 I'm gonna get right into the message because it's so so so so of God It's called ask of me and I will give you the nations for your inheritance It's a messianic psalm and it was intended for Christ Christ is the king of all kings and Lord of all lords We honor him as such the father God said this to Jesus the son Ask of me and I will give you the nations of the earth for your inheritance In fact, if you read the whole psalm, it says why do the heathens rage? Why have the kings of the earth gathered together? Why do they say to God let us throw off these restraints? Ladies and gentlemen, we're living in a time where our nation and the world is casting off all moral restraints from values of sexuality and honesty and purity and gender and They're raging against God it. It's not that all you could either believe in God or not believe I know they're raging against God against Christianity But God says ask of me Why can we ask of God as well if this is intended for Christ because we are joint heirs with Jesus Christ He said I reign and I want you to reign alongside of me I want to raise your faith to ask See Jesus taught us how to ask and Matthew 7 and 7 he says ask and it will be given to you And John 4 or 14 Jesus said if you ask anything in my name I will do it. Christmas time is coming. My favorite time of the year. I don't know about you, but I like specific giving So my wife she said well, what would you like for Christmas? You know and I ask You know the apple came out with these really cool your ear pods now that are noise-canceling So I ordered them and she's gonna put it under the tree for me But it's a secret Don't tell anybody God challenged me when I pastored I'm doing missions work for now next year will be 50 years Every year every summer of my life since I was 16 years old. I went on a missions trip I'm the only son, but I had four sisters too old or too younger So there was a family of five it was a seven family of seven But my older brother died at birth and my other Sister was a twin of another girl. She died after 11 months But five of us in the family of my my my dad was such a man of God He asked of God and God gave him me And as I grew and I pastored the church in Union, New Jersey God was opening up the Soviet Union and one day I fell on my knees and I said God I ask you for the nation of Ukraine. I I wasn't born there. I speak the language But I'm an American just like you with Slavic parents And I asked the Lord and the Lord he he he Revealed and showed me that he wanted to give me that nation So in 1973 went on our first missionary journey. I was a teenager. I was 19 years old And you see pictures of Lenin everywhere. Do you have a picture of Lenin here? There he is. I mean like we have Coca-Cola and McDonald's and we're sick of advertising They had no advertising. It was all propaganda. It was all pictures of this bald-headed guy with a little goatee and And if in the small letters you can't see it But it says Lenin lived Lenin lives and Lenin will live forever Doesn't sound like Jesus yesterday today and forever the same Well, if you take God out of the picture like the Soviet Union did you got to put a small God in there And that was the small God His body is on display in the mausoleum But the Russians make fun of him call him sucho fruit or dried fruit They have to keep adding wax to that body, but he's somewhere Stoking the furnace and shoveling coal right now. I'm sure And on my first missionary journey, I saw this propaganda everywhere We went as tourists, but we went and visited the registered churches, but I'm going to get right to the point So as a tourist there was a tourist agency called interest where they would take you to museums and and and stadiums and One time a circus and they would brag about how wonderful the Soviet Union was So I remember in the city of Donetsk That's on the east side where the war is going on right now This young Komsomol That's the next slide she she she was a young communist They had the pioneers which were the communist boys and girl scouts Then they had the teenage group which was the komsomol's young communists and then the communist party members She was about 21. She was gorgeous And she had black air Beautiful blazing dark eyes. She was very attractive. She was wearing A micro mini skirt that caught my attention as a 19 year old And she was telling our group of five people She said oh, this is where our glorious soviet athletes race and we win all these gold medals But she knew we were christians and the interest had was part of the kgb the secret police And she's poking fun at us and she said yeah, she said some people of your faith came to the stadium And they prayed a prayer that one day the gospel The that you would have She didn't say the gospel but one day that there would be meetings of your faith in the stadium And then she said with the sneer. I'll never forget this But it will never When she said those words The zeal of god in my teenage heart Rose up within me. She wasn't pretty anymore I walked away and i'm telling you exactly how it happened exactly word for word This was burned into my memory Indelibly I walked away. I made a fist And I prayed into my fist And I said oh god let her words fall to the ground Secondly