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How can we discern God’s Voice more clearly?

12 Thursday Jan 2023

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Led by the Spirit, confusion, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, False Teachers, Fellowship, Fellowship with God, Following Jesus, God's Leading, God's Voice, Individuality, Jesus Christ, Light and Darkness, My Spiritual Diary, Prayer, the body of Christ, Walking in the Spirit, Wisdom

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Before suggesting a more detailed explanation, I want to first offer you this follow-up vision on the one I posted on the 25th October in 2022 (full particulars here). If you do not want to follow the link, here’s a short summary of the surroundings in that vision.

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“Don‘t panic, it‘s only infodemic!“

06 Saturday Jun 2020

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, confusion, coronavirus, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, God's guidance, Hope, Pandemia, peace, Resisting the Devil, rest, Satan, Trusting God

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Sometimes I wonder about God’s inexplicable leading. Really, I cannot understand His way of thinking at all! Just lately He began to teach me about something that has been very unnerving for me. For several weeks, even months, I detected in my spam and trash folder on WordPress many, many spam mails. During the last weeks even about one thousand every day! These mails come from different email addresses; however, the common thing is that they are written in Spanish and that their message consists of only one question.

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The Coronavirus Causing Chaos or… You Keep Him in Perfect Peace Whose Mind is Stayed on YOU

17 Tuesday Mar 2020

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Building up the Body of Christ, confusion, coronavirus, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Endurance, Entering His Rest, God our Father, God's Love, God's Provision, Hope, Jesus Christ, Pandemia, Prayer, Repentance

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As I was just reading the whole chapter 26 from the prophet Isaiah, I began to wonder whether there might be a connection, a similarity to what the whole world is going through due to this pandemic coronavirus right now. Here in Bavaria after the case of disaster has been announced, everything has become chaotic. People have begun to act crazily, even insane at times. Dear brothers and sisters, even if we have to stay at home due to a ban on going out, I believe that God can help us out in everything. We won’t die of famine if we trust in Him, we won’t be ‘contaminated’ due to a lack of toilet paper or hand soap, and we will be able to experience joy and peace as the apostle Paul and Silas did when they were in prison (see Acts 16:25).

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How to water dry land spiritually

08 Monday Oct 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Christianity, Church, confusion, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, Fellowship, Fellowship with God, Following Jesus, God's Voice, Knowing God, Longing for God, Obedience, Prayer, Satan, Seeking God, wilderness

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Spiritual wildernesses do exist. Dry spells where you are tempted to believe you pray to a wall as nobody seems to hear your requests, they are real to the one who gets closer and closer to God. As illogical as it might seem, people who do not really seek more from God have less problems with prayer as they do not really expect God to answer them, either, when they keep clinging to pre-formulated prayers and hymns. However, can our relationship with our Creator ever be business as usual…?  🙄 In fact, if we truly want to feed on the living God, we must quit our comfort zone and cherished traditions because seeking God is always an adventure! An adventure that can be both exhausting and rewarding, unnerving and intriguing. Or as T. Austin Sparks put it so well,

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“Hath God really said…? “

03 Saturday Feb 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Carnality, clarity, confusion, Deception, Delusion, Discerning the Spirits, Divorce, Exhortation, Faith, False Happiness, Family and Friends, Following Jesus, God's guidance, God's Voice, My Spiritual Diary, Obedience, peace, Prayer, Resisting the Devil, Satan, sin, Spirit vs. Flesh, Submission to God, Temptation, The Fall

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Maybe, you are familiar with what has been going on in me lately. Imagine, after careful consideration aka prayer, you finally do something of which you are convinced that it must be God’s will for your life. I am not thinking of big things here, only of some small obedience of ours. As long as you are indecisive, you might feel weak, even confused. But as soon as you decide to give in to God’s tender ‘nudgings’, you sense some supernatural strength coming back to you. As you follow His leading and do what was needed, eventually, His peace surrounds you to show you His pleasure. How wonderful an experience! 😊 But then…

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False Christ-Centeredness

11 Thursday Jan 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, blogging, Building up the Body of Christ, Christian Living, Christianity, Church, Communion, confusion, Deception, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, False Spirits, Fellowship with God, Life and Death, Mind of Christ, My Spiritual Diary, Reading and Writing, sacraments, Seeking God, Seeking the Truth, sin, Submission to God, Theology

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Some of you might wonder why I keep publishing about the dangers of clinging to the wrong spirits. However, I believe it is important to get rid of all negative influences that might be able to pull us away from a personal and intimate relationship with Christ risen. If we want to feed on Christ by seeking His presence daily, we should stay away from reading books, blogs, or the like that pollute our minds with an abundance of theological theories. Even though we might always find some truth in theological writings, a true Christian writer can solely be someone who knows God and is known by Him also. Actually, don’t we want to be introduced to all the truth instead of to some starters only? Dear reader, what this world thinks is recommendable is usually detestable in God’s eyes. The same applies to the religious world of Christianity where the average Christian has been raised to look up to charismatic high-profile figures. The book market is flooded with a diversity of Christian books that are not always helpful to lead us into the truth as it is revealed in Christ alone. Let me give you an example here the Lord has just made me aware of.

