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Zac Poonen

Zac Poonen (1939 - ). Christian preacher, Bible teacher, and author based in Bangalore, India. A former Indian Naval officer, he resigned in 1966 after converting to Christianity, later founding the Christian Fellowship Centre (CFC) in 1975, which grew into a network of churches. He has written over 30 books, including "The Pursuit of Godliness," and shares thousands of free sermons, emphasizing holiness and New Testament teachings. Married to Annie since 1968, they have four sons in ministry. Poonen supports himself through "tent-making," accepting no salary or royalties. After stepping down as CFC elder in 1999, he focused on global preaching and mentoring. His teachings prioritize spiritual maturity, humility, and living free from materialism. He remains active, with his work widely accessible online in multiple languages. Poonen’s ministry avoids institutional structures, advocating for simple, Spirit-led fellowships. His influence spans decades, inspiring Christians to pursue a deeper relationship with God.
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This sermon emphasizes the contrast between the old covenant and the new covenant, highlighting the importance of inner transformation and overcoming sin through the power of the Holy Spirit. It challenges believers to seek God's nature, to live a life of holiness, love, and victory over sin, surpassing even the great prophet John the Baptist in the new covenant era.
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We've been continuing thinking about the subject of Divine Wisdom. It's an amazing statement that Jesus made in Matthew chapter 11. In our church, we speak much about the new covenant established on the day of Pentecost. And here, Jesus shows us the contrast between the old covenant and the new covenant. In one sentence, same sentence, Matthew 11, 11. Matthew 11, 11. About the old covenant, the greatest person in the old covenant was John the Baptist. In the history of humanity, Jesus said up to that time, the greatest person born was John the Baptist, before Jesus Christ. I mean, when Jesus says that, we know it is true. John the Baptist was greater than Enoch who walked with God. He was greater than Moses who led the Israelites out of Egypt. He was greater than Elijah, the fiery prophet. He was greater than all the prophets in the Old Testament. In the entire old covenant, John the Baptist was number one. And interestingly, he never did any miracles. He never did one miracle. He never healed a sick person. Elijah raised the dead. But John the Baptist was greater than him. That shows us that raising the dead and doing miracles is not the greatest thing in God's eyes. We would think if somebody raised the dead, that must be the greatest prophet. Elisha, he asked Elijah to give a double portion of the anointing to him. And do you know that Elisha raised two people from the dead? He raised a little boy from the dead. And listen to this. After Elisha died, and they buried him in a grave, a sort of an open grave. Years later, when Elisha's body had all disintegrated, only his bones were there. Some people threw a dead man into that grave. And that dead man's body touched the bones of Elisha. And he rose up from the dead. Can you imagine what anointing there was in the dead bones of Elisha? You should read the story in 2 Kings. I think it's chapter 13 or somewhere. If you don't know, you must read it. If you had heard that some man today was like that, you say, wow, you mean his dead bones raised up a dead man? He must definitely be the greatest prophet. No. Jesus said, a man who never did any miracle is the greatest man. That shows us that our way of thinking is different from God's way of thinking. We are impressed by miracles. God is impressed by character. Faithful obedience to him. Even if you never do a miracle, you and I may not be able to follow Elisha and Elijah and the miracles they did. But can you follow John the Baptist, who never did any miracles? Who was fearless? He would speak the truth even to a king. He would say, you have no right to marry your brother's wife. If Elijah told one of his friends, I'm going to tell the king that. John the Baptist. He said, don't do that, you'll lose your head. He said, I'm willing to lose my head, but I'm going to tell the people the truth. That is how John the Baptist was. And another great thing about him which made him a great man, his attitude to Jesus. He said, I'm not even fit to open his shoelaces. And when he heard that some of his disciples were following Jesus, he was so happy, he said, yes, he must increase, I must decrease. What was it that made John the Baptist a great man? Not miracles. Make him your hero. John the Baptist was my hero for many years. Because he was fearless. He was not interested in anybody's honor or anybody's money. He was only interested in telling people the truth. And he preached repentance. The next day he's preaching repentance. Every day you go to listen to John the Baptist, he's only preaching against sin. He never preached on healing. He never bothered if there was no music in his meetings. He never got any musicians to sing before he preached. He only preached against sin. And when some people who he knew, they