| Drunkenness...it IS a Curse! "In latter times, men will fall away from the faith, giving heed to doctrines of demons and seducing spirits." (I Timothy 4:1)
1TH 5:6 "Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober." 1TH 5:8 "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." 1TI 3:2 "A bishop (overseer) then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach." 1TI 3:11 "Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things." TIT 1:7-8 For a bishop (overseer) must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate." TIT 2:2 "That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience." TIT 2:4 "That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children," TIT 2:6 "Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded." 1PE 1:13 "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ"; 1PE 4:7 "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." 1PE 5:8 "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."
You will notice in the Scriptures above that there is not one verse that even suggests that we are to be anything but sober at all times. Drunkenness is definitely a curse and not a blessing! It is actually a judgment (curse) sent by God upon the harlot church and church members for the sin of spiritual adultery. When you received Jesus as your Savior, you actually entered into a covenant relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ to be His Holy Bride. When a believer goes after other lovers, (idolizes someone or something more than God), he commits spiritual adultery against His Bridegroom, Jesus. As a result, this makes them a spiritual adulterer and/or harlot. "Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live." --Psalm 119:144 Experience teaches us that people need to be sober and have all their bearings at all times. In Proverbs 2:11 we read that it says, "Discretion will guard you, understanding will watch over you." Discretion means to have good judgment and the sensitivity needed to avoid embarrassing or upsetting others; to walk circumspectly, primarily regarding ones own conduct. Understanding is having the knowledge of a particular subject, area, or situation. Both discretion and understanding combined with caution, equal discernment. And it is that discernment which enables the Believer to judge critically of what is correct and what is proper. Below are two separate letters I have received from people who had been 'soaked by demons' while listening to soaking music and/or who had received demonic impartations in meetings they believed to be Christian. (Note: Due to these testimonies being so lengthy, they were condensed. Names and locations were also omitted.) "I remember going to some meetings where they believed in all of this that you have mentioned in your message on "soaking." I have experienced the shaking, tingling, electrical sensation going through my body, along with various other things that they said was [sic] the Holy Spirit, not realizing that it is the Kundalini spirit...I have the cold sensations over my head, tingling, electrical sensations going through my body, I can feel a serpent like movement all over my back, I have this shaking when I pray, I feel movement over my head, genitals, legs, etc, the list goes on and on...I just recently visited a church where they brought back the impartation of (man of the hour) and passed it on to some people including me, not knowing what I was getting into. All of these manifestations are present at his services as well. I can feel it in my chest, on my back and it is a horrible crawling serpent sensation..." This precious child of God walked away with so much infestation of demons that she continues to struggle. She did not have the discretion or discernment needed to have walked out of that meeting immediately. Unfortunately, how many others are out there suffering just as she has, all in the name of revival and spiritual drunkenness'? Read on: "I was being raped by demons...I was speaking in letters and via cell phone to a TV evangelist by the name of ____. ...I was lead over to this outpouring with man of the hour in Florida. The first time he laid hands on me, I did not feel anything and I was very doubting, and watching my friends carefully that had come there with me, as one of them shook for about 15 minutes...I felt that I was to get out of there, but somehow I was compelled to stay there and I repeatedly went back there over and over and took others with me..."The next time I went in the impartation line, I felt a huge heaviness as I approached the front of the stadium near the stage, I almost could not stand up. I was dizzy and heavy. Then when he came to me, I was actually nervous and scared, but I put my hands up, spoke in tongues and waited to see what was going to happen. I flew backwards, it went dark and I think I was fighting it. I landed on my but [sic] and just sat there stunned and I could not get up for a little while. When I did try to get up, my right side was not working properly, my right hand was shaking, and my right hip leg and ankle foot would not work properly, I basically limped out of there...and yet I came back because my simple self thought this was some great move of the holy spirit... "I started to notice that when I worshipped, I would zone out, or go into a trance like state. I would stand there forever with my arms up and sing or sometimes just be quiet... Then a friend bought one of his books and gave it to me, I read it and began praying the prayer at the