joining with us online this evening. And people,
come out and pray with us on Wednesday night from somewhere
up to 211 countries and dependencies around the world. And if you'd
like to submit a prayer request to us, just go to tsc.nyc, that's
timessquarechurch.newyorkcity. Easy to remember, tsc.nyc. And
you can click on the prayer tab at the top of the page and all
the information is there about how you can submit a prayer request
to us or perhaps you even wanna let somebody else know that you're
praying for their request that they have. You can click on something
and say I'm praying for you and so we encourage you to do that.
Tsc.nyc and give us your prayer request because God is answering
prayer. We're gonna have communion at
the end of this short sharing of God's word today, and so if
you have some bread or some juice at home, as we have here in the
sanctuary, then we encourage you to get that. And we're going
to... celebrate together the greatest
victory ever, ever. There's been a lot of victories.
There's been a lot of victories that we could name that we've
seen and witnessed and others that we've heard about and read
about, but none greater than happened on the cross 2,000 years
ago when the power of hell was defeated and destroyed. The Son
of God paid the price for that which separates us from God.
and gave us the promise that when we turn to Him, He'll forgive
our sins, give us eternal life, and give us a reason to live
while we live on the earth. It doesn't get any better than
that. David the Psalmist once said, oh, taste and see that
the Lord is good. I can take you to a restaurant
that I've been to in New York City and we could stand together
in the window and I could describe how good the steak was. I can
describe the mashed potatoes and the gravy and the peas and
the biscuits, but you see, until you taste it, you really don't
know how good it is. So I can describe this salvation.
I can describe this walk that all of us have had in the Lord
who are here tonight, but until you taste it yourself." And so
you say, well, how do I taste it? Well, just go in. And when
the waiter comes and says, what can I do for you? Say, I'd like
to be saved. Make it simple, okay? I would like to know God
in my life. I would like to have eternal
life. I'd like to know that my sins can be forgiven. And the
Lord himself will say, they're coming right up. Praise God. Don't make it complicated. Keep
it simple. I want to answer a question that
some of you might be asking tonight. Why do we get together on Wednesday
night to pray for you? We've been doing this for quite
a few years now. It started in New York City quite a few years
ago, and it was Tuesday night in New York, and then when COVID
came, we moved out here to our Bible school in Grantville, Pennsylvania,
the Bible School of Times Square Church, and we just stayed here
because it's such a pleasure to pray with all these students
that come to us from all over the world and the congregation
from the local church that's here. and we pray for you because
we know something. Here's what we know. The devil
thinks he can hold you, but we know he can't. When we pray,
God answers. I want you to expect an answer
to prayer tonight. I'm talking to you. You are sitting
at home and maybe addicted or depressed or you feel all alone,
you feel like you have no purpose for life. You don't know if you
have a future. Maybe you feel like a hopeless
situation is literally surrounding you. But you see the devil is
trying to convince you that he can hold you there and keep you
there and destroy you there. But the reality is he can't because
when people pray, God answers. I believe that with all my heart.
I've seen it too often throughout my life to ever doubt that God
answers prayer. Boy, I could spend the whole
night just telling you instances of where God answers and does
things. There was a man just a few weeks
ago that there was a message preached here on Wednesday night,
somewhat along the lines of what I'm about to share tonight, and
as somebody was listening to the message and this person came
into their heart, They sent them the message. And when the message
clicked on this gentleman's telephone, he was sitting there with a gun
in his mouth, ready to take his life. And instead of taking his
life, he decided to reach out for eternal life and gave his
life to Jesus Christ. And we thank God for that. Devil thinks he can hold you,
but we know that when we pray, he can't. And I'm going to show
it to you in the scriptures tonight. We're gonna start with Psalm
2, Psalm 2. Father, I thank you, God, for
your word, which indeed has incredible power, which shows us something
of your heart. It shows us your power. It shows
us your kingdom. Actually, it shows us our own
futures, if we will let it. Tonight, I'm asking you, Lord,
that we would have the privilege of going into somebody's situation,
into an inner prison in somebody's mind or heart, and bringing the
word of God there and the life and freedom that was bought for
them on the cross of Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago. Lord, I can
speak, but you can put power behind what is your word. And
Lord Jesus Christ, you said you came to set free captives. You
came to give sight to the blind. You came to have the treasure
of heaven spoken to those who know their poverty. You came
to heal those that have been so wounded and bruised they don't
think they'll ever be whole. And you told the people, that
this day, this truth is fulfilled in your ears. So God, I'm asking
you to give faith to somebody tonight, to believe that in spite
of how dark this room that they're in might be, you are able to
go there and you can set them free and set their feet on a
new course and a new life that will bring honor and glory to
your name. Lord Jesus Christ, we're asking
you as we are approaching the nearness of your coming, that
you would do something in our generation that is so far beyond
anything we've ever thought or even asked for. We ask you for
such a number of people to come into your kingdom that they can't
possibly be counted. We ask you to work in power again,
God. Through the internet, Lord, reach
into situations, into homes. Tonight, Lord, those that are
listening to this on their cell phone or on a laptop or on some
device in their situation, they find themselves in God Almighty.
