(Women) 04. a Wounded Spirit — Keith Daniel

Like the clay in the potter's hand O Lord, I want to be. As gold in refiner's fire O Lord, pure it will be. Ready to be used. The bride to the bridegroom O Lord, holy to you. Eagle to the sky O Lord, only you Ready to be used.

My dream, my desire. Can we bow our heads for a moment of prayer, please?

Dear God, we pray to you today for this conference and the opportunity to offer you, to seek you. Thank you for the community. Thank you for each other. Thank you, dear God, for your goodness that you saved us through the years to host this conference.

Thank you, dear God, that we are your children. Thank you for your Father's heart. Thank you for your grace and thank you for our salvation and deliverance. Jesus Christ and his blood and his life and his strength.

Come in grace and visit us now. Keep us safe from all evil forces. Come in grace and through the work and power of the Holy Spirit. Speak, Lord. Speak in your own way. In Jesus Christ's holy name. Amen.

The Wounded Spirit and the Sustaining Spirit

Now I'm going to read from pages today. Many times I just quote the scriptures and books of the Bible. Many times just give illustrations upon illustrations. I want to put this behind me or it's going to fly all over with this little fan they've got.

So forgive me, I'm not running away. I'm going to give out our newsletter to you all to pray for me and Jenny, please. Our last newsletter, that's why I brought it there. So someone must remind me, please.

Just to hand it out, there's these last copies that I take around. I'd like you to listen carefully to that which I believe the Lord has put on my heart for this meeting. In Proverbs 18 verse 14 God has made a man that he can endure incredible hearts and hardships and sufferings.

God has made a man that he can endure incredible hardships and hurts and sufferings. But there are things that come in our lives that wound the ability for us to survive that are just too much for a man to survive.

And God speaks of this in this verse of Proverbs 18 verse 14. The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity can keep him surviving no matter what he faces in weakness in spite of his weaknesses or hurts physically or mentally or in any way.

The spirit of a man that God has given will sustain, will keep him surviving in his infirmity. But a wounded spirit, who can bear? Who can bear? How will he survive once his spirit is wounded? Once things have come upon his life that have broken his spirit or hers?

When there's no healing. When he can't heal from the wounds. And he can't function. Is there no balm and Gilead? Is there no healing ointment? God is the only one at a point of our lives who can heal a man's spirit.

When it's that wounded. A wounded spirit, who can bear? Who can help such a person? Do you remember Jeremiah? Oh, what a tragic figure. Chosen by God. And therefore God knew that he could survive such things.

If God called you to do something. It's the highest possible evidence. Equal to an oath from God that you can do it. If God called you, young lady, to Glenvar To go out in his work And face incredible persecutions as a woman God knows you can survive.

But Jeremiah became wounded in spirit. He came to a place where he couldn't function. His faith, his heart, his hope, his whole being Couldn't survive. And his prayer in chapter 15. From verse 15 of Jeremiah is staggering.

But he comes to these words. And he cries these words to God who sent him. God who chose him. Why is my pain. Perpetual, it just won't stop. And my wound incurable. A man crying to a God now That allowed him to face things in life In the ministry That virtually destroyed him.

And he cries out in confusion now He can't go on. Why is my pain perpetual. My wound incurable. Why can't I recover. Oh, staggering. Is there no repair to this wound To this broken spirit and heart. Must I die broken.

Staggering questions in the Bible. I'm going to ask every one of you sitting here today. Most of you might not know this language yet. But it will come back one day. Are you wounded in spirit. That which God gave you to survive doesn't function.

You're so wounded You can't heal. Too much hurt came Too much. What can cause a person to be wounded in spirit. What can cause a person to be wounded in spirit. There are many reasons In this cruel world.

Don't bury your head in the sand And say this world is kind It's cruel. Especially this moment we're living in. Just look at how many lives are destroyed That nobody cares about On any level. Let them die.

It's a cruel moment in history. There are many reasons in this cruel world That could cause such a tragedy. But today I'd like to look at our homes. I'd like to look at the homes And at our family. How many parents I have met Whose children were the calamity.

