Category: Ministry Integrity

Copyright 2013 Theresa Harvard Johnson

Let’s face it. Facebook can be an awesome tool to evangelize, market, push causes, release relevant news or stay connected to family, close friends, co-workers, your favorite organizations, groups and such; but it can also be a place of great chaos, confusion, unbelievable division and great temptation for Christians. In some instances, it can even become a place of pride, narcissism, a point of addiction, gossip, a root of judgment and criticism, a weapon of shunning or even bullying.

While some see Facebook as a virtual community that is fictitious in nature, the reality is this: It isn’t. It has fast become the neighborhood that our present and rising generation is learning to live within and navigate. Long gone are the common neighborhood visits to the little old lady down the street as we have known it.

Copyright 2012 Theresa Harvard Johnson

Standing up and saying, “I repent!” isn’t always enough. It is a start, but it takes more than that to press through False Maturity. While I was walking hard in this sin, my words of repentance – most of the time – were nothing more than lip service before an all-knowing, all-seeing God.

To walk in humility means one thing: You must be broken by Father over and over again. While many may experience conviction and earnestly feel the swells of repentance fall over them, those goose bumps will dissipate without a pursuit or a seeking for humility.

Ze-pha-ni-ah 2:3 CJB says, Seek ADONAI, all you humble in the land, you who exercise his justice; seek righteousness, seek humility – you might be hidden on the day of ADONAI’s anger.  (To grasp a full understanding of this message, I encourage you to read Part I: False Maturity: Am I walking in it?)

 

Copyright 2012 Theresa Harvard Johnson

I’ve been praying about some things I’ve encountered through the ministry Father has entrusted to me. In the midst of this prayer, I’ve asked Him to pour  the “weight” of His heart upon me as I continue to grow and mature, never allowing me to forget my journey, vocation and the reason I’ve been called. I pray this over those Father graces me to mentor or cover diligently in prayer — that they walk in compassion, never forgetting the grace that has been extended to them. Today, as I waited on Father to speak to my heart, He simply said: “Prophet, let me tell you about false maturity among the congregation. It is a snare for my Sons in this hour.”

Copyright 2012 Theresa Harvard Johnson

(This article is intended to touch your hearts concerning the weight of our call. It is in no way written to condemn, but to convict. It is to prompt us to fully release Holy Spirit to reveal the motives of our hearts to us. For those of you who are assigned to read this article, I pray that you are blessed, and that Holy Spirit will do what He was ordained to do on the inside of you in this very hour. To Father alone be the Glory.)

 

 

Back in 2005 when I finishing my first instruction manual, The Scribal Anointing: Scribes Instructed in the Kingdom of Heaven, I had a powerful visitation from the Lord. I was on the brink of planning a county-wide poetry slam when Father woke me up in the middle of the night and said plainly, “Beloved, I have not called you to do this. Shut it down.”

Copyright 2010 Theresa Harvard Johnson Parts I & II are also available on this website. Jeremiah had been through such an ordeal on this day. He’d been mocked openly, assaulted and figuratively spit on before Kings, priests and the congregation. No one came to his rescue. No one stood on his behalf. Yet, not once…