Satan, Be Quiet

Pastor Tim and Cindy and one of their children, I believe, is away for a well-deserved week of rest. And as always, when I get in this pulpit, I exhort you and encourage you to be thankful for the pastor that God has given us in this church. And I hope you are.

I have a message tonight. It's entitled, Satan, be quiet. Are there any questions? Satan, be quiet.

Isaiah chapter 40. Isaiah chapter 40. I'll begin there.

Father, thank you, Lord, for the touch of your presence in this sanctuary tonight. Oh, God, it's so refreshing to worship you in spirit and in truth. Thank you for the people that you brought into this house tonight and those that are joining with us from around the world online.

Lord, we ask tonight that your kingdom would come and your will would be done. That your ways might be made known, that you would show us the source of strength. God, would you anoint me one more time, Lord, to be able to bring your word to your people.

Help me, Lord, tonight to be able to help those that have come into this house and those that are listening in their own homes. Jesus Christ, we recognize the hour that we're living in is very near your coming. We want to be your people on the earth.

We want to bring glory to your name. We want to be, as you once said, that city that's set upon a hill that cannot be hidden. God, in my life, you promised the glory of the latter house would be greater than the former.

I hold to your promise, and Lord, I hold to that promise for your people that are here tonight. Lord, we do grow from image to image and glory to glory, even as by the spirit of God. So tonight, Lord Jesus Christ, deliver those who are under the voice of the oppressor.

Set free those whose hearts are burdened down with thoughts of failure and rejection and inadequacy. Lord, those who can't see you clearly, Lord God, we ask you to do a work that could only be attributed to your Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, if you don't anoint me tonight, then the words that I speak won't find their lodging place in anybody's heart.

So I'm asking you for that anointing to not only speak, but the anointing to hear. For you yourself said, whoever has ears to hear, let him hear what the spirit is speaking to the church. God, you truly are speaking to this church week after week after week.

God, would you give us ears to hear, hearts to hear and hearts to obey? And we thank you for it in Jesus name. Satan, be quiet. Isaiah chapter 40, beginning at verse 25.

This is God speaking through the prophet Isaiah. To whom then will you liken me? Or to whom shall I be equal? Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these things, who brings out their host by number. He calls them all by name, by the greatness of his might and the strength of his power.

Not one is missing. Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel? My way is hidden from the Lord and my just claim is passed over by my God. Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, neither fades nor is weary.

His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak. And to those who have no might, he increases strength.

Even the youth shall faint and be weary. And the young men shall utterly fall. But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.

They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint.

Keep silence before me, O coastlands, and let the people renew their strength. The Lord says to his people, Israel, lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these things. That's verse 26.

And brings out their host by number. He calls them all by name, by the greatness of his might and the strength of his power. Not one is missing.

I know it's hard to believe in New York City, but there are stars in the sky at night. It's hard to see beyond the buildings and the smog that's ever so present here. But if you ever get a chance to go out to the country sometime, stop for a moment and look up into the sky.

And you'll be stunned at the brightness, the beauty, in a sense, the permanence of every star that God has placed there. That's why he exhorts his people. He says, lift up your eyes and look up into the heavens.

Billions and billions of stars. And he knows each one by name. And Isaiah says, has he misplaced any? Has he lost any? Or has he forgotten any? Have they not been placed where there are for a purpose? And what then could the purpose of each one be? You look up into the heavens because it was the stars that God told Abraham to look up into the heavens.

He said, so your descendants will be as the stars of the sky. Jesus himself said in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 5, verse 14, you are the light of the world. And the city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

In other words, when he said these words to his people, his disciples, there was no electricity. There were no light bulbs. There were no spotlights.

There was nothing. The only light that most had outside, that is, would be the stars of the heavens. That were the lights, in a sense, by night.

The reflection of the sun, may I put it that way, on distant planets, bouncing back from them and from the moon towards the earth. And the stars for centuries have been used by navigators to find their way on a journey. There's a permanence about them.

God put the heavens. You know, the Scripture says the heavens declare the glory of God. That's why Paul says in Romans, when everyone stands before God, there's no such a thing as anybody who's never heard.

The heavens themselves are declaring the glory of God. And if anybody wanted to know, they would have asked. Who is it that put these stars in the heavens? And God technically says, if they had inquired, I would have answered them.

