This message are for those who are on the brink of despair. What you are going through is not a testing of your faith but a training. God allows these afflictions to wean us out of Egypt and to produce a cry in our heart for total deliverance. Through these afflictions God will take the mentality of the world out of you and produce a longing in your heart that will result in an eternal perspective.
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turn to Isaiah 65 please Isaiah 65 and
my message not every trial is a test not
every trial how many are going through a
trial I mean now right now and in the
annex I can’t see your hand but put it
up Jesus sees it alright you think
you’re being tested not every trial is a
test Isaiah 65 verses 17 and 18 for
behold I create new heavens and a new
earth
the former shall not be remembered nor
come into mind but be glad and rejoice
forever and that which I create for
behold I create Jerusalem a rejoice for
it’s rejoicing and her people a joy knit
original Hebrew it should be I creates
them for rejoicing and her people for
joy God says I create a people for the
purpose of joy and rejoicing
now Heavenly Father we come to your word
humbly thanking you for your heart
revealed to us your mind open to us and
I pray holy spirit that you quicken me
as I preach and quicken us as we here
let the Lord be glorified in the service
let the glory Lord be glorified in the
word that comes forth we pray Lord I
need your touch I need your touch now so
that this will flow not just from my
heart but from your mind in Christ’s
name I pray amen
God gets no delight in our afflictions
and in our trials and the Bible said he
sympathizes he agrees with us he’s
touched with the feelings of our
infirmities and there are many
afflictions the scripture says that come
to God’s people the Lord Jesus said to
one of the churches in the book of
Revelation I know your tribulation and I
know your poverty God is saying I know
what you’re going through you don’t
understand it but I know and I’m glad
that he said that because sometimes we
think that he it we know theological II
that he knows but specific into our own
case sometimes we doubt whether or not
God is moving on time
the scripture says thou has tried us as
silver is tried the Bible said our faith
is tested and tried as by fire the Bible
said the Lord tries the righteous yes
the Christian life is full of trials and
afflictions many other fictions of the
righteous the scripture says much
affliction anguish of heart many tears
this is the language of Paul the Apostle
he said this is what I experienced he
said in my life there are many
afflictions anguish of heart and many
tears in Hebrews rereading the saints of
God of old time who were tempted
destitute afflicted and tormented in
Hebrews we read of Christians who fight
a great fight of affliction now hearing
me now in the annex –an here and the
main floor
in the main auditorium are people that I
know in the spirit are going through
this very thing many and great
afflictions a fight of afflictions
drinking from the cup of trembling the
Scriptures call it my soul the psalmist
said is full of troubles my life draws
near to the grave Paul brother David
said I have endured sore and great
troubles I don’t know a single Christian
in my circle friends I don’t know a
single Christian anywhere in the face of
this earth that hasn’t gone through
these things flix and suffering trial
and testing I don’t know one and if you
happen to be one of those I’d sure like
to get your autograph because you’re
some kind of a super Saint that is
unusual you probably should be moved on
to heaven I can say with David I’ve
known sore afflictions in my lifetime
now this is just a very very simple word
that God has given to me but it’s been
born out of the fires of my own trials
recent trials even and I’m relating now
by the spirit to those that came this
morning and you’re on the very brink of
despair and even thoughts are saying I
can’t live like this this is too much
God has placed too much upon me I don’t
know why for the last few weeks I have
been pushing this and dealing with these
kind of issues of the suffering because
you see there’s a theology in America
now that if you re walking in faith you
don’t suffer but you know suffering
comes to all those people who preach
that and then they’re not ready for it
when it comes but I’ve known sore
afflictions now certainly the Lord has a
purpose in mind you can’t believe you
couldn’t even comprehend that God would
let you endorse or trials without a
divine purpose God doesn’t just
promiscuously go around saying oh I did
this brother I’ve just got to take him
through some more fire and I got to send
another flood to this brother or this
sister he doesn’t do it without a
purpose the tie your trial of your faith
the scripture says is more precious than
gold though it be tried with fire and
the posture Peter says in that trial is
a fiery trial I what about those who
have already been tested and they passed
the test
like Paul the Apostle he said I finished
the course in other words I was in
