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		<title>Meeting a Soul Mate</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Wenona Russ Yes. Its true: God ordains marriage. And marriage is honorable. But God HAS called some people to be SINGLE. It&#8217;s in the Word. Some people act like getting married is the 11th Amendment to the Bill of Rights or the 11th Commandment&#8230; ‎&#8217;Thou shall have the unalienable right to be married&#8230;&#8217; &#8220;Thou [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=settingcaptivesfree.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30378247&amp;post=3489&amp;subd=settingcaptivesfree&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">By Wenona Russ</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Yes. Its true: God ordains marriage. And marriage is honorable. But God HAS called some people to be SINGLE. It&#8217;s in the Word. Some people act like getting married is the 11th Amendment to the Bill of Rights or the 11th Commandment&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">‎&#8217;Thou shall have the unalienable right to be married&#8230;&#8217;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;Thou shalt be married, even if its to a criminal, a lesbian, a gay man, a psychopath or a sociopath.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I have had people prophesy to me a husband as of late..lol. No harm intended, but that is one prophecy I have to P.A.S.S. on! I am enjoying this time to myself. When you&#8217;re coming out of something that was bad, it&#8217;s just not a good idea to jump head long into something else, no matter how lonely or how much the flesh tries to holler. And some ppl in church are just so&#8230;WOW! They get in church and lose ALL of their common sense!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I believe that this infection started in the Body when well-known preachers like Juanita Bynum started teaching folks how to love one another.  Then sadly, the world watched in horror as her marriage to Thomas Weeks fell miserably apart.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">People in the church-as a result of misleading advice and counsel from leaders-go and get these crazies and marry them, and then they are at the altar crying, praying and asking God to heal their marriages. When God ain&#8217;t called them to be married to one another in the first place! I can talk about it as raw as I do b/c I DID IT! And I paid for it! God had to break that thing UP and deliver me from my own mistake.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I keep saying it&#8230;and Im GONNA keep saying it&#8230;the DEVIL sends mates, too! To get u to renounce God, and live for him. To steal, kill and destroy from you. It is better to be unmarried and in the will of God, then married, trying to &#8216;reconcile&#8217; to a DEVIL, under this religious guise to appear like you are holy and love God when you aint&#8217; nothing but prideful! Too proud to ADMIT you married outside of the will of God&#8230;which is just as bad and comparable to falling into fornication or adultery&#8230;..YES, I SAID IT!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">They are ALL acts of DISOBEDIENCE unto God.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The problem with a SOUL mate is they are nothing more than just that:  SOUL MATES.  Your soul is the seat of your emotions, your will and your mind.  All that that other person will ever be able to do is satisfy YOUR SOUL.  While your SPIRIT man is dying, or dead.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Only GOD quickens the spirit and gives us LIFE.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">You reap what you sow&#8230;.now I know. God is merciful. He sure has been to me. But how many times God gotta keep delivering some of us from these DEMON mates????? God makes a way of escape and you go back into the foolishness. Or you go and get the SAME DEVIL with a different name and face! It&#8217;s time to get DELIVERED!!!! And the first step to deliverance is to OPEN YOUR EYES and see and KNOW the truth&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Leave the Church To Be Safe!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An autobiographical non-fiction book, in &#8220;Come Out of Her, God&#8217;s People,&#8221;  I interpret my 3 decades of churchgoing primarily within the title’s context. The facts of what happened to me within a mainline denominational African-American church remain constant. However, my interpretation has changed over time.  For the first 25 years, I believed that God sent me  to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=settingcaptivesfree.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30378247&amp;post=3456&amp;subd=settingcaptivesfree&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">An autobiographical non-fiction book, in <strong><a title="Come out sc" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/7285131" target="_blank">&#8220;Come Out of Her, God&#8217;s People,&#8221;</a></strong>  I interpret my 3 decades of churchgoing primarily within the title’s context. The facts of what happened to me within a mainline<a href="http://settingcaptivesfree.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/fb_611.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3460" title="fb_61" src="http://settingcaptivesfree.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/fb_611.jpg?w=490" alt=""   /></a> denominational African-American church remain constant. However, my interpretation has changed over time.  For the first 25 years, I believed that God sent me  to the Denomination to be an integral part of bringing repentance to that particular bureaucracy.  In this hour, I  believe that a counterfeit religious entity  sent me to church in 1979, in hopes that through much trial and testing, I would lose my salvation and curse God for allowing me to both rejected, spiritually abused and   deceived.  The devil  failed miserably.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">My own ministerial life is merely presented in the book  as a tiny iota of a huge puzzle&#8212;a microcosmic illustration of  a much broader, worldwide, endemic problem that really began in the 4<sup>th</sup> century, once Christianity became “organized”.  This book is less about me and much more  about the words of Jesus, as recorded in Revelation the 18<sup>th</sup> Chapter, verse 4:  “Come out of Her, My People, that you be not partakers of Her sins,  lest ye receive of Her plagues.” In the final analysis, the truth of this book is based upon whether or not I have rightly interpreted who the Lord is referring to as “Her.”</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Some Christians have interpreted the metaphorical pronoun of  Revelation Chapter 18  as a nation, with America as the prime candidate.  In fact, I know of American eschatologists who are now ex-patriots, having re-located to Canada.  On September 11, 2001, I too made a wrong assumption, as I watched on TV the destruction of the World Trade Center. With the fall of both towers in an hour, my bible was opened to Rev.18,  verses 8 to  10, specifically “for in ONE HOUR is thy judgment come.” So I  first interpreted the feminine pronoun as symbolizing New York City.  I told quite a few of my friends to “come out of Her,” and move to either upstate NY or another state.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">So I know firsthand that it is a lot easier to make a wrong interpretation of a symbol than it is to make a correct one.  In my case, as time unfolded over the  next  9 years, especially  with the publication of  my 4<sup>th</sup> book, “<strong><a title="Fake Jesus" href="http://settingcaptivesfree.me/ebooks" target="_blank">the Fake Jesus: Fallen Angels Among Us</a></strong>,” I began to have some serious doubts about my original interpretation that “Her” was a geographic location like a city or a nation.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">My spiritual awakening was both  gradual and sudden simultaneously. Gradual, in that for 25 years, I knew there was a reason why “church was not working,” but I rationalized that “anything that humans are involved in will be imperfect, and that includes the church.” Yet suddenly,  the truth hit me like a bright light in the face of a deer. I was in shock.  Then I shook. With the final tremble,  I quickly regained my  spiritual equilibrium. I have put decades of delusion and deception behind me, and I continue to press on to deeper levels of truth which I share herein.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The interpretation of biblical metaphors and other symbols is certainly not an exact science.  It is so easy to wrongfully assume that the literal is meant to be  symbolic and in reverse, that the allegorical should be  taken literally.  Quite frankly, it hit me  real hard that the “Her” could be  the entire organized church&#8212;not Catholicism alone&#8212;but the entire thing.  Protestants are quick to point their fingers at the  religious idolatry of Catholics, presenting ALL of  itself as the one true church. Yet, let’s face it.    Catholicism is the tree and  its fruit is Protestantism including  all of its  various branches and sects. The bible confirms that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.  For as Jesus Himself taught, if the tree is corrupt or evil, so is its fruit. (Matthew 7:18,19)</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> With each chapter of <a title="sc" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/10430823" target="_blank"><strong>&#8220;Come Out of Her God&#8217;s People&#8221;, </strong> </a>I am  metaphorically  standing outside of a burning church building shouting, <span style="color:#e00000;">“<strong>Come out! It is on fire!”</strong></span>  Therefore, those with an open, rational mind will at least perceive  how I arrived at  the conclusion that attending church in the endtimes is a dangerous thing to do.  Certainly, if we are not living in the last days, perhaps today’s churchgoers are safe.  Nevertheless, when you finish this book, I will be satisfied if at the least you have asked yourself <strong><em>“<span style="color:#e00000;">do I really want to take that chance?!!!!!”</span></em></strong></p>
