A Word From Vaughn--October, 2006
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"Know, says the Lord, that faith worketh by love, and I shall bring to pass in this season the standard of correction of how My love has been handled. I shall bring the discipline of My love to every heart that belongs to Me. For I say if you walk not in love, it is a misuse of time; if you spend not your money in love, it is a waste of money. If you receive My anointing and flow in it, and do not walk in love, then it is prostitution of My intent and purpose. Love covers a multitude of sins. Know, says the Lord, that where ever the sins of others are not covered in your heart, then you don't walk in My love.
Wherever you are naked in the eyes of others, they have not covered you in My love. Know that this is the hour I will show all nakedness where My love has been witheld. I will do a work in this season throughout My Body in this nation by challenging those who have no faith because they have no love.
From this point onward I'm going to teach you by love, extend you by love, and I'm going to magnify Myself by love. I'm going to show forth My power by love. I'm going to reveal the anointing for deliverance by love. I will justify by love, and nothing else is going to do from this time forward, for I must be glorified and I must be multiplied.
The world has seen enough of a Church with no faith, no power, and no discipline because there is no love."
I was talking with a former Satanist recently, high level, raised in the household of a global Satanist leader. She backslid after her conversion to Christianity, because the Church she went to threw her out, because they didn't want a nasty woman like her around them. I told her,
"Let me tell you why it's easier for people in darkness to walk in unity than it is for people in the Light. Your unity doesn't cost you anything. You do what you want. You think what you want. You say what you want. Your common purpose is to fight against the Light. You have unity because there is no cost to the flesh. But among Christians, our unity costs us something. We have to put down our thoughts, our emotions, our opinions, our feelings, and hold ourselves down to the Standard of the Word of God. We must be consumed by the Holy Spirit and our flesh doesn't like it.
We use the veneer of religion to cover up our flesh instead of the discipline of the Holy Spirit. That's why we have little unity. But the Day is coming that we are arising."
She told me I was right, that she had never thought about it that way before.
The Price, the Price, the Price, the Price--we're being reunited with Something very costly: the economy of Heaven.
There is a demand by God to be exalted through the only economy He recognizes, and it is our surrender to His love.
How we bite and devour! How we assault in the Name of the Lord! How we delight in a bad report! How we allow a bad spirit to divide husband and wife, and parents and children, and brother and sister! How we speak lies and hypocrisy in the Name of the Lord and feel justified because we can find fault with someone else!
We are arrogant and don't know what spirit we're of! We don't understand what we do. We murder! We murder! We destroy! We walk in error!
It's a bad, bad thing, an elitist spirit born of hell itself, a seduction, an overthrow of the Divine purpose and intent. It's carnality to the "n"th degree!
It is a manifestation of satan. It works in me; it works in you--it is a part of human nature.
And all flesh shall see Him together, and the Glory, the Glory of the Lord, shall fill the earth. Lord, let our flesh see You, in Jesus' Name. Let our soul cry out to You!
I don't know what it's going to take. Is is going to take death and tragedy in the Body to show us how deadly serious the time and season is? Is it going to take heartbreaking loss? Isn't weird that some families hate each other until someone dies? Many of us, the only time our earthly family has any unity is around an open grave. Why is that?
Because of hatred; because of seduction, because of strife; because of lies, because of arrogance, because of misinformation, because of unbelief....it's time for us to open our hearts to the Lord and be done with some things that have blocked our unity and His love.
The Scripture says plainly that where ever there is envy and self-seeking there is strife and every evil work. This wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, and is meek and easy to be intreated.
What spirit are we of, and we don't know it, and don't seem to care?
Not long ago God called me a half-breed. After He had my attention with this epithet, He said,
"You're half Mine and half the enemy's. You flow in Me when it's convenient for you, but then you flow in the wisdom that is earthly, sensual, and demonic. When it suits you, you flow in Me; when it doesn't you revert to earthly, sensual, and demonic wisdom."
