God Is a Rewarder — David Wilkerson

For his translation, he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is what? A rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

That's my message, a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank You for the presence of Jesus tonight. Holy Spirit, thank You for coming to this meeting. Thank You for falling upon us and consuming the sacrifice of praise.

Now, Lord, we thank You for the Word this morning and what You did in our hearts. You're inspiring us to faith. Lord, I believe tonight that You're emphasizing it once again in all of our hearts. We invite You, Holy Spirit, to move upon us.

Lord, anoint me. Let the fire of God burn in my heart. Let the spirit of anointing of the Lord Jesus be upon us to preach it and to hear it. Lord, we take Your authority over anything that would hinder the Word from going forth.

We bind every opposition of Satan, and we pray for release of the Word, release of the Holy Ghost, and freedom to preach what God has put in our hearts. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. One of the great tragedies of this generation, and I believe it's the grief of God's heart, is that so many Christians today are unhappy.

Now, they put on a front. They can come to church. They smile. They'll meet you. They'll hug you. They can raise their hands and they worship. They clap and they sing and they praise. But underneath it all, there's something that's very sad.

There's a loneliness. There's an emptiness. And many, many Christians throughout America today and around the world are putting on a false front. There's a lack of victory in many homes and churches and in many lives.

And before God, it's an appalling situation. They run hot. They run cold. They run up. They run down. If they're married, their marriage is just like that. There is no steady growth. They run hot. They run cold.

If the Spirit's moving upon them, they talk to each other. If they're in one of their blue moods, they don't even talk to one another. We have people get out of their cars, and the wife will slam the door, and I know they've had a fight.

And they come right in here, and they sweetly raise their hands and praise the Lord. And you come to find out they're not even talking to each other except when they scream at one another. And yet they say, well, that's the way marriages are.

You can't expect to be happy all the time. You can't expect to have things right all the time. It can't be good all the time. Well, it shouldn't be bad all the time either, brother, sister. But Paul warns of Christians who need to be recovered out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

That's 2 Timothy 2 .26. To be recovered out of the snare of the devil. Who are taken captive by him at his will. Now this perfectly describes many Christians. And some of them come to this church. Satan moves in and out of their lives at his own will.

They are not free. They don't have the spiritual authority to stop the devil from coming in and moving and playing upon their emotions. They would try to say, well, devil, I take authority over you. And the devil laughs because they don't have the authority in their life.

And I am shocked at the number of Christians who never seem to come to victory. It's incredible that the devil can just move in and out as he pleases. The Bible said they've not been recovered out of the snare of Satan.

They have been taken captive by him, by Satan, at his own will. They don't have control of their lives. They have no power or authority whatsoever to remove this devilly snare. Paul said it's because they are opposing themselves.

They oppose themselves. It's a very strong word in Greek. What he's saying, you won't do what must be done to be delivered from the snare of the devil. He said it's your own fault. You are your own worst enemy.

Now, that word to oppose, he said you oppose yourself. You have set yourself up to be trapped by the devil. You refuse God's way of deliverance and victory. You've opposed His way and you set up your own way.

So, consequently, you're ensnared by the devil. Now, we don't like to hear this. We don't like to even entertain the thought that the trouble in our lives may be because we're trapped by the devil. We don't like to believe that the trouble in our marriage, we don't like to believe that the emotional problems, we don't like to believe that these things that we struggle with time and time again are satanic in origin, that we are being manipulated by the devil and we've been trapped and snared by the enemy.

There are so many Christians who I don't believe are Christians at all. The Bible said they're captives. They are not free. They have no victory in Jesus Christ. Satan can put fear on them, loneliness, distress, lust, anytime he chooses.

And most of the time you look at them, if they're up, they're up for a little time, but most of the time they're down under total manipulation of their will. Is this what Jesus died for? To raise up a people who are under the power of the devil's will?

Is this the testimony to the will? Give your heart to Jesus, but your will to the devil? That's not the testimony of the Scripture. Now, you can blame your unhappiness on your poor health. A lot of people blame their emotional trouble to poor health, and sometimes that's the case.

But most of the time it's an excuse. You can blame it on a misunderstanding between you and your boss or an uncaring mate, a husband and wife. You say, my husband doesn't understand me. You know, we've got a whole world going around looking for understanding.

