Hello Everyone,
This is my first time posting in the Christian Forum. I had a situation that I went through with my former church a couple of years ago that I feel still hinders me today. My former pastor and his wife whom goes by the title of being a prophetess all most destroyed me. First of all she totally overshadowed him by getting up and prophesying during every and I mean every service. She gave me so many prophesies that I can't even remember them all. I know that she would take up atleast an hour doing this. Secondly, she thought every woman in the church wanted her husband and she would even get up and say that someone in the church was trying to come between them; which only led to further confusion because then everyone started looking around and judging other women and since I was the secretary and the one that had the most contact with him alot of people thought it was me. I knew that I loved my own husband and that even if I wasn't saved and married this man was not my type so endured it because God knew what was in my heart and I would not have hurt her or him for anything in the world because I loved them both as spritual leaders. But the final straw was when he got sick and stopped working and they were in financial trouble and one day I called her (she worked at the court house)to ask her about a business liscense for an idea that God had given me and she put him on the telephone with her and they told me that God had given them the same idea and we could do it together. God was already telling me that he was going to get me and my husband debt free and it was all working out. I was only going to need about a thousand dollars to open up my business which was going to be based out of my home because that is the way God gave it to me to start small. But the Pastor and his wife started preaching and prophelying to me about doing it another way. He eventually asked me (alone without my husband) to put my house up and borrow $50,000 for him to start our business and to build them a new church all in the name of Jesus. To put it mildly I was devastated and after I refused to do it things went down hill from there. So I eventually left and was rejected by all of the friends that I thought I had there and most of them I knew since childhood including my best friend. Only one person in that small congregation stood by me and she eventually left too because the wife started treating her like she wanted her husband. So now that I'm in another church I am very standoffish to the Pastor and his wife I don't mean to be but I am and I know it's because of what happened. I don't do anything in the church and I don't tarry around after church is out. But most importantly I am not as close to God as I want to be and that saddens me because through it all God has been the only sure thing in my life. I still beieve in the gift of prophesy because I have that gift and I believe that my former first lady has the gift but they tried to use it and other tactics for their own greedy gain. Does this mean she is a false prophet? I feel spritually empty and stale and I don't know how to get out of it but I'm grateful for that experience because I didn't know people could be that way so my eyes have been opened and God kept his promise to me that if I seek him that he would let me see The devil and his tactics and won't be overtaken by them. Please keep me in your prayers. (Sorry so Long)
This is my first time posting in the Christian Forum. I had a situation that I went through with my former church a couple of years ago that I feel still hinders me today. My former pastor and his wife whom goes by the title of being a prophetess all most destroyed me. First of all she totally overshadowed him by getting up and prophesying during every and I mean every service. She gave me so many prophesies that I can't even remember them all. I know that she would take up atleast an hour doing this. Secondly, she thought every woman in the church wanted her husband and she would even get up and say that someone in the church was trying to come between them; which only led to further confusion because then everyone started looking around and judging other women and since I was the secretary and the one that had the most contact with him alot of people thought it was me. I knew that I loved my own husband and that even if I wasn't saved and married this man was not my type so endured it because God knew what was in my heart and I would not have hurt her or him for anything in the world because I loved them both as spritual leaders. But the final straw was when he got sick and stopped working and they were in financial trouble and one day I called her (she worked at the court house)to ask her about a business liscense for an idea that God had given me and she put him on the telephone with her and they told me that God had given them the same idea and we could do it together. God was already telling me that he was going to get me and my husband debt free and it was all working out. I was only going to need about a thousand dollars to open up my business which was going to be based out of my home because that is the way God gave it to me to start small. But the Pastor and his wife started preaching and prophelying to me about doing it another way. He eventually asked me (alone without my husband) to put my house up and borrow $50,000 for him to start our business and to build them a new church all in the name of Jesus. To put it mildly I was devastated and after I refused to do it things went down hill from there. So I eventually left and was rejected by all of the friends that I thought I had there and most of them I knew since childhood including my best friend. Only one person in that small congregation stood by me and she eventually left too because the wife started treating her like she wanted her husband. So now that I'm in another church I am very standoffish to the Pastor and his wife I don't mean to be but I am and I know it's because of what happened. I don't do anything in the church and I don't tarry around after church is out. But most importantly I am not as close to God as I want to be and that saddens me because through it all God has been the only sure thing in my life. I still beieve in the gift of prophesy because I have that gift and I believe that my former first lady has the gift but they tried to use it and other tactics for their own greedy gain. Does this mean she is a false prophet? I feel spritually empty and stale and I don't know how to get out of it but I'm grateful for that experience because I didn't know people could be that way so my eyes have been opened and God kept his promise to me that if I seek him that he would let me see The devil and his tactics and won't be overtaken by them. Please keep me in your prayers. (Sorry so Long)