Are the spiritual churches of today more of new generation and nonspiritual 21^st century church?

Spiritualists believe in a single God—whom they refer to as “infinite Intelligence”—and that God holds each soul accountable for his actions and life choices.

There is a difference between spiritualist and spiritualism. Spiritualism according to people is a religious movement based on the belief that the spirits of the dead exist and have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living. Which is not uncommon with some of the prophets and prophetess of white garment new generation churches, who has long lost the dwelling of the spirit of God in them.

Majority now worship in flesh, love of material things, money, and positions in the house of God, putting the spiritual gift of others in test, wanting to prove position superiority and expecting an overnight Gods Miracle. Forgetting that one reason that God may not answer our prayers or that he waits to answer prayer is that we are asking for the wrong thing.  We may be asking for something that is not in God’s will for our lives and we might be asking for selfish reasons. The flesh is the expression the Bible uses for the dwelling place of everything in a person that opposes God and His will.

We all meet challenges for example you lost your bank card phone or your money, or perhaps a loved one. Maybe someone at work has backbitten you or applied for a job but did not get it. You walk in the spirit of God when cast all burdens unto him. Jesus says that the Spirit will bring to commemoration all the things He said to us. John 14:26 “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you”. 1 Peter 5:7 “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. When you walk in the Spirit, these words go straight into your heart and mind and become a pillar of strength by which you say”. The Spirit gives you power for that in the same way as a crane that lifts many tons of goods from a ship to the pier.

Walking in the Spirit means being obedient to the Spirit—to the laws and commandments which the Spirit brings to your remembrance when temptations come. Being tempted is not the same as sinning, but in a temptation, you come to a point of decision. When someone says something spiteful or rude to you, everyone knows what sorts of temptations arise: to retaliate or get even in one way or another. If you do that you break God’s commandments.

To the prophets and prophetess of spiritual churches (White garment church), Although, God used many methods, the “prophet” was the most recognized form of divine communication. Priests in Israel were the people’s representatives before God; the prophets were God’s official representatives before His people. The priest’s, pastors and shepherds calling were hereditary; the prophet was specifically called by God, do some prophets and prophetess still hear or see Gods revelation?

A food for thought: what we see now is… The new generation white garment church of today worship position, regalia and Loins show off. In as much as revival is good which is now a common doctrine to the new generation spiritual white garment churches hence, it is not revival if it is of a liberalism in the churches, or disunity among God’s people, or because we’ve been worldly and compromised.

These aren’t the reasons for revival, they are the result of no revival. Revival is the sovereign work of Almighty God.  It is when God comes down that He (Almighty God) would rend the heavens, that He would come down, that the mountains might shake at His presence (Isah. 64:1). Revival is meeting with Almighty God. Most of us seek God to do something for our church, our family, our nation. But we’re seeking God’s hand and not His face. Our heart needs to yearn for God. We should be saying, “O God, will You come down?”.

Prophets have been the most visible channel in God’s communication system. “Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7). “The Lord God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people” (2 Chron. 36:15).

God said very clearly that if people would not listen to His prophets, He had no other remedy to help them in their personal or national problems: “But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets. . . till there was no remedy” (2 Chron. 36:16).

Among the many reasons why God Uses prophets are:

1. Prophets prepared the way for Christ’s first advent.
2. As representatives of the Lord, prophets showed the people that God valued human beings enough to choose from among them men and women to represent Him.
3. Prophets were a continual reminder of the nearness and availability of God’s instruction.
4. Messages through the prophets accomplished the same purposes as a personal communication from the Creator.
5. Prophets were a demonstration of what fellowship with God and the transforming grace of the Holy Spirit could accomplish in a human life.
6. The presence of the prophets tested the people as to their attitude toward God.

Prophets recognise the presence and power of the Spirit by out-of-the-ordinary visions and dreams—and by the accompanying physical phenomena. Many have been the fulfillment of God’s promise that “If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision, and I speak to him in a dream” (Num. 12:6). (The Biblical record does not make a clear distinction between a prophetic vision and a prophetic dream, the terms often being used interchangeably).

 God interact with prophet through different ways

In Daniel 10, the prophet described some of the physical phenomena accompanying “this great vision” (Daniel 10: 8). Although he “was in a deep sleep on my face. . . to the ground,” he was able to hear “the sound of his words” (Daniel10: 9). Others were with Daniel when he was in vision but he “alone saw the vision” (Daniel 10: 7). Daniel was physically changed while in vision: “No strength remained in me; for my energy was turned to frailty in me, and I retained no strength” (Daniel 10: 8).

Whatever may have been the phenomena accompanying a vision or dream, prophets knew that God was speaking to them. What we know about the prophets’ messages and how they delivered them is recorded in the Bible. Originally, not all the messages as we have them today were in written form. Some were public sermons, some were letters to friends or to church groups, some were official announcements by kings to their people.

Prophets could be manipulated or bribed to defy God as in the churches of today, and as in the case of King Balak of Moab who asked Balaam to curse the Israelite. “Now come and put a curse on these people, because they are too powerful for me. Perhaps then I will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the country. For I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed” (Num. 22:6). Balaam’s response indicated that he communicated with God (Num. 22: 9-41). God revealed that He could use anything to prophecy as was in the case of Balaam’s donkey (Num. 22: 28).

Another aspect of prophetic experience involved the prophet himself who performed signs to support the prophecy e.g. Isaiah walked naked for 3 years in the land (Isa. 20:2); Hosea expressed the prophecy by being obedient to what God told him. “Go and marry a prostitute so that some of her children will be conceived in prostitution. This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the Lord and worshiping other gods.” (Hos. 1: 2). Though, God’s prophets differed on how they prophesied, the emphasis of their messages was common. It was about sin, judgement, wrath of God, repentance, love, mercy and forgiveness of a compassionate God.

Prayer is answered in God’s timing, God also expects us to wait patiently on His perfect timing (Psalm 66:18).  In Hebrews 10:36, “For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.” Sometimes the desires of our heart take time.  They do not happen overnight.  God is most often at work when He appears to be the most silent.  Even though Daniel had to wait three weeks before his prayer was answered, God had actually answered his prayer that very day that he prayed.  Don’t think that since God does not immediately reveal to you His answer, that He has not answered it  and has not answered it right away.  Daniel had his prayer answered the very same day of his request but it took three weeks for God’s sovereign timing for it to reach him.

It is absolute that the majority of the prophet and Prophetess of spiritual churches now prophesies  via a contrary spirits and their experience of old revelations.