were not converted, they came for baptism, he said, I will not baptize you. He had discernment. So many things I have learned from John the Baptist. A man who always wanted to become smaller, smaller, smaller, so that Jesus would increase in the eyes of others. That is why Jesus said he is the greatest person that was ever born. So let me repeat that. The greatest person in the old covenant never did even one miracle. He never had a great music team. The greatest man in the old covenant preached repentance. The greatest man in the old testament wanted to become smaller and smaller so that Jesus would become greater. His only desire was to point to Jesus and say, follow him. That is why he became my hero. You can make him your hero too. Lord, I don't want to become bigger in my church, I want to become smaller. I don't want people to look at me, I want to be a pointer to Jesus. I want to become smaller in the eyes of others so that Jesus can become bigger. And I don't want any honor from men. And if one day somebody is going to cut off my head, I am ready for that also, like John the Baptist. The greatest man under the old covenant. Now, listen to this amazing truth. Matthew 11.11 The least person in the new covenant is greater than John the Baptist. See, the kingdom of heaven mentioned here is another phrase for the new covenant. The old covenant was a kingdom of earth. God never promised Israel anything in heaven. God never told Abraham, I will take all your children to heaven. He has not taken all of Abraham's children to heaven. You read the old testament, there is almost not even a single promise about heaven. There is no promise about partaking of God's nature. There is no promise about overcoming sin. The standard was very low. We can say that all the old covenant people lived in kindergarten. Even in Galatians it says, they were like little children. You know, in Galatians, we are told, old covenant people were like children, and we are like grown up sons. So, all old covenant people, Moses, Elijah, everybody, they were like kindergarten students. And in that, in the kindergarten, John the Baptist got 100%. He was the best in the kindergarten. But, in the new covenant, you start in first standard. You are ahead of everybody in the kindergarten, including John the Baptist. That is an amazing truth. They had a kingdom of earth. Their whole mind was about earthly things. God said, I will give you plenty of fruit and plenty of crops in your field. All your cattle will multiply like anything. See, those days, the wealth of people was in the fields and in cattle. Today, it is in money and banks and all that. But, those days, the wealth was in the fields and in cattle. And in children. So, the Lord said, I will give you plenty in your fields. Harvest. And many cattle. Many children. And you will never lack money. You will have plenty. It is all earthly. And I will give you one land also called Canaan to live in. Lord, what about any heavenly blessing for these people? Zero. Earthly blessing, plenty. I will also be, I am the Lord your healer. I will heal your sicknesses. I will not deliver you from your sin. You won't get cancer. But, you will keep on getting angry. You will get plenty of money. But, you will keep on lusting after women. You will have bitterness against people. But, you will have plenty of money. You will have big houses. And you will be very rich. But, you will be defeated by sin all your life. That is kindergarten, old covenant level. Even John the Baptist. You know, John the Baptist was a man who saw the dove descending upon Jesus and he heard a voice saying, this is my beloved son. Now, if you had seen that, you would never doubt that Jesus is the son of God. But, John the Baptist doubted even after seeing that. That shows that even he had unbelief. And the Bible says, unbelief is a very great sin. It is a greater sin than even adultery. And that is what we see here. That John the Baptist was in a prison because Herod locked him up. And he heard that Jesus is delivering so many people from sin and sickness and everything. From sickness and so many other problems like that. So, John the Baptist says, what about me? I am in prison. Why don't you deliver me? Are you really the Messiah? Matthew 11.3 Should we look for somebody else who is going to come after you? And you go to John the Baptist in prison and say, don't you see the Holy Spirit descending on him? Hey, John the Baptist, didn't you hear the voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved son? And now you are questioning, is he really the one? Yeah, John the Baptist says, I am not so sure now. I don't know whether that voice was really the voice of God. And I don't know whether that was just a dove flying over there or whether it was the Holy Spirit. He is doubting. That is the question. This is old covenant life. They could not overcome sin. That is why he said, the new covenant, you start in the first standard. No, it doesn't mean that all of us are better than John the Baptist. If you are in first standard and you get zero, the chap who gets 100% in kindergarten may be better than you. If John the Baptist were living today, he would have been the greatest man almost on the earth in the new covenant. But he was living in another time, before the