Our God Can Fix Anything - Part 1 — David Wilkerson

This is Times Square, and I'm Pastor Wilkerson, Times Square Church. They call this the crossroads of the world, and God has raised up here a wonderful testimony to his grace and power. At last count, we had 103 nationalities that worshiped with us.

And I want to welcome now all of those who are joining us by video in our home gatherings. And I trust that the worship experience you share with us and the preaching the word will draw you closer to Jesus, edify you, and literally change your life.

We're only one of many churches that God is blessing, but there's something unique here in New York City because of the intensity. We trust that you enter in with us, worship and praise. The Lord bless you, and let this be an experience you'll never forget.

Church is about to start. Come and join us.

Prayer for the Churches in Macedonia and Kosovo

At this very time while we're worshiping in Macedonia, at this hour, starting at 10 o 'clock.

Our time, you remember we, in Macedonia, we sent over 100 workers after the Serbs had bombed and they had bombed out a bridge that connected a whole town with their farmlands across the river. And these were all Muslims, and they told Pastor Carter when he was there that if this church would rebuild the bridge, he could hold a crusade there, and they would bring the whole Muslim town.

And so that whole town is meeting right now, and Pastor Carter and our teams are there. And I just got a note before the service requesting prayer at this hour. We're going to pray for our associate Pastor Carter and our team.

We have, I think, 120 or so in Oslo, Kosovo. We've just sent 12 full-time missionaries there and helping rebuild churches, and would you pray for the teams that are in Macedonia and Kosovo at this time and other parts of the world.

Let's believe, the Lord, now that God will open the hearts of these Muslims. They're wide open. There's never been a better time, and that which was meant for evil, God, has turned to good. I want everybody, and all of the annexes also, would you please join us in prayer.

Now, Father, we pray for the moving of the Holy Spirit. Lord, in this open-air meeting that's happening right now as we stand here, the same Christ that we worship is there, the same Holy Spirit moving among us.

We pray, Holy Spirit, you move among them. God, open their hearts. Save many today. God, establish a church in that town. Establish a church through those who'd be saved today, right now. Holy Spirit, give words.

Anoint them. Lord, anoint our teams in Pristina and Kosovo and Macedonia and, Lord, all of those Balkan countries. Lord, this is a ripe time. Pour out your Spirit. Lord, let us not be selfish and keep this thing to ourselves, but to go and to preach and to minister.

Lord, thank you for your goodness. Pour out your Spirit now, Lord, on Macedonia. Pour out your Spirit, Lord, at that village, that town. Pour out your Spirit upon all the workers and all the pastors in Kosovo, Lord.

Thank you for what you're doing among this people. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for your work around the world. You're doing a marvelous thing on the face of the earth today, and we give you praise and we give you thanks.

Worship, Holiness, and Spiritual Warfare

Now I want you, if you love Jesus and you came to worship, you didn't come to have church, but you've come to seek God. You've come to minister to the Lord. If you're visiting, I invite you to join us, and I want you to do what the Bible says, lift holy hands, and I just want you to thank him for who he is and say, come down, Holy Ghost, and meet our hearts.

We minister to you now, Lord. We take authority over every principality and power of darkness, anything that would try to hinder the moving of the Holy Spirit. God, it is your authority, it is not ours.

Jesus, stand against the powers of darkness in this city. Break the powers and the chains of darkness. Let the glory of the Lord come down in Times Square, in every church in this city that's proclaiming Christ.

We give you glory. We give you praise. We give glory. We give honor. We give praise to you, Lord. Hallelujah. Glory. Glory. Lord, send your power just now. Appropriate song for the message, our God can fix anything.

Trusting God to Repair What Is Broken

Father, just about everybody hearing me needs something fixed in their life. Lord, I do. Every pastor, every worker, every visitor, everyone who calls this church their home, Lord, there are things in our lives or surrounding us that need to be repaired, restored, healed.

And, oh, God, give us the confidence that you can restore anything, anybody, that we do not give up. Oh, God, touch me. Lord, let the word come with life. Oh, God, we need to hear your heart. Touch me now.

