Pastors In Todays Church

 I was prompted to write this piece based on a fellow believer sending me a video teaching from a pastor. Unfortunately, and unknown to this person, this pastor’s church has documented Kundalini manifestations in church services and an inter or self-healing ministry.  Only God can heal you.  I told this person I would try to find a pastor or teacher who is teaching the true and complete Gospel of God as the Acts church did in the first century. 

What are pastors teaching and what church are representing? The list below is some of the things they are teaching and not teaching when clearly, they should imitate what Jesus did in His ministry and what He taught the disciples to do for the 1^st century Acts church.

·         Only once in my visits to many churches, have I seen pastors call on the Helper, the Holy Spirit (John 14:16,26).  This should be the first order of church procedure before any Godly function. Jerimiah 33:3 Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’ Luke 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

·         The Great Commission given to the eleven disciples is very rarely taught in the body of Christ today. And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover,” Mark 16:15-17.  This is spiritual warfare to set the captives free. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; Isaiah 61:1

·         Repentance is seldom taught in the church today.  When in fact the bible tells us to repent of our sins about 100 times in the Bible. Why? It is the key to healing emotional/physical sickness and disease. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much, James 5:16. The prayer is basic: Confess your sins to God, ask God to forgive you, and ask God to help you repent.  This should be done consistently.

·         The church is not emphasizing the need to constantly forgive the person who offended you every time the offense comes to mind.  Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior. 32 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you, Ephesians 4:31-32.  Forgive them every time the offense comes to mind.

·         They are not teaching how to identify the roots of sickness and disease due to disobedience (sin) as outlined in Deuteronomy 28:15-68 and Leviticus 26.  Repentance is the key to healing according to God’s Word, James 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.

·         The “Grace” message. Many teach that God in His “grace” will overlook our sins if He sees that we have made a genuine effort to do the right thing, mend our ways, and avail ourselves of the help He offers through the church.  If He sees that the trajectory of our lives is headed in the right direction, then in His “grace,” He will forgive our sins and grant us eternal life.  Fact is, our sins are not forgiven by works.  Our sins are only forgiven if we confess our sins to God, ask God to forgive our sines, and ask God to help us change our ways, which is repentance. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9.

·         The church is teaching us to disregard the laws of commandments, statutes, precepts, and ordinances in the Old Testament.  Actually, Jesus presents a chief purpose of His earthly ministry: to fulfill the law and the writings of the prophets. Jesus came to accomplish all that the Old Testament foretold and to complete all the righteousness the Old Testament required and included a stark warning. 17 “Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the smallest detail of God’s law will disappear until its purpose is achieved. 19 So if you ignore the least commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God’s laws and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven, Matthew 5:17-20

·         They teach ‘there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” as written in the newer translations.  In other words, there is no accountability.  You can sin without any condemnation. They have conveniently left out the condition:  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, Romans 8:1.

·         They are teaching from the newer translations that omit, add, or change many of the truths God intended us to know. Revelation 22:18-19 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. Proverbs 30:5-6 Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar. Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him. Deuteronomy 4:2 you shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.  Deuteronomy 12:32 Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.

·         Too often the elderly people are ignored in the church. Leviticus 19:32 ‘You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I am the Lord. Especially in leadership roles.

·         Many of the so-called charismatic churches or large new churches are run by younger people who don’t have the Biblical or Holy Spirit experience to lead the Body of Christ.  They have little place for the elderly who have knowledge that the younger leadership need to tap into.  To them, old is not hip or needed?

·         Pastors feel a need to be funny more than is necessary. Some remind me of comedians or game show hosts.

·         Pastors have become story tellers of experiences.  Let Scripture tell the stories and give knowledge.

·         Pastors provide too much commentary and counseling, rather than flooding the sermon with Scripture.  Let the Word counsel the congregation.

·         The church in so many cases operate as a business. Finances have become central to their church. One church I attended had a whole month devoted to tithing sermons.

·         Churches have separated the body of Christ into contemporary and traditional services and have placed the children in child care during services. Did Jesus separate the flock in His ministry? The Bible is for all ages.

·         Churches are not taking care of the orphans and widows, which is pure and undefiled region before God, Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world James 1:27.

