Hey guys i am tamika and i am here to share a story with you today and that story is why i left my sorority and never looked back now this story starts in october 2001. i was a freshman in college and i wasn’t looking to join any greek letter organizations at the time
But because i was considered legacy i was basically grandfathered in to zeta phi beta sorority incorporated my mom was a zeta and my dad was a member of phi beta sigma which is the brother fraternity of the zetas so i ended up pledging my life
To zeta phi beta sorority and i did it for two main reasons for one because i wanted to gain my parents approval because i thought it would be something that would make them proud because it was something that they did um and also i was actually told that it
Would look good on your resume and you know being a new college student being a freshman in college i was doing everything that i could to make sure that i built up my resume so that when i graduated i’d be able to get a job so
When you say that you know it made it sound good right well there was also the community service aspect of it and you know community service always looks good um but hazing wasn’t allowed and hazing is kind of a process where you go through a lot of unnecessary
Things like some people are beat with wooden paddles some people you know the you might have to drink things get drunk there’s a lot of different haze and processes but hazing is actually not legally allowed and when we joined the organization we had to sign paperwork stating that it
Wouldn’t be done and if it was there will be consequences which could include the entire organization being suspended from the from the campus from the school so but as things go hazing still went on and that was the first red flag for me because i didn’t understand at the time why
We had to go through these seemingly unnecessary things just to join the organization i personally felt like there were better ways to create sisterhood other than through trauma bonding which is basically what hazing is but i still found myself at the interest meeting for the organization thinking of
How excited my parents would be once they found out that i made the decision to follow in their footsteps fast forward through the process that they took us to i literally thought about quitting every single day because it for me it was just so unnecessary and so
It was just agitating and it it was unnecessary uh sometimes for me it even felt like torture because i i just didn’t understand it i didn’t understand what that had to do with anything so besides the you know the education part you know learning about the organization learning
About its history learning about its perfect purpose um the types of things that they get involved in like i mentioned community service before for instance zeta works with the march of dimes which i thought was great you know but and that that part i understood but the the rest of it i could
Definitely have gone without but then we got to our hell night as they called it which was the last night of our pledging process a night of unnecessary agitation and provocation and you know making you do things you wouldn’t normally do or say things you wouldn’t normally say just a lot of
Unnecessariness for lack of a better word but what really stood out to me about my whole journey through zeta was the crossing ceremony which is which was the initiation ritual that symbolizes the pledge the person pledging crossing the burning sands and being fully accepted as a member of the organization
So that was the part of the story that gets really interesting now i don’t remember how long the ritual itself lasted but what i remember is being very uncomfortable and feeling very out of place the entire time that it was going on and nothing that was happening
Sat right with me and i didn’t understand why i i just didn’t know why um i thought it was just me and i thought it was just because it was new to me maybe it was just maybe it was just that nerves i don’t know but
Just as a side note i’m a preacher’s kid and i grew up in church i read the bible often so for a while after i left the organization i started to feel shame i felt ashamed because i felt like i should have known better i felt like i should have been able to
Discern that the rituals and the processes that i went through were not of god and i want to add here in the bible in hosea chapter 4 verse 6 it says my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge it says and this is god talking it says
Because you have rejected knowledge i will also reject you from being priest for me because you have forgotten the law of your god i will also forget your children now why would god be so harsh in this in this verse why would he threaten to not only turn away from the
People he was talking to but also from their children it’s because these types of rituals that that you know people go through are actual covenants or lifelong agreements that we make with other gods little g god and god lets us know in exodus chapter 20 verse 3 where you will find the 10
Commandments the very first commandment god lets us know that we are not to have any other gods before him and the bible teaches us that god takes covenants very seriously so much so that there are many examples in the bible where even if people made the
Wrong covenant or a covenant that he had specifically told them not to make with someone because of you know for whatever reason he still honored the covenant he he takes it seriously even though he knew that those covenants would destroy his people he still honored the covenant
So what does that have to do with greek sororities and fraternities you ask let’s keep going so nowhere in the bible does it say that we are allowed to make covenants with any other deity besides god himself so when you take the time to actually do research into these
