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Passive-Aggressive Hate!

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The devil would love to silence me when I’m telling others to go to God and listen for His voice. When God wants me to have a strong word so that a seed is planted so deep that the devil can’t dig it up, it’s not unusual for the hearer to be offended. But please hear me. The devil is NEVER going to send someone to tell you to go listen to God with priority. That’s the opposite of what Satan wants. He’s counting on you being offended.

Love is not passive. Hear me again. Love is not passive. Being tolerant of ignorance or rebellion is not love. It’s passive-aggressive hate. I read that term this week and it hit me that some Christians, who refuse to listen to God in prayer, are really more entrenched in passive-aggressive hate than they are in God’s love. God is a God of justice. He doesn’t ignore injustices. He doesn’t ignore evil. He doesn’t choose to have blind justice. And He hears every word of gossip. He won’t tolerate it. And He hears every excuse. He is not passionless.

So, if God loves you enough to send someone to you to tell you that you need to listen to God in prayer, maybe that could challenge you rather than offend you. Yes, I want you to be offended if you expect to be excused from having a relationship with God, or being obedient to Him. The devil knows that Bible better than you will ever know it and he is counting on you locking God up in a book that he can help you misinterpret time and time again. That’s why there are so many denominations of the Church that have contradictory doctrines to each other. The Catholic church uses that same Bible to get their congregants to pray to Mary or dead saints. Please don’t believe me. Ask God yourself if you should pray to other than God. I’m shaking my head here wondering what it will take to get you to sincerely seek God and obey Him.

Again, go tell God on me. I want you to. I know that I will obediently continue to tell people that God is not mute and He is not locked up in the pages of a book that you can lord yourselves over. The devil is never going to like it … it shows up as offense for those who want God locked up in a book and mute. I expect it and I’m not afraid. God calls me “Mighty Warrior” when I tear down altars to false gods. I know who I am and whose I am.
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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.

Really? God called Gideon “Mighty Warrior”

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The pope is banking on you being too stupid about the history of religion to actually study your Bible. God sent King Saul to wipe out the Amalekites. God sent Gideon with a small army to destroy the Midianites. God sent Joshua to conquer Jericho. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. And let’s not forget about God wiping nearly all mankind off the face of the earth in Noah’s days.

God sent plagues against the people who dishonored Him. Jesus turned over the tables in the temple courts in anger against the religious heresies. God often sent His people into battle to conquer evil. There was even a shepherd boy who went against the Philistine giant.

There is always going to be evil to oppose on this side of Heaven’s gates. We’re not supposed to embrace it. We’re supposed to fight it using the weapons of warfare, spiritual armor, and the command of God.