FACADE

Posted on Mar 20, 2026 by Shane W. Roessiger | Comments (0)

God's prophets also do not see what man sees. God's apostles don't see what man sees. What man usually sees is a facade. Let's read the story of Saul in 1 Samuel 16:6-13. Those who are spiritually connected to the Father, like the prophet Samuel, don't see what man sees. Only the blind can see what man sees! Only pride sees what pride sees. "Man looks for the outward appearance. But the Lord looks at the heart" (verse 7). And He has not changed. This is what He looks at; this is what He sees: THE HEART!

Seven sons of Jesse passed by the prophet (verse 10), but the prophet saw what God saw. A real prophet can tell who is the right one, who should be, who could be, who could not, who should not, and who is the wrong one. That is why a prophet has this gift: the gift of seeing what and how God sees. People are waiting to hear God, and God has been speaking through the prophets. And Samuel, knowing about one who was not presented by Jesse, called him out, and the Lord told him to anoint David (verses 12-13). David did not have a facade. He did not care what man thought or the whispers in his ears for dancing naked in public (2 Samuel 6:14). The way he was dancing in public was the same way he was dancing in secret, and the fruit of that was shown in public. Public reverence and worship to God was displayed, not a double tongue or double-minded or part-time loyalty.

The Lord, many years ago, showed me the White House, and the pillars were falling during the election. The entire face of the building looked so grand, so nice, so perfect, so righteous. The whole facade, the whole face of the building, fell down, and I saw cockroaches, but everybody was looking great! This represents our facade. From the outside, everything looks great, but from the inside, our hearts are filled with poison. This is what everybody who is connected to the Spirit sees!

A facade is used to hide the reality. The world does that. On social media, we see an ocean of facades. Beautiful family pictures when their home is run by jezebel, and the kids are a mess. Their house looks great, but the bills are behind, spouses are in turmoil! All fake! Fake friends. Fake pastors. Fake apostles. Fake prophets. A public appearance that covers a life of despair! A show! A false display! Two faces. People pretending to be perfect. God does not honor pretending. He honors our own reality! He honors humility and transparency! Freedom in being free. Freedom in being real. Some of us cannot enjoy the freedom of being free. They do that to their own selves. We need to be free to be us. Freedom of being you.

When living in your identity, you have nothing to hide. When we live in a facade, we need to be careful to keep that facade. They hate their life, they are bound, but they need to keep up that image because their own god is man-pleasing. They are always concerned about the outward appearance. This does not sit right with God. David was who he was! People who don't live a facade don't have many friends, but the friends they do have are real. They are true, real friends. It is better to be rebuked by a real friend than to have people feed our facade (Proverbs 27:6). No one in the flesh can hide their spiritual condition, but pride tries to do that!

Let's read 1 Samuel 15:23-35. When we sin, we have to pretend that all stays the same in peace. Sin in our lives brings witchcraft wherever we go! Pride starts tormenting our minds! To keep up with that facade, you must lie. We are not sinners anymore. Now it is all about choices. If we are living in pride, we are living in sin! Just as stubbornness in children, for example, if we must tell them more than once, they are stubborn! When God sends people over and over to tell us the same thing all the time, we are stubborn! People with facades pretend to be free, but they are bound up! Maybe that is why many churches sing and dance, keeping up their facade. Lying praise! They worship and dance, but their hearts are far from Him! When we don't have discernment, you will look at them and say, "I want to be like them," but God is saying, "You don't want to be like them. I want you to worship Me in Spirit and in Truth." But there is a difference. Sacrificial praise! Your heart is not trying to put on a show; you are pressing through your own struggles!

Saul recognized his sin and did not take full responsibility. Prideful people won't do that. Saul, through his actions towards Samuel, admitted he feared the people, and he obeyed their voice (verse 24). I fear my wife and obey her; I fear my boss, and I obey their voice; I fear my family, and I obey their voice; I fear all the time, so I obey my desire, my truth, my vision, my passion, me, I, I, I. When you don't embrace your life in God, you start building that facade to pretend that you are perfect; perfect you, perfect kitchen, perfect life, but you and your life are so not perfect! This pride starts activating all different kinds of spirits: leviathan, jezebel. Pride is the activator of all kinds of demonic forces!

Maybe God gave them Saul because this was the one people wanted. Saul was not getting rid of the pride; he just wanted to be forgiven! He wanted all the people to see him worshiping the Lord (verse 25). Who is praising and worshiping in the fire, in the persecution, in Spirit and in Truth, or who is doing it like Saul to keep his "holy" appearance? He wanted everybody to think he was not in trouble with God, as a leader! His facade was still on, but Samuel would not have any of it. Saul must have been forgiven so many times, but this time it was different.

How many battles did Saul win, and how many disobediences were committed? But Samuel decided not to return with Saul because the Lord had rejected Saul as a King (verse 26). The Lord had ripped his kingdom out of Saul's hand (verse 28). Saul was a great king, but his heart was not! So, God considered his neighbor better than him (verse 28). You can be looking good in front of people, but bad in front of God! Only God and those with His Spirit see what man cannot.

