What Is Spiritual Grooming?
“Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also, of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.” Acts 20:26-30 KJV
God Wants to Expose What Spiritual Grooming Is….
Spiritual “grooming” is a form of manipulation and control that takes place when someone who seemingly has authority (their own authority not God’s) over people.
These manipulators lead you into doing something or performing an action you would not normally do, and you find it very uneasy and uncomfortable.
Then if you feel pressured and uncomfortable about it and wish to not do it, then you will be made to feel that you are rebellious and disobedient to the man or woman of God!
Word Check : Does not The Word of God say, “Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established?” (2 Corinthians 13:1)
Would it make sense that if God expected you to do what a spiritual leader said, would not God confirm it to you first?
You no longer answer a priest, prophet, pastor, bishop, apostle, or a title of doctor in the front of a title, or whatever they say they are.
You answer to God first and foremost. You do not follow them. Paul said, “Follow me as I follow Christ.” (i Corinthians 11:1)
A Spiritual Groomer is a deceiver, who also manipulates and withholds approval of you if you resist something that they want from you, when you are not comfortable with the act.
The goal of these manipulative people is to break down your own supernatural resistance and brain God gave you, so they gain personal advantages in your life. Put NO trust in man!
This Is a Very Scary Time to Be Alive and Not Know the Truth in the Scriptures
True men and women of God speak for Him. False men and women, who claim they are God’s ministers, speak and do what will ultimately be best for themselves.
They promote their own causes, and they cause divisiveness with those they have trapped in their web of deceit.
For example, I have even seen where false ministers cause division between marriages, for example, and they demand loyalty of them regardless of the contention they cause in their home, because the false ministers make themselves God’s equivalent.
They want you under their influence. They want you and everything that ‘YOU’ means!
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” 1 John 4:1.
Those who operate under a false ministry, appeal to your needs, and once they meet those needs, you are now obligated to them.
Once they invest in you, their motive in meeting temporal needs, is to meet that leader’s objective; which is to become part of them and their brand of Christianity, so they can control and manipulate you into serving them, instead of serving Christ freely.
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides. of the north, I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.” Isaiah 14:12-14 KJV.
God is raising up truth and fruit producers; people who are uncompromisingly right with their words and actions. However, what makes them different is their great transparency, integrity, and honesty before The Body of Christ, and if need be, the world.
Important Point : When these precious truth producers miss it, they are quick to repent to The Body. If there are none who repent, that is your warning to get out of that place!
There are many who run to and fro, who major on titles and lofty positions in Church and religious organizations, announcing “I am Prophet so and so”, and “I am Apostle that”.
They also demand that you call them by these titles too! Like “Bishop this” and “Scribe that.”
They purchase lofty titles even in magazines, internet and television, they have said, “I will ascend the mountain into heaven and exalt myself and my Throne of Authority!”
Beloved of God, They Will Bewitch You!
“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?” Galatians 3:1 KJV
These deceivers say that God promoted them to high levels of religious prominence, even in some spirit filled organizations.
They are even found among non-denominational spirit filled assemblies and found on Christian television, having multitudes of videos without end.
Those who promote themselves do not realize that every word they speak or write, is being judged by God Almighty.
These pride-filled, head-stomping, title-seeking, ladder-climbing, pew-jumping deceivers will find out there is nothing spirit-filled at the top of man’s pursuits, except for ministry organizations that are led and full of evil spirits.
Serving Christ and His people has nothing to do with anything like a political campaign to win the lofty seats in towers and castle walls.
Obtaining positions in religious Church organizations and businesses is a dog-eat-dog world. This is not the way that The Church of The Living God began, nor how it is now or will end!
Being an apostle, prophet, or any type of leader in the Church is a life of loving servitude. As we mature, we must find the way of laying down our life, the way Jesus laid down His Life for His Friends.
The true Church of Jesus Christ is a spirit-fed; spirit-led life of surrender to the Cross, as we pick it up daily.
We must take ownership of our condition and the words and oaths and the effects of what they have done in our lives. Until we admit our sin and take ownership of our condition, we can never be set free!
Own your words and be responsible and accountable with them. If you say you are going to do something, you better back up your words with your life and actions, or no one will believe you!
Living this way will always cause a superficial life of skimming the surface with people and there will be no lasting fruit. Your ministry will never go further than those limits because we live a life of words.
Stick to your words and back them up with your life, or you will never be taken seriously. Chicken scratching, trying to be the early bird with the worm, not realizing you cannot fly and you are stuck in the limits of the coop.
