In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes that no matter how far gone someone may seem, they are never too far gone for God to fix. He shares a story of a father who went to great lengths to reach his son who was caught up in a life of addiction and despair. The preacher highlights the father's love and determination to save his son, drawing parallels to God's love for us. He also references the story of Abraham and Sarah, where God asks if anything is too hard for Him, emphasizing that there is nothing beyond God's ability to fix.

This message is one of the Times Square Church pulpit series. It was recorded in the sanctuary of Times Square Church in Manhattan, New York City. Other tapes are available by writing WORLDCHALLENGE PO BOX 260 LINDALE, TEXAS 75771 or calling 903-963-8626. None of these messages are copyrighted and you are welcome to make copies for free distribution to friends. 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, well, she's in the tent. They were at the door of the tent. And he said, well, 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 or 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 go 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 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. It 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 everywhere, 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 on a couch and face me, if I don't, if I'm not fully convinced that no matter what they tell me, no matter what their problem is, I'm fully convinced that God can fix it, that God can work it out, that nothing is impossible. I don't care what kind of bitterness I hear from them, what kind of anger. I don't care if they tell me, well, usually I get this, and any counselor will tell you the same thing. Well, you just don't know what I've been through. You don't know how I'm hurting. You don't know the issues. If you really knew, you wouldn't be talking as you do. You wouldn't have as much hope as you seem to have. But, folks, I can't help anybody that ever comes face-to-face with me with a problem or something overwhelming their life. I can't help them unless two things happen. I have to be absolutely, totally convinced that I cannot give up, that I have got to fight for the marriage. I've got to fight for the victory. I've got to believe God in my heart that he can and that he will. And furthermore, anybody that comes into my office, if you're going to go to any pastor here for counseling, if you're going to go to Pastor Rhodes and his wife, if you're going to go to any of our counselors in our office in the Annex, you're going to come to me, and you want to sit down with me. I want to know the first thing, the first question I ask anymore. Do you really believe that God can restore? Do you really believe God can fix this? And if they hesitate, I know that I'm not going to be able to give them anything that's going to work. They have to be convinced, first of all, that God is able, that nothing, absolutely nothing in their life is impossible with God. Nothing. And secondly, they have got to want God to do it. Oh, I meet a lot of people that bring to me their marriage problems, and it's not more than a half hour into conversation when I know they really don't want it fixed. They just want me to side with them. They've made a good case, and they want the pastor's approval on the direction they've already decided on. You can't be helped by any counselor anywhere unless you are absolutely convinced by the Word of God that nothing in your life is beyond God fixing it. And if you tell me otherwise, you really don't want it fixed. You've already made your choice, and you're going to go your direction no matter what anybody says. Praise God. All over the nations today, I see Christians, as I told you, we have, last count, I think we've done some cleansing, about 800,000 people, between 7,000 and 800,000 people on the mailing list, and the letters pour in, sometimes 50,000 a month. My wife and I are so shocked and heartbroken. The Christian marriages that are breaking up, I mean, all over this nation, folks, I've had a mailing list for 35 years, but it has never been like it's been the last two years. It is absolutely frightening, and it's overwhelming. Many of my friends in the ministry are divorced, or in the process of getting a divorce, calls friends that have my personal phone number, shock us time and time again, because they say we just can't make it. And when I talk to them, I suddenly find out they really don't believe that this can be fixed. They don't believe their marriage can be healed. They really don't honestly have this heart conviction that no matter how bad it's gotten, no matter what kind of horrible things have been said, and the hurts and the wounds, that God is able to restore everything the canker worm has eaten. That which is impossible with man is possible with God. A pastor's wife wrote this past week about her husband who is a habitual liar. He lies in the pulpit, she said, and his lies are so outrageous he's been caught in them, and he's been confronted with the evidence right in front of him, and still is in denial. His children have no confidence in him. She said, I'm ashamed of him. He stands up and he preaches a powerful message, but the man is a habitual liar. He can't tell the truth. He doesn't know the truth. And then she says, I think I'm going to leave