When
I first cam to Toronto over forty-one years ago, the Lord told me that
the people He would use in this final outpouring of His Spirit would
be those who have nothing to gain and nothing to lose. If you think
you have something to lose you'll fight to keep it. And if you have
anything to gain, you'll trample on everything and everybody to get
it.
God wants people who only have on objective: to glorify God. After all,
you are not your own. Paul writes, Know ye not that your body is
the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God,
and ye are not your own? (1 Cor. 6:19).
So if you succeed, it's not credit to
you, and if you fail, it's no loss to you. No mater what happens in
your life, if you belong to God, it's HIs failure, His loss, and His
gain.
Some people think you have to fast for ninety days, pray for years and
put an extra dime in the offering to be used of God. Here's my story.
I recently was sitting in my recreation room, minding my own business,
when a call came from Benny Hinn asking me to make some TV programs
with him. From there I spoke at one of his conferences in Toronto and
to his congregation in Orlando, Florida. I also flew to Los Angeles
and spoke to 2,000 of his partners. Then I appeared with Benny on TBN.
Now I have written my first book at the age of eighty-six.
I was doing what Moses was doing. Remember?
Was he on the backside of the desert on a forty-day fast? No. He was
minding sheep when God called him. Likewise, Saul of Tarsus was on his
was to Damascus when God called him.
Was he praying and crying to God for a
blessing? No. Act 9:1 says that Saul was breathing out threatenings
and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord.
Let's all get is straight. We are
sure that there must be some merit in the individual. But Moses wasn't
doing anything religious, and God used him. Saul was out to murder God's
people, and yet he was the man that God chose to accomplish many of
His purposes. So, it's not what you have to gain or to lose; it's not
how spiritual you are that counts; rather, everything depends on the
will of God.
