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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.

Blind & Deaf Allegiance?

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Why should God give you access to hearing His voice?

You see, God’s not the one having the problem with communicating. He knows how to be heard when He wants to be. But why bother talking to someone who has made no commitment to listening or doesn’t have the heart to obey His direction?

Why should He open Himself up to heart intimacy with you, if you are going to ignore or betray Him? Because listen you might get away with friends-with-benefits arrangements with others, but God is not going to embrace that lifestyle with you. He wants wholehearted commitment.

Have you made an oath to follow God and obey? How are you going to fulfill that oath without learning to discern God’s voice in prayer? I’m very serious in asking that question. How do you include God in decisions if you aren’t hearing His voice?

I’m sitting here shaking my head wondering how so few people actually hear God’s voice but call themselves Christians. If you belong to God, you should hear His voice.