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Church Assessments 1/21/25

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Step 2: Covenant Restoration (Continued Part 2 of 3)

A Broken Covenant Oath:
If God really is your God, then you should seek Him for every decision. You must know that He is vastly more aware of everything that is going on that affects you, much more than you are. He wants to be consulted even down to the clothes you wear each day. Once you learn to discern His voice, it’s easy to have constant ongoing conversation with Him. If that seems too weird, well, lots of things you do outside of covenant are weirder. Listen, I’m definitely not saying that walking in-sync with the Lord is an easy life, but who has an easy life?

If you were at a military bootcamp, would you be expected to dress exactly as you were told? Would you need to obey those training you? Would you need to eat the food provided for you in the portions provided? Would you need to have intentional focus and expend all your energy in the training maneuvers? Ok, so I’m not saying that obeying the Lord Is constantly difficult to that level, because He is not a hard taskmaster. He does, however, expect to be consulted and obeyed. There are some things in your life that He will be strongly opposed to. He will help you walk away from those for your own good. There is a destiny calling on your life. Don’t you want to be exactly where God wants you to be? God can do things the easy way or the hard way based on your level of cooperation. There is much peace that comes from being exactly where you’re supposed to be at exactly the right time. Only God can give you that.

If you’re in covenant, you can easily follow the Lord through hearing His voice and allowing Him to lead. But if instead, you wrongly chose to obey a different authority as a counterfeit god for the decisions that belong to Him to oversee, you break covenant … and He is no longer your God. You then belong to the false god that you have chosen over Him. I’m not saying that you cannot obey your work supervisor/boss, parents, spouse, laws, or government authority. But if God is in conflict with their directions for you, then you must choose God’s will above theirs. God is expecting you to choose His will above your own and anyone else on the planet. Again, He is sovereignly more aware of your life’s purpose than you are. God wants first-place authority for your decisions.

If you have broken covenant, by choosing to obey a wrong authority (as your counterfeit god), you will want to have a forgiveness conversation with God to resolve the conflict. Without restoration, God will allow the enemy to have access to you. You have chosen the false god and will reap the consequences of your wrong choices. Let me be clear, it is you that abandons God first. So, He has every right to abandon you. Only if you’re in unbroken covenant, will you hear the Lord tell you that He is with you and will not leave you.

“Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.” (John 8:47 NIV)

Attached are two pages (of six) from The Rogue Prophet Magazine, “The Covenant Voice of God” (pages 33-34, dated August 2024) that further outline the covenant restoration process. The remaining two pages, “Repent & Renounce” will provide the benefit of my deliverance expertise by providing specific questions for you to ask God so that you can hear directly from Him about right from wrong.

Church Assessments 1/20/25

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Step 2: Covenant Restoration

The God of Justice
God is the supreme judge. Only He has the power to forgive sins. The shed blood of Jesus*, the cross, and the juice or crackers of the communion emblems do not have power to forgive sins. Only the sovereign will of God and His justice can forgive sins. You cannot avoid having a forgiveness conversation with God by pleading blood, taking Communion, or wearing cross jewelry or tattoos. And there is no automatic forgiveness clause in the covenant agreement. Sorry, but God’s plan doesn’t work that way. God has wrath towards rebellion and God has mercy for the blameless and repentant. God can overturn a jury’s guilty findings. God can send the criminal to prison.

If you are not in covenant relationship with God, you forfeit His provision and protection and are promised to receive His eternal wrath in hell. Though, if you have promised on oath for God to be your only God, but have broken that covenant through sin, you have access to God in prayer to have a forgiveness conversation. *The shed blood of Jesus on the cross provided for you to have covenant restoration conversation with God without a blood sacrifice or a priest to intercede. The Old covenant atonement protocols were no longer required because Jesus (God in flesh) was the final priest (in the priestly lineage) and the final blood sacrifice. It’s that way because God ordained it. You don’t get to change it. Sins are NOT automatically forgiven

The God of the Covenant
It’s important that you know who God is. God is not 1/3 of an authority. He is the sole authority over heaven and earth, life and death, eternal punishment and reward. Jesus is God. Jesus is not the Son of God. Before you go and get your Scriptures to quote to me about Jesus being the Son of God, you should realize that the Son of God title was for when God, who is an invisible Spirit, was walking visibly on earth in a flesh and blood biological Son of Man suit. That “Son of God” label was specifically to denote when God took on flesh. There is not a second Spirit of God sitting next to the first Spirit of God on a throne in heaven. Oh how I wish that more pastors understood this because they are using wrong terminology that denies that Jesus is God.