Nobody understands me. That's why men cheat on their wives. That's why wives cheat. My husband doesn't understand me. Nobody's looking for understanding, rather than going to the master where the victory lies.

They're trying to find someone who has the secret to their problem. But you see, if you're sitting here tonight and you have to admit, Brother David, the devil's been playing on the strings of my emotion.

I'm not getting better, I'm getting worse. I've got this poor self-image. My fear is rising in me. The joy I once had is dissipating. There's a sadness that's setting inside of me. That means one thing only, that you have become captive at his will.

You are under the captivity of a satanic snare. I can't find anything else to explain that in the Word of God. Something very serious is wrong. And I'm telling you tonight, by the Word of God, you need to ask God to recover you from this trap.

Seek to be recovered. Because if you've been serving the Lord Jesus for more than two or three months, you should be growing. Your joy should be growing. Your victory should be mounting. You should be getting a hold of something in the Word of God.

You should not be coming to this church if you've been saved, and you're sitting under the teaching of God's Word, and under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. You should not be coming, dragging in here, trying to get some kind of a hope of victory in your heart.

There should be something rising up in you now, a victory in faith in Jesus. Your victory should start becoming sweet to you. There should be an assurance of his presence. You should be changing from glory to glory, from image to image, the Scripture said, into his own image.

Walking With God Brings Deliverance From Satanic Captivity

Now, what's the problem? I'll tell you, it's the grief of my heart, and I know it's the grief of these pastors, to see so many people that are hurting, and you know that you preach just what they need.

You know that if they would have believed what you preach, and took it to heart and practiced it, they'd already be free. And you see it go on week after week, and month after month, and finally you say, Oh God, what will it take?

And then you realize that they're under a satanic snare, and they're not willing to admit it. They're not acknowledging it. And what is the problem? Why are so many Christians captive and snared by the devil?

First of all, so few of God's people are walking with the Lord. So few are walking with God. And I'll tell you why. Here's how you can tell it. Those who are walking with God are being translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light.

Those who are walking with the Lord are experiencing victory in their lives. Colossians 1 .13 says, Who has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.

I don't know about you, I'm not waiting for my translation. I have been translated. I'm in the process of being translated. The first time Jesus saved me, He did a good enough job, He never had to do it again.

He put something in me toward Him. He gave me a drawing in my heart toward Him. And from the day I got saved, there's been a constant drawing. Now, yes, I've had some ups and downs. I've had a lot of battles.

But through it all, I never once entertained the thought of doing anything but clinging to Him. No other thought. Never a thought of giving up. The Greek word here for this being translated from the power of darkness into translating the kingdom of His dear Son in Greek, here's what it really means.

It means that Jesus personally came and accompanied us right out of the devil's hand. He personally carried us away from the devil's power and set us down in a heavenly place. That's what it means to be translated out of the kingdom of darkness.

That Jesus personally came and delivers us from the power of the devil. And He puts us in a heavenly place by faith in His own hand. But God only translates those who walk close to Him. Those who are captive by the devil have not been taken up and delivered yet out of the kingdom of darkness.

Now, I'm going to make a statement. I don't believe that anyone is truly saved until you set your heart to walk with God. I'm going to say it again. I don't believe anyone is truly saved until they have set their heart to walk close to Jesus.

To walk with the Lord. Translation out of the devil's power is only for those who have set themselves to be intimate with the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, you can claim to be saved. You can claim that you love Him.

You can tell the Word you belong to Him. You can weep over Him. You can read His Word. But unless you walk every day with Him, you're not going to be changed. You're going to fall deeper and deeper into satanic bondage.

And the reason we are bound in this last day is because we have neglected our walk with Him. There's no other excuse. We've been neglecting. Let me talk about a man who walked with God. His name was Enoch.

I read the scripture to you this morning. Genesis 6 .22 says, and Enoch walked with God. Now, Enoch is a pattern man. In fact, his name means dedicated and it also means initiator. In fact, it means an initiator of a new breed or new kind of person.

He represents the last day Christian. And I want to tell you something significant about this man. His father, Jared, lived 962 years. His son, Methuselah, lived 969 years. The man who lived longer than any man on the face of the earth.

