PASTOR BURNOUT

UNFORTUNATELY, AND DUE TO A LACK OF SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE NOT TOO LONG AGO, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRST WANTED ME TO WRITE THIS ARTICLE, I BOLTED AND THREW OUT THE ORIGINAL ROUGH DRAFT IN WHICH I HAD ALREADY COMPILED MANY STATISTICS CONCERNING THE ABOVE TOPIC! SUCH AS, THE ACTUAL NUMBERS OF PASTORS WHO "BURN OUT" ON AVERAGE, PER YEAR, NUMBERS OF POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS ALREADY TRIED BUT FAILED, AND THE FACT THAT NOW, ALL SORTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES ARE BEING MADE AVAILABLE TO PASTORS IN HOPES OF REMEDYING THE VERY REAL SYMPTOMS OF PASTORAL BURNOUTS, WHICH INDEED HAVE BECOME EPIDEMIC! INFORMATION I HAD GATHERED WAS FROM A RELIABLE CHRISTIAN NEWS CAST, 700 CLUB, AND LIKELY IF ONE WANTED TO AQUIRE IT FROM THEM, ONE COULD DO SO EITHER THROUGH THEIR WEB SITE OR VIA TELEPHONE. {Please see notice below. We now have those statistics}

LIKE I MENTIONED, I WAS NOT OVERLY ANXIOUS TO GET INVOLVED, AS SO OFTEN THE CASE IS, THAT EVEN WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HIMSELF, DIRECTS A WORK THROUGH A SURRENDERED VESSEL, THAT DOES NOT MEAN THE PEOPLE WILL TAKE THE ADVICE GIVEN! HOWEVER, IN SPITE OF THE DEVIL ATTEMPTING VERY HARD TO THWART THE PLAN OF THE LORD FOR ME TO WRITE THIS WORD OUT, I DID FINALLY SUBMIT AND HERE IS WHAT OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, WHO SO CARES FOR HIS CHILDREN, AND IN THIS CASE, THE PASTORS, HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT ALL:

SUBMITTED TO THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ME, I ASK THAT ALL WHO WOULD READ THIS, WOULD "TEST THE SPIRIT" ( 1 JOHN 4: 1 ON ) AND THEN AS THE LORD CONFIRMS THIS TO YOU, SERIOUSLY BEGIN TO LAY ASIDE ALL SELF, SUBMIT AS WELL, AND DO AS THE LORD, WHO KNOWS BEST FOR HIS CHILDREN, WOULD HAVE YOU TO DO, LEST "PASTOR BURNOUT" AN EVEN WORSE THING BEFALL THEE! THUS SAITH THE LORD!

AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE, THE ANSWERS TO ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS ARE RIGHT THERE AVAILABLE TO US IN GOD’S PRECIOUS HOLY WORD, THE HOLY BIBLE! "HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY!" (MATTHEW 24:35) ALSO REMEMBER THAT THE LORD SAYS, "AND BLESSED IS HE, WHOSOEVER SHALL NOT BE OFFENDED IN ME!" ( MATTHEW 11:6)

FOR ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE MEDICINE WE MUST TAKE, IS NOT ALWAYS THE FANCY OF OUR PALLETS, IT IS INDEED JUST WHAT WE NEED AND THE ONLY REMEDY, OR HEALING BALM FOR WHAT AILS US, AND WILL EVEN SAVE OUR VERY LIVES, BOTH SPIRITUALLY AND PHYSICALLY! THEREFORE IT IS BEST TO OBEY THE LORD AND EVER TO RECOGNISE AND BE MOST THANKFUL FOR: " IF THE SON THEREFORE SHALL MAKE YOU FREE, YE SHALL BE FREE INDEED!" ( JOHN 8: 36) AND TO "EVER LET HIM INCREASE, AND WE OURSELVES, AND OUR OWN SOULISHNESS, DECREASE" FOR HE ALONE IS PERFECT TRUTH AND THE BEST FOR US AND THE CURE FOR WHAT AILS US, OFTEN CAUSED BY OUR OWN WAYWARD, STUBBORN OR PRIDEFUL, REBELLIOUS WAYS, (BUT SOMETIMES, YES, THROUGH IGNORANCE, THOUGH IF WE STAY TUNED TO HIS WORD, IGNORANCE WILL FLEE ALSO!!!) LET US LISTEN TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING!