Children Who Bring Calamity to Their Parents

The undoing is the word calamity The destruction of the home Of the happiness Of the testimony of the home The integrity of the home. How many parents have I had to sit with for hours Over 38 no more years.

Whose children were the calamity The cause, the undermining The breaking down of their parents. Proverbs 19 verse 13 says A foolish son Is the calamity of his father The undoing When a man is undone, destroyed He lies undone He's just destroyed.

A foolish son does that to his father. God says Proverbs 10 verse 1 A wise son maketh a glad father. But a foolish son Is the heaviness Of his mother. Being godly Doesn't mean you won't know heaviness Doesn't mean you won't come to circumstances From the home From your children's lives.

That will cause you to face calamity as a human. Be undone as a human And wounded in spirit Living in grief Though you're saved. This a child can do, God says. I was astonished At the words of a young teenager I once heard In a tragic, tragic circumstance Where a family literally Lay in ruins That had served God.

I was astonished at the words of the young teenager That had done this to his home. Who had brought such shame on that home Taking drugs Choosing Brazenly Instead of godly friends to choose the wicked Though he came from a godly home That can happen Expelled from his school Bringing shame on his parents Who were broken On their faces before God And aged Just swiftly aged In their brokenness and fear Of what their son Was doing Of his own free will To them And that home And the testimony of the home What was bewildering Was when that boy Suddenly Looked shocked Stunned At the world that was hurting.

When his father was unable To look at him with the same love And joy And trust. But all he saw in his father's eyes It would seem Was fear. What are you going to do to us next? It didn't mean the father hadn't forgiven.

The father just was so wounded He couldn't Trust. He couldn't find trust Even in the way he tried to look at the boy. And that's tragic on both sides. But that can happen. Oh the hurt And the grief When the father couldn't express the love He had always expressed Just flow to that child it seems Who it seems had been his darling The darling of his life.

Until then That boy stunned everybody In that home and others who were watching. When one day he said As he looked at his father's eyes An inability to show him the same love Because of all the hurt He cried out why.

Why does everything Have to be so different. Why does everything have to be so changed. Why can't it be as it was before I failed. Why can't they forgive me. It's tragic When a man or a woman A father or a mother Become wounded in spirit.

They can't heal They can't recover. Possible young person. Be careful. Oh God be careful What you do to your father and mother. You may never ever Ever know Love as it should have been And could have been Again I know a man His name is Mike Vandenberg He's a lawyer in Pretoria Very human First to admit But pursuing God.

He spoke to me of how when his father lay dying His father had been so godly He just continually speaks With awe and reverence of his father's influence on his life And many other people's lives. But he said That when his father lay dying His father said to him some staggering words.

He was an only child. I don't leave you an inheritance That others would value My boy. But father leaves you With this inheritance From my life I leave you With a good name. Your father dies With a good name Nothing to bring shame on you.

I leave you with no debt. I was careful Never to live in a way That I brought debt to leave to others Even in my old age. And I Die Having lived a life That pointed you To follow Christ. That is my inheritance That I have Endeavored With my whole heart To leave you.

Jacob, Esau, and the Consequences of Despising Godly Heritage

Is that the inheritance you leave your children? They probably will curse the memory of you Even if you leave them with wealth If you didn't leave them with that Sir Lady Have you ever wondered Beloved Why God said Jacob Have I loved.

But he Esau Jacob's brother Have I hated. Has that not staggered you. Reading that in Romans 9 In its context And in the light of all scriptures. That is a verse that staggered me Especially as a young Christian And does to this day.

As I look in the light of all scriptures It's lost the problem areas It was at first But it has brought So much more in the light of all scriptures To my heart That it never ceases to stagger me. Esau Despised His parents Standards That they brought him up To know.

Don't just look at a verse. Look at the context of the whole life. Esau despised. He despised His parents standards That they had Brought him up to know. He was not Ignorant Concerning These things When he chose The company He kept When he chose the relationships He formed with women who hated God Who didn't know God and were Godless When he chose Even who to marry.