Previously on 1/9/25, I posted four information sheets on “The God of the Covenant” (link to blog post: https://therogueprophet.com/2025/01/09/church-assessments-1-9-25/). If you have any questions about who Jesus is, please study the Scriptures on these pages with God present. (Just ask God to silence the enemy and ask God to help you understand this.) Nobody wants to be responsible for blasphemy against God. Obviously, God looks at heart motives so He’s not going to cause the most severe punishment if your heart was right even if your theology was unintentionally wrong. But I guarantee this is one of the most important doctrines to get right. He might have let it go unpunished if He didn’t intentionally send His prophet with this instruction and warning. Now, you are out of excuses! Please, for your sake, study it until you are certain you know who Jesus is. (Hint: He is NOT 1/3 of a three-god godhead.)

The Covenant & Restoration (Part 1 of 3)
The covenant is central to hearing God’s voice of direction. Without the covenant and hearing God’s voice you can NOT be His disciple. You can, however, be a disciple of your pastor without being in covenant with God. You can be a disciple of worldly culture without being in covenant with God. You can study a Bible without being in covenant with God. But God requires good-standing covenant relationship and hearing His voice for true discipleship. (Making disciples means teaching people to have covenant relationship with God, not making them members of a church.)

Previously on 1/10/25, I posted information sheets on “The Covenant” (link to blog post: https://therogueprophet.com/2025/01/09/church-assessments-1-9-25/). Studying these pages for understanding will help you tremendously on Step 2, covenant-restoration conversations.
Attached are two pages (of six) from The Rogue Prophet Magazine, “The Covenant Voice of God” (pages 31-32, dated August 2024) that outline the covenant restoration process. The remaining four pages of the six will be posted on subsequent days. Pages 3-4, “A Broken Covenant Oath”, describe the false religions, occult practices, and counterfeit gods that break covenant; Pages 5-6, “Repent & Renounce” will provide the benefit of my deliverance expertise by providing specific questions for you to ask God so that you can hear directly from Him about right from wrong.

Church Assessments 1/19/25

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Instruction is Easier Than Warning

Note to individual male pastors: Somewhere along the way you have come up with the notion that you are allowed to refuse God if He sends a female to deliver a message from Him. You hide behind bogus denominational stance, a pagan/cultural male code of ethics, and feigned loyalty to your spouse as excuses for why you can’t honor God to treat Kingdom women with dignity.

God is not asking you to do anything unreasonable. So I will tell you as plainly as God reminded me again this morning. You do not have the right to refuse God without consequences. God has sent me with a message from Him. God sees if you are ignoring the message. You do not get to exclude an entire gender from the Kingdom because you deem it necessary for the sanctity of your ego.

God has no problem removing you from the pulpit. God has no problem removing you from your marriage. God has no problem with deflating your ego if it is what is needed to get you to see truth. God takes it personal when you refuse His messenger. He told me this morning that He is going to prove the message in this post very visibly in the days ahead. Keep messing with God, and you will see His wrath.

Btw: there is not one of you fools that are attractive to me. It takes two to tango. I’m not interested in you. Sorry, if that destroys your whole notion of having to distance yourself from me in case I would want to tempt you away with my 62-year-old-lady cuteness. You’re the only one with that delusion. It is precisely because I’m unmarried and not attached to a church governing body with all their man-made boundaries that I am able to wholeheartedly obey God to meet with anyone whom He deems necessary. I don’t need any person’s permission to obey God. God is with me. Can you say the same thing? He will continue to withhold His anointing and provision from you until you choose His will above your own. He will continue to prove His displeasure by NOT sending healing to you or your congregation. God can play “the game” much more effectively than you can. You have everything to lose.

Listen, I don’t like posting this stuff. It makes me seem overly aggressive. I can’t refuse God when He tells me to deliver a message. This is exactly word-for-word the message He asked me to post this morning. It makes me sick to my stomach to have to deliver harsh words. But, why am I telling you that. You couldn’t care less.