When God made his mind up about Saul, Samuel said, "And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent" (verse 29). God would not change his mind about him. This must bring the fear of the Lord to us; it brings it to me! "Excuse me, pardon me" can be used lightly as Saul did, and we can't expect that God will consider that. We must live our lives in the most transparent way. I am who I am, and I will obey God more than you! Thank God, we have writings and stories, we know that the Word of God cannot lie, we know it's infallible Truth. This must be our heart!

Many people don't even want to share the Truth because they are living a facade, and they are afraid of what people may say about them. You must be real. If your heart is hard, humble yourself, let the facade be torn down! Saul got the judgment from the prophet, but he still begged Samuel: Then he said, "I have sinned; yet please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Return with me, so that I may worship the Lord your God" (verse 30). Okay. Alright. I repented. I sinned. Yes. I know, I know, I know. Saul was asking Samuel to be his facade, his covering. He was asking to have honor before the elders, before the people…before the church, before your family, before your city! I know I am pretending I am perfect, I am pretending I am so happy and healthy, but I need to be covered so man cannot see. You are expecting God to help you in your vainglory, facade, and lying? It does not work that way! It is time to be real! It is time to be real! If you are not real with yourself, how can you be real with everybody else? Prideful people always defend themselves, don't see themselves, and don't see their own deception. What is your facade? Are any of these things going on in your life?

"And Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel cut Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal" (verse 33). This is how mad and angry God gets when we try to keep our facade. God will still kill the seed of rebellion in the church. He will use the prophets and the apostles for the sake of the nation. It has nothing to do with us. It's about the vision. It's about the leaven. It's about seducing spirits trying to creep in unaware.

The seed of Agag was what God was trying to kill because Saul was trying to bring it back to the House of Israel. God was looking at one man. He saw what that man would bring to the future of a nation. God sees what the sin of one man will bring to the future of our callings and destinies. You keep trying to bring it, but God is going to kill it; but pray so you won't die with it! When it comes to contaminate the whole church and anything that is holy, that comes so that you cannot be who you really are, God will bring Samuel to kill Agag, but hope you don't die with it, just as Saul did. One person's pride must be dealt with! There were so many conflicts between the facade and the promise, the facade of a king and a little boy. Don't play around with your heart and God's people, and don't play around with anything that is not real! The devil will make us think falsely when we say "yes" to God. David took the anointing and remained the same. He was not perfect, but he stayed real. The moment God showed David his sin through Nathan, he did not say, "Oops, God." He really repented! We need to kill Agag! Time is short! Just because God knew you ten years ago does not mean He knows you now because you hide behind the walls you built. Think about all the facades we make, and the fig leaves we put on, when we have the Lamb to cover us. We need to tear down the facades first.

"And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death; however, Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel" (verse 35). I don't want the Lord to regret that He anointed me! Do you? You can't play around with the facades in your life. It is time to be real! Because the only one you deceive is yourself! There is a time for everything. What time is it? Are you looking at what is going on in the world? The anti-Christ is at the door. What time is it? Where are you in God's time? Where are you in God's vision? Because God's vision has a time, and nobody is going to wait for you. To ascend the hill of the Lord, it is necessary to have clean hands and a pure heart. The enemy is the enemy, not the people.

"Father, we thank you for this time. Time for us to be real with ourselves first, and to be real with you, so we can be real with everybody else. Father, we pray that you won't let us deceive ourselves. I thank you, Father, that if we are hearing this word and our hearts are being moved, we still have a chance to be obedient and to destroy every seed of pride that brings in leviathan and brings witchcraft. We have a chance to kill Agag before the prophet comes." Saul was still asking, "Walk with me so I can look good." People won't be with us on the judgment day. It is going to be only you and the word. Let us live our lives like it is just Him and us, so whatever comes around this way won't affect us.

"Father, we thank you!" The altar is open. When God says, Humble yourself," He is not saying, "I will humble you." He is saying, "You humble yourself." He is already pushing you to humble yourself through the weight of the Word, the weight of the oil, and the anointing; the pressure of life is pushing us to go low. It is only we who are trying to arise and pretend that we have it all figured out!

"Father, we are not waiting on you; You are the one waiting on us to humble ourselves so you can exalt us in our heavenly identity, in the image of meekness, so we can testify we are not trying to save our lives! It is that easy unless you try to keep that facade. Are you going another day saying, "Sorry, Lord," or will you really repent and put on Christ, the humble one, and be like David?

"Father, forgive me for my sin, come into my heart, put on me the robe of righteousness, and remove the torment, the accuser of the brethren. I can't blame it on the devil or my situation, and forgive me for blaming you, God. Remove these words out of my mouth: "I never asked for this," "I wish I were never born," "I can't take this anymore." How are you stewarding what He is giving you? How is your attitude in this? Do you want more, so you will complain more? Or will you be grateful for all He has done for you? Stop looking back, and put your hand to the plow, and take off the facade.

Let your facade be torn down just as God tore down the kingdom of the greatest pretender: Saul. Find freedom in this word to be free to be you! Freedom to be free! Freedom to live in the reality of who you are, but always gazing at who He really wants you to be and not what your facade is displaying about your own self.

Time to be real, so the reality of Christ in you can be manifested, for real! May we all be looking really good in the eyes of God, and not in our own eyes! Be not stubborn, but be flexible, thank Him for letting you see, seeing your condition, and for making all things new again.

FACADE

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