What is Worship?
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What is Worship?
7 SepAre You A Spiritual Addict?
5 Apr
Looking back, I believe I was a spiritual addict, coming off of one high and waiting for the next moment of ecstasy. Besides having frequent supernatural experiences, my addiction manifested most often in the area of intercession, where I went before God weeping and wailing, until my eyes were so swollen that I could barely see through them. I thought this was my greatest sacrifice. I looked so humble when I was in the midst of it, that even my church enemies were affected.
To overcome a spiritual addiction, one needs to accept truth. Were you spiritually addicted? What truths did you have to accept that broke it? In fact, are you STILL addicted?
I took note of a quote from a book I was reading online, I believe it comes from the book called “Toxic Faith.”
The practice of faith can provide tremendous relief from the pain and frustrations of life. When a person trusts in God, he or she no longer feels overwhelmed with problems or burdened from believing all problems must be resolved alone. This is a natural result of placing faith in a God who promises that his burden is light. But there is another kind of relief, an emotional frenzy that becomes an addiction and robs the individual of real faith. I was on a Christian talk show and afterward had the pleasure of going to lunch with the staff. They related stories of the variations of faith and the strange incidents that develop when faith becomes unbalanced.
When I once served as a pastor in the institutional church for almost 25 years, I witnessed and personally experienced several instance of toxic faith, way too many to either remember or describe. Since I have been free from the church system since 2004, last year I began to listen to my old messages, going back to a time when I was pastoring a church I founded in 1996 called Healing Waters, with my daughter as assistant pastor.
What a duo we were! LOL. To put it bluntly without any sugar-coating, WE WERE WILD!!! She would pray and then go off into that sing-song whooping that black preachers are known for. Behind her, as a backdrop, I was speaking in tongues. I could hear myself goin “”babababababa.” I have since learned that Baba, is one of Satan’s pet names his followers call him. These sermons and messages are on my cell phone. As I listened while on the treadmill in the gym or as I lifted wfted weights, I almost became sick to my stomach.
God is so merciful and patient.
For 25 years, possibly more, I received supernatural experiences everyday or at least twice a week. Dreams mostly, but other things as well. Back in my church days, I believe I lived more in the faith of my experiences than in God Himself. If I was not truly born again, I would have been very disappointed when all of this spiritual captivation ceased. after decades of frequency.
Do I miss all of that supernatural excitement?
Good question.
Absolutely not. Once I found that most of my former mysticism came from the devil or one of his religious evil spirits, I WAS DONE!!!
The truth is that I really embrace the peace and my former of fear of dying. My quiet faith undergirds my knowledge that I am kept by God and I am fine with it. I have “entered into His rest” having gone through much struggle to get rid of the rollercoaster ride of ecstatic spiritual experiences. In 2007 and again in 2008, God spoke to me in a quiet yet thoroughly intense way. He sent His thoughts to my spirit, words received by my mind, and I answered Him back without opening my mouth. I did not groan, moan, wail, leap, run, shout or any other fleshly outbursts. I sat at my desk at home quiet and still as we communed spirit to Spirit.
Over the last 10 years, I have received messages and teachings in dreams and in sudden, kind of pop-up revelations. Out of those messages from the Holy Spirit, 6 books were birthed. What I know today is that anyone who claims they hear from God daily and that they have seen Him frequently, face to face is either a liar or he or she has been duped by a religious fallen angel who serves Jesus Sananda Immanuel who serves Maitreya, who serves Satan himself.
So I no longer push God to speak to me in a big way. I respect Him and so I wait on Him.
Its been a decade now. Time flew by real fast. So I am ready to hear from God in a big way again—soon!
