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praise god praise god praise god
it’s true tony i don’t feel a day over
69 tonight
tomorrow i will
be a day over 69.
i want to thank all of the speakers that
have been here
throughout this conference i want to
thank the family research council for
all of the wonderful work that you are
doing
for standing for truth
for taking a stand in an unpopular time
and believing
that together we can make a difference
in our culture our country and for our
future and what a privilege to stand
together and to believe that
in christ
we’re going to live to see i believe a
spiritual awakening in our day
i really prayed about this coming to
this meeting tonight and as always i
just say god
give me a word just give me a word
that’s all i ask for for the people that
are going to be here those that are
listening to us online
this evening and the lord is always
faithful when i i’m sent somewhere he’ll
speak to my heart
and so i’m bringing this word from my
heart to yours
and i’ve given it a title tonight
it’s just called the right cry
at the right throne
the right cry at the right throne i’m
going to start in exodus chapter 5.
if you have your bi anybody have a bible
here tonight
awesome i love that
so father i just want to thank you god
that every time
we look into your word we should be
changed
by the power of our god
the scripture says that the entrance of
your words brings light so god bring
light into our hearts our minds
put courage in our heart put direction
in our steps fervency in our prayers
and god almighty let each of our lives
make a difference
in this generation we’re now living in
so father we thank you god we praise you
and bless you in jesus name
wonderful
tonight to see a video of the bible
school started by david wilkerson the
author of the cross and the switchblade
and the founder of times square church
it is a very unique school it is my wife
who’s the president of the bible school
and i now live on the campus most of the
time
and have an opportunity to engage with a
lot of the students
it’s very unique in the sense that we
are an unplugged school which means that
all media devices are put away
no social media no
spending the day on your phone
no no relationships no boy girl
relationships if people who come there
they’re coming to that school to seek
god for one or two years depending on
the time they determine they’re not good
night and we just really tell the young
people if
you’ll only get out of this what you put
into it
and we’re teaching them how to pray
we’re teaching them how to study the
word of god we’re helping them to
understand their identity in christ
and it makes it a very very unique
school and i have seen absolute
transformations at that school and i
thank god for that with all of my heart
it’s summitpa.org if you’re interested
for your young people or anybody that
you think there’s also sabbatical
programs for people who are just in
ministry and tired
and just need to refurbish
themselves in christ
exodus chapter 5
verse 15 says then the officers of the
children of israel came
and cried out to pharaoh
saying why are you dealing thus with
your servants
there is no straw
given to your servants now this is an
incredible moment in the history of the
people of god of that particular time
these are the descendants of abraham you
remember
in genesis chapter 12 the lord said to
abram get out of your country from your
family from your father’s house to a
land that i will show you
i will make you a great nation i will
bless you and make your name great and
you shall be a blessing
i will bless those who bless you and i
will curse him who curses you and in you
all
the families of the earth
shall be blessed now talk about an
incredible
opportunity for the
these people this is a promise made to
abraham these are the descendants of
abraham so they would know that this is
their promise this is their history as a
matter of fact abraham their their
spiritual and physical father in a sense
he had had an encounter with the
pre-incarnate christ just in the on the
outskirts of sodom and they would have
known a lot of this they would have
known we have access to god
this is the heritage of these people but
here are their leaders in a season of
hardship
coming before at least those persons in
charge of this part of leadership coming
before
the throne of pharaoh and crying out for
straw
it’s an amazing thing you know we we as
the people of god can end up living so
far beneath our calling and we’re not
even aware of it they had access to the
throne of god
they had a promise that i’ll bless those
who bless you and i’ll curse those who
curse you
that a promise that in you all the
families of the earth are going to be
blessed they they had literally had
access to god they had access to the
promises of god and the power of god and
yet the leaders at this particular time
chose to appear before the throne of
pharaoh and instead of crying out to god
they’re crying out to pharaoh
instead of the promises of protection
and provision and all of the things that
god had promised to give them they’re
asking
for straw and the worst of it all is had
they succeeded in getting some straw
they probably would have come back to
the people with a praise report
for real straw
you wonder sometimes
when we realize the power of prayer
because jesus told us whatever you ask
for what you shall receive ask you shall
receive everyone who asks receives seek
you shall find knock it shall be opened
can you imagine if we just
believed that verse of scripture
the prayer meeting in the house of god
would be jam-packed people would be
presenting their petitions before god
and expecting god to answer because he
did say
everyone who asks
receives
now the people of god of this particular
time
had taken a journey
from the place that they were into the
nation of egypt because of difficulty in
famine
as a matter of fact they left the place
that they were in in genesis chapter 45