In Jesus' name, amen. Our God can fix anything. Remember the story of the Lord appearing to Abraham. He's sitting in the heat of the day at the tent door. He has three angels with him, and he appears to Abraham.

Abraham prepares a meal, and the Lord has a little bit of talk with this man, and he says, where's your wife? Where's Sarah? She said, well, she's in the tent. They were at the door of the tent, and he said, well, would you please tell her that she's going to have a child very soon?

Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?

And, God, this is God. Hear Sarah laugh. And he turns to Abraham and said, why is your wife laughing? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Is anything too hard for the Lord? This is God speaking to this man.

Evidently, this is long before he learned to walk by faith or see. It's the same question I believe God is asking all of us today. I know he's asking of me, and when I've answered it deeply in my heart, I've found it changes my life and the way I look at ministry and the way I look at people in their needs.

And it's simply this. The question is, do you believe God can fix everything that's gone wrong in your life? Do you believe God can fix anything in your family, anything on the job, wherever it may be?

Do you believe that God can do the impossible and fix it? Luke 18, 27, the things which are impossible with men are possible with God. Now, folks, it's a very simple message God's given me this morning.

It's not that we haven't fed you properly over the years here. It's just that I believe that God knew exactly who would be here this morning and who needed to hear this very simple message. It's so easy to tell others that are going through a hard time how to trust God.

We hear somebody in trouble, somebody needs something fixed, and they come to us, and, you know, we say, hold on, don't quit, don't lose your faith, God can do the impossible. Now, that's very nice, very cozy, very comfortable to say that to somebody else, but do you believe it for your own life?

Believing God in Personal Crisis

You see, God's not interested in how well or how scripturally sound I preached this morning on this subject. He's not interested in the fact that I might be able to provoke you to righteous faith. He's not concerned or impressed in any way how fluently I would be able to preach it, and you walk out of here and know a thousand people come to me on the street or backstage and say, Pastor Dave, you really provoked me, things that need fixed in my life and need to be restored.

I heard it, and I'm going to believe God. Thank you for the word. Now, folks, if I don't believe that in my next crisis, if I don't believe that concerning something in my own life, in my own home, it's to no avail to me, has nothing to do with what I can tell you or what you can tell others in the way of provoking them to believe God that He can fix anything.

Abraham, Sarah, and the Impossible Promise

It's whether you are established in this truth and believe it with all your heart that God can do the impossible in my life and in my family. If you had been living in Sarah's time, you were her friend, and you went to her, you know, as Nathan did and gave a parable to David, David was the man, and you, knowing the promise that God had given to Sarah and Abraham, and you're a dear sister, and you go to Sarah, and you say, Sarah, there's a couple that I know that have a promise that God would give them a child, and the problem is they're losing confidence in that dream, that promise, and the wife says she's too old because her womb is dead, and her husband is not fertile, and it's absolutely impossible humanly that she can have a child, but she's still holding on to that.

What advice should I give her? And I'll tell you, this godly woman would have said, well, please tell her she'd better hold on. Don't let her dream go. Don't let her promise go. Tell her to pray. God can do anything.

We do that. Now, don't look at me like, you've done that everywhere. Everybody has come to you. What have you told them? Hold on. God will do it. And what'd you do the first time after that you got in a crisis?

Faith in the God of the Impossible

God, where are you? You don't really believe in God. You really have no God unless you believe he's the God of the impossible. You don't have a God. If you are going to try to tell me you believe him in all the other areas in your life, but you cannot believe him in the impossible times in your life, you don't believe him at all.

That's very, very clear from the scripture. Now, I am not against counseling, Christian counseling. I'm not against a born-again psychologist. I'm not against that because there's been a lot of good done.

But let me tell you something. I believe it is absolutely in vain to counsel anybody, absolutely in vain for anybody to come to me and get any help from me whatsoever unless I, first of all, believe that every problem that's brought to me, marriage problem, family problem, child problem, whatever it is, if I don't fully believe the moment they walk in the door to sit down...