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Glorious Sunday Worship Service.
October 26th, 2025

Topic: THE DESPERATE CRY
Text: Mark 10:46-52, 1 Samuel 1:9-17, Psalms 30:2, 107:6, 56:9.
Minister: Dr Daniel Olukoya (G.O. MFM Worldwide)

Immediately after this message, we are going into those desperate prayers. There are people here this morning that, if they will key into the desperate cry agenda, the enemy has no option but to give way.

Mark 10:46-52 (KJV): “And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.”

(Here was a blind man physically, but he was not blind inside. He had heard that there was a man called Jesus of Nazareth and had been hoping that one day that man would pass by.)

And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out (He was not quiet about it. He was not ready to be a gentleman), and say, “Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.”

And many charged him that he should hold his peace, but he cried the more a great deal (those people shouting “keep quiet” were just giving him fertiliser to cry even more. So all attempts made by the enemy to silence him just ignited the fire), Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.

And Jesus stood still (his desperate cry put a brake on Jesus, and Jesus could not move) and commanded him to be called (meaning that God will not neglect any cry from the heart or a desperate cry unto Him). And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort; rise; he calleth thee.

And he, casting away his garment, rose and came to Jesus.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.

And Jesus said unto him, ‘Go thy way; thy faith (the small madness you demonstrated here now; that your desperate cry) hath made thee whole.’ And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus in the way.

• There is somebody here this morning; your cry will put a break on Jesus, in the name of Jesus.

In 1 Samuel 1, we see a woman who was very desperate. Her name was Hannah.

1 Samuel 1:9-17 (KJV) says: “So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD. And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore. And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head. And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth. Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee. And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD. Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto. Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.”

Two desperate people in the Bible: one from the Old Testament and one from the New Testament. After their desperate cries, they got results. God is looking for those who can roar in desperate prayers. God is looking for those who can roar desperately in prayers in the face of the oppressor and put the oppressor to flight.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE DESPERATE?

To be desperate is:

• To be reckless or dangerous because of despair or urgency.
• To have an urgent need or desire.
• A situation leaving little or no hope.
• To make a final, frantic, ultimate effort.
• To do something which is extreme in degree and very urgent.

The Bible welcomes holy desperation. A time comes when being a gentleman in the spirit will not move you forward. In the kingdom of heaven, violence is allowed . Let me make some statements on holy desperation:

• Desperation does not care what anyone thinks. Blind Bartimaeus could not be bothered about whether he was disturbing anyone or not.
• Desperation has no respect for what anyone says.
• Desperation will go to where no one else will go.
• Desperation does not allow anything to stop it, just like blind Bartimaeus refused that anything should stop him. Many of us do not like what is going on with our lives, but we are not mad with it yet. When we get mad, things will change. When you become desperate, progress will begin.
• Desperation introduces extra energy. Someone who is desperate becomes strong.
• Desperation is not a bad thing; if it is holy desperation, then it is the right thing. Many blessings from heaven will not manifest unless we get desperate.
• Desperation will tear the roof and push through the crowd.
• Desperation is never offended. That Canaanite woman said, “Jesus, heal my daughter.” Jesus said, “It is not meet to give the children’s food to dogs.” The woman was not angry. Instead of her losing her temper, she said, “Thank God I am a dog; I will take the crumbs.”

Imagine the General Overseer comes down from the pulpit today and says to one of the beautifully dressed ladies in front, “You are a dog.” The person may even forget I am the General Overseer. But the woman could not be bothered about whether Jesus had called her a dog or not.

Look at Hannah; the priest who is the pastor of today told her, “You are a drunkard.” The woman could have said, “I see. You call me a drunkard because I came to pray in your church. Foolish man. And you call yourself a prophet. If you were really a prophet, you would have known I am not drunk. Nonsense.” She did not say any of that. She instead replied with, “No sir, I am not drunk.” Desperation is never offended.

Anyone still getting angry is not desperate yet. There is a saying that goes thus: “Hunger does not know whether there is salt in the food or not.” It is the person that is not hungry that will still be selecting food.

