3 Warnings About False Prophets in the Church! | Shawn Bolz

[@erinkinney4792]

Words fail me for how grateful I am for this message. I asked DAD for help last night and to please help me understand what's going on in a close friendship. I knew I was supposed to address something that recently happened today, and I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to be sure what I was feeling was on the right track...relieved sigh. Now I know what I was feeling was valid. Now I just need to know how to have that conversation with this person. I'm trying to remind myself that I'm not responsible for their reaction. I just need to address it in love, and the HOLY SPIRIT will handle it from there. Thank you for your prayers. ❤

[@Caroline5353-c1f]

My turn minimization by some people ,family

[@sandrawalton8515]

Wow, this is the main reason I don't attend church anymore. I've seen so much manipulation from pastors, leaders ,and teachers. In my twenties, I experienced this when God moved my to several churches over a couple of years. Each move was for me to learn something in the prophetic. Each pastor got very bitter and told me I was not hearing from God. Well, I followed God, not the manipulating leaders. I'm so glad I did Thank you for such a needed word. I am praying that I can find an amazing church soon. Pray for me. ❤

[@TroyBlack]

Amen. This is a super needed message. Thank you, Shawn.

[@faithtalkslivemulti-media6370]

Preach it yes, never under estimate the power and person of the Holy Spirit in our life. The Holy Spirit will expose all things if we trust Him 🙏

[@maogrinz]

The next prophets of this season will be those who equip others to hear and sense God’s guidance and prophecy for their own lives. Teaching the body to rest and know His love, this will be the ultimate protection from wolves in sheep’s clothing.

[@patriciahunt3663]

Yes! That is it exactly. The false prophets want to be the voice of God to the people instead of leading them to know His voice for themselves.

[@Judahthanksgiving]

And we won't ask you for your money ❤

[@RhondaKennedy63]

I had the same thing happen to me in 1998, from a pastor at a church that I had been going to for several years , faithfully served in various capacities and when I told the pastor that we were moving to California, that this was God's timing and the doors were opening and all the other times and they just didn't work, but I had prayed if this was indeed God's timing, and the Lord said it was God's timing. He was telling me no you shouldn't go and your son is still in school and he was telling me these things out of his guilt and his regret for not following God because someone had told him the same thing 20 years prior and he listened to that person and he regretted it ...yet while he's telling me that story he was doing the exact same thing to me, but I was determined that I was going to listen to God and get out of that City, because I knew it was God's timing but it was also the desires of my heart. And it also made me a little sad that he was trying to manipulate me as well.

[@nathanglasbrenner5998]

❤ Love this message. So good. So God. Totally agree that spiritual abuse and manipulation have driven many away from the church. Sadly, abuse and manipulation have also soured many churches and caused them to become closed off to the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Thanks for this msg!

[@sandrajones7098]

Thank you. So so much!! I am coming out of a church i had been in for 24 years. God is so Faithful to heal my heart.

[@pattyjara8108]

#myturn really believing God for restoration.

[@patriciabenavente5124]

There is a false prophet big time in Ontario, California. She's the pastor/prophet/teacher in the Spanish church that meets at the Hope chapel building. The church is plagued with narcissists. We need to stand up to them.

[@noemisolisrivas6324]

We need to pray against narcissism in the Church. 😪 Thank you Shawn, Love your ministry🤗

[@chickendinner2906]

Thank you Shawn. So much depth and counselling in this. You mentioned that this is the freedom Jesus died for and it's so true.

[@soyini6793]

I've experienced those with a spirit of intimidation who tried to block me, and rejected me; a few times...♥️✝️👑🦅 "Every David has their Saul"...

[@sarakemp3174]

This is the absolute BEST and balanced teaching I have ever heard that is spot on, to the “T”, on this subject. And you are right sir, the body of Christ really needs to hear this message. Thank you so much Shawn!!!

[@bboystix88]

Thank you for this teaching!

[@sheilahsstudio6121]

This was SO GOOD! There are quite a few manipulative leaders in the church.

[@january2798]

One thing I especially dislike about some churches is when they have you make vows to that church in order to be a member.