Open their prison and let them out and let them come into the
abundant life that you have promised them through Jesus Christ. Father,
we thank you and we praise you for it. In Jesus' mighty name. Psalm 2, the psalmist says, why
do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing? What is the
source of the anger, in a sense, that gets into the hearts of
those who hate the ways of God? Why do they hatch a plot, as
it is, that they're not able to fulfill? The kings of the
earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together.
against the Lord and against His anointed, saying, let us
break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us. He who sits in the heavens shall
laugh, and the Lord shall hold them in derision. Another translation
says the Lord will just mock the foolishness of their thought,
that we can break the will of the people of God. We can destroy
their confidence in their God, and we can cast away the influence
that they have in their society that causes our behaviors to
be put into some form of restriction. And we're living in that kind
of a society today where the godless want to cast off all
restraint. and they want the influence of
the godly completely gone. You'll notice, probably the students
don't because you've handed your cell phones in here, but in the
news lately, there's this castigation or this casting down of everything
Christian now. Everyone who's a Christian is
becoming almost a nuisance, as they're saying to society, undesired,
unnecessary, and unwanted. This is the spirit of rage that
gets into a society when godlessness begins to take over the thinking
of the people. And even the kings and even the
rulers take counsel together saying, how can we destroy the
influence of these people over our society? And they hatch a
plot to do it. But yet the word of God says,
it's an empty plot, it's a vain thing. And the one who sits in
heaven shall laugh at the futility of their pursuit. How can you
push God out of anywhere? How can you push somebody who's
everywhere out of anywhere? They don't stop and reason it. He's
omnipresent, which means he's everywhere. He's in this room,
he's in the lobby, he's on the street, he's in your car. There's
nowhere you can go where God is not. So how do you push someone
who's everywhere out of anywhere? It's as futile as trying to wave
your hands to push the oxygen out of this room. It's not gonna
happen. You can do it all night if you want, but you can't do
it. You'll still be able to breathe when morning comes. You can try
to push God out of society, but you can't. because he's everywhere,
he's already everywhere, and you can't push him out of anywhere
because he's already everywhere. In the book of Acts, chapter
12, we have a prime example of what Psalm 2 talks about. In
chapter 12 of Acts, and beginning at verse one, it says, about
that time, Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from
the church. He stretched out his hand. I
don't know what happens to people in authority, but they become
intimidated by any kingdom that claims to have another king.
Anybody that says we have a set of rules or laws or there's voices
that we will obey that's not the voice of the secular authority
of that particular time. And you can see that Herod decided,
I'm going to try, as is written in Psalm chapter two, I'm going
to vex the church. I'm going to set my hand against
the people of God. And then he killed James the
brother of John with the sword. So it's not only an attempt to
cause distress or diminish the faith of God's people, but it
also included acts of violence. And we're not immune from this.
