“I don’t care about it [the honor of man] for me, but I care about it for them. You can’t lead people into the rich things of God if they don’t honor you. It takes years to build a life of honor and just a few minutes of folly to lose it” (pg. 131).
“If you hunger for more of God, if you want Him to lay hold of your life, there is a price!” (pg. 156)
“When the Lord touches someone, that person is driven to his knees. He then becomes intimate with Christ. And out of that intimacy, he receives fresh revelation from Heaven” (pg. 161).
“God, wake us up! Let some of us get so hungry to be touched by Your hand, so set on fire and burdened for Your will and purposes, that You will come forth and pour out Your Spirit mightily!” (pg. 161)
“If you set your heart to pray, God’s going to come and start sharing His heart with you” (pg. 161).
Along with his quotes and sermons, Pastor Dave’s life spoke a strong and powerful message, showing us how we can walk in the footsteps of a man who accomplished great things for the Kingdom of God, and touched millions of people. By the grace and power of God, let’s follow in his footsteps!
“And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks” (Hebrews 11:4 ESV).
Notes
1. Feet of clay: “(idiomatic) In someone apparently strong and without failings, a hidden weakness which could cause his or her downfall.… Used in the Bible in Daniel 2:34, part of the description of the huge statue in the dream of Chaldean King Nebuchadnezzar.” See “Feet of Clay,” YourDictionary.com, http://www.yourdictionary.com/ feet-of-clay.
2. Gary Wilkerson, David’s oldest son, published a great biography of his dad’s life entitled The Cross, the Switchblade, and the Man Who Believed.
3. Keith Green, “Why YOU Should Go to the Mission Field,” Last Days Ministries, February 22, 2007, http://www.lastdaysministries.org/Articles/1000008651/Last_Days_Ministries/LDM/Discipleship_Teachings/Keith_Green/Why_YOU_Should.aspx.
4. David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade (Grand Rapids, MI: Chosen Books, 1963), 137.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. “And I saw a great white throne and the One sitting on it. The earth and sky fled from His presence, but they found no place to hide” (Rev. 20:11 NLT).
8. “How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God. Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge. But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints” (1 Cor. 14:26-33).
9. “And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken” (Ezek. 22:28 KJV). “But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die” (Deut. 18:20 KJV).
10. “Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge” (1 Cor. 14:29).
11. “…in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared” (Heb. 5:7 KJV).
12. “‘Abba, Father,’ He cried out, ‘everything is possible for You. Please take this cup of suffering away from Me. Yet I want Your will to be done, not Mine’” (Mark 14:36 NLT).
13. “This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break. When the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob’s hip and wrenched it out of its socket. Then the man said, ‘Let me go, for the dawn is breaking!’ But Jacob said, ‘I will not let you go unless you bless me.’ ‘What is your name?’ the man asked. He replied, ‘Jacob.’ ‘Your name will no longer be Jacob,’ the man told him. ‘From now on you will be called Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have won’” (Gen. 32:24-28 NLT).
14. “The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe” (Prov. 29:25).
15. “And Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and named it Yahweh-Shalom (which means, ‘the Lord is peace’)” (Judg. 6:24a NLT).
16. “This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare” (1 Tim. 1:18).
17. “And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing” (Acts 8:39 KJV).
18. “Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord…” (Jer. 31:12 KJV).
19. Leonard Ravenhill, Revival God’s Way: A Message for the Church (Bethany House, 1983), pg. 32 .
20. “For God may speak in one way, or in another, yet man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on their beds, then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction” (Job 33:14-16).
21. “My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, and their staff informs them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray, and they have played the harlot against their God” (Hosea 4:12).
22. “The manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues” (1 Cor. 12:7-10).
23. “…You will show me the path of life: in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore” (Ps. 16:11).
24. “Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet.… So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him…then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant” (1 Kings 19:16,19,21 NIV).
25. “And so it was, when they had crossed over, that Elijah said to Elisha, ‘Ask! What may I do for you, before I am taken away from you?’ Elisha said, ‘Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.’ So he said, ‘You have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so’” (2 Kings 2:9-10).
26. “When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him” (Deut. 18:22).
27. “Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up…” (James 5:14-15).
28. “Then he prepared a great feast for them; and after they ate and drank, he sent them away and they went to their master. So the bands of Syrian raiders came no more into the land of Israel” (2 Kings 6:23).
29. “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world” (James 1:27).
30. “To the church of God which
is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours” (1 Cor. 1:2).
31. Mack Tomlinson, In Light of Eternity: The Life of Leonard Ravenhill (Lion Share Books, 2010), Kindle edition, chap. 31.
32. “And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised…the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all” (Rom. 4:12,16).
33. Pastor Dave’s sermons can be found at http://www.worldchallenge.org.
34. “Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?” (Isa. 58:6 KJV).
35. David Wilkerson, “The Touch of God” (sermon, Times Square Church, New York, NY, August 5, 1991).
36. “The History of Times Square Church,” Tscnyc.com, http://www.tscnyc.org/history/.
37. David Wilkerson, “The Touch of God.”
38. David Wilkerson, “The Queen in Gold! The Bride of Christ” (sermon, Times Square Church, New York, NY, March 13, 1995).
39. Gary Wilkerson, David Wilkerson: The Cross, the Switchblade, and the Man Who Believed (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2014), 250-51.
40. Don Wilkerson, “Going into Labor” (Sermon, Teen Challenge, Brooklyn, NY, March 9, 2016).
41. David Wilkerson, “The Touch of God.”
42. David Wilkerson, “A Call to Anguish” (sermon, Times Square Church, New York, NY, September 15, 2002), www.sermonindex.net.
43. David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade, 137.
44. These quotes and more can be found in David Wilkerson’s sermons and writings, many of which are collected on the World Challenge website, http://worldchallenge.org.
About the Author
CHARLES SIMPSON, THE ELEVENTH OF TWELVE CHILDREN, WAS BORN and raised in Tennessee. After his conversion at the age of seventeen, he received a missionary call to New York City, where he has spent most of his adult life, pastoring, planting churches, and working in Bible schools. While serving as the pastor of prayer at Times Square Church, he met and married his wife, Lynn. They have been privileged to work alongside great leaders such as David and Don Wilkerson, Michael Brown, Peter Wagner, Brian Simmons, Vincent Buonfiglio, Joel Sadaphal, Russell Hodgins, and Will Kitchen. Charles served as the campus pastor at Brooklyn Teen Challenge and the director of its School of Ministry, and is currently planting his sixth church (www.oasislic.com).
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