What's on my mind and heart today?
Well, here goes...
I am deeply troubled and burdened about the direction of the church as a whole. It seems that with each generation we are losing something very valuable and precious.
I think about the people of Ezra's day and how they reacted to the temple being built.
Ezra 3:12-13
12 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
13 So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
The older people remembered what it used to be like and the new could not compare to the old. But for the young people who had not experienced anything else it was a time of celebration.
Judges 2:10 b
"There arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel."
These are the days when "another" generation has come to the forefront and introduced a new way and new doctrines such as:
* Word of Faith
* Manifest Sons of God
* Kingdom Now
* Apostolic Movement
* Third Wave
* New Breed
Churches have changed their names in an effort to sound hip, cool and relevant. Preachers have gone from clerical to casual and the church has traded the spiritual for the superficial.
Catchy sounding phrases have been introduced to the church and made into doctrines.
* Favor
* Head and not the tail
* Have faith in your faith
* Wealth and divine health
* Name it and claim it
Supposedly if you "speak it" then you can have it! Claim cars, houses, jobs and even a future wife or husband. But if it's something negative such as sickness or disease then don't speak it and it won't happen!
There are people running all over the place chasing gold dust and angel feathers. People are chanting and swaying trying to have some sort of ecstatic or euphoric experience.
Matthew 12:39 a
“An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign”
There are false spirits invading the church! The church has been infected with false doctrine and false anointing.
Gullible people will follow emotional experiences and seducing spirits; they will follow wild fire and bizarre manifestations.
How can we be so shallow and fickle to embrace an unholy spirit and endorse it.
There’s an unholy spirit that has seized many of our churches.
You can tell it by:
• Hypnotic and rock music
• Chanting just like they do in Hinduism, Buddhism and the New Age Movements
• Laughing and jerking uncontrollably
• Crying, screaming and dancing
Where’s the soberness, sobriety, alertness, watchfulness; if possible the very elect will be deceived.
We need to beware of this unholy spirit that is nothing more than a counterfeit from the devil.
All of these things make an individual sound "super spiritual" and yet often these same people are some of the most vicious people you will ever meet. They have left a trail of hurt, disillusionment and despair everywhere they have been. The bible warns of wolves disguised as sheep.
Matthew 7:16 a
“Ye shall know them by their fruits.”
Backslidden Israel shouted so loud that the earth quaked, but by the end of the day the Philistines had plundered them.
The anointing is not worked up and manufactured manifestations.
If we had the fear of God we would never pretend to have the anointing.
