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Pastor Claude
We welcome you here in Times Square Church and all over the world. What a joy and privilege for me to be in Times Square Church again, as Pastor Tim said. My wife Chantal was telling me that.
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Pastor Tim
The first time I came to preach here, she was pregnant with our 35.
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Pastor Claude
Year old daughter, who's now 35 years old. So we've been coming here for 35 years and this is a big stretch for me as a husband.
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Pastor Tim
A couple.
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Pastor Claude
A few days ago was our 39th wedding anniversary.
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Pastor Tim
Chantal doesn't always come with me, so I'm going to have her stand up, please. Can you stand, honey?
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Pastor Claude
I heard many of you say, boy, Pastor Tol married up. Yes, I did.
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Pastor Tim
But it's not only 39th wedding anniversary.
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Pastor Claude
Yesterday was Valentine's Day and it's her birthday.
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Pastor Tim
Now. All the men say to somebody next.
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Pastor Claude
To you, expensive weekend, expensive weekend. So it's a thrill to be here with you. Thank you, Pastor Tim and Cindy, your kindness and hospitality. We're so. We're just. I have a brother who's not a believer yet from a very different lifestyle, a lifestyle of crime and the lifestyle.
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Pastor Tim
We were in before.
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Pastor Claude
And I consider Pastor Tim my brother, my Christian brother.
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Pastor Tim
I love you, Pastor. And I'm asking you to pray for him.
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Pastor Claude
He carries an extremely heavy weight, heavy load with the ministering here, the preaching week after week, but also the messages here, the books that he writes. The daily devotional is incredible, the weight of it. And I was telling him, some of you that are older may know this, but Charles Spurgeon was one in his era, wrote messages that were read around the world. And I believe this is 21st century moment. It's a 21st century moment where already Pastor Tim's devotional and what a privilege for all of us. And everywhere I go, everyone I meet is watching Pastor Tim on the everyday devotional. But it's a staggering amount of work and the spiritual weight and the spiritual attacks on him, on his family. So the Bible warns us against flattering lips, but admonishes us to give honor to whom honor is doing. I want to honor my friend and my brother today.
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Pastor Tim
And can we honor our pastor today?
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Pastor Claude
Pastor Tim, we love you.
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Pastor Tim
I want to bring a very pastoral and practical message.
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Pastor Claude
I spoke this to our church during our time of fasting and prayer this year.
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Pastor Tim
Five prayers of spiritual warfare for your family. Five prayers of spiritual warfare for your family. Spiritual warfare for our family. For a prodigal son or daughter or.
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Pastor Claude
Praying for your father or your mom.
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Pastor Tim
Or your dad or a brother and A sister or your parents, your sons, your grand grandsons. Spiritual warfare for our family is a.
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Pastor Claude
Warfare that is well known by every.
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Pastor Tim
Sincere Christian knows this well. We pray for our sons and grandsons and pray for grandchildren and brothers, sisters, husband, wives. We pray for prodigals to come to God or to come back to God. We pray and intercede, grieving over their sin, but at the same time we.
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Pastor Claude
Pray in faith that they would not.
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Pastor Tim
Continue pursuing wasteful things and would come back to serve God with all their hearts. And I know that this is a burden for believers all over New York, you here, but all over the world. And I love this prayer of Samuel who's interceding. We've prayed this prayer of Samuel in 1 Samuel 12 Samuel 2023 is interceding for a whole nation. And Samuel said to the people, do not fear. I know you've done, yes, you've done.
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Pastor Claude
All this wickedness, but yes.
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Pastor Tim
Yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. How many of you are interceding and calling on God for someone in your family?
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Pastor Claude
You just.
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Pastor Tim
You're standing in that gap. And do not turn aside, for then you would go after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing. But for the Lord will not forsake.
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Pastor Claude
His people for his great name's sake.
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Pastor Tim
Because it has pleased the Lord to make you his people. Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you. And this is not meant in any condemning or judgmental way. The word sin here in Scripture simply means to miss the mark, to miss the will, the commandments, in this case, the purposes of God, to miss God's unchanging, changeless intentionality, to sin saved even to the utmost. And you know that, that stopping the prayer of a father, of a mom, of a dad, of a. Of a grandma, stopping the prayer, quenching, aborting the prayers of a believer is one of the devil's heaviest attacks to try to stop you. So. So something rises in us and say, far, far will it be from me to sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for, for you. Now, in 42 years of pastoring, I've seen different three, four attitudes and conditions of the heart of parents or grandparents that have been praying and praying for long times for wayward sons and daughters. Sometimes the hurt becomes a danger. The hurt can become a bitterness. There's a harshness, sometimes a blame and angry. I can't believe you you let the things of God and you all the mess you've caused and you the anger as how a child, a son, a daughter has been treating you, or a grandson, or you're bringing shame to the family. And I'm just. It's an attitude sometimes of the pointed finger. I'm praying that God. The only prayer I'm praying is God change you. I would like to suggest as a dad and as a grandfather also, that as we pray for wayward sons and daughters, we're not only to pray, oh, God, change them. We're to pray, God change me. God changed me, changed my heart. And even in retrospect, search me, O God, and see if there's anything that I could say that I have to ask forgiveness of a son of a daughter that has grown as an adult. The second attitude would be, is an attitude at the other end of the spectrum of being crushed. You're just crushed by guilt. The enemy, the accusers, bombarding you in blame. How could I, I missed it as a father, as mother, how can this be happening in my family? A sense of guilt that can rob you of your joy. And the liar bombarding you. The third attitude is to literally be.
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Pastor Claude
Filled with fear and anxiety for them.
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Pastor Tim
I'm worried about him. I'm worried about her. I'm worried, where is she? Where is he? What is he doing? He's destroying his life. And the fear, the fear just eating at you. And the last attitude is an attitude.
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Pastor Claude
Where you simply give up or you abdicate.
