God's Provision — Erlo Stegen

We thank you, Lord, for bringing us together again and for protection until this moment.

We ask you, Lord, to take this place and let it be in your hands, that this time would.

Be yours, where you can work your work in our hearts. We ask you, Lord, to move above our asking and expectation. Amen. Have you seen an angel before? There is one, but I said she would sit somewhere here in the front, but I don't see.

You know whom I'm speaking about. Where is that lady? There she comes from the back. You sit so far back, I thought you'd sit here in front. Come through. I want them to see an angel.

And I'm going to explain to you why I say an angel.

You come from Pretoria. Okay, now you'll have to introduce yourself, that I don't forgive you the wrong surname. Is it Fouchier? I can still remember a bit. Mrs. Fouchier. She's with her husband and three others.

You arrived yesterday morning. Friday afternoon. Now you know that overseas... Where are you, Linda, the Australian lady? Not overseas, across the valley, there is a place where sick people are. She's from Australia.

She prayed. She prayed for blankets. Said, we need blankets. Was it the same day or the next day this angel arrived? With the blankets, and said, can you make use of this?

You see, things are received through prayer. Dona, what's so strange?

I'm a blanket. What was the other? There was something white as well. I didn't have time to look at it.

Yes, it's also a blanket from South African Airways. Oh, blankets as well.

I'm a blanket. S-A-A. Now, what's the other? Now, you tell us a bit how it happened that you came here. And how the Lord has led you. All right.

Good morning, brothers and sisters. Such an honor to be here in Kwasi Zabantu. I can feel the Lord is here. Better than us in Pretoria. I've seen the blessings of the Lord here. Wonderful people. I came here to visit you.

My pastor actually is giving me a break off, one weekend break off in the ministry. We've got also small kitchen in Pretoria. In a squatter camps community of Olivenaut Bush. We are feeding 700 people a day.

We will be feeding 1500 starting next month. I came here with prayers so that the Lord will speak to me while I am here in Kwasi Zabantu. Before I came here three days ago, the Lord is telling me, do not take Mealy Meal, they've got food there.

I tried to call Premier Foods to give us a thousand of bags of Mealy Meal to bring it here. That is just not happening. I tried to bring some sweets for the children. It's also not happening. The Lord is pointing out His hands onto the blankets.

That some of them I've got them already a year ago. I kept them in my stock room for a year now. And the Lord is pointing out, take the blankets with you. Kwasi Zabantu needs them. That's why we are here.

It's amazing, thank you. Now do you hear why I say we were visited by an angel? Now our patients will have blankets.

May God bless you richly. And your whole team.

These days when I saw what the Lord was doing through the school children, I said, oh, what a pity they've got to go to school. I said, one wishes one could just forget about everything else and just preach the gospel.

And I'm sorry for those of you who are business owners, or you're employed, you're studying, and you don't get the opportunity to go and preach about that name, which is above every other name, He who is the cure.

I'm sorry for those of you who are business owners, or you're employed, you don't get the opportunity to go and preach about that name, which is above every other name, He who is the cure.

You need to do to be able to feed and provide for yourself, but you should be using every opportunity for the gospel. Think of those people that we've heard of who are crying out in their misery as they were dying and headed for hell.

Jack Himes and the Urgency of Reaching Souls

Remember I once told you about that American preacher, Dr. Jack Himes? Who would gather children together, up to 20 ,000. Another minister asked him, how is it that you have so much zeal, that you have such a passion to go and reach out to souls continuously every day?

What is your secret? He said, I remember when as a little boy I heard my elder sister upstairs crying out in a terrible way. And when I went there I said, what's wrong? Have you had a dream? It was she was screaming as if she was hysterical.

I shook her to wake her up and I asked, what are you crying about? Why are you screaming? What's wrong? Have you had a dream? She said, no, no dream. I said, have you had a nightmare?

She said, no, it wasn't a dream. It was real. I asked, what happened? She said, Jack, I've just got back from hell.

