God releases his awesome delivering power to those who completely trust him. Those who “stagger” in faith, fretting and worrying, will never be delivered from the snare of Satan.
The answer is simple, yet many of us just don’t get it. We go on living in turmoil and fear, while at our fingertips are all the precious promises needed to set us free from crises in this life. God hates our unbelief, mostly because it ties his hands and keeps us from enjoying his glorious provision. Make it a priority each day to pray, “Lord, help my unbelief. Give me childlike trust in you.”
WE COULD NOT GO ON HERE IN NEW YORK CITY WITHOUT COMPLETE TRUST IN THE LORD. The problems are too overwhelming. Millions of people are living in overcrowded conditions. The city is going wild with violence, drugs, murder, homicides, a new strain of TB that is airborne, the plague of AIDS.
Our workers who minister every day to the diseased street people and homeless who carry these diseases are not afraid. They trust the Lord to protect them and to strengthen them in this work.
I thank God for allowing us to be his channels in raising up a thriving church on Broadway, with thousands of lives being touched. But we did not come to New York City simply to build a church. We came to do what Jesus would have done: to minister to the poor, the hungry, the homeless, the addicted, the worst among sinners.
We rejoice that God is enabling us to bring Christ’s redeeming gospel to many who once were considered hopeless by every human measure. A small army has already been saved from the streets, and every day more and more are being rescued.
GOD IS PROVING HIS POWER OVER ALL THE DESTRUCTIVE FORCES OF HELL. And he will show his power on your behalf, too, in the trial you are facing. Amen!
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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.