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The Power of PrayerBy Keith Daniel

Bible Text : Ephesians 6Preached on : Saturday, August 18, 2007

School of Prayer

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...to seek our God, to worship our God, to have fellowship together in song and listeningto the beautiful music of young people whose hearts are full of love for their Savior,

young people who take their gifts and give them in a sanctified way for the glory of God. And God only knows if I could have had any choice tonight I would have loved those... see how [?] play for over an hour for us, just to listen to what they have practiced andlonged to present to the church to edify and to be a blessing and maybe, Lord, one daythey would give them, these three ladies, the privilege and the joy to just have a wholemeeting where the church will listen and to appreciate what has been their ministry now

for Gods glory. Oh, bless them and use them and thank thee for them. Thank thee,again, God, for dear brother Don and Vickie, for their lovely children and their godlyhome. Thank thee, Lord. Bless them. Thank thee for every single one that traveled fromnear or for who is here tonight, who has been in the meetings before, perhaps couldntcome back tonight. But thank thee, God, for them. Thank thee for what happened lastnight when so many, oh God, so many came in resignation to Gods will last night in avery moving way. I do bless thee for them and ask thee to keep them under the blood of

Jesus and to bring much fruit, so much so, Lord, that it would stagger the powers of hellto what God would do now through their lives. Oh, bless them. Thank you for all the faith

that comes to us by thy Word that thou didst give us in that first sermon, just Godswords, not men, just God, what God said concerning when we are persecuted, when weare affected, when tribulation comes. Thank thee for this book, God, for the faith thatburns in our hearts, the joy, the comfort, the healing, the courage in the face of anythingthe devil brings. This book fills us with hope and courage and strength and faith to knowwe are not going to be devoured. Oh, we bless thee for thy promises and this book that isa lamp unto our feet, a light unto our path. We bless thee. Come, oh God, in mercy andkeep us now under the blood of Jesus. Cleanse the atmosphere of this building with theblood of Jesus and the whole surrounding area. Protect us with the blood of Christ forthe angels of God, the Holy Spirit and the risen resurrected power of Christ. Wash menow, God, in mercy in the blood that I may be clean in the hands of God. Anoint me by

the Holy Spirit and anoint thy Word in mercy to all of our hearts in Jesus Christs name,in Jesus the Christs name. Amen.

There is one other thing I forgot to say thank you for and I dont know how to say thankyou properly. It is that love offering you took up. I come from a very conservativecountry and we are not really versed how to say thank you for such things, but Americanshave a very gracious heart and goodness and I hope you will accept this as it comes justto say thank you that you even thought of that.


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My payment, dear brothers, is an honor system, the joy of having you people to preach toand God knows that is all I want. And that you thought of that, I thank you for and Ithank those of you that were so kind. It will be very meaningful to my wife and me andour family and our work, our mission in Africa. But, believe me. I came for this. This is

only the Word of God. But I do thank you and I hope I am not saying the wrong things. Iam just trying to be ethical enough and not to offend by saying thank you. So God blessyou for that.

There is a chapter that I think we all know. I know all the children know it, Ephesianschapter six. Now, those of you open your Bibles cant quote it. So we will know whoknows.

They were so wonderful last night. They started right in the beginning.

I am starting in verse 10.

Finally, my brethren.

Now when Paul says finally, that is wonderful. You might think I am long winded. Paulwent on to midnight, brother, sister. Someone actually fell down stone dead because he

preached too long. Well, the Lord rose him up again, but I have never done that. So Idont think I will be keeping you to midnight. Dont fear. But Paul when he comes tothis word finally, that is something for Paul to come to finally. Oh, my.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against thewiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against

principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of thisworld, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take untoyou the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evilday, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girtabout with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And yourfeet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking theshield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts ofthe wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit,which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplicationin the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance andsupplication for all saints.

I want you to notice that we are commanded to put on the whole armor of God for protection before we enter into warfare on our knees in prayer. I want you to notice thatwe are commanded to put on the whole armor of God for protection before we enter intowarfare on our knees in prayer. For we place ourselves on the front line of the battle

between God and Satan the moment we get on our knees. We place ourselves on thefront line of the battle between God and Satan the moment we get on our knees. We must


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enter the warfare, beloved. We must enter into warfare, beloved. We dare not sit backany longer as the Church of Jesus Christ in hopelessness and unbelief and allow the devilto destroy those plans of yours.

We must enter into warfare, beloved. We dare not sit back any longer as the Church of

Jesus Christ in hopelessness and unbelief and allow the devil to destroy this land. Wehave weapons and the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God tothe pulling down of strongholds. There is no stronghold the devil has that we cannot pulldown through prayer. The weapons God has given us, we have weapons, God says. If weare daring to do what he longs for us to do, to enter into warfare on our knees in prayer.The weapons of our warfare, God says, are not carnal. They are not human weapons, butmighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. He is speaking about pullingdown the devils strong hold.

We can pull down the devils strong holds. And God waits for us. He waits for us, I believe, staggered that the only army America has that can save this country from what

the devil wants to do to this country is the army of God on its knees in prayer.There is no army in this land, though it might be the greatest military army in the world,that you could look to to stop what the devil want to do to America. Apart from the armyof God on its knees in prayer, there is no hope for America. The only fear I have forAmerica, the only fear I have for this land is that the Church of God wont get on itsknees in time into warfare, into warfare.

God waits. Believe me. God is waiting for the Church to get on its knees.

I will therefore that men pray every where.

Oh, that God says this. He is waiting. I want them to.

I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath anddoubting.