him. Now here's what I wanted to hear from that woman. I wanted to hear from that pastor's wife. Yes, I know that this man needs a miracle. I know that there's shame in my heart, and my family has areas of dysfunction now because of it, but I wanted to hear from her just something like this. I know that my husband is a liar, and I know the church knows it, and I know he's probably going to lose his pulpit over it, but I serve a God who is able to humble that man. I serve a God who is able to fix this marriage and to save this church, and I wanted to hear the woman that would say, I'm going to hold on from my husband no matter what it costs. I'm going to believe that what God says is true, that nothing is impossible with God. That's what I want to hear. In Mark, the ninth chapter, we come against a ghastly situation, and one that seems absolutely impossible to fix. You know the story. It's found in Mark 9. I'm not going to read the text, but you remember the story. A father brings a demon-possessed son to the disciples to be healed. Now this was not just a dysfunctional child. This was not a child with a chemical imbalance. This was a demon-possessed boy, and this boy is probably known all over the region. I'm sure, I feel confident that the disciples had heard about him. I'm sure that parents who saw the father coming with this child hid their children, took them into the house. They didn't want this child near them. This child was considered absolutely hopeless. The devil would throw him into fires, into waters to try to drown him and kill him. Satan would manifest. He would foam at the mouth. He would be contorted. He was emaciated, had no appetite evidently. The Bible said that he was near death. And what a terrible thing it must have been for the father. It's a full-time job just to hold on to the boy because you go through a neighborhood and the nearest open cooking fire, he wants to leap into the coals. And how many times did the father have to leap into a pond and pull him out, resuscitate him? And what kind of horrible nights and days because this father loved this boy or he would not have brought him to the disciples as he did. Because you find him broken-hearted over the situation. What if this was your son? Or if you're not married, it was your little brother? To see the burn marks and the bruises on this child and then to stand by helplessly when nobody can help him when the devil and the demons in him are manifesting. And this is what the disciples face now. They're looking face-to-face into a hopeless situation as far as man is concerned. Here they are being asked to heal this son, to cast the devil out of this boy. They prayed and nothing happened. I'm sure they prayed again. They may have prayed a long time. But the devil manifested right in front of the disciples and the boy is contorting and he's foaming at the mouth. He is deaf and he's speechless and only guttural sounds out of his mouth most likely. And you talk about a hopeless situation. In the eyes of man, this can't be fixed. It's impossible. There's been no doctor. There's been nobody can fix this boy. Now this is a simple word, but I want you to see why God included this in the canon of Scripture. Why would God repeat these stories? Why would he move in the hearts of godly, holy men to tell these stories? Because what other application can it have other than to teach us? Because it's not just a history book. This is the book that's showing us who God is. And Jesus comes on the scene and the scribes now are questioning, is this too hard for you? Is your master able to handle every situation but that which is under the influence and power and control of the devil himself? They surely knew this was the devil. They recognized it as did the father and all the neighborhood and everybody else. And Jesus comes on the scene and what a sight this must have been. Jesus asked what's going on and they said, well, we brought him to your disciples and they couldn't heal him. It's a hopeless case and I'm sure some of them had already walked away because nothing was done. Jesus comes on the scene and he turns to the father and said, Father, if you can believe all things are possible to him that believe it. That's all he said. If you can believe all things. He's talking about his son. This that's under the control of the devil. This harassment in your life. There's nothing impossible with God. If you can believe it can be fixed. Folks, all it took was a word from Jesus. All it took was a simple word and the boy fell as dead before that congregation and they said he's dead. He's died. What a fix that is. But suddenly the boy answered the cry of the master. Stand up, rise. And the boy, I'm sure, ran and embraced his father. Can you imagine the joy in that scene? God fixed it. Now why is that in the scripture, that story? It is the Lord saying to every parent listening to me now who has a child that's gone astray. A family member that is under the manipulation of the devil himself. He's saying if you can believe all things are possible. This can be fixed. This can be restored. How many mothers that are here right in this church? I know at least a dozen of you here right now that I've talked to. You get on the bus and you go upstate New York and you visit your son and your daughter in prison. Some of you in the annex. And you know the pain of that trip. And you know the agony of sitting there