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With fear spreading across the world after 9/11, David Wilkerson turns to Isaiah’s warning that gladness is taken from a proud nation under judgment. But the same prophets also saw a holy remnant who would “obtain joy and gladness.” This sermon calls believers to the mountain of prayer to feast on Christ, who was anointed with the oil of gladness. There they can lose their fear of death and stand at peace while the world reels. Preached: July 28, 2002 Main Points: • When a nation becomes proud and forgets God, one of the first things lost is its gladness. Fear moves in, the singing stops, and even prosperity can’t buy back the joy. • People reach for distractions, pills, parties, and screens to numb their fear, but when morning comes, the emptiness is still there. Lasting gladness can’t be manufactured. It has to be received. • In the same days the world loses its joy, God promises a holy remnant who will “obtain joy and gladness,” a joy no headline, crisis, or judgment can steal. • Jesus was anointed with the oil of gladness, and he has enough for all of us. Walking in the Spirit means walking in that oil. • The strongest witness in a fearful world isn’t a forced smile or a quick Bible verse. It’s quiet peace in the middle of real suffering, the kind that makes people ask what’s different about you. • Many believers talk fear instead of casting their cares on the Lord. Our homes and marriages need a baptism of joy, so the people we love come home to gladness, not gloom. • God lovingly asks why we fear a man who will die and forget the one who parted the sea for his people. He is still the deliverer, and his people are safe in his hand. • The only way to keep this joy is to go up to the mountain of prayer and feast on Christ daily. When you lose your fear of death and live for the day you’ll see him face to face, nothing can move you. https://wcmin.us/SS261018c

Jesus is not a distant priest who stands apart from human pain. He is the great high priest who has felt every weakness we carry, and he is praying for us right now. Walking through Hebrews 4:14–16, Evan Wilkerson speaks to anyone tired, distracted, or tempted to let go when life gets hard. Like the pressured believers to whom Ephesians was first written, we can drift away, telling God we’ll come back once we’ve figured things out. Evan answers with the gospel. Because the veil was torn, the throne of judgment has become a throne of grace, and we are invited to come boldly, speak frankly, and receive mercy and grace in our time of need. Preached: August 23, 2026 Main Points: Picture walking a bridge 150 feet up and gripping your phone tight. Now picture a car coming toward your daughter in the street, and the grip you’d use to pull her to safety. That’s how tightly we’re called to hold fast to Jesus.Play a note on one piano and the same note hums in another piano across the room, with no one touching it. Jesus put on our human body and carried it into heaven, so when the chord of our fear is struck, it resonates with him.He was hungry, thirsty, and sorrowful to the point of death, so stressed that he sweat drops of blood. Whatever you’re facing, he knows what it’s like.C.S. Lewis said that only those who resist temptation know how strong it is. Because Jesus never gave in, he alone knows temptation to the full.Once a year, a high priest stepped into the holy of holies with a rope tied to his foot. If the bells stopped ringing, they pulled him out. Now, because of Jesus’ blood, every prayer brings us into that same holy place with confidence.To “come boldly” means freedom of speech: frank, honest prayer. You don’t need polished words or a cleaned-up life, just your heart, told to a God who wants to hear it.Evan shares how a confusing season about his work exposed that he’d placed his identity in his job. His distracted prayers ended up stirring a deeper hunger for God’s presence, until he could say, “God, I want only you.”Like a dad who loves it when his little girls run up to show him their drawings, God delights when his children come near and tell him what’s on their hearts. https://wcmin.us/WS261014c

