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Beware of False Prophets: A Warning to Endtimes From the Lord

24 Monday Jul 2017

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By Pastor Pam Sheppard

In ministry since 1981, I know a thing or two about false prophets. Besides the TV mega preachers that I watched for years, I also came to know at least 200 ministers while I was pastoring in a well-known denomination. So from my observations, I have designated 3 different types of false prophets. The deceived, the detoured and the diabolical.

There are those false prophets who are really saved but they followed the wrong leaders, and “sucked into themselves” mixed and false doctrines and practices. In short, they heeded and harkened unto the voice of seducing spirits and doctrines of the devil. However, they have not yet departed from the faith. These I call, “the Deceived.” Some of them will be set free. Because of pride, sad to say, others won’t be. Some false prophets would prefer to be caught up in a scandal than to admit that they taught error and thereby “led the people in the wrong direction, away from God, and not toward Him.” They are too spiritually proud to admit that they did not rightly divide the word of God.

Then there is the false prophet who was once used of God mightily, but he or she got deceived by the enemy and fell into disrepute. These I call “the Detoured.” This man or woman becomes a pretender—one who is very dangerous to those who are babes in Christ or who remain carnal Christians. Their followers “stand by their man” even when they should jump ship. The bible has a classic example of how the detoured “Old Prophet” deceived the man of God, resulting in the latter’s death. (I Kings 13)

Then of course, there is the out-and-out pretender who knows that he or she is serving the spirit of the Anti-Christ and everything they do is a masquerade. These I call “the Diabolical.” They are imposters, planted in among Christians to willfully bring confusion that will lead to destruction.

Every false prophet type— whether the Deceived, the Detoured, and the Diabolical— is equally dangerous. Why? Because they can leave a huge trail of victims.  I am humbled and thankful that although I was on the road to becoming a false prophet, the Holy Ghost jerked my chain, then cut it and broke it.  When  I was deceived by charismatic teachings,” God blessed me by closing doors and blocking me from spreading error. Even though I once had the heart, the skill and the desire of a mega preacher, God purposefully would not allow me to become a popular celebrity.. When a door opened, the Holy Ghost closed it and blocked my way through it. Moreover, among those that I have pastored, even though I personally believed some mixed doctrines, I didn’t teach them to those who allowed me to lead them. So praise God, after 36 years as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, I have no victims.

For example, I spoke in tongues, but I didn’t teach my followers to do so. I tithed, but I did not preach a “sow a seed,” prosperity gospel. In fact, I was completely self-sustaining. I gave back my church salary in the form of tithes and offerings to the churches that I pastored. When I practiced healing and the laying on of hands, I never told anyone to stop taking their medicine and “walk by faith.” I primarily preached the cross, sin, repentance, rebirth and the resurrection. But make NO MISTAKE. The false prophets of all 3 varieties:— the deceived, the detoured and the diabolical— are equally dangerous! Your prayers for them to repent may NOT prevail. And why not?

In order to repent, the false prophet has to do more than apologize and ask for forgiveness from those he has abused and deceived. If he has been made rich off of the backs of poor people by preaching the prosperity gospel, then God will require him or her to “give back” all of that money to the poor. Not too many false prophets are willing to give up those jet planes, million dollar homes and those Bentleys. Even the false prophets who are NOT mega, many of them have practiced the lie for so long, that it is practically impossible to receive the truth and act on it. Far too many have made “ministry” their career and not their calling.

Ask the Apostle Paul. He maintained as a tent maker. He would not allow any of the churches that he set up to totally provide his livelihood. That is why he could write, “whether abased or exalted, I can do ALL things 4 through Christ who strengthens me.” In other words, JUST SO YOU KNOW, I am not dependent upon YOU to live and to serve my God. When a false prophet’s livelihood is intricately tied to church dollars and resources, he or she is captive to a self-made trap that cannot be escaped from without God’s help. Actually, some false prophets have to be stripped naked to find God again, if they ever knew Him. So if you really think a particular false prophet is deceived, perhaps detoured but not diabolical, then your prayer should be “Lord, strip him.”