·         Very few come to the altar for repentance and prayer because pastors do not invite them to the altar.

·         Pastors very seldom visit the ministries the church promotes.

·         The church music of today sounds like a loud concert with light shows, fog machines and a shaman drum beating rather than Holy Spirit inspiring music and worship.

·         Too often people proclaim their churches Holy Spirit filled or led when in fact they don’t know the Holy Spirit or call on the Holy Spirit.

·         We are seeing an uptick of pastors prophesizing future events (soothsayers) in the media. When their prophesy does not come true, they are not asking the followers and God to forgive them.  Jeremiah 50:36 A sword is against the soothsayers, and they will be fools. A sword is against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.

·         Many have anointed themselves as prophets and many believers are following them.  In the Old Testament prophesy it was to point forward to the mystery of God yet to be revealed. As is true of most of the Old Testament prophets, prophecy has three components, 1) the pronouncement of specific and often universal judgement for sin; 2) an appeal for repentance because God is righteous and willing to forgive; 3) a promise that the remnant who have made God their refuge will be saved.  The pattern of prophets in the New Testament is to make known the heart of God for His people, creation, and His church. The Prophets in the new covenant are different than the prophets of the old covenant.

Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. 2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. 3 But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men. 4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. 5 I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification. 1 Corinthians 14:1-5

 

·         Many are preaching false doctrine based on what they have learned or perceived from false doctrinal sources. Not what the Bible teaches.

·         Many lift up pastors as idols, congregate around them or name drop.

·         Far too many pastors and ministries you see in media are for profit, filling their money buckets. Promoting and selling every conference and book under the sun. Fact is, we only need one book.  His Word! Matthew 21:12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

·         The church of today fails to recognize that the seven churches of Revelation (2:1 – 3:22) are all represented in their church.  Five of the seven churches are told to repent. All seven has this verse: “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”  Are we listening to the Holy Spirit in the matters of the church? The wise believer takes the time to listen with his spiritual hearing to what the Spirit is saying to the church.  This is as needed today as it was in the first century. One who hears and follows the voice of the Holy Spirit does not need to fear the deception that leads to apostasy.  Rather, he will walk where Jesus requires and will grow in the things of the Spirit of God, which produce healthy, vibrant, Spirit-filled churches capable of preaching the gospel all around the world.

·         Very, very few have deliverance/healing ministries.  Unlike Jesus in His ministry.

·         So many of the pastors or leadership boast about their credentials and accomplishments.  Did Jesus boast about His accomplishments?

·         How many pastors or churches allow the Holy Spirt run the serves without time restraints?

These are just a few things that highlight what pastors are teaching or not teaching.  We are being led astray by false doctrine and the failure to teach what the Word of God teaches.

There are many who have good teachings, but many are wolves in sheep’s clothing deceiving us. Beware of false prophets (and teachers), which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves, Matthew 7:15. Unfortunately teachers and pastors can open themselves up to what Satan wants them to teach.

Today's Church is NOT producing the same caliber of Christianity as those Christians in the Book of Acts. 

But, how can we when many Churches are so busy becoming relevant, contemporary, working to build their own kingdom, preaching motivational, self-help, preaching a feel-good message, while striving to becoming the happening place so that they can draw the masses. Or offer something that would keep them coming so that they can meet the bills and call themselves a thriving ministry. 

Many churches, especially mega churches are under the false pretense that they are called to grow the church, which is not in the Bible.  Rather, God wants us to grow our relationship with Him.

Many Churches are spending more money on salaries, buildings, programs and marketing the church as a corporate business and calling it ministry.  Letting the 5013C dictate their church success.  Did Jesus or the Acts church have a 5013C?  The 5013C is issued by the government and they can take it away.  Meaning, they control your 5013C church.

In doing so, we have trained the body of Christ to become more interested in buildings, programs, positions, titles and entertainment rather than a real book of Acts Christianity.  So much so that if a Church is not meeting in a nice building somewhere, then it is not considered a valid ministry. 