The Deception and Finality of Hell

She said, the first part of it, for a few miles, there is the glitter and the lights that deceive. The glitter and the lights that deceive the whole of mankind, that is the road to hell.

And that is the road to hell.

The thing about hell is that it is a last stop. There is no other place to go from there. She said, oh, the desolation, the hopelessness of the future with those in hell. She said, when I got to the gates of hell, and I looked, I saw people who were in hell.

I asked the keeper of the gates of hell, these people whom I see in hell, I saw these people whose faces were twisted and looked awful, whose tongues were thick and swollen, eyes bulging out. Hands split, dropping blood.

I saw their suffering as they burned. I said, oh sir, the keeper of the gates of hell, why don't you open and let some cool air come in here? And he said, no air in hell. Then I said, kind sir, well, let them have a drink of water then.

And he said, no water in hell. Then I said, well, if that's true, let them die and get to the end of their misery. And he said, no death in hell. She said, my God, how long will they suffer? And he said, eternal.

And he said, there is no death here. And she said, as I turned to leave, I saw my daddy in hell. I shouted out and said, dad, are you in hell? Because he had been a nice dad, he had been providing for them, he had schooled us, would go also to church, but had never bowed and said yes to Jesus Christ.

Preaching Before It Is Too Late

And then this preacher said, the reason why I go around with such a passion all around the world to preach the gospel is because I don't want another child's dad to be in hell. We face many things.

We are speaking here of real things.

This isn't just fantasy talk. If you cannot understand and grasp where the Lord can break through with this, then you are spiritually dead. You need to call those who come and sing and that you get prayed for.

And be raised back to life. Jesus came, he lived, he died, as he had suffered and died on the cross, he was buried, rose again and ascended to the Father. And he is able to do this. That is the one who can make Mr. Korza look like this.

Christ’s Power Over Spiritual Death

And to you, maybe you are not troubled by any disease, but you have that spiritual disease of the heart. Jesus can raise you up. And he has poured out his spirit, his spirit that convicts of sin, righteousness and judgment.

Prayer for the Holy Spirit’s Work

Shall we bow our heads and pray? We thank you, Lord Jesus. You are seated at the right hand of the Father. And you sent your Holy Spirit to be among us and to work among people. Lord Jesus, continue with your work.

Lord, may your heavenly fire burn within us, lest another fire, hellish fire, burns within us. May your grace, O Lord, be abundantly poured out to young and old, that they wouldn't just be coming to church out of habit, but that it might be a living thing.

Amen. Amen. So you remember us in prayers, we go to the Congo and we'll remember you too. I've just spoken on the phone to Didier because he will be our translator into French there.

Where are you? Yesterday I said, I'm taking you along, you are going to interpret for me. But then I remembered that Didier is there already. Otherwise I'd take you along. In French. Maybe the next time.

There are many nations here in Africa that speak French. There are many nations in Africa that speak French. I said, Didier, and he's already in the DRC, how is it there?

He said, I'm sweating it out, it's awfully hot. And he said, but you like the heat. And I said, Didier, that's fine. Where I come from, it's extremely cold. I'm looking forward to the heat.

In English. What's going on there? Everything is gone. The best state on earth, the best life on earth.

Now, we would have flown from there to the Ivory Coast for more services, but because there is international concern over African planes, they don't allow their planes to fly there. They've recommended that we rather fly back to Durban, and from here we fly straight there.

We would have gone across that river, but they said the planes are simply not safe. We need to fly back and leave from here.

We would have flown from there to the Ivory Coast, but because there is international concern over African planes, they don't allow their planes to fly there.

Sanctification and Witness

Allow Him, He who is at the right hand of the Father, who has sent His Holy Spirit to work by His Spirit to sanctify you, that He can use you. Don't come in with your sin to church and then leave with your sin again.

No, leave your sin behind. Then you are enabled to go to your neighbor, and you can speak to him, you can lead him to Jesus. Thank you. Stay well.