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when God lays his hand on you when God
leaves his hand on you
let’s pray
heavenly father I pray for a miracle
tonight
I pray for all the young people all the
boys all the girls all the teenagers in
this place
that you would speak to them Holy Ghost
and when they leave this church tonight
they will never be the same and I pray
Lord for the young people the young
married couples the singles I pray for
the adults for every one of us here God
we had a reason for laying this message
on my heart you spoke it to me and you
said preach it and I will bless it and I
will anoint it tonight it’s a simple
message
but God when you lay your hand on
somebody What a Wonder it is what an
incredible thing to have God come down
put his hand on us and change us so that
we’re never the same
put your hand on young people tonight
put your hand on people all through this
congregation Lord stretch out your hand
ask them let the fire of your hand burn
Let the Fire of your hand mark them for
life that they’ll never be the same in
Jesus name I pray amen
there’s nothing greater
for a boy a girl a teenager
a young person adult there’s nothing
greater on Earth as far as I’m concerned
than to have the hand of God placed upon
you to have the hand of God touch you
the touch of his hand changes your life
forever
you can never after that
uh be the same
I’ve I’ve shared with this congregation
a few times I think of
that I remember the time and the place I
remember all the circumstances
when Jesus laid his hand on me when I
was eight years old
in fact I went back
just a year or so ago back to that spot
after all these years I remember that
spot and it’s how it I went back
recently last year and I knelt right at
that spot and I began to break again
just as I did when I was eight years old
and evangelist said come and give your
life and there’s something in me Rose up
and said God I want to give my life and
I was only eight years old and it was at
the Living Waters Campground cherry tree
Pennsylvania
and I walked down there was nothing but
a dirt floor sawdust and straw on the
floor
and nobody recognized who I was I was
just a skinny little kid I had big horn
Rim glasses that had those look like
bottoms of Coke bottles
I mean that thick your eyes look like
little bug eyes when you look at them
from the other side
I was so skinny I was a I was a a really
they mocked me in school they made fun
of me nobody would have known that
skinny little horium glass kid with big
ears night you don’t know how big my
ears are I haven’t covered I’ve learned
to comb my hair so you can’t tell
and I’m about to stick it back and show
you
nobody that night would have known that
little scared boy
who was at times confused thought nobody
uh could see him that there was nothing
uh really just felt awkward very awkward
because I they made so much fun of me in
school and to walk down nobody noticed
me kneeling there but the Holy Ghost did
Jesus heard my cry and I lifted my hands
and said Jesus I’m eight years old but I
want you to use my life
I want to preach like my dad preaches
and like my granddad preaches and I want
to be a minister I want you to touch me
and as soon as I prayed that spirit of
God came on me and filled me with the
Holy Ghost mightily and I began to speak
another language of heaven and I fell
over I Remember by the power of the Holy
Ghost I was just laying in the sawdust
and straw
and a gray-haired man daddy Chase he was
a superintendent of the sons of God in
Pennsylvania District
and he came up and laid hands on me I
still remember getting up in that
white-haired man and he prophesied over
me and said God use this young man you
heard his cry and used him and he
prophesied over me now I got up that I I
why it was at least an hour and a half
or two hours that I laid there
I but I I know that that night
Jesus
Touched Me Jesus put his hand on me
I remember no that didn’t turn me into a
saint
I didn’t get up and was changed in any
way I still had the little David
Wilkerson temper I always had
I remember the next day going out and
playing football with my brother Jerry
on the campground and and nobody would
have thought I didn’t think anything
great about it I didn’t say well hey
something changed my life last night I’m
going to be a preacher but I knew
something had happened at all to that
I’d been touched
and it would be for life God made this
little mind of mine to understand that
and and I have understood that all
through my life I have from that time on
yes I had problems I had problems in
school I barely made it through school
my grades were terrible
and no problem confessing there’s no
teacher going to catch up with me now in
the office
I got no penalty to pay I can tell you
I barely got through school
and my last
year I don’t even know how they kept me
in school I skipped half my senior year
playing hooky
now I’m trying to just tell you that I
wasn’t a saint
but I remember when I was 10. 12 15
years of age every time I go to the
house of God there was something pulling
tugging at my heart and I never forgot
the time that he touched me
and there was something rising up and I
knew that I always loved the Lord there
was a heart for God and when I was about
15 years old I remember getting a loan
when other kids were pregnant I would go
in my room and pray and seek God the
spirit of the Lord would come upon me I
do know that I would read my Bible I
would go in the Book of Psalms I’d love
to read about the kings in in Kings and
and and uh deuteron or other Chronicles
and I still love reading through the
Kings and Chronicles and those stories
of David and Samson and those intrigued
me and I would I would preach my little
sermons when I was 17 year old so I I
God opened the door so I could begin to
preach but I am here in this Pulpit
tonight because the Lord put his hand on
me Jesus touched me when I was eight
years old that’s why I’m here
and every every day of my life now ever
since I’ve been in New York for example
there’s not a day goes by when I’m in
prayer that the Lord keeps Whispering
the Holy Spirit keeps saying David I
have my hand on you my hand is on you
every problem I’ve faced in this church
in the past uh nine ten years since
we’ve been here any time has been
difficult anything else this is what God
has always told me I go to him with
every trouble every everything and he’d
say Amen
I’ve got my hand on you you walk
enveloped in my hand my hand is upon you
my hand I feel his hand on me right now
the hand of God the hand of Jesus was
placed on my heart
you’re sitting here tonight you say I
don’t know if that’s ever happened to me
David could could say
uh very clearly he said you have
enclosed me behind and before and you’ve
laid your hand upon me such knowledge is
too wonderful for me that Psalms 139
verses 5 and 6.
