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!!!