CAUSES OF STAGNATION

Dear One,
    We talked about the fact that I am life and My life in you involves movement toward a goal of becoming intimately acquainted with Me so that you will become the image of My character of love in the earth.  There are evil things which tempt you to become stagnant or even move backwards instead of moving more and more toward Me.  Fear, strife, conflict, anger, jealousy, envy, dissension, division and other negative emotions are the emotional weights that cause you to become stagnant or even cause you to lose ground in your spiritual growth.  My children need to know their enemy and avoid participating in his works immediately upon being exposed to them, which comes either from the mouths of others or from his temptations in your own mind.
     Mental fear, strife and conflict are his most deceptive weapons against you.  Two of the avenues through which he introduces fear, strife and conflict into your life are religion and politics.  Unrevealed fundamentalist religious teachings will bring fear of judgment into your life, causing you to fear Me, fear judgment, fear other religions, fear end time prophecies and fear condemnation. Those teachers do not know Me and do not know the revealed scriptures because they rely upon their own meager interpretations or the teachings of other people instead of relying upon My Holy Spirit and His truth.  They enslave people with fear and say they are doing it in My name.  It should not be so.   If any teaching causes fear in your mind or judgment and condemnation for others, those teachings are lies sent from the devil to cause you to spread his bad news of fear and destruction instead of My good news of love and forgiveness. (Hebrews 2:14-15)  Jesus identified the people who spread fear and destruction in His day of walking the earth as Pharisees.  He did not say they were blessed, he said woe unto them for what they do to My children.  My children who have bound themselves to the father of woes will inherit his woes.
     Strife, conflict, division, dissension, domination and anger are other weapons used by the father of evil which causes My children to become stagnant in their quest in search of My righteousness.  Publicans, who were political office holders,  and scribes and Sadducees, the keepers of the religious laws in the time of Jesus, were the people whom Jesus said were spreaders of bad news in His day.   They added additional burdens to the lives of My children rather than relieving them of their burdens.  They used laws to unjustly punish My children rather than using My instructions through the laws to relieve people of the burdens caused by strife, conflict, division, anger and dissension.  They delighted in causing strife and conflict to further their own political views instead of coming to Me, learning My ways and relieving people of the reasons for their strife and conflict which is and has always been because of their obeying the temptations of the devil. 
     Many of your politicians today are unknowing ambassadors of satan in the earth rather than wise and kind discerners of the national laws which are sent to protect My children from evil actions of satan.  You can recognize them by their fruit of anger, conflict, accusations, corrupt communication, ranting and raving about their hatred for others.  They are deceived; and because of that deception they spread evil into the world.  If you bind yourself to them by listening to their strife filled rhetoric, you will become stagnant in your quest to know Me.  You will switch loyalties from Me to the political demons and their destructive ways.  Then you will wonder when you left your peaceful union with Me.  If you bind yourself to those politicians you will attract the woes to you about which Jesus talked.  (Matthew 18:78; Matthew 23:23-24)
     You will either be blessed by My good works for you because you have yolked yourself yourself to Me, or you will be cursed with the woes of the political and religious leaders who have deceived you with their fear and anger which lead to conflict and wars.  Jesus taught you to do what I do, bless those who curse you, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, and he taught many other of My ways which allow you to collect your inheritance of blessings.  (Luke 6:27-38; James 4:1-4)
     Continue on the straight way of knowing Me intimately, becoming so in unity with Me that you will become My righteousness in the earth, blessed beyond measure.   Then people will know Me through you and glorify Me as the loving Father that I am.  
     Your Loving, Forgiving Father