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  WINNING THE LOST THROUGH PRAYER
  by Keith Daniel
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the power of prayer and the importance
of unwavering faith in God's promises. It highlights the impact of
fervent prayer in the lives of individuals and nations, showcasing
examples like George Mueller's answered prayers and the transformation
of Islamic nations through prayer. The message urges believers to pray
persistently for the salvation of all, including those in personal
circles and on a global scale, trusting in God's ability to bring about
change and revival.

Topics: "Power of Prayer", "Unwavering Faith"
Scripture References: Mark 11:24, John 14:13, 1 Timothy 2:1, Psalm 139:23, 2 Chronicles 7:14

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This sermon emphasizes the power of prayer and the importance of
unwavering faith in God's promises. It highlights the impact of fervent
prayer in the lives of individuals and nations, showcasing examples like
George Mueller's answered prayers and the transformation of Islamic
nations through prayer. The message urges believers to pray persistently
for the salvation of all, including those in personal circles and on a
global scale, trusting in God's ability to bring about change and
revival.

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We read these words in a number of verses, Mark 11, 24 Whatsoever things
ye desire, whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray, when ye pray,
believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. Staggering
statement, that Christ, God, manifests in the flesh, God with us, God
the Son, God told us, Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray, believe
that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. John 14, verse 13,
Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, whatsoever ye shall ask in my name,
that will I do.

This is God, God promising, He cannot deny Himself, the Bible says, He
cannot deny Himself. Of course there's conditions attached to every
single promise, radical conditions, that we have to fulfill. But I'm
looking now at the Holy God's promises.

If ye shall ask anything in my name, that is the will of my Father in
heaven, that will I do. If ye shall ask anything in my name, that is the
will of my Father in heaven, that will I do. God promised.

Now God's name is at stake. He has a holy obligation, of His holiness,
to be secure. You say that's sacrilege, saying God has a holy
obligation.

No, it's sacrilege not to say that. Not to believe with all your heart
that what God has said, He will do. Whatsoever you ask anything in my
name, that is the will of my Father in heaven, that will I do.

Amazing. Then one last little passage as a stepping stone into this
book, into this sermon tonight. We find that, of course, in Timothy.

A passage that staggered me from the first day I read it, 53 years ago,
and every time I've been through the book I've been staggered again.
Because in 1 Timothy chapter 2, verse 1, I exhort thee therefore that
first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks
be made for all men. I love that.

You ought to have a staggering Bible study. Go home and get a
concordance and take just the passage, all men. Read from beginning to
end of this book, all men.

If you doubt that God doesn't want all men, be careful of that doctrine.
I exhort thee therefore that first of all supplications, prayers,
intercessions, be made for all men. Verse 3, for this is good and
acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, who will have all men to be
saved.

I believe that. Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the
knowledge of the truth. Hallelujah.

Who gave Himself a ransom for all. Prayers, supplications, be made for
all men. Who will have all men to be saved.

That's a staggering statement. I heard a staggering statement when I was
a young preacher some 50 years ago now. I had a staggering statement
when I was a young preacher that affected me radically for the rest of
my life.

If you're saved, someone prayed for you. If you're saved, Keith, boy,
don't doubt this, someone prayed earnestly and compassionately for you.
That staggered me.

Is there anything Satan fears more than a soul winner on his knees?
Because if a soul winner isn't primarily driven because of what happens
on his knees, he's false, he's a soulman. Any soul winner is the result
of what happens on his knees, crying to God. If he's not there on his
knees, groaning to God for the souls he wants to win, the rest is a
sham.

You see, we conscious, without Him we can do nothing. That makes us go
to our knees. And the promises of God from this book drive us to pray
compassionately, earnestly for the salvation of souls.

Who will have all men to be saved. Who will have all men to be saved to
come to the north. Some people say, this is speaking politically, to
pray for those in government over us.

That we can leave, that's totally out of its context. The context is to
pray for them, not for peace, for us to have a good living. It's to pray
for their souls, contextually.

Do you? For those who are over us, who have all men. When you pray for
political people, it's to pray for their souls to be mightily saved. Or
you're missing the mark.

When you're praying for peace, for those who govern us, you miss what
God says He wants you to be praying for. You're praying in the will of
God, the Father. When you pray for all men, no matter who they are, to
be saved.

