Miscellaneous Clouds of Witnesses

A CALL TO ANGUISH

by David Wilkerson
And I look at the whole religious scene today and all I see are inventions and ministries of man and flesh. 
It's mostly powerless, it has no impact on the world.
And I see more of the world coming into the church and impacting the church rather than the church impacting the world.
 
I see the music taking over the House of God. I see entertainment taking over the House of God. Obsession with entertainment in God's House, a hatred of correction and a hatred of reproof, nobody wants to hear it any more.
 
Whatever happened to anguish in the house of God? Whatever happened to anguish in the ministries? It's a word you don't hear in this pampered age. You don't hear it!!
 
Anguish means extreme pain and distress. The emotions so stirred that it becomes painful. Acute deeply felt inner pain because of conditions about you, in you or around you.
 
Anguish!!! Deep pain!!! Deep sorrow!!! Agony of God's heart.
 
We've held onto our religious rhetoric and our revival talk but we've become so passive. All true passion is born out of anguish. All true passion for Christ comes out of a baptism of anguish. 
 
You search the Scripture, and you'll find that when God determined to recover a ruined situation ... He would share His own anguish, for what God saw happening to His church and to His people. And He would find a praying man and He would take that man and literally baptize Him in anguish. 
 
You find it in the Book of Nehemiah. Jerusalem is in ruins.
How is God going to deal with this? How is God going to restore the ruin?
 
Folks, look at me. Nehemiah was not a preacher, he was a career man. This was a praying man. God found a man who would not just have a flash of emotion, not just some great sudden burst of concern and then let it die. He said "No. I broke down and I wept and I mourned and I fasted. Then I began to pray night and day."
 
Why didn't these other men, why didn't they have an answer? Why didn't God use them in restoration? Why didn't they have a word? BECAUSE THERE WAS NO SIGN OF ANGUISH!!! NO WEEPING!!! NOT A WORD OF PRAYER!!! IT'S ALL RUIN!!! 
 
Does it matter to you today? Does it matter to you at all that God's spiritual Jerusalem, the church is now married to the world? That there is such a coldness sweeping the land? Closer than that, does it matter about the Jerusalem that is in our own hearts? 
 
The sign of ruin that is slowly draining spiritual power and passion. Blind to lukewarmness, blind to the mixture that is creeping in. That's all the devil wants to do, is get the fight out of you and kill it. So you won't labour in prayer anymore. You won't weep before God anymore.
 
You can sit and watch television and your family goes to hell!!!
 
Let me ask you:
Has what I just said convicted you at all? There is a great difference between anguish and concern. Concern is something that begins to interest you, you take an interest in a project or a cause or a concern or a need.
 
I want to tell you something I've learned over all my 50 years of preaching ... If it is not born in anguish, if it had not been born of the Holy Spirit where when you saw and heard of the ruin that drove you to your knees, took you down into a baptism of anguish where you began to pray and seek God. I know now ... Oh my God, do I know it, until I am in agony, until I have been anguished over it. And all our projects, all our ministries, everything we do ...
 
Where are the Sunday School teachers that weep over kids they know are not hearing and going to hell?
 
You see, a true prayer life begins at the place of anguish. You see, if you set your heart to pray, God's going to come and start sharing His heart with you. 
 
Your heart begins to cry out - Oh God your Name is being blasphemed. Holy Spirit is being mocked. The enemy is out trying to destroy the testimony of the Lord's faithfulness, and something has to be done.
 
There is going to be no renewal, no revival, no awakening, until we are willing to let Him once again break us. 
 
Folks, it is getting late, and its getting serious.
 
Please don't tell me, don't tell me you're concerned .. when you're spending hours in front of the internet or television. 
 
Come on
Lord, there are some needs to get to this alter and confess I am not what I was, I am not where I am suppose to be. God I don't have your heart or your burden. I've wanted it easy. I just wanted to be happy. But Lord, true joy comes, true joy comes out of anguish. There is nothing of the flesh will give you joy. 
 
I don't care how much money,
I don't care what kind of new house,
there is absolutely nothing physical that can give you joy.
 
It is only what is accomplished by the Holy Spirit when you OBEY HIM and take on HIS HEART.
 
Build the walls around your family
Build the walls around your own heart
Make you strong and impregnable against the enemy
  GOD, THAT'S WHAT WE DESIRE

SILENCING THE EVIL OF ANCESTRAL IDOLS

Praise and worship 
Scripture Reading - Acts 19 | Confession - Obadiah 1:3-4

  1. I repent from all ancestral idol worship, in the name of Jesus.
  2. Every idol of my father’s house, lose your hold over my life, in the name of Jesus.
  3. Every strongman of the idol of my father’s house, die, in the name of Jesus.
  4. I silence the evil cry of any idol fashioned against me, in the name of Jesus.
  5. All consequences of ancestral idol worship upon my life, I wipe you off by the blood of Jesus.
  6. Holy Ghost fire, burn down all spiritual shrines of my father’s house, in the name of Jesus.
  7. Oppression agenda of my family idol, die, in the name of Jesus.
  8. Every blood speaking against my generational line, be silenced by the blood of Jesus.
  9. Every idol power speaking against my destiny, scatter, in the name of Jesus.
  10. I break all ancestral covenants with any idol power, in the name of Jesus.
  11. Every bitter water flowing in my family from any idol, dry up, in the name of Jesus.
  12. Any rope tying my family line to any family idol break, in the name of Jesus.
  13. Every landlord spirit troubling my destiny, be paralyzed, in the name of Jesus.
  14. Every outflow of satanic family name, die, in the name of Jesus.
  15. I recover every benefit stolen by idol powers, in the name of Jesus.
  16. Where is the God of Elijah, arise, disgrace every family idol, in the name of Jesus.
  17. Every satanic priest ministering in my family line be retrenched, in the name of Jesus.
  18. Arrows of affliction originating from idolatry, loose your hold, in the name of Jesus.
  19. Every influence of idol worship in my life, die, in the name of Jesus.
  20. Every network of idol power in my place of birth, scatter, in the name of Jesus.
  21. Every satanic dedication that speaks against me, be dismantled by the power in the blood of Jesus.
  22. I vomit every food with idolatrous influence that I have eaten, in the name of Jesus.
  23. Every unconscious evil internal altar, be roasted, in the name of Jesus.
  24. Let the stone of hindrance constructed by family idol be rolled away, in the name of Jesus.
  25. The voice of foundational idols will never speak again, in the name of Jesus.
  26. Every strongman assigned by the idols of my father’s house against my life, die, in the name of Jesus.
  27. Every satanic promissory note issued on my behalf by my ancestors, be reversed, in the name of Jesus.
  28. Garments of opposition designed by ancestral idols, roast, in the name of Jesus.
  29. Every satanic cloud upon my life, scatter, in the name of Jesus.
  30. My glory buried by family idols, come alive by fire, in the name of Jesus.
  31. Thou power of strange gods legislating against my destiny, scatter, in the name of Jesus.
  32. Idols of my place of birth, I break your chain, in the name of Jesus.
  33. Thou vagabond power assigned against me, die, in the name of Jesus.
  34. I puncture the imagination of oppression targeted against me, in the name of Jesus.
  35. Any power who had dedicated my properties, my glory, the glory of my Children to any Satanic Altars, receive the Sword of Judgment of God and release me by Fire, in the name of Jesus.