What I Learned from the Peanuts® Character Pigpen
Remember, when Charlie Brown and the Peanuts® children’s animations were something special? Like literally, they were aired on television stations as a prime time special; as a child I remember looking forward to the night when it would air on prime time television.
Now days, the enemy of our soul has infiltrated the air waves with animations that promote witchcraft, sorcery, and demons! Yes, those fairies and genies doing magic, is just a form of witchcraft. Sorcery with the dragons and goblins and wizards colorfully animated to entice and draw children in. And “monsters” are just demons. Really, you must be sober and vigilant to these things.
1 Peter 5:8 - Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Definitely teach your children the truth of the scriptures so that they will know and recognize these images for what they are. Because the reality is, in this day and time, you almost can’t shield and protect your children from seeing these images at some point and even watching them. Therefore, know the spiritual rules of engagement which include putting on the whole armor of God: Ephesians 6:11-12 - Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. ...because we aren’t fighting an enemy we can see with our natural eye.
So, here is what I learned from Pigpen. Remember Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Patti, Snoopy the dog, and Pigpen just to name a few of the Peanuts® gang? And Pigpen was the little fella that was shrouded in a cloud of something. We all just kind of assume he is not the cleanest dish in the kitchen, in fact, he may have a little hygiene problem going on. And by the dirt on him and the cloud surrounding him, perhaps we can deduce that it is odor that is surrounding him and following him. It never fails, when you see Pigpen, you see his dirt and that odor cloud of his. So that there is no mistaking that is Pigpen!
Well, how about if we allow the anointing, the presence of Holy Spirit, to surround us and enshroud us so that there is no mistaking, when others have been in and around us, they will KNOW that they have been in the presence of The Most High God – Elohim? I want people to want my God!
When I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior some almost 30 years ago, I almost instantly began praying and declaring “Father, let it be so, that when people have been in my presence, they will know that they have been in the presence of God – not because of me, but because of who YOU are! So that the world may know, just by virtue of whom I was before salvation, that you are the living God! Only YOU could change Wendy from that to this!” And He has been faithful to honor that prayer as long as I honor living in such a way that brings glory to Him.
Let me tell you something. The Apostle Paul admonishes us to follow him as he follows Christ. I say the same, feel free to follow this ministry or my Apostolic and my Prophetic gifting as long as I follow Christ. And to take it a step further, the same holds true for whatever ministry or minister you choose to follow. If they are not following Christ, you don’t follow them! Matthew 7:16 tells us that we will know them by their fruit.
If you are following a minister or a ministry and you don’t see Godly and Holy fruit…leave! Let me say that again, IF YOU ARE FOLLOWING A MINISTER OR A MINISTRY THAT DOES NOT EXUDE HOLINESS AND THE TRUTH OF THE SCRIPTURES LEAVE NOW! Because your very life depends on it. Your eternal life is at stake. And it is a gamble you will lose. Because righteous cannot and should not fellowship with unrighteousness. The scriptures tell us such.
2 Corinthians 6:14 - 14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
Understand, ministry is to seek and save that which is lost. So, you will have the lost come into the fold to be saved. I am not speaking of them. I am speaking of those that sit in the church regularly and comfortably as a congregant or a minister and their life is as raggedy and dark as Hell itself. Those that sit in church, leave church and have a cigarette, (know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost );
1 Corinthians 3:16-16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
have unmarried (fornication) sex, or sex with someone married but that you are not married to (adultery)? You drink strong drink (liquor, this does not include wine – wine is biblical in moderation), live a life of lying and gossiping (talebearing spirit Proverbs 11:13) , etc. That’s when you want to get away and need to get away! That’s like that cloud surrounding Pigpen, something on you and following you that you don’t want on you or following you! And most certainly, you don’t want to follow that.
Seek that which is bearing the fruit of the Spirit. That is Holy Spirit.
Galatians 5:22-23-22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Trust me when I tell you to stay away from:
Revelation 21:8-But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
I learned from Pigpen and his cloud, it is not so bad to have a cloud enshrouding me if it’s the anointing of the Holy Spirit. That my life may be pleasing to the Lord and be a to witness others and draw them to Jesus Christ. Let that be what you learn from Pigpen as well.
In His Service, His Blessings be upon you, Apostle Prophetess Wendy Connor
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