This has been a season of being shaken, changed, and matured for those who are being led and taught by the Holy Spirit. The storms that have moved through the regions have been a prophetic time of reflection and clean up. When a storm of this magnitude comes through your city or town (your life), you are tasked afterward with cleaning up the mess. Just as In your life, God comes in and shakes everything that can be shaken and tears down everything that is not on a solid foundation so that everything remaining can be seen standing. Then the cleanup begins.

The Lord showed me a few weeks ago that shaking and the changing was going to bring the church into a new government and maturity, a government of an apostolic proportion. He revealed to me that He was going to dramatically begin to change the churches to live IN HIM, and Him in us. Now is not the time to give up but it is a time to die unto yourself so that the Jesus that lives in you can be seen.

Jesus prayed to God over His disciples to glorify them so that God could be glorified. In the process of becoming more intimate with Jesus we go through many shakings so that are thoughts can come into an alignment with His, and that our thoughts would be eternally minded and not earthly minded. As we wash our minds with the Word of God we can begin believing for the impossible to take place around us as when Jesus walked among the world in the flesh.

The word of God has to be the standing authority for righteousness and justice to stand in His realm of thinking and action. God is teaching His saints to be led by the Spirit in a true love, not an accusing love. A true love walks with authority over the evil with compassion but with a plumb line drawn to the truth.

Boldness is coming into the body to stand for what is right and true, not what is desire and selfishness. Discernment in its proper use is a must in this season as there are branches being pruned to the max, so the next season can be a super fruitful season. During this time of pruning we realized (the community we gather with) that there is a plain line of good and evil, black and white, truth and false, etc.

God began showing us scripture for the past weeks about an impending judgment upon His temple and showing us on what the He was going to Judge and what tables were going to be tipped. He was going to bring judgment upon words that were false, words that were empty, words that were negative, words that were death to others, and those who repay evil for good (curses). He showed me that He was going to reveal those who loved evil more then good. In other words they give more credit to the bad things (to the devil) rather then attending to the goodness of God.

As I was speaking one Saturday night, I had an open vision of a chalk line being snapped and the dust rising from the snap. I spoke forth what I seen but didn’t realize what the impact of the meaning to the fullness of what it meant was. But then a couple weeks later the reality came, and I saw the line but with dust still swirling. Then a week later I could see the line plainly.

The Lord was saying, “I am releasing my judgment upon the church and there will be those who get lost in the dust and can’t find their way, and then there are those who know to stand in the Word and will be found on God’s side of the line waiting on Him to reveal the next season.” The dust finally settling was Him wiping the dust off of our feet to walk into the next season with freedom and one of the greatest times in the body of Christ yet to be seen in this generation.

Below is scripture He released and continues to confirm His word in action and through other prophets and apostles.
Eph 5:1 THEREFORE BE imitators of God [copy Him and follow His example], as well-beloved children [imitate their father].
Eph 5:2 And walk in love, [esteeming and delighting in one another] as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a slain offering and sacrifice to God [for you, so that it became] a sweet fragrance. [Ezek. 20:41.]
Eph 5:3 But immorality (sexual vice) and all impurity [of lustful, rich, wasteful living] or greediness must not even be named among you, as is fitting and proper among saints (God’s consecrated people).
Eph 5:4 Let there be no filthiness (obscenity, indecency) nor foolish and sinful (silly and corrupt) talk, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting or becoming; but instead voice your thankfulness [to God].
Eph 5:5 For be sure of this: that no person practicing sexual vice or impurity in thought or in life, or one who is covetous [who has lustful desire for the property of others and is greedy for gain]–for he [in effect] is an idolater–has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Eph 5:6 Let no one delude and deceive you with empty excuses and groundless arguments [for these sins], for through these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of rebellion and disobedience.
Eph 5:7 So do not associate or be sharers with them.
2Ti 2:14 Remind [the people] of these facts and [solemnly] charge them in the presence of the Lord to avoid petty controversy over words, which does no good but upsets and undermines the faith of the hearers.
2Ti 2:15 Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial), a workman who has no cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully teaching] the Word of Truth.
2Ti 2:16 But avoid all empty (vain, useless, idle) talk, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness.
2Ti 2:17 And their teaching [will devour; it] will eat its way like cancer or spread like gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus,
2Ti 2:23 But refuse (shut your mind against, have nothing to do with) trifling (ill-informed, unedifying, stupid) controversies over ignorant questionings, for you know that they foster strife and breed quarrels.
And the books of 1 John, 2 John and 3 John and the WHOLE book of Jude.