I prayed uh two things that number one uh stadiums would one day be used for evangelism crusades I prayed that in 1973 Number two prayer I prayed that billy graham would come and preach in those stadiums hallelujah So My point is this Ask of me says the lord Ask big things Ask impossible things Ask god for the nations Ask god for the northwest of america To be god's inheritance in jesus name Ask ask I didn't realize that one week from today you would be doing this At this time, but this is god's challenge to you in this message Ask of me you have not because you do now what? Ask but if you ask ask that my name would be glorified This is the god's inheritance for his name for his glory I prayed these two things fast forward 17 years ahead. I'm in a car Oh, I Forgot one detail So then we were finishing this tour of 50 days at seven weeks in a day We were in the city of churn of sea now this is on the west coast They put us up in this really dilapidated dilapidated hotels soviet soviet hotels were not the best And I walked down this little balcony overlooking the street a boulevard the trees a park And I saw a soccer stadium And I remembered this is the same trip I remembered the the arrogant words of this young consumable this young communist. It will never happen And so I I raised my hand towards the stadium. I said god I pray that that stadium would one day be filled with people to hear the gospel of jesus christ 17 years went by I forgot that prayer I'm in a car I'm with paul henevic a guy sing with tony oras a guy sing with And we're in a car ready for services in that city We stopped at a red light. I looked to the left and it says hotel bucovina this name of the hotel And I said, oh my goodness. I stayed there in 73 the first year I went then I saw a youtube video in my head The holy spirit Brought back to my remembrance And I see like a a mental picture of myself standing on that balcony with an outstretched hand praying That a stadium would be filled with people the light turns green right we move ahead iron gates open up And 15 300 people filled that particular stadium to hear the gospel of jesus christ for the first time in 70 years of communism Because a teenage boy age 19 years old asked god for something impossible during the monolithic An empire of revolution Who thought that it would crumble without a war without a shot being fired? And you know, it was still 1991 when that happened excuse me 1990 And it was still a surveyed union. It was still gorbachev. It was still the communist party And the local leaders didn't want to give the stadiums that the Soviet was crumbling And so the christians they made all these posters. They went to the red cross. They said, can you hire the stadium for us? Yeah, if you let us charge one ruble per ticket one ruble is like a dollar And so they sold 15 300 rubles To 15 300 people The money went to the red cross All because a teenage boy James four two says you do not have because you do not ask But we also must ask for the right reasons Verse three says you ask and you do not receive Because you ask wrong wrongly to spend it on your passions Now let's move forward to 1986, right? 1986 I was a pastor of a local church And the registered church now in the Soviet Union Invited us as a church to come and visit churches. They're officially All expenses paid now. I gave up missions work. I just go like a week or two weeks somewhere But here we have an official invitation and we're ready to go with this my friend paul my friend, uh, tony And we're ready to go to to the Soviet Union, right? Kiev and other cities And Chernobyl blows up HBO had a special line at about half a year ago five episodes I implore you to watch them borrow somebody's password if you have to Then give it back. Okay. I don't like HBO has a lot of filth on it But this five-part series was so accurate to the detail The buildings the timing the people in the bridge watching Chernobyl burn. It was Riveting it's amazing. The story is very accurate And so Chernobyl blows up now radiation. You can't see it. You can't smell it It's not something you touch, but it will kill you. It'll make you infertile It'll uh radiate you it'll give you cancer of the thyroid and on and on and on So our trip is scheduled in in in two weeks and my wife says you're not going But I ask god Ask of me says the lord Ask of me. I said lord. Do you want us to go? Yes? But lord, there's radiation And the lord gave me genesis chapter 28 15 now these words were spoken to jacob The jaco had to leave that place where he had a visitation of god And he had got to go to a foreign country The lord says I am with you I will protect you wherever you go and I will bring you back safely to this land. Hallelujah So I said to my wife, we're going. She says, okay, go to all the cities, but Kiev. I said, okay So we flew to Moscow because that's what the only international airport at the time. It's the surveyed union, right? And they so where's our next city Kiev Oh, no, and so we went to Kiev We came into the city, right and they have guys with gas masks And they're geiger counters on our car and it's clicking And so we're in the car. How's the radiation? Ah, it's tolerable today They have the gas mask and we're in the car and he's telling