Church Assessments 1/18/25

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Competing Voices

The first step to learning to discern God’s voice is to identify the competing voices, both in the physical realm and in the spiritual realm. The devil, demons, and evil spirits have a voice in the spiritual realm. Their voices can seem like your own thoughts if you don’t know yourself well enough to assess your unshakeable values. (Read about Adam and Eve talking with the serpent in the Garden in Genesis 3.)

When I first started hearing God’s voice in prayer, I made the mistake of telling those closest to me that God was speaking to me. They jumped to conclusions that I was delusional and that I would hear “god” tell me to kill them. So, for the record, God has never told me to kill anyone. He’s perfectly able to speak it into existence and make it happen without my involvement. So if He wants you dead, well that’s what will happen. He doesn’t need me to do it.

Why did I write that paragraph? Well, it’s unfortunate but even your most trusted friends and family can turn against you for hearing God. Read the story of Joseph and his brothers (Genesis 37). Joseph had dreams from God. He made the mistake of telling his family the content of those dreams. Their resulting jealousy made them throw him in a pit, leaving him for dead, and then selling him into slavery. Really, there are not many people that you can trust to talk to about hearing God. Even many pastors will demand that you’re not hearing from God (because they don’t). Secular psychiatry will most certainly condemn you because in their minds God isn’t real.

So, are you courageous enough to step into an unfamiliar realm of listening to God in prayer? Can you shake off all the secular lie-labels of mental illness? Can you stand strong against the giants, like young King David did? What is your faith level? You’re not going to get to a place of hearing God daily if you shrink away every time the devil sends his minions to accuse you.

If you’re ready, then step 1 is to situate yourself in a distraction free area. No phones; No television or music; No panoramic views to draw your attention away. Nothing should compete with your ability to listen to God’s voice. God sees everything. He knows if you have a phone set on vibrate so that you don’t miss an “important” notification or call. If you aren’t all in, then He isn’t either. Earnestly seeking Him means to earnestly seek Him. He’s always looking for wholehearted investment. If you can’t do that, then you aren’t going to hear God. I’m sorry but you are going to have to make God priority. And that might mean that you are going to need to get off your self-made kingdom throne.

When you are positioned to really listen for God in the physical realm, then you are going to need to thwart the enemy’s voice in the spiritual realm. This is a good time to ask the Lord to silence the enemy. It’s that simple. You don’t need to be a spiritual warfare “freak” or a deliverance expert. All you need to do is ask the Lord to bind the enemy so that you can hear from Him. If He truly is your God, then He will silence the enemy for you. Remember God wants you to be able to hear Him so that you can know Him and walk intentionally with Him. The devil doesn’t want you to hear God because he loses all power to deceive you when you can fact-check with God.

In earlier posts, I have talked about the need for covenant relationship with God. If you have pledged on oath to God that He is your only God, then you have initiated the covenant relationship. If you’re not sure if you have asked God to be your God, then do it as you begin the conversation with Him. It never hurts to restate your allegiance. In step 2, we will review how to restore a broken covenant through having a sincere forgiveness conversation.

Did this answer any of your questions? Do you want to privately ask me about this? You can contact me at TammieEdwards@therogueprophet.com. I want to help you learn to discern God’s voice. I do know that it can be scary to approach this subject. But listen, I’m not the most courageous person ever, and I did it against all the maneuvers of the enemy. So you can too.

Attached are two pages from The Rogue Prophet Magazine, “The Covenant Voice of God” (pages 29-30, dated August 2024) that outline Step One of Discerning God’s Voice in Prayer.

Church Assessments 1/17/25

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Defacto Voices

If you want to learn about something, what’s your first go-to? Are you going to google it? Are you going to phone a friend? Where are you going to get your expert advice? What did we do before tech devices?

I enjoy listening to conservative politics with Tucker Carlson or Dan Bongino. They’re my two favorites for getting the scoop of what’s going on in our nation and abroad. However, neither of them is worthy of giving deep religious advice so don’t tune in to them for that. Speaking of politics, how do you safeguard your opinions about who you should vote for? Do you have an ultimate source for discerning right from wrong?

There is one guy that frequents the same fast-food breakfast place that I regularly go to that is exactly wrong on most every issue. I bought ear plugs to keep with me so that I could filter out overhearing his nonsense. He believes in climate change, voted for Biden/Harris, advocates for masks and experimental vaccines, etc. Also, at the same breakfast place, there are a few of the Q-anon followers who believe that Elvis is still alive, that the earth is flat, and that space aliens are real. Don’t get me started on snowbird Charlie, with all his twisted “Biblical” advice about women submitting to their husbands rather than to God. Why do they believe all that nonsense? Is it because they haven’t bothered to fact-check with the ultimate fact-checker?