It was such a grief to his parents. God just writes it was a grief To the hearts Of Isaac and Rebekah. Jacob Esau Wasn't ignorant At the things he did That were against. He knew this grieved his parents But it didn't matter.

You can have Godly parents. It doesn't mean you will respect them And their standards And convictions. You can despise That it just Doesn't matter what you're doing To their hearts Grieve. Don't believe That he didn't know How this caused And grieved his parents.

He just didn't care. That's the truth Of it and that's not reading anything Into the scriptures. That's the truth Of what God plainly shows us Of this man. Whereas Jacob Jacob respected And was deeply Influenced by his godly Parents values And standards He was sensitive to their godly convictions.

He coveted Their convictions And obedience to their god As they did. Deuteronomy 27 verse 16 Says these Fearful words. Cursed Be he that setteth light By his father and mother. If God says Cursed You're in trouble young man.

Your whole life Is going to be a tragedy. Cursed be he That setteth light by his father or mother. Today I would like to place A warning to all children From godly homes. Today I would like to place A warning to all children From godly homes who have Known the privilege Of God fearing Parents.

I'd like to place a warning To the Esau's. Nothing is history In this book. You want history go to other books. This is God's living word. Historical yes. But living To give you God's warnings To every single thing God's promises But God's warnings.

Otherwise it wouldn't be in the bible Including Esau. There's nothing that God does not speak To direct you concerning The safety of your soul And other people's hearts. Who care for you Esau. For a morsel of soup Sold his birthright Gave up his birthright Gave it away threw it away Just cast it aside.

The Hebrew brings out It was just a light thing. Now that's a tragic thing. Hebrews 12 warns us Not to do the same And to lose forever All the blessings That he intended for us to receive Through our godly parents.

One morsel of soup One little Helping Just one little helping. Oh I'm hungry. He wasn't dying by the way Just a weak moment Made him Prove how much he valued. What he knew could be his Would be his. But in his eyes it didn't matter.

Not at that stage Only when you lose something treasured Something really precious. Do you really begin to look at its value With fear. How swiftly we can throw aside all the blessings That could have been inherited If we embraced and valued and guarded That which we Were intended to receive From godly parents And the privilege of being in their home.

But how easily In weak moments We could disregard and despise Literally Everything our godly parents Have tried to pass on to us From god To bless our lives. That our lives aren't cursed. How shall we Escape God asks If we neglect so great a salvation.

I wonder To what degree That was aimed at children From godly homes From people with the knowledge of the gospel Not those out there who didn't really know And watch and could have received Incredible honor.

Eternally How can we escape. How shall we escape If we neglect what God held out to us To our godly parents. And not only Neglect but despise. For what What do we Despise it, what do we throw it aside for Esau.

Knowing That these sins In a weak moment Of us embracing Can rob us of the blessing The spiritual blessings God held out to us through our parents Forever Rob us forever. What is your morsel of soup. What is the thing That you So had to have.

You'd lose Even your parents' love Even their happiness. What is it you Had to have that you chose Like Esau. Despising What your parents had told you The standards The convictions they had Impressed upon you and lived in front of you.

What is the morsel of soup That you stoop To take at the cost of losing Your integrity, your purity Of losing The godly inheritance That was intended For you by God through your parents. Young people Don't play the fool with God.

You can play the fool With many things in this world And survive but don't Play the fool With God. Trust me Don't Don't Esau. Because even if you have strong tears one day There's a point You never recover What you could have had God's word says about Esau.

Can I Ask you a fearful question. This is a fearful question Because many could take offense. Can I ask you a fearful question. Young man, young lady From godly homes Is being Entertained Worth being Defiled.

Entertainment, Hollywood, and Spiritual Defilement

Have you answered your own conscience Let alone God or your parents or me. I dare you to answer Your own conscience. Is being Entertained Worth being Defiled. Entertainment is 99 defiling today. You argue with me God forgive you.

