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!

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 Broken Covenant & Deliverance

Posted on May 31, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

The covenant relationship demands wholehearted allegiance. If we go outside of that priority obedience, then we break covenant.

All sin is covenant-breaking and can be traced back to not obeying God. That is why the covenant restoration conversation is so important. We must restore a broken covenant or we will not have God’s protection or provision. In fact, we can grieve God with our sin to the point that He allows the devil to target us and torment us. God is a jealous God! If you’re not serving Him as your one and only God, then you’re serving another “god” (probably yourself as a little “g” god).

The attached pages are a continuation of the 2021 letters to the pastors locally. These pages from the May, Mark of Excellence Newsletter, explain Deliverance. At any time, you can stop right where you are and ask God for forgiveness. It’s this simple: “God, is there anything that I need to ask forgiveness for?” Then listen to His silent-prayer voice answer. Ask Him as many questions as you need to so that you may learn from your mistake and know how not to repeat them when facing the same temptations.

(The newsletter is included as a slideshow. Please use the toggle arrow to advance slides.)

Invested in Hearing God’s Voice?

Posted on May 28, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

Hearing God’s voice is imperative to being obedient. Taking a best-guess or interpreting Scripture at your choosing will likely cause you to walk completely outside of God’s will and path. God judges heart motives. He is aware of all methods used to avoid consulting Him. So just because you have a Bible open, it doesn’t replace your need to submit to God’s authority. You can’t fool God.

Attached are the March (2021) “Mark of Excellence Newsletter” and associated letter to the local pastors. The topic is “Hearing God”. In the last two days, we looked at the January letter with the main topic of 1) One God; and the February letter and topic of 2) False teachers. In reviewing these letters are you seeing God’s heart as He sends a message to the pastors and churches?

Digest this one carefully because the letters ahead get a little heated as we dive in to debate against the false doctrines and those who have chosen to teach falsely.

Do False Teachers Deserve Wrath?

Posted on May 27, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

Should we hate the false teachers? Does God? You’re probably like me in that you want to know God’s heart and sync up with Him on who to love and who to hate. Wait, does God hate people? Well, He must because He is the one in charge of sending some people to hell, separated from Him for all eternity. It was God that sent an evil spirit to torment King Saul when he disobeyed.

When God sends me as His prophet to help pastors overcome false doctrines, I can feel God’s heart for them. He wants them to earnestly pursue His will on the doctrines. But as time passes, and they continue to teach falsely, God’s heart changes in the words that He delivers through me. A pastor can have the right heart and wrong theology and still manage to please God … until God sends His messenger to point out the wrong theology. Once that happens they have been warned to seek Him until the wrong doctrine is removed. If they refuse Him, they have hard consequences for their wrong theology. They cannot please Him while they teach falsely.

So you can imagine the hard place that puts me in. How am I to love the pastors enough to keep warning them when I can already feel God’s heart changing against them. That’s when I get frustrated. It’s more important to me to please God than to warn the false teachers. At some point, I’m just ready for the Lord to stop giving them chances so I can get out of the middle of the whole mess. But then, I’m ashamed that I didn’t love them enough to keep warning them. I find myself in that position once again.

The attached letter from February 2021, was a communication to 24 pastors locally. The associated Mark of Excellence newsletter warned of God’s heart towards false teachers. What are your thoughts? Should God turn His back on them when they continue to teach falsely?

What Does It Take To Be A Hero?

Posted on May 26, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

In the secular world, a hero can be someone with a gifted singing voice, on-screen influence, a hot body, or perceived power. Think about who the cultural idols are today. Yes, we recognize the men and women of the military, law enforcement, firefighters, and emergency workers as invested individuals who are willing to risk themselves to rescue others. But where each person stands in their relationship with God is the true measure of their hero status.

“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)

Is there a scarier verse in all Scripture? Who would be foolish enough to put themselves in the position of grieving the Spirit of God? When I set out to create the Mark of Excellence newsletters, the world had just undergone a plague of Biblical proportions called COVID. While that virus may have been created in a lab, every plague in the Bible was from God against His own people. Certainly the sovereign Lord had the power to stop a man-made plague if He wanted it gone. But He didn’t. Why?

That’s the question that I asked the Lord. He said that His churches were teaching falsely. They were refusing to seek Him about the doctrines being spewed from the pulpits. His own pastors were provoking Him against them. It was then that the Lord put my life on hold while He had me reach out to them about their doctrines.

This first letter (the tamest of the bunch) and doctrinal newsletter was aimed at getting the pastors to seek God on the subject of “One God”. Repeatedly the Scriptures teach that there is only one God. The Scriptures also command that we are to have no other gods. Yet, the trinity doctrines suggest that there are three gods in a godhead. I roll my eyes every time that the pastors in my town refer to Jesus as sitting next to the Father. They’re idiots. Jesus is the one and only God. If they knew God, they would know who He is. It seems to me that they fake having the gift of hearing God’s voice to make themselves seem holier. But God is not fooled. If I can read the word “trinity” on their website, I’m pretty sure that God sees it too.

Attached is the first letter and newsletter sent to 24 pastors locally. Since January of 2021 has there been improvement in this area? Have any of the pastors sought God about their false doctrine of three gods? Unfortunately, it seems that they are still provoking God to vengeance against the congregations who sit quietly accepting that nonsense while they play the country-club religion game. They’re complicit with the false teachers and deserve God’s wrath. They are covenant breakers not covenant keepers.