A word of caution. The religious demon assigned to me tried to set me up to become  a false prophet.  In several dreams, he showed me standing before huge audiences, walking up and down across a platform with my bible in my hand, preaching and teaching.  He even showed me pastoring a church of about 10,000 people.  Because I sought after the power to slay in the spirit, after 10 years of seeking, I got it. I could wave my hand, and certain ones would fall out, unconscious.  However, I began to question this power because I noticed that the ones in my congregation who fell out the most, were also those who could not STAND for the Lord, relapsing or backsliding constantly.  So I said to myself, “Pam, there is something wrong with this so-called gift. This cannot be from the Holy Ghost!” Once I prayed to the Lord and asked Him to “show me  the darkness,” I got quite the wake-up call that revealed that  the mega preacher phenomena of today is NOT of the Lord.  It is a combination of human charisma, “anointed” by the enemy’s power. My testimony is in “Come Out of Her God’s People.”

So if you are on that road, you need to get off, and get off with a quickness! If you have been burned by a false prophet, there is help.  Call 1-888-818-1117

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The Last Age of Laodicea and the Self-Centeredness of Churchanity: by Pam Sheppard

02 Friday Jun 2017

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Within the charismatic churches that I have attended, our whole lives revolved around going to services to get “more anointing,” “sowing seed,” seeking more & more euphoric experiences, always trying to get God to heal our “past wounds.”

Why didn’t we spend all that time & energy helping others, feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, things outside ourselves? What was the point of soaking up all that so-called anointing if we weren’t gonna do anything with it besides stumbling around drunk on it?

We are the church age at Laodicea.  We are more than self centered.  We are self consumed. Its all about me, me, me. Gimme, gimme, gimme!!! More, more, more. Pay attention to me or I will lose my mind and have a hissy fit!!!

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I’ve got a question.  When you stop and listen to to your mind, what or who are you thinking about???

If you have been caught up in this sort of worship, you need help. You need to DETOX.  Contact us at 1-888-818-1117. Here is the link that will help you prepare for the end-times: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/pam_s911

 

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The False Prophet of the Scriptures: Is it Kenneth Copeland?

03 Saturday Dec 2016

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Everybody needs to keep their eyes open because each piece of the end-time puzzle is  coming together.  Without a doubt, the religious tapestry patterned after the book of Revelation  is being subtly knitted  together right before our eyes.

When I had been  in ministry about two years, my search for guidance centered in Kenneth Copeland. So in the first week of October 1983, I travelled to Atlanta, Ga to sit at the feet of  Kenneth Copeland at his East Coast Believer’s Convention.

The personal significance of  this particular   convention was that  I had a front row seat where  I watched Copeland put the meat on the bones of the prosperity gospel. While I was  a young, impressionable, and  naïve minister,  I recall  that Copeland manifested a similar kind of “scratch my  head, well y’all, I am getting a message from God at this very moment,  so hold on!” kind of demeanor as he has similarly performed  in the above video regarding “him acting as prophet  to Donald Trump.

Thirty-three years have passed since that noteworthy  convention.  An awe-struck  Copeland follower   back then, I once imagined that if the Lord Jesus were to appear, he must look and act like Kenneth Copeland.  One thing only turned me off the man: THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL. I stopped sending  $100 a month as one of Copeland’s faithful “supporters when he sent me a “partner letter” asking for additional money to help him buy oil wells. He got those oil wells, but not with my donations.

Yet there is even more significance that has been eye-opening—a supernatural incident that took place in my hotel room in the wee hours of the night, the week I attended the 1983 East Coast Believer’s Convention.

it was around the 4th  night, as I was asleep, that  I was awakened  by a loud, bellowing, bass-sounding voice that loudly vibrated like a trumpet, drums, a hurricane, and a tornado at the same time,  bellowing through the walls on the loudest speaker I have ever heard!

 I was afraid. The voice bellowed :  COME OUT, SEPARATE! COME OUT, SEPARATE, over and over again.  It did not stop once  I was awake and on my knees!.

