People around the world all get hurt growing up in various ways.  Most are hurt emotionally through hurtful words from people (often their own father or mother, a step-parent, other relatives, siblings, friends, etc., ) and some are hurt through physical or sexual abuse (or simply being touched sexually from anyone or shown pornography).  When we get hurt we will remember what happened to us as the demons tell us over and over again how evil those people were who took advantage of us so that we cannot truly forgive them in our hearts which gives the demons legal rights to continue to speak to our minds, giving us negative thoughts of anger, fear, anxiety, depression, impure sexual desires, etc.  Then many of those who were wounded come into the church and never get their soul wounds healed or delivered from their demons and continue to hurt people (usually their spouse, children and certain people that they target in the church).  About 85% of marriages (and relationships) consist of one person who has the spirit of Jezebel and Leviathan and another who has Ahab.  They work in tandem with each other but never have true godly intimacy.  So to understand…

Have you ever thought about the seeds that you sowed when you were younger will eventually turn into a harvest of what you planted once you get older?  Thus if you treat people with love, kindness and goodness and walk in humility the Lord sees that and will eventually bless you with a good harvest (often it can be later in your life when you are in your 40’s, 50’s or after you have suffered and endured many soul wounds as the Lord will use it later in your life) as long as you choose to forgive all who have hurt you in your past, humbled yourself from your pride and repented for your own sin and aligned your life with Christ.   Conversely if you treat people with evil, controlling, lying, pride and sexual sin then you could reap a harvest of failure, pain, loneliness, sickness and death.   Galatians 6:7-8 NKJV 7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.   It is amazing to see…

The Lord looks at our hearts and minds and ultimately at what our daily fruit is.  That is really the only way to know if a person is a real, authentic Christian or just a fake Christian in name only. How many people do you know who go to church regularly but still walk daily in pride, sexual sin, are controlling and demanding, selfish and mean?  Jesus did not like the Pharisees and scribes because He knew their hearts were evil and they simply acted pious in front of other people to make them look like they were godly as their pride was strong.  I used to think that people were Christians as soon as they asked Jesus to come into their hearts because that is what I was taught.  But then I observed many church attenders (including many pastors or their wives and other leaders) who chose to live lives of sexual impurity, ungodly behavior, pride and wanting to control and emotionally abuse their spouse and children causing much damage.  I learned why the divorce rate was so high amongst church attenders was because at least one of the two in marriage refused to own their evil behavior and…

Many people want to only think of God as an all loving, look the other way on people’s sins and consequences for people’s actions, who tolerates those who abuse others emotionally while giving us hyper grace to get into heaven after we have died instead of holding us accountable for our behavior and lack of fruits of the spirit, and looking at the intentions of our hearts and minds.  But God is a God of justice and He knows the truth about all of us.  He knows how we treat our spouse and children and other people and it all matters.  He knows if we are emotionally, verbally, physically or sexually abusive or perverse.  And the Bible says he hates abuse, perversity, lying, and doing evil.  There are many people who abuse their spouse their entire marriage and unfortunately use the religious people in the church to protect them by shouting the “God hates divorce” scripture in order to keep them in their abusive marriage while ignoring the scriptures about their own abuse of their spouse which causes many to reluctantly desire to leave them so they can actually live and not die a slow pre-mature death.   Proverbs 6:12-19…

When we grow up we will receive various wounds to our soul (our mind, will and emotions) from people such as our father, mother, step parents, grand-parents, relatives, siblings, neighbors, church people, law enforcement, etc.  We all receive wounds as some get hurt in smaller ways (negative words, ungodly behaviors, pornography, incest, etc.) and some in much larger ways (sexually molested or raped, physical abuse, being yelled or screamed at).  When we get wounded we will then have thoughts of our own but also thoughts from demons who will chime in to make sure you have some anger and bitterness develop towards those who hurt you.  The demons know that when you have bitterness develop that they will have legal rights to speak to you and then hurt you and cause you to have all kinds of issues with your relationships (spouse and children and others) and physical issues in your body (sickness and diseases).  Demons will tempt you to sin so you will get hurt more and develop various addictions (alcohol, drugs, smoking, sex, etc) and then make decisions that are to your detriment.  Pride will also have legal rights to enter you (the spirit of Leviathan in Job…

