Covid-19： A Call For Intense Intercession

Are more coming up with individuals, family members, extended family members that are contracting the disease. You have seen over the past, we entered into this morning, I've watched the stat, the world stat clock that seems to be pretty you know updating as they can. I started about eight o'clock, nine o'clock this morning looking at and for the United States, we had eight deaths. I got on about six p.m. here this evening. We was already over 500 deaths for the day. So we've had that many, uh, short amount of time, 12 hours worldwide deaths has surpassed 30,000 this afternoon. And so that just continues to escalate as well. Italy, Spain, two of the probably the hardest hit, most of the countries in Europe, UK, Belgium, France, all those, Portugal now starting more and more, all these areas, not just cases but deaths that we're seeing escalate. So watching Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Philippines starting to see escalation and again that those charts where they're not single digits but double digits. When you start seeing digits of hundreds again, they're, they're in the crux of it. Now for us in the United States, just some of the points that I want to share with you because normally when we have a prayer, it's a focus on what are we seeing and what's going on. Um, New Orleans and New York City are two epicenters in the United States right now. Uh, North New Orleans, probably in the middle of next week will be at a net, uh, and we're passing New York if not matching it with what they're saying. Um, so again, rural America, U. S. Has not seen it, especially, you know, here in Monroe County where I'm at Allegheny County. Uh, we haven't had that, uh, any cases as yet. So again, bigger cities are facing more crisis, but it will trickle down in the next two weeks. So we're not weak. We're just getting started. Uh, and those numbers are going to are going to definitely multiply and escalate. So praying again some of the focuses that we want to cover to this evening. I want to give you back some of the things I've already covered for updates and then to give you some prayer points per targets that you can center in on your prayer time. Um, and that you can go in your prayer closet tonight and bring those things before the Lord. So the first thing I wanted to share with you, uh, again, what's what's on God's heart? And, uh, I said my devotion this morning of a word blog that I do. Now, Isaiah, uh, and I'll cover that in a moment. But again, it's one of those things that you read in scripture and again with God captures my attention, my thoughts with this. And so what's on God's heart with the world in crisis with these multiple of deaths and things that are happening? What's God's heart in the midst of this? And so two times in Genesis chapter six and over in Isaiah chapter 63, God reveals his heart, what's on his heart. And I don't know of any better way. You know, again, we were taught always wrongly, but taught us that when you go into prayer time, pray what's on your heart. And that's not exactly always the best thing. Uh, I would much rather, and I've learned this, I would much rather pray God's heart when he reveals it that my heart, although I'm allowed to ask for things on my heart. Um, these things were more important. God's heart is more important than my heart. God's heart is more important than yours, more than what's on the rest of the world. And so in Isaiah or in Genesis chapter six, right before the flood, God reveals his heart. Now, verse five, uh, in Genesis six and God saw. So again, God is looking, God's watching. He saw the wickedness of man and it was great upon the earth and that every imagination, imagination, the thought of men, uh, where thoughts of their heart were only evil continuing. So it repented the Lord that he had made man in the earth and it grieved him. God's heart was green and green to men in his heart. However, in chapter 63, uh, verse four for the day of vengeance is in my heart and then and the year of my redeemed it has come. Now again, that's futuristic for in times in this past, in this context in Isaiah 63. But needless to say, God's heart is being revealed here. Vengeance is in his heart when God's sword goes throughout the earth, starts consuming nations and starts consuming men, which again is a parallel for what we're watching today. And so again, I kind of went back and was doing a history study on the times of history when pandemics went worldwide. How how frequent has that been? What did it impact with time periods? What was going on? And so again, many people are about when the United States shut down like it is facing today. Uh, the last real pandemic that we had that there was these kind of closures that we're facing, which was back in the Spanish flu back in 1918. And when you go back to that time, okay, what had happened proceeding up to that and what happened after that to give a kind of an understanding about what God is up to, what what's God's heart here? What's God doing now? 1918 World War One had just ended from 1914 and 1917 and the casualty list in