[@larondaangelo4554]

Yes I agree and that is against scripture .. we are not to make vows to God

[@dustinevans]

Man, this gave me so much clarity and peace, about things that have happened to us. Feel so free from this. ❤ #MyTurn

[@forgotknot]

Agreed with love and feel safe when gift is use

[@alexandranelson7957]

Oh wow!! I have definitely been manipulated by someone like that. I would even say I’ve had moments, where I was living off a past-tense anointing. I appreciate these words of insight, as always. I know this is an older video, but please pray for an increase of spiritual discernment in my life. #MyTurn

[@rhondahartzler4074]

This was so good! Definitely a teaching we need right now with prophets popping up everywhere. I love the wisdom you shared, especially the emphasis on our freedom as adults to make our own decisions as we submit our lives to God. I've had so much trouble standing my ground and speaking up for myself. This was very helpful.

[@davidverlaney7764]

❤️❤️Good for you and your wife.

[@jamesomondi7319]

Wow this has really answered a lot of questions that I have been asking myself over the years. Thank you Shawn and may God bless you.

[@shawnbolzofficial]

Glad it was helpful!

[@WalkinginDivineHealth]

This message is a great reminder for both individuals who need to learn to rely on the Holy Spirit for wisdom and watch out for controlling leaders and for leaders who need to make sure they are being led by the Holy Spirit and not abusing their parishioners!

[@NiNa-xu5dq]

Glorious, just glorious🔥🔥🔥

[@verniemcanear8722]

Convicted in a good way.....Thank you!!

[@christymullis8101]

My turn! Good word!

[@magdalenasmith3273]

#myturn, I need goodly people to speak into my life and my calling. Thank you Shawn for sharing your experiences and how to discern manipulation. Really good word. Blessings 😇🙏🔥

[@nikkiisrael2708]

I am so grateful for church online, and now I need to make the decision as to which church to attend. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💒🇺🇸 😊

[@oswaldlewis3397]

That might be a good idea if you already have divine salvation. When people become Christian is to win others for him. ROMANS 8:1-39 HEBREWS 8:7-10 GOD BLESS US ALL. AMEN.

[@lindaterravecchia5046]

Awesome word. I pray the body of Christ will begin to stand for righteousness. We allow ourselves to stay in unhealthy relationships because we have grown accustomed to being there so long or we like the other people. We must become God focused. He puts the lonely in families. So there is a family out there for you, you just have to ask God where it is.❤

[@ConnieM777]

Thank you for this message. Excellent advice and guidance.# My turn.

[@yvonnetru3885]

thank you for bringing topics like this.

[@joanferl]

word for me... thanks & God bless

[@rossbodenmann]

As a "mature" believer who's been through a couple big ministries, schools, parachurch organizations over the last 20 years can I just say this was super rich and so valuable. Thanks Shawn.

[@PeterMacvichie]

Thank you Shawn I just experienced the same thing- a man jealous of me who was in leadership whom God showed me is a false prophet.

[@lisanowakow3688]

My Mom was one of the best artists I knew. Her parents made her marry instead.

[@NiNa-xu5dq]

Thank u, we ❤ u, Pst Shawn

[@saltshaker8777]

Oh blessed clarity!! You have given such a clear explanation of some subtle manipulation and control tactics that infiltrate church relationships. Thank you so much!!!

[@toniagaston8555]

#myturn thank you for this message. Blessings of grace to you.

[@connielipp8648]

Good Morning.. Thank you for sharing

[@georgearthur8391]

#My Turn

[@francinemichaels461]

#myturn God knows - praying for a number of people in my state who have come under this!

[@jeremygann9247]

I have felt a lot of this with some of the people in my life, but I also don't ever want to be decieved because "I don't like the way people do things"... even when clearly it could be bad fruit definitely something I am going to be praying about now.

[@melindagarland9376]

# that's me... After listening I am understanding How churches or people deceive With ulterior motives and it is controlling Thank you for the honesty and balance You give along with the promise of restoration and revelation from God if we just act.

