Bogus Thoughts?

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

“’For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the LORD.” (Isaiah 55:8 NIV)

Throughout the more than 20 years of hearing God’s voice in prayer, the Lord has told me many things that I would rather have not heard. I guess that I could have pretended that I didn’t hear Him, but that would have likely resulted in actually not hearing His voice going forward.

One specific thing that I have heard the Lord tell me was to distance myself from a family member who is always surrounded in drama and betrayal. The term “no good deed goes unpunished” is exactly right when it comes to that family member. She just can’t help herself. One of my siblings insists that God would never tell me to distance myself from her. As if he, who has only heard God say a few words in his lifetime, would know what God would want for me personally. So let’s hypothesize for a moment what would happen if I chose to ignore God and instead listen to my brother’s instruction. Aside from making my brother a mini-god, I would lose connection to the one true God. I would stop hearing God’s voice because I would have chosen to disobey God and honor my brother above God.

Does God have a purpose for telling me to distance myself from a family member? I could quote Jesus in Luke 14:26 (“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.”) which seemingly contradicts a commandment in Exodus 20:12 (“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.”) Do I leave the situation up to a Biblical interpretation, a family consensus, or do I give God the absolute authority and obey Him? Listen, I would absolutely be lost without hearing God’s voice. I would be truly the loneliest person on the planet if God ever stopped talking to me. I would be devastated. Not only that, God would likely need to dethrone my brother in a way that would burden my heart.

My daily routine is constantly seeking God. I ask Him for direction all day long every day. It’s one of the reasons that loud music in restaurants is so offensive to me. It is difficult to hear His spirit voice when there are distracting sounds trying to drown out His guidance.

Do I just ignore my brother’s opinion? No, I don’t. I take everything to God and ask Him why my brother is so determined to tell me to disobey God. God’s response is usually something like “Leave him to me. I’m doing something in his life.” I’m not angry with my brother but I can’t help remembering the Scripture where the serpent in the Garden said “Surely God didn’t say” as the devil walked Adam and Eve out of God’s specific will for them.

So why bring all this up now? While I was eating a breakfast sandwich in my van down by the river this morning, God told me that it similarly portrays a pastor’s desire to seek the counsel of men rather than to trust God’s authority on the matter of the trinity doctrine. The pastor has searched the Scriptures, sought peers, and struggled with his own identity but has refused to listen to and obey God. Why? Has he convinced himself that being right with man is more important than being right with God?

Yes, I have provided Scriptures for the pastor to study but always with the instruction to seek God. I have repeatedly stated what I have heard God say but have always reminded that obedience to God is not by proxy. “Don’t believe me. Ask God yourself!” Here’s the thing, I don’t want to be responsible for those who would twist the words that I bring from God. I don’t want to be responsible for being a mini-god for anyone. My responsibility is solely to do exactly what God tells me to do. I’m not responsible for how it is received. Will I lose friends? Sure. Will I find it difficult to be part of a church family when false doctrines are being taught? Sure. But will I ever lose my connection to God? Never!

Perfunctory Prayer

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

Which do you think that God prefers: a prayer that privately seeks Him or a prayer posture that others see?

Many years ago, I was out to lunch with a friend. Unbeknownst to her, I had spent the morning asking God questions to include what to wear, how to pay for the meal, what to order for the meal, etc. Even as we sat at the table awaiting for the food to be delivered, I was constantly silently talking with God about what His will was. I awaken every morning talking with God and go to sleep each night having just spoken to Him about the day. My constant focus is on what God wants for me.

When the food arrived, I silently thanked God for His provision. But the friend expected that I should visibly have a perfunctory prayer model for others to see. She looked at me as if I were a heathen because I did not acknowledge God aloud before eating. Inside it hurt, because it seemed that she should have known my heart for God. Her need to be seen acknowledging God before eating a meal in a restaurant was important to her. Just so you know, I didn’t make a scene or even say anything to the friend about it. I bowed my head and was silent for the offered perfunctory prayer.

But please hear me, all that is modeled in the church is a constant yacking at God and very little actually seeking God. It’s a burden to me. I want so much more for the people that I care about.

All this came to mind after watching Episode 2 and 3 of “The Chosen”, Season 5 this week. (Episode 3 is already out on YouTube.) In the episode, Jesus is portrayed forming a whip and turning over the tables in the temple court as recorded in the Scriptures. He was furious! I could feel every bit of that simmering wrath come to the surface because it’s exactly how I feel when seeing some of the garbage theology and country-club religion in the churches locally. Why don’t they get it? Why are they willing to accept the very things that anger God?

While watching the episodes, I felt hatred for the Pharisees who plotted against Jesus. But isn’t that what they were supposed to do? Wasn’t the goal for Jesus to be crucified on a cross? It couldn’t happen any other way according to prophecies. So maybe they were just doing their part in God’s grand plan.

