Thank You Women Of God | Institute of Love

Besides taking his twelve disciples with him as he was touring the nearby towns and villages, preaching and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom of God, Jesus also brought along with him some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases. Among them were Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons; Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s business manager; Susanna; and many others who were contributing from their own resources to support Jesus and his disciples. (See Luke 8:1-3) So it has also been in our ministry for many years, that Christian women from all walks of life have been financially supporting us on our countless missionary trips throughout the world. Therefore, to all of you God-fearing women, from the bottom of our heart we want to say to you; THANK YOU!!! Yes, “charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; 
but a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised. Reward her for all she has done. 
Let her deeds publicly declare her praise.” Proverbs 31:30-31 NLT

The Generational Curse of Ahab | Institute of Love

God said; “I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me.” Exodus 20:5 NLT There was a clear generational curse of idol worshiping in the family of King Ahab of Israel. His father Omri set the pattern of doing evil for his son to follow, since he himself did more evil than any of the kings before him. (See 1. Kings 16:25-26) Ahab was influenced by his evil wife Jezebel, a woman devoted to everything that God hated and forbid. As a result, Ahab submitted to his wife and ended up serving and worshiping Baal. Baal was the male god, and Asherah was Baal’s female counterpart. This opened the door to Israel through which Satan gained astonishing power and flooded Israel with tremendous sin and evil. Likewise, a Christian man who is like Ahab, will also by lack of fear of God and through compromising the holy things of God open a door to tremendous demonic attack on himself and his family. The relationship of Ahab and Jezebel provides an excellent illustration of the curse brought about by a husband and wife being out of God’s divine order for the family. When you have an Ahab/Jezebel marriage, you will have men not committed to God, home, or children, but they instead seek to achieve personal selfish satisfaction in other things like money, career, alcohol, women, sports, ministry, hobbies, projects, and other activities. Ahab men are spiritually weak and blame others for their own problems. They are easily influenced and persuaded by their wives to make wrong decisions, and then later they don’t own up to their mistakes. By passivity or laziness, they push their wives to take over their own chores and responsibilities in the home and family, which puts the wife in a position of priest and head of the home, a task she is not designed to handle. They set the wrong pattern for their children to follow, causing them to spend the rest of their adult lives struggling to live normal lives. A mother who is a Jezebel, and a father who is an Ahab, will raise Jezebel daughters and Ahab sons. If sons do not see their father as respected in his office of being the father and leader, they have no other example to the contrary, and will grow up following in his footsteps. Likewise, the girls will likely inadvertently choose a husband who is the same passive type as the father. Daughters will grow up not knowing how to respect a man and/or a future husband. Ahab fathers place curses on male children and Jezebel mothers place curses on female children. Both male and female children easily fall into homosexual lifestyles, not necessarily because they want to or are convinced they are gay, but because of the gender confusion that comes with growing up in a Jezebel/Ahab environment, where the roles are swopped so the mother is the dominant leader of the home, and the father is the follower. Children will later on have broken marriages and families like their parents. Jezebel mothers cause children to be manipulative. Children are full of rebellion and under pressure to prove their love to their parents. Children are often very depressed, have fear, insecurity, frustration, and difficulty learning, but at the same time, they learn to develop skills of how to manipulate people with faking sickness and injuries and with other hypochondriac behavior. This Ahab curse can potentially lead to the total corruption of the child, causing them to live in discord, selfishness, and distrust, as they start looking for heroes in the occult world and a sense of belonging in cultic environments where they can have some sort of status of importance. Under the Ahab curse, children are interested in violence and fascinated with death because of tensions, confusions, hurts, and insults given them by the family structure being out of order. All this confusion, frustration, resentment, and hate in many cases lead to these children wanting to commit suicide or finding release in self affliction like for instance cutting, drug abuse, or sexual promiscuity. In trying to find their place, these children frequently give in to demonic spirits that drive them to the love of power, money, praise, and fame. The children are totally vulnerable and open to satanic attacks, and will usually become just like their parents! It is time to break this generational Ahab/Jezebel evil curse over our children and family in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ! Amen!

Seduced | Institute of Love

You are a married Christian man seriously struggling in your relationship with your wife of over 20 years, and one day a woman approaches you while you are in a sports bar with your buddies,
 seductively dressed and sly of heart. She is the brash, rebellious type, 
never content to stay at home. She is often in the streets and markets,
 soliciting at every corner. She threw her arms around you and kissed you, 
and with a brazen look she said, “I’ve just made my peace offerings and fulfilled my vows. You’re the one I was looking for!
 I came out to find you, and here you are! My bed is spread with beautiful blankets,
 with colored sheets of Egyptian linen. I’ve perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning.
 Let’s enjoy each other’s caresses, for my husband is not home.
 He’s away on a long trip. He has taken a wallet full of money with him
 and won’t return until later this month.” So she seduced you with her pretty speech
 and enticed you with her flattery. You followed her at once, 
like an ox going to the slaughter. You were like a bird flying into a snare, little knowing it would cost you your life. For this woman has been the ruin of many;
 many men have been her victims. (See Proverbs 7:10-27)  You should have known that “the lips of an immoral woman are as sweet as honey, 
and her mouth is smoother than oil. But in the end she is as bitter as poison,
 as dangerous as a double-edged sword.” Proverbs 5:3-4 NLT  Now you are dealing with fact of what the Bible already warned you about, that a “man who commits adultery is an utter fool, 
for he destroys himself. He will be wounded and disgraced. His shame will never be erased.” Proverbs 6:32-33 NLT

