(Nicaragua) the Lord Has Promised to Deliver You — David Wilkerson

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God's Faithfulness in Nicaragua

We have only been in Nicaragua for a short time.

Hemos estado solamente unas pocas horas en Nicaragua.

And we discovered something right away.

Y hemos descubierto algo de una forma inmediata. God is here. Que Dios está en Nicaragua. God is here. Dios está aquí.

We travel all over the world in ministers' conferences.

Viajamos alrededor de todo el mundo ministrando diferentes conferencias para pastores.

And sometimes you go into a country.

Y muchas veces uno visita un país. And you feel a grief. Y siente uno un llamado, un gemir del pueblo. And you feel a heaviness. O a veces se siente una carga. But when we came here pero cuando hemos venido a este país there was a joy in our hearts.

Hemos recibido alegría y gozo en este lugar. Because there's victory in Christ. Porque es lo que está dentro del corazón.

I don't want to see just a conference.

No quisiera solamente tener una conferencia.

My son and I came here for a purpose.

Mi hijo y yo hemos venido aquí con un propósito.

I'm too old to have just a conference.

Me siento demasiado anciano para simplemente tener una conferencia.

I don't have any tapes to sell. I have no books.

No tengo libros para vender. No tengo cassettes para vender.

I don't want to tell you how to build a church.

No quiero enseñarle a usted cómo construir una iglesia.

We want to tell you how to get closer to Jesus.

Lo único que queremos es enseñarle cómo usted puede acercarse más al Señor Jesucristo.

I want to talk to you as a father.

Quiero en esta noche hablarles como un padre. I'm 74 years old.

Tengo 74 años de edad. And I've been preaching for over 54 years.

Y he estado predicando el Evangelio por más de 54 años.

Now that doesn't make me a good preacher.

Ahora eso no significa que yo sea un excelente predicador.

But it means I've been through a lot of problems.

Pero eso significa que he enfrentado muchos problemas en mi ministerio. And I stand here. Y en esta noche estoy aquí parado. After all those years.

Luego de todos esos años. To tell you that God has never once failed.

Para decirles a ustedes que el Señor nunca me ha fallado. That God is faithful. Que Dios es fiel.

Now we have four services tomorrow.

El día de mañana estaremos teniendo cuatro sesiones.

And Gary and I will be sharing those services with you.

Y mi hijo Gary y yo estaremos compartiendo las diferentes sesiones con todos ustedes.

I'm older than Gary, but he has more experience as a pastor than I do.

Yo soy mayor que mi hijo, pero él tiene más experiencia pastoral que la que yo he tenido. And he's been all through the problems. Y él también conoce todos los problemas ministeriales. And you're going to hear a word from heaven.

Y yo sé que usted va a escuchar de parte de él una palabra de Dios para esta nación.

Now, I don't shout when I preach.

Yo no soy un predicador que grita o se emociona cuando predica. I just want to talk to you from my heart. Solamente quiero en esta noche hablarles de lo profundo de mi corazón.

The Holy Spirit Speaks to the Troubled Heart

Of all the, and I've never said this before. Nunca he dicho esto antes. Of all the, I've been in 40 countries in the last 4 or 5 years.

Pero he estado en casi 40 países en los últimos 4 o 5 años. In the last 3 weeks, the Lord spoke to my heart. El Señor estuvo hablando a mi corazón.

That this was going to be one of the most important ones that I've ever been able to be blessed to be a part of.

Y el Señor me habló de que esta conferencia será una de las más importantes de la que hemos tenido en todo el mundo.

Not because, not because, not because people will be dancing all over the place.

Y esto no va a ser porque va a salir gente aquí danzando en todo este lugar.

If you want to dance, you go ahead and dance.

Ahora, si usted quiere danzar, bienvenido, puede hacerlo.

It's not going to be because there'll be a lot of noise.

No, no, no, quizá porque va a haber demasiado ruido. But God's going to open our hearts. Pero es porque Dios va a abrir nuestros corazones. From the oldest to the youngest.

Desde el mayor hasta el menor. Now, if you came to these meetings with something in your heart. It says, God, I have to have you meet me.

Y usted tiene ese deseo de decir, Señor, estoy aquí porque quiero tener un encuentro contigo. You have to give me something.

Señor, tú tienes que darme algo. If you say, I can't go on.

Si usted dice, Señor, ya no puedo más.

Unless God speaks to me. Señor, hasta que tú no me hables. Only God knows what you're going through.

Señor, déjeme decirle, solamente Dios sabe lo que usted está pasando.

