Author Archives: Tammie Edwards

Tear Down The Altars!

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Yesterday, it occurred to me that God sent me to pastors all these years to correct their false teaching because of my previous position of honoring pastors beyond what they deserved. Before hearing God speak, I worked endlessly to please the pastors at the churches I attended.

I was on more ministry committees than you can imagine from decorating the church, graphic and visual ministries (early on before it was mainstream), newspaper ads to promote events, hosting simulcast teaching, women’s ministry, and care ministries. When I was pregnant with my first child, I climbed up a ladder into an attic loft nearly every week to run the visual ministry of song projection. That was 32 years ago at a church in St. Charles, Missouri. (I created a song database on FileMaker Pro before it was widely available through CCLI Licensing.)

God saw me having more relationship with the pastors than I had with Him. He saw me caring more about what they wanted than what God wanted. Yes, I’m telling on myself. I was a country-club Christian who had her relationship with God through a pastor and church. Just like you?

So, when God wanted to test my allegiance to Him, He sent me to those same pastors to correct their false teaching. I found out real quick that they didn’t have any allegiance to me like I had once given to them. They wanted none of my talents if I was going to give God priority. (Sure, they didn’t say it like that, but that’s the reality of it.)

Well, as it stands and will ALWAYS stand, God gets the priority! When He says jump, I will be quickly in the air! And know this, God called me “Mighty Warrior” as I was learning to tear down the altars to the false gods … just like Gideon. If you’re making your pastor a false god, talk with God about it. He will help you focus your allegiance in the right direction too.

Non-Negotiable Truth!

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Truth is not negotiable! Why do so many people want to deny, flex, and distort truth to fit into their space? Is it because they have not bothered to seek God?

In these 23 years of hearing God’s voice daily, I’m very familiar with how He speaks to me. He sends me to expose false doctrine. Depending on the heart of the hearer, He will navigate their sensitivities either more gently or more sternly. If their heart is more open to sincere critique or correction, then He sends me to point out the needed changes to doctrine. It’s only when they’re too wound up in their own ego, that God delivers words harshly and disciplines quickly. Maybe the only way they can engage is when their ego is on the line.

Truth is not negotiable! God can deliver truth anyway and through anyone He chooses. It was the religious Pharisees (or church leaders) who hated truth the most, enough to have Him crucified. Please don’t think that just because a person stands behind a podium at a church that they’re ordained by God to deliver truth. Maybe they just haven’t been confronted enough to stop resisting truth. Maybe I’m one that God has ordained to confront them. (Hint: Ask Him!)

Please child, stop getting in God’s way when He wants false doctrine eradicated from the church. Maybe keep your mouth and keyboard out of the mix AND GO TO GOD and ask Him what He wants before you shoot the messenger. If you want to defend your pastor’s false teaching, then go to God directly. Tell God how great the false teaching is to you. Then you won’t have to deal with me at all. God will enforce truth in any way that He chooses. Maybe He needs to take you out of the mix so that your pastor has less ego-boost so that he can finally hear the changes needed. Could you be the problem? Hmm? That’s an interesting thought. Ask God!

Poisoned Discernment

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There is so much pollution of the mind happening in the world today. You don’t have to look beyond the headlines to see the devil at work. What mother would murder her three precious children without being thoroughly deceived by the enemy? How could anyone get to that point?

It seems that everything is tainted with disgust. Television, movies, social media, gaming systems, and news outlets contain such violence, filth and lies. Even the churches can’t be bothered to seek God for truth. It is too much for this prophet to have to see without being heartbroken.

Why won’t people just turn to God? Why do they keep refusing to seek Him? What if that mother who killed her children would have instead woke up every day talking with God, naming each child before Him? What if she would have made sure to talk with God each night before going to bed again naming each child before Him? Would the devil have been successful disguising himself if she had more discernment that wasn’t poisoned by counterfeit reality?

I’m heartbroken that the churches continue to be poisoned by false doctrine rather than humbling themselves before the Lord and listening to His voice. Why can’t they choose to know Him? What will they continue to do against God if they can’t be taught to seek Him? Will they usher in the antichrist because they don’t have a clue who God is? It’s only been a few years ago that so many were deceived into vaccines and masks because “Science” said so.

