God Never Asks us to do the Impossible

I love the way God tells all of his children the same things.

At some point after the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, the church started splitting into denominations. Christians began disagreeing about doctrine. It proved we had already failed God. Jesus chose to be crucified so we could receive the Holy Spirit and learn directly from him, and we blew it. We went back to learning from men and evil spirits, and they sowed confusion.

The New Testament clearly teaches that we are supposed to learn from the Holy Spirit, not men. God uses people to steer us to him, and they help us with advice until we get up and running, but we were never supposed to rely on men heavily for doctrine. Men make mistakes, and mistakes accumulate over time. You start out with Abraham or Jesus, and years later, you end up enslaved by Satanic gossip like the Talmud or the catechism.

If we all learned from the Holy Spirit, we would never disagree for long. He would tell all of us the same things, and he would resolve any disputes. Instead, we go around saying we respect each other’s opinions. We have reached a state where we think tolerating other opinions is somehow equivalent to believing all opinions are valid. Of course, that’s stupidity. When two disagree, only one can be right.

God told me this: “Only the uninformed have opinions.”

God doesn’t have opinions. He has the truth, and the rest of us have opinions.

When you start praying in tongues for long periods every day, the Holy Spirit will teach you things, and you’ll find you disagree with your pastors from time to time. This is what happened to me. I was proven right every time, so I know it works. It didn’t happen because I was smart or righteous; it happened because God’s word flowed through me. God could have done it to a chicken or even a rock, so anyone who thinks they can’t have the same experience because I’m special is just making an excuse.

Back when my pastors at Trinity Church and then New Dawn Ministries were telling me all God wanted were my money and free labor, God told me something different. He told me I was full of demons and iniquities. He said I had to be cleansed so the Holy Spirit could rule. He told me to love correction and to get the demons cast out of me. The pastors labeled me an enemy and rejected me. Trinity continued to stumble along in failure, and New Dawn went bust. I kept getting new help from God.

Today I watched a Derek Prince video. It was probably filmed in the mid-1990’s, which was before I turned back to God. Derek Prince confirmed things God had told me independently.

It was actually a little funny. I’ll explain why.

The subject of his sermon was spiritual warfare on earth, and it was about demons. I can sum up his message. Demons are spirits (“persons without bodies,” according to Prince) that want to live in bodies. They want to indulge their cravings and promote poisonous ideas through us. Through sin, we invite them in, and then we have to cast them out. In order to cast them out, we need to turn against them, confess, and renounce and hate what they try to make us do.

Here’s why it was funny. He was teaching in John Hagee’s church, and Hagee was sitting near him while he taught, helpless to interrupt. While Hagee sat there before his church, Prince gave a long teaching about gluttony.

If you know who John Hagee is, you know he’s gluttonous. He probably weighs 300 pounds. He is also proud and angry, so he has a number of things he needs to work on. Prince essentially informed his whole church that he was serving demons. In fact, he said spirits of self-indulgence were the biggest demonic problem in the United States.

The Bible says people who are lovers of pleasure can’t enter the kingdom of God. This is one reason why I am no longer an enthusiastic cook.

I hope I don’t sound self-righteous when I criticize Hagee, but I have to deliver the truth. I am qualified to talk about other people’s pride, anger, and gluttony because I have openly discussed and confronted these problems in myself. I continue to confront them. Jesus told us to take the logs out of our own eyes SO WE COULD THEN TAKE THE DUST MOTES OUT OF OUR BROTHERS’ EYES. He didn’t say, “Take the log out of your own eye and then be silent when someone else has a dust mote. Just let him go blind.” Read it for yourself.

I am not perfected. I have plenty to work on. I’m just saying I am not a person who criticizes gluttony and pride while ignoring them in myself. I use God’s tools to defeat them every day.

Some people defend the obese and say you don’t have to be gluttonous to be one of them. That’s simply not true. If you have a one-in-a-billion genetic disorder that makes you gain weight on 1500 calories per day, you get a pass, but YOU DON’T HAVE THAT DISORDER, now do you? No. Why talk about it? According to God, excuses are lies, and liars don’t inherit the kingdom of heaven.