In a season of fear, when Newsweek reported that most Americans could no longer sleep and New York braced for the next attack, David Wilkerson stood before a congregation of weary, faithful believers and spoke to those who had done everything right and still found themselves face down in the dust. Drawing from Isaiah 51 and 52, he describes God looking at his people, the ones who seek him and love him, and asking in loving disbelief why they have let the enemy walk over them. This is a message for the afflicted who are "drunken, but not with wine," the ones staggering under a crisis they did not cause. God has already spoken the word of deliverance. He is taking the cup of trembling out of their hands. Now it is time to shake off the dust, put the beautiful garments back on, and rise up in faith. Preached: June 9, 2002 Some believers have laid their bodies down like a street while the enemy walks over them, and God says plainly, it's enough."The hardest part of faith is the last half hour." Just when God has already spoken the word, we feel the most burdened, and that is exactly when we must not give up.One of David Wilkerson's kids called asking, "What do you do when you've done everything right but nothing seems to turn out right?" It's a cry that echoes from pastors' studies to living rooms everywhere.After more than fifty years of ministry and fifty years of marriage, through fires, floods, and distress, David Wilkerson declares, "My God has never once failed me. Never once!"The root of our fear is forgetting the Lord our maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. We rush to be set free instead of asking to see his majesty inside the trial.Not his wife, his family, his books, or the ministries he built could satisfy the deepest hunger of David Wilkerson's soul. Only a fresh revelation of Christ can do that.Even after an angel strengthened him in the garden, Jesus was still in agony and prayed more earnestly. The strength didn't take the cup away. It carried him all the way to victory.A young woman with a severe facial disfigurement had prayed for years for a husband and a child. She handed her pastor a bar of soap and a baby rattle, the symbols of that dream, and said she had laid it down because Jesus had become her husband and children now flock to her. https://wcmin.us/SS261011c

David Wilkerson traces the manna that bred worms overnight to expose a deception sweeping the modern church: that Christ can be had while his commandments are ignored, warning that any gospel offering only bread and miracles without the convicting word of judgment produces nothing but stench and self-deception. Preached: April 8, 2001 Main Points: God fed Israel manna daily as a test of obedience, not merely provision. It came with restrictions: gather only what you need, keep nothing overnight. Those who disobeyed and stored it woke to worms and a stench that filled the camp, a picture of what happens when people want the miracle without the Word.The crowds who wanted to make Jesus king after he fed the 5,000 wanted his bread, not his word. Jesus told them plainly he is the true manna, but that same manna, divorced from obedience, still turns to worms today, no matter how much someone claims Christ lives in their heart.Antinomianism, meaning anti-law, nearly destroyed the church two centuries ago through preachers like Dr. Tobias Crisp, who taught that believers could commit adultery or even murder and remain fully pardoned, with sin reduced to nothing more than a scarecrow meant to frighten children.A 1906 prophecy from the Azusa Street revival predicted three dangers for the last days: an overemphasis on power rather than righteousness, praise to a God people no longer actually pray to, and a fixation on spiritual gifts rather than the lordship of Christ. All three are fulfilled in modern crusades where crowds wait impatiently through the preaching for the "good stuff" of signs and manifestations.David Wilkerson recounts a well-known evangelist heard on tape cursing anyone who opposed his ministry, and warns of thousands who defend such men against clear evidence of sin, unable to be persuaded because, as 2 Thessalonians says, God sends strong delusion to those who take pleasure in unrighteousness rather than loving the truth.When Satan tempted Jesus to turn stones to bread, he was quoting Scripture accurately but divorcing it from obedience, the same trick this whole message is built around. Jesus refused because he came to do only what his Father commanded, every word, not merely the comfortable parts.David Wilkerson confesses he has had to shut off books and even sermons mid-read when he sensed a spirit minimizing sin creeping over him, and closes by saying he recently went through the entire New Testament studying every command of Jesus, praying not for excuse but for power to obey every word that proceeds from God's mouth. https://wcmin.us/SS261004c