How hard is it to seek God for counsel? You don’t even need a tech device. You don’t need to be at a particular place. You don’t have to wait for an exact time. In fact, as far as I can tell, just about anywhere and anytime seems to suit God just fine. It’s not rocket science. In fact, it is hard-wired into our spiritual DNA. But some how it seems to be avoided at all costs by the vast majority of people … except when they want God to be their genie in the magic bottle. Oh yes, they know how to give God all their wise advice. But seeking God is definitely not on their menu.

Attached are two pages from The Rogue Prophet Magazine, “The Covenant Voice of God” (pages 20-21, dated August 2024) that offer insight about hearing God. In the days ahead, I will bring a step-by-step description about how you can easily seek God. I will even provide some introductory questions to ask Him. It’s so simple but it’s not taught in churches. Why? Do the pastors want to be your ultimate source of guidance rather than point you to Truth?

Church Assessments 1/16/25

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Marked Territory

God knows how to make you cry out to Him. You can profess that He is unconditionally a merciful God with unlimited patience with you, but you are just making that up. Anyone who has read the Bible should know that God has wrath against rebellion. Teaching falsely is rebellion.

The church belongs to God, not to the pastor, nor the congregants. I don’t know whose names are on the physical documents or deeds, but I am certain that God is the head of the church. He has every right to demand that true doctrine is taught. Every person involved in the operation of the church (including putting money in an offering tray) is complicit with any false teaching. God can and WILL terrorize your church until you submit to His authority regarding teaching truth. He can make the most vulnerable sick. He can create little accidents. God can do the unfathomable if He chooses. He certainly can withhold mercy to get your attention. Every time that there is a funeral in your church family, you should be warned that God knows how to make you cry out to Him. But instead you deny His messengers, troll His prophets, and persecute His beloved. How’s that working for you?

In the Old Testament of the Bible, we can read about how the Israelites kept provoking God’s wrath with their false gods/idols. God would allow them to be taken into captivity and treated viciously by their enemies. They would cry out to God, and eventually He would send them a deliverer. Read the pages in the Bible from the book of Judges and see if you come to the same conclusion. In the modern day, I believe that God has sent Trump as a deliverer for our nation. But God is clearly making Himself known in acts of God that the ungodly deem as climate change. Even some Christians refuse to believe that God has sovereignty over the climate. God can protect one house while He allows fire to destroy everything around it. God can protect His beloved completely while hurricanes decimate surrounding areas. God sent plagues that killed thousands upon thousands exactly as He chose. (Read 2 Samuel 24:15-25.) God doesn’t need permission to make His authority known. In man-made fires or plagues, God still has sovereignty to protect His loved ones. If He doesn’t protect you, He chose not to. Sorry, that’s just the truth whether you believe it or not.

• “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)

• “Whoever remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.” (Proverbs 29:1 NIV)

Attached are two pages about Heaven and Hell (from The Rogue Prophet Magazine, “The Top 10 False Teachings in the Churches”, June 2023, pages 22 and 23). Do you have the courage to study about God’s power to send people to hell or will you instead insist that God must always be merciful?

Church Assessments 1/15/25

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“Away From Me, I Never Knew You”

Trust is the nucleus of valued relationships. Once trust is diminished there is not enough substance to recreate a lasting bond.

For the last two days, I have been focusing our attention on the manifest presence of God and His supernatural giftings. I hope that I have conveyed that God only delivers His power and authority to those who are in covenant relationship. A broken covenant or broken trust removes God’s provision and protection.

God is wise enough to not be in a one-sided relationship … something that I wish I had learned earlier in life. Maybe I have trusted some people more than they deserved. God has much better insight than I do. He knows how to set boundaries and to require a sincere apology for wrongs done against Him. I’m learning to distance myself from half-hearted superficial “friends”. But it has taken too many decades for me to finally get with the program. I know now not to forgive people who aren’t asking to be forgiven. They don’t want to change. They don’t want to admit wrongs. They just want to use me and my giftings. God figured all that out much earlier than I did … because He’s God, and I am not.

These two Scripture texts, recorded in the narrative from Matthew, as red-letter words from Jesus are very telling about how Jesus views those who are not trustworthy with the primary objective.