David knews something had happened I
don’t know where it happened it’s
probably happened out when he was
watching sheep
he’s out there and he’s just a boy and
God began to open his heart and draw him
and and make him know that he was going
to be different not that he was going to
be uh some great personality or anything
like this but it was going to be
different and that he had a heart for
God
the hand of the Lord would be put upon
him
and he said you you have closed me in
you’ve beset me before and behind and
what David’s saying somewhere in my past
in you may have remembered he may not
but he said you close me into yourself
you you put your spirit around me and
you surrounded me so that I was set up
with you God and when you set me into
yourself you put your hand on me and he
said the thought of that is too much for
me and I stand here and I think of the
hand of God upon me the souls he’s
allowed me to reach the drug addicts the
big one to the Lord around the world I
don’t boast in my flesh
but I thank God for one day a skinny
scared little boy walks down an aisle
and I just caught Jesus touch me put
your hand upon me he heard that cry
and he’ll hear your cry tonight if you
pray it because he’s no respecter of
persons
I have four children
God touched all their lives
all sharing in the ministry now I’ve got
11 grandchildren and I want every one of
those grandsons that are here tonight
know that they’re not a day your grandpa
doesn’t pray for you and I pray God make
a preacher out of every one of you
little Ashley and and David and and
Brandon I say little are big guys now
but when I mean when they were little I
used to make him preach I mean from
three or four years old they open a song
book and preach out of a song book and
and we would be there and we would sing
and clap and even let them take an
offering and
I want you to know your grandpa knew
what he was doing
uh-huh
now that whole time I’ve seen Jesus
put your hand on him like you put it on
me
his father my son Gary
was with me in a crusade he didn’t go
too many times but I was down in Asbury
College and I preached that night and
hundreds of college kids came to the
Lord and I’m standing there and I’m
looking down there’s a little boy and I
think there’s a little kid down there
with all his college students sitting in
front and he’s crying just had his hands
up it was Gary
and that night
Jesus put his hand
on him it was about my age
Hallelujah
and maybe tonight
what happened again
I’m not preaching just to my grandsons
I’m preaching to you I don’t care who
you are in this building tonight
there Comes A Time
when the heart gets so hungry for Jesus
there’s such a cry inside oh Jesus I
don’t want my life to be wasted I want
you to take my life in your hands and
use it and the lord always hears that
cry and his hand comes forward and he
touches one here he touches another here
I’m not talking about getting saved I’m
not talking about just you know
surrendering your heart to the Lord I’m
talking about one who’s already
surrendered and and somebody that says
oh Jesus I want a heart for you I want
my life to count I want you to use me
and how did that hunger and out of that
thirst comes the hand of Jesus lays it
on the head
the life is never the same Hallelujah
Psalms
139 David tells us what life is like for
anybody
who Jesus has touched I want to go to
Psalm 139 if you will please Psalm 139
I’m gonna give you seven ways
shows us that you can know that God’s
hand has been touched upon you you can
do it Psalm 139
let me hear the leaves Russell
Psalm 139
now look at me please before I go any
further
I’m not
please do
I make a lot of noise in this Pulpit
sometimes
I have a
Lord tonight
this is the Cry of my heart for a long
time it’s been oh God raise up out of
this congregation young men and women to
be missionaries and pastors and
evangelists send them out in the Harvest
so get hold of drug addicts and and
those who who
the devil would say their lives have
been wasted and take these lives oh God
grace up people that will
the hand of the Lord placed upon them
and say Lord take it as a sacrifice now
and that’s the mission that God’s called
me on tonight you see
a Pastor Dave
I don’t think I can remember
any time like that in my past life I
don’t remember
that you’ve forgotten about when you
were younger
someplace in the back way in the back in
your past
before you knew anything about it was
there some little cry when you were five
or six years old even there was a little
cry and a hunger old Jesus Touched Me
Jesus I want to know you could it be a
grandma grandpa a mother a father an
uncle or Aunt somebody that came into
your house came to your apartment and
you didn’t know you’re just a little
child and they laid hands upon you and
said Jesus touch this child
could it be one of these that we
dedicate to the Lord and we anoint him
with oil and say Jesus set them apart
and many times I pray for children we
dedicate God put your hand on them touch
them change their lives use them
I don’t know whether you can look back
in your life and say I had a time like
that
could have been later in life it could
have been five years ago ten years ago I
don’t care how what your age is but
there was a time
if God touched you there was a time
there’s some way that God will make you
know by his holy spirit
yes bulla Dave I sit here tonight and I
