So, praise the Lord, brothers and sisters, I'm
so happy to meet all of you.
I'd like you to read John 14 and
verse 18.
As
I have
observed Christians in many lands for the last
60 years, I've seen that
most of them are like spiritual orphans.
It's like people who don't have a father
and mother.
Children find great security when they have a
loving father and mother.
Now in the Old Testament, we can say
they were orphans because God was not their
father.
And these disciples to whom Jesus spoke had
been under the old covenant all their life.
So they were orphans.
But they felt a lot of comfort when
Jesus was with them.
If there was a storm on the lake,
if Jesus was in the boat, it was
ok.
So in any situation they faced, if they
knew Jesus was right there, no problem.
But now he was going away.
And so he knew that they will feel
like orphans.
So he gave them a promise.
That is the greatest promise that God has
given to us.
Once we become God's children.
I will give you, verse 16, a helper,
the Holy Spirit.
Another helper he said.
I have been your helper till now.
I am going away.
I am not going to leave you without
a helper.
And you know after Jesus died, for the
next about 6 weeks, they were without a
helper.
They were all afraid and sitting inside a
locked room.
But once the helper, the Holy Spirit came,
Acts chapter 2.
They threw open the doors and they stood
outside boldly and they travelled everywhere.
That boldness and freedom did not gradually come
into them over a period of 2 or
3 years.
That boldness and freedom did not gradually come
into them over a period of 2 or
3 days.
It happened in a moment.
And we must take that record seriously what
is written in the scriptures.
That was the result of the coming of
the Holy Spirit and filling them.
I believe that being forgiven of our sins
and being filled with the Holy Spirit are
the two most important things in the Christian
life.
And we must be absolutely sure of these
two.
And we know forgiveness of sins is not
just once at the beginning of our Christian
life.
The same way being filled with the Spirit
is not just once in our life.
You read in the Acts of the Apostles
that the Apostles were filled with the Spirit
more than once.
You read about that in Acts chapter 4.
It is a continuous thing.
And in Ephesians 5.18 it says we
must be continually filled with the Holy Spirit.
John 7.38 Jesus said it is like
rivers of living water.
The Holy Spirit can be pictured like a
well of water like Jesus told the Samaritan
woman.
There is always water there.
You can draw from it.
That is for our own personal need.
But then rivers.
A river is very different from a well.
You don't have to pump a river.
It flows by the power of God.
And Jesus said here in John 14 that
when this Holy Spirit remains with you, you
will not be orphaned.
John 14.
So my dear brothers and sisters let me
ask you very lovingly a question.
In some of the trials of life, you
feel as if you don't have anybody to
care for you.
You are not sure whether your father in
heaven is listening to you or not.
It is like making a phone call and
it doesn't look as if there is a
connection or somebody is not answering at the
other end.
For many people it is like that in
their relationship with God.
So I want to encourage you today to
ask God to free you from that.
Say Lord I don't want to ever be
like an orphan.
Because I am not an orphan.
Jesus came to make God my father.
And we all know this verse in Romans
8.
It says the Holy Spirit comes within and
the first thing he does is Romans 8
verse 15.
He cries out to God Abba Father.
Father is a formal word.
Abba is a very intimate word.
You could call God by a formal word
Father.
That itself is a great thing.
But our children call us Abba.
That is an intimate word.
Not a formal word like father.
So here it says the Holy Spirit comes
within and cries out Abba.
My dear brothers and sisters.
If you have received Jesus into your heart,
the Holy Spirit has come in.
You may not be filled with the Holy
Spirit but he has come in.
And he cries out Abba.
I want to ask you.
Do you find that cry in your heart
when you look up to God?
It is no use trying to teach you
to say that.
If you go to an orphan who has
no father and mother And say close your
eyes and pray Abba Abba Abba.
That is deceiving that poor orphan.
He doesn't have a father.
And if I tell him to keep calling
Abba he will feel secure.
I am deceiving him because he doesn't have
a father.
But it is not like that with us.
We have a father.
The devil blinds us to that truth often.
A lot of the problems we have in
our life is because we are insecure like
orphans.
When we become perfectly secure in our relationship
with God as a loving child to a
loving father.
There will be many changes in our life.
