Just a little background for those leaders and pursuers of revival who may read this that do not know what is going on. There is a new fad or 'wind of doctrine' blowing through the church that is using drug terms to relate to God and the Holy Spirit. Terms like: "Toking the Ghost, “Injecting Jesus in the main vein”, “Drink the godka” , "Holy Heroine", "Jesus was a crack baby", "Jesus is the master drug lord", "God's house is a holy drug house" etc... People in this movement will do things like fake like they are hitting a joint with their fingers, some will even pass around plastic 'lamb' figures in a circle similar to passing a joint in a party and "toke the ghost" , then act like they are getting high on God. Seems stupid, but a lot of people are falling for it, particularly those who are hungry for God but do not have the scriptural discernment to notice this is demonic and not of God.
Correction Is Not Always Religious
I just want to start by saying not everyone who brings correction is a religious Pharisee. If we can not receive correction and in defense call everyone a "Pharisee" who tries to give us godly council from God's Word in love, we are in danger of being in pride and huge error. We need to remain humble and keep our hearts soft and our ears open to the Word of God and to those whom God has given to us as true teachers. Sure we can heap up false teachers all we want, to tickle our ears and agree with everything we do and never correct us with the pure Word of God, but REAL SPIRITUAL TEACHERS WILL GIVE US THE TRUTH AND THEY WILL DISCIPLINE US IF WE NEED IT FOR OUR BENEFIT. I love radical Christianity, but I believe radical Christianity needs to be equally matched with radical humility and the ability to honor and to be corrected by spiritual fathers and other trusted leaders in the body of Christ.
Let’s make this clear - rebellion and pride and dishonor - are of satan and those who walk in these will fall from glory just like the devil did in the very beginning, unless they repent. But submission and humility and honor are of God and will safely keep us under the shadow and in the glory of the Most High (no pun intended). God gives us grace for a time to repent, for God is very, very merciful, so if anyone reading this note has any of these in their heart, please repent and do a 180 and God WILL restore you completely. (I speak from having to do this.... yes I admit I have been in error and have had to humble myself and be corrected by the Father many times, but He is amazingly merciful.)
Please note: the following is a hypothetical example. What if there was a group that had a revelation from a mystic angel, that their church was to drink cool-aid that had poising in it and commit suicide and go home and be with Jesus? And what if spiritual fathers and outside leaders in the body of Christ rose up and said, "This is blasphemy and not of God and does not line up with the Word of God?" What if the church that received the cool-aid revelation from the angel said, "You all are a bunch of religious Pharisees?" I guess we would have a huge problem on our hands. Pride does come before the fall.
Let’s make this very clear, teachers and leaders in the body of Christ who correct error with scripture are not always "religious Pharisees" trying to control us and quench the Spirit of God. Many of them are loving fathers that want to see us be the best we can be in Christ and be kept from the deception of the devil and to learn from the wisdom and grace God has given them over the many years they have served the Lord.
I Am Not a Pharisee
Just so all of you know who do not know me; I love the glory of God and the ecstasy of the manifest presence of the living God. I can't deny it. I love His presence and living in Him and walking with Him more than anything else this life has to offer. Just mentioning it makes my heart burn with passion and my heart almost jumps right out of my chest! I assure you I am not a religious stiff that goes around separating people from God's presence with religious 'doctrine' that puffs up the mind, quenches and controls the Spirit and separates people’s hearts from Him. Rather my passion is to reconcile people back to God's glory with pure doctrine, which I am persuaded only comes from teaching that is deeply rooted in the Holy Scriptures and not from a new "mystical" doctrine birthed by a movement, man, or demon (fallen angel).
