Dear Friends and Family,

I wanted to say thank you to all of you and that I love you all very much! As a special thank you, I am only sending these extra prophetic teaching notes to my closest family members and dearest friends of the ministry. 

This is my way of saying "thank you so much" to my Kingdom friends, for your free-will love gifts and your encouragement...and a huge agape "I love you" to my dear family!

Feel free to pass these messages along to your loved ones!

Yours, James

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Pt 10 The Overcomer's Manual

To be an overcomer in these last days we need to be healthy in our relationships with other Christians. The Book of Revelation (The end-time manual) tells us that one of Satan's names is The Accuser of the Brethren. If he can influence us to accuse and look for faults in others, we cannot be healthy/whole in our Kingdom relationships. 

You might say one of his names is The Faultfinder.

Here is the scripture.

10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come...the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. Rev. 12

Dear friends we must always remember that from the time you wake up until the time you lay down your head, you will be bombarded with accusation by Satan and his minions. 

See the how the Bible says Satan accuses us day and night? He wants me to accuse you, you to accuse me, and all of us to accuse ourselves! This demonic warfare assails us day and night!

The Lord said to me, "A rebuke spoken in love is My heart." 

Proverbs says that "An open rebuke is better than secret love," So we know there are times when only a sharp rebuke will turn a heart. We must be very sensitive to the Spirit in this. The Lord once told me to err on the side of mercy.

The Lord said, "Tell people to establish healthy boundaries in their relationships. You have options in your relationships."

I believe the Lord wants us to know we do not have to put up with people's faultfinding. This spirit tears down and does not build. Having said this we must also never forget that everyone faultfinds at times and we must learn how to forgive and ask forgiveness.

Some are looking for perfect relationships and there are none. All Pastors will accuse at times as will all congregants. Even still the Lord has called His ministers to build and to tear down. In order to have a healthy, vibrant life in God we must allow the Lord and His leaders to build and tear down in our lives.

The Lord said, "My ministers are to tear down and build up."

Read Jeremiah 1 for confirmation. When Jeremiah was commissioned he was told he had to build up and tear down if he was to be successful as God's minister.

The Lord said, "Before you destroy their confidence in Me, have faith and deny yourself the right to shame My brethren."

If you come from a family that shamed you into obedience you must be especially careful of this sin. You may destroy people's confidence in their loving heavenly Father. This can result in the loss of their salvation if you shame them this way.

The Lord wants to take away our right to faultfind and accuse God's precious children. Read this prophecy again and note the Lord saying "have faith." It is an act of faith when we choose to love and not accuse others.

I will leave you with this word from an awesome Apostle I have often learned from. 

Have a great day and remember that the Lord is not mostly mad and sad about you. He does rebuke us sometimes as we know.

But He's crazy about you right now!

The Accuser of the Brethren
Francis Frangipane
Apr 8, 2005

More churches have been destroyed by the Accuser of the Brethren and its fault-finding than by either immorality or misuse of church funds. So prevalent is this influence in our society that, among many, fault-finding has been elevated to the status of a "ministry!" The Lord has promised, however, that in His house accusing one another will be replaced with prayer, and fault-finding with a love that covers a multitude of sins.

In an attempt to hinder, if not altogether halt the next move of God, Satan has sent forth an army of fault-finding demons against the church. The purpose of this assault is to entice the Body of Christ away from the perfections of Jesus and onto the imperfections of one another. 

The fault-finder spirit will incite individuals to spend days and even weeks unearthing old faults or sins in their minister or church. The people who are held captive by this deceitful spirit become "crusaders," irreconcilable enemies of their former assemblies. In most cases, the things they deem wrong or lacking are the very areas in which the Lord seeks to position them for intercession. What might otherwise be an opportunity for spiritual growth and meeting a need, becomes an occasion of stumbling and withdrawal. In truth, their criticisms are a smokescreen for a prayerless heart and an unwillingness to serve. 

Christ Himself could not satisfy the "standards" of this spirit when it spoke through the Pharisees. No matter what Jesus did, the Pharisees found fault with Him. 

If you personally have not consulted with and listened to the individual of whom you are critical, how can you be sure that you are not fulfilling the role of the accuser of the brethren? Even the ". . . Law does not judge a man, unless it first hears from him" (John 7:51). 

The enemies' purpose in this assault is to discredit the minister so it can discredit his message. I have personally listened to scores of pastors from many denominational backgrounds. The timing of this spirit's attack upon their congregations almost always was just prior to, or immediately after, a significant breakthrough. The unchallenged assault of this demon always stopped the forward progress of their church. 

When this spirit infiltrates an individual's mind, its accusations come with such venom and intimidation that even those who should "know better" are bewildered and then seduced by its influence. Nearly all involved take their eyes off Jesus and focus upon "issues," ignoring during the contention that Jesus is actually praying for His body to become one. Beguiled by this demon, accusations and counter accusations rifle through the soul of the congregation, stimulating suspicion and fear among the people. Devastation wracks the targeted church, while discouragement blankets and seeks to destroy the pastor and his family, or other servants of God in the Church. 

Nearly every minister reading this has faced the assault of the fault-finder spirit at one time or another. Each has known the depression of trying to track down this accusing spirit as it whispers its gossip through the local church: trusted friends seem distant, established relationships shaken, and the vision of the church quagmired in strife and inaction. 

To mask the diabolical nature of its activity, the fault-finder will often garb its criticisms in religious clothing. Under the pretense of protecting sheep from a "gnat-sized" error in doctrine, it forces the flock to swallow a "camel-sized" error of loveless correction, attempting to correct violations of Scripture! Where is the "spirit of gentleness" of which Paul speaks in Galatians 6:1, the humility in "looking to yourselves, lest you too be tempted?" Where is the love motive to "restore such a one?" 