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Pastor Tim
You relinquish the fight and the battle. And I'm here to give you some prayers today and pray in the name of Jesus all over the world watching this message that something would rise up in you. I will not relinquish. I will pray to resist the enemy and to reclaim sons and daughters for God. And I want you to give him praise in advance for what he's going.
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Pastor Claude
To do in your heart.
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Pastor Tim
So five prayers of spiritual warfare for your family. When we pray in spiritual warfare for our family, we pray to resist and to reclaim. First Peter 5, 7, 9, casting all your cares upon him, for he cares for you. Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him. Would you say out loud?
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Pastor Claude
Resist him.
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Pastor Tim
Resist him. Steadfast in the faith, casting your cares upon him. Yes, but don't just stay there. Because casting our cares upon him can become just a weeping, can become a complaining, can become just a wallowing in our hurt, just as just Casting my cares. No, be sober, be vigilant. Your adversary, the devil is like a roaring lion. I'm amazed that I checked this out. This is not AI, but there's all these videos from South Africa of tourists. When I thinking of the roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Tourists on safaris in South Africa. And you see them, and there's a guide, and they're filming themselves and the lions are pretty close. And then, well, one video in particular, million views. The one tourist is getting too bold. He's getting closer and closer. And the guy says, hey, hey, sir, don't go so close. And then the lion charges. And you hear. And then there's an article explaining there's the worst thing you can do if the lion charges. If you're chased by the lion, the worst thing you can do is run. Which is what I would like to do. But he said, and these words that stay with me. He said, you hear the guide say, when the lion charges, don't run. Just stand your ground and speak to it calmly. It works in marriage too, but that's a different thing. So I want to say today, we will not run, we will not quit, we will pray. Resist and reclaim what belongs to the Lord. To resist biblically is not in any way holding on for dear life. I'm resisting or accepting, surrendering or trying to survive. It's not passive, it's not resigned in any way. The biblical term for resist in 1 Peter and is found in James, also in the original Greek, is anti testame and antetes me means to stand force against force, to withstand, to oppose with greater force, to oppose while holding your position. It's a military term. And to reclaim means to take back something that is yours. And also another use of the word reclaim that I found interesting is to make land such as desert or desert or areas that have been flooded or devastated suitable again for healthy and fruitful. Again, we are resisting the enemy and reclaiming that what has been stolen will be. We're opposing the name of Jesus, the word of God, the blood of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit to reclaim. Resist the enemy and reclaim in Jesus name first Peter and in James. The resistance is not emotional, it's positional. We submit to God, cast our cares upon him, and we are sober and alert. And our authority to resist does not come from personal strength, but from submitting to God. And the verb in the aorist imperative form in the Greek underlines a clear and decisive action. Take your position and once and for all and hold there I'm praying in the Holy Spirit that some of you will get back to that position of intercession after this message. Today, resisting the evil one is not dialoguing with him, it's not arguing with him. It is to refuse to drift on his turf, his grounds, staying firm in obedience, opposing force to force to reclaim what belongs to the lord. Now in 2 Corinthians 10, we pray to resist and reclaim. And it speaks this way. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through God. For the pulling down of strongholds, casting down arguments, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. That's praying to resist and reclaim. Paul acknowledges the unavoidable reality. The believer lives in a body, in a world that's marked by weakness and human tensions, relational conflicts, but our human tendencies and mistakes and limitations. But he draws a crucial distinction. We walk in the flesh, but we do not do battle according to the flesh. In other words, the human condition does not limit us to our human methods or resources and limitations. And it's interesting because When Paul addresses 2 Corinthians 10, he responds, you can read the context. He's responding actually to accusations of weakness and inconsistency against him, of lack of apostolic authority. His opponents, judged by visible outward criteria, is lack of eloquence and presence and social authority. And Paul affirms that the real battle is of an entirely different order. Our weapon, our capacity to pull down strongholds transcends our feelings of unworthiness or inadequacies. Weapons are not of the flesh. They are divine, they are powerful. Paul introduces a war language, yet immediately he reframes it spiritually, not human weapons. Well, you've come to know this, that all our human efforts in arguing does not bring people back. Manipulation, intimidation, domination, logical, relational, moral argumentation. But the weapons are powerful through God, Dunamis total in degree. The power is not. Does not come from Paul, does not come from the Church. The power comes from God Himself, in you and through you. In the ancient world, it's to bring down strongholds. And the stronghold was a place of deeply rooted resistance. And you face this with people in your family, with people that you're trying to reach for God. Systems of thought, ideologies autonomous and stubbornly closed. Reasoning, intellectual or spiritual pride, willful spiritual blindness. The stronghold exists in the mind before it manifests in behavior. Paul clarifies the nature of the stronghold. He uses the word arguments, which is logismoi in the Greek. These are self sufficient, proud, egocentric reasonings that hold people captive, unaware of eternal realities, thoughts, patterns that are close to God and now are often fed by hundreds of hours on social media in mirror chambers just being fed their unbelief and ways of explaining the world without God or against God. Every lofty thing raised against the knowledge of God. What a powerful image, the proud elevation, intellectual or spiritual pretension. An alternative truth competing with God's revelation in your loved one's heart, mind, soul and and spirit. The battle is not against intelligence, but against pride and the fallen human nature of those whose spiritual understanding is darkened. Our ultimate goal is their acceptance and acknowledgment and obedience to Jesus Christ. The battle is not an end in itself. Paul gives his purpose to take every thought captive and bring them into the obedience of Christ. This is not an annihilation of thought, this is a voluntary submission to Christ. Thought is not destroyed, it's reclaimed, it's reordered and it's realigned. This is what we pray for. The Gospel does not suppress thinking. It reforms the mind around the lordship of Christ. Paul as an apostle affirms that his authority, our authority, is not coercive, but it's transformational. It's rooted in the truth of the Gospel and the active power of God. We do not, we do not. We walk in the flesh, but we do not wrestle in the flesh. Our weapons are not carnal, they are spiritual. By the power of God, the virtue of God, to bring down stronghold so that men and women would come to him. Let me give you a testimony to encourage your heart. This is a testimony from 16 centuries ago, not 1600. 16 centuries ago, 386 after Christ. It's the testimony of Augustine of Hippo, who has became one of the most well known influential theologian of his day and writer on Christendom. He cited and studied in seminaries and Bible colleges and faculties of theology. And his mother Monica had two sons and she was forced into an arranged marriage with a man who was completely against the things of God. But nevertheless, she prayed and she prayed and one son followed the Lord while the other was intrigued by secular, pagan and even satanic philosophies. And he lived a life of decadence, taking mistresses and living a life of debauchery to his mother's dismay and sadness. And for 17 years she prayed. And some of you fathers, some of you mothers here online, you know, you know those Long those years and years.