and talking to a boy that was once a tender little boy that you raised and now because of drugs and because of robberies in jail. And you have prayed and the devil's trying to tell you to give up. It can't be done. Because you don't see any evidence. I'm telling you now this is here because God's saying if you'll keep on believing. If you'll keep trusting me I can save that boy. He's saying to every one of you mothers that are here you never in your lifetime could have dreamt that your daughter could ever turn to drugs. She got in with the wrong crowd in high school. She started running these streets and she became rebellious. Maybe she's had an illegitimate child but you've seen the changes in her and you can't handle it anymore because she's out half the night and you've had to tell her to leave the house because you didn't want your other children to follow in her footsteps. And you have been on the streets at times and you've seen her get in a car to sell her body to prostitute to support her habit. And you've gone home and cried a river of tears and the devil's told you this is hopeless it can't be fixed this daughter of yours is gone it's finished. Folks I'm telling you wherever you may this video and this audio goes all over the world wherever you will be I'm telling you I don't care how low your son or your daughter's gone I don't care how far gone you think they are they're not too far gone from God He can fix it. I've known of fathers that ask me what to do I said go if it's my son go after him and I've had fathers just do that. They'll get in the car and they'll go down into the slum somewhere they'll go down into the ghetto they'll go to a burial and they'll ask around until they find some pusher who knows that boy's name and he'd go and a father once told me he went in there he walked into a shooting den his son didn't even want to talk to him his son was emaciated and he prayed with his son come out please I'll stand with you I'll help you we'll do anything give us a chance and to see that father come out heartbroken out of that shooting gallery because that boy has turned away and says I don't even want to talk to you get out of the place this is my life now and to hear that father say I lost him it's hopeless that boy folks we've got a young man in this service today from Arizona where are you son? stand up right over here just turn away to the crowd say hello on the streets given up by society everybody said he was hopeless I remember the day I met him he was still skinny at the time but there was something I saw and I said son you're going to bible school and you're going to preach the gospel God's going to pick you up and change you he's pastoring now and head of a drug program in Arizona Phoenix correct? yes sir hopeless God fixed him hallelujah oh say your husband is hopeless you can't get him saved you say your wife is hopeless she goes out and parties oh I know a dear man that was here last Sunday he prayed so long for his wife and God has finally answered the prayer but he wouldn't give up how many times men have told me I had to stay at home and watch my wife come home drunk and God just told me to hold on that somehow he would make it up to me if I would believe and trust him and one day God broke through and God saved my wife God saved my husband folks don't give up on anybody don't give up on anything nothing nothing is impossible with God nothing let me go a step further God can bring back to life anything you gave up for dead yes he can in Mark 5 there is another story of Jairus ruler of the synagogue and he comes to Jesus fell at his feet and weeping he said would you come to my house and lay your hand on my 12 year old daughter she is near death and Jesus agrees to go with the ruler of the synagogue to his home to heal the child but on the way he is stopped temporarily because a woman with a blood disease touches the hem of his garment and he just stops and he said virtue is gone and where are you and he is ministering this woman and while he is ministering this woman Jairus standing beside him the messenger comes and says to Jairus your daughter just died don't bother the master anymore it is too late and Jesus must have seen the fear grip that man that father who said if we could have only been there 15 minutes ago if we could have just it is just oh God just a matter of timing and we missed it on timing and Jesus turns to the man and he says don't fear don't fear don't be afraid fear not he said only believe Jesus goes with the man and he approaches the his residence and there is a wailing and a weeping and a mourning of neighbors and friends and family and Jesus comes on the scene now can you imagine weeping and wailing in the presence of almighty God there he is in flesh Jesus was caught in flesh can you imagine the unbelief of weeping and what they are saying and what we say when things have gone too far we think beyond possibility what we are saying is God you can handle anything it still got a little life in it but when it is totally dead you don't need to call on Jesus anymore many of you quit calling on Jesus now because you think your situation is beyond possibility you have already given up some of you on your family given up on your husband praying him through given up on your marriage given up on something that God told you to hold on for and you have just given up and Jesus came on the scene and paraphrased