Walk In Integrity

Walk in Integrity

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

OPENING: - Now by this being New Year’s Ever, and the last Sunday before we enter a New Year there are some preachers who will try to give a prophetic word for 2024. Some will come up with a catchy cliché like God will open doors in 2024, well I don’t have any catch cliché for the upcoming year, I don’t have a prophetic word from God saying all your troubles will end in the coming year and all your financial needs will be met. However, I do believe that this coming year will be a year of breakthrough for the church. We will breakthrough lies, breakthrough hypocrisies, breakthrough false teachers and preachers, breakthrough the masquerade and propaganda of the false church and move closer to God and advance His kingdom not for everyone, but for those that desire the meat of His word more than the gift of His hand.

Today I feel directed by God to address the subject of Integrity. Whether you are a preacher, an employee, a student, a toilet bowl cleaner, or whatever you may be integrity is vital. As children of God, we must walk in integrity understanding that any lack of integrity will destroy the purpose of what is to be accomplished.

Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations”. Now let me change this a little, not to distort or compromise the Word of God, but to Hermeneutically expound upon the Word of God and because many people get stuck on a title and forget all about purpose. “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee with purpose”. We must understand God has a purpose for us and as we draw closer to Him, He reveals that purpose to us, and it is our responsibility to fulfill that purpose with integrity. Before we were formed in the belly, He sanctified us and ordained us to fulfill that purpose. WATCH THIS: - The devil is not concerned about your title, he doesn’t care if you are the chief prelate, apostle, bishop, pastor, or the one that gave their life to Jesus and was Baptized yesterday it doesn’t matter to him at all. He only understands that if you realize your purpose he will be defeated. If he can cause you to stain, corrupt, nullify, or lose your purpose he wins. Before you were saved if you fall, mess up, don’t operate with integrity you were not criticized to much, but when you make the proclamation and say Lord, I’m yours there becomes a level of expectation that we must walk in in order to fulfill the purpose and we must walk in integrity.

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SCRIPTURES: - 2 Timothy 2:1-4, Jeremiah 1:5, Haggai 2:6-9

I truly believe as we enter 2024 that there is a shaking taking place within the Body of Christ, God is trying to get the attention of His people saying wake up and come out of her, come out of the lies, the hypocrisies, the false apostate church, stop having a form of godliness and live holy and walk in integrity. Haggai 2:6-9 says, “For thus saith the Lord of host; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come; and I will fill the house with glory, saith the Lord of host. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of host. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of host; and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of host”. For far to long we have been under the bondage of religiosity, propaganda, lies, false preachers, false prophets, false evangelist, false Bishops, and false so-called Apostles that act like the Pharisees making their position, pockets, and titles something and placing upon the people to observe and do bind heavy burdens and grievous upon the shoulders of the people but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. So, I believe God is shaking the church to open the eyes of the people of God to come out from among her, the false apostate church, and move closer to God and advance His kingdom while exposing what Isaiah 56:10 calls “Dumb Dogs” operating in the pulpit.

Sadly, many people are duped by charlatans and shysters because they can speak eloquently with enticing words selling propaganda building peoples hopes and dreams on the idea of prosperity. They have mastered the homiletical techniques of peaching, but their message lacks power, sure they can stir emotional responses in people having them believe they are being slain in the spirit under a holy anointing but they themselves cannot walk in integrity. Any good cheerleading squad can get you excited about the game but they themselves can’t play and that is unfortunately what is happening in the apostate church today.