Within our varying environments and spheres, the Lord has placed some UNCOMMON mentors in our paths. They are not uncommon simply because of the skill set or the resources they bring to the table for our benefit. They are uncommon because of what they can “pull out of us and shape” while carving out places for us to dwell within their lives.
Category: Ministry Integrity
Prophetic Scribes, We Need More Than Skills To Achieve Mastery
To master anything, we need more than a knowledge base.
PART I: I AM NOT LOOKING
I suffered from rejection so severely in my life that I needed practical ways to overcome it. Prayer, healing sessions, prophecy and laying on of hands wasn’t working at the depth I needed — and my “rejected self” was ruining so many relationships and sabotaging friendships left and right.
Denouncing People Worship: Prayer III
Copyright 2019 Theresa Harvard Johnson
I DENOUNCE the parade in the dead center of congregations where PKs are strategically and intentionally made the center attraction.
I denounce any role I have had in that as visiting prophet or leader who was pulled into the circus aware or unaware. I denounce falling prey to the expectation of “the system” that creates an environment where “Golden children” arise and are presented as examples before the congregation as elite, special, set apart and set above.
I renounce my role in cheering on and supporting the system people have created. I repent and I know that you Lord has already forgiven me as there is no condemnation in Christ.
The Circus & Our Mirror Reflection
Copyright 2019 Theresa Harvard Johnson
Being a part of a circus can cause us to form all kinds of unhealthy soul ties with the flesh of our idols (even if the idol is self). Our response to idolatry can be so strong that feelings of guilt, false obligation and this place of “thinking you are betraying someone” (which are all lies) take SEVERE HOLD of your soul when it relates to people or institutions that we idolize. The thought of giving it up is as strong as an addiction to drugs or pornography.
Many of us are experts at choosing which sins are worse — not realizing that some of the people and systems we idolize are equally as wicked.