  Consider  the movie, the Ten Commandments, and Cecil B. DeMille’s rendition of God’s voice to Moses. There is a slight likeness. Notwithstanding,   the  voice in the hotel room in Atlanta   sharply blended additional sounds  of storms, drums and trumpets to the 29th power!!!.

In 1983, I assumed this  powerful, urgent message in 3 clear words was a personal  warning to  me to come out of the denomination I was in.  So in obedience, I came out when I returned home, only to go back  in 1987.  Eventually,  I came out of the entire institutional church and religious system   in 2004.

Yet, was there a simpler message that I overlooked?  Let”s face it!!! I was at the KCM Believer’s Convention.  God may have simply been warning me to come out from the teachings of Kenneth Copeland.  Five years later, after listening to Copeland, his wife and his associates , I finally “came out and separated myself from his teachings.”  Yet Copeland has influenced all charismatic ministers. The  truth is that  I continued to listen to Joyce Myer and others until the turn of the century  when I permanently  turned off Christian television.

Yet there is more.

There are several millionaire  ministers on Trump’s ministerial advisory council.  It seems that Kenneth Copeland who is one of the chief architects of the prosperity gospel, is now imagining  himself as “Trump’s Prophet.”  Perhaps the Lord wanted me to remember His voice in the storm in 1983 as a sign regarding Trump/Copeland  in 2016 and beyond.

Is Copeland  the False Prophet?

Soon, time will tell. The dragon (Satan) will give power to the beast via the supernatural assistance of the false prophet. Here is a well known scripture concerning the beast:

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And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. ( 3 and 1/2 years)

The Antichrist aka the beast  is primarily a political, financial  and military leader. However,  the false prophet is a religious leader. In this end-time duo,  we have political power, military power, joined with religious power. Political power, military power will dominate the outward world with spiritual power dominating the souls of mankind.

So Satan will supply  the beast with a supernaturally empowered  companion who will promote the beast’s  power and assist  him greatly by swaying the hearts of people into satanic religion.  The False Prophet  will cause the world to worship the Antichrist as if he were God. Therefore, its clear to me that this person must be globally influential within the ranks of Charismatics.

So the power of the False Prophet will enhance the power that is political or military or economic. As such,   the  false prophet  will have great religious power because he  will convince the world that this Antichrist is God and is the only hope of salvation during this time of Tribulation. They will accept  the lie of the False  Prophet  and as such bow down and worship the Antichrist as if he were God, and they will be eternally  damned with him.

The work of the False  Prophet  is critical to the effort of Satan because the in the final analysis, Satan’s primary goal is to be worshipped.  When the beast  is worshipped, then Satan will also be worshipped.

Kenneth Copeland is a man who 33 years ago, I perceived as the epitome of what I believed that  God in the flesh must be like.  Copeland can speak in tongues for hours and then turn around and interpret what he has uttered. Copeland’s influence on charismatic religion worldwide is impressive, to say the least.  There is not a charismatic minister anywhere in the world who has not been directly or indirectly influenced by him.

So does Copeland have  what it takes to be the False Prophet?

Most definitely.

Also his most influential entrée  with a billionaire  like Trump is Copeland’s rags to riches testimony and his worldwide orchestration and spreading  of the prosperity gospel message.

It is certainly  important to keep an eye on this.

There are countless  numbers of charismatic believers who need to be delivered, spirit, soul and body. We are here to help. So let us know your situation by completing the contact  form below:

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The Last Age of Laodicea And the Self Centeredness of Churchanity: Pam Sheppard

04 Wednesday Nov 2015

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Within the charismatic churches that I have attended, our whole lives revolved around going to services to get “more anointing,” “sowing seed,” seeking more & more euphoric experiences, always trying to get God to heal our “past wounds.”

Why didn’t we spend all that time & energy helping others, feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, things outside ourselves? What was the point of soaking up all that so-called anointing if we weren’t gonna do anything with it besides stumbling around drunk on it?