And only the Holy Spirit can speak to us.

Y solamente el Espíritu Santo nos puede hablar.

And I come to you probably with the most simple messages I've ever preached.

Y en esta noche vengo con un mensaje simple, quizá el más simple que he predicado.

Because it's the only thing I know now.

Porque es el único mensaje que puedo aún tener y puedo reconocer.

When I was a younger preacher, I preached a lot of theology.

Cuando era un joven predicador, predicaba mucha teología. I believe in doctrine. Creo en la doctrina. But in my older age, Pero en mis últimos años, en estos años,.

The Lord has allowed me to suffer more than any other time.

El Señor en estos últimos años me está permitiendo sufrir más que nunca antes he sufrido.

And when God told Paul the Apostle that he was going to be suffering,.

Y cuando el Señor le dice a Pablo el Apóstol que va a sufrir,.

And he told him when he was a veteran missionary,.

Y le dice eso cuando Pablo era un misionero ya veterano, Pablo le escribe a la iglesia en Corinto. Y le dice, no miren de menos mi sufrimiento. Este sufrimiento es por causa de ustedes. Y dice, estoy sufriendo.

Y estoy enfrentando dificultades y problemas. Para que pueda yo aprender a ser confortado por el Espíritu Santo. Y ustedes saben lo que yo he estado pasando. Ustedes conocen mi vida. Y cuando yo sea consolado, Y cuando yo aprenda las lecciones del Espíritu Santo, Esa será para el beneficio de ustedes como hijos espirituales.

Y ustedes se sientan en esta noche, Y ustedes tienen que reconocer esto antes que este culto, Este servicio haya empezado.

Así como el Apóstol Pablo.

Usted probablemente está yendo por dificultades. Y problemas que quizá la congregación nunca ha enfrentado. Pero quiero decirle que Dios le está enseñando. Pablo dice, muchas veces somos espectáculo al mundo.

Muchas veces dice, nos va a poner delante del público.

Y usted va a ser probado.

Usted va a ser puesto delante de la gente. Y no va a ser exactamente lo que usted predica. Pero va a ser como usted enfrenta los problemas. Como sale de las dificultades. Con alegría y con fe. Y cuando la gente vea eso en usted, Con ese mismo consuelo, dice Pablo, con que yo he sido consolado.

Ese mismo consuelo les voy a dar a ustedes para consolarlos a ustedes también. Y yo quiero que el Señor nos consuele a todos en esta semana. Señor, háblanos. Póngase de pie, por favor. Levante sus manos.

Si usted está listo para recibir la palabra del Señor, Usted está aquí por ningún otro motivo. Dígale, Señor, háblame a mi corazón. Abro mi corazón. Háblame, Señor. Envía al Espíritu Santo. Háblame directamente, Señor.

Estoy listo para escucharte. Por un momento, adore al Señor ahí donde está. Dígaselo. Dígaselo, dígaselo. Señor, abre mi corazón. Abre mis oídos. Para escuchar lo que tu Espíritu tiene que hablar. En el nombre de Jesús.

Amén.

Puede sentarse. Quiero hablarles esta noche.

David's Crisis After God's Promise

Acerca de la libertad que Dios quiere traer a su vida. Estaba pensando en el Rey David. Él había sido recientemente ungido por el profeta Samuel. Y Samuel le dice, Dios te ha elegido a ti. Dios te va a usar.

Y le dice, hay un ministerio poderoso que Dios te ha dado a ti, David.

Has God ever given you a ministry? Did God ever speak to you about your future? Did He ever make you a promise He was going to use you and open doors? What happens next? Joy, victory. Praising the Lord.

No. Saul comes after you. You'll be threatened. Instead of going to the throne. For seven years David is homeless. He's hiding from a demon possessed man. For seven years he tries to kill him. How many times did David doubt his calling?

How many times did the devil lie to this man? Saying, you have missed God.

Where are your results? You're ineffective. You're running around hiding. Estás escondiéndote como un cobarde. Y David de alguna manera ya no pudo seguir lidiando con este problema. Entonces David trata de trabajar las cosas a su manera.

Y él dice, tengo que escaparme de Saul. Y la siguiente escena es la siguiente.

Un hombre ungido de Dios. Running to Gath, the Philistine city. The nearest border town. I'm sure that David tried to come in as just an average tourist. Slipped quietly into Gath. Border guards recognized him.

Isn't that David? The one they sang songs about. He killed his 10 ,000. Those were Philistines. We have got a major captain. Let's take him to King Achish. And David knew he was in trouble. He's a warrior.