Because even the wicked wouldn't argue Who have no religion. Entertainment is 99 defiling in this world. Whether it's books today Magazines available to everyone Television programs If we're honest Films, 99 of them.

Oh, Walt Disney Will bring out something for little children that looks naive. But trust me, Hollywood can do nothing good. You'll find there's something Of Ancestral worship. You'll find there's something of Spiritism.

You'll find there's something of evil spirits and bad Good spirits and bad wizards. There's no such a thing as a good wizard. If there's a wizard or a witch, she should be stoned to death Damned by God for what she's doing.

Don't tell me there's good witches Good wizards. Only Satan could give you something That could attract you Or put something of a hero To identify as a child That he wants to emulate A wizard. They're damnable What they do According to this book There is no such a thing outside of this book Of saying, look, it's just innocent fun.

Even if they're giving something of Jesus From Hollywood. Trust me, give it time. You'll find it wasn't from God It just did damage. No matter what you say, lady How can Satan All the evil that's defiled this world Do something good That hasn't got some motive to undermine Good.

In our naivety and gullibility We accept things if it's about Jesus, don't we? Even if it Teaches what millions of our forefathers Died for To break from Rome We'll embrace it because Hollywood does it With impact, doesn't it.

Oh, how gullible Christians are. Be careful Is being entertained Worth being defiled. Write that across your television. Give it a chance. The same size as the screen, okay? As you sit and watch Let your children Watch you What you watch And allow them to watch Is being entertained Worth being defiled.

Divine Foreknowledge, Human Responsibility, and Romans 1

Here lies a great controversy In the Scriptures. Jacob, have I loved But Esau have I hated. Now in the light of all the Scriptures Which is the only Safe way to interpret any Verse or standard or statement In the light of all the Scriptures.

This is not implying That God chooses To bless One And chooses to curse another Who have no choice in the matter. I want to repeat that In case there's some people who actually believe that Then you make God a monster.

And that's a damnable sin, sir. Sorry, that's a terrifying sin If not damnable. This is not Implying that God chooses to bless one And chooses to curse another For no moral reason Other than to entertain himself In eternity.

That we can find God in his uncomprehendable Greatness Through his uncomprehendable foreknowledge Hated What he knew. Esau's character And nature Would do In lightly regarding His godly heritage. I want to repeat that In his uncomprehendable greatness Through his uncomprehendable Foreknowledge God Hated What he knew.

Esau's character And nature would do In lightly Regarding his godly Heritage. Romans 1 warns us Terrifying words. It's the most terrifying Chapter in the whole Bible. That's why You probably never heard a man preach Of it in your life.

In most evangelical churches He would lose most of his people To preach that without compromising Or apologizing for what God says About every sin. Romans 1 says. Even as they did not like To retain God In their knowledge God Gave them over To a reprobate mind To do those things Which are not convenient.

Even as they did not like To retain God. Not that they didn't know God. They didn't know about God Or God's standard or God's will. But knowing The judgment of God Not only do the same But have pleasure in them that do all these wicked things.

Knowing How many people know what God says Through their upbringing. It's a terrifying thing God looks In his incomprehensible foreknowledge And hates What he knows He saw He's going to do To his mother and father And himself.

Proverbs' Warnings About Dishonoring Parents

Proverbs 19 verse 26. He that wastes Death his father. You wasted him What he was meant to be to you What God Intended you to receive from him And your mother. He that wastes his father And chases the way His mother when she tries to intervene In any way of his plans Or sin.

He that wastes his father and chases the way. His mother is a son that causes Shame and bringeth Reproach. Terrifying words isn't it. A son that causes shame And bringeth Reproach. There's Another horrible verse I should read.

Whoso curses his father And mother. His lamp shall be put out Into obscure darkness. The spirit of a man is the lamp Of the Lord. God puts it out. Whoso curses If you stoop to that His father and mother.

You so hate their Imposing on you or interfering With you living in sin. You curse them. Your lamp will be put out by God. God promises. That's a promise by the way. It's not all good promises in this book But it's statements God made.