know that I had a touch from the Lord I
really had a touch from the hand of God
there are many of you can say that who
are listening to me right now but if you
don’t know you say I would like to know
whether or not the Lord has touched me
in a special way
now folks she’s no respecter of persons
and I’m not trying to build a certain
group of people up as as being something
special
but but there is something unique about
what I’m talking about when the Lord
I don’t know how he chooses I know he
doesn’t choose on beauty
I know he doesn’t choose on strength
human strength
I don’t think he chooses just on
intelligence alone because I’m a good
example of all of that
that he didn’t choose because of
now he can use all of these things
I don’t know why
he would choose you
any more than I know why he chose me
but I want you to go with me into the
139th Psalm and I’m going to give you
seven ways
to know whether or not God’s hand
has touched you the hand of Jesus been
stressed out and touched you and if
Jesus is touched if these seven things
are working your life
mark it down you’ll never get away from
it I don’t care if you backslide I don’t
care if you try to give yourself to the
devil I don’t care what you do
you’re not going to get away from this
so you might as well surrender tonight
it’s the hand of Jesus
all right seven ways and the Holy Ghost
gave me this and it’s all right here in
139th psalm like number wait number one
way to know whether Jesus has put his
hand upon you to set you apart to use
you
number one there will be times
you will feel very very close to God
you will fill a drawing
a pulling toward him
listen to it it’s right here
and uh
the first verse that I read to you let’s
start verse one O Lord thou has searched
me and known me thou knowest my down
sitting my Uprising thou understanding
my thought afar off Encompass my path my
lying down and you’re acquainted with
all my ways there’s not a word in my
tongue but oh Lord thou knowest it all
together thou Hast be sent me behind and
before and you’ve laid your hand upon me
and I look at me please
is there something in you and I want you
to listen very very closely to what I’m
saying because the holy spirit is put on
my heart
you find yourself losing interest in
what other people are doing
you you look at the people that are
doing stupid foolish things young
personally ask you do you sometimes feel
like you’re out of place
you feel like you don’t fit you look
around you and say
I want to do
everybody’s all excited about
everybody’s having fun doing this and
you’re over here saying that’s stupid
that’s not right
well everybody tries to get you to be
involved in something that’s evil and
wicked there’s something in you that
draws back and you feel condemned you
feel convicted there’s a conviction to
the holy spirit it’s because the Lord’s
building a wall around you
because he wants to touch you he wants
to use he’s put his hand on you so
whatever he touches he protects he’s
putting the wall around you and you’re
different
you you somehow know it’s not because
you think you’re great and sometimes you
think very very insignificant of
yourself but I have there’s something
that keeps pulling you I’ve had that
ever since I was eight years old
something keeps drawing me back to Jesus
even through Fusion even when I had
doubts and fears there was always
something pulling at me it was the Lord
calling me fooling me saying David come
to me come to me every time I go to
church every time I hear a missionary
I’d feel the pull the tongue it’s the
tongue of the Holy Ghost
you ever you feel that tongue when you
sit in a holy ghost meeting do you feel
that pull toward the lord when you’re
walking these streets and you see
everybody around you laying on the
streets and drunk and high and there’s
something in you that says Jesus
I may not be where I’m at but I thank
you
I’m not on the streets I thank you
for what you’ve done for me
there is something in your heart
that is drawn to the Lord I can’t
explain others around you many of them
won’t have that drawing or occasionally
they would but there’s a constant
drawing in your heart toward the lord
he said he surrounded me
what what it means is God has you
cornered
I mean God says hey I have a purpose for
your life you’re not going to waste your
life like everybody around you what I’m
talking about those sinner friends
around you and other you’re not going to
waste your life
you’re not going to be comfortable with
that I’m going to make you feel out of
place here you’re going to feel out of
place in school you’re going to feel out
of folks I fell out of place all through
my school years
I fell out of place
no that doesn’t mean you can’t be active
in school
but you know when God touches you
nothing
works but him
your part you’re here and you’re doing
what everybody else does you’re a part
of it but you’re still not a part of it
there’s something there that draws you
apart
Hallelujah
you’ll be set me behind and before
there are there’ll be times you’d
understand why you feel like you feel
there’ll be times you wonder if even God
is with you
but then that passes and there’s always
that drama but oh Jesus I still love you
there’s something there you don’t
understand the things of God yet
you may have some
deep
problems inside your heart
but there’s something in you you care
