As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

This what I heard today in the Spirit of the Lord. “Sheeple pay tithes but disciples offer themselves”! This goes all the way back to Cain and Abel and is the same that is going on today! Oh how the people assemble together yet never offer make a true offering to the Lord. They sing songs of praise as an “enticement” to get God to do something. It is as if corporate singing will bring in the presence of God. I have only been in ONE service since saved where the saints had true worship and the saints from heaven entered in with us as I could see them entering in. I kept silent but the prophet who was holding the service paused the service for a moment and said we will not be speaking at this time as a “cloud of witness” has joined us and the Lord can minister as He wishes. Let us continue to worship the Lord.

Genesis 4:1–15 (NKJV)

Cain Murders Abel

4 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the Lord.” ² Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel.

The “natural” order of physical/worldly inheritance would be to the oldest first male child. Thus Eve said that Cain being the oldest “was of the Lord”.

This is the foundation of what will become jealousy leading to murder! Now think of Jesse, David’s father NOT considering David to be King among Davids older brothers!

Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Abel was a keeper of sheep just as David while Cain was fulfilling the curse of his earthly father! It will always be spirit manifesting in a man/woman that causes outward manifestation of “fruit”.

³ And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord. ⁴ Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering, ⁵ but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

Fruit is not from living spirit has no form of life. Fruit from a physical tree is for “reproduction” and it can only reproduce what it is in its original “state of being”. That is the importance of true sacrifice and worship. That is why Jesus told the woman at the well the day had come to worship in spirit and truth.

⁶ So the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? ⁷ If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.”

Galatians 2:29 & 6:14 come to mind as well as the “father of faith, Abraham” with a demonstration of faith, trust and obedience to the Lord.

⁸ Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

The field represents the earth as the earth after the fall became the “valley of the shadow of death”. The prince and power of the air was Lucifer/Satan who had dominion over the earth because of the fall of Cain’s father Adam.

Thus “who is your father”? Are you of the devil or of the Lord being born again. What does Satan want to do, kill the saints! He doesn’t need to kill his own. What deceived Christians do not discern or understand Satan has been martyring the saints from the beginning of time! Spiritual martyrdom is death. It is appointed to all men to the first death, the second death will not happen to a saint if they contend for the faith and love the Lord with all of their heart, mind and soul. The anger reached the place of committing murder which was the outward manifestation of the spirit within Cain.

⁹ Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?”

He said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

The point I want to make here is that Abel was not of the “spiritual brethren” that Cain was so there was a spiritual not a physical difference in “brethren”. Too many saints are sitting with the false brethren! Spiritually they are slowly sucking the spiritual life from you! Yet they are your natural/physical brethren.

¹⁰ And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground. ¹¹ So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. ¹² When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.”

How can a voice come from blood? This is not preached much or even songs sung about the Blood of Jesus. The power is in the blood! Why because of the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world who did NOT have human DNA from a human man! There was no sperm so no XY chromosomes were conceived! A virgin birth was conceived. Mary was filled with the Spirit because Jesus dwelled within her! John the Baptist was filled with the Spirit because of the Holy Spirit healed the womb of Elizabeth. That is why John in the womb knew Jesus in the womb of Mary, spirit to spirit.

¹³ And Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear! ¹⁴ Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.”

¹⁵ And the Lord said to him, “Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the Lord set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.

The mark was not a physical mark it is a spiritual mark.

Jesus told the woman at the well the day is coming and is here now that my people will worship in spirit and truth.

Personally speaking I very rarely have put a tithe in the offering. The Lord would highlight a TRUE saint in need and I would tithe to the saint directly not the ministry! You are often giving your tithe to “Cain” thinking you are giving it to “Abel”. Imagine all of the money that was given to Cain that should have gone Abel!

Hebrews 11:4–7 (NKJV)

Faith at the Dawn of History

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.

The blood of Jesus will never loose it’s power even from the dust of the earth innocent blood cries out for the 2^nd coming of Christ Jesus.

⁵ By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. ⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

⁷ By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Today this is the problem from the beginning of time which will continue to reveal the motives, intents and spirits in tithing. Ananias had a tithe and look what happened to Ananias. If you are giving yourself as a sacrificial “tithe” you are presenting the flesh and earthly tithe! A person that is NOT born again can sing praises but they can not worship in HOLINESS because that comes from the spirit within. The Lord will only receive holiness so you must be born again and worship in Spirit and Truth. You can’t “market” the Holy Spirit.

Luke 19:45–48 (NKJV)

Cleansing the Temple

Matt. 21:12, 13; Mark 11:15–17

⁴⁵ Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, ⁴⁶ saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”

⁴⁷ And He was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people sought to destroy Him, ⁴⁸ and were unable to do anything; for all the people were very attentive to hear Him.

We should only be tithing to an assembly/brethren of the Lord Jesus and many are tithing to the god of this world which is the spirit of Antichrist in your false prophet/pastor! You are building the wrong kingdom because you do not discern the spirit in the man!

2 Corinthians 5:16 (NKJV)

¹⁶ Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.

This is very important as if you do not discern who is in the pulpit you are likely building the kingdom of Antichrist who is masquerading as a minister of righteousness. You are deceived yourself and building the kingdom of the devil.

True pastors and saints, listen close any and all tithes received whether individually or corporately should be sanctified in prayer to remove and “spiritual strings” or “spiritual influences” from inhibiting the edification of the saints. Every offering has a spirit attached. Do you now see the manipulation behind the deceptive prayer over the offering of “giving tithe” it is very often trying to work at your emotions to give what you are unable so they use sowing and reaping out of context to deceive you!

You yourselves are the tithe to the Lord! The church was never called to be a “hospital for the sick” but an inhabitant of the righteous in Christ. If the people today were in the Old Testament they would like be dead upon entering.

I would rather tithe to a saint directly by witness of the Holy Spirit than advance the kingdom of Satan. Use discernment!

Romans 12:1–2 (NKJV)

Living Sacrifices to God

12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

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