What is on the horizon with poisoned discernment as their guide?

Is False Doctrine Evil?

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“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” (Isaiah 5:20 NIV)

There seems to be great ignorance in the Christian community about how God feels about false doctrine. Nobody wants to expose it because it makes their pastor look bad. They don’t want to even discuss it because they don’t know how to go to God themselves and ask Him what is the truth. So, they defend the lie rather than expose it. They call what is evil good.

It doesn’t matter how many times that I challenge them to ask God themselves. They dig in and defend the lie and the false teacher rather than asking God in prayer. I can tell you with all certainty as one who God has ordained to expose false doctrine, that they will persecute the messenger long before they will expose the lie. They will side with the false teacher against God’s demand for truth.

God sees how they wrap His efforts in false narratives saying that His messenger is attacking the church rather than attacking the false doctrine or warning the false teacher. They gossip about God’s prophet exactly as the devil would want them to. They do anything they can to prop up the evildoer and to destroy the prophet.

But can you blame them in their ignorance? That’s one of those things that I have learned to leave up to God. God is the righteous judge. He knows what is evil and what is good. It’s a shame that they can’t bother to ask Him.

Counterfeit Loyalties

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I want to talk about something uncomfortable, fake friendships.

You know who they are in your own life. Someone who pretends to like you while they carry negative feelings in their heart towards you. Truly, most of my friendships aren’t very strong outside of a few longtime friends. I know their loyalty.

There are few people that I could count on to be on my side. I know it. I’ve lived it. When the devil used the rumor mills to ruin my reputation to try to keep me out of ministry, I saw clearly who was for me and who was against me. Very few people made the cut for who was on my side. It happened to ALL the prophets. They were persecuted and killed for having the courage to stand for God’s will.

All these years later, I’m not surprised about it. In fact, it rarely crosses my mind if someone is really my friend or not. I know they’re not. I’m good with that. Because the truth is if God is sending me with a word, I’m going to obey God regardless of if it pleases my “friends”. But God, He sees every little motive of the hearts of my so-called friends. He doesn’t always expose it to me but rather limits my interactions with those who carry a grudge towards me.

So let me ask you, friend. How many times have you liked a ministry post from me vs. how many times you have shared your pastor’s preaching videos? Don’t worry, I don’t really want you to answer that because we both know that you have NEVER liked one of my ministry posts and you often share your pastor’s videos (at least once a week). God says it is because you don’t trust that I’m God’s prophet. It doesn’t bother me, but God is very angry that you haven’t bothered to invest the time to seek Him about who I am to Him while you put great faith that your pastor is completely right in areas that he is completely wrong.

So, let’s stop pretending that there is any friendship when there isn’t. Now that God has exposed your heart against me, I’m fine right here without excuse. God says that He will deal with the consequences. I’m good with that. God isn’t fine that you haven’t bothered to seek Him, though. Maybe He sees that you’re fake friends with Him too.
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Buckle Up Buttercup!

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When God gives me an assignment, He is firm. In fact, most times when God is speaking with me, He doesn’t feed my ego or even carefully sidestep my weaknesses. So, why is it that people want me to act differently than God when I’m lovingly trying to help someone through bringing a word of warning, caution or rebuke?

Sure, God can be a sweet talker when He is showing affection, but He never comes across as insincere or soft when He is correcting me or giving me direction. It seems that some want me to wrap the warning words in some kind of soft manipulation so that it can be more easily accepted. But that doesn’t work. It just makes the warning seem weak and inauthentic as well as half-hearted.

When Jesus turned over the tables of the money changers in the temple courts, He didn’t deliver that with sweet words or grace. He formed a whip and went after them. They hated Him. They plotted against Him and crucified His flesh and blood body. Should He have been softer? Would the message have been correctly received if He had first sweet-talked them into submission?

When David went up against Goliath, did he sweet talk the big guy? No, he told him that he would cut off his head and feed him to the birds of the air.

As God’s prophet, I’m going to deliver God’s words exactly as He tells me to. I can feel His heart in the words He shares. I know when He is angry or when He is giving a first warning that He expects to be received without resistance. What I don’t get to know about in great detail is how the receiver approached God for resolution. I can only understand when God specifically tells me that the person came to Him humbly or if the person ignored God’s warning.

