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Our God Can Fix Anything - Part 1
David Wilkerson

David Wilkerson (1931 - 2011). American Pentecostal pastor, evangelist, and author born in Hammond, Indiana. Raised in a family of preachers, he was baptized with the Holy Spirit at eight and began preaching at 14. Ordained in 1952 after studying at Central Bible College, he pastored small churches in Pennsylvania. In 1958, moved by a Life Magazine article about New York gang violence, he started a street ministry, founding Teen Challenge to help addicts and troubled youth. His book "The Cross and the Switchblade," co-authored in 1962, became a bestseller, chronicling his work with gang members like Nicky Cruz. In 1987, he founded Times Square Church in New York City, serving a diverse congregation until his death. Wilkerson wrote over 30 books, including "The Vision," and was known for bold prophecies and a focus on holiness. Married to Gwen since 1953, they had four children. He died in a car accident in Texas. His ministry emphasized compassion for the lost and reliance on God. Wilkerson’s work transformed countless lives globally. His legacy endures through Teen Challenge and Times Square Church.
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Pastor Wilkerson of Times Square Church welcomes worshippers from various nationalities and encourages them to draw closer to Jesus through worship and preaching. The sermon emphasizes the belief in God's ability to fix any situation, drawing from the story of Abraham and Sarah to illustrate the power of trusting in God's ability to do the impossible.
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This is Times Square, and I'm Pastor Wilkerson of Times Square Church. They call this the crossroads of the world, and God has raised up here a wonderful testimony to His grace and power. At last count, we had 103 nationalities that worship with us. And I want to welcome now all of those who are joining us by video in our home gatherings. And I trust that the worship experience you share with us and the preaching the word will draw you closer to Jesus, edify you, and literally change your life. Only one of many churches that God is blessing, but there's something unique here in New York City because of the intensity. We trust that you enter in with us, worship and praise. The Lord bless you. Let this be an experience you'll never forget. Church is about to start. Come and join us. Jesus, Jesus, you set my feet upon the rock, and now I know. Jesus, Jesus, you are the lover of my soul. Jesus, Jesus, you set my feet upon the rock, and now I know. Jesus, Jesus, you are the lover of my soul. Jesus, I will never let you go. Take me, take me, from the mighty grave. You set my feet upon the rock, and now I know. I will worship you until the very end. Jesus, Jesus, you are the lover of my soul. Jesus, I will never let you go. Take me, take me, from the mighty grave. You set my feet upon the rock, and now I know. I will worship you until the very end. Take me, take me, from the mighty grave. You set my feet upon the rock, and now I know. Take me, take me, from the mighty grave. You set my feet upon the rock, and now I know. I will worship you until the very end. Amen. Hallelujah. We worship you. God of our faith. God of our hope. God of our faith. We praise you. Praise you. At this very time, while we're worshiping in Macedonia, at this hour, starting at 10 o'clock our time, remember we, in Macedonia, we sent over 100 workers after the Serbs had bombed, and they had bombed out a bridge that connected a whole town with their farmlands across the river. And these were all Muslims, and they told Pastor Carter, when he was there, that if this church would rebuild the bridge, he could hold a crusade there, and they would bring the whole Muslim town. And so that whole town is meeting right now, and Pastor Carter and our teams are there. And I just got a note before the service requesting prayer at this hour. We're going to pray for our associate Pastor Carter and our team. We have, I think, 120 or so in Oslo, Kosovo. We've just sent 12 full-time missionaries there and helping rebuild churches. And would you pray for the teams that are in Macedonia and Kosovo at this time and other parts of the world? Let's believe the Lord now that God will open the hearts of these Muslims. They're wide open. There's never been a better time, and that which was meant for evil, God has turned to good. I want everybody, and all of the annexes also, would you please join us in prayer? Now, Father, we pray for the moving of the Holy Spirit, Lord, to this open-air meeting that's happening right now as we stand here. The same Christ that we worship is there. The same Holy Spirit moving among us. We pray, Holy Spirit, you move among them. God, open their hearts. Save many today. God, establish a church in that town. Establish a church through those who'd be saved today, right now. Holy Spirit, give words. Anoint them. Lord, anoint our teams in Pristina and Kosovo and Macedonia. And, Lord, all of those Balkan countries, Lord, this is a right time. Pour out your Spirit, Lord. Let us not be selfish and keep this thing to ourselves, but to go and to preach and to minister. Lord, thank you for your goodness. Pour out your Spirit now, Lord, on Macedonia. Pour out your Spirit, Lord, at that village, that town. Pour out your Spirit upon all the workers and all the pastors in Kosovo, Lord. Thank you for what you're doing among this people. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for your work around the world. You're doing a marvelous thing on the face of the earth today, and we give you praise and we give you thanks. Now, I want you, if you love Jesus and you came to worship, you didn't come to have church, but you've come to seek God. You've come to minister to the Lord. If you're visiting, I invite you to join us, and I want you to do what the Bible says. Lift holy hands, and I just want you to thank him for who he is and say, Come down, Holy Ghost, and meet our hearts. We minister to you now, Lord. We take authority over every principality and power of darkness, anything that would try to hinder the moving of the Holy Spirit. God, it is your authority. It is not ours. Jesus, stand against the powers of darkness in this city. Break the powers and the chains of darkness. Let the glory of the Lord come down in Times Square, in every church in this city that's proclaiming Christ. We give you glory. We give you praise. We give glory. We give honor. We give praise to you, Lord. Hallelujah. Glory. Glory. Glory. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh And we all were up in the sacrifices of Thanksgiving And we all were up to use the sacrifices of God We bring the sacrifice, we bring the sacrifice of praise Hallelujah! To the house of the Lord We bring the sacrifice, we bring the sacrifice of praise To the house of the Lord And we all were up to use the sacrifices of Thanksgiving And we all were up to use the sacrifices of God To the house of the Lord And we all were up to use the sacrifices of Thanksgiving And we all were up to use the sacrifices of God And we all were up to use the sacrifices of praise the sacrifices of God God is great, and great is His praise Glory, glory to His name Oh, God is great, and great is His praise Let the Lord hold my soul God is great God is great And great is His praise Glory, glory to His name Oh, God is great, and great is His praise God is great, and great is His praise Glory, glory to His name God is great, and great is His praise Let the Lord hold my soul Hallelujah! Hallelujah! We worship You in our hearts We glorify Your praise We magnify Your name Hallelujah! We praise Jesus We glorify Your name How to reach the masses Men of every birth For the answer, Jesus gave the key He said, if I, if I be lifted up From the earth, I'll draw all men unto Me Lift Him up! Lift Him up! Hallelujah! Lift Him up! We praise You! He said, if I, if I be lifted up From the earth, I'll draw all men unto Me Lift Him up! Lift Him up! Hallelujah! Lift Him up! Still He speaks from eternity He said, if I, if I be lifted up From the earth, I'll draw all men unto Me All the world is hungry of a living bread Lift the Savior up for them to see Trust Him and do not doubt the words that He said I'll draw all men unto Me Lift Him up! Lift Him up! Hallelujah! Lift Him up! We praise You! He speaks from eternity He said, if I, if I be lifted up From the earth, still He speaks from eternity He said, if I, if I be lifted up From the earth, I'll draw all men unto Me Hallelujah! Lift Him up by living as a Christian Or let the world bid You the Savior see Then men will gladly follow Him Who was Your, I'll draw all men unto Me Lift Him up! Lift Him up! Still He speaks from eternity He said, if I, if I be lifted up From the earth, I'll draw all men unto Me Hallelujah! We praise You! We praise You! Still He speaks from eternity He said, if I, if I be lifted up From the earth, I'll draw all men unto Me I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart I will enter His courts with praise I will sing His mystery name that the Lord has made I will rejoice for He has made me glad I will enter, I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart I will enter His courts with praise I will sing His mystery name that the Lord has made I will rejoice for He has made me glad He has made me glad He has made me glad I will rejoice for He has made me glad Appropriate song for the message Our God can fix anything Father, just about everybody hearing me Needs something fixed in their life Lord, I do Every pastor, every worker, every visitor Everyone who calls this church their home Lord, there are things in our lives or surrounding us That need to be repaired, restored, healed And oh God, give us the confidence That you can restore anything, anybody That we do not give up Oh God, touch me Lord, let the word come with life Oh God, we need to hear your heart Touch me now In Jesus' name, amen Our God can fix anything Remember the story of the Lord appearing to Abraham He's sitting in the heat of the day at the tent door He has three angels with him And he appears to Abraham Abraham prepares a meal And the Lord has a little bit of talk with this man And he says, where's your wife? Where's Sarah? He says, she's in the tent They were at the door of the tent And he said, would you please tell her That she's going to have a child very soon And God, this is God Hears Sarah laugh And he turns to Abraham and said Why is your wife laughing? