02/10/2025
THE MISTAKE I 'THOUGHT' I'D MADE THAT DELIVERED OTHERS.
Sometime last year, I had the opportunity to do a two week online teaching on some doctrinal matters. It was on the WhatsApp platform of the youth fellowship of a particular denomination. The person who reached out to me happens to be my friend, who's a leader in that fellowship.
Over the course of the sessions, I mentioned some certain things that are biblically correct, but don't entirely align with the doctrines of that denomination. (Note: Prior to that time, I'd never known that the denomination holds a stand on that matter that's contrary to what is painted in the holy scriptures, I was just doing what the Lord had led me to do).
After the second week, a lady raised a question regarding that issue; she mentioned that this particular thing I said doesn't align with what they've been taught for years, she even went ahead to make citations. After her question, about three other persons also said they had similar questions in mind. (That was when I discovered I'd made a mistake, or I thought I'd made a mistake,-by saying something contrary to the beliefs of that denomination).
So I went ahead to answer their questions, making my point clear enough, exegesing it from scriptures. It took us almost about an hour to come to a common ground, using scriptures as the basis. After everything, I answered a few more questions, then we said the grace and called it a day.
I've had a very long day, so immediately after the session that night, I dropped my phone and went to bed. Waking up the next morning, I had about 8 messages from members of that platform, who reached out to me - expressing the level of emancipation they've gotten within the last two weeks. By evening of the same day, another 6 individuals who had followed the sessions later that day also reached out to me (most of them were using that question as specimen).
Any day I remember that night, it reminds me again that there's the need to "put in order, the things that are most surely believed amongst us".
Prior to that time, if I'm to speak to people from a certain sect of the Christian faith, and I know that there are certain beliefs they hold which may not really be the perfect view of scriptures, what I like to do is to just avoid that matter.
But after my experience with these guys, I've learnt that truth must be spoken at every place, even when it is inconvenient. And when it is spoken in love, it has a delivering ability that can't be explained.
"And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free"
Bro, truth has the ability to save and to deliver.
Stop the gimmicks, teach the truth. Teach truth and not necessarily grammar.
Truth doesn't have to be new. It doesn't have to sound new to be a rhema. Rhema doesn't mean new, it simply means 'God spoken'. The fact that it sounds new doesn't validate it to be the truth. MEANWHILE, TRUTH CAN ACTUALLY BE NEW.
Truth is balanced. Truth is full.
Truth is always a product of the ministry of prayer and the word. Don't do one without the other, or you will raise a generation of people with spiritual kwashiorkor.
Falling under the power of God, prophetic sessions, prophetic declarations, are all good. But they shouldn't take the place of proper bible teaching -"teach thou the things that become sound doctrine".
The people of God will be built and established firstly from the stand point of the teaching of biblical truth.
I believe in Teaching, Doctrine, Balance and Power. I believe in the prophetic and every fragrance and colour of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
