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COVER LETTER
Dearly Beloved:
CHRIST REIGNS!
So often people write to us saying, “I have no one to talk to, no one to share my burden with, no one who has time to hear my cry. I need someone I can pour my heart out to.”
King David was surrounded by people. He was married and had many companions at his side. Yet we hear the same cry from him: “To whom shall I go?” It is in our very nature to want another human being, with a face, eyes and ears, to listen to us and advise us.
When Job became overwhelmed by his trials, he cried out with grief: “Oh that one would hear me!” (Job 31:35). He uttered this cry while sitting before his so-called friends. Those friends had no sympathy for his troubles; in fact, they were messengers of despair.
Job turned only to the Lord: “Behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high…. Mine eye poureth out tears unto God” (Job 16:19–20). David urged God's people to do likewise: “Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us” (Psalm 62:8). He also wrote in Psalm 142:
I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. (Psalm 142:1–5)
I believe in my heart that this letter is an invitation to you from the Holy Spirit to find a private place where you can frequently pour out your soul to the Lord. David “poured out his complaint,” and so can you. You can speak to Jesus about everything — your problems, your present trial, your finances, your health — and tell him how overwhelmed you are, even how discouraged you are. He will hear you with love and sympathy, and he will not despise your cry.
God answered David. He answered Job. And for centuries he has answered the heart cry of everyone who has trusted his promises. He has promised to hear you and guide you. He has pledged by oath to be your strength, so you can go to him and come out renewed.
A closing word: There is still time to enroll in our Bible school, Mount Zion School of Ministry. God is truly in this place, and students come here to get to know the Lord and be trained in the ways of the Holy Spirit. We are limited to students ages 17 to 39 who truly want to be used by the Lord. You will sit under the ministry of gifted teachers and visiting pastors and missionaries from around the world. The pastors of Times Square Church also minister regularly in chapel services.
For information, call 717-865-2000, or go to the website, www.mzsom.org, or e-mail: info@mzsom.org.
God be praised!
In Christ,
DAVID WILKERSON
DW:bbm 5.22.06