EVEN THOUGH "PASTOR BURNOUT" HAS BECOME "EPIDEMIC’ AND IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM, THE ANSWER IS SO SIMPLE AND MOST OBVIOUS, AND AGAIN, TOTALLY SCRIPTURAL AND TOTALLY "GOD’S ORDER", (THAT BEING THE VERY KEY, "GOD’S ORDER, " NOT MAN’S!!!) AMEN!

THE LARGE NUMBER OF PASTORS FINDING THEMSELVES OVERWHELMED, STRESSED OUT AND ON THE VERGE OF BREAKDOWN, GENERAL BURNOUT, AND EVEN SUICIDE, HAS CAUSED THE ALARM BELL TO TOLL; HOWEVER THE MANNER IN WHICH MOST ARE ATTEMPTING TO HEAL THE SITUATION HAS NOT PROVEN ITSELF TO BE SUCCESSFUL, NEITHER CAN IT EVER BE, FOR IT IS NOT BUILT ON THE SOLID AND ONLY FOUNDATION THAT WILL WORK, THAT BEING OFCOURSE JESUS, THE SOLID ROCK, AND OUR ONLY TRUE FOUNDATION, THE TRUE AND CHIEF CORNERSTONE!!! HIS WAY, HIS ORDER AND NOTHING LESS WILLWORK! NO PSYCHOLOGIST, NO AMOUNT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELLING AND NO OTHER EXTRA BIBLICAL AND DOOMED TO FAILURE METHODS WILL WORK! JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY. AFTER ALL THAT IS WHAT THE WORD CLEARLY TELLS US: " I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE…""…I AM COME THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE LIFE, AND THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY!" (JOHN 14:6 AND JOHN 10:10)

HE, CHRIST ALONE, IS OUR WAY TO RECOVERY, TO RENEWED STRENGTH, STRENGTH DEPLEATED FROM HAVING FOLLOWED AFTER ONE’S OWN WAY OVER HIS, AND ONLY TOTAL SUBMISSION TO HIS ORDER WILL RESULT IN TOTAL RECOVERY AND THE ABUNDANT LIFE THAT IS AVAILABLE TO US, FROM THE FATHER GOD, IN HIS WILL AND TESTAMENT WHICH HE SEALED IN THE BLOOD OF HIS SON, JESUS, AND IS OURS, AS WE ARE JOINT HEIRS TO ALL IN CHRIST, PROVIDING WE WILL SUBMIT OUR ALL TO HIS WORD, HIS ORDER, THEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO SAY, "I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME!" (PHILIPPIANS 4:13) THE STRENGTHENING OF CHRIST COMES THROUGH ALL OF HIM, HIS WORD, THE WORD, AND ADHERENCE TO IT, APPLICATION OF IT DAILY TO OUR LIVES, THEN ALONE ARE WE OVERCOMERS, AND WILL WALK IN PROSPERITY IN ALL AREAS, ESPECIALLY THE VERY HIGH CALLINGS GOD HAS PLACED ON OUR LIVES AND IN WHICH WE ARE TO OPERATE AS A CONDUIT, AN AMBASSADOR, A TRUE REPRESENTATION OF JESUS TO ALL HE SENDS US TO, OR THEM TO US!

FIRST AND FOREMOST ONE MUST KNOW WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT THAT THEY ARE INDEED CALLED TO BE A PASTOR. THERE ARE MANY STANDING, TRYING TO PREACH BEHIND THE PULPIT, BUT WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN CALLED OF THE LORD TO DO SO IN THE FIRST PLACE! THEY ARE SELFAPPOINTED OR HAVE MISTAKENLY RECEIVED A FALSE WORD CONCERNING SUCH A CALLING AND WENT FULL STEAM AHEAD IN THE SOUL, ONLY TO COME UP DRY! THEN THERE ARE OF COUSRE ALSO THE TRUE CALLED OF THE LORD PASTORS, ALSO FORGING FULL STEAM AHEAD, AND ALSO COMING UP DRY FOR THE MOST PART, AND ENDING UP IN THE MUCH SEEN AILMENT OF "PASTOR BURNOUT!"