World War One was just off the charts for amount of the of the nations that saw death on top with the millions that died in the Spanish flu. But leaning right up the Welsh revival from 1904 to 1907 that went global as well. And so you see God's God's response there that again, he sent in grace, uh, in the power of revival that swept the world and and did this right leading up to World War One. And then the Spanish flu were millions died. But what come after that? What is key? Because again, we call it the roaring twenties. Uh, pro was was enacted later to be overturned in 1933. Uh, the Great Depression in 19 late twenties into the thirties and then back into World War two. Uh, so it was like all events happening in our nation and we didn't get it. We missed that moment that God was speaking. And so again, when God is revealing his heart and most of the time, this is how you need to enter into your time. Now we've we've covered last Saturday and Monday and Thursday, our prayer times and the family that was here. I had pray and I told him, I said, we're not going to do that tonight. We're just I'm going to give you these prayer points that you're able to participate in, uh, right down, jot down. And then for those of you that want to, when we get this uploaded to YouTube, you can watch it again. Uh, but again, when you enter into prayer privately secret time or whether you're doing this as far as, um, corporate, when we the concert of prayer is, is that it leads us is that we always begin with worship and worship. Is that identifying with God always of who he is, what his names are, what his attributes are, what he has said and what he's done and works in his deeds. And so again, God, when you, when you view your creation in the world in Genesis six and you were grieved in your heart, Isaiah 63, your heart was filled with vengeance. And again, you look at the nations that you created that you made man in your image. And men have defiled the image of God. You know, again, we've, we've destroyed ourselves with this and we come into God's presence again to worship him. And again, it is, is that he's saying, but you're supposed to look like me. You're supposed to act like me be holy for I am holy. Let my righteousness, not your self righteousness, but let my righteousness cover you in this. In the church today, when again, you say worship, they automatically think is that the music's going to start or the band's going to start playing. The idea of worshiping and adoring God is, is, is foreign to most Christians. They cannot be still and know that God is God because it's not in their heart. Their heart is to be entertained. Their heart is to of what they want. And so it becomes an almost an adultery where again, we're praying our hearts and we never ever consider nor ask the question, Lord, what's on your heart? And so again, scripture in the context of this is that we're able to get back to these things that God has revealed to us about, um, looking to God, listening to God, knowing what he's already said in again, he cannot lie. He's already spoken truth. But it brings us to this place tonight to be able to examine some of the scriptures. Now, back in January, back in February, I preached between two churches of Kaiser and Foxes Hollow. He's chapter 16 verse two. And I did not know them. But of course, I know now that God was already speaking and revealing what was coming. And so he said, cause them to know their abominations. And again, I have a blog post that I started on this, never got back to it, never finished it, and I never sent it. But it covered again, what God's heart was when he viewed his church, and when he views the nations in the world. And so again, most of the time when I go into prayer time, and again, speaking what God has already said that again, God's desire, his heart cry is for men to worship him to glorify him. And so prayer is to be centered around God and not around us. And so again, for most churches, if that's what you've been taught, pray, you know, the old boy said it, God bless me, my wife, my two children, us for no more kind of mentality, and then we're not praying beyond for God's kingdom, and for what's coming, we've missed the moment. And so cause them to know their abominations is that this is one of the focuses that I wanted to give to you tonight, because I did work on this today. I haven't sent it out, but you can go find it on my blog. Back in January, cause them again, it's that's the title of the verse cause them to know their abominations. And I sat down. And I went back in scriptures, trying to find the abominations that God utterly detested. Now, again, we know the scripture in Romans three that says, all have sin to come short of the glory of God. We know that when we get saved, we are saved from sins. Matthew chapter one, when when God spoke, and he spoke to Mary, and he said, and thou shall call his name, Jesus, because Jesus means saving, saving them from their sins. Now, this will become the second second part of this tonight that I want to present to you as we're praying for the loss, to have loved ones to be saved from sin, real