Struggling with Spirits

There are a lot of people in church struggling with their sexual identity and the church with all of its activities seems to turn a blind eye to the disparate cries of this hidden epidemic. 
If a pastor does not have time to pastor then he or she should not pastor.  In order for a pastor to pastor hundreds and even thousands of people then he or she has to be very much in tuned with the spirit of God.  This will ensure that they know what the people’s needs are.

Now have you ever been in church where the pastor was preaching and it felt like he was talking directly to you?  Well, I have and when this happens that means the pastor has spent some time with God in order to feed you the right fresh meal for that moment.  At the same time I have been in services where it felt like they were serving me a bunch of leftovers? This happens when a pastor does not have time to pastor so he serves stale bread instead of fresh manna.

Now back to my point if a pastor has men and women close to him then he should be able to see what's going on in the spirit with that person.  So why are they so many devils in leadership in the church?  Why because either the pastor is not in tune with the sprite of God or he is one of the devils himself.

If you are a believer and are struggling with uncleanliness there is still hope for you.  You are not what you do; you are who God says you are.  You may not be gay you may just have a strong lustful spirit.  You are not a fat slob you may just have a spirit of glutton and cannot control your appetite.  You are not lazy and unproductive you may just battle the spirit of slothfulness and you need to be motivated and encouraged.
These spirits cannot possess you if you are a child of God.  They can only temp and entice you.  God allowed Satan to temp Jesus and Job but they resisted the devil and that's what we have to do resist the devil and he will flee away from you.

Apostle Magdalene

5 ways to tell if your Church is Suspect...

1. Money Problems
If your church is always having money problems, then more than likely either your
leadership is not good with money or they are not doing good with the money.
Now in some cases the offerings my come up short from week to week. But for
the most part if churches did not bite off more than they could chew then their
expenses would not be so great in the first place.

2. In Debt
If your church is in debt there are a few reasons for this.  Firstly, some churches
have a high attendance of working class folks who may or may not be able to tithe
on a regular basis.  But for those churches who have an abundance of tithes and
tremendous offerings from week to week, more than likely have a spending problem
or a consumers mentality.  Yes it cost to run a church, but when you build a church
without counting the cost well...it cost!  It ends up costing you more in the long run
when a man builds a church for his ego rather than for the edification of the body.
The word tells us to owe no man nothing but the debt of love, this includes the church.
So even though the banks offer money, the church should consider raising money
before they build a church so that they may stand a chance of building a debt free facility.
How can leadership expect the churches congregants to be goods stewards and live a
debt free life if the church is not being a good steward and has a ton of debt?

3. False Imagery
Now this one is my favorite!  This is when the church works harder at branding their
name than they do the name of Jesus.  While the church is steady spending time branding
themselves they forget that the church does not save but Jesus does.  Before anyone
can fully commit to church they most fully commit to God.  Here's why I say that.
There are a lot of devoted, faithful church goers that are uncommitted to God.  These
people use the pulpit as their own personal stage for their own live show from the
pastor on down.  These church people prostitute the gifts and talents of others for
their own personal gain and benefit. Watch out for them because they are smoother
than the common pick pocket-er.  Before you know it you have been got and you
didn't even realize that you were being robbed!  Don't get me wrong branding is
great to attract people to church, however when branding your church and it's
pastor and first lady takes precedence over branding the kingdom of God and
all of its benefits and splendor, than this becomes a problem.

4. Co-dependence
Any time a church leads you to believe that you can and will not make it without
them is called codependency and it is a form of witchcraft and divination.  They
are thirsty and trying to get you to stay with their church until Jesus returns so
that you can pay for all the unnecessary debt that they have accrued through
their careless spending and egotistical endeavors.  They want to make you
think that you will not reach your destiny without them.  I just received a vision
in my head about when God raises you up; the people that tried to hold you
down are going to wonder how on earth did you surpass them and what the
hick is going on?  Well you can just tell them that you went straight to the King
and bypassed all of the buffoonery of church and its politics...  I have heard
with my own ears a pastor make reference to a person dying because they left
his church?  But the sad part about all of this is that people fill the pews  week
after week being crammed with an Ike Turner mentality "you anit go be nothing
without me lil Ann"
If someone told me that I could not make it without them I would leave just to
prove them wrong and to show my God strong!

5. Pacifying the People
This happens when a preacher dares not to tell the truth to his congregants about
themselves for fear that they will be offended and leave.  On one hand I can see it
being hard to tell people what they don’t want to hear but need to hear, but on the
other hand only the truth will make us free.  One thing I want to give credit to pastors
is that it cannot be easy engaging people from week to week with the hope of their
continued support.  However, the gospel of Jesus Christ cannot be compromised for
crowds, money or fame.  We must tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth despite
of the trails that come along with pastoring a church.  I have seen pastors flourish and
at the best one week and the next week disparate and seemly worried?  But this would
not even be they case if they would follow God’s plan instead of their own plan. 