us it's tolerable 90 buses of children we saw them I counted them I could tell you stories and stories Washing the buildings morning and evening so that the radioactive dust from the buildings would go into the gutters and be swept away We were in the western city of rivne And we were 15 pastors around a table in a restaurant They asked me to pray So I prayed what I prayed every day that Trip to turnable to excuse me to the Soviet Union. I said lord bless this food. Let it let it be health to our bodies You promised us you would keep us in Jesus name amen We started to eat there were two japanese engineers sitting about five tables away And one of them came up to me. He had a a pen. He said sir, um, you speak english I said yes, I do this is a dosometer dosometer. It measures radiation Can I measure your your roast beef? I said sure He measures he said hmm. He went back And then he starts yelling at the waiter and finally this argument got very heated And he threw down his napkin and the two japanese engineers left So the waiter comes over to me true story word for word. I said to the waiter. What was that all about? He was demanding that I feed you the same to feed him the same meat. I gave you He says his meat is radiated off the church your meat has zero radiation I cut it from the same piece of meat I forgot about that story until I was at a church in portland at pastor sitting next to me He says, George, I was sitting next to you. Do you remember? I go no We were sitting in this restaurant and the meat was not radiated. I go. Oh, yeah How many things do we ask of god that he does and we forget about Give god glory give god praise Say, thank you god. You are a god who answers prayer That's god's promise, but then what if I don't know what to ask god What if I don't know how to ask god? Invite The holy spirit To pray through you roman's 826 teaches us the spirit also Helps us in our weakness for we do not know how to pray as we should how many people agree with that Well, okay, admit it to god god I want to ask you because it's not about me. It's about you telling me to ask you But what do I ask? How do I ask holy spirit? Would you reveal the mind and the heart of god so I can pray what you want to accomplish? I just I just Exposed to you one of the ways that god gets his will done by putting a desire to ask him so now he can Actually answer that prayer by using us to ask and he will answer the prayer hallelujah The spirit himself intercedes invite the holy spirit to pray through he will Inspire you He will Remind you He will bring to your mind a verse a word a picture a passion I was in india in 2014. I teach at a bible school their youth of the mission and they can't pay in my way They can't give me an honorarium But once a year I go visit a country where I could give And and and what I receive back is prayers and encouragement and helping the poor That's I love it's been doing it for the last 21 years We're going again this february and while I was there this year in 2014 The there's a squaring in Kiev called the maydan And it it exploded it exploded into violence 100 people at least were killed maybe more But 100 were recorded And uh And and there was revolution in the streets of the city of Kiev Now without getting into the politics was not my purpose what whatsoever I had the question that I had to answer in my own heart God do you want me to go because I was scheduled in may to do a big youth conference in a western city in Ukraine And I say god if you do want me to go I need I need three confirmations No make it four. I said god Remember how gideon wasn't sure about the will of god and god was patient with him and made the fleece wed And then he made the grass wet and vice versa, right? Well, actually if you read the story of gideon from beginning to end god gave him four confirmations He burned up the food with his staff and the two fleece Confirmations and then one time when he went down to the tent of the midian I see heard what god had to say I said god I want four And I'll go Well that night I prayed at my bedside and god gave me peace you will go Okay, that's number one I'll just take that lord the peace of god is one of your best confirmations That you're doing the will of god because when you're not doing the will of god, you don't have peace You have a troubled spirit But god gave me such peace. I'm gonna go. I thought hmm. Okay god three more Well at the end of the week on friday the director of the school and his wife said we want to pray for you I said I love prayer. Okay, so they began to pray for me So the the the director's wife she said God gave me a word that he will send his angel ahead of you And you will he will break the bars of iron and and open wide the gates of bronze And I said I love that chapter god gave that to me when I started doing ministry in chernobyl And ministry in the civil union. That's for me. Thank you god revelation number two And then somebody else said isaia 45. I don't know what's there. Let's look it up. He was the exact word I will send an angel ahead of you. He will open up the bars of iron the gates of brass And the girl said hey, you know what I got open open. I didn't know what it meant But go god's opening the gates. I go. Okay. I wanted it