As God’s prophet, I have a much higher responsibility to bring words from Him that are not filtered or modified than any other Kingdom position. That’s the exact truth and you can surely ask God about it.

When I first started hearing God’s voice more than two decades ago, I had a people-pleaser mentality that God had to deal with very early on. As His prophet, I always must put pleasing God above pleasing others. To make it easier on me to do this, God threatened the lives of my children if I did not take my responsibility seriously. That potential consequence loomed large but it did make it easier to speak boldly and face every obstacle on my path. Knowing God’s sovereignty and understanding how quickly loved ones can be removed by God, left no room for any debate when God told me to step out against the enemy’s schemes. (My youngest brother Robby was killed in a car accident just two months before his 20th birthday. In an instant he was gone.)

Another thing that God had to deal with early with me was true understanding of the spiritual war. On March 23, 2009, I spent a night in spiritual battle with the enemy that I was not prepared for. To this day, uncontrollable tears well up in my eyes to even think about the horrendous things that I heard from the enemy that night as I endured a spiritual attack that ended with me in a psychiatric ward. God had to expose me to the devil’s ways so that I would be ready for that combat in deliverance ministry. You see, without actually experiencing the devil’s tactics, I might have been convinced that none of that was real. But, oh I assure you that the enemy is real.

For the first decade of hearing God’s voice, I experienced every conceivable betrayal and persecution from those who were supposed to love me. They wanted me either in a permanent psychiatric ward or locked up in a prison cell. But listen to me, if the fear of God taking my children’s lives weren’t foremost on my heart, I would have never made it through all the tremendous hurts. And I promise you, the hurts and losses were devastating.

I thank God that He challenged me with that threat or I never would have made it through. Today, I still daily ask God about my children’s safety and if I’m doing His will. I do understand the consequences even if others don’t. Maybe they don’t grasp why I have to distance myself when God says to. Maybe they don’t have that same weight on their shoulders when God says to speak or to move, but I do. I will never take it lightly when God says to expose false doctrines. I will never choose to turn away from facing the enemy’s schemes. I know my place in the Kingdom. Nothing about it is remotely vague or up for human counsel.