Sunday, September 30, 2012
Ouija Board Strategies In These Last Days
Blessings from my home to yours. May the title of this blog grab your attention to read on about how the Devil has attempted to steal, kill and destroy from the time you could first remember.
Revelation 2:4-5 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.
Revelation 3:3-6 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
I don't know about you, but there is such freedom to read the book of Revelations without fear. We tremble in the presence of the Almighty, but our days of fearing the unseen and the future are over, as born-agains. What is it saying to us? To the churches? Do you see the relevance for today in this book?
I first started reading the Bible at about age 9 years of age. I also read the newspaper pretty regularly as well at an early age. I boldly read the world events and editorial sections of the paper, along with the Gospels and Revelation. I grieved over world hunger and wars and such. This intercessory gift was present always. My parents were curious about me. I was the baby of 5 girls. I had an imaginary friend named Sharon for quite awhile. I was a dreamer, a David. A Joseph, that is for sure. I was musical and creative and loved to play alone (with dolls, pets and my imagination).
I started life like most of you. Singing about Jesus in Sunday School. Bible School and learning with vigor about Bible characters. We sang some Negro spirituals in Jr. Choir at church. "Do, Lord, Oh Do Lord, Oh Do Remember Me". See this Youtube link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCpQF9LYylU
I don't know how our American Lutheran Church liked it, but my volunteer choir leader Shirley, had us sing some great Jesus songs.
Yes, as children we can sing "Jesus Loves Me" easily. Then comes the teen years. The wicked Jr. High years. The loss of interest in church. The draw to the opposite sex. The cliques, the pimples, the early hardships. The exposure to alcohol and cigarettes. The rigid, legalistic parenting that we go home to, that doesn't explain the "why" behind the "no". We get a message to keep out of their way and don't embarrass us with blemishing the family reputation. We don't hear about the exact heartaches they suffered, because their generation and the generation before doesn't talk about their mistakes and certainly never apologizes. Once we are off the hip of our mothers, we are shooed away and the intimate relationship ceases. This continues into life.....
Many of us went from skipping around singing Jesus songs, to quickly growing up without a way out of our sin.
I personally suffered of this. I read the Bible very early and no one to explain the beauty of the answer! A Redeemer! We have a convicting preacher in our church, but no way out of our sin. The term, "Born Again" was not used in any of the churches I attended, and even now, it is rare to find a church that states this necessity. Other terms are used, yes, but regardless of any negative connotation it was given possibly in the 70's, it best describes (and is Biblical), what is necessary for us to have New Life.
I hope many of you reading this can relate. But, let me continue to The Ouija Board Of Life.......
But, what if in this mix of life someone gets born again?
Here are the pitfalls for you to beware of: 1) Someone talking you out of a believer's baptism. 2) A church that extinguishes the Holy Spirit. 3) Mature Christians trying to suppress your joy, or telling you that it will "pass". 4) Healing of the Lord being shunned. 5) The constant negative discussion of the speaking of tongues and its place in our lives, if we are indeed gifted with it. 6) Not spending time in the Word, daily. 7) Understanding that you will need to make a change in who you hang out with, even if it is family. 8) Christians telling you about your "freedom" in Christ so much that "their" religion is based on so much grace that you need not quit habitual sinning. 9) Hanging on to a pride issue that will talk you out of getting on your knees daily in prayer.
On to the conclusion of this blog:
Don't let this happen to you. So, like me you had a rough start. A late start. But, are you on the bus finally like me?
The title of the blog is to explain that Satan can have you on a chess board situation of life. A Ouija Board of sorts. His demons are especially interested in you, now that you are born again. They will try to convince you of all sorts of half truths. They will attempt to entice you to not worship with your heart and soul. They will put certain people on your path to derail you and many of them may be "Christians" with all kinds of advice.
You need only one Teacher. That is the Holy Spirit. The Gift that Jesus promised. Get quiet, get alone and go into the wilderness for the time that God has gifted you with. When you come out of that desert time, be watchful and aware.
