“Let’s stir up the gifts. Everyone pray in tongues.”, the prophet demanded of her audience as she and everyone else closed their eyes and proceeded to fill the room with gibberish.

“That’s our cue to leave.”, I whispered to Trinity as we gave each other wide eyed looks. She immediately bent down grabbed her purse, the party favor bag that we’d each been given, and she went the extra measure to remove her high heeled shoes. We made an immediate beeline to the sanctuary doors that lead to the fellowship hall, being as quiet as we possibly could to escape discovery while everyone had their heads bowed and their eyes closed.
We had been about to be cornered by the Prophet lady before our escape. She wanted to pray for us, possibly lay hands on us, and give us a “prophetic word”. No…. just No. It wasn’t going to happen.
We ran, literally, from the fellowship hall, nearly getting stuck inside by the doors that I initially thought were locked, then down the hallway, and out the front doors of the church. I was scrambling for my keys in my purse, managed to grab them, only to drop them in the sand in my haste. We both jumped in the car with Trinity struggling to put her heals back on her sand covered feet. We drove off before anyone could realize that we’d left so abruptly. We ran like someone was chasing us!
By now, you’re probably wondering what the back story to all of this is and why we felt the incessant need to leave with such haste. Well, in order to understand that you should refer to my introduction post to see my background which is my journey out of spiritual abuse and false teaching. If you’ve read that post, then you may be wondering how a Baptist Pastor’s wife ended up in a meeting with a Prophet.
Well, it all started with my future Daughter in Law, Trinity, getting invited to a ladies’ tea party, while she was at work, by a kind lady named Patsy. Trinity decided to attend, I just so happened to be available at the last minute to go with her and so we went. We arrived and there were only a few ladies there. We were told that one lady would be giving her testimony and then another lady would be speaking during the course of the event, but we had no idea as to the actual schedule. The whole event wasn’t very organized and honestly that didn’t bother me in the least, but that made it difficult to orchestrate a polite exit. Since the AC was out in the fellowship hall, it was decided to start the tea with the testimony in the Sanctuary of this former church building. (The church that had formerly met in that building had been closed for 8 months and the building subsequentially purchased by someone else. So, the entire ladies tea was not affiliated with a church.) We graciously sat in the cooler Sanctuary as we waited for things to start. Meanwhile, we couldn’t help but overhear the conversations that were happening around us.
The names being dropped was like a who’s who of Heretics-R-US; names like Benny Hinn, Kathyrn Kuhlman, Bill Hamon, Beni Johnson, Sid Roth, Joyce Myer. The main speaker and a few others were speaking these names with pride and adoration. Abhorrence is the feeling that I associate with those names along with verbal warning to any who will listen about their false doctrines and the false gospel that they peddle! During our eavesdropping, Trinity and I were consistently giving each other the side eyeballs and whispering to each other. We weren’t sure exactly what to do. I tried soliciting advice by texting my husband. The spotty reception in the building was making that extremely difficult and none of our texts were going through in a timely manner. By the time I got a response from my husband, the meeting had already started. He didn’t know exactly what we were being subjected to because of the failed text messages. His advice was to try and stay, when the texts did finally come through, to trust our judgment, and to use any opportunity available to speak the truth to these ladies.
I won’t say much about the testimonies given. Those are their stories to tell, but I will say this, their testimonies were devoid of scripture and at one point one lady said, “God told me… but I wasn’t sure if it was God, me, or a demon”. The end of the story had a good outcome, but the most concerning thing about all of it was the focus on feelings and the experiential. Nothing was grounded in the Word of God and there was definitely a lot of false teachings thrown in there about generational curses and any number of slams on doctrinal beliefs and denominations other than those that operate in the “Five-Fold Ministry”. At the end of the two testimonies and a “tongues and Interpretation” (to which my linguist future Daughter in Law pointed out, differed greatly in length from the “tongues” part to the “interpretation” part) it was announced that we should probably do the tea portion, so the sandwiches didn’t go bad in the unairconditioned fellowship hall.
