WHEN THEY TELL YOU TO BE QUIET, SHOUT LOUDER - Tim Dilena

We want to welcome all of you and then those that are watching around the country, around before I read all the nations that are with us live and I want to say something. We have literally, I think up to date since January, some 300,000 views from the incarcerated, that we are in prisons now, around the country. So I want to say hello to all those that are part of the prison population. We love you. We're so thankful that you're watching today. I think there's some 10,000 subscribers in the jails for Times Square Church. And we welcome all of you today in Jesus name. What a blessing. We also like to welcome all those watching around the country and around the world and all of our university campuses. So today we say hello to live with us is Pakistan and Malaysia. We welcome Qatar and Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, India and Vietnam. We welcome Nepal, South Korea, Taiwan. We welcome United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Singapore. Welcome Kenya, Uganda, Namibia, Togo, South Africa, Tunisia, Madagascar, Lesotho, Ghana, Nigeria, Eswatinis, Zimbabwe, Liberia and the Ivory Coast. We say hello live with us is Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands and Spain. We say hello to Finland, Sweden. We also welcome Russia. We're believing in Jesus name for a stop to this war. We say hello to France, Hungary, Ireland, Azerbaijan, Norway, Scotland, Slovenia, Poland, Northern Ireland, Denmark, Ukraine. We welcome as we pray for that war to stop Lithuania, Turkey, Greece and Italy. We welcome... It's too much, it's too much. Suriname, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, French, Guyana, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Canada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Haiti, Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Panama, District of Colombia. We welcome Costa Rica, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. We also welcome First Nation people, the Navajo Nation and key First Nation, some 67 countries, 46 states. We say hello to you that's watching live with us and it's always our joy. I know that God has something Pastor Carter is being used with the Ivy League schools and I know there's even more for us to do. We're so thankful. We're believing for just an outpouring on our university campuses. Live with us, we say a little American University, McGill University, Carnegie Mellon University, Concordia University, Liberty University,

the Juilliard School, Institute of Career of Continuing Trade School in New York City, Florida, State University, Stony Brook University, University of California, Davis, Greek Bible College in Athens and Binghamton University. Would you welcome all those watching? Just before we pray, this is, I want to say this, it's been amazing for me. This has been the longest I've been away from preaching in six years. It's been three weeks, Priscilla Shire and then our General Overseer for two weeks. Though I've been here for two of those Sundays with Pastor Carter and Priscilla Shire, I've never been away for three in a row. So I have got about two hours that I want to talk to you about. No, I'm kidding. I was going to make it up. I was going to try to make it up today for being away. But I'm so grateful for Priscilla and for Pastor Carter for what they've done. As I was praying through the sanctuary yesterday, there were certain people I was praying for and then prayed over the annex seats for those watching from our overflow. And I started to ask God this. And I started to sensitive. I don't know what this means. I started to ask God, "Do something special today." I said, "Just do something special in this place today." And then I leave the church. And as I'm leaving, I get a text message from Gary Wilkerson, David Wilkerson, our founder's son. And I want to read to you what he just texted. I didn't know where. I'm not sure if I've gotten a text from Gary on a Saturday, but this is what he said. Praying for you all today. I believe I heard the Lord say for you to expect something special tomorrow. I don't know what that means, but I want to believe. Would you believe with me that God's going to do something special in this place? He's already started it.

I want to talk to you about when they tell you to be quiet, shout louder. Lift those hands and lift up a shout to the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We sense liberty. We sense joy. We sense the Holy Ghost today. So Father, I know what you spoke to me. I know it was confirmed through Pastor Gary Wilkerson, now God, without it being man-made or man-manipulated, let it be the falling down of the Holy Ghost in this place. We thank you. We've sensed it in the worship. We've sensed it from the very first hymns that we sang today. Father, to this final song of hastening to the throne of God. We bless you and praise you in Jesus' name. And everybody said, "Amen, hallelujah." Which before you sit down, look at somebody and say, "Expect something from God today. Expect something from God. Expect something." Thank you, God, thank you, God. On September 23, 1857, down in Lower Manhattan, it was the second great awakening that started. It was a noon prayer meeting with six businessmen. God moved so mightily that they said as a result of those six businessmen in Lower Manhattan that would leave their jobs every day at noon, every day at noon and pray for one hour. They said that within a year they saw one million conversions around the country, one million conversions. As a non-minister, a non-clergy Jeremiah Lamfier wanted to pray for an awakening in New York City, he had no idea it would spread not just around New York City, but around the country and it would begin to start noon prayer meetings all over the United States. The Fulton Street prayer meeting inspired ours.