SO LET US NOW GET TO THE REASON WHY THEY BURN OUT AND THE SOLUTION AND THEN PRAYERFULLY, THERE WILL BE SOME WISE ENOUGH TO SWALLOW THE MEDICINE, EAT THE WORD, TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD, AND THAT INDEED HIS WAY IS THE ONLY WAY, THE ONLY ORDER, THE ONLY REMEDY, ANSWER!!! NOTHING LESS THAN JESUS, AND THE WORD OF GOD ALONE WILL CORRECT THE EPIDEMIC PROBLEM ON HAND!

IF YOU ARE AMONG THOSE WHO ARE NOT EVEN CALLED INTO THE MINISTRY OF THE PASTOR, AND IN YOUR HEART OF HEARTS, IN THE SPIRIT YOU WILL KNOW, THEN IMMEDIATELY STEP AWAY FROM WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIT IN AND DON’T BELONG! SUBMIT YOUR SOUL TO THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HE WILL LEAD YOU AND GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH, ESPECIALLY CONCERNING YOUR CALLING! THEN ACT ON IT, AGAIN, AND ALWAYS IN TOTAL SURRENDER TO THE LEADING OF THE BLESSED HOLY GHOST AND NOT MAN, NOT FLESH, NOT THE SOUL,( ONES OWN EMOTIONS, WILL OR MIND,) BUT OPERATE IN THE MIND OF CHRIST!

IF ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU ACTUALLY ARE AMONG THOSE WHO ARE CALLED TO BE A PASTOR AND ARE COMING UP "BURNED OUT" AND EVEN SUICIDAL, HERE PASTOR IS YOUR WHOLE SOLUTION, THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND THE ONLY ANSWER:

"GIVE IT ALL TO JESUS", SHATTERED DREAMS, WOUNDED HEARTS , AND ALL, AND TRULY LET THE HOLY SPIRIT ALONE HAVE HIS WAY, HIS ORDER IN YOUR LIFE AND IN HIS CHURCH, AND KILL THE TRADITIONS OF MAN!!! THUS SAITH THE LORD! ( READ MATHHEW CHAP. 15 AND MARK CHAP. 7 ON TRADITIONS OF MAN!)

SOUNDS TOO SIMPLE YOU SAY, NEVER! IT IS THE ONLY WAY! THE VERY REASON WHY THE CHURCH TODAY FINDS ITSELF IN THE MESS IT IS IN, THE DIVISION AND CONFUSION, IS BECAUSE IT IS RUNNING ITS OWN SHOW, AN "OX CART" AND HAS MAN AND HIS TRADITIONAL SLOP IN PRIDE AT THE HEAD, WHERE IN FACT JESUS SHOULD BE, AND HIS HOLY SPIRIT SHOULD BE OPERATING AND MAN OBEYING AND FOLLOWING HIS ORDER AS CLEARLY DEFINED IN THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS, (EPHESIANS 4:11!!!) READ IT PLEASE AND THEN DO AS INSTRUCTED OF THE LORD MOST HIGH! THERE LIES THE ANSWER TO ALL OF THE CHURCHES PROBLEMS AND PASTOR BURNOUTS!

IF THE CHRISTIANS, THE ARMY OF GOD, WOULD REALIZE ONCE AND FOR ALL THEIR PROPER ORDER, THEIR RANK AND FILE AND ACTUALLY ALL OPERATE ACCORDINGLY, MARCHING IN THE POSITION THEY ARE PLACED IN, AND THEN ALL FOR THE COMMON CAUSE, THEIR LEADER, LORD OF HOSTS, JESUS AND HIS STRATEGIES, OVER MAN’S LIMITED AND DOOMED TO FAILURE ONES, THEN ALL WOULD BE CLIPPING ALONG NICELY! HOWEVER, SINCE THIS IS NOT THE CASE, AND THE ARMY OF THE LORD IS YET FAR FROM THE ARMY IT SHOULD BE, DESCRIBED IN (JOEL CHAPTER 2), IT HAD BETTER GET ITSELF INTO PROPER ORDER, WHOLLY SUBMITTED TO THE LEADER AND HEED THEIR MARCHING ORDERS AND OBEY THE COMMANDS HANDED FROM ON HIGH, AND ONLY FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF ALL! ONLY THE LORD’S STRATEGIES WILL BRING US TO SAFETY THROUGH EVERY BATTLEGROUND, WHICH HE HAS ALREADY WON AT CALVARY, WHEN HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD, AND DEFEATED SATAN, AND HE NOW HAS US EVER LIFTING UP THE SWORD, HIS WORD, ONLY TO REMIND THE DEVIL THAT THE BATTLE IS WON, AND AS WE USE THE WEAPONS HE HAS GIVEN US TO REMIND THE ENEMY OF HIS FALLEN POSITION, THEN, AND ONLY THEN CAN WE ALSO LIVE IN THE OVERCOMING POWER AND SUCCESS JESUS HAS PROVIDED FOR US, IN ALL AREAS OF LIFE! THIS ORDER AND STRATEGY IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE, AND IF NOT ADHERED TO, WE WILL A FALL! "BURNOUT!"