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		<title>Ten Biblical Truths of Deliverance Ministry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though I have been serving in ministry since Oct. 25, 1981,  experiential  learning has been more a part of my serving than preaching, pastoring  or any other ministerial function.  What I have been learning for the most part is how to be “spiritually sensitive.”At first I thought that spiritual sensitivity could only be attained [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=settingcaptivesfree.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30378247&amp;post=3452&amp;subd=settingcaptivesfree&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Even though I have been serving in ministry since Oct. 25, 1981,  experiential  learning has been more a part of my serving than preaching, pastoring  or any other ministerial function.  What I have been learning for the most part is how to be “spiritually sensitive.”At first I thought that spiritual sensitivity could only be attained through the 9 supernatural gifts of the Holy Ghost, particularly the discerning of spirits.  Yet the word of God makes it plain that these 9 gifts only operate “as the Spirit wills” and not simply because we either desire them or seek them.  We are told to seek them and to desire them, yet one of the purposes of <span style="color:#0000ff;"><a title="idol sc" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/8761420" target="_blank">&#8220;the New Idolatry</a></span>&#8221;  is to warn the elect that Satan has some very clever counterfeits. In summary, here are some biblical truths to remember:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>1.Anyone who is truly saved cannot be touched by the devil without God’s permission. (Job Ch. 1)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>2.The plan of God is to lead the demons to reveal their own folly. (II Timothy 2:26)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>3.The devil believes that the only thing that keeps the believer faithful to the Lord is the fact that he or she is protected by the hedge.  In other words, we are in it for the blessings and protection from demons.  Demons are convinced that when the pressure is placed upon us, we will not stand. (Read Job)</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>4.When a demon has been able to have place in a Christian’s life, we should examine the situation based upon points 1-3.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>5.When the battle comes in a believer’s life, the Lord will make a way of escape.  Very often, the deliverance counselor or worker  IS the “way” that the Lord has made for a particular  captive to escape.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>6.Sometimes the Lord will permit a believer to be deceived because there is a valuable lesson to be learned from the experience.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>7.We must all humble ourselves to those times we do things that cause us vulnerable to demonic deception and attack. </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>8.We will never be smart enough to discern the trap that has been set before us. However, if we remain lovers of the truth,  the Holy Spirit that we have  will reveal all truth to us. (John 16:13)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>9.Deliverance counselors must simply trust God to open our spiritual eyes and reveal demonic devices to us, as  long as we  continue to walk by faith with complete and total trust in Jesus Christ.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>10.Anyone who is not saved, is in the hands of the devil because the devil has rule and authority over him. Any unsaved person who seeks deliverance must first come under the authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who is the Deliverer.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>       Although I may not be able to walk in a supernatural gift according to my own will like  the false prophets and psychics do with  Satan’s power, I leave supernatural manifestations in the hands of God.  In fact, I no longer actively seek the supernatural, as it is definitely a weakness of my flesh.  For example, if the testimony of  Celie in Africa is of the Lord, then He will move sovereignly and miraculously  when He chooses, without even my personal  knowledge.  What I have learned is that I can become “spiritually sensitive” to the extent that I can discern the Lord from what is emanates from my own  soul, or from what is demonic in nature. As you can ascertain from the profiles that have been presented in this book, the bulk of this kind of discernment  has  come to me by  learning through experience.  For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.  But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their sense exercised to discern both good and evil. (James 5:12-14) The “exercise” to which James is referring will produce true “LEARNING!” The more you and I learn, the more we can discern. Hopefully, you too can learn from my trial, errors and failures.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong> <a href="http://settingcaptivesfree.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/fb_14.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3454" title="fb_14" src="http://settingcaptivesfree.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/fb_14.jpg?w=490" alt=""   /></a>    How does “learning to discern come?”  Many study all the time by learning facts but they cannot discern truth in the spirit.    I have found that the most important aspect of learning how to discern is to experience the Lord’s hand upon me as I myself am broken. When I am broken, then I become sensitive and discerning.  Here is an example. I am acquainted with  preachers who have studied all the scriptures on pride and can quote them, even preach a good message about pride, yet not really be able to sense the sinfulness of pride in their own spirits.  Therefore, when pride appears in the captive, such a  minister will not be able to sense it.  His spirit will not be distressed.  He may even feel sympathetic to the captive when what he should be feeling is a sense of distress within his own spirit. </strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>   When the Lord deals with me through the work of the Holy Spirit by breaking me, then when I come across a sinful situation, I  feel distressed because my senses have been exercised to discern evil and to feel what God Himself feels about that evil. Once I have discerned the ailment or weakness that opened the door to demonic oppression, then I can serve my brother in the area of pride, if pride was the problem.  The more my own soul is renewed, the better I can serve.  The more I myself have been  dealt with, the better I am  able to make an assessment based on spiritual truth.  Once The Holy Spirit has   broken me in a particular area, I find that I am better equipped   to pinpoint the real condition of others. </strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>    A previously indicated, just as the mouth speaks what is in the heart, so too does the mouth speak through an email.   To make a good assessment of a person’s soul, we listen to his mouth.  One of the benefits of using emails in counseling is that I can  examine every written word and phrase, even the ordering of  a captive&#8217;s  thoughts by the way he puts forth his inner man in his sentences. Since both the religious demon and the witchcraft demon are rooted in the pride of its captive, pride uncovers the nature of the soul.   In the scriptures, rebellion,&#8212; a form of pride&#8212;, is comparable to witchcraft.  However, since the captive to the witchcraft demon will invariably suffer loss, or some other negative outcome to his physical and emotional well-being, its captive will ultimately desire freedom.  I repeat again that the relief from torment by  an apparently passive captive will often reveal a rebellious heart, filled with pride.</strong></p>