day of Pentecost. So even though the Holy Spirit was upon John the Baptist, he did not dwell inside John the Baptist. If he had dwelt inside John the Baptist, John the Baptist would have had no doubt at any time. He was only a few days in prison and he lost his faith. Nowadays we hear of Christians who have been locked up for 20 years in prison for preaching the gospel. And after 20 years they are rejoicing in the Lord. They have no doubt. Through the years we have seen Christians taken to the stake and burned because they confessed Jesus. They say, just forsake Jesus and you can escape. They say no. They have greater faith than John the Baptist. They don't forsake Jesus even if they have to be killed or burnt or head cut off or anything. They had the Holy Spirit within them. Not because they were better than John the Baptist. But because John the Baptist lived before the day of Pentecost. It's just like you know there were people who lived 300 years ago who had no electricity. Even very rich people they had to light a lamp and strike it and burn oil to get light. But today the poorest person has got electricity in his house. Is it because he is cleverer or richer than those people? No. He is living in a time after electricity has been discovered. That is the comparison between the rich and John the Baptist and people who live after the day of Pentecost. But you know a person may have electricity in his house and all he may do is burn one lamp in the house. That's all. And another person who has got electricity he runs a hundred gadgets in his house. He has got refrigerator and washing machine he has got dishwasher and vacuum cleaner and computer and television and so many things. The same electricity one person only puts one lamp the other person uses so many things with that electricity. That is a picture of new covenant believers who have got the Holy Spirit within them. Some people New Testament Christians may be sitting here you just use the Holy Spirit for one little thing The Holy Spirit has assured me I am a child of God and I am going to heaven when I die. That is like a man using electricity to burn one bulb in his house that's all. Whole house one bulb is burning. Lot of believers are like that. But do you know that electricity can produce do so many things in a person's house and do you know that the power of the Holy Spirit can do amazing things in your life. It can help you to hear the voice of God everyday in your heart. Everyday I seek to hear the voice of God in my heart every morning when I get up. That is the most important thing for me. Why? Because Jesus said man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from God's mouth not by every word that proceeded in the Bible some hundreds of years ago Yes, this is all God's word but what I am saying is God is speaking even today not something different from the Bible everything God speaks today will be according to the Bible but according to my need today God will speak to me something from the Bible I don't know what I am going to face tomorrow but I don't have to worry about it because I know God will give me a word according to my need tomorrow It's a wonderful thing to have the Holy Spirit within and that is how God meets my need and not only that then the Holy Spirit begins to help me to meet the need of other people I am not talking only about myself I am talking about all of you if you will open your heart to the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit is the person that makes all the difference in the new covenant The Holy Spirit will give me a word to help me first of all and then He will give me a word to help other people but how does He help me? My biggest problem in my life is sin Just like a beggar his biggest problem is poverty You go to a beggar on the street and say what is your biggest problem? He says I don't have money You go to a sick man in the hospital and ask him what is your problem? He is a very rich man I got plenty of money but my problem is my sickness So let me ask you my brother and sister what is your biggest problem? It may not be money If you ask me what is my biggest problem It was sin It was a very big problem in my life I say can God deliver me from this? I had shortage of money but that was not my biggest problem I was a poor man when I got married That's ok we can live even with little bit of money My wife and I lived quite happily with little bit of money It was not that we didn't have enough clothes we could live with very few clothes We could live in a small house But my biggest problem was I was defeated by sin I used to get angry I was bitter I couldn't forgive people I loved this earth so much earthly things and money and many other things like that I used to get anxious worried I used to complain I used to speak evil of others I couldn't forgive somebody who hurt me This was my biggest problem And I know that is the problem of many of you Do you think the Holy Spirit can do something? For many years I thought No, no, no He can't help me in that But I praise God that a time came in my life when I realized He can help me And today I can testify that the Holy Spirit has helped me Because I earnestly sought God for it The Bible says Seek with all your heart and you will find Because