We are the church age at Laodicea.  We are more than self centered.  We are self consumed. Its all about me, me, me. Gimme, gimme, gimme!!! More, more, more. Pay attention to me or I will lose my mind and have a hissy fit!!!

I’ve got a question.  When you stop and listen to to your mind, what or who are you thinking about???

If you have been caught up in this sort of worship, you need help. You need to DETOX.  Contact us at rescueonfb@icloud.com Also visit www.aboutrescue.com

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Recognizing Manipulation Techniques: “Cherry Picking the Evidence”

05 Tuesday Aug 2014

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by Carol A. Davis

Cherry-picking In religion, leaders will often use “logical fallacies,” logically flawed arguments, to persuade and manipulate churchgoers into doing what they want. According to Wikipedia, “A fallacy is incorrect argument in logic and rhetoric resulting in a lack of validity, or more generally, a lack of soundness.”

A very common fallacy used is called “Cherry-picking the Evidence (also called anecdotal evidence, confirmation bias, biased sample, and proof by example), “… it is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases or data that may contradict that position.”

Here’s an example:

Yeah, I’ve read the health warnings on those cigarette packs and I know about all that health research, but my brother smokes, and he says he’s never been sick a day in his life, so I know smoking can’t really hurt you.

Here is an example of one that was often used at a church I used to attend. They were always pushing members to tithe and “sow more seed” to get that “hundred-fold return.” Often they would have a member stand up before the church to give their testimony of how they finally decided to give tithing a try, and directly after, something really good happened to them. Maybe they received a big settlement they had been waiting on for a long time, received a promotion at work, received a check in the mail that they hadn’t been expecting, got approved for a house or car loan they should not have been eligible for with their credit rating, and things of that nature.

These testimonies would have everyone wanting to give more, because they thought if they did, the same would happen to them. The fact was, for every member who’d had an experience like that, there were many more who had been faithful in tithing and giving offerings for years, but never experienced any kind of windfall or dramatic change in their financial situation. But those people were not going to be asked to testify about it in front of the church, so you weren’t going to hear those stories. They showed you the evidence they wanted you to see and excluded what they didn’t want you to see.

Don’t be fooled by leaders who cherry pick evidence. Anecdotes alone are not enough to support a claim.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking_(fallacy)

http://www.iep.utm.edu/fallacy/#AnecdotalEvidence)

And Now….. A Word From Our Sponser

14 Friday Jun 2013

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And now, a word from our sponsor.

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I was in a discussion group when a young lady posted this picture of an email she received from Master Prophet E. Bernard Jordan. As you read it, it talks about how you can, basically, get a special prophecy for the low, low price of $1200. As you read this, you may find that you, yourself have been a recipient of an email like this or even postal mail from this man.

This person, in my opinion, is one of the lowest forms of life ever to walk on the face of this earth. This is a predator! This is the kind of person that preys on the desires of people with promises of going to God on their behalf after tending to him first. This is all a part of the prosperity gospel. 1st Kings 17:10-16 speaks of an incident that happened when the prophet Elijah came across a woman with nothing. Her situation was so bad that she just had enough for her and her son to eat and afterward she looked forward to death. Elijah instructed her to give to him first and she and her son would live. She did, and they did live. This is just one of the scriptures prosperity preachers use to make the case for giving to the preacher all you have, your last dime in exchange for God to do something for you on the behalf of the preacher.

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As I was writing this blog, I came across another message from I. V. Hilliard. He has a need of a $52 “seed” to improve on his helicopter. Another example of the prosperity gospel gone crazy. In 1987, Oral Roberts went on television and announced that he needed $8 million within two months or God would “call him home”. Many people believed that he was considering suicide and ended up receiving $9 million. In this case, the desire of the people was to have their pastor alive and well.

This blog isn’t about E. Bernard Jordan, I. V. Hilliard, Oral Roberts or any of the televangelist you see on television. It’s about the sharks that roam the pulpits on any and every given Sunday. I can hear some of you reading this saying right now, “that’s not my pastor”. But if your pastor is asking for a tithe, it’s your pastor, too! If you want to know more about why tithing is “illegal” for the church, send me a message to my Facebook inbox by clicking here.