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It’s a Matter of Faith

26 Thursday Oct 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Church, confusion, Deception, Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Exhortation, Faith, False Spirits, Fellowship of His Sufferings, Following Jesus, God's Voice, Inspiration, Knowing God, Obedience, peace, Spirit vs. Flesh, The Bride of Christ, The Cross

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A misty morning, sitting at the hairdresser. Looking out the window, I see people hurrying to and fro around the main station area in Fürth. As I had asked the Lord whether I should begin to write a new blog article here or not, He answered, “If you like.” I responded, “Only if YOU like!” since I have had no clue, until now, what to write about. 🤔

However, that’s IT, indeed! 😊 I do not want to write about the BIG things God might be inclined to do through us because that would not be the truth. How many Christians still tend to believe that God’s main interests were in revival, in teaching proper doctrine, in healing the sick and helping the needy, or in evangelism aka preaching the gospel to save the lost? “Hey, wait a moment…” I hear someone say, “The Bible tells us that some of these things you mentioned will follow those who believe.” Yeah, that is right. But do we really believe just as Jesus believed His Father? Do we think that our Lord cared and worried about these issues as we do today? Or did He not, rather, care about what His tender loving Daddy in heaven had on His mind at any given moment?

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Worth the Fight… Extending Inner Quietness

08 Tuesday Aug 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Abundant Life, Being Born Again, Building up the Body of Christ, confusion, Dependence on God, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Faith, Family and Friends, God's guidance, Growing in Christ, Humor, joy, My Spiritual Diary, Prayer, Sickness, Spirit vs. Flesh, Submission to God, Suffering and Joy

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Last week I felt a strong nudge to get closer to God and to let go of more and more, partly self-imposed, duties. As a woman, you might know how difficult it is to get rid of old habits and of letting go to care for others (more than they really need it) in order to meet EVERY expectation perfectly. I have also been used to care for my body daily and I sensed that my exhausting workouts tend to make my life more and more burdened. However, I could not get rid of swimming ‘the English Channel’, so to speak. 😉 I do know that I am no longer twenty or thirty and therefore I had begun to take at least one break during the day some years ago. Mostly after dinner I spend time in bed praying. Admittedly, sometimes I fall asleep because of exhaustion. 😉

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Counterfeit Spirits

17 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Baptism in the Holy Spirit, Building up the Body of Christ, Church, confusion, Deception, Delusion, Demons, Discerning the Spirits, Exhortation, False Spirits, God's Voice, Knowing God, Miracles, My Spiritual Diary, Obedience, peace, Resisting the Devil, Witchcraft

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The danger behind the fence… (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

The following excerpt by T. Austin Sparks speaks bluntly about how evil spirits imitate God by letting people appear ‘holier’ than before they had come into touch with these cunning underlings of Satan. May we not think it is easy to discern the real Christian who is indwelt by Christ’s Spirit (cf. Rom 8:9) from the ‘Christian’ that is indwelt by these evil spirits that comport themselves as if they were beings of light. Sparks wrote,

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Seven ways to discern truth from error by A.W. Tozer

05 Thursday May 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in clarity, confusion, Deception, Delusion, Discerning the Spirits, Mysticism, Satan, Seeking the Truth, sin, The Bible, The World

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"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few." (Mt 7:13-14 ESV) Photo by Susanne Schuberth

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” (Mt 7:13-14 ESV)
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If we are insecure about how to discern the spirits in certain cases, A.W. Tozer offers a very helpful method to try any new experience, doctrine, or religious movement regarding their effects on our relationship with (1) God, (2) Jesus Christ, (3) the Bible, (4) our (old) self, (5) other believers who are indwelt by Christ’s Spirit, (6) the world and its desires, and as to (7) sin. It is a quite long article of which I only pasted some excerpts on here although the text is pretty long, still. If you want to read more, please, follow the link below. It is well worth reading, I believe. I also think we can use this method in order to judge the origin of our thoughts, our (day)dreams and visions, even everyday occurrences and their effect on us. May God help us sharpen our discerners with what Tozer, who in my opinion had been inspired by God, wrote about.

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