“You cannot AFFORD to cut your hair. Is it worth losing the power of angels? Is it worth losing authority in prayer? Is it worth losing your identity as an apostolic woman? We are known for uncut hair because it is what the bible teaches. My sister in love Courtney told me a story about a lady in her church,

Her son was trying so hard Sunday after Sunday to get the Holy Ghost. For some reason he could not pray through. Finally one Sunday she took her hair and laid it on her son. She began to remind God of the power that she had because her hair was uncut, and you know what happened almost instantly? Her son received the Holy Ghost!!!

What is that was your son? Does God come on the scene immediately for you? Do you want him to?

I know personally of apostolic women who gave in and cut their hair. As a result, they were miserable, depressed and regreted ever going it. You undergo a major spiritual catastrophe by cutting your hair. You will not receive the same results in prayer. You will not have the same anointing you once possessed. Uncut hair is serious business. OH GOD give us revelation and understanding!
Sister, DO NOT cut your hair, I repeat PLEASE don’t do it!

Consider this: why is it that when a woman backslides, the first thing she does is cut her hair?? The devil knows that we carry the glory of God upon our uncut hair. The devil knows that there is POWER in our hair. We have a distinct anointing when we have uncut hair. I remember the first time I walked into a Pentecostal church where the ladies had uncut hair, you could FEEL the difference in anointing on the women! There was something about them that was so beautiful, holy and radiant. They almost looked like angels to me (that is no exaggeration). ”

SOURCE: http://kendrathaler-hair.blogspot.com/2011/03/chronicles-of-natural-apostolic-do-not.html

Power of angels?

God compelled to pour out his gift of the Holy Spirit because of uncut hair?  

Receiving the Baptism of the Holy Ghost through the laying of hair?

A distinct anointing?

No results in prayer?  Losing authority in prayer?

The devil knows we carry the glory of God in our hair?

They almost looked like angels?

The post encapsulates what effect the teachings of men, like Lee Stoneking, are having on some within the Oneness Apostolic movement.  A woman by name of Harvelia testifies on Kendra’s site that it was Stoneking’s influenced her towards similar views:

“Just recently I attended a conference where Bro. Lee Stoneking was speaking. His message was coming from 1 Cor. 11:5 and he was speaking about how the woman’s uncut hair being their glory – I was not raised in Pentecost/Apostolic; however, about three years ago the Lord led me to leave my former church which was is a prodominately [sic][ black apostolic church which I was a part of for over fifteen years. I had never receive such teaching - and it just left me wondering why the black apostolic churches are not teaching this. I had to call my sister because she's been apostolic/pentecost longer than I have - but she's never receive the teaching. I currently wear my hair naturally and have done so off and on for years. I felt bad when Bro. Stoneking was teaching because I recall cutting my hair - but this was never taught in my former church.Then it also leaving me wondering why it is not being taught in the african/black churches.   " (http://kendrathaler-hair.blogspot.com/p/hair-testimonies.html)

Error begets error.  The pat answer given by some who tell the Body of Christ that these forms of consecrations and personal convictions are not salvific … may need to reexamine what is really being taught in their ranks.

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Power with Angels

You have seen us just about anywhere. We are the long haired, dress wearing women who belong back in the 1800’s, right? Yep, that is right. See we haven’t changed, really. Women in our society has changed so much from modesty to immoral even. Not saying that all are, just saying that this is what women in our society has changed to. It is not we who are strange, because we have never changed. We are bringing classy and modest back.

However, this blog is talking about the long hair. So what does hair have to do with this and being modest? Actually it goes hand in hand. Many people wonder about it. Some even believe that we are cultest to have such “rules” to follow. Actually, this is n0t the case at all and I want to share the reason why I do not cut my hair.

Many don’t understand it, like I at one time. It took praying and an open heart to truely understand what the Lord talks about in I Corinthians 11. I learned that a woman’s hair remains uncut for a covering to her. This is her glory. Further down in the scripture I learned that her uncut hair also gives her “power with angels”.