God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him If you diligently seek God He will deliver you from all these sins that plague your life and all these sins that are ruining your marriage that are ruining your children and ruining your children's marriages The Holy Spirit is the solution Not just some emotional experience Not just speaking in tongues But deliverance from sin That is what makes the new covenant person higher than John the Baptist That is the meaning of divine wisdom John the Baptist did not have it John the Baptist He had an earthly wisdom Turning from earthly external sins See, when John the Baptist said repent Turn from sin He was not talking about anger and dirty thoughts Because let me tell you John the Baptist himself did not have victory over anger and dirty thoughts Nobody had victory over anger and dirty thoughts till the day of Pentecost Not Elijah Not John the Baptist But Jesus said the least person in the new covenant can rise higher than him It is amazing where we can rise and how low we are living I believe that God has raised up CFC churches just to proclaim this message You can overcome sin You can partake of God's nature It says in 2 Peter 1 It is an amazing promise 2 Peter 1 2 Peter 1 It says here about amazing magnificent promises in verse 4 Precious magnificent promises God has granted to us What are these precious and magnificent promises? Is it to help us to become millionaires? To help us to have big houses? Help us to have perfect health? No These promises are so that we can partake of His divine nature and escape all the corruption in the world due to sin Do you know that the greatest promises of God are not to make you a rich man Not to heal you of all your sicknesses That's all good but that is not the greatest thing They are all like five paisa compared to the riches God is giving The greatest thing God can give us is His own nature Do you know that He has not even given His nature to the angels? When He created Adam He did not give him His nature He gave him life but He never gave him His nature How do I know that? Because if Adam and Eve had God's nature they would never have disobeyed God They would not have gone and eaten of the tree of knowledge of good and evil That is the proof They did not have God's nature They did not obey God Jesus came with God's nature and He would not even turn the stones to bread when He was hungry It's God's nature That is the nature It says all of God's precious promises are to give us that nature It is only by that nature that we can escape the sin in the world It is not by determining Ok, I have come to this conference I have decided I am not going to sin anymore You know, if you have a very precious dog in your house They expect like a watch dog in your house However good that dog may be However much you may love it It does not have your nature You can give it a nice coat, you can give it food You can make a little house for it You can give it the best food But it does not have your nature It cannot be your son However good it may be However tall it may be It cannot be your son It cannot have your nature For human beings like us to get God's nature You have to see what a wonderful thing it is It's like a dog in your house becoming your son getting your nature What a miracle that is That your dog suddenly becomes a man and becomes your son That is the wonder of the Holy Spirit making me a child of God And giving me his nature And you know if that dog could get human nature it won't go running after bones anymore It'll behave completely differently It'll start wearing clothes It'll start going to school Dogs don't go to school They don't wear clothes A complete change in lifestyle Completely different And all the other other dog friends he had before He'll say What happened to you? Why are you going to school? Why are you dressing up? He'll say because I'm not a dog now I've become a human being I was a dog like you once upon a time Running after bones Not wearing any clothes Not going to school But now I'm a human being I go to school I'm learning mathematics What do you dogs know about mathematics? Can you see the difference a dog becoming a human being? I want to ask you a question If you are really a spirit filled child of God Is there the same degree of difference between you and all your worldly friends? And all the nominal Christians in the world who are not born again Is there a difference between you and them like a human being and a dog? Or do you say I'm just a better dog than the other dogs? I'm a better human being than some of these other human beings That's not Christianity That's not Christianity In the new covenant We can be filled with the Holy Spirit That means filled with the nature of God And one proof of it is this Listen carefully That I cannot hate anybody Do you hate somebody? You don't have God's nature God hates sin but he doesn't hate anybody And that is what happens when we get God's nature We hate sin We hate sin like poison We hate sin terribly We want to get rid of it Just like in the toilet you flush and flush everything out Like that we want to get rid of sin from our life That happens when we are filled with the Holy Spirit I am amazed that so many believers still keep sin in their life They still keep it I can't understand why It's