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		<title>When Deliverance Ministry Fails</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Consider the case in scripture where the apostles were not able to cast out a demon from an epileptic.  After rebuking them for a lack of faith, Jesus also pointed to two other  conditions for this particular deliverance to be possible&#8212;-conditions that the apostles had not fulfilled, namely, prayer and fasting. I have personally discovered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=settingcaptivesfree.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30378247&amp;post=3446&amp;subd=settingcaptivesfree&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong> <a href="http://settingcaptivesfree.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/blog_13.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3449" title="blog_13" src="http://settingcaptivesfree.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/blog_13.jpg?w=490" alt=""   /></a>Consider the case in scripture where the apostles were not able to cast out a demon from an epileptic.  After rebuking them for a lack of faith, Jesus also pointed to two other  conditions for this particular deliverance to be possible&#8212;-conditions that the apostles had not fulfilled, namely, prayer and fasting. I have personally discovered that where the religious demon is concerned,  an essential condition is  agreement  and respect between the captive and the  one who stands in the position of the deliverer. Simply put, those who have continued to challenge my authority and anointing are those who have not been set free. There are several other conditions.  </strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>    Since all of the demon&#8217;s wiles and devices are set in motion to keep both the captive and the deliverance counselor in the dark, both parties must maintain the ground of attack by making sure that dominion over sin has been accomplished.  For any un-crucified or weak spot in either party is an open target for the enemy to deceive.   Moreover, since each deliverance is an education in the spirit that must be patiently mastered, the captive as well as the deliverance counselor must open their minds to all truth, and close them to  all error.   Discernment requires accuracy in discrimination relative to perceiving the character and motives of  those involved, particularly those aspects of a situation  that are not clearly evident to the average intelligence. </strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>     I believe that it is crucial to point out that I take great care not to be derailed into a necessary search for historical origin of demonic doorways  to such an extent that I overlook the captive&#8217;s responsibility to fight and the Lord&#8217;s desire that the captive be free, in spite of what his ancestors have done.  I encourage the captive to become familiar with his own inner strongholds and how the religious demon may have used his own weaknesses to keep him bound&#8212;driven to act in accordance with the religious demons strategies and devices. Once a particular weakness has become visible to me during counseling, it is my job to make the captive aware of its influence upon his captivity.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong> With each new face of the religious demon exposed, new insights progressively lead to new challenges that neither the captive nor the deliverance worker has encountered before.  Yet I have found that in spite of all of the individual variations, the crucial conflicts around which the religious demon thrives are embedded with repetitive factors like competitiveness, hostilities between people, fears, and diminished self-esteem.  All parties in a deliverance must commit themselves to literally scrutinize everything.  Scrutiny is effective when close attention is paid to detailed, precise and   objective observation in a search for defects, errors and sins. All parties must press toward enlightenment in an aggressive fight to cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Although each and every relevant element of the client&#8217;s bondage must be examined and understood, one thing remains constant.  As a deliverance counselor, I must “go beyond the rope” and “work it through.”</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>     Nevertheless, in every case, my approach is basically the same&#8211;search for the hidden and the obscure; bring what I have found to the captive&#8217;s awareness; cause him to recognize how he has been working against himself; teach him who he is in Christ; and enable him to stand against all of the fiery darts of the enemy&#8217;s attack and counterattack. In this regard, I have also found through experience that there are four primary reasons as to how the religious demon obtains ground in a professing believer in Jesus Christ: a lack of understanding of the nature of true repentance and why repentance is absolutely essential to the new birth, a belief in “another Jesus”, an extreme seeking after signs and wonders without trying the spirits, and the influx of charismatic witchcraft, the fruit of  “out of context” preaching.  </strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>     As a former medium and astrologer, in all humility I confess that I know what it feels like to be caught up in a supernatural deception of false power.  Satan and his demons DO have the ability to transform themselves into beings of light. The word of God warns us in more than one scripture that many of the elect shall be deceived in the last days.  I believe that there are several seekers today who may be among the elect who are living under the power of a strong delusion.  In these last days, it is crucial to repeat the words of Hosea the prophet in this matter: “My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.” With humble contrition, I thank the Lord that although I myself was almost destroyed for the lack  an ability of discerning good from evil, He showed me the way to the truth.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>      In retrospect, a common thread throughout the book <a title="faces sc" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/357089" target="_blank">&#8220;Faces of the Religious Demon</a>  is that the biggest enemy to complete deliverance  from religiosity is not the demons, but it is the flesh. As we have seen, the capacity of the captive to recognize the consequences of demonic deception is limited without a commitment to stand against the forces of darkness, regardless of the apparent ruthlessness of the truth. Going beyond the rope embraces several aspects of spiritual warfare including those attributes of deliverance counseling that help the captive translate the messages obtained through learning how to read the subtle messages that the trends, seasons and cycles of his life unfold. </strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>     In the final analysis, life itself is a very effective teacher, not within our own control but in the hands of the Holy Spirit. If we do not grieve Him or quench Him with our carnality, we can  help Him to set the captives free in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. For me, this is like swimming beyond the rope of merely commanding a demon to depart, which I will do, as the Holy Spirit leads me.  Yet to be truly effective, I must stop the religious demon in its tracks by FIRST imparting truth. Jesus Christ has left his disciples with His word, His armor and His name.  As long as we do not allow the lust of our flesh for religion to grieve and quench the Holy Ghost, we will win!!!! </strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every prophet of God must submit to the refining fire of God to be fit for the task of ministry. In my case, God&#8217;s  tools of my refinement were rejection and failure. Linked to the softcover Even though I was certainly spiritually abused as a pastor and an evangelist for more than two decades, I did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=settingcaptivesfree.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30378247&amp;post=3437&amp;subd=settingcaptivesfree&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Every prophet of God must submit to the refining fire of God to be fit for the task of ministry. In my case, God&#8217;s  tools of my refinement were rejection and failure. </strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Even though I was certainly spiritually abused as a pastor and an evangelist for more than two decades, I did not desire to “come out of her.”  In fact, I was  literally driven out of a well-known African<a href="http://pamsheppardpublishing.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/bookcover_6.jpg"><img title="bookcover_6" src="http://pamsheppardpublishing.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/bookcover_6.jpg?w=125&#038;h=94" alt="" width="125" height="94" /></a> American denominational church.