Just thought I would share where I spent most of the sunny days of summer. I go out past the last rope. You can’t see it on the pic, but there is a dock in the lake used to dive from. It is in 25 ft. I don’t dive. I just used it as a place to swim where I am completely alone.
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Just thought I would share where I spent most of the sunny days of summer. I go out past the last rope. You can’t see it on the pic, but there is a dock in the lake used to dive from. It is in 25 ft. I don’t dive. I just used it as a place to swim where I am completely alone.
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It never ceases to amaze me how people prefer their delusions to truth. This is why psychiatrists can make money off of one client for ten yrs or more. The client actually prefers to live in his or her delusions and does not want to face truth. The client may even share and talk and be open with you, but if you really hit on the truth behind their torment, he or she will back up and the enemy gets an even tighter grip on them. SMH
The worst and strongest delusion of all has been perpetrated for the hundreds of yrs in one form or another. It is the delusion that we choose God on our own terms. That the bible establishes a relationship with God. The bible was only printed about 500 years ago and only in the second Half of the 20th century, was everyone with access to one. So what did Christians do for 1500 yrs without a personal bible?
This is a tough job we do at my online WordPress ministry called RESCUE. . Dealing with a religious person is the camel in the eye of a needle. With man it is impossible. With God, all things are possible. WE NEED MORE OF GOD!!!!
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L’ancienne prison de Bendigo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I worked in the prison system for 17 years. I had a badge wherein every prison door in my state had to open to me, day or night. I walked the tiers and at times, I called brothers out of their cells to talk to me one on one or in groups. So I got to see and know “the bruthas” who were into more than just sports, booty, beer and cars. I know the heart of the offender better than most because I worked from different angles. My territory was about 15 prisons and 15 jails. Then for 8 of those same years, I went to one prison, where I preached 2 Sundays a month and taught a midweek bible study at night. the prison I preached in was not one that I worked in.
Then I went into prison and married my second husband. I knew him from my neighborhood BEFORE I worked in corrections so the state could not stop me from marrying him. Yet, this decision ruined my career and all of my promotions were blocked. I had been on the fast track to become a Commissioner or a Deputy when I made this horrendous, life changing decision.So I also know the prison system from the family side. I was in line at 5am every Friday and Saturday—driving 200 miles one way on dangerous roads to be “a good prison wife.” From Monday to Thursday I was monitoring and investigating prisons to earn my bread.
For me, the most offensive thing of all—was the coldness of those who walk in religiosity while they are in prison. All the insight, all the apparent love of the Lord, all the dedication and commitment while incarcerated—-goes right out the window once they are free. I know this side also. I founded a church that was built around professing Christian men who were supposedly saved INSIDE. Once released, they committed no more crimes and 95 percent never went back to prison. BY FAR, THEY ARE THE WORST DISAPPOINTMENT I HAVE EXPERIENCED IN MINISTRY!!! Worst than the traditional churchgoers of the IC. I am healed but the self centeredness and the fakery of these men hurt me deep.
The anti-social personality looks at others as pawns in their rigged game. They are the sun of your universe. They care nothing for you and your needs. Once a criminal with an ASP learns the ways of the church and the community, your ass is their grass!!! When they are locked up for 5 or more years, once released, its catch up time. They will step on your shoulders to rise. As they move higher up the ladder of success, they don’t look back down on you unless they fall again.
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The person will first experience his own sinful nature as separation from God. That is the conviction the bible speaks of. He will experience himself as lost and needing a savior. Then,when he turns toward the cross, he may weep over how God Himself took his sins on that cross, suffered and died for him.Filed under Uncategorized
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The bible defines faith as the substance of things hoped for. So when considering evil faith, we need to concentrate on false hope. According to Jessie Penn-Lewis in “War on the Saints,” evil faith is a compulsion to “believe”which comes from evil spirits. She makes an interesting point that even though the enemy may attack our shield of faith, this does not mean that the faith he is attacking is true faith. It has been my experience that when I came under the strongest attack, it was a counter-espionage type move, wherein the religious fallen angel assigned to me, attacked the faith that he himself inspired in me through false hope. Certainly religious spirits fight against true faith, but as the woman of God pointed out, we must examine and know the nature of the faith that is in us. Is it of God by His Spirit, or does it emanate from our mind our will, or our personal desire? Simply put, is its origin from us or from God? (p 275- 9th edition, unabridged version.)
