Agreement of Soul and Spirit
Recently I awoke after having a
perplexing spiritual dream. In the dream I saw something over
and over again and was completely unable to comprehend what
I saw. It was a “dark saying” “a parable,” “a mystery, something that was hard to be uttered regarding prayer
and how God views our corrupt prayers.
In the dream people were coming before the
Lord in prayer holding up their empty cups of need,. but the
words that they spoke in the dream did not match their needs,
instead what they spoke to God were words of want of the soul,
words of empty vanity, meaningless babblings and vain repetitions
in the hope that but their much speaking that God would hear.
And by God hearing; what we really mean is that God will obey
us, and grants our carnal wants.
But in the dream I saw the Holiness of the
Lord, I saw that He did not hear the prayer of the corrupt.
But there is one who hears the cry of the corrupt, and is all
too willing to grant you your deepest, darkest, desires.
In the dream I saw that God in His Holiness
will not grant prayers that contain the lusts of the human heart.
Specifically when feigns to pray for healing, deliverance, or
for God’s provision for themselves or someone else but as they
speak their soul betrays them before God telling him of their
desire to be lifted up in the eyes of the brethren, to exalted
before men, or that what is being prayed is borne of a covetous
heart and what the eye desires of other believers and from the
world. God is a Righteous
and a Holy and He will not grant prayers when they are used
to justify yourself, to justify your teachings, and to justify
your doctrines.
It is the very nature of corrupt and evil men
that upon the smallest answer to prayer to say”
See, I prayed! See I DID THAT. See I fasted and I DID THAT, I was healed, delivered, I received
provision and therefore that means
-- that my prayer worked. That I have power and prevailed
with God, . that my words are truth, that my teachings are correct.
That my doctrine is correct. That I am anointed of God and worthy
of disciples.
I saw that when a miracle or the power of God
comes in a sovereign act, the scribes, the lawyers, and the
faith Pharisees come out in force. To ascribe meaning to this
working of God. For without their naming it, and without their
putting their corrupt hand mark all over it, how then shall
they be able to claim ownership of it?
They seek to quantify the unquantifiable. To measure
the immeasurable. To make patterns of the unpatternable. And
in so doing they seek to measure it against what they teach
and believe.
And with these measurements, these patterns,
there is never any correction of any of their errors. They are
never brought to a place of repentance that they might be changed.
Instead they proclaim form the housetops that they believe and
teach have been justified.
Ultimately the preachers of this hour are filled
with corrupt desires to reproduce a given
sign wonder or diverse miracle at their beck and call
for their ministry, – so that they can do this in and of themselves
without God.
The Church of this hour as their fathers the
children of Israel in the wilderness are a hard-hearted and
stiff-necked people who are always given to idolatry. The actively
seek to possess these patterns. The church in turn actively
seeks after these doctrines of men, and believers seek out boastful
men and their vainglorious ministries to disciple themselves
after them. They eulogize
and praise these corrupt men and their ministries, and shower
these carnal men with their tithes offerings and gifts in hopes
of turning their heads. And all too many times they are successful,
and they end up reaping what they have sown Instead of being made partakers of that glories
and power of that ministry, they are indeed made partakers but
not at all of what they think they are partaking of. Instead
of partaking of the ministry and operations they see they have
become partakers of the teachers sin
and iniquity. For in becoming their followers and or by giving
them our financial support, or by just being a member of their
church or ministry we have become their enablers, and are feeding
their eyes of lust and avarice. And because we have become
their enablers, we have also enabled them through our giving
and various means of support to corrupt others, locally, over
the radio waves, on television, and in evangelistic meets in
foreign lands. For what
they preach is not the
Gospel of the kingdom but their own Gospel that lifts
up and exalts them and their ministry for they indeed do come in their own name and
Christ warned of this: And him will ye hear and follow after.
