If I sound irritable or judgmental, I honestly don't mean to. I'm deeply discontent, though, with Christ's followers claiming places, activities, technologies, etc. as negative and thus to be avoided. Negativity is not a fruit of the Spirit, therefore not from God. If we're claiming something as negative, we're not claiming it for the Kingdom, folks. We're claiming it for that devilishly cunning Satan.
Nothing we see as "dark," for whatever the reason, should remain dark after we've seen it. Sure, Facebook provides a forum for people to share in vanity. To post fleshy pictures to see how many thumbs-up can be accumulated. To update the world on how many beers were consumed last night.
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| Fleshbook: Whose Kingdom claims it? |
Facebook is also a place alive and teeming with Holy Spirit revelation, prophesy, encouragement. Healing the sick, raising the dead, feeding the poor - these are all topics of dedication for various groups I've joined on "Fleshbook."
Come to think of it, if Church is the body of Christ (see 1 Corinthians 12. Particularly 12:12-end), perhaps Fleshbook is a perfectly accurate description for my daily social experience on the website.
Case and point - a link to one of the more brief but Spirit filled-to-overflowing conversations I've had with a Fleshbook friend: That Poverty Spirit, by Passion Scribe Lyriic
Here's a brief excerpt from PSL's thoughts, which you'll find about five comments below the status update:
So back to my definition of poverty/orphan spirit:
"to lack, to be in short supply of..even to not have at all."
It's a virus that's gotten into the hard-drive of one's identity and has em' convinced that they lack resources, or they're in short supply of resources (think of those who don't give because they feel they don't have enough, for instance)..or that they aren't special enough to God, or He doesn't classify them as suitable to be a funnel of Heavenly realities into the earth.
What's the first thing we try to teach babies to say? Mummy, and daddy. The parent is at the heart of stability in identity; not necessarily to dictate who you are, but to reassure you of whose you are. Maybe I'm being biased due to my own life, but an orphan/poverty spirit is built on a foundation of not knowing who your family is (transcendently speaking now). It's not news to anyone that many groups today claim to worship an 'almighty' God, or a god. What isn't well known is that The Bible is the only text that has ever come into existence, that categorically (and repeatedly) states that the God of Jesus Christ is Father. He is Abba. He is Pai. He is Daddy. He is not cosmically and distantly Father..He is rawly, and very intimately Papa.
A prince can make a royal decree on the authority of the king because of who he is; the king's son. So can a princess. One of my all-time favourite tv shows was The Tudors. I'm a complete sucker for history, most especially European and British history. I remember that when Henry VIII fell ill, this nut-job would still carry out diplomatic duties, plan wars, meet with his counsel to discuss the kingdom's economics and affairs..and of course, issue a warrant for arrests, and ultimately beheadings (so fun! lol)
Now look at key times a poverty spirit will try to talk to you:
• when you're financially in a tight space
• when you're ill
• when someone just doesn't seem to be getting better
• when you feel stuck in life
• when you try to do the right thing, after spending so long doing the wrong thing (Mandy calls this betraying your reputation)
(I'm sure there's others)
Members of a royal family don't get to pick and choose; because they just are. If you were truly a pauper and not the child of The King; then nobody misses out when you fail to release Heaven, because you didn't have Heaven to release in the first place. A poverty/orphan spirit is one that identifies itself in lack.
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