IF the message in my songs are not of Jesus Christ, DO NOT let me on the pulpit of your house! Period.
It is irrelevant how attractive or sincere I am in my ignorance and worldliness, as long as I do not rightly divide the word of truth or proclaim the gospel and the need for salvation, DO NOT let me go on your stage.
Talents and gifts are given.
Freely. By a loving God.
Who also doesn't repent and take it away (most times) no matter how mismanaged and misused against Him it becomes.
Character, righteousness, integrity, and humility however, come from maturity; being taught, and being in the Word and presence of God!
I say this to say that a monkey in a suit can be talented. But it takes a soul truly submitted to God with its gifts to carry the presence of God and real anointing.
So please, IF the person you want to place before people to speak into their lives carries gifts but no gospel, carries appointing but no anointing, carries a Title without the Bible in their life, ...DO NOT let them go on stage.
Let them into church. Yes.
Any day, any time. For transformation.
But the platform is entirely another issue.
That place is not for entertainment, It's for deliverance. It is not a runway but a threshing floor.
If I cuss, don't let me speak into the lives of the people of God yet until I let God thrash that mess out of my life or else I will spew dirt into the destinies of souls in need of Jesus.
We are called to be Holy.
It is my responsibility to stay laid out before the merciful throne of God asking Him to purify and sanctify my life before I should be used for anything.
If I however, do not embrace that responsibility and take myself to the place where my life needs to be washed, you are under no obligation to listen to anything I have to say.
Because I carry no power.
I may be an engaging or inspiring orator but without the tangible presence of the King of glory in my life due to the trash I carry and have refused to work out of my life, I will be a useless speaker. A placebo of sorts. An expired pill that carries the look of potency and effectiveness but am entirely benign in the spiritual combat you've recruited me to.
No these are not the days of the Old Testament where high priests who only entered the Holy of Holies once a year wore clanging ties around their waists with which to be dragged out when their spirits were snuffed out of their bodies for carrying Sin into the very presence of God.
No, this is the dispensation of grace where God in His mercy does NOT open up the mouth of the earth to swallow the Korah, Dathan and Abiram members.
Nevertheless, God is still the same yesterday, today and forever, and the same precious lamb whose blood cleanses all sin of those who come to Him for mercy, is the Lion whose consuming fire will indeed soon begin to openly burn and disgrace those who do not truly want to carry His grace.
A certain fate still awaits certain Ananiases and Sapphiras.
You can't afford the benign in the pedestals of your destiny. You can no longer accommodate the ineffectual in your predicaments. If you were a patient in need of life-saving surgery, you would not hire the most attractive actor from a soap opera to do what only a genuinely skilled, licensed, and vetted professional can do!!
Why then do it with your soul? With your children? With your life or home?
No more nice music, nice clothes, nice stage presence, nice voice, nice look, nice whatever... without holiness.
Start asking me if I have the real Jesus, the truth of the gospel, the words of life that are the Word of God. Inquire whether or not I am saved before you let me ask you if you want to raise your hands. And when I do, ask me to whom?... Ask why you are raising those hands. Never mind that I can slay!
The question is do I pray?
This is the time for you to query me before you let me sing. Ask whether or not I have studied to show myself approved...
Check my spiritual credentials to see whether I am a pretty pimp with words or an actual servant of God with nothing but Jesus to peddle.
And when you have checked, from now on, trust the discernment of the Holy Spirit. Don't feel sorry for me if you have to tell me to sit down. It will hurt, but it will save. It will be painful but it will be gainful.
You may temporarily have to stop inviting some of those beautiful faces you're used to using on your flyers to attract people. But you will see the difference in the quality of the holiness in your house.
If we are not ready, tell us to go get ready before you draw from what we offer.
Let God begin to filter out the "real" from falsehood before our eyes so the strongholds can really be broken and not just sung about in stronghold breaking chords. Because often, people just praise-dance their ways back home into the same bondages that brought them to what they will now think is fake power in the name of Jesus since it did not actually do anything.
The problem has not been God. It's been us. Let us now fix it by His help and our willingness. Let us deprive ourselves of the sweets and sodas of "churchianity" and actually get some real nutrition from vessels that have been tested and tried, and proven they carry the grace of God; not just the face of gods.
To some of my fellow gospel music ministers, let's get ready to NOT be invited to programs for a while until we've proven we have character in and out of the pastor's view. Get ready for the church representatives to begin calling your wives instead of you directly to ask if you are good husbands before they let you come in and lay hands on women desiring spouses.
Get ready to have your social media accounts properly screened, your phone passwords randomly requested as you minister, and perhaps your purse checked during service.
Yeah I know that sounds like invasion of privacy but 😂 if that scares you, then perhaps you DO have something to hide.
Even the world screens and does background checks on people before they hire them to elevated positions or hand over sensitive personal information or great resources over to their management.
God has every right to invade and expose that semblance of privacy you think you have before the throne of heaven to everyone.
Yes, get ready for your children to be asked by their mates if you are a good mother before their parents invite you to come and lay hands on the wombs of desperate women for the gift of children in their ministry.
Get ready for your means of living to be inquired about before you are invited to ask 1000, 100 or 10 people to sow seeds of multiples of 50s for their next level of financial breakthrough so you don't become another wolf made wealthy from the very wool of the sheep you were meant to clothe.
Get ready everyone...judgement will begin in God's house. But it will be for the best. The grain WILL be harvested and the chaff burned. Somehow. Choose your threshing. Admit yourself to the hospital of God's Spirit and Word to fix you in secret now or be hauled off publicly in straight jackets of embarrassment when your spiritual insanity and "altar ego" begins manifesting like a murderous alter-ego; unbecoming in the limelight.
By the way, I am speaking to myself too. And as I do, I praise Jesus for His mercies and how He has continued working on me behind closed doors. Because were my own past and some present indiscretions made public, or the sins His blood has had to cleanse daily be projected on billboards, I would not be able to stand before anyone.