Ezekiel 13:3 (NKJV) 3 Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!”
Nowadays we have some people that call themselves prophets or prophetesses, and they say and do things, supposedly in the name of Jesus Christ.
Some of them have a platform in mega churches and everyone seems to love them.
No matter how much we love our Pastor, Deacon, Priest, Leader, Teacher, Evangelist, or Prophet, etc., if they are operating from a wrong spirit and they are “off” in their teaching, we need to call it! They need to sit down and get themselves some help.
There is a thing called a spirit of divination.
Acts 16:16,17 (NKJV) Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. 17 This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.”
Now, what the girl in the verses above said was truth about Paul and Silas.
This spirit does speak things that sound right and appear to be right, on the surface. However, its motives are wicked, demonic and destructive.
It slithers into church meetings and we give it a voice. We let it stand at the pulpit and speak into the lives of the congregation. Why? Because it sounds and looks like the real deal on the surface.
But Paul knew, by the Spirit of God that lived in him, that the things being spoken by this girl were being spoken by a demonic spirit, and he called it out.
God will show us when something is off or it’s not right, if we let Him.
Acts 16:18 (NKJV) And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour.
We can’t ignore the annoyed feeling we may get at times when something seems off. People are getting hurt by this spirit.
The church, as a whole, needs to come together and call out this spirit of divination and shut it down, in the Mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-315-0902
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