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Is anything too hard for the Lord? This is God speaking to this man Evidently this is long before he learned to walk by faith You see, it's the same question I believe God is asking All of us today I know he's asking of me And when I've answered it deeply in my heart I've found it changes my life And the way I look at ministry And the way I look at people in their needs And it's simply this The question is, do you believe God can fix everything That's gone wrong in your life? Do you believe God can fix anything in your family? Anything on the job, wherever it may be Do you believe that God can do the impossible and fix it? Luke 18, 27 The things which are impossible with men are possible with God Now folks, it's a very simple message God's given me this morning It's not that we haven't fed you properly over the years here It's just that I believe that God knew exactly who would be here this morning And who needed to hear this very simple message It's so easy to tell others That are going through a hard time how to trust God We hear somebody in trouble Somebody needs something fixed and they come to us And you know we say, hold on Don't quit, don't lose your faith God can do the impossible Now that's very nice Very cozy, very comfortable to say that to somebody else But do you believe it for your own life? You see, God's not interested in how well or how scripturally sound I preached this morning on this subject He's not interested in the fact that I might be able to provoke you to righteous faith He's not concerned or impressed in any way How fluently I would be able to preach it And you walk out of here and though a thousand people come to me on the street or backstage And say, Pastor Dave, you really provoked me Things that need fixed in my life and need to be restored I heard it and I'm going to believe God Thank you for the word Now folks, if I don't believe that in my next crisis If I don't believe that concerning something in my own life, in my own home It's to no avail to me Has nothing to do with what I can tell you or what you can tell others In the way of provoking them to believe God that he can fix anything It's whether you are established in this truth and believe it with all your heart That God can do the impossible in my life and in my family If you had been living in Sarah's time You were her friend and you went to her You know as Nathan did and gave a parable to David David was the man and you Knowing the promise that God had given to Sarah and Abraham And you're a dear sister and you go to Sarah and you say Sarah, there's a couple that I know That have a promise that God would give them a child And the problem is they're losing confidence in that dream That promise and the wife says she's too old because her womb is dead And her husband is not fertile And it's absolutely impossible humanly that she can have a child But she's still holding on to that What advice should I give her? And I'm telling you, this godly woman would have said Well please tell her she'd better hold on Don't let her dream go, don't let her promise go Tell her to pray God can do anything We do that Now don't look at me like you've done that Everybody's come to you What have you told them? Hold on God will do it And what did you do the first time after that you got in a crisis? God, where are you? You don't really believe in God You really have no God Unless you believe he's the God of the impossible You don't have a God If you are going to try to tell me You believe him in all the other areas in your life But you cannot believe him in the impossible times in your life You don't believe him at all That's very very clear from the scripture Now, I am not against counseling, Christian counseling I'm not against born again psychologists I'm not against that because there's been a lot of good done But let me tell you something I believe it is absolutely in vain to counsel anybody Absolutely in vain for anybody to come to me and get any help from me whatsoever Unless I first of all believe that every problem that's brought to me Marriage problem, family problem, child problem, whatever it is If I don't fully believe the moment they walk in the door to sit down
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David Wilkerson (1931 - 2011). American Pentecostal pastor, evangelist, and author born in Hammond, Indiana. Raised in a family of preachers, he was baptized with the Holy Spirit at eight and began preaching at 14. Ordained in 1952 after studying at Central Bible College, he pastored small churches in Pennsylvania. In 1958, moved by a Life Magazine article about New York gang violence, he started a street ministry, founding Teen Challenge to help addicts and troubled youth. His book "The Cross and the Switchblade," co-authored in 1962, became a bestseller, chronicling his work with gang members like Nicky Cruz. In 1987, he founded Times Square Church in New York City, serving a diverse congregation until his death. Wilkerson wrote over 30 books, including "The Vision," and was known for bold prophecies and a focus on holiness. Married to Gwen since 1953, they had four children. He died in a car accident in Texas. His ministry emphasized compassion for the lost and reliance on God. Wilkerson’s work transformed countless lives globally. His legacy endures through Teen Challenge and Times Square Church.