After reading this and seeking the Lord on the matter, I loved the idea that my hair gave me power with angels. It sounds almost like a mythical fantasy. Some people think that the Bible does too, but I am a Bible believer.

I believe that I can command angels to do things, like protect us and I have. But first I wanted to say that obedience to the Word of God is very important. It strengthens us and humbles us all at one time. I want to share a story or two of a couple of incidences where being obedient to this scripture has made a difference in my life and someone elses.

Over a year ago I was going through a lot of things in my life. It started with my divorce and made its way into my children. The whole ordeal was awful, but there was a particular time that stands out the most.

I remember clearly the spirit of witchcraft coming against my children. There were a couple of people who warned me. One was a man of God who visited our church. Another was a perfect stranger online. They warned me that my children were being targeting and that someone was out to hurt them. With all that we were going through and the things that I myself was facing, I begin to really draw closer to the Lord.

At this point I was desperately sick mentally and didn’t know my way out. We were struggling financially and even spiritually. The divorce took it’s toll amongst many other things.

When my boys were sneaking out in the middle of the night, I knew that there was another force causing this. It isn’t normal for a 4 and 5 year old to sneak out at 12 AM when everyone else was in bed. I had enough and I began to pray against this spirit. I literally commanded angels to guard my home and cause whatever was coming against my boys to stop.

The next morning I awoke and when I tried to go out the front door, it was completely locked. I couldn’t unlock it for anything. Not even my crafty cousin could break into the door, because the angel of the Lord sealed it as it was the door my boys were going out of. This is one example of having power with angels.

Sounds like a good fiction huh? Wait, I have more.

There was a time when my kids and I were in danger on the road. With one lug nut holding the front part passenger part of our car for an entire week, I know that we had angels around us. After all of the clanking and grinding, not knowing where it came from, all I could do is pray.

There have been times where we were in the middle of a big city at 3 AM and we have had complete strangers show us around and guide us in the right direction. I believe angels come in many forms and the Lord uses people as well.

I know that the way the Lord has me to be and the Spirit that lives inside of me impacts the world around me.

Of course it is not me, but I have the same power as Jesus Christ, because I am His. I pray people see Him through me. He also told us that we have power over all these things. I love knowing that I have power with angels.

Source: http://inlovewithjesus.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/power-with-angels/

The laying on of hair

Someone wrote me about this new “doctrine.” Here are his words: “Brother Ensey, I am having a hard time understanding a new doctrine. I understand the teaching of laying on of hands, however, I do not understand the teaching of laying of female hair upon the sick. It seems strange and out of order.”

This is a new practice in some circles, not a new doctrine. Just because it is not mentioned in the Bible doesn’t necessarily mean it can’t or shouldn’t be done at all as an act of faith. However, to attach it to a passage like I Corinthians 11:10 and extrapolate such a theory from that verse would be wresting the Scriptures. Someone might say, “Well, I know a lady who laid her long hair on a sick person and they got better, so that must mean that Paul was trying to tell us that there is power in long hair to heal the sick.” That would be extreme eisegesis.

Surely everyone is aware that anecdotal testimony can be obtained to corroborate ANYTHING! Books could be filled with subjective testimonies that seem to confirm everything from capture by space aliens to having been to the fiery hell and back. When are we going to learn that we judge subjective experiences by the Word of truth, not the Word by someone’s experience and anecdotal testimony? I heard of a lady who was healed when she put her hands in a tub of water that had been labeled by an evangelist as “the pool of Bethesda.” Her simple faith was rewarded.

But don’t start bringing tubs of water into the church. It is unwise to build doctrines or theories on one-time miracles or experiences.”

http://jrenseyblog.wordpress.com/2010/12/

In a November 2009 issue of the Pentecostal Herald, for the first time, a notable theologian in this ministerial fellowship, has finally taken a stand and wrote of the dangers behind those who misinterpret 1 Corinthians 11:10. Unfortunately, it appears others like their new General Superintendent have given the practice of laying hair a free pass.