verses
17 and onward
this was their history
pharaoh said to joseph say to your
brothers do this load your animals and
depart and go to the land of canaan
bring your father bring your households
and come to me and i will give you the
best of the land of egypt and you will
eat the fat of the land i find it
interesting
in the context of it was 402 years ago
today
that the mayflower left england
and headed for america
as the people of god of this particular
time left their own shore as you may
call it that their own land at that
point because of hardship the people on
the mayflower left because many of them
were experiencing forms of hardship
including religious persecution
and they came to a new land and pharaoh
said don’t be concerned about your goods
for the best of the land of egypt is
yours in chapter 47 it says pharaoh
spoke to joseph and said the land of
egypt is before you have your father and
your brothers dwell in the best of the
land let them dwell in the land of
goshen and if you know any competent men
among them make them chief herdsmen
over my livestock so this was their
history they had come into the land and
the land had opened its arms to them the
land had blessed them the land
recognized their giftings and their
calling and of course they had been a
tremendous blessing to the nation keep
in mind
that without joseph the nation of egypt
may have largely starved to death
it was because of joseph that the people
were spared and they the vision of god
was was unfolded in the end and produce
was was brought to keep the people alive
in a time
of famine
and also there would be many chief
herdsmen who
brought great blessing you think of
america the number of christian people
that built universities and hospitals
and made inventions and and and in this
country for example there’s there’s a
great heritage of christianity and many
godly christian people were used in
powerful ways to bring great good to the
nation
but again in exodus chapter one a new
season and a new reality arose it says
there arose a new king over egypt who
did not
know joseph
it doesn’t mean he didn’t know about him
but he he just he had no longer an
appreciation for what joseph had brought
to the nation or joseph’s family had
contributed to the nation he had he had
crafted an alternate worldview i guess
may i put it that way in his mind
ironically he knew something about the
people of god that they didn’t know
about themselves
he said look
the people of the children of israel are
more
and mightier than we are now think that
went through for a moment the people of
the children of israel didn’t have an
army they didn’t have
much in the way of weaponry
as as egypt had at this time but he knew
instinctively because of the history and
because of the giftings of god and the
things that had been accomplished that
these people had a might that perhaps
the people of
egypt knew nothing about he said come
let us deal shrewdly with them lest they
multiply and that happen in the event of
war that they also join our enemies and
fight against us and so go up out of the
land therefore they set task masters
over them to afflict them with their
burdens
they begin to oppress
the people of god
maybe marginalize or ridicule
create laws convince them that they were
the taskmaster’s task in a sense was to
convince the people of god that they
were less than they are
sound familiar doesn’t it
in the time that we’re now
living in and then it went even a step
further
pharaoh said if if you see
every every son who’s born you shall
cast into the river
initially he told them he said when
you’re doing the office of a duty of a
midwife and if you see them on the birth
stools if it’s a son
then you shall
kill them this is their sudden a new
reality
they’re being oppressed by task masters
and their children are being thrown
into the river
similar to today when we see our
children being thrown into the river of
confusion from from the ages of
kindergarten from gender confusion to
confusion about god in middle school
to the the forbidding of prayer in high
school to the radicalization of our
young people in our colleges in
universities nothing really ever changes
history always just repeats itself
the big problem here wasn’t necessarily
pharaoh although that was a problem
the big problem we see in our opening
text
where
the leaders some of the leadership of
the people of god of that time are at
the throne of pharaoh and they’re
negotiating with that which has been
sent to captivate them
the point being you can’t negotiate with
that which has been sent to captivate
you it must be overthrown by the power
of god
that’s the reality that they were facing
it’s the reality perhaps that
many are facing today
it’s like the alcoholic trying to
negotiate with alcohol and say well i’ll
just drink a little less then you won’t
destroy my family or my mind or my home
or my future i’ll just i’ll just consume
a little bit less it’s a negotiation
tactic with that which has been sent to
captivate you you can’t negotiate with
captivity
you call it to god
and he has to overthrow it and so the
question is
how
was this captivity
overthrown
now we have we have foreman as it is of
the of the children of israel crying out
to pharaoh for straw
but there’s another group of people rank
and file people maybe just like
you and i it’s grandmas it’s grandpas
it’s moms it’s dads it’s brothers it’s
sisters as people are concerned
maybe first and foremost about the honor
of god where’s god in all of this what
happened to us
why are we allowing ourselves to be so
marginalized and be pushed to the
sidelines and be under afflictions and
laws and task masters when we are the
people of god when we have access to the
throne of god
we have promises from god
that we are going we are more than
conquerors through christ who loves us
and the lord said to moses i’ve surely
seen the oppression of my people who are
in egypt and i have heard their cry