he said what is the fuss what is all this weeping and wailing they said well she is dead you know if you had been here and that is what Moses said God if you had just done it on time I believe in Holy Ghost timing I certainly do I believe in Holy Ghost timing but it is not my time we always are giving God deadlines Lord I believe you I want it done in the next two weeks Jesus goes into the room merely speaks the word and that little child comes to life you tell me your marriage is dead I tell you what God is put it in my heart I am laying hold of God for all my friends that are on the verge of divorce breaking up and I am fighting I am laying hold of God they may have given up but I have not given up and I am not going to give up and that should be in you divorce should never be an option never be an option unless your husband is a beater or if you have been beaten or something there is a different case you have to escape that situation and I am sure there are other circumstances but why can't you take the hurt take it to Jesus and believe what he said I am God I am your God and I can fix it now I want everybody hearing me now on the jumbo screens upstairs and here wherever you are on video or audio I want you to listen to me now the Holy Spirit put this in my heart again this morning before I came to this church to preach I am telling you God is fighting for your marriage why aren't you? God is fighting for you God is on your side he is trying to heal if there is something in your heart that is hindering ask God to take it out and if it is going to be healed it is going to be you that God uses because you are here you are listening to it and God is delivering the message to you you be the one you say well it takes two yes it does but folks marriage is not 50-50 when marriage is about to break it is a hundred to nothing you get nothing out of it but faith in God and let God do it you don't expect anything in return you don't expect anything in return you don't expect to be blessed you don't expect to be loved you don't expect anything but to do God's word obey him and believe God help us this incredible divorce rate even in Pentecostal churches and Baptist churches Evangelical circles and ministry God help us but we are saying God is a liar we are saying God is a liar God can't fix it that is what the script let me read it to you he that believeth not God hath made him a liar you can find that 1 John 5 10 that is why the Holy Ghost included this little story in the scripture to show you that what you think has died he is able to resurrect some have given up looking for a job said I have tried and I have finally given up I got a letter yesterday from a man on my mailing list he said I have tried everything and there is a lot of unemployment that I can't find he literally has given up no no no no God can fix it God can do it one word from Jesus and life springs up again I am going to close in just a few moments but I want to talk about money problems you got money problems you got financial problems you can't pay your bills oh I know some of you oh brother give me something here now that I can lay hold of did you know Jesus had money problems tax collector came they didn't have the money and Jesus sends his best fisherman Peter out to fish in the sea and he said tell you what Peter you go get your fishing rod you go down to the sea where you usually fish and the first fish you catch open his mouth and you are going to see a coin there valuable enough to pay all our taxes can you see Peter who has fished all his life he said this I got to see tax money out of a fish's mouth I have seen worms I have seen hooks I have never seen a coin a gold coin or whatever it was I have never and I am sure it was great curiosity when fishing there is a nibble and he wills in his first fish I don't know the size of it or anything else I don't know if God created that coin or whether somebody was there a week ago and God said I am going to need this coin and he rolls off a dock right in the fish's mouth God can do it naturally He can do it supernatural any way He chooses all I know is that this is a miracle when Peter opens the mouth of that fish and looks at that gleaming coin he said well how about that isn't that something what a miracle what a miracle to a fisherman this had to be a great miracle it is a miracle when I read it but why would God include a little fish story why didn't Jesus I got to think about this this past week why didn't Jesus take an offering among all those disciples and teach them about giving because the apostle Paul did why didn't he send all his disciples out for day work for a day they could have raised that in one day of day labor no because you see that is all within the realm of possibility God wanted to do it miraculously to show you and me that there are times in our life that only a miracle will answer the need only a miracle will answer the need I know what you're thinking right now I need an angel I need somebody send an anonymous fifty thousand dollar check in the mail I've got to have that miracle brother David Jesus can do that to pay the taxes if he can get money out of a fish's mouth if our God can feed five thousand to four thousand to a few fish and a few loaves of bread if he can cause a widow to pour gallons and gallons of cooking oil out of a little pint jug if he can cause a barrel never to go dry and the oil never to