Daniel Segraves’ Herald article entitled” Another Look at 1 Corinthians 11:10: A Plea for Caution” , pointedly targets what is called by many “magic hair” doctrine.

You can read and download a .pdf copy of the article here (right click, Save Target As) :

http://holymagichair.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/segraves.pdf

Or view it through our gallery:

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A woman unravels her hair to pray over petitions in a prayer basket at a UPCI Alabama District Ladies rally:

Picture posted on UPCI website.

Stoneking continues to teach HMH doctrine as of January of 2010. He has seemed to curtail references to the occult while still sharing miracle after miracle because of uncut hair. This sermon was preached at Ronald Macey’s church, The Pentecostals of Royalwood, in the Houston area.

A variation of this sermon was also preached in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Search “Stoneking” here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/sisalright#p/u?

More evidence that the Holy Magic Hair doctrine has made inroads in the Apostolic culture, is found in a viral song on Youtube called the Jean Skirt Song, by an Apostolic Wisconsin alternative rock band called, Fallen Chains.

The intro of their music video  includes a quote from 1 Corinthians  11:10

Photos of long hair are displayed the rockers croon lyrics include that include refrain which seem to be linked to the HMH mythology regarding hair:

Glory shining, ’round about her!
Long Hair Flowing Down!
Power on her head of angels
Laying up a crown.

The Fallen Chains band apparently has become popular and influential among certain circles. The Wisconsin District news published this bulletin about their success:

The date was Friday, August 10th, 2007. The place was Bobcats Arena, Charlotte, North Carolina. The event, National Youth Congress 2007.

Three young men took the stage for what was destined to be a historic performance. Fallen Chains, comprised of Joe Campbell, and brothers Daniel and David Badger, were the first group to perform in the Small Group category, presented by the Pentecostal Music Association. Other categories included Male Vocalist, which debuted Wednesday Night, and Female Vocalist, which took place on Thursday Night.

The UPCI youth of the nation decided the winners by using their cell phones or paper ballot. From the first notes of their song Jean Skirt Girl, the arena was enthralled. When the crowd of 18,000 realized they were singing about an Apostolic girl unafraid to be modest and stand for righteousness, the place erupted. For many, this was one of the first songs they had heard about honoring our Apostolic girls.

Later that evening, Fallen Chains was awarded 2nd Place in the North American Talent Search.

Bernard’s symposium paper regarding hair doctrine is available for download here:

http://urshan.ccsct.com/uploaded/Symposium%2F2009%2FPapers/2_Bernard_-_Bible%27s_Teaching_about_Hair_Length.doc

While condemning the practice under certain conditions, the following quote is being termed as a “free pass” legitimizing HMH doctrine :

There have been reports of women letting down their long hair as part of making a specific, urgent prayer request. If the idea was to obligate God to answer prayer or to create a new method of praying, then this action was misguided. If instead it was a spontaneous act to confirm their consecration, then it could have been a legitimate means of expressing and focusing faith.

Respected Oneness theologian,  Daniel Segraves,  responded to Bernard’s paper with his own.  It can be found here:

http://www.ugst.org/uploaded/Symposium%252F2009%252FPapers/3_Seagraves_-_Response_to_Bernard.doc

Segraves, who wrote what is deemed as the first official response by a UPCI theologian denouncing this dangerous heresy in an November 2009, Pentecostal Herald, is adamant in his disapproval of this liturgical or prayer practice.

