Prophetic Word to the Churches: The Natural Order of the Family

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1/10/13 11:30 a.m.

Apostle Lockley

House of Worship at Dallas

Prophetic Word to the Churches: The Natural Order of the Family

Note: (This word was burning in my spirit this morning and once I drafted it, I was released. God is not pleased with the state of the church. We have allowed sin into our camps. This year, a powerful change of venue will swamp into the church. A call to return to the original family structure is a part of the agenda (male- female union). Keep in mind that what you read is the order. If you are not living this way, you can repent, also start conversations about the natural order of things as God created them, especially the family unit which is the foundation to earthly living. How wonderful it is to live the way God designed us to live and see improvement in our society. I don't hate gay and lesbian people, they deserve God's love and my love too. I am not in agreement in their lifestyle.)

The influences that a woman has upon the man are powerful energies of control. She possesses characteristics of his weaknesses and by nature she can maneuver him in the direction of her will. Ah! He must be level headed in his daily decision making because with the love balance for God and his woman, she can manipulate him to defy the very orders of God.

She may be unaware of her cunning powers over the man, but, they exist in nature and can be overbearing to his nature. It is why sometimes the battle of the sexes foe. They collide, and when they do, its response is like the two weather fronts that collide and spin at dangerously high forces of wind. The tornado damages every area it inhabits until suddenly the air stabilizes and all is calm.

Let nature teach us how when the forces of balance are unequal there is trouble in the camp.

The woman has beautiful properties that correlates to the opposite features of the man. She is his counterpart. HIS BEAUTIFUL OPPOSITE!

Let the couples of the world exist in great harmony. Let the beauty of their inner souls unite as one and shine radiantly unto the earth. It is God's best for both sexes to dwell in harmony. For where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Free grace abounds to all His creation. For couples, His love is our love towards each other.

However, there is a place in God where He rejects the unclean things. We who love Him keeps His word. No matter how difficult! We who love Him know Him because greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world; God loves us and we love Him as so we are imitators of His good works in our individual lives and unto our couple.

For the couple experiencing pain at whatever cost, God CARES! He LOVES us! So much that He gave us CHRIST. Christ is the head of the church and so is man the head of the wife. So let it be ordained from above, the Father of Lights sustaining all things, then we love one another as Christ loves the Church and the Church reverences Christ. Let the couples of the earth rejoice at the model of charismatic harmony to be fulfilled in the couple. Let the order be established in the Household of God for ever and ever. Amen

As for those whom reject God's divinely administered order in the family, let him be accursed among the gentiles. There is no forgiveness of sin for those who transgress God's Spirit: who know the way and reject it because they believed false doctrine. As for your household, so shall you eat the dong among your sheep, your house shall fall, division is in your camp. Flee to the mountains to avoid more persecution. I have prepare a place for you this day. Go now! Look to the left or right no more! Go forward!

They say that God is second to the family. God says, I created the family. It is false doctrine to deny my call for the family's sake. What I put together let no man separate. He who follows his flesh is dead already. He who follows carnal things lives in corruption.

Avoid the doctrine of devils my son and you will see the harvest. It is plentiful! It is ripe! I am the Lord God! Before me there is no other!

Speak unto the people! Speak unto them and say that I sent you to free them from Egypt. Egypt is their mind set. They are captive in their minds. To avoid sin, they try every doctrine but the doctrine of salvation of peace. Peace with Me alienates the separation process. I give life and no other (saith the Lord God). I make crooked places straight. I open the forest and build new trees. I grant life in strife. I order peace to the sea, and yet man takes ownership of miracles. They attribute their discoveries to their own intellect. I allow what I allow. Foolish men despise my call. They follow doctrines of devils. They submit to leaders I did not call.

But you, oh Church, must change your ways. You must walk circumspectly. You must give in to your call to save the world from my wrath. How long should I wait? Oh man! How long should I hold mine anger to come? Your time is short! You who obey me will live forever. You who deny me will sleep eternally. This is my judgment.

