Are you Dysfunctional?

Only the word and power of the Lord can keep you functional.

Before I can get started, I must set the scene for what I am about to discuss with you. God loves me, this I know, because he sent his son to die for my sins. Jesus is now waiting for you to accept his father's invitation to be emancipated through the salvation plan of the Lord. Listen, please. God will never leave or forsake us, meaning those who have accepted his son. You do need to know this. You, leave the safety of the Lord when you choose the devil as your god. Without the leading of the Lord's Spirit, people will believe what they want to believe. No connection with the Lord means you do not have access to his love. Now for those who once were saved, but now have become backsliders, this is clear evidence that you have grieved the Holy Spirit. Therefore, He had no other choice but to leave you. He cannot live in an unclean vessel. So now that I have provided you with an introduction, I can get into the message which is called Dysfunction within you:

In the United States, we are so blessed that we have had so much favor because “In God We Trust.” Our protection comes through a connection with the Lord. When we do not follow the path of this stability, we are sick in sin. My Friends, when anyone is living, acting, and talking like they have no morals, such folks are out of the will of the Father. Apart from, God, all souls stand in jeopardy. Another word for this sickness is called dysfunction, and it spreads like a virus throughout the body. Many people proclaim that God is their buckle and shield, but when the Lord speaks to them, in the form of correction, dysfunction shows itself in the form of rejection and rebellion. So, now the question is, are you corrupt? The answer! Yes, you are. Ok, let’s look at you from God's point of view! In Genesis, “In the beginning, God created and built everything. On day six, He created man in His likeness and gave him dominion over the earth. He made man from dust and blew the breath of life into him, the man. He told Adam to eat from any tree in the garden, but the tree of good and evil, don’t eat from that one, because on the day you do, you will die. Adam did well. God looked again and said it is not good for man to be alone. So I’ll make him a woman from his bone, and flesh of his flesh. So, God put Adam into a deep sleep and created a female.

Listen, if you don’t want to become dysfunctional, follow the plan of the Lord. In other words, there is a way that seems right in the eyes of a man who is not connected to the Lord, but the outcome will be death. Listen, and please eat this for your souls. There is an order in how God does things. There were rules and regulations.

Like, “Do not touch.”

The serpent was a good-looking creature. The devil beguiled the snake. The snake talked to the wife. The snake said, “Did God say you cannot eat from the tree.” She said, “Yes.” “God said that we cannot eat of that tree.”

Listen, and please marinate on this. Women should never have conversations with strange men unless it's a family member or when your husband is present. Why? because the devil is very good at what he does. This means he will send a devilish man to you, and he will then say words that you have been craving to hear. At that point, you can be captured and used, at his pleasure. They will trick you out of your clothes and give you a baby. Some women love a good-looking man, and that is the trap Satan uses. Other females are so desperate for any man they will do anything just to get one to be with them. It is so sad, but this is the world that we are living in at this moment in time. The woman said the tree looked good, and she decided she would take a bite. She ate off the tree and gave her husband a bite. Ok, so here comes dysfunction from the man. God said, “Adam, where are you?” Adam said, “I am over here covering myself because I am naked. " God said, “Who told you that you are naked?” Ok, you need to get this. Dysfunction comes from being corrupt. The definition of dysfunction is abnormal or impairment in the body, diverting from the norm, a social behavior that brings about bad behavior. (Deviation, abnormal, payment to not follow the rules.)

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. {2 Timothy 2:15}

When we don’t study the word of the Lord, dysfunction will no doubt creep into us and become our god of choice! Dysfunction will never allow anyone to see they are in trouble and out of the will of the Lord. When we are truly connected to the vine, we know what the Lord means when he says to us, "If it were possible, Satan would fool the very elite." If you do not study the Bible, you. cannot deal with the devil. Many people love to say I fight the devil, and he moves out of my way when I put the word on him. Well, my friends, the truth is they don’t know how to cast out a headache, so how then can they deal with Satan?