I know a young man Who denied And defied and despised His father and mother's standards And teachings To such a degree It was unbelievable. He landed up in prison. Coming from a godly home He broke their hearts.

He kept them on their faces. He even put me on my face When I saw what was happening To his father and mother To the degree they were being destroyed. When he was in trouble He came back And he came back with loving words And all to get money To get out of trouble financially.

He took every single Cent His mother and father had saved For their old age. He didn't spare Them one cent. He made sure it was drained. And when he had got every cent He threw them away like dirt. Oh To so despise your godly Parents, Esau Their influence, that which you could have Inherited from them had you not been Disregarded What you could have got from them.

Parenting Without Compromise or Controlling Children

I read an article in the newspaper That it was pointed out that money Is not everything. I like to read things sometimes. It's a useful commodity. And this man who wrote his article about money He says it's useful.

In this way It can assure us That our children will keep in touch. So it's good to have money for that reason. I thought well. Tragedy Tragedy, terrifying to think That there are actually children Who keep in touch with parents only What they can get out of them Even if they take their last cent.

Tragedy isn't it What children can be. If your children don't follow god You lose the right Not only to preach but to have authority Of any sort In god's church. You lose the right To even have authority Of any form.

If your children Choose sin And mine have. I am too sensitive to walk up in the pulpit Of the bible that tells me I lose the right to preach. I have to work like this Till my heart is broken. That's how your life can undo a man.

It's a young person. You can destroy Your father's ministry to a nation When you play the fool with god After the privileges You were given. You don't only destroy yourself. You wound the spirit of your father And mother.

I need to come to a swift end. Parents Be careful Not to compromise. If your children don't accept Your standard. God's standard That's the only standard we have. Be careful not to compromise. If your children Don't accept your standard.

If they reject it, if they despise it If they hate you for it Don't compromise On god's Standard. Not men's standard. Don't compromise. I heard a man preaching the other day that said If we as children of god Dare to take one step back To the world.

Our children will take two steps. I guarantee you Just give them the rope By compromising And see how far they do go When you start to compromise. But we must Need to be very careful To consider Also as parents in this day and age Where so much Has the outward appearance of evil And is defiling And can lead to deeper defilement.

If we allow or tolerate certain things We need to be careful to consider the gap Because of our convictions Before it becomes their personal convictions. They need to be given a life In place of the one they can't have.

You can't expect them To be a monk Or a nun. You can't expect them to look at Every single thing in life as sin And they have no liberty To do anything. We must guard not to Hold on to them. Control them to such a degree They'll never make their own minds up.

It's our standards they keep. There is that danger In our fear of losing them to the world. Replace. Teach them good music. Give them the best No matter what it costs. If videos or DVDs Are a fear to you.

Go out and find for Moody Institute Godly influences Godly films. There's a few hundred of the godly men Of our history, our church, On Wesley, Whitfield. Name them, their lives, maybe it's not Hollywood standard.

But it's good, and it's true And it's pure Substitute, don't leave a gap Where they sit feeling that they have been Kept from everything life held out to them. Show them, teach them. Nurture good music until they love it.

Go out. Teach them good Magazines that you bring in your home That there is such a thing. Go out and find if there's one Bring it, give it to them. Give them a National Geographic. Give them something that doesn't Hurt them.

There is these percentage, ten percent at least That you find As you plead the blood of Christ over your own eyes. Going into the CNA. You have to today to stay pure To get to those books And get out alive For your children's sake.

To get the music That you might have to go through a few thousand places Before you find one Christian book room That sells godly Reverential Holy music. That will not adapt them to the world's music.

Or give them a desire for the world's music Or open their hearts to the beat. You play music That you can dance to brother. They'll start dancing in your church. And it won't be a holy dance. Give them godly things.

Be careful That they don't become so dependent on you. You see I read this once. You've got to give your children roots. You've got to give it to them. But you've also got to give them wings. Or they will be destroyed.