There is always a condition attached to prayer [?] certain. There is always a condition forGod answering prayer, beloved. Holy hands, holy hands. Is the Church able to be thearmy? Have they met the condition? Holy hands.


James says, But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like awave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shallreceive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Let notthat man who doubts, who doesnt come in faith, let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let notthat man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.


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It is not just praying. It is coming without wrath, without wrong motives, without thewrong attitude of God and sensual motive like James four verse one tells us. Why Godcannot answer our prayers. Without wrath and without doubting, without doubting, aholy confidence in God. And that comes, beloved, through a life that is holy.

Listen to these words, 1 John 3 verse 20. For if our heart condemn us, God is greaterthan our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then havewe confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keephis commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

There is always a condition to the promise. Can you pray without a condemned heart, beloved? If our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our heart, 1 John three verse20. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. Andwhatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and dothose things that are pleasing in his sight.

For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Accomplish amazing things [?].

God will do amazing things.

For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himselfstrong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.

God is seeking.

I sought for a man, God said of a whole generation in a land about to be destroyed becuase of sin. I sought.

The eyes of the Lord run to and fro seeking. Is there someone whose heart is right, whocan lift up holy hands? I sought for a man. I sought for a man among them that couldmake up the gap and stand in the gap before me for the land that I dont have to annul theland to be destroyed in righteous judgment upon the land, that I dont have to let a land

be destroyed because of her sin. I sought for a man. I sought... God is seeking.

I want to ask America something. Does God said what he said of that generation as he islooking across America right now with what the devil seems to have a right to do?

I found none, God says.


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God looked for something that he couldnt find, one man that had the right to pray likeMoses.

Did you notice about Moses lifting up holy hand? When Moses hands were held high in prayer in his old age the people of God were conquering the enemy. The enemy was

retreating. But when Moses grew weary and his hands lowered the enemy started makingadvance upon the people of God.

Oh, they were victor. They enemy became victory, victorious over the people of God.

Now, people watching Moses hands falling down and they saw the battle now being lost by the people of God. What did they do? They who had led him overlooking the battletook his arms and held them up in desperation. Oh, hold them up. And they watched.And suddenly, suddenly, Gods people began to have victory over the enemy.

What was God teaching us? Nothing was meant for history. Nothing was meant for nice

stories to tell children. Everything was meant to reach your heart. Every word weighedin the balance of the Old Testament from Genesis one right through until the last verse.Dont doubt it.

Beloved, God was saying to you and me, that mans hands werent what was beinganswered in the prayer. They didnt look for someone else to lift up their hands. Do youknow what they knew about Moses? This man is holy. It is his prayer that will save us.

They were encouraging him to pray on. That is all, encouraging him praying on.


Come now. It is a condition. It is not that someone else prayed that there would have been victory. Moses was holy. Moses was holy. And God sought for a man among themand he found someone in Moses. He found someone in Moses.

But he looked at a generation, some stage and said that the people of God and of everyman and I found none.

Is it possible, is it possible that the Church is in such a state that God who looks for a manwhose heart is perfect toward him, that he can show himself strong and that he can dogreat things?

You know, I found none. I sought for some. He wondered that there was no intercessor.

Do you know what that means? God was staggered. The Bible actually said somethingstaggered God. He was staggered that no one was praying while their land was beingdestroyed.


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Where the children of God sit back and allow their land to be destroyed in this land. Thatis what I would like to ask America. War is war, beloved. It is not something for onenight when the Church decides it has to do something. War is when you get down until

the battle is won and you dont withdraw from war until it is won if you are any army thathas any consequence on the enemy.

We have weapons. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God tothe pulling down of strongholds. I guarantee you, American Christians, I guarantee youthat what the devil has taken 50 years to do in this land in brining demoralizing things, inundermining integrity and decency, in defiling your land so that your land faces

judgment, I guarantee you in what the devil has taken 50 years to do we could undo in afew days as the people of God on our knees in prayer.

But do you honestly believe in that or is that a statement that stirs you, but wont

motivate you into warfare? Will you wake up when your country is totally destroyed,America?

[?] to the Christians. Thank God you have got a president who is the only president inthe whole world, there is not one nation on earth apart from America whose president hassaid publicly he is saved and loves Jesus Christ. You are the only nation on earth withsuch a man. Dont condemn him. Dont criticize him. He is only saved seven years I

believe. He is a babe in Christ. Be careful. Just thank God he is saved and pray for him.Pray for him. That is your duty. The Holy Ghost is in him. He is saved.

But I am going to stagger you, Mr. President, if you ever get to hear this. And I am goingto stagger your military army. America has a greater need than you, sir, being saved.America has a greater need than armies. Americas only hope, sir, is not you. It is Gods

people across this land of all denominations that true born again believers getting rightwith God.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray...

It was said in the Old Testament to Israel. That is its context. But there was not one versein the Old Testament God didnt have in mind for you and me to tell us his heart.

People of God, that promise was meant with you in mind when God gave it, because it isthe Word of God.

If my people, in this land, now in the gospel dispensation who are called by my name,shall humble themselves, and pray and turn from their wicked ways, for their sakesconfess their sins and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and willforgive their sin, and will heal their land.


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That word heal their land is an amazing statement. God will heal this land when the people of God get right with God. When they get holy hands, when they begin to prayeffectual, fervent prayers and they are righteous people, when their hearts dont condemnthem in the light of this book.

Can they get down on their knees? They will undo every stronghold the devil has in thisworld against them and they will undo every [?] over 50 years and even more to bringthis land to a place where judgment could come upon it unless we start praying.

Christians, you could turn this land back to God. In days the strongholds of the devil willcrumble when the people of God get right with God an storm heaven and pray. God has[?] obligation if we do that and he is waiting for it. Otherwise all these curses meannothing. [?]

