Light of Alexandria

Identifying the Influence of the god of Mammon and dealing with it.

Mammon is not money, money is just a tool it uses. Mammon was a philistine spirit that also operated through the Pharaohs in Egypt and very much operates in institutional christianity today. Its more about control than it is about money and seeks to enslave God’s people in lack and poverty as a means to control them.

Mammon using the lust of the eyes and the pride of life temptations will seem to have a promise of nice things, the promise of wealth, as it draws people into its grip. It will use even God’s word or God’s promises out of context and way out of proportion to what God’s provision is intending, and out of line with God’s relational purposes.

Until the crunch comes and he starts to put the control aspects to work in your life.

When circumstances or other people are saying to you, “work harder to just survive”, you need to back off, submit to God and take authority over mammon, loose all your business, ministry etc and declare the Lordship of Jesus Christ in all these things. Then to walk it out declare increase for all your work that you can continue to serve God for loves sake.

Mammon was what was motivating Pharaoh when Moses went to challenge him to let the people of God go. Mammon will try and resist you and you do need to push it through every day until you see the changes and blessing flowing again.

When you are taking authority over mammon there is a thing called bast can get involved. Here is the information on that.

Further to…..

When you start to hit this god of mammon, in your own life and those you are responsible for, you need to understand it is a major principality you are enforcing God’s victory against, and it does not give up without a fight, and can make circumstances look pretty difficult. There needs to be lots of prayer, and lots of focus on Jesus.

God has been saying to me “face this mountain look it square in the eye, then in the same direction look past it to Me,  (Him Jesus), and I’ll help you expose this and banish it from My people, so He istaking us for an interesting ride, ”

Lets talk about bast or basjar,

As Apostle Luise who has seen this thing, has told me, it looks like a cat, it stalks like a cat looking for weaknesses.

Most people who have experienced it feel they are being stalked but can’t explain it other than that. Some have expressed they feel judgment is stalking them. I think this is because it likes to give

the illusion of superiority to the one or ones it is working through. Pride is satans weapon so it makes sense it would also be used by these demons.

When you start to hit the god of mammon stuff, the pressure increases as it resists you and you will find at your job, in your ministry, you are demanded of, to work harder for no increase. Or the debt squeeze will be on, that sort of thing.

You will need to challenge this and stand against it with prayer and with those who are applying the pressure, walk in love with them but challenge the attitudes etc.

Well when you enforce by the grace of God, (Jesus), and the power of Holy Spirit and speak to this resistance, it must let Gods people go, as Moses did to Pharaoh, there is a good chance bast will start to play her wiley games to try and distract you from transgressing the principality, of mammon.

It will take a concerted effort. Your group need to be in unity in standing and fighting. Any other prayer support you can get, call or contact them and get it.

Alternatively God will have you close ranks with those who are in unity, and you may need a few closed prayer meetings, you will see why in a sec.

Please take this to God for His specific strategies in your life personally, as any and all victory is only walked out in relationship with Him, its His victory, formulas don’t do it, relationship does.

This is the only reason we look at bast so you can discern and deal with what it does to and through your people/circumstances, if it can find your/their weaknesses.

Bast was the thing that empowered the magicians in Moses experience, when he was challenging Pharaoh. Take note, it is illusionary, its tools are limited but it was believed by the Egyptians and others to be the protector and avenger of the King/Pharaoh/god of mammon. It will mock you behind your back, don’t let people with a mocking attitude affect you.

Can manifest little demons that look like cobras, and empower people to perform lieing signs and wonders.

Some intercessors were contacting me saying they could see snakes or cobras closing in and surrounding me, and God was saying ignore them. (Not the intercessors, ignore the cobras they couldn’t touch me).

Remember its goal is to distract.

It was also referred to as the diety of ointments, perfumes. (Can create an illusion of distracting smells) -

As mammon imitates Creator God, bast is interested in imitating women’s rightful place and attacking women’s ability to produce Godly intimacy with their husbands. Or godly intimacy with God. Brings confusion in relationships.

She has also been referred to as able to bestow fertility, children, and make women pregnant.

You may find women either starting to have problems with their reproductive areas, or intimacy areas with their husbands. bast is the one who instigated in Catholicism that *** in marriage was only for procreation, part of a design to destroy proper intimacy within marriages.

basts the avenger, also in references has been referred to as the eye of ra ….. was believed to be able to rip out the hearts of transgressors and deliver to the feet of Pharaoh.