Who will have all men to be saved. To come to the knowledge of the
truth. This is the contextual and discerning acceptance of what God is
saying.

If you're saved, someone prayed for you, boy. Don't you doubt this,
Keith. And they prayed earnestly and compassionately for you.

The incomprehensible weapon God has given us of prayer. I think it
astonishes God that we don't have it in our hearts or use it for the
salvation of all men. It must astonish God.

If you're saved, someone prayed for you. When I was a teenage boy, our
home, our family, experienced much sorrow and shame and tragedy.
Continual tragedy through my teenage years.

I don't want to talk of any of those things. Our neighbors, generally
around quite an affluent area, daddy bought this brutal home. They were
all conscious.

I don't think there was anybody in our neighborhood that didn't look at
us and wonder. As the stories went around, as things were obvious of the
shame and the tragedy and the suffering and the sorrows of our home.
Above most homes, to be honest with you, I believe.

But then God stepped in. In such a way that none of us in my home, my
alcoholic father smashed, destroyed. My smashed, crushed mother.

Me as a young boy, 11 years old, running the streets to flee. They
didn't know whether I was dead or alive for weeks, months sometimes.
Searching for me.

My brother. But then God stepped in. He stepped in in such a way that
not one of us was seeking Him in truth.

Staggering, isn't it? The last thing you try is God. God stepped in that
every one of us, my father, my mother, my brother and I, sought Him with
our souls because we knew it was God. Crying out to us, I want to save
you and heal you.

He cried out in such a way that not one of us didn't turn to Him with
all our heart and soul. My father stopped drinking, smashed every
bottle, never touched drink again in his life. In one moment, on his
knees, he stood up, totally delivered from 25 years of alcoholism.

60 cigarettes a day for over 25 years, never once less, not one day.
Threw them down, never touched them again. Picked up the sacred book and
read through it 68 times from cover to cover.

In the nine years God spared him and he led souls to God across our
nation because of who he was, especially the business world. They just
turned to God. We all turned to God.

In that home, in one moment God stepped in. When there was despair, no
hope, God just stepped in. If you let Him, when He comes.

It was a short while afterwards, there was a knock at our front door.
Daddy and mummy were there and we walked up behind them. And there stood
our neighbours, three houses away from us.

Afrikaans speaking ladies, Lady and Man, Robbie and Doris Radley. Now we
had seen them, we didn't know them. We knew they were our neighbours, we
waved, never spoke to them.

Saw them on the bus when we wanted to avoid the traffic to the centre of
one of the biggest cities in the world, Johannesburg. We would just
greet them, but we didn't know our neighbours. But they knew of us, most
neighbours around there were very conscious of the sadness and the shame
and the tragedies of our home and the sufferings.

Here stood our neighbours at the door. And daddy looked at them and he
said, Mr Daniel, we have come here to tell you that for seven years, we
have prayed every single day for you, for this family. We have agonised
in prayer when we knew of your sorrows as a family.

There was not one day, sir, for seven years that we didn't go down, my
wife and I and daughter, and cry to God for you to be saved. In our
church, the Baptist church, in that area, every single prayer meeting,
every single Wednesday for seven years, we would bring you as a family
there and the whole church would unitedly say Amen and cry to God for
you. And I don't believe it's presumptuous to stand here tonight, Mr
Daniel, and to tell you we believe something of our agony and crying to
God for you as a family resulted in your salvation.

And we joy with you and we thank God and worship God for all we see and
witness and hear everywhere has happened in your lives that you've been
saved. Daddy didn't speak. My daddy started weeping when he was saved,
right to death.

My father just stood there weeping. And weeping. Couldn't even say thank
you to them.

He just stood there weeping. My wonderful father. You were saved, Keith,
boy.

No doubt that someone prayed for you. Earnestly and compassionately. No
doubt it, boy.

I was preaching in a Methodist church. Now this particular Methodist
minister, his name was Stephen, for she, in Africa. And as they sent him
to different congregations around southern Africa, he would ask me to
come sometimes more than once for a series of meetings like Joel has
asked me to come here.

And so as he moved around South Africa, I had privileges of speaking in
some very large congregations in the cities where he was sent. Now one
sermon I preached when I was in Stephen's Church, was if you're saved,
someone prayed for you. You see, I was convinced by that time.

