For some reason God started reminding me of the many circumstances He showed me, that have happened.
I was thinking about how my own brother was “installing” this young man as Pastor of a church that he was starting in the Bronx, NY. Fresh out of Bible school, this young man and his young wife were starting a ministry in a public housing development.
As I sat in the service, I heard the Lord say “this ministry should not be, this installation, should not be”. So I am watching all of these words of affirmation and positive words about this ministry and all that PEOPLE say GOD is going to do and I am sitting there and God said NOT SO!
Well within a few months, this young Pastor had a counselling session with one of the young women in the church and in this session they shared a kiss and of course it got out into the congregation and the church FOLDED. Just like that! God said NOT SO!
Sadly, this couple wandered from place to place and eventually even this couples marriage ended!
I remember another friend who had inherited the leadership of this church and God spoke to me and told me to tell her to LET THE CHURCH GO! I was shaking in my boots because I didn’t know how she would take it, but I obeyed anyway. Well she sort of received it, but continued on, until one year later the church folded because she led the church in a pyramid scheme. After the church folded, God relocated her to a southern state.
I’ve also shared about having to give my Pastor at the time, a word about about coming off the road and devoting more time to building the congregation. How dare me and how disrespectful right? Well the day I told him, he got FIGHTING MAD with me and was so rude and I could tell, he was going to cut me off from relationship, but later the SAME DAY, I gave him the word, he had a series of mini-strokes and was out of the pulpit for MONTHS.
The next time I saw him he was HUMBLED and trying to explain to me how on point I was.
Then there was another Pastoral couple who, God told me to tell them to let their church go (hard assignments). This couple received it when I shared it, but then reconsidered and continued on. Within a short time, their last three-five members who were attending, left the church and it folded. The husband was bound by a spirit of lust! (long story)
I am in another one of those battles now. I am being labeled false once again, but there is only one problem. I have an accurate track record. I know when people don’t know your ministry, they are quick to label you false. Also, they are quick to label you false, if they don’t like what you are saying. But very soon that is going to change. A burnt bridge will have to be built again. The mouth of the Lord has spoken it.
Someone is being lured by words of flattery. They are being lulled asleep by FALSE POSITIVE WORDS and they think everything is okay. It’s not. It’s time to REPENT, which means CHANGE YOUR WAYS. IF YOU DON’T, YOU WILL REGRET IT!
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
Amos 3:7
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7 Surely the Lord God does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.
Psalm 12:2
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2 They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
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