This stiff necked and idolatrous generation
is guilty of worshiping anything that the creator created rather
than Him alone. We worship any that claim they were healed,
and delivered that we by any means might receive a portion of
that which they were touched with. We worship buildings, places
were events took place, we talk up revivals long past so that
by any means we might be receive some portion of what once was
in that pace of from that source. We worship our worship, and
we worship the angel of His presence for the same reason – We
make the glory of God an unclean thing, we take it touch it
and corrupt it. For in it we never come to the Lord. And that
is why our incurable wound is never healed, and that is why
we are not changed. Jesus Said when
I would have gathered you as chicks you would not.
And in the meetings of these ministries never
have truer words been spoken than these: He came unto his own and His own received him not. Instead they rejoice only
for a season in the light. After 2-3 hours in a meeting they then walk away, back to their earthly
lives. Know
that God is not mocked, for this generation comes to
me with their lips but their heart is far from me.
Colossians 2:18 Let
no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and
worshipping of angels (Messengers
men, from heaven, or even the
angel of his presence), intruding into those things which
he hath not seen, (This is the opposite of that which we have seen and our hands have handled)
vainly
puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Lamentations
2:22 Thou
hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that
in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained:
those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Those that
do partake, those that have soiled their garments in order to
partake of this corruption shall be destroyed.
Hosea
2:10-12 And
now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. 11I
will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her
new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12And
I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath
said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and
I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall
eat them.
This is spoken of this the Klesia
of this generation and the coming generation. This is spoken
of our day.
For
in vain do their worship me.
I loath their sacrifices and offerings, I loath their
solemn meetings when they cry I shall not hear.
We with our mouths eulogize pastors, ministries,
and ourselves boasting of their gifts and ministries as if the
power of God were their own or our own.
John
15:5
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and
I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for
without me ye can do nothing.
We sin with our lips when we praise
and eulogize these carnal pastors, ministries, and we do so
as well when give testimony and take unto ourselves the glory
that is due to God alone , by ascribing the acts as if their
originated from ourselves as if they happened because of our
prowess with God, as if their happened because of our fasting
and praying, our because some holiness we think we possess.
Judge ye, who is greater the one who
asks or the one who has the power to fulfill? Is therefore the
one who prays, the one who fasts, the one who is touched worthy
of praise and adoration?
What
is being said is that by the work of their soul these men and
ministries in and of of themselves have produced the power of
God. And when we praise them of with lips
-- we do worship. When we bear about their words and
testimonies we are their disciples. And when we support in prayer,
fasting, and with our corrupt mammon and there fore have we
become their enablers and we therefore become partakers in their
sins.
But there is one that is only too happy to grant you the lusts
of your heart even the one who spoke with Eve in the garden.
Most believers are conflicted as they pray,
as they worship, as they confess with their lips, and as they
tithe and give offerings. The confliction comes from many fronts.
Our hearts condemn us. The Spirit of God strives with us and our corrupt
soul keeps speaking the corruption that is hidden in our hearts.
Conflicted when we pray our soul speaks something
different than what we want to pray or confess before God. God sees and here’s this. When we stand there and try to confess
ourselves into something that we are not, our soul speaks something
different than what we are confessing. We are supposed to confess
the truth, that which our eyes have seen that which our hands
have handled and instead we try to use our lips to try reform
the clay that we are into that which we are not.
We have come with a new level of sin beyond
that of our fathers – for they cried out to the potter why have
you made us thus – angering the lord. But this generation seeks
now as the clay to form themselves and imbue themselves with
gifts ministries so that they can receive the worship of men,
and make themselves wealthy. This is the way of darkness. This
is the way of death.
Proverbs 8:34-36
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,
waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoso findeth me findeth
life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul:
all they that hate me love death.
Proverbs 24:12
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth
the heart consider it? and He that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not
he render to every man according to his works?
Psalm 106:12-15 Then believed
they his words; they sang his praise. They soon forgat his works;
they waited not for his counsel: But lusted exceedingly in the
wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. And he gave them their request;
but sent leanness into their soul.
Psalm 107:5
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
Numbers 30:2
If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his
soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according
to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Psalm 41:4 I
said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal
my soul; for I have sinned against thee.