In  Segrave’s 2009 UGST symposium paper, in response to Bernard and those who have taken license to teach this heresy, he writes :

I Corinthians 11:10 is interpreted by some to mean that if women have long hair it gives them some kind of power or authority in the spiritual realm. It has even been suggested that women should let down their long hair, laying it on the altar, on another person, or shaking it in the wind in order to evoke this power. Support for this view is found in anecdotal evidence and reference works related to witchcraft and occultism. To interpret Scripture by anecdotal evidence is dangerous; our final authority is Scripture, not experience. To interpret Scripture by reference to witchcraft and occultism is even more dangerous. Scripture warns us to avoid the influence of these ideas; we are to be simple concerning evil and wise concerning what is good. (See Romans 16:19.)

Concerning the meaning of I Corinthians 11:10, we can say with certainty that it says nothing about evil spirits, it says nothing about how a woman’s hair is arranged, and the word “hair” does not appear in the verse. I will forego further discussion here in view of the fact that my article “Another Look at I Corinthians 11:10: A Plea for Caution” appeared in the November 2009 issue of the Pentecostal Herald just before this symposium. The article addresses this subject in detail, and I commend it to those who are interested in this text and/or concerned about this novel interpretation.

In response to the idea that there is a “magic formula in prayer that enables us to obtain whatever we want when we want it,” David Bernard writes,

Some women have let down their hair as part of making a specific, urgent prayer request. If the idea is to obligate God to answer prayer, then this action is misguided. If the purpose is to confirm their consecration, then it could be a legitimate means of expressing and focusing faith. We can draw an analogy to the positioning of the sick so that Peter’s shadow would fall on them . . . and the use of handkerchiefs to pray for the sick . . . . Such practices were not mandatory and probably not even typical, but they were legitimate expressions of faith in the apostolic church.

I completely agree that we cannot obligate God to answer prayer and that there is no “magic formula” enabling us to obtain whatever we want when we want it. I can also appreciate the desire to acknowledge the genuineness of any act of faith, no matter how bizarre it may seem or whether or not there is any biblical warrant for it. But my concern is that the teaching that is currently circulating among us does not see the letting down of a woman’s long has as a simple confirmation of consecration. Rather, it is being presented as a technique guaranteeing all kinds of miraculous results from the salvation of lost loved ones to the healing of diseases to the protection of children from any harmful effects of immunization to the ability to win back lost romantic affections. This is in addition to the idea of power over evil spirits. It seems there is no end to this; in one meeting the speaker suggested that God only knows what would happen if all of the Pentecostal women in the world would let down their hair and allow it to blow in the wind.

As my wife and I discussed this teaching, she reminded me of an episode in our life when our daughter was very young and contracted some kind of respiratory ailment. As we rushed to the hospital with our daughter gasping for breath (and with the brakes of our car going out on the way), my wife screamed at God, “You’ve got to heal our daughter! We’ve always paid our tithes!”

We have biblical precedent for the use of prayer cloths, even though we probably don’t use them in the same way that the handkerchiefs and aprons taken from Paul’s body were used. We even have biblical precedent for the possibility that someone could be healed as the shadow of a person of faith passes over them. We have no biblical precedent for a woman letting down her hair as a confirmation of consecration or to express and focus her faith. I do believe that there are such things as “special miracles” (Acts 19:11), and I don’t think the biblical record exhausts the ways miracles may occur. If it were not for the current abuse of I Corinthians 11:10, I might agree to the legitimacy of a woman letting down her hair to confirm her consecration, although God certainly knows of her consecration no matter how her hair is arranged.

But the current climate on this issue is so troubling, so divisive, and so potentially harmful that I do not wish to suggest any degree of legitimacy to a practice that is based on misinterpreting a text, that draws on the claims of the occult, and that promises the ability to control outcomes. Instead, I would rather point people to simple faith in God that requires no props and that avoids any appeal to non-biblical sources for insight. I am concerned that some women, thinking they have found new depth of meaning in Scripture, will be tempted to look further into the realm of the occult for new insights on spirituality.

This has drawn the attention, criticism and ire of those who believe this free pass may threaten Bernard’s vision of  a return to “Apostolic Identity”.