Listen, some of you husbands and wives, parents and children, boyfriends and girlfriends, in your relationships, you're not walking in the Truth! You use manipulation and control! You create a false reality and then use the power of your own soul to walk in it, and it's no more the real world than I'm green and blue! It's a house of lies built on mutually shared darkness and need and dependency. You call it love!
You do it in your friendships, oh my God! You share darkness and call it communion. You communicate in arrogance and call it truth! We all have to vindicate ourselves based on our response to God because God is coming back to the Church, to the whole Body! Not for a visit, not for a date, but He's coming to take up residence!
We don't love people nearly as much as we think we do, unless they are convenient. God is raising the standard to His love. Lord we ask You to visit us!"
God is doing something remarkable in the Body now as far as exposing His love level--not human love for the sake of kindness, or soulish love for the sake of control and manipulation (this amounts to little more than sorcery), but the Love of God. The Love of God is a commonly shared altar around which the religious beasts of self-righteouness and self-vindication/justification are slain. Love does no harm. "Love has no pride" in the words of an old country western song.
Love also has no defense against a brother: it is vulnerable. It is far too easy to murder someone who loves you. When someone loves you with the love of God, there are no barriers of protection--you can do as you will with the precious contents of their soul. Oh, I say with fear and trembling, there is a day of judgment coming in which we, who are designed by God to be an open vessel of His Love, will give an account of our stewardship over that Holy altar. Have we defiled that Secret Place? Have we sat at table with devils while proclaiming the Lord's table? Oh, saints of God, may our Heavenly Father help you and me to see before it's too late!
I fear that we preachers are the guiltiest of the Body--we assume the anointing justifies our vanity, pride, and purpose. Without care we become possessed by a demon called destiny--the end justifies the means. Unless we are broken by love, we consume the lives of the saints. We must never forget, the ministry is for the people. Do we sit on the throne of ministry so we can be carried about by God's people like the kings of old?
One of the last things the Lord spoke before His Ascension was,
"Feed My sheep. Tend My lambs."
I still don't figure out what part of feeding and tending we preachermen don't get--note that I have included myself in this quandary.
I fear the saints, for the most part, are will-worshippers, who hear what appeals to the least-costly method of being conformed to His image. We find a religious form that enables us to remain unchanged and unbroken--we may as well take cyanide. The saints are either destroyed by or conformed to religion without power, which means remaining unchanged. God help the preacher who comes with a word of change and repentance to religious folk who have it down pat, and have gone as far as they intend to go.
I still don't get why so many Christians like a steady diet of fried preacher! When you saints see a preacher fall down, you better cry out to God and not the telephone--you're next!
The condensed version of the last thoughts is that God is exposing and dealing with vampire preachers and cannibalistic sheep. Bluntly speaking, all of our movtivation is on fire before the altar of God's Love.
The Lord has really been moving in our local church during our Tuesday night prayer meetings. He poured out His Spirit on us as we cried for unity and love to break every dam holding Him back in our hearts and our assembly. Thelma, one of the precious sister saints at "The Sanctuary", poured out her heart in confession. She broke before our prayer group and shared how weary she was of knowing all she knew about the Lord, and allowing herself to go up to a point, and then to be beaten back again. She said it made her feel a little crazy, and she didn't understand what the problem was. Take in mind, this sister is a diligent believer who serves the Lord zealously both on the job and in Church, working with the young people.
While Thelma was sharing, the Lord started speaking to me,
"I will tell you the problem with all of you--to the human soul, false peace is better than no peace. My Spirit prepares you to come to a place of breakthrough and change, but when opposition and warfare comes, the tendency of man is to back off instead of cross over. Your soul doesn't understand what I am doing and begins to cry out, 'Anything is better than this warfare!' The demand for peace comes to have freedom from war--to the human soul, false peace is better than no peace."
This was real revelation to me, and I shared it with the group after Thelma finished. I really believe the Lord gave me that to put into context of what we had been praying about, God's love and unity.