because of their taskmasters for i know
their sorrows so i’ve come down to
deliver them out of the hand of the
egyptians and to bring them up from that
land to a good and large land a land
flowing
with milk and honey and here was the cry
it was another cry
it wasn’t public
it was most likely in private it was the
cry of the mom at night
didn’t know how she’s going to save her
children it was the cry of of of the
persons who were concerned as we ought
to be in our generation of the drug
addiction in our communities the
violence as we heard about in chicago
and such like the hopelessness of a
whole generation being raised without
god the confusion of our young children
that are being confused on every
conceivable level
in the places that are supposed to be
educating them
and suddenly
the people that had enough of it
you see that’s why pray is at the top of
pray vote and stand the people had had
enough and people began to do what they
were called to do in the beginning and
they began to cry out to god not to
pharaoh not for straw but for freedom
they began to cry out for their heritage
it’s time now it’s time for you and i to
begin to cry out to god it’s time that
we
yes it’s time
you know we’re we’re prone to wait till
we have the last five cents in our
pocket and we’ve spent it then we start
crying out to god we we it’s funny the
way we are we we exhaust our own
resources and it’s only in
exhaustion in the sense that common
sense finally settles in and says wait a
minute aren’t we the people of god
aren’t we supposed to be more than
conquerors through christ who loves us
didn’t jesus say have faith in god for
verily i say to you whoever says to this
mountain be thou removed and be cast
into the sea and shall not doubt in his
heart but believes that the things he
says he shall come to pass he shall have
whatsoever he says
therefore i say to you whatsoever you
ask in prayer believing you shall
receive it is time to cry out for our
children it’s time to cry out for our
families
it’s time to cry out for the opiate
addicted in our society
the grandmas the grandpas who don’t see
a future and they don’t know the way out
and they don’t know the way forward it’s
time to let our hair down it’s time that
we start crying the right cry at the
right throne
and say god almighty have mercy
it’s time to drop our pride
and
not be concerned about what people
around us think it’s time that we go to
our knees besides our bed at night for
our grandchildren and our children and
our cousins and our brothers and our
sisters and our towns and our
communities because we are circling the
drain as a nation right now
it is only the cry at the throne of god
that is going to make a difference we
need a spiritual awakening in america
now we need god’s intervention in this
situation
in psalm 107
the scripture says give thanks to the
lord he’s good and his mercy endures
forever
let the redeemed of the lord say so whom
he’s redeemed from the hand of the enemy
and gathered out of all lands from the
east the west the north and from the
south it’s time for you and i to
remember what god did for us
it’s time for us to remember that it was
that inner cry of our heart that brought
us out of darkness and into light
out of drugs and into sobriety out of
anger and into forgiveness out of
whatever we were into and into light
it’s time to remember that cry four
types of people in psalm 107 those who
wander in the wilderness in a desolate
way finding no city to dwell in hungry
and thirsty their soul is fainting in
them then they cried out to the lord in
their trouble and he delivered them out
of their distresses and led them forth
by the right way that they might go to a
city for a dwelling place so that men
would give thanks to the lord for his
goodness and his wonderful works to the
children of men for he satisfied the
longing soul and fills the hungry soul
and goodness
then there’s people who sit in darkness
in the shadow of death bound in
affliction and irons because they
rebelled against the words of god we
knew the word of god in this
nation we knew what god said we knew the
warnings of god there were voices raised
to caution us as in acts chapter 27 with
the apostle paul don’t take this journey
if you do it’s going to result in the
loss of everything and now here we are
with the loss of everything our military
our might
our civility our economy our morality
everything
is being thrown to the wind
bound in affliction and iron because
they rebelled against the words of god
and despised the council of the most
high therefore he brought down their
heart with labor they fell down and
there was no one to help
then they cried to the lord in their
trouble and he saved them out of their
distresses he brought them out of
darkness in the shadow of death and
broke their chains in pieces and it goes
on verse 17 says fools because of their
transgression and because of their
iniquities were afflicted their soul
abhorred all manner of food and they
drew near to the gates of death then
they cried to the lord in their trouble
he saved them out of their distresses he
sent his word and healed them and
delivered them from their destructions
and lastly he said people who go down to
the sea and ships who do business on
great waters they see the works of the
lord and his wonders in the deep he
commands and raises the stormy wind
which lifts up the waves of the sea they
mount to the heavens they go down again
to the depths and their soul melts
because of trouble you think in this
nation
you know all of the people who have
trusted in money instead of god
trusted in prosperity instead of the
promises of god and they’re so happy
when the stock market is up and so down
when it goes down they’re like sailors
on the sea they’re never satisfied their
soul melts because of trouble they reel
to and fro and stagger like a drunken
man and at their wits end and that my
brother my sister is coming very very
shortly to this nation