salvation, not this false salvation that's perpetrated out there today. But again, save them from their sins. But again, when men sin, which all men sin, that again, it is up to them to be convicted of that to be confessing of that. But what do you do when men just are not just sinning, but we reach a plateau of escalation, that now it has become an abomination. When God says, cause them to know their abomination, cause them to know that which I utterly detest and abhor and hate. Now again, God's heart, that again, where you hear God is love, God is love. Well, God hates, God, God is utterly detesting of the nations. And you read through chapter 16. And again, he's speaking to Israel and Judah there, but mainly Judah at this point. But when you look at what they did, is that your sin of adultery and the sin of fornication and adultery that you committed. So again, these listing of specific sins that need to be confessed before the Lord and not just confess, but repented of and forsaken. When we look at the pandemic in the United States, and someone would say, well, what should the church's response be? Now it is not just to the need at hand, which again, that is enough, you know, praying for doctors, praying for nurses, hospitals, staff, crisis, when you see it on social media. And again, we've said this and spoken this every night, you're going to start to see more and more familiar faces and names of people getting on social media saying my loved one has contracted the coronavirus, they're in intensive care and their life is hanging in the balance. This is going to escalate over the next couple weeks. And it's going to start hitting closer and closer to home. So this is going to be on our prayer list, our prayer times, more and more names and faces of people that are close proximity to the church family that we're going to have to be interceding for and praying for. And again, determination of life and death that's in God's care and keeping. Again, we are we are allowed the privilege of asking for that disease to be removed and to know that God can heal all diseases. So even this, but then this is what's coming right now. For most people that I know, they don't know anybody that has personally contracted the coronavirus. And so that hasn't come into play yet. It's going to it's going to be that way. It's going to be in every family, it's going to be in every county, every city, and it's going to be life and death. And again, death is going to be become predominant in this. I saw where one UK British authority said, if we if we're able to hit, if we're able to peak at 20,000 deaths, that that would be of God's mercy. So they're looking for 20,000 deaths. And just in the UK, we're already, like I said, 3000. So we're 17,000 to go, which again, within the next month of April, this is going to be a realization of where we're at. So when you look at the after effects of this, every family affected, every family losing loved ones, especially when we look at it in the elderly, grandparents and older parents and those kind of things that are playing into this, this is going to be what comes next of how people deal with grief and sorrow and loss. But for the immediate place where the church's response should be caused them to know their abominations in immediate whenever you saw this in the scriptures, whenever you saw God's wrath being poured out upon Israel or upon Judah, or upon any nation, he gave them a grace period for them to respond and to cry out to him for forgiveness of these things, to make a sacrifice, to make an atonement with him. And this is where the solemn assembly would come into play for the church to respond to the crisis and the calamity that's at hand. Now, how does that play out when we're looking at social distancing, when we're not allowed to gather together and have a solemn assembly in one place where leaders come together and cry out to God? I don't know how that would look virtually on Facebook and live-streaming and Zoom and all these other avenues, but that is the response that should be put into play. So the call for the solemn assembly, for the response of leaders, national leaders, church leaders, to set themselves before God with an immediate cry, cause them to know their abominations, that these sins might be recognized. And again, in my blog, I have 15 specific abominations that are there of what, again, God detests. Now, again, most of you should know these. When you go to Ephesians chapter 5, or Galatians chapter 5, I'm sorry, and you look at the fruits of the flesh, there are 17 sins that are mentioned there. When you go to Mark chapter 7 and Jesus says, out of the heart proceeds these things, and you see these things that, again, if a person, a Christian, commits any of these things, and again, a Christian may commit these sins, is that they immediately are convicted and they confess these and they repent of these, but when they have no conviction about them, is that the sin continues so that it becomes more and more acceptable. And so in our nation, in the world, these sins that God condemns as wicked and evil, but committed by sinners, are