In writing this note I don't want to just remove the error and the approach that some are using with a open sincere heart to try to connect with our God who really IS fun and IS fascinating and in His presence there IS The fullness of joy and ever increasing pleasures -Psalm 16:11 (holy ecstasy). But I want to help us "Come up here" where God is, on His terms—instead of trying to pull God down into the fallen nature and sinful deeds of Man. We have biblical permission to walk in God's glory and enjoy the river of God's pleasure and presence (Psalm 36:8). I do not want to take away encountering the living God from anyone, but I believe "the Bible has to be our plumb line and standard for walking in the supernatural and encountering the Glory." If it is not, then where do we draw the line, were will we stop? Remember Heb 4:12 "For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
Please read the following, I believe the Lord put this wisdom on my heart, I write this because I love God and I love His Church - I love you!
Encountering and Walking in the Manifest Presence of God
Beloved, in my quest and passion to walk with the living God, to be one with Him as Jesus prayed for us the church before His death, to know him like Adam did in the garden before the fall of man - I have found that there are no short cuts to the glory. OPENING UP A BIBLE AND SNORTING THE CRACK OF IT 24/7 SAYING I AM DOING "CHRIST CRACK" OR OTHER DRUG RELATED TALK, DOES NOT GET US ANY CLOSER TO GOD. Opening up my Bible reading IT and OBEYING IT FULLY - taking up my cross dying always to sin and the flesh and the lusts of the world, that the life of Christ may manifest in my life here on earth (1 Cor 4:11). Now that is what empowers me to walk in the Glory of God 24/7. God wants us to be conformed into His image, on His terms, in his holy Word, in reverence of His holy Name. He will not be defiled by the fallen nature of this world or man (I.e. the drug culture). He is forever holy and will never be defiled and will never lower himself to be corrupted by the fallen demonic practices of man.
God's Name is to be Honored
Beloved, around God's throne they cry HOLY nine times and then give honor and glory and reverence to God and then repeat for all of eternity! No where do I read in my Bible that those around the throne are smoking a Holy Hookah (a pipe that many people can smoke at the same time) this is BLASPHEMY!! – Ha-ha at the risk of me sounding like a Pharisee from Jesus' day, ripping my robes (just picture the Jew in The Passion of the Christ movie). But really, blasphemy is still real and we can grieve and blaspheme God today. Listen, if that is what the Word of God says in revelation, then please put the hookah in my mouth and I will puff away! But it does not! And God is holy and His name is to be revered and honored and God inhabits the pure praises of His people that are offered up to Him in holy honor and godly reverence. God is undefiled. Let’s make this very clear Baby Jesus is not a crack baby! Period, it is not even a joke. He is the risen Lamb of God who is to be honored forever and ever Amen! (Thank your Jesus for your precious blood, thank you, thank you, thank you!)
Honoring and Revering God - Ushers in His Glory.
I remember when I first encountered the manifest presence of God years ago in prayer. I was at a Christian get-together where they were watching a movie that I just did not want to watch because it had sinful content that was not pure, so I left the room. Call me a religious dweeb, but the Bible says the pure in heart will see God and I want to see him because He is fascinatingly beautiful! That night, all I wanted was Jesus and that which is pure and undefiled. Later that night everyone else left the party and it was getting very late. My friend and I were so hungry for God and we both had to be up for important college exams the next day in like 5 hours from that time, but we were just soooooo hungry to pray and to seek God's face. So we ended up praying and praying and praying and praying when all-of-a-sudden the manifest tangible glory of God came upon me. I felt like Stephen in acts 6. I felt like my face was physically shining, I could literally feel it. It was tangible glory and I was overwhelmed. I did not even ask for this, but God so kindly rewarded the holy hunger with His manifest presence which was total ecstasy (not to be confused with satan's counterfeit drug that carries that name).