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Pastor Claude
Of battle for a son or for a daughter.
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Pastor Tim
And when she asked her bishop why God had not answered, he encouraged her with a sentence that lived through the centuries and it still resonates today. He said to her, watching her all these years, weeping before God and interceding, he said to her, it is not possible that the son of these tears should perish. I'm here to say to a mom today, every tear God has seen, every prayer has been heard. And God is moving, moving in the.
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Pastor Claude
Invisible in ways you can't imagine.
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Pastor Tim
At the age of 32, Augustine was gloriously, miraculously saved as he heard a voice in his tormented soul. And in his book Confessions, he will testify later and say that he was told he was so tormented. But he said, I was taking pride. The one person who I never wanted to let know that I was tormented was my mother. I didn't want her to know I was tormented, but he was so tormented. And then he said he heard a voice in his worst moment saying to him, tole lege, which means take and read, take up and read. And he picked up the Bible and there's a verse in Roman that just pierced his heart. He was gloriously saved, left his secular career and sanctified his life, was baptized, became a servant of God, a writer that has been reading for centuries. And he tells his story in Confessions that his transformation was such that he was walking down the street in Italy and then some of his mistress, his past mistress, came with friends and they were chasing him, trying to get him back to the old life. And then in the middle of the street, the mistress said to him, augustine, it is I. Augustine, it's me. And he says, I know, but it's not me. It's not me anymore. We stand and we pick up our weapons. And I want you to give God praise for a son, for a daughter, for a brother, for sister, for mom and dad. Come on. If you can do better than this, say, oh, God. Oh, God, come and do it in my life. Come on. We pray to resist and to reclaim. And when we pray, spiritual warfare for family. We pray for our own restoration, acknowledging our need. The weapons of our warfare are mighty through God, through God, through the strength and divine capacity God gives us. Please listen. We are limited in what the Holy Spirit and what we receive from the Holy Spirit of God. When we are not ready to recognize or to acknowledge our need. And in these long, long term spiritual battle for a loved one, we need a divine capacity to pray. It needs to be God in The recognition, God. I need restoration myself. I'm praying for him, for her, but I need restoration, restoration myself. I need divine capacity to continue to pray, to be patient, to be wise, to know what to do, what to say, to forgive, and to even continue to believe. I want us to look closely at the example of Daniel in scriptures, because every parent, every husband that prayed for his wife or a wife praying for her husband, every parent, every mom and dad and grandparents, even children praying for your parents have known this intensity of prayer where we intercede in such a way that their burden, and even we take their sins upon us, we become one like Christ with the one we are interceding for. That's how Daniel prays in Daniel, chapter nine. He says, o God. He says, oh God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolation and the city which is called by your name. We do not present our supplication before you because of our righteous deeds, but because of your great mercies. O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen. O Lord, act. How many of you have prayed this way? Oh, do not delay for your own sake, my God, for your city and your people are called by your name. I can't even read that sentence. All the years without an emotion coming in my spirit, without a battle in my spirit, saying, O God, that's my son, my daughter, your name is upon us. Your name is upon my family. Your name is upon them. They were dedicated to your name. See, there's this intensity of intercession. And God answers Daniel by reminding him that each single prayer is heard and that there is a warfare in the invisible, in the heavenlies, as you pray and intercede for your loved ones. And so many people that are new, that have come to faith here at Times Square Church. This is how God answers him in Daniel chapter 10. Suddenly in verse 10. And suddenly a hand touched me, made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands. And he said to me, oh, Daniel man, greatly beloved. Please insert your name in there. Claude. Tim. Cindy. Greatly beloved. Greatly, oh man, greatly beloved that Daniel man, greatly beloved. Understand the words that I speak to you and stand upright, for I've now been sent to you a messenger from heaven. And while he was speaking this word to me, Daniel says, I stood trembling. Then he said to me, do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before God, your words were heard. I speak this to you today, wherever you are in the world, from the first day you're interceding your words. Your words were heard from heaven. And I have come because of your word. But the prince of the kingdom of persia withstood me 21 days and behold Michael, one of the chief princes came to help me. But I had been left alone there with the King of Persia. It's a fascinating. It's like a glimpse in the heavenly. It's a glimpse that from the first day you spoke, you prayed, you were heard. Please take it to for your own battle. From the first day you. You prayed, Heaven heard you and heaven began to move. There's movement in heavenlies in the invisible world, invisible realms that you do not see. But God is responding. God is acting. God is preparing. But he says there's an opposition and in the. The image of the Old Testament he says that there was a battle. There was a battle between the. The demonic and the divine fighting. But please remember, Daniel, you're beloved and every prayer has been heard and heaven is moving. And the thing that's a. Please don't miss this. Now God reminds Daniel of truth and promises and power and might and his faithfulness responding to prayer. But please hear me. Daniel knew this. Daniel modeled this. Read the previous chapters. Daniel knew this. He believed this. He testified this to others. And he had lived it out himself. I know this. I believe in prayer. He. He had tested this. He had lived it out under. Against the worst threats and. And. And pressures.
