False Glory – Part II
We continue to pull back the covers on false glory. Have you read or listened to something a minister wrote or spoke and immediately afterward or during the message/writing you start feeling like, “Are they talking about me?” or you think, “Hmm . . . that feels like a dig aimed t me to kick me down a couple of notches in my Godly confidence.” If so, what you are discerning (perhaps unknowingly) is a characteristic of false glory. This characteristic can be found in the below scripture:
We have renounced disgraceful ways (secret thoughts, feelings, desires and underhandedness, the methods and arts that men hide through shame); we refuse to deal craftily (to practice trickery and cunning) or to adulterate or handle dishonestly the Word of God, but we state the truth openly (clearly and candidly). And so we commend ourselves in the sight and presence of God to every man’s conscience. – 2 Corinthians 4:2 AMP
When you handle the Word of God deceitfully or craftily, the Word is mixed with an ulterior motive, another agenda, manipulation, witchcraft (defined as an attempt to bend or twist the will of another via cunning mental stratagem). You see, truth is coming forth as it’s the Word which is true glory, but the spirit behind the Word is false glory. It’s the antithesis of John 4:24; worship in Spirit and Truth. Our spirit must be pure, holy as His Word emanates from us or else all we are releasing is a false glory that entangles others in more bondage versus set them free. I pray this characteristic of false glory be far from you, mentee as you go forth to do His work. I also pray that this post exercised your spiritual senses (e.g., discernment – Hebrews 5:14) even the more as we must start calling false glory, false glory and not backing up off or down to what we are seeing and discerning.
Responding to true glory,
Prophetess Karen M. Pina
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P.S. – Another classic example of this is using the pulpit to address something that should have Matthew 18:15-17 applied to the matter.