We're not immune from acts of violence being perpetrated against
the people of God. It's happened all throughout
history. It's happening in Nigeria today, for those who are reading
the news. Godless elements are coming into
entire churches and slaughtering congregations. It's happening
in various parts throughout the world. And so Herod stretches
out his hand and he kills James, the brother of John, with the
sword. And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded
further to seize Peter also. Now it was during the days of
unleavened bread. So when he had arrested him,
he put him in prison and delivered him to four squads of soldiers,
that's 16 soldiers, to keep him, intending him to bring him before
the people after Passover. So you look at it, and the Passover
was an incredible feast that was celebrated by the people
of God of that time. The time when a spirit of death
was going over in a sense, over the nation of Israel. But the
people of God, because they had the blood of the Lamb upon their
doorposts and the mantle of their door, were passed over by this
angel of death. And God not only passed them
over, but delivered them with a great deliverance, out of darkness
and out of bondage. And so here is Herod, a king,
who's taking one of the key players, in a sense, of the new charts
that's being formed at this particular time, and he's taking them into
captivity. And in a sense declaring, where
is this God? We're gonna hold you during the
Passover and we're gonna bring you out as a display before the
people when Passover is finished. Where is this God that you boast
of? Where's this God that has delivered so many people in the
history that you tell us is all-powerful, this God that fights for those
that have no might for themselves and releases those that powers
of the world have tried to take captive? You see, I'm gonna take
you captive, Peter, because you're one of the key leaders in this
new church that's just been born, and I'm gonna hold you captive,
and I'm gonna bring you out as a display after the Passover.
And it's a type of darkness saying, here, I'm going to show you I
have the power to bring into captivity, and God doesn't have
the power to bring out of captivity what I take into captivity. Why do the heathen rage? Why
do the kings imagine something they can't perform? He who sits
in the heavens shall laugh, and he shall have them in derision.
It's amazing. He will so confound them and so confuse them Now,
while all this is going on, there's a prayer meeting happening. It's
not a big one. I don't know how many people
are in it. It's in a house. It can't be that big. It's in somebody's
house. And the houses in those days
were not as big as some of the houses are today. So let's assume
there might be 30 people there. Maybe that's even being generous.
And they're praying, and they're praying, God set Peter free.
God set Peter free. God set Peter free. We love this
man. We want him to be free. We know
your power. Just as we are praying for you
tonight online, we're praying God set people free. Set people
free from wrong thinking about themselves, wrong thinking about
God. Set them free from addiction. Set them free from depression.
Set them free from a sense or a feeling of worthlessness. Set
them free from captivity to drugs and alcohol and pornography and
all these other things. Set them free. That's why we
gather. We're not a big group in this
sanctuary, but I want to remind you there are probably close
to 10,000 people will see this prayer meeting by tomorrow morning.
And we are praying and we are believing because God still answers
prayer. And the devil thinks he can hold
this generation captive, but he's got another thought coming.
He can't hold this generation captive because there's a people
rising up who are starting to believe God again. There's voices
being raised up saying, Lord, we believe you are the same yesterday,
today, and forever. You do not change. We believe
that you came to set the prisoner free. We believe that you came
to give sight to those who don't see a way forward. You came to
show a resource to us that we don't naturally have. You came
to heal us when we feel like there's no possible healing left
in our lives, God. We happen to believe that, not
just for ourselves, but for others. We believe that as we come before
your throne, you actually answer prayer because you told us, whatever
we ask for believing, we shall receive. And see, so tonight,
this is why we pray. This is why we pray for you.
You know, I don't see your face. I'm looking at a green dot on
a camera right now, but you see mine and I'm in your room wherever
you are right now. Thank you, by the way, for inviting
me there. But God is also in your room. And the devil tries
to make you think that you'll never get out of your situation.
Nothing will ever change. He's got you locked in, like
with Peter. Peter's in prison, he's got 16 soldiers guarding
him. The scripture says, when he was
about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound
with two chains between two soldiers, and the guards before the door
were keeping the prison. There is no natural way out.
Just like with many people listening tonight, you know, and I know,
there's no natural way for you to get out of the situation that
you're in. Now behold, an angel of the Lord
stood by him. Now another word for angel is
messenger. Messenger from God, sent from God, stood by him. Just like we here tonight are
standing by you. We're where you are tonight. God has enabled
us through the internet in our generation to come to your house.
