The attached pages from the “Mark of Excellence Newsletter” dated October 2021, are being shared as the final newsletter from that year. With the previous newsletters, I have also shared the cover letter that was sent to the pastors at that time. However, the October newsletter on God’s Wrath was shared online only, rather than direct mailed, without a cover letter.
Does God have a right to have wrath? Isn’t He supposed to just arbitrarily forgive everyone (according to the false teachers)? Please review the pages of the newsletter and decide for yourself.
This reposting of the September 2021, Mark of Excellence newsletter on “Prayer” was already scheduled in the series before the recent prayer meeting incident where I was yelled at by the pastor for bringing a word from the Lord. (Hey, it’s the life of a prophet. I have my big-boy pants on and can handle it. But God … can certainly do as He pleases if He doesn’t like the way I was treated.)
This letter is exactly what I would write today despite that I wrote it nearly four years ago to other local pastors (not the one that yelled). Mostly, I believe that corporate prayer meetings are nonsense, at least the ones that I have witnessed over the years. In my defense, I started going to these recent ones because they were advertised as listening-to-the-Lord gatherings. So, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. (God did tell me to go, too, so that’s on Him.)
One day, about eight years ago, God awakened me in the early morning hours and told me to sit in front of my computer. He was going to give me the most important page of information to share. Mind you, I was already more than a decade into my walk with hearing God. How could there be something new that warranted such “urgent” focus?
Little did I know that it was the missing piece in every aspect of ministry. If I could describe the covenant oath adequately, it affected when/if a person would hear God. It gave understanding to God’s discipline and punishment. How could this have never been taught to me in 50 years of church attendance? God was right, it was the most important page. Understanding the covenant oath made all the other pieces of the puzzle fit perfectly in place.
So, of course, it had to be a topic for discussion with the local pastors. In April, 2021, I included it in the monthly “Mark of Excellence” doctrinal newsletters. The cover letter and four pages of the newsletter are attached here. The page with the throne image is similar to the page that God had me create on that morning in 2017. What do you think? Have the local pastors been more effective in communicating the importance of the covenant relationship?
(The four pages of the newsletter are posted as a slideshow. Toggle right/left to see all pages.)
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?
The Rogue Prophet 