So, we went and sat down, and it just so happened the Prophet sat across from me. I’ll refrain from giving more impressions about her other than I was extremely wary of her. She had already been telling everyone that she was a prophet and that she had come down from Tennessee specifically for this meeting. During the course of the tea, I did what I could to refrain from conversation with her and ended up speaking to Patsy, the lady who had invited Trinity to the tea. I was able to share part of my testimony of having come out of false teaching. She seemed really interested and even made mention of me possibly speaking at a future event. I’m doubtful that will happen now, especially after our hasty exit! It was on the heels of that very conversation, that it was time for the guest speaker: the prophet.
We had been there probably two hours at that point. I’d made mention to Patsy moments before we entered back into the sanctuary that we’d more than likely have to leave soon and wouldn’t be able to stay much longer. Had I known what was about to transpire, I would have left in that moment!
One of the first things the Prophet did when she got up to speak was to look me dead in the eyes and declare, “I am a Prophet!”. She knew from the tea that I was a Baptist preacher’s wife and I felt like that was a direct challenge. The very next statement was, ” I operate in signs and wonders, so pray right now for the miracle that you want, and it will be given to you!”.
I want you dear reader to notice the “I” statements there. Notice how God wasn’t mentioned. Immediately, my mind went to two scriptures; the first being Matt 24:24 and the second being 2 Tim 3:8,9
Matthew 24:24
For False Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
2 Tim 3:8,9
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.
When I thought of the passage in 2 Timothy, I had no idea the folly that was going spew out of this woman’s mouth as part of her testimony. If anyone was paying attention, they would have seen how her words, the testimony of her life, didn’t align with someone who walks with and abides with Christ. Jannes and Jambres also worked in false signs and wonders.
She shared how she was saved in her late teens and saved out of drugs and alcohol which wasn’t at all bad. But then she went on to tell us the very first scripture “god” ever gave her was in 2 Peter 2: specifically, the verse about carousing in the daytime. I honestly nearly choked when she said that considering that particular passage, in context, is clearly about false teachers and their sin. As she went on to tell more of her testimony, it became abundantly clear that she was indeed a false prophet!
I suggest, Dear Reader, that you stop reading and go read the second chapter of 2nd Peter. My Study Bible has a heading at the beginning of that chapter, “The Rise of False Prophets”. I’ll just include the first three verses of that chapter so it will whet your appetite.
2 Peter 2: 1-3
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
Go read the rest of that chapter, Dear Reader. I encourage you to really think on it; break it down, line by line. False teachers and false prophets are sensual, unreasoning animals, driven by their desires, and who despise authority the scripture says. God says clearly that because of them the way of the truth will be maligned!
Back to the testimony of “the Prophet”…. I know that we all make mistakes and make poor choices at times, and I am, most certainly, not perfect. I have been divorced. I was victim of domestic violence. I got into bad relationships after my divorce. I’ve done stupid things that were contrary to the Word of God. I have also repented of those things and at one time in my life, I was just as this woman was, a false prophet. It breaks my heart that I may have led anyone astray. One thing I’ve never said though, was that I was without sin, even in my rebellion. That singular statement, in “the prophet’s” testimony shook me like no other. She said, “I am without sin so I can prophesy”.
She was telling us all about her life of multiple marriages and divorces, relationships to narcissistic men and how she’s been a prophet for many, many years and operating in the prophetic. In the middle of all of this she announces how she’s without sin. 1 John 1:8 immediately came to mind.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
“The Prophet” was definitely deceiving herself unfortunately because she was telling us all, just three years ago, how she realized that her first ex-husband was really the love of her life. She described for us how she went to pick him up after his 26-year stint in prison and how she subsequently remarried him. She described how when she went to pick him up, she didn’t initially recognize him because he’d aged so drastically in prison, but then proceeded to tell us how hot his body was. She told the group how he had gotten “saved” in prison, but then discovered that he was a con-man and a narcissist. She then proceeded to tell us how she had then divorced him again and was later “delivered” from a “spirit of narcissism”. Trinity and I did side eyeballs with each other on that one because no such spirit exists in the Bible! The speaker then went on to talk about generational curses and how we need to decree and declare them out of our lives. Sidenote: decreeing and declaring was the second thing she claimed “god” revealed to her.