for people you see the the one who has
the hand of Jesus placed on him he puts
a caring concern for people you know I
can tell the young people I can kill boy
or girl or teenager who has the hand of
Jesus on them well everybody else around
them all their friends are laughing at
ugly people
and fat people and skinny people like I
was
and people with marks on their face and
people that are uh crippled and deformed
and everybody around them is making fun
this one
goes up
and makes a friend
of that one
makes a friend
there’s there’s something there where
everybody’s is making fun of things and
you see it as different you you have a
heart almost like there’s a crying
inside when you see people hurting
because the Lord’s giving you a Caring
Heart when he touches you he gives you
concern and care about other people
that’s what he did for me that’s when I
came to to New York uh years ago when I
saw the picture of seven boys indicted
for murder I wept over those boys and I
said Jesus you know here in New York
City they’re saying give them the
electric chair and people were saying
even Christians in the church said they
ought to lock him up for life and throw
the key away but there was a young
preacher down in Texas it was weeping
over this oh Jesus has anyone ever
talked to the butt you has anybody ever
talked to him about their soul
and I felt grief and it was that weeping
I wept all the way to New York City I
got kicked out of that murder trial and
I wept I wept all through this city and
I went for drug addicts and alcoholics
and that’s why today there are teen
challenge centers all over the world
because years ago
the Lord said I’m going to surround you
and I’m going to give you a Caring Heart
and I’m going to draw you to myself
you have a Caring Heart and you know God
let you know that brother Dave I know I
maybe I don’t care like I should but I
know when people around me are making
fun I don’t make fun
I’m not a part of that okay number one
I’ve got to hurry on here
number two you can never get away from
the voice of the Holy Spirit
wherever you go
there he is
you can’t get away from the Holy Ghost
Jonah heard the voice of the Lord God
put his hand on Jonah and Jonah tried to
run
now almost everyone who has the hand of
God many many try to run from it I’ve
tried to run from the hand of Jesus you
can’t run from it Jonah winds up in the
belly of well and God takes him down to
the very gates of hell he goes down Into
the Depths and Jonah thought that he had
failed God and that God could never save
him again
couldn’t get away he said in the belly
of the well I cried out and the Lord
heard me again
this is a wonderful thing when the Lord
puts his hand upon you
you can never get away
from the still Small Voice you can’t get
away from the voice of the holy spirit
because he keeps
he keeps Jeremiah said How can any hide
himself in a secret place that I shall
not see him do I not fill Heaven and
Earth saith the Lord
listen to me please when I Was preparing
this message the Holy Spirit told me to
stop right here
because there were going to be people in
this church tonight hearing me this
simple simple message
the Lord told me they’re going to be a
few adults here
and there may be some teenagers as well
young people
but God made it clear that there are
some of you having a joint experience
right now
you are trying to run from the Lord I
believe there may be four or five
ministers here that have been you just
have had it you you are ready to say
that’s it that’s it
I know that as soon as I stand here I’m
speaking into the spirit into the heart
as some in a balcony here in the main
floor wherever you’re at
you say I’ve had it I can’t take it
anymore I’m I’m going my own way
but let me inform you please you can do
that you can go your own way if God
hadn’t put his hand on you Jonah could
have stayed in Tarsus Lord would have
let him go and wouldn’t even uh take him
through the belly of the well if God had
laid his hand on him but see when the
Lord has his hand on you can’t run
the Holy Ghost will hounds you until he
brings you back
there’s nothing worse than the Hound of
Heaven and the Holy Ghost will Hound you
you ever hear of Holy Ghost Miserables
you try to run from God and you see what
happens you’ll get out of the will of
God and you see what happens if you
think you’re down now if you think it’s
hard now here’s way
because the Lord’s not about to let you
go
I’ve known of ministers who’ve walked
out on their Ministries and they thought
well I’m just going to get a I’m just
going to get a job I’m going to uh I’m
not gonna preach anymore
I’ve had it
better to sell insurance better to do
something these now these are all
honorable uh careers
but you see when God calls you and when
God says I’m going to make your fisher
of men he’s not going to let you sell
insurance or anything else
he’s going to get you back into the boat
fishing
I’m going to tell you whoever you are in
this service now
God told me to tell you
that he has his hand on you and he put
his hand on you you can’t get away
you try anything you want it’s not going
to work
you say brother Wilkinson I know people
that have been running for years ah but
the story hadn’t been told yet
God still the Holy Ghost will will speak
and speak till the last breath
number three
even if you try to make your bed in hell
will still uphold you look at verse 8.