now committed across the board, and they are at escalated proportions and numbers that, again, that God says, I gave you time to repent, but you would not. And so they are abominations that are now committed and practiced and legalized by our nation. And so now, again, we've put our stamp approval on what God has said thou shalt not. And so God who says, I utterly detest, I abhor these things, and again, we don't use those terms. I do because I'm King James, but most of you don't pray like this or talk like this. But God abhors, I mean, he loathes, hates the sin that has been legalized in our nation of abortions and homosexuality and the lies that are allowed and continues. Men are liars and have no desire for the truth. They are proud and boasters, and there is no humility in their lives. And again, this, which was, as you remember, just two weeks ago, is that there were more conspiracy theorists on social media talking about, this was the government, this was the army, they're doing this for this, and I still see some of that. But now people are dying, and there are scads of thousands, of tens of thousands of people are dying every day. And so now humility is setting in, but they again have not confessed, I should have kept my mouth shut, I should have been more empathetic with these people, rather than, you know, vain speaking, as the scripture in James talks about and condemns. So this is the sins to identify, where again, we see a nation that is in sunk in the abominations that God detests, and these things are poured out on us. How do you stop it? How do you throw the emergency brake? God's people, God's people stands up, cause them to know their abominations, cause them to confess these things, so that the sinner, the lost world, and the church knows these sins. Because again, right now, most Christians are biblically ignorant. They don't know what an abomination is, and they don't confess the abominations. Specifically, speaking of those sins, again, the 17 sins in Galatians chapter 5, the fruits of the flesh, adultery, fornication, lasciviousness, anger, wrath, envy, emulations, witchcraft, hatred, you go through these lists and you see these sins. Now when you see it in your own life, you detest it. It's an abomination to yourself, because again, you want nothing to do that would offend God, provoke God, or anger God. But when you see your lost loved ones committing this, and they have no conviction about it, they must be told what the truth is, so that they may understand that again, they have provoked God and anger God, and they must be saved from these sins. Now those are the things of dealing with in this that I wanted to share with you tonight. Cause them to know their abomination. Be very specific when you go into your prayer time for confession. National sins, church sins, family sins, individual sins that we talked about, and cause them to know these abominations that we must confess before the Lord for him to have pity on us. In wrath, remember mercy, as we so often say. Now the second thing about cause them to know their abominations, again, when you see it in your loved ones. And again, the heart cry of God is that the nations might be right with him, that they might be at one with him. And so us pleading for the church to get back to where it needs to be. Our priority to be holy, to be righteous, to be faithful, and to be right with God as God wants us to be. And so again, examining ourselves, our time again of isolation, quarantine, that again we can commit more and more time to getting back to the things that we've lost with our busyness, with our self indulgence, and to get back to the things of God's kingdom. Bible, make sure that you're up on your Bible readings, digesting the Word of God daily, your prayer times, devotionals, being able to share the gospel with someone, which again is so important. Now Hebrews chapter 10, forsake not the assembling of yourselves together. I'm grateful for those of you that are on tonight with us and have been following along. We just can't congregate. It's just not right. As you may have seen, there was one church that defied and 40-some people in the church and the evangelist and the pastor, I think it was down in Arkansas, they contracted it. Now they're all contagious with it. This is not about religious freedom being taken away from us. This is about life and death and health. So this is the reason that we are no church services. I've talked to most of them at Fox's Challah today because again we've had a lot of sickness and issues with that church family. And so as I talked with them, they were like, one couple said, well we probably won't be at church tomorrow. I said, nobody will be at church tomorrow. I said, we probably will be lucky to get back together before Mother's Day. So we're looking the whole month of April to cancel church services and again we'll announce this week to week. But this is the state of our nation right now. This is the state of the church. Until we're able to get back together, the telephone, Facebook, live streaming, texting, FaceTime, Zoom, these are the venues that we're