I just -- we started to pray for an awakening again in New York City. What would happen if people who work and live in New York City commit a lunch -- even when I even asking every day would commit a lunch every Wednesday to say, "Let's believe for God to bring an awakening in New York City." I don't -- for those that don't live here, you don't may not know the city, we need an awakening in New York City. One hundred years later, one hundred years later, 1857 to 1957, a tall, blonde-headed evangelist named Billy Graham came to New York City and for 16 weeks, he preached every night to a packed-out Madison Square Garden, 100,000 one of the nights went to Yankee Stadium to hear him preach. After 125,000 gathered outside of our door to hear the Gospel proclaimed in Times Square, I want to talk to you about those Madison Square Garden meetings for just a moment. Billy Graham preached to a packed house at Madison Square Garden for 100 straight nights, 100 straight nights, lines out the door to hear the Gospel. There's a reason why this is important, someone brought this to my attention, and I was flabbergasted. They started at Madison Square Garden on night one, 1500 people in the choir. The three songs that they kicked off with was, "You sang one of them, how great thou art as we started the service today without anybody knowing what I was going to say." The second song that Madison Square Garden heard was "Blessed Assurance," and then one of my favorite hymns, probably after it as well, is "All Hail the Power of Jesus" name. How many know that hymn? Just for a second, "All Hail the Power of Jesus," name, "Let Angels prostrate forth," bring forth the royal diadem, bring forth the royal diadem, and cry. Lord of Lord, Lord of Lord, bring forth the royal, bring forth the royal diadem, and bring forth the royal diadem. Thank you. Oh, that was Judah. Thank you. Out of nowhere, you just showed up. I thought I was hearing music from heaven.

"Blessed Assurance, all hail the power and how great thou art began to fill the Madison Square Garden." They made a statement, they said, that the garden became a sanctuary for a hundred nights. The garden became a sanctuary. I love that. Billy Graham said on his first night I was reading this, that he jotted down in his journal. I was reading some of it. This is night one. And Billy Graham said this, I was waiting to ascend to the pulpit. I still do not feel great liberty in my soul and that abandonment that I love to feel when I preach. Then he said this, I looked down and saw my friend, Carl Henry, bow his head, he was praying for him and suddenly a great surge of joy swept my soul that brought tears to my eyes. When I stepped to that platform, I knew that God was going to speak through me. And God did speak through me for 100 nights, 16 weeks. 2.5 million people showed up to hear Billy Graham for those 100 nights here in New York City. Tens of thousands of decisions. But here is what was brought to my attention, the reason why I bring it up today. The Madison Square Garden that Billy Graham preached at was not the one where the New York Knicks play. It's not the one on 33rd and 8th Avenue. I want you to hear this today. The Madison Square Garden that heard Billy Graham preach for 100 nights was on the 8th and 50th.

We're on 8th and 51st. For those that don't know, one block over was the Madison Square Garden. There's a building there called the World Wide Plaza. That was the entrance to the awakening that took place 70 years ago in our city. One block over the 1957 revival that shook New York City was one block away from Times Square Church. 1857, a prayer revival, the 1957, the Billy Graham revival. Can I just tell you what the cry of my heart is? And it's this, we can't wait 100 more years. I can't wait 100 years. If you go to the corner and you'll see that building, the World Wide Plaza, that was the entrance. It was as if Jesus stopped at 8th and 50th. One block over. I've been asking Jesus to move over one more block. Anybody with me on this? I just asking one more block. My prayer is God, one block and one more time. One more block and one more. Anybody with me on that? Lift your hands and say one more block, one more time. And would you say we can't wait 100 more years? We need an awakening now in our city. I've cried out for God to do this. I've cried out for God to do this. It's been something that's coming from my soul. The word that I've seen use for prayer more than any other word in the Psalms is the word cry.

When you read the book of Psalms, it seems that this is the word that David has used all over the Psalms instead of pray and complain and supplication, it's this word cry. It appears 78 times across 150 chapters in the Psalms from the lips of David. And here's what is amazing to me. The word cry wasn't just a release of emotion. Wasn't a sadness. It wasn't simply, it was. It was, it was, the catalyst was sadness or catalyst by what his eyes saw. But I was amazed when I looked at a trusted resource that I use all the time called the theological word book of the Old Testament. And it says that word cry, it wasn't just an emotion. It was an invitation. It was crying for an invitation of a guest to come to a situation. It was a cry, the cry was an invitation. The cry was, I need you God. I need you to show up here. That's what he was doing in Psalm 34, 17, the righteous cry, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all of his troubles. He shows up, the cry means, God, we need you to show up again. This poor man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all of his troubles. Psalm 34, six, I can't go through all 78 of the Psalms that he says over and over again, I cried, I cried.

And God would show up. It was, it was a cry for God to come. It was a cry for God to move over one more block. It's a cry for God to go to eighth and 51st again. When David cried to the Lord, he was asking the Lord to personally come into the situation, not just fix it, but come and do whatever you wanna do, but just come to the situation. God brought me to a story with two cries, and it was the second cry that was so distinct in the gospels that it stopped Jesus in his tracks. It was the first cry that you're gonna hear and read with me that the first cry got the attention of the critics. And they told a blind man to be quiet. When he raised up a cry, heard that Jesus was coming, raised up a cry, and they said, be quiet. Keep your mouth shut. And it was the second cry when the man wouldn't listen to all the critics, it was the second cry that got the attention of Jesus. When they tell you to be quiet, I'm gonna ask you to shout louder. When they tell you to be quiet, whether it's happening in a church, a government, a culture, a job in the locker room, or whether it's on Broadway or at the United Nations, whether it's on Wall Street or on your university campus, when they tell you to be quiet, lift up your voice more. The miracle is not far from coming.

