Enduring Faith and Holiness
To some of them, their progress was delayed, stopped and attacked but they never compromised. They kept their relationship with God, lived holy, kept their hands clean and served God. It was not easy for them to worship God in a place where the filthy prophetess ruled but they persisted to the end. One day, they gained strength and victory was achieved and they made progress. They received deliverance, achieved greatness and lived for Christ in the city of Thyatira. My Father in the Lord, Pastor W. F KUMUYI, said; Holiness is not a big deal but the real deal. And holiness is never an excuse for poverty. You can be richly holy. Our great and humbly father, E. A. ADEBOYE said; Humility is not stupidity or mediocrity. You can live in humility, purity and prosper at the same time. My Oga, father in the Lord; DR. D. K. OLUKOYA said; In the school of destiny discovery, recovery and fulfilment, everyone is a fighter, consciously or unconsciously. You have to fight against something if you must be anything in life. Bishop DAVID O. OYEDEPO said; Faith is a risk you must continue to take if you must continue to be a burden to none and a lift to others.
The strength of the Thyatira came from God, prophecy came from God and deliverance came from God. Today, the question everywhere is, can your pastor prophecy, see vision, heal and deliver me? No one is interested on the source of prophecy, power and anointing. Once someone who does not know God’s word, respect God’s word or live holy can prophecy, you will see cloud and great multitude. There are very few today who seek for God’s word or righteous pastors who have clean hands. In other to keep members, get members, many pastors have defiled their hands. Every Pastor, Minister wants to be a prophet or prophetess. Very few ministers are still holding to the way of the Lord. Many have left the way of righteous living, they have polluted their hands and co-operated with the devil for fake power. They have left Zion, Christ, forsake the truth for filthy prophecies from the dark kingdom. Many pastors, church founders, bishops and overseers need deliverance from the spirit of Jezebel and her mother, the woman that sits upon many waters.
The Rise of False Prophets and Their Influence
‘And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration’ (Revelation 17:6).
‘And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues’ (Revelation 17:15).
This is the woman that distributes fake powers and the spirit of Jezebel. Many ministers are guilty and they need deliverance with the members of their congregation. This woman, the mother of Jezebel has made many ministers, prophets and prophetess, walking corps. She has killed them, drank their blood while they are alive. She gives ministers power to sit upon their ministry, health, business, and finances and upon their members. Many ministers have sold their lives, ministries and worse, their members to this evil woman. That is why many people in the church are suffering, dying in their problems without help.
‘And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues’ (Revelation 17:15).
She is sitting upon their destinies, marriages, health, and greatness one by one and in their multitudes. Many great ministers, their ministries and members need deliverance but they do not know how to go about it. Their source of power is fake, filthy and demonic. They are in trouble with their members and under the yoke of filthy prophets, prophetess and ministers.
‘And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested’ (1 Chronicles 4:10).
‘But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day’ (Proverbs 4:18).
‘Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes’ (Isaiah 54:2).
Seeking True Deliverance and Spiritual Discernment
The family of Jabez changed his pattern of family prayer through Jabez. You need to change your pattern of prayer. You need to seek for deliverance from ministers who still keep clean hands. You need to call upon Christ direct. He is the true and faithful Prophet with power to deliver you from every captivity. This letter is an avenue to link you up to your true Prophet, the great deliverer and the coming king. This is time to leave darkness and come to the true light which is Christ. You can ask for personal deliverance now and get it. You have the opportunity to get your deliverance direct from Christ right away. No matter how much you have backslidden or gone away from the true light, you can come back. Christ is the true Prophet and you can receive prophecy direct from Him now. There is no place you are that Christ cannot reach at you and deliver you if you ask for deliverance.
You can still make progress in ministry, in business, in marriage and in any area of your life. Some of this prophets and prophetess you run to are not real or better than you. They are agents of the devil and under deceit to deceive others. Jesus is the only true and faithful Prophet. Some of the prophetess and prophets are in covenant with the devil and the woman that sits upon many waters. They can prophecy, tell you stories but cannot cast out the spirit behind your problems. They can tell you the truth but they lack power to deliver you out of trouble. Let me tell you what some of them do. They are in covenant with the devil to sanction your problems for some times. They do not cast out demons or solve problems. Others with the power of fake prophecy like the woman in our text called Jezebel can see without solution. Others, which is the third group transfer demons or problems from leg to hand, head to business, father to mother or anywhere. Some of these prophets, prophetess and ministers you run after operate with the under listed triple “S”. They
- Sanction problems for a season
- Seeing problems, defining it without bringing permanent solution and
- Sending your problem from one area of your life to another. They are worse than the prophetess in Revelation, our text called Jezebel, a filthy prophetess. In deliverance school, college and university, we called them prophets, prophetess and ministers with triple “S”, they are deceivers. They operate with the counterfeit of Satan.
‘For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works’ (2 Corinthians 11:13-15).
Some of them can prophesy but their lives are filled with greed, pride, anger, immorality, covetousness, financial irresponsibility, jealousy, unfaithfulness, cultic and all manner of fleshy lusts. They are swindlers, carnal without any robe of righteousness. Some believers in the church at Thyatira overcame her in the church and Christ congratulated them. They were commended for their significant spiritual progress over the filthy prophetess. They overcame her by bearing the fruits of the spirit. They had true love for Christ in service, faith, patient and endurance to the end. Though, the church in Thyatira lacked sound doctrine by tolerating or allowing the woman to function but some members overcame her evil teaching and way of life.