We have weapons that will start with you to the degree that when you start seeing whatGod can do I dont think any of us will recover at what God will do through us. We will

be so startled.I have often been amused at the testimonies of men who had no idea of the power of

prayer. I have often been amused at the testimonies of men who had no idea of the powerof prayer until they prayed a burdened prayer in desperation against the devil inindignation.

I know a minister. I wont tell you what denomination it is. He was telling me in ourcountry where I come from. It is a denomination you dont go where you want to go.You go where you are set after a certain term. It is not up to the minister where he goesof this particular denomination. He was sent to a new town in our country to a new pulpit,the same denomination, but a new congregation.

He stood up, his first sermon Sunday morning and he preached faithfully for God. He preached about hell. He preached the judgment of God and unrepentant sin and sinners.And he cried out, Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of heaven.He cried out, There is no hope of you going to heaven unless you are born of God, bornagain which results through repentance and faith by grace through faith in the blood ofJesus Christ and receiving Christ as your Savior. He cried out, Repent or be damned.

Well, thank God someone is still crying it out, because that is the whole Bible from theheart of the God of love that you say wouldnt say those words you liberal theologianssay [?] sending people to hell so that you can have a job.

But you dont hear from this book, sir, God will require of you and their blood will be onyour hands. You had better start preaching truth or get out of the pulpit, you liberaltheologians. You are in for a terrible shock in the next moment. You will be in front ofGod only with your soul to give account for, but those you kept from truth.


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This man didnt hold back. This man preached truth and thank God for such men. But,after he preached the sermon of hell and repentance, oh, and being born again, all hell

broke loose in the Church. Where did it come from? The chief elder. Before he was atthe bottom step of the pulpit the chief elders with all of the elders and all of the deacons,they were all upset. But the chief elder was the voice. He came and did he blast this man

while the congregation was still standing there.

You will never ever, ever, preach like that again in this church. Dont you dare ever preach these things again. You will never use the word hell fire in our pulpit. You willnever use the word born again, oh, my, in our church. Dont you ever tell us or imply tous that we are going to hell. We are Christians, man. Dont come and preach to us likewe are hell bound sinners. We are Christians. What do you think you are doing? Dontyou ever use these words again. Repent, dont you ever use that word again.

And everybody is behind him.

Well, this man went home with his wife after his first sermon and his heart was done. Oh,what have I come to? I cant say a man must be born again. The one thing Jesus said thathas to happen for you to have any hope of heaven. I cant tell them. I am forbidden tosay what God says has to happen for you to get to heaven.

Oh, he was really heavy, had a few weeks and really was heartbroken at the new pulpit heis now finding himself in.

Well, comes Saturday night. There was a youth meeting. So he and his wife decided wehad better go and show our faces at the youth. See what is going on.

So they went out of the house, down the block, around to where the church stands andthey stood. He said he started to weep within seconds on the corner. The music that wascoming out of the house of God you would think it was coming out of the devils house.It was the devils music.

He said, Look. What is going on? Listen to this music full blast.

What you would expect in a night club or a disco where drugs and sin and sensual perversions going on, where people who hate God go, where no one who names the nameof Christ could dare venture. But you would never have the right to name the name ofChrist again in your life if you did.

Here this music is coming out of the house of God, out of the hall that [?]for churchwhere the youth gather.

Well, he started weeping. Oh, it was the devils music. How did the devil get that right,church of this generation? How did the devil get it right that we are playing his musicthat honestly you might say it is called gospel rock or whatever you want to say, I dont


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know. Where do we become like the world to win the world? When did the Churchdecide to do that?

Listen to me, you church leaders. Listen carefully. You may be offended, but this is thetruth. You cannot win the world by being like the world. The world will win you the day

you start that. That is all that will happen. All that will happen as the world wins you. Theworld will sit comfortably in your church and be comfortable in their sins. They wontcome to repentance. Tragically you will find that half of the Church will be in the worldwhen it gets to that state that the church finds the world comfortable with them.

You cannot use worldly methods. Man, this music is devilish. It is devilish. I dont knowhow the devil got it right. The moment I hear this music, you know, I think it is theclosest I have ever been to hell. I dont think I have ever sensed what hell must be likemore than when I hear this modern day music. It is ugly and that Christians could sayyou like it and young people. Be careful.

What you condition yourself to listen to you like you could get to like the devils music.I sit in a car at the red lights, traffic lights and a car pulls up next to me. The youngfellow, his radio, his music is on full blast these days. [?] it has to be full blast. I dontunderstand why. Why dont you just suffer yourself? Why does everybody suffer withyou? [?] windows are shut, by the way and you sitting there like a decent human beingfor the red lights to go green and this guy pulls up next to you and all you hear is...

You hold on. [?]And you look, what is happening, you know? And you see this fellow isenjoying it. And his windows are shut and your ears are nearly blasted, you know. Howcan he be in there and stay alive? You are nearly dead.

What shocks me is that he is enjoying it?

You know, I think if we havent conditioned children and suddenly play todays devilishmusic to a generation that handt heard for 20 years, just 20 years, you would playtodays music and most people would fall down dead of heart failure, even the young

people. We have conditioned ourselves to like it.

Be careful what you listen to, what you like and if it is because of friends that you aregreat friends. Just give me the little chance. You will find yourself appreciating. Youknow, he was enjoying what wasnt beautiful. But think about this. It was nothing good,

but it was just this... and every now and again some scream... you know.

How could anybody stay sane listening to that?