school I was in the school of testing I
I had trial after trial and he
enumerates these it’s incredible it’s
mind-boggling that suffering in the pain
and the affliction and the rejection and
all that Paul the Apostle went through
and he said I fought a good fight and I
finished my course he said I I have
finished my course I have kept the faith
is he he it’s not that he will never be
tested again but God trust this man now
because he is he said I know now whom I
have believed I know how now when the
enemy comes against me like a flood I
know how to with God’s glory raise up
that standard I know how to resist the
devil then he flees from me I’ve learned
these lessons in the furnace of
affliction then he said now I have kept
a faith I can say that honestly I know
that I’m going to be tested on my faith
till Jesus comes but I know that not
every trial in my life is the test of
faith because I know in recent years
especially from the death of our
granddaughter told the old Tiffany and
the strengthened the faith that he gave
me in that ordeal and I never wanted
so due to that moment and I came out of
that saying thank God I know whom I have
believed and I know God has a plan God
would not hurt me he would not hurt the
family he is a God of love and mercy he
has a plan
I’d give this over to you by faith and
I’ve gone through serious trials since
then and I have seen God allow that
faith to mature I fought a good fight
think about the present trial that
you’re going through right now let’s
talk about the ordeal the affliction of
the suffering that God has allowed into
your life you just as a father
have you accused God at this time of
needlessly taking you through something
you said I’ve been tested so much but
this is too much have you questioned God
has there have been having doubts or
fears and if you just felt like giving
up you know I don’t need to go to church
anywhere I don’t need to pursue the
Bible it doesn’t seem to be working we
don’t say it in those kind of words but
those thoughts rage through our mind and
is that how you are reacting to your
difficult time your hour of trial or and
this is what I believe this is where I
believe most and many of many and most
of you are here if you know the Lord if
you’re a lover of Christ you’re able to
sit here at this service this morning
while I preach this message and say
pastor Dave I know in whom I believed I
know that God has given me a confidence
in him I love my Lord and I’m going to
fight this I’m going to come through
this victorious I don’t doubt it I know
God has a purpose in it you see your
faith is matured and God doesn’t have to
take you through that another how many
tests do you go to before you pass
you know that if many of you have not
failed that test I’m not saying that
there won’t be tests but there comes a
time when God is going after more than
faith it’s not just faith he’s trying to
get from us you see God is preparing a
bride for his son he’s preparing and
many of you don’t know but the test you
what you’re going through now is not a
test it’s more than that God is looking
for more than that this bride that he’s
preparing for his son is getting a new
home and Jesus is the founder of the
maker but the Father the Son and the
Holy Spirit and I just read to you the
scripture Isaiah saw a picture of a new
world
he said God God is creating a new world
and a new heaven this world that we are
in now is going to vanish the scripture
says it’s going to pass away and God is
going to bring new galaxies into Korea
he’s creating it now the word create in
Hebrew is to bring into being
he said I’m creating new heaven and new
earth and you see what you’re going
through now is not testing but training
because in this new world where there
will be no pain no devil no trial no
testing in this new world will there be
no Sun and the moon nor stars because he
will be the son of our life this new
world will be populated with brand-new
bodies that body that goes down into the
grave is not the body that’s coming out
of the grave it’s a new body with a new
DNA of the Holy Spirit
it’s the daf christ himself you can’t
tell me God’s going to populate that new
world with lazy Saints or covetous and
living nothing but for materialism how
did God get Egypt or the children of
Israel out of Egypt see there’s a
promise
that represents where we’re going into
this new world this was a new world for
them and God had to allow affliction
there had to be taken into a furnace
everything had to become hard pressed so
that they could be weaned out of Egypt
they would have never accepted this call
to go they would have settled down with
their leeks and onions and garlic’s and
all of their fancy salads and saying we
are bread to eat this is heaven because
you see we have a whole generation not
like eat this one was at that time we
have a generation doesn’t want to heaven
they don’t talk about it you hear
anybody in the new generation this
modern generation talking about going to
heaven see they don’t want to have me
because that’s an interruption that
interrupts my good life rich man said
recently you know they they call them