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Pastor Claude
But he needed supernatural restoration himself because.
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Pastor Tim
Look, this is how he responds. This is. You got to please. I think many of us will identify with this.
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Pastor Claude
Identify with this.
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Pastor Tim
This is how he responds. This is a man who knows that. Yes, yes, I pray. This is Daniel. This is a man of God and. And his strong. But in this moment when God is saying, this is my vision. This is the response.
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Pastor Claude
Verse 14.
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Pastor Tim
Now I've come to make you understand that what will happen to your people in the latter days.
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Pastor Claude
For the vision refers for many days yet to come.
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Pastor Tim
Then he has spoken such words. When he had spoken such words to me, I turned my face towards the ground. He didn't say, yeah, praise God. Let me go. All right, here I come.
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Pastor Claude
I turned my face toward the ground and became speechless. He just looked at the ground and sighed. And suddenly one having the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips and I opened my mouth and spoke, saying to him who stood before me, My Lord, because of the vision, my sorrows have overwhelmed me. I retained no strength.
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Pastor Tim
For how can this servant speak of himself? How can I talk with my Lord, with you, My Lord, as for me, no strength remains in me now, nor.
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Pastor Claude
Is there any breath left in me. This is a message for Christians that are out of breath spiritually in 2026. Out of breath and praying for this son or this daughter, or this battle, or this husband or my grandkids or.
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Pastor Tim
This person I'm interceding for, or my.
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Pastor Claude
Husband or my wife.
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Pastor Tim
And it's such a humility, such a transparency. He is so vulnerable, so human, so real, so transparent. God says, hey, I want to give you the vision of things to come. We have great vision. But he's just. He's not. He's not fighting it. He's not arguing it. He's not denying. He just puts his head down and he looks in silence to the ground. And then. And then it's the Holy Spirit. It's the messenger from God that allows him to speak. He can't even say it, but the Holy Spirit puts his finger on his heart and he says, be he touched my lips, I was able to say, I'm out of breath. I have fears. I don't know how to pray for that person anymore. I'm worried about them. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to do. There's no breath left in me. And listen to what God, the messenger, says in verse 18. Then again, oh, again. The one having the likeness of men touched me and strengthened me. Hallelujah. And he said, oh, man, greatly beloved, fear not. Peace. Peace be to you. Be strong. Be strong. And then this is the testimony of Daniel. So when he spoke to me, I was strengthened and I said, okay, now let my Lord speak to me, for you have strengthened me. I'm speaking to someone. That you are without breath in the presence of God in your battle. Don't hide it. Just come and say, oh, God. And the one with the appearance of the Son of man will touch you again. He will strengthen you again. He will speak courage with you again. And you know what Daniel's name means? It means. It's a mix of two Hebrew words that mean God is my judge and God is my might. The mighty God, the judge God, the mighty God. God my judge, God my might. And this is the spirit of God rising in us, saying, God is the ultimate judge. God has not rendered his last verdict on my father family. The accuser can accuse, but my God is all powerful to move. Give him praise, please. Hallelujah. When we pray for our family. 5 Prayer for Spiritual Warfare for your family, we pray to resist and reclaim. We pray for our Own restoration, acknowledging our need.
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Pastor Claude
And we pray for regeneration in the heart.
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Pastor Tim
We must pray more than a change or improvement in behavior, in their choices and decisions. Oftentimes parents, grandparents, we focus, focus and become obsessed with their behaviors.
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Pastor Claude
They don't come to church anymore.
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Pastor Tim
They're drinking, they're smoking, they're smoking weeds. She moved in with them, she's quitting her school. They're doing this, they're doing. And oh, I heard him cursing. He said, oh, I don't like the. And I don't like the group he's hanging out with. And this. Oh, and I invite him. And I invite him, please, I'm a father and a grandfather. I'm not minimizing the behaviors. How much it can move us, how much it can sometimes worry us. But please, please understand that what needs to happen is the regeneration of the heart. Sometimes we're focusing on the conduct on the outside, but it's the heart. And when God, I'm going to read to you a verse in Titus because the people, we don't know much about Titus, but we know that he didn't come from a good, respectful, Jewish, lawful God honoring background, but rather from a culture, a pagan culture, anti God practices and agreed decadent, immoral philosophies. But he and the believers under his ministry had been transformed by Jesus. And Paul reminds them what they were before their regeneration took place in their lives. Some of us, my wife and I are among the first in our family, entire family for the last 75 years that have come to faith and we've been Christian a long time. And then your kids grow up and oftentimes you forget what you were like before God changed your heart, before he regenerated your heart. This is what Titus does. We read Titus 3:3. He says, for we ourselves, this is for us today. For we ourselves, we also once. We were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lust and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. Say to the person next to you. That was me.
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Pastor Claude
Say that to the person next to you.
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Pastor Tim
But how many of you are ready to celebrate that second part? But when the kindness and the love of God, our Savior towards men appear not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit that he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by his grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Hallelujah. Say with Me, the washing of regeneration. Let me explain. Regeneration is a theological term.
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Pastor Claude
Let me make it real to you. The biblical definition of regeneration.
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Pastor Tim
Regeneration is the sovereign act of God.
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Pastor Claude
By which the Holy Spirit gives new life to a human being with spiritual.
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Pastor Tim
Dead, inwardly renewing the heart so that the person is able to believe, to.
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Pastor Claude
Repent and to live for God. Pray for that and all the rest will flow out. Regeneration in theology is a monergistic word.
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Pastor Tim
It comes from the Greek alone and ergon work, meaning a single source acting alone. It's the theological understanding that God is the sole agent who initiates, accomplishes salvation, to which the human being responds in repentance and faith. It's an inner transformation, not merely a moral improvement. They need to be regenerated, transformed. Regeneration transforms us deeply in mind and in soul and in spirit and conscience and will.
