Do Not Make A Market Place Of My Fathers House
Catharina Schouten
A while ago I was sitting with several conference brochures on my lap.
The Father began to speak:
“Do you see what this is? People do not believe My Word anymore. They use marketing techniques to try to sell My Word, and are trying to keep “their" listeners to themselves with things that aren’t Mine! Just like in the olden days, people are selling as living stones (the Temple), the things in my Father's house! If they could only believe in My Word alone again... I would confirm it!”
Yes, everywhere there are people who try everything for their own name's sake. They profess to work for God, but then they sell His gifts! And, ask money for it! Yeshua said: Zeal for your house will devour me John 2: 17
Matthew 10
(read the whole scripture)
Verses 7-10 say:
As you go, proclaim “The Kingdom of heaven is near". Heal the sick, raise
the dead, and cleanse those afflicted with leprosy, and expel demons. You have received
without paying, so give without asking payment. Don’t take money in your belts,
no gold, no silver, no copper, and for the trip don’t take a pack, an extra shirt,
shoes, or a walking stick- a worker should be given what he needs.”
I see that some people offer to help people with their spiritual needs, but in giving their pastoral help online, they charge even for just an e-mail!
For every minute they are taking care of His flock, they charge money for themselves!
We use expensive titles at the end of our names, and claim that people without the right education and degree can not give pastoral counseling! Well, if you are reborn and walk under the leading of the Holy Spirit, He will ask you to help others!
But we must walk, talk act and help out of a broken and contrite heart that has submitted to the Lord's leadership, not doing anything for ME but ALL for HIM!
We must help the sheep in His flock! We must lead them towards HIM, and not to our expensive titles and church groups! We need to serve Him out of LOVE, not to earn money!
He choose for Himself not the well known religious figures of His day, but lowly fishermen!
They were all broken to themselves! The Spirit came and He was the one who did “the job”.
We must lay down our lives and crucify our "self". This is our cross! If we just do what He is asking from us, He will take care of us! We will not even think about demanding payment or seeking the glory of man's praise in what titles or expensive "things" we have! It is not about us, but about HIS Kingdom!
Let us confess to our Father that we have again made His House a marketplace! Let's put it on His altar and humbly ask for forgiveness, so He can cleanse us with His Blood, renew us, and send us to His lambs again... but now for His Name's sake, to bring His children to HIM!
Received
March 2005-03-16
Catharina Schouten
Pophetic Word through Catharina Schouten
If you don't gather the harvest with me, you scatter it.
Received in 2005
Vision (part 1):
A gate! I saw a gate with a mechanism built into it like an old-fashioned revolving door.…
Through this device each person could enter in from his or her own place….
In fact, each individual took his own ‘private gate’ in order to enter in through THE Gate.
The Gate represents the heart chamber of our Father.
Up until now everyone entered the gate of the Lord on his own. Communities, churches, denominations, all went in apart from the others…
The mechanism signifies our own structures, such as the ‘seven steps to deliverance/healing’ and the like. Every one of us fostered his/her own sweet little ‘pet idols’ – apart from the Word, apart from the faith in Jesus!
Vision (part 2):
The mechanism removed!
As I looked on, I watched Jesus stride out to the gate with solid steps to radically remove the mechanism. And gone it was! It had become an open Gate! From now on people can only enter in TOGETHER. Those who refuse to enter in unity with a brother and sister from "another group" simply won’t be able to pass through at all… Going in through this solid open gate stands for trusting the Lord and Him ALONE, trusting His Word and His Word ALONE (He IS the Word), His Word that heals and delivers us, His Word that cleanses our conscience and renews our mind… No more fragmentation of the Word, no more ‘pet gods’ apart from Him! He is EVERYTHING we need and it is His heart’s desire to be our all in all!
Word of the Lord:
" I AM that I AM…
For too long I have witnessed how My people, My people, tore themselves asunder,
splitting up My Church into separate units, one from the other.
Each traveled one’s own path, with their own individual ‘know-how’s’,
manuals and guidelines...
Without any guidance from Above! I have watched and witnessed how people acted as
if they needed structures, doctrines, books and keys in order to get to the place
of restoration.
Because of this, many of My children have become completely lost to The Way, reducing themselves to be nothing more than mechanical robots that are drifting away, step by step, from the purity of My Gospel…
I Am sufficient! I AM is enough for all of you! I AM heals, delivers, restores…..
IN ME lies the way, THE WAY…
I will sift and root out; I will remove whatever has not been ordained by Me ….
Open yourself up to me and yield to My Hand, and will take out and remove from My children all that which didn’t originate in Me…
I want, yes I desire to be your all in all! Lay down all that which didn’t come from Me.
I do not heal exclusively via a list of seven specific steps. I do not deliver by way of a fixed set of rules, keys or regulations!
I Am Spirit! The Spirit blows where it wills. You can hear the sound but you do not know from where it comes…
Only God's Spirit gives new life.
The Spirit is like the wind that blows wherever it wants to.
You can hear the wind, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going.
Love ME above all other things!
Don’t break or split up My powerful Word!
It is in ME that you will find the food and drink that is wholesome for your soul, that will nurture and satisfy you into the marrow of your bones…
In ME!
I am (***have) going to separate the tares from the wheat, the clean from the unclean, the pure from the blemished,
The choice is yours!!!"
Serving Him by serving you,
Catharina Schouten
*** It is now 2007 and He indeed removed the flag from the cargo,
and more is to come, so please surrender and give yourself completely to the Lord!
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