Today I want to open my heart. I was accused of being too serious over the years, but these are serious times. I do not think God could use a man or a woman without the weight, seriousness of the Holy Spirit on his life. I do not think any believer who is in the secret place of prayer can then be someone who walks with a light heart, seeing everything that happens around him.

I'm not a preacher of doom, but in light of what we see in the nations today, there is no place for frivolity and jokes from the podium and in preaching. If we do not hear the voice of God if we do not the sky, what purpose do we meet and we going to church? This has no justification.

When I read the Old Testament, I am amazed to see the authority, perseverance and conscientiousness of the men that God uses. How can a man he fasted forty days and forty nights? How can he become so gripped by the burden of a nation he came to pull his beard? How can he be so invaded the burden for the nation of Israel he came to be extended for an entire year on his side, prophesying in his grief? How the prophets of God could they spend the whole night to wet their couch with tears in intercession for the lost of their nation or city? How could they get to be so touched by the heart of God they heard the beating of her heart and were affected by the same things that affect him? We read the story of men of the Bible as Ezra, Nehemiah, Jeremiah and the prophets. These men were they supermen? When I speak of men, I am also talking about women. I speak of mankind. There were many prophets, women of God who were, also, the entire burden of the Lord.

Were men and women like us or they were supermen made of different stuff than we do? Were they human like you and me? I read these stories and say to myself: "Lord, I'm not that kind of man! "I do not know how to cry for days, praying and fasting for 40 days. I do not have those burdens that push me to tear my hair or beard, I'm not broken by the sins of God's people. Here's what bothers me: the Scriptures tell us that these things are there for our instruction, that these are examples and models for us to be present when the end times will arrive. Here's what really bothers me: we live in a generation that is much worse than the generation in which these men have changed. They could not conceive the kind of society and things that we face today.

I can not imagine how God could raise up men broken to the point in that generation, carrying such a burden from the Lord and comprising the point of pain from the heart of God and that after this, arbitrarily, it would steal or deprive the present generation, as today, men with this same stuff before. Especially when we consider that in light of the Word of God specifically says that in the past time, the Spirit would be poured into an even greater extent.
In our churches we boast of having been filled with the power that comes from above, we have access to more power ...
I want to go with you in the Word of God and prove to you that these men were not destined from birth to be great men.

The Holy Spirit has put a burden on our heart when we go into his presence.

My message to you this morning is: "A man of another sort." I ask the Lord to touch us and talk to us. Change me and change us. Let us know that we have been in your presence and we had a meeting with you. We were filled with the seriousness that inhabits you, what weighs on your heart and your power and your majesty.

Why God put his hand on it some men or some women? Why is there a fire in their souls?

You might say: "They were destined for greatness from birth." I do not believe it when I study the Word of God. No matter our age, young or old, we have to make decisions consciously. Every man and every woman who reads these lines, right now, can receive this kind of anointing and be a man or a woman of another kind.
If we consider Ezra (scribe who was a regular), we find that it has awakened a whole nation. His words tell us: "I was strengthened because the Lord's hand was upon me" (Ezra 7.28). Why did God choose this scribe among many others? God why would he call a scribe and ordinary he would file such a great burden on his heart for the people of Israel to bring healing and restoration for more than fifty thousand people? (Ezra 2.64-65) The Bible tells us in chapter 7, verse 10: "For Ezra had set his heart to study and practice the law of the Lord and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances . "
It was not God who had descended through the Holy Spirit, who told the man: "I want a man who will bring deliverance, a man who knows my heart, who can answer my cry. I need you to know my heart and that you drive fifty thousand people out of slavery, out of Babylon. So tonight, between midnight and eight o'clock in the morning, the Spirit of God will come upon you and give you a new heart. You will have a love for the Word of God. You'll become a man (woman) of prayer, you begin to fast because I need someone who is prepared. Before you wake up tomorrow morning, you'll be a changed person. "
It does not work that way. It never worked well. This man has consciously made a decision. "The people of God around me is in captivity. We need someone stands up and prays. We need someone seeking God's face. "The Word of God tells us that he had prepared his heart to seek the Lord his God in the midst of a wicked generation. A generation where sin abounded. A man, a scribe from a multitude of scribes, nothing special apart from a conscious decision of his heart: "I'll fetch my God. I'll be a man of prayer. I will obey everything I read in His Word. "
The Bible says that he prepared his heart. God supernaturally put his hand on men and women, at this precise moment, who make the same decision. For my part, I made that decision when I was only eight years. I renewed when I was seventeen years. I constantly renews before God since. My father taught me that God will touch only a man who prays. When a man prepares his heart and seeking God's face, God honors this conscious decision. It nourishes the decision. It helps by his Spirit that decision. He keeps a broken heart and reveals its nature and character to those who seek His face. I am still very far from what I want to be and there are times when I walk away. You must understand that interruptions are the first thing the devil does when you take a conscious decision to seek God's face and turn off the television, you do not spend more hours playing video games or the Internet.