This is my call. Walk upright and obey my words which I command you. They will attack you because they hate Me. But I will come to your rescue in weird places. I will spy on their plotting and release my angels to destroy them. They have no power of their own. I decide if they succeed or fail.

Forget not my power to destroy the wicked. Forget not what I did to Persia, she worshiped idols. I destroyed them because they failed to repent. I am the only God. I am their Lord. Turn back from evil things and see my salvation.

Know that you have been deceived. You marry in heart to that which I do not allow. You desecrate the high places and say I am there. ARE YOUR FOOLISH! Have you read in my word that when the beast has sat up and desecrated the high place that I am ready to release my wrath.

No more hurt to the people of God. Change your ways! Repent. This day I have spoken.

Woman! You will want to be his master, but he will be yours!

Woman! You will want to be his master, but he will be yours!

The family dynamics have changed over the last thirty years. Women have left the home life and entered the workforce. Child care programs have skyrocketed since the 1970's. The equality movement between the sexes in America has peaked. Men have seen dramatic changes in the role of women in the home and the workforce. Is this God's best for the family structure?

I am no critic of the women's liberation movement, but I am totally for restoring the family structure for the purpose of raising healthy children. So, I will expound on the traditional family roles that is God's best as in Genesis 3.

In the creation account, God created male and female. One of the major purposes of the male and female was to reproduce after its kind. God allowed Adam to see Him create male and female animals and understand their purpose before He gave Adam, Eve. All the animals had opposites, the male carried the seed and the female the egg. Each of the sexes were purposed to mate and create new life.

Evil had a conspiracy to reduce God's best for mankind to non existence. The overall plan took effect when Eve was approached in the garden of Eden by the Serpent. He challenged her to do what God said not to do; she ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and feed Adam too. Together, Adam and Eve disobeyed God and were no longer connected to Him. Immediately, they became servants of Sin.

God deals with the first couple and evil with punishment. As with the natural order of physical brokenness, there is pain. Pain brings a feeling of discomfort. The pain reminds us that something is wrong that needs fixing. The pain, the unwanted feeling, teaches us that we must correct our actions to avoid repeating the feeling. As a child, I continued to put my hand toward the hot stove until I was burned. That hurt! I learned that fire is hot. I have not put my hand too close to the fire ever again.

In Genesis 3, pain is the punishment for all three parties involved in the garden of Eden. Man, Woman, and the Serpent were punished for disobedience to God. We still see the effects of the fall of mankind in the garden of Eden.

The key themes in Genesis 3 sets the tone for humanity's role throughout life in the earth. God does not change His mind, neither does He change the order of creation. Man still carries the seed, woman still has the womb, sin still exists, and humanity continues to experience pain. So what does all this mean?

As a Christian, we must accept the natural order of things as God's best and see the spiritual order as God's law for eternity. The focus here is on the natural order. The family is most important to consider because it is the breeding ground of humanity as we know it today.

Woman experience pain when she brings forth life. A man experiences pain when he works to sustain life. Both experience pain as a result of the curse in Genesis 3.

Sin desires to control humanity. Woman desires to control her husband. God tells Cain that sin wants to rule but he must take control. God tells the woman that she wants to control her husband, but he will rule over her. I discuss this in detail in "Before I Say I Do".  Adam takes his authority over the woman when he names her "Eve".  Through Christ, we have authority over Sin! Even though the physical effects remain, we have already beat Sin through the effects of the cross. This is done first in the spirit and will transfer in the physical in the resurrection of humanity later.

Today, the family's focus is to raise children in recognition of God's best. We have a lot of dysfunctional families and broken homes in society.  What would a functional family look like? Let us examine a family through the lens of Gods best.

The man is the head of the family. The woman is his helpmeet. The children are to be raised up with a clear view of these roles. A woman must respect her husband's authority as headship. Sarah called Abraham her lord. This is in unison of the doctrine of male headship.

The Apostle Paul teaches that the man must love his wife as himself. Therefore, he treats her with a peculiar love. A love that shows! Love is explained in 1 Cor 14:4 as being patient, kind, not envious or boastful, not arrogant. Using the terms of the apostle towards mans love with his wife, he rules with love and not with iron. Another explanation of this relationship compares his role as Christ's role in the church.