going to have to be together. And that leads me to my last point that I want to share with you tonight. That one of the most critical things that's facing us tonight when you go into your prayer closet and when you have your times to pray right now, as much as you possibly can with the things that I have shared with you before of when you pray, the three things of fervency and urgency and emergency. Those, all three of those qualities must be incorporated into your prayer time. Don't just say prayers. We are far beyond that. We are in the crisis of our lifetime of this pandemic. And again, for me to sit and to watch the numbers escalate and to consider 500 people in the United States died, drew their last breath today, and they went out into eternity. Now again, I did not know one of them. That does not matter. They had an eternal soul and that eternal soul is now 90-95% of our population are without Christ. That means well over 450 of them are in hell tonight. Now again, the reality of that for the church, we know this by Scripture. And again, we've gone over this many times and I say it again, but I cannot always assume that you remember all things, so I repeat myself quite often. Jesus told us this, that there are two paths. The path that leads to heaven, that leads to God, is through Christ. And Jesus declared that, that the way is narrow and the path and the gate is narrow and the way is strict. And there are few that beyond that. Now the path that leads to eternal hell, of torments, of sorrow, of anguish, it is wide and it is broad. And there are many that are on that. Out of the 30,000 people that have died with the coronavirus, they are now in eternity. Once in hell, always in hell. Once in heaven, always in heaven. But their eternity has begun. Now over the next weeks, as your loved ones contract this, this disease, this crisis that we're in right now, should be the predominant thought, where is my loved one going to spend eternity? Now it should have been on our minds and our hearts all along, and there are many of us that have had discussions and pleadings with our loved ones, and they have been rebellious. Again, the abominations that God hates, they've been rebellious. They have resented us talking about church, talking about Christ, but now their life is one breath away from their eternity. And I come back to R.C. Sproul's statement that's on the top of my first page of my prayer note book. Right now matters forever, and that reality of that is on the church right now. It's on my heart. It's on God's heart, because God has shared his heart. God wants who to go to hell? I would that none would perish. I would that none would go away from me. I would that they all would come and be saved. This is the reality of where we're at, and the fervency that we have is to go in and beg God, wrestle with God as Jacob wrestled with the angel for our lost loved ones, because again, if they contract this, that's going to be on your mind, and that's going to be on their mind. Do not wait till that time. Do not wait till you're in the intensive care unit or they're in the intensive care unit. Do it now, because that time's coming when death will be there. And so it is while we have time now, it is to wrestle with God in God's heart, that when God's heart desires for them to be saved, that we pray in agreement with him on that, because again, the reality of the eternal soul is the predominant priority right now for the masses. This is what is facing the world right now. What comes after this crisis, when the reprieve comes, is it going to be like the Spanish flu in 1918, that we left the Spanish flu, we left World War I, and we went into the roaring 20s, where it was all about entertainment, and it was all about self, and it was all about sin, until God says, I'll take it all away from you, and the Depression hit, and then World War II hit. So it is, here we are again, in the crisis of nations, the crisis of life, about being where we're supposed to be, looking at what God has already said and done in his Word. The priority is not me, it's not you, it's not Trump, it is God. God's heart and God's vengeance is upon the nations right now, as a scythe cutting down the sickles, the sickle cutting down the cornstalks, he is sifting the nations right now, and the church has cried to be up to God, forgive us, have pity on us, in wrath remember mercy, it is a pleading for grace and mercy, cause them to know their abomination, while we're in this crisis, solemn assembly to be responded by the leadership of the nation and the church. And again, I'll be presenting this, what they do with it, again, he said in Ezekiel 16, he said, son of man, cause them to know, prophesy to them, that's all I can do. What they do with it is between them and the Lord, but they will know those abominations that are there. And like I said, there's 15 of them there, copy those things off, go in your prayer closets when you have your prayer time, speak to the Lord about that, again, not just nationally, worldwide, but what's in the church, what's in your heart, what's in your homes, and again, the second thing, the