Think about it. if you meet in a home, you do not pay your pastor, staff, music director, or musicians.  You can spend most of your budget on missions, feeding the hungry taking care of the elderly, the widows, and the fatherless children, bringing people out of captivity and teaching repentance.   If you spend the Wednesday night service in prayer only and use Sunday School to teach people how to win their world for Christ.  You can teach every member during the week to share Christ and to be fishers of men.  In the main service the pastor is equipping people to live a selfless, sacrificing, and servanthood life.  The ministry is for the people. The ministry work is laboring for the Kingdom of God. A type of lifestyle.  The home church requires sacrifice and obedience to truly take us to the place God wants us to be.

You see, should you invite people to this kind of Church, many people in the community may not consider it to be a "real church or ministry.  For many people would not get past the fact that you are meeting in a home.  Yet this type of home Church is selfless, servant minded, and actively reaching the world for Christ. They are a body of believers describes in the "Book of Acts New Testament Church"

Now are we saying that we must go back to this kind of Church?  YES!  We must go back to the methods that raised the caliber of Christians that were meeting from house to house in the book of Acts. It is not about where we meet.  It is about what we are truly producing at the end of the day.

Reality is the only way to produce Christians of the same Caliber of those in the Book of Acts is to model the Church after that of the Book of Acts.  Those Christians who "loved not their life even unto death," Revelation 12:11 Those Christians were selfless, sacrificing servants who considered themselves bought with a price and no longer their own.

We had the privilege to meet for six years in our house.  We originally called it a Bible Study, but in fact it was our home church.  We got frustrated with the direction the church was going in.  We followed not only the book of Acts, but we followed what the whole Bible taught to the best of our ability.  In doing so, we became “doers of the Word,” James 1:22.  We called on the Holy Spirit (Helper) to be a major part of our home church. We carried out the Great Commission, Mark 16:15-18 as Jesus instructed His disciples to do. We saw many miracles of healing and deliverance every week.  We weren’t restricted by time. Many times, our service lasted 3-4 hours.  Bottom line is we avoided the trappings of the current church of today.

It has been difficult finding a pastor or church that are teaching the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. I have come to the realization that the only fool proof teacher is God’s Word (Jesus), In the beginning was the Word, and the Word (Jesus) was with God, and the Word was God, John 1:1.

The question you have to ask yourself: What Church will you choose to be a part of going forward?

Tony Sanchez 5-31-21 

Hate

Word Origin 12^th Century

I don't think we truly know the meaning of hate and self-hatred. Yes, we have man's definition, but we don't truly understand what it means and what it does to us. Most will say "I don't hate" or "I don't have self-hatred." Yet, our symptoms from sicknesses and diseases are saying otherwise. We can't be effective in ministry if we don't know how to identify hatred. 

Hatred and self-hatred can be defined as ill will and resentment towards others or self. Looking at this definition, it is easy to connect to what hatred we have towards others and ourselves, whereas before we have denied hating anybody including ourselves. How often have you heard a person say "I don't hate them" or "I don't hate myself?" Well, your sickness and disease symptoms are sending us a message of hatred.

Another word to describe hate is dislike.  Again, when you ask someone if they hate others or self, they usually deny that they have hate.  But if you ask the question “Do you dislike others for what they do” or “Do you dislike what you have done in your life?” Using the word “dislike” helps us to identify what our true feelings (hate) towards others and self are.

Ill will or dislike towards ourselves can be:

Regrets	Physical Appearance	Lack of Accomplishments	Failures
Lack of Education	Sin	Not compassionate	Difficulty Showing Love
Not Worthy to Be Loved	Hardness	Anger Issues	Feeling Rejected
Not a Good Father	Not a Good Husband	Not a Good Mother	Not a Good Wife
Depression	Feeling stupid	Not as Good as Others	Hopelessness

 

This produces ill will/dislike (hatred) guilt, shame, self-condemnation, bitterness, anger, and unloving of others and self. We beat up ourselves spiritually resulting in physical and emotional sickness and disease. Again, this is called hatred of others and self, which we fail to acknowledge as hate. We are missing the point if we don’t identify hate (dislike). We must deal with hate in our lives. This knowledge is critical for bringing people out of captivity so that we may be healed, confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous, James 5:16).