then they cry out to the lord in their
trouble and he brings them out of their
distresses he calms the storm so that
its waves are still and then they’re
glad because they’re quiet and he guides
them to their desired haven by his grace
he guides
these people as well to the place
they’ve always longed for which is a
living relationship with god
himself oh that men would give thanks to
the lord for his goodness his wonderful
works to the children of men and he
finishes in psalm 107 by saying whoever
is wise
will observe these things and they will
understand the lovingkindness of the
lord
so whether or not
if we have wandered in this nation and
lost our moorings if we’ve rebelled
against the words of god if we’ve been
fools
because we’ve drawn near to the gates of
death if we’ve trusted in money more
than god even in spite of these things
when we cry out to him
the promise is to break the bars of iron
and to bring us back home again
and to restore us and is that not what
he did for the people
of israel
you know it’s strange because the scene
begins with the officers crying out to
pharaoh but it ends in victory when the
people cried out to god
rank and file this is where you and i
now come in
it’s it’s your cry that god will hear
it’s that collective cry when he came to
moses said i’ve heard the cry i don’t
know if anybody else heard it i don’t
know if it was public or private but
there was a cry
and god heard it
and he sent an old man and his brother
to set the people of god free that’s the
plan of god is always a ridiculous plan
in the natural
did you know you are the ridiculous plan
of god for this generation
when you go home look in the mirror and
say i am god’s ridiculous plan for this
generation
i am the i’m the 80 year old man with
the stutter and the stick he was so weak
he had a one-line sermon and needed his
brother to deliver it
but it was god’s plan
to deliver his people not by might not
by power but by my spirit saith the lord
the cry of my heart in this generation
is oh god almighty would you help us to
pray again
will you give us the sense to pray again
would you give us an understanding that
if we will cry out you will be god one
more time
and the things you have done in the past
you will do today and you will do in the
future for jesus christ is the same
yesterday today and forever so your part
and mine
is to cry out to god
if ever there was a time to cry out to
god it’s now
you know i see a lot of gray hair here
including mine tonight
i see others who are like paul they say
i die daily that’s why your hair is not
great
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but it’s up to you and i now
you know there’s a psalmist the aged
psalmist who said lord don’t don’t take
your hand off of me until i have shown
your power to this generation that is to
come see this is the mandate given to us
now to show the next generation the
power of god not just talk about it but
show them
that when we go to the throne of god god
will hear us
god will answer
god will save
christ will deliver
we will one more time i believe that we
are going to see a mercy moment in
america i don’t know what the future is
going to hold i don’t know what the
nation’s going to look like when this is
all over but i do know that god’s mercy
is from age to age and from everlasting
to everlasting
so i’m going to ask you if we can close
tonight
by standing up and maybe just maybe you
could grab the hand of the person beside
you whether you’re comfortable doing
that or not if you’re not comfortable
just
then don’t
but if you are
i’m going to ask you pastor tony if
you’d come and join me
and we’re going to pray and want to ask
you to lift your voice tonight
unashamedly you must know some children
in your neighborhood maybe your own kids
are struggling and your grandkids
your brothers and your sisters
or
if there’s nobody in your immediate
family
the nation itself is dying around us now
and we have access to the throne
of god
so as we pray would you lift your voice
tonight with us yes we’re going to stand
and yes we’re going to vote and yes
we’re going to do everything we know to
do
but then we’re going to do what we’ve
been taught to do and come to the throne
of god and we’re going to believe for
miracles again
of freedom and deliverance so father god
in jesus name
we lift our voices tonight unashamedly
we lift our we open our mouths we begin
to pray god and we ask you god almighty
for the sake of our children for the
sake of our marriages for the sake of
our homes our families for the unborn in
the womb my god who are destined to the
slaughter we lift our voices for them o
god and we ask you lord jesus christ as
you once did for the people of israel in
egypt god that you would set us free we
don’t care what your plan looks like and
we don’t care how you do it but we just
ask you to do it
we come to your throne tonight we come
unashamedly we come oh god expecting
that you’re going to answer our prayer
and we throw our lives in as part of the
answer whatever you choose to do through
each one of us my god we yield our
bodies to you as a living sacrifice for
the glory of your name and for the sake
of others around us give us boldness
lord jesus christ to stand up and speak
your word give us an enablement of god
to live lives that are worthy of your
name
give us power to believe you god that
you do answer prayer nothing has really
changed you have always been a god who
answers prayer
well god almighty god almighty hear the
prayer tonight that is prayed in this
hall hear the prayers that will be
prayed on the way home hear the prayers
that will be prayed when people lie on
their beds tonight or kneel beside them
god help us
god help us god help us god help us god
help us in the days ahead set our
children free yes oh god this is our
prayer set them free lord jesus christ
break this log jam
in the mighty and unmatchable name of
jesus christ
amen
and amen
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