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Going to Heaven as a Motivation
24 JunIf your motivation to becoming born again is to get to heaven, you have COMPLETELY missed the mark. Becoming born again is motivated by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our personal desires are pushed aside, and the Holy Spirit comes and shows us a “New Thing…” one that gives us saving faith in the power of the crucifixion, cross, and resurrection of Jesus Christ…NOTHING about YOU like the Institutional Church (IC) teaches. In the IC, it’s all about man, works, and MAN’S desire to get what HE wants out of the deal. When it’s the REAL DEAL, you are out of the picture, and Jesus Christ is the center.
I don’t know about you, but growing up in the organized church system, I was often taught that going to heaven was a motivation to wanting to be “saved.” I had absolutely NO DESIRE for God, nor did I really understand what the cross TRULY meant, and what the resurrection of Jesus Christ really was.
In most churches today, the preacher’s focus on the altar call is on the individual desiring a better life for himself, or perhaps the individual being so hopeless and guilty about their lifestyle that they are heavily encouraged to “make a decision for Christ” before it’s too late. What a self-centered approach to salvation!
As a reminder, Pastor Pam Sheppard had NO desire for God when He began his work in her and rebirthed her spirit. So desiring God and doing works to avoid ending up in hell certainly can’t be prerequisites to becoming born again. And Paul was a persecutor of Christians, yet the Lord saved him. Neither Paul not Pam were worried about “getting into heaven,” or avoiding hell. Neither was feeling so guilty and helpless that they did works to try to save themselves.
As for me, the thought of heaven or hell never even entered my mind when I heard the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. I was way too caught up in what happened to Jesus Christ, whereas beforehand when I was part of the IC, my MAIN motivation for trying to be “right with God” was because I wanted to get to heaven in the end…no concern for the cross and resurrection, and no change occurred in me. I just wanted to do all the works it took in order to be saved…when we all know that we are saved by GRACE, and NOT by WORKS. There is NOTHING we can do to get saved. Our human works are not enough. Only the Holy Spirit has the power to quicken our spirits, give us FAITH in the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, cause us to repent, and make is new, born again creatures. WE DON’T HAVE THE POWER TO DO THAT. WE CANNOT SAVE OURSELVES FROM OUR OWN WICKEDNESS. WE ARE POWERLESS. This is why the ENTIRE salvation gospel preached in the IC is COMPLETELY FALSE. The IC tried to step in and do the Holy Spirit’s job, which is not possible. I dare say that if your salvation experience occurred in a church service within the IC, you are probably NOT born again, and have a False Conversion…no matter how GOOD it felt. THINK DEEPLY ON THIS.
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IS JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH A MYTH?
4 NovIS JESUS CHRIST A MYTH?????
There are countless ungodly, faithless historians that have accumulated and shared lots of facts in order to either hide or distort the truth about the Lord Jesus Christ. With the advent of the video clip, the enemy is sending forth a subtle and at times a quite blatant message that the story of Jesus Christ is a fabrication, just because a similar story can be found in Egyptian, Greek or Roman mythology. What intellectual fools!
As the scriptures reveal, real truth about the gospel is foolishness to the intelligent who believe themselves to be so wise and God Himself will cause them to believe what their finite frontal lobes are too small to apprehend about either Him or His adversary,the devil.
Okay. Let’s keep it real and simple for those of us who need a no brainer. Who is behind mythology? the devil. When did the devil find out about the Son of God bruising his head? He found out in the garden as depicted in Genesis 3. So—it is obvious. The devil planted similar stories about the Lord in various Egyptian, Hindu, Greek and Roman mythologies so that intelligent fools would come along in OUR times and say “Look yall, the bible stole from the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans”, all to underhandedly discredit the bible and the power of the cross and the resurrection.
Well, it just won’t work with me.
You see, I was a myth buster from the time I was three and told my family on Christmas Day, “there is no such thing as Santa cause all of YOU brought me these gifts. I don’t believe in reindeer, elves or none a dat stuff.”