BECAUSE EPHESIANS 4:11 IS NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY SO MANY, THE ORDER IN WHICH THE CHURCH IS TO FUNCTION IN HAS BECOME ALL WRONG AND IT IS FAILING MISERABLY! IN SPITE OF MANY WARNINGS OF THE LORD, ESPECIALLY BY HIS PROPHETS, AND ALSO HIS APOSTLES, THE ORDER IN THE CHURCH, FOR THE MOST PART REMAINS THE SAME, REBELLIOUS TO GODS WAY! FOR LACK OF ACCEPTING GOD’S TRUE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS , FOR REMAINING STIFFNECKED AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HIS WORD THROUGH THEM, FOR LACK OF THE "FEAR OF THE LORD" AND CONTINUALLY STONING GOD’S SENT ONES, THE CHURCH HAS BEEN LEFT OVER TO HER OWN FOOLISH WAYS, AND THE LORD SAYS HE WILL LEAVE HER DESOLATE UNTIL SHE REPENTS AND SAYS "BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD," AND YES, LET US HEED THE CALL AND FOLLOW GOD’S ORDER!

ONLY FOR THE VERY SAKE OF THE LOST THEMSELVES, WHO MAY STILL HAVE FOUND THEMSELVES IN SUCH A CHURCH, WILL THE LORD YET BLESS SO AS TO REACH SALAVATION TO THOSE WHO WILL COME. HOWEVER, AS SOON AS THEY ARE HIS, THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL SAY, "COME OUT FROM AMONG HER, " COME OUT FROM THIS REBELLIOUS HOUSE, WHICH WILL NOT WHOLLY CONSECRATE HERSELF TO ME, WHOLLY SUBMIT TO MY ORDER ALONE, COME OUT AND BE YE NOT AMONG THEM, BUT GATHER IN FELLOWSHIP, FIRST, BEING IN TOTAL ONE ACCORD WITH THE SPIRIT, AND THEN WITH OTHERS, THE TRUE REMNANT CHURCH, WHEREVER THEY ARE GATHERED IN MY NAME, SAITH THE LORD!

FOR IT IS THEY, THIS WHOLLY SUBMITTED BODY, WHO WILL BE MY CHURCH WITHOUT SPOT, BLEMISH OR WRINKLE, SAITH THE LORD. THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT, THE ARMY THAT WALKS IN TRUE RANK AND FILE, ALL KNOWING THEIR CALLINGS AND POSITIONS AND MARCHING IN TUNE, AND NOT AFTER A DIFFERENT TRUMPET, MAKING AN UNCERTAIN, UNCLEAR SOUND! NOT FOLLOWING IN AN ARMY NOT RENDERED TO ME AND BLOWING THEIR OWN HORNS!!!

THUS SAITH THE LORD! I HAVE AN ORDER TO BE FOLLOWED FOR THE SUCCESS OF MY TRUE REMNANT CHURCH, AND ALL WHO REMAIN REBELLIOUS AND PROUD, AND PRIDE IS INDEEED AS THE SIN OF WITCHCRAFT, WILL NOT ENTER INTO MY REMNANT CHURCH, THE ONE I WILL SOON COME BACK TO GATHER UNTO ME, AND ETERNAL GLORY!!! WAKE UP, HEED THE CALL, OBEY THE VOICE OF THE FATHER! HEAR THE SON, FOLLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT AND QUENCH HIM NO MORE! THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!