What worries me is they are enjoying it. You could enjoy the worst form of anything ifyou allowed yourself to be conditioned. You young people dont give yourself a chanceto put on modern radio stations. Trust me. You think that it wont affect you, what youlisten to just wont.


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[?] I guarantee you will enjoy it if you listen to it for a while.

Jesus says to you if you name the name of Christ, Whatsoever things are pure,whatsoever things are lovely, if there be any virtue, think on these things. In other

words allow these things into your mind, even music.

How can you allow yourself to enjoy ugly music? There is nothing lovely in this. Thisrap, this is the worst I have ever heard it. I thought underground music was bad. Whenthey played that I ran screaming. I was... oh, they can tell you about that.

But this thing of rap, I mean, it is so ugly it is demoralizing. You are defiled even if youdont understand the words by the way they are singing. There is something defiling.There is something satanic about it. And all this arguing. Well, let me tell you something,you havent got any arguments. You want the worlds music in the church, monstrousmusic and record publishers will admit are Satanists. They admit they are Satanists.

There is no shame to them anymore about it. Just take a look at their photographs toknow that they are Satanists.

How can we do it? They are Satanists and you know what percentage the recordcompanies of the world will tell you. You [?] in church. The record companies of theworld will back me up though they are unsaved. They will tell you what percentage ofthe records sold offer with defiling language, the blaspheme, the filth, the depravity.

This young fellow telling the children to rise up and stab their fathers to death or tocommit suicide.

What happened to the governments of the world? I would like to ask you. When did you become so weak? When I was young we put people like that into a mental home or a jail.Today we are too scared because money speaks and [?] a whole generation being defiled

by the most immoral [?] alive.

What went wrong with you? Does freedom of speech mean you can defile my childrenand a whole generation? No, sir. Wait until that generation is grown up. You wontknow how to walk out of your front door without fearing for your life because what youreap. You dont only sow individually. You want to sow nationally. [?] reap perverts.You reap them in their millions and how many millions [?] these records that tell peopleto kill their fathers?

And [?]

What you sow, you reap, America. You are sowing men who are allowed to say thesethings. You reap nothing but young children swearing, filthy, vile language, the violencethat you would expect from the gutters. It has become the language of the home becauseyou made it because of money, the language and entertainment. Because he makesmoney he can stand up there on a stage. Because he makes money... all the world is in a


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state, but let me tell you something. When that type of music just to win the world comesinto the church, then we are worse.

Do you want to stand up and tell me there is fruit, sir? Yes. I have no doubt some havemiracle of Gods divine grace might have taken one statement, perhaps, through that

worldly music. But the majority of it will produce nothing but people saying they are born again that look like the world, behave like the world and sin like the world. Andthey say they are saved.

You cant win the world by being like the world, sir. You cant. And that music shouldnot be allowed in our churches.

Heavens, where did you bury the heritage God gave us of the beautiful hymns? Tosubstitute it through these things that sound like you are in the world. And God took meout of the world. I dont want to come to the house of God. You want to play dancemusic? They will dance in the church. What do you expect?

Do you honestly think they wont land up? And when they dance [?] well, it is onlydancing. Be careful.

This man, by the way, seeing as I went on a tangent, this man now comes down to thestreet and he looks inside his church and he is weeping now. And what were they doing?Well, they were dancing. You allow dance music in your church, brother, they are goingto dance. You want to justify it, fine, but I cant. They were dancing and it wasnt a holydance. It was the sensual dancing of the world.

So you went ahead and doing the church so that they stayed pure. Oh, since when do weallow sin to come into the church to keep them out of the worlds sin?

No, they were dancing.

He just began to weep aloud and he said, Lets just go home.

His wife said, No, lets go in. Lets go in. She said, Lets just show our face. Wehave taken over the church. [?] Lets just show our face. Well stay for a while and wewill go home and pray, but dont speak. Dont say anything, she said. You are inenough trouble. She said, Listen. The chief elders son is the youth leader and youknow what the chief elder said to you already. Dont get into trouble with his son, now,

please. Lets go and [?] go and we show our face. We can go [?] as well.

So they walked in. Now he is holding back the tears and [?] flowing out there, trying tonot look judgmentally as he sits down. Now as he walked in the dancing stopped.

[?] This minister is different from the rest. We have never had a man preaching like thiswhere they stopped dancing. Now they all feel a bit uncomfortable, but they didnt put


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the music off. And it was these big sets, you know, these hifi sets, these bit loudspeakersfull blast, full blast. It was deafening.

Well, he sat with his wife and he said he was in such a state he just got worse and worseand he was shaking as he thought of the... all the neighbors, all the neighbors listening

form the house of God the worlds music, what they must be thinking.

And he said he looked at this in such desperation and in the end they just stood aroundlooking, but let this music just going on. And he cried something he had never cried out

before. He said, God, he said in his heat, Blow that thing up. [?] in Jesus Christsname, he said.

And suddenly when he said in Jesus Christs name there was a bang so loud it was like a pop. He jumped up.

He said smoke and flames just came... it was like a bomb, not like some little electrical

machine.He said to his wife, I just prayed for that.

Well, the smoke filled the whole place. All the young people screamed. And the firecoming. They were all out of the building and shocked that such an explosion happened.

He was very happy. He was fully of joy and faith and stunned, [?] that God answered his prayers.

Do you know, he said to me, They never managed to repair that machine. It was in sucha state nobody ever thought of repairing it. No one ever gave it another one. Hallelujah,he said. No one ever gave them another one. That was the end of the dance, that prayerin the church.

And, of course, with his ministry eventually God did come.

God knows how to break down the strongholds of the devil even in the house of God.And there it is.