And I mentioned what I mentioned here at the beginning of the sermon.
Someone said this staggering statement to me that has affected me
radically for the rest of my life since I heard it, to this day. Well,
Stephen married a girl who was the direct descendant of the great Andrew
Murray.

Her brother, Andrew Murray, young Andrew Murray, he worked with me and
we lived out of suitcases going from town to town and bringing many,
many, many souls we saw coming to God as the churches filled out, took
it back town upon town across much of southern Africa. One of the great
privileges God ever gave me was to work with this young Andrew Murray.
Not the old one, not that old.

He was the only man God ever used in true revival of South Africa. Any
other thing was not a national revival that turned our country's
history. Other than Andrew Murray, that never happened in South Africa.

No matter what people tell you is happening there now. No, that was the
great revival. Well anyway, his great-granddaughter, great-great-
granddaughter, Elza married Stephen Foushee, the Methodist minister.

A godly girl and he's a godly man. Nonetheless, he walked home after I
preached about this, and in his home he said, This Keith Daniel, he said
something this morning I don't know if I can agree with. You're saved.

Don't doubt this. Someone prayed earnestly and compassionately for you.
No one.

No one prayed for me. I'm saved a long time now. And by now someone
would have come to me and said you were saved.

I was in sin, wicked. No one ever came to me and said I prayed for you
Stephen. Not one.

I would have known by now. No one prayed for me. Well his little mother-
in-law, Elza's mother, Mrs. Murray, crippled with arthritis.

Gentle and Christlike. She stood up in that room and looked at him and
said Stephen you're wrong. Someone did pray for you earnestly and
compassionately.

Who? Me Stephen. When my daughter was born at that moment, I prayed this
prayer. God somehow put it in my heart.

That the man who would take her heart one day. The man that would come
somewhere in her life that would win her heart. No matter how we raised
her, no matter how protected we were.

No matter what we taught could be destroyed. If she made the wrong
choice. You see Stephen I've seen so many godly homes, their children
who they raised.

Married the wrong person and all that they did was crawl in shame. And I
didn't want that to happen to my daughter Stephen. And I felt compelled
and burdened right from her birth the day she was born Stephen.

To pray that one day. The man that would come in her life would love
Christ. That thou would save that man's soul and not only save him but
make him a blaze for God.

Turn him from sin and make him so consistent. Deeply conservative and
apologetically valiant for the truth. And serving God with every breath
in his body.

I prayed for you not only then, I prayed every single day Stephen. And
even when you took my daughter. After all the years that I prayed for
you.

I knew this must be the answer to my prayers. My agonizing, my fears as
I prayed. I have prayed since then Stephen every single day including
this day for you.

I will pray till I die for you my boy. Because it's my daughter you
took. And I don't want any man that took her to destroy her life.

Like it seems most Christians that I met. They married someone that
destroyed their lives. And brought nothing but sorrow to the parents who
raised them.

Oh I prayed for you Stephen. Every day. Someone prayed for you Stephen.

With a burdened and fearful heart Stephen. For what I saw could happen.
When she finally does fall in love.

A gentleman phoned me once in southern Africa. He's very loved, known
across much of Africa. Ordering on I would say a household name.

I will not give his name. But he phones me. This is quite a long time
ago now.

He says brother Keith. Forgive me phoning you like this. But I have a
great shame and a great sorrow.

That has come into my home. And I thought of you. You see my son Keith.

Has reached a certain age where he can go independently. And he looked
at us as a family and said these words. I don't want God.

And I don't want you. I want to serve the devil. I am sick of being
dragged to every meeting.

Because I was your child I was forced to sit in conventions and meetings
upon meetings. And I couldn't say no. But now I do.

I don't want to ever see you again. I have nothing but hatred to you.
Don't come near me till I die.

I am going to serve the devil with all my heart. With both hands
fervently. And you can't stop me.

You can't stop me now daddy. He walked out in such a way saying things.
That we just wept as a family and we haven't stopped weeping.

I was shocked hearing this come from this boy. And then we've been
thinking of you Keith. There was one occasion when he actually listened
to a sermon.

And was affected by it. Was when you preached a while back. That he
actually said something.

And we thought well this is the first time this boy is speaking
positively. And I want you to go and see my son. I want you please to
prayerfully go and see my son.

Because we believe he'll listen to you. If not to anyone else in this
world he'll listen. Will you please go see my son? Well I said okay.