go dry for the widow if that's the kind of God and if God can do anything then God I need that miracle I need a financial miracle I have to tell you a story I think I may have told it years ago in this church but it fits the story here right now years ago when I was a young pastor in my twenties I got in debt for a stupid thing I did I thought it was God and in those days I didn't consult the Lord I just did it because there was a need and it was a good project but I just got five thousand dollars in debt and today that's like twenty five thousand dollars or more in today's money and the money was due and I was desperate and so I started reading those scriptures with God nothing is impossible God supplies all you need and I was reading these various stories about how angels fed Elijah with a raven and all these miracles that God did I said Lord I need a miracle and in my desperation folks please don't ever go into God's presence and let your mind go blank you open yourself to every conceivable kind of deception don't ever do that if you're there just worship him but give him your thoughts give him your mind and I just went back and I heard the most beautiful voice I ever heard David get down Chester Street tomorrow at noon and walk on the left side between third and fourth and there's going to be a man come towards you with an envelope he's going to be an angel and he's got five thousand dollars in his hand and he's just going to put it in your hand and I thought oh glory to God my angel God you're faithful next day at noon I'm walking down the street looking every direction listen folks it's a town of twelve hundred people nobody walks the streets ever there's nobody there everybody's at work and there wasn't a soul in sight I walked it for a half hour up and down, up and down and I said Lord where is he? and then a guy comes and he goes I knew he wasn't smoking an angel wouldn't smoke and after about forty minutes I said Lord these neighbors are going to think I'm a robber looking all over and trying to check their houses out finally in despair I went home and I was so downcast Lord now what do I do? I was hurt I was wounded and most of all I said how could I be so deceived but I said Lord I'm going to trust you there's nothing I can do I'm just going to put it in your hands and a day or two later a man in the church came to me and he said Dave I've heard about that need you have he said I have a friend in another town near here who has a bank he's a Christian he's a banker why don't you go there and tell him I sent you I said okay and I went over and I told the banker my problem and he said I'll tell you what I'm going to give you an unsecured loan for five thousand dollars and you're going to pay it back fifty dollars a month folks God met it when I walked out God said now I could have sent you that angel I could have put that in your pocket you'd never learn your lesson you'd be doing this the rest of your life and one day you'd be a hundred thousand dollars in debt God says now you're going to work it off you're going to pay the fifty dollars and you're going to learn your lesson folks I paid that that money off it was a miracle to get an unsecured loan at that time God has his ways of doing it don't you try to figure it out don't look for a ninety foot angel who's going to come around don't even look for a midget angel don't look for any kind of an angel my God God fixed my problem and I'm telling you now and I'm not going to belabor this I'm not going to go much further but I'm telling you that God told me to come to you this morning because many of you hearing me have got you're in the need of a miracle either in your home your family your marriage your finances and I'm telling you if you will trust God the Lord said of the demons this can't come out these kind don't come out unless you fast and pray but the fasting and prayer the prayer I think was to get the doubt and unbelief out of the disciples I'm here to tell you that I believe with all of my heart and I know I'll be tested on I'm about to tell you but I believe with all of my heart that there's nothing in my life or my family that God can't fix there's nothing that he can't restore in closing I want to read a I'm telling you that God can even fix your sin problem this is his greatest work but we get so many like this here's a prisoner who writes Pastor Dave I'm a sexual pervert I know I wasn't born that way but it's what I've become I've been married three times and I have four children the real truth is that I like anything when it comes to perversion if you can think of it I've probably tried it Pastor Dave if I were to tell you everything I've done it would take pages and probably make you so sick and he goes on I want to stop and yet I don't I've pleaded and I've cried and I've begged God for help I've quit smoking cold turkey that was no problem I've even been able to stay away from pornography a little time at a time I know I can't of my own get away with my habits I believe in the healing power of God but it seems I can't find the door to escape my desire to do the Lord's will is ever with me and yet I've pushed them aside and I fall back in the lust of my flesh I've lied to God only to do it over and again I hurt because I know that I made God sick when I go to chapel I feel two faced because there are men here who respect me because I've given them good advice and not kept