No King But Jesus

In 1 Samuel 8 the word describes the time when Samuel was told by the Lord to harken to the peoples voice to give them a king.

He said they have rejected Me/the Lord.

But Samuel warned Israel of what would happen. That the man would rule over them. He would appoint a police state to rule over them. He will take your fields and vineyards and give them to His servants.

Now we have seen this very reality in both our Government, and in the church. Evil men take what is not theirs and give it to their “boys”.

I know the Lord teaches us to humble ourselves and we will be lifted up. I found out something very interesting about men. The Lord has shown me to bow myself before men with vision who proclaim him. Now we all know that every vision is not pure. We also believe, that most visions have mixture. But if you bow before a called “Brother’s” vision, it will bring about a response.

To make this clear let me give you two examples.

The First Response:

I was a pastor and went to a church fellowship to seek out connection and help. When I participated in one of their home fellowship meetings, one of the brothers, fell at me feet and washed them. I was truly speechless as I was humbled before the Lord.

The Second Response:

A man who claimed Apostolic Authority, was with me in a service and I felt lead to bow my knee to Him for his call before God. It was not long that that man’s heart was revealed as being agenda driven, and for his own glory. Had I not bowed to him, I imagine I would have been fooled and followed him instead of following God’s true path for my life.

I have no desire to be someone’s boy. I already have a father. He is God.

Another false:

Another thing that happened to me much later was along the same lines. I was in a new fellowship for a time, and was committing to that fellowship and pastor, but in the very act of humbling myself before that ministry, its agenda was revealed and I found that control and pride was the driving force of that ministry.
That pastor told us not to take up the chairs in the worship center if we were not going to work for her.

In humbling myself I was lifted up, but not with the proud. For pride goes before the fall.

We really have no king but Jesus in this Kingdom thing!