October Newsletter 2025
October 2025 Monthly Newsletter
Genesis 1:26 is one of my favorite scriptures, as it shows us in the very beginning what was in the mind and heart of God. We see His vision, His desire, and His dreams.
“And God said, let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
He had already created the rest of creation: sun, moon, stars, oceans, plants, and animals. Now He is going to create His crowning achievement… His people, His children. He wanted us to have dominion to dominate. Today, we use the words: faith, power, and authority, but God used a much stronger word… dominion! As you know, Spiritual Authority is a lifestyle that I minister on quite a lot around the globe. It is a special subject to me. It has served me well these 57 years of third world missionary evangelism to the nations. It has saved my life more times than I can count, kept me well, prosperous, and successful. I really don’t think the church has scratched the surface of this vast subject.
Several times over the years, someone has told me they have stage 4 cancer and asked me to pray for them. I did, of course, but I also gave them my 11-CD series on Spiritual Authority. I told them to not treat it lightly, not to simply listen to it once and put it away, but to eat it, to get it down in their spirit, over and over again. A number of those folks did just exactly that and contacted me later and said they were cancer free! Praise God! I’m in the process of finishing up my book on this vast subject and hopefully soon you will have it for yourself.
Speaking of spiritual fathers, those of you that know me also know that I am big on fathers in the faith and honor. God is very big on honor as well. I think of them often. Reneé and I talk about them regularly. The times I spent with them was so special and valuable. Sometimes just at a meal or in conversation they would drop little golden nuggets that were life changing and will stay with me forever.
A wonderful and profound example of this was many years ago, back in the mid-1980’s, there was a major scandal going on with two very famous ministers in America. One minister was in sin, and the other minister knew it. The second minister exposed the sin to the public and even called the news media about it. It became a huge news story and scandal.
Eventually, it ended up destroying the first ministry. The minister went to prison and lost everything— including his marriage.
During this volatile time, Oral Roberts called me and told me to come to his office. Of course, I dropped everything I was doing and went to ORU and up to the 7th floor to his office. We went into his dining room overlooking the university and the Prayer Tower to have lunch. He then told me that the scripture says in Matthew 10:16, Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
I said, “Yes, sir, I know that.” He then told me that doves have no gall bladder and no bile or gall. (I do however realize that they have bile but with no gall bladder, it goes straight to the gut to help in digestion.) But I got his point— no gall, no bile, nice and harmless birds.
Here is the nugget! Oral told me that you can be wise as a serpent, you can be absolutely right about something, BUT the instant you become HARMFUL with that knowledge instead of HARMLESS, you become wrong!
Even though you are right, you are correct, you are WRONG! Not only are you wrong, but you will suffer the consequences. He continued to say that the second minister was in fact right, he was correct, he really did see sin in the camp. But the instant he became harmful with this knowledge, when he took the church’s dirty laundry to the world, the news media, and tried to destroy the ministry of the first minister, he then became wrong. I know inside details and reasons, but I won’t go into that here.
He followed up by telling me he had a vision of the second minister, the one who was right but became wrong by being harmful. He told me he saw him walking down the street and he grabbed his chest and said, “Oh no!” He then fell but caught himself at the last minute, stood back up, shook his head, and said, “Whew!” Then he walked on but then fell to the ground.
Oral told me, “This minister is going to fall twice, he may die but I’m not sure, but his ministry and reputation will be tremendously damaged.”
Well, of course, this came to pass. This minister was caught in a terrible situation that almost destroyed him but stayed upright. Then sometime later, he was exposed again in a second situation and ruined his reputation and most of his ministry. My point in writing this to you is not to expose ministers, but to share this tremendous golden nugget with you: Be as wise as a serpent but be HARMLESS as a dove. Don’t be harmful! You can be absolutely correct, but do not be harmful with that knowledge! We need spiritual fathers! There is an Israeli proverb: If you don’t have an old man, buy one.
Pray with us as we spend most of November and some of December in the South Pacific, ministering to precious people in the islands. Believe with us for the finances, health, strength, and most of all the anointing.
