Daniel testified, “Suddenly, a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands” (Daniel 10:10). The word for “touched” here means to violently seize upon. Daniel was saying, “When God placed his hand on me, it put me on my face; his touch filled me with an urgency to seek him with all that is in me.”
God-touched servants have an intimate relationship with Lord. They receive revelations from heaven and enjoy a walk with Christ that few others do. Whenever God touches someone’s life, that person often falls to his knees and he becomes a person of prayer, driven to seek the Lord. I’ve often wondered why God touches only certain people with this urgency. Why do some servants become hungry seekers after him while other faithful people go on their way?
Daniel, a devoted servant, was touched by God in a supernatural way. There were many other good, pious people serving the Lord in Daniel’s day. These included Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and tens of thousands of other Israelites who maintained their faith while enslaved in Babylon.
So, why did God lay his hand on Daniel and touch him as he did? Why was this one man able to see and hear things no one else could? “I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision” (Daniel 10:7). The vision Daniel saw was Jesus himself, clear and vivid. In fact, it was the same vision given to John on the Isle of Patmos (see Revelation 1:13-15).
The Lord revealed himself to Daniel in the way he did because this young man was consumed with a passion to know God’s heart. Also, God decided the time had come to deliver a message to lost humanity and he needed a voice to speak his message.
The Lord is looking for those today who are consumed with knowing him and will grieve over the moral condition in our society — while also eagerly looking for Christ’s coming.
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David Wilkerson (1931 – 2011)
Founder of Times Square Church in New York City with over 100 different languages spoken in the congregation. Wilkerson wrote many powerful books such as: The Vision and Cross and the Switchblade. His ministry was prophetic as God called him to be a watchman to the Church in North America. He gave clear messages on repentance to the Church.Wilkerson also founded Teen Challenge where there are hundreds of centres for Christ-centered drug recovery and addiction recovery. He also organized and spoke at pastors gatherings in many countries where he gave prophetic strong messages to encourage pastors and leaders.
Recommends these books by David Wilkerson:
The Vision and Beyond, Prophecies Fulfilled and Still to Come by David Wilkerson
Knowing God by Name: Names of God That Bring Hope and Healing by David Wilkerson
God's Plan to Protect His People in the Coming Depression by David Wilkerson
David Wilkerson is an American Christian evangelist, most well-known for his book The Cross and the Switchblade. He is also the founder of Times Square Church in New York, an interdenominational church.
Wilkerson is well-known for these early years of his ministry to young drug addicts and gang members in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s. He co-authored a book about his work with the New York drug addicts, The Cross and the Switchblade, which became a best-seller, selling over 50 million copies in over thirty languages since it was published in 1963. The book was included among the 100 most important Christian books of the 20th century.
For over four decades, Wilkerson's ministry has included preaching, teaching and writing. He has authored over 30 books.
David Wilkerson is the founder and president of World Challenge, Inc., a nonprofit organization incorporated on September 22, 1971. Reverend Wilkerson, the author of over thirty inspirational books, is perhaps best known for his early days of ministry to young drug addicts and gang members in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. His story is told in The Cross and the Switchblade, a book he co-authored which became a best-seller. (The story has been read by over 50 million people in some thirty languages and 150 countries since 1963. In 1969, a motion picture of the same title was released.)
For over four decades, Reverend Wilkerson's evangelistic ministry has included preaching, teaching and writing. Throughout that time a distinctive characteristic of his work has been his direct efforts to reach the neediest members of the population with help for both body and soul. Even now, the almost 70 year-old minister often goes out alone or sometimes with an assistant to walk through the streets of New York City, along Broadway and Eighth Avenue or down 42nd Street and nearby "Crack Alley" on 41st Street. His mission is always to seek out the lost, the disoriented, and the addicted , to tell them of the power of the risen Christ to set them free.
David Wilkerson, born in Hammond, Indiana on May 19, 1931, was married in 1953 to Gwen Carosso. The Wilkersons' two sons are ministers, and their two daughters are married to ministers. They have 11 grandchildren. The Wilkersons served small pastorates in Scottsdale and Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, until Reverend Wilkerson saw a photograph in Life magazine of several New York City teenagers charged with murder. Moved with compassion he was drawn to the city in February 1959. It was at that time he began his street ministry to what one writer called "desperate, bewildered, addicted, often violent youth.