• “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’” (Matthew 7:21-23 NIV)

• “Jesus turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.’” (Matthew 16:23 NIV)

How could God trust pastors who teach falsely to another generation of churchgoers? Why would God want to supernaturally anoint pastors who teach that there are three gods (in a one-God religion), or teach that God doesn’t have the right to anoint women in leadership, or that the miraculous gifts of the Spirit are not permissible for this time in history? Have they broken covenant by refusing to seek God and learn from Him on these matters? Will they hear God say those crushing words “I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!” Maybe then, they will realize how loving it was for God to send His prophet with a message of instruction, warning, and rebuke. Will it be too late?

Church Assessments 1/14/25

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Rapid-Release Spiritual High

Disclaimer: you might not be ready for this! If you have ever experienced a spiritual high with God, you know that there is nothing in the physical realm that can duplicate that freedom of body and soul. There is no chemical or biological release to compare to a true move of the Spirit of God. Every move of the Spirit is precisely intimate. God knows you better than any human partner could.

What I often see in the charismatic churches is a pursuit of a quick spiritual fix. While that eagerness to feel God’s Spirit is understandable, the lack of it is very evident in the robotic mechanisms of the non-charismatic churches. Again, the Lord wants me to talk about the cameras in the sanctuary. This is a big deal for God. Would you want cameras recording your intimate naked moments with your spouse? (That was intentionally carefully worded. But you get the picture … right?) Will you ever catch a move of the Spirit on camera or will He stay away because your need to record His presence is anticlimactic? Why bother if you miss the point completely?

“Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.” (Acts 2:2-4 NIV)

The Biblical encounters with God were obviously never caught on camera. The belief in those moves of the Spirit require faith. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. God doesn’t want disconnected, low-investment voyeurs trolling His activities looking for proof of His existence. But perhaps, that is what the church has become. Or, is it a place where you can momentarily hide yourself from God? Because you are in a corporate gathering, God certainly won’t approach you to open your heart for inspection. He wouldn’t embarrass you that way, would He? Joining in on religious events allows you to fake a more robust pleasure by association with the “saints”. Pretty much anyone can spot a fake orgasm, especially the faker. (Remember the disclaimer in the first paragraph.) Do you know what it is like to be in the Spirit, or not?

“On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, which said: “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.” (Revelation 1:10-11 NIV)

Other Scriptures to Consider:

  • “You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.” (Romans 8:9 NIV)
  • “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” (John 4:24 NIV)
  • “Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.” (Galatians 5:25 NIV)
  • “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.” (Romans 8:26 NIV)
  • “At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.” (Revelation 4:2 NIV)

Church Assessments 1/13/25

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The Cure For The Common Life:
Before walking with the Lord, I would not have described my life as common, but that’s only because I didn’t have the anointed walk with Him for comparison. Experiencing the presence and power of God flowing through me has been the highlight of my life. He brings daily animation to my purpose.

Max Lucado wrote a book entitled “Cure for the Common Life”. In the book, the reader was encouraged to explore their spiritual gifts, their “sweet spot” life experiences, and gauge how God had uniquely designed them for His purposes. I love that book. It’s one of my favorites because of the encounter that I had with God through it. It confirmed that God had uniquely made me for His divine purposes. What could be better than that?

In hindsight, I could see how working as an administrative secretary to executives at the space center and as a graphic artist for a strategic consulting group were ordained by God as training to walking in the anointing that He would deliver to me as His prophet. My teenage years, writing for the school newspaper, were when my love for writing began. Nothing was wasted by God. The most valuable training, however, came from being a mother to my two children. That’s when I learned how God loved me. It’s unquenchable love that knows no boundaries that it won’t risk. Hearing God clearly speak to me the first time, at age 40, changed me into a different person. That’s when I knew for certain that God had chosen me to walk with Him on a planned destiny path. Have you inspected your experiences and analyzed your giftedness from God to assess who you are to Him?

• “But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the LORD was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.” (2 Chronicles 36:16 NIV)

• “Now this I know: The LORD gives victory to his anointed. He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary with the victorious power of his right hand. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.” (Psalm 20:6-7 NIV)

• “But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.” (1 John 2:20 NIV)

• “and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills” (Exodus 31:3 NIV)

Attachment Source: The Rogue Prophet Magazine, “The Anointing”, August 2022, pages 9 and 21.