Hatred and self-hatred are roots that contributes to sickness and disease:

Arthritis	Alcoholism	Alzheimer’s Disease	Autoimmune diseases	Anorexia Nervosa /Bulimia
Aneurysm – Cerebral	Binge eating	Bulimia	Crohn's Disease	Cysts – Ganglion
Dementia	Diabetes Type I	Diverticulitis	Eczema	Emphysema
Gallbladder Disease	Gallstones	Gout	Heavy Menstrual Bleeding	High Blood Pressure
High Triglycerides	Impotence	Infertility – Men	Infertility – Women	Loss of Libido
Lupus	Menstruation – Irregular	Miscarriages — Multiple	Osteoarthritis	Pain – Chronic
Pancreatitis	Premenstrual Syndrome - PMS	Prostatitis	Psoriasis	Rheumatoid Arthritis
Schizophrenia	Skin Tags	Social Anxiety Disorder	Spinal Stenosis	Testosterone Deficiency
Thyroid Issues	Coronary Artery Disease	Compromised Immune System	Allergies	Hemorrhoids

Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior, Ephesians 4:31.

Conclusion: Hatred is sin.  God wants us to confess this as sin, we ask God to forgive us, and we repent). If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, 1 John 1:9 Whoever hides hatred has lying lips, And whoever spreads slander is a fool.

Addictions

Remember, one can be addicted to almost anything: drugs, alcohol, sex, pornography, food, shopping, diet, exercise, or anything to distract us from the feelings of being unloved.

Each person is created to know and to receive God’s perfect love.  When people have not received true, unconditional love as a foundation, they are always in search of getting a need fulfilled.  The need-to-know God’s love can open us up to look for love in all the wrong places.  This need leaves us vulnerable to the deception of Satan, who seduces us into believing the world offers us a better substitute.

Unloving Spirits

Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

The unloving spirit rejects everything God has said about you in His Word (you are fearfully and wonderfully made) and replaces with Satan’s blatant lies.  These deceptions will prevent you from loving God, loving yourself, and loving others.  It blocks you from receiving this love as well as from giving it.  Many of us have not grown up in a godly, loving environment.  This hinders us from and early age in receiving the very love we crave so much.

The unloving environment is a result of the spiritual leader of the house, the father, not knowing how to convey God’s perfect love, 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. The father was not taught by their father how to convey love to their children and even their wife. This can go back many generations. Children need to hear these words everyday “I LOVE YOU.”  It’s a declaration to the children, wives, the heavenlies and it tells Satan that God’s love is greater than his lies.  “God’s perfect love casts out fear,” the fear of not being loved.  So, the children have “not been made perfect in love” which results in constant torment “because fear involves torment.”  Again, the fear of not feeling loved.

When a person feels unloved, there will be rejection, abandonment, self-rejection, self-hatred and anger.

What Makes Addiction a Sin?

You are saying through your actions that God is not able to meet you needs.  Your heat says: “God, I need a fix that you cannot supply.  I will get it myself.”  Our comfort must be in God, not in people places, or things, especially addictions.

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Fear

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Fear means being afraid, scared, worried, anxious and concerned that a bad thing is going to happen.  It is projecting into the future.  Fear, then, is the opposite of faith.  Fear and faith are equal.  They both project into the future and both demands to be fulfilled.  Bottom line is: which authority are you going to listen to.

What Makes Fear a Sin?

God’s Word tells us over 365 times to “fear not.”  By entertaining the spirit of fear, your actions are saying you cannot trust God and you have to take control of your own life. Fear is sin.

 

 

Traumas and Doorpoints

God has set parameters of protection around mankind against Satan.  Yet, there are ways he can get a foothold.  They are called doorpoints or entry points.  Traumas and doorpoints are the incidences in your life giving entry to these bad roots.  These points of entry could be in your own life or in your family tree.

Different phases or event of life bring their own traumas.  Doorpoints around birth and early childhood could be issues of abandonment in the event of unwanted pregnancy.  This allows the spirit of rejection to enter into the unborn child.  Rejection can lead to self-hatred, self-rejection, self-condemnation, and questioning their self-worth.  When parents’ divorce (50% divorce rate), children question their own worth and this may give entry to unloving spirits.  Due to sickness, we may engage in alternative therapies, and/or addictions.

Rejection and abandonment by the father and many cases the mother is trauma.  Most have had hundreds traumas as a result of the unloving parents and they have to be addressed in ministry to undo the harm.