The spirit of error and the spirit of truth are revealed by those who confess that Jesus Christ came in the Flesh and died for our sins and was raised three days later.

When you study the word “confess,” you will see that it is not meaning just saying that confession but it means a life that confesses the truth. Even demons can say that Jesus is the Son of God, but they can not confess a life and living testimony of Jesus. This is how we have so many false conversions and salvations that don’t stand.

The life will line up with the word of God through their intimacy with Him. Does this mean we go searching for those who may have sinned or may not line up with the Word? Absolutely not. We walk seeking the goodness of God in everyone, until the Lord brings His chalk line and the light will shine upon the darkness and it will flee.

As soon as the light or truth is applied to the darkness, there is no argument in His kingdom. When a light switch is turned on, the darkness doesn’t say, “I am not ready to go yet, you will have to wait.” No, it leaves immediately. For darkness isn’t anything except the absence of light.

If we go seeking for darkness you will find as much as you want, the world eats up words of evil or words against other people. The world will follow after those who speak with negative words.

1Jn 4:5 These people belong to the Christ-denying world. They talk the world’s language and the world eats it up.

The Lord spoke to me something that made my mind up to lay my life down for a friend. He said, “Loosing yourself in a cause larger then yourself is like laying your life down for a friend or loving your neighbor as thyself.”

When someone tries to tear someone else down when they have done well, make the decision to stand for what is right and true. Delusion and lies begin to be exposed and the true manifestation will be there to speak the truth. The next time someone wants to create a grape vine, tell them, “I live on the true vine. “

Make a stand to live IN HIM not someone’s expectation of you. If you aren’t received, wipe the dust from your feet, forgive, and move onto the next thing God wants you to do.

How to break out of spiritual abuse

Can you just leave the church where you were abused and be done with it? No. It’s not enough to just leave the place where you were abused. We have to use our spiritual weapons to pull up the foundations and pull down the structure. This same structure can also be in a family life or in a marriage. If we don’t break it spiritually, it’s going to continue to happen over and over again.

If it’s not dealt with and destroyed, it will eventually produce bad fruit. Some examples of bad fruit are false teaching, false doctrine, false prophet, false apostle, false covering, false miracles, false authority, false mantle, false circumcision, false Sheppard, false submission, false anointing, false power, false rod, and a hireling.

There are several areas we must work through to be free from the system of abuse.

• Fear of the church- The mentality that it is not safe
• Fear of authority
• Fear of relationship
• Fear of trusting
• Violation of trust
• Injustice
• Isolation
• Resistance to submit to the Holy Spirit because of wrong submission
• Elitism
• Private Revelations
• Intimidation
• Dress Codes
• Diet Codes
• Harsh Discipline and verbal Abuse
• Perceived persecution
• Manipulation by distortion of the Gospel
• Shame Messages that wound the spirit
• Using and abusing God’s word
• Raping of ones spiritual life
• Our denomination has greater revelation
• Over balance on commitment
• Brain washing and indoctrination
• Division
• Money abuse
• Time abuse
• Abuse on gifting
• Emotional abuse

We must choose to trust. We must choose relationship and come into God’s approval. We must renounce the abuse of ungodly or religious authority and all of it’s guilt and shame.

As we pull down the strongman of abuse, we will see the full release of the structure of God, which is the Spirit.

So now lets take a closer look at Godly authority:

• Has a servants heart
• Meekness
• Humility
• Called By God
• Death to Self
• Submitting Ourselves one to another in the fear of the Lord
• Godly Standards
• Godly discipline
• Taking accountability before God

When Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of a particular portion of the body of Christ, the foundation will have the approval of God, Love and acceptance, Godly Apostle and Prophet. (Eph 2:20) He used the apostles and prophets for the foundation. Now he’s using you, fitting you in brick by brick, stone by stone, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone.

You will feel secure about who you are in Christ and you will be built on the rock.

Traps:

Jer 5:26 For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Jer 5:27 Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.

Jer 5:28 They have become fat, they shine. Yes, they go past the deeds of the wicked; they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.

Jer 5:29 Shall I not visit for these things? says Jehovah. Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jer 5:30 An astounding and horrible thing has happened in the land.