The reason this is happening is because:

1) People are looking for their desires to be met from the mouth of the prophet/psychic instead of delighting themselves in The Lord (Psalms 37:4).
2) No one is challenging these false preachers and false prophets because no one knows the word for themselves. The pastor teaches you that you cannot rebuke and elder (Timothy 5:1). But what they don’t teach you is that this scripture refers to an elder by age, not by title or office. Timothy was a pastor, so, why would Paul tell him that he cannot rebuke someone under him??

No, I don’t know everything. But, I know what I know. People, wake up!! What you have called God is not God at all. Study the word for yourself and don’t be afraid to ask your pastor about any inconsistencies you may come across.

HOW TO RECOGNIZE A FALSE PROPHET

21 Friday Oct 2011

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 With 30 years in ministry under my belt, I know a thing or two about false prophets. Besides the TV mega preachers that Iwatched for years, I also came to know at least 200 ministers while I was pastoring in a well known denomination. So from my observations, I have designated 3 different types of false prophets. The deceived, the detoured and the diabolical.

 There are those false prophets who are really saved but they followed the wrong leaders, and “sucked into themselves” mixed and false doctrines and practices. In short, they heeded and harkened unto the voice of seducing spirits and doctrines of the devil. However, they have not yet departed from the faith. These I call, “the Deceived.” Some of them will be set free. Because of pride, sad to say, others won’t be. Some false prophets would prefer to be caught up in a scandal than to admit that they taught error and thereby “led the people in the wrong direction, away from God, and not toward Him.” They are too spiritually proud to admit that they did not rightly divide the word of God.

Then there is the false prophet who was once used of God mightily, but he or she got deceived by the enemy and fell into disrepute. These I call “the Detoured.” This man or woman becomes a pretender—one who is very dangerous to those who are babes in Christ or who remain carnal Christians. Their followers “stand by their man” even when they should jump ship. The bible has a classic example of how the detoured “Old Prophet” deceived the man of God, resulting in the latter’s death. (I Kings 13)

Then of course, there is the out and out pretender who knows that he or she is serving the spirit of the Anti- Christ and everything they do is a masquerade. These I call “the Diabolical.” They are imposters, planted in among Christians to willfully bring confusion that will lead to destruction.

Every false prophet type— whether the Deceived, the Detoured, and the Diabolical— is equally dangerous. Why? Because they can leave a huge trail of victims.  I am humbled and thankful that although I was on the road to becoming a false prophet, the Holy Ghost jerked my chain, then cut it and broke it.  When  I was deceived by charismatic teachings,” God blessed me by closing doors and blocking me from spreading error. Even though I once had the heart, the skill and the desire of a mega preacher, God purposefully would not allow me to become a popular celebrity.. When a door opened, the Holy Ghost closed it and blocked my way through it. Moreover, among those that I have pastored, even though I personally believed some mixed doctrines, I didn’t teach them to those who allowed me to lead them. So praise God, after 30 years as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, I have no victims.

For example, I spoke in tongues, but I didn’t teach my followers to do so. I tithed, but I did not preach a “sow a seed,” prosperity gospel. In fact, I was completely self sustaining. I gave back my church salary in the form of tithes and offerings to the churches that I pastored. When I practiced healing and the laying on of hands, I never told anyone to stop taking their medicine and “walk by faith.” I primarily preached the cross, sin, repentance, rebirth and the resurrection. But make NO MISTAKE. The false prophets of all 3 varieties:— the deceived, the detoured and the diabolical— are equally dangerous! Your prayers for them to repent may NOT prevail. And why not?

In order to repent, the false prophet has to do more than apologize and ask for forgiveness from those he has abused and deceived. If he has been made rich off of the backs of poor people by preaching the prosperity gospel, then God will require him or her to “give back” all of that money to the poor. Not too many false prophets are willing to give up those jet planes, million dollar homes and those Bentleys. Even the false prophets who are NOT mega, many of them have practiced the lie for so long, that it is practically impossible to receive the truth and act on it. Far too many have made “ministry” their career and not their calling.