Addiction Ministry – Things to Look For – This requires us to become a detective and ask questions so that we can determine the entry points or roots so that we can bring people out of captivity, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound Isaiah 61:1

 

******First and foremost, we must ask the Holy Spirit to guide us as we minister to the person, Jeremiah 33:3******

1.)    Was the child born out of wedlock?

2.)    Was the pregnancy wanted

3.)    Is there a generational history of the above? May need to break the generational curses.

4.)    Determine any generational addictions that may have to be broken.

5.)    What was the role of the father in the family?

6.)    Did the father bring wrath and anger to their child?

7.)    Did the father say these words “I love you” as they were growing up?

8.)    Was the Father the spiritual head of the family or did the mother make all the decisions.

9.)    List all traumas emotionally and physically.

10.) List all offenses and lead the person in a forgiveness prayer towards the offender.

11.) Lead them in a prayer of forgiveness of self for self-hatred, self-rejection, regrets, anger and for not loving self.

12.)  Have them confess to God all their sins, ask God to forgive them, and ask God to help them to repent.

This is a short but critical list that needs to be followed.  The Holy Spirit can or will bring revelation to the ministry team.

If we love ourselves the way God loves us, we would not have to fill that void of not feeling loved with addictions.  Feeling unloved is an anti-Christ spirit.  The unloving spirit is rooted in fear and only God’s perfect love can cast out fear (1 John 4:18).  Not mankind?

Generational Sin

Generational Sin – They have turned back to the iniquities (sin) of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them…Jeremiah 11:10

There are way too many generational sins manifesting in the present generation causing havoc in the form of sickness and disease.  Especially, in the children.  Any time I see disease in children, I believe it can point to generational sin.   

 Generational Curse definition – to pronounce judgement. “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you, Deuteronomy 28:1.  The rest of the chapter goes on to describe what sickness and diseases that will result from our disobedience (sin).

Generational Sin definition – an immoral act considered to be a transgression against God. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation,” Exodus 34:7 Sins in this passage follows the generational line.

Generational Sin can be passed down the family line. In other words, we are born with iniquities (sin), transgressions (sin), and trespasses (sin), (Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me, Psalm 51:5). Not only do we have to break the generational sin from past generations, confess it as sin, and ask forgiveness for the past generations, we must also confess the generational sin that we have partaken with from past generations, and ask God to forgive us.  This is called repentance.

Unfortunately, most do not address past and present generational sin.  I have heard from people and pastors, numerous times that because Jesus died on the cross for our sins, past, present, and future, we are forgiven. They preach the grace (once forgiven, always forgiven) message.  If this is true, why is the Body of Jesus Christ still getting sick?  It is false doctrine. Paul’s message in Romans 6:1 says What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

Does the grace message trump repentance?  Should we continue to sin and believe there will not be consequences? There are instructions in the Bible on what to do when we sin.  We are called to repent.  That is why it says in God’s Word 100 times to repent. It is very clear why we must repent because our disobedience will result in sickness and disease.

Our generational sin has been there since conception through DNA and we were born with the sins of the generations that can go back many generations.  Through our lives we have become one with the sins of the generations.  In other words, we don’t really know its there until the past of generational and present sins manifest resulting in sickness and disease. The only way to eradicate this generational sin is through repentance because it is sin.  God’s promise in His Word is we WILL be cleansed from sin and healed of our sickness and disease. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (generational and present sin). James 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.

Fortunately, there is prayer to be released from generational curses/sin in Jesus Christ’s Name. 

Prayer: Father God, in Jesus Christ’s Name, I confess the iniquities and trespasses of the past generations as sin.  I am very sorry for the past generational sins and I ask You to forgive their sins. Father God, in Jesus Christ’s name, I confess the generational sin I was born with as sin.  I am very sorry for allowing myself to be a partaker of generational sin and I ask You to forgive me.  I ask You to help me repent because I cannot do this on my own. Through the Blood of Jesus Christ and repentanc, I know I can I be delivered from all generational and present sin.  AMEN!