If you start to get heart symptoms or those who are close to your heart, start to experience all sorts of problems, and yet no medical evidence it is an illusion, the goal still is to distract, or avenge.

If someone is a worry wort in your group or already has weaknesses in the area of heart it could try to take them out.

The Greeks associated her with artemis who is the virgin huntress.

It likes to come with the illusion of grace, strength, speed, followed by cruelty and brute strength. (Like a big wild cat does). If you let her she can create problems.

Tries to get people to think of themselves more highly than they ought, and reactionary with who ever is coming against the mammon. Tries to throw up anything it can to cause distractions and stop you from pursuing Jesus rule in the areas which you are walking out of the clutches of mammon.

So what do you do?

Take authority over bast, in the name of Jesus, and all the effects of bast in your family, your fellowship, or wherever you have identified it is working. You can tell it to lay down, back off whatever God leads you to do. When you break the effects off your people if they have allowed it great influence they may get deliverance happen, just pray them through.

Refuse to be distracted from your current purpose, of course you have to deal with things, you may even need to confront and do deliverance,  but as soon as you do come back on track in whatever strategy God has given you of enforcing the merits of the blood of Jesus in all the areas of provision, finances walking out of debt and lack. Breaking mammons grip on your life and the lives of those you are responsible for.

Praise God, our Creator our Lord, in fact Lord of heaven and earth, He is mighty and raising a people who are mighty with banners on. His banner over us is love, our banner over each other is a decision to love with His love.

Notice in Pharaohs case, even though mammon was the major principality, for it to find access to resist Moses through Pharaoh, God had to first harden Pharaohs heart.

Remember this, a hard heart in a leader gives mammon access. Please all keep our hearts soft toward God and those He has entrusted for us to be in relationship with. Pharaoh and Moses were step brothers.

Fruits of the work of mammon – Volunteer or forced labor?

- Lets smash the slavery of Institutional thinking, by acknowledging the attitude “Its ok to use up people to build an institution, or my vision, with no thought as to the cost to them personally, their family, and their generations.”

When this ugly enslaving and poverty producing attitude arises in the body of Christ we need to see it, refuse to submit to it, and certainly resist allowing it in our own life of leadership.

You say “I am not much of a leader I have only a few following me, mostly family”

You are still a leader and its most important to establish right leadership with your family first and foremost.

The saddest use of people to build something for selfish purposes, comes in families.

It is not only in parents that will use their children and expect their children to give time and talents with no remuneration, going a lot further than the training of a child, to an extreme …….

it is also when children have fostered an entitlement attitude to take advantage of or take for granted what a parent gives to them, not only in monetary terms but time effort, advice and talent as well.

So lets not think we are exempt and let the Spirit of God shine His light on our hearts as we look at this subject.

This is another aspect of how the god of mammon has weaved its ugly hold through out the church and keeps God’s people in ******* as it leads them into the trap of poverty. Mammon is a hard taskmaster and will not let you go, you must recognize its hold and determine to apply the blood of the lamb and the word of your testimony as you walk out of its clutches into the favor and blessing of God, the promised land available to each and every Christian.

Recently I was talking to a minister and he was angry because the church his son went to kept expecting him to work on his days off using his skill talent and resources to fix the church and even though they could afford to pay him, they have repeatedly just used him.

I thought well yes that’s how institutional church has always operated, so it is no surprise is it? However, God arrested my thought life and said “let me show you something.”

A few days later the young man in question came to our home for some advice from my husband. I was doing some work at home. He asked me what I was doing, and when I told him I made reference that he may be interested in looking into being a client. His answer was this, “if I

was going to do that, I have a brother in the Lord who would do it and then give me all the commission he would earn in the deal, so that’s what I would do”.

I left it at that however, God spoke to me later about it in reference to what his father had been angry about. You see I work for a wage in the same industry that most work for commission, so if I was to do that, it would mean him expecting me to take the wage that is allocated to pay our bills, and give it to him, in order to get his business.