They're used to tell times and seasons. They're used to give light when all around is dark. And they still provide us with a sense of awe at the magnificence of God's creative power.

We're putting telescopes into space and we're sending various vehicles out there. And we're still not even scratching any more than the surface of what's out there, of what God has created. No wonder Jesus said in my father's house are many mansions.

I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there you may be also. Can you imagine? The eye has not seen, the ear has not heard the things that God has prepared for those who love him. I tell you, when we stand, when we are finally delivered from these finite bodies and we are brought into the presence of God, there will be an explosion of knowledge.

The Bible says we will know as we are known. We will understand mysteries. We will understand things that we only can see dimly right now.

There will be answers to all of our questions that we had about life and circumstances and situations. What a day that is going to be. But until that day, we are the city set upon a hill.

We are the fulfillment of the promise that God gave to Abraham that your descendants will be as numerous as the stars. We are here to tell people, to show people the way to eternal life on their journey. We are here placed by God so that people could understand their times and seasons.

We are here as light when everything around us is dark. And our lives should provide a sense of awe at the magnificence of God. Your life should be that way and my life should be that way.

We should be so transformed by the spirit of God. We should have such a testimony that people who hear the words that we have to speak will say about God. Surely he must exist because look what he has done in the life of this person that I have come to know.

Listen to the words he spoke to Jeremiah in Jeremiah chapter 1 verses 4-12. Jeremiah says, Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Now listen to what God says to Jeremiah. Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.

Before you were conceived. Before you were formed, I knew you. Did you know that is who you are as well tonight? God knew you.

He foreknew you. You were not an accident of some relationship or whatever. However you got into this world, I am telling you, you were not an accident.

God foreknew you and allowed you to be born for a divine purpose into this world. He goes on, he says, Before you were born, I sanctified you or I set you apart and I ordained you a prophet to the nations. Before you were formed, I knew you.

And before you were born, I set you apart for a divine purpose. In my kingdom. Now this is Jeremiah's response.

He says, Then said I, O Lord God, behold, I cannot speak for I am a youth. In other words, we will always come up with reasons why we can't fulfill what God has destined us to be. We look in the mirror.

We look at our certificates or lack thereof. We look at our mistakes. We look at our present abilities or inabilities.

And we come to the conclusion that maybe you have a divine purpose for my life. But God, how am I? I'm not capable of fulfilling it. Well, that's true.

You're not. Neither am I. But he is capable of fulfilling his divine purpose through your heart, through your life as he is in mine. But the Lord said to me, Do not say, I am a youth.

For you shall go to all whom I send you and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord. Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth.

And the Lord said to me, Behold, I put my words in your mouth. See, I've this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out and pull down and destroy and throw down and to build and to plant. That's what Paul says.

We have weaponry that is not carnal, but it is mighty through God to the what the pulling down of strongholds. That's pulling down what needs to be pulled down and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. And that's building and planting what needs to be planted in the world around us.

We were not powerless in this world. Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And he said, I see a branch of an almond tree. And the Lord said to me, You have seen well, for I am ready to perform my word.

What do you what do you see, Jeremiah? He said, Well, I see just a little bit of a tree that you have ordained to bring forth fruit in this world. And he says, You've well seen. You know, we look into our lives or we look into our own hearts and we see maybe a little bit of the fulfillment of the promise of God.

Maybe there's just a beginnings of spiritual giftings. And he said to Jeremiah, Although you only see a little part of what I'm about to do, the fruitfulness I'm about to bring forth through this tree. You've seen well, because I am going to perform that in your life, which I told you that I would do.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now, in Isaiah chapter 40 verse 27, after leading Isaiah or the people of God to look into the heavens, look at the stars.

None of them is missing. There are billions of them. And God hasn't lost one.

And as a matter of fact, he knows them all by name. We know a few by name. We know a few planets.

We know several stars by name. But the billions and billions, God knows every name of everyone. He's put them in a specific place for a specific reason.

And they are still there. I don't know how many billions of years ago they were put there, but they're still there right where God put them for the purpose for which he put them there. And he challenges the people of Israel.

He says, look into the heavens. And when you look there, consider. Because I placed you where you are for a divine reason.

I know your name. I knew you before you were formed in the womb. I know the purpose that I have for your life.

And you will bring glory to my name on the earth. You will. You will because I have ordained you to bring glory to my name.