With the Eagle, it is not so, because when we learn to mount up in prayer, worship, and study and we will soar on the wings of the wind of The Word of God!
If we don’t back up our word and live a life of integrity, honesty and loyalty. we will live superficial lives.
If our word is not our bond, no one can trust us. When we sign an agreement that we will pay so much for a service or item, and we don’t pay it, no creditor can trust us. What is worse, is God cannot trust us.
Important Note : I cannot, nor can you, help anyone if they think they know everything. I can only do what The LORD says, and once I have done everything He said, my job is over.
I am not responsible if the person rebels, The LORD removes me from that situation.
Our conversations or WORDS, not only speak, but are written in the way we present ourselves.
We also speak with our body language, mannerisms, and experiences. It is The Will of God to be holy with every word and in all our conversations dealing with mankind, business, and the world.
Important Note : When truth producers miss it, they are quick to repent to The Body. If there is supposedly leadership and they sin, make mistakes and blunders and never publicly repent, that is a sure sign of the timing with the warning to get out of that place! It will not get any better!
As I close, the things I have written are things I have experienced in my life personally and I am not writing about some theory, or some schools teaching or book, or someone else’s experience.
My teaching and writing came directly from my prayer life as I abide, and I listen, in Jesus’ Name.
And as I study The Word of God, I remain in obedience. For His Word is forever settled in heaven and on earth by Christ Jesus.
Amen and amen!
In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey
Sherry Edwards Mackey
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Something I find interesting is in the statement above where Paul says he had not failed in giving them the whole council of God and believing this to be true as a God breathed word. And yet in all his writhing which is more then any of the other apostles not once did he ever speak of a place called hell. How is that possible if all scripture is truth and God breathed?
One of the many things the so called church has got wrong in this hour. And instead of trying to find the truth most hang on to lies and would rather see God almighty as some kind of monster then to let go of a lie. Not for long for the time is upon us all.
Oh as a side not he never spoke about a trinity.either. Boy if he could have lived a couple more thousand years todays church could have brought old Paul up to speed. Or maybe the other way around. Most will not listen to sound doctrine they would rather listen to men who listen to other men. And have lost the way of truth.
Mr. Larson,
I find it easy to address your comments.
Paul also said, “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has mades me His own…But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way…” Philippians 3: 12-15
Also it is your assumption that Paul did not address hell or our God is trinitarian by nature. It is not recorded doesn’t mean he did not give the full counsel of the truth to the churches that he ministered to. Even the Apostle John said in John 20:30 “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book…”
The most important thing is all the Apostles point us to JESUS Christ through whom He already addresses the existence of hell especially as recorded in the books of Matthew and Revelations.
Also the book of John and 1 John and in old Testaments, scriptures point to us the God we serve is trinitarian by nature. We believe in the entirety of the Scripture and the authority of God’s word. Please don’t undermine the Apostles’ writings. They have witnessed Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour and wrote the scriptures as inspired by the Holy Spirit.
KY you spelled my name wrong. It is Larsen not Larson. Hope this helps in the future when you are helping people usually if someone gets the first part wrong the rest doesn’t mean much. By the way what does KY stand for?
My deep apology for misspelling your name, Mr. Larsen.
It does not matter what KY stands for. Jesus knows my name.
I am not here to try to influence or help anybody using this platform.
I bear witness with Ms. Sherry’s words and simply want to agree with her.
It grieves me to see the credibility of Paul’s words being challenged not for the reason you might think.
I am forever grateful that the gospel of Jesus Christ has found me and my family thru the suffering and sacrifices of the
Apostles and Prophets including all the believers throughout history. The words of the Scriptures were written with blood stained on them. In the west, our lives are pretty comfortable compared to all the persecutions and sufferings that believers around the world have to go through. May the Lord bless you and help you experience His wonderful grace in your life.
Oh so you are all about the truth. Then why did you challenge my statement? What I said was true. Not once in any of Paul’s writing does he ever mention hell a true statement. Not once does he talk about the trinity. A true statement. You just assume that I don’t believe in either of those things. My statement above was just that and through it to challenge what the truth about these things may be. At one point someone told me these things about Paul and I began to realize that most of what we think is truth is something someone told us and not actually in the Bible. Like what Paul might have told someone when we were not there 2000 years ago pure speculation and not truth at all. When I was told these things nearly 40 years ago I did not attack the messager I studied to show my self approved and found things were not what they seemed.