Ask the Apostle Paul. He maintained as a tentmaker. He would not allow any of the churches that he set up to totally provide his livelihood. That is why he could write, “whether abased or exalted, I can do ALL things 4 through Christ who strengthens me.” In other words, JUST SO YOU KNOW, I am not dependent upon YOU to live and to serve my God. When a false prophet’s livelihood is intricately tied to church dollars and resources, he or she is captive to a self made trap that cannot be escaped from without God’s help. Actually, some false prophets have to be stripped naked to find God again, if they ever knew Him. So if you really think a particular false prophet is deceived, perhaps detoured but not diabolical, then your prayer should be “Lord, strip him.”

A word of caution. The religious demon assigned to me tried to set me up to become  a false prophet.  In several dreams, he showed me standing before huge audiences, walking up and down across a platform with my bible in my hand, preaching and teaching.  He even showed me pastoring a church of about 10,000 people.  Because I sought after the power to slay in the spirit, after 10 years of seeking, I got it. I could wave my hand, and certain ones would fall out, unconscious.  However, I began to question this power because I noticed that the ones in my congregation who fell out the most, were also those who could not STAND for the Lord, relapsing or backsliding constantly.  So I said to myself, “Pam, there is something wrong with this so-called gift. This cannot be from the Holy Ghost!”  Once I prayed to the Lord and asked Him to “show me the darkness,” I got quite the wakeup call that revealed that  the mega preacher phenomena of today is NOT of the Lord.  It is a combination of human charisma, “anointed” by the enemy’s power.

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So if you are on that road, you need to get off, and get off with a quickness!

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HOW THE ENEMY DECEIVES BY USING "GOOD" PEOPLE

13 Thursday Oct 2011

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In 1988, Geraldo Rivera televised a program that focused on Christian Cults, with the subtitle “Zombies for Christ.” Interviews are held with people who underwent deprogramming from the influence of charismatic, fundamentalist leaders and churches. The major problem that I had with this process, is that those who are doing the “deprogramming” are not born again Christians themselves, and may be deprogramming people completely away from Jesus, which of course is the subtle, underhanded strategy of the devil, using professing Christians against themselves. Worst yet is that they are programming people toward the fake Jesus by telling them to “ask Jesus to come into your hearts.”

 People are watching Christian television and reading Christian books, who themselves need to be deprogrammed from error that is causing them to be vulnerable to demonic oppression of a very serious nature. In fact, when I have tried to counsel those who have come to me to seek deliverance from the torment of demons, the mixture and error in their spiritual foundation is extremely deep.  Therefore,  deliverance is severely hindered by the amount of error that these captives have anchored their faith to by watching Christian television or reading the books of various mega preachers.

 The problem of today is similar to what Rivera explored in 1988.  Evil spirits know it is fruitless to urge the righteous toward sins of the flesh, so demons use another tactic called DECEPTION. The Satanic strategy is planned in the form of teachings and doctrines that appear “good”. The biggest deception is to receive counsel solely based upon the godly life and character of the counselor or teacher. Most false prophets are clean living, righteous, upstanding folk.  So to receive their teachings based on their “good character” is what the enemy is after.

 Therefore, it is important for you to know that every thing that the enemy does is not always evil as he works under the cover of light. So the strategy of deception is to get the righteous or good person to accept a wrong idea and then to pass it off to others “as truth.”