One of the clues that demons are at work is an inability to control a behavior. If you want to weigh 300 pounds, perhaps because you’re a professional sumo wrestler, and you can stop stuffing yourself whenever you want, you may not have a demon. If you hate yourself for overeating and wish you could stop, and you hate being unattractive, unhealthy, uncomfortable, and annoying because of your weight, but you can’t do anything to change, you probably have a demon, and you are definitely a glutton.

If you’re significantly heavier than you want to be, and your desired weight is reasonable, you are a glutton. If you truly had self-control, you would not be defeated, would you? Of course not. Not unless you desire to be defeated.

As Derek Prince said in his sermon, the Bible tells us the man who will not confess his sin will not prosper. If you can’t confess because of your pride, get used to your situation, because it will never change. You can try bariatric surgery, but it only works for about a year.

Prince mentioned the spirit of self-pity, which is something God told me about independently a while back. I learned I was gluttonous because I fed myself out of self-pity. I would say, “Today was a hard day, so I’m having ice cream.” The Bible says the Holy Spirit is our comforter, but I relied on food instead. Also, self-pity partners with self-condemnation, because both involve telling yourself you can never do any better.

I have been delivered from gluttony in the past, but it started to creep back to me, and self-pity and self-condemnation were the doors it used.

Right now, I’m 14 pounds above my desired weight. I am not happy about it. I do not accept it, and I do not defend it. These days, I take supernatural steps to defeat self-pity, along with gluttony, and I also try to think about what I eat. Having self-control only works when you remember to use it. Sometimes I’ll consider eating or drinking something, and then I’ll think, “I won’t lose weight if I do that.” Then I’ll pass it up. I’ll use God’s tools, and I won’t have cravings. If I forget, though, I’m likely to go ahead and overdo it a little. Modern America shoves things in front of you all the time, and if you lack presence of mind, you may eat before you think.

I don’t know if I seem harsh. How zealous you are depends on how much help you want. If you’re content to rot and live in weakness, you won’t confess much. If you want to improve a great deal, you will confess a great deal, and you will be unsparing when you talk about similar problems in other people, because you will also want the best for them.

I really want to improve, so I dig pretty deep. That offends people who prefer the sleep of denial. I can understand that, because I have loved that sleep myself.

Prince said someone had told him that if he ever needed to find out about the best restaurants in a city, he should ask a preacher. Wow! He didn’t even look back at Hagee. He made the crowd uncomfortable. They knew exactly who he was talking about.

You can imagine the problems that could exist in a church pastored by an obese man. Most of the fat people in the congregation would come in, take one look at him, and breathe a sigh of relief. They’d think, “He weighs twice what I do, so I must be okay.” It’s not okay. If you’re obese, you are probably ruled by a demon, and I guarantee you, it’s working on things other than making you fat. It has other projects which are even worse. It has demon friends, too, and God only knows that they’re doing to you.

While I’m discussing Hagee’s faults, I might as well talk about Prince. Today I realized he talked very little about his own failings. That’s a mistake. When you teach correction without discussing your own sins and recovery, you end up in pride, and God fights the proud.

I know he wasn’t afraid of discussing people’s sins per se, because he was perfectly willing to talk about the problems other people had. He was just harder on other people than he was on himself.

Prince said something else that bothered the crowd. He discussed coffee and said it was a drug. He said people should give it up for a day and see if they could stand it. If not, they were addicts.

Ouch.

Maybe 9 years ago, God told me this: “Caffeine destroys peace.” I then lost my ability to tolerate caffeine. I have to be very careful about drinking coffee, tea, and caffeine sodas like Coke. I have to limit the amount of chocolate I eat, because it contains stimulants.

God got on me about gluttony, and he got on me about the drug abuse of heavy caffeine consumption. Years later, I found out he had told Derek Prince the same things. If I had stuck with God 29 years ago, when I began to drift off, maybe I would have seen Prince speak, and I would have learned what I needed to know sooner. Prince used to live about 30 miles from me.

Maybe God himself would have told me sooner.

Prince showed me something else. He showed that a very popular (and familiar) scripture had been mistranslated. Here is the KJV: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love, power, and a sound mind.” Guess what it really says? “Love, power, and SELF-CONTROL.” Look up the Greek. It’s true.

Self-control and a sound mind are very different things.

