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(The Sermon on the Mount and Prayer - Session 1) - Part 1
Gerhard Du Toit

Gerhard Du Toit (birth year unknown–present). Born and raised in South Africa, Gerhard Du Toit grew up in the Dutch Reformed Church and converted to Christianity during his first year at theological school near Cape Town. He trained as an evangelist in South Africa and spent five years preaching there before serving eight years with The Faith Mission in the British Isles, leading Deeper Life Conferences. In 1988, he began ministering in Canada, later joining The Faith Mission (Canada) and, since 2011, Life Action Canada with his wife, Janice. A sought-after global conference speaker, Du Toit is known for his intense preaching style, focusing on prayer, revival, and the Holy Spirit, urging believers to seek God’s presence and burden for souls. He has trained thousands of pastors in spiritual renewal, emphasizing a vibrant prayer life and deep scriptural knowledge. Du Toit and Janice have a daughter, Monica, who is also in ministry. Based in Canada, he continues to preach internationally, inspiring godliness and revival. He said, “Revival begins when the leadership is ablaze with God’s presence.”
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In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the importance of waiting upon God and seeking His face. They reference the story of David sitting before the Lord and how it can be an encouragement for believers to linger in the presence of God. The speaker also highlights the need for humility, prayer, and turning away from wickedness in order to receive forgiveness and healing from God. They emphasize the importance of seeking God with all of one's heart and the promise that God will be found by those who diligently seek Him. The sermon concludes with a prayer for God to pour out His Spirit and bring conviction, transparency, vulnerability, purity, and brokenness among the listeners.
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Why don't we pray together? Our Heavenly Father, it's such a wonderful privilege for us to sense the way that You have been breaking our hearts these days as we have been waiting upon You. We thank You that Your Word is said unto us that they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint. We are reminded that You said to David in the Old Testament, wait upon the Lord, and again I say wait. We are reminded that Your Word said unto us that David sat before the Lord. And Father, what a great encouragement it has been for us these days just to linger in the greatness of the presence of God. Thank You that when we wait upon God, that what will happen to us is that a sense of brokenness will come upon our hearts, that we would realize that Your Word is said unto us, if my people which have been called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin, and I will heal their land. And God, we are Thy people this weekend. Father, we have come together because we want to meet with God. And Lord, there is a longing in our hearts to meet with You. Father, how much more is there a longing in the heart of God to meet with us as His people. And we want to thank You this first day night that prayer is always initiated by God. But long before we have any perception or any understanding or any longing in our hearts to pray, that You say to us that You came in the cool of the evening and You wanted to have fellowship and communion with Adam and Eve. And we thank You this evening that we are precious to You. God, I did not come to this weekend because we had nothing else to do. But many of us have been waiting. We have been searching our hearts. We have been seeking the face of God. And You have said unto us in Your Word that You will seek me and You will find me if You will seek after me with all of Your heart. And Lord, we want to say tonight afresh, Thy face we will seek. And You have said unto us that I will pour water upon those who are thirsty and floods upon the dry ground. And I pray, Father, in Jesus' name, that these days that we will be together, and I am so grateful that the God that we are serving is not limited to evening meetings like this, but, God, that You can do a far greater work in our hearts during the hours of this night, during the hours of tomorrow, than we can ever anticipate it in these gatherings. And we want to humble ourselves before God. You said unto us, Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God. You said unto us, Draw near to me, and I will draw near to you. And Father, even if it means that in these days that we will be together, that You will make us, wake us up in the middle of the night, or You wake us up at 1 or 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, and suddenly the burden of God will come upon us, and we will find ourselves climbing underneath this greatness of the burden of God. Do we want to say to Thee this evening, our God and our Father, none of us want to miss that which You have in store for us. We ask that the Spirit of God will so come, that You will so move upon us. Lord, that You will bring such conviction, that You will bring such transparency, that You will bring such vulnerability and such a purity, and that You will give us such a brokenness and a baptism of brokenness before God, that none of us by the end of these days will not be able to say that we have met with God.
(The Sermon on the Mount and Prayer - Session 1) - Part 1
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Gerhard Du Toit (birth year unknown–present). Born and raised in South Africa, Gerhard Du Toit grew up in the Dutch Reformed Church and converted to Christianity during his first year at theological school near Cape Town. He trained as an evangelist in South Africa and spent five years preaching there before serving eight years with The Faith Mission in the British Isles, leading Deeper Life Conferences. In 1988, he began ministering in Canada, later joining The Faith Mission (Canada) and, since 2011, Life Action Canada with his wife, Janice. A sought-after global conference speaker, Du Toit is known for his intense preaching style, focusing on prayer, revival, and the Holy Spirit, urging believers to seek God’s presence and burden for souls. He has trained thousands of pastors in spiritual renewal, emphasizing a vibrant prayer life and deep scriptural knowledge. Du Toit and Janice have a daughter, Monica, who is also in ministry. Based in Canada, he continues to preach internationally, inspiring godliness and revival. He said, “Revival begins when the leadership is ablaze with God’s presence.”