So look at this. And then in verse 27, he says, so why do you say, Jacob, the inheritor of the promise of Abraham as it is? Why do you say, Israel, my way is hidden from the Lord? In other words, why do you say God doesn't see me? Has anybody here said that recently? God, do you know where I am? God, do you know what I'm going through? God, don't you care that I'm perishing? Don't you know I have to pay my rent at the end of the month? Has it escaped your attention? Do you not know me? Do you not know where I am? Why do you say my way is hidden from the Lord and my just claim is passed over by my God? The just claim in our case would be the claim for not just eternal life, but an abundant life while we live on this earth. You say, God, if my life is supposed to be abundant, then why am I living so mediocrely? Why am I always fighting with all of these fightings within and fightings without and struggles in my mind and all these voices raising up against me, coming at me daily from my past or from the present or even from the future, saying, you will never amount to anything.

You will never fulfill your calling. You will never be of any significance on the earth. Why do you say this, God says to the people of Israel? Why do you make a declaration that's contrary to what I've said about you? I have made a decree over your life.

I've told you what your life is going to be, not just eternal, but abundant. You will have a reason to live on the earth. I will change you from image to image and glory to glory by the spirit of God.

You will be born again. You will become a new creation in Christ Jesus. The old things in your life will pass away and behold, all things will become new.

I will give you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. I will never leave you or forsake you. I will be a friend to you that sticks closer than a brother.

I will walk with you. I will talk with you. I will keep you.

I will cover you. I will empower you. I will commission you.

So Israel, why do you say? Why do you say that God doesn't see me? Why do you say that my just claim according to the word of God is passed over by my God? Why do you say that God doesn't see me? God doesn't hear me. God doesn't know me. God will not be faithful to me.

Why do you say God doesn't see me? He has no divine plan for me or he's passed me by because he has seen some flaw or weakness or tiredness in my life. And that's the voices we have to fight against all the time. Somehow God has made you the exception to everything he has said about the universe.

Everything he has ever said about any life that's ever been born into this world. Suddenly, you or me, we become the exception in our own minds. Then he goes on and he says, Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, neither faint nor is weary.

His understanding is unsearchable. Have you not known that he has been speaking? Have you been listening to what he has been saying? Remember God said through Moses to Moses, How long will it be before these people believe me? For all the things that I have shown them. All the signs and wonders that I've done throughout history.

The things they know and the things that many have experienced. Starting at the new birth in Jesus Christ. Starting at the fact, I know tonight there are people in here, in this room, myself included, should be dead and in hell were it not for the mercy of God.

You know that God saved you in that car accident. The time you choked in that restaurant. I don't know what it is.

You know that God saved your life for a divine purpose. Hallelujah to the Lamb of God. If we needed no other reason to rejoice, that would be good enough tonight.

We should be dancing. We should be singing in the presence of God. Oh, hallelujah.

How merciful our God is. When I think of the times that I could have been killed, even as a police officer or even from my own foolishness over the years. And yet God preserved my life and brought me into his kingdom.

I believe because he knew me before I was formed in my mother's womb. I believe that he ordained me for a purpose on the earth. I believe that with all my heart.

I believe that God is all-knowing. We call it omniscient. He knows everything.

He knows the end from the beginning. He knows all of it. He knows the path that my feet are going to walk on throughout my life.

And I have been listening lately. Oh, God. I've been listening.

And I'm seeing something bigger than I can even put into words. I'm seeing it in your life. I'm seeing it in the church of Jesus Christ.

I'm seeing it in my own life. I'm seeing God about to do something that's going to bring his name to glory in the earth. One more time.

One more time. One more time before he comes. One more time.

One more great and glorious harvest. One more time. One more time.

Not because we've earned it. Not because we deserve it. Not because we've done anything right.

But because of his mercy. Because of the mercy of almighty God. We are going to know a spiritual awakening in our generation.

Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11. He says to his people Israel. I know the thoughts that I think towards you says the Lord.

Thoughts of peace and not of evil. To give you a future and hope. And this was spoken to a people who knew that they had made mistakes.

And the mistakes that brought them into difficulty and captivity in a season in their lives. But God says you think it's all over. There's somebody here tonight.

You might be thinking that. You think it's all over. But God says that's not what I'm thinking about you.