• Desperation loses inhibitions. Zacchaeus, with his high position, climbed the sycamore tree because he wanted to see Jesus.
• Desperation breaks barriers. The woman with the issue of blood said, “I just want to touch the hem of His garment.”
• Desperation does not argue with God.
• Desperation does not mind being ridiculed.
• Desperation goes beyond tradition. It goes beyond all talks of “we do not do like this here.”
• Desperation goes beyond cosmetics.
• Desperation goes beyond emotions.
• Desperation ignores those satisfied to stay in the boat.
• Desperation has no regard for criticism. You will be viewed as an extreme or weird person when you are desperate.

You find people who sometimes want to keep you down; they want to shut you up. But the truth is this: if you truly become desperate, if you truly have holy desperation, you will get what you are asking for. Jesus has never abandoned a cry from the heart.

Desperation will make you do whatever it takes to get what you want. When desperation comes in, then we have come to the end of ourselves.

• Desperation overcomes fear, and there is always a miracle on the other side of desperation.
• Desperation is the forerunner of complete deliverance. There is no way desperate prayers do not always receive responses from heaven. I am saying this now because of the manner of prayers I will ask you to pray now very soon.

A desperate cry:

• is an emergency cry,
• is a cry that attracts immediate attention,
• is a cry that moves the hand of God,
• is a cry that provokes God into action,
• is a cry that produces immediate results. Blind Bartimaeus made a cry to Jesus. He had no eyes to see, but he used what he had to get what he wanted, which was his voice. He used the available to get the desirable. He used his mouth to get his miracle. I thank God and congratulate you that you still have a mouth. So use that mouth. The man cried more than once; he was silenced the first two times he cried, but he did not keep quiet. Maybe you have cried before without results; do not keep quiet, please cry out again.

WHEN YOU MAKE A DESPERATE CRY,

1. There will be healing. That is what the Bible says in Psalms 30.

Psalms 30:2 (KJV) says, “O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.”

Are you sick? Then make a desperate cry.

2. There will be restoration, just like the eyes of blind Bartimaeus were restored.
3. Storms will be silenced.
4. There will be deliverance from troubles. In Psalms 107, we see that.

Psalms 107:6 (KJV) says, ‘Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.’

5. There will be a scattering of the enemy.

Psalms 56:9 (KJV) says, ‘When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.’

6. There will be unexplainable provision, like it happened to those lepers. They said, “We do not well. We shall die if we keep quiet.” They cried out.
7. There will be a lifting up. Peter made a desperate cry, “Lord save me,” and Jesus saved him.

This morning, in this place as you are listening to me now, I would like you to prepare your mind. Those who were pursued in the Bible, the widows, fatherless, afflicted, and tormented; anytime these people uttered a cry to the heavens, something happened.

When we become desperate, progress begins. Heaven has no respect for spiritual gentlemen, for those who refuse to cry out, or for those who choose to sit down and suffer in silence when all the facilities of heaven have been made available to them.

8. An alarm will ring the heavens, “There is someone that needs attention,” and he will receive that attention.

Today, that is the kind of cry I want you to utter to the heavens as we go into some life-changing, progress-bringing, uncommon favour-attracting prayers.

I shared this here before. There was a vehicular accident in which three people were involved. The first person studied in Cambridge, England. The second studied at Harvard, America. The third person studied at Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone. They were in a terrible state, and they were taken to the hospital.

The Cambridge man said to the doctor, “doctor, I am not feeling too well”. The American man said to the doctor, “baby, treat me quickly”. The man from Foura Bay screamed “doctor!!” Tell me, who will first get the attention of the doctor? The man from Fourah Bay of course.

I do not know the kind of prayer you want to pray here today. But God is exactly like that. Those around Jesus that day did not get any miracle that was recorded in the Bible, except a blind man that sat by the roadside begging. He attracted attention and got his miracle. It was a good thing he did that, because Jesus never passed through that place again. A day like this may never come again.

PRAYER POINTS

1. My enemies, hear the Word of the Lord: my problems are over; it is now your turn, carry your load, in the name of Jesus.
2. Problem generators in my root, die, in the name of Jesus.
3. Dark voices of my foundation troubling my star, die in the name of Jesus.
4. The battle of “walk around, but you will not be noticed”, die, in the name of Jesus.
5. Powers calling my destiny for burial, you are liars, die in the name of Jesus.
6. Fingers of darkness, writing against my destiny, catch fire, in the name of Jesus. (a sevenfold amen).

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