You want to know who the enemies of the cross are? Preach truth and watch who is thefirst to fight you. Preach a standard. You name a man in this country that preaches astandard. I guarantee you the church leaders are fighting him. They fight you [?]. Theyfight you.

Oh, to pull down the strongholds of the devil in the Church should be something we needto begin with, and these voices just stop and that God give the devastating blow the worldand the Church and the argument. Please do it, God.


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God is more grieved than you are at that music. You think you are grieved when youcome to a church and you have got to listen to modern music to sing and they bury theheritage of our faith at the old sanctified hymns. Well, it is rubbish. It is like throwing...oh, my.

I was in a Christian book room in my country and I was looking for something andsuddenly they started this music, gospel rock, ok? You want it... I dont know how youcould even dare to say that, let alone sell it.

But they started some music. I admit somewhere in all the din of this modern rubbish youheard the word Jesus. I admit that. The moment the music started I was... it was the endfor me. I just turned, I walked out. And, of course, I have known in my country theycame, a whole lot of people and they said, Daniel, is there anything we can help youwith? Is there something you wanted to buy? Something we could help to show you?

And I said, No. I will be honest with you. I dont remember I came in your shop. I came

for something, but the music you played is so devilish, I had to get out.What?

I said, Listen. It is the closest I think I can ever say I have come to hell is listening tothat type of music. It is the worlds music. I admit I heard the word Jesus there. But youare deceiving yourself if you think that is God glorifying. That is the devil. It is from the

pit. And I cant come back in your shop. I cant stand that music. I cant bear it. I dontknow how anyone who is right with God can. We agonize under it. What are youdoing? I said.

I just walked away. I dont know what they said. I dont care. Someone had to tell them just once the truth. [?] all what God will do when we pray, what God will do when we pray.

A young man came to me and he told me how startled he was, how stunned he was whenGod answered his prayer against evil. He came. He sought me out. He said, You knowwhat happened? He said, I was in the train and I was coming out of the suburbs intothe center of the city on this train and the trained pulled up in this one station and Ilooked out the window and I saw this building. And this building had such defilement onit that I couldnt believe my eyes of advertising what was going on in that building. It wasso defiling outside that heaven help us what was going inside if it could be so filthy onthe outside.

[?] this law, freedom of speech. It just said to the devil, Do what you want to defile us.We cant touch you. That is all it is. I wish you would get rid of it. If it means defilinga nation, please get rid of that part.

But he looked at this. He said, Oh, what has become of our nation? How could theyallow this? How could we have stooped to this?


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This... it was filth he [?] and began to weep in shock. And the train started to pull awayand do you know what he prayed? He prayed in desperate righteous indignation, Oh,God [?] burn that whole building to the ground, God. Burn it to the ground in Christsname. The train pulled away.

Later on, three hours later he said he was coming back from the town, from the city andas the train pulled into the station he just looked out and glanced where the building stoodand he nearly fell out the window. The whole building had burned to the ground.

[?] that doesnt just happen. God is more grieved than you and I are. He is waiting for usto pray.

Do you know anything? Everything the devil has done can be pulled down if we juststarted to pray?

Dont get me wrong now. Christians are not aggressive. We are not called to be militantlike these other people who think they are serving God and say they are doing it for Allah by bombing people and bombing buildings. Dont get me wrong. That is notChristianity.

Beloved, we dont hurt anyone [?]. We dont. We are not called to do that, to get ourway.

But the [?] so that those souls can be saved there is nothing God wont do. We need to getinto warfare to do it. Leave it to the religions of the other world to say they serve God by

bombing up people. Oh, and if any of you of that other religion are listening to me, getout of that religion. Use your brains. It is deranged. How can you believe it is God to puta bomb in a childs body and say you can be a suicidal bomber and you are serving Allah

by killing other people? Just use yourself. Turn from that and turn to Jesus Christ.

How can your mind reconcile that God could want you to do that, to justify your politicalreasons or your Christian or your religious freedom. Get out of it for Gods sake. Useyour brains.

We are not called to hurt people. That is not our aggressiveness. We are called to fightthe devil and [?] to pull down his strongholds that keep people from God or hurt peoplemorally and other ways.

Let me tell you something passing. No, I wont. Lets leave that to the end.

I have been to America 13 times. This is my 13 th visit from the other side of the world.And I know God has privileged me. I have nothing in my heart to preach another landapart from my land. I am not like some preachers who regard it as a great honor. There isnothing in me that wants to go all over the world. I would never have come back to


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America if you had invited me to the liberal churches, the liberal evangelical churches. Iwould have run and never stopped running. I have nothing.

Why I love America is because you people brought me to the conservative Christianityand I want to thank you for that, America. I dont know if there is a man so privileged as

this poor man to be given a conservative pulpits as I havce been given and I thank Godfor your Bill Gothard and your Denny Kennisons and Harold [?] and the [?] and othermen who have a standard, who have a fruit. And as I look at the fruit of these mensministry across your land, I see the Church of Christ as God meant it to be and the fruit inyour young people. Look at them, [?] pure and unspoiled by the world. Thank God theydont love the worlds music. They play godly instruments that can bring godly beauty. Ido thank God for the Church that I have been brought to.

This is the 13 th time and I love to come to America. I have come to be as burdened forthis land as I am for my own land. Oh, yes, I love it so because God gave me the

privilege of meeting the godliest of the godly through your land and there are many, there

are many more than you believe, beloved. God has a people who love him. And you donot compromise with the devil even today. And I thank God that is what I am preaching.And I thank you for letting me come to your country to know that such a people exist andto love you and to preach to you.

I am privileged to that. About the third time I came to America I was invited by achurch. I think it was the fourth time to be honest, sorry. And this particular church wasa very, very big church, always had a great influence.