Mark 10 says this in verse 46, and they came to Jericho when he was leaving Jericho with his disciples, a large crowd, and a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus was sitting by the road. When he heard that it was Jesus, the Nazarene began to cry out and say, "Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me." Many were sternly telling him to be quiet, but he kept crying out all the more. Son of David, have mercy on me. And these words just resonated, and it would hit me like it just echoed through my room. And it just simply says this in verse 49 on this second cry, and Jesus stopped. And Jesus stopped and said, "Call him here." So they called the blind man saying to him, "Take courage, stand up." He's caught just amazing to me. It's like all the people that were telling him to be quiet are now going, "Take courage, stand up. "It's gonna be okay right now." I'm going, "You're the guys are yelling him. "Be quiet." Now all of a sudden you're on the team. Throwing aside his cloak, he jumped up and came to Jesus, answering him, "Jesus said, 'What do you want me to do for you?'" And the Bible says this, "And the blind man said to him, 'Rabbon, I want to regain my sight.'" And Jesus said to him, "Go, your face has made you well."

Immediately regained his sight, began following him on the road. Two cries in this story. The first cry had the critics yelling and telling this man to be quiet. He knew the miracle was close. He knew the miracle was right in front of him. He knew, as I feel in my spirit, that miracle for us is just a block away, just a block away. The second cry had Jesus open up the blind man's eyes. Jesus heard something that arrested his attention. It was like the touch of the woman with the issue of blood. When everybody was pressing on Jesus, Jesus recognized, he recognized that the touch was different from that woman with an issue of blood. When he stopped and he said, "Someone touched me." I have to believe with that giant crowd that everybody's shouting, but somehow Jesus hears a blind man's cry in the middle of all the shouting, in the middle of all the noise, there was a cry. This church has been praying for healing, has been praying for miracles. One of the things that we've been praying for is David Wilkerson's daughter. Last year had pancreatic cancer, Debbie Wilkerson or her name is Debbie Yonker. And we prayed about a year ago and we saw a miracle took place. And then, and I read to you the miracle, and then about six months ago, I received the text that the cancer has come back.

And then this week I got a text from Roger Yonker, and it just simply said this, "Hi Tim, awesome news. We just left the doctor's office and the pet scan indicated no measurable sign of cancer." (congregation applauding) He said, "All the nurses came out of their offices into the lobby to ring the bell. Want a TSC to join in the rejoicing? Thanks for all your prayers." It was as if Jesus heard a cry from this family. The doctors rang a bell, but we're gonna lift up a shout and say, "Thank you Jesus for what you have done in that family." Those two cries caught my attention, because when you lift your voice, one will get challenged and one will get a miracle. One cry is gonna get challenged, but it's gonna take two cries to get the miracle. You're gonna have to be ready, 'cause the first cry is the battle. The first cry is the critique. The first cry is the voices. The first cry, voices inward and outward. It's the second cry that begins to get the miracle. Let me just talk to you what God has put on my heart today. Cry number one, that's the cry that gets challenged. It was the first cry that got the attention of the critics, and they tried to silence the blind man. When he heard that it was Jesus, the Nazarene began to cry out,

saying, "Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me." And many were sternly telling him to be quiet. The living Bible says this, shut up some of the people yelled at him. Think of it for just a moment. Be quiet, and I just kept thinking, what if he listened to the critics? What if he listened to everyone that was telling him to be quiet? What if he stopped crying for an invitation from the healer? When you cry out from miracles, you are gonna get critics who will tell you to be quiet and to quit. When you continue to cry out for those miracles, I believe the miracle worker comes. Now I need to speak to you as a pastor. I need to speak to you as a church. I owe you an update and an apology. Just a couple of days before we left for Israel, and I'll explain that trip in a little more detail in another message. Just a couple of days before we left for Israel, I got the news that the young lady in the Netherlands that we have been praying for a miracle went through with the assisted suicide. She went to the doctor, and the doctors of the Netherlands took that young girl's life because she couldn't get her mind together. My heart was broken. There were tears in our office for those of us who knew. I have to just tell you this, I got the news on Wednesday

and flew out to Tel Aviv on Friday. And I couldn't let anyone else tell you this information while I was gone. It had to be me that told you. I wouldn't have put it on Pastor Patrick, Pastor Carter. It needed to be me that tells you. I know it's 10 days late, but I felt like... This is so important for me to speak to you because the church prayed, people around the world prayed. We had teen challenged people near her in the Netherlands on call ready to go minister to her and even take her into a program. It was heartbreaking to hear it. Someone asked me this question. They said, "How did you process it? How do you process when you have prayed, when you have believed?" Folks, I have to tell you. I believe that we would see that young lady here. I have to tell you, I've walked in that. And so when that happens, then the voices start to come. And not outward, but even the inward voices start to come. You should never have said it publicly. You never should have said anything. Now you're on the... Now you're gonna have to live with this. You're gonna have to explain this. Someone asked me, "How did you deal with it?" The way I deal with it is by Acts 12 is the passage. I wanna read this to you. Because you have Debbie Wilkerson that's getting healed

and you've got this precious little 27-year-old that gives yourself over to assisted suicide. And I was reading Acts 12 verse 1, and I wanna read this to you. Now about the time Herod the King laid hands on some who belonged to the church in order to mistreat them, he had James, the other brother of John, put to death with a sword. When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. Now it was during the days of unleavened bread when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him to force squads of soldiers to guard him, intending that after the Passover to bring him out before the people, that means he was gonna kill him at that moment. So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God. On that very night when Herod is about to bring him forward, the night before he was going to die, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, guards in front of the door were watching over the prison, and behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared, a light shown in the cell, and he struck Peter's side and woke him up saying, "Get up quickly," and his chains fell off of him. At this moment, doors started to open up, iron doors opened up automatically, and Peter was rescued by an angel that night. Think about this for a moment.

