Beware Of False Prophetess Iyanla Vanzant

By David J. Stewart | May 2013

Jeremiah 17:5, “Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.”

       Oprah Winfrey is a dangerous woman, whom Satan has rewarded, making her one of the wealthiest people in the world. Oprah is a Modernist, that is, an unsaved person who pretends to be a true Christian (or pretends to know God). Oprah wouldn't recognize God if she met Him, just as Pilate didn't recognize Jesus' deity when they met (John 18:37-38). Oprah often promotes Godless authors, New Ages and demonic false prophets. Tens-of-millions of Americans are being led into the fires of Hell, blinded by Satan just as 2nd Corinthians 4:4 warns.

One of the most dangerous guests regularly appearing lately on the Oprah Winfrey show is Dr. Rev. Iyanla Vanzant (as she loves to call herself), who is an evil false prophet, a very spiritually dangerous woman serving the Devil. Listen and watch Iyanla Vanzant blaspheme God, pretending to KNOW GOD! (she doesn't at all)...

Titus 1:10-16, “For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.”

Iyanla (sometimes mistakenly pronounced Lyanla) Vanzant is a corrupt false prophet whose mouth must be stopped, because she literally subverts whole households, being one of the most popular speakers on the demonic Oprah Winfrey Show. Vanzant teaches a satanic religion called “NEW THOUGHT,” which is a form of religious humanism (deifying man with spiritual terms, but denying the inspiration of the Bible and the gospel of Jesus Christ). Miss Vanzant exploits Christianity for her own prosperity. Vanzant calls her nightmare a ministry. She deceitfully speaks about being on “a healing journey,” while seeming to have faith in God, but she totally denies the Bible. When Vanzant teaches about salvation, her entire perspective is that salvation comes from within, of yourself.

In this YouTube video clip by Iyanla Vanzant, she is teaching religious humanism. She perverts the Scriptures from Ephesians 6:12, speaking about the Spirit and armor of God; but she ruthlessly butchers the truth of God's Word. This woman is dangerous!!! Vanzant errantly states:

“Breath is your spiritual armour. Breath is what keeps you connecting here. Without breath you're nothing. Breath is your connection, not only to the ancestors—to the universe—to every element there is—to God! Breath, when you breath!”

SOURCE: WE CAN DO THIS - PART 1 (time: 6:18 in video)

Ephesians 6:12-17 specifically mentions what the armour of God is - our weapons and defenses are:

Where in the world does Iyanla Vanzant come up with “breath is your spiritual armour!” There is NOTHING in the Bible which agrees with Vanzant, but there is plenty to expose her as a fake, fraud and false prophet of Satan! Our breath has NOTHING to do with the armour of God. Like all Modernists, Vanzant exploits spiritual terms from the Bible to dupe and deceive her naive victims. I love African-American people, and I hate to see them victimized by false prophets like Vanzant. The Bible condemns trusting in ourselves or other people. We are taught to trust upon the Lord, which is the amazing truth which Jonah thought about in the belly of the great fish.

Iyanla at times blasphemously refers to God as a “She.” Biblically, God is solely masculine in nature. As typical of New Agers, Vanzant refrains from identifying any one god as THE GOD. The core belief of the New Age Movement is that there are many different paths to the light. Biblically, Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven (John 14:6; Acts 4:10-12). Vanzant doesn't mention even one of the seven items composing the believer's spiritual armor. She instead says that a person's breath (our person, us) is our weapons of spiritual warfare. Vanzant completely corrupts the meaning of the Scriptures! Talk about a liberal theologian!

Apostate Joel Osteen recently stated on Oprah that he believes Jesus is the only way to Heaven. but then sold out by saying that there are many ways to Jesus. What a lie! Osteen is a total sellout reprobate, heretic and sinister minister in God's eyes. The gospel is the only way to Jesus! The gospel message is that Jesus DIED, was BURIED and miraculously RESURRECTED three days later from the dead (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Jesus proclaimed in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

The lie of Joel Osteen that there are many paths to Jesus is satanic. Faith in Jesus as the Christ is just that. John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” What is there not to understand? What is Joel Osteen talking about? Clearly, Osteen means that unbelieving Jews can get to Heaven by denying that Jesus is the Christ. Osteen is a shameful man, a coward, and he ought to be fired for fraud as a minister.
 