Now, sandwiched between his father, 962 years, and his son, 969 years, is Enoch who lived 365 years. A year of years. Now, 365 days in a year. And you know what that's a type of? It's a type of a man who every single day of his life, for 365 days out of the year, 365 years, he walked with God.

He's a type of a person who is given holy to walk with the Lord. Enoch walked with God, the Scripture says. He was an ordinary family man. And the reason I know that, the Bible said he begat sons and daughters.

Anyone who's got kids is an ordinary man. He's got ordinary responsibilities. He's got to pay bills. He has to buy clothes for his children. In other words, you don't have to be a hermit to be holy. You don't have to hide out to be sold out.

We've got people all over America who claim to be prophets, and they're saying, you've got to go hide out in the wilderness. We've got prophets now saying, if you move to... In fact, there's one dear sister who's got about 100 acres in northern Florida, and she said, it's definitely going to fall all over America except on these 100 acres.

But she's selling lots. There's somebody in the Midwest now that's saying, no, God's going to have an island of protection. The armies of Russia are going to come into America, and if you go up here in the hills, it's in the Midwest there, you're going to be safe.

And I tell you, we've got people running to the hills now. They're running to the hills. You know, people today, it's funny, almost everybody that gets a touch of God anymore seems to want to be a prophet.

I had a letter from a lady once, she said, I believe you're a prophet. You need to wear a black coat and wear a long beard. In other words, you've got to be a prophet. Look the part. I want to tell you, no black coat for this preacher, and no three-foot beard.

Now, if you've got one, I'm not going to condemn you for it. But Jesus said, when you fast, wash your face so that nobody can see that you're fasting. Don't bring attention to yourself. We have people today saying to the Jew, you've got to move to Israel to avoid the calamity that's coming, the economic collapse that's coming to America.

Holiness in Ordinary Life and Separation From Sin

I want to say something from my heart right now. The greatest testimony that the Lord can have on this last day is that somebody can walk down Broadway, an ordinary person with an ordinary job, and walk with God.

Just like Enoch. The testimony is not that you can go out to some mountain place, or you go out to some desert and walk with God. Anybody can go there. There's no drugs, there's no alcohol. You don't have to battle through the traffic.

You don't have that case of bad mares. It takes a lot of Holy Ghost grace to live in New York City. And be an ordinary Christian, with ordinary responsibilities. Glory be to God. I'll tell you where I want to be when the economic collapse comes.

I want to go right back to Wall Street where I was October 19, two years ago. I want to go right down there and be able to stand up and say, It don't matter. I've got something that keeps me where everything collapses, right down Broadway, right in the middle of Wall Street.

I'm telling you, if Enoch could live today, I don't think you would have noticed him in a crowd. Some people think if you're holy you've got a certain look, a long face, a certain walk, and all you say is, Glory.

I've been around them. I've had prophets walk into my office with their nose stuck up. Some in their bare feet to prove they were prophets. I never saw such stinking pride in all my life. Christians in these last days that have responsibilities, that have to face every demon power in hell, that can stand up and say, I can walk with Jesus anywhere, anytime.

Glory to God. Boy, that's the testimony of Enoch. He proved that though he had sons and daughters and he had a wife, he had responsibilities, he could still walk with God. Hallelujah. Praise His name.

Jesus said, Go ye, not hide ye. Something else about Enoch that I like. Enoch saw the world as an ungodly place. The more he walked with God, the more ungodly the world became to him. Now, he lived in a society just as wicked as ours.

In fact, everything you hear from this man, he's a preacher of righteousness, and he said, ungodly, ungodly, ungodly. I want to tell you something. By the way, because it's so dark in here, I'll read from Jude, the 14th verse of Jude.

Listen to this. And Enoch, also the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Listen to the preaching of this man. Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints to execute judgment upon all, to convict all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

You hear ungodly, ungodly, ungodly. You know, the two prophets in the Bible that were translated, Elijah and Enoch, you know what they had in common? They hated sin. They were preachers of righteousness.

They cried out in their generations against sin. And they were translated. But I want to tell you something. The way you get your hatred for the world is through your intimacy with the Lord. The more you walk with Him, the more you talk with Him, the more you get to know Him, the more you develop His character, the more you hate what He hates and like what He likes, you become more and more like Him.