IT IS SO LATE, COME TO ORDER! I CHASTEN THOSE WHOM I LOVE! DO NOT FALL AWAY! DO NOT BE AMONG THOSE TO WHOM I WILL SAY, "DEPART FROM ME, I NEVER KNEW YOU!!!" NEVER KNEW YOU INTIMATELY BECAUSE YOU WOULD NOT GIVE ALL OF YOURSELF TO ME, EVER HOLDING BACK, ALWAYS WANTING TO CLING TO YOUR OWN WAYS OVER MINE, WHICH BECAUSE I CREATED YOU, AND LOVE YOU AND BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU, ARE THE ONLY WAYS TO FOLLOW! MY WORD, MY HOLY ORDER! EPHESIANS 4:11!!! READ IT AND HEED IT AND DO! "BE NOT HEARERS OF THE WORD ONLY, BUT DOERS ALSO!" BE YE AMONG MY TRUE REMNANT CHURCH!!!

THE TRUE ORDER OF MY CHURCH IS NOT PASTORS FIRST, PASTORS OVER ALL AND PASTORS EVER TRYING TO BE THE WHOLE 5 FOLD MINISTRY IN THE LEADERSHIP!!! NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, SAITH THE LORD, YET YE CONSISTENTLY, PROUDLY AND REBELLIOUSLY PERSIST ON HAVING IT SO!!! IS IT ANY WONDER THAT THE PASTORS ARE FAILING, ARE "BURNING OUT?" THEIR OWN PRIDE, FOR THE MOST PART HAS CAUSED THEIR OWN AILMENT! REPENT PASTORS AND WAKE UP AND SEE HOW LATE IT IS, AND NO LONGER PUT YOURSELVES ABOVE THOSE WHO ARE TO BE ABOVE YOU IN MY TRUE ORDER , THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, THUS SAITH THE LORD, AND WHEN YOU SUBMIT TO ME IN THEM, MY CHOSEN VESSELS, FIRST AND SECOND IN THE ORDER OF EPHESIANS 4:11, THEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO RECEIVE CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO WATCH OVER THE FLOCK, AND HOW TO TRULY DELEGATE THE WORK WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE DONE, AND ACCORDING TO EACH CHILD OF GOD’S PROPER GIFT AND CALLING, SAITH THE LORD! WAKE UP, REPENT AND BE HEALED, PASTOR, YOU ARE NOT THE HEAD , BUT CHRIST ALONE IS HEAD AND THEN THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS , THEN THE REST! READ MY WORD AND OBEY MY WORD! I AM NOT MOCKED SAITH THE LORD, AND REPENTANCE AND HUMILITY AND GIVING THE RESPECT LONG OVER DUE TO ME, AND THEN TO MY APOSTLES AND PROPHETS,(RESPECT THEY DESERVE AND HAVE WELL EARNED ) SAITH THE LORD, IS YOUR ONLY WAY TO BE HEALED OF THE DOWNWARD SLOPE YOU ARE ON! "PASTOR BURNOUT" RISE AND BE HEALED, AND SIN NO MORE!"

LET MY HOLY SPIRIT HAVE TOTAL AND COMPLETE REIGN IN YOUR LIFE AND IN WHAT IS TO BE MY CHURCH, AND NOT THE FOOLISH "TRADITIONS OF MAN" AND WHICH WILL LEAD ONLY TO DEATH! REPENT! ALLOW MY ORDER ALONE TO OPERATE, THEN ALL WILL FLOW AS IT WAS INTENDED TO , AND THE TRUE FOUNDATIONS WILL AGAIN BE UNEARTHED AND SEEN, AS MY APOSTLES REVEAL THE TRUE FOUNDATION OF THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST AGAIN, AND AS THE PROPHETS, MY TRUE PROPHETS SPEAK MY PURE AND HOLY, UNADULTERATED WORD! THUS SAITH THE LORD! " LET MY PEOPLE GO!" LET MY PEOPLE GO, MEANING OH PASTOR, FIRST, LET MY APOSTLES AND PROPHETS GO INTO THE SANCTUARY AND WHEREVER I SENT THEM, AND LET THEM SPEAK MEANING LET MY PEOPLE GO, WHICH SIT IN DEAD HOUSES NOW, FOR THE MOST PART, UNSUBMITTED CHURCHES, UNDER UNSUBMITTED TO ME PASTORS, AND LET MY PEOPLE GO, SO AS TO GIVE THEM A TRUE PASTOR, IN TRUE ORDER, UNDER CHRIST, THEN THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, AND LET THEM GO, NO LONGER STUNTING THEIR GROWTH UNDER AN "OX-CART" AND THE FOOLISH TRADITIONS OF MAN! LET THEM GO FREE , TOTALLY FREE IN THE HOLY GHOST AND FREE , THEN FREELY ALLOWING THE HOLY SPIRIT EVER HIS FREE REIGN IN THEM AND THE CHURCH THEY ARE IN!!! THUS SAITH THE LORD!