Beware Of Another Spirit, Another Gospel And Another Jesus

There are hundreds of corrupt versions of the holy Bible, and thousands of false religions masquerading as the true way to Heaven. But Biblically there is only One Book and One Way. God only wrote one book, THE GOOD BOOK, and I believe that precious book has been preserved in the inspired King James Bible for the world today. English is quickly becoming the international language. There is only one way to Heaven, by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Galatians 3:26, “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” There is no other way. It is Christ-rejecting elite Jews own Hollywood, control the newsmedia, run Washington D.C., fund false prophets like John Hagee and promote Joel Osteen's books on New York Times Bestseller List. That's why Joel Osteen went live on the Larry King (Jewish) Show and denied Jesus Christ on national TV, refusing to say that Christ-rejecting Jews won't go to Heaven.

Joel Osteen is not the enemy, but he is being used by the enemy (Satan) to keep unsaved people from getting saved (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4). Joel Osteen comforts the unsaved, telling them that they'll still go to Heaven even if they reject Jesus as the Christ. Osteen is a big liar!!! Whether Jew or Gentile, you will split Hell wide open and be tormented for all eternity in flames and brimstone if you die in your sins without Jesus as your Savior! You had better admit that you are a big SINNER and trust upon Jesus as your personal SAVIOR, so that your sins will be forgiven and washed away by the precious blood of Jesus (1st Peter 1:18-19).

Oprah Winfrey has tapped a list of guests including Iyanla Vanzant, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Joel Osteen and Tony Robbins for an all-new season of “Oprah's Lifeclass: The Tour.” In an effort not to offend the majority of viewers, Oprah has embraced demonic religious faiths as being acceptable, legitimate and divine. This is Satan's grand plan, that is, make wayward religious people feel comfortable on their way to the Lake of Fire, hindering them from obeying the gospel by believing on CHRIST ALONE!!! If you try to get into Heaven “some other way” (John 10:1) than by faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ (John 10:9), then you WILL GO TO HELL FOREVER!!! You will die in your sins and burn in Hell forever if you follow the Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Mormon or Roman Catholic faith!!!

Whenever anybody uses the word God, people naturally think of the God of the Bible or Jesus Christ. But this is not always the case. Most people believe in God (other than atheists and agnostics), without believing in Christ as the ONLY way to Heaven. Yes, most people are religious, but lost! Hence, a belief in God means nothing unless you also believe in Jesus as the Christ. The only name that separates the true and living God from other false gods is JESUS CHRIST! The name above all other names (Philippians 2:9-10)! Just because somebody uses the word, “God” or uses the name “Jesus” does not make that person a Christian. Christianity is not a belief in God, but a new birth (a spiritual, second birth). Even Satan believes in God and trembles (James 2:19)!

2nd Corinthians 11:3-4, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth ANOTHER JESUS, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive ANOTHER SPIRIT, which ye have not received, or ANOTHER GOSPEL, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.”

 Spirit? In the book The Spirit of a Man, Iyanla writes: Spirituality asks you to find God within and find the religion that matches that interpretation Iyanla Vanzant, (The Spirit of a Man:) Really? Find God within and find the religion that matches that interpretation. That is, whether Buddhism, Islam, New Age Movement, Hare Krishna, Hindu, Idol worshipping, etc. It doesn't matter as long as one expresses that spirituality. Right? How deceived can anyone be? When Jesus clearly states in John 14:6 ... I am the way, the truth and the life no one can come to the Father except through me. Why then would anybody try to teach others to find God within and find the religion that matches the interpretation?? How shallow!

There are many sincere patriots today who are fighting against the New World Order, but they fail to realize that the battle is a spiritual battle against the evil forces of Satan (Acts 26:18). As such, it is imperative that we use spiritual weapons and not carnal, lest we be defeated. The battle cannot be won without the weapons that the Bible mentions.

Dr. Vanzant is a doctor of damnation and a reverend of retardation. She knows enough Bible to be dangerous. It is abundantly obvious that Vanzant doesn't know the first thing about the truth of God's Word. Like so many women who sinfully enter into the pulpit, she totally butchers the truth of God and leads people into damnation and the Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:11-15). Vanzant states:

“You've got it in you right now. We can do this—If we have faith—If we have faith in each other—If we have faith in ourselves!”