Listen, I do not fight for Jesus. Jesus fights for me. I fight in the spiritual realm. I stand with faith. You cannot be dysfunctional and be saved and fight anything. There are dysfunctional people in the church. Such are those who will not go to church or pay their tithe. They are nothing more than spots, and wrinkles. Here one second, gone the next. They have nothing more than a form of godliness but lack the power thereof. Meaning, they have no power to bring their bodies under subjection. They have no natural love for others. Many of the women are bossing around their husbands. Such action is of the spirit of witchcraft. Once more, this is dysfunction in its realm. There are requirements for parents from the womb to the room. You have to be ready to learn as you go. If your mother never taught you to cook, clean, mop, iron, and sew, and be organized, you will be dysfunctional. You think that if you just don’t think about it, you won’t be held accountable. You need to know this. Our God sits high and looks at us with detailed eyes. Nothing is hidden from him. Listen, Paul had to remind the people that he brought the word of the Lord to, how they ought to present themselves because he was informed that some of the new converts were acting out of character.

This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. {2 Corinthians 13}

Paul is talking to the people. It is a warning to make sure you are not dysfunctional. God does not have dysfunctional people working for him. Why? because he equipped you with all we need to get the job done. Again, the readers are being warned. He says this is the 3rd time I have come to you. He heard they were acting crazy. There should be no dysfunction. I told you before and foretell you as if I were present the second time and being absent now, I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare.

As leaders, we have the authority to put people in check. Whom the Lord loveth, He chaseth. If not, you are a bastard. Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. Whose side are you on? At some point in our lives, we should have ascertained our direction and what part we plan in this life. Meaning to say, at this point, you should know by now whose side you are on. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your selves. Know ye, not your selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? Examine yourself. You prove to yourself that you are of faith. How that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we are as reprobates. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

In other words, how can you be corrupt, and still be connected to the Lord? Meaning to say, how can you be connected to Christ and not see you have fallen into dysfunction? The only way that can happen is if you have fallen away from the word of the Lord, not just detaching yourself, but staying in that devastation. Now that means only one thing. You have been turned over to a reprobated state of mind, and this is why you don’t even know you are in the hands of the devil.

Once more, I’ll tell you again. If you are dysfunctional, you are a reprobate. You are talking to Satan and his people. If we will not follow the basics of what the Lord has given to us, how can we survive in a sinful land, and be saved from the traps of Satan? Paul wants us to know unless we examine ourselves, the truth will be like an elusive butterfly that we can never catch. God loves us so much, that He put a mind within us so that we can think and make sound choices. So, then when the devil comes with his lies, we can use what the word has taught us to combat the lies of Satan. Listen, even when the devil knocks us down, we are more than conquers through Christ Jesus. Let’s go to the word.

For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. “Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.” (1 Corinthians 15:34)

Christ causes us to be fully aware of our situation, but when we are in sin, we cannot help others if we are walking in disrespect towards our God. Paul said, “When I would do good, evil was present. When I would do good, I find myself not doing what is right. Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body?”

Listen, and please hear me. Your dysfunction will not allow you to do right. The dysfunction will not allow you to say that it is wrong for a man and a man to be together. It won’t allow you to hear what the government is sneaking around and passing bills to take your parental rights.

Paul wants us to know that we have the power to make sound decisions for ourselves. So, he put us in a place where we can be reminded, so he says this. "Therefore, I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction."

"Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints salute you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." Here is a point. Whether you are with a friend or your mother, you should always be the same, knowing who you are, and staying in the position of holiness. In this position, you know that the Holy Spirit lives within you, and he will lead and guide you to all God's truth. That within itself is stability that will never allow dysfunction to do its thing with you.

The Lord should not have to use sharpness on you when you are walking according to the word, but if you have not awakened to righteousness, and sin is having its way within you, the love of the Father is not in you. This means you do not have communion with the Lord's Spirit. Listen, without the Spirit of the Lord leading you, you will become very dysfunctional. And everything you say and do shall declare it to be so. So, then, when anyone who calls themselves a child of God connects themselves with unbelievers, they shall become corrupted, and as Paul has said, I speak this to your shame.

Companionships.