PASTORS, NO LONGER KEEP THE FLOCK IN THE FALSE BELIEF THAT YOU ARE IT! YOU MUST DO THE MOST, YOU MUST STRETCH YOURSELF THIN, YOU MUST BE PITIED AND PATTED ON THE BACK, YOU MUST BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE IN YOUR ROLE OF "SELF IMPORTANCE" WHICH IS KILLING YOU! WAKE UP, REPENT, AND COME TO ORDER, MY ORDER AND NONE ELSE, AND THEN ALL WILL FLOW SMOOTHLY, SAITH THE LORD! READ THIS ORDER OVER AND OVER UNTIL YOU ALL GET INTO TOTAL SUBMISISON! I AM NOT PLEASED, AND I HAVE ALREADY PLACED "ICHABOD " OVER MOST CHURCHES, THOSE WHO WILL NOT ALLOW MY HOLY SPIRIT "TOTAL FREE REIGN!" ICHABOD: (1 SAMUEL 4:21) " AND SHE NAMED THE CHILD ICHABOD, SAYING, THE GLORY IS DEPARTED FROM ISRAEL;…"

THE CHURCH IS SPIRITUAL ISRAEL, AND THE LORD CANNOT POUR OUT HIS FULL MEASURE OF GLORY ONTO HIS CHURCH NOW, AS IT IS, FOR IT IS IN REBELLION, FOR THE MOST PART, AND IT WOULD CONSUME HER, SHOULD HE REVEAL THE FULL MEASURE! HOWEVER, HE HAS SAID THAT HIS VISITATION IS COMING EVEN NOW, AND WHEN IT COMES, WE HAD BETTER BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF IT! FOR IF INDEEED WE REMAIN STIFFNECKED, REBELLIOUS, WE WILL BE CUT OFF, AND YES, THERE IS SUCH A THING AS A FALLING AWAY, OR NEVER HAVING TOTALLY SUBMITTED ALL TO GOD, RENDERED ALL! AWAKE!

COME INTO ORDER, COME WHOLLY UNTO THE LORD, AS BOTH SAVIOUR AND LORD, NOT SAVIOUR ONLY! REPENT AND BE MADE WHOLE, THE HOUR IS LATE! COME BE THE TRUE REMNANT CHURCH, OPERATING IN THE TRUE ORDER, OF EPHESIANS 4:11!!! THEN PASTOR BURN OUT WILL NO LONGER BE A PROBLEM, BECAUSE ALL WILL BE WALKING IN PROPER RANK, FILE AND NO ONE PERSON WILL BE ELEVATING THEMSELVES AS THE ENTIRE LEADERSHIP, AND IGNORING THE FACT THAT THERE ARE OTHERS, EVEN OTHERS YES, ABOVE THE PASTOR, APOSTLES AND PROPHETS WHO HEAR FROM GOD, THE HOLY WORD AND INSTRUCTIONS TO BE GIVEN TO THE CHURCH FOR THE GOODNESS, HEALTH AND PROSPERITY OF THE BODY!

COME TO ORDER, GOD’S ORDER, AND KILL THE FOOLISH TRADITIONS OF MEN! ALLOW MY APOSTLES AND PROPHETS TO OPERATE AS I HAVE ANOINTED THEM TO DO! STOP QUENCHING THE HOLY GHOST! ALLOW HIM TOTAL FREE REIGN! HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING! COME TO ORDER!