<a title="cooh-ebook" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/10430823" target="_blank">  In Come Out of Her, God&#8217;s People,&#8221;</a>  I  really don&#8217;t reveal  the details of my pastorate at two denominational  churches.  As I recollect, they were the years of my life when I felt most unloved and most unappreciated. The persecution that I endured at St. Matthew, Norwich NY and Dyer Phelps, Saratoga NY would take up too much time, and it really would do little to enhance this testimony. Simply put, I will sum up  those  horrible years by simply  proclaiming that throughout my pastoral service and evangelistic labor in this particular denomination,  it was the divine hand of God  Who  purposely set me up to be unsuccessful.  For knowing myself as I do, if I had been successful in works of the flesh,  I would be wretched, poor, blind and naked in my powerless comfort zone of denominational acquiescence.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>     Suffice it to say for now, that through  three pastorates over a 25 year span, I submitted myself to the cross of the Savior, picked it up and followed Him. Now that I have  been informed as to why I was sent not once but twice to the Denominational church, I now know why the Lord Himself allowed Satan to set me up to fail as one  of Zion’s pastors. In this hour, I now realize that the circumstances that under girded each failure are not as important to my testimony as the recorded events in the book.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>  In fact, I believe that my failures in the denominational pastorate were definitely used by the Lord to renew my soul. In this regard, I learned to understand the hidden worth of my failures,&#8212; an invaluable spiritual truth that “the Pam without Christ” could never have perceived without the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. In my fleshly nature I am an achiever, an assertive woman where failure is unacceptable.   In fact, in my secular career, my all-male co-workers were known to admiringly describe me as a woman &#8220;with gonads.” I obtained this vivid and illustrious title because I was the only one among my peers who confronted issues in the agency that the men were either too intimidated or too fearful of reprisals to address.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>   Men simply do not expect or desire to acknowledge that a woman can or even should be bold and fearless. As such, when a woman stands up for truth, she must have two gonads rather than   her own two breasts. In the secular world, I have never been the underdog. In fact, even though I have a soft, feminine side, in the world my natural womanhood was overshadowed by the strength of my survival instincts. Therefore, the dirt that was done to me by people who call themselves ‘Christian’, my carnal nature without Christ would have been so outraged that retaliation would definitely have been &#8220;in order!!!&#8221; </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Enemies faced in the secular world knew that I had the capability of being a deadly adversary so when they came at me, they knew that they had “to come correct!”  Therefore, as I look back at  the weak, insecure people who the enemy used against me in the two Denominational  churches that I pastored, I perceive that the Lord most assuredly  used these  failures to successfully cut the evil emotions of hatred, bitterness and un-forgiveness from my soul. I learned that in spite of what the sheep did to me, as a shepherd called by the Lord Jesus Christ to serve them, I could not fight them back.  I could not harm or damage the Lord’s sheep.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong> Throughout 30 years in ministry and 35 years saved, the Lord  repeatedly demonstrated to me that vengeance is His. Over the years I have watched Him repay as He  allowed the plagues to overtake all of  my enemies in the organized church. Consequently, although much could be written about several other professing  Christians that the enemy used to try to discredit and destroy not only my ministry but the essence of my being, in &#8220;Come Out of Her, God&#8217;s People&#8221; I choose to only testify   concerning  those persons and situations that played a significant role in &#8220;the making of a prophet.” As I look back over 30 years of ministry, I realize that I have  learned invaluable spiritual lessons and revelations  by watching unto prayer.  Like the prophets of old, I endured hardship like a good soldier. Sometimes hurt, almost crushed, but never destroyed.  At least I didn&#8217;t get beheaded as did  the prophet John the Baptist, although my spiritual head was on the chopping block more than once.</strong></p>
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		<title>False Conversions &#8211; No More Ishmaels, Part 2</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, I will say this:  the birthing of a GOD GIVEN, GOD ORDAINED thing, whether it be a ministry, a child, a marriage, a business, a dream, a vision, etc&#8230;whatever it is&#8230;.IS NOT A BAD THING!  The Word of God says the people PERISH w/o a vision! But when u start getting into birthing things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=settingcaptivesfree.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30378247&amp;post=3427&amp;subd=settingcaptivesfree&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Now, I will say this:  the birthing of a GOD GIVEN, GOD ORDAINED thing, whether it be a ministry, a child, a marriage, a business, a dream, a vision, etc&#8230;whatever it is&#8230;.IS NOT A BAD THING!  The Word of God says the people PERISH w/o a vision!</p>
<p>But when u start getting into birthing things that GOD DID NOT SAY TO BIRTH, you are going off into dangerous, rebellious territory.  B/c WHATEVER is not BORN OF GOD IS BORN OF THE DEVIL!!!!!  NO MATTER WHAT IT IS!!!!!!</p>
<p>The desire to birth a thing falls into sin when GOD DID NOT TELL YOU TO DO IT.  Period.</p>
<p>The best protection against this deception is to be LED BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD!!!!!  Learn to hear from the Lord for yourself.  HE WILL let you know if He is pleased with what ur doing or not!</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t care if the most popular of preachers encourage you to do it.  I have heard such preachers as TD Jakes, Juanita Bynum and Cindy Trimm talk of birthing things&#8230;in the Spirit.  I have heard of them speaking of spiritual stimulation and impartation.  This is nothing more than sensual, soulish, and even demonic and should NOT be entertained!  It does not matter WHO teaches it, if it cannot be supported by scripture or goes AGAINST it, it must be refuted.</p>
<p>There are so many Ishmaels running around today&#8230;Ishmaelite ministries, marriages, literal Ishmael children!  Its tight, but ITS RIGHT!  Things and people GOD did not ordain to be in the earth.</p>
<p>Now, its not to say Ishmael is not, won&#8217;t be, blessed.  Of course, they will.  BUT they will be blessed, empowered-eventually-to go AGAINST the Spirit of God and the will and plan of God.  It was not, IS NOT, the will of God that we have to deal with the Iraqi war.  Look at all the ppl who have died as a result of this war.  Why?  B/c 1000s of years ago, Abraham couldn&#8217;t WAIT ON THE LORD for His promise&#8230;he had &#8216;to help God out.&#8217;</p>
<p>Now, God is still God.  He is still on the throne.  He will grant victory.  BUT LOOK AT WHAT COST!</p>
<p>Had Abraham kept his pants on-if he had any-there would be no war over there right now.  9-11 would have never happened!</p>
<p>When the sons of men slept with the women after the flood&#8230;.they created giants (Ishmaels) who terrorized the land.  Much sin was wrought in the earth.  I honestly believe THIS is when homosexuality was introduced into the earth.  Hence, Sodom and Gomorrah&#8230;.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p><strong>ILLEGITIMATE STIMULATION, INTERCOURSE IN THE SPIRIT AND THE NATURAL, ILLEGITIMATE IMPARTATION AND CONCEPTIONS AND ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS!!!!!!!!</strong></p>
<p>Now, I know.  Someone is gonna say&#8230;&#8217;How could a birth of a child EVER be wrong?&#8217;</p>
<p>When it was NOT in the will of GOD for that child to be conceived in the first place!  THATS HOW!!!</p>
<p>Ishmael was NOT supposed to be born, or conceived.  But he was, by folks who said they knew God, too.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t tell me saved folks don&#8217;t birth things illegitimately!  It happens more times than we like to mention!</p>
<p>BE NOT EQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS is a real concept, ppl.</p>
<p>Translate that to mean, also&#8230;&#8217;DON&#8221;T HAVE NO BABIES WITH THEM, EITHER!&#8221;</p>
<p>Ministerially speaking, don&#8217;t start ministries, fellowship with, partner with, ANYONE who you KNOW is an unbeliever.  I don&#8217;t care if Apostle, Prophet, Chief Prelate of whatever, Pastor, or Evangelist is in front of their name.  The DEVIL got his five fold, too!  WHY?  <a title="wenona" href="http://endtimeebooklibrary.wordpress.com/about" target="_blank">TO ILLEGITIMATELY BIRTH MINISTRY-DEMONIC MINISTRY-IN THE SPIRIT AND THE NATURAL</a>.</p>
