Confirmed: Pastor Zachary Tims Dead at 42
August 14, 2011 by Admin
Filed under Church, Leaders, Ministry Updates, News
On Sunday, August 14, ABC’s Orlando affiliate (WFTV) confirmed the death of Pastor Zachary Tims of the New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, FL.
The New York City Police Department confirmed Tims died on Friday, August 12, 2011.
Tims’ body was found in room number 3711 at the W Hotel in New York’s Times Square at approximately 6 p.m.
The New York City Police Department reports Tims was found unresponsive on the floor in the room. Emergency responders pronounced him deceased. The New York City Medical Examiners office is awaiting results of an autopsy.
I did not know pastor Tims personally but I listened to him as often as possible on TV, my prayers go out to his family and congretation remember he is with the father who is the author and creator of all things. It is amazing to hear those who profess to be christians sit in judgement when thefull results of his death will not be available for week. This man has been maving around the country for some time doing the work of GOD and from my knowledge of the human body it becomes very fragile if we do not get ample rest.The bible say’s “Touch not the Lord’s annointed and do his Prophets no harm.” In case some of you are not aware we touch and do harm when we repeat gossip.
Since I heard this 3 nights ago I have been overtaken by a depth of sorrow and pain that knows no end. My prayers go out to Pastor Tim’s entire family (physical and spiritual). That God may comfort, strengthen, provide and teach us all through his passing.
This was a man whose single slot on TV I would not dare miss. I started watching him and learning from him in 2007 and after a while could not find him on TV anymore. Apparently, that was when he was going through his divorce but I had no inkling about that till I heard about his passing. When I started seeing him on TBN again I felt there was something amiss. I could not put my finger on it. Of course, having been through some stuff myself, I figured I was probably just not feeling him right. But when I learnt about his death and started seeing all the stories of his supposed infidelity and divorce, my sorrow only grew more and more.
Saints please let’s learn from this. This is not being judgemental but opening our eyes since we must not be ignorant about the schemes of the evil one. Please let’s pray for our pastors and those in authority. They are not infallible. I feel so badly for his church, his board members, his leaders, even those who solicited his preaching (TBN). Was there not one person who was in the Spirit enough to see that this man was hurting and needed to be called out to take a break from being a man of God and return to being a child of God? Was there not one person who could call him out and say “Son, come here. Tell me all that’s on your mind. It won’t go anywhere. Just let it all out. Stay here. I will nurture you. Take a retreat and find yourself in the Lord again”? What is the purpose of the leaders in the church? Is it simply to cheer the man of God on and not to call him out and bear his burdens as we are commanded in Gal.6:1-5? Is that not the law of love? Have we as a church begun to fail our men/women of God as we place burdensome expectations of perfection on them and like the Pharisees did would not help them attain that (Maat.23:4)?
Please church let’s learn from this. The days are short. We need to be each other’s keeper. Let’s be self-sacrificing enough to care less what the other person will do/say to us and call them out when we see them either in error/sin or in pain. We have lost a part of us. How much more can we lose as a body and still win the battle?
I met him for the first time on Wednesday, August 10th as he preached a powerful message at my church in Boston, MA. It’s so sad that two days later he was found dead. My prayers are with his family!!!
To the family-my prayers are with you in this time of loss. To the church family at large, study to be quiet when you are tempted to comment on what you do not know and even what you may know. As fruit inspectors, let’s do better. There is someone in every church who is going through something. We were commanded to “know those who labor among you.” So, if we don’t discern when someone is going through something, don’t judge their response to it. We don’t have the right, nor permission to judge anyone. We don’t get to say or suggest what should happen to a person as a result of their actions. I sincerely believe that Pastor Zachary was still struggling with the loss of his family unit and their recent vacation probably resonated in his heart the reality of what he had. “It is not good for man to be alone.” If we as “church family” could just learn “to restore such a one.” The basis of our faith and doctrine is reconciliation and restoration. This is the key to our salvation. We are to be “like Christ.” So, if this is His focus, it should be ours. We can help save our church families from themselves by being the “he who is spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness.” Beloved, let us love one another. We all need a Saviour and at times we need a saviour (a meek Christian to help us walk it out). Be there for each other.
We should Pray For Pastors fervently. So many Pastors Build Mega Ministries but go home at night & cry & feel alone. Have Prayed & talked to many thru the Years that feel alone & like they have no one after they have given all to there People they Minister to.They lose there Families, There Marriages, Homes, Health & Many Times There Lives . As A Senior Pastor & Mentor I am so Blessed to Have Mentors, Spiritual Mothers & People That had been in My Life For Over 30 Year Many.
Please sheeps of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Please lets all cry out to the Lord Jesus in these very trying last days for one another and for our Pastors and evangelist. The main focus is to be like Christ and bear one anothers burdens and not have that “bless me spirit”! God’s blessings will automactically poured out when we are blessing and being a blessing. Being true servants and loving like christ loves. Oh beloved please cry out to the Lord for the Blood of Jesus Christ to protect Zach’s innocent children who lost their father! You know the enemy is going to be attacking their minds and lives and we need to pray for a HEDGE to be TALL around those kids so that they can grow up and know the LOVE AND GRACE OF JESUS CHRIST! I am so heartbroken over Zach dying alone like that in a hotel room! Oh Lord forgive us and help us to be on our knees praying for our pastors and one another!
ok…I am just now finding out about his passing…I cannot wrap my brain around this…I just found out yesterday that a close friend was being buried today and the same day found out that one of our elders was killed in a traffic accident on wednesday after bible study…Elder Tom Bender, World Harvest Church, Columbus, Ohio…We are going to celebrate their homegoing on sunday during service and rejoice in the Lord…Body of Christ please turn your plates over one for another in these last days..
Be Blessed!!!
“Father God, Lord JESUS, please help us!!! I just heard about Pastor Tims passing yesterday, listening to “LaBelle on 104.7 FM. I was parked in my car. I couldn’t move. I kept saying to myself…”the late Zackaray Tims?? If this is true, when?? As often as I have been ministered by him, I have been tremendously blessed. My heart and prayers go out to his wife, his children, his family, his Church AND the Body of Christ!!!!
“We” have got to make sure that we are more sensitive to the needs, concerns and protection of our pastors, leaders, their spouses and children.
Pay attention and DISCERN!!! The Father said that He would give us shepherds after His own heart. Let us be more WATCHFUL, for one another. Sometimes they don’t express in words, but having a need to be hugged, w/o words, to be “poured-out” and refilled and most of all, fathered.
It does matter how “mega” or how much each of us prospers, we need to do our utmost to make sure, we are giving to one another, what the Father has so richly given us. Saints, “today”, I am sending out “heart-echoes” of compassion. to you ALL!! These are the muscles of our wings!! “….they will know us by the love we show one another…”
God best to you all!!