HERE IS YOUR HEALING BALM PASTOR:

SUBMIT WHOLLY TO MY HOLY SPIRIT SAITH THE LORD AND MY ORDER OVER ALL ELSE! REPENT AND BE HEALED AS YOU OBEY MY WORD, THE HOLY BIBLE! PRESCRIPTION TO BE TAKEN AND ADMINISTERED AS FOLLOWS:

EPHESIANS 4:11 " AND HE GAVE SOME, APOSTLES; AND SOME PROPHETS; AND SOME EVANGELISTS; AND SOME, PASTORS AND TEACHERS; FOR THE PERFECTING OF THE SAINTS, FOR THE WORK OF THE MINISTRY, FOR THE EDIFYING OF THE BODY OF CHRIST: TILL WE ALL COME IN THE UNITY OF THE FAITH, AND OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD, UNTO A PERFECT MAN, UNTO THE MEASURE OF THE STATURE OF THE FULNESS OF CHRIST: (EVERYONE IN PROPER ORDER, EVERY JOINT SUPPLYING, EFFECTUALLY ITS PART IN THE HOLY SPIRIT!) AND TO CONFIRM THE ORDER AGAIN, READ ALSO (1 CORINTHIANS 12:28) " AND GOD HATH SET SOME IN THE CHURCH, FIRST APOSTLES, SECONDARILY PROPHETS…." AND SO ON! NOT PASTORS FIRST AND ALL, AND THEN BURNOUT!

WE ARE ALL EQUALLY LOVED OF GOD AND ARE ALL IMPORTANT TO HIM. ALL CALLINGS, AND GIFTS ARE NECESSARY AND IMPORTANT! THERE IS HOWEVER AN ORDER IN THE BODY OF CHRIST, IN HIS CHURCH, IN WHICH EACH OF US MUST OPERATE AND FIT INTO, ALL JOINTLY FIT TOGETHER, AND CAN ONLY WORK PROPERLY TOGETHER AS WE RECOGNISE AND RESPECT ONE ANOTHERS PLACES IN THE BODY, IN THE CHURCH! AS WE ALLOW THE BLESSED HOLY SPIRIT TO RULE AND REIGN IN US INDIVIDUALLY, THEN COLLECTIVELY WE WILL RISE INTO THE GLORIOUS , REMNANT CHURCH, WITHOUT SPOT, BLEMISH OR WRINKLE, THE TRUE ARMY OF THE LORD DOING MIGHTY EXPLOITS IN JESUS NAME AND FOR HIS GLORY, WHICH WE DO NOT SEEK TO TOUCH AS IT TRULY BELONGS ONLY TO HIM! AMEN!

PASTORS, TAKE YOUR MEDICINE!
BE HEALED AS YOU READ
HEAR AND OBEY GOD’S WORD!

"MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME:" (JOHN 10:27!) SHEEP FOLLOW, GOATS BUTT , CHECK YOURSELVES, WHICH ARE YOU???

THE LORD LOVES HIS SHEEP, THAT IS WHY HE CHASTENS THEM, HEALING IS AVAILABLE, THE CHOICE TO BE HEALED IS YOURS, COME OUT OF BURNOUT AND INTO ORDER, GOD"S ORDER! AMEN! THUS SAITH THE LORD

THE LORD IS WELL PLEASED WITH THE FEW WHO ARE ALREADY SUBMITTED WHOLLY TO HIS ORDER! HOW YOU WILL SHINE EVEN MORE HIS LIGHT WHEN THE GLORY OF THE LORD IS FULL POURED OUT UPON YOU!

WRITTEN UNDER THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, HANDMAIDEN AND PROPHETESS
ANGELIKA LOEWEN
TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY!

Apostle and Teacher, Dale R. Loewen

ORDER! ORDER! ORDER! You have all heard this in a meeting, or in a courtroom—when there is developing confusion or disorder. God has been saying it to the church for a long time, but they are not listening because their TRADITIONS are drowning out the Word of God and giving way to all manner of confusion and disorder and worst of all---DISUNITY. There can NEVER be UNITY in the spirit until there is true New Testament ORDER! There is POWER in Unity—remember one puts a thousand to flight—two puts ten thousand---imagine what a million could do in true unity!