Evan Wilkerson opens with Corie ten Boom's stunning encounter with a former SS guard to show that only the agape love of God can dissolve real hostility, then traces Paul's picture of the dividing wall between Jews and Gentiles torn down by the cross. Christ himself is the peace that makes former enemies into one new family. Main Points: Corrie ten Boom, who watched her father and sister die after hiding Jews from the Nazis, later faced one of her former camp guards reaching out his hand after a sermon on forgiveness. She felt nothing but rage until she prayed, "Jesus, I cannot forgive him, give me your forgiveness," and love flooded through her at his touch. Reconciliation was never her own doing.Circumcision marked the Jews as God's covenant people, but Moses and the prophets repeatedly called Israel "uncircumcised in heart," showing that the outward sign could never change an unresponsive heart. Paul says a true Jew is one inwardly, circumcised in heart by the Spirit, not by the letter.Paul lists four ways the Gentiles were hopeless before Christ: separated from Christ, alienated from Israel, strangers to the covenant promises, and without God in the world. Evan connects this to a Harvard study showing 58% of young adults report lacking meaning and purpose, and to a business student who told him through tears he wasn't sure his life had meaning.At Herod's temple, an inscribed wall warned Gentiles that trespassing into the sanctuary meant death. Jesus tore down that literal and spiritual dividing wall of hostility in his own body, abolishing the ceremonial law and creating one new humanity out of two hostile groups.No human effort has ever permanently solved war or division because the real problem, sin, can't be legislated away. Every peace treaty in history eventually gave way to renewed conflict, because only Christ himself, having paid sin's penalty, can actually be the peace between people.Forgiveness is rarely a one-time event. It's often a lifelong process of returning to God again and again for help to forgive, and that process, however long, leads to real freedom. The love required to forgive someone like an SS guard was never Corrie's own; it was the Spirit's love flowing through her.Believers from every background are no longer strangers but fellow citizens and members of God's household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ as the cornerstone. Evan imagines a future family table in heaven where Peter, Deborah, and Esther are simply brothers and sisters. https://wcmin.us/WS260930c

David Wilkerson confesses that even sincere counselors and desperate parents secretly doubt the miracles they urge others to believe for, then shows through the demon-possessed boy, Jairus's daughter, and a coin found in a fish's mouth that nothing, not a dying marriage, a wandering child, or a perverted heart, has ever been too far gone for God to fix. Preached: September 19, 1999 Main Points: • God asked Abraham why Sarah laughed at the impossible promise of a child: "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" That same question is aimed at every believer today, and the answer changes everything about how we face our own impossible situations. • It's easy to tell someone else to hold on and trust God, but the real test is whether you believe it for your own crisis. David Wilkerson refused to counsel anyone unless they first admit they genuinely believe God can fix it, because without that belief, all counseling is in vain. • The disciples failed to heal a demon-possessed boy that the whole neighborhood had already given up on. Jesus simply told the father, "If you can believe, all things are possible," and one word from him raised the boy up, healed. That story exists in Scripture specifically for parents who feel they've lost a child to addiction or the streets. • He describes fathers who walked into drug houses pleading with sons who wouldn't even look at them, and mothers riding buses upstate to visit children in prison. To every one of them he says plainly: your child is not too far gone from God. • Jairus's daughter had already died by the time Jesus arrived, and the mourners' unspoken assumption was the same one many Christians carry: God can handle anything with a little life left in it, but once it's completely dead, don't bother calling on Jesus anymore. Jesus raised her with a single word. • Desperate for $5,000 to pay off a debt as a young pastor, David Wilkerson believed he heard God promise an angel would deliver the exact amount on a specific street corner. No angel came. Days later, ordinary human means, a bank loan through a church member's connection, supplied the exact need, teaching him that God fixes things his way, not the way we script it. • A prisoner wrote confessing decades of sexual perversion and addiction, hating what he did while somehow loving it, desperate to escape but unable to find the door. David Wilkerson told him directly that no habit, no lust, no clutch of the devil is beyond what God can break and restore. https://wcmin.us/SS260927c