Church Assessments 1/11/25

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Summary So Far:

Let’s look back on where we’ve been over the last two weeks before moving on. It helps to summarize the main strategic points. I always welcome questions but since I don’t regularly receive that kind of feedback, I try to anticipate the areas that might be more difficult to digest easily.

True Doctrine:
Repeatedly, I have expressed the need to hear God’s voice in prayer so that you can know true doctrine. All the churches locally teach contrary to each other on some areas of doctrine. For example: 1) Methodist, Church of God, Presbyterian, and some nondenominational churches teach that women are equal partners to men in leadership and ministry. Women can be ordained as preaching pastors in those denominations. But in the Baptist, Church of Christ/Christian, Pentecostal, Apostolic, and some nondenominational churches, women are considered to be subordinate to men in areas of leadership. Also, 2) Some denominations believe that the miraculous gifts of the Spirit such as healing, speaking in tongues and prophecy can no longer be delivered from the Holy Spirit to His people. (Evidently the Holy Spirit lost His power or permission somewhere along the way.) And finally, 3) Some churches believe that there is a corporation of three gods that make up a god-head while others correctly wholeheartedly love only one God and are in covenant relationship with Him.

If you don’t know where you stand on any of these issues, please go back and read the study pages and articles posted on the previous days. I will continue to build on these topics but having a firm foundation in the Scriptures will be helpful to you as we progress forward.

Discerning God’s Voice:
Knowing God and learning to hear His voice in prayer are crucial to being a true disciple. As discussed before: 1) You must be in unbroken/restored covenant relationship with God which means that you must have a sincere forgiveness conversation with Him asking for specific areas of mismanagement (sin) to be evaluated and restored. You must learn from your specific mistakes so that you can prevent repeat occurrences. The conversation should never be “I’m sorry for everything.” Sin and temptations should be intentionally discussed for improvement. 2) You can only have one God, not three. God is Spirit. When God’s Spirit made Himself known in a human-born, flesh and blood frame, He was fully God (as Spirit) and fully man (as flesh). The flesh part was crucified on a cross so that we no longer need a priest to intercede or a blood sacrifice for atonement. Instead God gave us access through the torn veil to approach Him alone in prayer to humble ourselves and ask for forgiveness for sin. That is how we restore covenant relationship. 3) We must seek God, not advise God. That will require a major prayer shift for most people who have grown up in the church and heard prayers modeled that inform or advise God. We must learn to shut up and listen to God rather than counsel Him about matters that He intimately knows better than we do. Who wants a God that needs our advice? I don’t. Sure we’re allowed to talk to Him about our concerns, but we’re not supposed to try to convince God that our ways are better than His.

Women in Ministry/Leadership:
Too many women seem to be content with being lazy or refusing to accept the anointing and giftedness from God. Yes, I blame some of the false doctrine on the women who sit back and accept it. 1) The Holy Spirit anoints men, women, and children for ministry. He looks for a yielded spirit, right covenant relationship, spiritual maturity, and courage to step out. There is no gender bias from the Holy Spirit. There is no age requirement. There is no seminary degree or college certificate required. An hour spent directly with the Lord is equivalent to about 10 hours of doctorate studies. To repeat, you do not need a secular degree if you are learning at the feet of Jesus. He is the one and only God. There is no authority higher. If He anoints you, He expects you to be bold in that anointing. 2) The Bible clearly records that there were women leaders throughout history that were anointed by God as prophets, judges (deliverers), apostles, deacons, teachers, etc. While the law of the Pharisees prohibited women from leadership, they were also the ones who refused Jesus and crucified Him on a cross. You don’t need permission from a Pharisee to be God’s anointed daughter. 3) Women, we have an advocate who will fight for us and with us against those who perpetuate the lies of the devil about our royal authority as daughters of the King. We must use our voice of truth to speak out against the demonic oppression being delivered through those who don’t know God or true doctrine. You cannot be lazy and indifferent. You must stand up as true Kingdom champions, not little princesses who sit silently by while the devil makes a mockery of your spiritual DNA and heritage.

Attached are two pages about “The Laws of the Pharisees” from The Rogue Prophet Magazine, “Spiritual Crimes Against Women in Ministry”, August 2023, pages 6-7. I hope you will study the Scriptures included on these study sheets and speak with God about them. As I always say … “Don’t believe me. Ask God Yourself!”