I am astounded when I hear college students biblical, young preachers, pastors or evangelists who speak of their desire to be used by God. They say they want to know God's heart, but I see them wasting hours watching television, playing games or "surfing" on the Internet. Maybe it is not no sin in itself, but what are hours and hours of lost time. Through all my years in ministry, I've never known a man of God, used of God, which wasted valuable time.

Ezra turned his heart to fasting and prayer. In Ezra 8.21, he called a fast in order to come before God with humility and the search for his people, the children of his people and for all their needs. Ezra returned to Jerusalem on the road as thieves and dangerous criminals attacked passengers throughout the journey. The Persian king had offered to send a guard with Ezra to protect him, but he responded to the king: "The hand Our God is good for them on all those who seek him, but his strength and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. "(Ezra 8.22) Read these words: the hand of the Lord, the anointing, the difference, the knowledge of God's character, management, protection, the power of God is upon all who seek His face. Not only on me, O king, "said Ezra, but it is known to all: for one who seeks God's face, the hand of God is upon him or her.

DO YOU SEE the difference when you meet a man who has been touched by the hand of God?
Ezra is the man who led Israel to repentance. Fifty thousand people repented with tears when they heard the word that God had given to Ezra. Such men preach under the anointing and the weight of the Holy Spirit. They do not tell jokes. They are not there to make people laugh. They knew God's heart. Ezra is broken by sin, at which point he stands before the people and not eating, not talking: he weeps. Anyone who had a heart for God came to weep with him. Subsequently, when the word that God had revealed to him has penetrated the heart of the people, the people wept almost uncontrollably. Then came the servant of God. Ezra said: "So we fasted and sought God. He heard us. And the hand of our God was upon us. It frees us from the hand of the enemy and opposes all those who come against us. "I do not believe that God uses a man or woman who does not fast. In these days where we live, we have taken Isaiah 58 and we said, Behold what is now the fasting of God: to meet the needs of the poor, feeding the hungry, clothe the naked.
Is not this the fast that I ordered, says the Lord?

All across the nations, I heard "So now we do more fasting. Instead, we must address the physical needs of people. That's fast. But Isaiah 58 says, rather than all these works should be the result of fasting. The prophet said if you really want God and you are kneeling before him, he will show his heart for the poor and you do all those things (feeding and clothing the poor) because he has changed your nature and gave you his.
Look at what the Word of God tells us. It teaches that there was fast throughout the Old Testament. Moses fasted, Joshua and the elders have been fasting, each of the prophets fasted, Nineveh fasted, Esther fasted, fasted all the apostles, the Church primitive fasted ... Can I offer you today the blessing of God be upon those who are consciously making efforts to fast? I ask people from our church to fast one day a week. This means they have fasted fifty-two days in the year. I ask them to seek God's face during that day they will fast in order to come into the house of God in the church, having already heard them-even something from the sky.

