I lived through spiritual authority abuse and I know the pain of that. I’ve looked at Jezebel in the face and was told to submit, or else; even though I had done everything that had ever been required of me and more. I’ve been referred to as a snake while Jezebel preached (ranted) all around my church chair. But I overcame.
You DO NOT have to be the sacrificed meat on Jezebel’s table!!!!
Eventually, I chose the “or else” option, not from a position of rebellion but because I couldn’t dishonor God to please a Jezebel, who would never be satisfied. She never will be satisfied, it’s true. I begged for it to be different. I sat in multiple hours of meetings hoping for some answers and soloutions, just to be told that I couldn’t hear from God for myself because I wouldn’t submit to their demands as a god. I knew I would be made out to be a sinner and not a son and people that I loved and served would never know the whole story, but I kept my hands clean, my mouth shut, and my heart soft before the LORD. Honestly, this is the first time I’ve ever wrote publicly about it.
Hearing stories of abuse, neglect, mistreatment, and misconduct in ministry tears my heart up. God heals this trauma, HE can and HE does. But boy does it still hurt when I see that spirit attempt to manipulate and control and destroy others. I can smell that stench (discernment) a 1000 miles away. I’ve seen so many never recover. Great gifts and callings destroyed. Families torn apart and churches destroyed. But I’ve also seen that ordeal make minstry and the mantle on my life a thousand times stronger. It is possible to overcome and still be all God has anointed you for. Men carry mantles but they were never meant to be kept, but passed from real Apostolic Fathers to real Apostolic Sons. (Get my book!)
If I have any advice to someone in ministry, that’s being manipulated by other ministry, I offer this. First, Stay humble and never allow bitterness take root in you. Forgiving others sometimes is a one way street but once you have passed through it, you don’t have to experience that any more. How they treat you will be something they will answer to God about. Vengeance belongs to the Lord and He will repay. We owe no man nothing but to love them.
Secondly, Fighting publicly is not the answer. Never be guilty of uncovering spiritual authority. Don’t gather a gang or use social mafia to retaliate. David could have killed Saul, but he knew that wasn’t the right or righteous way. However, please know this— you DO NOT have to be the sacrificed meat on Jezebel’s table!!!! If you do it correctly (even though they will never tell the truth that you did), God will honor you openly. I’m a witness of that being true.
Lastly, even if it looks like what was promised to you has been stripped away, just know God is not a man that HE should lie! Double for your trouble will be the testimony of who has the mantle in the end.
These days are days of prayer and fasting for me for others as I watch my story become someone else’s story, all over again. Hurts can be healed and offence doesn’t have to be the end. I am an overcomer and you will be too, my friends.
Protect your children!!! Standby your spouse!!! And never be Jezebel’s enunic just to please her god-complex.
+DrD
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