Hey Sis Shimmie :Rose:
You know that the networks do whatever they can to cause the most drama. I'm glad to hear that she is much more gentle in person. Although she does seem to be to pre-occupied with others opinion of her position.
Yes ma'am a cigar bar
He also said as long as he has "the men" on his side he has no need for "the spirit".... I was wondering if he meant "The Holy Spirit"??? What? And unless I am mistaken he also alluded to sex outside of marriage being allowable??? Did you catch that?
Oh no,
momi I didn't catch the 'sex' part. It's a good thing because all of you here would be reviving my clutched and shattered pearls.
Is he out of his mind?
Here we have people who are truly seeking to love and please God. They are seeking deliverance from divers vices (smoking, drinking, sexual sin, drugs, and so on) and these Idiots are making a mockery of their love for God and their desire to know and to please and obey Him.
As for Colletta, it's been a while since I've been around her (well over ten years...well over). So a lot has changed. What I saw is not good; it is very controlling and I do not see where the Holy Spirit is present in any of what she is saying / doing. This is not the person I knew back then.
My daughter was often with me during Colletta's visits to our Church and she was very gentle with my child. None of what is on this show.
momi,
Iwanthealthyhair67,
Laela,
TrulyBlsd85 ...
I have to share this in her defense.
During the 1990's there was a
LOT of mess going on in the Churches and by the men who were supposed to be Godly. When I say mess, I mean mess. She was called upon by so many women (of God) (i.e. Pastor's wives), to come and pray for their marriages because the men were literally running rampant with adultery, and whatever else they felt they could get away with. It wasn't good, I mean it, it was not good.
It was a 'spirit of lust / lasciviousness' that just would not leave and much of it was within the prosperity teachings. Ladies, I'm telling you that there is great difference between prosperity and blessings. One is man's greed and the other is God's Love being poured upon you.
Colletta was going from one Church to another in all areas of this country and she was ministering to these hurting wives. It would bring you to tears if I shared half of what these women were going through and would still come to Church each Sunday and put on a brave front.
Colletta was spending her time in prayer and fasting beyond what many others were doing. She was up at all hours in prayer / intercession because her heart was just so heavy and burdened by all of what she had witnessed and all that was being shared with her by these hurting women. In the women's seminars / prayer luncheons / all night prayer sessions, the number one thing she would minister to these women was to honor their husbands. And she wasn't teaching being a doormat
She was simply teaching God's Word and helping these women to become strengthened in the Word and in themselves and in their marriages.
Something started happening; many marriages were saved but there were some others that did not survive. Too many of these men were haughty and strong willed / prideful and just too full of themselves; yet they still felt they could still sin and still preach in the pulpit. Two of these men that were warned prophetically would not repent; they would not submit to God and they died. They were fully and duly warned yet they chose not to yield to the Holy Spirit's cry for their repentance. It wasn't witchcraft that killed them, it was their own self-destruction.
I do not validate a controlling spirit and seeing Colletta in that episode is very suggestive that it is. But here's what I believe is going on. Colletta has seen and witnessed and has been called upon to help so many, many, MANY women who have been hurt, deserted and shamed by the men who were supposed to their Godly husbands, that she has somehow hit a wall where women have to be strengthened and to be able to take care of themselves, spirit, soul and body.
Colletta sees the mess these men in the pulpit are still involved in and have yet to do right by God and their wives and families. Her position as a Bishop, reminds me of Deborah when she was called to be a Judge. God couldn't rely on the men to do the job right.
I didn't mean to go on. I can't say that I agree with all that she is doing. I know that I don't, however her ministry to strengthen women isn't by accident. She's just wants to protect them. I've always known Colletta to have the heart of a 'mother' towards women; full of compassion when they hurt. She has always been a fire house in the pulpit; this lady can preach, yet away from the pulpit she was always a gentle spirit.
I'm praying for her. Wherever she is in error, I pray for God to bring her into His Holy balance. It's not an easy road that she's traveled especially carrying the burdens of so many others... "others" meaning the burdens of the men who were not doing what God has called them to do and to do right.