it myself I play the piano in chapel and I sing but I don't feel right because I am not right I am in prison for my addiction to sex I'd rather die and go to hell than ever bother another innocent person again in my life I hate what I do and yet somehow I love it I hate it enough though to want out because I want to serve God and I want His love and I don't want to die and go to hell I don't know what to do folks I'm saying to this young man that God can fix his perverted mind God can heal that mind there was a time I gave up on homosexuals that came to me wanted healing because I'd seen so little so little healing we once had a home for homosexuals and it ended in disaster and all our drug programs worked and alcohol but homosexuals didn't see the victories but folks uh the Lord began to send testimonies to me of those who've been delivered from the worst perversions on earth homosexuality if you have a son or a daughter or if you're here and you're involved in some kind of perverted activity uh and I'm going to tell you something folks I'm saying this now but the time's coming very short in America I can't talk to you like I'm talking to you now without going to jail I won't be able to mention homosexuality without being politically incorrect and uh I could be sued and it's come to that in America but I say it in love and I say it with deep heartfelt love that God is able if you want freedom if we're not here to condemn anybody into any kind of perversion and you say well don't call my homosexuality perversion I am not the Bible is the Bible is calling to that folks no clapping please no clapping please but I'll tell you right now I don't care what kind of habit you have I don't care what kind of lust is laid hold of your heart my God can restore you my God can break that habit and set you free but you've got to believe with me right now that nothing in your life is impossible with God nothing that's happened no clutch of the devil that can't be released I want you to get a hold of faith when I give this invitation today and I want you to believe God to absolutely change and transform your life hallelujah will you stand hallelujah Heavenly Father I thank you this morning for the confidence that you've placed in my heart and the confidence you want to place in the heart of every believer here this morning that absolutely nothing that is in my life or that affects my life is impossible with you you can truly restore and heal and fix everything that's gone wrong Lord what a simple word we've heard this morning and I believe it was from your heart you knew exactly who would be here you knew those who are going through the trial of their life you know of the marriages that are here where there is trouble God deep trouble can't be denied the difficulty that's come of the enemy there's a sense that the enemy is trying to destroy the home oh God I don't know why you had me preach this this morning but I know you knew who would be here you knew every seat and who would be in it God by your spirit bring hope bring restoration and bring faith that you'll fix it you'll heal it you'll restore it in Jesus name Amen now in the annex I'm going to give an invitation now in the annex those who feel that this message is for you you've had unbelief and doubt you have thought in your heart that this is too far gone there's no hope I don't know what it is but I want you don't go to the screen but go between the screens if you will just step out and Pastor Neal Rhodes will be there and he'll take you into the room we have wonderful prayer counselors and those who will minister to you but you just go forward and here in the main auditorium upstairs you go to the stairs near the side come down here on the main floor the Holy Spirit's talking to you saying, Brother Dave this message is for me this message is for me if you're not right with God if you're not saved if you're backslidden come with these that are coming I'm going to pray and ask God to release you we're going to ask God to do this miracle in your life please don't come if it's a financial problem we'll pray for you in your seat we don't try to pack up this altar we want those who are being dealt with by the Holy Spirit and if He is dealing with your heart some of you are backslidden some of you walked in this church today cold you slipped away the fire is not burning in your heart anymore and the Lord wants you to come back there'll never be a better time you're surrounded by people who care you feel the tug or pull of the Spirit don't come unless that tug is there you feel that pull of the Holy Spirit respond to it don't reject the wooing, the calling the tugging of the Holy Spirit up in the balcony follow those who are going down either side you come down any aisle and meet me here we'll be praying in just a moment wherever you're at Father, find every heart that needs to be fixed some that are broken some, Lord, that have been wounded God heal those wounded hearts this morning those, Lord, that are sin sick they're sick of their sin God break the chain that binds them I pray in Jesus' name, Amen you've taken a step and I'm reminded of what the Father answered Jesus when Jesus said, only believe he cried out, Lord, help my unbelief and I want you to do that right now just stand before the same Savior and just say, Lord, help my unbelief right now, just tell him right now Father, forgive my unbelief help my