Here, the time of rejoicing happens. Do not misunderstand me. I am not speaking here of men who walk in life the long and gloomy face, or rubbing the face for it to be flushed and the others know they are fasting. I think a man who has God's hand on his life became one of the most balanced in the face of the earth. Ezra sees the thousands who mourn and sob. Then he gets up. The passage tells us that all the people wept when they heard the words of Ezra. Then Ezra the priest and scribe, said to all the people: "Weep no more, do not be in sorrow for the joy of the Lord is your strength. "

Ezra was a man who had a well-balanced lives. If he had had children and grandchildren, he enjoyed playing and laughing with them. However, you'd see after these moments of joy away and retreat to take time alone with God. He was often lonely, seeking God's face. Listen to him: "When I saw the condition of the people who had mixed with all foreign nations and that their children did not know even the language of God, I tore my clothes, I tore the hair of my head, I pulled his beard and I sat in terror. I fell on my knees, I laid my hands before my God and I said: O my Lord, I am ashamed and I blushed. I can lift my face to you. Our sins have accumulated over our heads. Our transgressions rise to heaven and that is why we can not stand before you. "
Do you know this? What is at issue? How many of you who are in ministry know what it's like to be alone with God and it shows you the sins and needs that are in your congregation? How studying the Word of God not only when preparing a sermon? The Bible tells us that the Word of God is a hammer. This hammer should break me so that I can not preach a time when I allowed the devil having keeping me so busy all week ...
There has never been a time when pastors were as busy as they are today!
Christian workers so busy they have no time to pray!

A firm commitment

When you take the firm commitment of heart to pray, the first thing that will happen will be a demonic conspiracy to interrupt you and get away from the place of prayer. Many of you have been called by God to pray. For a season, you did and you were constant. You had consciously decided to seek God. If you're a pastor, you said: Me, when I stand before my congregation, I heard a voice that comes from God. I will not be copied or borrowed a message, a message not found on the run on Saturday evening. You've made the decision consciously, but since you left the enemy distract you.
Whenever I go to my place of prayer to seek His face, my wife calls me and says: "Honey, it's an emergency." Years ago, I decided that when I pray, and while the President of the United States calls me, no matter who calls me, I am not available.
You must make a commitment not to be available, your time of prayer belongs to your God.

I have to stand before God's people each week, because the enemy leads men and women to divorce, children are facing all sorts of problems. I hear the voice from heaven. I must have a Word from God to give them.

For my part, I have about 900 000 people on my mailing list for my monthly newsletter. I get between 10 and 15,000 letters per week. The number one complaint I receive is: "My church is dead, I do not hear a word fresh in my church, nothing touches me. My pastor does not appear to be life itself. "

I also entendui some say: "I thank God for my pastor, I know this is a man of prayer, he prays with tears, he preached with tears, he is a broken man. But the majority say, "Pastor, I do not even want to go to church on Sunday. When I dress, I have to force myself to go to church because there is no life. No life that comes from heaven. Lord help the man who was not in agony before God during the week and does not bring anything other than a candy or pablum to his congregation for the food. He did not hear the sky. Sir, you will find another job and do not preach! There is no place for a man who is not broken before God ... Go get a fresh word.

You preach the same messages as you preach last year?

I know a famous evangelist who told me in the face, "Pastor David, you do need six messages. That's all you need. Six messages that you preach to the rest of your life. " He preached the same sermons!

Ezra said: "I fell on my knees and I reached my hands before the Lord. I said, Lord, I am ashamed ... Our sins increase above our heads ... I pulled my hair ... "
Last year I was in Florida for a vacation. I spent several weeks in a small apartment, away from my family. Away with the Word of God and prayer. I read the passage in Matthew 25. I prayed for our church. We have many very poor people in our church. We also have rich and people belonging to the middle class. You see, God's Word is a hammer. The only way for a man to have a broken heart is through the Word. He must love the Word.

I could not get away from Matthew 25 for 2 weeks. The Holy Spirit told me: "Make face it. Make-y face. I read: "I was hungry you fed me. I was naked and you clothed me. I was in prison and you visited me ... "I continued to read:" I was hungry but you do not feed me ... "I read this and I read: You have not fed. He spoke to his own servants. I thought to myself: "But Lord, I started Teen Challenge! I always had a heart for the poor. " God replied: "When you stand before me, David, you'll have to answer whether or not you were involved yourself." My heart began to break. I began to imagine the day when I'll introduce myself before God. My hands are they active in the work? Not only organize and assign people to do. Personally, I am committed to what God calls me to do?

