Pride lifts itself above the Holy Spirit, but yet it thinks it’s doing things with the Holy Spirit. We cannot do things with the Holy Spirit if we are not submitted to the Holy Spirit. When we do things in our own grace or power, it’s called rebellion! This is how God sees us lifting ourselves above His Spirit because the Holy Spirit says He will empower us to do all things. He will do it! But yet we say I will do it!
We never say that out loud, but we are telling ourselves that when we don’t seek His spirit. When we go out and build and tear down without Him, we go out with our own blueprint in mind, and later on we try to ease our conviction by calling it God. It’s time for us to stop putting a leash around the Holy Ghost! It’s time for us to finally submit and become the wife and stop trying to be the husband. A wife is to submit to her husband. Just like how there are many women trying to lead their husbands, there are many believers trying to lead Jesus and make Him a believer in themselves and their own plan. God is not pleased with us. He’s only pleased with Himself in us! Thats the only thing powerful in us, nothing else.
God bless my work! Bless my prayers, my ministry! Bless my 501c3! But God is saying, absolutely not! And here’s the tricky part, when the devil comes in and blesses you because he loves religion and then you think it’s God. That is one of the worst deceptions today, the devil blessing people and people thinking it’s God. The devil is blessing people to possess people!
Every person in the Church today, from the remnant to the false prophets, all say, “Thank you God for the blessings,” but only one was actually blessed by God and not only blessed but approved by Him. One is getting blessed to produce life, and the other is being blessed to produce more death, thinking they are producing life.
People are getting blessed and satan is using it more and more to turn people over to deception. One deception leads to another, so when we think our deception is of the Lord, we block ourselves from freedom and go deeper into possession. God says He chastises those that He loves, and many true believers wonder why God doesn’t bless them as much yet. I say to the genuine Christian today, hang in there! Your day is coming! God is not going to bless those that He loves if it will hurt them. Only in due timing!
You see, the world and Religion think that the more blessings you have, the more God is in your life. But yet for the ones that God loves, He sometimes withholds His hand for them so that He can keep them. And when they become trustable before Him, He can bless them and do all things that He’s longing to do with us all. I asked God one time when I was young in the faith, “God, if I’m willing to lay my life down to minister on the streets all day everyday, why don’t you bless me with money to not have to work so that I can do ministry full time?“ He said, “If I did that right now, it would kill you!” You see, that is real love! God will do whatever He has to do to keep you. He desires your soul first, before your prosperity.
Blessed or Possessed! When we are possessed, everyone knows we are under a spell except ourselves. And that’s how many false ministers are today, God turning them over to delusions! God? Yes, God turning them over because they love not the Truth! Possessed by lies! Thinking they are blessed with truth though possessed by lies, their possession growing stronger as the devil acts like the Holy Spirit in their life, getting them to have more and more confidence in the false life that they are living.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
This is the big judgment coming on the Church today, and really always has been. Though now more than ever! The living God that the false thought they knew is not looking so loving. Though he is loving and delights His soul in those that hold the Truth as their number 1 love!
God is turning people over that will not submit to the truth. God is having grace on many people, but there’s a time where that grace can be frustrated. Paul talked about that. And if we frustrate His grace too long, He can turn us over to a lie in a day. Meaning we come to a point where we are completely convinced that the lie that we believe is truth. We come to a place where there’s no conviction anymore! And many people today have no more conviction. They think it’s because God is okay with them, but they don’t realize it’s because God is not okay with them. It’s one thing to walk in Him with boldness and confidence. It’s another to think you are walking in Him, meanwhile you are diluted and lukewarm.
Revelation 3:1
And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
They were convinced that they were alive, but they were indeed dead to the Lord, and this is running RAMPANT around the churches today. Many thinking they are alive, but they are so dead it’s not even funny! This is what real possession looks like! It pains my soul to even write about this, knowing how many are convinced by the devil that they are something that they are totally not. Thank God for His vast mercy that reaches out to us if we are willing, but the question is will we be willing to stretch our hand back?
I cannot write this without His grace, because he’s building the house. He’s ordering the siren calls!
There are many different forms of His grace spoken about in Paul’s writings. Though the most important type of grace is the grace of His empowerment. The grace that gives you the ability to do what He is asking you to do. This is actually the grace that we should be raving about, not the grace that we pretend covers our unrepentant sins. Yet those that are possessed by lies rave about that grace that covers, turning it into lascivious. The only thing that covers is the blood of Jesus when we repent and turn from the lie to the truth and do it! Or if there’s ignorance, God covers us until we become accountable to the truth. But if we fight it or resist it, there is no grace! Our conviction is bearing witness to us what is true, so that we cannot have an excuse!
Religion’s hidden message wants to tell you that you can resist the Word and the devil will flee. Don’t worry, Brother, there’s grace; yea, but the devil is in your face, what are you gonna do about it? And he will not leave until we submit, and then we can resist. The reason why we resist the enemy and he doesn’t flee is because we resist the Truth! And the Truth resist us! The Truth is what sets free! So the Truth is the best weapon against the enemy, so the only way he can flee is if we are one with the Truth. Outside the Truth and the Spirit of Truth, we are nothing.
We need to face the reality of what is true. The Truth is the greatest blessing in our life. If we don’t face it, what is false will present and convince us that it is true. Then we will live possessed by religion, thinking that God is there the whole time, meanwhile He’s no where near you. That right there is the greatest curse to ever have, to think you are in the Lord but you are far from Him! To have a form of godliness but have no power. To think you are in the truth but you are in lies. To be deeply convinced that the lies you live are the Truth! This is the greatest curse. This is what it looks like to be possessed.
God keep us in the truth, the real truth! Not the truth that we believe but the truth that you see. Let us not be liars to ourselves, but let’s live in honesty before you and the Word. Let our conscience bear witness with your Truth, your Truth that is the greatest blessing that we can have, greater than the value of gold. Open up our hearts to your fresh conviction again. Let us become children again before you, not worshipping our own knowledge but worshipping in Spirit and in Truth. Help us today, Lord! We do not trust ourselves, and this is why we need you!
By Joe Pinto
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