We will not try to compete with other
God's children to show that I am better
than you.
If you have any desire to show that
you are better than some other child of
God in any area.
Whether you can pray better or preach better
or anything.
If you want to give a testimony to
show what you are doing for God.
Impress people.
That all shows you are an orphan.
You must say Lord deliver me from acting
like an orphan.
I don't have to impress anybody.
I have a father and he is happy
with me.
What does it matter if I am not
impressive to other people.
I must say Lord I have no desire
to show that I am better than anybody.
I am loved by you and that brother
is loved by you and that sister is
loved by you.
What do I gain by showing that I
can do something better than somebody else.
When you are free from the spirit of
being an orphan.
You will try to make other people do
things better than you.
That is the mark of real love.
The bible says that God's love is more
than the love of a mother for a
newly born child.
That is how much God loves us.
We must always rejoice in that love.
In my own life for many years I
was very insecure.
I was like an orphan and I know
it.
I am speaking from my own experience of
many years.
I had two big crises in my life.
One was when I was 19 and a
half and for the first time I was
absolutely sure that I became a child of
God.
From the age of about 13 I think
I was asking the Lord Jesus to come
into my heart.
Maybe 100 times or more than that in
those 6 years.
My father was a born again Christian who
would send us to a good Sunday school.
I knew the gospel from the time I
was a young boy of 10 years old.
Every Sunday we went to Sunday school.
It was a good Sunday school where they
taught you to receive Christ as your savior.
I must have done that a hundred times.
But I was never sure.
Then I would ask the Lord to come
again.
Another public meeting again I would say Lord
come into my heart.
But I had one good habit.
Every morning we got up my father said
begin with at least a one minute prayer
before you get out of bed.
The only prayer I knew was what is
called the Lord's prayer.
Our father who art in heaven hallowed be
thy name.
I prayed that every morning before getting out
of bed.
I didn't know what I was saying but
I said it.
I would read at least something in the
bible everyday.
Even before I was born again.
See how good God is.
God saw me like this struggling unsure unsure.
Whenever I was in this unsure state, it
was very difficult to stay away from sin.
I liked to go to the cinemas.
I would argue and fight with people.
Those were not serious for me.
All because I was an orphan.
I was never sure that Christ had come
into my heart.
Then one day my daily reading.
That was 62 years ago.
I was reading John chapter 6.
I came to verse 37.
Where Jesus says John 6 verse 37.
The one who comes to me I will
definitely not cast out.
I said Lord I have come to you
at least 100 times or more.
I felt the Lord saying to me from
that verse.
I did not cast you out.
Anyone who comes to me.
I will definitely not cast out.
I don't know how but that day I
just believed that word.
It was like a ship dropping an anchor
and it never moved after that.
Till then I was just tossed about all
the time.
Now this is not some voice from heaven.
In my life I have never heard a
voice from heaven.
I have heard the voice of God many
times from the Bible.
And this word was like a word to
my heart.
I will tell you the result of it.
In the last 62 years.
I have never for a single day doubted
that Jesus accepted me.
I have had many ups and downs in
life.
Repeated by sin.
I know Jesus accepted me.
I want all of you to have that
assurance.
These are difficult days in which we are
living.
I personally believe that this world wide pandemic
is just one more sign of the soon
coming of Jesus Christ.
While we feel sad that so many people
are suffering and dying.
At the same time I say Lord if
this is an indication of your coming, I
am excited.
And so I praise the Lord.
But then after that I had another type
of tossing about.
I knew I was a child of God.
But I never seemed to be able to
overcome certain sins in my life.
Particularly sins of the tongue and of the
thought.
In my married life and in my secular
life.
I was defeated.
But I knew I was a child of
God.
Because when I committed, I would go to
the Lord and say please forgive me.
Every time I would say that.
It's like some speck would get into my
eye and I would go and wash it
off.
Because it would irritate my eye.
So I thank God that whenever I sinned
in my thoughts or with my tongue, it
irritated my conscience and I would immediately confess
it.
I knew the blood of Jesus cleansed me.
I had no doubt about it.
And I was also willing to serve the
Lord.
I was willing to sacrifice and give money
for the Lord's work.
I even gave up my job to serve
the Lord full time.