<p>God is FOR giving birth&#8230;but ONLY to what HE HAS ORDAINED.</p>
<p>Now there IS mercy for those of us who have birthed Ishmaels, and I believe we all have.  But do know that some of the very trials, tribulations and adversities that we seek prayer and intercession for ON A CONSISTENT BASIS were NOT initiated or ordained to take place in our lives.  These things we go thru were not the destinies God had in mind for us.  But we bring them on ourselves as a result of our sin.  Abraham had to forever deal with the separation from his own flesh and blood b/c of his disobedience.  And I am sure he had NO idea that his precious little Ishmael would grow up to birth a nation of ppl that would forever be at war with HIS ppl!</p>
<p>We bring trouble on ourselves in our own disobedience, impatience and rebellion. God is there to help&#8230;but how much greater reward is it if instead of taking all that time, energy, anointing and applying it to the original assignments GOD ordained for us to complete instead of trying to FIX problems/Ishmaels WE birthed into this realm?   But do know that even in mercy, there is a price to pay for disobedience.</p>
<p>We truly reap what we sow&#8230;.</p>
<p>Please take heed.  THIS IS REAL!  The enemy is not gonna came at some of us with crack, or Hypnotiq or perversion.  Some of us he is gonna get with false ministry gifts, false five fold, false anointings coming to us and presenting themselves like they are the real thing.</p>
<p>KEEP UR EYES OPEN!</p>
<p>God Bless and Shalom!</p>
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		<title>False Conversions &#8211; No more ISHMAELS! Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Wenona Russ For the past few days, the Lord has been dealing with me heavily about Ishmaels.  Those things that we tend to birth thru our flesh b/c we find it SO hard to wait on the Lord. It is in the nature of a woman-in particular-to want to birth a thing.  Men, too. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=settingcaptivesfree.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30378247&amp;post=3405&amp;subd=settingcaptivesfree&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">By Wenona Russ</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">For the past few days, the Lord has been dealing with me heavily about Ishmaels.  Those things that we tend to birth thru our flesh b/c we find it SO hard to wait on the Lord.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">It is in the nature of a woman-in particular-to want to birth a thing.  Men, too.  But for different reasons:  women love the idea of birthing something, anything, b/c it makes them feel more productive.  It gives her a sense of purpose and fulfillment unlike any other thing a woman can do.  This is why there are teenage pregnancies and what not&#8230;that girl wants something to love, to cherish, to nurture, to bring up&#8230;b/c it gives her a sense of PURPOSE.  Something to love.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">So whether she is ready or prepared for it or not, she gets pregnant.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">As it is in the natural, so it is in the SPIRIT.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A female wants to feel like she can nurture something.  So she will hook herself up with someone who SHE KNOWS is not of God b/c she feels like she is anointed enough, powerful enough, on it in the Spirit enough to nurture and love that thing to perfection!  Whether it be a ministry, a husband, a child, a business&#8230;whatever.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS in the spirit&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">For the man, a man gets a sense of accomplishment when he procreates.  He is made to feel like he is virile, powerful, and EVERY man wants a seed in the earth that will outlast him.  God created the man like that&#8230;.that desire to procreate IS a godly thing&#8230;.God PUT that in the man.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The problem arises when the man is OUTSIDE OF THE WILL OF GOD&#8230;and yet still wants to procreate.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">It is when a man is not ready for the responsibility when the problem arises&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">As it is in the natural, so it is in the spirit&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A man who knows he is anointed by God, but IS NOT READY for ministry will seek illegitimate means to support his ministry.  He will go thru great lengths-most of them ungodly ones-to &#8216;birth&#8217; a ministry.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The following are some thoughts God dropped in my spirit regarding ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;That devil KNOWS a MAN and another MAN cannot reproduce, and that IS the #1 agenda of the enemy. To reproduce after HIS OWN KIND&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">So whether it presents itself in the form of a homosexual or a partner in ministry, that spirit will SEEK OUT THE WOMB-whether natural OR spiritual-of A WOMAN so that it can properly reproduce after its own kind!!!!! LADIES, BEWARE!!!!! When a man seeks out a woman to &#8216;help out in the ministry&#8230;&#8217; He knows he cannot do anything-i.e., have a baby, have a well rounded ministry, a legitimate one-without the natural OR spiritual womb OF A WOMAN. BE PRAYERFUL!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;And Im NOT just talking about PHYSICAL reproduction-Im talking about SPIRITUAL reproduction as well! Why do you think all these illegitimate ministries are being birthed? Illegal, illegitimate spiritual intercourse &amp; impartation, conception &#8211; then birthing!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;It started with illegitimate STIMULATION-they flatter you telling you how anointed you are, they want to take you under their wings to cultivate the anointing in you-as if THEY harvested the anointing themselves! ILLEGITIMATE STIMULATION!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;Some so called &#8216;men of God&#8217; will link up with you NOT for the $$$, ur anointing, <a title="wenona" href="http://endtimeebooklibrary.wordpress.com/about" target="_blank">legitimacy in ministry</a>, etc, but b/c they want to have a child with you!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;OH LORD! I know Im gonna get it for this. But I am about to EXPOSE that devil and ALL his plots and schemes! A couple got married-a &#8216;man of God&#8217; and a lady I know, and when I heard about it, the spirit of the Lord told me &#8216;he is only marrying her to have a child with her&#8230;.&#8217; I was like WHOA!!!! Didn&#8217;t give it a 2nd thought!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;You see, ladies, what we&#8217;re dealing with IS A SPIRIT. And this spirit mimics the Spirit of GOD. Just like God wants us to &#8216;be fruitful and multiply,&#8217; so does this evil spirit seek to &#8216;be fruitful &amp; multiply!&#8217; Some of these so called men of God KNOW they are on their way to a burning hell, and want a &#8216;seed&#8217; in the earth to continue the mission that they are on. One case in point is that HOMOSEXUAL spirit. We all get up in arms about how the homosexual agenda is spreading like wildfire thru every aspect of society. Well, this is why same sex marriages are becoming legalized. This is why now it is easier for a same sex couple to adopt than it EVER was. But ALSO there are HOMOSEXUALS that are actually procreating with women to re-populate the earth with MORE homosexuals. YES, ITS TRUE!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Nothing but FALSE CONVERSIONS in the spirit!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;You say, how is that possible? Well, think about it: look in the church. It seems like there are MORE homosexual leaders now more than ever&#8230;but they came from SOMEWHERE! The likes of James Cleveland and Walter Hawkins and others in the church married, procreated with women, and birthed a whole new species of gay and lesbian offspring. So all these ppl who are struggling with their sexuality were birthed from corrupted seed, undelivered seed. And NO ONE in the church confronted the sin. Our grandparents and parents KNEW this was going on in the church! But NO ONE dealt with it. And sin that is not dealt with GROWS. Look at what happened to the artist formerly known as Tonex. He was molested by those in church as a child-IN AN APOSTOLIC CHURCH! And NO ONE dealt with it. But now everyone wants to bash him&#8230;YET NO ONE tried to help him when he was a child. They just let this stuff continue in the church&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;LADIES: YOU ARE THE ENTRYWAY-THE LEGAL ENTRYWAY-INTO THIS EARTH REALM! ANYTHING THAT IS BIRTHED IN THIS REALM HAS TO COME THRU UR LOINS! WATCH WHO U ALLOW TO FERTILIZE UR EGGS! SPIRITUAL AND NATURAL!!!!!!!   