The flesh is a stupid bag of unrefrigerated meat, and it has no more class than a goat or a hog. There is no limit to the filthiness of its desires. You can see this in the weird fetishes that flourish today among homosexuals. Once they give in to homosexuality, they open the door to things like sadism and playing with feces. These things are not rare, even though leftists like to cover them up. They are mainstream activities among homosexuals. When the flesh takes over, you might as well be a highly aroused cannibalistic rodent that rolls in its own manure all day.

The flesh is supposed to serve each of us as a beast of burden, like a horse. We are supposed to command it, and God is supposed to command us. Instead, the flesh commands us, and demons command the flesh. They must love watching us do the nutty things they come up with. They must laugh themselves sore when they see aroused people eating excrement or fornicating with animals.

Fornicating with animals is not a rare thing, especially (for some reason) among Latins. In some Latin American countries, sex with pigs and donkeys is considered normal. It’s big in Cuba; Cubans don’t like to talk about it, but it’s true. People will do amazing things once depravity sets in.

I recently saw an episode of The Grand Tour, the de facto continuation of the BBC’s Top Gear. The team was in Colombia, photographing animals for laughs, and they inadvertently got video of a normal-looking young man engaging with a donkey outdoors, in broad daylight. They asked the locals about it, and they weren’t ashamed of him at all. They said animals served as their first girlfriends. It was accepted in their culture.

People need to know what happens around them.

Either you control your flesh, or it controls you. There is no middle ground. If your flesh controls you, Satan controls you. The flesh can’t be independent.

Christians don’t think about these things. They’re too busy obeying rules, trying to get God to give them money, or trying to get quick forgiveness so they can run home and resume sinning.

Satan controls the flesh through demons, and demons often come in through things we think are innocent, such as astrology, yoga, fortune-telling, games of chance, gluttony, shacking up, gossip, body modification, and feminism. Avoiding sin and casting out demons are supposed to be cornerstones of the Christian walk, but how many of us are working at these things? If someone shows up at your church during a service and asks to have demons cast out, what will the pastor do? Most will have such a person escorted out so they can be informed that demons aren’t real.

We don’t pray in tongues, so we don’t have any idea what we’re supposed to believe. We are too busy fighting over bogus doctrines made up by ignorant men who dress like Liberace. If we were hearing from the Holy Spirit, we would understand the need to be cleansed and to empower the Holy Spirit to rule us unopposed.

It’s wonderful to get confirmation. The more correction I get, the better my life will be. It would have been better to receive it sooner, but I made my choice, so I have to live with it.

If you’re wondering how to exercise self-control, I can give you a helpful tip. First, you need to be baptized in water, properly. You can watch videos from The Last Reformation to find out how, and you can have another Christian do it. You don’t need a priest. Also, you should be praying in tongues every day. If you have been baptized with the Holy Spirit but can’t speak in tongues, you may have an unconfessed iniquity that allows spirits to block it, so ask God to help you confess and repent.

Once you get in touch with the Holy Spirit and receive faith, whenever you find yourself falling prey to a sinful urge, you can say, “I forbid my flesh, mind and spirit to think about [whatever it is] in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord. I am a son (or daughter) of God, and this is how things are supposed to work. May Jesus be glorified.” If you have faith, it will work.

There was a famous person (maybe Bertrand Russell) who used to play a game with his sister. They played the game when they were kids. It was simple. You see how long you can avoid thinking of a big white bear. I guess they didn’t have a lot of toys. It’s very hard to do for more than a second or two, because we do not naturally have that kind of self-control. If you use the authority of Jesus, however, you really can stop thinking about women’s bodies, things you wish you owned, anger, tempting food, or other things that are problematic. It works all the time. It’s amazing, because it’s completely impossible to do it on your own.

In 2 Timothy 1:7, we are told that God gives us a Spirit of love, power, and self-control. Now you know what it means. Run with it, and you can start conquering lust, gluttony, pride, anger, covetousness, and other things that rule you today. God doesn’t say things he doesn’t mean. It works. You just have to know how to do it.

Would it work for things like homosexuality and drug addiction? I don’t know, but if I had those problems, I would be trying it right now. I know I can’t fix iniquities with my own unaided mind.

God really is up there (and inside the Spirit-filled), and he is eager to tell us what we need to know. He is eager to give us power and deliverance. You just have to do things his way, instead of relying on people whose theological notions are really crippling gossip that flowed from Satan.

I hope this helps you even more than it has helped me. If you try it and get results, I would like to hear about it.