I had never asked anybody for money in
all my life.
I never depended on people.
But with all those good qualities, I was
defeated by sin.
And I knew the most important thing is
not to give up your job and serve
the Lord but to overcome sin.
Only 1 out of 1000 believers God will
call to give up their job.
Or 1 in 5000 maybe.
But God wants everybody to overcome sin.
So I was so discouraged.
I got so discouraged that I told the
Lord I will stop doing full time Christian
work because I am a hypocrite.
I don't want to be a hypocrite.
I said Lord if you don't do something
for me, I will give up this and
find some secular job.
Because I don't want to preach something which
is not true in my daily life.
And so it was like that I prayed,
I fasted and sought God.
That went on for another number of years.
16 years after I was born again.
Tossed about, tossed about, tossed about.
Sometimes winning, mostly defeated.
So finally when I came to the rock
bottom of defeat in my life.
One day the Lord filled me with the
Holy Spirit.
I will never forget it.
Because it changed the direction of my life.
So there were two days that changed my
life.
One was when the Lord gave me an
assurance that I am a child of God.
And the other was when I was sure
that Jesus had filled me with His Holy
Spirit.
The first time I received the Holy Spirit.
When I was born again.
Then one day I was filled with the
Holy Spirit.
When we are born again, when you receive
Christ, you receive the Holy Spirit.
That is written very clearly in Romans 8
and verse 9.
If you have received Christ into your heart,
the Holy Spirit has come in.
Romans 8 and 9 last part says, if
you don't have the Holy Spirit, then you
don't even belong to Christ.
Romans 8 and 9 last part says, if
you don't have the Holy Spirit, then you
don't even belong to Christ.
I want to say this very clearly.
When you say Lord Jesus come into my
heart, I sin.
But forgive my sin.
Jesus is in heaven.
His Holy Spirit is here.
And the Holy Spirit is the one who
comes in when you invite Christ into your
heart.
That is so clear in Romans 8 verse
9 like 2 plus 2 is 4.
It says in Ephesians 5 verse 18 Be
filled with the Holy Spirit continuously.
That is a command.
See there are two commands in that verse.
Please read carefully.
Ephesians 5 verse 18 Do not get drunk
with wine.
That is command number one.
Command number two is be filled with the
Holy Spirit.
So if you are drunk with wine, you
are disobeying God and sinning.
Same way if you are not filled with
the Holy Spirit, you are sinning.
I want to tell you that.
People haven't seen that seriously.
Be filled with the Holy Spirit is not
some type of suggestion but it is a
command.
It is absolutely important.
And that is written to wonderful Christians in
Ephesians.
That is not written to unbelievers.
An unbeliever cannot be filled with the Holy
Spirit.
Only a believer who has received the Holy
Spirit can be filled with the Holy Spirit.
So once I had the second experience of
being filled with the Holy Spirit.
I told you the first experience of being
sure that I was forgiven, I stopped getting
tossed about with doubt.
But once the second experience came.
I sought to walk in the light after
that to be filled with the Holy Spirit
continuously.
I did not become perfect.
I am not perfect even today.
But my life started climbing, going up and
up and up.
Like climbing a mountain.
Perfection is the top of the mountain.
So when I say I am not perfect
yet, I am saying I have not reached
the top of the mountain.
But I know that every year I am
going higher.
I am seeing Jesus more and more clearly.
And I am getting more and more victory
in my life.
I am discovering new new areas of unchristlikeness
that I need to be cleansed from.
Many things.
That is spiritual growth.
Like a child goes from one class to
another and learns new things.
Always be learning something new about the life
of Christ.
And allow the Holy Spirit to make that
real in our life.
See 2 Corinthians 3 and verse 18.
In verse 17 he is talking about the
Holy Spirit as Lord in our life.
2 Corinthians 3 and verse 18.
It says the mirror mentioned here is the
word of God.
You read that in James 1.
God's word is like a mirror.
So we look at the mirror.
God's word.
And unlike earthly mirrors where we see our
own face.
Here we see the glory of Jesus it
says here.
Verse 18 says as we read the word
of God we see the glory of Jesus.
That was one result of my being filled
with the Holy Spirit.
Before that I understood the doctrines of the
Bible.