was a powerful powerful time But before I went there was I came home from india and I was in jacksonville, florida I spoke at a bible school, but they had me speak at a church service that morning So I sat down on the first pew a guy named pasha stafoga. You probably know him sat next to me. Hey, george How are you doing pasha? He's oh, I'm so happy pasha. Why are you so happy? God gave me a scripture this morning. I said, oh really what scripture did he give you? Yeah, isaia 45. I will send my angel ahead of you. I go. No pasha. That wasn't for you God actually gave me five confirmations you know Never fear to verify if what god is saying is really from the lord God knows that we live in A body of flesh and we get fearful god knows that gideon was fearful God will confirm to you and in fact in the old testament and paul quotes it in the new Let everything be established by the mouth of what? Two or three witnesses or confirmations as such There's one more thing to ask pray that the lord would send workers into the mission fields Jesus said that harvest is plentiful the laborers are few Therefore pray earnestly to the lord of the harvest to send out laborers But something why so Why did jesus say To his disciples to pray that god would raise up workers laborers Because there's something interesting that happens when we pray the will of god The way jesus taught us to pray We get invested in that Jesus said where your treasure is your heart is there also As you pray for others to go What happens oftentimes we become the answer to our own prayer John 15 16 jesus said i chose you that what you should go go Go means a change of locations Not permanently for most people But temporarily And bear fruit and that whatever you ask the father in my name He may give to you Let me challenge you today That you should go to seattle You should go across the pacific You should go to the farthest ends of the earth You should ask the father and the father by the power of the holy spirit We'll give you a bride for his son hallelujah We become the answer to our prayer go into all the world and preach the gospel go It's an imperative It's not a request It's a command i raised my hand about military service because i never served in the military the draft was cancelled one year before I didn't go to vietnam praise god But my son luke was Asked to join the military as a captain He got his doctorate as a psychologist a clinical psychologist a long runway He's got two masters degree and today he's the officer in the air force The coolest thing is we get on this air force base and by the way, it's a nuclear base So they had high weapons. They had these gate. They had these teeth that would pop out of the ground to stop bombers I mean it was serious security And you know the guards at the gates down and they're packing nines and 15s and and and machine guns and asking for our passports And then they would sharply salute my son. I go. Hey, man, know whatever saluted maybe He would say something they would do it. He's an officer Well Be faithful in little things one of the little things that I didn't appreciate at all as a child was go to Five years to ukrainian school now. This is specific to me. This is not for you As a little boy, uh about eight years of age My dad enrolled me in an orthodox church where they taught ukrainian. I hated it. My teacher was like 140 years old She had a voice like a crow Ah Saturday mornings nine to 12. I mean, ah, man You know, I want to watch cartoons as a little kid, right? Then go out and play stickball or football in the streets of newark new jersey where I grew up Here i'm sitting in a class of 20 other kids learning ukrainian. Why? for who And I never realized that those were the skills that I would one day use you know Jesus said if you are not faithful with that which belongs to another Who will give you your own? You know what I discovered is that god wants to train you by putting you in an intern program By putting you in an associate program by putting you serving the ministry of someone else and it's not your ministry But when you are faithful And your time comes to completion then god can release to you your ministry God can release to you your mission's direction And as a young boy, I was in servitude to that school As a young man, I joined for 12 years of ministry of my brother-in-law and sister in a and in singing for 10 more years I was in servitude to a local church because my dad was at the age of retirement And after 22 years of faithful ministry I went out by faith in my own ministry And I've lived by faith ever since I went from a good salary to zero dollars the next month My wife worked as a nurse and we raised three kids and put them through college and grad school And god has shown himself faithful, hallelujah You see As you go god leads you You see we want guidance ahead of time We want directions ahead of time We want to know everything ahead of time, but god says go Abraham said where where I will show you imagine telling your wife That god is leading us where I don't know he'll show me Well, where are we going? No, would you have to go? But believe it or not we call him such a man of faith because he trusted the lord You know god can't steer A parked car can he do you do