In the morning in my quiet time I said to the Lord, Lord, I will leave my family alonemost of their lives for thee. And they know it and I know that I would never leave themfor a million dollars, not once like I leave them, not once. For a million dollars Iwouldnt, God. The only reason I leave them is to fulfill the call of God in my life. Thatis the only reason they are willing to let me go and to do it with joy.

Do you know, my wife has never complained when I have left her and I have left hermost of her married life to preach. She has never ever, ever said one word of complaint.She stood with tears in her eyes and she said, We do it for Jesus.

As I look back at her tears she just says, We do it for Jesus and we do it with all ourhearts willingly, Keith.

Oh, I have a jewel of a wife from Gods heart to me. Next to the Lord Jesus she is themost precious gift God ever gave to me. And I love her that she didnt bury my ministry.She has made me fulfill it. My children, my wife will be the most shattered people if Igave up leaving them, though it cost me. I have never ever heard them speak of the costthat I know they want me to win the world to God if I can, they so love God.

But I said to God that morning in my quiet time, God, I leave them so often alone. Theynever complain. They have never stopped me. Wouldnt it be wonderful, God, if one day


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they could come to America, too, now that they have brought me to these conservative pulpits?

A missionary in South Africa has four to five children cross only wealthy people will flyyour family to America and let me tell you, but I said, Lord, I would never ask a man,

but I will ask thee, God. Wouldnt it be wonderful if my children and my wife knew theywere not just left behind, but they could come with me when I come here again one day?I would love them to meet the conservative people of this land, to see something of thisland and I am seeing it. Not my will, oh, Lord. I wont argue with you if it doesnthappen. Thy will be done.

That night the preacher of the church stood up before I was to preach. I was sitting behindhim and he stood up and he said, This morning in my quiet time I was praying and Godsuddenly whispered something in my heart so deeply, he so impressed it on me that weshould ask this man to bring his family and we as a church should bring his whole familywith him the next time. He leaves them alone so much to preach. And he is coming to our

continent more and more. I believe God wants us to bring his whole family with him thenext time we will pay for them to come.

He said within an hour of God impressing it on my heart, 10 people, nine other people, 10of us had phoned me saying in their knees in their quiet time they had deeply beenspoken to by God that we as a congregation should bring this mans family to Americathe next time he comes.

Oh, he turned to me and he said, Mr. Daniel, would you give us the honor of bringingyour family with you next time?

And I smiled. He didnt know I had prayed for that. Isnt God good?

I dont think there is a man on earth that God is so good to as he is this man. I would bestunned brother if in heaven God ever shows me another man that he was ever so tenderwith and so good as he is to this man and I love him for that.

Well, I have flew from that church and a few other things. I went back to New York and Ihad three days in New York where they put me in an old missionary home overlookingcentral park. It had antique furniture and you have got to be a millionaire to stay in anyof those lofts, but the old missionary... become a missionary and you become amillionaire sometimes, you know.

Without a view I think it is 20 dollars a night, actually apologized to charge me [?]. Thatis not bad, I said. Lovely people.

But anyway I was in this missionary home and I looked at New York through differenteyes suddenly, you know. I looked through the eyes of a tourist. That is what we aregoing to be with Gods people, but we are going to be... they said they are going to give


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us a little time in this missionary home, the whole family for like six days and we aregoing to be... just to be able to be street Christians in New York and see New York.

Now, I am not a tourist and some people are devastated by that. I am sorry anti tourism.I... you cant believe it. Poor old Mr. Gothards friend, bother Otto Corning... he... how

many know him? Put your hands up? Oh, my. I am in trouble if I say the wrong thinghere tonight.

He took me under his wing, you know. Mr. Gothard said when I was with him preachinglast year this time in the center in Chicago jus to get videos of messages from Mr.Gothard there. Well, Mr. Gothard said to Mr. Corning, You take him around and showhim Chicago. Anything he wants, just look at a space here and there.

So Otto Corning took me down to central Chicago and he said, Do you see that buildingthere? It was the big Sears building, you know, the tallest now that the twin towers hascome down, that is the tallest building in America, I believe.

He said, Do you want to go up there? There is a deck at the top for tourists to see.

I didnt know.

He is no. [?] Oh, terrible [?] tourist type of a person, you know.

I want to go and see Moodys pulpit. Moody preached in Chicago.

Well lets go and see. He said... thats the Moody Bible Institute and then there is theMoody Memorial Church where this fellow [?] is. So we go inside and I said, I...

He said he was to see Moodys church and Moodys pulpit.

So they said, Oh, do you want to see Mr. [?]?

I said, Know, I dont think he want to see me. I just want to see Moodys pulpit. Is thatwhere he preached?

They said, No. NO, this is all new. This is Mr. Luthers pulpit.

And she said, Dont you want to just tour around the church?

I said, No, I dont want to tour around the church that wasnt Moodys.

[?] Moody Memorial church. I wanted to see Moodys pulpit and the old organ Sankey played on, you know.

She said, Well, it is in the basement, she said.


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So we went down the basement and we saw there was this plank, you know, with allmock gold, just a little plank, the one that God used and, oh, my. And there was Sankey,the organ that he... the pedal organ that he played when he moved the world to God.

Oh, thank God for Moody, Sankey.

And then I said after a little prayer, Now, lets go home.

So I am not a tourist, ok? But now my children and my wife were coming back toAmerica and we were going to have six days in New York and I thought to myself,Well, I know David Wilkersons church is in Broadway and central Manhattan.