Loneliness is one of the killers of obeyance. Meaning to say, many people who have been deprived of natural affection from their mother and father will develop a need to be wanted and loved. However, this sort of love is nothing more than a misdirected soul reaching out into the darkness to find any sort of connection to love. In the abyss, they will never be satisfied because God is not in the midst of said desire.

Ok, it’s like this. God is love, and unless we have been connected to His love line, Jesus, we shall never know the love of the Father. So, with this being the case for many people, lust shows itself as love, and that is the bait that billions of people choose to eat, and as it grows within them, they have become nothing more than victims of disloyal love. The other name for this love is called illation.

The desire to be loved is so powerful the devil puts out images that really appear to be genuine. Listen, when a woman is broken and is in a needy state, she seeks out sex believing that it is love. Some man filled with the devil talks to her and she listens to his every word. Does this sound like an Eve experience? This woman believes what he is putting into her ears, but she doesn’t know him at all. Yet on the first date, she gives her body over to him, and from that point on, pain, suffering, and bitterness will be her lover for many years to come. Meaning to say, she is now the newest victim of dysfunction.

The word says this:

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. {Matthew 6:33,34}

When dysfunction is in play with you, seeking God is not an option for you. Meaning to say if you are at this point, you are lost to the reprobated mind. Once more, I must reiterate, in reality, you have clearly been a conformer to this world and now that you are in the whirlwind, you can no longer think positively. You only have a form of God, but you reject His will and power over your life. Now your mind is filled with, "Oh what should I do about this or that?" Confusion has thrown you into a dabbled-minded reality. You love to be in that location because of the freedom you are experiencing. Again, that is why you are given over to doing what you want. So, you are part of the group that can only grope for the love of the Lord in the dark, never finding His love but believing that you are connected. The word says this.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. {Matthew 6:21}

Listen, without God's love in you, there is absolutely know way for you to experience Him in his fullness. This means, that when you do meet someone and fall in love with them, know this, you are not in love with love. You however have involved yourself with the spirit of illusion. This had happened because you did see the signs that this looks like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. So, now your entanglements have brought you two or more fatherless children, who will no doubt become the next generation of bastards and dysfunctional adults. All this can be made possible because you made the devil's child your treasure.

Listen, many of the kids today are so far gone. They do not even know who Martin Luther King or Malcolm X is. They are so out of touch with reality that they have become a nation unto themselves. The prisons are filled with men who will tell you if only I had a father, I know I would not have been in here! Listen, and please hear this! Many women have turned their boys into a female. How? Because she never allowed him to be around other boys and men who could mentor him. Instead, this boy had to be her man and take care of all the other bustards living in the house. The only example he sees is the many men coming to the house to lay up with you. Said child was never given any constructive criticism and he receives his orders from his dysfunctional mother. Now, he has not been trained to be a man, but rather a woman, even without being able to have a say in anything he was trained to do. When a mother declasses her son, he will become permanent. Ok, it is like this. When you train an elephant from birth that he is tied to a pole and he cannot break that rope, he will not try. But the truth is, if he knew the power he really had, he could break more than that rope. Mother, when you have your son tied to your dysfunction, you will take away his manhood. Women, when you do not know who you really are, it is because you are not connected to the vine, Jesus the Christ of God. Listen nothing can separate us from God but our own disobedience in the form of rejection of the word and power of the Lord. Listen, once more. When we seek to put anything other than the will of the Lord, we set ourselves up for a fall into the hands of the devil. Here is a word that many people will not listen to or follow.

