Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How often I have witnessed this. One who has just been reborn from above gets entrapped in the religious system. The JOY lasts for a season but over time, religion has its way and that joy is sapped out of the individual.
They grow ever so slowly (sometimes rapidly) more and more cynical of believers who are experiencing a continued refreshing wave of Joy. Religion hates this and draws them deeper and deeper into the dungeon of a humanistic sense-focused love based on a religious works mentality. Enforcing the Adamic mindset that God the Father is distant and withdrawn from our everyday life circumstances. He has given us a manual and now we are left to find our own way.
Now when you start talking about the freedom of living under the governance of Holy Spirit, they look at you like you are from Mars. Mention the freedom you are finding in the authentic sonship and the family of believers that you are journeying in the deeper revelations of the Beloved, and now you are a heretic.
Sadly you find such individuals having more faith in evil’s ability to conquer the world than the Love of Christ.
Is there any hope for such people? YES!!!
I was one of those people for years and then I had a life-changing encounter with the Lord and the next thing I know Holy Spirit had me sitting through hours-long teachings coming out of this little Church in Leesburg South Carolina called Hope Chapel of the Carolina’s via live-stream, being led by a guy named Damon Thompson. Over the years I was blessed to attend some meetings there.
One thing is for certain, the years of listening to his teachings began to expose the many religious lies I had accepted and even had taught. How I wish I could back to those messages of religious garbage that I taught others and remove every word of error. My daily prayer is that Holy Spirit will do just that. It is why my posts are often found speaking out against the spirit of religion as it is a destiny killer and the Saints are called to expose it.
No, I did not take every word coming out of his mouth as the gospel truth, I went to the WORD and the WORD bore witness to the truthful revelation coming out of his mouth. Exactly what Holy Spirit said the first time I watched a youtube video of him. It was then that He said “The Father wants you to sit under this young man teaching as you will hear His voice (The Father’s) coming out of him.
A little over 8 years later and I am finding myself swimming in an ocean of Joy every day. Do I still face trials? Yes. Do I still have challenges in life? Yes. But the difference is that the Joy of the Lord removes their sting, and regardless of what the world says or what others say or think about me, I am confident in the fact that the Father is head over heels in love with me, so their opinions do not have any power over me.
I challenge you, friends if you are not experiencing the Joy of the Lord, if your LOVE for Him is growing cold, check this ministry out with an open heart. Ask Holy Spirit to bear witness with your spirit whether what is being lived out in this family is true or not. I am confident that if you allow Holy Spirit to open your eyes, you will not only find out it is true, but you will also begin to hunger for the authentic Kingdom yourself and before long you will be able to smell the stench of that religious spirit every time it shows its ugly self.
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