Maternal Love, Independence, and Focusing on Scripture

Thomas Carlyle Said this About his mother. Who is it That loves me And will love me forever With an affection Which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine Can do away with It is my mother. Well you can go and find a hundred statements about a mother's love.

Even God's word says can a mother Forget her sucking child. It's your mother's love. But it's amazing How much We can take control of their lives. That one day they can't make choices. They can't survive Without us being there.

They're tied to us. I read this in the newspaper. I only read the newspaper's headlines. As I ask God's protection. And as I read through the headlines I say to God If there's anything I need to know as a Christian That I need to pray about that's happening in this world.

Let me read that. Outside of that, don't let me be defiled by this. We don't have a television. Jenny and I. So I just get the newspaper and read the headlines. And after one or two minutes most of the time Throw it away.

Because 99 of it is a waste of time. Keep your strength for the Bible. Your eyes Being tied to your mother's apron strings. Isn't that amazing. The Roman Catholic Church Says Divorce is against them totally.

Roman Catholicism, Historical Atrocities, and Discernment

So don't say they do everything wrong. Of course they're not going to go to heaven. How can they. How can. How many million. Sixty million In the Spanish Inquisition alone Burnt at the stake. How many million Died to defy Rome's heresy.

Don't let us be taken up with the good. But don't let's bury our head in the sand And say everything good they say That is scriptural is not to be considered. They take a bit of courage here. But this was interesting.

The Vatican says That it Being tied to your mommy's apron strings Is sufficient grounds To annul a marriage. They are against divorce. You're going to hell virtually if you divorce. They won't even bury you.

Remarriage after divorce. Sorry. Now they're looking at. They say but we do allow divorce. This is a few days ago by the way The officials have ruled That there are many Cases that they've had to face That they gave permission That men Were judged to be so dependent on their parent That they were unfit for marriage Is the first reason.

They find cases that a Son is so dependent on the parent For every little thing That they're willing to let divorce come. On that issue. These marriages were annulled On the grounds of the overbearing Influence of a mother or father That psychologically Proved Marriage was destroyed Before it started.

Divorces are not allowed in the Catholic Doctrine. But in such cases It would be cruel To force a woman To stay with such a man. Well that's Rome. Forgive me quoting Rome. It was the newspaper by the way.

Interesting. You must give them roots. But you must give them wings parent. Or otherwise you'll destroy them. There's a time you've got to Let them make up their own minds. And you've got to show incredible patience As they make their Hearts for God.

A Call to Healing, Forgiveness, and Repentance

That when you're not watching They'll follow the things That matter. Now point two Is about to start Which I just want to Touch the heading. And then I'm closing. Maybe Our wounded spirit was not the result Of our children's Choices but of our Hurts in our marriage.

And I Was going to go into that. But So that Mrs. Kereke doesn't change her mind And invite someone else next year. I Am going to stop now. The second part by the way Maybe God spared us. Because I know it's going to be deeply Offensive to many people.

And most of it is just quoting the Scriptures. Don't let the past Cripple Any hope for the future. If your Son has failed and you're wounded Seek God Like Jeremiah To heal. Seek God desperately And then seek for grace No matter how much it costs To find.

To show your son forgiveness Even if he isn't 100 But that he tried To come back And find forgiveness And another chance. Seek God for grace. Father, Mother For your own healing He'll give it And for grace To somehow trust And love that child again.

Can we stand please. I'm not going to make an appeal. If I'd got to the second part I would have. But I think I read Very slowly today with the lights going out. When you hear the word of God and you know You're guilty Or bordering on it young people.

And you walk Away and you don't act Fast To rectify What you're doing. The next time you hear It won't be so Sharp. It will lose its sharp edge Until you can hear God speaking about hell To you. And you won't even blink an eye one day.

Be careful If God spoke to you. Be careful He saw. Before all your privileges Mean nothing. The curse because you threw them away Or played the fool. And like Esau Who couldn't find a Pace of repentance Though he sought it with tears And strong crying.

There's a place You go too far with God. Mrs. Carricka. Will you please come and commit us to Christ.