I didn't have a physical address I just had his workplace. Even the
daddy didn't know where he was living. But he knew where he was working.

So I eventually landed up in the centre of the city in this big block.
Went to this floor. Went down the passage.

Passed a lot of offices all with glass panes dividing the offices down
this long passage in this whole floor. And as I was getting close to
where they were leading me to where he was. This young fellow.

In this office with a few other people. He saw me through the glass
panes. And he did something that staggered the entire floor.

He stood up screaming. He lost control. He ran out screaming and he was
using foul language.

But so angry. That people were shaken. The whole place stood in shock.

As he lost total control and he screamed at me get out. Get out of here.
And he came at me forcibly with his body full.

With the most incredible blasphemous language. People started weeping in
the office who didn't know anything about this boy's anger at life.
People started coming out of all the other offices.

Hearing the commotion, the screaming. And him coming at me physically.
And I began to fall the way he was pushing.

Oh the anger in that boy. And then he said these words. You tell my
father.

That if he ever sends anybody else to this place to see me. In my entire
life I will hurt them. I'll hurt you sir.

I will beat you if you come near me again. To talk about God. You tell
my father that I will beat you.

I'll beat anyone. I hate it. I'm finished.

I'm going to serve the devil now. Get out. And he began to come again.

Well I was a little bit hurt. Some people tried to restrain him. And
then I stood there and looked at him.

And I said these words with a loud voice. Because the whole place now
had come out in the passages. Shaken at this commotion in the way he was
carrying on.

And what he was saying. I said you listen carefully to me now. You
listen very carefully to me.

You may be able to stop me from speaking to you about God. But you
cannot stop me from speaking to God about you. And I want you to
remember this from this day till I die.

I will agonize on my knees for you for God to make you miserable in your
sin. To hate sin. To live in fear of life when you're in sinful places
with the devil's people.

In the devil's houses eating what the devil disses up to satisfy the
people he has. And you will hate what he disses up. You will end up
hating it.

Hating that you will never ever know happiness or any form of
fulfillment. Or joy in sinners company or in sinful places. Till the day
you die.

You will live in fear of your life. I'll be praying for that. That you
will never know any peace until you find it with God.

And you'll just know fear and torment and shame. And you can't stop me.
And don't forget it now.

Now of course I was weeping. And I left. Now I don't know how long after
that.

It was three years maybe, I don't know. I was washing my face in an
ablution block in some big conference center where I was to preach. So I
was down and I looked in this little mirror on the wall above the basin.

And I saw the reflection of someone standing behind me in the ablution
block. And so I turned, looked and there he stood. Do you remember me,
sir? Well I looked at him.

Oh yes, I remember you. I heard you would be here. I didn't want anyone
else to tell you.

I didn't want to phone you. I wanted to see you face to face. I wanted
to look in your face and tell you this.

I'm saved. You can stop praying. I've given my life to God in a way I'll
never be able to take it back.

And I'm back with father and mother and ask forgiveness. When you stood
there and you said those words to me, I was so shocked I couldn't
believe what you were saying. I started living in fear from the moment
you said that.

I went home. I tried to go out to sin that night. It was so terrible,
the danger that I suddenly found orchestrated that I literally ran for
my life from the sinful place back to my apartment.

There has not been one single occasion since you said that. That I have
not feared for my life, that I have not hated, feared being in sin,
being in sinful places with sinful people. There was not one single
occasion.

I used to run back and go back into my apartment and say, is that Keith
Daniel praying for me? I was angry with you. Well you can stop praying
now, sir. I am saved in a way I can never take it back.

When he became a missionary in South America to this day, thank God,
thank God. I was in the home of one of our great preachers of Southern
Africa. He died the same year, the same month that I was saved.

But he was a household name across our country. He led so many people,
found Christ through his preaching in life. Amazing, staggering
testimony across our land of what God did through him.

But his family took me under their wing when I was first saved. Went to
theological seminar. And there were Saturdays off, sometimes weekends
off from our Bible school.

And I would go there because father and mother lived on the other side
of Southern Africa. Could never get back there just for a weekend off.
And suddenly this was my little family.

His wife, one of the godliest women I think ever lived in history. I
felt so privileged being near her, learning from her, learning from her
conduct. No matter what she faced, just Christ-likeness and love was in
those eyes even if she was weeping.