B/C WHAT U BIRTH COULD BE OF THE DEVIL!!!!!!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;JUST LIKE CHRIST-THE MESSIAH OF THE WORLD-HAD TO COME THRU THE WOMB OF A WOMAN, THE ANTICHRIST AND EVERY SPIRIT ATTACHED TO IT HAS TO COME THRU THE LOINS OF A WOMAN!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;The enemy will constantly seek to birth thru ur womb, spiritual or natural seed. Ministries. Children-natural and spiritual. Businesses. ANYTHING! PROTECT UR ANOINTING!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;In this society, childbearing and having kids has become idolized&#8230;hence, all these shows showing women in the delivery room and what not. Folks are actually worshipping the act of childbearing. And religious folks or spiritually blind folks cannot see what the enemy is doing&#8230;.he is shutting the wombs of the righteous by getting the righteous to procreate with the &#8216;sons of men.&#8217; NOT the sons of GOD! So every birth of a child is supposed to be blessed,according to the religious. But those of us who are spiritual know better. Do yall remember that movie &#8216;The Omen?&#8217; There are some children who GOD did NOT ordain to be here&#8230;the DEVIL did. The devil seeks to procreate JUST like GOD does. That is one thing the enemy covets, possibly even more than the anointing he once had! So now since he see he cannot get the anointing back, he seeks a legal entryway into the earth realm BY WAY OF THE WOMB OF A WOMAN! That way the position and assignment THAT DEMON cannot fulfill, HIS CHILD WILL! MY GOD! GRASP THIS IN THE SPIRIT!&#8221;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Wenona Russ You know I was just meditating on the word &#8216;mantle&#8217; today.  And the Lord led me to see that a mantle is nothing more than a coat.  A piece of cloth/clothing used to cover the body. I have heard ppl today use the word mantle and make it to have some deep spiritual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=settingcaptivesfree.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30378247&amp;post=3402&amp;subd=settingcaptivesfree&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">You know I was just meditating on the word &#8216;mantle&#8217; today.  And the Lord led me to see that a mantle is nothing more than a coat.  A piece of cloth/clothing used to cover the body.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I have heard ppl today use the word mantle and make it to have some deep spiritual meaning.  Some would say that a mantle is a spiritual thing, the mantle is the &#8216;anointing&#8217; of someone who we respected in the past-but who are now dead and gone.  And we covet their anointing.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">We get this belief system from the story of Elijah and Elisha.  More in particular, 1 Kings 19, when Elijah has his encounter with the Lord while he is hiding out from Jezebel.  After he gets the Word of the Lord, he goes to Elisha and hit him with his coat-as if to anoint him-as he goes about the mission to bring down Jezebel.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Later on, in 2 Kings 2, this is when Elijah and Elisha are DIVINELY separated&#8230;.by the HOLY GHOST.  Verse 1 says the Lord was taking Elijah up to heaven.  Not that he was gonna die.  Three times, Elijah tried to prepare Elisha for his departure.  First, he tells him, &#8216;Im going to Bethel.&#8217;  Then to Jericho.  Then to Jordan.  All three times, Elisha wasn&#8217;t having it.  He responded, &#8220;As the LORD lives and as you live, I won’t leave you.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">On the 3rd time, Elijah took off his mantle/his coat, and smote the Jordan.  It parted and the both of them crossed over.  Elijah asked Elisha &#8216;What do you want me to do for you?&#8217;  Elisha coveted after the ONLY anointing he had ever known or see&#8230;or beheld&#8230;which was that of Elijah&#8217;s!  So, of course, he wanted it.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Elijah told him &#8216;This is a hard thing.  But if you see me when Im taken, then you got it.  If you dont see it, you cant&#8230;.&#8217;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Elijah was trying to build Elisha&#8217;s FAITH.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I want you all to see this:  in this realm, dispensation of the world, the Holy Ghost WAS NOT GIVEN!  The only power ppl in the OT ppl witnessed was thru the hands of other ppl.  Chosen vessels God set apart to dispense that power and glory in this earth realm.  But b/c the Holy Ghost was not yet poured out on the earth, b/c we were yet in our sins, because only a select few vessels were usuable in the hands of God&#8230;.AND since the WORD OF THE LORD was Precious and RARE in those days&#8230;then YES, they practically WORSHIPPED man.  This is why Elijah, Moses and other prophets had to be taken away after a few years.  Because it was (and is) the nature of man to worship flesh.  And if flesh is all they see and behold, man will worship&#8230;.FLESH.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">So we know the story, how it ends.  Elijah is taken up in chariot of fire and Elisha wallks in &#8216;Elijahs&#8217; anointing,&#8217; which in essence really ISN&#8217;T his&#8230;but GOD&#8217;S!!!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Moses had to be supernaturally taken away, too. Hmmm&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">BUT&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">WE ARE NOW IN A DIFFERENT DISPENSATION!  THE HOLY GHOST HAS BEEN POURED OUT!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">We no longer have to covet the anointing-or the mantle-of another!  NO MATTER HOW POWERFUL THEY ARE!!!!!!!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">B/c no matter HOW powerful they are, WE MUST REMEMBER THAT POWER BELONGS TO GOD!!!!!  AND NOT MAN!!!!!  THE VERY POWER THEY POSSESS CAME FROM THE LORD!!!!!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">IN THIS DISPENSATION, WE NOW EACH HAVE OUR OWN, SPECIAL, UNIQUE MANTLES!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">We dont  need to wait til someone dies and then go off into the spirit somewhere, to call upon the mantle of Roberts, Kuhlman, Allen, McPherson or any of the other greats of the past to do the will of God for TODAY!!!!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">THANK GOD FOR THOSE VESSELS!  BUT THEY POSSESSED THE ANOINTING THAT THEY NEEDED, FOR THEIR TIME, THEIR DISPENSATION!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">BUT WE REQUIRE A GREATER ANOINTING, A GREATER GLORY!  A GREATER POWER!!!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">We must NOT venture off into idolatry and witchcraft by calling on the mantles and spirits of dead men and women of God.  THIS IS NOT pleasing to God&#8230;.not at all!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>There IS NO power in the so called mantles of the past.  </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">There is ONLY power the anointing that destroys EVERY yoke!  And that anointing-unlike evil spirits-are NOT transferrable!  I know-the most popular of preachers have taught this, but that is error and deception.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The ANOINTING comes STRAIGHT from GOD HIMSELF!  SEEK GOD FOR THE ANOINTING&#8230;.PRESS IN FOR HIS ANOINTING AND POWER!!!!!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Seek that from NONE other!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The reason why it is so important to me that you all understand this is b/c that today a mantle is something entirely diff&#8217;t than what it was in the OT.  In the OT, the mantle, or the <em>addereth, </em>the prophet&#8217;s garment, glory, simply put, a cloak.    But in the NT, the word &#8216;mantle&#8217; is NOT found.  I wonder why?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A cloak is an outer garment.  More specifically, A loose outer garment, such as a cape. Something that covers or <em><strong>conceals</strong></em>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">We have ALL heard it said, &#8216;The OT is the NT concealed and the NT is the OT REVEALED&#8230;&#8217;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Well, the reason why the prophets in the OT had to go around wearing cloaks is b/c the whole spirit of prophecy HAD to be concealed!  For the Holy Ghost had not yet been released in the earth and JESUS CHRIST had yet to come!  So it all had to stay a mystery!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">But in the NT, there was no longer any need to conceal, only to REVEAL!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">GLORY!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">So the equivalent word for mantle in the NT would be garment.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">But I must share with you that cloaks were NO LONGER NEEDED after Jesus was revealed and manifested n this realm!