like never putting water down your toilet You keep on using it and it's all accumulating there and you don't pour any water to clean it out How would you like to have a toilet like that? You keep using it everyday and you never pour any water there That is how sin is in your life Sin, sin, sin, sin And nothing being flushed out Unforgiving attitude towards somebody Bitterness Complaining Murmuring Anger Dirty thoughts And so many other evil things Jealousy Pride When are you going to flush it all out? You can't do it unless you are filled with the Holy Spirit The Old Testament was an external life The New Covenant is an inner life And that is what God gives us The main difference is this You know the Pharisees had a good external life Let me show you Matthew chapter 1 Matthew 23 Turn it off I don't need it Yeah As I was saying the main difference in the Old Covenant and the New Covenant is in the New Covenant our life is inward first In the Old Covenant it is only outside The Old Covenant was occupied with doctrine and doctrine and external life You know many people say that everything was wrong with the Pharisees There were many things wrong but they had two good things Matthew 23 They had many wrong things They used to squeeze rent from poor widows They used to lead people astray with their teaching They were interested in money They were interested in the honor of men But there were two good things Matthew 23 verse 2 and 3 Jesus said The scribes and Pharisees are sitting in the chair of Moses Everything that they tell you to do do How can Jesus say to his disciples Everything the Pharisees tell you to do you can do That means their doctrine is right Do you think Jesus will tell you everything the Roman Catholics tell you to do They tell you to pray to Mary pray to Mary Do you think Jesus would say that The Jehovah's Witnesses say Jesus Christ is not God Would Jesus say everything the Jehovah's Witnesses say you also do No Jesus can say that only about a group that teaches everything correctly Pharisees were like that Everything they tell you to do do Because what they say is right That is the number one good certificate that Jesus gave to the Pharisees That all their teaching is correct They are not teaching it in the correct way to other people They are not doing it themselves But their doctrines are correct Certified by Jesus Christ Second thing Matthew 23 and verse 25 You Pharisees you clean the outside of the cup Now outside means my external life Inside means my internal life Their problem was their external life was clean Inside thought life and all was dirty But their external life was clean Isn't it a good thing to have a good external testimony Pharisees had that Jesus said it You clean the outside of the cup and the dish It's a certificate Your outside is all clean So here are two good certificates that Jesus gave to the Pharisees Listen Your doctrines are all correct Your external life and testimony is very good But verse 33 you will still go to hell Now let us apply that to ourselves Is your doctrine all correct Yeah, we have correct doctrine We are not like the false teachers Is your external testimony before people good You are not committing adultery You are not stealing Your external life is very good Everybody in the church has got a good opinion about you because they don't know your inner life They see your external life and say very good They see your doctrine correct Is it possible that Jesus may say you will still go to hell What does that teach us That if you have a good doctrine and a good external life and you are not concerned about your inner heart and your thoughts and your inner attitude you are not really much different from other people You are just an actor Outside looking good What is the solution to this We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit To get God's nature inside That is Divine Wisdom Earthly Wisdom only tells us how to behave on the outside Earthly Wisdom will tell you how to make more money How to avoid difficult problems on the earth How to give bribes to the right people and get jobs done Yeah There are many people like that Maybe some of you sitting here are very clever with all that earthly wisdom Maybe you call yourself Christian and even go to some church You won't be able to stand before God on the final day I am telling you the truth so that you don't get a surprise on the day of judgment God has brought you to this conference to hear the truth I want to urge you one thing Concentrate on your inner life Concentrate on your thoughts Lord Give me pure thoughts Concentrate on your attitudes towards people Lord Give me a good attitude towards everyone in the world Help me to love my enemies Give me grace to bless those who curse me Give me grace to forgive everybody who has done wrong to me You can't do that without the power of the Holy Spirit But I know it's possible Many people have done harm to me in my life But I can say before God today I have forgiven everyone of them I say before God not only I have forgiven I wish the best for everyone of them I don't wish any evil for them But that's not my ability It's the Holy Spirit If I put on a switch in my house and the light comes on And you say Oh brother Zach how did you get light in your house? I didn't do anything I