What a staggering life, Mrs. Ann Smith. She had children. The eldest
daughter, 19 years of age.

Ann also. She was in sin. With sinful people.

This godly home with one of the most loved preachers of Southern
Africa's history. And here she was with this godly mother going out into
the world. When I was there, sometimes the most terrifying things would
happen.

She would go dressed like the world in this godly home, this God-fearing
home. And there was people sitting in the vehicle blowing on the horn.
They wouldn't come, they wouldn't stoop to even come.

They'd just sit there. And I used to look out at the people. Whoa, rough
baddies.

And I feared for her. They were such bad influence, they wouldn't even
come to the door in respect. They were just waiting for her.

And I thought, how can she be going with this? And I saw her mother,
this godly Mrs. Smith, looking out the window in tears. She was pouring
down her eyes as she saw. Suddenly the girl runs out.

She's gone. I saw Mrs. Smith sitting there, tears just coming down.
Praying in her heart for this girl.

Well, one night I stopped her. She was incredibly beautiful. Incredibly
beautiful.

I said, Anne, what is God going to have to do to stop you from pursuing
sin and sinners like this? Those people are dangerous, Anne. They're
indecent, just look at them. What is God going to have to do to stop
you? Look at your mother, Anne.

She's one of the godliest women I've ever met in my life. Just look at
her. Look at her tears.

Look at her looking right now at you, leaving. Look at her tears, her
broken heart. God has to do something, Anne, to answer your mother's
prayers and holy obligation to the promises your mother has concerning
prayer that instigates faith, that initiates faith.

Don't believe that God isn't going to do something. Anne, God's got to
have to answer her prayers and obligation to His Word. She fulfills the
condition, you know that.

She's godly, as few have ever attained. Anne, what will God have to do
to stop you? God's got to have to do something to answer her prayers.
She stood there so shocked at what I said, tears welled up in her eyes.

She looked at her mother and she said, Keith, do you think I enjoy going
out into sin with a mother like this? Keith, I'm backslidden. I've been
through the whole Bible. I don't know how many times I led people to
Christ.

I don't know how it happened. But I am backslidden, Keith. There's
something about a backslidden that's so tragic, Keith.

I believe it's a hundred times harder for someone to find vital reality
with God again who's backslidden than for a wicked, defiled person to
find God initially at salvation to come firstly. There's something
tragic about a backslidden. You don't want to go.

You can't enjoy it. Do you think I enjoy knowing when I come back late
and there's my mother on her knees waiting, three o'clock in the
morning, doesn't matter. I say, Mother, you can get up on your knees,
I'm back.

Do you think I enjoy that? Thinking of her when I'm trying to enjoy sin,
the Holy Book says, even in laughter, the heart is sorrowful. Who's
speaking of, Keith? The next verse is, the backslider in heart. Even
when you laugh, you're crying, Keith.

You can't enjoy it, but you don't know what it is. There's something
gripping you, taking you back. You can't say no.

Something of the willpower is destroyed if you backslide. And she walked
her out to go with these people. It was, I suppose, a month later.

They told me she was lying in hospital. She was given two weeks at the
longest to live. No symptoms.

Riddled with cancer. No warning. Two weeks left.

I think they said at the most, two weeks. Those days, they used to cut
you open, you see. Wouldn't do all this scanning.

And then they just closed her up and said, she has two weeks to live.
There's no point in touching her, or even radiation. Nothing will help.

So I went to the hospital. And I looked at her. From the door.

She said, do you remember what you said to me? What will God have to do
to you, Ann? He's going to have to do something to... This is what God
had to do, Keith. To stop me. I said, I know people who prayed.

And people were healed. Some even saved from cancer. Don't bring anyone
here to pray for me.

Please don't. I want to die, Keith. You see, if God healed me, I know
even now, I'm too weak to stand.

And I'll go back to sin, Keith. I just thank God, He stopped me now,
that there's time to get right with Him. I just thank God, Keith.

You see, I've had time to get right, to get the blood, to look by faith,
to confess. And I'm right with God now, for the first time in a long
time, Keith. I am right with God.

And I know, He has to take me now. So don't bring people to pray for me.
I want to go, Keith.

While I'm right with God. And she was crying, when she told me this. But
what does she do? She got right with God, but she didn't stop there, she
staggered everybody.

You see, in that little while, she had left to live. She called every
single friend she had on earth, to her deathbed. How do you say no? They
lined up.