most important thing, pleading to God for the salvation of these that in the next weeks are going to be in critical condition of life and death. Now again, true salvation, I covered this, touched on this the other night, I still haven't done this, where again, to present video-wise, what is salvation? Again, you know, I hear these mass megachurch creatures on social media, oh, we had 1,100 make decisions last week on Facebook and on live streaming, and all they did was, again, the old adage of saying, do you want to go to heaven, would you bow your head and say this prayer, and they probably repeated a prayer, and they never mentioned their sins, they were never convicted, they never forsook their sins, they never died to self, they never took up a cross, that's not the salvation that the Bible has given to us, and you and I to pray and to be urgent with them, you have to die to self, and again, when I've talked to people this past week, and they said, oh, I believe in God, oh, I'm a Christian, I said, yeah, but you never, you never died, you're still living for self, your priority is me, myself, and I, there's no priority for God, there's no urgency in your life to get right with God, and the one boy that I was speaking to, I could tell when I was talking to him, is that he had no earthly idea what I was talking about, that again, to die to self, to live for him, to give up, forsake, I forsake all my sins, because again, Jesus does what? Thou shall call his name Jesus, because he shall do what? Save me, save them, save me from my sins, what sins? The specifics, living in sin, a man, a man that's still drinking, a man that still cusses, a man that's still doing drugs, a man that's in an adulterous fornication lifestyle, a man that still lives for himself, and never gives God time in the word, never gives God time in church, never gives God his talents or his ability to live for him, who's he living for? Is that Christianity? That's not Christianity of the New Testament, that's not what Christ said, that's not God's heart. God's heart is priority for me to be holy as he is holy, void and without sin, to be righteous, filled with God's righteousness, not self-righteousness, where I'm patting myself on the back, oh I'm a good guy, I don't know any good guys, we're all lost and sinners, and we need God's amazing grace to save us, and so this urgency and this fervency, because this emergency is on us right now, and I'm looking and praying, responding to the church's call today because of this, and again, the impassioned plea is not my heart, the impassioned plea is God's heart, and so again, praying for tomorrow, the live streams, the contacts with church folks, individuals, family, friends, I've got to talk to you about your eternal soul. If you contract coronavirus and you die with this, where are you going to spend eternity? And again, to talk about it now, while you have availability and opportunity, because in three weeks time, three weeks time here in Monroe County, I know we're going to have cases. We don't have any right now, we will have cases. There will be people contracting it, and people in the intensive care units, and there will be family members in the churches requesting, my loved one has contracted this, and it's not good. We've already seen across the social media and the headlines of notary, my wife's sitting here to help me, people with famous, again, you know, that I've seen and that they have lost their loved ones to this. The Spanish princess, 60-some years old, one of the England Prime Minister who has contracted it, so it's all these things. But again, it brings men, women, and children to the crisis of life and death and one more breath in eternity, and the church's responsibility, cause them to know their abominations, bring specifics to them. What have you been saved from? What have you been saved to? I've been delivered, I've been set free, I've been cleansed, I've been pardoned, and now, now, now I'm ready to receive those words from my Lord, well done, thou good and faithful servant. I remember Leonard Ravenhill, and I'll close with this, I remember Leonard Ravenhill, one of the sermons, and again, I love to listen to him, and he opened up with this, and there was a man that they talk about in a generation ago that, at that particular time, he was a notorious sinner, a notorious criminal, and he had done everything that was in the book. He had raped the women, he had murdered people, he was a gambler, he was profound and profuse in his profanity, cursing, and taking the Lord's name in vain. He had no regard, he was an evil, wicked man, an abomination in the sight of God. So they caught him, and they tried him, and they convicted him, and he was to be hung in the gallows, and his last name was Pease, P-A-S, and so, as they did back then, that on his way of the day that he was to die, to be hung, was that they, of course, shackled, and they led him on that long path from his jail cell to the platform, and as he's going, there was a Church of England priest who, and again, for like most Catholics or Lutherans, they have a book that they read out