I’M FEELING YOU!
HIS GREACE, HER GRACE
Did you know that your leader has the capacity to feel you in the spirit?
That’s what this portion or chapter is dedicated to showing you what a leader experiences when you come into covenant and relationship with a ministry and a leader. It’s more than just paying tithes, singing on the choir or praise team, serving as a minister. What literally begins to happen is the pastor develops “covenant “with the members covenant is a bond and vow of responsibility and accountability.
Your leader can feel you in the spirit!
When you have found you’re divinely ordained pastor that has been sent by God to be in your life, you become of like spirit. Your pastor will begin to feel you in the spirit because there is an attachment there. Your pastor will begin prophetically discerning and sifting through problems and concerns. Through the eyes of the spirit the Lord will begin to reveal unseen dangers and pitfalls. Believers have to develop and trust and honor for the word in their leaders mouth. You have to trust that when you have a divinely ordained leader from God that they are not always speaking words you want to hear and having flattering conversation with you, but you must trust that God will divinely give them the ability to see into your life with accuracy. There are times your situation will be divinely revealed to your leader. The lord will speak to them or cause them to see through the eyes of the spirit.
Your covenant connection with your leader and pastor creates a spiritual bond. When this spiritual bond has been established God begins downloading to your leader what’s necessary for your life and situation. The same type of attachment you have with you family and children, to those who are parents you should have the same bond and connection with your spiritual covering, shepherd and leader. That’s why when you develop this divine connection with a pastor and leader the first thing we must understand is that your pastors not called to be your friend!
Your pastor cannot be in a state of familiarity with you. Sometime laymen take advantage of their close state with their leaders and abuse the fact that they may know they pastor and information about them like no one else may know. Your pastor is your leader, mother/father, mentor and life source. Although you may see certain frailties of their life you must remember that Gods first called you to them, second he’s called the pastor to you to see and guide you. Third there’s now the relationship and the responsibility of accountability. The last thing that I want to remind you of is that your pastor is still human. Although they may encompass the Holy Spirit they are not some supper human or super hero. They have the same capacity and ability to fall and make mistake like anyone else, we as members also take on the position in the ministry as watchmen. Your church becomes the vineyard and you become the tender to the vineyard with your leader. You begin toiling the ground and breaking up things spiritually. Just as you are doing this personal work for yourself you then become the same tool by which the Lord uses to protect the leader your accountable to.
There will be many that come into the ministry to try to plant seeds in you as member and lay person and likewise concerning the pastor about his or her members. You have to have discernment. Your discernment is developed and strengthened as your pastor feeds and teaches you the word. Now you take off your natural sight and put on the eyes of the spirit to see and know what God desires for you to know.
1 Tim 3:5 begins to talk about the qualifications of a bishop, when we stick to the scriptural basis of these qualifications we come to this following sum total: first he must desire the office, rule his house well; holding it together with all gravity, be the husband to one wife, having his children in subjection.
When we come into relationship with God and his word the first thing that every born again believer begins to experience is an alignment. This alignment begins to bring order to your desires or “lust” to alignment, to lust simply means to desire. So as God has called a pastor or leader to ministry God has to first align them. He brings them to a level of intimacy with him to the degree and measure where now Gods desire becomes my desire. To walk in the office of bishop, which is to oversee a multiplicity of membership and churches our desire must shift.
Pastors, overseers, and bishops must walk ready for God to lead them as they lead the sheep. Not only that but a flexibility must come with their office, the church belongs to God, not to us! Sheep belong to God, not to us. So we must always have the capacity not to memorialize church and our salvation experience our desire shifts as Gods desire shifts. God may say no praise and worship for a month, just pray. God may say no praise leaders for 6 months let the choir sing. God may say let the ministers in your church preach for a year and no outside leaders. What does that mean? It means that as a pastor you must be sensitized in the spirit to the move of God, that your desire is Gods desire. For the lay member it means understanding that many changes come in the Corse of ministry. You should never be able to predict how your worship service will go. You should always be moving in dimensions and realms that are different in each service and worship experience.
What also begins to happen is as a pastor and leader you must be first married to the church! Just as you are married to the church, that means you don’t whore around with other lifestyles that the word speaks against, you don’t whore around with false teachings and doctrines, practices of witchcraft in any and all various forms. That means even your fleshly lust must come under subjection and control. Not drinking and smoking, not a money extortion, not greedy, manipulative, not quick to anger, sleeping with multiple partners, but must be holy and if need be married to ONE WIFE! And if you’re a woman that means you are married to ONE MAN
There are not side men and women. No “booty calls” and “slide offs”. It does not matter if you have children and are in another marriage, it does not matter if you have been married before or this is your first marriage and you used to sleep around. The bottom line is you need to be HOLY!
Just as leaders rid themselves of natural lust to lead the church and hold their personal households in gravity and in order they become the pattern for the church. Your pastor becomes the blueprint for every family in your ministry. What become of pastors and leaders who commit incest with their sheep? The house becomes defiled! You must stay holy… the word also says that a bishop must be blameless. That means no one should be able to find fault with you and with your current life and life style of living. When you live holy there’s not a worry. Now does that mean we hold people to their past? No!