Jer 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do at the end of it?

Traps are easy to get into but very difficult to get out of. Mouse trap, raccoon trap. The leader uses power, scare tactics and threats, demands obedience and gets loyalty. When you leave the system, people are told they are leaving God and His protection or covering. Paranoia quickly sets in making people afraid to leave because they ae afraid of what is outside.

Trap Baits

Flattery is often the bait, backed with status or position within the church. This bait is used against us in our place of vulnerability. Which is being emotionally hungry, especially for a father figure and acceptance.

Poisons

The bait is poison.

Mat 12:34 Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Jesus calls religious abusers a brood of vipers. Vipers are highly poisonous snakes. They cause death by a slow and very painful method which is to latch on and not let go. They gather in cool caves where a person would imagine they could get rest and refreshment. The venom is perform, perform, perform.

If you have been bit by a viper in the past you need to break the power of that poison that has gone into your system through words. We must be healed from past bites and throw off the vipers.

Abuse from a Sheppard

The primary function of a Sheppard is to protect, guard and keep the flock safe and be a Sheppard of love. If the Sheppard abuses the victim is left thinking I am not protected so I need to protect myself.

It is so easy to subtly move from a position of dependence to independence. If you find you are in a position where you must protect yourself, instead of allowing your Sheppard to protect you we need to renounce a false Sheppard, fear of the Sheppard, anger of the Sheppard, despising of the Sheppard and the hireling.

We must renounce each of these if we are going to be healed and restored to the Sheppard called by God. Without a Sheppard we can be devoured an totally destroyed. Now meditate on Psalm 23 until you get a new revelation on it.

Psa 23:1 A Psalm of David. Jehovah is my Shepherd; I shall not want.

Psa 23:2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters.

Psa 23:3 He restores my soul; He leads me in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.

Psa 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

Psa 23:5 You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.

Psa 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of Jehovah forever.

What is a hireling

A false Sheppard. Has no heart for the people. Is hash, cruel, forceful, drives the sheep, ambitious for position, dominates and labors for money. Wounds the sheep instead of healing the sheep.

Tit 1:9 holding fast the faithful Word according to the doctrine, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict the gainsayers.

Tit 1:10 For there are indeed many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Tit 1:11 whose mouth you must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain.

God is dealing with everything that is false. He is shaking everything that can be shaken, including ungodly structures. He is bringing His fire to all ungodly motivations, attitudes, and emotions.

The new structure will create a safe environment for the harvest of the church. It will be a safe place for new lambs to be born. God is birthing a leadership of integrity, character and humility.

Victims of spiritual abuse often struggle with a distorted image of God, they feel that God is never satisfied with their performance. They also feel God is powerless to help because he didn’t rescue them. Victims has a negative self identity, problems relating to spiritual authority, they have a difficulty receiving grace, they struggle with shame for getting into spiritual abuse, they struggle with having a teachable spirit and a openness to receive.

6 Reasons Why Some People Stay In Spiritual Abuse

1. They did not recognize that there has always been a cycle of abuse in their life.
2. They are addicted to abuse and addicted to dependency.
3. They are in a form of denial of the abuse.
4. The next stage after denial is delusion. When the delusion sets in, the truth can not easily penetrate.
5. The emotional hunger is being satisfied so abuse is a worthy price to pay.
6. The victim has been manipulated most of their life and it is normal for them.

What is spiritual abuse?

A total violation of trust regarding decisions you have made, your family life, finances, friendships, etc.

The Victim

Once you have been spiritually abused, you can get stuck spiritually until you receive healing.

When you have been abused spiritually you feel inadequate, powerless, guilty, condemned, ashamed, and more. This is the goal of your abuser. So that he or she can have complete control over you. The abuser completely overpowers you as if raping you.

In most cases of spiritual abuse the abuser is typically someone you have learned to completely trust. Someone you have a relationship with.

When you are in a abusive relationship, it becomes a one way relationship. Instead of loving and caring for you, they take from and use you for their gain.

This is where it gets tricky. Because, this is an area that has taken many people in the body of Christ captive. Simply because of the way(s) abuse sneaks into the spiritual relationship.

Dependency; first a relationship is formed

A healthy balance of dependency: A man and a woman being joined together in marriage and have drawn a closeness together because they have become one flesh. They have become one because they have both had a closer relationship with the Lord than with each other.