He knows what's in store. He will be beaten. He will be accused of being a terrorist. He will be brought to the edge of death.

He'll be dragged as a spectacle all through Philistine cities.

He will be stoned and spat upon. And David panics. He plays the fool. You know the story. He pretends to be insane. He starts babbling like a madman. Spit running down his beard. Yelling at people. The most maddening scene that anybody could conceive.

In that culture nobody would go near an insane person. They would back away because they had a theology that demons would jump out at you. And the Bible said David was sore afraid. They take him to the castle.

He scratches on the walls. Babbles insanity. The king said, He's a fool. He's a madman. Why did you bring him to me? Take him to the border. Chase him away. They carry him to the border and David escapes.

And he goes to the cave of Dulam. And it was there in that cave David wrote my favorite psalm. Of 150 psalms. This is my favorite. I've carried it in my pocket around the world. Typed out on a piece of paper.

David wrote these words. I sought the Lord and he heard me. He delivered me. The angel of the Lord encamps around about them that fear him. And he delivers them. The righteous cry and the Lord hears. He delivers them out of all their troubles.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous.

But the Lord delivers them out of them all.

And then David said, This poor man cried and the Lord heard him and delivered him out of all his troubles. When did he cry? He could not cry while he's being dragged around as a madman.

It was a voiceless cry. Let me tell you something. The most powerful prayers I've ever prayed, the most desperate prayers I've ever prayed have never had a voice to them. They've been cried from inside.

My soul. Sometimes the loudest cry you pray is when you're so overwhelmed with problems. And you don't know where to turn.

And you play the fool. You do matters in your own hand.

I have been there. And I know what David went through. I know what it is to end up looking at your foolishness. And you remember the things that God has promised and one by one you watch them fail. And everything is contrary to what you have heard and seen.

It can be sickness. It can be death of a loved one. Confusion. It can happen in your marriage where you wind up in your study.

You wind up in your room. And you don't know how to pray. You don't know what to say because you're overwhelmed. And all you can do is say, Oh God. Oh God. And you're thinking this cry. And Lord, unless you help me I cannot make it.

And I tell you in the Spirit and I speak in the Spirit. There are many of you here now who came here tonight and you were in that position right now.

Maybe you've not done something foolish but there's something in your heart you are so burdened by it.

You can't pray except in your mind. And in your soul.

I'm here to tell you that you don't have to scream at God. You don't need a prayer book. God hears the most silent cry of the heart and He never turns away from that silent cry. I have been to the place at times in my life.

Usually when I pray I like to walk and I like to talk out loud. Sometimes I like to fall on my knees.

I like to weep because I want to feel God.

I want to feel like I have really prayed.

But there are times there are no tears.

There's only a cry inside.

And you can't explain it and the devil comes.

And he says you lost the anointing you're not where God wants you you've been rejected.

You're ineffective. The devil comes when you are down with incredible lies.

Does anybody here know what I'm talking about? Years ago I went to New York City to try to testify to seven boys indicted for murder.

I was a young country preacher. I had never been to New York City.

I found a courthouse and I went to the trial. Now folks, I had fasted and prayed for months. I didn't even see that picture of those boys until after months of prayer I had the greatest moving of the Holy Spirit I'd ever known.

And that still small voice came to me go to New York City and testify to those boys indicted for murder. I finally got to the courthouse. It was on a Friday and I sat through the meeting and they were about to dismiss for the day.

And I knew those boys would be taken in chains outside and taken back to prison and I knew I'd never see them again. And something came over me and I believed and I still did it with the Holy Spirit. And I believe and I still believe that it was the Holy Spirit.

And that voice said get up.

And approach the judge's bench take your Bible so they'll know you're a preacher. I got up. My youth leader was there.

What are you doing I said. I'm going to go up and talk to the judge. He thought I was losing my mind.

I got up and started toward the bench and I said judge would I have a moment with you please. The priest jumped up and everything was in turmoil. They unceremoniously escorted me out. Flash bulbs and reporters questions coming at me.

What do you want. What are you doing. Who are you. And I'm standing there saying God what happened what's going on. And I felt like a fool. This is not the leading of the Lord. What's my preacher father going to think.

What's my church going to think. What about my wife. You talk about silent praying.

I was screaming inside oh God what's wrong it's not supposed to be this way.

That God works in strange ways. That picture in the paper and now over 500 drug centers around the world. God turned it around. You see I thought like David I played the fool. But you see in God's sight sometimes we did dumbest foolish things but we're still his children.

