God is up to something!
Recently, I dreamt of walking around a mountain, and stopping at a particular place where I noticed a marking on the mountain. The mark indicated I had gone round and round the same mountain without making progress. Then, I was translated to a different mountain and its appearance could be likened to a rotten tooth. I stood on what seemed to be a ledge near the top and simply touched the side of the mountain and it tumbled down, hit what I perceived to be a bulls eye down below, and was destroyed. From that point forward, God has placed an emphasis in me to communicate the need for His people to remove the idols in their hearts. I believe that once we do that, we will be on target for what God is about to do.
This is the bottom line, we are entering into a time where we need to be able to draw the pure, uncut, anointing directly from God ourselves to be a success at what we are about to walk in as sons of God. I believe we are about to venture into an era that is unprecedented with God, and for some the time for the middle man or woman is about to expire. If there are idols in our heart, we weaken, if not disconnect altogether, our link to the power of God. And it is through the Word of God AND the power of God that we see manifestation in our lives.
Spiritual idolatry occurs when anything other than God takes a seat on God's Throne in your heart. A heart excessively devoted to sports, cars, or people, or a heart consumed with pornography or any other thing that detracts from God are typical examples of idolatry in our day and age. They all take away from the time, loyalty, and trust due God. And God declared that we shall have no other Gods before Him, because He is a jealous God. He demands all our loyalty. If we can't comply, He explained in Ezekiel 14:1-11 that He would turn us over to the multitude of idols in our hearts to see if we could get an answer from them, because He wasn't having it.
My studies of this subject amazingly led me to 1st Kings where God was dealing with the prophet Elijah. Now, the thrust of Elijah's ministry was to extricate the worship of idols (Baalism) from God's people - the children of Israel. God empowered this prophet in ways that are second to none and can only be rivaled by God parting the Red Sea for Moses (with the exception of raising Jesus from the dead, of course). Elijah fiercely opposed idolatry amongst God's people, but one day he reached his breaking point. Let's pick up after Elijah had killed 450 prophets of Baal. Elijah was overwhelmed and asked God to just take him home. God told him to anoint his replacement and it is in 1 Kings 19:19-21, (Amplified Bible), where the following series of events takes place. The Word says:
So Elijah left there and found Elisha son of Shaphat, whose plowing was being done with twelve yoke of oxen, and he drove the twelfth. Elijah crossed over to him and cast his mantle upon him. He left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, Let me kiss my father and mother, and then I will follow you. And he [testing Elisha] said, Go on back. What have I done to you? [Settle it for yourself.] So Elisha went back from him. Then he took a yoke of oxen, slew them, boiled their flesh with the oxen's yoke [as fuel], and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, followed Elijah, and served him.
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