An unhealthy dependency: When you have helped someone physically or spiritually and he or she begins turning to you for answers for instead of God or they turn to you for answers more often then they turn to God.

It’s important to understand that in an abusive relationship, one of the individuals is trying to create a dependency due to an unmet need, so they are searching for a way to find gratification in the relationship. Generally this is ego based, control based or for monetary gain. Essentially, any time you enter a spiritually abusive relationship , one person is depending on the other in an unhealthy balance or there’s an unhealthy soul tie.

Satan’s plot is to destroy your relationship with God. So he begins to create a mistrust of all authority, but most of all, a mistrust of God. Suddenly, you develop an anger towards God. This causes the victim to put walls up to protect him or herself from being hurt any further. (walls and boundaries are two different things).

The next step that often occurs is you become suspicious and you begin to isolate yourself. What the walls are actually doing is destroying our intimacy and begin separating us from God. Sometimes we put up such thick walls that we make an inner vow to never trust another person. So we start to isolate ourselves from the body of Christ. We have to deal with these issues or we will have only surface relationships with no transparency and never deal with offenses and sin, thus never growing spiritually beyond that point.

An example is the gift of prophecy. We began justifying prophetic words as God’s voice and we ended up being deceived instead of lining up the word and hearing God’s voice ourselves and allowing the prophetic voice to confirm and affirm us. We took the word we wanted to hear and ran with that as God’s word.

The Spirit of Anti-Christ (The strongman that comes with spiritual abuse)

The closer we get to the end times, the more abuse will be released, so we need to break its’ power. We need to be able to discern this principality and war against it.

Earlier we mentioned that in an abusive relationship one of the individuals is trying to create a dependency due to an unmet need, so they are searching for a way to find gratification in the relationship. The system of abuse works off of shame and inferiority. Taking advantage of weaknesses and knowledge. i.e.: I am a stronger Christian then you are, and you need to be rescued by a stronger or more powerful person.

The foundation of the stronghold is shame. The foundation of abuse is shame. Control is maintained by a continual supply of shaming messages. This is where we have wrong foundations in the church. This is how codes and rules that are not scriptural get put into place within the body of Christ. This is where harsh rules are created and all freedom is abolished. This is also when legalism, fear, suspicion, paranoia, and the fear of man creep into the church. This is where idolatry steps in with doors wide open because now there are relationships of shame and man suddenly gets his or her sense of value from man.

The cornerstone of this type of church with an antichrist system in place is man. The foundation is shame, inferiority, and insecurity. The mentality of that church is you can control me and abuse me because I am weaker and powerless. This ungodly structure has to be destroyed.

(Gal 3:1) You crazy Galatians! Did someone put a hex on you? Have you taken leave of your senses? Something crazy has happened, for it’s obvious that you no longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives. His sacrifice on the Cross was certainly set before you clearly enough.

(Gal 3:2) Let me put this question to you: How did your new life begin? Was it by working your heads off to please God? Or was it by responding to God’s Message to you?

(Gal 3:3) Are you going to continue this craziness? For only crazy people would think they could complete by their own efforts what was begun by God. If you weren’t smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how do you suppose you could perfect it?

Dynamics:

The victim feels so much shame that he or she feels like he has to live up to spiritual standards or he has to perform to prove their spirituality or to be accepted. Suddenly the motivation becomes performance. The victim becomes enslaved to a man rather then a bondservant to Jesus Christ.

The victim is left with guilt, shame, judgment, condemnation, and confusion about their worth and their relationship with God.

To read Part 2 of How To Break Free From Spiritual Abuse Click HERE.

Everyday is an up and down roller coaster ride with God.  Some days I feel closer than ever then other days I feel like I couldn’t be farther from Him.  Let’s be honest, it is hard to have a relationship with someone you can’t see.  Sometimes I feel like I’m dialing God’s number and all I’m getting is the answering machine.  Or when I’m talking to him it feels like it’s my own voice that is responding.  Frustration sets in.  God, what happened?  Do I know you, or not?  Why does it seem like I pray with no avail?

Critical thoughts enter my mind.  Well, you’re just not good enough.  You know, you aren’t all that smart, nor are you that pretty, and you know what else, people don’t really care for you anyway.  They don’t love you.  You’re on your own.  You’re too ugly to even go outside.  You’re getting too fat.  No one would ever want to be with you.  You don’t have any power when you pray.  God doesn’t really care, if he did, then why didn’t he answer your prayers?  Why doesn’t anything change when you pray?  You’re just not good enough.

