there is a spiritual warfare happening against our north American church today and it's blinding the eyes of many!
When I speak about prayer, or journaling my prayers, I want
to be clear on this one thing.
I am not talking about the New Age way of praying!!
How alarming it is to read, and hear about these `New’ ways
to hear from God!
I do NOT, need to know a special formula to hear God’s
voice. God gave us His Word, the Bible, to hear what He has to say!
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 says
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the
flesh: For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to
the pulling down of strong holds. Casting down imaginations, and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into
captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
The new age way of praying, empting your mind so you can
`hear God’s voice’ or so you can see him in a vision, is not Biblical, but
opening ourselves to spirits that are not of God!
We are to wear our spiritual armour, for we war not against
flesh, but the spiritual realm!
Ephesians 6 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Why then is the church today trying to learn `how to have
visions’ and `experience God’ in a new way? This is not `new’ at all, its
occult and treading on dangerous waters!
If God wants us to have a `supernatural experience’, I
firmly believe HE will give it, but I do not see in scripture where we are to be
seeking ways to step into the spiritual dimension! Especially when we may be
opening ourselves up to spirits disguising themselves as angels of light, when
they are truly of the darkness!
1 John 4:1 “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the
spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into
the world.”
Nowhere do you find Yoga in the Bible…. No but you will find
this
Matthew 6: 7-13 “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions,
as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much
speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what
things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we
forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”
Jesus even warned not to pray as the heathen!
So when I speak of praying, or journaling my prayers, it is
this, I am simply talking to my Heavenly Father. Nothing more. I firmly believe
that another way Satan is attaching our churches today is through all these
`new’ ways to experience God. If it doesn’t’ line up with scripture, stay
away!! We may not have persecution, but we are being attacked another way!
Amen! How true. I know that contemplative prayer is another thing to be aware of. Or is it the same thing?
ReplyDeleteAmen! How true. I know that contemplative prayer is another thing to be aware of. Or is it the same thing?
ReplyDeleteyes, that is what I was meaning, and I think yoga is another form of it. so scary what people are opening themselves up to!
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