Take for example a conflict with a fellow Christian--the Scripture says plainly in Matthew 18: 21-35 that we are given over to torment when we don't forgive. The Holy Spirit grooms us to cover with love the one with whom we are offended. Our natural mind fights against this wisdom from above which is pure, peaceable, and easy to be intreated. Our soul falls back on wisdom that is earthly, sensual, and demonic--I am justified in my offense; I have a list and a littany. Warfare between the soul and spirit occurs--it intesifies with my stubborness.
The more war I have, the more my natural mind convinces me I am justified in not forgiving; the more time I spend refusing to be obedient to the discipline of God's love, the more torment I am given; the more torment and warfare I am given the more my dumb nature believes the one I am offended with is the source of my misery--because it is pride, God opposes me. I literally chase my own tail until I catch it, and then start devouring my own naked backside, crying out in pain. I am naked because I am not covered by love, and devouring myself because I am religiouly delusional.
I have to have peace, so false peace is better than no peace. The real peace is surrendering to the altar of God's love, but that would involve humbling myself and being wrong to get right. So I choose the false peace of convincing myself that my cause and defense is God's own, and this becomes my defense and justification. This is now a jihad, a Holy War--whoever I kill and destroy in the process is the enemy of God, and I am vindicated.
From this point forward, any lack of peace I feel is "the attack of the enemy", to be fought against and prayed against. How carefully crafted by the god of confusion, satan himself, is this religious snare!
Somewhere along this process, I stop listening to the Holy Spirit. I have not left my gift at the altar; I have not gone and made things right. I have pressed into the realm of the spirit naked--love is my covering. If I don't cover another's nakedness with love, neither is mine. I begin to listen to another spirit who masquerades as God and comforts me in my war. Shortly, others have to agree with my campaign to walk with me.
How quickly I can be snared and how tragically small my world becomes when I choose false peace over real peace! I stand in the midst of my own existence with the scalpel of my own standard, not the sword of the Word, and draw it continually towards myself in ever smaller, spiralling, concentric circles, cutting away from my life people, circumstances, blessings, and opportunities to stubbornly guard the bastion of my war, calling it "God" all the while. I am not enlarging, but limiting, my borders. My friends agree with me and we are right because we are "on the Lord's side"; my enemies are so easy to discern, plainly marked as those children of hell who would dare to disagree. My pride and ruthless self-protection, make me an easy target for such religious folly--I am bound to deception in such seasons for I become a fool. God will not answer a fool in his folly--only the conundrum of my own agreement with rebellion to the Word of God will serve me. God will let the idol (stubborness is as the sin of idolatry) of my own soul comfort me with false peace and whisper lies.
This is religious insanity and those we influence with our root of bitterness become fellow inmates in Bedlam Ministries. A sort of Christian agoraphobia sets in--literally "the fear of the marketplace". We can get so set into this delusion that we reject any influence that even hints we might not be completely right. Because we so selectively limit ourself, so also goes our spiritual authority and sphere of influence to reveal Jesus to a lost and dying world. Everything becomes centered on me, either me alone, or all of God's plan revolving around me.
I set in order cycles of judgment and torment. It is a self-inflicted wound and paranoia blindly searching for a scapegoat, a villain, someone on whose head may be laid the burden of my suffering. How easily my soul adapts to being a professional victim! I prolong conflict simply to protect pride and stubborness, but remember, this stronghold has become my god. I have to maintain the unceasing warfare to maintain this house of air and cards.
God, in His mercy, will allow me to frustrate myself until I have nothing left with which to resist; He will send people to speak to me if I will listen.
But if I persist, my flesh will paint everything with the shade of my offense and delusion.
When the Lord tries to rain on me, I quickly put up the umbrella of my justification and defense, because after all, false peace is better than no peace.
I would say to me,
"Physician heal thyself."
I would say to those who read,
"For now we see in a mirror, dimly,but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."--ICorinthians 13: 12-13
Blessings on that altar,
Vaughn Allen Clark
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