ORDER IN THE CHURCH! ORDER IN THE CHURCH! By Apostle Veryl Howard W hen pondering about the article the Lord led me to this topic called order. He reminded me that he set a particular order in place for the house of God to follow. After all, prior to Jesus as man he even gave a pattern to Moses and the people’s deliverance would not come if they deviated from the plan of God. Now in some of today’s churches, not all there is a anything go mentality. This is so far from the master plan of holiness for God’s house. Jesus reminded Peter in Matthew 16: 18 NIV “ And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.” So what is this rock? The rock is the rock of Christ. We know in his word he is the chief cornerstone. He reminds Peter that if this rock is the foundation the gates of hell have no power! But what happens when it isn’t? But despite all of this, many churches of today have built foundations on so many other precepts. It may be built on money, numbers in the church, watered down word, carnal behavior, power, ideology of man or just anything that is not the rock of Christ. As a result we have churches that are not functioning in the fullest capacity so the people are still hurting. They cannot seem to get delivered because no one is doing deliverance. They cannot seem to get healed because who is really speaking against their infirmity with power. Now, we do have some smaller churches that may not have the mega church status who still operate with this power, but the saints want to be in the prestigious church with the best sanctuary or biggest conference for the month. With that said, it’s hard to have a huge ministry when you speaking righteousness and holiness. People just don’t want their flesh challenged so they flock where they can get some word and still be carnal. Well, I spoke to some people who still thirst for the unadulterated word of God. They are asking why is the church of God diminishing? They have decided to get their walk in order regardless of what the “churdom” world dictates. They want holiness and want to live in the fullness of Christ. I had the opportunity to speak to Sheilah Belle of the Belle Report. She is a vetran in the gospel music industry and has seen a lot in her business dealing with churches. I wanted to question her because she frequents churches globally and has an insight on the pulse of today’s church. She reminded me of the following; She pointed out that there is no more accountability in the church. She feels that many leaders of today followed leaders who had fallen away so they have picked up their bad behavior. She said that the mega church has found a way to give some word, take tithes, maintain the business aspect of church to keep things going. “Their mentality is if they don’t have tithes of members they don’t have a church states Sheliah.” People can leave church on Sundays saying I got a word but not really be delivered according to Sheilah. “Where are the pastors like Evangelist Rev. 14 DEVINE GLORY MAGAZINE R. W. Chambach and Rev. A.A Allen who spoke to demons with power, authority and the people got delivered?” “I don’t see many pastors like this anymore unless I go to a small church. These pastors did not have prentices with five dollar or twenty dollar lines. They would just pray until people got free at services.” “Many pastors are not moving in the fullness of the power of God and are giving watered down messages she states. Again, these pastors were taught this from whom they immolated that fell from the pattern of Christ. There was a pastor she heard preaching who called the Holy Spirit gobly gook . She asked him why would he say that about the Holy Ghost. When she did she found people who were unlearned and did not ask do to fear. They questioned her for even asking. They stay in bondage and accept the pastor’s word she stated.” After chatting with Sheliah I could only think of Eli whom God judged because he did not speak to the sin of his sons who were priest. Hophni and Phinehas carried on as worthless men stealing from the offerings and having relations with women at the temple. Sound familiar with some of the churches of today? Where is the accountability as Sheilah stated. Eli even gave a mild reprimanding to his sons to persuade them not to sin before God (1 Sam. 2:23-24). But his sons needed to have been sat down! Eli was high priest and judge over Israel. He was in a position of authority and responsible for the worship which was offered to God. He should have dismissed his sons as priests, he continued to let them serve with polluted worship. This leads into Pastor David Girley from PHD Ministries in Los Angelas California who had a mouthful to share about today’s church. He said he cried out to God concerned about the church of today. God told him “ Watch out for the apostastate church trying to imitate my church and has migrated into my church.” “ Don’t worry about my church, I got my church.” “ The bible says where there is sin about grace abounds more. There will be a separation between the true church and apostate church. They are among us but not from us like Paul said. They don’t teach sound doctrine, the cross and but teach feel good messages. They have left their first love” We have strayed away from God’s word and our first love. We need order because we are no longer building some of our churches on the rock of Christ. Even the basic foundational principles have become invisible in some churches of today. Wow, what are your thoughts?
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