That you only need a good brain.
But to see the glory of Jesus I
needed to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Now when I read the scriptures I see
the glory of Jesus there.
Every day when I read I say Lord
I want to see your glory because I
want to be like that.
Don't read the scriptures now just to get
messages or to get information.
Here it says we look at the scriptures
to see the glory of Jesus.
That's the first thing the Holy Spirit does.
Secondly it says he will change us into
that same likeness in the same words.
Not in one moment.
It says from one degree of glory to
another to another to another till we become
perfect.
My dear brothers and sisters.
Don't be satisfied until this becomes real in
your life.
Then I assure you you will never react
like an orphan when you face some problem.
See if a little child in a home
faces a problem.
Immediate reaction is to go run to his
father or mother and say daddy mummy please
help me here.
I cut my finger.
I don't know why I am having this
pain in my hand.
You go immediately to the father or mother.
He doesn't have to think about it.
Child has to think about it.
He immediately runs to the father or mother
with the problem.
That is the mark of a person who
is not an orphan.
If that child is an orphan he doesn't
know where to run.
Go to his friend or somebody else and
don't know if they will help him.
That's how many believers are.
I want to ask you a direct question.
When you suddenly face a problem.
What is your first reaction?
What do you think I am doing immediately?
Do you think I have to go to
daddy?
Dad something happened now I don't know what
to do about this.
Then you are not an orphan.
But if you run to man.
I want to tell you whether you like
it or not.
You are an orphan.
I want to deliver you from being an
orphan.
We live in a time of tremendous physical
danger nowadays.
Especially sickness and many other dangers.
Financial difficulties because people are not able to
go to work.
Yet Jesus said if you seek God's kingdom
first you don't have to worry about food
and drink.
Yet Jesus said if you seek God's kingdom
first you don't have to worry about food
and drink.
I will take care of you.
Look at the birds.
Who feeds the birds?
They don't store up food somewhere.
God the father provides them.
Jesus said that he will take care of
you like that.
Jesus said that he will take care of
you like that.
Even the father who clothes the flowers will
clothe you.
Those are real statements of Jesus.
Teaching me that I must not be worried
about food and clothing and my necessities in
life.
I am not saying that God will give
us many luxuries.
I am not saying that God will give
us many luxuries.
He did not teach us to pray give
us this day our daily ice cream but
give us this our daily bread.
We need to live.
He will definitely give it to us.
You think God does not know if some
sickness is coming into my body?
Jesus said that even the hair on your
head is numbered.
I don't have much hair on my head
but it's still very difficult to count all
of it.
It's impossible.
But I know one thing.
It's all counted by God.
That means his care is so exact.
Let me ask you a question.
Which is most serious for you?
To lose one hair from your head or
to get sick?
You know the answer.
We never care about one hair falling from
our head.
But Jesus said that God knows even that.
Please remember Matthew 10 verse 30 always.
I have used that promise to comfort many
believers.
That statement of Jesus is more accurate than
any certificate given to you by a bank
or anybody else.
Matthew 10 verse 30 The hairs of your
head are all numbered.
He knows the exact number.
Why did Jesus take an example like that?
To show that even the smallest little detail
in your life God is interested in.
Even a father cannot know the details of
the hair in his children's head.
Or even a mother.
God's care is more than a father and
mother.
And you know the other promises.
I never get tired of quoting them.
Matthew 7 You know it well but it's
good to hear it again.
Matthew 7 verse 9 If your son asks
for a loaf of bread will you give
him a stone?
If he asks for fish will you give
him a snake?
If you know how to give good gifts
to your children how much more your heavenly
father will give good gifts to those who
ask him?
Now you say brother Zach these are all
things we have heard many times.
These are all elementary truths.
Now you say brother Zach these are all
things we have heard many times.
These are all elementary truths.
But then why do you get worried?
Why does anxiety come into your life?
That proves that even these simple truths are
not true in your life.
That proves that even these simple truths are
not true in your life.
That's how Jesus taught.
Jesus preached in a very different way in
the new covenant.
Have you read the old covenant preachers?
Try and read Jeremiah and see how much
you understand.
Or try and read Hosea and Malachi and
see how much you understand.
Or Isaiah.
