At the end of last year, I
stumbled upon the movie Spotlight through my Fandango app. It was about a team of journalist called
Spotlight that was inside the Boston Globe that investigated allegations
against a priest in 2001. It was a powerful movie that showed how these
journalists were willing to go beyond the norm to expose truth. It was a story that was previously told on a
surface level until Spotlight was willing to go deeper, and in going deeper
they uncovered not only kids being molested by priest, but a system that was
corrupted.
As the movie was playing, God was
speaking to me. We live in a world where
many people do not like to rock the boat, so we cover up or ignore what we see
for the sake of being comfortable or keeping the peace. As it relates to the movie, it took an
outside man to shake up the people in that company, in the Catholic Church, and
in that very Catholic town which caused the truth to be revealed, not just in
Boston, but ultimately it was a worldwide epidemic. When Spotlight began to investigate, they
realized that everyone who had previously been questioned was just passed
over. When the story initially came out,
people didn’t believe or they watered down and brushed over the truth because
it involved the church.
Today abuse is no longer taboo,
because it is something that many of us had to overcome and still overcoming. Many of us have experienced emotional,
sexual, physical, mental and spiritual abuse and some of us do not know it. Some of us have experience abuse from family
members, extended family members, on the jobs, in friend’s homes and in
church. Abuse is even in our political
system and government. God sees all and
He knows all and just like Spotlight, the movie, God is shining His spotlight
into the churches, marketplaces, inside the homes and government to expose the
things He has seen all along.
As a pastor, who is also a
deliverance minister (in training), that has been strategically positioned in
the marketplace, I have seen God shine the spotlight in the lives of His
people. The reason why God is exposing
is so He can deliver His people from things in their past that is hindering
their mobility and advancement today. It
is never to bring shame. However, I have
witness so many people run, withdraw from me and/or just stop dealing with me,
because it is easier to be around people who think we are wonderful. It is easier to keep pretending instead of
facing truth. Facing truth is the first
step to being liberated from the lies that keep us perpetuating the mask we wear. Along our journey, mostly our childhood, we
develop fake personalities where we are an accepted person – the mask.
You can’t get
free from anything in the kingdom of darkness without receiving truth and if
you refuse to accept truth, then you remain bound to the lie of the enemy. Only truth can heal you, that is why the
enemy will always lie to you to keep you in his control, but the moment you
begin to reject what you tell yourself and receive truth then you become free
and start your healing process.
That lying
spirit never works alone, but fear is right behind him. The lying spirit puts the thought in your
head, either a lie or some negative truth or something fabricated. Then the FEAR spirit waits to see if you are
going to accept that spirit as your own.
Once you receive it as your own, then the FEAR demon attacks your soul
which causes you to have negative emotions and now the lie feels true. If you take the lie in as yours then we open
the door to the enemy to attack us. If
we learn how to reject the lie from the beginning, then fear and lust
can’t rule our lives.
Can you see
why it is important to really begin to deal with your thought life? Can you see why God is bringing the spotlight
to our lives? It is time to take off the
mask and expose the fake personalities we have become so accustomed to. God is exposing because He is bringing
healing, not shame. When God exposes, it
won’t be on your time frame, but His time frame.
He will allow things to happen, to expose a deeper truth. It was never about the incident, but what was
in us. For example: Why did you respond like that? Why did you go over or blow up? Why did you withdraw? Why is it that a week later and it still
stays on your mind? Why do you ignore
that person, their phone calls and emails?
God is using
me, like He used the guy who came into a company and shook up that
environment. As a ministry gift that God
is raising up, I had to learn how to be comfortable in the assignment God has
given me. I did not choose it, but it
was bestowed upon me from the Father. No
matter what platform I’m on; Anointed Press Graphics, Inc., Karen Presley
Ministries, Daughters of Zion Empowerment Center or Church of Zion Deliverance
Ministries, the oil on my life will be speaking even when I am not. I know what it is like to look one way on the
outside and be something else on the inside.
I know what it is like to be anointed and gifted, but yet still deal
with inner struggles. I am the first
partaker of every message I deliver and that is why God is using me because
many people are still in the stage of running or hiding behind their talents
and titles. Now is the time for change.
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of this blog has spoken to you, contact me so we can discuss how one of our
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