I was paid for in full!

When I received Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord it was at a time when we were taught about FAITH. Faith is being sure of what we hope for and being certain of what we do not see (Hebrews11 vs. 1). All the men of God who were teaching at that time put their emphasis on God, on Jesus Christ, on the Holy Spirit. They taught us to have Faith and believe in the Lord; they taught us about prayer, about interceding with God about our lives, not giving up on God until the end no matter what happened.

They taught us on the power that is in the name of Jesus Christ (Philippians 2 vs9-11).
We were encouraged to have a deep, intimate relationship with God and to know that Jesus hears us when we cry out to Him. We had to have fellowship with Him through reading His word to an extent that we could have conversation with Him. It was a beautiful time of learning more about God. Somewhere along the way things changed, I cannot even pin point when they changed but they did. It has become almost taboo to hear about Jesus Christ in church. We no longer hear about Jesus our Healer, the Holy Spirit is no longer talked about as our Comforter. It feels like somewhere along the line the Son of God, the first born of Creation lost His Majesty and was replaced by “mantles and Prophets”.
Where we used to hear about Faith and God, we now hear about something else. We are now  told that for things to go well with us ,we have to have some sort of divine protection e.g. Anointed oil, wristband, towel etc. People are even afraid to go out if they do not have any of these items with them lest harm befalls them because they do not know the power of Christ within them.

Yet my Bible tells me God did not give us a Spirit of timidity but of a sound mind (Romans 8 vs. 15). I have no problems with mantles, yes in the days of Paul they used handkerchiefs and things happened. But they did not make little gods out of these towels because they knew the higher power within them. They did not cease to function without the towels or without Apostle Paul.

They knew they could call on the name of Jesus and He would show up for them. But now the Prophets seem hell bent on making people dependant on them and not on Christ. It appears from the teachings as though the Prophet is the go between, like he mediates on our behalf to God. As if I as an individual am no longer worthy to go before the throne of grace and talk to God and he hears me.

Whatever happened to the Almighty God, to the Holy Spirit who is supposed to be with us where-ever we go? What happened to the omnipresent God who paid the ultimate price for us on the cross? Why does it seem like we are replacing God with all these “things”? Again I ask, what happened to Jesus, to being encouraged to seek a relationship with Him? Even the word that is being preached we no longer magnify the name of our Lord Jesus but that of the Prophets. Yet, Jesus Christ is the one who paid for us in full, He paid the ultimate price for our salvation.

Remember He is a jealous God and never meant for us to worship anyone, trust in anything other than Him (Exodus 34 vs. 14, Deuteronomy 5vs 9).