I am coming out of my desert time. I am still filled with at least the same amount of joy I had the day the Lord touched me. I have many, many obstacles in life, too many to list. I still am so in love with Jesus and what He did for me, that it is difficult to imagine not feeling joy over these worldly circumstances.
Put on your Spiritual Eyes. You will need them. Keep off the Ouija Board of life. Walk in the Spirit. Keep faithful. Ask the Lord for revelations on those things you do not understand. Find a good Holy Spirit church.
Never quit praising the Almighty! Amen!!!
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Repent. It is the only word you need to know.
Blessings from the Midwest. The Lord is good and gracious and I cannot praise Him enough! I have my list of struggles. I do my best to not let them be "a part of me". May I advise that you do the same? How quickly I make idols of my problems. Be weary of your words, who you counsel with, how many you counsel with. I am learning. Sometimes the painful hard way. So, we go on praising and worshiping our Saviour! He deserves our praise!
I just finished reading the book, The Harbinger. I think I am going to go and buy many copies to give away. This may be another choice of book for evangelizing. More Than A Carpenter is one I give to people who are unbelieving or severely questioning their faith. The Harbinger may be an all around good book to spread the Gospel, as there is the salvation message for the "religious" in the end, as well. A book of warning. It will shake you to your roots. It should, just as most sermons should in your churches.
Reading The Harbinger actually put me into a newer state of awareness, and at this point, I am still processing what it has and is revealing to me. Many in our community are speaking of revival of incredible significance. The birth pains are present. I have heard prophet after prophet speak of this and what is being revealed to them through dreams, signs and revelations. Yes, I mean now. Shut your Bible and pray if you continue to imagine that "that book" is about the past. It is breathing. It is pregnant. It is ever-present and perfect. It is trying to talk to you about today, tomorrow and yesterday. Put your thinking-cap away and read with your heart. Dream, imagine, wonder, pray. Become the child He wants you to be. If you call Him Father, you are a child. Throw away terms such as baby Christian and mature Christian. I see too many get stuck on these and label. Look at people's hearts and that is all you need to know.
Being a new believer (I personally own decades of "religion"), I am trying to put together the past. I am piecing together Nazi Germany. I am piecing together the Old Testament and its prophesies. I am piecing together how in the earth, when I was 6 years old, abortion became legal. How, in our country, African Americans were not able to have the same freedoms as my parents, in 1960! Obviously, the Lord has had me piece together my ENTIRE life up to the day of my salvation. As you have read about in my previous posts, it has been a rapid, bitter-sweet journey.
I can weave around all kinds of ways in these posts, but my hope is to keep you entertained enough to stay with me.
The turn of events in my thought process, since reading The Harbinger and more closely watching world events is that I am greatly concerned that the crumble of America may happen prior to the Rapture and this is important for me to consider.
Do you want to continue reading? Push through.
After my being filled with the Holy Spirit approximately 1.5 years ago, I quickly read the New Testament with hunger. I also read book after book about everything from Hell to dead churches to spiritual warfare to fasting. The cool thing about these books is that they all lead me back to the Bible. I get a "reference" from each book that puts an interest in me to read a certain book of the Bible.
Then, after finishing the New Testament (I am reading through it over and over again still), I started reading the major prophets. Daniel was actually revealed to me in a dream (Daniel Chapter 10), and I read that with wonder. It certainly helped me understand spiritual warfare more perfectly, along with prayers to be answered and why some take longer. I speaks to me, personally.
Most interesting, is a note I put in my Bible next to Isaiah 26:5-6. I wrote "Twin Towers".
I can't imagine a born again Christian not reading the prophetic books of the Bible and not correlate the warnings to Israel (the Jewish people wherever they were and the actual country) over and over (and destruction that followed) to God warning American to turn and repent. Yes, I easily see the message needed for America, founded on Christianity, to repent. Turn and change. I found this to be a reality to me very quickly after reading the Bible, as a born again believer.
