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32 ... His Heart Scribe Inspirations -- March / April 2014 (Continued from page 18-The Apostle’s Corner) preachers on television who don't have the first clue of what they are talking about, and internet videos and data - and promote that information rather than their own. If we see the work of Biblical prophets, all of them had a specific mandate and word to deliver to the people. It wasn't someone else's and it wasn't vague. Just saying they are called to "wake people up" or they have a mandate to "get people to pray" doesn't fit the prophetic. Sure, prayer is great and waking up is great, but the end result of waking people up is repentance, not fear, and the end result of prayer is relationship with God - not paranoia. They create paranoia - God tells us not to be afraid, and give no thought to tomorrow. This means we are not to do the following: flee our countries, become doomsday preppers, stockpile groceries that will expire long before anything ever happens, stop watching television, stop eating, create our own arsenals, or generally act like a bunch of basket cases while we "wait" for someone's "prophecy" to come true. If you pay careful attention to all of this paranoid fever, everyone's paranoia trap is different. Some think nuclear holocaust is coming, others think the power grid will go down, others think China is going to take over the United States, some think the dollar will lose its value...and so on, and so forth. People! If stuff happens, you can be as ready as you like, but having stockpile s of stuff will just make you more of a target when "whoever" comes after you. Being afraid doesn't mean you are prepared, it means you are afraid. God does not want these thoughts, fears, and concepts to consume us as believers. You don't have more faith if you are paranoid, you are just fearful. They feel that what they have to say is so relevant, they oppose anyone who just doesn't want to hear it - I can't count the number of people who have blocked or deleted me because they sent me something, were insistent and rude about it, and got angry when I flat out told them I was not going to discuss their fearmongering with them anymore. I don't listen to it anymore because I've heard enough of it and I don't feel that any of it proves anything. And I am not saying that as someone who is ignorant to matters. I was studying about the Illuminati, secret societies, and new world order up at night, in the dark, when nobody - and I mean nobody else was talking about it. I don't deny these things, but I also know that sitting around, fearful and conjuring, isn't going to stop the realities about them. I also feel that we have taken these things so far out of control and context that the information circulating now tends to be inaccurate. It doesn't make me not an apostle because I don't want to watch yet another video on the same, stupid things that don't even make sense. But when someone can't even be respectful enough to stop talking or change the subject - that's a sign of a one-tracked, para(Continued on page 38)