You don't have to have a preacher telling you how to hate sin or where to go and where to come in. You don't have to tell... I want to tell you something else. If you're in some kind of a career, I don't think we as pastors can tell you, we cannot tell you what to do in black and white.

We can't say do this or do that. I think it's suffice to say that if you really love Him and you're walking with Him like Enoch did, you're going to come out of it just as Enoch did. You're going to see how ungodly this world is.

You will hear the hard speeches against your father. You'll be so intimate with the Lord that you cannot stand to see or hear them curse Him. You'll not be able to be around those. You'll be so intimate.

You'll be so in love with Him that it will grieve you that you can't stay there. It's not because a preacher or doctor told you to get out, but there's something of your heart so in love with Jesus, you cannot be around those who mock Him.

You can't be around those who have hard speeches against Him. You can't be around the murmurs and complainers who flatter people for an advantage, the Scripture says, who manipulate people. He said you can't be around those kind.

He that is a friend to the world is an enemy to God. Listen, I'm going to tell you something. Here's where the Lord is bringing me. There are two kinds of people. There are the legalists over here who believe you can't be holy, you can't be righteous unless you're ascetic.

In other words, you can't associate with anybody. Most of all, you can't enjoy anything on this earth. You can't enjoy nature, for example. You can't enjoy friendship and fellowship. Many of these people, God bless their hearts, the legalist is so self-righteous.

He's self-righteous because he feels that he's suffered so much for Jesus he deserves our applause. He deserves to be complimented because I'm doing so much, I'm working so hard to please the Lord. Now, I don't put that down, but I'm going to tell you something.

Jesus said Himself, consider the lilies, consider the lilies. In other words, there's a postcard. Go out into the fields and look at all of nature. God wants us to enjoy that. I enjoy going to museums and looking at art.

I enjoy that. There's nothing wrong with that. But then you have the other people over on this side who can do almost anything. They seem so loving of Jesus, and anything goes. They mix with the ungodly.

They're not grieved by their association with the ungodly. But we're in the world, the Scripture says, but not of the world. But if you walk with the Lord, really walking with Him, what's going to happen is that you're going to more and more realize that this world has rejected our Christ and that He's been put aside.

And there's something in you that's so in love with Jesus that you begin to withdraw from anything and everyone that would mock and crucify Him and put Him afest to an open shame. And that has to develop in our hearts.

The absolute effect of those who walk with God is a growing hatred for sin. I'll say it again. The absolute effect of an all-out walk with God is a growing hatred for sin. Not just a hatred for it, but a separation from it.

I'm telling you what, if you're at home with this world, if you're comfortable, if you can sit around ungodly people that mock and scoff and ridicule the name of your Savior, I'd question your love. No matter what you say, I'd question your love for Jesus.

I'd question your being so comfortable around those who would mock the Savior that you love. The Scripture says, and Enoch, same verse, and Enoch walked with God, and Enoch was not, for God took him. Now we know from Hebrews that Enoch was translated when it says he was not at the age when the Lord took him.

He was not here on this earth anymore. But if you really look at the Hebrew in Genesis 5 .24, it's talking about something much different. That's only part of it. He was on his way. He was in the process of being translated in his walk with God.

In other words, he was walking toward the sun. His translation was just the last step into the brightness of the sun. In other words, when it says he was not here, he was not here in his senses. He was not here as attached to the world.

He was in the world, but not of it. He was not. He was not what? He was not a part of this world system. He was not a part of what was going on here. Oh, he was involved. I believe he worked for a living.

I believe he cared for his family. I believe he was a good and loving father. But he was not, for the Lord took him. The Lord was joying him at all times. If there's anything I want in my life, and I want it now, I don't want to wait.

If there's one thing he could grant to me, it would be this very thing to be said of me. And it should be that you want it said of you. David Wilkerson walked with God, and he was not, because the Lord took him.

Enoch’s Continual Communion With God

In other words, he walked off hand in hand with Jesus at every waking hour. He's like he's teethered to the Lord by this great big rubber... I pictured the other day, now you may laugh at it, but I pictured the rubber band.

And I'm teethered to Christ. It's wrapped around His wrist. And I have liberty to go, but the further I get away from Him, the tighter the band gets. And the more pressure of the draw, and let go, and bang!

