May 2025 Newsletter
Don't Do Something Stupid!
When you violate covenant principles, you cancel covenant promises.
A few months ago, a close pastor friend asked me to minister to the men of the church…
My message title was: “Don’t Do Something Stupid.” I told them: Hell knows the Bible and the laws of God. They work overtime to get people—and of course Christians—to do something stupid and take themselves out of right-standing or righteousness with God. God will not remove you from relationship with Him as His child, but you can remove yourself from fellowship with Him. Heaven cannot fellowship with sin. God cannot fellowship with sin.
So you can remove yourself from that fellowship by breaking covenant or violating covenant principles—in other words, by doing something stupid. Don’t misunderstand me—I’m not saying you are removed from relationship. You are still His child, His beloved. But you have stepped out of fellowship—and out of blessings. 1 John 1:9, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Again, righteousness means to be in right-standing with God. I am a pilot. Several decades ago, my wife and I were very close friends with a well-known minister and his wife. We liked to go out to eat and shop together. One day he called me and said, “Terry, let’s rent a plane and you fly the four of us to a city several hundred miles away. We’ll spend the night, go shopping, and eat out.” I quickly agreed, and we met at the airport the next morning. This was before cell phones and remote weather access. You had to go into the airport’s weather office to check conditions.
After reviewing the weather for our route and destination, I came back and announced that we couldn’t go—a severe squall line of thunderstorms was between us and our destination, reaching up to 50,000 feet and stretching from Mexico to Canada. My friend said, “We can still go—we are faith people! Let’s pray and rebuke it!” I said, “No sir. The storms are too high to get over, too wide to get around, and too dangerous to go through.” His sweet wife chimed in, “Yes, Terry—we can believe God and go anyway.” I said, “No ma’am. The law says the pilot in command makes the decision, and I will not do that. I’ve been in bad weather before where I prayed, and God helped me—but I won’t intentionally fly into danger. That’s not faith—it’s stupidity and a death wish.”
I told them we could change our destination and fly somewhere else instead. They didn’t want to, so we stayed home. Don’t do something stupid!
You don’t take one Bible promise and violate another with it.
Matthew 4:1–1, Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee… Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
Even Jesus was not exempt from the temptations of Hell.
The devil tried to get Him to do something stupid. But Jesus knew the two truths:
1. When you violate covenant principles, you cancel covenant promises.
2. You don’t take one Bible promise and violate another with it.
In 1974, Jackie and I were living in Guadalajara, Mexico as missionaries. Our son Lynn had just turned three, and Jackie was pregnant with our second baby, Paul David. We were happy—living our dream—preaching the Gospel in our beloved Mexico with miracles, healings, deliverance, and people being filled with the Holy Spirit. We were training people in the Word of Faith, pastoring a great church, and teaching two weekly Bible studies in town. It was wonderful.
But one day, driving to my office, the Lord said to me, “I didn’t tell you to live forever in Mexico.” I said, “What? I’ve lived for this since I was 13! You told me I’m a missionary!” He said, “Yes, but I didn’t tell you to stay in Mexico forever.” I nearly wrecked the car. He continued, “You are in disobedience, and I cannot bless that anymore.” I asked, “What do You want me to do?” He replied, “I want you to go to many nations.” I said, “I don’t want to go to many nations. I don’t know how to go to many nations! I’ve studied Spanish, traveled her roads, eaten her food, learned her language, loved her people. We are happy here and having miracles every week!”
He repeated, “You are in disobedience, and I cannot bless that anymore.” I drove home and told Jackie. It scared her. She said, “Is God going to get us?” I said, “No, but the devil is free to. God didn’t say He would not bless us—He said He cannot bless that anymore.” “What are we going to do?” she asked. “We’re going to repent and obey—and all will be fine.” We got on our knees. I prayed: “Father, Your Word says in 1 John 1:9, If we confess our sins, You are faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So we repent. We’re no longer unrighteous but back in right-standing. Now You can bless and protect us again. Thank You!” I added, “You know my word is good. I give You my word that as soon as this baby is born and Jackie and the baby can travel, we’ll go back to the U.S. and go to many nations.”