I'm thinking thoughts about you of peace and not of evil. To give you a future and a hope. I'm thinking something that you're not thinking yet.

But I'm hoping God says that you will start agreeing with me soon. Because I'm thinking something that I want to reveal to you. Listen to what David says in Psalm 139 verses 13 to 18.

He says for you formed my inward parts. You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise you for I'm fearfully and wonderfully made.

And marvelous are your works and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret. And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed. And in your book they were all written. The days fashioned for me when as yet there were none of them.

Listen David says. Same as Jeremiah. David the king says you saw me even before I was formed in my mother's womb.

And not only that. You wrote a story about my life even before my life began. And you ordained my days.

You ordained my path that was set before me. When's the last time you saw God like that? When's the last time you had an expansive view of God? That he's not taken unawares. He's not just here enduring us.

He knows us. He knows us inside out. He knows things about you that you don't know about yourself.

He knows things about me that I don't know. He knows mysteries from the beginnings of time that I'm not aware of. And David said you saw my substance being yet unformed.

You saw me. And you wrote something about me in a book. David says you have a book.

And you wrote my name in that book. And you wrote my days in that book. And you wrote what I was going to do through my days in that book.

Before I was even born. And breathed my first breath and cried my first cry out of my mother's womb. Oh, hallelujah.

How precious, he says also, are your thoughts to me, oh God. How great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they would be more the number than the sand.

Isn't that amazing? David says, God Almighty. You're thinking things about me. You were thinking things about me before I was formed.

You were thinking things about me when I was being formed in my mother's womb. You had written my life story in a sense before I was even born. And God, you're thinking so many things about me.

They're more in number than the sand. God Almighty. God Almighty.

And the next line is when I awake I'm still with you. And I think it's David saying God help me to get out of any slumber that's overtaken me. God keep my mind active.

Keep me alive. Keep me understanding these things. Now have you not heard Isaiah? Have you not known the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth.

Neither faints nor is weary. Hallelujah. His understanding is unsearchable.

He gives power to the weak and to those who have no might. He increases strength. Even the youth shall faint and be weary.

In other words, even the strong among us can't make the whole journey all by themselves. And young men shall utterly fall. So human strength, in other words, won't take us to the end of the journey that God has for us.

But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. Now this is an interesting concept. Because in the original language, the word wait means to be bound together as by twisting.

It's like you take two twist ties, you put them like this and you twist them together. And that's the concept of waiting upon the Lord. It means those who intertwine themselves with God.

Those whose hearts are engaged with the word of God. Those who believe that what God says he's going to do is what he's going to do. Will renew their strength.

They will mount up with wings like eagles. They'll run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint. Have you not heard that the one who loses none of the stars won't lose you? Hallelujah.

I want to say that again. The one who loses none of the stars won't lose you. The one who placed you in this world for a purpose will see that purpose in your life fulfilled.

As each star in the heavens fulfills its purpose even to this day. So too, you will fulfill yours. So in verse 41 is the key now.

After all this, now keep in mind when this was written, there were no chapters and verses. It's just all one letter. He says, keep silence before me.

Oh, coast lands and let all the people renew their strength. In other words, let every voice that is contrary to the voice of God be silent. God says, what I have said will be done, will be done.

What I have said, I will do. I will do. I have decreed a purpose for your life and there's no voice.

And every tongue that rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord. Let the reasonings of this world be quiet.

Let my own heart, the voice of my own heart be quiet. Because the scripture says, if my heart condemns me, God is greater than my heart. Let my own heart be quiet from this day forward.

Because God is greater. Let Satan himself be quiet. The accuser of the brethren.

Whom God has justified, no one has the right to condemn. What God has cleansed, nobody can call common or unclean any longer. Devil be quiet.

Satan be quiet. You have no right over the people in this sanctuary. You have no right over any mind.

No right over any heart. No right over any life. These people belong to God.

These are God's people. This is God's church. Everyone in this sanctuary is going to fulfill the purpose that God has for their life.

When their hearts are in tune with him. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles.

They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. Hallelujah to the Lamb of God.

Keep silence every voice. Every voice against the word of God. And the will of God and the people of God.

You are the church of Jesus Christ. You are the stars in the city set upon a hill in this generation that cannot be hidden. You are the ones who bear the treasure of the third person of the Godhead within your earthly bodies.