toys the Mercedes and the enough young
Mercedes god bless it I hope God give
you a Rolls Royce huh that’s right
that’s not what I’m talking about but
you see those are toys they call them
toys and one rich man wrote this and I
think it’s a travesty said he who dies
with the most toys wins and this is the
attitude of so many in this modern age
they don’t want heaven there’s was
preacher that preached here in the
Northeast and I heard heard him say I
don’t want heaven bind by it and the
sweet by-and-by I want my mansion now is
he they don’t want heaven they don’t
want to talk about a new world we hear
the secularist in America and around the
world talking about the new world order
they have no idea what they’re talking
about the new world order is the new
creation that Isaiah is talking about a
new heaven and a new earth
and Isaiah said the old will not come
into mind the all
the world folks went one minute into
glory one minute into eternity your
trials that you’re going through now you
will not even remember Oh everything of
this old world will pass away only the
love the love of God the love of family
is going to to be able to pierce that
new world and enter that new world but
this is all passing away and God had to
go into Egypt and cause trial after
trial to wean them away until they were
ready to go until they cried enough of
this I don’t want this world I don’t
want this environment I don’t want to be
in Egypt anymore and when the Lord said
go they were ready to go many of us do
not realize that we needed to be winged
sometimes God sees us going into
materialistic way sometimes things in
our life getting out of control by our
own foolishness sometimes other times
that there are people that Satan enrages
in raises them to come against you and
the Bible says that’s that’s the dregs
of the cup and the Bible says God
chooses out of the fiery furnace he
chooses those that are in the fiery
furnace because he has eternal purpose
God is after something because you see
you can have faith and still not want to
have it you don’t have a longing for
Christ to be with him you can have faith
and you can move mountains but you don’t
have love you have nothing the scripture
says you see you can be tested you can
come out with the glowing faith but the
Lord wants more than that he wants to
get you out of the camp the Bible said
Jesus suffered outside the camp he said
therefore let us go with him outside the
camp and until God gets you outside a
camp that’s the world that’s the spirit
of this age
that’s this lust and covetousness for
materialism God blesses his people God
anything that you have you give him
Thanks I live in a nice home I Drive a
nice car but you see we have a
Christianity date and millions of
Christian these things are getting ahold
of their heart then they don’t have that
longing that yearning to go and be with
Christ Paul said I am caught between two
dilemmas he said of a dilemma caught
between two forces he said there’s
something in me that yearns and longs I
want to go and be with the Lord that was
not a morbid fixation on death he was a
well-used man he was a man who did
everything with his partly about his
days and fullness but Paul said I have
in me a longing a yearning to be with
the Lord face to face and if that is not
in us if we don’t have that constant
yearning if we don’t have the New
Jerusalem state of mind if we are
lingering here you see Jesus suffered
outside the camp outside the
ecclesiastical system outside the
political system outside of society
rejected outside the gate outside the
camp they pushed him out and God has a
wonderful way of pushing us out the gate
away from the things of the world and
the attractions this Bride of Christ
that God has repaired preparing for his
son God has to see that yearning he said
if I’m going to give my son to you and
if I give you my son I want to know that
there’s no other trucks and in your life
I want to know there’s no other longing
I want to know that he’s everything and
I want to know that you want to be with
him bodily face to face and that that’s
your dream and your if that’s your pull
in your heart that you want to be with
the Lord he’s Paul said to die is gain
he was not in this world Abraham said
I’m a sojourner I’m an alien I’m a
foreigner
in the promised land but I said he was
looking for something there was a
constant yearning every time he got up
every day this searching this longing of
heart he said I’m looking for a city
whose builder and maker is God the same
city that Isaiah is talking about in
prophesying about a new Jerusalem the
home of Christ in his beloved for
eternity is sitting here this morning
how about yesterday in this past week of
this past month has there ever been
thoughts of going home you’ve ever had
thoughts of saying Jesus I just want to
be with you I want to be with you in
that new world now we know his presence
is with us we talked about seeing Christ
face-to-face in the spirit but you see
these spirits of ours have to be trained
this body I’m going to get a new body
like unto his the scriptures as he said