David Wilkerson confronts a church culture obsessed with counseling everyone else's marriage while nobody prays the one prayer that actually works. Paul's teaching on the veil reveals that real change never comes from waiting for someone else to shift, but only from crying out, "Change me, O Lord," and letting the Holy Spirit do what no counselor alone ever could. Preached: August 15, 1999 Main Points: • David Wilkerson confesses deep discouragement with modern Christian counseling, not because it's wrong but because so many troubled believers sit through months of biblical counsel and simply don't get it, treating God's commands as suggestions instead of commandments. • In every marriage feud he's mediated, both spouses say the same thing about the other: they're stubborn, they don't get it, why won't they change? Everybody is waiting for somebody else to change, which is precisely why nothing ever does. • Paul describes a veil over the heart that blinds people to Scripture even while they study it diligently. That same veil sits over sincere Christians today who read commands about forgiveness and reconciliation and still can't apply them to their own lives. • No amount of unforgiveness, however justified it feels, escapes the judgment seat of Christ. A thousand sympathetic counselors telling you that you have the right to leave your marriage means nothing if it contradicts Scripture. God hates divorce, not because he's harsh, but because he's already promised all the grace needed to make any marriage work. • The Greek word for "turn" means to change course entirely, not merely feel sorry. You cannot wait for your spouse to change first. God changes you, and then your circumstances stop having the same power over you because you've been changed above them. • Change requires an "open face," an honest, intense desire to reverse course and let the Holy Spirit expose everything hidden, even things you didn't know were there. Wilkerson admits the digging never really stops until the day Jesus returns. • When real change begins, God commends the changed person to everyone's conscience, meaning a spouse, boss, or child will know without a single word being said that something genuine has shifted. That quiet, undeniable witness is what Wilkerson calls the real power to change people. https://wcmin.us/SS260920c

Evan Wilkerson opens Ephesians 2 by tracing his own decade-long addiction, showing what it actually means to be dead in trespasses. Then walks through the drastic contrast Paul describes: not just forgiveness, but resurrection life, seated with Christ in the heavenly places, all by grace and not by works. Main Points: Evan grew up in a long line of pastors, then spent ten years as a drug addict, cycling through rehab and relapse with no way to get free on his own. One day, simply saying, "Lord, I'm sorry," he felt heaven open and God's love pour over him in a way he had never experienced.Before Christ, our spirit is genuinely dead, not merely damaged. That doesn't mean people without Jesus have no value or can't do good. Jonas Salk cured polio and never knew Christ, but no amount of good works can raise a spiritually dead person from the dead.Everyone marches by nature toward the wrath of God, not because of some external threat but because sin already produces spiritual death in every human being. This warning becomes, for the believer, not a threat but a precious reminder of exactly what they were rescued from.The contrast in Ephesians 2 is drastic: God didn't just forgive us; he made us alive together with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly places. Our bodies remain on earth, but our spirit is already seated in glory, given the identity of royalty as a chosen race and royal priesthood.Salvation cannot be earned, illustrated by a construction worker being handed his paycheck: nobody calls a paycheck they worked for "a gift." Grace only remains grace if none of it is owed to us. Even our good works look like filthy rags compared to what actually saves us.Many believers know intellectually that salvation is by grace, yet still feel, after sinning, they must earn their way back into good standing with God. That's not the gospel. God's grace saved you, and God's grace sustains you; the correct response to failure is to run to his mercy, not to a new performance plan.Good works don't save anyone, but they inevitably follow genuine faith. If someone claims faith in Christ but shows no change over time, that raises a legitimate question about whether saving faith is actually present. https://wcmin.us/WS260916c