You have two apostles in prison, James. James, that's the James of Peter, James, and John. It's the James that Jesus would go, "Let me take you to the Mount of Transfiguration, "or let me take you into this back room, "where we're gonna raise up a little girl that is dead." That James of Peter, James, and John is the one in verses one and two that dies by the sword. He was the inner circle of Jesus. What's amazing when you read this is one dies by the sword, but the other gets an angel to rescue him. I have to believe that the church prayed for both of those people. I don't think the church just prayed for Peter. I think the church prayed for James also. I think there's prayer going up for both of them. And here's where I've landed, folks, with my disappointment and the critics in my mind, not outside, but this demonic critic that keeps coming, saying you shouldn't have prayed, you shouldn't have made it public, you shouldn't have done this. And here's what I want you to know. I will pray for everyone to get an angel to set them free. I will pray that everybody gets an angel. And if the sword comes, I will trust God, but I will not stop praying. Sometimes, sometimes, Acts 12 has angels and sometimes they're swords, but it doesn't mean that the church stops praying

and believing for miracles. I'm just telling you this, do I have answers? I don't have answers, but secondly, the critics will criticize our cry to pray. The enemy would say, don't go public. See what happened. The sword fell on this 27-year-old girl. And folks, we have to pray because this world has no answers. Let me say this about why we need an awakening in New York City. Six weeks ago, the state of New York just legalized assisted suicide. Okay, do you understand that? Let me say that again. This isn't a Netherlands issue. Six weeks ago, our governor signed something for assisted suicide for those that are terminally and listened to it. This was on the website. A peaceful end on one's own terms is a matter of dignity. That's what they're saying. A peaceful end is a matter of one's own terms is a matter of dignity. They call it the medical aid dying act. That folks, it's now for those that are terminally ill, but I'm telling you, it's going to go further. And that's why the church has to pray today. That's why the church has to cry out today.

We have a church today. I want to say this to churches. Enough, we need a church to cry out from miracles. We need a church that seeks, I'm watching, I'm getting sometimes stuff that's sent to me. It's so ridiculous what's happening in the pulpits today. Pastors setting up props, we've got ladders on stage and preachers eating McDonald's. One preacher carries on an AR-47 to talk about spiritual warfare. You have another guy with a blowtorch. You have another guy who's putting a chocolate with whipped cream and chocolate on the Bible saying and discruiting it on the Bible. You have others that are on Super Bowl Sunday kicking the Bible like it's a field go. Enough already. That doesn't set. Can I just tell you, we're responsible for these things happening because we don't cry anymore for God to do something in our place. So we've got preachers who become theatrics. We've got pastors that know how to set up all these props, meet with their creative team to come up with all these things to wow the audience. We have a world that's dying in people that are committing assisted suicide because we don't have any answers. We need a church that cries again for God to show up in this place.

I hope you get angry with me. I hope that you finally go enough of the props. Can I just tell you, the Bible is enough. The Word of God is enough. I don't need a ladder on stage. I don't need bombs and things going off on stage. What I need is an awakening. We need the Holy Ghost again to do something in the body of Christ. Enough is enough. When does the church wake up while they're passing laws to kill people, we're still putting props on a stage. My goodness, I don't need a prop. We need the Holy Ghost again. God tells the people of God to shout. We think at times that this enemy comes and says, well, if I shout, if I say this, I'm going to get criticized. Of course you are. My goodness, what are you talking about? Pastor Tim, are you angry? Yes. That's why when they tell you to be quiet, shout louder. Shout louder. Shout louder. Enough. If you're sitting, you're watching, and you're sitting, you're trying to figure out what's the next new thing. Because what these-- and I shouldn't let me go on. Listen to me, because we're trying to figure out what to put on a stage.