A poster named Paul Harvey, at the Apostolic Friends Forum, writes:

His Twitter “About page” reads:

“General superintendent-elect of UPCI. …I believe in Apostolic identity, unity, and revival as in Acts 2.”

The man who has sought to inundate the conscience of an entire fellowship with the phrase “Apostolic Identity” last week decided to give what many may construe as “free pass” to what is termed Holy Magic Hair doctrine.

In what also can be interpreted as a move to unite those who view 1 Corinthians 11 as an Apostolic command against a woman cutting their hair, Bernard issued this statement made his paper, “The Bible’s Teaching about Hair Length:

Culture or Command?”, which consequently garnered an adroit and contrary response from Daniel Segraves at the same symposium:

“There have been reports of women letting down their long hair as part of making a specific, urgent prayer request. If the idea was to obligate God to answer prayer or to create a new method of praying, then this action was misguided. If instead it was a spontaneous act to confirm their consecration, then it could have been a legitimate means of expressing and focusing faith. We can draw an analogy to the positioning of the sick so that Peter’s shadow would fall on them (Acts 5:15) and the use of handkerchiefs to pray for the sick (Acts 19:12). These practices were not mandatory and probably not even typical, but with a right understanding and intent they were acceptable in certain contexts.” (Source: http://urshan.ccsct.com/uploaded/Sym…air_Length.doc )

Although, this last statement by Bernard speaks out against making “hair laying” a “new method of praying”, he may have given an alibi to those seeking to confirm this teaching and occultic lore with miracles as evidenced by HMH teachers like Stoneking, Reider, Jasinski and S.G. Norris.

Bernard’s free pass sanctions this practice if it is a: “spontaneous act to confirm their consecration, then it could have been a legitimate means of expressing and focusing faith”.

What appears to be more troubling is his suggested analogy of this ritualistic unbiblical and unprecedented practice “letting down of hair” during prayer by woman as analogous to non-typical, unique Apostolic practices such “positioning of the sick so that Peter’s shadow would fall on them (Acts 5:15) and the use of handkerchiefs to pray for the sick (Acts 19:12).”

Mr. Bernard, as the champion of Apostolic Identity, your unwillingness to repudiate this false doctrine in the name of unity and a legitimate means of expressing and focusing faith brings into question your very definition of Apostolic Identity.

This doctrine has been allowed to flourish for more than a decade in the organization you are about to head. It has profited from the sale of materials, books and resources espousing said doctrine and has lionized politically connected star teachers as holiness messenger while they receive honorariums at district and national functions with the express purpose of teaching this heretical doctrine.

The orchestrated “summoning of angels” is this picture published on the org site (http://www.upci.org/promos/photoCont…1608_RTT29.jpg) is not spontaneous, nor does it exemplify “Apostolic Identity”.

Why hasn’t this degree of tolerance been extended to the greater Apostolic family in other doctrinal differences such as:

1. Fulfilled eschatology

2. The New Birth at repentance

3. plausible and diverse applications of holiness standards and modesty

4. Long doesn’t mean uncut

Will DKB at least respond to Dan Segraves’ objections in Segraves’ paper? How does his blank check to HMH secure his primordial beliefs in “Apostolic identity, unity, and revival as in Acts 2.’?

It seems clear now that leaders of the UPCI, and therefore the organization itself, is taking a stand in favor of the damnable heresy known by its opponents as Magic Hair Doctrine, which has flourished in our ranks for many years. In spite of apparently increasing numbers of opponents and the rising din of their voices against it, the doctrine continues to advance unchecked by those in leadership.

The following is from her first blog post:

Hair to the Apostolic Pentecostal woman is more than just HAIR, it’s considered her glory. There are probably over 100,000 Apostolics here in America and around the world that know about 1 Cor. 11. Here are some things to ponder. Do you believe hair is your glory or do you consider it JUST HAIR?