The church does need correction, but the ministry of reproof must be patterned after Christ and not the accuser of the brethren. When Jesus corrected the churches in Asia (Revelation 2-3), He sandwiched His rebuke between praise and promises. He reassured the churches that the Voice about to expose their sin was the very Voice which inspired their virtue. After encouraging them, He then brought correction. 

Is this not His way with each of us? Even in the most serious corrections, the voice of Jesus is always the embodiment of "grace and truth" (John 1:14). Jesus said of the sheep, ". . . they know His voice. And a stranger they simply will not follow but will flee from him" (John 10:5). Remember, if the word of rebuke or correction does not offer grace for restoration, it is not the voice of your Shepherd. If you are one of Christ's sheep, you will flee from it. 

To find an indictment against the church, it is important to note, the enemy must draw his accusations from hell. If we have repented of our sins, no record of them nor of our mistakes exists in Heaven. As it is written, "Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies..." (Romans 8:33). Jesus is not condemning us, but rather is at the Father's right hand interceding on our behalf. 

The second weapon this spirit uses against us is our past mistakes and poor decisions. Each of us has an inherent propensity toward ignorance. One does not have to read far into the history of the saints to discover they were not called because of their intrinsic wisdom. In truth, we all have made mistakes. Hopefully, we have at least learned from them and developed humility because of them. This fault-finding spirit, however, takes our past mistakes and parades them before our memory, criticizing our efforts to do God's will, thus keeping us in bondage to the past. 

When the enemy pits us against one another, it first provokes us to jealousy or fear. The security of our place in life seems threatened by another's success. Perhaps to justify our personal failures or flaws, we magnify the past shortcomings of others. The more our jealousy grows, the more this demon exploits our thoughts until nothing about the individual or his church seems right. 

In the final stage we actually wage a campaign against him. No defense he offers will satisfy us. We are convinced he is deceived and dangerous; and we think it is up to us to warn others. Yet the truth is, the person whose mind is controlled by the fault-finder spirit is the one who is deceived and dangerous. For his own unrepentant thoughts toward jealousy and fleshly criticism have supplied hell with a "lumber yard" of material to erect walls between members of the body of Christ. 

The fault-finders and gossips are already planted in the church--perhaps you are such a one! When the living God is making your pastor more deeply dependent, and thus more easily shaped for His purposes, do you criticize his apparent lack of anointing? Although he did not abandon you during your time of need, do you abandon him now, when your faith might be the very encouragement he needs to fully yield to the cross?

Those who are sympathetic to the accuser of the brethren fulfill, by application, Matthew 24:28, "Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather." The backbiting of these vulture-like individuals actually feeds their lower nature, for they seek what is dead in a church; they are attracted to what is dying. 

When the accuser comes, it brings distorted facts and condemnation. Those who are trapped by this spirit never research the virtues in the organization or person they are attacking. With the same zeal that the fault-finders seek to unearth sin, those who will conquer this enemy must earnestly seek God's heart and His calling for those they would reprove. 

True correction, therefore, will proceed with reverence, not revenge. Indeed, are not those whom we seek to correct Christ's servants? Are they not His possessions? Is it possible the works of which we are jealous, and thus critical, might the the very works of Christ? Also, let us ask ourselves: why has God chosen us to bring His rebuke? Are we walking in Christ's pattern? 

These are important questions, for to be anointed with Christ's authority to rebuke, we must be committed to melt with Christ's love. But, if we are angry, embittered or jealous toward another, we cannot even pray correctly for that person, much less reprove him. Jesus, the great Lion of Judah, was declared worthy to bring forth judgment by virtue of His nature: He was a Lamb slain for men's sin. If we are not determined to die for men, we have no right to judge them. 

Our attitude should be one of prayer and love, leaving a blessing for what we gained by our time spent in the church. If there has indeed been sin in the ministry, we should contact the church authorities and leave the situation with them. 

Indeed, the Lord's word to us is that in the House of the Lord criticism must be replaced with prayer, and fault-finding eliminated with a covering love. Where there is error, we must go with a motive to restore. Where there are wrong doctrines, let us maintain a gentle spirit correcting those in opposition. 

Lord Jesus, forgive us for our lack of prayer and the weakness of our love. Master, we want to be like You. When we see a need, instead of criticizing, help us to lay down our lives and meet it. Lord, deliver Your church of this fault-finding spirit! In Jesus' name. Amen.

The Cave

The Lord gave me a vision in which I saw my brother Pastor James, myself and a few others who were in a dark cave together. This cave was rocky and had a stream of water running through it as a creek would. We were each sitting on a light that I knew was our Matthew 25 wise-virgin lamps with oil in them. We were happy and content because we were confident that we were in the right place.

Matthew 25:1-13: "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom...the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps...While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 

"And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. ...And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves."

And they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh."

The Meat

I dreamed that Pastor James and some neighbors were at my house. It was cloudy outside and we were all sitting around my picnic table on the side of my house. Pastor James was serving us these huge steaks. These were the biggest, most tender steaks that I have ever seen. My steak had a small bone in it so I removed it with ease. It was very easy to remove because the steak was so tender.

I didn't know Pastor James often uses this phrase in his preaching, until after I had shared this dream with him. He tells people when it comes to revival and walking with God's revivalists you have to "Eat the meat and spit out the bones." We have to eat the meat of the Word of the Lord and spit out the bones which is symbolic of their flawed human weakness.

These Scriptures confirm that those whom the strong meat belongs to are those that are of full age and who are able to discern good and evil.

Hebrews 5: 12-14: "When for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil."

Also, the following Scripture confirms and affirms the servants who serve the meat:

Matthew 24:44-47: "Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods."