Patricia King - Cutting Off The Finger of Accusation

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Summary

Patricia King shares a powerful message about the vital importance of love as the true measure of spiritual maturity, drawing from 1 Corinthians 13 where Paul emphasizes that without love, all gifts and efforts amount to nothing. She recounts a vision from July 11th where she saw the "finger of accusation" being cut off, warning that the enemy is intensifying attacks of condemnation, especially on leaders, to cause division and despair. The preacher stresses that God is holding back a greater outpouring of His glory until His people are firmly positioned in love toward one another. She distinguishes between true accusation, which follows biblical guidelines for restoration (like Matthew 18), and false accusation, which is rooted in lies, mixture, or unfounded judgment. Ultimately, she calls the church to reject the accuser's tactics, repent where needed, and manifest Christ's love, believing this will prepare us for the coming revival.

Our Calling to Manifest Christ's Love
Thank you, Lord. You know we have such a rich invitation from the Lord to be as He is in the world, and that each and every one of us, because we carry Christ inside of us, makes the world a better place. So we are the salt, we are the light, we are Christ in this world that we live in. When those in any community look at the church within the community, they should see love, kindness, patience, generosity, and blessing.

You know, in our little town here, we have thousands—thousands who know Jesus Christ. Imagine if all of us were to manifest the fullness of His love everywhere we go: in the shopping centers, when we’re getting gas, when we’re in our school classes, not only in church but everywhere we go, in the restaurants, and with one another. Every part of our day can be just letting Jesus spill out everywhere, and the world would be a better place.

The Mandate to Fill the Earth with His Glory
We have the opportunity, the invitation, and the mandate from the Lord to fill the earth with the knowledge of His glory, because the King of glory lives within us. He wants us to manifest His love to one another. He said, “By this, the world will know that you are My disciples, by the love that you have for one another.” And then we extend that love out and pour it into the communities we live in. It’s so beautiful and so sweet.

Last week, I shared a vision that the Lord gave me earlier this month about the measuring line of love. He said that He is not looking at your spiritual maturity according to your gifts, your talents, or your abilities—how well you preach, how well you can sing, or write songs—but it’s how well do you love.

Love as the Greatest Aim
In 1 Corinthians chapter 13, the first three verses state that if we don’t have love, we actually have nothing, and we are nothing, and it profits nothing. So love has to be our greatest aim. If we go on and do ministry, or careers, or parenting—whatever we do—if love is not our greatest aim, then we’re just beating the air. We are on this quest to learn to love.

I believe that the Lord spoke to me this month as He was showing me that vision, and I believe this was the word of the Lord: He is holding back what He wants to pour out until we are positioned in love. If He were to pour out greater power, a greater sense of His presence and glory, but we aren’t positioned in love to move into it, it would build pride, animosity, jealousy—everything that would self-destruct.

Positioned for the Coming Outpouring
So He’s saying, “I want you to be positioned for what I’m going to pour out in the future.” The days are coming when we will see the greatest outpouring. We are in the place of giving birth to that right now, but He’s saying in order to experience this, we must be positioned as He is in this world, and that is love—especially towards each other.

Today, I want to share an extended message from last week. It’s another vision I received on July 11th of this year, about the cutting off of the finger of accusation. Accusation is a violation of love, especially when it’s an accusation delivered in cruelty, bitterness, hate, anger, animosity, or offense. It is contrary to the nature of God’s love. I want to unpack this with you a little bit right now.

Preparing for the New Hebrew Year
Of course, we are preparing this whole message in anticipation of the new year on the Hebrew calendar. It’s 5782, coming up early this year. From September 6th to 8th is Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Hebrew civil calendar. We know that this whole decade is the decade of the pey, a Hebrew letter, which means mouth. It is a focus on the mouth, and we want to be those who create with our words and not destroy. The number two has a lot to do with creating, and we will go into that at some other time.

I want to encourage you, if you haven’t read it yet, to get the prophetic manifesto for a new era. You can find it on the patriciaking.com website or on Amazon—wherever. I would love for you to get that book if you haven’t gone through it yet. Even if you have, go through the chapters afresh for this year, because when you position yourself in alignment with what God is saying for a given season, you will abide in the blessing of that word.

Alignment Brings Blessing
You’ll be carried through. We’ve seen it year after year as God has revealed things to us. We’ve prepared our hearts, tucked ourselves inside those words, and we have been blessed beyond measure every single year that we have done this. The Lord made us aware of this many years ago—we’ve been doing this for many years—but let me just read to you.

Oh, and by the way, if you order the prophetic manifesto book off of the patriciaking.com site, I am including two visions and the decrees from those visions. I’ve just added an extra copy of it in the book. If you order right now, this month, you will receive that as well, which will help you in your devotion time and prayers.

The Vision of the Finger of Accusation
Here’s the vision I received on July 11th. I’m just going to read it: I had a vision of a finger of accusation being cut off. In this season, the accuser of the brethren is going to target believers, especially leaders in the body. Many will feel like giving up and laying down their assignments and ministries due to the intensity of the condemnation and accusation that strikes at their souls.

How many of you have already experienced that this last month? The enemy is hounding you, saying, “Just give up.” I have heard this from so many people this month. They feel like throwing in the towel, like giving up—they say, “I can’t do it.” That is a demonic plot against your destiny.

The Enemy's Strategy Exposed
I saw the enemy taking small issues and blowing them up out of proportion, causing those he targeted to feel helpless, condemned, and hopeless. Some will fall into this trap and will walk away from their calling and assignments. But God is calling His people to rise up and move forward. Make the wrongs right through true repentance and reconciliation where needed, but do not receive condemnation or accusation.

The Lord also says that His people must not try to hide or cover transgressions in this season, but to bring them into the light. If believers try to cover or conceal transgressions, the accuser will have legal right to assault, to tear down, and to destroy. It is better for an individual to admit wrongdoing than to have exposure from others reveal their deceptive hearts and harmful actions.

Repentance Cuts Off Accusation
Some leaders in this coming year, following exposure, will step down from their ministries in order to bring their lives into true repentance and right standing with God and His people, and in order to receive healing and deliverance. Do not give place to the enemy (Ephesians 4:27), for the accuser is lurking. Transgression gives him power over you. Repentance, humility, and alignment with truth will cut off the cruel finger of accusation.

Again, I have that written out and will include it for those who purchase the book this month. We will also try to get it online for you as well. I want to look at just two aspects of accusation: true accusation and false accusation.

Understanding True Accusation
True accusation is based on facts, evidence, and accurate witness. In our judicial system, this is why different cases are brought to court with evidence showing the accuracy of the facts of what happened, so there can be an accurate judgment at the end of it. In Matthew 18:15–17, we have instruction in the Word—the Word will always give you instruction for life on every single thing that you need.

It says, “If your brother sins, go and show him his fault. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two more with you so that on the testimony of two or three witnesses, every matter may be confirmed. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If he refuses even to listen to the church, he is to be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.”

Biblical Steps for Correction
We are looking at a case here of a true charge against someone needing correction, where their sinful action, their offense, needs to be brought into the light. We see four instructions given to us in this scripture. The first is always to go in private, non-publicly, to the person with the evidence. You go with the evidence, not just with discernment, not with “Well, I feel this” or “I feel that.” No, you go with evidence and say, “I have this evidence brought to me, and I need to bring it to you because I’m concerned. I want to gain you.”

That has to be our heart: to see that freedom. You bring the evidence and show them their fault so they can repent, turn away from that, make the wrongs right, receive forgiveness, healing, and reconcile the situation. That’s number one. Number two is, if that reaching out was not responded to or was denied even in the face of actual evidence, then you go in private with more witnesses—two or three witnesses that can testify to the accuracy of the situation so the matter may be confirmed.

When Private Efforts Fail
Number three: if there is no response from the private confrontation after numerous attempts, that person is a danger to the body and to others. An unrepentant situation can hurt people severely, especially in serious issues like cheating, sexual abuse, or immorality—taking advantage of people’s finances. It can be very severe spiritual abuse, and it says that if there is no response from private confrontation, then it needs to be made public.

Unfortunately, we’ve seen a lot of that in the last couple of years, with many leaders in and out of the body of Christ harming people behind the scenes, and God reaching out to them for years before it was ever made public, with absolutely no turning, no repentance. Then it had to be brought public. Why? So that the body can be warned.

The Purpose of Public Exposure
Now, once the body’s warned, if you want to jump into the pot, that’s your choice, or you can come free from it and stay safe. It raises the bar, and the purpose of doing this is so that everyone can make the decision they want to make when it comes to that point of being made public. You need to understand that it took a lot to get it there; it didn’t happen overnight.

I’ve known of situations where it took over a decade, or even a couple of decades, to come to light. When it finally went public, people were shocked, but it had been going on behind the scenes for decades. We need to understand that when it goes public, we need to fear the Lord, look at the situation carefully—not take it lightly—and not become accusative towards those bringing it into the open. We should really weigh it and make a decision aligned with righteousness to keep the body safe from further offense and harm.

Treating the Unrepentant
The fourth point is, if the offender does not respond with repentance and reconciliation, then they are to be treated as pagans who are without Christ, like sinners and tax collectors. How do you treat a sinner? You love them; you reach out and try to bring them to the Lord, but you separate from them. You are amongst them in that you love them, shine your light for them, but you don’t live as they do. You don’t join them in their sin because it is contrary to the nature of Christ.

False accusation, on the other hand, is an allegation where the alleged events did not occur—in other words, someone fabricated it. A false accusation is an allegation that mixes descriptions of events that actually happened with other events that did not occur, creating a mixture.

The Danger of False Accusation
The Bible has a lot of teaching on mixture. When a true accusation is to come forth, it has to be based on facts and cannot be a false witness—you cannot bear false witness. I remember being involved in a situation a while back—there were all kinds of accusations coming forth, and I had to sort it out. I remember talking to a few of the people we were working with on this project. I said we have to be very, very careful not to bear false witness. There cannot be details in this that are not true. They all have to be true; you can’t mix up the true with the false.

An accusation that mixes descriptions of events, a little bit here and a little bit there, with a little bit of truth in it but also a little bit of lie is a false accusation. The error mixed with truth renders it false. It’s also an allegation that’s based on perceived judgments of character or events that are not fully factual.

Examples and Warnings
I think we all hear this at times. For example, we just went through a very messy election year—and we saw accusations all the time in the media from one politician toward another. When the fact-checkers came out, many of those accusations were completely false. There was judgment made on a person’s character and decisions that weren’t even true, so it’s a false accusation.

The Lord wants to cut off that finger of false accusation and use His church to do it. A false accusation can occur as a result of intentional lying on the part of the accuser or unintentionally due to confabulation, which means an inaccurate memory or perception of a situation. We must be very cautious of what we call discernment.

Discernment vs. Facts
I’ve heard many Christians say, “I just know because I’m discerning; I’m discerning that person is false,” or “That person is evil.” We have to be very, very careful with discernment. I’ve even heard Christians say, “Well, where was their discernment?” You can’t just make an accusation based on discernment; there has to be facts. If something is genuinely wrong, there will be facts that provide evidence.

Even in the system of justice, they know that you can’t just say, “Well, I think they are evil; therefore, let’s throw them in jail for life.” It doesn’t work that way. Bearing false witness is mentioned many times in the Bible as something very dangerous and severe.

Biblical Condemnation of False Witness
It says in Exodus 20:16, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” It is the ninth commandment of the ten commandments. In Exodus 23:1, spreading a false accusative report is associated with being aligned with the wicked, willing to do violence to others (Psalm 27:12), and sowing discord among brothers (Proverbs 6:19). The Bible calls bearing false witness a lie (Proverbs 14:5). It compares a man who bears false witness against his neighbor to a violent weapon (Proverbs 25:18). It is a very serious matter.

I would love to see my life, your life, and the lives of everyone in the body free from receiving or giving false accusation. I would love to see us all just like Jesus—loving each other, believing the best in each other, speaking the truth in love when it’s needed, bringing exposure when needed, but being careful how we handle things in this hour so we can demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ.

Insight from "The Final Quest"
I was recently reminded of a book I read many years ago—many of you have probably read it too—called “The Final Quest” by Rick Joyner. I was looking up some of its parts recently, and the first chapter is called “The Hordes of Hell Are Marching.” This whole book, I highly recommend, as I received so much from it when I first read it, and I am receiving a lot from it again right now.

I truly believe it is a prophetic word for this hour, and I’m just going to read to you parts of it that I pulled from the first chapter because I think this vision he saw speaks to the warning I’m receiving from the Lord regarding accusation right now.

The Demonic Army Described
He writes that the demonic army he saw was so large it stretched as far as he could see. It was separated into divisions, each carrying a different banner. The foremost divisions marched under the banners of pride, self-righteousness, respectability, selfish ambition, unrighteous judgment, and jealousy. There were many more of these evil divisions beyond his scope of vision, but those in the vanguard of this terrible horde from hell seemed to be the most powerful.

The leader of this army was the accuser of the brethren himself. The weapons carried by this horde were also named; the swords were named intimidation, the spears were named treachery, and the arrows were named accusation, gossip, slander, and fault-finding.

The Strategy of Division
The primary strategy of this army was to cause division at every possible level of relationship—between churches, congregations with their pastors, husbands and wives, children and parents, and even children with each other. This assignment of the accusative spirit—this horde of hell—was to bring division, to get everyone fighting against one another.

The most shocking part of this vision was that this horde was not riding on horses, but primarily on Christians. What was happening was that the demons were riding on the backs of Christians, who didn’t even know it, facilitating the demonic work while they vomited all over the place.

Christians Used by the Enemy
As he looked far to the rear of this army, he saw the entourage of the accuser himself. He began to understand his strategy, and he was amazed at its simplicity: he knew that a house divided could not stand. His army represented an attempt to bring such division to the church that it would be powerless and ineffective. It was apparent that the only way the accuser could do this was to use Christians to war against their own brethren.

I believe we need to be very watchful of this in this hour. There are so many divisions in the body of Christ, being displayed today on social media. You don’t need to look too far to see Christians bashing one another with words.

Guarding Our Words in This Decade
Remember, this is the decade of the pey, and our mouth is really important. We must align our mouths with the Lord’s words. We are witnessing intellectual bashing over doctrinal interpretations that demean one another merely because of differing views on Scripture. While I acknowledge that when interpretations deviate to a point where Jesus is no longer recognized as Lord, that must be addressed, we need to approach it with humility, care, and a heart of compassion, lest we fall into the trap of accusation before we confront.

We should not be accusative, but rather, welcome discussion and accountability in love. Recently, we saw accusations against those obeying God’s instructions, including prophets who humbly addressed their mistakes, only to be met with judgment over their motives.

Following Jesus' Example
It can be incredibly disheartening—yet the Spirit of the Lord is urging us to remember our purpose. Jesus faced accusations; He never lost sight of His identity or mission. He went to the cross, offered forgiveness, and paid the price for our sins. He was raised from the dead and sits at the right hand of the Father, empowering us to be as He is in this world.

Let us strive to be agents of love and redemption. For as long as there is breath, there is hope. Let us speak the truth in love, addressing wrongs, seeking restoration, and uplifting one another in Christ. We cannot become tools of the accuser but must be representatives of His love.

Decree Over the Congregation
As I conclude, I want to decree this over you: I decree in Jesus’ name that I overcome the accuser by the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony. I do not give place to the enemy in my life. I repent from my wrongdoings and receive forgiveness and cleansing from all unrighteousness. I will make it right with those I have offended or transgressed against. I will live my life in purity and transparency before God and man.

I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus because of His great grace and glory. I do not believe the devil’s lies and accusations against me for the Lord is with me. I am hidden in Him; His weapons formed against me will not prosper. I do not falsely accuse others but rather love and forgive them. I do not judge others lest I be judged by the same measure, for Christ did not come to judge but to save. I do not tear down but build up. I am in Christ and He is in me; His love lives big in me.

Prayer

How many of you have been hit with the accusation of the enemy, the condemnation of the enemy in these last couple of weeks? Please raise your hand. I want to see you stand to your feet. I’m going to pray for you. We will not allow the enemy’s attack against you. He is a liar, and he will not prevail. He won’t take you down. In fact, we will make him sorry he ever tried.

Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, on behalf of my friends and family in this room and those online as well, we break the power of the accusative tongue of the enemy against these ones, Lord God. We command all accusation, condemnation, and judgment to fall to the ground, along with any discouragement that has resulted from it.

We break the power of any warfare in the mind, swirling thoughts in the mind—we break the power of those now in Jesus' name. We clear the mind from those attacks in Jesus' name. We break the power of all comparison, the lies of comparison where the enemy has accused, saying, “You’re not like this one,” or “Look at that one; they have more than you,” or “You’re nothing,” or “You can’t do it.”

We break the power of those taunting words in Jesus’ name and clear the mind right now from the taunts of the enemy. We cut off that finger of accusation in Jesus' name. Amen.