I then began to study what the Word says about widows and orphans, she said that we are responsible. Matthew 25 has completely broken my heart. The Holy Spirit has told this to my heart: "You have single women, widows in the church, many children who have no father ... Some of them will soon be thrown into the street. People in your church, in this room so magnificent, hungry. Really hungry. "Me and my wife got back home, I called a few women who are part of our" staff "and working with single mothers. I told them: "Do we in the church women, widows with children who will be out on the street who will lose their homes, hungry and living in shelters? "
The answer shocked me. The lady who is in charge of our ministry to single women of our church said, "There are over fifty." "You can not be serious," I answered him. "Yes, yes. There are about fifty, "she repeated.
It's been fifteen years that I'm here and I do not know. I immediately decided to do a poll in our church. She then handed me the list.
Among the first twenty-five, one was eight months late on his rent, another had five children and was soon to go live in a shelter in New York, the department of social services would take away her children ... Another woman, which had been the correspondent in Iraq, had lost her job because she took care of his little daughter at home because she was sick. She could no longer work (the child has serious psychiatric problems). The mother was late on his rent and she and her daughter would soon be put on the street. These women all had credit cards and each owed thousands of dollars.

There are 8000 people in our church and I did not even know it.

The Word, you see, is like a hammer and it broke my heart. She made me see. I had to cope. I can not take Matthew 25, now, without that word speaks to me and it put the fear of God in my heart. I asked people on my mailing list to pray for our needs. I told them: "We have widows and orphans we must be careful." Two million dollars have been sent. We could give each of these women have enough money to pay all overdue on their rent and balances of their credit cards!
My friends, I am not trying to brag. I am ashamed.
Towards the end of August this year, my wife and I met all these women for dinner. God said: I want your hand is in all this. I want you to know them personally. Even if you're busy, you take the time. I want you to know that it was a shock. There was a woman who was just skin and bones. She was dying of cancer because she had no money to pay salaries. Now she can. They have children and these children are nervous breakdowns because they have nowhere to live, not homes.

When I was in Italy and Germany, I have preached this message, Matthew 25. I have not even talked about the widows and orphans. I have spoken only of programs that feed those who suffer. Thereafter, a pastor said, "You should not preach such a message here, the government takes care of people." IIl me back. Another pastor told me: "Why do you preach it? You've gone completely off with that message! But this is not true. Even in this country, people are dying of hunger. Even in evangelical or Pentecostal churches.

"My Word Is not like a fire? Like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? "That's what I want, that the Word of God to do this work in me. I do not mean that I read the Bible twice a year. I want to say: I read this word and it broke my heart.
Can I just say a word about Jeremiah? He said: "I committed my heart to seek the Lord." The same word "committed" back here. What was the outcome? Jeremiah says: "And the word came to Jeremiah ... And the Word came to Jeremiah ..." Read the book of Jeremiah. The words "The Word came ..." keep coming back because he has committed his heart to seek the Lord. Jeremiah is the prophet who gave us the promise of the New Covenant. God said: "I will satisfy the soul of fat priests, and my people are satisfied with my goodness ... I will make with them an everlasting covenant, I will not turn away from them, I will make them good ..." (Jer 31.14, 32.40) When he sees the condition of God's people, he said: "My heart! My guts! I suffer within my heart, my heart beats, I can not keep my mouth shut, because you hear my soul ... "(Jer 4:19)" Oh! if my head was filled with water, if my eyes were a fountain of tears, I cry day and night the dead of the daughter of my people! "(Jer 9.1)
Because this man was so hungry for God, he could cry and be broken by the needs of the people. He is one of the first men in the scriptures that God reveals to her own broken heart and wounded suffering for the people. One of the only places in Scripture where we see God himself cry is when he says to Jeremiah: "Of the mountains I want to cry and moan on the desert plains I utter a lament (Je 9-10). God literally sobbing.