And one at a time, she asked, would come to the bed. And she lay there
weakly with a little Bible, open. And tears with everyone.

I asked for forgiveness. You see, I knew you were going to hell for
eternity, but I never warned you, because I was backslidden. But my
heart condemned me every day, every night, when I was with you, that I
couldn't warn you, you wouldn't listen, because I'm there with you.

I asked for forgiveness, but now I want to warn you. And she would quote
of the judgment of God coming upon every soul. He will return in flaming
fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will be punished and sent to send
us up forever and ever.

God says, concerning the place of the great well, lake that burneth the
fire of Jerusalem. Oh, she just quoted the judgments of God to those
that obeyed. And she brought Isaiah 53.

Somehow that was in her heart. And God says to him that worketh not, but
believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, being justified freely by
grace through faith in his blood. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son
cleanseth us from... Oh, she just... He would in no wise turn away
anyone who comes to him through Christ Jesus.

He will have all men to be... She begged them, seek God to save you,
that you don't go to this hell. I have to warn you that the next one
comes to him. And she says the same, weeping, quoting the scriptures
mainly and asking for forgiveness for not warning them what she knew
would happen to them if they died.

And then she did something astonishing. She said to the nurses, there
were many that didn't come. Oh, sorry, there were some that didn't come.

Though I asked them, and I want you to ask that man for forgiveness that
I didn't warn him until now. Go and phone the nurse and come back, did
you phone him, did you ask him, did you quote... Now take this one, this
next telephone number and do the same, right through. Ann Smith sat back
in her bed two days before she died and she said these words with a
gentle smile.

No man's blood is on my hands. There's not a single soul left that I
should have warned that I haven't warned. Staggering statement.

She didn't want to face God with men's blood on her hands. God gave her
just enough time and then took her two days later. Staggering.

What is God going to have to do, Ann? He has to do something. He's
obligated to his promises to answer your mother's prayers for you, to
stop you, Ann. But what is God going to... Oh, God has a holy
obligation.

It's not sacrilege to say this. It's sacrilege not to believe this. And
not to say it from our hearts clearly.

He cannot deny it. He cannot deny himself of what he's promised if it's
the will of the Father. And we know it's the will of the Father that all
men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.

I should go on with all these illustrations but I'm not for time. George
Mueller. If you've ever read George Mueller, you are enriched.

If you haven't read it, you're depriving yourself of one of the greatest
privileges God has given a Christian. Don't go to the big, thick book of
George Mueller. Go to the little, for youth, you know, where it's very
nice because it concisely just brings things of the most significant,
important things of his life.

There's details there that are wonderful. But listen, George Mueller was
a man of prayer and he prayed in such a staggering way that the entire
Christian world in his lifetime was staggered and knew the name George
Mueller. He did something, he took hundreds and hundreds of people on
the streets dying, these little children, those days in London and
across Britain, and he put them into what we call orphanages now, but
there were none.

He was a man of prayer. When God heard him pray, God answered his
prayers, mostly immediately. Have you ever prayed like that? 200
children, 230 I think, sitting around the tables, not one little crumb
of bread, nothing to eat, but he got them.

He said, children, let us bow our heads in prayer and thank God for the
food we are about to receive. That's faith. My word.

They prayed. What happens? In Jesus Christ's name he says, Amen.
Suddenly, as he said Amen, pow, bang, the children all up, everyone runs
outside, the commotion, you see this delivery cart, those days there
were horses, it was like a little mountain of bread from the bakery, and
this thing toppled over just at the corner where he had prayed, and all
the bread, like a mountain against the door.

Oh, we can't sell this, you can have it. So he said, well children, take
the food God gave us, let's go and eat. Isn't that wonderful? Those
amazing prayers that were answered that will thrill you and stagger you
and the school of God he had to be in before God got him there to pray
like that.

There's a school and there's obedience and lessons of faith. But, when
he died, he was virtually a household name now across much of the
Christian evangelical world. He was even in the front pages of British
newspapers, we've been told about this man, even the secular newspapers
were front pages of what God was doing through him.

Well, as he died, it wasn't one moment, it was a long drawn-out deathbed
and suffering, much suffering. And as he died, they found in his Bible
pages interlinked with all the pages of the very big Bible, and on those
pages and scores of names. And many of the names had a tick on the one
side and a date.