that which goes into the ground is not
that which comes out but you see the
spirit that I have this morning Iowa
said worship Him in spirit and in truth
so the worship that I have when I’m
learning in the way of worship what I’m
learning in the way of praise he’s
training for that day how would you and
I expect that suddenly Christians who
who just live in constant anxiousness
live as though God were dead those that
don’t know how to praise the way through
their trial and that’s the only way
you’re going to come out of your trial
is to praise your way out to worship
your way out
you can come here and praise God in the
flesh you can come here and praise Him
in your body with your bodily mouth and
bodily lips but you see you can do all
of that without praising in the spirit
your spirit could be somewhere else your
spirit could be in the worried world it
could be there fretting outside of your
body your spirit God says I’m after your
spirit I want to change your spirit so
that you worship me in spirit and truth
and when you come home and when you see
me and you embrace me you will have
already been appraiser you have learned
in your spirit to worship and your
spirit will be one with my spirit
brother sister what you’re going through
is a training process you’re in school
this is going to praise the spiritual
school of true worship of heart and soul
mind and body behold I create a new
heaven and a new earth and the former
shall not be remembered nor come into
your mind be glad and rejoice forever in
that which I create for behold I create
Jerusalem for rejoicing and her people
for joy know this is that God saying
behold I am creating a new world order
but for that world order that new world
is a world of rejoicing he’s I’ve
created it is a house as a place of
rejoicing he said but I’m doing
something else now remember the word
create here in Hebrew is bringing
something into being in God said I I am
creating a people I’m putting together a
body I’m putting together the bride hood
for my son I’m doing that I’m creating
that and the scripture says these
prophets who are looking the future
speaking to our aides of the Bible says
they were speaking to those of the last
days and he solved that city and he saw
God preparing
and creating this new city he was
bringing it into being and even now that
world is under construction
you know our God is so big you could
take this entire cosmic entire all the
planets and all of the galaxies that
even man can’t see and the Lord is so
great God is so big and so mighty he can
have a whole new system whole new
galaxies even populated where his saints
are kings and priests and rulers that’s
beyond my comprehension I don’t want to
go there because when I get Jesus is
going to be big and broad enough in him
are the world’s unlimited and unknown
but you see said I’m preparing a people
for that prepared place and there is no
way in to conceptualize how that can
happen except by through the furnace and
through the suffering through the
tribulation and for the most part I
would say that many of you that are
going through it because you see the
closer you get to Jesus
the longer you walk with Him and the
more you trust him the more severe your
trial is going to be it’s going to be
very very severe sometimes because they
said I am making something I am creating
something here and he’s sculpturing and
he’s working it’s so far beyond me but I
do know that it’s very important how we
react to our trials in our trials how
are you reacting now what you’re going
through
how are you reacting to the difficulty
that you’re even now enduring now you
can you can just give up and many are
giving up all over the content around
the world we see them they’re just
quitting is it well I’m not mad at God
I’m just going to go my way I can’t live
under that intensity I can’t go that way
because when I get close to the Lord and
where I suffer yes you do but then you
you have something that others often do
not have and that’s the glory and power
and the understanding of the ways of the
comforter you know how now to face the
devil and all the powers of hell and be
unshaken and God has to have a people
who cannot waver who will not be shaken
in the dark dark times that are coming
where does he find these men where does
he find these women he finds them in the
furnace go to Hebrews well no I’ve been
there I don’t want to go to Hebrews
Abraham said for here we do not have a
lasting City that we’re seeking the city
which is to come let us go forth unto
them outside the camp bearing his
reproach Bible says if we suffer with
him we shall also be glorified together
false apostles said for I consider that
the sufferings of this present time and
not worthy to be compared with the glory
that’s going to be revealed in us Paul
said in your trial stop a minute get
your eyes on eternity get your eyes on
what is to come Bible said Jesus endured
the suffering for the joy that was set
before him all through his ministry and
time on earth he had his mind fixed on
the joy of that new world
please understand that is a believer
established in the Word of God there’s