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Pastor Claude
It's always.
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Pastor Tim
It's inseparable with the work of the Holy Spirit. When the true work of the Holy Spirit is taking place in someone, there is regeneration. There's this transformation. It is the restoration.
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Pastor Claude
It's so beautiful.
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Pastor Tim
It's the restoration of divine life. It's linked to the recreation of humanity as God intended it in the image of God. Regeneration grants access to life, transformation and communion with God. It's real change of nature, not merely a relational change. It affects the mind, the will, the affections. It produces visible fruit. Regeneration is not an improvement of humanity. It is spiritual resurrection. It does not merely produces a convinced believer, but a living heart made able to repent and to draw nigh to God and receive a new heart. And everything stems from the heart. Now, please listen to this prayer of a father. In Proverbs 4. He says, My son, give attention to my words. Incline your ears to my saying, do not let them depart from your eyes, for they are life to those who find them and health to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it will spring the issues of life. So when you're praying for someone interceding for your family, don't focus on all the exterior thing. Pray for their heart. Pray for regeneration of the heart. Because from the heart everything else will flow, everything else will fall in place. And I hear somebody say, I know, I know. They should protect their heart more than anything. But she's not protecting their heart. They're letting everything go in. They're making wrong decisions. So let me say it this way. The supernatural regeneration of the heart must be our focus to our prayers, but it also must be our focus and our faith. So you Say, I know the heart is everything. It stands out. But my son, my daughter, that person is not protecting his heart. He's allowed so much filth in there. His heart is filled with lies and darkness. But this is where we don't. We focus on faith. And Ezekiel says this, I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will take away the heart of flesh of stone, and I will put a heart of flesh in you. I'll put my spirit in you and I will cause you to walk in my statute. And I will keep my judgment and do them. And you shall dwell now in the land that I gave to your father. You have someone next to you that is not protecting his heart. Pray and you can believe. And God is still the God who takes in, comes in, takes in the heart of stone, and he gives a heart of flesh. He gives a heart that is alive. For him, that's regeneration. Just last week I received a. It was an announcement from the city.
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Pastor Claude
That a man from our church who's been heading one of the largest Christian ministry in Montreal to do to the homeless and he just. The city sent a notice of his new promotion. He's.
- [36:30]
Pastor Tim
Him and his wife both lead two.
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Pastor Claude
Ministries that are ministering to literally tens of thousands of homeless people in Montreal.
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Pastor Tim
They're from our church.
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Pastor Claude
But he came to the Lord on their ministry under this.
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Pastor Tim
His father in law. His father in law was a backslider.
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Pastor Claude
Who came back to church to the.
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Pastor Tim
Lord in our church. And he began to pray. And his daughter was dating this guy.
- [36:54]
Pastor Claude
Who'S a gang leader. He really was shot. People was shot, stabbed, and he did.
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Pastor Tim
All kinds of very violent crimes. And one morning, his daughter, he came to the Lord.
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Pastor Claude
His wife came back to the Lord. His daughter came back to the Lord, but she was living with this guy.
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Pastor Tim
And he had kids together. And then one morning, she comes before service, she says, pastor Cloth, we have to cancel church. We have to cancel church.
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Pastor Claude
Well, Julie, we can't cancel church.
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Pastor Tim
You have to cancel church.
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Pastor Claude
He's been talking about her boyfriend.
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Pastor Tim
He's been on a. He's been strung out on cocaine the last three, four days. He hasn't slept, he's got weapons, he's got things. And he's going nuts against the church. He had been telling me for months and months and months. He was thrown, threatening. And he says, yeah, I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to blow it up. I'm coming this Sunday, that pastor. I'm going to blow the whole thing. She says, we have to cancel. We have to cancel. So it was very pastoral with her.
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Pastor Claude
I said, no, no, Julie. No weapon form against us shall prosper.
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Pastor Tim
I believe it.
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Pastor Claude
And we'll pray together. It's going to be okay.
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Pastor Tim
Hey, security, come here.
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Pastor Claude
Come here, you guys.
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Pastor Tim
And the guys were more on the.
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Pastor Claude
Alert, but we have 2,000 seats. So he came and he sat in the back. And Emmanuel tells a story that he came, sat in the back with all these crazy intentions.
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Pastor Tim
He left his stuff in his car.
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Pastor Claude
But he came with all these crazy intentions.
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Pastor Tim
And he says he wasn't even in the sanctuary yet.
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Pastor Claude
He says he walked in the lobby and felt the love of God.
- [38:22]
Pastor Tim
And this is a guy who now on a good day is £280.
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Pastor Claude
This is huge. And he just is coming back then.
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Pastor Tim
With dreads and the look and everything else.
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Pastor Claude
And he come and he sat in the back. And the love of God just waves and waves and waves over him.
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Pastor Tim
Gave his life to Christ. And this is what God said. This is the regenerate.
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Pastor Claude
After that, it just.
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Pastor Tim
As God regenerates the heart, there's change in behavior. They're saying all these years him and his wife Julie are ministering to the homeless in Montreal. Years and years later. Listen, I'm here to say there are no limitations to what God can do when he regenerates a heart. So you begin to pray. Oh God, I pray for the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit. For that person. I want you to give praise, prophetic praise for that person. You will be interceding for when we pray five prayers for spiritual warfare for each family. We pray to resist and reclaim. We pray for our own restoration, acknowledging our needs. We pray for regeneration.
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Pastor Claude
And we pray with resilience and release.
- [39:33]
Pastor Tim
Now, when you look at the story of the prodigal son, which most of.
- [39:37]
Pastor Claude
You know so very well, and It's Luke, chapter 15.