Lastly, I would like to say to those of you reading this blog or any other blog that I
have written; I am not against the church.  And by all means I honor and respect the
men and women of God who fearlessly go before his people week after week declaring
the good news.  I am just tires of seeing people some people who attend weekly church s
services weighed down, depressed and broke when they should be overjoyed and prosperous.
This happens when people are so selfish to only want to see their dreams come to pass,
and then they become successful while caring less about what you want to do. These
selfish beings also ride on the wings of those who support them thinking that in return
they too may be supported, but if their greed is not satisfied the supporters support my
never come.  If you are feeling down and confused while attending church, there may
be a good reason why…stay tuned for the next blog and I will tell you!

Apostle Magdalene

The Great Separation

What ever happened to the time when going to church was for the love of ministry, people and  your community?  Now it seems as if going to church is more or less for the love of money,  fame, and power. Singers would sing for free to the glory of God and preachers preached for little to nothing.   Well my friend, that time has long pass for some but for most we are still there because we  obviously  didn't get the memo that you could capitalize greatly off of your relationship with Jesus Christ! As for me, I have been singing in church for years and never really thought about getting paid until now.   My reason for this is because, back home we still sing for ministry and not money so most of us singers  get paid very little to nothing.  But we love what God has called us to do for Him and a price tag cannot  be put on the anointing. However, since I have been a Georgian I realized that people here know how  to capitalize off of their   relationship with Jesus Christ even if it cost them everything including their anointing.  Now I am not  saying that paid gospel singers are not anointed but let's be honest there is a cost to fame and sometimes  that cost is trading ministry in for money. Every since I got out the box and found out that you could get paid for singing the praises of God it hit me  all at once.  "What the hick I'm I doing singing for free"?  And I mean all of it choir, praise team, singing in  the congregation?  Well, maybe not that far but you know what I mean!   After much evaluation, I had to ask myself a question.  That question was "out of all these years that  I have been singing for free what have I lost and why no one told me that I should be paid to sing like  everyone us?  The answer is that back home we are not paid singers for the most part so we don't know much about  the music biz but here in the big city, well these folks cash out and some of them won't even sing the  praises of God if they are not paid? Wow, once I found this out I was mortified I felt like an idiot, a fool and a complete failure.   I asked God what was wrong with me, was I not good enough to earn a living singing?   Or was I just a good enough singer to sing in the choir you know backup for someone else?   Not that there's anything wrong with backup I truly believe in supporting people.   Yet and still there is a fine line between supporting someone else’s ministry and just flat out being used! You are using people when you are able to make money off of other people's gifts and talents.   Back home we call this "prostituting ones gifts". Here, they simply call it the Mega Church.   Now don't get me wrong I love the mega movement but I just can't seem to fathom why the  leaders in the mega church live so well by capitalizing off of their relationship with Christ while  most of the members lack far behind living in mediocrity?  And the members that are doing well  are sometimes there for business or a good look? So, to my point the Great Separation is when church leaders live like Kings and Queens while  the rest of us serving have to keep our day jobs and live like paupers.  Now here's my bigger  question, why does the church allow people to sing for free knowing that many people come  to church just to hear the choir blow and they due the pastor a courteous by staying to hear  him preach.  All the while the choir and praise team for the most part are treated like we  should just be happy to have a mic?  Huh?  You mean to tell me while you get paid to do  the same thing that I am doing which is being a witness for Christ that I should just be  happy to be here? That's probably what the slave owners were thinking to. "Oh these niggers don't have to  be paid to pick cotton, there too stupid to realize that this is free labor something they  could be paid to do" And I am sure that they got a good laugh as they cashed in on all  the cotton that the slaves had picked for them for little to no pay. Meanwhile the church sits and capitalizes from the blood, sweat, and tears of the innocent  in heart who do not think of God as a cash cow but as their provider and way maker.   We must put an end to how we allow people to trick us and pimp us just because we are saved. I said it once and I will say it again, I respect people like Oprah, Tyler Perry and TD. Jakes  because not only are their educating and empowering people to create wealth like the word  tells us to do with our gifts but they also open doors so that people can live their dreams while  earning a living doing so.  At the same time I do not respect the preacher who not only creates wealth by asking for ten percent  of one’s income but also by earning a living from his or her God giving talents while the rest of us get  pimped to no return.  My question is brother preacher why get mad rich off of the blood sweat  and tears of willing volunteers and why not teach us what you know as a business man in order  that we may stop giving our gifts away and start creating wealth from them just like you do.   In the infamous words of Obama “spread the wealth" don't be greedy emphasis mine! Apostle Magdalene