Isn't that amazing? or your prison, wherever it is
you are. We are with you right now, we're in your room. You're
not alone, we're with you. And not only we are there, but
God is with you. And so into this situation where
the leader of the church of that time has been taken captive,
16 soldiers are guarding him, he's bound with two chains, he's
got a prison guard on either side of him and probably the
other 14 are standing at the door, making sure he doesn't
escape. But a messenger from the Lord,
an angel of the Lord, stood by him, and a light shone in the
prison. You see, that's what begins to happen. As I'm speaking
to you tonight, as we're praying, as we've been worshiping, a little
light starts falling on you, a little bit of illumination
in your mind, a little spark of hope for the future. A messenger
came, and with the messenger, light came. And suddenly, there's
this spark in your heart that says, could it be true? Could
I really be free? Could I really have a new life?
Could the things that I thought were lost forever be recovered?
Could I actually get out of this prison that the devil has put
me in and is trying to convince me I'll never get out? Now behold,
the angel stood by him, and a light shone in the prison, and he struck
Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, Arise quickly.
And the chains fell off his hands. You see, this is the word to
you tonight. Get up quickly from where you are, and let faith
come into your heart, and as you begin to stand, the things
that you thought you'd never get free from will just suddenly
fall from your hands. Suddenly your hands will have
the power to lift up and say, God, if you really love me, if
you really died for me, if you really have a purpose for my
life, I yield my life to you. I admit, oh God, I can't save
myself, I can't get out on my own, but I believe that you died
in my place, and I confess that you love me, and I confess that
you're my Savior, and I invite you into my heart and into my
life to be my Lord and Savior. And it says the chains fell off
his hands. I did that years ago. I know
what this feels like, to get up in the morning and suddenly
you feel light. The things that were so heavy,
that were so binding you down suddenly seem to have lost their
power. They're gone because you turned to God. And somebody was
praying for me, by the way. Three ladies got a burden to
pray for me, and they would meet weekly to pray for this police
officer they heard about. They didn't know me, but they
heard about this young police officer, and they believed that
God had a plan for my life, and so they began to intercede for
me. Isn't that amazing? I never met all of them. I did
meet one eventually, but they began to weekly meet to pray
for me. And it wasn't long after that,
the chains fell off my hands. And the things that had bound
me all my life, like fear, for example, just melted away. And I became a new creation in
Christ Jesus. When Peter got up, the chains
fell off his hands and the angel said to him, dress yourself and
tie on your sandals. In other words, get ready, I'm
taking you somewhere. God says, listen, you've laid
there long enough in that bed of affliction. You've laid there
long enough in that place of depression. Get yourself dressed,
we're going somewhere. And so he did. And he said, put
on your clothing and follow me. So he went out and followed him
and did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but
he thought he was seeing a vision. There is a moment in all of our
lives where we wonder, could this be real? Is this really
happening to me? Because you don't really see
anything. The whole kingdom is going on inside your heart. You're
being led by a hand you can't see. You're being changed by
a power that you can't necessarily just touch physically, but it's
touching you. We heard that tonight, you might
be distant from God, but he's pursuing you. He's coming after
you, he's come into your room, he's come to get you. And he
followed him and did not know that it was real, thought he
was seeing a vision. But when they were past the first and
the second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads
to the city, which opened to them of its own accord. And they
went out and went down the street, and immediately the angel departed
from him. There was a church in the last
book of the Bible called Philadelphia, and they were people with just
a little bit of strength. And Jesus sent a word to this
church, and he said, you only have a little strength. And you've
tried to keep my word and you've not denied who I am. And he said,
I'm going to set a door before you that no one can close. Isn't
that amazing? This is a promise that God makes
to you tonight. Whoever it is listening to this
message and these songs and these prayers, God's saying, I'm putting
a door in front of you that no one can close it. And all you
have to do is get up and walk through that door. It's a door
that supernaturally opens. God puts it there. And it's a
door that will lead you to where God wants you to go. And he told
the people of Philadelphia, if you'll go through that door,
he said, I'll promise I'll make you a pillar in the house of
God. In other words, I'll give you strength to stand. The devil
won't be able to knock you down anymore. You'll be among my people
and you'll be among those who stand. Now when Peter had come
to himself, he said, now I know for certain the Lord has sent
his angel and has delivered me from the hand of Herod and from
all the expectation of the Jewish people. So when he had considered
this, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose
surname was Mark, where many were gathered together praying. Hallelujah. He went to a prayer
meeting. Isn't that amazing? All that
happens to him, it starts with people praying, and then the
miracle happens on the other side, and God leads them to a
prayer meeting. God takes them to a place where
people are praying, and that's what he's gonna do for somebody
tonight. He's gonna take you out of where you are, and he's
gonna take you to where people are praying, and you're gonna
become part of the kingdom of God moving in the earth. Powers
of hell thought they could hold you, but they can't, because
we're praying for you tonight. Let it get into your heart tonight.