I carried my childhood cynicism into my adult life. I said “there is no such thing as heaven or hell. So let me live fast, die young and look good in my coffin. Jesus is a figment of the white man’s imagination to keep my black people in bondage, so in slavery times, they sold us a bill a goods to keep us passive. Then again, if God exists, and I don’t believe He does by the way—I really don’t care because the world is in such a mess, so He must not know what He is doing. Anyway, I prefer to go to hell cause heaven is too boring for me. I don’t want to sit around all day, playing a harp on no cloud!”
Now people, with a mindset like THAT, HOW do you suppose someone like me got born again?
I had never been to church in 33 years, never read the bible, could not stand religious people so I shunned them like the plague, never handed a tract and immediately turned Billy Graham off the TV once I heard his voice or saw his face! I was a myth buster!!! So how did it happen?
- Born Again on Monday, 3/29/77 at 4pm
Not to keep you in suspense, I had a Damascus Road experience, spiritually knocked off of my high horse by the Holy Ghost. He made Jesus real to me in such a way that my myth bustin, atheistic, faithless days were shot to hell!!!!!!!!
WHAT TO DO ABOUT FALSE CONVERSIONS Part 1
1 NovFalse conversions. I call them “counterfeit births.” I suspect that false conversions are the major sign of the great falling away. Clearly, it is rather obvious, even to the least spiritual among us in the world and in the religious world that there is certainly something wrong when there exists such a state of utter religious confusion and doctrinal mumbo jumbo. An understanding of today’s dilemma was prophesied by the Apostle Paul in his revelation to Timothy when Paul wrote that in the last days, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
Evidently, the primary demonic strategy is deception. Deception is the first stage of the falling away process. One of the goals of this blog is to un-complicate things. So I personally took the first step of self-examination. Once I discovered that there is a fake Jesus, the first thing that I did was to confront the issue of my own salvation, head on. Since it was so supernatural in nature, after more than two decades, I asked myself “Pam, are you REALLY saved? I did what Paul recommended to the Corinthians as recorded in II Cor. 13:5: I examined myself to see if I be in the faith. I proved my self. I examined myself to see if Jesus Christ be IN me.
Now to be IN me is not a physical or a soulical thing. Jesus is not IN my heart because my heart is a part of my soul. No, by the power of the Holy Ghost, He is in my spirit. I examined myself by John 15, to see if there is any fruit in my life. What is fruit? I will address that in yet another post. However, there were 3 things I looked for. Did I experience godly sorrow that worked repentance in me. Did I see my own sinful nature? Was I drawn to the cross or led to the Lord’s sacrifice by the Holy Ghost. Did I understand the resurrection the day I was saved. I realized that I have to first understand it in order to believe that a dead man lives in a physical body, who is now seated at the right hand of God.
I knew BEFORE I even examined my salvation that I was born again. However, I examined it ANYWAY.
So what do you do about a false conversion. You start with YOU. More in part 2.
WHAT TO DO ABOUT FALSE CONVERSIONS Part 1
1 NovFalse conversions. I call them “counterfeit births.” I suspect that false conversions are the major sign of the great falling away. Clearly, it is rather obvious, even to the least spiritual among us in the world and in the religious world that there is certainly something wrong when there exists such a state of utter religious confusion and doctrinal mumbo jumbo. An understanding of today’s dilemma was prophesied by the Apostle Paul in his revelation to Timothy when Paul wrote that in the last days, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
Evidently, the primary demonic strategy is deception. Deception is the first stage of the falling away process. One of the goals of this blog is to un-complicate things. So I personally took the first step of self-examination. Once I discovered that there is a fake Jesus, the first thing that I did was to confront the issue of my own salvation, head on. Since it was so supernatural in nature, after more than two decades, I asked myself “Pam, are you REALLY saved? I did what Paul recommended to the Corinthians as recorded in II Cor. 13:5: I examined myself to see if I be in the faith. I proved my self. I examined myself to see if Jesus Christ be IN me.