It is difficult to find Christians who dare go this deep. Shallow is not the way. Ephesians 3:17-18 states: So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. There is such a "depth" to the scriptures. How can you continue to be shallow?
What a relief for me to find these Scriptures. I was someone who was told all of my life, the contrary of most of what is Biblical. Praise and Glory to God for His Word!
What does America need to repent? Do I dare list? Let alone legalization of abortion and same sex marriages, let's just look at the saturation of alcohol in our country. It is incredible what has happened over the last 10 years alone. Numb people don't make sensitive to the Spirit Christians. Born again Christians should quickly ask after their conversion if alcohol is really part of God's plan for them. Many do not.
Parents don't have Bibles on their coffee tables, don't read the Bible and don't read the Bible to their kids (I am guilty--now I see the light) and they gripe that there is no prayer in school. Parents, wake up! You didn't even start it in your home! No prayer in school? Do you pray from your heart with your husband and kids? Or do you settle for a memorized prayer at supper? Or do you watch on Sunday morning when you get your newspaper the neighbor going to church while you sip from your coffee mug?
I am guilty of many of these things. But, there is One who set me free and my guilt is gone. Now, I pledge a warning to all to kick it in gear and get with it. Jesus following is not a fad, it is not a phase that you go through as a "new believer". It is a way of life!!!! I can't number the people that indicated to me the opposite. "Oh, I remember when I used to feel about Jesus that way". Wow.
Parents, grandparents, any and everyone. Please read your Bibles. Read The Harbinger. Lead others to Christ and do it now. God will do His work, but He needs people to reach people.
Here is an interesting story to end this blog with. This is how infantile so many are about conversion and the need to repent:
Arthur Blessitt, a great evangelist spoke on this: He was out and about and came upon a car crash. He stopped and tried to help. The person in the front seat was injured severely and he didn't realize there was another in the car. This person was semi-conscious. Arthur was speaking to this person of the Gospel and the need to have Jesus as a personal savior. There could have been only moments left is this person's life. Then, a person chimed in from the wrecked car, in the back seat. This person has the nerve to say, "Quit talking to him that way. You are going to scare him."
God forgive this person in the back seat. God bless Arthur and all of us trying to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. God help heal our broken hearts over the pharisees comments, jeers and road blocks.
Please, all that read this. Pray for God to activate your gift of evangelism. Amen.
I just finished reading the book, The Harbinger. I think I am going to go and buy many copies to give away. This may be another choice of book for evangelizing. More Than A Carpenter is one I give to people who are unbelieving or severely questioning their faith. The Harbinger may be an all around good book to spread the Gospel, as there is the salvation message for the "religious" in the end, as well. A book of warning. It will shake you to your roots. It should, just as most sermons should in your churches.
Reading The Harbinger actually put me into a newer state of awareness, and at this point, I am still processing what it has and is revealing to me. Many in our community are speaking of revival of incredible significance. The birth pains are present. I have heard prophet after prophet speak of this and what is being revealed to them through dreams, signs and revelations. Yes, I mean now. Shut your Bible and pray if you continue to imagine that "that book" is about the past. It is breathing. It is pregnant. It is ever-present and perfect. It is trying to talk to you about today, tomorrow and yesterday. Put your thinking-cap away and read with your heart. Dream, imagine, wonder, pray. Become the child He wants you to be. If you call Him Father, you are a child. Throw away terms such as baby Christian and mature Christian. I see too many get stuck on these and label. Look at people's hearts and that is all you need to know.
Being a new believer (I personally own decades of "religion"), I am trying to put together the past. I am piecing together Nazi Germany. I am piecing together the Old Testament and its prophesies. I am piecing together how in the earth, when I was 6 years old, abortion became legal. How, in our country, African Americans were not able to have the same freedoms as my parents, in 1960! Obviously, the Lord has had me piece together my ENTIRE life up to the day of my salvation. As you have read about in my previous posts, it has been a rapid, bitter-sweet journey.