The devil can't hold you, he thinks he can, but he can't.
Because we have prayed for you. And now you're gonna open your
mouth and you're gonna pray for yourself. And then you're gonna
put on your sandals. And then you're gonna put on
your coat. And you're gonna say, Lord, lead me. And when you begin
to walk with him, doors are gonna start opening to you that are
opened by God himself. You don't have to open them,
God will open those doors. And he's gonna lead you to a
place where people are praying, and you're gonna start praying
too. and you're going to fight back and you're going to give
the devil a black eye. You're going to fight this spiritual
warfare in our generation because God has a plan for your life.
God has a plan for your life. You can't stay captivated any
longer. A message has come to you tonight. Get up. Get dressed, start walking
with God, and you watch what God will begin to do in your
life. And we believe it because we know that God answers prayer.
We believe it because somebody prayed for us, that's why we're
here tonight. We came to this prayer meeting
because somebody prayed for us. There are young people here tonight,
their moms and dads prayed for them, and because they did, they're
here. All of us are here because somebody prayed for us. That's
why we're at the prayer meeting. That's why we pray for you. That's
why we believe God's gonna set you free. Because we believe
that God answers prayer. And he answers it supernaturally.
He answers it powerfully. We don't have to be fancy in
our prayers. We just have to believe that
when we pray, God will answer us. And we pray for you. And so tonight I want you to
take a step of faith. and maybe for the first time
in a long time, just utter your first prayer of faith. Even if
it's just Jesus, I believe that what I'm hearing is true. I believe
it, God. I believe that I can be free. I believe that you died on a
cross and you paid the price for everything that separates
me from the life that God has for me and from a relationship
with God himself. I believe that I have a future.
I believe that you have a divine plan for my life. And tonight
I'm gonna pray, and then tomorrow morning, I'm gonna put on my
shoes, and I'm gonna put on my clothes, and I'm gonna walk out
my door and say, God, lead me. God, lead me to where you want
me to go. God, lead me to what you want me to be. God, lead
me to the freedom that you bought for me on the cross, and make
my life a blessing to you and a testimony of your glory in
the earth. I want you to pray these simple
words with me tonight. Would you lift your voice and
I'm gonna lead you in a prayer and you pray this prayer with
me this evening. Lord Jesus Christ, thank you
for loving me. Thank you for coming to get me
in my darkened place. Thank you for shining light into
my darkened mind. Thank you for bringing healing
to my wounded heart. Thank you for giving me a future
and a purpose and a hope. Thank you for miracles. I believe
I will see miracles in my life of freedom and healing and deliverance. Jesus Christ, tonight I open
my heart to you and I invite you to come into my life, to
be my Lord, my Savior, and my God. I will live for you all
the days of my life, and I will follow you where you lead me. I believe that tonight I am saved,
I am free, I'm a new creation. because of Jesus Christ. I'm
going to follow Jesus for the rest of my days. If you prayed
that tonight, text the word DECIDED to 51,000. Just go ahead and
do that as a step of faith. DECIDED to 51,000. Tell your
friends to come in and pray with us on Wednesday night because
God is answering prayer. This might be the last call before
Christ returns, I don't know. I think the signs are starting
to show the nearness of his return. But he's still stretching his
hand out, his mercy and power are still available. Tell your
friends, tell your addicted friends, your depressed friends, your
discouraged friends, everyone you meet, tell them to come in
and pray. Actually bring them to your house, pray together.
And believe God for miracles. Believe God for his Holy Spirit
to come and give you the strength that you need now. And join with
us on Wednesday night and pray because God is answering prayer
all over the world. We're gonna go to communion now
in just a moment. We're gonna celebrate the victory that has
been yours tonight. When Jesus died on that cross
2,000 years ago, he destroyed all power that tries to hold
you captive and take your life away from from him and from everything
that God destined your life to be. Open your heart to him tonight
as we share this communion together. We're gonna sing a song, we're
gonna come right back in just a moment, and we're going to
share communion together. Sing with me, how great is our
God. Oh, sing how great, how great
is our God. How great is our God. Sing with me, how great Thou
art He's the name above all names.