Now to be IN me is not a physical or a soulical thing. Jesus is not IN my heart because my heart is a part of my soul. No, by the power of the Holy Ghost, He is in my spirit. I examined myself by John 15, to see if there is any fruit in my life. What is fruit? I will address that in yet another post. However, there were 3 things I looked for. Did I experience godly sorrow that worked repentance in me. Did I see my own sinful nature? Was I drawn to the cross or led to the Lord’s sacrifice by the Holy Ghost. Did I understand the resurrection the day I was saved. I realized that I have to first understand it in order to believe that a dead man lives in a physical body, who is now seated at the right hand of God.
I knew BEFORE I even examined my salvation that I was born again. However, I examined it ANYWAY.
So what do you do about a false conversion. You start with YOU. More in part 2.
WHY I LOVE THE APOSTLE PAUL
19 OctSherry Shriner is quite popular on the web. In fact, she was a big help to me while I was conducting my research for the book
Pam Sheppard, 30 years a minister for the Lord Jesus.
“The Fake Jesus: Fallen Angels Among Us.” I found her knowledge of the ascended masters to be quite helpful. However, her writings on the Apostle Paul are blasphemous, considering that Paul wrote 1/3 of the New Testament. I won’t go into Sherry’s contentions about this phenomenal apostle because I refuse to spread her point of view. Instead, as a former atheist who had never been to church and no one had ever witnessed to me, Paul has been crucial to my spiritual understanding of what happened to me that strange but marvelous day when I became born again. For when I had my own Damascus Road experience with the Lord Jesus Christ, I knew of no one else who had ever had one.
Even though I got born again before I ever heard of the Apostle PAUL, I would not have understood why on March 29, 1977, I felt “so different.” The newness. The cleanness. The past seemed so far away. No shame or guilt for ANYTHING and I had been quite the sinner in my first 33 years of life. Why on this strange day in March did I feel like “I had JUST been born?” A few minutes after I was “born again,” I opened my brand new bible and it turned to John 3, the words of the Lord, “you must be born again, that which is flesh is flesh and that which is spirit is spirit.” After I read this, then the Holy Spirit spoke and said “Pam, you have just given birth to your new spirit in Christ Jesus. Go run a bathtub full of water, and baptize yourself in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost!”
Wow! Yahoo! I never felt so great in my life!!!
No, Paul did NOT cause me to be saved. No one did but God Himself.
I did not go to church for two years. All I had was the Apostle Paul and the 4 gospels. As a babe in Christ, home alone in my apartment, Paul caused me to understand my faith by confirming to me how and why God saved me. Too many people read Paul’s letters in order to be saved. In other words, they desire to be saved to escape hell, and so they mechanically DO what Paul wrote about. They think that if I SAY a confession, I will be saved and I will go to heaven because Paul wrote, “Confess the Lord with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus was raised from dead, you are saved. That settles it. I accept Jesus. I choose to be saved. I seal it with saying the sinner’s prayer. I’ll stamp it by going forward to the altar at the invitation.
You see, when I read Paul’s words, I said “Ah, that is what happened to me.” I did not repeat or confess words. When the Holy Ghost saved me, I felt like a coin was dropped into me, like I was a soda machine. But Lo and behold, what came out of the machine was not soda, but faith in the resurrection of a dead man that I not only did not believe in, but I claimed that Jesus Christ never even existed, but that He was merely a white man’s myth!!!!” I said nothing from my mouth but “Jesus.” “I am crying for what we did to Jesus!” That was it. I said nothing about the resurrection. I just knew that I knew that I knew that Jesus was dead, got up in His body and walked out of His own tomb, three days later. My belief on the resurrection was the rock or stone that dropped into me and never left in 34 years, not one time! No doubt Jesus is alive in His body not one time in 34 years!!!!
So when Paul wrote that we are saved by grace through faith, I understood the first time I read it because it had happened to me two years before reading Paul’s words to the Ephesians. I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that my salvation was a gift from God because I never even sought the gift. On top of that, I was the last person that anyone who knew me would have believed what happened to me. So I could nod my head in agreement with Paul because I knew that my salvation had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH ME.