 Certainly, the bible   should be the foundation of every Christian. However, it is important to point out that scripture is also  used as the basis of false teaching.  The enemy  has  very skillfully woven into a web certain scriptures  that will ultimately entrap a child of God like the prosperity gospel, praying in the spirit, tongues, slain in the spirit—I could go on and on!. With each false doctrine and practice, the method is to pull single texts out of their original context. In my work with  professing Christians in torment or bondage, the following scripture from the book of James rings true:

WE ARE DECEIVED BY SEEMING TO BE RELIGIOUS, WHEN AN UNBRIDLED TONGUE REVEALS OUR TRUE CONDITION.(James1:26)

I train ministers in our deliverance mentoring program to   listen to the unbridled tongue so as to expose the nature of the deception. Also, Paul wrote to Christians that we are deceived when we think ourselves to be wise with the wisdom of this world.(I Corinthians 3:15) Deliverance Mentoring  is certaining a humbling process, for very often, Christians in torment must resist the devil by admitting that they have been deceived not only by well meaning Christian teachers, family and friends, but also by their own heart. (Jer 17:9, Isaiah 64:20)

Trained ministers serve as mentors to those who have left the organized church.

 At Sheppard’s Counseling Center, we de-program the deceived through our deliverance mentoring program. Trained online ministers are available.  www.pamsheppard.com/online_ministers_available

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GOD'S WAKE UP CALL

08 Saturday Oct 2011

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     A part of living in the endtimes is to hear and recognize  the “wake-up”call.  God sends out different kinds of alarms.  The alarm that every humanbeing is hearing right now is an environmental alarm.  None of us in any part of the world could have slept through the recent earthquake alarm that sounded as  aresult of the devastation in Japan.  We are all thinking, “how can I prepare myself for something like this happening in MY backyard?!”

 So we start buying generators, stocking up food, buying Iodine drops and buying water filters.

 I believe that making preparations is good commonsense.  However, if we too are struck with a huge tsunami, most stockpiles will be  buried under fallen
buildings or washed into the sea by  tidal waves.

   Then there are “the spiritual alarms” that come upon individuals.  As a deliverance counselor, what I have seen God do is  release demons of torment upon the deceived, in order to wake them up to the reality that something is most definitely wrong with their “religion.”  This is how it works.  You attend
church every time the doors are opened.  You are tithing your gross income, giving additional offerings and donations, and so you are expecting a financial harvest—the 100 fold return blessing that prosperity preachers have assured you that you will receive for your giving.  Yet, you are in the worst financial shape that you have ever been in.  The more you give, the less you have, and that’s a fact.

But you keep waiting and you keep lying to yourself and to
others everytime you say “I’m blessed.”  Then your car breaks down, your house burns down and you have no insurance.  You let your insurance laps in order to
give toward the church’s building fund.  Out of nowhere, you are homeless.  Youcry, “why Lord, why?”  His response?

 I sent you a wake-up call, a demon of poverty as your “alarm clock.”  Can’t you read the signs?  Have you completely lost ALL commonsense? The prosperity message is one of the doctrines of the devils the Apostle Paul warned you about in My word.  I have allowed you to suffer poverty as “a wake up call.” When you come out of that church, I’ll bless you again!”

There are other wake up calls.  In my book, “the New Idolatry,” I quote the
late Watchman Nee:

 “Should the child of God desire freedom, his folly must be removed.  In other words, he must know the truth.  He needs to appreciate the real nature of affairs.  Satanic lies bind, but God’s truth unshackles.Naturally the knowledge of truth is going to be costly, for it will shatter the vainglory one has assumed due to his past experiences.  He looks upon himself as far more advanced than others, as being spiritual and infalliable.  How hard hit he will be if he confesses the possibility of his being invaded or if he is
shown to have been so invaded!” (The Spiritual Man 1968)

Therefore, if you are a child of God, and you have been ‘invaded,’  what you need to know is that the enemy could not  invade you without your cooperation. And if you have unknowingly been cooperative with the enemy , then God allowed a demon to invade you  “for your good.”  Once you receive the message of the wake up call, you will be set free.

 So wake up and smell the coffee.

THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL

07 Friday Oct 2011

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Quite frankly, this false doctrine is so distasteful to me that I have buried it along with my attachment to the organized church. However, since I am often questioned about the subject, I will reluctantly address it for the sake of inquiring and damaged sheep.