The commission from his friend, is that mans wage, his living. What this young man was saying was that he would have no problem in building his wealth portfolio by using the talents and things his brother in the Lord does to earn a living, and then accept the mans wages as a bonus. He saw no problem with this. Yet if I asked him to come and work on something for me, then the income he is rightfully due, pay back to me when his boss paid him, he would be horrified, at the very least his father would be angry.

The expectation of this father was cranky about, and the way the local church used his son, was really in this instance an outworking of an attitude the boy carnied, and he was opened to mammon using him, because he harbored and sowed mammon attitudes in dealings with others.

In the Kingdom of God community, we should look to bless the Christian brother and pay them even more than we would pay someone who is not a brother in the Lord, for a good job done. This attitude change would lift us from a downward spiral into and upward spiral. Why?

Money is a means of exchange, it is a tool. When we pay someone well we are saying you have worked hard and done a good job – your time is worth spending, you are worth paying to achieve something here, I appreciate your efforts. Initially if you have not the money, when asking for the job to be done offer what you do have as payment, somehow show appreciation, value and honor to the person.

I am not talking about having to pay everyone who ever offers to do you a favor, it is one thing to receive an offer of a favor, quite another to expect on a constant and ongoing basis, time out of another person’s life, and what they have as a means of support for them and their household, to be just given to you for your benefit with no appreciation or honorarium to them.

When a person does a good job and then gets paid well for it has an aspect of dignity in it, it inspires them to work harder and achieve more. Even expel great effort in times needed for forward thrust in a team.

The opposite is what has been happening in Christendom for many years, and has the effect of reducing personal dignity and self worth, removing inspiration to work and expel effort, and after a while not want to be a part of a team as you are struggling to survive let alone feel you have anything to contribute to a team effort, you feel you must withdraw and can’t understand really why or how you became so apathetic about the things of God.

Jesus said you cannot serve the god of mammon and the Spirit of God.

Egypt was blessed by Joseph the man of God who by the Spirit of God helped put them in a very good position prior to a major food shortage right across the land.

Joseph brought his family to Egypt where they were blessed and cared for in time of famine, however, the god of mammon who worked in and through the Egyptian Pharaohs eventually brought the Hebrew people into slavery. Until God brought Moses to say “let God’s people go”

If someone gives us of their time and asks for nothing in return, (if on an occasional basis and at their instigation), the dynamic of dignity, honor and respect is still retained. However, when it is

expected over long periods of time, not appreciated, and worse still a requirement for acceptance, yet affirmation and the acceptance held at a distance, never quite being achieved, it is very destructive to the human soul.

The destructive thing that takes place is similar to when a person is held in slavery.

DOES SLAVERY STILL EXIST (Taken from the Australian Prayer network newsletter that arrived in my in box today as I prepared this)

(Editors note: At last weekends Solemn Assembly we were reminded that injustice was called sin by God. People’s inhumanity to others is as prevalent in our generation as it was 200 years ago. We must recognize that as sin and take every step we can to purge it from our society.)

“What is slavery? – A slave, by definition, is anyone who is forced to work through mental or physical threat, owned by an ‘employer’ who uses or threatens abuse, bought and sold as a property and suffers restrictions on freedom of movement.”

Stop here for a moment and reflect with me -

This happens both ways in some church communities not just in the slave trade.

Many people feel the emotional manipulation within their church to perform and serving God is only found in the context of serving the church. If they try to retain some personal dignity with their situation, they are treated differently and even suffer rejection as the tools of mammon come to bear to bring control over the people.

Many Pastors and leaders of churches have been treated like slaves by those they serve. The people only want o give the pastor enough to just survive and very often will demand more and more from the leader, for no more remuneration.

Many people with servants hearts wanting to bless God and His people in church congregations have been treated like this by the clergy.

Now read on from the Australian Prayer News letter…..

These are ordinary people – sons, daughters, mothers and fathers – who end up in horrific circumstances such as:

Bonded labour

This category includes people who have been tricked into taking a loan

out of desperation, sometimes to buy medicine for a sick child. To

repay the loan, they are forced to work long hours, up to 365 days a

year. They are given basic food and shelter but they may never be able

to pay off the debt, which can be passed on to the next generation.

Sadly, it means children are born into a life of slavery.

Forced labour

Adults and children who are illegally recruited by individuals or

companies and forced to work under threat of violence or other severe

penalties.