God’s Way Of Healing | Institute of Love

There are people who love to tell you how to pray for them for healing when they are sick, where to touch them, which words to use and how long to pray, and how much anointing oil should be placed on them. If you don’t do it their way, they get upset with you, just like Naaman, an army commander who suffered from leprosy, did. He went to the house of Elisha the prophet to have him pray for healing over him. “But Elisha sent a messenger out to him with this message: “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan River. Then your skin will be restored, and you will be healed of your leprosy.” But Naaman became angry and stalked away. “I thought he would certainly come out to meet me!” he said. “I expected him to wave his hand over the leprosy and call on the name of the Lord his God and heal me! Aren’t the rivers of Damascus, the Abana and the Pharpar, better than any of the rivers of Israel? Why shouldn’t I wash in them and be healed?” So Naaman turned and went away in a rage.” (2. Kings 5:9-12) After his officers reasoned with him and calmed him down, Naaman ultimately humbled himself and did what the prophet said and washed himself in the dirty Jordan River and was completely healed. When we want God’s healing, we need to allow Him to do it His way and not ours, even if it means under dirty, smelly circumstances in ways you don’t like or think is appropriate for you! “God blesses those who are humble!” Matthew 5:5 NLT

God’s Way Of Healing | Institute of Love

There are people who love to tell you how to pray for them for healing when they are sick, where to touch them, which words to use and how long to pray, and how much anointing oil should be placed on them. If you don’t do it their way, they get upset with you, just like Naaman, an army commander who suffered from leprosy, did. He went to the house of Elisha the prophet to have him pray for healing over him. “But Elisha sent a messenger out to him with this message: “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan River. Then your skin will be restored, and you will be healed of your leprosy.” But Naaman became angry and stalked away. “I thought he would certainly come out to meet me!” he said. “I expected him to wave his hand over the leprosy and call on the name of the Lord his God and heal me! Aren’t the rivers of Damascus, the Abana and the Pharpar, better than any of the rivers of Israel? Why shouldn’t I wash in them and be healed?” So Naaman turned and went away in a rage.” (2. Kings 5:9-12) After his officers reasoned with him and calmed him down, Naaman ultimately humbled himself and did what the prophet said and washed himself in the dirty Jordan River and was completely healed. When we want God’s healing, we need to allow Him to do it His way and not ours, even if it means under dirty, smelly circumstances in ways you don’t like or think is appropriate for you! “God blesses those who are humble!” Matthew 5:5 NLT

Greedy Liars | Institute of Love

So many of these televangelists/prosperity preachers are as the Bible says, well trained in greed and they lure unstable gullible Christians into sin. (See 2. Peter 2:14) They do the opposite of what the scriptures teaches, and exactly what the Word warns us against, they will do. When 2. Corinthians 9:7 NLT says that you must each decide in your heart how much to give and don’t give reluctantly or in response to pressure, these televangelists, to the contrary, pressure you to give, by telling you to go quickly to the phone and give your $1000 money seed while the anointing is still around, or otherwise you will lose your breakthrough blessing! And when 2. Peter 2:3 NLT says; “in their greed they will make up clever lies to get hold of your money,” that's precisely what they do, by coming up with all sorts of “seed” offerings that God so-called revealed to them with the promise of a special blessing or breakthrough in your situation, like; New Year offerings, resurrection seed offering, healing offerings, prophetic seed offerings, Passover offerings, atonement offerings, financial breakthrough offerings, sin and redemption offerings, 777 offerings, $58 monthly seed, Psalm 71.21 pledge with the promise of increase and greatness, boomerang or turnaround seed, a $1000, $500, $300, $100 envelop seed that is usually tied to getting a prophetic word, and the list of deception goes on and on. These false televangelists/prosperity preachers take advantage of desperate people’s need for God’s resolution in their lives. They tell them to keep giving, and even to put their gift on their credit card if they don't have the money right there and then, and thereby causing them to sin. You may think why in the world are people still giving money to these greedy liars?

What God joins together | Institute of Love

“Since they are no longer two but one, let no one separate them, for God has joined them together.” Matthew 19:6 NLT  With the emphasis on “for God has joined them together,” meaning that what God puts together in a marriage covenant between Him and a man and a woman, no one is able to separate. The purpose of marriage is to reflect the love relationship between Christ and the Church (See Ephesians 5:21-33), and to effectively accomplish God’s plan for that particular marriage on this earth. It’s obvious that not all marriage relationships are put together from God! Many times we get into relationships from motives that do not come from the perfect choice of God. We even make ourselves believe that it is God who blessed us with this particular partner, but in reality it was God giving us what we wanted only to show us that it doesn’t work! He knows that we have our own personal reasons for stubbornly moving ahead with the relationship and ignoring the warning signals, thinking that we ultimately know what is better for us. But then, a few years down the road when the marriage relationship has grown sour and dysfunctional and even abusive, we find God waiting, who all along knew that we were setting ourselves up for disaster and would need His rescue in the end when we “beg for relief.” God knows that everything that is not built on His choice will eventually crumble and come to an end, even if it means many years of marriage. That’s why God hates divorce! (See Malachi 2:16) He hates when people choose their own will over His. He knows what we need and what is best for us, and He never meant for anybody to marry someone He didn’t call them to marry. It is God who ordains a marriage covenant and no matter what comes against it, or no matter the turbulence you have to go through, if God has brought it together, He will preserve and protect it! When you have entered a marriage on the wrong conditions, God still gives you grace, but He requires of you to repent from choosing your own will over His.“But if we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.” 1. John 1:9 NLT  God, in His love and mercy, wants to spare us from being trapped in a marriage curse that stops and hinders our spiritual progress in Him.