That was September. Paul was born in October, and we left in November. Right after his birth, I drove to Houston to pick up an organ and PA system. On the way back to Guadalajara, I picked up a hitchhiker. He shot at me five times point-blank—and the bullets didn’t hit me. He couldn’t kill me or rob me. Pastor John Osteen got it right in his book The Believer’s Number One Need—Righteousness. If I hadn’t repented and obeyed, the buzzards would’ve picked my bones in that cornfield. My wife would’ve been a widow, my boys fatherless, and my two daughters never born. Thank God you can repent and recover from doing something stupid. The devil’s job is to get you to be stupid and miss God. Don’t do something stupid!
Please continue to pray with us about our upcoming missionary trips this year:
•July 15 – Israeli Pastors’ Conference in Netanya on the Mediterranean coast. Seventy Jewish born-again, Spirit-filled pastors are begging us to train them in the Word of Faith! We’re paying for their hotel and food, plus Renée and I have our own travel and ministry expenses.
•September – Ministry to our Gypsy pastors in Romania. Again, we’re covering hotel and food. These pastors have started over 400 churches and a new ministry union based on the Word of Faith we’ve taught them.
•November – A month in the South Pacific, ministering in Samoa, Vanuatu, Fiji, Pago Pago, and New Zealand.
•March (next year) – An open-air crusade in Pakistan with over 100,000 people expected. Creative miracles and healings will abound—and most importantly, salvations!
We’re also still believing for a breakthrough in the island nation of Malta for a major meeting there. Please bathe all of these in prayer—for the people to receive and be changed, and for Renée and me to walk in strength, anointing, health, and finances. Remember, we have a fresh YouTube program every week— Terry Mize Ministries: More Than Conquerors airs Thursday nights at 7 p.m. There are also hundreds of archived episodes always available. We love you and pray for you. Send us your prayer requests and praise reports! Email us at terry@terrymize.com.
And always remember: Don’t let the devil make you do something stupid. When you violate covenant principles, you cancel covenant promises. You don’t take one Bible promise and violate another with it.
For the world that cost the blood of Jesus,
Terry L. Mize
A few months ago, a close pastor friend asked me to minister to the men of the church…
My message title was: “Don’t Do Something Stupid.” I told them: Hell knows the Bible and the laws of God. They work overtime to get people—and of course Christians—to do something stupid and take themselves out of right-standing or righteousness with God. God will not remove you from relationship with Him as His child, but you can remove yourself from fellowship with Him. Heaven cannot fellowship with sin. God cannot fellowship with sin.
So you can remove yourself from that fellowship by breaking covenant or violating covenant principles—in other words, by doing something stupid. Don’t misunderstand me—I’m not saying you are removed from relationship. You are still His child, His beloved. But you have stepped out of fellowship—and out of blessings. 1 John 1:9, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Again, righteousness means to be in right-standing with God. I am a pilot. Several decades ago, my wife and I were very close friends with a well-known minister and his wife. We liked to go out to eat and shop together. One day he called me and said, “Terry, let’s rent a plane and you fly the four of us to a city several hundred miles away. We’ll spend the night, go shopping, and eat out.” I quickly agreed, and we met at the airport the next morning. This was before cell phones and remote weather access. You had to go into the airport’s weather office to check conditions.
After reviewing the weather for our route and destination, I came back and announced that we couldn’t go—a severe squall line of thunderstorms was between us and our destination, reaching up to 50,000 feet and stretching from Mexico to Canada. My friend said, “We can still go—we are faith people! Let’s pray and rebuke it!” I said, “No sir. The storms are too high to get over, too wide to get around, and too dangerous to go through.” His sweet wife chimed in, “Yes, Terry—we can believe God and go anyway.” I said, “No ma’am. The law says the pilot in command makes the decision, and I will not do that. I’ve been in bad weather before where I prayed, and God helped me—but I won’t intentionally fly into danger. That’s not faith—it’s stupidity and a death wish.”
I told them we could change our destination and fly somewhere else instead. They didn’t want to, so we stayed home. Don’t do something stupid!
You don’t take one Bible promise and violate another with it.
