SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY

The majority of western Christian leaders go to bed every night, with an enemy hidden deep within their soul. It's one of the greatest enemies of the kingdom, that exists. It has hindered, and discouraged more young believers than any other enemy. It has caused more rebellion, more frustration and more anger than another enemy in disguise. It has caused more embarrassment, lying, cheating and stealing than any other enemy.

I speak of the church splitting enemy, insecurity. An insecure leader has an antichrist spirit and can be among the cruelest, coldest, dictators on earth. They have put to death, the spirits of millions of young and old believers alike. The main thread, running through every one of their messages is submission. Many messages are delivered with great force, in order to browbeat the gifted sheep, and drive them back into the pew, to maintain control over them.

Insecurity in a leader breaks the spirit of the gifted disciples to the point that tens of thousands have turned back in dissalutionment. All gifts and callings in others are a threat to the insecure leader. Time after time a tender excited, joyful, disciple has been rebuked, told to sit down, get in line, and finally told to find another church, because too much attention was going to the disciple. The insecure pastor or leader is self appointed and self promoted, because it was their insecurity that originally attracted them, to become a member of the clergy. An insecure leader never takes his eye off a secure, gifted sheep because he is viewed as the approaching enemy, who could dethrone them.

Sheep are timid by nature and it's easy for a strong willed insecure person to use a combination of charisma and legalism to imprison My sheep in pens. My chosen leaders are those who can "run through a troop; and leap over a wall. [34] I make their feet like the hind's feet, firm and stable; setting them secure and confident upon the heights."
2 Samuel 22:30,34 (AMP) My leaders are secure and "take the instructions which they have heard from Me ... and transmit and entrust as a deposit to reliable and faithful men who are competent and qualified to teach others also."
2 Timothy 2:2 (AMP)

My leaders discipline out of love; "when any disciple is overtaken in misconduct or sin of any sort, as a spiritual leader who is responsive to and controlled by the Spirit, they will set him right and restore and reinstate him, without any sense of superiority and with all gentleness, keeping an attentive eye on themselves, lest they should be tempted also." Galatians 6:1 (AMP) Truthfully an insecure leader is no leader at all, he is simply a person defending his position against all potential leaders and religion has an abundance of them! In My kingdom they will be dealt with so severely, that ... "it would be better (more expedient and profitable or advantageous) for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be sunk in the depth of the sea." Matthew 18:6 (AMP)

Let Me be very clear about insecure leadership, this is what I "say to them, even to you so called spiritual shepherds: Woe to the shepherds ... who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the sheep? [3] You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill the fatlings, but you do not feed the sheep. [4] The diseased and weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the hurt and crippled you have not bandaged, those gone astray you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought to find, but with force and hardhearted harshness you have ruled them. [5] And they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts of the field. [6] My sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every high hill; yes, My sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth and no one searched or sought for them. [7] Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: [10] Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, and I will require My sheep at your hand and cause you to cease feeding the sheep, neither will you feed yourselves any more. I will rescue My sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for you."
Ezekiel 34:2-7,10

To the insecure shepherds, pastors, teachers and leaders I have this to say, YOU ARE FINISHED! You have slept with your insecurity to long and have refused to put your trust, fully in Me. I will meet with you soon! But right now I am raising up new "shepherds ... over them that will feed them as My Servant David did; They shall feed them and they shall be their Shepherds from now on." Ezekiel 34:23 (AMP)

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Best regards
Jim Hammerle

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