Humility and Power

Archive for May, 2009

I wanted to do a second update since the last one seemed to focus on some of the local drama here and with a lot of new visitors coming to the site here, I dont want to give out the wrong impression. What God is doing is amazing in our personal lives, the lives of our family and the lives of those plugged in with our ministry.

We believe that financial increase is coming and with that will come a fourth station in our network.  We also need to get a drum kit and a keyboard to round out our worship studio here locally.  To donate, just go here…
 http://healingstreammedia.com/donate

We’ve been adding some new music to all three stations. Your suggestions are always welcome there.

Im very happy with the new site so far.  :D

M-

I have over 15oo friends on my My Space page and over 700 on my Face Book page.  Now we have this incredible new web site here up that will be visited by a lot of people before it’s all said and done, I’m sure.  Praise God for His elevation.

Drama continues here on the local front.  It never fails that of the hundreds that I know personally from around the local area here, there are a handful or religious (religious in a bad way) leaders that see me as a threat to themselves and their man made agendas.  I’m getting very tired of not exposing their non-sense too so I am praying about exposing some of them by name and telling the world what has been said and done in these cases.  The most recent one of these folks I have followed Matthew 18 to the letter with and after being blown off the first time, I am waiting on a reply from the second attempt to win them.

Those who know me know that I am a Grace man first and foremost.  Jesus isn’t mad at these people, and His heart is to love them into a place of healing so they can function and see their lives blessed, ministries expanded and anointing increased.  Unfortunately, they have (for the most part) never had anyone successfully challenge them in ungodly behavior via Matthew 18 because they have so much influence that they can literally “blacklist” a person with just a few phone calls and emails.  The threat of this “blacklisting” makes most people stay quiet about the abuse and just not rock the boat.  

I am not most people.  8)

I’ve been one to keep quiet about spiritual abuses to myself and my family in the past all in the name of “love covering a multitude of sins” but I have learned the bible doesn’t contradict itself.  Jesus meant what He said in Matthew 18.  if you have a problem with a person, go to them. If they hear you then be happy as you have won them.  If they don’t, then go back to them with a second person.  If they remain stubborn and hard to you, take them before the church.

The church is not a building, it’s the people so the last step in Matthew 18 is to go public with the abuse, but again, that’s only to be done when the person won’t hear you and won’t be won back into the Kingdom of God.

Of course, there is another interesting dynamic that comes into play as well in all of this as The Kingdom of God and the Modern Church system are usually two very different things. That means that someone outside of the church system can go via Matthew 18 to a person within the system to try and win them back into the real and actual Kingdom of God. Most modern and paid church leaders believe their job position automatically places them in the Kingdom but they are mistaken.

Then these same people post on networking sights about how you shoud love everyone when in reality, they have a secret blacklist of people they go out of their way to shun and reject.  

Anyway, all of that to simply say, please pray that people everywhere would begin to value relationships and get God’s heart on things instead of doing what i call the CCAM business as usual routine.

I’ll add to that it can be wisdom to have people that you keep at arm’s length. Not everyone qualifies for deep or even direct access to you. It becomes demonic however when you start to undermine and discredit the other person.

Setting a healthy boundary can be a good thing but planting seeds of strife and unrest to others is not. If you don’t want someone in your life, that is certainly your choice but to try and get others to get them out of their lives as well is an attempt to manipulate and that manipulation reveals unforgiveness and is rooted in the demonic.

As an example, as the head of this ministry there are a few folks that I have felt the need to delete from my personal networking spaces and pages over the years. Some of the staff here still have those same people added to their personal pages while I do not. I trust my staff and have enough security in myself that I don’t have to undermine the people I have deleted to my staff, I simply delete them from my accounts and move on.

Thats how a healthy ministry works, that’s how healthy relationships are supposed to work.

Your problem with someone else is just that, your problem with them. Don’t require others to share in the cup of retaliation you drink from.

More later, I’m sure….  :D

M-

Here we are in the first post in my new blog. I’m going to try to make this my official blog online. With so many networking sites and other options, where you blog is a big deal but I feel at least for now that this is where it should be.

More soon!

M-