that as a kid? It's in park and the engine's off and you're turning the wheel you ain't going anywhere You're playing car. You're playing driver, which is fine. It's a child But now it's time to put away childish things I love the guidance of the servant of Abraham It's a little gem. If you don't read the old testament, you'll never pick up these little gems So Abraham makes his servant his faithful servant Eleazar who would have inherited had god not given Isaac to to Abraham. Okay He said go find a bride for my son So now this servant he goes out. He goes out. He doesn't know where he's going He doesn't know who this young lady is going to be. He doesn't know where to go, but he goes And then finally he finds Rebecca Finally, she agrees to be Isaac's bride Finally, she becomes one of the wives of the three patriarchs Abraham Isaac and jacob And as they're asking Eleazar, how did you find this bride? Let me put it to you. How will you find your husband? How will you find your wife your future? um life partner Well, as Eleazar said and I love it in the king james of the new king james because the fri the grammar is exactly like it is in the Hebrew It's backwards Now listen to what he says I Eleazar Eleazar being in the way comma the lord led me First of all, he got in the way First of all, he went not knowing where to go And as he went the holy spirit now said turn left turn right no no go straight 40 years in the wilderness, how did they know where to go the fire of god would would rise and they would lead them hallelujah I think god's problem is getting us out of our cushy cushion church seat. Is that right? You don't have to be a full-time missionary. You don't have to be a pastor You don't have to be a man. You don't have to be a young person But if the holy spirit is stirring your heart get up and go And he will direct you where to go And when you go pray with passion Don't just say okay lord, wherever you want your will be done. Come on. Okay with that No, jesus with loud cries and tears he prayed to god Although he was a son he learned obedience he bruised five and seven Let me tell you another story because jesus told stories and the narrative is what we learned from It was 1974. We just came out of the suvid union. I had just prayed those exciting prayers about Having asking billy graham to come and asking that stadium Although I left out one more detail That prayer about billy graham coming right? Well, he went to Moscow and he had one of the largest crusades He was supposed to come to Kiev, but he got sick with parkinson's The baptist leadership asked me to be the translator for billy graham in 1994 Although wow a privilege of a lifetime and he goes and gets sick But in 2007 franklin comes to Kiev And the billy graham organization calls me up and they said we want you to translate franklin from english Into ukraine. Thank god for that old lady in ukrainian scorn As I stood behind a pulpit in the largest stadium in key of the olympic stadium The largest gathering of christians that was ever recorded in ukraine's history 42,500 on sunday 39,000 on friday And the choir stood up to sing just as I am 4,000 people from all over the nations came to sing And I translated franklin into ukrainian And 6,000 people got out of their seats And they're coming forward and a chill went back Down my neck because I remembered as a 19 year old teenager I prayed that the stadiums will be filled to hear the gospel of jesus christ And I prayed that billy graham would come to ukraine Never did I expect never did I dream Never would I dare to presume That god would use me To help answer a prayer for his glory Young lady young man Ask ask of me says god I will give you the nations As your inheritance Go back to the story in 1974 after the slovak union We went to a youth conference in By christian san norway A missions leader had invited us lauren conneham was the main speaker brother andrew open doors was another speaker And uh, it was a it was a friday There's so many good speakers. We were the singers we sang lauren spoke And that night was a move of god. It was so powerful that the leader did something I've never seen done before or even since and it's a good thing. Maybe you want to try this someday Excuse me. He said Okay, ladies and gentlemen The presence of god is so powerful That tomorrow we're going to meet in the center of town for a jesus march And then we have a bag lunch prepared for you and send you out two by two into the city. All right to witness You know two by two he says but Don't greet anyone Don't go to the coffee shop for tea Take 10 or 15 minutes go straight to your room or find a place in the woods to pray And ask god what he wants to tell you about tomorrow's day And I took that so seriously. I was 20 at this time So I went right back to my room. I knelt in my my my about my bed And I was serious about this And I asked god. I said god tomorrow when we go To speak about you god God, I don't like personal witnessing. I'm scared god. I don't always know what to say God, how am I going to witness the norwegians? I know they speak english and everything But I feel like a stranger in strange land God, I want your passion god I want your heart And I ask god a dangerous question I said god What