I had a friend, Basilea Schlink Sr., the founder of the "Sisterhood of Mary," a Lutheran movement. A sister filled with the Holy Spirit living in Germany. Basilea is one of the greatest saints in history. She went to Jerusalem where she had a small house overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, and three times each year, she was going to cry over Israel.
For years, these sisters are doing God's work in their chapel and will weep over the sins of Hitler in Germany and how he treated the Jews. They lament because, even today, anti-Semitism still exists.
I went to the Word and I went to visit them. I went into their garden broken heart and I cried. I never met a woman like Basilea. She understood and she knew. She called it the lament of God's heart. The tears, the wounds of the heart of God disclosed to any man or woman.
She died and is now with the Lord. However, I will never forget this woman who told me time after time: "Why do we laugh and we are so light? Why are we so indifferent, so little concerned when God's heart is broken? "People looked at her and said:" It is abnormal. That is not the gospel. "I tell you, my friends, is the gospel. The apostle Paul said: "I would rather be sent to hell so that my people, the Jews might be saved. He said that because he knew God's heart.
Listen to these words that God gave to Jeremiah: "The Lord of hosts, that planted thee, call upon you to unhappiness because of the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah who acted for m irritate, offering incense to Baal. The Lord told me and I knew it, so you made me see their works. "(Jer 11:17-18)

The Word tells us that man is touched by God and whose heart is devoted to seeking the face of God and who is fasting and prayer, God reveals his heart. Here is how Jeremiah says God has made a decision for the future against this nation and I did know.
The man who prays is never surprised by what will take place. When September 11 hit New York, he had warned us four months ago. Something happened in our church. One evening, the Holy Spirit descended. He stopped the meeting for 5 minutes. Total silence. I turned to other pastors and they turned toward me. Pastor Carter Conlon said: "There is something in the air, something is happening tonight. Something is coming. "I could, I too feel it. Every pastor and every church could feel it. At the next meeting, the same thing happened: 10 minutes of silence. Nobody could move. I wanted to take the microphone, but I could not. You could hear a pin drop on the ground so the silence was reverential. This occurred in each of our meetings. A month before September 11, in the middle of a meeting, it happened again. For a whole hour, no one moved. There was not even someone cough. Total silence as thousands of people attended. I fell off my chair, my face and I started to cry. Pastor Neil got up to preach. He collapsed in tears near the desk. Pastor Carter also began to sob. We began to prophesy: "We need to pray, the trial is coming. "We did not know where, we did not know exactly when, but we knew. God spoke.

Jeremiah said: "Things are afoot. "God showed me. I knew it. Each person had a life of prayer knew God was speaking.

30 people from our church who worked at the World Trade Center have been miraculously saved at the September 11, 2001. Five of them woke up late for the first time in their lives that morning. Subway cars were late, buses were delayed, a young woman who worked at the 100th floor has lost his job a few weeks before ... She also came to us crying, before this tragedy. She said: "God surely has a reason ..." He had a reason! She worked at the 100th floor!

What is sad

What is sad, however, is that for three months, the churches were crowded. Ours and all others. Thousands of people went into the churches after the tragedy.
Six months later, the New York Times did a survey which revealed that there were fewer people in church six months after September 11 there were the week before September 11. They have asked people: "Why have you stopped going to church? The answer was startling: "There was that death in the church." Not one pastor could not understand or explain the days in which we live. People get up in meetings, in churches belonging to denominations known to the pastor and asked, "Why have not we been warned? We want to know what happened! "Nobody could answer.

I have even talked about a pastor who was among a series of messages on the topic of ethics. Remember: September 11 was a Tuesday. The following Sunday he preached on the subject of sexuality. He simply continued his series. People have said: "We have no reason to go back to church. There are more people in this church there are outside. "

I just returned from a recent trip to England in London. Hundreds of youths invaded our meetings. They filled the balcony of the room where we were. I invited them to know God. I saw hundreds of young people running towards the front of the room, in the chapel of Westminster, thirsty to know God. On your knees before God, weeping and sobbing. Crying to God. Several of them came from the Anglican church.

