Author Kim Clement stated in his book, “Secrets of the Prophetic” that a promise is not as effective as the product. A promise lingers in our thoughts and minds but the product of that imagination is what will shift our lives and the lives of those around us.
He also states that we are always living in some form of process and this spiritual process is the space between the promise and the product.
The process of re-evaluating what was once considered “Godly practice” will result in the rejection of a powerless tradition that has no application in this present generation.
Tradition is simply continuing the old franchise of the past but essentially that old franchise becomes irrelevant.
Chained to tradition, the church will never be able to discover the creative forces they were meant to possess.
Louis Dupre, professor of Philosophy at Yale University wrote that “Christianity has become a historical factor subservient to a secular culture, instead of functioning as the creative power it once was”.
It is clear that too much of Christianity has become absorbed by the culture, rather than functioning as the creative power of the culture.
Let us become the creative power that is affecting the culture, rather than a mountain of garbage consisting of boring nonsense that has no relevant word for a dying culture.
There are enough people in the church to infiltrate and shift the whole course of our present culture.
But first we must be willing to give up all our religious, traditional nonsense and allow ourselves to become God’s creative word to the world.
Historic Truth vs. Creative Truth
There is a difference between historic truth and creative truth. Think on this! It was truth at one time (maybe) and it had its effect but now it’s dead; it is not truth that is creative. It has no potential unless it was transferred into this hour by the creative power of birth- which we now call re-birth.
Creative truth is lacking in the church today. We are all hanging on to what we used to do rather than doing what we should do.
It might be a comfortable place but it is not a spiritual place.
Historical truth is not as important as creative truth. Inside of you is a creativity to bring something forth-not to re-invent the wheel, but to do something that has never been done before.
Its call the power of invention.
Truth resurrected has a whole lot more to say. In the name of the older and more cherished people, we will do greater things!
See my previous article: The Power of Q: Creative Geniuses
Creative truth means we are going to do greater things than were done yesterday. Authors, Poets, Entertainers, Musicians, Presidents, Senators, Kings and Queens, they are all going to feel the Kingdom in its dominion.
We need a bunch of Daniels and Esther’s who will reach up to heaven and bring down God’s creative power in the midst of an alien culture and shift the balance of power towards the righteous.
The Bible calls Divination an Abomination
In Leviticus 20:6, and I paraphrase, God told the children of Israel that “the person who turns after mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself/herself with them, I will set my face against that person and cut them off from his people.”
Also the priest Ezekiel condemned false prophets in the book of Ezekiel Chapter 13 as follows:
False Prophets Condemned
13 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: ‘Hear the word of the Lord! 3 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! 4 Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins. 5 You have not gone up to the breaches in the wall to repair it for the people of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of the Lord. 6 Their visions are false and their divinations a lie. Even though the Lord has not sent them, they say, “The Lord declares,” and expect him to fulfill their words. 7 Have you not seen false visions and uttered lying divinations when you say, “The Lord declares,” though I have not spoken?
8 ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because of your false words and lying visions, I am against you, declares the Sovereign Lord. 9 My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divination's. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.
10 “‘Because they lead my people astray, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace, and because, when a flimsy wall is built, they cover it with whitewash, 11 therefore tell those who cover it with whitewash that it is going to fall. Rain will come in torrents, and I will send hailstones hurtling down, and violent winds will burst forth. 12 When the wall collapses, will people not ask you, “Where is the whitewash you covered it with?”
13 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: In my wrath I will unleash a violent wind, and in my anger hailstones and torrents of rain will fall with destructive fury. 14 I will tear down the wall you have covered with whitewash and will level it to the ground so that its foundation will be laid bare. When itfalls, you will be destroyed in it; and you will know that I am the Lord. 15 So I will pour out my wrath against the wall and against those who covered it with whitewash. I will say to you, “The wall is gone and so are those who whitewashed it, 16 those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Sovereign Lord.”’
17 “Now, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them 18 and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on all their wrists and make veils of various lengths for their heads in order to ensnare people. Will you ensnare the lives of my people but preserve your own? 19 You have profaned me among my people for a few handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and have spared those who should not live.
20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against your magic charms with which you ensnare people like birds and I will tear them from your arms; I will set free the people that you ensnare like birds. 21 I will tear off your veils and save my people from your hands, and they will no longer fall prey to your power. Then you will know that I am the Lord. 22 Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies, when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives, 23 therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will save my people from your hands. And then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
No power on earth is able to overcome the children of the Lord. When we confront the powers of darkness, the Lord is there to shine His light and confuse our enemies.
Isaiah 44: 24-25 states:
24 “This is what the Lord says—
your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb:
I am the Lord,
the Maker of all things,
who stretches out the heavens,
who spreads out the earth by myself,
25 who foils the signs of false prophets
and makes fools of diviners,
who overthrows the learning of the wise
and turns it into nonsense.
Remember that not only has God given us a creative nature, he has also given us His divine nature and power.
When we are confronted by the powers of darkness, we must use the power of his word and be sensitive to the Spirit of a person’s heart.
One of the gifts God has made available to us is the “discerning of spirits” (1 Corinthians 12:10).
However, sometimes we may use the wrong measuring stick to judge people. They may have personalities that do not please us. They may have a disposition that is usually angry or calm. They may have voices that we find to be too loud or soft or maybe we find them to be too colorful or conservative. Lol!
But that is not what counts. What really counts and the question we should be asking ourselves is, what about their hearts?
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