And he promised to deliver us. God takes us through the word.

And he gives us incredible examples of his power to deliver.

Of his power to deliver us.

So that our faith can lay hold of these promises so that what we're going through today we can base it on the nature of God if you know who he is and what he's like. You don't approach your problems on emotionalism or how you feel.

Sometimes I don't even feel saved if I believe my flesh. I never doubt my salvation but sometimes I don't feel very righteous. Of course you always feel righteous that's just me.

I don't believe that you have the same problems sometimes but when you get to 2 Peter.

God's Deliverance Through Noah and Lot

You see two examples of the greatest judgment on earth.

First of all the flood and then the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Now what do you think when you read the story of the flood. The world's destroyed by flood. What comes to your mind is it just judgment. People trying to find a piece of wood something to float.

The water is rising.

You hear the screams of the people dying and now calling on God's name and the screams are incredible.

What do you think when you think of Sodom and Gomorrah.

The sulfuric ashes suffocating people animals dropping dead a city on fire. The voices of thousands and thousands all kinds of deviates and normal people. All kinds of people screaming in despair. Dropping dead.

That's the message to the world but it's not the message to the church. Those scenes have nothing to do with the church of Jesus Christ. The Lord said these are examples to the wicked. If you finally reject my offer of grace he said God will avenge the wicked and the violent.

But we missed the whole point of what Jesus is saying and what Peter is repeating here. Let me read it to you. You don't have to turn but just listen. If God that's one of the biggest ifs in the Bible.

If God spared not the old world but he saved Noah. If he brought in the flood on the world. If God destroyed the cities.

Of Sodom and Gomorrah turned them into ashes.

Making them an example to those who should live ungodly but spared Noah and delivered just Lot.

God is saying look at it I so want you to know I can deliver you from your temptations. Consider Noah how I delivered him a whole world in destruction a whole world in chaos. But there is a righteous man.

Who obeyed and called on my name now I delivered him.

And Lot Sodom and Gomorrah.

Consider it when you hear the message of deliverance. God said I will go to any length.

To save the righteous.

If a city on fire and I send an angel to deliver one man and his daughters I know how.

To deliver you out of your troubles out of your temptations. I can deliver you I will deliver you.

God will do whatever it takes to deliver you out of your temptations.

Hezekiah's Faithfulness Under Assyrian Attack

When I was praying about this message.

And I was considering how God delivers his saints the Holy Spirit said.

Let me show you something the Holy Spirit said study the life of Hezekiah in our thinking.

The most vulnerable people that are vulnerable to the lies of the devil are weak Christians weak pastors inexperienced pastors. Let me show you what God said about this King Hezekiah. Let me go over his record with you.

He did what was right in the sight of God. He pulled down idols he held close to the Lord. The Lord was with him wherever he went. He called the nation back to God. He was a man of prayer he was a worshiper he preached holiness.

He preached separation from the world.

He feared the Lord he was blessed and favored of the Lord. And finally God said this.

Hezekiah walked that walk that was good before the Lord his God and in every work that he did he was faithful.

He did it with all his heart and the Bible said there was no other king like him and after these things.

That's what it says next right after God said there's no man been more faithful than this man. And after these things in fact in the Hebrews after the establishment of his ministries after all the things he had accomplished for God.

He is not living in sin he's a praying man he's a worshiping man.

Then came Sennacherib. Then came the Assyrian army. After the establishment the king of Assyria came. He entered into Judah and he encamped about the city and fought to win the country for himself. Sennacherib represents the devil himself.

He's not going after some immature preacher. He's going after a spiritual giant a man who had really walked with God. And suddenly he's surrounded. And for a whole year this man is surrounded. He is tested.

He is tested. His army begins to desert him. Over 56 of his cities have been taken. 200 ,000 from Judah have been captured.

And he gets a letter from Sennacherib.

And he said God told me to come after you. You're not hearing from God. I'm hearing from God. God told me that you've lost your faith. Your God can't deliver you. Did you ever get a letter from the devil?

Accusations. Do the righteous suffer? I know this is contrary to modern preaching especially American preaching. I listen to the radio and I hear it. You are all mighty giants. They say just love everybody everything is alright.

Everything is sweet everything is beautiful. God wants you rich. I heard one evangelist say this.

Jesus can't come until you get your new home and your new car folks. I sometimes think oh God.

What planet are they living on?

That's not the planet I live on. I face a wife. I face a wife. I live with a lovely woman now for 54 years.

24 years.