verse 8 if I Ascend up into heaven Thou
Art there if I make my bed in hell
behold Thou Art there if I take the
wings of the morning and dwell the
uttermost parts of the sea even there
shall thy hand Lead Me thy right hand
shall hold me
look at me please when it says if I make
my bed in hell
it means I hear somebody that’s in
Rebellion listen closer somebody’s in
Rebellion says look I can’t take this
anymore I don’t see the hand of God on
my life I don’t I just don’t want this
anymore and there’s a spirit of
rebellion Rises up and says I’m going my
own way and reading what it means in in
the original Hebrews I give myself over
to the devil I just give myself I’m
going to give myself into hell I’m going
to lay down in my sin
and and the psalmist David is the
psalmist here is saying if if even if I
I say that’s enough and I give up and I
try to make my bed in hell
even there your hand will hold me
the hand that touched you will hold you
you see brother Wilkerson you’re trying
to say that I could never backslide I’m
not saying that
I’m saying that God knows why some
people give up he knows the despair he
knows people come to the end of the Rope
he knows that they come to their wit’s
end and he knows we make stupid mistakes
but when the Lord puts his hand on you
he’s not going to let you go
he will go with you into your deepest
Despair and go into your deepest sin
and you’re going to say
I’m not letting go
my hand on you I am not letting go
how many have left
uh Timothy house
walked out went up and said that’s
enough and they go out for a night
a week
and all hell breaks loose
and
suddenly they find themselves in a room
with their Bible again
and they’re looking in and the Lord said
I’ll cleanse your blood
if something Rises up and they get on
the phone says can I come back
what is it it’s the hand of God you
tried to make your bed in hell and God
says I have my hand on you
Hallelujah
they will try to destroy my son Gary
came home when there’s a senior in high
school
said threw himself in the bed he said
dad there’s no God
there’s no God
the devil tried to literally destroy him
the devil wanted to make his bed in hell
the devil wanted that boy to say go out
and be like the rest go out and give
yourself to the devil just go out and
give yourself
and I I was so shocked and yet the Lord
didn’t let me show it on my face
and I I couldn’t reason with me because
sometimes when you go through this
testing of your faith as a young person
no dad no Mom nobody can help you you’re
all alone with Jesus
but the Lord if you have a heart for him
he’ll bring you through that if you just
say Lord I don’t understand help me
understand he’ll give you the
understanding and all I could do is pray
for three months my son went through
that but I know one thing the hand of
God was on him and I didn’t have to
worry I prayed for him but I knew God
was going to hold him through it some of
you going through the test of your life
and God’s hand is on you and my Bible
says even though you make your bed in
hell I’m gonna hold you even the devil
tries to destroy you I’m going to bring
you out
glory to God let that be hope
for you here tonight
okay
see let’s go to number what was that
number let’s go to number four
by the way
God’s hand is a restraining hand
he sure is I tell you what I have
experienced God’s restraining power his
hand keeping me from doing stupid dumb
things
from doing sinful things all my life I
felt God pulling me back it says all
right others can do it you can’t do it
you can’t do it I’ve got my hand done
you can’t go that way and God pulled me
back have you ever felt God’s
restraining hand it’s on you he pulls
you back from the break he keeps pulling
on you
thank God for that
he let you go so far and you won’t go
any further you notice that
that’s because his hand is on you it’s
restraining you thank God for that
number four
when God keeps breaking through your
Darkness with light
verses 11 12. if I say surely the
darkness will cover me even the night
shall be light unto me a the darkness
hideth not from thee but the night
shines is the day the darkness and the
light are both alike to thee white look
at me please this is so important David
said
guard my lamp O Lord the Lord will
lighten my darkness
in verse 6 thou Hast laid
in Psalms 88.