Right back to Him I go. You let me go, I've got to go right to Him. I've got to go do my work. I have responsibilities. And even in those responsibilities, I'm thinking of Him. I'm talking to Him. But every waking moment, every moment, you keep going back.

You're not parked in front of television. You're not just partying around. Your heart is drowned. You're walking with God. And by the way, that word walking in Hebrew, oh, it's powerful. It means, listen to it now.

Enoch went to and fro, up and down, arm in arm, it says arm in arm, continuously conversing with the Father and growing in the process. Up and down, to and fro, continually conversing, in constant communion, and in the process, growing because of it.

Are you teethered to Christ? Are you so drawn to Him that every time you let go of responsibility, you go right to Him? Do you love Him so much that even after a service like tonight, I'll tell you what, that's one of my precious times to go home after a meeting and just get alone in my room and shut the door and begin to worship Him for what He's done.

Thank Him for His Word and His Spirit. And to be drawn to say, Lord, even though You blessed me tonight, I want to just add a little more. I want more of You, Jesus. Is that happening to you? Is the Word producing that in you?

If it's not, you're not walking with Him. Enoch was not. You see, Paul was not either. Paul died every day. He died to this world. Absolutely died to everything in this world. He had nothing to do with his world system.

Paul had the cares and responsibility of all the churches, but every day he got up and he said, Oh, Jesus, I'm holy Yours. He said, I'm dying to everything in this world. I'll tell you what, the most blessed thing that God can do is to bring that kind of death to us.

Death to the world, death to your career, death to everything else. That doesn't mean you drop out of life. You may be busier than ever, but your heart is always, always being drawn back to Him. Enoch was a man who was always changing.

Now, believe it or not, everyone in this building is changing. You and I are changing. Now, the thing that scares me is that I know that there are people here tonight that are changing. And you're not changing in the right way.

You're decreasing. You're going back. There's a bitterness that's growing. There's a rebellion that's growing. There's fear that's growing. You're not becoming more and more like Jesus. And I say it lovingly.

You've got to face it here tonight. I want you to face it. Listen closely with all the love that God can give me. We are all changing in one way or another. Do you know that if you walk with Jesus, you should be growing in grace?

If you're married, you should become sweeter and more gentle. You should become more loving, more kind, rather than reverting. And why is it that we don't? It's because the majority... Listen. The majority of Christians do not pray.

I don't know how many times I've preached that. I don't know how many times I've stood in pulpits. My heart absolutely breaking. I've been in ministers' meetings where I break the most because few preachers pray today.

There are very few preachers who have a prayer life. They rush into the pulpit having had a little devotional time with Jesus. You'd be surprised how many preachers in America get up about 7 o 'clock Sunday morning and try to get something, rush through it to be there at 10 o 'clock and get a message from God.

They don't spend their time alone with God, shut in with the Lord. They are not walking with God. They're not in communion with the Lord. And consequently, there's a degeneration. They are not growing in the Lord.

They're not being built up in their faith. I've often wondered, Oh God, what's it going to take to get Your people to fall so much in love with You that they want to be with You? How can we say we love Him when we don't spend time with Him?

Now stop. Just stop everything. Stop everything. Just a minute. Ask yourself that. Listen. Could it be that I'm not praying? I'm not talking about prayer meeting. I'm not talking about an all-night thing here either.

I'm talking about a daily walk with the Lord. Like Enoch. If you're not walking, shouldn't you ask yourself the question, Do I really love Him? Do I really love Him? After all I've said about Him, after all these years, Do I really love my Lord?

I see people, the Bible said, you neglect Me day after day. And how can people neglect someone they love? Your husband, your wife wouldn't put up with it. And how do we say that we love Him? You see, the reason the burden of the Lord comes on a pastor or shepherd to get the flock to pray is because that's the secret of victory.

Daily Devotions and Knowing the Bible

The end of side one. You may now turn the tape over to side two. So few are diligent in their daily devotions in this book. Do you know that you should be going through this book at least once, twice a year?

Do you know that you should have by now, if you've been saved one year, every page in this book should be marked? Every single page should be marked? Every scripture heading should have a little zero or a check mark that you've read it?

And everything that Jesus has said to you should be marked? How do you say that you love Him and you neglect Him? You're not walking with God, brother or sister. You're not walking with God. And that's why so many are depressed and blue and lonely.