I can weave around all kinds of ways in these posts, but my hope is to keep you entertained enough to stay with me.
The turn of events in my thought process, since reading The Harbinger and more closely watching world events is that I am greatly concerned that the crumble of America may happen prior to the Rapture and this is important for me to consider.
Do you want to continue reading? Push through.
After my being filled with the Holy Spirit approximately 1.5 years ago, I quickly read the New Testament with hunger. I also read book after book about everything from Hell to dead churches to spiritual warfare to fasting. The cool thing about these books is that they all lead me back to the Bible. I get a "reference" from each book that puts an interest in me to read a certain book of the Bible.
Then, after finishing the New Testament (I am reading through it over and over again still), I started reading the major prophets. Daniel was actually revealed to me in a dream (Daniel Chapter 10), and I read that with wonder. It certainly helped me understand spiritual warfare more perfectly, along with prayers to be answered and why some take longer. I speaks to me, personally.
Most interesting, is a note I put in my Bible next to Isaiah 26:5-6. I wrote "Twin Towers".
I can't imagine a born again Christian not reading the prophetic books of the Bible and not correlate the warnings to Israel (the Jewish people wherever they were and the actual country) over and over (and destruction that followed) to God warning American to turn and repent. Yes, I easily see the message needed for America, founded on Christianity, to repent. Turn and change. I found this to be a reality to me very quickly after reading the Bible, as a born again believer.
It is difficult to find Christians who dare go this deep. Shallow is not the way. Ephesians 3:17-18 states: So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. There is such a "depth" to the scriptures. How can you continue to be shallow?
What a relief for me to find these Scriptures. I was someone who was told all of my life, the contrary of most of what is Biblical. Praise and Glory to God for His Word!
What does America need to repent? Do I dare list? Let alone legalization of abortion and same sex marriages, let's just look at the saturation of alcohol in our country. It is incredible what has happened over the last 10 years alone. Numb people don't make sensitive to the Spirit Christians. Born again Christians should quickly ask after their conversion if alcohol is really part of God's plan for them. Many do not.
Parents don't have Bibles on their coffee tables, don't read the Bible and don't read the Bible to their kids (I am guilty--now I see the light) and they gripe that there is no prayer in school. Parents, wake up! You didn't even start it in your home! No prayer in school? Do you pray from your heart with your husband and kids? Or do you settle for a memorized prayer at supper? Or do you watch on Sunday morning when you get your newspaper the neighbor going to church while you sip from your coffee mug?
I am guilty of many of these things. But, there is One who set me free and my guilt is gone. Now, I pledge a warning to all to kick it in gear and get with it. Jesus following is not a fad, it is not a phase that you go through as a "new believer". It is a way of life!!!! I can't number the people that indicated to me the opposite. "Oh, I remember when I used to feel about Jesus that way". Wow.
Parents, grandparents, any and everyone. Please read your Bibles. Read The Harbinger. Lead others to Christ and do it now. God will do His work, but He needs people to reach people.
Here is an interesting story to end this blog with. This is how infantile so many are about conversion and the need to repent:
Arthur Blessitt, a great evangelist spoke on this: He was out and about and came upon a car crash. He stopped and tried to help. The person in the front seat was injured severely and he didn't realize there was another in the car. This person was semi-conscious. Arthur was speaking to this person of the Gospel and the need to have Jesus as a personal savior. There could have been only moments left is this person's life. Then, a person chimed in from the wrecked car, in the back seat. This person has the nerve to say, "Quit talking to him that way. You are going to scare him."
God forgive this person in the back seat. God bless Arthur and all of us trying to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. God help heal our broken hearts over the pharisees comments, jeers and road blocks.
Please, all that read this. Pray for God to activate your gift of evangelism. Amen.
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