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">After the birth of the early church, cloaks only became important to those who were workers of witchcraft&#8230;.and the religious!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Religious people place over-importance on outer garments.  This is why after the apostles were martyred, and the fake church was instituted, they started putting extravagant outer garments, cloaks and robes on the leaders&#8230;that was supposed to give them importance, pre-eminence, power and authority!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">They could only imitate and emulate the power that THEY were aware of and knew about.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I want you to take a good look at the picture I posted to this note:  it is a robe that a witch or a warlock would wear.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I am sure in many a satanic cult or witches coven, they STILL have these rites of passages like the one that occurred between Elijah and Elisha.  &#8217;What?&#8217;  I can hear many of you say right now&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8216;How could u say that? That was Elijah and Elisha!  Are you saying the exchange of power that occurred between those two was demonic?&#8217;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">NO&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">What I AM saying is that it was necessary &#8230;.FOR THEN.  But NOW?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">NO!  It is not necessary!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">We can go STRAIGHT TO GOD OURSELVES and HE CAN ENDUE US WITH POWER FROM ON HIGH&#8230;not merely from some garment!  And THAT exchange WE KNOW will be a godly one.  A pure one.  A holy one.  AN ordained one!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Remember, the devil is a master imitator.  Whatever God does, he wants to do.  You better believe, if he could imitate impartation services, he could&#8230;.and does.  I PROMISE you&#8230;at many sacrifices and satanic rituals, there are demonic &#8216;impartation services&#8217; too.  They are ppl that pull on the &#8216;mantles&#8217; of ppl like Anton Lavey, the founder of Satanism, who passed in the late 90s.  Or Jim Jones.  Or even Hitler.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Yes, there are evil ppl that COVET power&#8230;.and they DO NOT CARE WHERE OR WHO is the source of that power!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">This is why we have to be SO VERY CAREFUL of the experiences that we embrace in the church!  Teachings and doctrines that we wholeheartedly accept, w/o balancing that thing in the spirit or against the integrity of the SCRIPTURES&#8230;we are OPEN PLAYING FIELD FOR DEMONIC activity&#8230;in our lives, in our homes, and in our churches!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">So before you start praying for mantles&#8230;.ask God to open your understanding and not to be deceived or duped by religion.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[.  This is what I believe. The Holy Ghost,&#8212;the Restrainer of the devil&#8212;has already  been removed from each and every organized church.  Therefore, it could very well be   that the Lord’s offer of repentance may  no longer  be available.  In fact, Her  problems&#8212;not the Body of Christ but the organized church&#8212; are so deeply embedded in idolatry,  and entangled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=settingcaptivesfree.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30378247&amp;post=3390&amp;subd=settingcaptivesfree&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://pamsheppardpublishing.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/fb_39.jpg"><img title="fb_39" src="http://pamsheppardpublishing.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/fb_39.jpg?w=290&#038;h=297" alt="" width="290" height="297" /></a>.  This is what I believe. The Holy Ghost,&#8212;the Restrainer of the devil&#8212;has already  been removed from each and every organized church.  Therefore, it could very well be   that the Lord’s offer of repentance may  no longer  be available.  In fact, Her  problems&#8212;not the Body of Christ but the organized church&#8212; are so deeply embedded in idolatry,  and entangled with deceptions passed down by previous  church generations,  I really  don’t have a word for “Her” other  than this:  “<strong> I believe that You have been judged already and that the Lord has found You  wanting.  Your final end can be found in the book of Revelation.”  Period.”</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://pamsheppardpublishing.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/come-out_front_cover.jpg"><img title="come out_front_cover" src="http://pamsheppardpublishing.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/come-out_front_cover.jpg?w=94&#038;h=140" alt="" width="94" height="140" /></a>So with that stated, my real target is not the organized church. I have nothing to say to Her. The book “<strong><a title="co eb" href="http:/www.lulu.com/content/10430823" target="_blank">Come Out of Her, God’s People</a></strong>” is a warning that I believe comes from the Lord Jesus Christ Himself&#8212;a written wake-up call  to the active churchgoer in this hour. Both the   title and subtitle have been adapted from  a scripture taken from the words of the Lord as quoted by the Apostle John in the 18<sup>th</sup> Chapter of the Book of Revelation which reads, “ Come out of Her,  My People, lest ye receive of her plagues.”  For the most part,  God’s people in this hour are in the church.  Therefore,  it seems quite clear that to come  out of “Her” simply means “come out of the organized church”.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">As I pointed out in <strong><a title="faces" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/11647727" target="_blank">“Faces of the Religious Demon</a></strong>” and in  <a title="fj" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/12044954" target="_blank"><strong>“the Fake Jesus,”</strong> </a>and in <strong><a title="idol" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/11927464" target="_blank">the New Idolatry</a></strong>&#8212;  the practice of idolatry&#8212; whether purposeful or in ignorance&#8212; is an open gateway to the plagues.  The prosperity gospel is at the top of the list of  the  most pervasive practices of idolatry in the churches today in competition with  the homosexual agenda. This very morning, I turned on Christian television and watched two well-known evangelists sell prayer clothes for healing with the ulterior motive of increasing their mailing lists to target the vulnerable with a bombardment of fundraising mail.  Truly, the list of idolatrous teachings  is very long.  Blasphemous doctrines and practices that are the most glaring are those which add to or detract from the gospel of Jesus Christ as both Savior and Lord. As Paul warned the Galatians, to add to or detract from the gospel brings a lasting curse with it. (Galatians:1:8) A curse is synonymous with a plague.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">What are the plagues?  The worst plague is a curse of  spiritual blindness caused by delusion and demonic deception. The worst of the worst is to be duped into believing that you are going to heaven, and to die and find yourself in hell for eternity.  For what does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world yet loses his soul? (Matthew 16:25) The fact that countless people have been indoctrinated into the  “I accepted Jesus” practice  aka the “make a decision” for Christ gospel are  the worst abominations  of them all.  For this form of idolatry distorts the word of God to such an extent, than I am willing to estimate that 85% of  churchgoers believe that they are saved, and they are not. Counterfeit spiritual births at the altars of God  are the  absolute worst plague, the fruit of  idolatry. This horrendous  sign is  pervasive  throughout the organized church worldwide&#8212;a wide gaping hole  for demonic infestation and other horrendous  plagues to enter with ease.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">It follows that plagues that can destroy the soul are actually worst than those that debilitate the body only.  Sickness and disease are  certainly among the plagues, but there are several others.    In our times, there are plagues that were not around in other generations: HIV/AIDS, crack, violence like drive by shootings, missing children and so many more.   Domestic violence and drug abuse, spiritual abuse can also be addictive. For example,  even though I was certainly spiritually abused by church leadership and by those I served as a pastor, I had become ritualized  and  I  certainly had no intention  to leave  the organized church. I was literally &#8220;called out&#8221; and &#8220;led out by the Holy Ghost.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">So I don&#8217;t take it upon myself to call others out. I put out the warning and the Holy Ghost does the rest!!!  I am on what I call <strong>&#8220;the Holy Ghost Blogging Train.&#8221;</strong> I send out the alarm in several posts a day, staying in a station for a brief moment. <strong> I holler in the spirit, &#8220;Come Out Of Her  and Get On Board the Lord&#8217;s Train. </strong> And I keep it movin. I don&#8217;t stop to argue,to debate or even conversate  in these blogs. Aint got the time.  I gotta keep it real and   I  must  keep it movin. It&#8217;s a soul train of blogs. Books for the reader who has time to sit in a comfy chair and read either on-line or with a book in hand.  Blogs for the person that is on the move.  The soul train.  A soul train of the written word saying <strong>&#8220;time is running out for pew warmers.&#8221;</strong></p>