Did you know that witches won’t cut their hair because they try to tap into the power promised to us in 1Cor 11? Do you know why Indians used to scalp their enemies? Do you know why Nuns and Buddhist monks shave their hair? What does tar and feathering mean? Do you know who it was that first starting the hair cutting trend? What date was that? What about the hippie movement?
What significance is there when hair is found at the scene of a crime?

These are the some topics I discuss in my book, MY HAIR MY GLORY. I hope to blog more to help those still struggling with this topic. I quote over 300 resources that I found when researching on the subject.

Source: http://julijasinski.blogspot.com/2009/03/interesting-findings-about-hair-for.html

Apparently, she has not posted again on the topic since March, however, she seems intent on proving her findings in her book through occult resources.

A basic rule in hermeneutics is that we should not prooftext by isolating one or two scriptures/ passages.  In this case proponents of HMH have no biblical witness for said teaching and so appealing to the occult provides “substance” to their arguments.  Rev.  Raymond Woodward also makes a similar appellation to the practices of  witchcraft in his bible study entitled, Biblical Studies in Practical Holiness“.

In Acts 16, we find Paul and his company being  followed by a slave girl possessed by a spirit of divination that made money for her owners through fortune telling. For days she cried out, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.”

While true, it annoyed Paul to no end(probably because it was not of her own free will or rooted in witchcraft) and he cast the spirit out in the name of Jesus.

Notice Paul could have appealed to the seemingly “truthful” declarations of this “witch” yet does not … should provide precedence in this matter.  Is this really how one wants to prove a God-given “revelation” in the absence of biblical authority?

Moreover, there is mounting evidence coming from those involved in the occult realm and testimony of former witches that contradict such claims.

HOW LONG?

This teaching can still be purchased here:

https://sales.pentecostalpublishing.com/productDetails.asp?guid=goxruwraz&c=BOOK&pid=18349&sid=507&ptc=PPH123

Hair – Our Glory

WOW!!! I didn’t know that a simple status update would lead to this! However, I LOVE to share my testimony, and never even thought about doing it with all of my Facebook friends. I would lke to say that this is MY conviction, MY belief, and MY interpretation of the Word of God. If you don’t believe it, that is fine by me. However, please have the decency to withold all negative criticisms since this is really my heartbeat! A few years ago, I had a knot in my hair that took my mother over four hours to get out. I decided right then and there that I needed to know WHY I didn’t cut my hair! I knew it was “my glory”, but I was thinking right about then that maybe I didn’t need all that glory! I began to do an in depth study on hair to understand why the Lord would ask this of us. I went to a hair conference that was very enlightening! Proverbs 29:13 says, “Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the law.” Many people discard so many of our beliefs because they do not have the revelation. I did not have one at this time! I began to pray for one! Ezekiel 28 talks about a war being waged in the spirit realm about holiness.

Lucifer had a very special place of anointed ministry, and his primary function was being a covering cherub. The cherubim, seem to be particularly assigned to the responsibility of guarding the glory of God. Lucifer, being the anointed cherub, was set forth as the chief guardian of the glory of God. Ezekiel 28:14 says that God put him in this place of delegated authority. He was honored above all of the other angels, so what could have been the root of his rebellion? Ezekiel 28:17 declares. “Thine heart was lifted up because of thine beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness…” Vanity caused him to become so proud of his outward magnificence that it began to overshadow his relationship with his Maker. When Lucifer was cast out, he lost his covering. God delegated Lucifer’s guardianship of the glory of God to the woman. I Corinthians 11:10 and 15 says “For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. But if a woman have long hair, it is a GLORY to her: for her hair is given her for a COVERING.” So to this day, Satan tempts mankind, especially women over and over to tamper with the covering because it symbolizes to him everything he lost. A woman’s hair signals to the spirit world whether she is in rebellion or in submission. The angels can tell by looking at her. That is why it is so important for us not to even trim our hair. The purpose is not to have long hair, it is to be in submission to the word of God by not cutting your hair… at all. What is one of the first thing a woman does when she backslides? She cuts her hair, losing her glory just like Lucifer did when he was cast out. She is now separated from God just like he is.

