God needs men today - Bro.Zac
- Men who will
stand before His face and hear His voice daily,
- Men who have no desire in their
heart for anyone or anything other than God Himself,
- Men who fear Him so greatly
that they hate sin in every form and love righteousness and
truth in all their ways,
- Men who have overcome anger
and sexually sinful thoughts, and who would rather die than
sin even in thought or attitude,
- Men whose daily lifestyle is
one of taking up the cross and pressing on to perfection, and
who are constantly working out their own salvation with fear
and trembling,
- Men, full of the Holy Spirit,
who are so rooted and grounded in love that nothing can ever
move them into an unloving attitude towards another human being,
however great the provocation,
- Men who are so rooted and grounded
in humility that neither human praise nor spiritual growth,
neither a divinely endorsed ministry nor anything else will
be able to make them lose the awareness of their being less
than the least of all the saints,
- Men who have an understanding
of God's nature and purpose through His word, and who tremble
at that word so that they will not disobey even the smallest
commandment or neglect to teach it to others,
- Men who will proclaim the whole
counsel of God and expose religious harlotry and unscriptural
human traditions,
- Men who have the revelation
of the Holy Spirit on the secret of godliness, on Christ having
come in the flesh and opened a new and living way through the
flesh,
- Men who are diligent and hard-working,
but who also have a sense of humour, and know how to relax and
play with children and enjoy God's good gifts in nature,
- Men who are not ascetics, but
who at the same time live a disciplined life and who are not
afraid of hardships,
- Men who have no interest in
expensive clothing or sight seeing and who will not waste their
time in unprofitable activities or their money in unnecessary
purchases,
- Men who have mastered their
desire for fancy foods and who are not enslaved to music or
sport or any other legitimate activity,
- Men who have been disciplined
successfully by God in the fires of affliction, abuse, tribulations,
false accusation, physical sickness, financial hardships and
opposition from relatives and religious leaders,
- Men full of mercy, who can sympathise
with the worst of sinners and the worst of believers, and have
hope for them, because they consider themselves to be the foremost
of all sinners,
- Men who are so deeply rooted
in the security of the love of their Heavenly Father that they
are never anxious about anything, or afraid of Satan or evil
men or difficult situations or anything,
- Men who have entered into God's
rest, believing in the sovereign working of God in all matters
for their best and who therefore give thanks always for all
men, for all things and in all circumstances,
- Men who find their joy in God
alone and who are therefore full of the joy of the Lord, having
overcome all bad moods,
- Men of living faith, who have
no confidence in themselves or their natural abilities, but
complete confidence in God as their unfailing Helper in all
situations,
- Men who live, not by the promptings
of their own reason, but by the leading of the Holy Spirit,
- Men who have been genuinely
baptized in the Holy Spirit and fire by Christ Himself (and
not just thrilled by some emotional counterfeit or convinced
by some theological argument),
- Men who live constantly under
the anointing of the Spirit, endowed with the supernatural gifts
that He has given them,
- Men who have revelation of the
church as the body of Christ (and not a congregation or a denomination),
and who give all their energies, their material wealth and spiritual
gifts to build that church,
- Men who have learnt to bridle
their tongues through the help of the Holy Spirit and whose
tongues are now aflame with the divine Word,
- Men who have forsaken all, who
are not attracted any more to money or material things, and
who desire no gifts from others,
- Men who can trust God for all
their earthly needs and who never hint about their material
needs or boast about their labours, either in their conversation
or through letters and reports,
- Men who are not stubborn, but
gentle, and open to criticism and eager for correction from
older and wiser brothers,
- Men who have no desire to dominate
or advise others (although ready to give advice, when asked
for), and who have no longing to be considered as 'elder' brothers,
or leaders, but who only desire to be ordinary brothers and
servants of all,
- Men who are easy to get along
with, and who are willing to be inconvenienced and taken advantage
of by others,
- Men who will make no distinction
between the millionaire and the beggar, the white-skinned and
the dark-skinned, the intellectual and the idiot, and the cultured
and the barbarian, but who will treat them all alike,
- Men who will never be influenced
by their wife, children, relatives, friends or other believers
to cool off even slightly in their devotion to Christ or their
obedience to God's commandments,
- Men who can never be bribed
to compromise by any reward that Satan may offer (whether honour
or money or whatever),
- Men who are fearless witnesses
for Christ, fearing neither religious heads nor secular heads,
- Men who desire to please no
human being on the face of the earth, and who are willing to
offend all men, if necessary, in order to please God alone,
- Men for whom God's glory, God's
will and God's kingdom always take priority over mere human
need and their own comfort,
- Men who cannot be pressurised
either by others or by their own reason into doing 'dead works'
for God, but who are eager and content to do the revealed will
of God for their lives alone,
- Men who have the discernment
of the Spirit to distinguish between the soulish and the spiritual
in Christian work,
- Men who look at things from
a heavenly view point and not an earthly one,
- Men who will refuse all earthly
honours and titles offered them for their labours for God,
- Men who know how to pray without
ceasing, and also how to fast and pray when needed,
- Men who have learned to give
generously, cheerfully, secretly and with wisdom,
- Men who are willing to be all
things for all men, so that by all means they might save some,
- Men who have a longing to see
others not only saved but also made disciples of Christ, and
brought to the knowledge of the truth and to obedience to all
of God's commandments,
- Men who have a longing to see
a pure testimony established for God in every place,
- Men who have a burning passion
to see Christ glorified in the church,
- Men who do not seek their own
in any matter,
- Men with spiritual authority
and spiritual dignity,
- Men who will stand alone for
God in the world, if need be,
- Men who are totally uncompromising,
like the apostles and prophets of old.
God's work in the world suffers
today, because such men are few in number. Determine with all
your heart that you will be such a man for God, in the midst of
a sinful and adulterous generation and a compromising Christendom.
Since there is no partiality with God, it is possible for you
too to be such a man, provided you yourself earnestly desire to
be one. Since God demands commitment and obedience only in the
conscious area of one's life, it is possible for you to be such
a man, even though the conscious area of your life may be limited.
(That area will keep increasing as you walk in the light and press
on to perfection). There is no excuse then why you cannot be such
a man. Since nothing good dwells in the flesh, we have to seek
for grace from God to have the virtues listed above. Cry out to
God daily then, that He will give you grace to be such a man in
these, the closing days of the age.
