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This is a message about how God intends to handle our fear problem. There are four great fears: 1-
Fear of survival and poverty, 2- Fear of losing children to sin, 3- Fear of calamity and terror, 4-The lack of political leaders. God never intended for His people to live in fear. God is a God who pleads the cause of His people. He pledges Himself to us and He puts His words in our mouth to destroy the lies of
Satan that cause us to fear. This message admonishes us to keep our eyes on His resurrection power and to keep the
FACE of
JESUS before our eyes all throughout our days.
“
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the
Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old
. Art thou not it that hath cut
Rahab, and wounded the dragon?… Awake, awake, stand up,
O Jerusalem, which has drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out….
“Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people,
Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again” (
Isaiah 51:9, 17, 22, my italics).
In this powerful prophecy, Isaiah tells us God has put into the hands of all nations a “cup of trembling.” This cup is of the
Lord’s doing, and it is filled with the wine of fear, hopelessness and perplexity.
Isaiah was writing to a people who were in captivity in
Babylon. He intended his message specifically for those righteous ones who continued to seek the Lord in the midst of that wicked society. It was a word for a holy remnant who had not given in to the materialism and sensuality surrounding them.
Isaiah wrote much about the last days, and
I believe with many
Bible scholars that his message here applies to the church today. Indeed, it has meaning for all who seek the Lord and love his righteousness in a wicked time. In short, the same cup of trembling that God put into the hands of Babylon,
Assyria and the surrounding nations is a cup he has put into the hands of the nations today.
About
David Wilkerson
David Wilkerson was the Founding
Pastor of
Times Square Church in
New York City. He was called to
New York in
1958 to minister to gang members and drug addicts, as told in the best-selling book,
The Cross and the Switchblade.
In
1987, David Wilkerson returned to "the crossroads of the world" to establish Times Square Church. As a pastor of the church, he faithfully led this congregation, delivering powerful biblical messages that encourage righteous living and complete reliance on God.
David Wilkerson had a strong burden to encourage and strengthen pastors throughout the world. From
1999 to 2008, he traveled around the globe holding conferences for
Christian ministers.
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