Watch us on YouTube every Thursday evening. Send us your prayer requests and praise reports. We pray for you daily.
Until all have heard,
Terry L Mize
“And God said, let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
He had already created the rest of creation: sun, moon, stars, oceans, plants, and animals. Now He is going to create His crowning achievement… His people, His children. He wanted us to have dominion to dominate. Today, we use the words: faith, power, and authority, but God used a much stronger word… dominion! As you know, Spiritual Authority is a lifestyle that I minister on quite a lot around the globe. It is a special subject to me. It has served me well these 57 years of third world missionary evangelism to the nations. It has saved my life more times than I can count, kept me well, prosperous, and successful. I really don’t think the church has scratched the surface of this vast subject.
Several times over the years, someone has told me they have stage 4 cancer and asked me to pray for them. I did, of course, but I also gave them my 11-CD series on Spiritual Authority. I told them to not treat it lightly, not to simply listen to it once and put it away, but to eat it, to get it down in their spirit, over and over again. A number of those folks did just exactly that and contacted me later and said they were cancer free! Praise God! I’m in the process of finishing up my book on this vast subject and hopefully soon you will have it for yourself.
Speaking of spiritual fathers, those of you that know me also know that I am big on fathers in the faith and honor. God is very big on honor as well. I think of them often. Reneé and I talk about them regularly. The times I spent with them was so special and valuable. Sometimes just at a meal or in conversation they would drop little golden nuggets that were life changing and will stay with me forever.
A wonderful and profound example of this was many years ago, back in the mid-1980’s, there was a major scandal going on with two very famous ministers in America. One minister was in sin, and the other minister knew it. The second minister exposed the sin to the public and even called the news media about it. It became a huge news story and scandal.
Eventually, it ended up destroying the first ministry. The minister went to prison and lost everything— including his marriage.
During this volatile time, Oral Roberts called me and told me to come to his office. Of course, I dropped everything I was doing and went to ORU and up to the 7th floor to his office. We went into his dining room overlooking the university and the Prayer Tower to have lunch. He then told me that the scripture says in Matthew 10:16, Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
I said, “Yes, sir, I know that.” He then told me that doves have no gall bladder and no bile or gall. (I do however realize that they have bile but with no gall bladder, it goes straight to the gut to help in digestion.) But I got his point— no gall, no bile, nice and harmless birds.
Here is the nugget! Oral told me that you can be wise as a serpent, you can be absolutely right about something, BUT the instant you become HARMFUL with that knowledge instead of HARMLESS, you become wrong!
Even though you are right, you are correct, you are WRONG! Not only are you wrong, but you will suffer the consequences. He continued to say that the second minister was in fact right, he was correct, he really did see sin in the camp. But the instant he became harmful with this knowledge, when he took the church’s dirty laundry to the world, the news media, and tried to destroy the ministry of the first minister, he then became wrong. I know inside details and reasons, but I won’t go into that here.
He followed up by telling me he had a vision of the second minister, the one who was right but became wrong by being harmful. He told me he saw him walking down the street and he grabbed his chest and said, “Oh no!” He then fell but caught himself at the last minute, stood back up, shook his head, and said, “Whew!” Then he walked on but then fell to the ground.
Oral told me, “This minister is going to fall twice, he may die but I’m not sure, but his ministry and reputation will be tremendously damaged.”
Well, of course, this came to pass. This minister was caught in a terrible situation that almost destroyed him but stayed upright. Then sometime later, he was exposed again in a second situation and ruined his reputation and most of his ministry. My point in writing this to you is not to expose ministers, but to share this tremendous golden nugget with you: Be as wise as a serpent but be HARMLESS as a dove. Don’t be harmful! You can be absolutely correct, but do not be harmful with that knowledge! We need spiritual fathers! There is an Israeli proverb: If you don’t have an old man, buy one.
Pray with us as we spend most of November and some of December in the South Pacific, ministering to precious people in the islands. Believe with us for the finances, health, strength, and most of all the anointing.
Watch us on YouTube every Thursday evening. Send us your prayer requests and praise reports. We pray for you daily.
Until all have heard,
Terry L Mize
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