And then after reading all that you are
getting all confused in your mind.
And then after reading all that you are
getting all confused in your mind.
Then come to the gospels and read Jesus.
It's so different.
Jesus is speaking to us like little children.
I say thank you lord for the new
covenant.
I don't want to be a prophet like
those old testament people.
I want to be a servant like Jesus
was.
That's all.
Just believe and accept what he says.
No prophet in the old testament spoke like
this.
That's why they were all orphans.
I don't want to offend you.
Paul told the Corinthians I am not trying
to shame you.
But I want to ask you.
Do you behave like a child of a
heavenly father who owns this universe?
Who cares for every little hair on your
head?
You may say there are many things that
happen in my life and I don't know
why god allows it.
I also don't know.
I am not saying we will get all
knowledge.
I am not saying we will be able
to explain everything that god does.
I will tell you one thing.
He will never give you a bad gift
if you ask him for a good one.
He will never give you a bad gift
if you ask him for a good one.
You know sometimes a child doesn't want to
go to school.
You still force him to go to school.
And your child may think my mother is
so hard forcing me to go to school.
I don't like school at all.
But my parents are forcing me to go
to school.
But my parents are forcing me to go
to school.
Why do you force them?
I can think you are a very hard
mother or father.
I can think you are a very hard
mother or father.
Many years later when he has got a
good job then he will understand why you
force him.
Many years later when he has got a
good job then he will understand why you
force him.
When you force your child to take some
bitter medicine which is good for the child.
When you force your child to take some
bitter medicine which is good for the child.
The child can't understand but when he is
healed of the sickness then he understands.
The child can't understand but when he is
healed of the sickness then he understands.
What I am trying to say is we
must believe in the same way that we
are like children who don't understand why God
takes us through some difficult situations.
What I am trying to say is we
must believe in the same way that we
are like children who don't understand why God
takes us through some difficult situations.
You think you are the only one who
prayed for healing from sickness and you were
not healed?
You think you are the only one who
prayed for healing from sickness and you were
not healed?
Paul prayed long before you.
There is a thorn in the flesh.
That's how Paul felt in 2 Corinthians 12.
He could have said, Father, earthly fathers know
how to give good things to their children.
Won't you give me this good gift?
Remove this thorn.
Can't you take away this thorn?
If I was a child and I went
to my father on earth to remove the
thorn, he would remove it immediately.
Then father could have asked, why don't you
remove it?
You're a more loving father.
I'll tell you why, because God loves you
more than your earthly father does.
Your earthly father will just remove the thorn.
Your heavenly father loves you more and keeps
the thorn.
He told Paul in verse 12, that is
to keep you humble.
Paul, I've blessed you so much that you're
in danger of pride.
Not to keep you humble, to keep on
blessing you.
But don't doubt, this is also a gift
of my love.
There are many things God does not explain
to us.
There are many things that have happened in
my life.
I don't understand why.
No one thing today with absolute certainty.
God does not allow a single small little
thing to come into my life, which is
not out of his infinite love.
That's why I'm not in unrest and fear.
But the same father of mine is your
father too.
But I've decided, I'm not going to live
like an orphan anymore.
And I want to tell you something else.
John 15, the Lord also told his disciples.
John 15 and verse 16, you
did not choose me.
Have you heard that from the Lord?
Have you heard the Lord saying that to
you?
All of you.
The Lord says to you, you did not
choose me.
I chose you.
I know in my life, I told you,
I accepted the Lord in July 1959.
That was 62 years ago.
But when did God choose me?
That's written in Ephesians 1 and verse 4.
When did God choose me?
I chose the Lord 62 years ago.
But the Lord chose me before he created
the heaven and earth.
When there were no angels.
When there was only God, Father, Son and
Holy Spirit.
Way back in eternity.
When only God existed.
He chose me.
I believe it.
And that is why 62 years ago I
chose him.
If he had not chosen me, I would
not have chosen him.
Now this is difficult for us to understand.
But there are many things in the world
we cannot understand.
I don't need to understand it.
When you put on a switch and get
light in your house.
Can you explain how this electricity works and
produces the light?
I know a little bit about it, but
I can't explain it.
I use many things that I cannot explain.
There are many many things in your home,
in your kitchen that you use.
