Friday, 27 September 2013

SLEEP-EVOKING PROPHETS



READ: MATTHEW 24:23-25
Worshipping in assemblies of false prophets can tune off your spiritual sensitivity to the Holy Spirit and make you sleep and slumber spiritually. Today’s reading warns us to beware of false prophets. They abound even among Pentecostal Churches. Jesus says you shall know them by their fruit. Mark 13:5-6 says, “And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you: For many shall come in My name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.”
The Lord is warning us of anyone who will preach the word of God in truth but at the end tell you to violate it. Such is a false prophet sent to lure you into spiritual sleep. It is not enough for the pastor to preach the truth of God’s word. If his lifestyle contradicts his message, run for your life. Any preacher or pastor who rightly divides the word of God, but secretly attributes you inability to conceive to your husband, and then invites you to sleep with him promising God will give you a child through this, is a false prophet. Run far from him. Any deliverance minister who asks you to strip naked so that he can anoint your private parts and cast out devil from there is the one having devil in him. He needs deliverance from his god –the spirit of lust. You are the one to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. If you yield to such satanic prophets, you will begin to sleep. May you never fall victim of these agents of darkness in Jesus name.
Spiritual prostitutes are potential victims of false prophets. Those in an assembly where the whole counsel of God is preached in a balance way, yet jump from church to church in search of miracles, rather than growing their faith in God to obtain their victory, may not know when they fall prey to satanic traps. 1 Corinthians 11:27-30 says living in sin and yet going to the communion table is another major cause of slumber and sleep. You desecrate God’s table when you go there with any sin in your heart. Repent and live right. Do not kill yourself before your time. Live in harmony with the word of God.
MEMORIZE: MARK 13:5-6 –And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you: For many shall come in My name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.