I don’t I’m not going to read it if you
go to Psalms 88 therefore you go to bed
you’ll hear one of the most mournful
pitiful chapters and books in all the
Bible
absolute oh God you have forgotten me
you’ve laid Me In Chains I’m in prison
I’m like a forgotten man and all the
confusion and the hurt and the pain
David knew what that was all about
darkness and in Psalms 88 the writer
says you left me in darkness and in
Hebrew it says you left me in darknesses
plural not just one Darkness but
darkness and you have left me in a pit
and the writer says Lord there’s
Darkness but the darkness hideth not
from the light
and here’s the difference when the Lord
has his hand on you
there may be times that you go through
Darkness
not just one Darkness but many
darknesses
but Jesus always comes through with his
light he always
gives you peace and rest and you begin
to see the face of Jesus in your trouble
I visited not too long ago I told you
about a young lady in Yonkers hospital
she’s been there for months
and to come to this church he used to be
in a wheelchair
here and uh I went to the hospital
and I heard a tragic story
you talk about Darkness here’s a young
woman that is had suffered at the hands
of doctors being misdiagnosed
mistreated
and those mistreatments mistoculations
he had one serious problem after another
in a hospital for months
and a few months ago a sore broke out I
think it was on her leg and she went to
the hospital I don’t know if gang ring
had said it I don’t remember all the
details of it
was being suddenly rushed into
the operating room
and she thought they were just going to
cut around the sore
when she woke up was in her room she
reached out
you feel pain
and she reached out to feel where the
the sore had been there was no leg
they took her leg
evidently I I suppose her mother had
signed the papers I don’t know I don’t
didn’t get all the details but she said
Pastor Dave I woke up without a leg
and I thought oh
I don’t know how I’m gonna be able to
minister to her
she wound up ministering to me
she began to smile she said you know
this this was awful this has been tragic
but she said I love him
he’s been precious to me and he’s been
real to me
you see the hand of the Lord had been
placed on her
and you can always tell it when the
darkness comes when the trial is coming
when the confusion comes
because this person is the hand of God
on it they don’t run around complaining
and murmuring although they’ll be a
shock there’ll be something to come out
and say God why at first but then the
heart begins to settle down and Jesus
begins to come and they remember the
touch of God and in this young lady she
just began to Worship the Lord because
the all her doctors could not hide the
light
Hallelujah
did you have that in you in any measure
at all are you able in your Darkness to
still worship Him are you still able to
praise the Lord and the light breaks
through
that’s one of the evidences of the hand
of God upon your life
let me give you number five
if you have a growing knowledge in you
that your birth was not in vain
God had a plan for your life even when
you’re in your mother’s womb even in
your mother’s womb womb verses 13.
to 18 for thou has possessed my range
thou has covered me in my mother’s womb
I will praise thee for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made marvelous are thy
works that my soul knows right well my
substance was not hid from thee When I
Was Made In Secret curiously right in
the lowest parts of the earth your eye
did see my substance yet being unperfect
in thy book all my members were written
which in continues were fashioned
when is yet there was none of them how
precious also are thy thoughts unto me o
God how great is the sum of them if I
should count them they’re more a number
than I then the sand When I Wake I’m
still with thee look at me please
David said Lord I know something I know
that you called me when I was in my
mother’s womb I know
the folks listen
young people listen to me good now
I know this is serious I stand here and
I have the mind of the Holy Spirit
if Jesus has touched you
you’re going to know it the holy
spirit’s going to know it
by showing you somewhere along the line
he’s going to start showing you
my life has a purpose to it
God is not going to let me waste my life
I wasn’t born my mother didn’t bring me
into this world
just to end up as a waste of drug addict
or an alcoholic or a bum
I wasn’t born for that
I was born for God’s Eternal purpose for
my life than even before I was born god
named me in the womb my bad mom may have
given me name but the Lord has a name
for me also that he chose and even when
I was being formed in my mother’s womb
the Lord put his hand upon me he the
Lord didn’t put his hand on me just when
I was down there he put his hand on me
when I was in the womb in fact before I
was born he had thoughts good thoughts
toward me he said I’ve got a plan for
David
I’ve got a plan
and there are many of you sitting here
right now the Lord had a plan for you
even in your mother’s womb I don’t care
if your mother was a drunkard God could
have put his hand upon you
he’s there’s a sense there’s a sense
it’s not just I don’t call it a sense of
Destiny I have known all my life
I never felt special
I never felt great
I’ve had a hard time all my life of
feeling inferior that’s not been it but
I’ve known I know it when I pray I know
it when I preach I know where everywhere