That week, the headlines said: "Désanctification of 1200 Anglican churches." A nice way to say that these churches had been closed.
Among these youths, a young girl got up and came towards me. She said: "I see all these tears, but in my heart I'm broken. I have no more tears, because my church has stolen my faith. The man who preached before killing all the faith that remained in my heart. I'm dead inside. "
I saw them so hungry and thirsty! And churches were closed everywhere I went. Pentecostalisation even churches are closed or dying ...
Yet you can go to places like Ireland, in the region of Wales, Scotland or England and find a man in a village, unknown to all, but was deeply touched by God and seeking the face the Lord. He is tired of all this light in the church and the political struggles.

Such men were saying: "We had that system, that way, that method of doing things ... People who are part of the movement" church growth "came to present a seminar here ... We have all had. We are tired of all these modes. We are tired of it. These things do not work. There are no shortcuts for those who do not seek God's face. "I tell you: Stop wasting your time and be broken by God's heart.

Daniel summed it up this way

"I turned my face unto the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. I prayed the Lord my God, and I made my confession. "(Da 9.3-4)
"I raised my eyes, I looked, and behold, there was a man dressed in linen, whose loins a girdle of gold Uphaz. His body was like chrysolite, his face shone like lightning, his eyes were like flaming fire, his arms and feet like burnished brass, and his voice was like the sound of a multitude. I, Daniel, I saw only the vision, and men who were with me saw not the point, but they were sore afraid, and they fled to hide. I remained alone, and I saw this great vision; forces failed me, my face changed color and was broken, and I retained no strength. I heard the sound of his words and as I heard the sound of his words, I fell struck stunning, her face against the ground. "(Da 10.5-9)

Daniel began his ministry with a heart resolved not to defile himself. The men who were with him were to be men who knew their rights as God. He would not travel with men who were unclean. Then he sees the vision and voice that is heard as thunder. He said: "I Daniel alone saw the vision ..." This vision was so bright it was like lightning. Shining like fire. Strong voice heard as thunder.
"I, Daniel, I saw only the vision, and men who were with me saw not the point, but they were sore afraid, and they fled to hide. I was alone ... I heard the sound of his words ... "One man, one of several other men of God walking in righteousness. Only he heard the voice ... The others fled ...

Why anyone would flee to the voice of God? Hidden sin. There is no other reason.
"Me, myself ... I turned my face unto the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. I prayed the Lord my God, and I made my confession "(Da 9.3-4) I can not forget his words:" I, myself, I heard the voice ... "And all the others fled.
His cry is a cry of pride. It is a cry of anguish.
I constantly think about the day when we stand before the throne of God. King Saul will be there. You remember what God said to Saul, in his moment of rebellion? He said: "I had plans for you. If you had obeyed and if you had searched my face, if you had simply obeyed my voice, I would have established your kingdom forever ... "

When Saul stand before God on Judgement Day, I wonder if God will show him what would have been his life if he had followed God's plan. "Saul, you could have been a loving father to David ... You would have been honored by all Israel ... You would have been a man of Zion ... You would have experienced great victories ... I had all these plans for you, but you disobeyed. You allowed to jealousy and other things enter into your heart. You are missed my plane ... "
For my part, I will never tell me that God, when will come the Last Judgement: "David, you are missed. Here's what I had for you ... even in your advanced years in age ... "I say this because the Bible says that gray hair is an honor for those who seek God.
Le roi David a crié : « Que je puisse montrer à la jeune génération la fidélité de Dieu ».
Puis-je m'adresser aux pasteurs et aux ouvriers qui ont plus de soixante ans ? Il peut s'agir de la plus dangereuse période de votre vie : perte de votre zèle, perte de votre brisement devant Dieu… Il peut s'agir de la période où vous avez le plus besoin de Dieu.