of, and so as they're walking there, he's reading, have mercy on this man's soul as he gets ready to depart from this world, and as he's reading there, he mentions and he reads about the torment and the horrors of hell, and Pease grabs a hold of the priest and spins him around and says, what did you just read? What was that that you just spoke? What is that book that you're reading out of? And he said, well, it's just some excerpts from the Bible and from some authors, and he said, well, what was that about hell? Was that you said that, is that a soul goes there, and they're in torments, and they're in, because of the wickedness that they've done on this earth, they're judged, and they're condemned, and there the worm doth not, and the fire is not quenched, and there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, and you said that's where I'm going. Now, here's a man on death road, getting ready to die within the next half hour, and he has no knowledge whatsoever of where he's going. Now, think about that right now for loved ones that have never been told the truth, and he said, if that is true what you are reading to me, do you believe that? And the priest, as some preachers, well, I don't know that I really believe all, I'm just supposed to read this, and there's no conviction, there's no fervency, there's no urgency, it's not an emergency to rescue this man's soul. They are content to let them go out into eternity without Christ. Are you content to let a loved one go out without Christ? God's heart says, no, I would that all would be saved, and the Christian's heart is to match his, and peace goes on with this, and he says, if this is true, and that I could rescue one man's soul, and I believe this, I would go the length of England, on hands and knees, across broken glass, scraping, cutting, bleeding profusely, just to rescue one from the torment and the horrors of this. Of course, listening to Ravenhill tell that in my mind, I'm thinking, what would it cost, in this day and age, to go across broken glass, from coast to coast, east to west, to beg and plead with those who are one breath away from eternity, to say, give me one more, one more time that I can speak to you about eternity, one more time that I could talk to you about that your eternal soul. I'm talking about going into your prayer chamber, and not just simply saying a prayer, God save my loved ones, which is a Pauli repeat prayer, but fervently, urgently, wrestling with God, do not let my loved one go to hell. Now again, the prayers, and the tears, the brokenness, and the contrition, in God's people, cause them to know their abominations, cause them to know why this is happening, so that they might repent, and get right with me, because again, if you think this is bad, this might only be the doorway into the next tragedy and calamity, and you and I are in a place in a time, we do not know what April holds, May holds, June holds, and again, it is to say, God to say, I gave you time to repent, but you would not, and now, the worst thing has come upon you, so you know, I'd like to think more for the church, that again, for us in our opportunities of prayer, that we come before the Lord, as Paul did, remember at the end of the book of Acts, when he's on his way to Rome, and they're out in the storm, and they've been rowing and fighting for the storm, and the ocean for two weeks, and it says, and all of a sudden, Paul steps out, and Paul steps out in this, and he says, I've been in my prayer closet, talking to the Lord about you, and God has given me the desire of my heart, over 200 people were on that boat, and he said, none of you shall perish, God has given me all of you, and an angel came, and he comforted me with those words this night, and then they all ate, gave thanks, blessed them, and again, the ship was lost, but all the souls on that ship, 200 souls, were safe and sound, because Paul interceded for them, your job, my job, when we're talking about these prayer times, as we've done Monday night, Thursday night, and as I'm asking you to do tonight, when you get off of here, and you have your quiet time before Sunday services, that you get on that prayer closet, and you plead with God, God's heart, and you plead for these lost, because again, their life is going to be in hazard's way, here in the near future, and you and I, to confess the sins of our nation, the abominations, that God says, I utterly detest this, praying God's heart, this is where we're at, so the opportunity to share with you tonight, I thank you, and again, normally what we do, is we have our family prayer here, and I ask the boys, and just kind of a round robin, with the boys and Georgie here, and we pray, I'm not doing that tonight, I've given you these specific things, that are on my heart, that God has given to me, out of scriptures, again, the 15 abominations are on my blog, cause them to know, their abominations, back in January, you can get online, and I'll try to post that, if you, if you can't find it, and you want it, but again, that's what I'm working on, plus the sermons for tomorrow, but again, these are the things that