I went to a church service one night a few years ago. A young woman stood up to testify. She could not tell anyone where she lived because the devil was busy. She was afraid to tell her family and church members where she lived.
The only thing that anyone had to do was follow her home that night, and they would have found out where she lived.
She waited until everyone left the parking lot before she drove home. This is a strange but true story,
A woman that I knew personally always sat on the front row of the church because she believed that she was the pastor's wife. The pastor of the church had never been married, and had no intentions marrying anyone This lady was convinced that God told her that she was his wife. The pastor died and never married her or acknowledged her existance. She gave up waiting for him and went back home to her family overseas. He was dead. I am sure that he did not have any plans to come back and claim her as his wife. He did not even do that
when he was living.
A man runs around a church in Fayetteville, NC, proclaiming that Jesus is coming soon, and told him to drive a fire truck down Hay Street to warn everybody. . It was no strange coincedence that a lady walked into the same church the next Sunday wearing a snow white wig like Santa Clause? She was only about twenty years old. I was a young college student at the time. My friends and I were sitting on the choir stand, trying hard not to laugh. We did not understand the severity of mental illness at that time.
Now this also happened in church;a lady testifies that God has blessed her with a new car, but she forgot to drive it when she moved out of town???
Why are these things happening in the church?
Maybe you think that all of this is fiction. But I have witnessed these actual events and a whole lot more.
Are these people demon posessed or just mentally ill?
E. Michael Yarber, a good friend of mine and a member of The Prayer Warriors Corner Ministries, could not have explained it any better!:
Paul gave a solemn charge to Timothy, to be faithful in preaching the gospel, and in the entire work of the ministry, 2 Timothy 4:1-5. The reason he gave Timothy this charge was, that the time was approaching when men would not endure sound doctrine, but would turn away from the truth. Just as Paul exhorted Timothy to be faithful in his work, and to be prepared to endure certain circumstances, we too must be faithful true believers.
We must come to expect circumstances like the ones you mentioned because the time is at hand. However, we also should realize that everyone with mental issues are not "demon possessed". Mental conditions are not adequately diagnosed or addressed any more. Jails and prisons are full of men and women whose only crime is having a undiagnosed mental illness. Just yesterday morning, a man was shot here trying to disrupt a church service holding a knife.
Remember the parable of the Sower? Jesus said, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat,and went his way.But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
So you see Evangelist, you are not the first person to wonder why these folk are in the church. A tare seed and a grain of wheat is similar in looks. It is only when they start to grow that you can tell them apart. Only when we start to mature as Christians that we can distinguish ourselves from those who don't follow Christ.
Published by Maggie Mckinley-Davis
Maggie Mckinley-Davis " is the owner of ASTEPUP Publications and author of several online articles and books. She resides in North Carolina with her family. View profile
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