This I do know. God has been pushing me to be MORE FORCEFUL in the words He delivers through me, more than even one year ago. He is wanting me to be less careful with the receivers’ little feelings and more determined to speak change resolutely. I do know that if He continues with this stronger, bolder, stance, I’m not going to be well liked or even liked at all. But I will NOT refuse God. I’d much rather have the hearer’s anger than God’s wrath for my refusal to obey Him.

And let me tell you this too. In deliverance ministry, you cannot just make suggestions. You have to be firm about how the person will be set free. If you don’t tell them exactly where they are wrong, you will leave them hostage to the devil’s schemes. Would you want someone who tiptoed around while you are in captivity or would you want someone bold enough to help rescue you? I’m not going to make gentle suggestions when you need deliverance. I’m going to be straightforward and deliver exactly God’s instructions. If you can’t respect that, too bad. I know my assignments. I get them directly from God. He’s not playing games and neither am I.

So, in conclusion … buckle up!

Congregants’ Loyalty?

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A congregant can be very loyal to his/her pastor and church while being very disloyal to God. He/she can spend hours listening to their pastor speak while zero time is devoted to listening for the Lord’s voice. They can ask for their pastor’s counsel or advice but in prayer they obnoxiously demand that God do things their way.

Do they think that God doesn’t see where their loyalties are? Could God be so blind as to not see the motives of their heart? Could God choose to ignore them the way that they ignore God?

If you’re one who plays the country club religion game, what should you expect from God? Should He help you through the hard times or present them to you?

If you’re spending time celebrating your church, shouldn’t you be sure that you’re not complicit with false teaching? Should God ignore that you give them the glory meant for Him? Do you know your church better than you know God?

Recently, a woman jumped right away to defend her pastor (and his false doctrine) without first seeking God. She had more loyalty to her pastor than she did to God. Those aren’t my sentiments. Those are God’s words to me. So, what should God do when He sees that response? Does someone need to be dethroned in her life so that she gives God the rightful place of authority? And btw: those man-made certificates and degrees mean absolutely zero to God when false doctrine is being taught.

God sees what is in your heart about how you treat His prophets too. He’s not as blind as you think. Nor is He as mute as you would prefer. (But maybe you just didn’t give Him permission to send prophets with a word!) A word to the wise. Don’t keep pressing against God’s will. He’s not a book that you can lord yourself over. As always, don’t believe me. Ask God yourself!

Trophies: Idols or Memorial Stones?

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Recently I was watching a spiritual warfare series that was describing the importance of knowing who you are. Which I strongly agree with.

We need to know our position in Christ, foremost. In fact, it is one of the reasons that God has very sternly told me that I must be bolder in stating that I’m His prophet. He doesn’t want me to be ashamed for bringing a word from Him. He reminds me always to give the hearer the same test … and that is to ask God yourself!

I don’t want you to believe me. I want you to go tattle tale right to the Father. It is my heart’s desire that you would ask God for yourself! Always! That’s why I teach people how to hear God’s voice in prayer. I do it for free. I do it at my own sacrifice. I do it in obedience to God. It aches my heart to see so many so-called Christians that DO NOT HEAR GOD! It breaks my heart! And it breaks God’s heart too. But don’t believe me. Ask God yourself.

In the spiritual warfare video, a man who had received many trophies along the way talked about how he was troubled that the trophies were an idol that took away his freedom. So, he threw them all away. When I heard this, I did what I always do, I stopped right there and asked God silently “Did you want him to throw away his trophies?”. God answered, “No, they weren’t idols, they were memorial stones.” Those trophies were a reminder of all the great things that God had done through that person. The devil wanted him to throw them away to prove an allegiance that God didn’t question. But the devil prompted him to throw away exactly what God wanted him to keep. (Again, don’t believe me. Ask God yourself!)

God instituted a remembrance through the Communion symbols. Those memorial objects (wine and bread) help us to focus our hearts and minds on the things that God has done to reach out to us through the cross.

Israel was commanded to set up 12 memorial stones as a reminder to the nation that God had made a way for them. Those stones were like trophies to represent that God had chosen them.