I go I know when the enemy comes against
me I know it every waking hour that when
I was a baby in my mother’s womb Jesus
put his hand on me
God it you could be like Bernie Savior
Jesus could have caught Jesus didn’t
call him 10 years ago Jesus called him
before he was born
put his hand upon him he had to go
through so much trial and testing before
he came into the realization but the
Lord had his hand all away even though
he made his bed in hell
and so many of you here right now it
took a long time but God had his hand on
you
here’s his hand on you tonight
Hallelujah
there’ll be a voice in you that keeps
saying
you’re here for a purpose
you’re here for a reason
God says I’m going to show it to you I’m
going to use you Hallelujah
number six
when you grieve are you ready for this
when you grieve
the way Sinners treat the Lord
and when you feel hurt over the
sinfulness of wicked people that’s in
verse 19 and 22. look at it surely
thou will slay the wicked o God depart
from the old bloody men they speak
against thee wickedly oh God thy enemies
take thy name in vain do not I hate them
O Lord that hate thee am not I grieve
with those that rise up against thee I
hate them with a perfect hatred I count
them my animation now that doesn’t mean
you hate people but you hate their sin
young young people I’m going to ask
teenagers here
you heard last week about the two
teenage lovers
who gave birth to a baby in a motel
and the autopsy shows that the baby
evidently was beaten on the head
and it’s killed
how do you feel about that
do you ever cry inside do you cry about
that is there a cry
you see the the the amazing thing is
that if they had waited just uh or if
they had just called an abortion doctor
10 minutes before
and he had brought his suction machine
in and pucked a hole turned the baby
around and poked a hole in the brain and
sucked the brain out it would have been
a legal death it would have been legal
maybe 15 minutes apart
I don’t justify what those kids did but
there has to be a grief in your heart
where we have a society that has robbed
children of their fear of death Rob
children of their value of life
so that these things can be done
all right
you see young person are you here
tonight and when you see all the wicked
things are being done against the name
of Jesus does it grieve you when you
hear your friend’s curse you have a
grief in your sight is there a sadness
they’re taking the lord’s name in vain
had to touch God on you
you hate sin
you hate it you can’t go to a movie like
I preached this morning you can’t go to
a movie where the name of Jesus is
cursed
you can’t sit and watch a VCR movie
where the name of Jesus Christ is taken
in vain because there’s a cry in your
heart and you’ll turn it off immediately
because you have a grief in your heart
you grieve
the way they treat your savior they you
grieve about it
Hallelujah
it was just like uh I have to tell you
this when Gary was just about eight
years old or so my wife doesn’t want me
to tell him I don’t know but she was
supposed to be back from the hairdresser
I had to leave her Newark Airport
and she wasn’t there
and I had to just I bundled Gary up we
rushed to the Newark Airport I didn’t
know what to do so he didn’t have
clothes or anything uh clothes on his
back and so I took him with me to
Minneapolis
I got to Minneapolis and called
she was in panic
and so the stewardess overheard me and
she said Reverend she said look I’m
going right back in a flight he’s such a
sweet kid he said she said I’ll put him
in first class I’ll watch over him have
your wife come and meet him so I said
fine
he gets on the airplane and that gal
sits beside and lights up a cigarette
and he starts preaching at her
they said Jesus doesn’t like that Jesus
doesn’t like that
that sounds that sounds childish but
folks there was something in the heart
already you see there was something
there
I I have to finish the last the last one
number six
now number seven wow number seven all
right
this is this is so important now before
we close verse 23 and 24 search me o God
and know my heart try me and know my
thoughts see if there be any wicked way
in me and lead me to the way Everlasting
if you have the hand of Jesus on you you
don’t want anything in your life that’s
evil or Wicked you don’t want anything
that would grieve the Lord in your life
you know some uh a prayer card was
handed to me I’m going to close in just
a minute this is evidently from a
teenager says
is it a sin to listen to music
like I’m listening to
rap songs
without explicit lyrics
will I go to hell
that’s what it says will I go to hell
last Sunday I had three young teenagers
girls back here and this ability uh
we’re listening to rap music is is this
wrong you know when you start asking
the Holy Ghost has convicted you if you
have to ask
a young person I didn’t put a name just
an initial
and I don’t want to embarrass you or
anything else but I want to tell you
something it all depends on whether you
want the hand of God on you all depends
if you want God to use your life now if
you want to be like everybody else
I don’t I don’t think your mom and dad
can tell you the kind of music you
should listen to because you see they
said college is a place where young
Rebels go to get even with their parents
to to to give themselves over to the
devil just get get even with their
parents they don’t want anybody to tell
them listen no preacher can tell you
your dad and mom can’t tell you but I’ll