Ever have these thoughts enter into your mind?  Well forget them because they are all lies.  The enemy will do anything to bring you to a state of confusion so he can go in for the kill.  This is what he’s best at; he steals, kills, and destroys.  He wants to single you out so he can knock you off.  Have you ever noticed the people who leave your church?  They slowly start moving towards the back of the sanctuary to sit, they keep to themselves, and they are the first to rush home after services without talking to anyone.  They were victimized by Satan’s lies.  They withdrew from their church family and were taken out by the enemy.

Enough is enough.  This is a warning to all.  A great move of God has arrived.  God is here and Satan is working overtime to do anything to make you miss it.  He wants you to believe that you are too lowly to be apart of this movement.  Don’t let him take you out.  Shut up the enemy every time you show up to meet with God.  Shut him up through your worship, dance, prayers, meditation, through any means where you are communing with God.

Don’t you know that God loves you?  He loves you with an everlasting love.  Think about that.  His love will NEVER end for you!  He loves you every second of every minute of every day.  He doesn’t see us the way we do, he sees us as kings and priests.  Can’t you just picture God up in heaven bragging to his angels about how awesome you are?  He knows our hearts and knows what we go through.  He wants to speak to you.  Yes you, he wants to speak to you.  If you have been paying close attention to what’s going on in churches then you should be noticing that he is starting to speak to the congregation sometimes even more so than the preacher!  So listen up cause he has something to say through you, too!

A relationship with God is simple so keep it simple!  Stick close to Jesus, seek him, love him, and watch what happens.

And for all the ladies out there, I know that there was a point in your life where someone crushed you by telling you that you were not good enough.  I know this because as little girls we tend to think we are princesses.  We were doing just fine, dancing along being pretty and perfect, just loving life.  Then one day some bully came along and stole our princess rights.  They said we weren’t pretty enough, we weren’t skinny enough, we weren’t smart enough, and we would never amount to anything.  These words may have only been spoken to us once but they still echo in our minds. Well I’m here to tell you the good news!  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the Beholder is passionate about you!  You have been forgiven, redeemed, accepted, loved and you are beautiful.  Notice I said you are beautiful, not you used to be beautiful or that you will be beautiful some day, but you are presently, at this time, beautiful. So rise up and put that pretty pink dress of yours back on because we are daughters of the Most High King and Prince Jesus, our Beholder, is asking us to dance with him.

Just a few statements to get you thinking deeper.

Jesus is the light of the world.

You carry His light.

Healing and Miracles come through the light of observation?

Do some research

Jesus Came That We Could Have Life More Abundantly

Mat 5:21-48 you have heard that it was said…But Jesus says…

You Have Heard Look Out For So and So

1 Cor 13  Love counts nothing wrong done against itself.

1Th 5:12   And, brothers, we beseech you to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and who admonish you,

1Th 5:13  And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

1Th 5:14  Now we exhort you, brothers, warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

1Th 5:15  See that none gives evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both towards one another and towards all.

Have you been told, to get to know those who work among you in the context of suspicion, to be careful around those who work among you, and test them to see if they are of God?  But I say to you, that is not the context of the scripture.  It is saying, get to know the ones who labor among you, so you can learn how to lead and labor in the spirit of God, too.  Being suspicious of someone is not showing love and being peaceable to everyone.

To love someone less than another, is hatred.  God called us to show Himself through us.  If God is love then that means we need to show ourselves as loving, not suspicious.  If someone is out to get you or to steal or has whatever motive, God will give you discernment to show you how to love the dickens out of them, literally!  He will not want you to avoid them or talk bad about them.  Spreading negative thoughts and discrimination is not Godly behavior.  Judgment is to bring light, not to bring death.

If it isn’t good, DON’T SAY IT.

Gal 5:15  But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another.

Eighty six percent of New York has been to church but will not go back.  Why is that?  The church has lost its first love—LOVE.  It really is simple.  If you go to someone’s house and they say, “Don’t go to this room and don’t touch that.  Please don’t sit there and make sure you don’t step on the carpet,” would you want to go back?   Simple isn’t it?  Jesus didn’t come to say fulfill the law; He did that for you.  The church’s mission is to bring souls to the knowledge of Yeshua and allow them to grow with the best teacher that brings life:  the Holy Spirit.  He is the new tutor, the teacher, the comforter.  