The name above all names. You are worthy of all praise. In my heart. In my heart, we'll sing. You are worthy of all praise. And my heart will sing Your Name
is our God. You're the Name above all names. You're the Name above all names. We're gonna sing that again in
just a moment. I received from the Lord that
which I also delivered to you. The Lord Jesus, on the same night
in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he'd given thanks,
he broke it and said, take, eat, this is my body, which is broken
for you. Do this in remembrance of me. In the same manner, he also took
the cup after supper, saying, this cup is the new covenant
in my blood. In other words, may I put it
this way. Jesus said, I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake
you. I'll be with you, I'll be closer
than a brother. You call my name, I'll be there.
Whatever you need, I'll give it to you. You're my people,
and I'll be your God. And I make a covenant with you
in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance
of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup,
you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Thank you, O God. You gave yourself
for us. and in shedding your blood that
we could be forgiven, that we could be cleansed, that we could
be loved by you. Thank you for a love that we
just can't even comprehend. But tonight all we know is we
thank you that you look upon us. We thank you that you hear
us. Oh God, as long as we live, let us be lifting up a prayer
of thanksgiving. a prayer for other people, a
prayer, oh God, that we just walk with you, hear from you,
for there is no God like you. So we give you praise tonight.
You are good, and your mercy endures forever. And we are changed,
and we are grateful tonight for a God whose name is Jesus, who
forgives us, and Lord, gives us eternal life. So we thank
you for hearing every prayer tonight. In the mighty name of
Jesus, we pray. Praise God, we're gonna sing
that song again. I wanna give an opportunity for
people who are here in the sanctuary. I know we've gave the opportunity
for people online tonight, but maybe, just maybe, there's a
place in your life that the enemy's tried to convince you you'll
never get out of, you'll never get free from. Let's put him
to shame tonight. Let's put the devil to shame.
Let's put him to shame. Say, devil, you're not keeping
me here. You're not keeping me here in
my mind. You're not keeping me here in my heart. It could be a wound. It could
be a bruise in your heart that you think you'll never get free
from. It could be a captivity in your mind, just a bad experience
somewhere along the line, or just a sense of hopelessness
for the future, whatever it is. And the devil tries to say, well,
I've got you. I'll let you go to church, but I'll never let
you be free. He's a liar. I'll tell you straight out, he's
a liar. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. He died, he rose again, he sits
in total victory, and we are in him now at the right hand
of God. There's no captivity. He took our captivity captive,
the scripture says, and gave gifts. That means to his people. And so if you are here tonight,
and you just, by faith, by faith, remember the message was, get
up, put on your shoes, get dressed, and just start moving towards
that gate. Whatever that gate is that the devil said you can't
go through it, and remember it said in the scripture, it just
opened all by itself. There was nobody there, the gate just opened.
Don't you love that? Just get up and go towards that gate.
Whatever that gate is, whatever that barred place, whatever the
devil put there and says, you'll never get through this, God says,
uh-uh, I'll open the gate. I'll take you to a prayer meeting.
This is gonna be an awesome journey with God. Don't settle for second
best in your life, ever settle for second best. You can have
freedom. You can have a new life. You
can have a life that brings glory to God. You can have a shout
in the presence of God. God is great. And so I want to
give you an opportunity tonight, and so that people online can
see that, hey, we're not perfect either, you know. We still have
struggles too, but we have had victories, and we continue to
have victories. And we want you to come with
us into the future. Come with us. Come with us. Come
in online. Even come and visit our Bible
school. Come to prayer meetings. A lot of people have. Come and
visit us. We've had people drive from all over the country just
to be here on a Wednesday night. Come and join us and tell us
your story. We would love to hear it. Praise God. We're going
to sing that one more time. Maybe we're going to sing it
four more times. Who knows? We're going to sing it. And as we do, just
come, just make your way out, okay? If that's you, if the Holy
Spirit's speaking to you tonight, and there's a place where you
believe you're gonna be free, you believe you're gonna get
beyond those gates, whatever that is, just come, just come.
