*Matthew 7:20, "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."* (KJV)
One of the greatest achievements for anybody that is following God is knowing the voice of God. You know the voice of God by understanding the character of God. One of the most outstanding characteristics of false prophets is *blackmail*.
Our God is a loving God, and even when He rebukes, He does so with a lot of love. But Jesus said, "a hired servant who merely serves for wages, is *neither a shepherd or the sheep owner...*"
These are the two major things you need to look at before you decide to drop your seed into any prophet's hand. The problem with many people is that they focus on miracles more than they focus on the character of the minister.
Someone told me that "a man of God" took her to Mombasa, they were not married and of course they did not go there site-seeing the hotel rooms. The same man took her money and will not pay it back. When she decided to expose him, the man went for a forty days fasting, for her to die. And the man rallied the congregation under him to pray for the lady to die. Now, the sad thing is that the lady (until we had talked) lived in fear, because the whole congregation under this man has been blackmailed to believe that no one gets out of his hands and lives. They have been told, and probably given examples that if you dare go against this man, you will die. Therefore, the man exploits them materially, sexually, physically and emotionally and every other possible way because they are bound by fear.
Such a man as this is a hired servant that has no value for the sheep. Because he neither owns the sheep, nor is he a shepherd... he just works for the wages.
God does not blackmail you into doing what He wants, instead, God gives you information and educates you so that you may choose for yourself what exactly you want.
Beware of people that only tell you only one side of the story, these are not prophets, they are wolves in sheep skin. People who call themselves men of God, but you can almost predict what they will be saying next week. People who only tell you how the world is ending. Or their line of story is only how everybody is against you. People whose work is to always make you look like the helpless victim. They do not remind you that you have a Mighty God by your side, and thousands upon thousands of fiery chariots guarding you. They only tell you how you need to buy more protection by giving a certain sacrifice... beware of these people.
People that all they do is make you feel good about yourself. They don't illuminate your mind on how you can make it, but they keep telling you that you will make it. People that do not want you to work, but keep telling you that you will be rich soon. People that make you feel like saying "amen" is all you've got to do. Beware of these people.
Anybody that wants you to feel like you can buy things from God. People that make you feel like you got what you got from God because you earned it. People that make you give testimonies like, "Because of what I did, God did this..." Beware of these people.
Beware of any "man of God" that makes you feel that you cannot do without him. Any man that makes you feel that without his prayers you are doomed, any person that makes you feel you can never pray enough for yourself. Any person that makes you feel like they have a unique relationship with God that *you will never achieve*... beware of these wolves.
But these are the marks of people that should receive your seed.
A man that is always after your spiritual independence. A man of God that teaches you of how powerful you are. A man of God that strives to make sure that you become better than they are. Even Jesus, who was God in every sense, because He was such a man, could afford to tell us, "those who believe in me, the things I do they shall do, and more than these things I do, shall they do too." Imagine God telling you, that you can do greater things than He did!
A man that does not have the Spirit of Christ in themselves are very selfish. They turn themselves into demigods and their word becomes law. Masses are hoodwinked by a few miraculous signs, forgetting that even the devil can do miracles.
They lead people by instilling fear and not faith. If you fear of what will befall you physically if you left your congregation, you are most probably following a false prophet.
A true prophet empowers his followers preparing them to leave his nest one day ... and the sooner they leave the better.
But if you have a prophet that all they want is to keep you around and to keep you coming, you are most probably following a false prophet.
A true prophet is not happy about leading a congregation of thousands, but when the people he leads are getting out and creating schools of their own to teach what the prophet taught them.
*You shall know them by their fruits*, these are the fruits of a true follower of Jesus Christ.
They don't go around calling themselves the mightiest, they go around making people the mighty. When David was running away from king Saul, the bible says that everybody that was in debt, everybody that was in distress, everybody that was in trouble, came to him and they made him their captain. Towards the end of King David's life, these same men are recorded both in second Samuel and in Chronicles as "the mighty men of David". David did not go around calling himself the mightiest prophet of God, but he moved heaven and earth to make mighty men out of the rejects of the society.
I am still a young preacher, and I can tell you for sure that many people who have rallied around me and who are calling me their priest, are people that are in the state that was with the people that came around David. People with a desire to serve God but have no resources to do so. *My greatest joy* will be that when my end has come, I will look back and see all the millionaires I made out of beggars, all the employers I made out the jobless, all the marriages I made out of the broken hearts, *I hope that before I die, God will give me a chance to compile my book of my mighty men!* People that I once met distressed, but through this young boy, they received their Joy of life.
I already have a list of a few; three women so far who have children they couldn't have, two girls that had skin diseases, one in Kenya (a neighbour) and another in South Africa.... And the list of my mighty men is building up.
My prayer is that you who is reading this will also find a spot in my book of my mighty men. I do not know what you are going through, but if you connect with this anointing, *Because connection is a preliquisite requirement*, then you will be one of the fruits through which I shall be know. *You shall know them by their fruits.* Let's continue this tomorrow.
Shalom and keep the faith.
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