Generational sin has been working in us for decades and healing is not always immediate. The reason is we have to build up our faith and pray continually because we don’t have the faith of a mustard seed, So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you, Matthew 7:20.  Continue to pray this prayer until there is a healing breakthrough.                     Tony Sanchez 2-12-21

Fear

 Fear – (worry, stress anxiety, panic, terror, nervous, afraid, dread, alarm, fright, trepidation)

Fear definition: an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger; an instance of this emotion; a state marked by this emotion; to be afraid of; expect with alarm. Synonyms for fear: alarm, anxiety, dread, fearfulness, fright, horror, panic, scare, terror, trepidation, stress, nervousness, uneasy, alarm, dread, distress, wary, anxiety, phobia, and worry.

God gave us emotions to help us. The emotion fear was intended to alert us to danger so that we may respond by our fight or flight abilities. Fighting fear means you battle to take your peace by overcoming fear.  Flight means that you don’t stand up to fear and it can end up being one with you.  Constant fear will control you and put you in bondage.

Studies show that anxiety and stress are as detrimental to the heart health as are cholesterol, smoking and others.  You must get rid of your worries, stresses, anxieties, and fears because they are detrimental to your health. Fear weakens your immune system leaving you at risk of immune diseases.

Fear, stress and anxiety probably account for at least 50 to 70 percent of all diseases known to mankind according to Dr. Henry Wright. What people do not realize is that fear, stress, and anxiety many times are coupled with the Unloving Spirit.  What that means is a person fears not being loved by parents, siblings, self, others, and God.

The Mind-Body Connection

The hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal is the facilitator of the mind-body connection.  For every thought you have, conscious or unconscious, there is a corresponding chemical, hormone, neurotransmitter, or neuropeptide that secretes somewhere in your body to respond to that thought.  Fear can cause the body to become out of balance.

But, if there is a departure from normal because of spiritual problems, it is called disease.  Something that God created to function has been perverted and it is now malfunctioning most of the time through hyposecretion (under) or hypersecretion (over) of body chemicals.

Much of fear and panic is caused by the hypersecretion of hormones.  The amygdala (a little ball of nerves in the brain that detects fear) triggers and regulates fear responses and sets the whole fight or flight reaction into motion.  When the stressor is gone and the fight or flight reaction consistently extends beyond its normal recovery time due to long-term fear and anxiety, it carries over into the Resistance Stage.

Resistance Stage

The Resistance stage is where you are geared up all the time to face this invisible enemy of fear. Certain part of your body that needed to maintain homeostasis (balance) are no longer functioning because your body has been told there is an enemy.  So, you are geared up, wrestling this enemy of fear all the time.  After a while, you wonder why you are worn out.

The Exhaustion Stage

Constant exposure to fear will produce hopelessness and despair. Also know as depression.  How do I know this?  God’s Word tells us in Proverbs 12:25 Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad.  Years of exposure to depression will produce oppression (sense of being weighed down in body or mind).  Also know as a stupor (a state of extreme apathy-lack feeling/emotion or torpor-a state of lowered physiological activity typically characterized by reduced metabolism, heart rate, respiration, and body temperature that occurs in varying degrees resulting often from stress or shock). The Bible describes this condition in Romans 11:8 God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, to this very day” which describes feeling lethargic as it relates to, or characterized by laziness, procrastination, and lack of energy.

 Types of Fears

Many years ago, Life magazine published a list of 4,000 fears.  I will only list some that I see most often.

Fear of not being loved	Fear of rejection	Fear of abandonment
Fear of not performing	Fearing into the future	Fears from work
Fear of not being worthy	Fear from politics	Fears from the world
Fear of what people think or say	Fear of Sickness and Disease	Fear for your children
Fear of losing your job	Fear of facing people who hurt you	Fear of embarrassment
Fear of growing old and being alone	Fear of dying	Fear of foods and not exercising
Fear of Failure	Fear of gaining weight	Fear of mankind
Fear of showing love	Fear of parent and kids	Fear of losing salvation

 

What Are Some Emotional and Physical Symptoms of Fear?