Faith also comes by hearing, and hearing, by the word of God. Was the Apostle Paul referring to the Bible? Absolutely not! The bible was not printed for 1500 years AFTER Paul wrote those words to the Hebrew Christians. I believe the word of God in this instance is the revelation knowledge of the Holy Ghost, spoken to our spirits, interpreted in our minds and acted upon by the use of our wills. ” In other words, if we do not hear from God in the spirit, how can we have godly hopes that produce true faith? Contrarily, evil faith is produced by the messages and revelation of evil spirits that comes forth as a result of giving credence to their words that we hear as messages we believe came from God.
I can look back now and recognize that I was sent messages from both God and the enemy. Divinely sent hope and false hope produced both evil faith and true faith within me. Here are a few examples, starting with the evil side first.
Prior to my salvation in 1977, I was very much the skeptic and the pessimist. Consequently, I did not entertain any fantasies about soul mate and getting married. In fact, I preferred dating married men for I rationalized, “if he cheats, it will be on his wife and not me. Therefore, I won’t have to harm him or his goods.” However, once I was born again, the enemy sent prophecies, visions and dreams that declared I would be blessed with a husband who would be my spiritual partner in ministry. These messages produced a compulsive, evil hope that fueled the wrong kind of faith. In fact, evil faith led me to sin with some and marry 2 different husbands sent from the enemy to destroy me. In spite of my failures, the Lord delivered me from all enemies.
On the divine side, about 10 years ago, I was shown that I would be inheriting from my grandmother’s estate. I did not fully understand the dream at the time because my uncle Richie was alive and still living in Grammie’s home for 20 years after her death. Since her house was her entire estate, I did not understand how I could inherit until Richie, my mother’s brother died. I thought “Oh, this must have been the meaning of the dream.” However a week after Richie’s passing, Grammie’s heirs discovered that Richie had influenced Grammie to sign a will that left him her entire estate. I contacted 5 different lawyers who all said the same thing. The will was valid and we could not win the case.
Yet, divine hope triggered true faith. Why? Because I believed on the dream–that I would receive my rightful portion. My faith led to works, for I became the pro se lawyer on the case, and with the help of God, I proved in court what professional, seasoned lawyers swore was impossible—- undue influence and testamentary capacity. It took 7 years, but by true faith, I would not be dissuaded or deterred. When I won, victory has also come to those heirs who did not contest.
I received the check on Friday, July 13th, 2012, My uncle Richie’s birthday!!!
Since there are 364 other days that victory could have been achieved, how do I interpret this amazing event?
With true faith, no weapon the enemy formed against me prospered. My enemy was not my Uncle Richie. Evil spirits simply used his greed to block my inheritance. The fact that I received the check on his birthday, seven years after his death— is divine proof that God is the author and finisher of my faith in this instance.
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Recently I conversed with a therapists whose counseling practice includes a consultation with the alumni of a prestigious African-American seminary. When asked what was the primary counseling issue among black preachers, without hesitation, he cited “addiction to Internet pornography.” He stated that as the place of choice, ministers of color opt to use their private church offices in the sanctuary to un-leash their lustful fantasies as they surf the web. Why? Well, when the building is empty, these offices are more secret and private then are their own homes. As an aside, this therapist reported that ministers on his caseload were both heterosexuals and DL homosexuals.
Yet physical fornication is a foreshadow of an even deeper sin: spiritual fornication aka “idolatry.”
Besides active membership in freemasonry, namely, the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge, African-American ministers have been spiritually in bed with Minister Louis Farrkan of the Nation of Islam, particularly Baptists, COGIC and AME preachers. In fact, just this year, Farrakan delivered the keynote address at the Westside Baptist Ministers Conference, held April 28, 2012. He has also been the guest speaker at a number of other events, including a worship service held at the Ebenezer AME Church in Washington DC on May 2, 2005. In that address, he identified himself as a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth—a member of “another fold.”
