DO NOT FIGHT YOUR PASTOR / SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY

This is one is really pertinent. Do not fight your pastor. It is dangerous to keep attending a church where you continually talk ill of the pastor. You will never be blessed like that, in fact, it is a waste of precious time.

How do you know a good pastor over your life? How do you know a true spiritual father?

He genuinely loves you as a person, not what you can do for him.
He is not playing church politics with your life and destiny.
He is not protective of his church system at the expense of your destiny. He knows that church is not about playing politics but about impacting lives.
There is a mutual embrace. It is not a situation where you are forcing yourself on him.

In situations where you leave a church for another, there could be so many hurting things that will follow, all kinds of lies and false accusations hurled after you. If you are smart, you will not answer a single one of them. If you do, you will stop your life. Focus on the future and what you want to do and stop responding to false accusation that are meant to come. By the time a meeting is held over you with five hundred people that you did this and that, how many people will you try to explain to that it was a lie? Such scenarios are meant to wear you out, and stretch you thin, and at the end of the day, it will be concluded that you are not doing well because you left a place.

The question is ‘what is the definition of ‘doing well?’ Every body has his own dictionary, so create yours based on God’s dealing with you and focus on your assignment. There will always be naysayers, it is part of the deal. But don’t respond! At the end of the day, the real reason why you might not do well is not because God has not called you, but because you left your calling and focused on bitterness and offence.

You are trying to start a new work. You have less that twenty people, and you are spending your energy fighting a man with hundreds of members? That is not being spiritually smart! Those hundreds of members will help him to fight you very well, not because they are loyal, but because they have been trained to do so, to be Yes-men, and not to be true to themselves and to God. Stop trying to get sympathizers all over the place, focus on your work!

What do you do when a pastor places a curse on you? Well, that curse will only work if you try to answer back or get bitter. Ignore it, find a Pastor with a much higher anointing and grace that you have relationship with and submit. Curses are words released, and they can be nullified by words from a higher anointing.

It is unfortunate that there are some pastors that will open their mouth to curse people under them. But you need to know that men of God and first of all men! It happened to David. Saul threw Javelins at him. But the scripture says he behaved himself wisely. And that is what you should do. Behave yourself wisely. Make sure you don't do some stupid things like stealing money or falsifying figures. That way, the pastor doesn't even need to place any curse, the guy has placed the curse on himself by himself!

This is also why, in disengaging from a ministry, you should do it with tact and a lot of wisdom. Do not fight or get unruly. Be patient and be respectful. If somebody decides to get sad and unhappy because you want to fulfill God’s purpose for your life, it is not for you to judge, keep quiet, and let God glorify you with productivity. Don’t stay around people who don’t believe in God’s call over your life…relationship is not by force! Surround yourself with encouragers, not vision murderers.

It is important to note that David had opportunity to kill Saul at a time. David’s men wanted to strike him in the heart. But he made a powerful statement. He said he would not touch the Lord’s anointed. Yes, Saul was an evil man at that time, who wanted to kill David, but he was still the king and the Lord’s anointed. It was this understanding that made David to last in life.

There are men of God who will not want you to succeed in life because you left them or left their church, they will want to crush you so that you can become an example to others within that people who leave will never do well. However you want to see it, it is manipulation and witchcraft spirit, but is not for you to talk or fight. If you fight back, you will lose woefully. At such times, run to God and solidify your relationship with God. Stay under a higher anointing and focus on your assignment. That way, you will succeed!

Never fight your pastor. Never talk ill for him. It is a spiritual principle. At most, what you can do is walk away…into God’s presence…that is where you can deal with hurts and offences and get healed… and get a good perspective on how to forge ahead! May God give you more understanding!

I love and honor my pastors!
Happy Father’s Day!

Son.
Pastor Steve O.Adek Jnr