We need people on our knees. We need a place that people get set free from. We don't need a church. Let me just say this. When they tell you to be quiet, shout louder. There was a moment that God tells the people of Israel in Isaiah 49, and he says, I want you to shout. And the critics of their mind wouldn't allow them. Listen to it. God says, shout for joy, you heavens. Rejoice, you earth. Burst into song, you mountains. The Lord has comforted his people. I'm sorry, I've got spit all over these notes. I'm sorry. And we'll have compassion on his afflicted ones. Listen to this, but Zion said, the Lord has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgot. Zion says, we won't sing. I've got questions. Zion says, I can't sing. The sword has come. A young lady has died in the Netherlands. I understand that another lady was healed in Texas, but another one has died. And there's something that says that we'll try to stop the shout, the critics of the mind. The Lord has forgotten me. And then God responds in verse 15, "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast

and have no compassion on the child she is born? Though she may, though she may forget, God says, "I will not forget you." And then he says this, "See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands, hallelujah." (congregation applauding) Instead of Zion shouting for joy and bursting into a song of Zion, Zion is saying, "God has forgotten me. God has forsaken me." Why is this important to push by the critics, both internally and outwardly, who are trying to silence us? These voices wanna control your praise. These voices wanna stop the miracles. These voices will hinder you from pressing through to cry again. Those voices will stop you from praying. And in Isaiah, instead of pressing through, they didn't cry, they questioned. You'll not be able to cry and telling you, folks. We have to learn to press through when things are trying to silence us. You will not be able to cry out for biblical passages and for biblical principles without being sternly chastised. It's going to come today. You're gonna be fought against. When you stand for sexual preference against gender and for holiness, immorality,

even for the nation of Israel. Folks, as we cry out for the peace of Jerusalem, I have critics constantly saying, stop saying that, quit doing that, quit talking about Israel. Folks, that's why we took a trip to Israel. We're gonna support Israel. We're gonna stand with that nation. It doesn't matter what, you can, okay, look at me for a second. You can turn us off. You can walk out on me. You can do pastor Claude Hood from Montreal, just texted me this morning. He said, we learned from you guys. He said, last week someone stood up in our church, screaming at me. We had everybody stand up, saying, how great is our God? And then we just walked. We just, they moved them out and then we went back to, it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. If a church preaches, there's gonna be the critics. There's gonna be those that are coming against it. When you stand for which right, those voices will make you acquiesce to the people's protest and complaint and objection. The church has gotten silent and that's why Jesus has not stopped by many churches

that won't cry out. So what do they know? What happens is they move on without miracles. They have messages, but no miracles. You have productions, but no salvation. Folks, I can't live that way. I have a cry inside of my heart that says send a miracle God to this city. Send miracles to people's lives today. We've listened to the critique of the masses that says we need shorter services. Nothing controversial. Make sure you have hot coffee waiting for me in the lobby. Let me just help you. These services will not be short. We will speak on the Word of God and you're not getting coffee. Let me just tell you that right now. You will hear you prayed and nothing happened. You shouldn't be so loud in church. You should because people, new people are coming in. You're not used to loud people in church. You shouldn't say anything to your children about what they're struggling with. You shouldn't speak like this to the church. You shouldn't mention Israel. You shouldn't mention it. When Satan, when the internet, when people, when the government, when your own thoughts tell you to be quiet, I'm telling you breakthrough is close.

I'm telling you the miracle is close. Thank God that blind man didn't listen. Thank God that blind man shouted louder. And we've lost that cry from the pulpit. We've lost that. Be careful of who you give your shout to. Don't give your shout to the jets or the giants. Don't give your shout to the Yankees or the Mets. They didn't heal you. They didn't save you. They didn't provide for you. They didn't deliver you. They didn't set you free. I'm giving my shout to the one that deserves it. His name is Jesus Hallelujah. Your cry is your boldness. Your cry is your stand. Your cry is your prayer. I don't think I've ever put these words on the screen, but I'm going to say this. All the shushers have a lot of opinions in post, but they don't have miracles. Sometimes all the shushers have an opinion. They have posts, but no miracles. Don't listen to those people. Listen to the ones that says cry again. Ask God again. Cry out for God. One of the men that has meant something to my life, Leonard Ravenhill said, "Christianity has become so subnormal that if anyone is to act like a normal new text to them in

Christian, they'd be considered abnormal." Abnormal got Jesus to stop. Abnormal had a man cry even though the people told him to be quiet. It'll take an abnormal second cry. Let me finish with this second cry today. Cry number two, the cry that gets a miracle. Many were sternly telling him to be quiet, but he kept crying out all the more. Son of David had mercy on me, and Jesus stopped and said, "Call him here. Call him here." I was struggling whether to say this, but I want to ban the musicians. Why don't you come, especially the piano? If you play soft music, it'll make this easier to say. I want to say something. This comes from my heart. I want denominations' churches to hear this because it's happened so much this summer. All summer long, churches and denominations are coming to Times Square. They rent it out doing worship stuff in Times Square. Have you ever seen any of them? I want to give them a challenge to the churches and the denominations that are coming and doing their music down there of something to say. First I want to thank you. I want to thank you for telling people about Jesus. We need cries from the streets, but I want to ask you to do two things. Two things. Number one, first, stay, don't go. In the fight, we need reinforcements here. We need help in the fight. Don't sing and leave. Sing and stay. It's easy to sing and then go back and just go, "We saw this happen.

