Freely Given Is Not The Same As To Receive Free - The Gift of Jesus is Not Free
I sat down this evening to share from the heart of Father and I must say, rarely does He come in such a way that leaves me humbled and yet moved by His love for me. Not that I take His love towards me for granted, just that I love teaching and sharing with you , which by the way, brings me such great joy to do so!
This is what I am called to do and I love planting the Word into fertile soil - that is a heart ready to receive The Truth of God’s Holy Word!
1 Corinthians 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
He has given me much to share with you, but all is not for now; some is but for an appointed time. The ultimate goal is to secure your calling into Heaven. Hopefully by now you know and understand that eternal life, though Jesus died for us, is not an automatic. In fact, according to scripture, few…let me say that again FEW there be that find the path and have eternal life in Heaven. Part of the reason is religion has misled people, especially churchgoers into believing good deeds and faithful church attendance gets you in. It does not.
And never ever should any of us say someone is in Heaven or Hell, unless The Lord tells us so. We cannot know the heart of man and his deeds so much so that we can assume one way or the other after one dies and leaves this Earth.
Just because one was a faithful churchgoer does not mean that they will have eternal life. Only a handful of souls has Father ever shared with me as His prophetess where they are now, having died in this life.
Amos 3:7 - Surely the Lord God does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.
We are not to assume the sovereignty of God and judge where our loved ones spend eternity.
Satan and his followers sit in the pews all the time. The evidence being when you have sin in the camp. Parishioners in adultery, homosexuality, pornography, every evil work. And Pastors even worse in adultery, fornication, lying, and all manner of evil in secret. And the parishioners doing the same because that spirit is at the head of the assembly and trickles down.
And reprehensible is the fact everyone sitting in the church is gossiping about it, but no one taking spiritual authority to cast it out and reverence the Holiness of the Lord! And you think you will have eternal life?
Let’s look to scripture and see what you haven’t seen because you have not been taught such in the church.
The Scribes and Pharisees are the pastors and priests of today. Look at the seven warnings Jesus spoke concerning them, keeping in mind this is Jesus speaking:
Matthew 23
Seven Woes to the Scribes and Pharisees
23 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, 3 so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. 4 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. 5 They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, 6 and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues 7 and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others. 8 But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.9 And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10 Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ. 11 The greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell[as yourselves.
16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ 17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred? 18 And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’ 19 You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?20 So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it.22 And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it.
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.28 So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,30 saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell? 34 Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,35 so that on you may come all the righteous bloodshed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
Verse 34, Jesus was clear, He sent the prophets, the wise men, and the scribes (those whom Lord speaks to and they write what He says - like me, I am a scribe) because the pastors and the priests are going to Hell (v. 33).
Do you hear pastors teaching that?
Of course not, most pastors and priests are not familiar with that scripture and those that are, aren’t going to teach it for fear of losing members, and tithes and offerings.
Meanwhile, we the Prophets and Apostles that walk with The Lord and hear Him clearly, are taken for granted even though we work the hardest in The Kingdom going after souls, praying prayers of deliverance, speaking prophecies, interpreting dreams, ministering, counseling, laying hands on the sick and they are healed, etc. And we don’t do it from a pulpit nor an altar- we do it from the mission fields where it is needed most. We do as Jesus did.
The Apostle Paul went about ministering and barely had food. He lived by faith just as the rest of us The Lord’s servants do.
The Apostle Paul relied heavily on alms and the kindness of those who knew to bless him.
He walked in so much anointing people brought cloths to rub on him to carry his power back to their towns to heal the sick. He is busy doing Kingdom work, too busy to stop and remind them He has to eat also and this is what he is called to do full time!
Look at Elijah, one of the major prophets. Elijah needed food he was hungry and happened upon a widow. She too had lack, but she stood to be blessed by the prophet for meeting the need of the prophet. Not the pastor nor the pastor’s wife, the prophet.
Elijah and the Widow at Zarephath
7 Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. 8 Then the word of the Lord came to him: 9 “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.” 10 So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?” 11 As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”
12 “As surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”
13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. 14 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.’”
15 She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. 16 For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah.
And why you may ask? Because the scriptures tell us in Matthew 10:41:
41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.
From this day forward, do not sow into my ministry, sow into me as a prophet. Therein lies your blessing.
It is fine if you want to do nice things for your church and your pastor and your pastor’s wife, but scripturally you move The Hand of God and The Heart of God when you give your best to His servants.
I have to pause to say I had no idea Father was going in this direction, but I hear Him.
