Growing up, I did not have a mindset of poverty or welfare.
It wasn’t until I encountered the fivefold ministry and a bunch of other trappings of full gospel Charismatic/Pentecostal spirituality that I developed a harder mindset and a welfare or poverty spirit.
Learning how to walk under the covering provided by another person, such as a pastor, or bishop, or apostle provided me with an interesting mindset:. Unless the anointed person prayed for you, you were powerless to do anything against the enemy, and if you went and did something G-d told you to do and didn’t get your covering’s permission, the chance was high you would become a casualty of war. John Paul Jackson told them so.
And then, a funny thing happened; I began to ask what would happen if I ignored the counsel of spiritual leaders.
And my question was answered, not once, but repeatedly.
There was no real difference in protection between having a covering and not having a covering.
And then I began to think against and then speak against covering as necessary.
Covering has by and large grown into just another method of controlling others, limiting others.
And once I eliminated that problem and decomplicated my life, I took Yeshua as my covering, and shared that with others, and then life in Him became fun and enjoyable again.
The bottom line is this: we can attempt to add very silly things to our walk with the L-rd that we do not need, or we can just be with Him.
The Bible, which teaches against this kind of covering, uses the word “cover” in a different way
Love covers a multitude of sins.
Think deeply about this, gang, and be free from that spirit of Antichrist that would seek to control your every action.
Consider this as further proof: if Yeshua the Christ tells you to do something, and that instruction is contradicted by your covering, then your covering is violating Christ’s and and you are now opening the door to the spirit of Antichrist.
Your job is to do what the L-rd tells you and to stop believing that you have to run the L-rd’s instructions by someone else.
You are not someone else’s, yes-man, do-boy, go-fer, or step-and-fetch-it.
Your job is not to warm your pastor’s car or carry his Bible.
You are not a field hand or a house negro.
You are not a bastard that the L-rd tolerates to love inside the city gate.
You are a son of the King.
You were designed to live in Father’s house and spread Father’s kingdom, and some of you that have accumulated authority are designed to do way more than you already are doing.
He has great and precious promises, and your slaveowners want to keep you small.
G-d does not want to keep you small and manageable. He wants you large, released, and dangerous.
If you know what to do, then do it. And be dangerous at it.
Don’t act like you need another one, two, or thirty witnesses to do what He has told you.
Stop behaving as if you lack resources. As a believer, you are surrounded by resources.
You are wealthy beyond your wildest dreams.
Start looking for what you have around you, and make a list of the resources.
And start building something.
If you need permission, then as one called to pastor and as male and father in the body of Christ, I release you and you have my permission. Go, do, be whatever He has given you to do or be.
Be blessed, be loved, and be dangerous.
And recognize that John Paul Jackson did not write Needless Casualties of War in order to scare us. There IS actually a decent lesson in that book.