Just sing and do something. We need all the help we can get in New York City." The first thing I want to say is don't sing and go. Sing and stay. The second thing is how about this, when you do it, don't post it on media. If you're here for New York City, no one who you're speaking to is looking at your Instagram. Just do it and let heaven notice it. Just let heaven notice it. If you do leave, that's okay. Just pray for us here. Pray for us here. But don't make it a production. Don't make it about a post. This is a war we're in. We're crying out for an awakening. The thing is we need an awakening, not a church service. That's what I mean. When the choir sings or Ricardo leads us, I want an awakening. I want it to wake the dead. I've heard about 1857 and one block over. I've heard about the 100-day revival in 1957, but I'm crying out one more block and one more time. One more block and one more time, oh God. Just move over one more block. And Jesus stopped. That's revival. That's an awakening. Jesus standing still for a second cry. Jesus stopped. I believe a second cry comes every Wednesday at noon when people cry out for God to do

something. I think a second cry is when people join online or in person for a worldwide prayer meeting. The second cry is boldness. It's unashamedness. It says it doesn't matter what people tell me. I'm going to cry out to God. I want to read to you an online testimony that we're going to close that was sent to me about how Jesus stopped for the cry of Manuela in France who's going to be joining us on our online water baptisms. I want to encourage you from those around the world, if you're joining with us, you've never been water baptized, we've got a whole thing that we want to celebrate with you getting baptized. So we want you to sign up for that. Let me read you Manuela's story before we close. This is what was sent to me. I was given permission to read your story. Manuela is in France, but from Mauritius. After my husband lost his battle with cancer in 2018, one week after our 23rd wedding anniversary, it got deeper into the new age beliefs. By the end of 2021, I started having both health and financial problems. I stopped reading any form of the Bible and started following new age gurus online. It was at the same time studying Buddhism, Taoism and other Eastern religions, but there was always this voice in my head that kept saying, "You're not just a man and you are just a man. You're not God." Do you? I knew it came from the Bible, but I would soon shut that voice up and reject the Bible as the Word of God. I started thinking that the God of the Bible

was bad, boastful, and bloody. I became more and more depressed. This is what she wrote. She said, "I would ask the universe for help every day." Listen to that. I would ask the universe for help. But my situation was growing worse and worse. I could do nothing but watch myself sinking deeper and deeper in despair. Each time I try to pray whatever I believed in each time I opened my mouth, this is what she said. The first words that would come out of my mouth is God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I thought that God of Israel was mocking me because it was always these words that come out. And I couldn't help saying God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And then I want you to hear the second cry that came from Manuela. On the 20th of August, 2025, just a year ago, I felt so desperate that I prayed to the God of Israel and said, "God, please take my life. "I can't handle this anymore. "I've been waiting too long and I won't wait any longer. "My phone suddenly lit up and it was a text for my brother. "And it just simply read this. "David waited 12 years. "Abraham waited 25 years. "Joseph waited 13 years. "No one waited 120 years.

"Amen, if you're waiting for something right now, "God's time is best." That was on her phone. (audience applauds) She said, "I still have this message. "I started crying, thanking, and praising God "because I knew this wasn't a coincidence." Now, I want you to hear the moment when Jesus stopped from Manuela. Here's what she said. "That day I decided to come back to the God of Israel. "I started reading the Bible again. "I threw away all the self-help books "undescribed from the YouTube channels "and took everything that seemed ungodly out of my house. "I took a notebook and pencil and started writing "every bad thing I've ever done in my life "and asked God to forgive me. "I also understood that I was under demonic attacks "that I still had these suicidal thoughts. "And then she said this, just a few months ago. "I felt the need, just a few months ago, "to go to church, even if it's online. "I listened to so many evangelists on YouTube "but I didn't have this aha moment "until one Saturday afternoon out of nowhere, "a TSC Sunday service popped up on YouTube. "It was one of Pastor Carter's sermons. "And I was moved. "I was moved.

"I think it was the end of April that I clicked on it "and was moved, that God was speaking to me. "It says then I clicked on a second sermon. "This time, it was Pastor Tim, okay. "I'm gonna read what she said. "But she said he had a look coming out of him "like the Godfather from the movie. (audience laughs) "She said this, she said he was yelling at everybody. "And she said I loved it. "She said the old Seventh-day Adventist church "that I used to go to was like watching a flat line "of an EKG compared to Pastor Tim. "I had to read that part. "I did that worship team, you can come. "The Godfather, God bless you, man. "Well, at the end of his preaching, "Pastor Tim would ask the audience to raise your hand. "He'd count hands to be raised "and people would say that born-again prayer. "I never knew what an altar call was. "I was sitting in the kitchen. "I raised my hand, got off my chair, "and came nearer to my phone. "And I said the born-again prayer. "Subscribe to the TSC channel. "Start watching all the Sunday services that I can find. "I typed, decided in every single week. "I kept, I prayed the born-again prayer "each time watching a sermon.