The only other place that you see the covering, the angels, and the glory mentioned together is in the Ark of the Covenant. The mercy seat covered the law. The cherubim, (the angels) were assigned to guard the glory, covered the mercy seat and were actually attached to it. Dwelling in the midst of the cherubim was the glory of God. If ever the covering, the mercy seat was removed from the Ark, the angels were removed with it. They were attached to the covering. The glory, mercy, and presence of God were removed as well, leaving only naked law, no mercy. To forfeit the covering was to forfeit divine protection! The woman, as God created her, is a picture of the Church – the Law on the inside; the covering of her submission to that law on the outside; the mercy and the angels covering her; and the glory and the presence of God dwelling over, around, and in the midst of her! The woman’s uncut hair is a part of what makes her visible and recognizable as the covered bride of Jesus Christ.

The protection is not only for the woman but also for her family! Ezekiel 10 indicates that wherever the glory was the cherubim was as well. In verses 18 and 19, when the glory of the Lord departed from the house or the temple, the cherubim lifted up their wings and departed also. They were committed to the glory! We are the temple of the Holy Ghost and we have the glory as long as we are in submission through obedience with uncut hair. When a woman cuts her hair, she actually severs the glory of God from her life. The angels will lift and depart, for they are committed to the glory. Where there is no glory, the angels are absent, leaving only harsh judgment. Have you ever noticed that the armor of God does not make a provision for the back? Isaiah 58:8 says that the glory of the Lord shall be our rearguard! Titus 2:5 says that women are to be “keepers at home”. This phrase in the Greek language has a much deeper meaning than simply housekeeping, cooking, cleaning, etc. It also means “a guard, to beware”.

Ladies, your job description involves more than housekeeping. You are to be a guard that will beware of any evil that would try to come into your homes. We can actually open up our homes for evil spirits to come in if we are in rebellion. Your uncut hair brings protection to the entire family. The devil is the ultimate liar. So, before you cut your hair, ask yourself, “Why am I doing this?” and “How will this affect my family?” Do you dare forfeit divine protection for the sake of vanity? Sometimes in the darkest trials of your life, you will feel the urge to cut your hair. During the hardest trial that I have ever been through I was on my floor in the bathroom sobbing for hours. I felt the strongest urge to cut my hair, not to get it styled, but whacked off. There was a spirit fighting HARD for me to “just shock everyone, just cut it!” Thank God that I did not give in because if the devil can just get you to cut your hair, he has stripped away your army of angels that were protecting you.

What a comfort it is to know that the angels of the Lord are encamping around about our families, diligently on guard against any intrusion of the enemy forces. I cannot always be with my husband or my children 24 hours a day, but each day as I watch him leave for work and as I send them off to school, I can plead the blood of Jesus over them, pray the armor of God on them, and ask for the angels of the Lord to encamp around about them. We can ask this with confidence if we are in obedience to God’s Word and have not severed the glory in our lives. Only eternity will reveal how many times your family was protected because of this promise of power on your head.

There was a Holy-Ghost-filled woman that claimed this promise at a very desperate time in her life. This lady’s son was in a very serious car accident. When he was brought into the emergency room, the doctors did not even work on him because the said he was too far gone. They left to go work on other patients that they thought had a better chance of survival. Somehow, this frantic mother managed to get into her son’s room along with her husband. As she stood at his bedside, she began to pray. She reminded God of how a scissors had never touched her hair. She prayed the promise of I Corinthians 11:10 and claimed the power that was available to her because of the angels. God heard that prayer, and immediately things began to happen. The doctors came back, expecting to see a young man who possibly was dead. Instead, they found that he had regained consciousness and was responding. Within a matter of days, this young man was out of the hospital. His mother had guarded the glory, and she had power on her head because of the angels!