When a leader has been born again and are now walking and operating in the things of God they now how authority to be and do what God says do. Everyone has a past. Don’t you? So who are we to throw stones when we ourselves are in glass houses! So now those great men and women of God become a mentor, mother/father and “living epistle” to the church.
This is for pastors, let me minister to you for one minute.
Your members are watching your life! Your mistakes and flaws are all a part of what God going to use to intensify the anointing on your life as well as in the life of those who ascribe to your vision. Now you become the “SPIRITUAL PARENTS” to your ministry. It does not matter if you are older or younger than your members they must honor and reverence you as a man or woman of God! You are the spiritual life line and feeding source for which life, deliverance, healing, breakthrough and all things that are necessary come. Like the jackass, your pastor is the vehicle for which the glory and the blessings of God ride into your life!
Will the real pastors please stand up!
God’s looking for men and women to use to be “spiritual parents” and coverings in the earth for those who need guidance. That sad part is that many that are pastors and leadership are still trying to live the life that people are living in the pews. Real pastors need to stand up, Real men and real women that will not bow down to the beat and drum of how the world is operating in this day and time. Remember you congregation is watching you. That’s why people fall, get lead astray; and leave the church because they watch leaders that fall. Now let’s get the members together. After you have been in Christ a year, 5 years, 10 years and greater, your focus is no longer what the pastors doing but how I can mature and serve. When leaders fall we that have been in the body of Christ for years should be at a state and place where it all doesn’t matter. Now that our leaders have fed us and matured us when they are fallen lets pray and restore them. I’ve come to help your understanding and reality, it happens! Leaders fall from time to time but it does not give us the right to flaunt out nasty living with lay members.
We also need to shut up with these fake testimonies of claims of deliverance that are not authentic!
Will the real church please stand up!
When you get authentically delivered by the time you share your testimony and you’re history it becomes just that, HIS- Story! Jesus died for these issues and problems we are still trying to harbor. Lay members, we the church must be ready to receive rebuke, correction and have error purged out of us. Remember our leaders are seeing through the eyes of the spirit. They are covering distances that you cannot reach until you spiritually mature… you can get there but they must build your spirit.
When I was growing up I didn’t like nothing green on my plate. No vegetables, salad, green beans, but I had to mature and know that if I wanted to be healthy and if I wanted to be strong I would have to eat things and endure things that are not always sweet. Not always to my liking. Your pastor is like unto a meal, the word they bring strengthens you and gives you life. After you have eaten well and the word or the meal begins to work on the inside a bowel movement comes. Now that which the body doesn’t need gets extracted or flushed out.
If you go to a church where a leader is only going to tell you what you want to hear, this is that happens when you join what I call the “itching ears ministry”. You will find a leader that will feed you the type of meal you want to eat, or what I call spiritual poison. A leader that’s not going to correct your spirit but strengthen the demons that are already operating through you! Now that’s ruff! Find you a leader that’s going to father you or mother you into your destiny and not stratify your itch!
When you tell your testimony it should turn from “I was” to “God delivered” or “God delivered me from…” half the time you don’t even know you’re really delivered from something’s till people tell you! The reason why it’s easy for us to talk about falling, having sex with multiple partners, cheating, cheating in our marriage, using drugs and drinking, and many of the other abominable and ungodly thing we do or have done is because, WE ARE NOT DELIVERED YET!!! When we truly get delivered out testimony has power and those that are currently in the cesspool that we have named will come out immediately because our testimony has weight and it has power.
Growing up in the church all my life I’ve seen members and leaders who use there so called “testimony” as the ice breaker to get in your bed room! How many times have you been the victim of that? People that tell you they want to be a covering to you, prayer partner, intercessor, personal prophet, they become the personal stumbling block by which the saints in the church keep falling. I came to buts this demon up in the church.
Will the real church please stand up? Will the real leaders please stand up?
This is why the leaders have to get right and stay right so the people can follow. Your church will look like what’s in your spirit. So if you don’t like what you see do some soul searching and cleaning spiritually and allow God to bring “transformation and deliverance”. I personally do not believe in “change” change means that at any point we can revert and go back to the old state or condition that it was before hand. Nail you issues to the carpenter Jesus! Nail your issues to the cross and the cross bearer. Let your history become HIS-story.
Your story should be that now that I have a seer, a mentor, a covering and leader, my life has been snatched out of danger, snatched out of sickness, mental illness and failure. Delivered from the cares are trails of life. Does that mean that we don’t suffer? No! Does that mean we don’t go through? No! But what begins to happen is God through your leader sharpens you, matures you, and develops you. Your leader carries you in his or her spirit more than you’ll ever know. They travail in prayer for you. Lay on their face to get not just a message but a WORD from the lord.
We are living in times where sermons are not going to save no one! But people are watching you life. People want to know does my leader feel me? Can my leader be touch by the reality of what I m experiencing? We study to show our selves approved. Your pastor’s burden is that we cannot study to preach a sermon. What happens in the spirit is when we study; we study to open up revelation and access! The word says we study to show ourselves approved.
When you are approved that means you have access. You have to know that your pastors feeling you. When they hit the pulpit you have to trust that the word coming out of his/her mouth is directly downloaded from God to turn your situation upside down. Now God is giving me access through the word and the revelation that my leader brings to bring not change… but bring transformation! Your leaders feeling you!
IN HIS GLORY
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