[@frontlinechurch]

Amazing word, Shawn!

[@jeremygann9247]

Thank you Shawn! I pray that the Lord would help us with this. Let us humble ourselves and come to you Lord. Its about you anyway. This has been refreshing and really blessed me. It has been difficult to see sometimes things that are unhealthy because I have been afraid of being wrong at times. I sometimes think I may discern things, but I don't ever want to assume or say something negative about someone.

[@joannerand2388]

Thank you!! I went through this a few months ago and I tried to talk to the Pastor, but in the end I decided it wasn't working and I left.

[@kenmullis6112]

So good.

[@pamelajohnson4989]

Eye opening message and very empowering. Thank you for educating us. I so appreciate your voice in this hour. It is sound, loving, and points us back to Christ. Thank you Shawn. 😃

[@shawnbolzofficial]

You are so welcome

[@GodsHeartforKids]

#myturn thank you so much Shawn for this very important message! You always deliver messages like this with such grace 🙏🏼🌈👍🏼

[@denisekaai3113]

Thank you I’m going through this now

[@jenmerrill399]

This is so helpful and needed. Thank you!

[@shawnbolzofficial]

So glad!

[@3gdreamers]

This is exactly what I’m now experiencing in my marriage. Not church. Marriage. After 7 years of trying to ‘submit’, I just can’t any more. I’m tired of never being able to step out on what I sense God is telling me, to be told “that’s not God” because it doesn’t come in the package my husband thinks it should. He hasn’t been to church in over a year, and spends his free time watching Pluto tv on his phone. His God is evidently not my God. I’m asking for your prayers. I honestly don’t care if he stays or leaves, but I’m done with the narcissist demands. Thank you for listening. Kari Grace

[@BEsum1different]

This🔥🔥🔥 I kept praying for God to break the control and I felt and rebellious for it this was confirmation

[@elizabethcheramie3701]

#my turn, thank you for sharing this

[@hazelmaylebrun6243]

This is the most important message I have ever heard you share, and you share a lot of important stuff. I am so grateful to hear this coming from someone who has a platform where it can get out there and free a lot of Christians who are in bondage to people who either knowingly or unknowingly are manip ulative and centered around themselves and not Jesus. When you said t hat you felt guilty for thinking t hat pastor in Hollywood has the appearance of anointing, I almost started crying. This has happened to me many times. I will walk in to a room or meet someone or even cllick on a video and get a weird feeling or hear something t hat I wasn't even thinking... like... "The person is not tellling the truth" or "Don't trust that" or "hidden issues here," and I feel guilty and get mad at myself and say, "Stop being judgy." Well, I wasn't trying to be judgy. I wasn't even thinking judgy. And later on... boom... it comes out and I'm like... oh man... I'm sorry, ,Holy Spirit. That was you giving me a heads up. I have stories I won't say here, but God took me through a boot camp I didn't want at the time... throwing me in the middle of the craziest situations you could imagine in my 20s, where first a false prophet tries to take over the churches in town and then a pastor came in already in the church and operated the same way. I was like... nooooooooooooooo... I was a "nice" Christian who smiled all the time and couldn't say no to anyone, but... God snapped my backbone in place fast because in some instances, there were even lives in danger. Sigh... familiar spirits can fake an "anointing." If you didn't know Holy Spirit, you might get sucked in because it is supernatural and they are singing about Jesus, but... uh uh, man... uh uh... they're not following him. Anyway... thank yoiu. Oh... when someone is just going off on a rabbit trail or getting emotional, I just pray for God to help them get back on track, but when it's a literal wolf going after the sheep... I'll pray for them later. Right now, there are sheep getting devoured and this sheep dog isn't having it. Uh... I'm careful about that because... you know.. I don't want to manipulate anyone either, but I will pray and do what I can to steer sheep clear of that destructive nonsense.

[@earthandouterspace446]

shawn this is very very deep . u have the gift of making complex staff pretty simple .god bless u .man this vedio here is going to help many people now and for a lot of years ahead of us

[@BrianNickens]

Excellent instruction, Shawn. Excellent this is top shelf church maturity. Thanks for doing this post.