unbelief Holy Spirit, give me the faith of Christ implant in me faith implant in me confidence, oh Lord because I don't have the ability and the power Lord, you've given me a measure of faith but increase that measure that all of us have Lord, I want to truly believe you for the problem in my life God, I want to believe you now on my job I want to believe you in my relationships I want to trust you that you'll work out all of these things I want to find out all of this even the aisles, wherever you're at and in the annex I want every one of you who can honestly say, Pastor David I need a miracle in my life raise your hand, please I need a miracle in my life yes, yes in the annex God bless you when God says he does the impossible, he's saying I do miracles, I do miracles I do miracles Hallelujah and he wants to do that for you you know what the miracle is? first of all, he'll give you peace that's the miracle in a day when you can't get peace by any human effort because the peace you go right outside here this afternoon in the afternoon shows matinees and you look at the people who come out after paying 70 and 80 dollars you come out, watch those people see if you can find a smiling face anybody has evidence of peace you can't get it you can't buy it that's the first miracle he gives you peace when you rest in him in his promises if you believe that he's going to work it out and he's going to fix it you don't tell him how you say, Lord, I'm going to believe you and I'm going to wait on you it may take a little time but God will do it in his time but it'll never be late it'll be just the right time you believe that even you believe that right now secondly there'll be a still small voice speaking your heart and giving you directions but he won't do that unless you're in the word you're going to hear you're going to hear a false voice unless you're saturating yourself with the word of God find it here first if you don't find it here the Lord will give you there'll be a word behind it saying this is the way walk you in it someone will come to you the Lord will drop the word into your heart and he'll be faithful to you now I want you to believe God as I pray every one of you and in the annexes I want you to believe God with me right now that when you walk out of this church you carry with you an absolute confidence that God's going to fix that thing in your life whatever it may be God's going to fix it Holy Father I take your authority now in Jesus' name over the principalities and powers of darkness arrayed against all your people and I pray for those that have come to be restored first of all to you and then to someone else that they need to be restored to Father I pray that you come now and you implant by your Holy Spirit confidence and faith in your word Lord we believe you in this church we believe you've told me not to have a bit of doubt no matter how sick no matter how horrible it looks no matter how ghastly it looks no matter how hopeless it looks to hold on and believe God in the face of it I want you to pray this with me right now Jesus first of all I'm going to ask you hey look at me you've got to pray this from your gut it has to come from your gut inside say it right out loud Jesus I can't do it myself but I came down this aisle and I came to you here now Jesus because I have to have a miracle Jesus cleanse me forgive me heal my spirit and all my wounds and all my hurts I lay them on you Jesus Holy Spirit come now I need faith take my unbelief and remove it from my heart so that I can truthfully say I'm committed to God restoring everything in my life everything in my life I love you Jesus and I give you thanks now in advance now just thank him just give him thanks just give him thanks Lord I give you thanks I give you thanks now I want to pray for all of you that have unsaved loved ones I want God to come to you now I honestly I feel in my spirit I don't know this to be a fact but I gather that from the talk I hear from people what I see and what I hear and what I hear from the Holy Spirit that a great majority of Christians have given up literally given up praying and believing God for their unsaved loved ones I'm asking you right now to get a hold of faith and say God I'm not going to do that again I'm going to fast I'm going to pray and I'm going to believe you for the salvation of my entire family and those that you've been praying for in your relationships that God will save Father in Jesus name I pray a prayer of faith now that you will cause a tide to rise up in our hearts of faith that we will believe God for what seems to be impossible Lord for unsaved children unsaved husbands unsaved wives fathers and mothers Lord Jesus you said thou shall be saved in thy house and I believe what you said I believe that and I receive it Lord answer this prayer in Jesus name Amen Hallelujah Let's sing Lord I believe all things are possible Lord I believe Praise the Lord Please don't forget in the annex go to room 204 and here in the main auditorium upstairs and down go through exit 8 and 9 down here to my left and your right and I believe we have some Assembly of God pastors I'd like them to go backstage and meet me right after service here now Would you turn around to 10 people and say God can fix it Come on just say God will fix it God will fix it God will fix it 3 o'clock 6 o'clock God bless you and be with you This is the conclusion of the tape