I recently decided to watch several church services streaming online. A fast-forward button on the preaching allowed me to see and hear the preachers and the day's message. Without exception, every preacher used notes. Are the notes wrong? No, but 99 percent of the time, they lack an anointing. Most were like drinking from a muddy river, flooded by the rains of the world of technology. A swipe of the screen to flip notes has replaced the pure artesian wells from the prayer closets. We see not just people who have forsaken “Me, the fountain of living waters,” but the leaders have hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water (Jer. 2:14).
It is one thing for us to share the same cup among family, but another to allow strangers to drink from it. Pastors are freely using the dipper of Facebook and other social platforms to drink what appears to be spiritual. It provides a thirst for water filled with germs. Are they drinking from the cup of the devil?
Artificial Intelligence is a spiritual virus that has affected the minds, souls, and spirits of these contemporary preachers. Many are hoping for a natural and spiritual cure so they can continue to feed their pride in the artificial temples they have built. The cure may be found for the body, but the results for these ministries will be spiritual death, both in the pulpit and in the pew.
The lack of a Pentecostal experience now leaves us without authentic anointing, which an idol has replaced. This idol is AI, Facebook, and other platforms. The world has sedated us.
The devil is laughing as ministers and believers proclaim the Lord's coming return in these times. He not only sees but also hears the so-called church's lack of hunger or thirst for the Lord's return. “Thus, saith the Lord” has become dead words from empty vessels, especially among those who proclaim their calling as prophets or ministers. Can you hear his laughter? If you can, fall on your face and, with a broken heart, proclaim the woefulness of the situation.
Here is the heart of it all. Phillip had a Pentecostal experience that required neither a college degree nor a notebook full of notes. He listened as the Spirit directed him from Jerusalem to Gaza. The path led toward the desert. It is not a pleasant thought to have to go through the desert. Yet God will send His faithful ministers into such a place. What a reward it will be as we obey.
I believe the grassroots movement will be a generation (Alpha or Beta) that will find men and women sitting like the man of Ethiopia, reading and desiring to know the truth. The Spirit will direct the remnant to go and join those whom the Father has elected for the times ahead. They will run rather than wait for the moment to pass, as they proclaim the Scriptures without notes and “preach unto them, Jesus.” Then they will answer, “We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” A baptism of water and the Pentecostal experience will leave them “rejoicing on their way.”
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