Upon hearing this story from Penny Watkins years before I read it again in Ruth Rieder’s book, I began to pray for my son, Skyler. He had the most severe form of asthma. He took six breathing treatments that lasted about ten – fifteen minutes each treatment. Phillip and I were literally afraid to sleep at night fearing that, that would be the night he wouldn’t be able to catch his breath and we wouldn’t know. Anytime he would do something active, such as jump on the trampoline he would just start throwing up, and he couldn’t stop or breathe. Now, here I was expecting LaMarq, and I remember thinking now God is going to have to help us. I didn’t know how I would physically take the stress of staying up with an infant on top of all this with Skyler. So, when I heard this story, I went home, I let my hair down, and I began to pray the same prayer that this lady had.

I plead the blood over Skyler. He was miraculously healed. A couple of weeks without any treatments, and no attacks, I testified in church of the miracle God had done. That night Skyler had the worst attack that he had ever had. The doctor told us that there was nothing else he could do, any more medicine would mess Skyler up. He told us that we would just have to start taking him to the ER every time we saw one coming on. So, I was thinking, “ Ok, God. I know that you healed him.” So, I did the same thing, I prayed again the same prayer. Again Skyler was miraculously healed, and I do mean all the way. So I waited about a month, when I was sure, and I testified again. Again THAT NIGHT Skyler had another attack. It hit me like a ton of bricks that this was an all out war with the devil. He was scared to death of me getting a hold of this revelation. This happened 3 more times. I mean the very night I would testify, Skyler would just get a horrible attack. Phillip told me to stop testifying or Skyler was going to die. So, one night I just started rebuking the devil in JESUS name, and I told him that it didn’t matter how many times we had to do this, that it was too late, I already knew the power that I had in my hair, and that he might as well leave me alone, and He did. Skyler has not had one more attack to this day.

God has miraculously healed LaMarq, too. He had begun to start breaking out in horrible whelps all over his body. We couldn’t figure out what was happening. When we discovered it was latex, the doctor told us that his reactions were so severe that an inhalation (like a balloon) could be fatal. Ok, right. How was I going to keep my three year old away from balloons or make him understand that he could die if he tried to blow one up? So, I have to say… I’m not afraid to ask my heavenly father for anything! He has never ever ever let me down!!! So I did the same thing I layed my hair over LaMarq’s little body and prayed. Since then, not one break out!!!! We have power through our uncut hair!

Women, isn’t there something in your life you would like to have the victory over? Let your hair down… walk around your house… lay your hair over your children!!! When your unsaved husband is sleeping, lay your glory over that man and use that power you have with the angels!!! If your body is in pain…. if your finances are in trouble, if your marriage is on the rocks, if your children are straying from this truth… WHATEVER you need WE HAVE THE POWER!!!!

Skyler is old enough to understand, and when I talk to him about it he becomes very emotional. He’s not embarrassed of my hair, he knows that because I was submissive to the Word of God and didn’t cut my hair he can have a normal childhood without six breathing treatments a day… no drugs in his little body. Ladies… WE HAVE THE POWER!!!!!!!!! Whatever your need is, whatever your problem is!!!

There is a story that Bro. Stoneking tells about a woman who heard a scream, she ran to the window and looked down, and her child was standing in the grass beside a woman trembling. The lady said, “ You left you window open and your child climbed onto the ledge. He fell down two stories, but there was a man standing there who caught him. The man disappeared; I don’t know where he went.” This mother had power on her head because of the angels. There are times when this power is at work on our behalf when we are not even aware of it. Our hair is our covering, just think of it like an umbrella. Oh, yes, we are going to walk through storms, but we are protected!!!!!!!!!! I just want to thank the Lord for this huge responsibility and awesome privilege! WE’RE COMING AFTER WHAT BELONGS TO US!!! WE HAVE THE POWER!!!

This was not meant to condemn, judge, or offend anyone that has cut or cuts their hair. This was meant as encouragment to all of my Pentecostal ladies/friends who do not cut their hair. I love you all!!!