So are the pastors who come against me for bringing true doctrine to them, just doing their part too? Well think about this for a moment. It’s hard for me to be firm and openly defiant against the pastors for teaching wrong when they don’t know that their doctrine is wrong. I want to love them enough to help them know to seek God about the false doctrine. I want to be gentle and nurturing in the process. And please believe me, I try. All that happens is that I invest my heart in them. They don’t change! Then, they turn against me by blocking me on social media or yelling at me in a prayer meeting. It’s only then that I can get the resolve to be more direct. No, I don’t form a whip and go after them, but their animosity towards me somehow frees me to use harsher language against their false doctrines in a more public way. I wonder if God is intentionally hardening their hearts towards me so that I get fuel for the fire that needs to ignite in me against their garbage theology.

Obviously Jesus was provoking the Pharisees against Himself so that they would crucify Him according to the new covenant plan. But that doesn’t mean that He didn’t truly feel every bit of that wrath and anger towards the perfunctory religious practices taking place in the temple courts.

Thirteen years ago, I started a YouTube channel called “Kingdom Champions”. I wanted to use it to teach others the importance of hearing God’s voice in prayer. It inflamed the false teachers against me and their persecution resulted in much heartbreak. They didn’t succeed in silencing me but they beat me down pretty good. They used some that I loved to burden my soul in heinous ways. At times, I think that it’s unfair of God to keep sending me to those “Pharisees” to help them. With all that they took from me, I should hate them. But if I can’t get through to them, they will continue to teach this generation and the next their bogus doctrines of demons. I’m burdened that perfunctory prayer could win out over truly seeking God and knowing His heart.

Don’t believe me … ask God yourself!

(So that this is not referred to as an anonymous post, it was written by me, Tammie Edwards.)

Let’s Talk About Mary

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

Who do you say that Mary was/is? Was she the mother of God? Should you pray to her spirit in heaven? What Scriptures could you twist to make it permissible to worship her?

This is where the discussion will turn to the trinity doctrine. (You knew it was coming.) The trinity doctrine espouses that there are three Gods, one of whom was born of the virgin Mary. That doctrine can then be expanded to make it permissible to pray to Mary since she gave birth (or came before) one of their three Gods. The devil surely loves that. So in that line of thinking, not only are there three Gods, instead of one, but there is also a fourth deity to pray to and worship in Mary.

So you may be wondering what is the Christian doctrine that leaves out the worship of Mary. The true doctrine is that there are NOT three Gods. There is only one God. God is Spirit. God is NOT flesh. Mary did not give birth to the Spirit of God. Mary gave birth to the flesh-and-blood frame that the Spirit of God wore as He made His invisible Spirit visible to mankind. God’s name was revealed to us as Jesus.

Our flesh-and-blood frame (born of human parents) houses our God-breathed spirit being. The flesh-and-blood frame is part of the human reproduction process. But the spirit being that each of us is assigned by God is not part of the human reproduction process. When our flesh dies, our spirit lives eternally with God or separated from God based on our covenant standing with God at the time of our death.

Do you see why understanding doctrine is so important? If you could be easily deceived into worshiping Mary and praying to her, then you walk outside of covenant with God and will suffer eternal wrath. The covenant relationship with God is to have NO OTHER GODS. The devil will use whatever schemes that he needs to for you to bow down to other than the one true God.

I’m begging you, whether you are a pastor or not, to please seek God about the trinity doctrine UNTIL you hear from Him and know with full certainty that you know true doctrine. You can’t believably call me a false prophet if I’m always coaching you to seek God for yourself. And by the way, the head of the church is Jesus, not councils of men. Jesus has the ultimate authority about church doctrines, not the Nicene council or any other council. It’s disgusting when you try to circumvent seeking God. If you don’t know how to hear God’s voice in prayer, I offer to teach you. (But we already know that you cannot humble yourself enough to be taught by a woman, especially one that challenges your false teaching.)

God sees and hears everything. He knows when your heart turns from Him. He knows when you defend false teaching and defame His prophets. He is watching. Do you really want Him to see such nastiness?

The God of the Covenant

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

These are the four study pages that were created for an in-person Bible Study planned for this weekend.

Half-Hearted CINOs?

Posted on June 16, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

What I see in American churches too often is half-hearted “Christians-in-name-only” (CINO) who don’t want to be wholehearted in their pursuit of God’s will. They don’t want to learn to hear God’s voice or understand true doctrine because that will upset their comfort.