Now he's dead. They made research, a lot of Christians, they found every
single name of the many, many scores and scores of pages strewn across
his Bible behind him. As he lay dying all those months and months,
people from across the world would send him, their drunken husband,
their son in prison, murderer.

People who knew God answered his prayers, sending crying out, pray, you
pray, for my son, my wayward boy is a criminal, he's drunk, he's
ashamed. Oh, people crying out and here this man was praying. And they
found that that person was saved on that day, so he kicked him off and
put the date.

But there were many, many, many, many names that had no tick, no date,
and they found that those names, not one of them was saved. He died
praying for them and he died his prayers were not answered. This great
man of faith.

Anyway, all the pages were put back. Now the British are wonderful they
protect everything of history one way or the other. You go there, you
can go into John Wesley's home and there's his bed, the same seats, the
same blanket, there's the prayer cushion, not only him, John Knox, I
went into his home, there's his little desk, there's his Bible, there's
his writings, sermon things, and the great John Knox said, I fear the
prayers of John Knox more than I do the Spanish emir.

She trembled, that wicked woman, at this godly man's prayers that she
knew would change history and did. Give me Scotland or I die and God
gave him Scotland. Scotland turned in the Reformation through that man's
prayers alone, away from Rome, the wicked Rome.

Well, two American missionaries, young men, those days there weren't
flights across to Africa, etc. They had to go via Southampton and then
via, there was no Suez Canal, so they go all the way, it's a long, long
thing, they went via Southampton and while they were in England they
went to this great man, George Muller, his home, preserved, protected,
they saw his bed, protected by Britain because if anything of
significance to the nation, even religion, they protected it as if it's
right now the man was living there. They didn't change a thing, protect
it.

Britain only did that, France to a degree, but Britain only. Well, they
saw his Bible, the great George Muller, they saw all these pages and
they asked, he was suffering, crying to God, but all these names, no
tags, no ticks, when he died they were not saved. So these two American
missionaries said, can we have these pages for a while, we protect them,
we want to make a research now.

They spent a long time before going further and they made research that
took a long, long time, every single name was saved on those pages. Not
seeing them saved, not seeing his prayers, answer them. But every single
one was eventually saved, that didn't mean God wasn't going to answer
his prayers.

Mother, if you die and your child is through drugs and drink and shame,
die praying in faith. If you die and you don't see your father, your
brother, your wicked friends turn to God through your prayers, die
praying in faith, unswerving. Just keep praying, die praying, but don't
die doubting this holy God.

You see, man has a free will, I will never doubt that, but we have a lot
to blame God for if they don't. So run screaming for help, if you ever
hear a preacher say man doesn't have a free will, just run screaming and
don't stop running until you're so far away you could never get back.
Every man has a free will and God will not force a man to be saved, I
agree with that.

But, when we pray, I believe even if we don't see in that wicked wife,
in that wicked husband, in those wicked relatives, even if we don't see
a thing, I guarantee you, a holy God who with one word created the
universe. He didn't take years to do it, that's how great, he's beyond
comprehension the greatness of this God, giving a man a free will. But
when you pray, God will turn, God almighty who has wisdom a billion,
zillion, trillion times more than any human could have to know what to
do.

That God in holy obligation will do everything he as God with his wisdom
will be able to bring about and orchestrate to make that man, that
woman, that son, that mother, that father, that wife become conscious,
he will turn their world upside down and even if they lie dying and if
that's the only way he'll do that, he'll do that because your mother
prayed, because George Bueller prayed every single name was saved. Don't
doubt this now, Andrew Murray, our great Andrew Murray prayed daily for
many, many, many years you'll see this in his books for every descendant
that ever came from his blood to be saved and not to serve the devil but
to serve God with their whole being. Do you know every five years they
have the Andrew Murray Convention of all the descendants that came from
Andrew Murray and his wife.

There are 500 I believe they just have some convention center in Africa
and there they are and all that happens is they are asked to testify of
their salvation. The vast majority are saved. The little percentage that
isn't saved are 12 and under and an incredible percentage of full time
service for God.

Do you think that just happens? Not only to pray for the worries that
you get from your son but the descendants till Christ returns. He prayed
for in faith. Do you think this has happened? He prayed.

He prayed in faith. God has answered his prayers. You know when you look
at the world today 300 million Islamic Muslim people are in the Arabic
countries alone.