“Surely, God Didn’t Say…”

Posted on May 25, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

“Surely, God Didn’t Say…” Those are the words that the devil used to deceive Adam and Eve in the Garden. Those words led to them disobeying God.

If I had a nickel for every time that I heard the devil use those words through human vessels, I would be a very wealthy woman today. I refute their foolishness every time. Here’s the thing, Adam and Eve could have sought God when the devil used those deceptive words. They could have, right then and there, said “God, what did you say?” and called God into the midst of the confrontation. But they didn’t. Instead they allowed themselves to be walked right outside of fellowship with the Almighty and into a pit of sin.

Some people are more easily deceived. They walk themselves right into alcoholism, drug addiction, pornography, gossip, and living as their own “god”. Why would anyone who supposedly loves you not want you to seek God? Why would they want you to disobey Him? If they truly love you, wouldn’t they want you to submit yourself to God’s authority so that you can walk humbly with Him?

In the New Testament Scriptures we can see repeatedly that God used human vessels to send letters to the churches. The apostle Paul wrote letters to the churches in Rome, Corinth, Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi, Colossae, and Thessalonica. He also wrote letters to Timothy, Titus (for the church in Crete), and Philemon. There were other letters, too, written by other apostles and leaders to include Simon Peter, James, John, and Jude. All of those letters were inspired by God and included in the Scriptures. Additionally, John penned the seven letters to the churches (in Asia Minor) in Revelation. So, it’s not unlike God to want to send a message to the churches through human agents especially when the leadership of those churches refuse to seek God. They seem to be comfortable leading others astray with their false teaching.

Several years ago, God had me send letters to 24 churches locally. Please understand, it wasn’t that the other churches were correct in their doctrine. The printing, envelopes, postage and time were all coming from my small fixed income or He probably would have had me send them more far and wide. In the days ahead, we will revisit those letters to the churches to examine if there has been positive changes in the local churches during that time. Each letter contained a “Mark of Excellence” doctrinal newsletter to prompt them to study the doctrines more carefully. Listen, I don’t want them to believe me. I want them to truly have their own relationship with God where they ask Him questions until their garbage theologies are gone. That’s my hope!

I hope you will join me as we take a look at the false doctrines in the churches. Will you seek God and raise your voice against the false teaching or will you sit back and be comfortable in your country-club Christianity?

Having a Form of Godliness …

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

“People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.” (2 Timothy 3:2-5 NIV)

That part about “having a form of godliness” is the part that God highlighted to me when we were talking just now. (Yes, it’s 4:00 am. That’s when He likes to talk about all the important stuff.) I was asking Him a question that was recently raised by another about what needed to change locally — was it “a church” that needed to change? At the time, the Lord answered right through my mouth that it was “all the churches” that needed change. I knew that already. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. They have a form of godliness but deny its power.

What I have witnessed in my trek through the churches locally is that none of the pastors can be bothered to seek God about the false doctrines in their churches. It seems like they deny that God has a right to disagree with their garbage theologies. They can’t ask Him simple questions even though they claim to know His voice. But God, in His grace and mercy, sends His messenger to teach them how to ask Him questions, and they don’t want to learn. Their pride won’t allow them to be taught by a female. They are too wise for their own good.

Oh, but the problem is not limited to the pastors. The congregations are willing to sit silently by rather than raise their voices to disagree with false doctrines. They certainly don’t want to mess with their comfort and stature. It is hard to be the one who will risk their inclusion with the church family to please God especially when that family will surely turn against you for being the one to speak up. But I will just say this: their form of godliness is ugly. I’m not the only one to notice. God sees it clearly. Why won’t they stand up and fight for truth?

Rewards For Obedience?

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Tammie Edwards

Do you think that the Lord rewards us for our obedience? I do. And I also think that He punishes us when we refuse Him. Rebellion is ugly to the Lord. But when we submit to Him we are rewarded with more intimacy of heart and sometimes tangible blessings.

Let’s talk about obedience first. Recently, the Lord asked me to once again offer a Bible Study to teach about hearing His voice. I already know that most people are too lazy to put in any real effort to show up, study, and seek God. But, my obedience is not contingent on how many people attend the study. My obedience is in walking intentionally on the path that God has for me. I can’t take it personal when there is not as much interest in the Bible study as I might hope. I’m not responsible for how other people respond to the invitation. That’s between them and God. My rewards are tied to pleasing God with my faith. So, even though my expectations may be low for how others will respond, I’m going to keep stepping forward in obedience. Every time that I’ve done this in the past, God has increased the anointing that He delivers through me. I want that.

Now let’s talk about disobedience and ignoring God. What if I instead said to God that I know that nobody is interested and why should I waste the energy? Should God be pleased with that response from me? Should He reward me for thinking that I know better than Him what the outcome should be? Seriously, I don’t need to know the outcome. I just need to know the next step forward. That’s how God does things. So, please don’t think that I’m naive about people wanting to learn to hear God. I know that most don’t want to. It’s up to God how He chooses to discipline or punish those people. I just need to keep stepping forward with a positive goal to please God.

What about you?

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