"I could not help raise my hand every single time. "I would stand up and say the prayer every time "I watched in my kitchen. "By the month of June, "I was starting to follow the Sunday services live. "I loved the whole service, the songs, the preaching, "the prayer. "I wouldn't miss it for anything. "I've even declined my friends' invitation "just because they didn't want to miss church. "I started my warning routine on July 2nd. "This is just about a two months ago. "I'd wake up early, listen to chapter by chapter, "read my Bible, then pray before starting the day. "I've made a slight change since I pray first, "and I listen to chapter by chapter, read my Bible, "then I listen to Pastor Carter's. "Welcome to my morning. "I made my first prayer request online on July 12th, "my second on August 30th. "I made a decision to give my life to Jesus "that night you prayed for me on Zoom and on September 11th. "I registered for the October 18th water baptism, "your sister in Christ, Manuela." (audience applauds) Manuela, can I tell you Jesus stopped for you in France? Jesus stopped for you, you cried out and he stopped. We love you, Manuela. We're so thankful for what God is doing. Can I just tell you, push through the critics

that don't believe in miracles? Push through the critics and say, "Why do you want to go to Tuesday night service? "Isn't Sunday enough?" That's what this church culture tells you. I need to be in God's house every single time the doors are open. Why go to noon prayer? Why listen to the worldwide prayer meeting? Why go to two services on Sunday? Why are you going to go to the volunteer fair and serve? Why give to this? That's a second cry. When they tell you to be quiet in your home, on your job, in your church, in your worship, I'm telling you when they tell you to be quiet, shout louder. Shout louder to God, we need you. Stand with me and let me tell you something that was brought to my memory this week. Thank you, Jesus. When Jesus stopped on that ground, when Jesus stopped on that dirty road right outside of Jericho, between cities, stopped on that road, it was like Madison Square Garden. The garden became a sanctuary. Jericho became a healing service. Jericho became healing ground. Jesus stopped on Fulton Street in 1857. Jesus stopped on 8th and 50th in 1957. Jesus stopped in France for Manuela.

And Jesus, unbelieving, not only stopped on Jericho's dusty road, but he's going to stop again. This is what I learned. There is no plane that's called Air Force One. There's no such thing. So you go like, oh, good. He's not for Trump. Listen to what I'm about to say. Just listen, my goodness. People these days. Air Force One is not the name of a plane. It's the official radio sign used by air traffic controllers that when the plane carries the president. Before the president boards a plane, the name of that plane is S.A.M. 28,000, S.A.M. 28,000. That's the name of the plane. They have two presidential planes. S.A.M. 28,000. This is S.A.M. 28,000 requesting runway clearance. This is S.A.M. 29,000 requesting runway clearance. That's what they say. And it says when the president of the United States steps on that plane, it now changes because he's on it from S.A.M. 28,000 to Air Force One. Which means if the president of the United States came on my Delta flight, my Delta flight 629 becomes Air Force One. It's not a plane, it's a presence. It's not a plane, it's a presence. When he stepped on the eighth and 50th, that's the presence of God over there.

That's what he does. When God steps into your life, he changes your name from just simply being Tim and Ricardo and Deirdre. He changes our name and says, you're no longer Ricardo Sanchez. You're no longer Deirdre. You're no longer those names. You're a child of God. You're a daughter of God. You're my child now. When I step in, my presence changes the whole thing. Everything changes at that moment. When he took his feet on that dirty Jericho road, it became healing ground at that moment. And God showed up there. That's why, listen to me, planting a church in New York City doesn't change New York City. But when Jesus plants his feet, that's what changes our city. That's what changes our life. That song, you can sing every new, tangled song there is. If Jesus doesn't show up, listen to me, it's a song. Oh, you got to hear this riff that I play. Doesn't mean anything. David or Randy or Jude, you can play whatever you want. If Jesus isn't here, it's a song. Jesus shows up, Air Force One comes down, and the whole thing changes. It's just saying, if Jesus doesn't show up when I preach, it's a lecture, my goodness, go to a university. Find where he is. And if he's not in your church, then cry out. Say, "Jesus, stop here. Stop here. Do a miracle here. Work a miracle in my life. Hallelujah." Here it comes. As soon as what I'm

about to say, people are going to sit there and go like this. They're going to say, "Okay, come on. Let's get out before the crowds. Tell them this. Be quiet. I'm about to shout louder. Put your keys back in. Stop listening to people go in. Come on. We got to go. We got to go. We got to get out of here. We got to go. We got to get out. You tell them, "Be quiet. Don't tell you." We're going to shout louder because the critics are going to go, "This is where they're going to get crazy." 100 percent. I want the power of God. I want Jesus to stop on 51st and 8th. 51st and Broadway. I want him to stop. I want him to stop in your life. How many need Jesus to stop in your home, in your mind? Come on. Ask him right now. Say, "Jesus, stop. Stop. Stop it. Stop at my company. Stop in my life. Stop in my mind. Stop right now in my sons and daughters. God, we raise up a cry today. Think of it for just a moment, church. Think of it for a moment. Jonah is in a dark place. Jonah 2 says, "He cried and God answered him and was spit up on a beach. A woman had a demonic daughter cried when even the disciples were saying, "Be quiet. Be quiet. Jesus heard a cry. Oh my goodness. We cry out to you today, God." We cry out to you. There's more. There's more young ladies, 27-year-old young ladies in Netherlands and around this world that don't need a church with props, that don't need theater on a stage, that need Jesus to stop. May this be a place that people can find themselves in their right minds like Manuela did in France, like people are today. So can I say this to you today? Here it is. The critics will silence you. The critics will get you out. But like Air Force One, when God comes into your life, your call letters change. You become a child of God. You become a child of God. You've gotten religion. You've gotten church. You've gotten some of you have followed Eastern religion. You have followed Islam, Judy. I'm telling you, don't even follow time square church. Follow Jesus. Follow Jesus. Don't look at anybody. Just put them off. I don't care if you're here with your boyfriend because probably you're going to kick him out of your life in the next few moments you're going to go like just telling you. If you're here today, if you're here today, and you say, I need God in my life. That's all I'm going to say. I need God in my life. That's you. Raise your hand. Say, I need God in my life. Hold it up high. Hold it up high. Oh my God. Okay. Put your hands down. I don't think you heard me. There's just too many hands. Just put your hands back down. I'm talking about you have lived for yourself. You have lived a life for yourself. And you're going, I need God to stop and take over my life. I've been away from God,