[@heatherw6473]

Thank you for this message. I went to a church 2x with a friend and immediately experienced such an overwhelming sense of "something is very not right here". She invited me to go to church with her again last week and I had to tell her I had an overwhelming sense something is not right there. I think it made her upset and defensive although said in concern for her. I've been praying for God to reveal how to know if it's a false prophet and here is the message! #myturn

[@VanMan64]

So good!!! Thank you!!!

[@shawnbolzofficial]

You're so welcome!

[@user-cy7hw2uq6i]

😊💯 thank you for this

[@jonioakley7243]

#myturn Thanks for this teaching!

[@bradc6199]

Experienced all of this.

[@adamkelm1043]

Well done. very balanced.

[@KB-zh4dx]

Okay I have to add this about people's pasts. God can call on anyone at any time to fulfill their purpose he has ordained for them. And We all fall short of the Glory of God. We all sin. Jesus chose Saul, who persecuted and killed Christians. Do not ever look at someone's past. But look at their current and future actions🙏✝️

[@biblewomen77]

This makes me think of what Peter said..be it far from you.when .talking against Jesus dying and Jesus said get behind me Satan.. Peter wasn't a false prophet but was ignorant and lack understanding..he thought he was encouraging Jesus..

[@samjohnphoto]

💥 Thank you!

[@shawnbolzofficial]

Thank you too!

[@hiskingdomrealitywithapost7042]

#my turn!

[@ruthgrace-sw5uj]

I felt pressured this morning by a minister praying for me to give or participate, I gave last month and received a good harvest but still , I have to be free to make my own decisions . I also had a leader try to tell me I'm supposed to marry them but I don't like them and feel horrified. I felt a power on their words and it's freaking me out , they are prophetic which makes it harder. I think God wanted me to listen to this message today, thank you #myturn

[@walkthroughmydestiny]

Great timely teaching brother! Thank you.

[@shawnbolzofficial]

Glad it was helpful!

[@kenmorse2488]

Wow! I lived through this in the 1980's - flashback time! Some of the things that happened in that church were good and I am able to appreciate the good that happened there. Lots of lessons to be sure and not to be forgot. I had a number of incredible experiences and it is where God taught me how to follow the Spirit in healing (which is different than praying for healing). So I take away the positive and learn from the negatives and leave them behind. There came a time to leave though and I am glad I did. Big lessons in control and manipulation and following God instead of man. Thanks

[@dustinevans]

❤❤❤

[@shawnbolzofficial]

Thank you for sowing!

[@janetbazley3550]

This is such a great word & so needed…unfortunately!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!!!

[@kareninkzn]

Very powerful!

[@gospelreign3611]

This time it's my turn, thank you Jesus for who you are what You've done on our behalf I renounce and repent of all church hurt, spiritual abuse affiliation for the sake of connection and I ask for you to renew my walk and connection accordingly within the body not my will but Yours Lord and help me walk talk pray and be authentic and vulnerable in church wo past fears or false authorities over me or from me. I plead the blood of Jesus Christ over this whole topic and thank you Jesus. In Jesus name amen

[@ruvarashengondo1368]

#my turn

[@nksperling]

..a tricky conversation..Shawn you got that right..just keep going back, pressing into Yahshua the Lion of Judah the Lamb of Elohim Rev.6:16 Rev. 15:3..whew!! Hallel AbbaYahweh for all His mercies...being a born-again Spirit-filled Spirit-led Torah-guarding German Jewish follower of the Lamb, going wherever He goes and for many years now 🤔..this Process of working out your OWN SALVATION in fear and trembling KNOWING Yahshua Messiah is the Author and Finisher of our trust in Him..He really is a Wonder and the Ruach HaKodesh Who leads us and guides us into all truth/ kol emet *Psalm 119:142 1Thessalonians 5:16-21 [16]Rejoice evermore. [17]Pray without ceasing. [18]In every thing give thanks: for this is the Will of Elohim in Messiah Yahshua concerning you. Matthew 12:50 [19]Quench not the Spirit. [20]Despise not prophesyings.(excellent comment) [21](Just..) Test all things; hold fast that which is good. . ...Hebrews 13:8 Yahshua Messiah the same yesterday, today and forever... *Psalms 119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your Torah is the truth... A Blessed Yom Noraim Days of Awe, that anointing for a much deeper repentance and intimacy with Him for all of us...BShem Rabbi Yahshua..