And come with faith, okay? Don't snivel in the presence
of God, come with faith. Come with your head lifted up.
Come and say, God, I believe. I believe, Lord. I believe, God. I believe I'm free. I believe,
God, that I'm gonna go through this gate. I believe that prayer's
gonna be answered in my life. I believe, God. I believe. that
I have a new future. I have a wonderful future. And
you're gonna take this mess and turn it into a message. Praise
God. Something that brings glory to your name. Let's sing it again,
Isaac and the group, and encourage you just to pray. Those that
are here at the altar, just pray and give God thanks. Give God
thanks. Don't put your head down in God's
presence. Lift your head in his presence. Give him thanks for
the healing. Lord, we thank you for healing
here tonight. We thank you for victory here tonight. We thank
you, God, that you're doing something in people's lives, God, that
is deeper than we can even understand. We can't put it into words, and
we don't have to, God. We don't have to. Lord, you're
leading your people. You're leading us into freedom.
You're leading us into a place where we're gonna go to a prayer
meeting and we're gonna know that you answer prayer. God,
thank you. God, thank you for what you're
doing tonight. Thank you, thank you, thank you for opening prison
doors, giving sight to blinded eyes, healing wounded hearts,
setting captives free. Thank you that tonight this is
happening. We don't have to wait till tomorrow or next week. It's
happening right now. Freedom is happening now because
you are a great, a good, and an eternal God. Oh, hallelujah
to the Lamb of God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. How great is our God. Sing with me how great is our
God. Father, we're so grateful. We're
so grateful for your blessings. We're so grateful that we can
declare you tonight to be faithful and good and that you're great
in our life. Lord, we thank you that you love us with everlasting
love, and you call us by name. Lord, we thank you that you're
leading our lives. We thank you, Father, that you
love us so much that you're not gonna let us where we are, but
you're gonna give us the grace to move forward in you. We thank
you, Lord, for your mercy that covers us. We love you, Lord,
this evening, and we thank you for your love that calls us home. We thank you, Lord, for your
righteousness that covers all of our iniquities. Thank you,
Father. Thank you, Lord, for the provision on the cross, that
you shed your blood on the cross so now we can be forgiven, washed
all of our sins to be away, and now we are new in you. Lord,
we thank you for each brother and sister that are here in this
sanctuary and here up front. We thank You for each brother
and sister that is online. Lord, You know their cry and
You know their prayer. And tonight I pray, O Lord, with
so many, that You would hear us and that You would answer
us, that You would give freedom to the captive and that You would
give sight to the blind. We pray, O God, that You would
hear us from heaven and grant us mercy, that we will walk in
victory, O Father. As we heard tonight, O Lord,
Give us the grace to hear your voice, that you're calling us
out of the prison. God I pray that the doors will
open, that we would walk in your power, in your might, in the
name of Jesus Lord. And that we would appear to the
brothers and sisters and share the testimonies of miraculous
power of Christ, of what you have done in our life. Oh God
open our ears to hear you. Give us sight to see when we
read your Word, to see your promises, and to cling to them, and to
follow you all the days of our life. We love you tonight and
we praise you. And we're so grateful for this
opportunity that we have to be in your presence. In Jesus' name
we pray, amen. We're just so grateful each time
that you allow us to come into your homes. Our hearts are filled
with joy, and as we pray for you from this location in Grand
Lopez, Slovenia, we know that you are praying for all of us
from all over the world. And I just want to remind you
that Sunday evening, we're going to be going the four-day fasting
and praying. You can find out more information
on our website about that. But we're looking forward for
what God is going to do. for God to baptize us with his
spirit, to free us from everything that holds us back, and for us
to walk in his power, and in his might, and in his freedom,
and also to see an awakening in this nation one more time,
because it's time to pray. May God bless you. We look forward
seeing you on Sunday morning with Pastor Tim DeLena from New
York City. God bless you.
The Devil Thinks He Can Hold You
Series Prayer
Website: http://www.tsc.nyc
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Jesus has conquered the devil, and because of this we have the power of God in our life for freedom and living in freedom. Stand in your freedom in Christ.
| Sermon ID | 118241732472524 |
| Duration | 48:33 |
| Date | |
| Category | Prayer Meeting |
| Language | English |
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