Gal 5:14  For all the Law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

As human beings, we tend to want to go back to the law and try to be a better person for following God better then others by searching the scripture as if we are looking for salvation in them.  The Holy Spirit will guide us into the revelation of knowledge of Jesus with a PERSONAL relationship each one has with Him.

You Have Heard it Said:  Stay Away From The Appearance of Evil!

1 Thes 5:22!! Stay away from the appearance of Evil

The Greek word pone?ros is the English word appearance and means essential character.  So in essence you can say, it is the nature of your being that should stay away from evil.  What does this mean?  

Gal 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, fightings, jealousies, angers, rivalries, divisions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Does this mean we should not go to the bar to share our testimony?  Does this mean we shouldn’t go to places that have evil things inside?  Absolutely not!  This is the biggest lie ever told to the church and is one of the reasons there is no power.  If you look at Jesus’ life, He continually went in when the sinners were and laid a testimony before them.  How can the lost know Jesus if they never go to church, and you never go to them?

Do you know how this happened?  Fear.  Fear set up boundaries in organizations that say “ If someone sees you entering a bar as a Pastor or a leader or even a lay person, then they may think, blah, blah, blah.”  Don’t let fear rule your life.  You go get the lost, and you love them as Jesus loved them.

My wife and I had a great experience at a tattoo, piercing, and hair salon.  It was one of the best times I had had in a while.  No, I don’t get out much, but when I do, its fun.  Anyway, my wife was getting her hair colored blue and black.   (It is SO awesome by the way.)  It was at a place that sin abounds.  They take job applications if you want to be a part of the sinners group, located in the Short North on High Street.  It was great.  The owner of the shop had such a prophetic gift working in him but he doesn’t know it.

When Lanita told him what she wanted, he said,” You must be heaven sent!”  We both laughed and said, “You just don’t know.”  Then for those that don’t know, Lanita was birthing this whole process out, a spiritual birth of freedom, major freedom!  This guy puts on gloves like an OBGYN and says, “You might feel a little pressure.”  We both laughed again and said, “You just don’t know.”

To make it short, the whole experience of three hours was prophetic through a guy that is a sinner, like you and me, waiting on someone to share the good news with him.  Did we?  We were not lead to that day, but when we go back, when God leads, we will share and prophecy to him the gift God has given him freely.

I said all of that to say this, don’t stay away from those who need God.  The harvest is ready to be taken in.  Go ahead, take  it in.  DO not stay away from evil but remove it by being the light.

Women being  housewives?  Proverbs 31.

Men as Church leaders only?  Cor 16:19, Luke 2:36

One Man speaking in a service and calling it order.  Cor 14:27-33

It’s all about source.  It’s not about if that person is of God or not.  It’s about what source is it coming from:  God or Satan?  When a church begins to come into the place of revival, it gets messy.  The religious say that isn’t so, some people don’t believe, crowds leave, and more come running in.  Normal God things begin to happen and all of sudden people get uncomfortable and begin testing things to see if it is God or Satan.  It really is kind of humorous.  The Pharisees tried to place that judgment on Jesus by saying Jesus cast demons out by Beelzebub.

Mat 12:23  And all the people were amazed and said, Is not this the son of David?

Mat 12:24  But when the Pharisees heard, they said, This one does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub the ruler of the demons.

Mat 12:25  And Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. And every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

Mat 12:26  And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom stand?

Mat 12:27  But if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.

Mat 12:28  But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you.

In other words, how can I cast our demons, make some be free and love someone when Satan comes but to kill steal and destroy?  What we have to look at is, what is the source?  DO they seek after God? Do they say Jesus is the Lord and savior?  Then God must be working through and the kingdom of heaven has touched them.

The following scripture is one of the funniest I have read.

Mar 5:15  And they came to Jesus and saw him who had been demon-possessed, and had the legion, sitting and clothed and right-minded, the one who had the legion. And they were afraid.

The people just seen someone who was a nightmare, be set free, in his right mind and clothed and their reaction was fear.  They haven’t seen the power of God working before.  I want to see people to begin walking in the heavenlies so they can see the power of God working in their lives and in return see others they meet, have the power of God working in their lives.

