Tyler Medina: "Breaking Free from the Spirit of Religion"

From the Desks of Steve Shultz and Julie A. Smith:

This is one fiery word from a young minister, Tyler Medina. Tyler has been on our ElijahFire show which goes after the Millennial generation...and we sure need them! They are a fiery bunch whom God is raising up in this hour.

This is a sobering and encouraging word as God gave Tyler current revelation about breaking free from the religious spirit, and he goes into detail about this:

The Lord spoke to me instantly and said He was eradicating the spirit of religion in this hour, causing His people to break free of all ties to the spirit of religion once and for all. For too long religion has taken a supreme seat in the hearts and minds of God's people, and has blinded their eyes and deafened their ears from seeing and hearing the fresh voice (rhema) of His presence. It has caused many to find their comfort in religious deeds and duties as opposed to living out the fulfillment of their purpose, bowing low at the scar-pierced feet of Jesus.

We pray this word by Tyler Medina ministers to you in any areas needed...God is breaking off of us any limitations and wrong thinking, as He is doing a new thing!

Isaiah 43:19: "Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)

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Recently, I was getting ready to leave in the morning when I suddenly had a vision. In this vision, I was taken into a room that appeared to be inside a funeral home. Everyone was dressed in black clothes and packed in this room, standing shoulder to shoulder and facing the same direction. As I peered around, I saw a casket lying dead center at the front of the room. On this casket were written the words "spirit of religion."

The Lord spoke to me instantly and said He was eradicating the spirit of religion in this hour, causing His people to break free of all ties to the spirit of religion once and for all. For too long religion has taken a supreme seat in the hearts and minds of God's people, and has blinded their eyes and deafened their ears from seeing and hearing the fresh voice (rhema) of His presence. It has caused many to find their comfort in religious deeds and duties as opposed to living out the fulfillment of their purpose, bowing low at the scar-pierced feet of Jesus.

A "Tower of Babel" Mindset

Religion has brought us back to a "Tower of Babel" way of thinking, where we have created programs and man-made agendas as a way to "get to God." Those who continued on in religious circles out of habit, obligation or religious duty have often had an inadequate and erroneous understanding of who Abba is.

The world doesn't need religion; it needs a life-altering encounter with Jesus! It doesn't need our programs; it needs the power of God to shake us out of our complacency and bring forth deliverance to the captives. It doesn't need our charisma. The world needs real anointing that has been cultivated in the secret place of God's presence, armed and ready to break the yokes of bondage and dismantle powers and principalities, bringing forth regional, national and world wide breakthrough! (Photo via Pxhere)

The Bible says, "By your traditions you have made the Word of God of no effect" (Mark 7:13, paraphrased). Think about this statement. The Bible says, "...You have exalted above all things Your name and Your Word" (Psalm 138:2); yet it tells the people that their traditions have made the Word of God of no effect. It's not enough just to memorize Scripture. It's not enough to go to Church. It's not enough to just pay tithes... We need a real relationship with Jesus Christ.

Never Peering Through the Veil

The veil was torn through Jesus, but so many Christians spend their entire lives talking about the inner courts from an outer courts perspective. They peer through a veil that's been torn but never enter into the Holy of Holies, never laying at the feet of Jesus where it is like the oil that drips from the beard of the high priest Aaron (Psalm 133:1-2), saturating every part of who they are so that when they come forth from the presence of God, people know they have been with the King.

Matthew 18:18 says, "...[W]hatever you bind on Earth will be bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven." The reason we seldom see the manifestation of this declaration is that very few Christians have spent time in the heavenly places to know what are the heights, depths and widths of His love that surpasses knowledge – nor have they tasted of the heavenly things to release the depths of their understanding on Earth as it is in Heaven. It's not enough just to know the Scriptures. The Pharisees had the Torah memorized cover to cover, yet they didn't know the Word when He became flesh and dwelt among them.

Living Sacrifices

Only a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ can save. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. There is no other way by which men are saved. He is not looking for what we can do for Him or what we can build in our own strength. "Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain..." (Psalm 127:1). He is looking for our hearts. He is longing for a relationship with His people. Jesus came "to seek and save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10) – not just who was lost, but what was lost: communion with the Father. We are now restored to right relationship and standing with God, and seated with Christ in heavenly places. Hallelujah!

It's not anything we can build with our hands. All we can offer is our hearts. From the foremost center of our being, we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice, for the fire only falls upon the sacrifice. David, with good intentions, sought to bring the glory of God back to the city of David. But in his pursuit to recapture the ark of the covenant (2 Samuel 6), his friend, Uzzah, died trying to stabilize the ark which was getting ready to fall out of the ox cart. Many of us who hear this story think that it was harsh for Uzzah to be killed when trying to do a "good thing." But sometimes we can have "good intentions" and still be wrong.

David had the ark placed on a brand new cart, and it was carried by the finest oxen; but the problem was that he tried to carry the presence of God on things created by man's hands. The glory was never supposed to rest on what we can build in our own strength. The glory was meant to rest upon people (1 Chronicles 15:2; Numbers 4:2-4;15-20)! (Photo via Flickr)

After Uzzah died, David became so afraid that he had the ark taken to Obed-Edom's house, until he heard that Obed-Edom and all of his house were being blessed. Then he ventured off again to bring the ark of the covenant into the city of David. You see, David didn't know if it would kill him like it did Uzzah, but he was willing to die for the presence of God! However, this time, David and his men carried the ark out of Obed-Edom's house the way God had intended – with the ark of His glory resting upon the people. When those who carried the ark had taken six steps, David sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf. The amazing part of this story is that the very thing they tried to use to host the glory of God, was instead being sacrificed before Him!

The moral of this story is this: God is calling many of us to sacrifice the very thing we've built before Him in our own strength – things that even had good intention but were not crafted in the instruction and wisdom of the Lord. He is calling us to lay aside every idol and everything that has separated us from deeper communion with His presence. He is calling us, once and for all, to break free from the spirit of religion and to step into the deep with Him. He is calling us to be a people who will step into true Kingdom power and dominion to see the glory of God cover the earth as the waters cover the sea (Habakkuk 2:14).

The Hour of Power

The Lord says that we are entering into an hour of power – a true Kingdom age where we will see the Gospel of the Kingdom come alive in the hearts and minds of God's people; where we will see the Church rise in boldness to cast out devils, cleanse the lepers, heal the sick and raise the dead; where we will see the Church go into all the world, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom and seeing a Bride made ready for her King.

Now is the time for the spirit of religion to be gone, and for the sleeping Bride to arise to face her finest hour.

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Tyler Medina
Consuming Love Ministries
Email: Consumingloveministries@gmail.com

Tyler Medina is a revivalist, author, and emerging prophetic voice with a passion to bring the Church into a deeper life of intimacy with God. Tyler operates in the seer realm and his ministry has been marked by many notable miracles, signs, and wonders. He and his wife Anna Jo are the founders of Consuming Love Ministries, a ministry committed to strengthening the Church by cultivating a deeper experience of God's presence in their daily lives. They are currently planting a new revival hub with a strong focus on equipping the next generation and seeing them fall passionately in love with Jesus. He, his wife, and daughter Cadence Grace reside in Lexington, Kentucky.

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