The church is considered the bride of Christ. Man is to rule over his bride in the same manner as Christ with the church. Both Christ and the husband share similar love for the wife. He treats his wife in a manner that is reflective in daily living. He does not abuse his power. His role is to provide, protect, educate, and maintain his home. Her role is to respect his authority. In the garden, she is noted as wanting to take charge.  While this role has become dominant in today's family, it undermines God's best. Overruling headship brings on a weakness in the family structure and kills that foundation of the family. Members of the body of Christ that undermine Christ are considered thieves and robbers who will not inherit the kingdom of Heaven. If God makes it clear about those professing to be followers of Christ but not accepting his Lordship as reprobates, then certainly a wife not in subjection to her husband is hurting the foundation of her family.

To be frank, men have become weak because their fathers have been denied headship in their households. A woman says she wants a husband, but she must be willing to accept her role as a wife. Roles are meant to define order in any environment. In the family, husband and wife must work together as one; just as the father, son, and spirit relationship as well as Christ and the church.

Sick and a Saint: Is this right?

I counseled with her after 11 years of kidney failure and she has gotten worse. There are many Christians that have become ill after service to the Lord and have not grown better. In those cases, after the saints have fasted and prayed, faith has been upheld for some time, why haven't they condition bettered?

In  years of ministry and facing my own afflictions, I found that each condition a person has is conditional and therefore must be handled individually. There is healing in Jesus' name. There is forgiveness of Sin in Jesus' blood. There is power to rebuke any presenting conditions that sick saints may face. Why are they not being healed?

First, God honors a man's true heart. As Christians, we must honor God back by simply believing the Gospel message. Jesus always told the disciples, "I have you not ignorant...". Ignorance is the main culprit to not accepting the healing power of God.

Second, a Christian must fix their heart with God. To believe in the Gospel is the first step to beating sickness. The apostles taught, "repent and believe the Gospel". The Gospel is the good news of Jesus' work of salvation. Through the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus, we have the power to be healed. Some teach that the 39 lashes Jesus took with the beating of the whip, ripped open his flesh, was paying for our Sin. He had no Sin in Him. The cross is where He laid down His life for us to be re-united with God. The grave was purposed to remove the power of Death. His resurrection was God sponsored and gave Him all power.

Third, a sick Christian must believe this to be true. All God wants mankind to do is believe that He made it possible for us to be whole again. Once we believe that in our heart, then God comes upon our human flesh and restore it to completeness again. "Only Believe" is what God says for you to do. He does the rest.

Let me tell you that to believe is not an act of head faith but heart faith. To understand heart faith, one must study God's word and accept it at face value. You need a good teacher on the healing subject. One must act upon the healing by correct confession. Your thinking has to be in total agreement with God. You must correct anyone speaking on behalf of the sickness that is presenting to you. You must act as if the sickness is not there, speaking to it by cancellation.

Finally, think about this my brethren! An old man was searching the Internet in his home office when he heard a knock on the front door. He stood on his feet and went to the door. He looked through the peephole and saw it was a delivery man. He opened the door and the delivery guy said, "its a delivery for you sir, please sign". The old man looked at the package and told the delivery man, "I didn't order anything like this, I won't accept it". The delivery man said, "sir, it has your name and address, please sign here". The old man said, "I refuse, return it to the sender". As he said that, the delivery man wrote on the package, refused, return to sender and he left the old man standing at the door.

We have to learn how to use God's word to refuse sickness and disease by returning it back to the sender. It takes your faith in the Gospel message of Jesus Christ to do it and the power of God to come upon your flesh to make the repairs. Only believe!

For some people, healing is instantly. For others healing is progressive. In all cases of healing, it is declared miraculous. Healing comes from the Father, through His Holy Spirit, by the power of the blood of Jesus. I declare you healed right now. Amen

Now DO THIS!

Truly I am,

Apostle Lockley