Your Desires are You

Today I saw a life-changing video on Youtube, so I am here to pass the information on.

The other day, while I was praying, I described modern Christianity as “going to church and sitting while someone talks to us.” I assume this characterization came from the Holy Spirit, because it startled me. It’s a pretty accurate description of the way nearly all churchgoing Christians live. You find someone you think is closer to God than you are, and you sit and listen to him once a week. You don’t go out and heal the sick and raise the dead, as the disciples did. That’s because you’re not really a disciple. You’re just looking for handouts.

I’ve been baptized by a group called The Last Reformation, and they are connected with other individuals who go out and heal people and help them to know God. They don’t have a network of churches yet, thank God. I like to watch them at work. You can find them on Youtube under The Last Reformation, Windsor on Fire, Tom Loud, Cardboard Box Church, Kenneth Boortz, Peter Ahlman, and Pete Cabrera, Jr.

What they do is the same thing the first disciples did. They heal the sick instantly. They get people baptized with water and the Holy Spirit. They teach them to pray in tongues. They cast out demons. Most importantly, they expect the people they help to become like them. The whole purpose of Christianity is reproduction; the earth is like God’s uterus. We are not supposed to elect a pope or become a pastor’s slaves and worship him while he fixes our problems. Every one of us is supposed to be like Jesus. We’re supposed to work miracles and so on.

We’re supposed to deal directly with Yahweh. There are no middlemen in God’s kingdom.

There is another healer I like. His name is John Mellor. He has a bunch of great videos. I’ve noticed a problem with him, however. Actually, he has two problems. First, he has a shrewish wife who criticizes and orders him around in his videos. She has a real problem. Second, he doesn’t teach people to do what he does.

The other healers show others how to heal. For example, Tom Loud may heal someone of back pain, and then he’ll take that person to someone else who has knee pain, and he’ll have the first person heal the second. That’s how the system is supposed to work.

Jesus is basically a Republican. Republicans give more to charity than Democrats, but we believe it’s better to make people strong than to give them handouts that encourage them to remain weak and dependent. Jesus was happy to heal people while he walked the earth, but those healings were one-time handouts, and we don’t know if all the people he healed were saved or became strong in the Holy Spirit. For all we know, many of them are in hell right now. His main goal was to change people so they were like him. Every Christian should be able to heal, work miracles, prophesy, and so on. Every Christian should be free from the compulsion to sin.

It’s nice to heal people, but the main reason for healing is to bring people to salvation. It’s to make them understand that Jesus is real and alive and that he is God, so they can give their lives to him and be changed and saved.

It does a quadriplegic no good at all to regain the ability to walk, if he continues in sin and then goes to hell.

I like the fruitful healers. Not only do they fix people’s bodies and minds; they help people to become like Jesus.

Today I watched a Pete Cabrera video. It was about identity. He pointed out something very important: when you become a Spirit-filled Christian, you don’t wait for God to heal you or other people. You don’t just become a healer. You become healing itself.

Often, Jesus talked about himself this way. For example, he didn’t say he was a guide, an honest person, and a giver of life. He said he was the way, the truth, and the life. He didn’t say he brought the word of God. He said he was the word of God.

We’re waiting for external resources to arrive, when we are supposed to be resources.

There is a lady who says she visited hell briefly. She shot herself in the chest when she was a teenager, and while she was receiving emergency treatment, she entered hell. She says that when she was in hell, she didn’t just experience fear. She was fear. She became fear.

When Jesus visited me, love and peace radiated from him and penetrated and filled me. He didn’t just bring love and peace. He was love and peace.

We are what we think and feel. The word says, “As a man thinks, so is he.”

If you’re a Christian who functions properly, you don’t just have authority; you are authority. You don’t just have faith; you are faith. You don’t just have love; you are love. God is authority, faith, and love, among other things, and we are part of God. We don’t understand what we are, so we let the flesh…a mindless bag of unrefrigerated meat…make us something else. The flesh makes us anger, fear, sexual perversion, greed, gluttony, laziness, and so on.

When you try to get healed of deafness, for example, you don’t have to say, “I don’t have deafness,” or, “I am healed of deafness.” You say, “I am not deafness. I am the healing and wellbeing of Jesus Christ.” When you have an evil urge or feeling, and I will use anger as an example, you don’t have to say, “I am delivered from anger.” You can say, “I am not anger. I am the love and patience of God.”

The Bible says we can become (not “have”) the righteousness of God. Look it up.

The Bible tells us the Holy Spirit has fruit. In some places, “fruit” refers to human beings we reach and help to save, but the fruit of the Spirit are personal attributes. Actually, the word doesn’t divide the fruit up. It says the fruit of the Spirit “is” love and so on. The Spirit has a certain nature, and that nature manifests in the fruit, and that fruit can be described as “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Galatians 5:22).

Here, Paul is describing a person. God, who is a person, is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. If you are of God, you can be these things, too. “Peace” doesn’t just mean an emotional state; it includes physical wellbeing and wholeness. It means every kind of prosperity.

We don’t squash the flesh, so we continue to let it rule us, and the flesh loves and obeys Satan. To serve the flesh is to serve Satan. There is no neutral gear in this universe. You’re in forward or reverse, like it or not.

