Sanctify My Heart
Sanctify My Heart
(A Touch From God)
David Wilkerson
He brings them half-way up hoping that
in His utter holiness in His presence …
(Exodus 24:9)
Because God appeared to them
and ate with them and they saw sear fire,
path leading right into a dark cloud.
And they knew.
No man has seen God.
But they knew He was there.
You would think you and I,
we would be there, we would fall on our face
in the presence of utter holiness and righteousness.
We would fall.
Those things hidden in our hearts would be exposed.
We’d cry “My God, have mercy!”
But in the presence of almighty holy God
they were unmoved in their hearts, were totally unmoved.
He brought them half-way up and He may take them all the way to it.
He would convict them by His holiness because He loved these men.
He doesn’t give up on His servants.
He loves them.
He loves them to the end.
Please understand and know that God loves you and He loves me.
No matter what we’re going through,
no matter what we may be enduring
God calls you to the mountain that He may deal with you in love
and in His holiness not to judge you
but to give you power and authority in His name
and like your face shine with His glory.
They were exposed to this utter holiness
as if God’s saying to them.
“There’s something in your heart keeping you from a full revelation.
There is a besetting sin keeping you from intimacy.
You can’t be intimate with Me unless you break.”
You see if you’ve got sin in your heart
waiting on God is the hardest thing you’d ever been called to do.
You don’t want to do it.
You can’t do it.
Just waiting on the Lord in His presence
Just waiting for God to speak, waiting for God to act
Because people who move in flesh
don’t know how, cannot wait on the Lord.
Folks, there’s nothing more tragic
There’s nothing worse
if we would be in what is called
God’s house and the presence of Jesus is not there.
If you’re not in the place of defilement
God says,
“I’m not gonna with you.
I’ll woo you. I’ll call you.
You’re gonna leave the camp.
You’re gonna leave the defilement behind.
You’re gonna get out into a clean place.”
When God is dealing with something in my life
you can shed a river of tears,
you can make him a thousand promises.
But until you allowed the Holy Spirit by His covenant to come
and give you a revelation of how He can empower you to be delivered
until you want to be free
and you get out the place of defilement
and you get to a clean place in Christ.
There’s got to be something You do in my heart.
There’s something God wants to do in every heart here tonight.
I don’t have to go to force it.
I don’t have to put my finger on it.
But the Holy Ghost does it tonight when you are here in His presence.
He put His finger on it.
And He’s coursed some of you to deliver you.
He’s here to say to you lovingly
“I know the battle and the struggle you go through.
But as long as that defilement is there
as long as you’re in this area,
this place of defilement I can’t walk with you.
You’re gonna miss the only thing that really matters.
Walking in my presence.”
And folks, the more I pray the more I hear the Holy Spirit say,
“David, it’s gonna take more than
you have been willing to give it at this point.
Because of the dtimes.
It’s gonna take more of your time.”
I know God’s calling me.
I wanna yield to the Holy Spirit.
Folks, I have not arrived.
The word I preached tonight He’s worked in my spirit and my soul.
He wants to work in your heart.
We would hope that you would be
so spiritually motivated by the Holy Ghost.
“I wanna go all the way to the mountain
and I haven’t gone all the way like I want to.
I need His touch tonight.
And I want God’s presence in my life.
I want the presence of Christ.”
God, come!
Oh God, bring freedom
while they’re here in these meetings.
Bring freedom.
Break the chains that bind, oh God.
Lord, I’ve been busy.
I’ve had time for people.
I’ve had time for everything in my agenda.
But I’ve been neglecting You, oh God.
Forgive us and call us back, oh God.
Take us to the mountain we pray.
Take us out of the house, place of defilement.
Purge us, cleanse us, sanctify us.