SOURCE: WE CAN DO THIS - PART 1

Vanzant teaches that God gives us faith and that faith in ourselves is what compels us to accomplish things in life. Vanzant has ANOTHER SPIRIT, which is a demonic spirit. Such humanistic philosophies are totally unscriptural. The Bible teaches that men are supposed to place their faith solely in the Lord Jesus Christ (Who is the manifestation of the Godhead to humanity, 1st Timothy 3:16 - King James Bible). The Bible never teaches us to have faith in man or our self. We read in Jeremiah 17:5, “Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.” The Bible is very plain. The curse of the Law of God is upon all Christ rejecters, who place their faith in mankind instead of the gospel. Roman Catholics make the Vatican their arm of hope and salvation, which is a sure path to Hell. Proverbs 16:25, “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Oprah, Vanzant, Dr. Phil and the rest of the apostates on television are all teaching faith in one's self. That's pure HUMANISM!!! Humanism Excludes God!

THE MADNESS OF THE HUMAN HEART!

Dr. Phil stated: “You don't have to worry about trusting other people if you can trust yourself.” He teaches that we should all “star” in our own life. This is a sin. 2nd Timothy 3:1-5 foretold of the apostate last days when “men shall be lovers of their own selves.” That's exactly what Dr. Phil is teaching people to do... star in their own life! The Bible teaches in sharp contrast that the Lord should star in our life. Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Isn't that beautiful, CHRIST LIVETH IN ME!!!

The unsaved like Oprah, Vanzant and Dr. Phil don't know God, have never been born anew by the Spirit of God; thus, they sincerely cannot grasp the spiritual truths of God. 1st Corinthians 2:14, “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” I am convinced that Oprah, Vanzant and Dr. Phil are sincere, but they're blinded by the Devil and are sincerely WRONG!!! The Bible speaks of the “lost” (unsaved) in 2nd Corinthians 4:3-4, “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” Most of the world is lost and on their way to Hell. Oprah and Vanzant want to make sure it stays that way, which is why Satan keeps them rich and famous.

Iyanla likens Jesus Christ to Superman and states that while waiting for salvation in the projects where she used to live, neither of them saved her, so she learned to save herself. Vanzant misquotes the Bible, speaking about spiritual warfare, while totally denying the power of the gospel as we read in 2nd Timothy 3:4-5, “Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” I am not trying to be unkind, sincerely, but Iyanla Vanzant is a complete idiot when it comes to the Bible! Iyanla Vanzant is guilty of gross theological incompetence!!!

Sadly, millions of African-Americans are listening to Vanzant, following her into the fires of Hell. The Bible proclaims that the only way of salvation is by faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Salvation is not found in ANY religion, but neither is it found within humanity. Salvation is found in the Lord Jesus Christ. Iyanla Vanzant doesn't mention the Lord Jesus Christ, because she is a false prophet working for the Devil. Acts 4:10-12 plainly teaches that there is no salvation apart from faith in the name of jesus of Nazareth. In sharp contrast, Vanzant teaches that salvation comes from within ourselves, and she fails to mention the truth of the gospel.

In response to Lylana's saying, “We Can Do This,” I would like to emphatically say, “JESUS [GOD] CAN DO THIS!”
 

Having A Form Of Godliness, But Denying The Power Of The Gospel

2nd Timothy 3:5 plainly warns that in the last days false prophets would “HAVE A FORM OF GODLINESS, BUT DENYING THE POWER THEREOF: from such turn away.” That “power” is the gospel of Jesus Christ, as evidenced by Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” THE GOSPEL IS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION to every one that believeth!!! Whew! What a grand truth!!!

Dr. Vanzant does not abide in THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST, at all. 2nd John 1:9, “Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.” Vanzant has religion, but she does NOT have God. She does NOT know God. If she did, she would speak the doctrine of Christ, which includes Christ's deity, the Godhead, the blood sacrifice of Jesus, the Virgin Birth, vicarious death on the cross, Jesus' sinlessness, bodily resurrection from the dead, Christ's death, burial and Christ's second coming. Anyone who does not abide in these Biblical truths has not been born-again, does not know God and has never been saved.

That doesn't mean you have to know all these doctrines to be saved, you don't. We're saved simply by relying upon Christ's death, burial and resurrection as full-payment for our sins. Albeit, anyone who goes around denying these doctrines, teaching a different spirit, different gospel and different Jesus, it's because they do not know God (2nd Corinthians 11:13-15).

I am not trying to be unkind in any way, but I need to warn others about Iyanla Vanzant, because she is teaching satanic doctrines of devils, keeping people from finding the kingdom of God. Women preachers are strictly prohibited in the Bible because they are far more prone to satanic doctrinal deception than men are. 1st Timothy 2:12-14, “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.  For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” Eve was deceived, not Adam.