Je les rencontre partout dans le monde : des hommes d'autorité dans l'église, des surintendants, des responsables régionaux ou nationaux, des prédicateurs qui sont morts spirituellement, qui sont vides. Ils passent leurs journées ou leurs soirées à regarder la télévision. Mes amis, je ne suis pas ici pour mettre un jugement ou une condamnation sur les pasteurs. Je ne m'élève pas. J'ai soixante-douze ans et je ressens mon besoin de chercher Dieu plus qu'à aucune autre période de ma vie.
Un de mes meilleurs amis était un grand prophète de Dieu. J'ai vu Dieu le mettre sur une tablette et ne plus l'utiliser, lui qui m'avait enseigné à prier et à chercher Dieu. En dernier, je pleurais car chaque fois que je le revoyais, il regardait la télévision, alors qu'il était en maison de retraite. L'Esprit de Dieu l'avait quitté.
Une de mes grandes héroïnes missionnaires (elle fut missionnaire cinquante ans aux Indes) est revenue aux États-Unis lorsque son mari est décédé. Elle était en colère contre Dieu parce qu'il avait pris son mari. Maintenant, elle est assise des heures durant devant sa télévision et elle regarde des téléromans. Elle s'est éloignée de Dieu.

Elle était mon héroïne missionnaire !

Auparavant, elle était une inspiration pour ses petits-enfants. Pendant cinquante ans, elle avait eu des temps de communion avec Dieu tous les jours de sa vie, alors qu'elle et son mari étaient dans le ministère. Ces deux époux prenaient la communion chaque jour et ils étaient puissamment utilisés de Dieu.
La fille de cette ancienne missionnaire m'a téléphoné pour me parler de son propre fils (le petit-fils de cette missionnaire). Ce dernier se préparait à quitter le foyer familial pour aller à l'université. Cette femme était en larmes. Elle m'a dit : « Pasteur David, mon fils s'est mis à genoux aux pieds de sa grand-mère alors qu'elle regardait la télévision et il lui a dit : Grand-maman, tu as été mon modèle toute ma vie… Tu es celle qui m'a mené à Christ. Si c'est comme ça que tu finis ta vie, je ne veux rien savoir de lui. Je ne veux pas le servir s'il est incapable de te garder après cinquante ans à le servir ! Pourquoi devrais-je mettre ma confiance en lui ? » Il s'est éloigné et il a dit : « Je lâche tout ».
Je veux remercier Dieu pour ceux qui ont plus de soixante ans et qui sont toujours là, fidèles. Vous êtes un témoignage. Si je devais faire le résumé de tout cela, je vous dirais ceci : Ne laissez rien ni personne, jamais, vous éloigner du lieu secret de la prière. Ne laissez personne, sous aucune condition, vous garder loin du cœur de Jésus.

Seigneur, j'ai partagé mon cœur et je me suis humilié devant toi. Je ne voudrais pas que l'on pense que je me place au-dessus de tes serviteurs. Tu m'as dit clairement que je ne devais pas corriger ou réprimander celui qui est juste devant toi et que je ne devais jamais encourager le méchant. Seigneur Jésus, des hommes et des femmes précieux lisent ces lignes en ce moment. Tu leur parles avec amour et grâce. Tu leur dis : « Tu es devenu tiède. Tu n'es plus près de mon cœur. Je désire te prendre dans mes bras aujourd'hui et je veux mettre ma main sur toi. Je veux te toucher d'une façon surnaturelle qui fera une véritable différence et qui demeurera. »

Seigneur, je sais que tu parles, que tu parles clairement à chacun. Tu nous dis qu'aujourd'hui doit être le jour où nous mettons notre cœur devant toi et où nous te disons : Jamais rien ne me tiendra loin de ta présence. Je ne laisserai pas mes études, mon travail, mes occupations me garder loin de toi.
Ô Dieu, pour chaque pasteur qui est si occupé… Qui a tant de travail à faire et qui est débordé, dépassé par ses occupations, sous pression au-delà de toute mesure… Seigneur, donne-leur des forces.