You don't know how it all works inside.
Things we use.
You may drive a car, but you don't
know how it all works.
Ride a scooter, you don't know how it
works.
Use many things, we don't know how it
works, but we know it So I know
in the same way that God chose me
before he created the heaven and the earth.
And I picture it like this.
The Lord has chosen me and decided to
carry me across this swollen river to heaven.
It's a river flowing like anything.
He's not going to come halfway into that
river and say, okay, I'm fed up of
you.
I'm not going to carry you anymore.
I'm going to leave you here.
Why do I say that?
Because there's nothing
that happens
in the last 62 years that I've been
a believer.
I discovered it after doing it.
The Lord knew it before he chose me.
Okay, he knows.
This child of mine accepted me in 1959.
The Lord says, I know in 1960 he's
going to do a few stupid things.
In 1975 also he'll do many stupid things.
In 2010, 2015 he's going to do many
stupid things.
And the angels say, Lord, are you still
going to choose him?
Yes, yes, I've chosen him.
Even though you know he's going to do
all these stupid things.
I've chosen him.
He is mine.
That's what the Lord says.
Isn't it wonderful to know that the Lord
has chosen as his wife.
I'm his wife, his bride.
Now I want to ask you an honest
question.
Those of you who are married, in the
last, from the time of your marriage, you've
seen many stupid things that your wife did.
All the stubbornness and disobedience and many many
wrong things.
If you knew all this before you married
her, would you still marry her?
That's a little difficult question to answer, right?
You should say yes, because God saw you
doing even more stupid things and chose you.
You must love our wives like the Lord
loves us.
But this is a wonderful thing that God
knew all the foolish things we would do
and he still chose us.
Or you know, let's leave aside a wife.
We will never divorce our wife.
That is a firm understood thing.
Use another example.
You're the manager of a factory.
And you know that this worker is going
to do so many stupid things in the
next 20 years.
Bring a lot of loss to your business.
If you knew that beforehand, would you employ
him?
I'm sure you would not employ him.
He's going to bring so much loss to
me.
Think of God choosing you like that.
He knew beforehand what all things you would
do.
Stop for a moment and look back at
your past life from now to the time
you were born again.
And think all the sins you committed.
God knew that before he chose you.
And he still chose you.
Amazing love.
Amazing grace.
It's because I realized this that I said,
Lord, I will serve you till the end
of my life.
I don't want anything more.
You've already done more than enough for me.
I want to spend my life serving you,
devoted to you 100%.
And that's what helps me to be
patient with my fellow believers when they do
stupid things.
My children irritate me.
My fellow believers are also like my children
now.
They irritate me.
I'm not going to give up on them.
Because my father never gave up on me.
He chose me knowing everything about me.
This is a great word in John 15
-16.
Have you heard it?
He did not choose me.
I chose you.
That takes away the feeling of being an
orphan.
And this loving father has given each of
us different jobs and different gifts.
And if you find that he has given
another brother more gifts than he has given
you.
Hey father, that's your wisdom.
You did that.
I accept it.
I can tell you something that is true
in my life today.
I have zero jealousy against anybody in the
whole world.
I'm not jealous if somebody can do things
better than me.
If his home is better than mine.
House is bigger than mine.
If his children are more godly than mine.
Praise the lord.
Because my father in heaven has decided that.
When you are an orphan, he is better.
His children are doing better than my children.
Those are all the marks of an orphan.
You want your children to be the best.
Why can't his children be better than yours?
Why can't his children be more spiritual than
yours?
You know brothers and sisters, many problems get
solved in our life when we stop becoming
orphans.
I have given you many reasons.
I'll tell you one thing finally.
The thing that will make all this real
in your life is when you are filled
with the holy spirit.
Otherwise you will understand and agree to everything
I say today.
Next week you will forget it.
But if you allow god to fill you
with the holy spirit, your married life will
change, your entire life will become heavenly.
There is a song in English which says
heaven came down and glory filled my soul.
That is what the holy spirit does.
He brings heaven into my heart.
He brings heaven into my home.
He brings heaven into my attitude towards other
people.
He brings heaven towards evil people.
Somebody who speaks evil about me, I can
have a heavenly attitude towards him.