David Wilkerson confronts the churches who worship with hands raised while secretly clinging to sin, revealing through Jeremiah 8 that God's people have lost all understanding of his judgment. Unconfessed sin doesn't just wait for eternity; it destroys marriages, ministries, and character right here on earth. Preached: December 29, 1996 Main Points: • God's questions in Jeremiah 8 aren't aimed at the heathen but at his own beloved people. Why do you cling so stubbornly to secret sin? Why don't you blush anymore when you sin openly? Why won't you go to God for full deliverance?• People can weep, search the scriptures, and study the law with genuine devotion while still refusing to let go of their idols. That mixture of worship and hidden sin, not outright rebellion, is what sickens the heart of God. • The reason God's people race toward destruction like wild horses charging into battle is stated plainly in verse 7: my people know not my judgments. They've mistaken endless patience for the absence of consequence. • A pastor caught in slander waved off David Wilkerson's warning and said, "Then I face the judgment of God," not understanding what he was actually saying. A man leaving his wife said, "I guess I'll just have to face the consequences." Neither man had the slightest concept of what that judgment costs. • God names two present-day judgments directly from Jeremiah 8: I will give your wives to others (divorce, broken homes, generational fallout even into grandchildren) and I will give your fields to others (loss of ministry, career, everything built over a lifetime). • A third judgment: serpents that bite and cannot be charmed, meaning the poison of bitterness, rejection, and unforgiveness that seeps into unsurrendered sin until godly people, especially those who should be gentlest with age, become mean, hardened, and full of venom. • Judgment is never vindictive; it's redemptive. God has never once turned his back on someone who genuinely hates their sin and cries out for deliverance, even when they haven't yet found victory. The one thing he asks is that people stop making peace with what should be surrendered. https://wcmin.us/SS260913c

David Wilkerson confesses he spent years as a self-described pessimist looking at life through dark glasses. He then reveals, through the story of the valley of dry bones, that God never resurrects his people just so they can keep talking as if they're still dead, but so that they can walk in the abounding hope that the Holy Ghost was always meant to produce. Preached: June 30, 1996 Main Points: The eye is the light of the body, and a clouded eye fills the whole body with darkness. Many believers are living out every situation, marriage, job, and trial through spiritually dark glasses. They see nothing but hopelessness even though the light inside them was never meant to be clouded.A man told David Wilkerson he had given up on his marriage as hopeless until something shifted: he decided to change himself first, and God used that change to soften his wife's heart. The dark glasses came off, not because circumstances changed first, but because hope came.Isaiah 57 warns that when God's people say "it is hopeless," they stop revering the Lord, turn to the flesh for help, and step entirely outside his will. Hopelessness isn't innocent. Jeremiah calls it a horrible thing, because it leads people to abandon obedience and follow the stubbornness of their own hearts instead.In Ezekiel 37, God raises the dry bones, covers them with flesh, and breathes life into them, yet they still say "our bones are dried, our hope is lost, we are cut off." God never resurrects people to produce a testimony of ongoing death. That's no testimony for the world to see.Fifteen years earlier, David Wilkerson admits he only talked about collapse, ruin, and coming judgment among fellow preachers until a friend asked him plainly, "David, do you have any joy? Let's speak it." From that point on, he made it a rule never to close a hard message without also bringing hope.Believers have been given authority to trample on the power of the enemy according to Luke 10:19, yet many live subjectively, bowing to every circumstance rather than reigning in life as Romans 5:17 promises. That authority isn't hyperbole. It's meant to be walked in daily.God spoke to David Wilkerson in prayer: "If you will continue to seek me with all your heart, your best days are still ahead, and you can't conceive the good that I want to do for you." That promise belongs to every one of God's children, no matter how ordinary or stuck their life currently looks. https://wcmin.us/SS260906c

Evan Wilkerson closes out Ephesians 1 by tracing Paul's prayer for spiritual eyes, showing through a story of unexpected obedience in a parking lot how believers can know God not just intellectually but intimately, which enables us to grasp the hope, the inheritance, and the resurrection power that already belong to us. Main Points: In October 2017, Evan sensed the Holy Spirit directing him to a specific neighbor's car window. When a startled couple rolled it down, the wife broke into tears because their son had just been arrested for heroin possession. Faith lets us see beyond the natural into what the Spirit is already doing.Paul thanks God for the Ephesians' faith and love, not just saving faith but practical, everyday trust that God will provide, protect, and lead. He also praises their agape love for one another, the same love Jesus modeled by washing his disciples' feet before commanding them to do likewise.The word "knowledge" Paul uses is not mere information about God. As Martin Lloyd-Jones explains, it's an immediate, personal, relational knowing, the way a husband and wife know each other, not a theological fact sheet.Evan describes a night when his air conditioner broke in summer heat. His kids were cranky, and a fan he bought didn't even work, yet simply remembering God's loving presence kept him calm instead of losing his temper, showing how conscious awareness of God changes daily reactions.Paul prays believers would grasp three realities: the hope they've been called to (both a present reality and a future glory), the riches of God's inheritance in the saints (meaning believers themselves are God's treasured possession, not the other way around), and the immeasurable power available to those who believe.That power is demonstrated by nothing less than Christ's resurrection and his sitting at the Father's right hand above every rule and authority. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is the power now at work in and through every believer.The church is called "the fullness of him who fills all in all" because while Christ fills all creation, only the church fully acknowledges and submits to him. Believers are meant to reflect Christ's kingdom now, while awaiting his return to establish the new heavens and new earth. https://wcmin.us/WS260902c