Insomnia	Migraine Headaches	Cramps	High Blood Pressure	IBS
Itching	Back and Neck Pain	Plantar Fasciitis	Feeling Lethargic	Hopelessness
Constricted vessels	Contracted Muscles	Contracted tendons	Contracted ligaments	Panic attacks
Narrow Air passages	Narrow lung air sacs	Confusion	Psychosis	Unsound mind
Reclusive	Carpal Tunnel	Shortness of Breath	Depression	Oppression
Procrastination	Blood clots	Arterial Stiffness	Vessel wall thinning	Erectile Disfunction
Hopelessness	Despair	IBS	COPD	Sleep Apnea

                                                                                

Fear Topics

Traumas – Traumas and the stressor tied to them come in all sizes from the littlest trauma to the biggest.  Each of us has had a constant lifetime exposure to traumas of all sizes that affect our physical and emotional well-being leading to what the medical field calls PTSD.  A lifetime of fears from traumas piles up leading to emotional sickness and physical disease.  Traumas and the fears attached to traumas will stay with us until we receive ministry to eradicate them.

Generation Fears can be passed down the family line. In other words, we are born with fears, which is sin, (Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me, Psalm 51:5). Not only do we have to break the generational fears from past generations and confess it as sin, we must also confess the generational sin that we have partaken in from past generation, and ask God to forgive us.  This is called repentance.

Unloving Spirit – 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.  Fear is an unclean spirit.

Unfortunately, an Unloving spirit will have Fear working with it. The Fear is the fear of not being loved or a fear of not being worthy to be loved. They combine with anger to bring torment to you. 

To be free of fear, you must be able to receive God’s love and feel safe in it, regardless of whether anyone loves you or not.  God loves you.  An Unloving spirit and the spirit of Fear are antichrists spirits because they debate and dethrone the Word of God in your life.

When God says He loves you and you say you are not loved, you call God a liar.  When God says “fear not,” yet you continue to fear, you are calling God a liar again. The phrases “fear not” or “do not fear” are found in the Bible more than 350 different times.  Do you think God is trying to tell us something?

You MUST resolve the tact that you belong here on this planet and you MUST believe that God placed you here for a reason.  You are going to have to believe the Word of God!  You are not an accident!  You were known from the foundation of the world.

Yet, you say you are not loved?  You need to get a reality check.  It is time you leave the lies of the past behind and start believing you are worthy to be loved. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him, 1 John 4:16.

Constricted vessels are the narrowing of the vessels because of fear causing the heart to have to pump harder resulting in high blood pressure, blood clots, migraines, reduced hair growth, circulations issues and numbness to name a few.

Contraction of the muscles, tendons, and ligaments A contraction is activation of tension within the fibers of the muscles, tendon, or ligaments. It begins when the nervous system generates a signal that causes a contraction and can be summed up in three ways: (1) A message travels from the nervous system to the muscular system, triggering chemical reactions. (2) The chemical reactions lead to the fibers reorganizing the muscles, tendons, and ligaments.  That is the contraction.  (3).  When the nervous system signal is not longer present, the chemical process reverses, and the muscles, tendons, and ligaments relax.

Unfortunately, many times we are in constant fear causing the muscles, tendons, and ligaments to be contracted   perpetually leading to muscle cramps/spasms/pain, tightness, tears, severed, muscles, and tendons.

A good example of this is the NFL and their players during COVID.  There was a great increase in injuries due to the fears the players manifested within themselves.  Fear of not playing, fear of not getting a paycheck, fear of being isolated from families during the season, fear of infecting family or friends, fear of performing, and the list goes on.  So, their muscles, tendons, and ligaments are so tight, it resulted in many injuries in football and the other sports.

These fears did not allow them to “play loose” as they say in the athletic world.  Meaning, they were not able to perform at 100% of their abilities.  These same fears did not allow their mind to process at 100%.  Fear causes confusion and it is not from God, 1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. Once fear is reduced, it allows them to slow down the game.  Fear is from the enemy and it has to be cast out, which is a big part of our ministry, and the ministry of Jesus Christ (Mark 16:17), whether it be athletics or common folk.  We have been very successful because this is what God has promised, but it is a process and it doesn’t happen overnight.  A person has to change their habits of stress, anxiety, worry (fear).

Plantar Fasciitis is the result of fear contracting the tendon resulting in miniscule tears causing pain.  Fear is nesting in this area of the foot.