You are those that are to show people in darkness the way to eternal life and light. You'll be given giftings and abilities that you don't naturally have. You'll be brought into a place of strength that can only be given you by God.

Those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. In chapter 41 the Lord says keep silence before me.

All ye coastlands. Everything of flesh. All reasonings of man.

All the lies of the enemy. Everything sent against the people of God. God says keep silence.

Keep silence. You see I'm doing tonight what the scripture says. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God.

To the what? Pulling down of strongholds. I believe. As I say keep silence.

For example tonight I am pulling down strongholds. Strongholds in people's minds. Strongholds trying to tell you you'll never amount to anything.

Strongholds trying to say God doesn't see me. God doesn't know you. God doesn't love you.

God doesn't want you. Keep silence. Keep silence Satan.

The devil has no right over the church of Jesus Christ. Whose you are. And always will be.

Those who have placed their confidence and their trust in Christ. He's not a fickle God that takes off when things get tough. He doesn't abandon you when you think you're not going to make it through the storm.

He doesn't remove the covering of the blood of Christ when you make a mistake somewhere along the journey. He knows those who are his. You have within you a cry of a father.

We heard that tonight in communion. You have a cry placed there by the Holy Spirit. You might not feel like you're pleasing to God.

But you can still call him father. And to you he says don't think I don't see you. Don't think for a moment I don't have a plan for your life.

Don't think for a moment that I have no intention of using your life for my glory. It may not be as magnificent as you think it should be. But it will be magnificent in the sight of God.

And it will bring glory to the name of Christ. Keep silence he says. All you coastlands.

Let the people renew their strength. Hallelujah. And let the people renew their strength.

Keep silence. They that wait upon the Lord. Remember? Bound together with God.

I put myself in the hands of God. I choose to believe his word over the frailty of my own heart and other voices that want to just convince me I'm nothing. I choose to be bound together with God through Jesus Christ.

Through his word and by the power of his Holy Spirit. And yes my life might only be a branch of an almond tree. Maybe that's all I see.

Maybe God's telling me that he's going to bear fruit through my life. And I only just can see a branch. Maybe it's not even mature enough to bear any fruit.

But there's a promise in that branch. And God said Isaiah you've well seen. Or Jeremiah you've well seen.

When you saw it's the beginnings of what I'm about to do. Hallelujah. I want to give an altar call tonight.

I'm done. And for the musicians when I say I'm done I really I am. I am done.

I want to give an altar call tonight. For people who need to renew their strength. We're going to take authority over these voices at this altar.

I'm going to believe in my heart that you're going to go home. You're going to see yourself in a different light than when you walked into this sanctuary tonight. You're going to start seeing yourself the way God does.

I want you to go home tonight with a sense of awe in your heart. A sense of wonder. If you can look up and see the stars.

I don't know if you can in New York. But if you can. That God you called me that.

You said that's who I am. You've ordained me. You put me in a place for a reason.

And you know my name. You've not passed me by. And you've not passed over my claim to an abundant and meaningful life.

And you're not weary of me. Even when I get weary of myself. God you will come.

And you will give me strength. Not just to endure. But to make a difference.

To bring glory to your name. You will take me out of my present struggle. And out of my present weakness.

And you'll bring me in to your strength. It's a beautiful thing when we finally realize that. God is willing.

To make an exchange with us. We bring him our failing. And he gives us his victory.

We bring him our confusion. He gives us clear thinking. His clear thinking.

We bring our failures. He gives us his success. We bring our hopelessness.

He gives us the hope that's in his heart for us. And begins to speak to us about things that he's wanting and willing to do through us. If we will just let him do what he wants to do.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. And so that's what I feel the altar call is tonight. It's for people who need to renew their strength.

And some here tonight say, Pastor, I feel that God has spoken right to my life. It's as if somebody called you at home and ratted me out before I came to the service tonight. And told you what I'm going through.

Don't say God has forgotten me. Don't say God doesn't see me. Don't say he doesn't know my name and has no plan for my life.

Because that's not true. Turn to him with all your heart. Because he's already turned to you with all of his.

Hallelujah. Let's stand together. And if you need strength to renew your strength, just come, please.

We're going to pray together. We're going to worship together. We're going to believe God together.

Just make your way out. Go to either aisle. Come down.

I don't know if there's anybody in the balcony. But if there is, make your way to either exit. And we are going to pray.

