Word of Knowledge - September 1989

Note: The names of certain people and places were changed to protect privacy. The purpose of this text is to show Yahweh's glory, not to besmirch anyone.

Warning For Pastor Peter Prideful:

Dear Peter,

When you were first saved, you trusted in Me with all of your heart. You spent much time with Me and swore that you would never forsake Me. Why then do you ridicule and mock my name.

When you first came to me, you desired to save many souls. At first your motives were pure because your heart was pure. You however have let sin creep into your heart and have enjoyed that sin to the point that you crave and desire it. When you were younger, you asked Me for a mate and companion and I gave you your wife. Yet you seem to be not satisfied with the one that I made for you.

There was a time that you asked Me for your own flock and I heard your petition from My throne. I granted you a flock, the people that you now have. At first you nurtured them, cared for them and loved them truly, but your heart changed. Your desire to build a new house for My worship, overcame you. I would desire that you would have preached twenty services a day in the old house with a pure heart than one service a day in the new house with a polluted heart. You have even violated a rule that you told the men of your flock, in that you borrowed from a worldly source to reach your building goal. You told the flock that “we will not borrow to build, God will build this church”. No, I declare that Pastor Prideful built this house and I further that it will be a monument to you and not to me.

From this time forth, My glory has departed the house that you have built. You as a shepherd, violated my commandments and the anointing that I gave to you. I therefore remove the anointing. Because of your heart, you will ignore these words and pursue your folly. You will have counterfeit healings and counterfeit manifestations of My Spirit, but people will see them for what they are. Your flock will dwindle. I will place them with true shepherds who will show them My love and compassion. You will lose face in the community and people will mock you instead of Me.

I have said these things because I love you and want to strengthen the things that remain in you. I do this as a loving father. If you do these things that I tell you to do, I will not restore you as a shepherd but will keep you in my love and grace. If you refuse, I will not save you from the hour that is coming to test those who live on the Earth. You must firstly confess to your wife all of the infidelity to your marriage on your part. She will understand and forgive you. You must approach your flock and confess all of your deceptions to them. Those who truly love Me will forgive you. You must contact the head office of your denomination and confess all of your past infidelity and deceptions. You must step down from your throne and bow down before Mine. Lastly, you must know that I am the Lord God. I set up and tear down. I anoint and disapprove. You shall have no other Gods before Me. I hold the keys to hell and death. I am coming soon and I will destroy my enemies with the sword of my mouth.

I got a word from a friend that had friends that still attended VVCLC at this time that sometime in October of 1989 Pastor Prideful admitted to some in his congregation that he had not always been faithful to his wife. This however was an unsubstantiated report that could not be verified. Through the late 80's and early 90's Prideful's family life fell apart. Going into details here would be gossip, so I won't. He resigned from Christian Life Center around 1994 to pursue a radio ministry in the San Diego area. Sometime in the 90's he had to return to Vacaville to answer charges by a woman congregant that she had once had an affair with him while he was pastor. According to sources he announced before the congregation that he had sinned with the woman and supposedly repented before the body of believers. Later on, Pastor Prideful's wife died of cancer. She had forgiven him of his infidelity. Prideful tried unsuccessfully to come back to Vacaville to start a new ministry but was basically run out of town by the ministerial association of Vacaville who remembered his past ways and wanted nothing more of him in their region. So, while he has listened to and fulfilled God's requirements in some areas, he hasn't totally. Breach of any part of a contract is breach of the whole contract. Too bad too, because he has a charisma that could draw many to Yeshua, should he decide to come clean totally with Yahweh.