Yet, in the May 15, 2012 issue of his newspaper called “the Final Call,” Farrakan’s “preaching” itinerary includes a series of messages delivered at the prayer breakfasts of a recently formed organization called the ACLC, the American Clergy Leaderhsip Conferences. Churches involved in this educational endeavor also includes Africa-American Pentecostals, namely Life Center Church of God In Christ in Chicago Il and the Salem Methodist Baptist Church in Manhattan NY . It seems that Farrakan has taken the lead in educating the Black Clergy on “how to increase their self-development and build their houses of worship with the Divine Guidance.”I wonder if a part of Farrakan’s “religious education” of African-American ministers includes the following teaching, taken from his article called “Waking Up and Looking at Religion.” I quote:
“Now the Honorable Elijah Muhammad didn’t tell us or teach us that we could look forward to this kind of resurrection—that Mommy and Daddy and the grandma and grandpa that we buried—5, 10, 15, 20, 60, 80, 100 years ago—that we would see them again on Resurection Day. I think we need to wake up. When this body of ours is returned to the earth and the earth takes this body back, THERE IS NOTHING LEFT FOR YOU TO RISE FROM.” And if all the billions of human beings that have died on this earth heard a trumpet and came forth, the whole earth would come forth and then maybe I would be a little angry because the earth that is a part of somebody else that lived 2000 years or before you. So now you are arguing over what part of the earth you should rise up in. There’s not enough earth to accomodate every human being rising up out of an earth that is $57,255,000 square miles of earth. Now you have to be more intelligent than this in the day of looking at religion. “
Louis Farrakan is certainly of “another fold”—one that has no part with the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. To a Christian, such a statement about the resurrection of the dead ought to be counted as sheer blasphemy. Yet African-American clergy are allowing this man to “teach them.” Are they merely ignorant? Is it that African-American clergy will bow their knees to other gods for the sake of black solidarity under ANY circumstance and by any means necessary? Actually, Farrakan’s “geography lesson” is itself quite “ignorant.” The FIRST ressurection is not of ALL the dead, but only of those who died “in Christ.” Of earth’s total population, we are very few in number by comparison. Yet, what is so narrow and mundane in his “analysis” is that Farakkan focuses on the creature and not the Creator. The bible speaks that “hell has enlarged itself” to make room. The un-resurrected dead will have plenty of room in hell. Needless to say, the Lord Jesus Christ–in His role as as the master architect of the universe— knows how to “enlarge the earth,” if it be necessary!
The key issue is this.
If Farrakan does not believe in the resurrection of the dead, then he does not believe in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. He spends a lot of time in scriptures that he clearly does not understand. For as Paul warned the Corinthians, the same warning applies to him: If you do not believe in the resurrection of the dead, then you are STILL in your sins and your faith is vain.” (I Corin 15:17) In other words, you are not a saved, born again person. Well, I always knew that about Farrakan. So where is the spiritual discernment of the African American clergy?!
Good question, Pam!!!
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Unfortunately, the church as a whole, shuns the fact that demons exist and operate today. This is grave error! In fact, religious demons have entered into and have taken over the institutional church. Well meaning deliverance ministers, are limited in knowledge. At best they may be able to cast out demons, but are too often unskilled at accomplishing total deliverance for captives. Demons often return to victims with a vengeance. The word of God refers to this, for we know that when a house is swept clean, demons can, and will find another door of entry.
Here is an excerpt from ” Faces of the Religious Demon “..
The first time I personally heard the term ” religious spirit ” or ” religious demon ” was in a prophecy I received in 1983. In this word, I was given a spiritual warfare assignment against 7 high-ranking fallen angels that I began to refer to as ” The Seven Walls”, with the religious devil as wall number 5 in the list: alcohol and drugs, homosexuality, prostitution, witchcraft, the religious spirit, prejudice and poverty. To walk in darkness is to give the religious demon an unholy advantage where he will enter into both spiritual and man made temples, and through a blasphemous masquerade, attempt to exalt himself above God. When the demon is able to enter into a Christian temple of either flesh or brick and subsequently obtain worship for itself through fraudulence and deceit, this is truly an abomination of desolation (Daniel 11:36).
A religious demon will display some of the following traits:
A. Unknown tongues with no translation
B. Religiosity and odd extremes
C. Slain in the spirit which is unscriptural
D. Divination under the guise of prophecy
E. Repetiton of the abominable sinners prayers. i.e ” I accept Jesus ” or ” Jesus come into my heart “
As you can see, a religious demon is an abominable desolation indeed, and displays a carnal, fleshly worship that has nothing to do with God or Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
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