This post is for the purpose of stirring your spirit to begin walking in power and do not be afraid of the world or of the evil in it.  I pray for you, that you would pursue God in a personal teaching with Him to show you His way, not a man showing you his way.  Dig into the word and find your freedom.  I pray freedom from the religious spirit and freedom from everything that binds you and me.  

I will follow up with part two.  It  will have some great material in it to help set you free from man’s opinion and judgments made upon you.

Pastor CJ Gaul

In this year of new beginnings, the Lord reminded me this morning during prayer, of the revelation He gave me out of Jeremiah 1:10-12.

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9Then the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. 10See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.” 11Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.” 12Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word.”

We see in verse 10, God was explaining to Jeremiah how He was going to use him to execute His judgment on the earth. Before there can ever be a building or planting, there must be an uprooting by God. We see this everyday on a construction site. Before the new carpet is laid and lumber is connected together to make a frame, the trucks are turning over dirt to expose the things that are hidden that will cause harm or future damage to the new building.

In verse 11, the question to Jeremiah was a very powerful one but also important. Here he saw an almond tree that blossomed while the other trees were dormant. The word tree in the Hebrew means to wake, watch, to keep watch of, be alert. The meaning of this was that God was ready to release or perform His word of judgment on Israel. God told Jeremiah, “You have seen well. The judgment of God has blossomed.”

Judgment means in the Hebrew to judge, govern, vindicate, punish, to rule, to act as law-giver, to decide controversy of man, avenged, defend. You see, just like the almond tree blossoming before its time, God’s judgment has come at a time when the people have not expected. In our natural minds we say, “God won’t judge now, it’s a time of blessing.” This is why the question to Jeremiah was important because as a prophet of God, he could not be detoured by the opinions of others because of their deafness and blindness to word of God.

So, God had to test him. God was also saying here that not only do I want you to see that this almond tree has blossomed, but I want you to see and know the timing. I am ready, says God, to perform my word. Jeremiah couldn’t let anyone tell him that God was going to do this at another time. Why? Because he saw it with his own eyes. As we go through this year, we are going to see God performing His word. God does not want us to be afraid. These things must take place.

Remember Psalm 91:7-8 says:

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“7A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. 8Only with your eyes shall you look, and see the reward of the wicked.”

This year is not only the beginning of the abundance of wealth, prosperity, and blessings but also the year that God shall exalt one (ministries, business, people, etc.) and bring another down.

James 4:10 NAS

“Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.”

Isaiah 2:12 NKJV

“For the day of the LORD of hosts Shall come upon everything proud and lofty, Upon everything lifted up– And it shall be brought low.”

God is exalting or raising up those who are humble and bringing low those who are proud. He is also judging everything that has brought harm to his precious possession.

Zechariah 2:8-9 NKJV

“8After a period of glory, the LORD Almighty sent me against the nations who oppressed you. For he said, ‘Anyone who harms you harms my most precious possession. 9I will raise my fist to crush them, and their own slaves will plunder them.’ Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me.”

He is also giving us the land as an inheritance. Where there has been evil practices going on, God is rooting them out to give us the land. I see by the spirit right now stores, music studios, church buildings, and companies being rooted out because there have been sacrificial worship to many gods.

Joshua 1:10-11

“10Joshua then commanded the leaders of Israel. 11“Go through the camp and tell the people to get their provisions ready. In three days you will cross the Jordan River and take possession of the land (Canaan) the LORD your God has given you.”

Do not be surprised when you see even ministries being rooted out of buildings because of the evil practices not just behind the scenes but also out in the open. I also see secular and Christian programs/networks being rooted out, especially the Christian church because the bible says in 1 Peter 4:7:

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“17For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin first among God’s own children. And if even we Christians must be judged, what terrible fate awaits those who have never believed God’s Good News?”

In closing let us stay humble and pray for those who have refused to hear the voice of God, that they may return to the heart of repentance.

Psalm 51:17

“The sacrifice you want is a broken spirit. A broken and repentant heart, O God, you will not despise.”

Prophet Brian Pruitt

Psalm 126:1-3 NKJV

1 When the LORD brought back the captivity of Zion, We were like those who dream. 2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.” 3 The LORD has done great things for us, And we are glad.