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		<title>Understanding How A False Prophet is Made</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[false prophets]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[JUANITA BYNUM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Kuhlman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is how   Satan operates with the false fire of divine  healing. Once you think of it, it is really not that clever but the reason why this particular tactic &#8220;works&#8221; is because we are so gullible in our fleshly desire to look for signs to prove to us that &#8220;God is real&#8221; when what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=settingcaptivesfree.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30378247&amp;post=3378&amp;subd=settingcaptivesfree&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">Here is how   Satan operates with the false fire of divine  healing. Once you think of it, it is really not that clever but the reason why this particular tactic &#8220;works&#8221; is because we are so gullible in our fleshly desire to look for signs to prove to us that &#8220;God is real&#8221; when what we are called to do is &#8220;live by faith,&#8221; without needing a sign to believe in Him.  As Jesus said, &#8220;a perverse generation seeks after a sign.&#8221;  In conjunction with  the ultimate ramifications of sin and death upon our un-glorified, natural bodies, Satan DOES use sickness and disease to promote his own agenda.  God uses it as well for His own reasons.   <strong> An important last days component  of Satan&#8217;s  agenda is to fool the elect.  So what better way to fool us then  with a divine healing hoax? All it takes is for the demon   to &#8220;withdraw the symptoms of the sickness&#8221; from those whom he made sick in the first place!!!  Believe me, the sickness itself &#8220;is not gone.&#8221;  Only the symptoms are gone or in medical terms &#8220;put into remission&#8221; in order to fulfill an even higher agenda which is allowing a demon spirit  &#8220;to imitate God.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">If you take  a closer look at the 19th century,  a different perspective on the mega preachers  of today who focus on divine healing will come to light.  For example,t could be that like Kathryn Kuhlman,  some  of them are NOT false prophets.  The obvious pattern   in each and every case is  that <strong>ONE event served as the catalyst for a  total shift in the minister&#8217;s  direction and purpose</strong>.  For Kathryn Kuhlman, born to Baptist and Methodist parents&#8211;her significant day occurred while preaching a traditional sermon when suddenly her message was interrupted by &#8220;spontaneous healings&#8221; throughout the congregation.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://settingcaptivesfree.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/juanita_bynum.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3380" title="juanita_bynum" src="http://settingcaptivesfree.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/juanita_bynum.jpg?w=121&#038;h=150" alt="" width="121" height="150" /></a>Perhaps one of the  most perverse sermons that  I have ever heard preached was  called &#8220;Divine Release.&#8221;  The sermon was  uttered  by Juanita Bynum  about  5 years ago.  It was absolutely horrendous.  Yet, Juanita first came to public attention by the preaching of ONE  noteworthy message called &#8220;No More Sheets.&#8221; Bynum&#8217;s message was more of an emotional,  personal testimony about her struggles  with fornication as a single Christian woman  was  not an actual sermon. Yet this one televised opportunity provided by TD Jakes  changed the complete direction of Juanita&#8217;s  life just as Jakes&#8217; life was forever changed once TBN&#8217;s founder, Paul Crouch watched a homemade video featuring   TD Jakes .</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://settingcaptivesfree.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/tdjakes.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3381" title="TDJakes" src="http://settingcaptivesfree.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/tdjakes.jpg?w=490" alt=""   /></a>So is s Juanita Bynum   a false prophet?  To be honest, there is only one thing that we have the facts on. Bynum is the fruit that fell from the tree of Pentecostalism that goes back  not just from  her home church but   from the church influences of the 19th century. Pentecostalism is an evil tree that was planted by sincere, yet sincerely wrong people  and we ALL have been affected by it. Whether by vision, prophecy, a manifestation of a sign or a wonder,  it is possible that sincere and gifted Christian leaders simply &#8220;took a wrong turn&#8221; a century ago  that spread like a wild-fire,  defiling  all others who followed them.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://settingcaptivesfree.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/janandpaul.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3382" title="janandpaul" src="http://settingcaptivesfree.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/janandpaul.jpg?w=490" alt=""   /></a>Sincerity aside,   some mega preachers took the wrong turn primarily because their narcissistic personalities were never broken by the cross.  So it was natural for them to allow prominence, prosperity and power to develop  huge ministerial systems that are built around their own self-love. In other cases, less than sincere prophets   gather  to fill their  own pockets and serve their own  perversion for domination, manipulation and control. The bottom line is that    it is the Lord&#8217;s intent to undeceive   sincere  believers within the Laodicean church age. Consequently,  we all  have a great price to pay when we face the light of truth and discover that much of our work and effort has merely opened a door of opportunity  to the fake Jesus.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">As I have searched for answers and solutions,  I am truly dumbfounded by the mercy, grace and longsuffering of our God.  It literally amazes me to attempt to comprehend that for centuries, even going back to the rebellious children of Israel in the old testament, the Lord has tolerated  mixed and false doctrines  of all kinds for centuries on end.  Yet, throughout the history of God&#8217;s people, He has &#8212;on occasion&#8212; used those who spread mixed and false doctrines to evangelize and teach the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Think of it!!!! Just based upon the fact that the Lord has tolerated false fire for so long should suggest to us that &#8220;we are near the end.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I am humbled by the fact that the enemy was trying to turn me into a false prophet but a way of escape was made for me. I had the entire package&#8211;divine healing, a charismatic personality, drive, zeal and ambition. People fell slain when I simply waved my hand at them, much like Benny does ,  I also had many dreams, some visions and occult healing powers.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> How I got un-deceived is written in the books <a title="come out ebook" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/10430823" target="_blank"> &#8221;<strong>Come Out of Her, God&#8217;s People&#8221;</strong></a> and in <a title="idolatry ebook" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/11927464" target="_blank"><strong>the New Idolatry</strong>. </a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> Consequently,  I don&#8217;t point any judgmental fingers at any mega preachers, among whom are deceived ministers who, like me, the enemy tricked  into believing that their powers are divine.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> The problem is that whether some of these folk are sincere or not, the outcome is the same.  <strong>The sheep are damaged</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> If you happen to have been damaged by a mega or  an un-known minister, <strong>we have been refined by the fires of the Holy Ghost to be YOUR way of escape.</strong>  We consist of  wounded healers with recovery and restoration as our primary gift to YOU! So for help, call 518-477-5759</p>
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