but today I need God in my life. If that's you, raise your hand. I just want to make sure. Hold your hands up high. I want to make sure that you, here's what I'm going to ask you to do, balcony, main floor. Here's what I'm going to ask you to do. Put all the critics aside, put the voices aside. If you've raised your hand, can you, can you, I don't know what song you have on your hand. Sing a song, please. I'm going to ask you to meet me right down here at the Psalter. I want to pray for you. Get out of your seat balcony. Come on, make your way down. I'm going to get down off the stage. I want to meet, we meet you and pray with you. Quickly, get out of your seat. Meet me right down here. Our ushers will be down here. Come on, let's sing. Let's sing. When I think about the Lord, how He saved me, how He raised me, how He filled me with the Holy Ghost, how He healed me to the uttermost, when I think about the Lord, how He picked me up and turned me around, how He placed my feet on solid ground. (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language)

(singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) Second, but I want to say something, I want to say something to all those that are here today, whatever, those that are at this altar, can I ask you just one quick question, how many this is your first time at the church, just your first time, first time, I'm so happy you're here, anybody else, first time, first time, first time, first time over there, I'm so happy to see, how many second time, I know I talk with Sherry second time, yes, second time, second time, I was just talking to a precious girl named Sherry, I just go Sherry, why are you crying, she goes because I want Jesus in my life, I want Jesus in my life. Listen, here's what we're going to do, this is the second cry, you push through, you push through, everything in you is going to say, you shouldn't come up here, it's going to be too much, it's going to be, and by the time they're going to steal your stuff if you come up here. Some of you going, I thought this was a church, this is a New York City church, we probably should tell people when you come to the altar, bring your stuff, if you don't have anybody that's there, and if they leave their stuff there, you Christians, you better watch it for them. Let me just tell you this, he loves you, and so this cry that he tells them in Isaiah 49, shout, shout, pray, sing, and they go, but you forsaken me, you've forgotten me. And he says, a mother can't forget her child, how can I forget you, and then he says something that's almost junior high, says I engraved you, I wrote you on my, do you ever do that in junior high, you ever write stuff on your hands and just put that up there, that's, God goes, why do you do that, because the two most exposed places that we see all the time, the first one is right here, this is the, this is the most exposed, we see this all the time. We see this, the most exposed place, we see it, we see it, we see it, and God goes, you're always before me, I haven't forgotten you. God hasn't forgotten Sherry, God hasn't forgotten my friend from Los Angeles, he hasn't forgotten you, first time here he hasn't forgotten you, he hasn't forgotten any of you. He hasn't forgotten my first time, my friend here, he hasn't forgotten you, this is his day, he's gonna, he's gonna touch you today, that second cry, does it mean that it's, I gotta yell, no, no, no, it's a cry that comes from the soul. It comes from the soul, that's all it is, it comes from the soul, it just has got to want you in my life. Would you, would you just for a moment just bow your heads and just say this, this is what we normally do, we usually have the whole church pray with you, I just want you guys to pray, can I ask the church for a moment just to be quiet? for a moment just to be quiet, let them pray. Would you, those at this altar? Just say these words, say, "Jesus, stop from me. "I need you. "Would you take my life, step into it, "and change my identity? "I thank you, Jesus, that you love me. "You haven't forgotten me, and you have a plan for me. "Change my life in Jesus' name. "Amen.

"Hallelujah, hallelujah." So here's what I'm going to ask you to do. Mo's going to sing this one more time. We'll sing when I think about the Lord. I'm going to ask you to do one thing. Listen, there'll be a thing. Can we put it on the screen for those watching online? You're going to see? You could text decided here to 51,000, e-mailed the side of the growth, all that. But for those that maybe need a Bible, and just need five minutes for some of our team just to say, "Here's a Bible, here's a great way to start." You can walk with me. That's how to exit seven. If you look over to my right, you're going to see two of the red letter jacket people over there. And then you could just join with me. I'm going to walk that way. You can join me. If you've got to go back to your seat, I get it. But please text decided. It just helps you on the journey for God. So what should I do next? I'll tell you what you should do next. Sign up for water baptism. Be part of that. Let God begin to do something special with that. And then at the very end, if you need more prayer or red shirt or teams to come,

we'll sing this, curtain will go down. Our red teams will come up. I love you guys. I'm seriously, I love you. I love you. Anybody with me? One more street, one more time. That's what we're praying for, for God to do that. So as they sing this, for those that want to go to exit seven, they'll take you for five minutes and then do that. Let's sing this. You've got to bless you. Come on. Those are going. ♪ Do not think ♪