Have you ever known someone who is actively involved in doing good works for their church, community and the world yet treats their spouse, children, employees, members of a ministry or certain people in very harsh, controlling, condescending, gossipy and prideful ways? When you are the recipient of a person who treats you badly while seeing all the good works that they do – how does it make you feel?  Do you feel like they are not the real deal – that they are simply actors or actresses who want the general public to view them as a great person all the while you have seen a side of them that is actually un-Christlike at the best and evil at the worst? How do you think God looks at people who play the role of a person who acts like they are very godly and giving but inside their heart and mind they are mean to those closest to them?  Do you think He can see the truth of who a person really is? 1 Samuel 16:7 NKJV 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for…

There have been several times in my own life where the Lord took me from a place that I was comfortable with inside myself into a place of discomfort that was definitely out of my comfort zone.  I used to be a very successful corporate business man focused on managing corporate relationships / alliances with other businesses that complemented the largest internet banking company and largest banking compliance company in the United States that I worked for.  My focus in life was making a lot of money and becoming a millionaire and traveling the world to see beautiful places. But then I ended up going through a divorce after 19 years of marriage that saddened me greatly and caused my children much pain and hardships that I could not stop.  At that low point in my life I began to hear the Lord speak to me for the first time.  He asked me what I wanted out of my life.  I told him I thought it was a lot of money so I would not have to deal with problems like my father had (as he and my mother argued a lot over not having much money).  But I told…

It’s time for people in the world to realize that demons are real and they affect people in their minds by giving them thoughts and trying to get them to say and do things to hurt other people.   And just because a person attends church, prays in tongues and prophecies does not mean that they have Christlike behavior, love and fruit of the spirit in their lives.  There are many who are modern day Pharisees who are filled with religious spirits, gossip and pride from demons because they have not been healed from their past soul wounds from childhood.  They are contentious, jealous, angry, bitter, selfish, sexually impure and lie on a daily basis.  Those who are healed and delivered will have the fruit of the spirit and good godly character and integrity and whenever they are around those who have evil intentions in their hearts will see those people manifest against them. That is why Jesus said he did not come for peace but for division. When you choose to get healed and delivered from your demons you will not be able to be in harmony with those who are listening to their demons because they will hate you…

In order to do great things for the Lord we must endure very painful seasons which will give us experience in walking in others shoes and stretch us to prepare us for doing far greater things then we would be able to do had we avoided all pain.  So even though no one wants to get hurt, betrayed, abused, persecuted, laughed at, mocked, lied about, discarded….it allows us to relate to many more people in the world and once we have healed (through forgiving people who hurt us, humbling ourselves from pride and repenting for our own sin) we are able to truly help others to get to their healing and deliverance as well.  Without the pain and scars we would not be able to be used as impactfully for the Lord.  So the Lord will take you into seasons of pain and despair in order to have you come out the other side with an amazing testimony that could help thousands or more. So many people in the Bible who did great things for God had to overcome extreme loneliness, betrayal, accusation, lies and pain.  Think about people like Joseph whose brothers wanted to kill him as they were…

It is truly amazing when you think about how many lies we believe to be true every day about situations and people.  We believe lies about people because we have been told information about people from people who have anger and hatred toward certain people that they can no longer control so they make things up to make other people to believe lies that are not truth to turn them away from their victims. I remember a woman in ministry told me once that she had a dream about me doing ministry with her in New Orleans.  This woman (Woman A) had a large following on Facebook in a group.  Another lady (Woman B) who had a similar ministry to hers was called a “Jezebel” and initially caused me to believe what she said about Woman B was true.  Later I observed that Woman A seemed very angry and wanted to “expose” many other people who had ministry to “take them down.”  I learned that Woman A lied about Woman B as Woman B was a very reputable person and had a ministry with great fruit.  Then later after I had to pull away from Woman A  due to her…