Dear Reader, I want you to understand where this teaching of generational curses comes from and where it is located in the Bible. Also, I want you to understand that if you are a genuine believer, generational curses DO NOT APPLY TO YOU. Here’s why: There’s multiple verses that talk about visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations, but there’s always a qualifying statement. Let us look at Exodus 20:5,6 for example. Context is king and false teachers and false prophets ALWAYS take scripture out of context and twist it to deceive people.
Exodus 20:5,6
You shall not worship them (idols) or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those (here’s the qualifying statement) OF THOSE WHO HATE ME, but show lovingkindness to thousands, TO THOSE WHO LOVE AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.
So Dear Reader, look for those qualifying statements. Not only that, but does not God say that we are new creatures in Christ in 2 Corinthians 5:17?
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
The false doctrine of generational curses applying to believers makes a mockery of the finished work and atonement of Jesus on the cross. Jesus said, “It is finished!” in John 19:30. So then, was Jesus a liar? If we still need to decree and declare and get deliverance by some series of works, prayers, activations, special anointings, laying on of hands by key people…. if we are doing all these works to be truly saved and set free from sin, then who saved us? Did we save ourselves then? NO! 1 Corinthians 1 clearly lays that out for us that it so that no man may boast! We don’t save ourselves. Also, none of this generational curse nonsense is talked about by the apostles. It’s not there, so throw that nonsense out!

Back to “the Prophet”. I want you to notice one other thing Dear Reader, “the Prophet” in this account did some very unbiblical things. She remarried her first ex-husband. Why, if she’s the sinless believer that she claimed, would she go against what is clearly laid out in scripture about not remarrying your first ex-spouse after you’ve remarried another. That, Dear Reader, is found in Deuteronomy 24:1-4 and that action is actually called an abomination before the Lord.
So, throughout her talk, I was seeing instance after instance where this woman was in rebellion to God. I was taking notes through all of it and showing scripture after scripture to Trinity on my phone. It was around this time in her talk that it became imperative for Trinity and me to leave.
Patsy, decided to interrupt at this point to inform “the Prophet” that another lady, Trinity, and I had to leave early and that if “the Prophet” wanted to lay hands on us, pray over us, and give us a “prophetic word” she’d have to do it soon so that we wouldn’t miss out. Immediately, I locked eyes with “the Prophet” and waved my hands and said “No!”. “The Prophet” immediately dismissed me saying, “it’s ok Malinda”. She then proceeded to command the audience, “Let’s stir up the gifts.”.
I want to point out that neither Trinity, nor I, asked for prayer, nor had we expressed that we desired a “word”. I wasn’t sure whether or not we were going to be called up front, but I wasn’t going to allow someone, who I definitely knew to be a false prophet at that point, to lay hands on me or to speak over me in any way. This was going to be forced upon us and I wasn’t going to allow that. It was either leave or stand and rebuke the woman publicly. Honestly, I was leaning towards publicly rebuking her but thought it wiser to leave. Leave, we did, with extreme haste.

Up until that point, we had listened to people talk about omens, witchcraft prayers (decreeing and declaring is spell casting), using the Lord’s name in vain, speaking falsely for God, false generational curses upon believers, fictitious demonic spirits that inhabit believers (spirit of narcissism), Gnosticism (secret knowledge), occult law of attraction (speaking things into existence), activations, giving birth to spiritual things (more occult/new age), and works based salvation which is a false gospel; all of which are doctrines of demons.

Dear Reader, take the things I’ve said into account. Consider the pleas of the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Galatians if you find yourself on the side of the false prophet.
Galatians 1:6-9
I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!
Galatians 3:1-5
You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
This whole blog post will be sent personally to the Organizers of the tea in letter form, and it will stand as an open letter against false teachers/prophets and their false doctrines.