Gary Wilkerson tells the story of Zacchaeus climbing the sycamore tree to show that holy dissatisfaction, the ache for more of God, even if you've faithfully followed him for years, is not a lack of gratitude but one of the greatest gifts God has ever placed in the human heart. Preached: August 16, 2026 Main Points: John Muir, instead of hiding from a fierce Pacific storm, climbed a Douglas fir to ride it out at the top, becoming a standing rebuke against choosing creature comforts over the Creator's confrontations. Psalm 107 says the same of sailors who go into the deep waters to see the works of the Lord.Zacchaeus was rich, powerful, and politically connected, yet excommunicated from his own people as a traitor. All the wealth in Jericho, including a front-row seat at Herod's lavish winter palace, never touched the emptiness inside him.Zacchaeus didn't casually wander over out of curiosity. He fought through a crowd that shoved him back, then hiked up his robe and climbed a sycamore tree, refusing to let his dignity or his station in life stop his pursuit of Jesus.Gary once accidentally called a pastor for directions from inside a bar, and heard U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" playing over the sound system while watching lonely men nurse drinks. That restless anthem, he says, describes an entire generation, and secretly describes Zacchaeus too.After decades in ministry, Gary confesses he spent his first two or three decades trying to get rid of the ache in his own heart, feeling guilty for not being satisfied, until he realized that holy dissatisfaction is itself a gift from God, not evidence of ingratitude.Zacchaeus's transformation was instant and costly: half his wealth given to the poor, fourfold restitution to everyone he'd defrauded. Jesus never demanded repentance in the text. It simply exploded out of an encountered heart.Jesus is interruptible, disruptive, and subversive. He stopped on his way to his own crucifixion for one desperate man in a tree, and he still topples the towers we've built so something new and better can be planted in their place. https://wcmin.us/SS260830c

David Wilkerson redefines passion for Christ as far more than tears, emotion, or private devotion. A genuine passion for Jesus can never remain a personal pursuit but must burn with the same intensity for the whole body of Christ. It is proven not by feeling but by humility and total dependence on God. Preached: November 25, 2001 Main Points: • Under the Old Covenant, God raised up individuals like Abraham, Noah, and Enoch to pursue him personally because the body of Christ didn't yet exist. Under the New Covenant, a purely private passion is not enough, because we are members of one body, and what happens to one member happens to all. • Pursuing Christ only so your own family stays blessed, saying "I got mine" while the rest of the church compromises around you, is a trap. That's not biblical passion no matter how sincere it feels, because your sin and your pursuit both ripple through the whole body. • True passion has almost nothing to do with emotion or forceful preaching. It's impossible to have real passion for Jesus without a walk of obedience. Every tear shed in the secret closet of prayer cannot produce one iota of passion if you refuse to obey what's revealed. • Jesus rebukes the self-exalted religious leader in Matthew 23 who preaches holiness he doesn't practice himself. David Wilkerson confesses his own struggle with this, admitting his wife has had to catch him inflating numbers about his books and church attendance to impress people. • Humility is not meekness, self-deprecation, or a long face. It is total dependence on the Lord. Jesus himself modeled this: "I can do nothing of my own self" was not weakness but the very definition of passion, complete reliance on the Father for everything. • Just as one Christian's bitterness can defile many in the body according to Hebrews 12:15, one obedient, fully dependent Christian can bless and affect many in the body. Passion for Christ pursued rightly becomes contagious rather than isolating. • This sermon closes by describing what pursuing this kind of passion actually costs: your life becomes a laboratory where God lets you feel pains and burdens that have nothing to do with your own walk, because he's drawing you into ministry to the whole body, not just personal blessing. https://wcmin.us/SS260823c