However, what Paul taught me that I did not already know as a babe in Christ, is that the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the son of God. Without Paul, I would not have known or even understood that I can’t please God with my flesh. Paul has been for me one of the best biblical examples of a spiritually fruitful child of God. Once filled with pride over his scholarly achievements, his heritage and his cultural and religious attainments, Paul taught me how to die and yet live at the same time. He taught me how to stand against the enemy, how to press on to victory, how to walk in the spirit and not fulfill my lust of my flesh. He taught me how to press on to the mark of my high calling in the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
No, Paul did not cause me to be saved. What he did was train up a babe in Christ to become a minister. Once I entered ministry, I had a number of elders and a few bishops that I was mandated to submit to. However, none of them taught me a thing about what it take to be a minister. It was Paul who did that. I thank Paul for that.
In fact, I love Paul the Apostle.
If you would like a trained minister to mentor you, call 518-477-5759.
WHY I LOVE THE APOSTLE PAUL
19 OctSherry Shriner is quite popular on the web. In fact, she was a big help to me while I was conducting my research for the book
Pam Sheppard, 30 years a minister for the Lord Jesus.
“The Fake Jesus: Fallen Angels Among Us.” I found her knowledge of the ascended masters to be quite helpful. However, her writings on the Apostle Paul are blasphemous, considering that Paul wrote 1/3 of the New Testament. I won’t go into Sherry’s contentions about this phenomenal apostle because I refuse to spread her point of view. Instead, as a former atheist who had never been to church and no one had ever witnessed to me, Paul has been crucial to my spiritual understanding of what happened to me that strange but marvelous day when I became born again. For when I had my own Damascus Road experience with the Lord Jesus Christ, I knew of no one else who had ever had one.
Even though I got born again before I ever heard of the Apostle PAUL, I would not have understood why on March 29, 1977, I felt “so different.” The newness. The cleanness. The past seemed so far away. No shame or guilt for ANYTHING and I had been quite the sinner in my first 33 years of life. Why on this strange day in March did I feel like “I had JUST been born?” A few minutes after I was “born again,” I opened my brand new bible and it turned to John 3, the words of the Lord, “you must be born again, that which is flesh is flesh and that which is spirit is spirit.” After I read this, then the Holy Spirit spoke and said “Pam, you have just given birth to your new spirit in Christ Jesus. Go run a bathtub full of water, and baptize yourself in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost!”
Wow! Yahoo! I never felt so great in my life!!!
No, Paul did NOT cause me to be saved. No one did but God Himself.
I did not go to church for two years. All I had was the Apostle Paul and the 4 gospels. As a babe in Christ, home alone in my apartment, Paul caused me to understand my faith by confirming to me how and why God saved me. Too many people read Paul’s letters in order to be saved. In other words, they desire to be saved to escape hell, and so they mechanically DO what Paul wrote about. They think that if I SAY a confession, I will be saved and I will go to heaven because Paul wrote, “Confess the Lord with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus was raised from dead, you are saved. That settles it. I accept Jesus. I choose to be saved. I seal it with saying the sinner’s prayer. I’ll stamp it by going forward to the altar at the invitation.
You see, when I read Paul’s words, I said “Ah, that is what happened to me.” I did not repeat or confess words. When the Holy Ghost saved me, I felt like a coin was dropped into me, like I was a soda machine. But Lo and behold, what came out of the machine was not soda, but faith in the resurrection of a dead man that I not only did not believe in, but I claimed that Jesus Christ never even existed, but that He was merely a white man’s myth!!!!” I said nothing from my mouth but “Jesus.” “I am crying for what we did to Jesus!” That was it. I said nothing about the resurrection. I just knew that I knew that I knew that Jesus was dead, got up in His body and walked out of His own tomb, three days later. My belief on the resurrection was the rock or stone that dropped into me and never left in 34 years, not one time! No doubt Jesus is alive in His body not one time in 34 years!!!!