just put on the switch Somebody else connected the electricity power to my house So in the same way you ask me How can you love your enemies? I say no Somebody has given me the power of the Holy Spirit Like putting on the switch I just open myself to that And the Holy Spirit helps me to love them I could not do it on my own Just like I cannot make that light come on my own But when the electricity comes it's so easy Dear brothers and sisters Learn to honor the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit does not come just to make us emotional and excited Some people think that Holy Spirit comes means I'll get all excited and shake That's not why the Holy Spirit comes See because even people who get evil spirits behave like that I've seen people with evil spirits shaking and rolling on the ground It's all evil spirits Evil spirits make people evil So Holy Spirit will make people holy I don't want to roll on the ground I don't want to shake What's the use shaking and then hating my enemies What's the use shaking and shaking and cursing those who curse me I don't want to shake I want power to love my enemies I want power to have a pure thought life I don't want emotional excitement and have a dirty thought life And I say Lord I never want to have any shaking in my body any time in my life Give me a pure thought life Give me love in my heart for every human being To my enemies to those who hate me to those who curse me And give me a freedom from attachment to earthly things Set my mind on the things above I'm going to live on this earth at the most about a hundred years Not more than that But I'm going to live in heaven for eternity So Lord give me an attachment to the things above You pray like that If you pray like that your life will be completely changed God will give you wisdom in different situations in life He will tell you exactly what to do You will live by every word that proceeds from God's mouth There is no partiality with God What he did for others he will do for you What he's done for me he'll do for you One of the great things I discovered in scripture as I studied it Through the revelation of the Holy Spirit Nobody taught me this No earthly man taught me this The Holy Spirit taught me I'll tell you in one sentence I wrote a song about it What God did for Jesus He will do for me That is one of the most amazing revelations that I got from God 40 years ago And I wrote that song 40 years ago What God did for Jesus He will do for you Do you believe that? It changed my life When the Lord showed me What he did for Jesus He will do for me As he helped Jesus to live an overcoming life He will help me Once I believed it it took a little time for me to experience it Because before that I always believed I'll be defeated defeated all my life Anger was like the giants of Canaan Like Goliath All the army of Israel were frightened Oh we cannot overcome this Goliath In my life anger was like that Dirty thoughts was like that Bitterness and complaining everything was like that The giants of Canaan ruled my life By God's power I brought them down one by one by Not all in one day Not all in one year Little by little by little I am conquering the land of Canaan I want to ask you Are you killing the giants in your life? The giants of sin You can do it Don't let the devil fool you that you can't do it Jesus killed every temptation Not a single giant could control Jesus He was tempted in all points like we are and he overcame all of them And now the message is What God did for Jesus He will do for you What God did for Jesus He will do for you That's why the Bible says in 1 John 2 verse 6 1 John 2 verse 6 If you say that you abide in Christ you must walk as he walked How can I walk as he walked if he doesn't give me the power Have you got that in your Bible That if you say you abide in Christ you must walk as Jesus walked What does that mean Jesus was never in a bad mood at any time any day of his life He was always in his heart he rejoiced in his father Outside there may be so many pressures upon him We read twice in the Bible that he wept Yes, Jesus wept Externally there can be sorrows Joy doesn't mean we go around smiling all the time Smiling is different from joy If I see a man going down the street smiling all the time You think something is wrong with his head We don't go around smiling, that's not joy Joy is something inside Jesus didn't go around smiling all the time But he had joy Even when he wept he had joy He may go through trials and sorrows and pressures Tears may come but joy in our heart Because what God did for Jesus he will do for us It's a wonderful life That is why Jesus said the least person in the new covenant is higher than John the Baptist I have preached this for 40 years But I see so few people who believe Sometimes I get so frustrated Why is it Lord people don't believe this This is the most wonderful news in the world But I still see people just living in their defeated sinful life And the picture the Lord has given me is like this Here are people who have a rich earthly father who has got millions and crores of rupees in many many banks Lot of property in different cities in India And before he dies he writes a will All this property with details is to be given to this son and this daughter Then he dies And