James 1:25 Voice: “However, it is possible to open your eyes and take in the beautiful, perfect truth found in God’s law of liberty and live by it. If you pursue that path and actually do what God has commanded, then you will avoid the many distractions that lead to an amnesia of all true things and you will be blessed.
People fail to see the truth and receive breakthroughs when they continue to disobey and neglect the small instructions. For example, someone may need or ask for help, I give them an instruction which they do not like or have expected. They obey for a moment before allowing that seed to materialize. As the bible says, a person who looks in the mirror and forgets what they look like. They follow their own uncultivated desires, which are distractions that lead to amnesia, and the person will continue to hop around the mountain.
Since I am God’s representative for this church, whether you accept or recognize that position, whatever deal or promise you make with me, you are making it with God. When you lie to me, you are lying to God.
Following God’s commandments are for both Logos and Rhema. Just because I do not say “Thus saith the Lord,” does not mean I am not speaking for Him.
For example, if someone has a porn addiction and comes to me and my instructions are to put away your phone before bed and not look at it until the morning or not look at your phone during class time or work time, and such a person obeys for a couple of days only, how do you expect to get deliverance or breakthrough? Or if I say go get a flip phone?
If someone is addicted to drinking or smoking crack or weed and we confront them in a nice way and they still lie, how do they expect to get freedom from addiction or be blessed?
If someone needs to lose weight and they cheat and lie about what they eat or do, then how are they going to lose weight?
Amnesia is another word for choosing delusion from the truth.
Pastor Steve Kim