Lower back pain is the result of fear contracting muscles, tendons and ligaments.  Fear is nesting in this part of the body. 99% of the time we find the left leg shorter than the right leg.  This means they are out of alignment due to fear. 

Erectile Disfunction – ED can result from emotions (fear, stress, anxiety, depression), clogged and narrowing of the blood vessels. Knowing what causes ED is not complicated.  Fear will cause the vessels to narrow restricting blood flow as in any part of the body.  With men, a lifetime of fears not addressed can result in ED.  ED causes marriage issues because the man has fears of not being able to perform making it worse.

Procrastination – A person who has depression and a worse condition called oppression causes a lethargic existence. Depression and oppression lead to procrastinate.  Many times, a person can barely get out of bed.  Every effort is extremely difficult and the more you ignore what has to be done, the more it causes additional fear.  It’s an endless cycle.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) – GAD is characterized by persistent and excessive worry about a number of different things.  People with GAD may be fearful of future disasters that most often never happen.  They may be overly concerned about money, health, family, work or other issues. They may worry more than seems warranted about actual events or may expect the worst even when there is no apparent reason for concern.

The disorder comes on gradually and can begin across the life cycle, though the risk is highest between childhood and middle age. Sometimes just the thought of getting through the day produces anxiety.  They don’t know how to stop the worry cycle and feel it is beyond their control, even though they usually realize that their anxiety is more intense than the situation warrants.

Spirits of: fear (as in stress/anxiety) and anger. Many people feel rejected, unworthy, and unloved.  The father’s failure to say these simple words “I love you” early in a person’s one’s life has great impact on how one feels about their self.

Note: Many times, a single worry will trigger other worries to a point where they pile up causing greater fear. Eventually, a person becomes one with fear causing great bondage. Covid has caused GAD to increase substantially.

Fear of Not Being Loved - This is the number one fear most, if not all of us have to deal with and it does the most damage emotionally and physically.  Feeling unloved brings on rejection, abandonment, not feeling worthy, depression leading to oppression, feeling lethargic, and feeling unwanted.  Over time a person will experience extreme anger towards those who did not love them.  Not feeling loved is an offense resulting in un-forgiveness towards them. It produces self-rejection, self-hatred, anger at self, that results in a person beating themselves up emotionally and physically, ultimately, causing sickness and disease.  Feeling unloved compromises, the immune system.  Meaning, it dries the bones and the bone marrow that produces white T cells that fight off immune diseases, A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones, Proverbs 17:22.  Feeling unloved will produce envy, bitterness and jealousy because they love others more than they love you, A sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones Proverbs 14:30. 

Addictions – Fear is the major component in why we have addictions and its root cause is tied to not feeling loved!  We are not trusting the love of God to fill our loving needs.  We have relied on  man’s love that continually disappoints us over and over.  So, when we look to fill that loving void, we turn to things of this world such as alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, shopping, diet/exercising, eating, gambling, video games, work, internet, sports, social media, sex, phones, pornography, and many more. Many times, these addictions come down the generational line.

How do we combat fear and the symptoms associated with fear?

Fear is an unclean spirit and it needs to be addressed. You can command it to leave in Jesus name and you can repent of this fear.  Fear is sin and as with all sin in the Bible, we must repent.  Repent means to change our ways, but we need God’s help.  Below is a basic repentance prayer.

Father God, I confess my fears_____ as sin. I am very sorry and I ask You to forgive me.  I choose to repent with your help in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Consistently repent of any sin and God’s promises is that Jesus will take on your sin, which leads to healing.

Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions (sin), He was bruised for our iniquities (sin); The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed…

Number one reason we are not being healed is we fail to confess our sin, we fail to ask God to forgive us, and we fail to repent CONSISTANTLY.

The medical field and mankind have not been able to heal anyone from fear.  They feed you drugs, advise counselling, diet, exercise, and yoga (meditation) and self-help to name a few. Yet, the fear and the symptoms from fear continue to keep us in captivity.

The greatest responsibility of a father is to convey the love of God the Father to their children and wife with these simple words, “I Love You” over and over and over again.  This is a declaration to all the heavenlies.  

I pray you will be blessed with this information so that you and others can out of captivity.  Tony Sanchez 2-12-21