Organizations which i strongly encourage all of you to do you’ll see that these organizations in a lot of different ways make tributes to other gods for instance if you look at the the shields of some of the organizations there are actual gods on their shields that are that the whole organization is
A tribute to that that’s not good so but these organizations make tributes to other guys even while claiming to acknowledge god himself um because i’ll get into the ritual in a little bit later in a little bit in just a minute but during the ritual we actually had a
Bible and we were reading scripture so um like i said i remember that there was scripture being quoted during the initial initiation ritual but in some cases what i personally noticed was that god’s actual name wasn’t being used in some cases and the the context that the scriptures were
Being read in was so broad that really any name could be fit into it other than god’s name and i know this is a detail that a lot of people wouldn’t really notice or pay attention to but because you know i was a preacher’s kid and like i said i read
The bible often and i grew up in such pro such close proximity to the word of god i knew something was off and it it bothered me so back to the ritual a few of the things that stood out to me about the actual ritual a few of the
Things that set me on edge was the the white attire we were required to wear all white um the marching in we had we marched in and aligned real slow real quiet it was a very solemn um time if the room was dim you know or
Dark uh we carried candles each of us was given a flower that we were required to carry with us as we marched in and then we left it at the altar they had set up after we all knelt down and prayed and oddly enough another thing that
Stood out to me was the fact that we were given bibles monogrammed with each of our names on it and i just thought that was weird because i the bible just seemed so out of place the way that i felt in on the inside the bible just felt so
Out of place in that situation for me and there was also the fact that throughout the whole process throughout the whole ritual process there was this i felt this heavy feeling um like really like something was happening that i shouldn’t have been a part of but i couldn’t i couldn’t explain it i
Didn’t know if it was just me i i just didn’t know and back then i didn’t know enough about the occult to recognize any of these things as red flags um but what i learned years later is that white is a color that’s used a lot in the
Occult um the actual altar that we knelt down and prayed at symbolized the spiritual demonic altars that we were entering into covenant with and the the spirits that govern those altars um the flower we left on the altar was a sacrifice for those spirits you know there was the
Darkness the candles all occult related but i didn’t know and this was a very good example of how deceiving the phrase is what you don’t know won’t hurt you well the reality is what you don’t know can kill you because you don’t know so and you know it can kill you spiritually
Especially as was the case here with these rituals you know none of us died during the ritual but there was spiritual death that was there were spiritual ramifications that we weren’t aware of at the time so it was october 20th 2001 that i pledged my life to false gods unknowingly and
Even after that day i just never felt right about my sorority i never it was just something that was always off for me um and as a part of the ritual as well we all declared that once a zeta once we became a zeta we were always going to be
A zeta and we would always we would only be separated by death well that stood out to me too because that that’s an oath that’s a that’s a declaration and the from that day matthew chapter 5 verses 33 to 37 came to my remembrance way more often than i
Liked and i’m not going to read it here but if you want to go back and look at it that’s matthew chapter 5 verses 33 and 37 and in this particular in these verses jesus is talking about oaths and how and he’s forbidding people to make any oaths to anyone or anything
Other than god so me personally whenever i wore that greek paraphernalia whether it be a shirt or a jacket or even a bracelet i was reminded of the oats that i made that day that had nothing to do with god because number one these are secret organizations there are a lot of things
That are kept under wraps in these organizations that you’re just not allowed to talk about they’re secret societies god doesn’t run secret societies god is not a god of darkness he doesn’t do anything under under a cloud of darkness that’s just not how he operates so you know god is light god illuminates
Everything god exposes god brings things out in these societies they’re doing the exact opposite they’re pulling things in they’re keeping things in there they have their own set of rules over here that they go by that nobody can know anything about they have these own these these like the rituals the rituals
Aren’t things that they advertise you don’t know what’s happening in that ritual unless you’re a part of the ritual making olds and it’s just it’s not of god it has nothing to do with god and my heart was convicted and i didn’t know it at the time i
Recognized the feeling at the time so i couldn’t put words to it but my heart was actually grieved i was feeling conviction for what i had done in my ignorance so fast forward to 2005 i had switched colleges and i had a new group of
Friends by that time and a good bit of them were other zetas and other stigmas and one sigma in particular i had become pretty close with at the time and we were at a party one night and he confided in me that he was called to be a pastor now at that time
I didn’t know that i was a prophet i didn’t know god hadn’t called me out on it yet at least not that i remember and i just i didn’t know much about prophets or prophecy or anything like that but i prophesied to him that night at that party
That he would not be able to fully walk in his calling and so he let sigma go and so he let that fraternity go excuse me and until he did he would not move forward and i besides the fact that i didn’t know why i was saying those words i didn’t