The Bible tells all who have an ear to hear, that we should never forsake gathering together in the house of the Lord so that we can revive encouragement from one another. This tells me that I need my kingdom brothers and sisters to help me stay on track so as not to allow the devil to have a way into me. Let not sin rain in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in desires. {Romans 6:12} Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law but under grace. In other words, companionships with unsaved people can corrupt your good manners. Your dysfunction will only allow you to believe:

1. You are not sinning you are just a little lost.

2. It's your body do with it as you want, God understands you are only flesh.

3. One small sin won’t hurt you!

4. Nothing has the power over you, but you.

5. You are a fine instrument, and you should be played by anyone you choose to let touch your strings.

6. You won’t die because you made a mistake. God knows your heart.

7. I don’t sin, I just make some mistakes. Me and God, we good.

All this is nothing but likes from the devil himself. I can’t say this enough, this is dysfunction in its realm. We just read, that we are not to allow sin to take over our mortal bodies. When this is a reality in your life, you are not under the grace and truth which come from Jesus Christ. Dysfunction. Once more, the word of God says you should "Examine yourself." If you love the Lord, stay away from the snakes. What does light have to do with darkness? Listen, when you look in your mirror and you cannot see the new creature in Christ, you must eminently seek after deliverance, because you are not in the will of the Lord anymore. Again, the word of the Lord.

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves, servant, to obey, he servant ye are to whom ye obey: whether of sin unto death or of obeyance unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you {Romans 5:16,17}

We must check our relationships with people who are not saved. The Bible says to stay away from people who corrupt you.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditates day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season: his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. {Psalm 1:1-3}

Scornful people hate God and always have negative things to say, and their actions are out of control. The women will not teach the younger women how to be chasened housewives, but they will spend $3,000 on hair weaves and hats so that they can be seen. Can’t you see how the wrong companions can get you disconnected from the vine? God is our sustainer, and we should have no needs that he cannot supply! However, when we seek after what is not good for us, suffering will be the fruit that we shall eat of. My friends, I must go back and tell you, that a mistake is only a mistake because you have not taken the steps to correct it. As I often say, “Falling is a matter of choice and not a mistake." (Ambassador Ray K Payne) Maybe you forgot what Paul said.

But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I should be a castaway. {1 Coronations 9:27}

The symbol of liberty does not represent dysfunction.

Again, some of these same people don’t pay tithes, and it is not hard to see a struggling husband trying to foot the bills at home while she struts around in the church in her dysfunction. Once corruption has taken hold of you, there is no way for you to see the mess that you have gotten yourself into. In this cove, you have developed a one-track mind. You do not see anything around you. It’s your way or the highway. Are you walking in dysfunction? So, then the light of liberty for such people is in dysfunction and disobedience caused by rebellion towards the Lord. The word tells us men to be a man, a father, and stand in position. If you don’t, you have been tainted by the devil. If you meditate on the word day and night, you will be like a tree planted by the water, and your fruits will prosper. If you are planted by the river of life, you will prosper in a season.

You have to be what you are called to be. Stand and be a man no matter how much it hurts. I am going through something no one knows but one. I can’t talk to others but God. I am standing on the word and in my liberty. I am not walking in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standing in the way of sinners, nor sit in the the seat of the scornful.

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. {Psalm 1:5-6}

Our own dysfunction comes from disobeying the word of God. Adam had a curse placed on him to sweat all his life, and for women to bear pain in childbirth. Out of that dysfunction came their children, Cain and Abel, who brought murder into the world. A lie was told. A lie entered the world. Disobedience entered the world. Dysfunction. You have eaten from the tree of good and evil. Now you are a double-minded person, unstable in all your ways. Dysfunctional.

For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. {James 1:7-8}

A double-minded man person is dysfunctional. The purpose of the test is to make you strong and aware. If Christ is in you, you are more than a conqueror.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations, Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. {James 1:2-5}

In a situation where patience is on the last leg, stand in faith. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. If you lack wisdom, ask God. If you do not know what to do, rely on faith and rely on your patience, and wait on God. Act by faith not wavering. Let not a man think he will receive anything from the Lord.

If you are connected to the vine, the devil will rock and roll. You will be able to stand the fiery darts because you are connected. When a father is dysfunctional so are the children. They are 50% father and 50% mother. When you see children acting dysfunctional, put them in check. Obey your parents in the Lord. When you leave and go out on your own, you still have to respect and take care of them in their old age. Now you are dysfunctional in your marriage, your banking, in your book club. I work in the maintenance business. I go into apartments that are stinking and nasty.

