Another Year Nearly Gone

We're nearing that years end and as sure as night follows day...  the Prophelying has already begun!  Listened to some Christian Television yesterday and then spent some time perusing Twitter and Facebook pages and all the Wannabe Prophets are hollering loud!  You know the drill...  remember last year at this time?  Well even the year before last and the year before that etc?  They've gotten creative what with the economy basically tanking out here in the last six years!  All those blessings you were supposed to receive for pumping money into their ministry over the years when you had a little money left after buying groceries and paying the bills...  but you just never really got those miracle checks in the mail and no one sent you that letter saying that your debt was paid in full thus canceled!    BUT THIS IS THE YEAR OF MIRACLE FAVOR!!!!  You will see all sorts of folks coming up with special numbered amounts.  the 777 seed...  the 51.45 seed.  About the only number they won't come up with but should is the 666 seed, but I digress!

Listen...  We give.  We ought to give.  But don't fall for the silliness out there.  Even when these guys aren't trying to get you to give an amount specific...  they lie to you, telling you sweet things.  When they do that... you want to give and they know that.  Gone are the prophets like Nathan who had the courage to tell King David... "it is you o king."  Gone are the prophets like John the Baptist who lived anything but a normal life.  Prophets like Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Elijah...  lonely men because they spoke the truth in times when men didn't want to hear the truth.  I'm not silly enough to say there are none but get the point!  They are few.  Popularity is great I guess but when you read the Prophets in Scripture...  which was the popular prophet? Which was the prophet that folks flocked to in order to get a groovy word from God?  From Moses to the Apostle John...  these were men opposed by not only the world, but by the "church" as well.  Keep this in mind as the year comes to a close... Be smart and don't buy into the mess.