FLOW OF ANOINTING AND BLESSING IN BACKSLIDING. Part I

"Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’" Matthew 5:22, 23.

Can we say a pastor or minister is a genuine minister of God and right with God as long as there is flow of anointing in his ministration? Can we also say a Christian is a genuine child of God simply because they are experiencing God's blessings and goodness? The Bible answer is no! Many are being deceived by what they see. The fact that a minister or preacher still experiences flow of gifts, miracles and anointing does not mean he is right with God. The same thing is applicable to every Christian, you are experiencing God's favor, fortune, blessing, healing, and miracles and so on, that do not qualify you to be a heavenly qualified Christian.

The signs and wonder in the ministrations of your Bishop, G.O, G.S, Apostle or Pastor is not an evident that they are still right with God. And the fact that you are witnessing God’s blessing and faithfulness in your life does not mean you are right with God. Here are examples from the Bible:

SOLOMON WISDOM
King Solomon wisdom was a gift from God for him to fulfill and accomplish God’s purpose for his life. But when he was drifted into sin of adultery and eventually backslide into idolatry and cruelty, this gift of wisdom still remained, even to his surprise. Ecclesiastes 2:9, "So I became great and excelled more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me."

The fact that minister of God is still manifesting some gifts God which they received at the beginning of their ministries, it does not implies they are still right with God. The fact that ministers are still experiencing the flow of anointing, prophesying, casting out demons, doing wonders and different miracles do not indicate they are still in right relationship with God; and the flowing of anointing in a minister of God or manifestation of their gifts is not a reason for you to copy their lifestyles, by concluding in your mind that God has already approved of them and whatever they do is right; if you do so, you may follow their lifestyles and doctrines which are opposite to the word of God, and find yourself to blame at the end.

I do baffle at how many Christians, including preachers, are running after fallible human begins as their mentors, by so doing, they pattern their lives, their ministries just as the person they set as mentor; they believe their mentors are right with God since they see flow of anointing, and by so doing they follow and copy some ungodly lifestyles and teachings of the mentors. Jesus alone is to be made a mentor, not any preacher or person, because only Jesus Christ is always right and never wrong; the Word of God is enough for us to take as life and ministerial Mentor.

CONTINUOUS BLESSING
God brought the children of Israel from the bondage of Egypt to journey to the Promised Land. On their way in the wilderness, they sinned against God, ran into idolatry, yet God did not remove His pillar of the cloud that guided them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night. Nehemiah 9:18-19:
“Even when they made a molded calf for themselves,
And said, ‘This is your god
That brought you up out of Egypt,’
And worked great provocations,
19 Yet in Your manifold mercies
You did not forsake them in the wilderness.
The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day,
To lead them on the road;
Nor the pillar of fire by night,
To show them light,
And the way they should go.

The fact that you are still witnessing continuous testimonies of blessing in your personal life, even though you have been compromising and continuing in sin, it does not serve as a indication that God is overlooking your sins or He does not count them, and it does not mean God will not throw you into hell if you die in that covered up or common sin.

That you still hear from God personally or God keeps speaking to you through His prophets does not serve as a barometer that you are pleasing God. The children of Israel sinned against God and excruciatingly displeased Him, yet he kept the pillar of cloud and pillar of fire to guide them. Continuous checking yourself in the word of God, watchfulness, prayer-fulness and fruitfulness in the Word of God are the right index and parameter for your spiritual condition.

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