[@henrycatinella1748]

The more I listen the more I remember the shepherding movement

[@carriechapman2365]

Thank you Shawn. Have walked out of Churches that should have had the word, Beelzebub over the door.

[@danikanelles9924]

Thank you SO MUCH.

[@SpecialK711]

EXCELLENT MESSAGE and BEAUTIFULLY STATED!!❤

[@TBird5790]

Thank you Shawn!

[@KB-zh4dx]

Also if you read or hear something happening in the future do not believe it's not true. Because it's hard to believe. Pray for decernment. Pray for God's truth. Because you may be fooled with the spirit of unbelief and miss a message God wanted you to see or know🙏✝️

[@ruthdonaldson5663]

I had this it’s taken so long to trust and heal

[@lesliecanniff3181]

This is such a right on right now teaching! Thank you!

[@DianeBlom]

Thank-you for your message this is a timely word I recieve this word with thanksgiving amen

[@kathywalton4273]

Love your little commentators 😂.Seriously, it was very confirming to me ,thanks dear brother Shawn.

[@donnam.8619]

Really good message Shawn… thank you for sharing.

[@joshuarees4342]

Shish! Uncomfortable, but helpful! I think these sorts of things can sometimes unknowingly get into life, when a little too "occupied" or in a time of change when internally I'm not feeling the same as I would normally :(. I love these checks, when I realise I've made some decisions I shouldn't have, and can identify them with Jesus clearly, and get a good "clear out," and become simple, fresh and clean again :). Thank You Jesus! And thank you Shawn! :)

[@ipetert5372]

Someone who used to invite me to bible study stopped doing it and unfriended me on fb. I knew something was wrong. He's a false teacher. He has a ministry and disciples with focus on youth. He baptizes em in water and spirit together with his ex pastor. He sensed that I would expose him and cancelled me fast. I pray that all would have discerning of spirits in operation!!

[@grannyinthesticks]

But what about him is false? What is he doing or teaching that is wrong, fake, dangerous, or unbiblical ?

[@TheresaCollins-u3s]

Thanks for this WORD 🎉

[@stefanthalen5932]

Good message, I have experienced what you shared. I like to leave a suggestion please. When you edit, please leave a breathing pause here and there, as you speak. ❤

[@jeanne-mareslabbert8380]

#my turn.

[@shawnbourque6746]

#myturn - a very timely word. Thanks Shawn.

[@JesusJewel-finder8]

Thank you so much I need this teaching just experienced a situation that seemed like a dream come true but the Holy Ghost intervened and it was cut short two-and-a-half months, into the ministry which has some phenomenal generals that's passed on and some still alive and there's bound to be a couple of bad apples in a large groups such as this from my hometown I love all of them still. It just was not my calling. This teaching is so crucial I'm excited to watch God bless you

[@darrylphillips1215]

Any prophet that ask for money stay away from. They operate out of greed only to benefit themselves. They are rude and pushy to get what they want from you.

[@bobbyboggs827]

Some say that you are false. 😅take head you don't bite and devour each other 😂❤

[@lorireed4042]

#myturn Thank you!

[@donaldkeyes-yp9en]

I've been a believer since May,1989. This is the first time whether live,on radio,on t.v., on tape,on CD, online(until now) that the human spirit can operate in witchcraft without the demonic attachment until that person is attached to of an unclean spirit moving them in witchcraft. Sean , in essence is speaking of this. In the law , Deuteronomy does reference this spiritual issue, which I was aware of for years. Nobody replaces the Holy Spirit. As romans 8:14 says "for as many as are led by the spirit of God,they are the sons of God. Notice the qualifier "for as many as are led ?

[@Jnni3]

#myturn thank you for this🙏