Therefore, the Bible teaches as a precedent that women are not supposed to teach men in the Church. God created Adam first, then Eve to be Adam's “help meet” (Genesis 2:18). Feminism is a sinful philosophy that places women on the same AUTHORITY as husbands, fathers and male pastors. The issue has nothing to do with women's rights or the worth of a woman. Feminists try to sidestep the issue, accusing Bible-preachers of demeaning womanhood and oppressing them. It's the other way around. Feminism has led women into a lewd lifestyle of fornication, murdering their own babies by abortion, forfeiting motherhood for money-making careers and trashing their marriages because of the intolerable indoctrination of feminists who crucify men. The Devil is rolling on the ground in laughter as foolish women claim to do it all in the name of “women's rights!” No one has a “right” to steal, kill and destroy lives!

The truth is that God, Who wrote the Bible, commands women to obey their husband (1st Peter 3:1-6), for women to be silent in men's matters at Church (1st Corinthians 14:34), for children to obey their parents (Colossians 3:20), for females to cover-up with modest clothing (1st Timothy 2:9); and that's why feminists absolutely hate the King James Bible! The Bible doesn't tell the women of the sinful world how to behave, because they don't recognize the Bible and couldn't care less about God (Romans 3:18).

Kindly, it is a crying shame that Godless reprobates, dyke lesbians, New Agers, tattooed freaks, religious heretics and greedy vultures have influence over our nation's laws, courts and hundreds-of-millions of people. Iyanla Vanzant is just another spiritual fraud, an unsaved Modernist, who Satan is using to deceive the masses. When she speaks of Jesus, it's not the Jesus of the Bible. When Iyanla speaks of the “spirit,” she is speaking of familiar sprits of devils. The Holy Spirit ALWAYS goes hand-in-hand with THE TRUTH of God's Word (John 4:24; 16:13). I know Iyanla is a false prophet because everything that she teaches is completely void of the Scriptures, and the rest goes contrary to the Scriptures. Vanzant teaches religious humanism as do others, exploiting the Bible to deceive people into thinking that she is genuine; but she's a big fake! She totally perverts the Scriptures, wrestling (twisting) them to her own destruction as 2nd Peter 3:16 warns.

In sharp contrast, Jesus commanded us to SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES in John 5:39. Don't listen to false prophets who steer you away from God and the Bible. John 5:39, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” The Scriptures TESTIFY OF JESUS! The Scriptures uplift the Lord Jesus Christ. Iyanla exalts self and humanity, teaching that all of the solutions to life can be found within ourselves. Biblically, mankind is inherently corrupt, sinful and evil by nature (Jeremiah 17:9). This truth is further evidenced by man's warmongering throughout history.

Listening to the daily news confirms the Biblical truth that man is sinful by nature. The fantasy of New Agers and New Thought adherents like Iyanla Vanzant is that mankind through enlightenment will one day evolve into a utopian society, where people are more concerned about the group as a whole than individual greed, fleshly lusts and materialistic desire. It will never happen! John Lennon's hit song 'IMAGINE' portrayed a utopia world without national borders, religious dogmas or personal prejudice. Lennon's fantasy world once existed when Noah and his family exited the ark. Look what a mess the world (8 people) became from Genesis 7 to chapter 11 at the tower and city of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9).  Men will always be selfish, vain and arrogant, prone by nature to rebellion against God and the Bible. It's in our carnal nature. The flesh cannot be tamed. The evil heart of man cannot be tamed. Man's hope is NOT rehabilitation, nor education, nor reformation, nor legislation; but rather, REGENERATION!!!

Whether you like it or not, Ye must be born again (John 3:3-7)! Jesus plainly warned that NO ONE will go to Heaven who doesn't become born from above by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:9). Please don't follow Iyanla Vanzant into the fires and damnation of Hell. Vanzant's New Thought religion is the same old self-righteousness of Cain that kept him out of Heaven. God rejected Adam's fig-leaf religion. Only by the precious blood of Jesus can we be brought nigh unto God (Ephesians 2:13). Thank God for the blood of Jesus that washes our sins away (1st John 1:7).

Jesus warned us to beware of dangerous false prophets who come to us in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves, such as Iyanla Vanzant and Oprah Winfrey!!!

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

Proverbs 30:11, “There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.”

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