But I thought I was looking through different eyes now at New York, you know. [?] Iwas praying and I dont wear glasses when I am praying because I dont see much. And Idont want to see much so I just dont wear my glasses. I just wouldnt... what is the pointof seeing things? I just want to pray.

But now I put my glasses on and I went through New York. Oh, that is the Statue ofLiberty, you know. I am going to bring my children to see that. I got a bit excited when Ithought of bringing into New York, I mean, it is not [?] Vanity Fair, perhaps, but letsface it. It is not sin if you come from Africa to show your children the Statue of Libertyand there is the Empire State Building. And well, now in order to get to this, you know, Idid a lot of walking and a lot of looking. I got quite excited. And then I went to what youcall Times Square in Manhattan here in Broadway where all these theaters and the worldand oh, it was in the dark night. New York never goes to sleep. There were thousands.

No, there was... goodness me, I would say close to 50 maybe even up to 100,000. I dontknow where they come from? They come from all over the world, but it was late whenyou and I should be in bed. And, of course, they were all awake. I thought, well, I mightas well stay awake and it is pretty safe. [?] you know.

So I look at Times Square, all the neon lights. It is like another planet let alone anothercountry. It is Vanity Fair. But I know history. I know history like the back of my hand.I know most countrys history better than most people. You had better not believe that,

but I from a child just devoured history. I have always loved it. And I knew thesignificance of Times Square and the great events that happened politically in yourhistory in Times Square.

It wasnt the neon lights that attracted me. But I said, Well, it is true the greatest squaresin the world is Piccadilly Circus in London and Times Square in New York of the twonations. Thats the two greatest squares, the most famous where more tourists go thananywhere in the whole world, through the greatness, significance historically about that,these great cities.

Well, I was walking and suddenly my heart sank because I saw buildings suddenly withneon lights that were so filthy what was being advertised on those neon lights and the


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other things behind, the lights flared up. I could not believe my eyes at such filth anddepravity was so public. My heart just sank.

I said, No, God, no. And I began to cry just at seeing it.

If it was so filthy outside, can you imagine how defiled a human would be inside if youwalked or for me going on inside. [?] It was defiling.

I turned round and looked around and there was another building. It was worse, bigger,more lights, worse filth. And I turned looking around and there was another one, three ofthem in Times Square. And I watched men, some men walked past there because theyhave got to pass, you know. Suddenly they pull their jackets over them and they ran inhiding their faces and they were ashamed. Someone could take a photograph of some...some evidence again. They were scared people would recognize them. Others came pastand they were so brazen in their sin laughing they just laughed as they walked in, youknow.

I looked at them and I realized they have no self respect. A man who can walk into sucha place, no one in the world respects that man. That is why he can do it. There is no oneleft, not even his children [?] so he can walk in laughing, no putting his head under the...

I looked at them marching and they laughed. They had no shame. You lose your honor.You have got nothing left in life, sir. Once you have lost that, you have got nothing.

Well, I began to weep aloud and I said, God, I cant bring my children to New York.

I looked at all the children. Most people in that Times Square, it is a late hour of thenight. It was terribly late. In their thousands and thousands thronging. Most had childrencoming from all parts of the world. I suppose the last few minutes before they fly out ofyour country they wanted to see the last things they can in this place of the world, thisTimes Square. And I watched the children looking. Their mothers and fathers trying to[?] their eyes off [?] I dont know.

You defile a child bringing your child to there. You defile your child bringing your childto New York, the greatest city in the world.

How do you honestly believe to seeds the devil is going to sow in your heart? I said,God, I cant bring my children here. The devil will put things in their mind. There will

be no ending tot eh repercussions.

But I began to weep. But I began to weep louder than I thought I was weeping. I wept soloud that I was standing there sobbing. I sobbed so loud I was broken. I was so devastatedwhat America was doing. And I lifted my hands up and I shouted. I didnt know I wasshouting. I wasnt trying to be fanatical. I shouted. I cried so loud to God in mydevastation, in my anger that I couldnt bring my children to the city without defilingthem.


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I cried out, God, do anything to close these buildings down, God. They are defiling thechildren. God, this is defiling. Close these buildings down. God, close these buildingsdown, God. They are defiling. I cannot bring my family here, God. Close these buildingsdown, God. Do anything, but close them down. In Jesus Christs name I wept. And I

suddenly wiped the tears from my eyes. A few hundred people were standing still. Iwould say a few hundred. It could be 500 had stopped close to me. They were all lookingand deathly silence all around me.

And, brother, sister, I looked at their faces, most of the. Tears were running down theirfaces. They had never in their life seen a man weep over defilement in this generation.They had never ever seen a man hurting and broken and smashed and crushed to weepand cry after God in devastation as I was. And I looked and I looked at face upon face,tears. They couldnt move. They heard clearly what I was crying and they knew what Iwas praying about.

I put my head down and just pushed through. Somehow they let me through and I walkedaway.

Three months later I flew back to New York to JFK to the airport. When I arrive in NewYork if they arent there to meet me because of an early flight arrival or getting throughcustoms fast, they have given me a coffee shop, all your leaders that bring me here, thesefour or five leaders of the conservative church in America. They tell me there is a coffeeshop here. You wait there and we will get the people who come to get you.

So I saw I was through customs. I went an got a cup of coffee and a newspaper, the USAToday and I sat down and I put it down and I started to cry again seconds and seconds I

began to start weeping again.

Why? On the front page of the newspaper were these words the day I came back. Themayor of New York says, I will close these buildings down now.

I started to cry. The day the man that wept on the streets for God to close them. Threemonths later that day was the day the news came out of that man printed on yournewspapers. That was God saying to this poor man, I dont turn my face away fromanyone who weeps and grieves over the wickedness of this world and asks me to dealwith it.