God, in our prayer times, that we're to be bringing, where are we at, why are we here, and what's coming next, those are the three questions, I think the church ought to be answering, in this most, most historic time, that we're living, because again, watching the world's stat clock, the souls, that every hour, there goes another hundred, there goes another thousand, out into eternity, and God's heart, looking upon the nation, looking upon us, where he says, is there none, is there none, that will stand in the gap, is there none, that will cry out, and plead, here am I, here am I, here are you, brother, sister, let's be, let's be, what God wants us to be, for such a time as this, God has given us this opportunity, to be fervent, and to be urgent, and to have this emergency, in our life, is to wrestle with God, and prevail, I'm not content, just to wrestle, and I ain't content, just to pray, and I'm not content, just to write, or get on a live stream, if I don't prevail, then it's all for naught, I want to prevail, and so that's what I want, so loud for me, but to close in prayer with you, I've shared with these, these specific points, I pray that you take them, and use them, and again tomorrow, they're like live streaming for Kaiser Church at 11 a.m., and then Fox's Hall at 3 p.m., and so glad that you could be on with me tonight, and we'll pass this along to those that may be interested in it as well, so let's pray, Holy Father, Almighty God, you have spoken to us in your word, of what's on your mind, and what's on your heart, even Paul writes that, let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus, give us the mind of Christ, your heart, Father, which again goes out, again in anger, and wrath, to the nation's Father, because they have forsaken you, they have forgotten you, they have replaced you with idols, false religions, cults, half, half gospel, and so Lord again, here we are tonight, pleading with you, the heart that you have laid upon us, is that, as your heart is broken and grieved, so our hearts are broken and grieved, because we see a nation, we see families, we see churches, that are so far from you, and your desire is that this would not be, but that we would be right with you, so God, you have caused us to know, wherein our sin does lie, you have caused us to see in Scripture, what it is, is that angers you, and is counted as an abomination in your sight, from that which our Supreme Court, our Congress, our national leaders, state leaders, our church leaders, have put their stamp of approval on, for those things that you've said, I hate this, I detest this, that they only want to preach your love, and they never want to preach the things, oh Father, that has brought this pandemic upon us, here we are tonight to intercede, confess these things to you, Father, the greatest of things that you have revealed, what comes out of men's hearts, pandemics, oh Lord, of these things that have ushered in upon us, of lust, and of pride, of wrath, and anger, and hate, adultery, fornication, lasciviousness, things of self, self-righteousness, self-ease, self-attainment, rather than godliness, rather than holiness, rather than righteousness, rather than faithfulness, God, we have replaced your virtues, your attributes, with the things that you hate, forgive us for this, and oh God, stir your church up, that they would have a passion, a zeal, and a heart, Father, to come after you with all their heart. I thank you for the psalmist that writes that, with my whole heart, have I sought you, oh God, each one of us tonight, with our whole hearts, all four chambers, seeking you, Father, with all that we are, wrestling as we come to you, because our loved ones, these souls that are in jeopardy of eternity tonight, that do not know the Savior, they have not been saved from their sins, they do not know your heart, many of them, oh Father, has never cared about your heart, and oh God, here we are tonight, with life and death hanging in the balances, tonight your soul shall be required of you, oh God, before that comes to our homes, before that comes to our families, before that comes to our communities, we plead now, that in the name of Jesus, you would send your Holy Spirit, not that we deserve it, not that we've earned it, for we've done everything, oh Lord, to grieve and to quench you away from us, but I plead tonight, Father, come, send your Holy Spirit upon the homes, the families, the individuals that are watching here tonight, fill them with your Holy Spirit, that we may be the men and women that you want us to be, that we may be the church that you want us to be for such time as this, men are lost and on their way to hell, and as Pease heard that gospel, that horror of hell, that he would have done anything to be rescued from it, being within 20 minutes of his own facing eternity, some of our loved ones are in that same predicament tonight, Lord, and we plead with you, seek and save that which is lost, oh God, grant us your heart this night, I pray, and be glorified to the highest, in Jesus name, I pray and ask, amen. 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