Know Your Dough: Why God Is Exposing Mixture in the Church
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Editor’s Note: This piece reflects a prophetic warning received in a corporate gathering, calling believers to examine the unseen mixture shaping their leadership, obedience, and church culture. It is written as an invitation to discernment rather than accusation.
There was a phrase spoken at Convergence that lodged itself in my spirit and would not move.
“Know your dough.”
Not your gifting.
Not your anointing.
Not your audience.
Your dough.
The unseen mixture working beneath the surface.
Because dough always tells the truth in the end.
Leaven Always Reveals What Is Mixed In
Jesus warned repeatedly about leaven.
Not because it is dramatic, but because it is subtle.
“Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Matthew 16:6
Leaven works quietly.
Slowly.
Invisibly.
It does not announce itself.
It influences.
And the word that followed was sobering.
Some dough has gone sour.
Not because people are evil,
but because the Church has tolerated mixture for too long.
Mixture of:
• Kingdom and control
• Spirit and politics
• Intimacy and transaction
• Fire and branding
• Revelation and consumerism
And God is not tolerating it anymore.
The Lord Detests Mixture
This was spoken plainly.
Not gently.
Not diplomatically.
The Lord detests mixture.
Scripture has never been ambiguous about this.
“Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.”
Deuteronomy 22:11
“I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. Because you are lukewarm, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.”
Revelation 3:15 to 16
Mixture dulls discernment.
Mixture weakens authority.
Mixture makes people sick, even when the ingredients look holy.
And many churches have come into agreement with spirits they do not recognise, simply because those spirits wear respectable clothing.
The Religious and Political Spirits
One of the clearest warnings was this.
The religious spirit and the political spirit sour the batch.
The religious spirit:
• Prioritises control over obedience
• Values order more than presence
• Silences fire to preserve structure
The political spirit:
• Demands alignment
• Rewards conformity
• Uses fear, flattery, and shortcuts
Both promise influence.
Neither produces life.
And once these spirits enter leadership culture, they do one thing exceptionally well.
They contain God.
Why So Many Churches Are Being Shaken
This is not persecution.
It is not rebellion.
It is not people losing faith.
It is exposure.
The Lord is releasing control, and many systems are panicking because they were built on it.
“You cannot pour new wine into old wineskins.”
Luke 5:37
The old wineskins are cracking, not because God has left, but because He is moving.
And here is the uncomfortable truth.
Some churches are not resisting the move of God because they are evil,
but because they are afraid of losing relevance, authority, or financial security.
That fear is the leaven.
Fire, Not Lukewarm
Another line struck me deeply.
“The Lord wants fire and faith, not lukewarm.”
Not metrics.
Not numbers.
Not polished growth strategies.
Jesus’ measure of success was never attendance.
It was obedience.
It was surrender.
It was people who had been with Him.
“Did not our hearts burn within us while He talked with us on the road?”
Luke 24:32
Fire is returning, but fire burns off mixture first.
Why This Is Personal for Me
As I listened, I realised why certain doors closed for me without explanation.
Why proposals were ignored.
Why invitations never came.
Why clarity was met with silence.
It was not that the ideas were wrong.
They were uncontainable.
And I see now that God was protecting me from being absorbed into a system that could not steward what He was forming.
Some environments do not reject you because you are wrong.
They resist you because your presence exposes the leaven.
A Call to Discernment
This is not a call to judge the Church.
It is a call to discern what you are agreeing with.
What spirit is shaping your leadership?
What is motivating your obedience?
What mixture are you tolerating to stay comfortable?
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”
Matthew 5:8
Purity here does not mean moral perfection.
It means undiluted devotion.
What Comes Next
The Lord is burning off what does not belong.
Not to shame,
but to restore simplicity, power, and presence.
And those willing to examine their dough, honestly, humbly, without defence,
will find that what remains is stronger, cleaner, and ready for fire.
“Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Matthew 16:6
With fire and grace,
This message carries fire. Pass it on. 👇🏻
Victoria Player is the founder of Daughter of Thunder, a movement awakening spiritually sensitive women to truth, purpose, and divine power in a world that’s lost its compass. After walking through her own season of fire and rebuilding, she now writes and speaks to those who sense there’s more — guiding them from confusion to clarity, from awakening to assignment.
“I don’t bow to Babylon — I walk with the Lion.” — Daughter of Thunder