Since the love of money is the root of ALL evil, it is not surprising that the prosperity gospel is one of the top false doctrines proclaimed by religious demons in this particular hour of history. In a nut shell, it is an out of biblical context teaching that obligates God to bless the tither or the giver of offerings to the organized church in ALL ways, with an exaggerated focus on financial prosperity.

An added emphasis is that it is taught from the pulpits around the globe  that  a believer can actually BUY a spiritual blessing from God with their financial giving. The message has even been reduced to a quasi-mathematical formula—whatever you give will will have a 100 fold return: 100 dollars for a one dollar offering, 1000 dollars for 10 dollars, 10,000 for 100 dollars, and so on.

It is truly an abomination to twist the Lord’s very words in bible RED serve as the foundation for this demonic, materialistic teaching. Jesus said  “I came that they might have life and have it more abundantly”. He was not talking about finances. The word for life in this verse is “zoe”—-ETERNAL LIFE!!! Yet word of faith are defensive and belligerent in their ignorance. Some have even used the Lord’s very words to name their nefarious churches “Abundant Life,” a bold suggestion of their commitment to the prosperity false doctrine.

Consequently,WHEN THE PREACHERS SEND THE MESSAGE THAT MONEY AND WEALTH WILL FLOW FROM THE PULPITS TO THE PEWS TO THOSE WHO  BLESS “THE ANOINTED MAN OR WOMAN OF GOD AND THAT WHEN THEY TITHE, THEY ARE GIVING TO GOD—Well—-

THIS IS THE BIGGEST FLIM FLAM EVER IN THE HISTORY OF CON GAMES.

To the word of faith prosperity preacher, giving money to the church is “planting seed” is taken from the Lord’s parable about “the Sower.” If you have listened to Christian radio or watched preachers on TV, you have undoubtedly heard the expression, “good ground.” They have told you that their church or ministry is GOOD GROUND.” Therefore, if you sow your seed into it, you will reap a financial harvest.

It is amazing how many countless millions around the world  have fallen for this demonic lie in the last 20 years!

Absolutely incredulous. It reminds me of the old flim flam that was rampant  in the 20’s and 30’s in the inner cities called “bakin money.” Prior to the mark giving the con man his or her  life savings, the con man  put a small amount money into a heated oven and “baked”it. As bread spreads because of the yeast, when the money came out of the oven, it had increased 100 fold.

So by this “demonstration,” the mark was convinced by the trick of the eye. You see,  in the demonstration, the con man had stealthfully  added the increase into the oven when the mark was not looking by the slight of hand. Even though poor folk fell for the con,  at least they were shown some sort of demonstration.Today, pulpit pimps and prostitutes have raised the spiritual ante by teaching  THEIR marks that they must“walk by faith and not by sight!”

“WHAT A SET-UP!!!”  If you don’t get the increase they promise God will send you for your tithes and offers, you are  yet tricked again to believe that perhaps YOUR faith is too weak to prosper!!!

Listen, people of God! Jesus explained the parable of the Sower Himself. Good ground is the soul or heart of one who hears the gospel, understands it, believes it and He saves them!!!!

                         The seed is the word of God, not MONEY!!!!

In conclusion, I repeat.  The prosperity gospel is  particularly abominable because it takes the words of the Lord, adds to them and detracts from them.

The prosperity preacher may have flim flammed you and gotten rich off of your hard earned dollars, but he and she are cursed. Why? As Paul warned the Galatians, anyone who adds to or takes away from the word of God is CURSED!

IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS BLASPHEMY, YOU HAVE PARTAKEN OF THAT VERY CURSE! REPENT AND DISAVOW IT, BELOVED!!!!

One last thing.About 5 years ago, the Lord showed  me that He has sent a spirit of poverty on all the sheep who have been duped by the prosperity gospel, —not as punishment but as a warning—a wake up call. He wants to let you know that the prosperity gospel is not working and therefore, you will use your commonsense and wake up to the fact that it is not of Him.  Be warned. He wants you to flee the prosperity gospel.  He will restore your finances once you “get His message” and repent.

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