Thursday, December 23, 2010

False Prophets

It’s been said that God does nothing in the affairs of men except they pray. Prayer is the catalyst for worldwide transformation. Prayer incites the angels, restrains darkness, and releases nations into their destiny. Prayer is the key to revival, building bridges between what should be and what will be.

The devil also knows the power of prayer and he understands that he can’t stop us from praying. But he is the master of deception and he tries to convince us that his destructive schemes are “acts of God” so Believers will not release the arsenal of Heaven against him! Unfortunately, satan has been more successful at deceiving the saints recently than he has for decades. One of the ways he has shrewdly crept into our society is by convincing the Church that it is our responsibility to release the wrath of God against sinners. This authorizes the dethroned prince of darkness to kill, steal and destroy while we stand aside applauding the demise of these ravaged people. To make matters worse, this evil prince frames the Lord of Redemption for his crimes, poisoning the people of His passion, which causes many of them to reject His wedding invitation. Meanwhile, those who have been empowered to police this property lack discernment and assist these angels of light in their killing spree.

There are 2 kinds of false prophets. The first is the example we see is in Acts 16:16-19.

16 Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. 17 This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” 18 And this she did for many days.
But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour. 19 But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

This is the first kind of false prophet. The person has a wrong spirit or gift (spirit of divination) and an evil heart. Notice that this particular fortuneteller prophesied correctly! (Well its not hard to predict a crime that if your boss is the one behind the crime).

The second is a classic example from the old testament. The story of Balaam. You can check out the story of Balaam in Numbers 24 & 31. The summary of the story is that Balaam had the correct gift/calling but an evil heart.

It is interesting to know that the heart is what makes a false prophet..... FALSE

What am I trying to say? Are you saying that I'm a false prophet? No. What I'm saying is that you might be influenced by the same spirit a false prophet is influenced by.

Oh ok.... So what to do now?
Simple submit to God resist the devil and he shall flee from you. Meditate on the word of God so that you think in such a way that makes you healthy. This post is to edify and give you grace to escape any trickery and deception from the devil and nothing else besides this point. God bless and may you live in freedom where you are joyful and you make people joyful too. Thats true freedom.

'FUN FACT'

Your gift gives you your ability, your calling gives you your identity and your anointing gives you your purpose.

Kris Vallotton

God The Glory Of His People

The sun shall no longer be your light by day,
Nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you;
But the LORD will be to you an everlasting light,
And your God your glory.
Your sun shall no longer go down,
Nor shall your moon withdraw itself;
For the Lord will be your everlasting light,
And the days of your mourning shall be ended.
Also your people shall all be righteous;
They shall inherit the land forever,
The branch of My planting,
The work of My hands,
That I may be glorified.
A little one shall become a thousand,
And a small one a strong nation.
I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time.

Isaiah 60:19-22 NKJV

Friday, December 10, 2010

Just So Awesome

Christmas is around the corner and being excited would be an understatement. I feel like developing a culture of celebrating thanksgiving like the west where families come together to be thankful about things and to appreciate one another.

World Harvest is where I grew up in, met God in, discipled in, evangelized with, learnt prayer, learn forgiveness, hope, love, grace and so many more indescribable experiences. So in this season of Christmas and Thanksgiving, I'd like to thank everyone for loving me despite my character flaws and weaknesses. I wanna thank my parents for teaching me and imparting to me my inheritance. My church buddies that have sticked with me even though challenges are fierce and being just great human beings. My section/cell members, your faith and lives have been such an inspiration to my life and joy to my soul (every single one of you). My youths, instead of teaching you stuff, I've been taught stuff. My colleagues, with you all times of joy always way outnumbers the times of sorrow. My special friend, I have learned and have been transformed by your grace and love. And most of all my Jesus, who is not just a loving God in theory or in a story book but truly ever faithful and good in experience. You deserve all the glory and everything in your light seems insignificant.

'YE' OLD GOOD BOOK'
For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:17 NKJV)