tell you who we’ll tell you
that’s the Holy Spirit
and I’ll tell you what the Bible says
here those that have the hand of Jesus
upon them
they’re not afraid to be searched
they’re not they don’t hold on to it
says well I don’t care what anybody says
I don’t care what the Bible says until
everybody says this is my music is my
thing I do it whether it’s music
whatever it may be that’s evil or sinful
if you have the hand of Jesus on you
back away and say Jesus turn the light
on
show me
and Lord if this is wrong you show me
I’ll lay it down because I want your
hand on me I want you to use me I want
my life to count that makes all the
difference in the world
I ask you you don’t have to all all
seven of these things that work in your
life but I wonder how many of these
things are work in your life if you can
sit here tonight and say Pastor David
I know what you said tonight
these things are in my life
uh this grief of sin are you talking
about my willingness to lay anything
down that’s unlike Jesus
all of these things that work in my life
or many of these things that work in my
life listen don’t go the hard way come
the right way say Jesus I’m going to
surrender to your hand right now I’m
going to ask the holy spirit in the next
10 minutes
to speak to anybody in this building 21
years of age and under
if you’ve not yet
hand of Jesus on you
there’s something in you says Brother
David I want the hand of Jesus on me
I want Jesus to touch me in this meeting
tonight
let’s make it 25 and under let’s make it
those who are single only
first and I’ll get to the rest of you
I’m going to pray
we’re going to ask the Holy Spirit to go
all through balcony the main floor I’m
going to ask the Holy Spirit go all
through this church
I’m going to ask the Holy Spirit to put
his hand
to find everyone that’s reaching out if
you say Brother David
I want Jesus to touch my life tonight I
want to get up out of your seat come
down here and let me pray for you right
now because where you’re coming to right
now is the touch of his hand you’re
coming for the touch of his hand all
through this place Heavenly Father
find every young person 25 and under
find every one of them Lord that you
Desiring right now that you want to
touch
Lord bring them down to this Altar and
let them stand here and say Jesus
tonight I want to give my whole life to
you I want everything to be given to you
Jesus
touch me
Touch Me Jesus put your hand on me look
at me please every one of you up here
right now
folks I told you it’s going to be I I
told the choir before we started there’s
going to be a little different service
tonight
it’s it’s a little it’s a much different
altar call too I wish all of you out
there can see what the choir and I and
the musicians see here so many young
people
so many ready to give their lives and
everything to the Lord
how old are you son
22.
there’s a hunger it’s a reaching isn’t
there in your heart great reaching
toward the lord I feel drawn to that
some others all over here the Lord just
in a meeting like this
only eternity is going to tell
me to go look back to this service
tonight
the simplest probably one of the
simplest sermons I’ve ever preached
you can look back to this night
honey you will
yes
how old are you
16. will you give me your hand
Lord you’re you’re giving a tender
broken Spirit to her
you’ve already touched her thou Lord let
her know it
God let her follow through with you now
let nothing hinder the call of God
nothing in Jesus name Hallelujah
wonderful
congregation pray with me right now I’m
going to pray that God come down right
now and touch these lives come on now
everybody that loves the Lord every
parent and everyone else let’s pray
father I pray for these right now that
are standing at this altar area Lord go
deep by your Holy Spirit go deep into
their hearts
go deep Lord let nothing be missed
Holy Spirit Come
Jesus you’re walking Among Us
we walk among these in front of me
and put your arm around them and touch
them
touch them
so that they’ll never be the same
never be the same
thank you Lord
thank you Jesus I want everybody came
forward raise your hands raise both
hands to Heaven just raise them up and I
want you to pray this prayer with me
this will be the something that that
you’re reaching out to the Lord for pray
this simply from the innermost part of
your being Jesus
louder please Jesus
I reach out to you
from the depths of my heart
and I cry to you
I want my life to count
I want you to use me
touch me Jesus
put your hand upon me
call me
touch me
forgive me cleanse me give me power from
on high
help me to pray and seek your face and
to know your will for my life
now let me pray for you while you have
your hands raised Holy Spirit
I ask you you let there be a cry come
forth from the innermost being a cry
from these Lord you’re beginning a work
in their hearts right now
all eternity we’re going to tell that
this is the night Jesus came touch the
heart
touch the spark of life said this is
your night
separate yourself from the world come
out from among them be separate and
clean
give me your heart give me your music
give me your life give me your talents
give me everything give it to me and
I’ll use you I’ll change you
man amen amen now will you just keep
your hands raising thank Jesus right now
thank you in your own words just give
him thanks I thank you Jesus
I thank you Jesus
I give you praise Hallelujah
this is the conclusion of the message