54 years of marriage 28 operations she's had 5 for cancer. I've had many lies from the devil many letters from the devil.

If you were a holy man. If you were a righteous man.

You wouldn't be suffering there would never be confusion in your life.

You would be a strong man.

You would never sit in your study and wonder what's happening to you.

The last 6 weeks.

Have been the greatest test of my life. I said Lord I can't share this. But then I remembered Paul the Apostle shared almost every battle he had because he said my life is a pattern. He said I'm going through it so I can teach you.

They tell me my wife is going blind. In the last 6 weeks we have been in one doctor's office after another one physical problem after another and I know what it's like to sit in my office. And I'm not playing on your emotions.

God knows my heart. But the Bible said many are the afflictions of the righteous. Many are the afflictions of the righteous. You can't think your way out of your battle. You can't have some prophet come lay a word on you and tell you next week everything is going to be alright.

No my Bible says many are the afflictions and God delivers them out of them all. But let me tell you how he delivers you. There are times that give me an instant healing.

An instant deliverance.

But there are such things as a progressive miracle you can't see it at first but God answers almost immediately and he sets in motion a process.

And little by little.

And sometimes you can hardly see it or know it.

God is at work and God delivers his people by giving them grace.

To endure until the answer is fulfilled. I told the Lord a few weeks ago.

I can't go to Nicaragua I've been so busy ministering to my wife and I feel her pain so much I just don't know how to pray Lord you know I love you.

But I don't have any words I can't walk and pray I don't know what to say to you I know I love you but I know the enemy has surrounded my gates and I hear these lies from the devil. You're too old. Anyhow your ministry is finished.

Just settle down just take it easy just forget it and wait for the end. But this is what the Lord spoke to me and the Lord said to me don't try to bargain with me.

Don't try to impress me. I'm not looking for a bottle of tears. You don't have to earn an anointing. I don't bless you because you do something for me. Not because you pray for hours not because you read chapter after chapter.

I bless you because I'm your father. You see God knows your heart and in your pain and in your struggle. It could be your marriage it could be your ministry your finances the only way out is to believe.

Your way out it's to rest. I have a father who loves me. Let me give you an offering of praise and thanksgiving. Thank you for your faithfulness. Would you wait on the Holy Spirit for just a moment. Just worship him.

He's here and he doesn't want you to leave.

Until you can say no matter what you feel no matter what you feel. God you're still with me. God you're with me. Say it to the devil. Say it to your heart. God has not forsaken me. God has not forgotten me.

Almighty God is with me.

Hallelujah Lord. Restore hearts. I want to make a special invitation. I hadn't planned to do this but I sense the moving of the Holy Spirit. I'm going to give a very limited call.

I'm going to give a very limited call. I don't want everybody just coming up. There would not be room.

But I want to speak this is going to take a lot of courage but it may be the only way.

That you will come to victory. That you will come to victory if you came to this meeting tonight.

Ready to just quit. You said I cannot go another day. God has to meet me tonight. I want you to come. If you come together husband and wife you're among friends among praying people.

God wants you to be healed. He wants to heal your spirit. I want you to get right out of your seat.

And come here out to the front. A lot of husbands and wives need to just come. If you're single it could be a wife or just a husband or single. Would you please move in close. You say I can't leave tonight unless God touches me.

I have to have something from the Lord. Please move on the sides also.

And on the sides over here.

Don't be afraid to cry. Don't be afraid to weep. We'll wait for you. If you can't come any further in the aisles just stand in the aisles. You that are standing here look up. Look up to the Lord open up your heart and just begin to worship Him.

Now the Holy Spirit is present with His healing touch and He wants to touch you right now. There's no power in my touching you. The power is in the touch of the Holy Spirit. Jesus wants to lift that burden from your heart.

Stand against the lie of the enemy now. So I'll not receive these lies. Oh Jesus. Come. Oh Holy Spirit. Seek His face. Call upon His name right now. Call upon Him. Seek Him. David said this poor man cried.

And the Lord heard him and delivered him from all his troubles. Look up to Him and call on His name. Now. Let's all lift our hands to the Lord. Let's call on His name now. Call on His name. Oh Holy Spirit.

Touch my life tonight. Renew my spirit. Touch me. Oh Lord Jesus. Touch me in this meeting tonight.

You're my Father you're my Father.

I'm your child help me.

Help me help me Jesus help me oh Lord deliver me blessed Holy Spirit. Hallelujah glory glory to You. The Lord is healing right now. All through the audience receive His healing now. Receive His touch by faith right now take it by faith.

This is the conclusion of the message.