Wow, I don't know what will come out of me this morning as I feel so full of the Holy Spirit. This oughta be good! I guess I will just jump in and hang on.
I wanted to write some about Christian TV. You know I like some of it. But you have to have discernment! One thing the Lord really showed me lately is about this giving to these ministries? These prophets of God can get way off on that. They could preach the gospel right on the internet for almost free. But they beg for money like hound dogs. And they tell the poor schnooks that watch their stuff that if they will give to their ministries that their prayers will be answered. And ya know that rigmarole is all the law. It's Old Testament law. But the truth of the New Testament is that we give our LIFE to Christ. He doesn't need our money -- He wants our heart and soul. If my husband Jim had just given me just money and never love, I wouldn't have the testimony that I have. I always wanted Jim's love and devotion.
And ya know I don't ask anyone for money and God does take care of me. I wanted a ministry of caring for the children. I could take in more children but that would be too much and I wouldn't be able to have a homelike atmosphere here. So I wait upon the Lord. And He gives me money. And sometimes I give money away if I see a poor person in front of me that obviously needs something. But I don't give to a TV ministry. I give my time and my energy to children and to upholding my husband's honor.
If anyone should be asking for money on TV, it should be to sponsor children in our country. I think it is in France that the government pays women to stay home and have babies. They pay Mothers to have babies. Because after years of abortions, the country doesn't have enough young men to build an army. I imagine it is like this in most parts of Europe. China won't hardly allow girls to be born. Our country is young and it takes awhile for us to catch up on sin. But we as a Free Country should take a look see and see what is happening to countries that have been using birth control for many years.
Christian Joy has gone to Ireland many times. And she told me that it's against the law to get a divorce because they don't have a welfare program. The parents are ordered always to care for their own. Once you are married, you can't get a divorce and remarry because that gets the records mixed up and by law there are no stepparents.
Well, anyway! But with these TV preachers! Man, they brag about their new cars and how many they have and new homes. They say God gave it to them? Well, they are heaping guilt and condemnation on all these poor folks. That they don't have their prayers answered because they didn't give to their TV ministry. The older Christians see through that mess. But the young new believers don't. So TV preachers manage to keep his audience poor and needy and controlled by fear of sin and condemnation. And God don't need your money so that you can hear the gospel. The gospel is free? I mean with the internet, you can preach it for FREE. And Preacher Buster Brown don't need all of that money. I mean Jesus Christ didn't have to have a new airplane to preach the gospel and, heck, He barely left town. But God either publishes us as teachers or He don't. He knows how to broadcast us.
Jesus wants your life which costs you a lot more then your earning power. We don't have to pay the King so he can pray for us so that we can have blessings from God. Sure, tithe if ya wanna. But not so that you will be blessed. Because you will be more blessed by giving your life to Christ and doing His work out of your love for Him. As stay at home mothers, we can truly give. But TV preachers will make you think you can do more for God by getting a job and giving $$$. This lie is how we now have birth control in the church -- and Christian feminism. It's business as usual $$.
Prophets of God
The Bible sure shows us that prophets in the Bible were not sinless by any means. An anointed person is a sideshow, I think. They have to be sorta interesting or no one would watch 'em. I mean they have gifts and they are sometimes all over the place with them. The gift is subject to the prophet. They can get way off the mark and yet when they are on the mark, look out!
See, we each can have the Holy Spirit. The Bible says that we need no man to teach us as we have an unction from the Holy Ghost, and we know all things. But this is the deal. We are responsible to know the Lord apart from the church. And when a prophet of God tells us something we should be saying, "Wow, this is what God has been telling me for a long time." Or if it is strange to you, then don't listen. A person who is whimsical and creative will create from what is going on in them at the time. This is how a prophet is. If you don't have some idea of a truth to start with in your own heart, then you won't be able to discern a true prophet from a false one. Oh yeah, the Word is a guide. But you need the "Alive Word" that you have prayed over in your heart. So that as the days ahead get darker and more error is taught, you will know the truth and who to follow. No, I know we need to be taught. But the true teacher is Jesus Christ. And any prophet you encounter should be adding to the truth you have been taught in your prayer chamber by the true teacher Jesus Christ.
A woman who judges her husband and tries to take spiritual authority over him is just looking for an attack from Satan. The bottom line to all of our understanding as Christian wives and Mothers is wisdom. Wisdom is the foundation and everything else is to bounce off of this. Proverbs 14:1 says EVERY wise woman builds her house and the foolish tear it down with her hands.
Having said all of this -- I have really been taught lately by TV preachers. Not that I listen to all the snake oil ads and superstitions they come up with. I know they are trying to get a new car. But mercy! I have to say they are striking a chord in my heart. It's like those ol' boys are getting into some real firewater and leavin' the soda pop for the kids. God told me a lot of things after Jim died and how heaven was right in the midst of me. And this is what a lot of these prophets are saying now. I wouldn't have believed all of this from these prophets had God not told me before they preached it. My friend Jill is a prophetess and so was Dixie. They ain't perfect but touched by the Holy Spirit. And when I talked about Jim being with me always, Jill said, "Flesh and blood didn't tell you that but the Spirit of God." I know our son John told me, as I told him that I had never grieved for Jim as I knew he had never left me. Johnny said, "Mom, it's a gift that God has given you." I knew Jim would never leave me and he never has. His body wore out but his spirit never will. But the preachers aren't saying talk to the dead. But they are saying that heaven is not up in the sky someplace but is about us.
The Bible says there is no marriage in heaven but we become like the angels. The angels go back and forth easily. The parable of the rich man and Lazarus explains that, once you are in hell, it is a prison that you can't come out of. But heaven is a place of freedom where you can come and go. Not that all the spirits in heaven come and go. Some would and some would choose not to.
Baby Maya Grace is here -- have to go.
Love,
Connie