They say the vast majority have not heard the name Jesus Christ let
alone rejected it. They've never heard the vast majority have never
heard the name Jesus Christ. And that's staggering.

How do you pray for them? Well let me tell you how you pray for them.
Two buildings went down in the most sophisticated city on earth New
York. In a way mankind never knew a war could be like this where you
don't know where you are you could be dead.

Attacking innocents in the most outrageous ways and trying everything
they can to this day to protect us. Now from a warfare we knew nothing
about. How do you battle such a people? Putin and others said how do you
war with these people? It's a different war.

They attack they put bombs around little children women go into
buildings you don't know where you go. The innocents you're an infidel
they'll kill you and think they're going to get into heaven or whatever
they call it paradise. With a lot of rubbish.

God have mercy. Nonetheless two buildings come down the world is
staggered the entire world is so staggered that this actually happened.
And what happens? Christians across the entire world start praying for
something they weren't praying earnestly about before.

Islam suddenly we're in danger. We can get in a plane we don't know we
look suspicious anybody that looks Islamic. Suddenly we don't know where
you're sitting in a building two thousand dead jumping off the building.

But the Christians began to pray for Islam as never before. Now what
happens? As a result I was told by leaders of the largest missionary
societies and denominations across earth one after the other there are
more full time workers for God on the mission field reaching Islam
Muslim nations than any other culture or nation on earth. Far more than
any other nation in China India Africa.

Suddenly you think that has happened? That's because we started to pray
because we were forced to. One man said to me the Islamic people are
turning to God in their masses Keith across the whole world in such a
way that we don't even know the tip of the iceberg but they're turning
and it's worrying it's shaking the Islamic faith. That's why they're so
angry telling Christians trying to stop it.

Wesley said staggering words don't fence me in. You see they were
excommunicating all in the Anglican state church who came to God through
the great Wesley in Whitfield across Britain. And so they wanted to form
a denomination.

Wesley said no I do not want a denomination. He eventually had to give
in. Methodism was created.

Wesley said these words I can't be fenced into a denomination. The world
is my parish. God heard that.

Satan heard that. Heaven heard that. Hell heard that.

You think God just turned his face away from such a man. Well to this
day I wonder how many people have come to God through Wesley's influence
in his lifetime and since. The whole world is on his heart.

Not just the Methodists that came out of a church called the state
church. No. How much of the world is on your heart? Of the three hundred
million in the Arabic lands alone let alone every other nation that
they're just storming in the Islamic people.

And we sit there worrying do we? Well have you prayed for them? Have you
prayed for God's salvation? Have you prayed for their salvation? You
might not be able to pray for individuals or three hundred million in a
way that's one on one. Let me tell you God answers prayer when we
started to pray. They can't preach to these people they have to go one
on one now.

There are more full time workers supported by home based churches
throughout the world reaching Islamic people than any other mission
field on earth or people or culture. Are you praying for the whole
world? It's a rare thing for a man to pray for the whole world you know.
Because only God has the whole world on his heart.

You must be close to God's heart if you have the whole world on your
heart. Do you? You have this nation on your heart. The only danger
America has is not Islam.

It's the people of God. If they don't seek God and get right with God
and stop all this entertainment replacing the gospel and truth. If they
don't seek God confessing their sins and turning from their wicked ways
and it is wicked to replace this book and draw crowds and let them go to
hell so long as you get crowds and all that revival to all those demons
and how many others that they flock to hear these things.

But if the true people of God don't want mega churches and become
entertainers when they should belong in the theater because there's no
place for entertainment in the church it must be sanctified godly
singing or it shouldn't be there with godly people not those emulated in
the body language no but if my people and this is to this day not just
the Old Testament God had us in mind putting this in the Old Testament
if my people to this day who are called by my name should humble
themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways should confess their
sins turn from their wicked ways then will I hear from heaven I will
forgive their sins and I will heal their land you see the promises of
David that promise what to do to make us pray do you pray for your
country are you so busy looking at the news and all you do is condemn
politicians no condemn the church are you praying for your country in a
way that god can save not only praying for Islam not only praying for
your drunk husband your wife that's driving you to the grave early with
her wickedness but for the world who will have all men why did he say
that pray intercession crying to god for their salvation from the
politicians down don't condemn them and blame them pray for them their
salvation that's all

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