The "one-man pastoral rule system" of today is a bastard! It is a child of tradition [not of the union of the Spirit and the church]It is a perversion of the Word[Eph.4:11] and it is likened to the children of Israel in 1Sam.8,who refused to listen to the prophet, Samuel, who, in the spirit, told them God did not want to put a king over them because God was already their king. They insisted and God relented with stern warnings of what would befall them for their bad choice. Much of it pertained to how they would be used by the king for his own purpose and how the king would not be able to deliver them in their day of trouble. It was a slap in the face for the Lord but He let them have their way –and they did pay the price for it. The pastor is like the king and in the church system, there are many ‘kings’ and ‘kingdoms’ [denominations] Within some there is a further perversion of hierarchy and offices some that are no-where in scripture! Many of the decisions and appointments of duties to the "laity" are made arbitrarily by the pastor or by committees as the world would do it! THERE IS NO LAITY—we are all called to minister, either in the five-fold ministry of Eph.4:11 or the callings of 1Cor.12 and elsewhere. God calls people to ministry—not pastors or committees [in the soul] and He will reveal their calling, if they ask. We have not, because we ask not----remember!! Unlike the kings of Israel, who were in His permissive will, the pastoral rule perversion of the five-fold ministry is not in God’s will at all!!

The people essentially want someone to shoulder the responsibility, new and old testament, so they don’t have to. This is accomplished by the king and the pastor. I have heard it so often, the pastor says this or that, or I must check with my pastor on this or that etc. etc. The perverted pastoral office, while it may have some who have responded to the call of God, tends to attract people with a spirit of self importance, who like the control and high position they have given to them by the people. Just as there were good kings[David]and good pastors who were and are working in a system not in the perfect will of God, there are poor leaders, some not even called by the Lord. Many of these use their position to fleece the sheep for their own purpose—the scripture speaks abundantly of this.[Ez.34] It also speaks of the judgment on such pastors. These same pastors, spurn and stone apostles and prophets repeatedly and I do speak from much experience in this! Apostles, prophets and even evangelists come before the pastor in the order established by God in the New Testament. THERE CANNOT BE A FOUNDATION WITHOUT THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS! [Eph.2:20] The pastor cannot assume the role of these offices and stone and boot out every true apostle and prophet the Lord sends their way, TO HELP THEM! YES-----TO HELP THEM!" Therefore I [the Lord] will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will KILL AND PERSECUTE"Luke11:49 Does He send them to be stoned?? The prophetess and handmaiden, Angelika Loewen and myself have been repeatedly sent to pastors and the people, sent in the spirit, ----TO HELP THEM! Only to be stoned, mocked, punched, lied about and slandered from east to west and north to south!!

"I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord. I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: BUT I WILL DESTROY THE FAT AND THE STRONG; I WILL FEED THEM WITH JUDGMENT.Ez.34:15,16 This prophesy against the shepherds stands today.

So what about, Pastor Burnout! Major Christian networks have outlined a massive problem of suicides, resignations, further church splits and large numbers of pastors seeking psychological counseling for this problem. The solution lies in this writing and will never be found in the world in some soulish ramblings called psychology or psychiatry. You are OUT OF ORDER pastors, you were never meant to be the whole five-fold, or to stone or deny the rest of the five-fold and particularly, apostles and prophets who are above you in the order. The perversion is about to end forever and a powerful remnant led by five units, not one will do a mighty work, before His return and it has already begun. God is judging traditions and pastor burnout is one facet of it. Seek His face, pastor, concerning the ORDER and TRUE UNITY, submit to the Spirit. If you are truly called into this office you are very important to Him, but you must recognize the true order and walk in it. You must receive apostles and prophets and recognize the Spirit in them and obey God’s words through them. The true foundation must be restored and it will, with or without you, because God will have His church without spot, wrinkle or blemish.

Written in the Spirit, Apostle and Teacher
Dale R. Loewen

A Note From Apostle and Prophet John A Caudill

There is nothing more that I could possibly add to what Apostle and Teacher Dale R Loewen and his wife, Prophetess Angelika Loewen, has already writen under the direction of the Holy Spirit. The Lord would have me say this though. I have been through the same demonic persecution {by the traditional church} as they have writen about above, so, the Lord would have me to say this. What is writen has been tested, and is in fact and truth, of the Holy Spirit of the Most High God, I therefor AGREE, FULLY, TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY with all that is writen within this page.

We would all do well to take heed to the Word writen within this page! We would get along with others as we are commanded to, a whole lot easier, and we would get along with ourselves a whole lot better also if we would only follow the directions already writen, following Gods True Holy Order. {Ephesians 4:11} As already stated, there can be NO UNITY until there is GODS TRUE HOLY ORDER!

Love In Jesus Name
John