1Tim.6:
10.
For the love of money is the root of all
evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and
pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
:
11.
But thou, O man of God, flee these
things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience,
meekness.
The
enemy / Satan, has and is yet using the incomplete, twisted prosperity gospel
to render the witness of the church powerless in today’s society; as many of
today’s prominent church leaders and the upcoming young church leaders who are
seeking prominence are all given to this incomplete, twisted prosperity gospel.
Let
me make this emphatically clear, I do sincerely and strongly believe in the prosperity
of God’s people
(Ps.35:27b. Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the
prosperity of his servant.)
Please
know this!
If the Lord takes such
pleasure in the prosperity of his servants; how much more pleasure would He
take in the prosperity of His sons and daughters through Yahshua Messiah (a.k.a.
Jesus the Christ)?
Satan, himself
knowing of God’s pleasure in prospering His people has methodically infiltrated
the church via erroneous religious teachings, and that of the incomplete,
twisted prosperity gospel that today’s crafty religious leaders are using to
fleece their itching ears, gullible followers.
Adding
to the deception of the enemy’s twisted prosperity gospel is the Religious
Leader’s shallow / one dimensional way of thinking as it relates to the concept
and word prosperity; of which they’ve done a good job in passing onto their
followers.
95% of today’s church simply
equates the word prosperity solely to money whereas prosperity means so much more
than just money.
In
the Hebrew the word prosperity is:
Shalowm, Shaw-lome'; or
Shalom, Sshaw-lome'; which has
several meanings such as (1) safe / safety, (2) well, (3) happy, (4) friendly, (5)
welfare, (6) health, (7) peace, (8) favour, (9) greet,
(10) wholly.
The
distorted view of prosperity that’s running throughout the church has many
believers chasing after money and willing to do just about anything to possess
the same.
There are religious leaders
who will blatantly / unashamedly stand in the pulpit and tell lies in Jesus’
name to provoke their followers to sow financial seeds.
It
seems as if the mandate of today’s church leaders are to get a large
congregation from which derives large tithes and offerings. And within the
matter of a year or two the so-called (Mand-of God) is building a million
dollar home and driving luxuries vehicles. This practice is certainly not of
God, where church leaders are living the FAT life and their members live the
pauper’s life, and are told to
“wait on the Lord, and believe for their
breakthroughs”.
Declaring
this kind of message will forever put and keep the messenger /s on the opposite
side of today’s religious leaders. In the spirit realm this twisted prosperity
gospel can be liken to disease gangrene; of which if it’s not quickly and properly
treated there will have to be a severing of the infected body part in order to preserve
life.
In
their attempt to silence or still the voices of those who dare to speak out
against the twisted prosperity gospel and other ungodly practices in the church;
many of today’s Religious Bishops, Doctors, Apostles, Prophets, Pastors, etc; can
often be heard warning / threatening their congregations with the
misappropriation of Psalms.105:15.
“The bible says, Touch not mine anointed,
and do my prophets no harm”
1Tim.6:
10.
For the love of money is the root of all
evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and
pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
This
love of money has really gotten the better part of today’s church;
notwithstanding that we know the scripture says in
“Eccl.10:
19.
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh
merry: but money answereth all things”
the passionate pursuit
of money that exist within and among the church has a deep rooted stench of
evil that’s fostering a strong spirit of division and competition.
There
are churches on the same street, in the same communities that are in stiff competing
with each other in hosting various conferences; and will spend thousands of
dollars to bring in Religious Celebrity to move / entertain the crowd and raise
huge financial offerings.
Unfortunately
due to this love of money; whenever the church is putting on any kind of event
this unasked question always linger in the minds of many
“Where is the money from this event
going?)
There
are some church leaders who, before accepting an invitation / opportunity to
minister the word of God that will make it know beforehand as to what their financial
honorarium should be; then there are those who boast of the royalties from
their books and other material sales. It’s like, GONE are the days when the
Holy Spirit was the driving force in the church and behind the action and
motives of church leaders.
Today, it’s
all about the MONEY; church leaders have adopted the mind-set of the drug
dealers, the politicians, etc; which is to
(GET ALL YOU CAN, AND CAN ALL YOU GET)
With
all that’s being said; The half has not yet been told.
But, here’s the apostle Paul instructions to the
young Pastor Timothy
(1Tim.6: : 11.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things;
and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Pastors
Matthew & Brendalee Allen
Kingdom
Minded Fellowship Center Int’l
