Beware of Pretenders in the Church

Beware of people in the church who are seeking healings, feelings, blessings, experiences, and excitement, these people do not seek Christ but the things themselves.

Unfortunately, those who seek the experiences are not focused on Christ who brings these things but on the things themselves.

Those who seek these things have "faith in faith" not faith in Christ. They seek the good feelings that come from pretending something is from God when it is merely fleshly exaltation. Feelings and impressing others around them take priority over truth.

Those who seek God will not always seek healing, they will be led by the Holy Spirit to seek His will, which often is not healing. When they must go through the trial they know God is still with them.

Those who seek God know that they must ignore their feelings to obey Christ, they must speak the truth when it is not appreciated and when they will be reviled for it.

Those who seek Christ are willing to forgo their own desires to please God. They will stand alone while the world seeks its own ideas and desire.

It is not important to God seekers to be popular or noticed by others as special. They care only about pleasing God and carrying His truth to others.

Those who seek Christ are full of joy about His Greatness, His glory, His provision His way.

Proverbs 3:5-6

"5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart

And do not lean on your own understanding.

6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,

And He will make your paths straight."

Those seeking God will not whine and complain, but will share their needs, failures and distresses with one another openly and freely expecting those who love God will pray for them. God seekers weep while they pray, weep while the joy remains in them. They know Christ is with them through everything even if the feelings of His presence are not there. Feelings lie to us we cannot trust them.

We must trust Christ not feelings. Yes, we confess our feelings but we evaluate them according to the Bible and dismiss them when they do not agree with God.

Our feelings are often the opposite of reality, they interpret things in ways that lead us to believe things that are not true. If we follow our feelings we will end up disobeying God more times than not.

The devil uses feelings more than anything else to bring us low, discourage us and make us think we are in a good place when we are in the wrong place.

In short, fleshly feelings cannot be trusted, only Christ can be trusted.

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