Evan Wilkerson closes out Ephesians 1, wrestling with how God can be sovereign over all things without causing evil. He shows through Joseph's story and a mechanic shop conversation that being sealed in Christ means true belonging. God's goodness holds even when life feels shattered. Main Points: God works all things according to the counsel of his will, but that doesn't mean he causes all things to happen. Joseph's brothers chose to sell him into slavery out of their own jealousy, yet God wove even their evil into a plan that saved many lives.Malcolm Muggeridge, a wealthy, famous, successful agnostic writer, said after coming to Christ that multiplying all his earthly triumphs by a million still amounted to nothing measured against one drink of the living water Jesus offers.We are called Christians three times in Scripture but described as "in Christ" over two hundred times. That's not a minor detail. It's the truest thing about our identity, more foundational than any label the world gives us.Being sealed with the Holy Spirit works like a king's signet ring pressed into wax: it marks the document as authentically his. God has pressed his own mark on every believer, meaning we belong to someone, radically and permanently, in a world constantly searching for exactly that.A conversation at an auto repair shop turned from rising oil prices to the manager saying "the world is ending," which opened the door for Evan to talk about the living hope only found in Christ.Sharing the gospel is rarely comfortable, but the goal isn't a perfect delivery; it's opening your mouth. Even a stumbled conversation that gets shut down is never wasted, because every attempt is practice for the next one, and God is watching for willing hearts.The Spirit inside every believer is a down payment, a guarantee of an inheritance too glorious to fully imagine yet. Whatever feels broken right now—relationships, finances, mental health—God is the God of shalom who restores what seems too far gone to fix. https://wcmin.us/WS260819c

David Wilkerson takes the call of Abraham, a man told to leave everything and go to a land he didn't know, and shows that God is asking every believer for the same total surrender of tomorrow. Through Paul's chains and his own granddaughter's death, he reveals that suffering isn't the question; our reaction to it is. Preached: April 2, 2006 Main Points: • Abraham had no map, no timeline, no idea how he'd be financed, only a command to leave his country and kindred. God is asking the same total dependence of every believer today: give me your tomorrows, not just your past. • Two little words disturb us more than anything else: what if. What if the economy fails, what if I get sick, what if my insurance runs out? Jesus turns us from our anxiety with a simple redirection: your Father knows what you need. • Paul sat chained between two hardened Roman guards, watching his own protégés like Apollos and Timothy thrive in ministry while his own hands were tied. He had every reason to spiral into why me, but chose instead to ask a different question: How will I react? • An elderly woman told David Wilkerson her husband spent his final years bitter that his stroke had robbed him of his future, never once considering that she too had lost her future as his full-time caretaker. Suffering steals from everyone in the room, not just the one visibly afflicted. • Two weeks before his granddaughter Tiffany died of cancer, the Holy Spirit told David Wilkerson to put her in his hands and trust that nothing he does is contrary to his will. His wife and daughters still wear a small chain with her picture, and it opens gospel conversations in stores everywhere they go. • Paul wrote from prison that his chains had actually furthered the gospel, because the guards chained to him for hours at a time went home and told their families about this strange preacher who wouldn't stop praising God. Paul made his affliction a defense of Christ's faithfulness. • The real question every believer faces isn't, "Why did this happen to me?" but, "Is Christ being preached through my reaction?" Wilkerson pointed to an elder named Sam who has years of raging, sleepless pain yet quietly prays for the pastors backstage, never once preaching a sermon but preaching Christ with his life. https://wcmin.us/SS260816c