I read on. This mayor of New York. He is an Italian. He is not saved. But, oh has he gotthings right that no other mayor has got right in any other country in the world, let me tellyou. He is the envy of the whole world. 12 million people are in New York, three

percent are affected by crime annually. He has got such no tolerance, zero tolerance ofcrime. He is the envy of the whole world. The cities across the world with a tenth of their

population they are scared to put their foot out of the door in the night without beingmugged. He has got a city you can walk two o'clock in the morning and you dont getmugged [?]. He is the envy of the world. He has got people been flying in from...


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brought in my governments. What did this man do right, this mayor of New York? Weneed to learn from him because no city on the earth is safe anymore the way things aregoing. What has he done? Teach us.

Oh, he really is something this man. And he is unsaved.

He shared these words. The law of freedom of speech in America gives you the right todo this. You are covered by the law. But I am the mayor of this city. It is my city. I amgoing to make another law to cancel out the law, America. I am going to make a law thatevery block in New York City, Manhattan, every block that has a resident staying,anybody staying residential, a family, anybody like a residential, like a home [?] in that

block none of these buildings are allowed. No shop will be allowed. And he says, I will put people in every single block. But I will close you down.

And he said, Dont wait for me to do it. Dont force me to do that. He says, Ill tellyou why. Those of you that dont close your doors now, right now, I am going to march

in there with my police and I am going to go through your books and I am going to findthings that will crush you and you know, I will crush you. I will crush you. You closenow or I will destroy you.

I commend you, sir, if you ever hear this tape. You are not saved, but I pray so much foryour soul. But I commend you. You are gallant.

Well, I went and preached. I came ahead of my family by two or three weeks to preacharound and [?] up in this church and my family joined me and then we went to New Yorkafter the lovely fellowship they gave us and the way they honored us. And I took mychildren to Times Square and I started weeping again. My children, my family dont askme why I weep. I weep so much. They kind of just get used to it. They just looked at meas I walked holding their hand as I walked through Times Square. I suppose theywondered why is he weeping now?

And I was weeping a different weeping. There was no agony. There was no torment orindignation at Satan, what he has done. There was joy. There was gratitude. There wasworship going on and I said, Thank you, God, as I look at these buildings.

They were like buildings that had been destitute. They ripped everything off the outside.Every light. Every neon light. Every sign. And they were empty like ghost towns.

Let me tell you something, Christians of America. There is nothing God will not do foryou for this land to be healed. If you get right with God and you begin to pray on yourknees, the only army that will ever save America from what the devil is trying to do toher is the army of Gods people on their knees. But if you get right with God, if you

begin to seek God, Americas Christians, stop fighting my doctrine or my standards, sir.You wont have a land to be even liberal in your church like that. You had better get rightwith God. And do what your heart tells you. Seek God for righteousness. Get back to this

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If my people who are called by my name in America. I believe. You say it is not of thiscontext. I am big enough to say it is in its context is what God holds out to any land. This

book was not history. It is Gods Word for today. Knowing its contents [?] be careful.Dont [?] especially his people. We are the people.

Let me tell you. There are enough Christians in America and if they got down as an armythere is no army that would outnumber them for force for God. There is nothing the devilhas done in this land that you will not undo in days, perhaps a few weeks I would say.

I would say give yourself three months and you will not believe how this whole land isturning back to God through you. To all the things that are defiling and destroying anddespairing you, dont wait for the politicians to become righteous. It is the Church. Idont blame the politicians. I blame the Church for what state your country is in. Youshould be on your knees and you should be in war and you could undo anything the devilhas done. But you are listening more to the television news than you are on your knees.

You are sitting there watching in hopelessness and unbelief and criticizing thegovernment and it is our fault.

It is my people God is waiting for to get down before God. Dont worry about the newsanymore. Get down before God. You know enough to know your need to get down

before God and get through in war.

And, by the by, these Muslim people of the world, Islam. Suddenly the world istrembling and America is trembling. E are all trembling because there is no rationalreasoning with these people that we can think that decent human being could think. Letthem take it.

I want to tell you something. I am not against your politicians. I am not politicking atwhat is going on to try to stop them, those elements that are all... I will tell you this,though. You want to stop what they are going to do to the world, Christians of Americaand Christians of the world. It wont stop. We are just tasting what is coming. But theywill stop when you get down on your knees and start praying for [?] to be saved and turnto Christ.

Do you honestly believe that every born again Christian in America who is truly born ofGod, got right with God ,which is so easy. The blood is there if you really want it andreally mean business and started praying earnestly, every born again believer on theirknees like an army against the devil who has brought such darkness to these people. Ifyou do honestly believe that there is one of you sitting here that doesnt honestly believeand within three months millions of Muslims would turn to Christ if we will all cry forGods blessing.

Do you honestly believe God would turn his face and say no?


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I will tell you something. Wait for politicians to deal with the problem and you wonthave a country left. And further afield, you wont have a world left just now Christians.You had better get to war with the weapons God has given to you while you have amoment left to do it, you had better do it and God will honor you.

There is only one problem. There is only one fear in my heart, only one, that Christiansare too proud to admit they need to see God first and confess him first [?] and theircompromises and their liberals and their worldliness and their methods. They will be too

proud to say we need to get down in desperation and get right first and confess our sinsand turn from our wicked ways so that God can forgive us first and then heal the landthrough us on our knees in prayer for the land.

That is the only fear I have for America. It is the only danger America is in is that theChurch is too proud to get down before God and in desperation to get right with God.

Your history is in your hands, Christians. And this Bible tells me that. God is waiting.

God is seeking. God is longing. It is not Gods fault.

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