Matthew 4:1–1, Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee… Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
Even Jesus was not exempt from the temptations of Hell.
The devil tried to get Him to do something stupid. But Jesus knew the two truths:
1. When you violate covenant principles, you cancel covenant promises.
2. You don’t take one Bible promise and violate another with it.
In 1974, Jackie and I were living in Guadalajara, Mexico as missionaries. Our son Lynn had just turned three, and Jackie was pregnant with our second baby, Paul David. We were happy—living our dream—preaching the Gospel in our beloved Mexico with miracles, healings, deliverance, and people being filled with the Holy Spirit. We were training people in the Word of Faith, pastoring a great church, and teaching two weekly Bible studies in town. It was wonderful.
But one day, driving to my office, the Lord said to me, “I didn’t tell you to live forever in Mexico.” I said, “What? I’ve lived for this since I was 13! You told me I’m a missionary!” He said, “Yes, but I didn’t tell you to stay in Mexico forever.” I nearly wrecked the car. He continued, “You are in disobedience, and I cannot bless that anymore.” I asked, “What do You want me to do?” He replied, “I want you to go to many nations.” I said, “I don’t want to go to many nations. I don’t know how to go to many nations! I’ve studied Spanish, traveled her roads, eaten her food, learned her language, loved her people. We are happy here and having miracles every week!”
He repeated, “You are in disobedience, and I cannot bless that anymore.” I drove home and told Jackie. It scared her. She said, “Is God going to get us?” I said, “No, but the devil is free to. God didn’t say He would not bless us—He said He cannot bless that anymore.” “What are we going to do?” she asked. “We’re going to repent and obey—and all will be fine.” We got on our knees. I prayed: “Father, Your Word says in 1 John 1:9, If we confess our sins, You are faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So we repent. We’re no longer unrighteous but back in right-standing. Now You can bless and protect us again. Thank You!” I added, “You know my word is good. I give You my word that as soon as this baby is born and Jackie and the baby can travel, we’ll go back to the U.S. and go to many nations.”
That was September. Paul was born in October, and we left in November. Right after his birth, I drove to Houston to pick up an organ and PA system. On the way back to Guadalajara, I picked up a hitchhiker. He shot at me five times point-blank—and the bullets didn’t hit me. He couldn’t kill me or rob me. Pastor John Osteen got it right in his book The Believer’s Number One Need—Righteousness. If I hadn’t repented and obeyed, the buzzards would’ve picked my bones in that cornfield. My wife would’ve been a widow, my boys fatherless, and my two daughters never born. Thank God you can repent and recover from doing something stupid. The devil’s job is to get you to be stupid and miss God. Don’t do something stupid!
Please continue to pray with us about our upcoming missionary trips this year:
•July 15 – Israeli Pastors’ Conference in Netanya on the Mediterranean coast. Seventy Jewish born-again, Spirit-filled pastors are begging us to train them in the Word of Faith! We’re paying for their hotel and food, plus Renée and I have our own travel and ministry expenses.
•September – Ministry to our Gypsy pastors in Romania. Again, we’re covering hotel and food. These pastors have started over 400 churches and a new ministry union based on the Word of Faith we’ve taught them.
•November – A month in the South Pacific, ministering in Samoa, Vanuatu, Fiji, Pago Pago, and New Zealand.
•March (next year) – An open-air crusade in Pakistan with over 100,000 people expected. Creative miracles and healings will abound—and most importantly, salvations!
We’re also still believing for a breakthrough in the island nation of Malta for a major meeting there. Please bathe all of these in prayer—for the people to receive and be changed, and for Renée and me to walk in strength, anointing, health, and finances. Remember, we have a fresh YouTube program every week— Terry Mize Ministries: More Than Conquerors airs Thursday nights at 7 p.m. There are also hundreds of archived episodes always available. We love you and pray for you. Send us your prayer requests and praise reports! Email us at terry@terrymize.com.
And always remember: Don’t let the devil make you do something stupid. When you violate covenant principles, you cancel covenant promises. You don’t take one Bible promise and violate another with it.
For the world that cost the blood of Jesus,
Terry L. Mize
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