Beloved in this encounter all I could do was say HOLY!!!!!!!!!! HOLY!!!!!!!!!! HOLY!!!!!!!! HOLY!!!!!!!!!! over and over as I laid my head on the table bowing to God in reverence and honor. To this day I encounter this manifest presence of God when I pray and I am learning to walk and abide in it 24/7, ahhhhhhhhh there is nothing sweeter in the whole wide world. Beloved, I share that story with you to let you know that the most powerful encounters we can have with the Lord is when we worship Him as they do in Heaven giving him glory, honor and praise, declaring His holiness and living in it by the grace in which He supplies. God is looking for worshipers that will worship the father in purity, in spirit and in truth. The truth is He is undefiled and forever holy and we as the "temples of the Holy Spirit" learn day by day to worship God on His terms. As we do this, then the glory of God will dwell in our midst and we will go from glory to glory! Hallelujah!!!
Ouija Boards Are A Medium To Satan - So Are Drugs And Drug Parables!
Think about it, Ouija boards are used as a medium that people use to connect to the demonic realm. Most people have enough discernment in them to realize that Ouija boards are demonic and are a gateway satanic activity. But not many see that drugs are equally as demonic. Drugs are a form of witchcraft that does open huge doors into the demonic realm. So should we put a big red cross on a Ouija board and conjure up the Holy Spirit? Never! That would be defilement and demonic right? So then, why on earth is it becoming popular in many prayer and glory groups in Minnesota and other places to use drug parables as a medium to connect with the Holy Spirit? The Bible says in 2 Co 6:17: "Therefore come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the unclean thing. And I will receive you." And in James 4:4 "Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?
Peter's Shadow Healing the Sick in the Book of Acts
If we are lovers of the glory and the presence of God, God has given us all the Holy Scriptures we ever need, telling us how to encounter and walk and abide in God’s manifest presence. I would like to say that we do not need to add these defiled, unholy, drug parables; God has already sent us His Word we just need to obey Him! We need to keep the main thing the main thing! Peter's shadow in the book of Acts healed the sick because he was soooo filled with the glory of God; he was dead to sin and alive to God. Peter became a partaker of the divine nature just like he preaches to the churches of all ages in 2nd Peter chapter 1 and his body was used as a vessel to manifest heaven to earth. Many people were touched and restored by the presence of God that rested on Peter, not because he smoked "Jehovauanna" or "shot Holy Heroine", rather, because he fully laid down his life and as a lover of God, Peter did everything Jesus taught him to do. It was no longer Peter who lived but it was Christ who lived in Him on Him and through Him (Gal 2:20). Peter walked with God, similar to the way Jesus walked with God while on earth.
Beloved, let’s cling to the truth in the scriptures and grow in our first love fire for God instead of being tossed here and there by every wind and wave of doctrine that blows through the church. Sure we can jump on every new fad and wind and wave of doctrine that comes through the body of Christ using it as “shortcut” to the glory, but I can assure you these winds and waves will fail. Lets not take the advice of corrupted man, lets follow the way of the Master and lay our lives down at His feet in pure worship! Jesus has clearly given us the way in this scripture: Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Mark 16:24)
Renouncing All Drug Parables - Go After Pure Undefiled Glory
I have many precious brothers and sisters in the Lord who use these drug parables. I think it is pretty obvious that the error of these has been exposed and those who spread these teachings can not back it up with ANY pure evidence from the Word of God that it glorifies God. I encourage all of you to prayerfully and scripturally examine this movement and consider RENOUNCING and completely stopping everything you are doing to connect to the Holy Spirit that contradicts scripture.
Beloved, I don't believe that this should even need to cause division in the body of Christ (why should we give the enemy this foothold?). Let’s abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good (Rom 12:9). Drugs and drug talk is evil. Let’s keep the main thing the main thing! Love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, body soul and strength - love our neighbor as ourselves and die daily to the works of darkness and the lusts of the flesh. Let’s let the Holy Spirit form Christ in our hearts through abiding in His holy Word in intimacy, until we walk in oneness with the Father and pull down heaven on earth while destroying the works of the devil everywhere we GO!
To see an undefiled revival rest upon and fully restore our broken generation,
-Josh Lindquist (Leader of Generation Revival Ministries in Apple Valley, MN)
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