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Pastor Tim
But I want to come to the end, the last part of it, you know, the sun so full of such an ingrate son. I can't even wait for my dad to die. I want my money now. And then he runs, he runs. He takes it all, riotous living. And the Bible says that when he had spent it all, there rose a severe famine in the land. And he began to be in want. And he went and joined Himself. Verse 15 of Luke 15 and joined Himself as a citizen of that country. And he sent him to his field to feed the swine. And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate. And no one gave him anything. But when he came to himself, he looked inside himself in the Greek, he said, how many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare?
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Pastor Claude
And I perish with hunger. I will arise and I will go to my father.
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Pastor Tim
I will say to him, father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.
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Pastor Claude
And I am no longer worthy to.
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Pastor Tim
Be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.
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Pastor Claude
And he arose and came to his father. Did you notice? Please notice that it wasn't while he.
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Pastor Tim
Was clubbing the money and going to parties and living it up that he.
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Pastor Claude
Looked inside of himself. It was when famine came and he found himself eating with the pigs. I want to say to you this way, this is very theological. Let the pigsty do its work. Parents, grandparents, let the pigsty do its work.
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Pastor Tim
Don't pray, mom and dad, let them.
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Pastor Claude
Eat some of the pods that the pigs ate.
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Pastor Tim
Don't pray, God prevent him. Prevent him or her from the pigsty. Pray God, preserve him. Protect her through the pigsty and speak. And use the pigsty to speak to their hearts and bring them to their.
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Pastor Claude
Deep, deep realization, repentance, that it's all empty without God. As parents, we want to give our kids the best, and we want to give them what we didn't have. And many of us that came to Christ as adults with bad childhood, there's something in us. I want to give them what we didn't have. Many parents did not. We did not have Christian parents or positive, wise, balanced parenting models.
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Pastor Tim
We do our best with what we.
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Pastor Claude
Have, and sometimes we spoil them and we don't teach responsibility enough. Sometimes we want to see. Not sometimes, all the time.
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Pastor Tim
Always.
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Pastor Claude
We want to see them so wanted to see them succeed and we hate to see them suffer. So we're trying to shelter them from everything we try everything we have to prevent them from suffering the consequences of their bad decisions and harmful choices. We so strongly want to be loved by our children, most of all, that this creates, consciously or not, the temptation not to confront them with their bad choices and to be the parents that.
- [42:49]
Pastor Tim
Always saves the day.
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Pastor Claude
We want to believe at all cost that this time, when we pay, when.
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Pastor Tim
We cover, when we absorb, when we absorb the cost, when we intervene again.
- [43:03]
Pastor Claude
To save the situation so they don't pay the consequences, that this will be.
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Pastor Tim
The right time, this Is it now?
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Pastor Claude
And the very worst, the very worst of this is when parents or grandparents, wives, husbands, can actually become enablers of addictions and sinful and destructive behaviors. Here's a good prayer. Here's a good prayer. Lord, let sin become bitter, that grace may become sweet. Let them come to a place where they realize their sin. And you pray wisdom that God protects them. But I believe this is a release, this is wisdom that I have had to learn that our prodigals have to sometimes have to allow them to go and pray that through what they're going through, God comes and speaks to their heart. Our church, as Pastor Tim says, Almost 10,000 people, all our sites together. So we have a lot of parents praying. And there's a lady, a mom who called us at the end of the year. My wife knows her well and her son grew up in the church. He's not a bad kid, but he's been messing around and he's been. And then one thing led to another. Hanging out with bad dudes and he ended up in a car that did something. So he gets arrested and he gets thrown in jail for six months. And the mom was just horrified.
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Pastor Tim
She's broken, we don't know anything.
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Pastor Claude
She doesn't know the system. They don't have never had anybody in.
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Pastor Tim
Their family go to jail. And she was, oh, my son, my poor son. He's a 35 year old muscle man. My poor boy. He is my poor boy, my child, my boy. And I'm not again belittling prison, but my boy, my child, you know, he doesn't have his toothbrush, he doesn't have his. This doesn't have that. He doesn't know anybody.
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Pastor Claude
And I said let's pray.
- [44:48]
Pastor Tim
And I'm gonna send a chaplain to him and let's pray.
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Pastor Claude
The chaplain began meeting with him.
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Pastor Tim
He came to the Lord, came out and now every Sunday I'm walking in for prayer.
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Pastor Claude
Every Sunday he's there with his servant badge.
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Pastor Tim
He needed a pig style. He needed to eat some pods. He needed and breath. So I want to encourage somebody. Would you give God praise and say, God protect them, guard them, guide them, but reveal their hearts. And as the musicians come, I close with this. When we pray for our spiritual warfare, for our family, we pray, Lord, teach.
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Pastor Claude
Me to pray with resilience but with release.
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Pastor Tim
I release them to you. I release them, O God, to you.
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Pastor Claude
That you would come and bring regeneration to their hearts, transform their hearts. And you restore me in your presence to do battle until the victory come. I pray for Renewed revelation in Luke 15:20 the Father is God and the Son his creation away from him. There's something there that after all the years of reading the parable of the Prodigal son in verse 20, he arose and came to his Father. And when he was still a great way off, the Father saw him. He was looking. You can imagine a father looking as God looks with love and compassion looking. And he had compassion. And when the boy was still afar off and was making a few steps step towards the Father, he thought he's coming back just to be a slave. At least I'll eat. The father ran. It's an amazing scene. It's father runs the field and hugs him. What a day fell on his neck, kissed him. There's something in there that I felt a loving correction of the Lord in my my own battles. But I began to pray for a different perspective. I'm speaking to moms and dads and grandparents that you're praying for someone that is still so afar off. They're still afar off. But instead of looking afar off, your perspective being in blame, not anxiety and bitterness and self accusation that we can say, oh Lord God, give us your heart. I want to begin to look with faith and assurance and patience and love and peace and compassion and forgiveness and peace and absolute confidence in your heart and your intention and your desire and your power to bring ourselves sons and our daughters back if you need it. If some in some battles that are so long, long seasons of battle, years and years for the prodigals that drift away and they seem to be still so far off in their attitude, their reactions and their speech and actions and conditions and the situation doesn't seem to be getting any better. They just seem to be drifting away. And those I need a renewing of my revelation of my perspective on how completely being renewed like in Second Kings.