So when Paul wrote that we are saved by grace through faith, I understood the first time I read it because it had happened to me two years before reading Paul’s words to the Ephesians. I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that my salvation was a gift from God because I never even sought the gift. On top of that, I was the last person that anyone who knew me would have believed what happened to me. So I could nod my head in agreement with Paul because I knew that my salvation had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH ME.
However, what Paul taught me that I did not already know as a babe in Christ, is that the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the son of God. Without Paul, I would not have known or even understood that I can’t please God with my flesh. Paul has been for me one of the best biblical examples of a spiritually fruitful child of God. Once filled with pride over his scholarly achievements, his heritage and his cultural and religious attainments, Paul taught me how to die and yet live at the same time. He taught me how to stand against the enemy, how to press on to victory, how to walk in the spirit and not fulfill my lust of my flesh. He taught me how to press on to the mark of my high calling in the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
No, Paul did not cause me to be saved. What he did was train up a babe in Christ to become a minister. Once I entered ministry, I had a number of elders and a few bishops that I was mandated to submit to. However, none of them taught me a thing about what it take to be a minister. It was Paul who did that. I thank Paul for that.
In fact, I love Paul the Apostle.
If you would like a trained minister to mentor you, call 518-477-5759.
THE ENEMY WILL TELL YOU FACTS TO STEAL THE TRUTH
16 OctIS THE SON OF GOD A MYTH?????
There are countless ungodly, faithless historians that have accumulated and shared lots of facts in order to either hide or distort the truth about the Lord Jesus Christ. With the advent of the video clip, the enemy is sending forth a subtle and at times a quite blatant message that the story of Jesus Christ is a fabrication, just because a similar story can be found in Egyptian, Greek or Roman mythology. What intellectual fools!
As the sciptures reveal, real truth about the gospel is foolishness to the intelligent who believe themselves to be so wise and God Himself will cause them to believe what their finite frontal lobes are too small to apprehend about either Him or His adversary,the devil.
Okay. Let’s keep it real and simple for those of us who need a no brainer. Who is behind mythology? the devil. When did the devil find out about the Son of God bruising his head? He found out in the garden as depicted in Genesis 3. So—it is obvious. The devil planted similar stories about the Lord in various Egyptian, Hindu, Greek and Roman mythologies so that intelligent fools would come along in OUR times and say “Look yall, the bible stole from the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans”, all to underhandedly discredit the bible and the power of the cross and the resurrection.
Well, it just won’t work with me.
You see, I was a myth buster from the time I was three and told my family on Christmas Day, “there is no such thing as Santa cause all of YOU brought me these gifts. I don’t believe in reindeer, elves or none a dat stuff.”
I carried my childhood cynicism into my adult life. I said “there is no such thing as heaven or hell. So let me live fast, die young and look good in my coffin. Jesus is a figment of the white man’s imagination to keep my black people in bondage, so in slavery times, they sold us a bill a goods to keep us passive. Then again, if God exists, and I don’t believe He does by the way—I really don’t care because the world is in such a mess, so He must not know what He is doing. Anyway, I prefer to go to hell cause heaven is too boring for me. I don’t want to sit around all day, playing a harp on no cloud!”
Now people, with a mindset like THAT, HOW do you suppose someone like me got born again?
I had never been to church in 33 years, never read the bible, could not stand religious people so I shunned them like the plague, never handed a tract and immediately turned Billy Graham off the TV once I heard his voice or saw his face! I was a myth buster!!! So how did it happen?
Born Again on Monday, 3/29/77 at 4pm
Not to keep you in suspense, I had a Damascus Road experience, spiritually knocked off of my high horse by the Holy Ghost. He made Jesus real to me in such a way that my myth bustin, atheistic, faithless days were shot to hell!!!!!!!!
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