At the end of 2007, the Lord made it very clear to me that His body was not just stepping into a new year with the ritual or traditional New Year’s resolution, but a year of beginnings. You must understand that this year, “2008,” is the season that you come in contact with the reality of your dreams. The Lord said that on December 31, 2007, when your clock hit 12 midnight, you crossed over into your realities.

This is what was going on in this text. The people of Judah were celebrating their release from Babylonian captivity. For years they were dreaming of freedom, dreaming of laughter, peace, joy, etc. There was anticipation in seeing the realities of what they were dreaming. Does this sound like you? What were your dreams in 2007? Were you dreaming about your marriage being healed and restored, a better relationship with your children, starting your own company, being financially free, being healthy, walking in the gifts and, calling of God for your life? I can go on and on but I think you get the picture.

The people of Judah were experiencing the reality of their dreams even to the point where it seemed like a dream. In others words, they were saying that famous phrase of today, “I can’t believe it!” Well, I’m telling you to believe it! You are not dreaming. This is really happening. You and I have gone for years hearing people say that it can’t happen, it won’t happen, and aw you’re crazy.

Well, excuse me while I speak on your behalf and mine to those haters out there who said it couldn’t be done! We are not crazy! Not in the past, present, or future. God loves dreamers. When you dream, you open yourself up to another form of communication with God. It is in this place where He begins to show you that your dreams were His dreams for you since the beginning of time. I encourage you to keep on dreaming because God is waiting to show you more.

If you don’t mind, I would like to share testimony with you of how I am right now experiencing my realities. One of my dreams was to have my ordination as a Pastor and Prophet (which was already done by God) to be confirmed by those I had submitted myself under. You see, it doesn’t matter what you are called to do, God already ordained you before the foundation of world was established. Religion says that when a preacher lays his/her hands on you, then you are at that moment a pastor, prophet, teacher, evangelist, or apostle, but that’s not true. An ordination service is only a confirming or agreement of what God has established.

Religion also says that it should happen at a time I think it should, but that is also incorrect. Just as who you were to be on Earth was established, the time or season was as well. For anyone to say that you are not this, or it’s not time yet, they are dead wrong. Let me say this in love to those of you who have said and/or are right now still speaking those words. Please stop. When you speak these things to someone out of an impure heart, you are only yielding your instruments (the parts of our bodies) to sin.

Romans 6:12-14

12 Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to its lustful desires. 13 Do not let any part of your body become a tool of wickedness, to be used for sinning. Instead, give yourselves completely to God since you have been given new life. And use your whole body as a tool to do what is right for the glory of God. 14 Sin is no longer your master, for you are no longer subject to the law, which enslaves you to sin. Instead, you are free by God’s grace.

When you allow the spirit of religion to control you by using your mouth to speak against what God has already established, you are using your mouth to declare the plans of this spirit into existence. I just felt I needed to share this part.

Getting back to my dream, the call for my life was not confirmed by those who I submitted myself under. I share this not to discredit anyone but only to encourage you. When it was time for me to leave that place and come to Ohio, I had no idea of what was ahead of me. For you see, it was here in Columbus, Ohio, on December 31, 2007, that my pastors Apostle CJ and Lanita Gaul agreed with what God had done in heaven and ordained me and my wife.

Let the realities of your dreams this year flow like a gushing river. When it flows like a gushing river, nothing, and I mean nothing, can stop it. Enjoy your realities and forgive those who spoke evil against it. Don’t point your finger in pride to say, “I told you so.” That’s not the character of God. I hear in my spirit that the realities will speak for itself, and it doesn’t matter if they say I’m sorry or not.

You and I must walk in love because Psalm 118:23 says: “This is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous to see.”

This is your season! Amen

Prophet Brian Pruitt

God poured out His spirit upon His people as people were released into ministry to do what Jesus is still doing today, healing the sick, raising the dead, binding up the broken hearted and walking in signs and wonders to the glory of God.

God has commissioned us to walk in the power of God.

Mat 10:7 And as you go, proclaim, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Mat 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. You have received freely, freely give.

This past week the message brought forth a revelation on renewing your mind in the secret place. You know your mind is renewed when the impossible looks logical. Rom 12:2-7 And this is done so that you can perform God’s plan and will.

Below is a video of a miracle (fillings in teeth) that happened at the end of last weeks service. Then below that is 2 more. They are this past weeks worship service and testimonies of the youth being baptized in the Holy Spirit. (Be patient, they are big files)