Some people manifest submission to the flesh by seriously thinking Kim Kardashian and Miley Cyrus are really neat. Others manifest it by making Christianity something that requires a lot of hard work, under a God who doesn’t help much.

The carnal Christianity of pride, rules, and hard work isn’t helpful. The Bible says it’s impossible to please God in the flesh. See Romans 8:8. Most denominations teach us to please God in the flesh. Work hard, build churches and orphanages God never told you to build, start TV shows God hates (because God “needs a platform”), obey a list of rules God doesn’t care about, and don’t presume to think you can be like the apostles, because they were superheroes with special powers.

If God didn’t tell you to do a thing, doing that thing doesn’t please him. I don’t care how holy it seems. Jesus said he would condemn certain people who healed the sick, raised the dead, and cast out demons because he never knew them. If you’re not hearing God, you don’t know him, so when you try to do things for him, you’re just guessing.

I have my problems, and I am not where I think I should be, but I can honestly say I know God. He is a personal acquaintance. I met Jesus twice, and I hear the Holy Spirit every day.

When you let the flesh continue to rule, you are unbelief, fear, anger, jealousy, lust, pride, and all the other bad traits the Bible condemns. Homosexuals are perversion. Liars are dishonesty. Sluggards are laziness. Addicts are their addictions.

If I have a physical illness, I am that illness. That’s not how I’m supposed to be. I’m supposed to be part of Yeshua. What illness could touch him?

When you’re a Christian, you say you’re part of the body of Christ. If you have a tumor caused by spirits, you’re the body of those demons.

A body is a servant. Your body belongs to whomever it serves.

I can see why fasting works. It’s a way of reminding the flesh and Satan who is in charge.

In property law, there is a doctrine called adverse possession. It works like this: a worthless person squats on your land for 7 years, and you know about it and do nothing. When it’s over, they own the land. It may sound incredible, and I don’t know if it’s still the law in every state, but it’s true.

In order to defeat adverse possession, you can enter your property and show that you own it. When I was a student at Columbia University, they told us that Columbia owned the land under Rockefeller Center. The land was leased. They said that every year, Columbia closed Rockefeller Center for one day. That was to prove Columbia owned it and defeat adverse possession.

I don’t know if that particular story is true, but it shows what fasting is all about. Demons try to squat in every single human being. I don’t care how holy you think you are. When you fast, you prove you still hold the title to your flesh. You reinforce the authority God has given you.

You’re going to have to fast occasionally. Just accept it. It’s not something you do only until you become a super-Christian. You’ll probably have to keep doing it for the rest of your life. That’s not pleasant news, but on the other hand, your fasts don’t all have to be miserable or long. God is likely to tell you to fast for short periods, not just long ones. You can get a surprising amount done by mid-afternoon.

The Bible says we are not to give Satan place. It’s the same principle. You’re not supposed to kick Satan out of most of the temple and then say, “I still want to eat three pizzas a day and weigh 400 pounds, because that’s not sin.” You can’t keep using drugs like marijuana and nicotine. You have to stop getting bombed on Saturday nights. If Satan owns any part of you, he has a foothold, and he never stops trying to take new territory. The battle never stops until you leave this earth. Either you’re increasing, or he is.

We’re supposed to be like Jesus. We’re not supposed to spend our lives going to church once a week and sitting while someone talks to us. We’re supposed to heal the sick, cleans lepers, raise the dead, and cast out devils. All of us; not just a few greasy characters on Christian TV.

If we acknowledge who and what we are, then we have the authority to do what we were created to do. We can do greater things than Jesus, as he said we would.

I used to think of Christianity as a way to make life go well while I pursued my goals and tried to find my way. That’s not right. It means giving your life to God and getting him to lead you while you pursue his goals. You can’t have authority unless you’re doing your job. If you want God to back you up with his power, you need to do what he sent you to do.

I am going to have to get together with active Christians again and get to work.

It’s interesting how the Catholics and the Orthodox turned Christianity into a spectator sport. The priests might as well perform their acts in stadiums, wearing helmets and shoulder pads. We could go root for them and wave pennants, secure in the knowledge that we would never be required to get on the field with them. That’s really how Catholicism works. You do whatever you want all week, and then you go see the quarterback, and he talks to God for you and makes you think you’re free to go back out and sin some more.

I know many Catholics do their best to avoid sin, but for most, the system works as I described it. Believe me, I know many Catholics. Fornication is normal. Drunkenness is fine. Listen to whatever music you like. Watch whatever entertainment you like. Just make sure you confess and do penance a couple of times a year.

Now that I think about, it many priests do wear helmets.

Protestants have gone the same way. We don’t say, “Can you teach me how to heal the sick?” We say, “When is Doctor Brother Pastor his Holiness Hinn coming to town so he can heal me?”

Heathens thought Paul and Barnabas were Hermes and Zeus, because they did things human beings couldn’t do. We’re the same way, sometimes with powerful preachers, but more often with preachers who can barely do anything. “I follow Paul Washer.” “I follow the pope.” “I follow Father Corapi.” “I follow Daniel Kolenda.” “I know Tom Loud.” We’re not supposed to fawn on Christian celebrities who have special status. We’re all supposed to be sons and daughters of God, literally.

When you follow someone else, it gives you an excuse to stop developing in your own right.

I really like this video. Maybe this post has gone beyond what Pete Cabrera says in it, but he started me down the path.