you take that will It's written in your name You don't read it very carefully And you give it to a lawyer And say please read this tell me what I should get And the lawyer says Yes your father has given you 1000 rupees Oh you say only 1000 rupees Let me read again No no no only 10,000 rupees Ok thank you my father Thank you lawyer I got 10,000 rupees How long can you live with 10,000 rupees There are crores there But that cheating lawyer has cheated you of your father's hard work And so you are living in poverty Getting a little bit My sins are forgiven I am going to heaven I got 10,000 rupees You are supposed to have crores Overcoming all sins Taking up God's nature Walking as Jesus walked without fear on this earth You are going to heaven And the devil has cheated you of your inheritance I am not angry at you I am angry at the devil I am angry at the devil because he has cheated you of God's inheritance And I will be angry with the devil as long as I live I am not afraid of him he was defeated on the cross As he fled when Jesus came he will flee when I come Because the Bible says so But my dear brothers and sisters You are my family members I really believe that my family is in the church And I feel sorry that the devil has cheated you of your inheritance I feel sorry that the devil has cheated you of your inheritance Now you seek God Like I said yesterday Lord fill me with the Holy Spirit Don't give me excitement Don't give me some shaking Give me holiness Give me your nature Let my nature be transformed just like a dog becoming a human being Let my nature just like a dog becoming a human being Lord give me divine nature That will have the power to overcome sin The power to be free from anxiety and fear The power to live a godly life in a wicked earth The power that will help me to love people who hate me And to make the devil flee wherever I go And to make the devil flee wherever I go Dear brothers and sisters I have shared my heart with you I believe it is God's heart He wants you to hear it He wants every one of you to be overcomers Every one of you to be greater than John the Baptist according to Matthew 11 11 That's what Jesus said I want to be like that Not a greater prophet Not a greater prophet than John the Baptist But I can overcome in my inner life which he could not overcome That is the way God wants you to be overcome May God help us Let's bow our heads before God I want you to seriously pray in your heart You don't have to make a lot of noise before God But there can be a cry in your heart Oh God My father Please help me to live this life Give me the power to overcome sin in my life Give me your nature my father I am willing to give up everything to get your nature Forgive me for the way I have lived so far Cleanse me in the blood of Jesus Christ I want to be an overcomer I am not seeking position or honor in this world I don't want any position or honor in the church also I want a godly life That's all Lord you give me that and I won't ask for anything else I mean it Lord I really mean what I am saying Give me your nature You promised it I claim it in the name of Jesus Christ Change my life Change my family life with my husband and my wife Help me to bring up my children in a godly way and make my home like a burning light for you I forgive everybody who has harmed me Everyone Everyone who has harmed me I forgive them right now and those whom I have hurt I am going to ask them forgiveness as soon as possible Lord I will return all the money I cheated from anybody I want to live a godly life I want to build a godly home Heavenly father please help me You need to say one more thing Thank you father for hearing my prayer Thank you father for hearing my prayer Say that aloud Thank you father for hearing my prayer Fill me with the holy spirit Thank you father for hearing me Heavenly father There are many people here who have really cried out to you sincerely Change their life Make it completely different Help them to have faith that what you did for Jesus you will do for them We pray in Jesus name Amen Brothers and sisters Go in peace Believe that God will answer your prayer Thank God for hearing you Have a spirit of thankfulness in the coming days God bless you
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Zac Poonen (1939 - ). Christian preacher, Bible teacher, and author based in Bangalore, India. A former Indian Naval officer, he resigned in 1966 after converting to Christianity, later founding the Christian Fellowship Centre (CFC) in 1975, which grew into a network of churches. He has written over 30 books, including "The Pursuit of Godliness," and shares thousands of free sermons, emphasizing holiness and New Testament teachings. Married to Annie since 1968, they have four sons in ministry. Poonen supports himself through "tent-making," accepting no salary or royalties. After stepping down as CFC elder in 1999, he focused on global preaching and mentoring. His teachings prioritize spiritual maturity, humility, and living free from materialism. He remains active, with his work widely accessible online in multiple languages. Poonen’s ministry avoids institutional structures, advocating for simple, Spirit-led fellowships. His influence spans decades, inspiring Christians to pursue a deeper relationship with God.