In conclusion, you know if your trophies are an idol. If you bow down to a success rather than to God, they’re probably an idol. But surely, you could take the time to have the conversation with God in prayer and ask Him questions until you absolutely know with Holy Spirit conviction if they belong in the garbage can or as memorial stones for the successes reached with God’s hand of provision. Don’t be too quick to let the devil fool you. God does want you to remember His provision.

While there are no earthly trophies assigned to prophets, there is nothing more victorious than hearing God, who spoke the world into being, say “Well done, good and faithful servant!”.

Spiritual Armor for What?

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Do you need spiritual armor to sit in a pew with your head up your pastor’s butt?

Hey I know that was a loaded question that paints a picture! But can you believe that is what God wanted to talk with me about first thing this morning? I know what it’s all about, though.

Too many country club Christians, have their “relationship” with God through their pastors. They don’t hear God for themselves and it’s much easier to do religion through a once-a-week playdate than through actually walking with the Spirit. But I’ve got news for those country club Christians, your pastor doesn’t put much more effort into relationship with God than you do and the evidence is all over their false theologies.

So, what should God do when you refuse a word from Him through His prophets? He told me this morning that He is going to prove His wrath against the pastor and his butt-headed congregant from a recent encounter. There was some discussion where I asked God if the punishment would fit the crime. All the congregant did was allude to me as being sent from the devil instead of from God. Certainly, that didn’t warrant Him coming against her family line. But God wasn’t having it. She called God a liar, and He would need to prove where the message came from. I’ve seen God prove Himself this way before, so I’m hoping that the butt-headed congregant quickly gets her head on straight and humbles herself before the Lord AND ASKS FOR HIS FORGIVENESS before it’s too late.

While I do want God to confirm the message that He delivered through me, I don’t like seeing family lines punished for one butt-headed congregant’s stupidity. I don’t get to tell God what to do though. So, my advice stands. Get your head out of your pastor’s butt and repent.

A Warning From God!

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* “Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their enemy and he himself fought against them.” (Isaiah 63:10 NIV)

Lately, I have been hearing too many pastors trying to describe God’s wrath as something passive and mild. One pastor even said that God’s wrath in the Old Testament times is removed, and that when He comes again His wrath will look like salvation and mercy. What Bible is that pastor reading? What God does He speak with in prayer?

* “Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, ‘Go, pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth.’” (Revelation 16:1 NIV)

Listen, maybe I get a very different picture as God’s prophet than the pulpit pastors receive. I’m always being given a word of warning, caution, and rebuke to deliver from God. You can wrap it in that it must be from the devil so that you can feel good about your nonsense, but that doesn’t change anything from God’s perspective. God knows it was a warning. Play your games and you will find yourself being humbled under His wrath. Then perhaps you will know that He is God.

So, I don’t like writing this on September 11th while many people, myself included, mourn the great losses of that day. But you must at least consider that God could have stopped the events of 9/11. I’m not saying that everyone who was lost on that day was a victim of God’s wrath. Some people were surely just at the wrong place at the wrong time and even had a heavenly home for eternity that began on that day. But you cannot take God’s sovereignty out of the picture. Yes, I know you think that I’m a horrible person for bringing up the matter. But you aren’t denying God’s sovereignty are you?

Over and over again, God allowed His chosen people Israel to be taken into captivity for refusing God. They bowed down to false gods and provoked God’s wrath against them. Have we done the same thing in this nation? (And should I point out that the devil wants you to believe that God doesn’t have a wrath so that you just keep on ignoring God and His warnings through the prophets.)

Finally, the God of the Old Testament is the exact same one and only God of the New Testament.

* “You have wearied the Lord with your words. ‘How have we wearied him?’ you ask. By saying, ‘All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’” (Malachi 2:17 NIV)

* “I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. And I will bring the sword on you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands.” (Leviticus 26:24-26 NIV)

* “Repent at my rebuke! Then I will pour out my thoughts to you, I will make known to you my teachings. But since you refuse to listen when I call and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand, since you disregard all my advice and do not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you; I will mock when calamity overtakes you—when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me, since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord. Since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes. For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.” (Proverbs 1:23-33 NIV)

A warning has been issued!