not a there’s hardly any believer that
loves Jesus hearing me right now who’s
not established in the word you have the
word hidden in your heart you have
promises that can be brought to
attention at any moment
you’ve been well supplied God has said
that nothing befalls us but what he will
make a way for us to endure and how you
react is so important because there’s a
danger if we don’t immediately do what
Isaiah told the children of Israel do is
it he came to Jerusalem and Jerusalem
had gone through some severe testing
severe trials and afflictions incredible
they were staggered so stupefied they
were sitting in the dust and Isaiah came
on the scene he was shocked he said
these are God’s people with all the
promises and look at him their Zion is
sitting in the dust with a chain around
her neck go to Isaiah 53 Isaiah 52
Isaiah 52 verses one through three awake
awake put on thy strength o Zion put on
that beautiful garment so Jerusalem the
holy city for henceforth there so no
more come into the uncircumcised the
unclean shake thyself from the dust
arise and sit down Oh Jerusalem loose
thyself from the bands of thy neck o
captive daughter of Zion for thus saith
the Lord you sold yourself for nothing
you should be redeemed without money
Lord help me now to speak what you’re
putting in my mind help me to see it and
I want you congregation to pray God give
you insight and give you ears to hear in
eyes to see what the prophet Isaiah is
because you see we are spiritual Zion
and those of us that are sitting here
now going through the time of our life
go are going through most difficult time
and affliction you see this this tsiyon
of Jerusalem historical Jerusalem the
people this this is speeding
metaphorically but these people were so
stupefied so overcome by their
sufferings they just sat down feeling
weak
no strength and they had cast off their
robes they cast off their outer garments
and they’re sitting there saying I have
no strength I am so weak I am so undone
I I have I have no there’s no good thing
in me and Isaiah comes on the scene and
he he said to those in the dust shake
yourself from the dust rise and sit down
put on your strength put on your
beautiful garments who is our strength
but Jesus Christ what is our garment but
the garment of righteousness the robe of
righteousness
the Bible says ‘native the prophet said
shake thyself from the dust now you can
sit in your problem and ask for some
kind of great miracle and God is a
miracle working God but there’s
something he expects of us he said I
want you to loose yourself from this
chain that’s on you this chain of
despair this chain of worry of the
future worrying about family worrying
about health worrying about all these
things he said you are bound by fetters
of weariness fetters of discouragement
and anguish he said
make yourself give yourself a lecture do
whatever you have to say I don’t have to
be in despair I don’t have to feel this
way you have the power in you you have
the authority in you to stand up and
take your place seated with Christ in to
have any place and say this is a lie
God is not against me I’m not going
through this because I’m a wicked evil
person I’m going through this because
I’m being trained to preach or to praise
God into work worship few weeks ago a
wave of despair a wave of something out
here into what the prophets talking
about the uncircumcised and the unclean
coming against us those are the powers
of hell uncircumcised Devils evil powers
of iniquity come in I just sat down in
the den in our house and good said
what’s wrong with you I said I don’t
know have you ever had that you don’t
know I don’t know where this came from
but I don’t I just don’t feel very
righteous I don’t feel like doing
anything you know how you go on and on
and you’re down and you got lost your
strength and you cast off your faith on
that holy Garnett God’s put on your back
and welcome to stairs in the middle of
stairs the Holy Spirit stopped me said
David stop it stop it right here
that’s flesh you have power of the flesh
through the Spirit that abides in you
and I got orders did it be glad in the
Lord rejoice in the Lord that was no
test of faith my faith wasn’t wounded
I’m going to close in just a minute but
remember the the three Hebrew children
Shadrach me second Abednego and and they
thrown into this furnace heated seven
times hotter that was no test of faith
it was faith that put him there
did you get it
let’s say well well what is it God was
training three Hebrew children for glory
because when the King looked in he bends
over and he looks in that fire and I’ll
tell you he sees four men he he turns to
this I said did we put three men in here
and they were all bound look at him
dancing and that fourth one looks like a
god it looks like a son of God and I
know what Jesus said as soon as he
manifested himself gentlemen get up
you’re not bound anymore
get up
folks we get bound by our own thoughts
by allowing these things to overpower us
and the word from the Lord right now is
saying I allowed God could have stopped
that but you see the king and that whole
