From a friends' facebook post: Rev. Wilkerson, author of "The Cross and the Switchblade," founder of Teen Challenge and the Times Square Church, Manhattan, was killed in a head-on collision yesterday. This link is to his blog and may be the last words he wrote. "Blessed are those that do believe and have not seen" (John 20:29). Yes. He can now add, and "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.." (Revelation 14:13) David Wilkerson Today
I am grieving the death of this man, a man that to my knowledge I had never met. (I met a lot of people over the years while working at the Young Life International Service Center, so it is possible I met him years and years ago and just don't remember.) I have read his book, The Cross and the Switchblade, I've listened to some of his sermons on YouTube and I've read parts of his blog over the past 2 or 3 years. And I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that this man prayed for America. Agonized and shed many tears for the sin of America. He prophecied a coming judegement, America's Last Call, which is available to read online, but cannot be printed (it must be purchased from World Challege to print it unfortunately). I highly recommend reading it.
I wonder, who will step forward to stand in the gap? Who will take his place, praying for America? Praying for the church? Agonizing over the sin so prevelant around us?
Yes, a man I never met - and I mourn his passing. Mourn because I suddenly feel a cold wind of exposure that was not there before.
Who will stand in his place? Lord, please raise someone up! We need another Daniel! We need another Nehemiah! We need another David Wilkerson!
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