Know where those words were coming from why i felt so compelled to say them to him even though they sounded crazy to me i realized that in that same moment that i was feeling very strong conviction myself and that conviction never let up after that day i had to deal with it
Ever since then so the very next year in october 2006 i rededicated my life to the lord at a deliverance conference and i was very surprised when the first instruction that god immediately gave me was to come out of zeta phi beta and put it behind me for good
And even though i didn’t know why he was saying what he was saying even though i didn’t know why he wanted me to do it i obeyed and looking back later i realized that god had called me out of that sorority almost five years to the day
That i pledged my life to it and i know that five is the number of that symbolizes god’s grace and it was in his oh it was in his grace by the grace of god that he did not let me continue on in my ignorance so not long after i renounced zeta a
Family member actually called me um kind of out of the blue and begin to explain to me the history of these secret organizations of these greek sororities of fraternities he was in the masons which which are also involved and which i also didn’t know at
The time and my dad is also a mason but he was considering um my family member was considering pledging himself and instead of pledging though he decided to do some research first so as he began to research he started uncovering a lot of things about these organizations and the more he learned
The more disgusted he became with what he was learning and so he remembered that i had also pledged a great organization so he called me to see if i knew what i got myself into and when he started to tell me these things i was speechless
I had no clue what i had done and what i had joined myself to i had no idea so up until that point i had been holding on to a lot of the greek paraphernalia that i still had the jackets the shirts um they even had a pair of slippers monogram with the
The um the letters and all that stuff i i got rid of it and really the honestly if i’m being honest the only reason i was even holding on to it at that point is because i had gotten used to the popularity and the recognition of
Being a part of the organization and i didn’t really want to let it go but after that conversation that day i went home and i threw it all out didn’t give it a second thought through it all in the trash and i made a decision that i would not put anything else over
God i would not make anything else greater than god in my life i didn’t want to do that and since that day i haven’t looked back or second guess my decision and the only thing the only other thing that gave me pause at the beginning was that was the the thought of losing
Some of the connections that i made with a lot of phenomenal people along the along the journey and i mean it just is what it is some of those people i’m not in contact with today some i still am but i would make the decision all over again
If it meant choosing god first i would do it all over again because he god and god alone is my source and my true love and i will never put anything over him intentionally so why am i sharing this story with you because for years over the years i have
Seen more and more people starting to wake up to the reality that we made a mistake that i’ve seen more and more people are making the choice to choose god over these organizations and i know that the more that these types of stories are told the more people will continue
Waking up and continue choosing god and you know will everybody wake up probably not but the ones who will make the choice to return to god and to come out of these places are worth the time that it takes to share the stories um so what’s the takeaway
Of my story today well it’s that anyone if there’s anyone who’s ever felt the conviction of joining these groups the rituals the anyone who’s had second thoughts anyone who’s had moments where anything about the organization just hasn’t sat right in their hearts as it sat right with them i
I hope that you will hear the word of the lord today and come out now get out now while you still have time god is calling people out of the places where they have been bound in this moment and as a prophet of the lord since 2022 began
I have prophesied many times that 2022 is the year that many of us will come into alignment or in some cases come back into alignment with the heart of god and he is calling us into deeper relationship with him he is calling us out of the places where we
Have been cap held captive where we have been bound but we have been stuck and he’s calling us back to him he’s calling us into a place of intimacy in his heart and since march has begun you know we’re only in the third month of the year now but i have already
Personally seen how god has moved in on the hearts of a lot of his people and it’s so encouraging he’s working right now to prepare the bride for the bridegroom who is yet to come so my message to you let’s get our hearts in alignment with god let’s start putting him back let’s
Start putting away these these other guys these other deities these other things that we put before him because it’s idolatry we’ve entered into idolatry and if you read in the old testament there was a lot of idolatry going on and there was a lot of instances where god
Was calling his people out of idolatry he’s doing it right now still to this day it’s time to be bold it’s time to speak out it’s time to start telling these stories so that other people will come to the point where they will wake up and begin to put god back into
His rightful position in their lives so this is my story of why i left my sorority and never looked back i’m tamika chambers if you want to hear more from me i can be found on instagram at prophetess underscore tte thanks for listening
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