eco system would have didn’t listen to
their holy lives didn’t listen to their
preaching didn’t listen their testimony
God said I’m going to give them an
object listen I’ll give them unless I’m
going to give me something they’re going
to hear and see what was it three saints
of God in the worst trial that could
ever be hold mankind and there they are
seeing Christ in his reality there they
are and the king is saying there God is
going to be my gut folks
look around you don’t look far fourth
man is right in your furnace the fourth
man is right there
let’s stand
hallelujah
I want to say it again and not what you
listen closely there are many many of
you here
godly Saints lovers of Christ you’ve
never heard it before probably you may
not want to believe it but often it’s
bent your faith that puts you in this
situation is your faith God says now I’m
going to take that faith and I’m going
to put it in divine order I’m going to
make it pure gold this is coming out of
this fire divine purpose a yearning
heart weaned from the spirit of this age
weaned so that there’s a growing desire
to be with the Lord yes I’m going to
work well it’s that day I’m going to do
everything that God empowers me to do
but in it all and through it all going
to have my eyes on the New Jerusalem
Heavenly Father you spoke to my heart
that there would be a number of people
here this morning some that make this
their church home and others that walk
into this building in the Annex and here
in the main auditorium
who are really truly up against
something they can’t get over they can’t
understand it’s beyond them and Lord you
have to do something for us this morning
so that this is not just a pep talk but
there’s something of truth that pierces
the heart and lays hold of it and new
hope and new faith rises that God has a
purpose that the Lord is training me the
Lord is working weaning me in creating
Mia longing to leave this world for his
world and not be tied
not be distracted in Jesus name
now if the message this morning was
something that is yours in other words
you stand here right now saying Pastor
Dave that you’re talking about me I’m
truly going through it and there’s some
I would like to come down I want you to
come down if you say personally I’ve
been on the brink I’ve been pretty close
to saying I can’t go anymore I can’t
live like this invite you to step out of
your seat and come here in the annex
here in the main auditorium upstairs go
to the stairs on either side and sell
pasta David I I have got to touch God
I’ve got to I don’t want to leave this
house the way I came in
now if you don’t know Christ if you if
you’re not walking with Jesus if you
have known him if you’ve slipped away
from your love for him you’ve grown cold
or indifferent invite you if the Holy
Spirit’s talking to come and join these
that are coming now if you don’t know
the Lord is Savior all you have to do is
right now say Jesus I surrender Jesus I
give it all to you Jesus I trust you I
trust you with my life I don’t have to
lead you to prayer you say that right
now where you stand and the Lord said
he’s more willing to give the you are to
receive he’s more willing to forgive
than you are to be forgiven so right now
say Jesus at this moment in this place I
surrender my life to you just say it
right now you can whisper it he if he
can read your mind he can hear your
whisper just say Lord Here I am if
you’ve been back slidden
Lord I’m coming home I’m coming back to
your arms Lord Jesus draw me now and
I’ll run after you do that right now
and the rest of you live in the aisles
in here whoo folks the whole church and
now in the annex all of us in the annex
the Lord spirit is moving there as well
as in this auditorium and the Bible said
God inhabits the praises of his people
and I want you to pray I want you to
praise the Lord as though you were
heading home right now I’ll tell you
what if if God somehow could just
manifest himself and we saw
manifestation and the Lord said let’s go
follow me and he took it right through
that tissue that separates time and
eternity and you break through I’m going
to tell you you would not be standing
there like you’re standing now you would
not be standing I would not be here I
would be leaping I would be dancing I
would be praising God and the truth is
he said he could come at any moment the
truth is I may be prophesied right now I
don’t know that but we are we this is
not your citizenship you you have a
papers yes thank God for me I love
America this is not my home
we are so journey we’re passing on we’re
passing through we’re going to go home
I want in the annex here in Maine a term
we’re not working something up my Baba
said make me loud joyful noise unto the
Lord if if Heaven the new heaven new
earth that’s being created and under
construction even now if God said I
created that as a place of praise and
rejoicing and joy you do what about this
is your say he wouldn’t tell you to
loosen those bands if you couldn’t do it
he said you loosen those bands you shake
them off by a step of faith I will not
take this anymore
my God is with me this is the conclusion
of the message