I'm going to pray that the devil's voice be quieted in your mind. All the contrary voices to what God says are going to be put to rest. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. You are the church of Jesus Christ. You are the city set upon a hill.

You are the stars that God spoke to Abraham about. That's who you are. That's who you are.

You are not who you think you are. That's who God says you are. And God says, you don't say anymore that I passed you by because I haven't.

Don't say anymore that I've forgotten you because I haven't. Don't say I don't know your name because I do. Don't say you don't understand my life.

And God says, no, you don't understand what I have for your life. I've written it already. I know your story.

I've written your story. And I've ordained you to bring forth fruit. I've ordained you to have a supernatural life.

I've ordained you. Turn to me, God says. Turn away from sin and turn to me with all your heart.

And watch what I will do. You might only be able to see a little branch right now, but God says, I see the whole tree. I see what I'm going to do in your life.

You only see a little bit. Just a little bit of fruit. But I see the whole tree.

I'm going to do something. Hallelujah. We aren't the fastest runners that ever ran the Christian race.

You know that. Or the finest. But we are the church.

We are the church of Jesus Christ. We are. We are God's choice.

We are God's people. We are God's plan. And I don't care whose name is on the marquee on some theater here.

You are the stars in New York City. You are. All of you here.

You're the stars. That's quite a golf clap for that statement, right? You are the stars in New York City. You are.

So, Father, we take authority tonight over every contrary voice to truth. Everything that's sent to hinder these men and women of God. Every lie of the devil.

Every frailty of the human heart. We take authority over it in the name of Jesus Christ. And we make a declaration that, God, you know my days.

You know my life. You know the purpose of my life. I'm not a fluke.

You ordained that I should be born into this world for a divine purpose. And so, God, I yield my life tonight to you. Let that be your prayer.

I yield my life to you tonight, Lord Jesus Christ. And I'm going to learn what it means to be intertwined with you. And you promised that I will renew my strength.

You told me that I would run and not be weary. That I would walk and I would not faint. You gave me that word.

You gave me that promise in your word. And so, God, I'm asking you tonight that you would keep these men and women. Every last one.

Young and old that are at this altar tonight. And that none would fall short of what you have for each life. I'm asking you tonight for an explosion of faith to come into every heart.

God, in Jesus' name, let there be an explosion of faith. An explosion of understanding. God, in every heart.

In every life. Lord, take us out of always struggling. Of living in mediocrity.

And bring us into that abundant life that you have now for each one that's here. Turn us away, God, from the beggarly things of this world. Turn us away, God, from addictions and drugs and wrong relationships.

And everything else we've looked to. God, turn us away from these things and turn us to you. Help us to wait upon you.

God Almighty. God Almighty. I'm asking you tonight for miracles at this altar.

Miracles of grace. Miracles of grace. Giftings of the Holy Spirit.

Being released into people's lives tonight. Gifts of healing. Words of knowledge.

Words of wisdom. Abilities to walk with God. God, by the power of your Holy Spirit.

I'm asking you, Lord, for a gift of faith to be imparted to the people at this altar tonight. A gift of faith. The ability to believe.

Beyond what's in the mirror. Beyond what's on the wall. Beyond what anybody else has said.

The ability to believe God for the future. Satan, be quiet. Satan, be quiet.

You have no right to destroy these lives. You have no right to govern these lives. These men and women belong to God.

They belong to God. Every last one of them belongs to God. Now, what I'm going to ask you to do is something unique and different.

But I'm going to ask you to lift your hands and begin to agree with what you heard tonight. As much as you can, just start repeating the things that were spoken tonight that apply to your life. Just start repeating them.

To God. God, I am. Just start saying it.

Start agreeing with it. You haven't forgotten me. You know my name.

There is a divine purpose. I was born into this world for a purpose, God. And I want to know what that purpose is.

God, I believe that you're going to show it to me. You're going to take me there. You're going to guide me.

You're going to help me. You're going to give me the ability to walk with you, Lord. You're going to help me, God, not to faint.

You're going to put away those voices out of my mind. Oh, just start to speak it. Just start to speak it out loud.

In the sanctuary, just start to speak it out loud. Let's agree with God tonight. This is an amazing moment in history to be alive.

It's an amazing moment to be a witness for Jesus Christ. Oh, God, thank you.