My computer died after 13 years - and it is how I minister to the masses with publishing, emails, blog posts, and my books - and as always, I prayed to Him for a new computer and now I am scribing His response which is “where are the tithes and offerings so that there may be meat in YOUR house? Have I not been faithful to those that partake of your gifting in this ministry? Have you not sown spiritually into many? I will not allow partakes of this ministry to eat and rob Me.
Father is always faithful to meet our needs any True Prophet can attest to that, and we don’t ask for tithes and offerings because as mature Believers, you know to not rob God:
Malachi 3;8-9
Do Not Rob God
8 “Will a man rob God?
Yet you have robbed Me!
But you say,
‘In what way have we robbed You?’
In tithes and offerings.
9 You are cursed with a curse,
For you have robbed Me,
Even this whole nation
Nehemiah 13:10-12
10 I also realized that the portions for the Levites had not been given them; for each of the Levites and the singers who did the work had gone back to his field.
11 So I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” And I gathered them together and set them in their place.
12 Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil to the storehouse.
We True Apostles and True Prophets minister because it is our calling, we don’t get to pick and choose who we give The Word of The Lord to.
Remember Jonah tried that because he felt the Ninevites were undeserving to receive The Lord’s mercy.
That didn’t go over too well for Jonah; The Lord gave Jonah some time to rethink his decision to not go to Nineveh. And after some intense time with a big fish (the Bible does not say it was a whale - just like the fruit Adam and Eve ate is not identified in scripture as apple, it is not identified) Jonah had a change of heart.
Beloveds, do not cause The Living God to contend (confront and dispute) with you because you are robbing Him and not giving Him His portion as does continue to minister to your needs.
JITA Publishing and Ministries is good ground to sow on; I work hard in this ministry making myself available to minister to any and all in need. Turning down no one ever. My family must endure the time they would like to spend with me as I minister in person, via email, via texts, and via phone calls.
As it relates to tithes and offerings in this ministry, I/we stand on the scripture:
1 Corinthians 9:11
11 If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?
In fact, in reading it in its full context:
1 Corinthians 9:9-19
Paul’s Rights as an Apostle
9 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result of my work in the Lord? 2 Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you! For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me. 4 Don’t we have the right to food and drink? 5 Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas 6 Or is it only I and Barnabas who lack the right to not work for a living?
7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk? 8 Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing? 9 For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned? 10 Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us, because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.11 If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? 12 If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more?
But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
13 Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? 14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
15 But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me, for I would rather die than allow anyone to deprive me of this boast. 16 For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me. 18 What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights as a preacher of the gospel.19 Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
I can truthfully say as with this calling and these giftings, I like the Apostle Paul, minister freely. And have made myself a “slave” to my calling and my gifting. Never asking anything in return except that you be obedient to whatever The Lord lays on your heart to sow into me The Apostle and/or The Prophetess. But understand, I do not charge even when I am invited to minister at conferences or church services. Be obedient to The Lord, this message is for you, not me. And except it is Father’s admonishment to His people through His Prophet, you know I don’t preach tithes and offerings, you are to spiritually mature for that
Those who know me well, know that I regularly say, “Hell is real and I ain’t going to Hell for nobody and I am not going to let anybody cause me to go to Hell…before that even close to happens, “bye Felicia!”
Many, many, times I have ministered prophecies to others for material blessings that came to pass when I myself was in need of that same blessing. Didn’t bother me at all and surely did not stop nor hinder me from speaking that Word!
I love God’s people and I genuinely love souls. Though I have needs, and a family to care for, I trust The Lord will lay it on the hearts of those He has given me to minister to, pray for, etc and it is a matter between them and Him.
In the meantime, I continue to minister to you in prayer, prophecies, deliverance, and everything in between no matter how tired or busy I may be. Because those of us that have intimacy and relationship with The Lord, understand the tremendous sacrifice and price paid by Jesus Christ in that He endured the shame and shed His blood for us, truly I partake of His humiliation and His suffering for the sake of preaching and ministering His gospel (good news).
And yes, I am a faithful tither. (And no, I do not tithe to JITA Publishing and Ministries…He heard you asking) Can I rob God and preach to you, surely not! He gives me a dollar and requires only a dime of that dollar, I cannot afford not to tithe! It’s not mine! And that tithe has done supernatural wonders to sustain and protect me and my family. In fact, all four of us in this family are tithers!
I will close here because as His scribe, I speak what He gives me to share. And when He stops, so must I do the same. Although I must say I didn’t see this message coming.
If we have sowed into you spiritually be obedient and sow into us naturally so that you do not have to contend with The Living God and so that you are not cursed with a curse (ponder that).
I love you In Christ’s Love,
Apostle & Prophetess Wendy Connor
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