The greatest of love and peace to you -
I'm sorry that I called you a name last night ()
Apology totally accepted. I have said things I've "regretted" to those I "love", too.
I have only loved you and I am only concerned about what you are teaching the "little ones"...
I understand that, but you should know me by now, Michelle. I get it that some of the things are hard to hear. Frightful, even. That didn't stop others, though, like Ezekiel, Daniel, John... even my Lord. I could very well "water" stuff down... take away from or add to it... so that you and others can handle it. But that isn't my direction and isn't what this is about.
with every honest question that I posed your "indignation" increased...
It did because you were claiming that the "spirit" I was hearing "might" be Satan. C'mon, Michelle... what did you think I would do... get all mushy and say, "Oh, no, dear one, that's not true..." or something like that? Truly? You all but accused the Holy Spirit of being Satan... because of YOUR fear. How am I to keep MY faith in the face of that? I do it by letting the "flint" that my Lord has given me in my forehead stand up for me...
you said that I am not one of yours...what does one have to "do" to be one of yours...
I am not sure what you're referring to. Perhaps my comment that "he that is not against you is for you"?
sit down and shut up?
See, there you go, again. You apologize and then write something like this. How am I to take your "love" seriously? No one has to sit down and shut up... including me. Though many here would love that, I'm guessing - certainly our Adversary. I tried to warn you that if you didn't stop, I would rebuke you. I asked. You ignored my request. So, I rebuked you... for the preservation of MY faith. When people make comments like you do I am compelled to dismiss them, first. And I did, trying as lovingly as possible to do so. But you persisted. You say I "judged" you, which I did at no time. It was you who judged... under the guise of asking an "innocent" question... out of "love"... which judgment and "love" I rejected because both were false. You DID this, again, out of YOUR fear (fear makes earthling man do all kinds of "funny" things). But who is that controls us by FEAR? The Adversary. Because that one LACKS love.
Your fear showed me your LACK of love because it meant to undermine what I was told to do and say by the Holy Spirit. PERFECT love, however... casts ALL fear... OUTSIDE. Because God IS love. IF then, you TRULY loved me... you wouldn't have been afraid FOR me... or OF me. You would have simply prayed FOR me... and let the Master "handle" me.
Be all of that is it may, I will say that if you... or anyone else... show yourself to being used by the Adversary, I will opposed you, and thus, him. I have to and I will. Without reservation. Because MY faith is on the line.
So, now, let's move on from here, if we can. I hold no grudge or illwill - I understand what fear (and alcohol) can cause people to say and do. I give you that on both, that you were misled in both instances (i.e., by your fear and by alcohol, if that truly was the case)... and bid you peace.
YOUR servant... and an unwavering slave of Christ,
Shelby