They seem to want to persecute those who stand up with a voice of truth that points them to listen to God for themselves. In the 40 years prior to me hearing God’s voice in prayer, I did the country-club Christianity thing myself. So I recognize it when I see it being paraded through the churches. I have spent the last 20+ years offering to teach others to hear God’s voice and disputing the false doctrines in the church. As a country-club Christian, I was well loved having many seats of honor in the churches, but once I started hearing God speak, I was as unhappy with “them” as they were with me. They saw me as the enemy instead of as someone who could open their blind eyes with truth. All these years later, I’m sure that they don’t want truth. They want half-hearted Christianity.

What use does God have for half-hearted Christianity? Why would God accept or reward being ignored? Could half-truths ever be God’s desire for His church? Could false teachers ever be God’s favored? Could the Bible ever replace hearing God’s voice in prayer?

Does God Still Send Prophets?

Posted on June 12, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

“Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues ? Do all interpret? Now eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I will show you the most excellent way.” (1 Corinthians 12:27-31 NIV)

The subject of unity has been thrown around to silence some whom God has sent with a message from Him. So let’s examine unity of the Spirit in this passage of Scripture from 1 Corinthians 12 in context. (Notice the section title containing UNITY.)

Concerning Spiritual Gifts

“Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.

To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.

Unity and Diversity in the Body

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues ? Do all interpret?

Now eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I will show you the most excellent way.

The Contrast of Heaven vs. Hell

Posted on June 6, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

In 2021, God had me create a monthly doctrinal newsletter, “Mark of Excellence”, along with a cover letter to the local pastors. The letters were sent to 24 pastors. Since that time there have been some positive changes to those pastors’ doctrinal stances. Also, at least four of those pastors have distanced themselves from the pulpits that they were previously preaching from. I’m not saying that I had anything to do with any of that, but I am saying that God is consistently poised to do whatever is necessary to get the churches on the right path.

Today, all of the local churches continue to have some form of false doctrine. Knowing that causes a great ache in my heart. I was hoping for at least one that would seek God until they knew His heart on every doctrinal stance.

Unity of Unbelief?

Posted on June 6, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

Going into the prayer meeting, I had very specific instructions from God. In fact, we had a lengthy conversation earlier in the day about what my interactions would be. I was not to lay hands on anyone for healing. I also was not to pray aloud for anyone. God was intense that I was only to speak exactly the words that He would give to me.

When I arrived at the prayer service, I did not have any idea what the words would be that I was to deliver. But as soon as I sat down in the “sanctuary” and opened my Bible, God directed me to a Scripture found in Isaiah 46. In silent prayer conversation with God, I confirmed with Him that this was indeed the exact Scripture that He wanted read aloud. He told me that He would let me know exactly when to read it. The first 30-40 minutes of the prayer time, I sat quietly while the congregation, led by the pastor, prayed for all manner of healing. God firmly reminded me to be silent.

Then, when God directed, I picked up my open Bible and began to read boldly from Isaiah 46. The place where I finished reading ended with the words (I am God) and will do as I please. The prayer meeting continued seemingly unaffected by the Scripture passage that God assigned me to read. Although I sensed that the pastor may have been angered by it. But perhaps I’m assuming too much.

Before the prayer meeting ended, the last five minutes, the group was instructed to ask God about what neighborhood would be targeted for extra ministry. It’s the same question that had been asked of God at each of the two previous prayer meetings that I attended. Each time God clearly spoke through me the answer “Widows”. And each time, the answer that I heard from God was largely ignored. It wasn’t the answer that the pastor was looking for. This third time, I was frustrated and said so.

The next part is the unity of unbelief part. The youth pastor quickly prayed about unity and humility. Perhaps it was directed at me. Then the pastor chimed in about the need for unity and read from John 17. Again seemingly aimed at me. I could feel God’s heart as He became angry. The words were coming from my mouth and voice, but the words were not my own. “God is not looking for group consensus.” That angered the pastor who yelled my name and declared that he had already said the final “amen”. (In other words, “shut up Tammie!”)

This may have been a long introduction to get to the main point. The unity described in the Scriptures is a unity of the Spirit, not a unity of opinions. God doesn’t need anyone to agree with Him. He will do as He pleases. It’s foolish to have a prayer meeting where God is told what He needs to do. I heard one prayer after another at that meeting that sounded like demands of God. (About that, the Lord has always instructed me to pray “If it is your will, Father, then we ask for healing”.)

How many opinions does it take to overrule the will of God? How many people with a different opinion would it take to convince the pastor that God had spoken? Would ten people agreeing be the right number? Would unity only happen if everyone in attendance voted on the same answer? What dissenting opinions would qualify to vote out the opinion of God?

Now, you may be wondering the same thing that I considered. Was the pastor’s anger rooted in jealousy? Was he upset that God had not anointed him to hear the answer? Was the whole unity thing just a ruse to make him sound “holy” while he demanded that God needed his consent to have an opinion?

Isaiah 46:9-10
“Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’

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