back of the book, I really thought that I was doing the right thing and expecting great things from God. "Then I found myself [sic] to buy some of his other teaching materials, such as the 'Seer Anointing' and much more. Then I was listening to his material all the time and driving all the way to ____ from ____ all the time and sometimes even by myself, which was very unusual for me, to go alone... Then I found myself lying on the floor, in my bedroom, my secret place of worship, listening to his marinating and pickling music and Bible verses and music CDs, over and over. "By this time... I also began to notice that I was shaking a lot at home. I was not working, I had been let go of my job, so in the meantime of finding other employment, and I was spending unusual amounts of time in my room. If I prayed, sang and worship, [sic] talked about God or Jesus, or anything spiritual, I would begin to shake. It started out as little shakes with my hands, then it spread all over my body... I was engulfed in this. I would sit there and watch this and just shake... I would get on my knees and pray and put my hands up and shake like a leaf until sweat came and pure exhaustion..."It just continued...I felt as though people were looking at me as if I were crazy or possessed, but still I thought that it was a move from [sic] and I felt terrible... I would get woken [sic] up in the middle of the night, by a nudging in my shoulder while I slept... so I would get up and get on my knees and pray. I, of course, would shake, then I would go back to bed... my voice began to change while singing sometimes, and I started to feel strange inside, afraid to go out of the house now..."Another time that __ laid hands on me, I fell backwards, everything went black. I remember the moment he touched my forehead, I gasped for air almost and breathed in really heavy as if something scared me, like a sigh, then I went backwards, then I remember I was crying and I covered my face with my arm. The friend next to me tried to get me up but I couldn't get up yet. She said that she heard me go with weird laugh before I started to cry??? "I began to see things with my eyes closed, while I was meditating to man of the hour's music while lying in the floor in my room, like visions.... I really was mislead, and I was thinking that God was doing an awesome thing in me. Surely this was the Holy Ghost giving to me what I had been asking or so long..."I felt as though I had been imparted some awesome thing...I actually felt something in between my legs, and then I heard the voice say..."Is that what you wanted..." I actually felt as though I had been raped, and I could not figure how was this possible. I cried really hard and a heard another voice that appeared as man of the hour's wife, saying, to stop it or he will do it again... I went and took a bath...to clean off, how could this be? "Several times as I was reading the Bible, it be [sic] as if I was taken up out of myself ands into the pages and I experienced things and I would just sit there and cry... "I wished that I had never went to this outpouring and now this was all so crazy that no one would believe my story and what was happening to me. "During all this time, this voice who identified himself as ___, would not leave me alone...one lie after another, he told me things about his family, personal things... his ministry and his life... I could not figure out how someone could be talking to me this way. "I remember when I would worship now, it was all different, it began to pull me completely out of my studies in the Bible and all my books, when I would listen to music now, I would really trance out, and see things and visions. If I read the Bible, I would feel the snakes attack me. When I worshipped and closed my eyes, I could see other faces of other people...it was if they were looking in on me. I couldn't figure it out... "I remember hopping around the house, crying and screaming, ripping my clothes off, getting in the shower, no matter what I did, I could still feel the attacks..."Before my mind was sound and stable and I was serving the Lord with all my heart, mentoring other women and at one point even teaching a Bible study out of the house, now nothing made sense..."Where do I go from here, I was created to serve God and not man and surely not this evilness. I feel like I have been screaming out for help, and does anyone hear me? It is easier for the churched people to just assume that I have went [sic] crazy somehow, than to really look at the truth of this matter. Something very bad and evil has happened to a simple child of God, and where is my help coming from? "My life has become a living nightmare... It is hard to tell now what is real and of God and what is demonic. After all, the men that infected me were supposed to be men of God, right? And if this all happened to me, then how many others has it happened to and how many people are walking around blind in this world, wake up... "How do I break this witchcraft and voodoo occultism stuff off me? Where do I go from here and how do I trust...I have been praying that God send down his FIRE...His judgment fire and I pray that all this and who has been attacking me, return to sender... it all comes back on their own heads seven times worse..." Perhaps, you, like this precious sister, are being tormented after an experience with what you thought was the Holy Spirit; when in reality, you were taken captive by a demonic spirit(s)...All in the Name of "Revival" |