Dysfunction. You can’t blame the church. It starts at home and spreads around You can’t say you love me and there are no benefits. You can’t be a teacher if you can’t read or write. You can’t debate the Bible when you have never read it. There are innocent children that someone decides to sexually abuse. They were happy and now they are destroyed and dysfunctional. A lot of children come from incest. Now they are dysfunctional as a result of someone doing something to them.

There are boys who do not know if they are a man or a woman because they have been around only women. Abused women sometimes turn to other women for relationships because they think other women understand how they feel. There is no medical proof that people are born gay. There is in the Bible encoding and decoding. In order to have a problem, something has to be inserted into you. God blew the breath in you. He inserted life into you. God blew the breath of life into man and said it was good. Someone else corrupted you. You do not know Jesus as your Lord and Savior when you cannot believe or receive it. It is because you do not know God’s son. You cannot know the father without knowing the son.

Your relationship tells everyone what you are about. If you love God, you will say and do things to please Him. You will do anything to make sure that the one that created you is happy. When you don’t love God, you do what you want to do. You do not have enough sense to see the one who created you. “There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of that way is death.” Millions of people in the United States do not know who God and His son are. Faith is the substance of things hoped for but not yet seen. Dysfunction tears up a household. It makes enemies breaks hearts and changes minds. Dysfunction causes a husband to take actions that he does not want to take but he cannot deal with the dysfunction and nonsense anymore. The wife that leaves a husband cannot deal with the nonsense anymore. Dysfunction causes a husband or wife to leave. He loves his car, and it is more important than his wife and family. His children mean nothing to him anymore. We want to, but we won’t study the Bible, tithe, pray, and fast. You can’t even find real Pastors that will tell you the truth. When they stand before God, they will be sent to hell.

You are snared by the words of your mouth. Meaning, to say, "Don’t dare say you love God, and your lifestyle declares you love the devil." To love God is to obey Him through his word! Listen, the words that constantly come out of your mouth tell everyone who you really are. Sweet water and bitter water cannot come out of the same well.

Lip service is the only thing dysfunctional people will be able to do. The Bible says this, "With their lips, they do serve me, but their hearts are far from me." The point? Either you serve God or serve the devil. Either you are a good husband or wife or a bad husband or wife. Either you are a good child or a bad child. People cannot see the truth. They are functioning in dysfunction. A time comes when you have to pay for what you are doing. When you willfully cause pain and hurt, your day is coming. Dysfunction.

For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. {Hebrews 10:26-2726}

This is a warning against drawing back. Listen, once we have made a commitment to God, it is a to-death-do-us-part contract. We who really love the Lord are not of them who draw back. Our love for the Father is in spirit and truth. That’s how we show our commitment. Dysfunction in the life of the believers is not permitted. Why? The Lord keeps our mind in perfect peace because we trust in him. If you want to make sure you are doing the right thing, examine yourself to prove you are in faith. Are you a reprobate? Do you have a disrespected spirit working in you.?

Are you controlling your husband with the so-called sex?

Do your children love you as a mother or father?

Are you following all the trends of the world?

Do you have a natural love for your fellow man?

Do you love the world and all it has to offer you?

Is it all about you?

Are you a carnal Christian?

Listen and get it good. Carnality brings about Spiritual and natural death. If you are dysfunctional, get on your knees and ask God to deliver you. The death angel is coming. You do not believe in Christ. Your actions show you do not pray, fast, or read your Bible. The family that prays together stays together.

When you cannot come together and pray with the person you love, you are disconnected. You are dysfunctional. Let patience have her perfect way in you. Dysfunction cannot be allowed to flourish within you. You cannot allow it. You can tolerate and tolerate it, but after a while, it turns into a cancer. If you see the signs and you allow cancer to come into your body knowing you can do something about it (which means to get on your knees and talk to your father) you get what you got. We are praying that you will allow God to continue to bless you and back you up with His mighty power. God will keep your mind in perfect peace. Once more, As a child of the kingdom, Dysfunction cannot be allowed to flourish within you.

I pray that these blessed words have touched your heart, and you want to have a private conversation with the Lord. Because he is waiting for you to come to him and find rest.

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