are you? How do you feel about these people? What is your heart feeling right now towards them? And the holy spirit fulfilled He romans 8 He says we don't know how to praise we should but he expresses through groanings Through tears we can't be uttered. I began to sob Now it's it's it's not unusual to cry when you pray, but this wasn't crying. This was weeping This was A heavy heavy burden on my heart And and I was heaving it was so powerful And the god gave me a vision It was a mental picture I saw a boy Sitting on a beautiful spiraling wooden staircase in a very elegant elegant home Wood paneling on the I can see the details in my mind today wood paneling on the walls the banister was polished Dark oak the stairs were dark This boy blonde haired boy sitting on the second step Had his head in his hands And he's weeping too as hard as I was And all that he was saying was nobody cares for my soul Nobody cares for my soul The holy spirit says tomorrow you will meet that boy Tell him I care for his soul And I began to weep for him. I began to pray for him Sure enough the next day we went out to the center of town There's a beautiful jesus march. We had signs jesus is lord lord incanohem speaks we sang And then they gave us a bag lunch and they said go out two by two And I finished my sandwich and the juice box And I bit into an apple and they sent a Norwegian boy with me. It's a Norwegian And so we came up with three boys in black leather jackets our age. There's tough guys everywhere even in Norway And you know the kind you know the lower lip is hanging out Thumbs in their jeans And the Norwegian boy while I was finishing my apple started speaking in Norwegian to the to the three boys They laughed at him They mocked him. It was very very clear very evident I don't know where the zeal comes from but the zeal of the lord. I threw away my apple. I said, hey, do you speak English? Yeah And I looked at the middle boy It was him that I saw in my vision And I said to him word for word. It's no exaggeration I saw you when I said last night where As I was praying for you god gave me a vision You were in your house. You were sitting on the second step You had your head in your hands and you were weeping You said no one cares for your soul Well, you know what god cares for your soul And he sent me from across the ocean By new york city to come to your country of norway to tell you god cares for you God loves you and I love you too And he started crying I'm crying and the other two guys are like I wish I could tell you he received the lord he was Probably pressured by peers and Shook his head and said no, but I know that one day I will meet him One day I'll see him One day that god Would would share with me for a few brief moments His heart for a boy No one cares And god will show you that individual in seattle God will show you that group of people God will lead you to that stadium God will put you in danger and you will be safe And that a hair from your head Will be burned and you won't have the smell of smoke on you As long as you ask god What is on your heart? What do you want? Where should I go? Who do I speak to? Because song 126 and I conclude Those who sow in tears shall reap with joy He who goes out weeping bearing seed for sowing shall thatless come again with rejoicing Bringing his sheaves Isaiah after seeing the glory of god he said I heard the voice of the lord saying Whom shall I send? Who will go for us? Then I said lord here. I am send me just stand with me The altar call is very simple today If the holy spirit touched your heart And as an act of faith You want to come and just stand at the altar. I'll pray with you Then pastor of lad will make another invitation of another kind But I'm only going to give you this opportunity to god speak to your heart Do you say go in my name? Did he say ask in my name? I want you to come And if it's not room in the altar just fill the aisles come now as we're letting a Music or song I want to pray with you a prayer Just come just come might not be everyone might be a few might be more come closer If you're a girl you can come If you're a grandmother you can come for the same you're an older person you can come There's no ages here. There's no gender here. There's no professionalism here God can use a teenager Use anybody you can use you Just come say god here. I am here. I am can you use me? Yes And those of you that came would you pray this prayer out loud dear god? I come In obedience to your voice Here I am Speak to me Guide me Take me Show me Inspire me Tell me I ask you Do great and mighty things For your glory And let me take a part in that I believe In jesus day Amen a father I pray for these that pray that prayer I pray that the wave of your holy spirit will not only inspire them for five minutes in this service But as they go today they heard from you as they go today, they heard your voice They heard your spirit stirring the waters of their hearts lord and use them for the glory of god Father give them boldness to pray prayers. They never prayed before Give them faith to believe what they've never seen before Give them father The impossible Because with god nothing is impossible and I ask in the name of the jesus The glorial god and god's people said amen