Because rather than run to Jesus, rather than walk with Him, they call up in some little position of defense, they get on the telephone and call a friend, or they sit and brood, or they grieve over it, always trying to find somebody.

Or they become those that the scripture talks about who take a shortcut. They take a shortcut. And I'll be talking about that in just a minute. Enoch's walk with God produced a faith in him that pleased God.

Now, Hebrews 11, I'll read it again. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death. It was not found because God had translated him. For before his translation, he had this testimony that he pleased God.

Now, wouldn't you like to have that set of view? Before you died, before the Lord took you, there was a testimony that you pleased God? Now, what was it that pleased God about this man? What did he do that pleased God?

Before his translation, he had this testimony that he pleased God. Now what? Verse 5 and 6 cannot be separated. They must go together. He had this testimony that he pleased God, but without faith, it's impossible to please Him.

Now, we know that he had this kind of faith because he pleased God and you can't please Him without faith. So we know this about Enoch. Without faith, it is impossible to please Him. Now, listen to me closely.

All through the Bible, all through history, those who walked with God became men and women of faith. And this is, Bob mentioned it this morning, and this is where I think we lovingly differ with what is called the faith message in America today.

I think this is probably where we differ the most. I want you to listen very, very closely to it. We believe in faith, because without faith, it's impossible to please Him. Do you hear it? Without faith, it's impossible to please Him.

But you see, I don't believe there are formulas of faith. I don't believe that you can go to a seminar and get ten steps on what faith is and how to get it. It's been broken down to a formula, and it's made it all possible.

In other words, if you just get this formula right, if you just get these concepts right, you will get what you want from God. And God doesn't even consider that faith. Now, I'll tell you where faith comes.

The Bible says, yes, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. But who is the Word? Jesus is the Word. Where do you get your faith? It's by intimacy with Jesus. It's by walking with the Word.

It's not by memorizing Scripture verses. The letter in itself killeth. It's the Spirit that gives life. It's the Spirit that you get walking intimately with Jesus Christ. When you're set in with Him, when He reveals your sins, when the light is shining on you through the Holy Ghost, and you lay down your sins and your iniquities, and you come out of that with the faith that is His, not yours.

It's His faith. He implants His own faith in His Father. It's not our faith. Our faith is worthless. It's the faith of Jesus Christ Himself. It's the implantation of His own Spirit and nature in us. I get like Him because I'm familiar with Him.

I'm spending time with Him, and I'm reflecting who He is. Where do you get faith? Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith. Where do you get it? Looking into the books? No. Looking unto Jesus.

Looking unto Jesus. The Beginner, the Author, and the Finisher of our faith. Hallelujah. And you see where we difference this intimate walk with Jesus. You show me a people who are walking in love with Jesus, hating sin, becoming detached from this world, and getting to know the voice of the Lord, and I'll show you a church or a people that doesn't have to have preachers telling them what faith is.

It'll be an automatic thing that springs up in their heart. It'll be there. A whole church will be walking with faith. It'll be a revelation that's come to your heart. Not to your head, but your heart.

Boy, I think I've read everything that's written on faith, and nothing of it's touched my heart. Because it got so confusing, I thought, Lord, if faith is that hard, nobody's going to get it. Faith is knowing Jesus.

Knowing Him intimately. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Those who know Him best, trust Him most. I'll say it again. Those who know Him best, trust Him most. The Bible says, By faith Enoch was translated. Boy, you know that's profound.

You get to thinking, well, God just said, Well, it's time, Enoch. Come on home. And sends a chariot and gets him like He did Elijah. No, it doesn't say that. It says, His faith translated him. By faith, Enoch was translated.

Boy, that hit me. It overwhelmed me when the Holy Spirit began to speak what faith was doing in this man. It was his faith that took him right past death. Right into the arms of Jesus. When you think of what people are squandering, what their so-called faith, while they're squandering faith on houses and cars and lands, and then you compare it with this man who spends and focuses all his faith on one thing, where he said, Oh God, I can't stand this war between us.

We've been walking together and I'm so close to You and I can't stand this separation anymore. God, I believe You can take me right to Your heart. I believe You can show me Your face. I want to see Your face.