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Pastor Tim
Chapter 6, Elisha is a servant and his powerful powerful kings army enemies are coming. And the Hebrew word in English it translated the armies were surrounding.
- [48:26]
Pastor Claude
But the Hebrew says the enemies were.
- [48:29]
Pastor Tim
Like choking the city. They were suffocating the city. And sometimes we feel that the person we're praying with has no way out.
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Pastor Claude
This just seems so locked in.
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Pastor Tim
Therefore the enemy sent horses 2 Kings.
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Pastor Claude
6 chariots, great army there.
- [48:43]
Pastor Tim
And they came by night and surrounded the city. And when the servants of the man of God arose early and went out, there was a great army surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servants said to him, alas, my master, what shall we do? And Elisha responded and Elisha Answered, do not fear, for those who are with.
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Pastor Claude
Us are more than those who are with them.
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Pastor Tim
Servants is all he's seeing, just like you and me. All you see is what you see. All you see is a humanity. All you see is so far off, all you see is an enemy that seems to be choking everything out. But 2 Kings 6:17 Elisha prayed and he said, lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see that. The Lord opened his eyes of the young man and he saw. And behold the mountain full of horses and chariots and a fire all around. Elijah, oh God, renew my revelation of heaven, working on my behalf, all of the resources of heaven. Would you give him praise please?
- [49:53]
Pastor Claude
I want to close with this a testimony from.
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Pastor Tim
Lady from our staff.
- [50:01]
Pastor Claude
We started the church, three couples, three, four couples just with 30 people. And this couple co founded our movement with us. We raised our kids together and she was a doctor in biochemistry and fellow calling to the ministry and became women's pastor at our church. And now the mother travels the world. She travels the world in the French world. Her husband was a high level banker who left his high paying job to come to be the treasurer and then the administrator. They're both in ministry with us from the beginning. And she wrote a testimony recently and it's with her permission that I read it because she had two sons and one of the sons really, really drifted away. So let me read it to you just in her own words and I'm praying the Holy Spirit would bring faith to you online, to you here in person. Philip was born in a Christian family. He grew up in church, Sunday school, youth group, serving with teenagers, even a mission trip to Haiti. Everything seemed off to a good start. But between the age of 16 and 18, something shifted. Certain experiences pulled him away from God and a series of poor choices followed. Cannabis, street Xanax, alcohol, other drugs. Little by little, we watched our son slip through our fingers. He had been doing well in school, but he gave it all up. Family tension exploded. Rebellion towards God, to groot. Dark thoughts intensified. And this downward spiral lasted 10 years. 10 long years. For 10 years her husband Luke and I prayed. She says we cried, we hoped, we prayed again. We went through confusion, anger, disappointment, discouragement and so much grief. And during that time we continued in ministry, preaching hope every Sunday while our own home was falling apart. It was one of the most painful battles of our lives. And during that period we walked with them. And during that period, one morning my friend came into my office and he wept and he says, this was so hard today. He says, I had not been down in my son's basement in a while. And when I came down in the basement, I opened the door of his room and he had been writing curses against Christ sentences all over the walls. And my pastor, friend, administrator friend, men of prayer. He says, I walked back in with paint and I was painting over the curses. Praying in his spirit for his son.
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Pastor Tim
But in his presence, God.
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Pastor Claude
She says, it was the most painful battles of our lives. But in his presence, God renewed our strength. He gave us the grace to never give up on our son. At one point, we had to give him an ultimatum. Phil, it's detox or the door. This is not a pattern. Every family has to pray through every situation. This is not a one size fits all. He went to a treatment center. He came out sober, but still empty. Detox had helped his body, not his heart. She said he wanted to stop. He made efforts, but emptiness was still there. Then one day while I was praying, I clearly sensed God say to me, bring him with you as she goes around and preaches. I was scheduled to preach in France. I invited him to come film because he had taken some classes in camera work. And then that's when everything changed. During a conference behind his camera, he heard the testimony of a woman from the Bronx, a former addict transformed by God. Her story pierced his heart. That evening he said to me, mom, I need to talk to her. She came, they talked, she prayed with him. At that moment marked the beginning of his return to God. This is years later now.
- [53:40]
Pastor Tim
Today he's totally sober.
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Pastor Claude
He worked, works as a cameraman director in a Christian center. Last summer, had the privilege of doing their wedding. He married a wonderful woman. I think a picture will appear. Wonderful woman who loves the Lord. I teach a class every week. I teach a three hour class, a 39 hour class in our Bible college. A bachelor's degree. I teach communication. And he was sitting there with his tattooing everywhere, loving God, serving God. He's sitting there wanting to become a preacher, wanting to speak, to stand for God. Sitting in the class he's studying. God didn't just repair his life, he completely transformed it. And this is from one mother to all of us. And as I've learned one thing, if I've learned one thing, it's this. As long as there is prayer, as long as there is hope, God has not spoken his final word in Jesus name.
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Pastor Tim
Hallelujah. Can we stand? Can we stand and give God a standing ovation for his faithfulness and his purposes in our families from generation to Generation to generation.
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Pastor Claude
No.
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Pastor Tim
Come on, fill the house. Fill the house. Sometimes we have to shake. Shake the lies of the enemy. Come on. Shake the lies of the enemy. Shake the lies of the enemy. In Jesus name. In Jesus name. In Jesus name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor Claude
So this is what I had in.
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Pastor Tim
My spirit for you online.
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Pastor Claude
You're one with us in this moment.
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Pastor Tim
But I really felt today just this pastoral word, just a father and a.
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Pastor Claude
Pastor and a grandfather speaking to brothers and sisters.