Somebody who tells lies about me, I can
have a heavenly attitude towards him.
Because god has given me the greatest gift
of all, the holy spirit.
Pray to god, ask him to fill you
with the holy spirit.
That is more important than even understanding what
I spoke to you for the last one
hour.
You may forget all the verses and all
the illustrations I gave now.
But if the holy spirit fills you, the
reality will be in your life.
Remember these two things.
You are not meant to be an orphan.
And you did not choose Christ.
Christ chose you.
He chose you first.
So I took a long time to speak
about these two things.
But I believe it will change your life
if you are gripped by it.
It delivered me from being discouraged.
I am telling you the truth.
If you ask me, Brother Zach, when was
the last time you were discouraged about something?
I can honestly say, I don't remember.
It must have been many many many years
ago.
Gone from my life.
What about condemning yourself?
That took a little more time to go
away from my life because I am that
type of person who condemns myself frequently.
That's also gone.
I don't condemn myself.
I say Lord, I don't expect to be
perfect.
By your grace I will be a little
better everyday.
That's perfect.
I don't condemn myself.
God does not want you to be discouraged.
God doesn't want you to be anxious.
He doesn't want you to compete with other
believers to show that you are better than
them.
Rejoice when another brother is 10 times better
than you.
Rejoice if that sister is more spiritual than
you.
That's what the Holy Spirit teaches me.
I am happy that brother is better than
me.
I am happy that things are going so
well with him.
Dear brothers, this is how Jesus wants us
to live on this earth.
So God determines your circumstances of your life
and circumstances of my life.
So God determines your circumstances of your life
and circumstances of my life.
I am not going to tell you what
all God took me through in my life.
But God never gives a person a ministry
before taking him through many many different types
of trials.
I am not going to talk about what
God took me through.
I will tell you one thing.
Every one of those things has worked for
my good.
You have that faith.
Have I been through financial difficulty?
Yes.
Very great financial difficulty.
Have I been through sickness?
Yes.
Sometimes there is some sickness which I thought
I would never get healed.
Have people taken me to court?
To supreme court.
Have I been called the devil in all
types of bad names from other people?
Yes.
This is my education.
I am a very happy man.
Everything worked for my good.
Tell you everything will work for your good.
God bless you.
If you did not get fully gripped by
something I said, go to God and say
Lord I am all confused by what brother
Zack said today.
He is not able to explain things clearly.
Please Lord you explain to me what brother
Zack cannot explain.
He will explain it to you better than
me.
Ask God.
The Holy Spirit is a wonderful teacher.
He is very patient.
If you say I didn't understand that, ok
I will explain it again.
A hundred times you say I didn't understand
that, the Holy Spirit will say I will
explain it to you.
Don't get discouraged.
The Holy Spirit has become such a wonderful
friend to me.
I can recommend him to all of you.
My life has completely changed.
Wherever I go this helper is coming with
me.
This helper Jesus said I have sent you
this helper to be with you always.
Oh brothers and sisters please seek God to
be filled with the Holy Spirit.
That's what you need more than anything else.
God bless you all.
Shall we pray?
Prayer is not a very complicated thing.
God doesn't want fancy words
like a simple child.
Tell the Lord what you need.
Lord Jesus give me this helper.
The Holy Spirit.
Lord I am not very clever.
I don't know much of the Bible.
I am not a very spiritual person.
I don't even seem to have a great
desire to overcome sin.
I fall so often.
Please have mercy on me Lord.
I feel sometimes I am the weakest of
all of your children.
But I know you love me.
You chose me before the worlds were created.
I believe it today.
Give me the fullness of the Holy Spirit
the same fullness that you gave to so
many other children of yours.
Just like you gave to those disciples on
the day of Pentecost.
I want that Lord.
I don't want a cheap counterfeit.
I want the real thing.
And I believe you will do this for
me.
You said if you believe you will have
it.
I have heard this in Jesus name.
Thank you Lord you heard me.
Heavenly Father I pray for my dear brothers
and sisters who are praying for this right
now.
Please give them an assurance that you have
heard their prayer.
Lord give them an assurance that you will
answer that.
I believe Lord you will do it.
I pray in Jesus name.
God bless you all brothers.
Thank you.