Early or forced marriage

In some countries, young women and girls are forced to get married at

a young age, against their wishes. Many find themselves in a life of

servitude, often accompanied by physical violence.

Of course we know about Human trafficking – and the like. Children, women, even men, from impoverished communities are sold and treated like commodities, transported in secret across international borders into various forms of labour and prostitution.

Why does slavery still exist?

The reason is always money and greed. Labour costs money, but it’s a lot cheaper to steal people’s labour than pay them.

Lets stop there …….

Allow me to describe some realities to you that happen in our churches…..

“Lee we thought we were going to be assistant pastors, however, after selling up and moving at great cost, it turned out he just wanted someone who could play keyboard, we worked as best we could but seemed to go downhill after that, over the years its just got unbearable”

“Lee I heard the message that Jesus says come as you are, so I did, within weeks I was put in the music team but then it started, to be good enough for God I had to start to change and the rules got harder and harder and I could never quite make it, or give enough or work hard enough to be accepted. The time I spent keeping fit was considered an idol so had to give that up, I started to hide my sin for fear of rejection.”

“The people who leave this church will end up eating with the pigs, they will lose God’s blessing and be cursed”

“Even though you are working for the church as a volunteer, that time you are giving is an offering on top of your tithes and offerings, you can’t expect God to call that time the same as money, its time, not money”

The same person when asked for help….. “time is money don’t waste my time”.

“Pastor you cant expect the church people to pay you a decent wage, where is your faith, can’t you believe for the money to care for your family, and serve us because you love God and His people. A pastor is supposed to be a servant”

A glaring example: A woman working as full time secretary for a ministry who could not afford to pay her, as a result she couldn’t afford school shoes for her children, nor did she have any time to earn the money for their shoes. Yet the Pastor, when I visited was very proud to show me the newest high tech equipment for Sunday services that would have cost many thousands of dollars.

Pastors conferences teach that “people are your greatest resource” and “congregations commit to keeping their leaders humble.”

OK Lets continue ……..

Using deception, abduction or force, human traffickers exploit the situation, and many vulnerable people, especially children, end up as human cargo destined for a life of slavery far from home.

Slavery must be stopped.

Yes it must ……..

I say we must start to see the slavery mentality in the church as a whole, and it starts with identifying wrong attitudes in “my way of thinking” then we take it from there.

Do I think it is ok to use people to build up my resources for my ministry, or do I view any resources God gives me as tools to use to bless people?

Do I see the success of my ministry as so important that I will view my people as resources for that success?

Do I partake of activities within a congregation of people without taking any responsibility for the costs involved?

Do I feel entitled to go to meetings and enjoy the services of ministers without giving of myself or my resources in some way of remuneration for their time and work?

We need to turn it around, refuse to submit to mammon and its principles, and start to submit to the living God, Jesus Christ, by His Spirit begin the upward cycle out of debt and poverty into abundant blessing, and being able to give out of our overfolw as He gives us more than enough to honor others with.

Love and prayers for you the reader to see how to apply this in your own life as I say “mammon by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony you must let God’s people go.”

God’s word on the issue – “a workman is worthy of a wage”

“don’t muzzle the ox that is treading out the grain”

- “if a man wont work he doesn’t eat”

- “you will reap what you sow”

- “you are the head and not the tail above only and not beneath” (so is your brother and

sister in the Lord, treat them that way).

- honor your Father and Mother – (guess what giving money to someone is a form of honor try it with your parents sometime).

- someone who does not take care of his own family is worse than an infidel

- give honor to whom honor is due.

I’m sure when you think about it Holy Spirit will be able to bring many scriptures to mind.

So what do we do from here?

Examine our hearts and attitudes, repent wherever God shines His light, and start the upward spiral with Him.

“Mammon you will let God’s people go, we loose the body of Christ from

your grip and we will not go away back off or be distracted, from

freedom for all who will, abundance for all who will, grace and favor

for all who will, claim the merits of the precious blood of the lamb.

bast you cannot deceive or throw up the illusions, we not only ignore

your illusions we also enforce against you all of the merits of the

blood of Jesus and every effect of your meddling we destroy, and claim

back all you had hoped to take from us as we continue to pursue our

Jesus. Jesus is our Ruler, our King, our one and only Master, we thank

you Jesus for Your victory and that we can continue to walk in it.”

Re v Lee Bacon