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Pastor Tim
And I just felt in my spirit that we would. This would be a day where we draw a line. This would be a day where we come in and we stand in faith.
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Pastor Claude
And we say, oh, God, come and.
- [55:40]
Pastor Tim
Restore my own heart for something.
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Pastor Claude
And as I was preaching, I've been.
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Pastor Tim
Praying that the Holy Spirit would rekindle.
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Pastor Claude
It's not something that's emotional, it's something that is supernatural.
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Pastor Tim
So this is the call. This is the call. Whether you're main floor or balcony, I think sometimes there's a moment where we have to make a stand against again. After five years, two years, five, 10, 20 years, you're making a stand again. That you will move out of your seat and come forward and saying, I'm coming to stand in intercession. I'm coming to believe. Oh God, I am coming. And you come. And as you come forward, you begin to say the name out loud of the person you're praying with. Lord God, far from me, that I should sin against the Lord by stopping to pray for that person. I will pray. I will resist and reclaim God. I will pray for supernatural restoration. I'm like Daniel. I know it's true. I know you answer. I know there's a vision. But I need to be touched by the Son of man. I need my soul to be rekindled by the spirit of God. And God will not let you down. God will not refuse you. I will pray for supernatural regeneration. I've been praying that he would stop this and stop that and mean this or do that. But I'm going to pray for regeneration, a transformation of the heart. So we're going to sing a song, and I believe you sang it before with heart, but today this is not a song. This is an intercession that said, God, you are my way maker. Oh God, you are here. When I don't see anything, you are moving. When I don't know anything, you are are moving. Oh God, you heard me from my first prayer. And heavenlies are moving on my behalf. I'm calling moms and dads and husbands and wives and grandparents and sons and daughters to come forward. Maybe you never come forward in church, but come forward and say, lord God, I'm coming to fight. I'm coming to be renewed myself in the name of Jesus and all over this place and online. God is going to move on your heart online for your family. Family. So would you lift our hands all over the building? This has become a war room even before we sing. Can I hear the people of God? Can I hear prayer rising up from Times Square Church from 51st and Broadway to the world crossroads of the world. Going to the nations online in the name of Jesus, you are here, O God. You are here, O God. And you will move on our behalf for our father families in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Elder Vicki
You are here.
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Pastor Tim
Come on, let's pray. Make your declaration of faith today.
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Elder Vicki
I worship you.
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Pastor Tim
Hallelujah.
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Elder Vicki
I worship you. You are here working in this this place.
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Pastor Tim
Hallelujah.
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Elder Vicki
I worship you. I worship you.
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Pastor Claude
You are here.
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Elder Vicki
You are way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness, my God. That is who you are. You are way make maker, miracle worker promise keeper, light in the darkness, my God that is who you are. You are here touching every heart. I worship you. I worship you are here and you.
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Are here healing every heart.
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I lift my hand to worship you. You are lord. You are here turning light to.
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Pastor Tim
Worship.
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Elder Vicki
You're worthy of my worship.
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You are here.
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Mending every heart. I worship you. I worship you. Help me sing and say you way make. My God. That is who you are. You are way maker, miracle worker. Lift your hands, lift your.
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You are the way maker with me.
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That is who you are.
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That is who you that is who you are. That is who you are. Elder Vicki KE that is who you are. That is who you are.
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That is who you are.
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That is who you that is who you are, Lord. That is who you are. That is who you are. That is who you are.
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That is Elder Vicky sing. Even when I don't feel it, you're.
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Working say Even when I don't see it, you're working, working. Even when I don't feel it you're working. You never stop you never stop working. You never stop you never stop working. Even when I don't see it, you're working. Even when I don't feel it, you're working. You never stop, never stop working, never stop, never stop working. Even when I don't see it, you're working. Even when I don't feel it, you're working. Never stop. Never stop working. Never, never stop. Never stop working. Even when I don't see it, you're working. Even when I don't feel it, you're working. Never stop. Way maker, you are the way maker. Say way maker. Miracle work, promise keeper, light in the darkness, my God, that is who, One.
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More time, lift your hands and sing.
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Pastor Tim
Say. What?
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Ricardo
A message of hope.
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Pastor Tim
Amen.
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Ricardo
Looking down at the altar and I see people that I've prayed not only with you, but I've seen praying with you for your sons and daughters and believing for a miracle. And even as Pastor Claude was speaking, there were names that were coming to my mind. Myself, I'm looking at one of my friends here today, and we were. We were in a. We were in a discussion last night at our apartment and trying to explain, explain to somebody these words is never count God out. Never count God out. No matter how low someone has come. God can redeem and set free. God can redeem and set free. And so right now, come on, let's just all lift our hands right now. I want you just to say those names out loud. Say that name that you're praying for. Come on, say the impossible case. Just say God. I would lift up and say the name. Say the name now begin to lift up the name of Jesus. Come on, say Jesus. You are able to do exceedingly and abundantly, above all that we can ask that God, even this, this amazing grid that we were given today on how to fight, Father, for people's lives and souls. Those, those five things. Here's what I was assured, assured of. God, you can do exceedingly and abundantly beyond those five things that as Pastor Claude was giving them to us. God, you can exceed what we can only say with our own human words. You can take heaven and come down, come into that apartment, come on that college campus, go into that bar, go into God right now, that nation, go into God, that crack house, go into father every place. And we're going to believe for miracles today. Miracles go into lifestyles that won't seem to break or budge. And we're going to believe for miracles. Oh, God. So can we pray for this God? Let there be movement this week. Ask for movement this week. Movement. Movement that would encourage movement, that would see God has been working. Even as Ricardo and Elder Vicki were telling us, even when I don't see it, you're working. And hallelujah, you never stop working. And we thank you for that. Thank you for this encouraging word today for those all over the country, all over the world. Right here at 51st and Broadway we begin to say thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.
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