Category: Ministry Integrity

Copyright 2009 Theresa Harvard Johnson

One of the top strategies of the wicked heart and flesh… against the body of Christ in this season is that of “emotionalism.” It is a mental state that fights against the Spirit of the Lord fiercely. It is a place of being or existing in which a believer cultivates, nurtures and follows “their feelings” instead of cultivating, nurturing and following “the Word of God” and practicing self-control in their lives.
 

Emotional believers are not only those who whine, cry, pitch fits and are always upset because someone has hurt their feelings or disrespected them; but it also refers to those who jump into anything and everything out of excitement or zeal without preparation in prayer or the wisdom of patience. It is for those who see God as a one-hit wonder in the blessing department and can’t see that we live blessed daily.

Copyright 2010 Theresa Harvard Johnson [Part 1 of 2] Father has an original plan for your life in Him — a very unique, individualized plan that only you can fulfill and walk out. That plan does not include imitating or copying patterns from the ministry of others or organizations and then trying to walk them…

Copyright 2010 Theresa Harvard Johnson

I have always had a problem with the interpretation of this scripture by some believers I’ve met over the years:

Proverbs 18:16 NKJV, “A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.”

As an Apostle in the Worship Arts, I meet people daily who worship their gifts and sabotage their own purpose and destiny. In context with how this scripture is often used and taught, men are pressed into places of worshiping their “gifts” instead of focusing on the one who released the gifts to them. It brings forth a wrong spirit, one of entitlement. One in which people believe that they are entitled to something simply because they “have or they work” a gift well.

Father said this to me this morning: “I am not shallow that I would base the merit of my Word on the operation of a gift alone. All gifts, beloved, are only attributes of the whole man.” People of God, take a moment this morning to ask yourself this question: “What does Proverbs 18:16 mean to you?”